Clash of the Egos [active]

[ironfistedrule.livejournal.com]

Characters:  Zim, Gaston, anyone else
Content:  Zim begins his valiant search for flowers and candy!
Setting:  The Glass Bonsai
Time:  Morning
Warning:  Zim

Zim had decided to start his search for the key to world domination early.  There were many stores in this place.  Who knew which one had what he desired?  Was there a specific type that he needed?  Maybe he should have thought this through more...  But no!  Time was of the essence!  The sooner he received those lessons in conquering, the sooner he could finish his mission (and maybe annihilate the Dib-worm, too)!

And so he found himself outside of this... "Glass Bonsai" (whatever that meant), the closest shop that he could find.  Clutching a spare branch he managed to find--just in case his wig decided to disappear again--he quickly began plotting how to go about this.

Finally, the first outlines of a plan began to etch themselves in the Irken's mind.  First... First!  He would go inside!  Yeeeesss...  Such inside going he would do.  Then!  Then he would walk up to the counter-slave and demand that they tell him where he could find the flowers and candy.  If said counter-slave refused to respond, they would be disposed of.

But what if the human decided to ask questions?  Zim needed an excuse.  Ah!  Truly he was ingenious.  He would simply say that he wanted to eat them!

Wait... did humans eat flowers?  He forgot.  Well, they ate many other oddities, so flowers couldn't be too unbelievable.

So, go into the shop, demand flowers and candy, destroy the counter-slave if it refused to tell him, repeat his brilliant excuse should he be asked questions, destroy the counter-slave if it asked too many questions, receive the flowers and candy... and blow up the shop afterwards to destroy all evidence.  Yep, that sounded like it would work.

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[mymanlyself.livejournal.com]

"Well, for chocolates, I'd try Matinal's, over in the Joutenheim section of the city," Gaston replied, mulling over the possible locations of the items Zim was looking for. "There's also Aunte Unde's, a bit to the south of here. I'm not sure exactly what they sell, but you might find your candy there."

The hunter thought for a moment, then frowned. "I don't think you're going to be able to find flowers, though. You may have noticed, but there don't seem to be any real plants anywhere in the entire city. They're all fakes. As far as I know, there's no stores that sell them either." He shrugged expressively, since finding a flower shop had really been the least of his concerns. "You can still look if you want, though."

[ironfistedrule.livejournal.com]

Oh, yes, Zim's powers of manipulation were incredible. No one could deny that Zim's incredible powers of manipulation were incredible. NO ONE! The human had fallen right into Zim's trap... his information trap. And it seemed that the human also knew quite a bit about this city. He might be useful for future outings.

But now he had some new destinations to check over. The loss of the flowers was a disappointment, but the fake flowers lying around this hunk of dirt and smell would likely do. Maybe he could add a few flamethrowers and laser shows to them to make them more impressive. That would do nicely.

And now there only left one problem. This store... what was he to do with it? Things hadn't gone according to Zim's plan. He had gotten no information from the counter slave; all of his information had come from the burly stink-beast before him. Did this mean that he would have to destroy the human here? Well, he couldn't do that. Not with the wealth of information he seemed to have.

Maybe he'd just go ahead and blow up the shop and counter slave anyway. They hadn't been useful, and it wasn't likely this place would miss one eensie weensie tiny little pathetic store. A pawn shop that didn't sell pawns! What a disgrace! And thus did the diminutive alien begin his muttered plans. Amongst excited, evil giggling like a schoolgirl, one could pick up words such as "lasers," "shiny," "boom," and "destruction," among others.