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Addition disclaimer: Any game screen names is purely coincidental.

Zim sighed as he snuggled in closer to Dib whose arms unconsciously tighten around him. Dib was sound asleep and he doubted anything would be able to wake him up for a while. He grinned, pleased that he was the cause of his exhaustion.
Although he would never admit it aloud he was a little sore himself, but his PAK made quick work of that as he lay there, listening to Dib’s breathing and heartbeat. He liked the sound, liked the heat that felt so comfortable. Yes, he was quite satisfied.

He frowned slightly wondering why the Tallest had called. They must have been bored to bother him, but it had been a while since he had contacted them last. He better make sure to not let that slip in the future. Dib gave a small snore. He grinned. Then again Dib had made it interesting enough.

Zim usually would lay with Dib until he woke but he was feeling restless for some reason. He quietly slipped out, dressed and made his way down to his lab below. Skoodge was there, typing away on the keyboard. Skoodge just smirked at him as he walked in.

“Don’t make me hurt you Skoodge.” Zim warned him, although he really didn’t mind. He felt too sated to care at the moment.

“I take it Dib won’t be up for a while?”

Zim chuckled evilly “I wouldn’t be surprised if he sleeps until noon. If I let him.” He looked over at Skoodge one of his eyes perked up. “What are you doing?”

“Playing a game.”

Zim watched as Skoodge controlled a very tall looking creature as he ran and fought with other creatures and characters on the screen.

“Game? What is the purpose of this game?”

“It’s just for fun.”

A side screen popped up and Skoodge began to replay back to the instant message.

“You’re talking with them?”

“Of course, it’s the only way I get to communicate with anyone. I have a lot of friends I chat to online.”

Zim narrowed his eyes at the screen. “Irken Invader?”

Skoodge chuckled “Ya, pretty cool name huh?”

“And you’re talking with Ubernator 23?”

“They’re looking for a Paladin to help with their quest.”

“And you are this Pal-a-din?” Zim tried out the weird word.

“Yep, level 85, have all my special armor and everything.”

“And you don’t get anything from this? No world conquest? No monies?”

“No, not in the real sense.” Skoodge replied.

Zim watched a moment, than turned back to his own console shaking his head. He never understood those stupid Earth games it was more the scary Dib’s sister’s thing. He shuddered remembering one too many times he had accidently interrupted her game play.

“Well that’s just stuupid.”

He began his routine scans, not expecting any change in anything, there never was. He hacked into the government files learning to break through their defenses long ago. It would be so easy to accomplish his mission now. But he could wait, wait until Dib wouldn’t freak out on him. Besides they had time, and he wasn’t done exploring these new experiences with Dib. And he had to admit he was looking forward to spending time with the human and show him some thing’s before he went back to being an invader. He scowled, that always brought the unpleasant memories of the Tallest. He would show them that they were wrong about him.

Zim was about to turn it off when the slightest blip caught his attention. His antennae quirked up and his eyes narrowed. He zoomed in on the sector that seemed to fizz slightly and then went back to normal.

“Computer zoom in on sector 21.”

“Fine.” It droned

The screen focused in, showing nothing out of the ordinary, just empty space full of stars. Zim frowned. He had seen something. But the computer would have warned him if anything had entered the Earth’s atmosphere.

“Keep scanning let me know if you find anything.” Zim told the computer.

“There is a small ion trail that leads from that sector to the surface of the planet.”

“Is it Irken?” Zim asked, but there was no way that could be, it would have been detected.

“Unkown.” The computer said with indifference.

“How can it be unknown? Find out what it is.” Zim demanded. Something didn’t feel right, but there was nothing there. “And find out where this trial leads to.”

Skoodge looked over at him his own antennae had quirked up with the exchange.

“Another ship?” he asked.

Zim shook his head, he wasn’t sure himself. If it was, it wasn’t anything Irk had come in contact with. The computer pulled up the trail from the sector and ended up not far from them. Zim’s eyes narrowed as he ran scans across the area. Nothing seemed out of place, everything looked, well, normal. But he didn’t like it.

“You want me to go check it out?”

“No, I’ll go. Keep an eye on the base. Gir!” He yelled.

“CUPCAKES!” Gir yelled practically right behind him.

Zim leaped around startled by Gir being so close to him without making a sound.

“Come on Gir we have a job to do.”

“Yes master.” Gir’s eyes flashed briefly to Red before turning back to aqua.
Then he took a cupcake out of his head and proceeded to eat it.

It didn’t matter if it was morning, or anytime of day for that matter. The humans never seemed to notice is Voot even if it was in plain sight. Gir kept humming some infuriating annoying song as he followed the coordinates. He had debated if he should wake the Dib or not, but than decided that he’d let him sleep. It was probably nothing.

Zim moved to Voot towards the outskirts of the city, setting it down in a small patch of trees. He stepped out and stretched, Gir running off towards the trees screaming at the squirrels, which scattered at the insane robot’s ranting. Zim rubbed at his contacts, even after all these years they still irritated him.

“GIR!” he yelled

“I like squirrels.”Gir responded.

Zim just narrowed his eyes, wondering if brining him along was a good idea.

“Scan the area Gir, see if you can detect any other life forms.”

Gir ran off, Zim wasn’t entirely sure the SIR unit was going to do as asked. He sighed and began to sweep the area himself. Nothing seemed unusual, but that ion trail had lead to this area. Maybe it had been nothing.

It was a slight noise, so quiet he doubted that human ears would have picked it up. Even his antennae barely picked it up, hidden as they were beneath the wig. He slowly moved in the direction, not sure what he was expecting, but definitely not what he found.

By Irk what was it? The ship was at least five times that of his Voot. It’s outer surface seemed to reflect its surroundings, making it blend in with the trees. It would have been easy enough to have missed it, tricking the eyes. If it hadn’t been for the wide open door that seemed so out of place, Zim would have missed it himself. Gir stood on top of the ship and waved at him. The design was unfamiliar to him.

He knew one thing for sure. They were on HIS planet, something he was going to rectify. He pulled out his weapon, not planning on taking any chances with whoever they were. Zim marched over to the ship to demand answers.
One of the crew had come out to look up at Gir who had begun to dance along the hull.

“Look at me, I’m a monkey.” He giggled.

“Hey YOU!” Zim shouted at them. The creature spun around to view Zim. His body seemed to be encased in some sort of dark grey armor. Its body was a strange hourglass shape, the legs seemed bent at the wrong angle.

“Ooooo, you’s got chicken legs.” Gir giggled.

It had two arms, but its head had an odd shape to it, turning into a beak where a mouth should have been and very dangerous looking. Its eyes were a solid yellow, with pupils that were red and star shaped. It blinked, the lids sliding vertically and not horizontally as humans or Irkens did for that matter. It was definitely something Zim was unfamiliar with and he’d seen many different life forms.

“This planet is Irken property, state your business.” Zim demanded from him. The response was quick as it fired at him. Zim barely had time to move out of the way.

Dib bolted up right, and then groaned as he fell back onto the bed. The strange dream was quickly leaving, and he couldn’t really recall what it was about. He rolled over noticing Zim wasn’t with him. He was still tired, and sore, but couldn’t seem to fall back to sleep. He got up and went to see what the Irken’s were up to.

He made his way down to the lower part of the base, Skoodge was still playing away. The perk to being an Irken and not really needing sleep he mused. Something Gaz probably wished she could do.

“Where’s Zim?” Dib asked.

“He went to go check on something.”

“What?”

“There was slight movement out in sector 21, some kind of ion trail, so he went to check it out.”

Dib frowned, and began to pull up what Zim had up earlier. Strange.

“Skoodge I’m going to go find him. Can I take your Voot?”

“Ya, sure Dib.” He didn’t think Skoodge’s eyes left the screen.

Dib made his way to Skoodge’s ship. It was a tight fit, but no entirely uncomfortable. Luckily Zim had given him enough lessons that he was able to fly it. He had even started to teach him to read and speak Irken. Although Skoodge was more patient with him then Zim was. Zim would wind up hitting him or ranting at him, and then one thing would lead to another and they never seemed to get any productive learning done. Oh, Dib learned quite a few words and phrases he was sure he better not use outside of the bedroom, thanks to Zim.

He was just nearing the location when the alarms began to go off and he caught site of the exchange of fire.

“Zim!” Dib Yelled over the communications line. His heart jumped up a notch.

“Dib? What are you doing here?”

“Forget that, what’s going on?”

There pause probably wasn’t as long as it seemed to Dib.

“Just get down here, Zim needs your help.”

Dib flew low, catching site of the strange ship and the gun fire exchange between the two aliens. Dib brought out the controls and fired at the offending target. He swung the ship back around and made his way back to Zim and landed the small ship.

He ran over to Zim who had gone to inspect the fallen creature. Dib quickly scanned Zim making sure he was okay.

“What’s going on?” he asked.

“He started firing at me after I demanded he tell Zim what he was doing here.”

“What is it?” Dib wasn’t sure to call it a he or a she. There really weren’t any identifiers to his knowledge of what its gender might have been.
Zim poked at it, it was clearly dead, and Dib suddenly realized that he was the one that killed it. Strange how the thought hadn’t occurred to him right away since it was attacking Zim. But now he felt slightly sick to his stomach.

“I killed it.” he whispered.

Zim grunted as he turned to look at him, a grin on his face.

“Your piloting skills have improved Dib.”

He turned to look at Zim about to tell him how wrong that all felt when he caught site of the other one, standing not to far away, its weapon aimed at them. Dib leaped at Zim knocking him to the ground just as the weapon fired. He could feel the heat from the discharge as it passed over his back.

Zim reacted fast, twisting onto his belly and returning fire. Dib glanced over at the fallen alien and grabbed its weapon. Zim had maneuvered so that he stood between him and this other threat. Zim fired screaming and cursing in Irk, Dib only catching bits and pieces of it. Zim’s spider legs were out creating a protective bubble around them, it took a few hits and Dib wasn’t sure how long that could hold out. He made sure to stay out of Zim’s way as he came up along his side and fired the alien weapon.

It hit the target flinging it back a bit, when it turned and headed for cover within the woods. Dib heard Zim’s spider legs charging up its plasma ends and flung himself to the ground just as Zim shot all four of them after their opponent. Zim charged after it.

Dib picked himself off the ground to go running after him when he felt something grab his hair and he yelled in surprise as he was hulled to his feet. He was brought face to face with a very large and massive looking thing.

This one had some sort a helmet on, but he could see that its jaw jutted forward on its huge head, and Dib wasn’t sure if he wanted to know what it looked like behind it the dark glass stare of its helmet. It muttered in some kind of guttural language.

“Human?” It was a strange computerized voice as if it needed to be translated.

“Yes I’m human, now let go of me asshole!” Dib kicked out, landing it against the creature’s side. It grunted, but didn’t let go. His fist tightened around the weapon still in his hand and he brought it forward and fired. The creature flinched and staggered back, dropping Dib.

Dib scrambled backwards firing, but the thing moved fast for its large size. Now that Dib had a better look at him he could see it had four arms, and when it turned large deadly spikes ran down its back which ended at the end of a tail.
He should have been paying attention and he would have realized that when the creature turned it wasn’t running away. It swung its tail which caught him in the side. Those spikes ripping into him and sending him flying. He knew he was bleeding, but he couldn’t feel the pain yet. Which meant it was probably bad enough he didn’t want to look.

A clawed foot kicked the weapon out of his hand, one of its hands reaching down and grasped his throat, tightening its grip as he lifted him into the air. Dib kicked his feet slightly as his hands clutched and clawed at the strong arm. He had to be a good two feet from the ground. The arm wasn’t going to budge. He started to see spots, a few more seconds and he was going to loose consciousness.

Dib was slightly aware of the hands that wrapped around him, the metallic legs that came from behind him and pierced the arm that was holding him. The creature cried out in pain as he released Dib who would have fallen hard to the ground if Zim hadn’t been there to steady him. He gasped for breath as Zim pulled him back with a hiss. The weapon in Zim’s hand fired several times, the bright flashes slamming into this threat. The creature flew back, but Dib knew that its armor was too thick. They needed something that would pierce it, get underneath it.

“Zim!” he croaked, shooting all sorts of pain down his throat with that effort.
Zim seemed to understand though and one of his spider legs extended a small dagger looking thing. Dib gripped it in his hands, sliding his fingers along it. It extended into a javelin of sorts. Dib took aim with it and threw it. The weapon hit its mark in the center of its belly, making a high pitched sound.
Oh shit, Zim failed to mention that part of it.

Zim grabbed Dib and threw him to the ground as the bomb exploded, sending dirt and debris everywhere pelting them. Dib looked back at the creature that lay lifeless on the ground. He slowly got up, Zim getting up beside him.

“What is it?” Dib asked as he bent down to inspect it. Zim’s blaster had inflicted some damage to the armor, but not enough to pierce it. Zim reached down and pried off the mask that covered the creatures face revealing something that looked like a cross between a boar and some sort of lizard. Dib would have used the term Dragon from certain pictures or paintings he had seen growing up. Nothing else would come close to describing it.

Its mouth was wide enough to bite the head off a dog, the double row of teeth looked sharp enough to do it. There was no hair, but grey scales that seemed to plate its skin, along the top of its head small horns began to form getting larger as they ran towards the back. Each scale was patterned with a smokey grey swirled with a muted red color, reminding him of the back of a turtle. Which meant that the spike along its back did belong to it and were not just apart of it armor. It had four sets of eyes, which seemed completely black and devoid of life. Its blood seemed to be the same black color, and was splattered everywhere. Especially from the small hole from where the explosive hit it. It smelled awful.

Zim stood up and shook his head. “I don’t know I’ve never seen a creature like this.”

A throbbing pain began to build, now that his adrenaline was subsiding. He reached his hand over to his side and it came back slick with blood. A wave of dizziness went through him. Now that he was paying attention to the wound it began to hurt and burn. Zim looked and hissed when he saw the blood. Dib took his ruined T-shirt off and pressed it against the wound.

“Well, watch out for those spikes. They hurt like hell.” He gritted out through his teeth. He hated feeling so useless sometimes. But then he wasn’t expecting to be fighting against other aliens when he came out here.

Zim moved the shirt away so he could look at it. Dib grunted as he poked at it, getting light headed.

“We need to get you back to the base and get that clean up.”

“I’m fine for the moment, we better take care of the mess here first.” He told Zim. Actually he wasn’t feeling very good, but they really needed to take care of this mess. They just couldn’t leave it like this.

Zim went to his Voot and came back when some bandage to place around him, a temporary fix. Dib caught the slight movement of his antennae and placed a hand under his chin and lifted his eyes to meet his.

“I’ll be fine.” He told him. The Irk narrowed his eyes a quick insult about to ensure from his lips, but Dib stopped it by leaning down and kissing him. “You can inspect me yourself when we get back.” Dib couldn’t help but smile at how Zim’s antennae quirked up at that prospect. Horney little bastard.
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