The tallest watched a transmission of different weapons, (like on the beginning of Hobo13) all the tanks looked more advanced even for the Irkin civilization! Red and Purple both looked at one another and back at the screen as Zim's face appeared.

"I've finished my quest on Hobo13 but the weapons burned in the crash because that new ship you gave me SUCKED!" his fists banged on the panel, "Can I have some new stuff?" His expression went from angry to a beg, "Well, Zim, uh we kind of-"

"Please!" Zim kept begging.

Red grabbed Purple's shoulder and they turned around whispering to each other. When they turned around, Zim had sat there

perfectly still waiting for their whispering to end, "Tell you what Zim, a far off planet has been discovered months ago and was turned into a training facility. Tougher than Hobo13, well it's said to be. If you go there and check it out, we'll think about

giving you the tanks." Of coarse the "giving you the tanks" thing was a lie, but it convinced Zim pretty well. "What's the planet's name?" His eyes growing wider with curiosity, "Speance, the planet is called Speance." Purple blurted out a random word to think of the name. Surprisingly, he was right. It was called Speance.

A few hours later, Zim had packed everything up to go to Speance. Zim knew Dib would try to break in the base if he left with Gir not being on duty, so Gir had to stay behind. Even the dumbest person would know that was a stupid idea, but Zim was pretty sure of himself.

Zim was getting bored pointing out stars he remembered passing on his way to Earth, so he fell asleep. When the computer's alarms went off, Zim shot awake, almost falling out of the main seat. The voot closely crept up to a planet that was purple with blue clouds rounding it, and it had rings virticly surrounding it,(like on Uranus) that were a strange shade of green.

"Computer, give me the name of that planet."

He said with a suspicious accent in his voice, on a screen where the planet's picture was taken, the words

"S-P-E-A-N-C-E" ran across the screen. "We found it! Finally." Zim was happy to see he had found the planet. The voot lowered itself in a parking area where a bunch of trashed cruisers lay, only one was Irkin, which made Zim very suspicious.

Where he parked was the center of a huge metal wall, that squared around an area. Zim walked out the door, which was an exit to the so called "junk yard". Out there was a huge desert looking area with huge tents scattered across the plains. Zim headed for the biggest one.

When he walked inside there was tables everywhere with a snack bar that was full of random species of aliens eating food or drinking.

Zim looked around, ignoring the hard rock music blasting from a broken voot's stereo system in the middle of the tent. He walked up to the snack bar and was going to sit down and ask where the leader of the camp was until a huge flying armored resisty looking fellow flew across the room and almost crashed into him. Zim stared at the creature wide-eyed thinking, who are these maniacs? He looked to his right to see who threw that huge beast, to his surprise it was an Irkin. A female at that.

Her curled antennas were a shape similar to Tak and Tenn's antennas put together. She had eyes that were almost black but had a purple tint to them. Her out fit was similar to Zim's but her stripes were diagonal and not strait across. She was just as tall as Zim, but looked taller than him for a second because she was standing on a table. The Irkin jumped off the table and onto the alien who just tried to get up. She looked into his eyes, her's narrowed and she smiled evilly,

"I believe youowe me 200 monies for your loss of this fight," she held out a hand, "now PAY UP!"

She didn't realize Zim was standing behind her, or if he wasn't Irkin. "I-I-I don't have 200 monies!" The alien began begging for forgiveness, "I thought I would win! I didn't know a simple Irkin like yourself could beat me! Please Caline, spear me!" Caline's eyes narrowed, she clenched her claws into a fist. "Get out of my sight, NOW!" she screamed as she pointed to the exit and the large monster flead in the direction. Caline turned around and noticed Zim, "Hi! I'm Caline, sorry about the "throwing the huge person" thing at you, he bet me 200 monies to fight him. Anyway, what's you name?" Zim stared at her as she held out her hand for a hand shake, he looked back up at her oddly. Hmm... never seen an eye color like that before. He thought to himself, "I'm ZIM! The best Irkin elite there ever will be!" He calmed down from his "perspective" on how "perfect" he is and said calmly,

"I was sent here by the tallest to check out this training planet. It is a training planet, right?"

He got confused.

Caline smiled and laughed, "Yup, this is Speance. We only get this much fun when the guards take their break, so we make the best of it."

Zim eye'd her. She was different then the Irkins he grew up with in his past. She's a little too friendly, he thought, almost like the FILTHY humans.

"Well if you were sent here by the tallest, you should speak to the councilor, or the head trainer, of this facility." Zim blinked a few times, "Sure, I guess so."

He shrugged his shoulders as Caline lead him out of the tent and towards a smaller tent near the back metal wall.

"Is there any Control Brains here?"

Zim asked as they both made their way to the main tent,

"Nope, all there is are coarses, hard ones, outside these walls, that's what keeps us all safe from lord knows what lives out there."

"You mean they still don't know what's outside these walls?"

"Nope, everything that's on the other side is part of the training coarse. When you get to the highest level, you have to get to the other side of the planet and back... and... survive it I guess."

She shrugged her shoulders, Zim would ask her questions and she would answer them just as easily as if he was asking her what color her skin was.

When they got inside the councilor looked like a huge half rat man from the planet Blorch. He had a long robe on and sat at a desk with a huge screen over the doorway in which Caline and Zim came through, "Hi! You must be Zim, right? The tallest informed me that you came here to try out our facility."

"Well actually-"

"Great! Caline will be your partner, if she doesn'tsurvive any of the tasks, you will be to blame."

Caline looked at the councilor,

"I think I'll survive, Zim is a "professional" elite, or so he says."

She glanced over to him. Zim had a proud look on his face.

"An elite eh? Caline, will you step outside for a moment please, I need to speak with Zim alone."

She shrugged her shoulders, nodded, and trotted out of the tent back to the larger tent.

The councilor paced back and forth in front of his desk as Zim sat in a metal chair that looked as if it was going to fall apart.

"I know you and Caline just met and things like that. Ah Caline, she's like a daughter to me, and-"

"Uh where are you going with this exactly?"

Zim interrupted.

"My point is, if you break her heart I'll-"

"WHAT!?!?! Are you crazy? I just met her! There's no way it's going to happen."

He stubbornly folded his arms and looked away.

"Oh, then you can go."

He made a smile like Gir's stupid smile, when Zim got to the other tent, Caline was inside the broken voot that was in the center of the tent, pressing bottons scrolling for a new song to play.

"Oh hey Zim! So how'd it go?"

She asked cheerfully, Zim just shrugged and walked over to the snack bar. Caline flipped out of the center cruiser and landed in the seat next to Zim after he had ordered a drink. An eight armed alien sat a glass full of blue liquid in front of him and Zim chugged it,

"You must be tired, well, how about I take you to my tent and you can rest there till the councilor gives you your own."

She suggested.

Zim just nodded, he was tired, tired of being on that planet. He followed her till they came to a small tent inside there was a bed with a mirror on the opposite side of it and a sink, there was a small curtain made for using the bathroom, or changing clothes. Zim looked around,

"Wow, it's... it's.."

"Roomy?

I know it's small, but it should do for you, I'll sleep on the floor tonight. I always treat guests with respect." She smiled as Zim settled himself on the bed.

If it was too long... sorry.

I won't put part two until I get atleast one review.

Invader Anita, signing off!