Disclaimer: Invader Zim and the characters are not mine. They are the property of Johnen Vasquez and the Nickelodeon network. They are not ever ever ever ever gonna be mine no matter what...bla. Also I am not threatening anyone from Nick this is just a stupid fanfiction by a fan. DON'T. SUE. Pleeeese!

A/N: Now comes Dib, but how will Zim convince him to team up for the impending battle against Nick? Through his ego and out his stomach of course! What does that mean? Read and find out...^_^

Common Enemy

At the Membrane household, Dib was preoccupied watching a rerun of Mysterious Mysteries. It was right now showing a story about a Bigfoot sighting in the perfume department of some mall or something, when the doorbell rang. "There's someone at the door!" Dib notified hoping someone else would get it. He went back to his show and waited intently for the part where Bigfoot turns to look at the camera. The doorbell rang once again, breaking his concentration and causing him to miss the moment. "Could someone please answer the door!" he requested again.

"Get it yourself!" yelled Gaz from somewhere in the house. Displeased, Dib got off the couch and went himself to answer the door. He peered outside opening it slightly, "Hello?"

"Hello, Dib-monkey!" respond the familiar alien in disguise.

Surprised, Dib threw the door wide open, "ZIM! What do you want?" he asked aggressively.

"Calm yourself Pig-STINK, Zim has not come to do you harm." At this Dib raised an eyebrow in suspicion.

"Yeah right! Then what are you here for?" Gir ran up from behind Zim and opened his head. Zim reached inside of it and took out some papers. "How'd your head get SOOO BIG! I wanna fill it with TACOS!" The wound up little robot shouted at random.

"Anyways," continued Zim, "I am only here to inform you of the wickedness known as Nickelodeon."

"Nick-el-owe-dion, is that some kind of alien soup dish?" Dib asked cocking his head to the side.

"No, it is a human tele-vision network from which our universe originated. Although they have long since cast us aside!" he shoved a printout of the show description and had circled the word CANCELED with a red marker. "That is pretty bad, but I'm still not getting why it should bother me. I could care less if were on a TV show." Dib stated slightly unimpressed.

"Well then, perhaps you'd like to be informed that in the ratings, you come out in only 3rd place." Zim pulled up another paper showing a 'Who's your favorite IZ character polls', it was plain to see from the lines that Dib was indeed raked #3.

"What in the- but, I'm the hero! I'm trying to stop you from destroying the Earth! How can it be that I'm less popular that you and your stupid robot!" he asked swiping the printout from Zim's hand.

"Yet that was not the worst of it." Zim further told him.

In dismay Dib looked up, "What's worse than being less popular than YOU!"

Zim's eye twitched angrily as he pulled up the other papers. "These are called works of 'fandom', and are centered around a DISGUSTING topic known as ZaDr."

"ZaDr?" Dib wondered as he looked over the documents containing pictures, and some short stories. His eyes grew wider and he began to gag. The more he read on though, the worse he started to feel. "They think…they're saying….What are we doing in this one! OH GAWD!" it was then he turned a sickening green in his cheeks and ran into the front yard. He fell too his knees and began vomiting violently on the grass.

"CAN I EAT THAT!" Gir screamed pointing at the spilled stomach content all over the lawn.

"No Gir, you can't eat his puke." Zim told him simply.

"Awwwe. But I waaaaant toooo." the robot groaned hanging his head.

Zim came over and kneeled next to the still spewing Dib. "Do you now understand that Nick is our common enemy Dib? Because had they not interfered, then these so called, 'fans' , would not have been able to manipulate our characters in such a degrading manner. None of this may have existed in such quantity had it not been for the fools of Nick."

Dib wiped his mouth of bile before trying to speak, "It's all NICK'S FAULT!" his shouted as voice still held great disgust when spoke the name.

"Yes. Yeees. Join me Dib-worm. Together we can take our well deserved revenge on the wretched Nickelodeon! They will not know the meaning of peace once we wreak our vengeance!"

Slowly, Dib rose, his legs were a bit wobbly as he got to his feet, "Nickelodeon. Must. Be. DESTROYED…." Declared the now incensed investigator with enraged eyes. Later that day, Zim and Dib recruited Gaz, Prof. Membrane, most of the people at skool, and even the two characters that were based off Johnen and one of the staff members. Their numbers continued to grow and the time for some animated pay back was fast approaching. All they had to do now was get there…

A/N: I bounced some quick ideas around on this one, hope it turned out ok. Now in the next one, at last they all go to our universe and begin operation IZ PAYBACK. (not the real name I made it up) Hope you like, later :-)