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Unnoticed	By : Darkplaygirl Category: +G through L > Invader Zim > Slash - Male/Male Views: 4869 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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OK, for all of you who started reading my sister's fanfic on Invader Zim. She might not finish it. Sorry. This is for my cousin (Her's too. We're sister) and anyone else who will read it!!!

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It all started the day Zim didn’t come to school….. No actually that wasn’t right. It all started on the first day that Zim showed up in school in the first place, his smug smile on his face. The only one that seemed to notice was the black-haired boy in the first row….. Actually it didn’t even start that soon….. If someone wanted to go back and see when it all really started, it started only a little bit after he was a smeet. Small and short, he was scorned by everyone taller than him. But he never resented it. He always knew that someday he would become great even if he had to force it to happen!

From the time he decided this, everyone seemed like they were trying to stop him. Whether it was banishing to Foodcourtia or not inviting him to the assigning of Impending Doom Two or even if it was just not sending him enough equipment, everyone tried to stop him from becoming great.

And The Dib was no exception.

From the first time he came to the school, Dib was constantly trying to prove he was an alien… and nearly succeeding too.

The Dib……

But all that was over now. He had decided that the moment he decided not to go to school that day.

Sitting on his couch, Zim didn’t move. Crimson eyes stared at the blank TV screen. Gir had turned it off long ago but he hadn’t noticed. Since then Gir had tried everything in his own way to make his master snap out of it. From dancing in front of him to breaking things, nothing worked. Even when he attacked Zim himself, he didn’t seem to notice. Finally even the metal robot gave up, going elsewhere to play.

This was it. No more. The Tallests had called. Purple laughed and ate popcorn as Red broke the news. They were disowning him. Cutting him off from his species entirely. Exile, exclusion, banishment. No matter what pretty word you gave it, he was alone. He had been banished once before, to Foodcourtia. But he had managed to escape quite easily just before the Foodening took place.

But not this time. As their last command before cutting him off completely, they instructed that he burn all his technology so it couldn’t fall into the wrong hands. Although this meant stranding himself on the god forsaken planet, he did it. He watched as all his plans for world conquest went up in flames, the only things not destroyed being Gir, as an exception, and his PAK which he needed to live.

Zim’s antennas drooped over, the slender stalks arching over his head. He wasn’t going to school today. There was no point in doing anything anymore. No need to take over the world. No need to fight with The Dib anymore.

The Dib……

Zim’s gaze hardened at the thought. He had been the one. The one who had stopped his plans of world domination. He had been the one that had time and time again foiled his plans.

His mind went in circles for hours. School children came home from school, heading their separate ways.
Night came and the room was cast into darkness. Zim’s crimson eyes seemed to glow as they continued staring, blinking only a few times a minute, looking but seeing nothing.

Explosions sounded outside and for the first time in hours, Zim turned his head, stiff joints cracking in pain as they looked towards the door. It burst open suddenly, and Dib stumbled inside, his hair askew more that usual and his breath hard and ragged. Slamming the door closed behind him to keep out the gnomes. He hadn’t seen the gnomes outside where they usually were but he didn’t pay too much attention. He looked around the room and for the first time noticed Zim on the couch.

“What are you up to Zim!?!?” He strode the length of the room and grabbed Zim roughly by the shoulders.

That woke Zim up. Pride surging through his veins, he pushed Dib away from him. “Shut up Dib-filth!” He snapped angrily. He stood up, standing as tall as he could. “I am up to nothing! So shut your filthy food-hole and leave my home!”

Dib blinked. ‘Home’? The strangely-colored house had always been his base. Never his ‘home’. He glared at Zim suspiciously. “Home? You mean base right?”

Zim shook his head. “Do not try to correct me, Earth-scum. I said home and I meant it… though it is of no importance to you!”

Dib’s inquisitive mind screamed at him and he gave in, not running at Zim and dissecting him like he would have liked to do otherwise. “What on Earth are you talking about?”

Zim laughed at Dib’s choice of words. “Oh nothing on Earth Dib-human.” His eyes glittered darkly. “My leaders have… er… found no need for me anymore…. I’m sure they’ll come around and see how great I can be soon.” But even as he said it, his voice sounded flat. They wouldn’t change their minds. They were through with him.

Dib stared at him. What did all this mean? Taking a second to think it through, he verified the facts. Zim’s leaders hadn’t wanted him… meaning that they left him there. On Earth. Exile maybe? But if they didn’t need him anymore…. Sudden comprehension dawned on him. “Earth. Y-you don’t need to take it over anymore?”

Zim glared at him, not saying anything… but his silence spoke for him.

Dib’s eyes brightened and he pumped a fist in the air. “Victory for Earth! The alien menace has been defeated by the humans. They said I was crazy! They said there were no aliens! But now I have defeated one and saved the world-”

Zim cut him off angrily. “And who will thank you?” he snapped. “They don’t even believe that there are other species out there. How will you get them to listen to you now?”

Dib grinned, unfazed. “I’ll just take you to them without your stupid wig and contacts. I’ll show them the truth!”

Zim’s eyes widened. He wasn’t trying to take over Earth anymore so he had just assumed that Dib would stop coming after him. His full mistake hit him…. Literally, as Dib pummeled into him, trying to get his arms behind his back.

Zim growled low in his throat. He was in the middle of almost-human depression for crying out loud! What right did The Dib have to go and take him at his weakest. The thought made his blood boil and he summoned the metal spider legs out of his PAK, knocking The Dib away.

Dib was back on him in a second, screaming threats of exposing him on live TV. They dropped to the floor, rolling on the ground, each trying to fight their way to the commanding position on top. Eventually Dib’s larger body helped him pin Zim’s arms to the ground where he lay there, struggling hard, his eyes blazing.

“-then I’ll find out exactly where your sqeedlyspooch is. Once I figure out all about you, I’ll get my hands on your organs and see what makes you tick! I’ll find out what keeps you going!!”

Zim suddenly stopped struggling, his eyes wide. “What did you just say?”

Dib looked down at the alien beneath him. “Er…. I’m going to see what makes you tick?”

Zim shook his head. “No the other part.”

Dib blinked. “I’ll find out what keeps you going?”

Zim felt hurt well up inside him and he glared at him, pure venom in his eyes. “Well you’ll have to look long and hard Dib, because whatever it is, is gone.”

Dib stared down at Zim. He was so close! Here was Zim, his enemy forever. Proof of what he had been saying all along…. And he couldn’t bear to see him like this. Sighing, he hung his head, his ebony hair falling over his shoulders and onto Zim’s chest. After about a minute he looked up, his golden eyes meeting Zim’s crimson ones. “Ok, so what are you so angry about?”

Zim’s eyes flashed. “I’ve just gotten everything I’ve ever cared about taken from me in the time span of five Earth minutes, what do you think is wrong?!!?”

Dib looked down at him, not knowing what to say. He was tempted to say that Zim hadn’t had much to begin with, but he knew that would just make things worse. “So what are you going to do now?” He asked, loosening up on Zim’s arms, though still holding him in place. “Your not going to take over the world, not that you were going to anyway, but what are you going to do now?”

Zim grimaced and growled at him angrily. “That’s just it Dib-human! What else can I do? What purpose do I have for living. It’s like when you decided to study real science, only multiple times worse, because now I have nothing!”

Dib slowly got off of him, keeping him in arm’s reach in case he tried to make a move to escape. Zim didn’t though. He didn’t even get up, he just lay there limply on the floor, the spark gone from his eyes. Dib ran a hand through his greasy hair, not having washed it in a long time. For a while neither of them spoke, the silence growing heavier every second. Finally Dib broke it. “You could still come to school…. Learn more about humans.”

A small glint appeared in Zim’s eyes. “To school?” He murmured, as if tasting how it sounded. “To learn more about you….. Filthy humans. You confuse me…. Your actions and everything you do. They confuse me greatly.”

Dib nodded awkwardly. He couldn’t believe he was saying this. To Zim no less. Though he had to admit, even to himself logically that he felt a slight loss when Zim hadn’t shown up at school. “Humans are confusing Zim.” He said truthfully. “We are controlled fully by our emotions and usually do things for no reason.”

Zim laughed slightly, the light starting to return to his eyes. “You mean like you? Always trying to save the Earth even when you know full well no one will ever believe anything past their own smelling-devices.”

Dib rolled his eyes. “Noses ,Zim, the ‘Smelling-devices’ are called noses.” But he had to smile. Zim was getting back to his old self… and that meant he could begin trying to expose him right?

Before he got a chance however, Zim bolted up, eyes blazing with a new purpose. “That’s it! My new mission is to learn more about these humans! To figure out why they do the strange things they do!” He turned to Dib. “Dib-human. Information. I need more of it, what is a good way to get a grasp of human emotions. What devices are there that show human emotions?”

Dib blinked. “Er… a device to show humans? I guess there’s always the TV….” When he still looked at Dib expectantly, he could see the human racking his brain. “Human emotions? I guess sappy movies show human emotions. Sad movies, or action movies, or dramas.” Dib tried to think of a few, naming ones that he had heard about. “Like ‘A Walk To Remember’. That’s supposed to be a really sad one. Lots of sad emotions in that one.”

A/N: Really great move ‘A Walk To Remember’ staring Mandy Moore. Watch it if you get the chance.

Zim stood up determinedly. “That’s right! I won’t grow lazy without a purpose! I will go forth and find out what makes these humans the way they are! I will learn so that if the Tallests ever need me again I will be ready…. Computer, throw out the intruder.”

Suddenly remembering all too late that the computer had been burned, he gasped as Dib sprung at him, knocking him to the ground once again, grimacing as he waited for the familiar feeling of metal cords around him. When none came he looked down at Zim, who had started struggling again. “Umm is there a reason why the computer isn’t doing what you say?”

Spider legs shot out of Zim’s PAK, knocking Dib off him. He glared down at Dib from above as a metal cord shot out of his PAK and wrapped around the human. “I had to burn all my precious technology so it would not fall into the wrong hands… but even without it, I can still defeat you.” He laughed at the look on Dib’s face. “You should have killed me when you had the chance, fool!”

Before Dib could reply, Zim had scuttled to the door, held up by his spider legs, and sprung it open. With one swift movement, he threw the human out into the street, slamming the door behind him. He knew that it would take a few seconds for The Dib to get his act together so he didn’t have much time before he broke in again…. And this time he didn’t even have the gnomes to slow him down, them having been burned along with everything else. Eyes ablaze, he quickly retracted his spider legs and ran into the kitchen.

Once there, he swiftly took apart the human microwave, taking out what parts he could use. Combining the parts, and then dismantling a blender, he fashioned a crude force field generator. It was only temporary, only having enough power to last for about a twenty four hours, but it would be enough.

As he opened the front door, having to place the fore field generator outside, he came face to face with The Dib once again. Both stood there for a second, blinking in surprise. They got their thoughts together at the same time. Dib leaped foreword and would have grabbed him if Zim hadn’t called on his spider legs once again to knock him away. Hurrying outside, he thrust the generator down and turned it on, just as Dib pulled a water gun from his coat pocket and shot a blast of the liquid at him.

There was a sharp sizzling sound as the water connected with the force field, vaporizing instantly. Zim looked at The Dib from safe behind it smugly. “Ha! Beaten once again Dib-filth. Try again next time and make it a challenge!” Leaving The Dib to fume angrily, Zim went back inside, filled with a new purpose.
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