To Start Anew

All characters associated with Invader Zim belong to Jhonen Vasquez.

Zim POV

The Armada is at my command, in just ten minutes I can bring this whole galaxy to chaos, everything is perfect now. Only, I'm missing someone. Tak. She and I had a bond like no other, sure now that the dreaded ES2 chips are gone everyone else is trying new things but I know that no one can truly understand the connection we had.

The deceased Unit 387 still speaks to me. He gives me advice on running our whole race. He also gives me hope . . . hope that Tak is still alive. But how could he possibly know? Every time I ask him he says that he cannot tell me. I just don't understand him anymore.

I get by but I still can't make everyone happy. Lard Narr of the Resisty is angry that I won't sign a peace treaty. I tried to explain to him that agreeing to peace would doom our race, but he doesn't care. To this day, the resisty is still a threat. But they know that I can destroy them all as quickly as they arrive so they stay away.

My biggest concern is the Tallest. Ever since I exposed the data box, people have been running away to join their cause because they choose to see no evil for what was done. And the control brains you ask? They are no threat whatsoever. I learned that everything said about them was a lie. So I let them go. They just burrowed back under the surface of our planet.

1 month has passed since I exposed the data box. Things have changed. I have decided to adopt the human tradition of marriage. Couples would always come to me when they wanted to be bound by belief to each other. It took some quick thinking but I found volunteers to bind these couples together in marriage.

I have never seen anyone happier. I long to one day ask Tak, but I fear that day will never come. She and I would have been the king and queen of our race. But I still don't know what happened to her. But one day I finally found her.

The tallest's army was taking hostages. The armada wanted to send elites but I refused to let anyone other than myself go on these missions. Once I knew there was no hostages left wherever they were, I would call the massive to level the place.

But one day, I cornered the tall bastards in their own headquarters. They told me that if I could defeat all of their warriors that they would accept death and die by my hands. I accepted their challenge and tore my way through the meanest and toughest warriors they had.

Then they told me about my last foe. I watched this masked female strut from the room behind the tallest. She jumped into our sad excuse for an arena. "Are you sure this is your best warrior? I will not kill someone who can't fight back, with the exception of you two." I said to the tallest.

Red chuckled "Yes this is. Don't underestimate her." Said tallest Red. Just then she ran towards me, she had no weapon. But she was almost as fast as me. As she ran towards me I shook the blood off my knife and sheathed it.

She threw a fist at me but I grabbed her am and brought her down easily. I reached for my knife and held it ready to kill her when tallest Purple decided to yell out. "Hey! I wanna see who she is before she dies!" "YOU KNOW DAMN WELL WHO SHE IS NOW SHUT UP!" tallest Red scolded.

Suddenly, so did I. I had to see who this was under that mask. So without haste I tore the mask from her face and saw . . . it was Tak. I froze. Just then she reached for my throat. She didn't speak and acted like she didn't know who I was.

I grabbed her hands and struck a nerve, knocking her out. I picked her up and threw her over my shoulder. As I sprinted from their crumbling base I thought, was tallest Purple trying to save me from killing my most beloved? Maybe I will spare his life. Just maybe. I signaled the massive to send a pickup and destroy everything within ten miles of this place on this uncharted world.

I watched the beams blast down on the ancient building from the escape shuttle. I set Tak down next to me. She reminded me of when I first found her. She was like a sleeping monster. My arm still aches every day from that encounter.

I felt like I not only had her back, but my life was back. After being lost in deep thought for awhile, I noticed 387 sitting next to me on the shuttle. "Zim. Take care of her." And then he just disintegrated, as he tends to do when he leaves.

I boarded the Massive and rushed Tak to an infirmary. The doctors said that she had undergone some sort of procedure that was intended to make her serve the tallest. He said he didn't know if it was permanent or not. "If she never recovers from this state, she will be too dangerous to keep alive." Said the doctor.

My heart stopped. I asked him to leave me alone and he just shrugged and walked away. I sat next to Tak. She was under a lot of medication to keep her asleep. Every time I looked at her, I just felt more sadness. Finally, I looked down at her once more and shed a tear. It fell onto the floor with a calming drip sound.

I stayed there for hours. I even slept there by her side. The next day I noticed she was waking up. Her eyes gently fluttered open. She looked at me as if she was still asleep. She managed to tell me something. "Zim . . . I love you . . ." she said softly.

I ran out of the room and grabbed the nearest doctor by the shoulder. "YOU GET IN THERE AND FIX HER!" I yelled as I dragged him into Tak's room. First the doctor ran a test to see how bad it was. Then I noticed a look of shock on the doctor's face.

"Zim there's nothing wrong with her. I know that another doctor confirmed that there had been some tampering with her brain and PAK but nothing seems wrong now." I was overjoyed. All of my misery was gone. "387." I muttered. But how, I thought.

I that night I slept soundly, again in the chair next to her. The next morning I was woken up by a familiar voice. "Zim wake up. I have good news!" Tak said shaking my shoulders. I smiled at her and yawned. She pulled me to my feet and rushed me out through the halls and to my personal quarters.

"So, good news huh?" I asked. "Well. I'm not sure how to say this but as the humans would say, I'm pregnant!" I was now happier than I had ever been in my entire life. All I could think to do was embrace her. We stared at each other for a moment and then we slowly started to move towards each other into a kiss but we were interrupted by a voice we both recognized.

"Thank you anyone?" said Unit 387, we all laughed and at the same time, Tak and I said Thank You. "Well it's my birthday tomorrow and I thought seeing Zim happy again would just take the cake." "How old will you be?" asked Tak "976. I've always been lonely on birthdays but at least this year I have some friends that aren't already dead. And my birthday wish is for you to stop our race from separating by killing the tallest."

"We will." I responded sharply. "Well Zim, the armada is waiting for orders." Said Unit 387 as he disintegrated. More soldiers join the tallest every day, the only way to prevent a war is for me to kill them. And I'll do just that.

A.N. well I hope you all enjoy. I can't believe it but, this only toke me a day to complete. Also this story is going to be a lot shorter than the other 2. And it is the last, I think. But uh chapter 2 could actually be up pretty soon. I dunno. Enjoy everyone!