So much has happened, and I was disconnected from my comms. No need to lurk anymore, enough people have found me on here and communicating with this Tumblr can be helpful moving forward.

I was caught on the Massive by the one called Iruz: a Zim with less than honorable intentions with Tallest Miyuki (@tallest-blue-nerd,) Irk, and its people.

Red, Purple, (@almighty-smallest) Survivor DiB (@zurvivor-zib) and Survivor Miyuki were all caught as well. Red, Purple, and I had all of our weapons and comms deactivated. Survivor Miyuki had been taken back to be questioned, and she wasn't the same when she returned...

We couldn't do anything but think and talk with one another. Spork (@i-am-spork) continued to work on evacuating the Massive before Iruz could do more damage.

The next one to be caught was Ukagaka Zim (@ukagaka-zim.) That's when it started to get interesting.

Red and Purple were cautious with the new Zim, but Purple eventually seemed to warm up to him and the discussions became less annoying. And my suspicions that D1b (@invader-d1b) and Ukagaka Zim were close has been confirmed. They were much closer than I thought, but I don't need to elaborate on that.

Anyway, Navigator Nii was eventually caught as well. She was determined to fightback.

Purple and Ukagaka Zim were taken back to be questioned as well. This set Red on edge. But Nii had a plan to escape, using @zim-exe's Gir. It failed and Gir was deactivated and captured. We haven't found the little robot yet.

Nii, Red, and I all received collars from Iruz's henchman. A torture method. But we held up. Nii and Red were fantastic. Iruz apparently didn't like that, because he came to the cells to talk to us himself.

I have no idea what started happening, but it was amazing.

Stuff started breaking. The collars just stopped working and fell off. My comms and weapons system came back online. Iruz took out his own guards. Ukagaka Zim and Purple were somehow freed and returned to the cells with knives and deactivated the cells.

Ukagaka Zim had to leave to repair his PAK legs, leaving me, Red, Purple, and Nii to fight back.

Iruz managed to stab Nii, Red, and Purple. He made a break for it, leaving all four of us. I wasn't about to let Iruz get away, so I pinged Tallest Miyuki to come help Nii, Red, and Purple and went after Iruz myself.

I'm still going after him...

I was supposed to work on this project over a week.

But uh.

Art go brrrrrrrrr.

Enjoy this little poster I did of Purple and Pop from @almighty-smallest.

Might do one of Red too. Eventually.

I hope you don’t mind me coloring one of your sketches!

Keep up the amazing work! <3

(celebi9)

OH MY GOD CELEBI 

The crisis is over.

I pursued Iruz for quite some time, but eventually, Ukagaka Zim (@ukagaka-zim), D1b (@invader-d1b), Tallest Miyuki (@tallest-blue-nerd), and a patched up Navigator Nii, Invader Red and Invader Purple (@almighty-smallest) came to help take Iruz down.

However, Iruz had brought all of the Perfection Society (the cult) from Irk onto the Massive, we were outnumbered. A plan was hatched since Spork (@i-am-spork) has already evacuated a lot of the Massive. Ukagaka Zim began to teleport everyone remaining to safety on Irk, while Zuri (@survivor-zim) set up the ship's self destruct.

The teleportation was too much and some were lost, including Zuri. There was nothing anyone could have done to help them at the time. Some of the PAKs were recovered, most of which belonged to the dead cult members, but Zuri's PAK was found again.

He's currently being rebuilt by Tallest Miyuki.

Red, Purple, and I went off to help Spork with clean up. There were several Irkens who survived, but had been injured. Spork had used several ships from the Massive, including escape pods, Invader ships, and this thing called a Voot and get everyone he could off the Massive before the teleportation plan had been thought of.

During the clean up, the one called Zirus (@zim-exe) showed up with us. I talked with him a little and he explained that he was looking for a S.I.R. unit. I helped him find the unit, which I remembered as Gir, and Zirus then took some time to power the robot back on. I lost track of him after that, but I noticed that the Voot went missing as well.

Red and Purple have been behaving, Purple seems to get along well with Ukagaka Zim and maybe even Zimmy (@shadowbugzimmy.) I am pleasantly surprised.

A replacement for the Massive will have to be constructed, but that's not the priority at the moment. First task at hand, attend to our fellow Irkens. And try to rest after all that mess.

Clean up continues.

Spork (@i-am-spork) assisted a sweet heart by the name of Tak (@unstabletak) find Tallest Miyuki's lab (@tallest-blue-nerd.) The poor thing was very disoriented, but my Tallest will know how to help her.

Purple (@almighty-smallest) has been pestering me about joining the multiverse chat rooms. But I am still refraining from interacting in them. There are enough new faces for the other universes to deal with, I have no need or desire to add myself to the mix. I'll have to find a way to distract Purple and make him forget about me and the chat rooms.

Besides all that, there's nothing much to report on my end. I haven't heard from my Tallest Miyuki about Zuri (@survivor-zim) as of yet. For her sake, I hope he will be okay. I haven't ever seen Tallest Miyuki retract into her PAK like that before...

Either way, we are rebuilding fast. As soon as we hear from Tallest Miyuki, construction on the new ship can be started.

(Starring Purple from @almighty-smallest and Pop the S.I.R. unit, featuring mentions of @tallest-blue-nerd)

Purple had latched his ship onto the enemy craft, using a special device to lock his ship into place.

"Sir, we don't have any kind of legal clearance for this kind of operation," Pop said hesitantly as Purple activated his space suit.

"Translation?" Purple asked.

"Miyuki didn't say we could do this," Pop sighed.

"Alternatively, she didn't say we couldn't," Purple pointed out.

Pop face palmed. "You're joking."

"I am not."

"And you wonder why I prefer the non-exciting part of our trips," Pop said.

"Who said I wondered that?"

"You did. You literally asked me why I preferred it."

Purple paused for a moment. "Oh, I did do that." He shrugged and opened the hatch on the ship.

"Sir, how do you even plan to do this?" Pop asked as Purple activated some sort of gravitational boot attachment.

"Step one, get inside." Purple stepped out of the hatch, carefully holding on to the edge. The attachments on his boots kept him from floating off the moving ship and he walked across the hull.

"And what's step two?" Pop activated his rocket boots and flew next to Purple.

"I haven't gotten that far yet," Purple said, kneeling by a specific panel.

"You what?"

"Here goes!" Purple extended his PAK legs and aimed them at the panel. Before Pop could protest, he activated the lazers and cut into the panel.

"Sir!" Pop insisted. 

"Can't hear ya!" Purple yelled back, drilling into the hull. "I already deactivated their alarms!"

"Purple, this is a terrible idea!" Pop said frantically.

"Probably!" Purple finished cutting the panel out. He used the PAK legs to pull out the cut piece, creating an entry leading directly into a vent. "You scared?"

"Yes, in fact!"

"Live a little, come on," Purple chuckled.

Pop flew closer to Purple. "Living is what I'd like to do!"

Purple grabbed Pop's hand. "And down we go." He jumped into the hole, his PAK legs reattaching the panel piece once he was inside.

Pop squirmed a little against Purple's hand. "You owe me after this."

"Alright sure, we can get your favorite slurpies on our way home." Purple let Pop go.

"Fine," Pop muttered, turning off his rockets and standing next to Purple. "That is, if you don't kill us."

"Yeah, we need to be alive for that," Purple agreed, walking down the vent shaft. It was dark and bland in there, unnervingly warm. He was short enough to walk without slouching, his antenna pinned back to avoid brushing against the metal.

Pop sighed and followed, his metal feet clinking lightly against the shaft.

There was a faint light up ahead, coming from a grate in the shaft.

Purple got down on his hands and knees to peer out of the grate. Below them was a quiet gray hall. The hall was huge, about ten feet tall and eleven feet across.

"Sir, whatever is on this ship is huge," Pop said nervously.

"Well, the pirates are made up of all kinds of species. So we won't necessarily run into any big ones," Purple whispered back.

"It's just us going up against this ship, you really think this is going to work?" Pop asked. "I mean, just think about what happened on the Massive. You weren't able to help much there."

"Hey, that was different. And I did fight Iruz and survive. So don't even," Purple huffed. 

Pop did not respond, he just looked out of the grate into the hall.

"Look, we'll stick to the vents and find our way to the engine room. A simple rig with a timer, we head back to the ship and blow it all to smithereens!" Purple said excitedly.

"And what if there are innocent people on the ship? You know the Catre have dealings in the slave trade," Pop pointed out.

"Oooh…" Purple cringed.

"And the enemies can take escape pods," Pop added.

"True…" Purple sighed.

"You didn't think this through at all."

"Nope."

Pop face palmed.

Purple thought for a minute. "Let's find out if there are any prisoners here first. We can access pretty much the entire ship from the vents. We might have to dodge some security when it comes back online, but we should be set. After we find out what they're shipping, we plan the rest of our attack."

"Alright…" Pop relented.

(Starring Purple from @almighty-smallest and Pop the S.I.R. the unit.)

All members of the Catre Bandits were killed or put in cryosleep chambers for arrest. Purple and Pop oversaw that the ship was taken to the proper authorities. The remaining bandits, or pirates as Purple insisted on calling them, were taken to Moo Ping Ten and the freed prisoners were taken home, or to Castaway if they had no home left.

All of that took a few days, and it took a few more days to sort out the paperwork and the reports, and return the trident to the Mitor. Purple repaired his PAK leg and got a new uniform in the meantime.

It felt like forever before Pop and Purple were back in their ship, heading home.

Pop sat in the back of the ship, looking half asleep again. He was quiet.

"You did good, Pop. Another mission, well done!" Purple chuckled.

"Yes, of course sir…" Pop sighed.

"Something wrong?"

"I'm just ready to go home…"

Purple nodded. "I get it, bud. You deserve a break. That was stressful for you. Buuuuut first!"

Pop groaned and face palmed. "But first what?"

Purple chuckled and turned the ship to show they were coming back on another mini planet food stop like "Chlorg's Sweet Treats." But this one looked like a giant purple cup and was labeled "Slurpie Town."

"We're here!" Purple cheered.

Pop looked up. "What… what are we doing here?"

Purple grinned. "I promised we'd get your favorite slurpies, didn't I?"

Pop looked at Purple with surprise.

"What? You thought I forgot?" Purple chuckled.

"I guess so?" Pop responded.

"Hehe, you thought wrong. You earned this, Pop. Come on, let's head inside and get you your reward." Purple landed the ship in an assigned lot and opened the hatch.

"Thank you, sir…"

"Of course."

"And after this, we go home?"