The tallest x tall! reader: Snacks? Snacks!
The tallest endure one of Zim's awesome updates about his "mission" only to be distracted by what the banished Irken is eating, a misunderstanding and jealousy ensues.
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Two hours.... that's how long this damn call has lasted. Red stopped listening to Zim's bantering about ten minutes into the call...and Purple? Well, Red was fairly certain his shrill counterpart was never listening to Zim to begin with! Speaking of which... the red eyed Irken tiredly side-eyed Purple warily, it was pretty clear the purple eyed Irken had drifted off to daydream land; if that dazed and drooling visage was anything to go by...Â
"Oh-ho, Tar no! If I have to suffer through one of Zim's calls, then your gotta suffer with me!" Red lowly hissed and smacked Purple upside the head "waking"Â his dazed out co-ruler from his daydreams, Purple looked like he was about to retaliate when something caught his eye. "Hey.. Whatâs that?" Red blinked and turned his attention on to the screen.
He just saw Zim eating while watching him and Purple duke it out, It was like they were in the Elites again! Except, Wait... why is that snack yellow? "Yeah... what is that, it doesn't look like Snack-rations." Then Skoodge came into view eating something similar to what Zim was having, but it was light pink and dark brown. "Wha-Oh this is pudding Y/n made, I got Banana with black sugar caramel and Skoodge is Dark choco-Strawberry." Zim said said with a shrug.
For some reason Skoodge decided to choose this moment to speak. "She doesn't just make pudding either, she can make candy, Ice-cream, donuts, cakes..." while he was listing off the the types of sweets, Y/n can make neither him nor Zim noticed Red and Purple go rigid as they absorbed this new information.
Y/n... their Y/n can. make, snacks?! Delicious snacks, that she's wasting on failures like Zim and Skoodge?! Such a cruel provocation cannot go on any longer! Zim finally noticed Red and Purple's irritation, He suddenly remembered something and panicked. "Wai-" the Tallest hung up on him and immediately called Y/n.
The tall woman was getting home from work when she was suddenly greeted by two pouting Irkens on the obnoxiously large and out of place alien monitor in her dining room. Immediately her mind went to one thing. "What did Zim do now?" she sighed thinking Zim tried to do something dumb like teleporting the Massive to Earth or sent them a box of bees and they caught him! there was tense silence as Y/n tried to coax Red and Purple into telling her what was wrong? "You really don't know what you did?" Red spat Y/n was taken aback by his sudden hostility. "Snacks!" was all Purple was able to muster out as he angrily paced behind Red, which befuddled Y/n more.
"Snacks??? what did Zim try to take your snacks?" the earthling guessed on a whim, but that was quickly shot down by Red speaking up. "Does it feel good making snacks for those two?" he huffed in disgust Y/n on the other hand was still very much lost. "What?" she inquired as Ede realized what was up and explained it to her in binary (there was an incident at work, Ede's vocal module was damaged.) The S.i.R unit carefully explained through beeps and whirls that on Irk giving or receiving homemade snacks from someone is a sign of great affection and respect, and it's a pretty big deal if the person giving out said snacks is taller than the receiver.
You're pretty much telling Zim and Skoodge that you love them! ...which technically you do, but not romantically. "Oh... so it's like that, okay." The human hummed intrigued before noting Purple and Red's vexed expressions and realized how this looked to them.... "Oh no, not okay!... I uh, didn't know giving Zim and Skoodge some leftover pudding was like a big deal in your culture, cos on Earth it's not quite that big a deal!" Red cocked a brow as Purple stopped pacing and looked at the human warily. "I just gave it to them because I made too much for my coworkers retirement party, I was in charge of dessert, and they wanted pudding instead of cake." Y/n took out her phone showing them photos of Y/n and Co-workers having a party posing in front the dessert table with a banner.
They assumed Ben was the old man sitting in the center of them, Red noticed the elder's jaw was hideously disfigured. "What's with his..." The red eyed Irken gestured towards his mouth, Y/n got a distant look in her eyes and chuckled darkly. "A while back Ben caught someone who didn't belong in our ranks. They tried to silence the old hard-ass by removing his tongue.." Purple looked like he was gonna be sick as Y/n continued the story. "I'm not sure on the details, but by the time we got to Ben we found one dead spy, and Ben holding onto what was left of his jaw, Don't need to tell ya why he was asking for pudding instead of cake." the entire communication hub was silent as the tallest and the communication officers absorbed this story. "Tar's mercy..." someone muttered in shock.
Y/n awkwardly coughed snapped everyone out of the funk. "I didn't mean to upset you guys, I was just doing one last favor to my mentor..." Now Red and Purple felt like jerks, they came at you up in arms assuming the worst, it never ever occurred to them how different Earth and Irk cultures were, For you it was just an innocent exchange between friends, Zim realized this and was trying to tell them before hanging-up, But Red and Purple jumped to the conclusion that you were cheating...Â
the was another pause before Y/n spoke up again. "Uh, I still have some pudding if yo-" Red and Purple were practically climbing on each other as they yelled. "Yes!" Y/n went to her fridge and took two bottles one bright purple and the other was dark red and put them in the small teleporter the Tallest had sent over, in seconds the the two Irken leaders were holding milk bottles that matched their colors.
"Red you got red velvet caramel and Purple you got Popping Cotton-candy." They didn't hesitate digging in Red was satisfied with his pudding it the red-velvet had rich creamy bitterness that was evened out by the sweetness from the caramel sauce, While Purple was a giddy giggling mess, the pop-rocks topping his pudding was tickling his mouth with every bite, the cotton-candy flavor was just right, They really need the recipe for these. Y/n watched her boyfriends enjoy their snacks while she was enjoying her own (fav flavor) pudding, All was forgiven and Y/n had a few new fans to her baking skills.
