avatar: ahh... back to my roots... the Invader Zim fandom. The bounty hunters in this fic are all my OCs. They all have special powers, giving them an edge in their line of work. This fic will be special... a plot twist in the middle, and an alternate ending! Oh yes. Since all the characters did my disclaimers last time, I'll cut 'em a break and do my own this time. I do not own Invader Zim. I do own the contents of this story, Kloof, Reapir, and Dommination Industries.

Chapter 1

Negotiations… Of Doom

"We could bring out the Armada," Purple suggested.

"You know that would never work! We could… sic Tak on him. She IS an Invader now." Red counter-suggested.

"We tried that! It only keeps him busy! Besides, she was already basically an Invader… we just didn't acknowledge it like we do now. This BRAINstorming is making me thirsty. DRONE! Get us some Dr. Armada. NOW!" At Tallest Purple's command, a drone obediently ran to get some soda for the Tallest.

"Good idea getting us that soda," Red laughed. "I am getting thirsty… OOH! We could hire bounty hunters to kill him! We haven't tried that yet!"

"No good," Purple said as they grabbed the sodas the drone had provided. "Irken policy demands that if we contract bounty hunters and they fail, we kill them. Now only the really good bounty hunters who don't fail are left, and they don't take contracts with the Irken Empire anymore because of our policy and because we've killed so many other bounty hunters." He chugged half his soda. "Unless…" Purple rubbed his chin. "Do you know about Dommination Industries?"

"Their back-story, you mean? Two Irken Defectives, whose DEFECTS had upsides, escaped execution at the hands of Tallest Miyuki, teamed up with a couple of other non-Irken guys who had beneficial mutations, and have, over the last 40 years, become the top bounty hunters in this galaxy. Did I miss anything?"

"No, that's about right," Purple said. "I think they'll help us with our little pest problem."

"What makes you think they'll help us?! A previous Tallest ordered them killed!"

"Trust me. HEY! Technician! Contact this number!" Purple gave a set of coordinates to the Technician.

"Aaaand how do you have their private holoscreen number?"

"Easy. I used to be pen pals with their leader."

"Oh," Red said, pretending that explained everything.0

The main screen flipped on to show an image of an Irken spinning in his rotating chair. "Dommination Industries," the Irken spoke in a practiced tone as his chair stopped rotating, "100 percent success rate, 40 years experience, reasonable rates, who can I capture and/or slay for you?" He did a double take, and saluted. "The Almighty Tallest!" he exclaimed. "Why have you called us? You know our policy is-" He did a triple take. "PURPLE!! So that's why you broke off contact. It would look bad for an Almighty Tallest to maintain communications with a defective!" He said this last part with a sneer, and added a slight mocking tone when he said 'Almighty Tallest'.

"That, and the Tallest Inaugural Ritual involved my thumbs being cut off," Purple explained. "Some kind of stupid symbolism about not needing them to rule the Armada."

"Oh," the mercenary responded, looking a bit deflated.

"But enough about me, Domm. We have some business that we kinda need bounty hunters for. Think you could ignore your policy for old times sake? Huh?!"

"I don't know…"

"Oh come on," Red interrupted, "I know if you fail, we're required to put a bounty on your heads, but you guys have a 100 success rate; what does it matter!?" Besides, if you do succeed, you will get a very LARGE amount of monies. And we are the Almighty Tallest; we probably don't have to give you a choice in the matter."

"Good points. Business has been kinda slow, lately…" Domm scratched his head and spun in his chair some more, obviously playing up his thinking about it. "Fine, you have a deal."

"Excellent. We'll transmit the data on your little target now. Oh, and by the way, you know that any other wanted targets killed on a mission from the Tallest themselves gets you double bounty, right?"

"No, I didn't know that. It's a very nice perk, though." Domm looked at the data. "Oh, this is going to be good."

End of Chapter

This time I will give you the character voices at the beginning, to be more helpful. I list the people you can imagine as voicing each character, to give you a better feel for their voices.

Domm: Eric Kelso, reasonably big in video games. He's Kalas in Baten Kaitos, and Paul Phoenix in Tekken 5. He's also in Soul Calibur, but I'm not sure as whom.

Edh: Gilbert Gottfried. Yes, that Gilbert Gottfried.

Lio: Remi Kabuka, the voice of Russell of The Gorillaz. You probably haven't heard his voice, but a picture of Russell gives you a good idea of the voice.

Erris: Tara Strong (voice of just about everything. Think closer to Raven of Teen Titans, except, you know, Irken.)

By the way, Domm and Edh are named for Dom and Ed from the webcomic Megatokyo. Lio and Erris are named for Leo and Aeris from the webcomic VGCats. Just a tribute to them.

Next chapter: meet the crew of Dommination Industries.