I don't own Invader Zim okay?

April 1991

Dib was playing with one of his father's inventions in his room. Baby Gaz sat there sucking her thumb. Dib was going to be two in November and Gaz's first birthday was in December. All along the walls were murals similar to the ones in Penelope Membrane's pediatrics office. Then Dib stuck his finger in the wrong spot and...

"Mommy!" Dib wailed as the charger for a cell phone as small as a credit card shocked Dib

"Dibby what did Mommy say about playing with Daddy's inventions?" Penelope said.

"Sawee (little kid sorry)" Dib said looking up at his mother with the same amber eyes she had.

"That's okay. Time for bed." Penelope said scooping up Dib and tucking him in.

"Sing me my bedtime song Mommy!" Dib said

"The toes are connected to the feet the feet are connected to the legs the legs are connected to the- here's the tricky part" and Dib fell fast asleep. After Penelope put Gaz to bed, she took Professor Membrane his invention

"Seriously Thaddeus who needs a cell phone this small?" Penelope asked.

"Nonsense! This'll change the world! And don't call me Thaddeus it's T.J.!"

"Fine if you stop calling me Penny I will. Can you do something to make my job easier? Like something about immunizations? That's the hardest part." She said resting her thick violet hair on Professor Membrane's arm. It fell much more easily than Gaz's did and it was a lighter shade.

"By the way Penn-Penelope Mr. Burns called." Professor Membrane said

"What?!!?" Penelope demanded.

"Iraq might go after Kuwait again and the Pentagon wants me to design some secret military technology up to chemical and germ warfare if it gets used on the US"

Professor Membrane said. "Mr. Burns is funding a lot of this."

"Hell no Thaddeus! That's immoral. If there is one secular thing you should have learned from your pastor father its ethics!" Penelope said

"But we'll be paid a lot and you can develop the antidotes and..." Professor Membrane pleaded. Even though his job was a civilian scientist he always kind of wanted to be a military scientist. Now was his chance and part of him wasn't going to let his pediatrician wife stand in his way.

"Money or not it's still immoral. You're planning to do something unethical I will have no part of! You can sleep on the couch tonight!" Penelope said

This fight led to a horrific lie that would mess Dib and Gaz up for life.