A/N: Greetings! I have returned to the IZ fanfic realm. Nice to see that IZ is far from dead. Good work people. I hope you'll enjoy my newest fic, Exceptions. Please R&R. No flames or spammers please. I will finish this one and update it often!!
Guaranteed free of: Gluten, eggs, soy, Mary-Sues, Canon-sues, and Marty-Stus
Disclaimer: I do not own Invader Zim. That's JCV's department.
Prologue
The universe is a mysterious entity; so vast and so greatly underestimated. In the past, had one asked me if there was anything else I could possibly ask for I would have replied with a simple "no". However, that statement would have been false for within me lay an emptiness fueled by a persistent thought of the unknown. Yet simultaneously there existed a deep fascination for what truly stretched beyond my harmonious days…
Presently, however, I would do anything to reverse time and destroy the budding thoughts that had led to those foolish fantasies. Had I only known that in due time, chaos would plague my world maybe then I would have prevented this sinister imposter from infiltrating my people. For months it lived among us, blending in smoothly, flawlessly. On that fateful day when it revealed its true intentions it was already too late for my world. It simply smiled deviously and spoke mockingly in our native tongue. "The Armada will be here soon."
It indeed came, along with more of them, thousands and thousands more. I watched in agonizing horror as my docile, peace-loving companions quickly turned to violence in feeble attempts to spare their lives, their families, our home. How could we share the universe with such apathetic creatures? My family urges me to flee but I cannot swim. My body feels solid and numb. My mate drags me to the underside of our grand home, deeper and deeper till I can only see black. It is so silent here, so calm. Such a deceiving contrast to the terror that is simultaneously happening only a few hundred feet away. My mate turns to face me. His gentle voice is inside my mind urging me to continue forward. I know now where we are going but I cannot comprehend it. It is forbidden!
I do not know where the path will lead but my shameful fantasy is about to be fulfilled, and never is my wildest mind surges did I picture it like this. My mate, my beloved companion is weak in my head and I realize he is in pain, and will not accompany me on this horrific endeavor. I wail so intensely that for a moment I am sure that my echo reaches the distant surface. I cry to my beloved that I never loved anyone as I have loved him. After a horribly long pause, he answers in his calm soft voice so weakly that I almost don't recognize it. He has always been so strong. I had never felt safer than when I was in his arms. I wail again, louder this time, and my hand guides itself to the pendant around my neck; I touch it. Fear overwhelms me but the commitment to my world and the personal guilt are enough to override it. I must make the sacrifice. My concentration is weak but a blinding light ignites spontaneously, pulling me into a deep void.