Disclaimer: I do not own Invader Zim or Earthbound.

"Hey! Wait!" Running through a vast, hot, empty desert after a strange little robot was NOT Tako's idea of fun. It didn't help that her sleeves, skirt, and shoes were black. Nor that she had long, thick green hair. Back at the lab she had asked what they were going to do next. The robot rubbed his hand across his metal chin, then grabbed her hand and exclaimed, "Follow me, Tako-human!" she now wished she had objected.

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Sid was sitting in his bedroom, reviewing his notes from high school history. He hadn't looked at them after graduating the previous month. Finally, he found the passage he was looking for: '150 years ago the four friends of destiny defeated the embodiment of evil, Giygas. This bought about an era of peace that ended at the start of WWIII, witch was 85 years ago.' "Hmm…" he said to himself.

Meanwhile, Iwi was running an online search on the old newspaper's name. It had the most bizarre title: 'The Daily Notice' despite that, according to what had already been found, there had never had anything in it true enough to be called a notice. The 'Giygas Alive?!' headlinehad apparently been part of a pitiful, and illegal, attempt to sell more newspapers. This was not a well known event, as the start of WWIII came three days later.

Iwi was ready to quit, when Sid ran in, "Iwi, look!" she glanced at the open text book in her friend's hands then at the name of the town 'The Daily Notice' had been based in. "The town that's destruction started World War Three, and the town the newspaper is from are the same place!" Iwi looked out the window, "World War Three," she muttered, "the war that destroyed half of the earth…"

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Tako plopped down on on the sand, exhausted. The robot had finally stopped in front of an old dried up tree. "SLEEP TIME!" he screeched, pulling a black blanket out of the top of his head. He handed Tako the blanket and turned to the tree. Then a hose-like device came out of his head, and it must have been like a flamethrower, as he used it to set the decrepit thing ablaze. A stunned look came over Tako's face, "Well," she said, "that's ONE way to start a campfire…"

Chapter two complete! Hooray, ect. I'ma go work on chapter three now. *leaves*