Could this really be happening to him, could he really be related to the greatest Tallest who ever lived? That would change everything, if the people knew then he would hold respect to his name, no longer would they treat him with disdain and think of him as just another defect with no significance. He would have hope and pride, he would be able to get Red to bow to him even.

But if this was all just a dream, he would still be the most hated and loathed person on his planet. He would still be famous but for the wrong reasons, because he destroyed one of the most important events in history and not because he did something right or actually meant something.

But how could this be a dream? He had held the written information in his hand only a moment ago, it couldn't be an image of his subconscious, it wouldn't do that to him, Steve would kick it's butt.

Wow, me, related to Almighty Tallest Teal! Yeah, that's amazing, good for you! And little Noah too, maybe we still do have a chance. Speaking of which, you still need to convince the rest of the world that you're an alien. Oh yeah...

The smile spread until his teeth were showing and his cheeks hurt, a true genuine smile, only very rarely did it make it's appearance now. For the next couple of seconds he wasn't aware of the other four figures next to him, he was lost in his dreams.

When he still didn't return to reality Aneera reached out a hand and shook his arm a little to see if he would snap out of it. When she pulled away he sat up straight and chuckled lightly to himself, either he was just as astonished as she was or he just officially went insane.

Noah looked up and felt so horrible for not telling him earlier, but at least Zim didn't seemupset, that was a good sign. So to test his theory he slowly climbed into his father's lap and watched for any reaction that might tell him to back off. Fortunately Zim just looked down and smiled even more, if that was possible, and held Noah as close to him as he could.

So far no one had said anything about what just happened, but then again, Dib and Gaz didn't know what the big deal was so they couldn't really be counted. They just continued to sit quietly and watch while whatever was happening was over.

"Zim?" Aneera was barely able to choke out his name with the strange felling that caught in her throat and made her speechless. She didn't know what to feel at the moment, happiness or fear. Sure, she should feel happy but what if Red found out, would that cause him to take unnecessary steps to kill them?

And then another thought popped into her head, if her parents weren't related to Tallest Teal then did that mean...? How many lies had the Tallest been telling them? What exactly were they keeping from them?

Right then Zim looked up at her, causing whatever she had been thinking to disappear completely and left her confused. He noticed the expressionless look on her face and pulled one hand away from Noah and set it on her shoulder, perhaps she still hadn't been able to take it all in yet?

"Is she okay?" Dib peered over Zim to see what could be wrong with her, to Zim this was obviously good news but is there some reason why she shouldn't be so happy?

"She looks broken." Gaz stated as if it was plain and simple. So maybe she wasn't exactly the queen of sensitivity but she was pretty smart. Aneera instantly scowled and glared at Gaz from behind Zim. Gaz only snickered and continued to play her game that she had pulled out moments ago.

"Broken!?" She now sounded mortified that someone could even think about insulting her like that, no matter who it was it ticked her off more than anything.

"Excuse my miscalculation, I guess you were malfunctioning." That did it, if it weren't for Zim Aneera would have launched herself at Gaz and started biting and scratching, unfortunately she didn't get that chance.

Zim turned around and glared at Gaz. "A little less of the insults would be much appreciated." he hissed, doing his best to keep Aneera at bay, she was growling and snapping her teeth in a warning to let Gaz know that next time she might not be so lucky.

"So what happened?" Dib said, so far he had been the quietest. Zim, who had Aneera by her wrists, let go with one hand and picked up the tablet, letting Dib take it and see what was with everyone.

Noah crawled out from underneath his mother and clung to Dib for protection, not really caring that they didn't know each other very well. Dib looked down and shook his head, if Aneera kept this up Noah would never get used to her again.

After a minute of exploring what there was to see Dib still didn't get it, so Zim was directly related to a Tallest, what was the big deal about it? "I don't understand, what's so great about him?"

The whole room seemed to stand still while his question lingered in the now dense air, the feeling didn't settle well with him. Zim was about to open his mouth to answer but first he had to get his still rabid wife off of him. He pushed on her and did his best to sit up but she was still trying to get at Gaz, so he just told Dib to click on his picture for a bio.

"Okay, I have a question. What happens now? I mean, you guys are back and all so that obviously means someone has had to have noticed by now. Are they still gonna blow up the Earth?" The length of Gaz's sentence was enough to render Zim speechless momentarily, that was almost impressive.

"Um, well, yeah. I mean, they're gonna try. A friend of mine disabled the bomb and they probably still haven't noticed yet so that bought us some time. I just need to figure out how to- NO! DOWN! Anyways, we'll need more than us three to convince your dad of the fact that we're aliens." He had to shout at Aneera for almost phasing, but that wouldn't be helpful, with Noah and all.

"Did I seriously make her that mad?" Gaz glanced up from her game and looked disbelievingly over at Zim who only nodded and continued trying to shove off the girl.

"She gets sensitive when people refer to her um... how to put this gently... well to the fact that she's different." Zim had word his explanation carefully because Aneera was literally on top of him and he was vulnerable.

Aneera hissed and glared daggers at Gaz who either didn't notice or didn't care enough to say anything.

"You're referring to the fact that she's a defect aren't you?" Gaz said dully, more of a statement than a question. Zim let out a strained 'Yeah' and almost got to wheezing point.

Aneera began snapping at her and her eyes started turning maroon, though she was careful not to loose control and risk crushing Zim completely and scaring Noah past the point of no return. Though now her head was lowered a bit so she couldn't move so much. Then she took another snap at the air in Gaz's direction, this time Zim had no choice but to act, though he really didn't want to.

Against his better judgement and all the screaming Steve was doing he turned his head and nicked the end of her antennae, though he bit her harder than he originally planned. She, of course being in a lot of pain, jerked back and put both hands around the end where she'd been bitten, not at all happy about what he'd done to her, it hurt.

Gaz almost busted out laughing at her pain but figured that it might not be the best thing in the world to do, so she kept quiet. Dib leaned away from Zim for a second, he couldn't believe what he just saw, so she was mad, did he really have to bite her?

Upon retreating to the opposite end of the couch Aneera was whimpering at the pain that had been bestowed upon her. She didn't dare to take her hands away. If looks could kill Zim would have been killed about ten times over, he just might have made her even more angry but at least she wasn't really bothering anyone or smothering him anymore.

"Well we should go, dad is coming home." Gaz stood up and began walking towards the door.

"You know how long he's gonna be in for?" Zim was now able to sit up and watch as Dib got up too, being sure to return the tablet to him, and follow his sister.

"A month at the most, why?" Dib eyed him with suspicion.

"I'll need to recruit about ten more people so he'll believe us, we don't have a whole lot of time before we're being attacked from the safety of our own homes." There was just enough sarcasm in Zim's words to let Dib know that they should be fine.

"'Kay, I'll see you later then." With one last smile the two left the house and the door closed shut behind them. Zim turned to Aneera and sighed, this was going to be fun. Noah knew what was coming so he quickly ran upstairs and into Zim's room to wait out the fight that was sure to spring up.

She took no hesitation in hissing at him with a sure fire warning to keep his distance if he wanted to stay in one piece. Zim paid her notice no attention and stood up so he could walk over to her and try his best to calm her down. Though, the closer he got the louder she hissed at him, maybe he hurt a lot more than he wanted to.

"Back off." Her voice was dark and pained, but Zim acted as if he didn't hear her and held out a hand, that might not have been a very good idea. She looked down at it and wanted to bite him back so bad at the moment, but at the same time she didn't want to hurt him.

Zim sighed and dropped his hand, then began to turn around like he was going to leave. Once he was sure she wasn't quite so tense he turned back around and practically sat on her, rendering her helpless.

"Calm down, I just want to see how bad I hurt you." It was hard for him to say the last couple of words but not too horribly bad. Still, when he reached out to stroke her antennae she leaned away and hissed again, not entirely trusting him. But because he was sitting on her he was able to restrain her and see what the damage was.

Indeed he'd done much more damage than intended, now he felt extremely bad about biting her but it couldn't be helped now. Instead of just a warning nibble he had nicked her and she was bleeding, he felt sick. Thankfully it wasn't too bad and would be healed by tomorrow morning.

That's when Gir decided to make his appearence and came bounding in the room, distracting Zim momentarily. Aneera took this opportunity and shoved Zim off of her and onto the floor, who landed with a muffled 'thud'.

"Ow! What was that for!?" Zim looked up and his expression became of hurt and he lowered his antennae, trying to make Aneera feel guilty. Unfortunately she wasn't that stupid, therefore not falling for it.

Instead of answering Aneera curled herself into a ball and glared at him, it was going to be a while before she let him anywhere near her again, which will most likely be by tomorrow. Sure, to humans it may seem that she was over reacting, but to Irkens that would have been a serious offence to someone.

To Irkens, letting someone anywhere near your antennae was a show of trust. An Irken's antennae are extremely sensitive to a lot of things such as sound, movement and smell, as Irkens do not have noses. They're also very emotionally "aware" so to speak, for instance, if one was agitated, anxious or somewhat angry their antennae may slightly twitch. If one was happy, excited or had been aware of sudden movement their antennae would raise slightly. And finally, if one was sad, angry or was in pain they would lower their antennae.

So, in the long run, Zim was screwed for the rest of the day. Completely, totally and utterly screwed. Aneera had probably set a five foot radius personal space bubble around herself and if a certain someone happened to invade that space bubble she would hurt him severely.

Though Aneera was aware that the amount of pressure he bit her with was more than intended, she knew she was over reacting and that he was only trying to keep Gaz alive. Though, she couldn't help but feel hurt that he would do such a thing, pain intended or not.

Zim slowly stood up, noticing how she watched his every movement when he moved. It unnerved him greatly when she watched him so closely like that, it made him feel like he had done something wrong, but in this case he probably did. In fact, he did a lot of things wrong.

"Hey Master!? Where's mini Master?" Gir smiled happily at his nickname for Noah, as he never remembered his real name. It was sad actually, Gir could remember a lot of things, usually unimportant things, but he couldn't even remember his Master's own son's name, pathetic.

"Up in my room probably... No, you are not allowed up there." Zim knew why Gir asked, he wanted to annoy Noah, something that he knew Zim didn't allow. Gir pouted and hung his head, about to leave when he noticed Aneera and her bad mood.

"Pretty Lady? What's da matter?" Gir sat himself on the floor ad looked at her with his stupid expression. She didn't answer, she didn't even look at the robot. Gir continued to stare at her until he got bored and stood up. "Why is you's so sad?"

"Don't want to talk about it." She then closed her eyes and waited out the rest of the day on the couch.

Zim woke up in the middle of the night around two in the morning, he was tired and wanted to go back to sleep but it seemed as though the gates to darkness had closed in his face. So he sat up and yawned, then noticing that he didn't have a blanket anymore and he was slightly cold.

"What the?" He began to look all over he room but couldn't exactly find where it had gone. He sighed and was going to go to his closet and get another one when he noticed it was on the floor, being occupied by a very small certain someone.

Noah rolled over and yawned, though still very much into the intense dream he was having. Zim made sure to be careful as he stood up so that he didn't step on Noah and wake him up. He then bent over and picked up the smeet and held him for a moment, blanket and all. Zim couldn't help but smile at how his antennae twitched while he slept, it was so cute.

Eventually Zim had to set him on the bed and give him a kiss goodnight before leaving his bedroom. He closed the door quietly and walked to the other side of the landing to Aneera's room, he still felt bad about what he did and felt that he needed to do something. So he reached his hand out and slowly opened her door.

She too, was fast asleep, wrapped up in a thick blanket to keep herself warm, though still shivering. It wasn't that her room was cold, it was because she was used to being warmer and now all she had was a blanket, she was used to having Zim sleep with her and he was warm.

Speaking of whom, he had walked over and was now standing in front of her, watching her as she twitched and her teeth chattered. Zim sighed and a smile began to play on his lips, he was hoping that she wouldn't kill him in the morning. He silently and swiftly climbed over her and laid down, placing a hand around her to warm her up some. He then noticed that her left antennae, the one he had bitten, was twitching but it was more of a jerky movement. His gut churned, he felt so guilty about it. Trying to ease his own pain he leaned forward and gently pulled it into his mouth, maybe that would make it better.

I told you not to do it stupid. Shut up, I feel bad enough already thank you! Well! If you would have listened maybe she wouldn't be so mad at you! Honestly! Does it ever stop!? Fine! Be that way! I will! Good! ........ Sorry. Yeah me too. Goodnight. 'Night.

Aneera: Cool! Another chapter done!

Zim: Yay!

Aneera: ... Are you okay?

Zim: No!

Aneera: You're scaring me.

Zim: GOOD!