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"The plan is going perfectly my tallest! Soon doom will befall this planet and victory will be ours." Zim knew the plan would work this time he couldn't resist calling the tallest and telling them, even though it took twelve tries before he got ahold of them. He had to remember to check his communication lines later.

Red gave a board yawn and made a lazy go ahead gesture with his claws. Purple simply scowled at Zim and stuffed his face full of donuts.

"You see my tallest this planet is FILTHY! So many GERMS! But I plan to use this to my advantage. I am going to unleash a horrible virus onto the humans. And when they are all dying the planet will be ours for conquest." Zim raised his antennae and eagerly awaited his leaders response. He couldn't wait.

"Great job zim."

"You really are the perfect invader."

He loved the praise of his leaders, as any irken would. Now all he needed was to hear it. He saw the grin on tallest purples face and knew that his plan was being approved.

Tallest red looked over to his partners bag to see if there were any donuts left. Upon discovering none he scowled and turned back to Zim. "Uh that's good Zim we need to go so-"

Zim couldn't hold back any longer "have the armada ready by next week. By then the planet should be good and doomed."

Red was beginning to lose his patience. He glanced at the control drones who were ready to cut the transmission at a moment's notice. Then at purple who was desperately trying to hold back a laugh. "Sure Zim, sure."

Zim saluted "Invader Zim signing off". With that the transmission was cut and purples hysterical laughing could be heard thought the room.

Red turned to purple with a quizzical look "What's so funny? Doesn't he get on your nerves?"

Purple was nearly on the floor in tears by now and could barely breathe. "D-do you haha remember the last time Zim had a run in with germs?"

Red thought for a moment "oh yea now I remember."

"And he was covered in meat! Maybe this time if the virus doesn't kill him the meat will." Both tallest were now laughing and soon some of the drones joined in.

Red wiped a tear from his eye. "zim is such a moron." This statement set off another round of laughter.

Back in Zims base Zim had begun to check the communication lines of his computer. "Computer!" he said looking up at nothing in particular on the ceiling.

"whhhaaatt?" the computer droned sounding like a irritable child who was asked to do something boring.

"Check my communication lines for errors." Zim had to make sure that this was fixed. How was he supposed to keep his leaders up to date if nothing would work? He waited a few minutes, the sound of the lab for some reason grinding his nerves. "well?"

The computer sighed "no errors found within the communication system."

"Eh? There must be a error. Look again computer." Zim began tapping his foot, he didn't like waiting. That was wasting time and for an invader to waste time was out of the question. He had a virus to unleash for irk sake!

Another sigh came from above "no errors found."

Zim threw his hands in the air. He would figure it out later. There couldn't be anything wrong with the tallest equipment. They had the best in the universe. They couldn't be blocking him ether, so what was it? In his frustration Zim spun around and nearly fell over the small android who was currently playing with a stuffed pig and a pizza box. "Gir!"

The little robots eyes flashed red for a brief second "yes my master!"

"Im going down to work on the virus, don't let anyone in the house. Understand?" Zim awaited the answer. He knew gir didn't really understand but gir was all he had and that would have to do. The last time he tried to upgrade gir it was a disaster. Zim shuddered at the thought.

Girs eyes returned to their original blue and he now had a goofy grin on his face "OKIE DOKIE!" gir screamed at the top of his lungs and ran up the elevator yelling something about tacos and pigs.

Zim sighed. Whatever no one would really try to get in anyway...except Dib.

Dib

Just the word sent a rage through Zims body. It has been five years. Five! And still Dib was like his shadow constantly chasing him and ruining his plans. What's worse Dib had ended up taller than him. Zim had grown a little in the lower gravity of earth now standing five foot eight, but Dib was now six feet! Zim growled inwardly to himself. Didn't that dirt monkey have anything better to do? Shouldn't he be courting females by now or something?

Zim arrived at the lab where the virus was being kept. He was always terrified of germs ever since he had gotten those goggles. But he had had a string of failures lately, actually they have all been failures as the earth is still standing. Zim wanted to impress his leaders and if it meant facing his fears he would do it. For the irken empire! Nevertheless that didn't mean he wasn't going to be careful, he wanted to actually SEE the downfall of the human race.

Just as he was starting he heard something behind him. "just the computers" he said to himself and tried to continue.

/ click /

Antennae were instantly raised trying to hear more of the noise. Was someone here? Zim turned around…nothing. Perhaps it was nothing, until a bead of sweat fell from the ceiling. Zim looked up.

Dib.

Figures. Who else?

Dib was in his base with his filthy human germs on his ceiling doing irk knows what up there. The whole base would need to be scrubbed down.

"Dib what are you doing! Get out!"

Dib came down fairly gracefully from the ceiling. Having to sneak around the base so many times had made him athletic and agile. "Im not leaving until your organs are all over an autopsy table zim!"

The two had begun to circle one another, there prelude to the fight that was about to come. There was a tension in the air as the circle became smaller and smaller making it only a matter of time until one of them was forced to throw the first punch. Both were completely on edge.

"WHATCHA GUYS DOING DOWN HERE?" Gir had come down unnoticed until he had decided to speak. The noise startled Dib and he fell back into the table with the virus on it, spilling the contents of the beaker all over himself.

The only noise in the room was Zims manic laughter joined by girs a few moments later.

"well well well" zim said as he slowly walked up to Dib. He wasn't THAT worried about the virus, his computer could find a cure. "Looks like you have a deadly virus all over you Dib-monkey. Nice knowing you." He said with a grin. How sweet this moron had taken care of himself. He couldn't help but start laughing.

Dibs face widened in fear. What had zim infected him with? He looked down at his stained clothes it was thick and cold and white. A mold of some kind? He needed to think fast. Where was that beaker? He looked around and found it on the floor. He twisted it around in his shaking hands looking for a label. He found it!

Yogurt.

That dumbass irken. Of course he would try to kill the human race with something like yogurt. Dib was relived but angry and looked over and the laughing Zim who was so caught up in his joy he was no longer paying attention to what was going on.

His laughter was quickly stopped by a glass beaker slamming into and shattering on his face.

Pink blood fell to the floor as rage built inside Zim. With a scream he fell upon Dib and the two were a blur as punches, kicks, scratches, and other forms of violence were played out. Gir watched in the corner with some popcorn giggling to himself. "I love this show."

The two had stopped, both completely out of breath. Pink and red blood was speckled on the floors and walls. "Give up Zim?" Dib said gasping for breath.

"Never." Zim said as he was clutching his left shoulder.

Dib decided he had had enough. Earths sole defender couldn't die fighting the enemy to the death. And if someone didn't back down that's the road they were heading down. Dib swallowed his pride. He hated it. He felt like he was running away. Zim would never back down as a irken soldier and dib knew that. If this continued one of them would die and it would probably be him. There were easier ways to take down Zim.

Zim didn't follow him when he ran out. Dib made it to the street and made his way slowly home.

Authors notes:

Whew! This first chapter is kinda generic I think but it starts to set things up for the rest of the story. Lets see what else? I know grammar is bad in some places I apologize for that. (Its almost 2am brain isn't working quite right.) I will try and make it better next chapter. Also I am going to rate it T for now but it will probably will be M later on. If you guys think this should be rated M now let me know so I can change it. This is my very first fanfic so please don't kill me in the reviews. I tried.