Disclaimer: I do not own the rights to Invader Zim, nor either of the two songs used in this story. Also, on another note, in conjunction with the character being mentioned, I've always thought of the "four legs" mentioned in the song as referring to the spider legs in the Irkens' ID paks. –Matt
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Frivolous Yammering: If this chapter doesn't seem funny, it's
because it isn't. This is the serious chapter. The funny one is
Chapter 2, but the joke didn't exactly work without this one coming
before it.
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Meanwhile...
by
Matt Garner
Chapter
1
Dib
Looking up into the countless stars of the night sky, Dib took a deep breath and then closed his eyes for a moment. Opening his eyes again and now looking down from the rooftop toward his little sister, the boy said with something in his voice more than the usual revered awe toward God's creation, "Look at it, Gaz... We've only seen what's come to us from up there... Don't you just want to fly up there and see it all?"
The little girl paused her current game of "Head-Pokey-Mon" long enough to look up at her eccentric brother. She merely grunted and shrugged her shoulders in a non-committal way, then headed back inside. Secretly, she knew that there was something more on Dib's mind tonight than the usual "I'm gonna' get Zim!" or "I'm gonna' fly to Mars!" style of rant, but Gaz wasn't particularly in the mood to talk to her brother about it. Not tonight, at least.
Dib sighed, shook his head and looked back up into the stars. Gaz was right. There was something... Rather, someone else on his mind tonight.
I'm sick
of being alone,
When are you coming home?
Just a glimpse of
your face...
Closing his eyes again, the young hero reflected on what it was he really wanted to find out there... Tak. Invader Tak. Well... no, she wasn't really an Invader, but she might as well have been. She was still one of those cruel, evil Irkens and she had even gone so far as to use him in her plans to destroy the Earth! The courageous monster hunter inside him kept telling him he should have been angry at Tak... Should have wanted to destroy her just as he wished to do to Zim. But something else inside of him, perhaps the lonely, sad little boy inside, couldn't bear it.
I can
remember smelling your hair.
I'll meet you anywhere,
Somewhere
that no one can retrace...
Somewhere where no one will know our faces...
Shivering from more than the cold night air, Dib wrapped his thin arms around himself while wishing it was Tak hugging him.
She has
two arms to hold me
And four legs to wrap around me.
She's not
your typical girlfriend,
She's my alien...
So what if she's Irken? he reasoned, She's not like Zim!
How can you say that? demanded the more serious side of himself, She's exactly like Zim! Her only driving thought was to please her leaders! She didn't care about you at all!
Dib choked back a whimper. But... but she DID care! She actually listened to me and stood up for me... She didn't make fun of me like everyone else does... She said we were friends...
She knows
when something is wrong,
When something doesn't belong.
She can
read in my mind...
She was LYING, you twit! The only reason you ever believed her was that stupid mind-control device on her head! That and your own desire to find a friend...
Dib shook his head. That's not true... She still respected me. I could tell. When I found out she was an alien, she still treated me like an equal...
The serious side snorted loudly.
Oh, please...
Well... Moreso than Zim, at least...
Okay, okay. I'll give you that... But she was still using you, Dib. You have to realize that...
No... Biting his lip, Dib tried to fight the lonely tears welling up in his eyes, She was my friend...
And she
can be assured that with me,
There is no conspiracy.
She's not
wasting her time...
I miss her so much... Why did this have to happen?
... I can't answer that--
She can
take me to the place that she calls home
In a spaceship that will
some day be my own.
Please take me
to your leader...
Tell her I will surrender...
--I mean... you ARE just sorta' talking to yourself, here...
Yeah...
After a deep sigh that made him shiver violently, Dib re-opened his stinging eyes and looked once more into the night sky.
She has
two arms to hold me
And four legs to wrap around me.
She's not
your typical girlfriend,
She's my alien...
"I miss you, Tak..." he whispered in a small, scared voice, "Whether you're my enemy or not, I miss you. I really wish you'd come back..."
He choked and pulled his knees up to his chest. Didn't he just HAVE to be the only person on Earth whose first love also happened to be a psychotic alien invader who might never be heard from again? Of all the rotten luck...
Suddenly, an odd whistling noise that could only be made by a falling object in a cartoon shook Dib out of his self-pity.
"What the heck!?" he gasped, just in time to witness the rare spectacle of a large object plummeting from space and crashing into his backyard.
Taking off his glasses, rubbing his red eyes, and then returning his glasses once more, Dib leaned over the edge of the rooftop. Glancing down curiously, he snuffled and rubbed at his nose, then dropped his jaw in amazement as the smoke cleared, revealing none other than Tak's own evacuated ship. A bright, hopeful smile slowly spread across his pale face...
I bought
the astronauts' cave,
Now all I need's a rocket.
My love,
intergalactic friend...
You're my alien...
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The
Last Word: This is my first (and probably last) songfic if you
don't count the wacky montage scene in "Bestest Friend II."
(Which I don't.) I'm not really all that crazy about them, but this
song just BEGGED to be turned into a Tak story. I hope I didn't do
too awful of a job!
