Yep, I finally updated. Sorry for the wait. I've been busy.

So, to answer to a couple of reviews I got...

GirsWaffles22: Thanks! Also, yeah, I write my story before putting it up too. Just a lttle thing we have in common...

As to how to add a new chapter, you have to go to Publish, then go to Manage Stories. Then, select the story you want to add a new chapter to, and when it shows the details for it,go to Content/Chapters. There should be a box that says Add A New Chapter. You basically find the document you want, then name it. Then, click Add Chapter.

MidnighStorm13: Thanks! But sorry, no ZaDr. I don't really support Iz pairings, so none of the pairings are gonna show up in this fanfic.

A couple of your other ideas are okay, though. Truthfully, I'm thinking of revising one of my chapters to contain one of your ideas. And there's another idea that I already have, just part of it's different.

To everyone: Here's chapter six. It contains one of the scariest things Jhonen ever tried to put in IZ.


Ch. 9 Joining

He was walking down the street. As to where he was going, Dib wasn't sure. He just simply continued on, putting on foot in front of the other. Soon enough, Zim's base came into view. He walked down the pathway, but strangely, the lawn gnomes didn't react. When he got to the front door, he opened it.

No one was inside the house. In fact, it was silent, deadly silent. So silent Dib could have heard a pin drop from miles away.

He was curious now. Where was GIR? Most importantly, where was Zim? Then, Dib realized something. If they're not here, he thought, then I could destroy Zim's base! I could take all his alien technology and show it to the Swollen Eyeball! They'll believe me for sure!

He went down to Zim's lab, using the elevator found underneath a table. He thought all about what he was going to do, then stopped as he walked into the lab and saw his enemy, standing there as if he had expected Dib to come and was simply waiting for his arrival.

"Hello, Dib," Zim said calmly.

"What are you doing now, Zim?" Dib asked, a bit fearfully.

"Nothing," the Irken replied. He said it so nicely, so calmly, yet there was something, something about the way he said it, and it scared Dib. "But that's about to change," he continued.

"What do you mean?" Dib asked nervously. He had began to wish he hadn't come here, and wished he had known something was going to happen here. In fact, he was scared about what would happen next.

"Oh, I've been waiting for this for a long time," Zim answered, smiling creepily. He stepped forward, his eyes locked on Dib.

"Wait. What are you doing?" Dib asked, the fear in his voice clear.

"I'm simply getting rid of you," Zim replied, his voice icy. Then, he started to change.

First were the eyes, which were still staring at him. They turned crimson and started to glow. Then, he grew wickedly sharp fangs. Several of his veins became more prominent, literally popping out. His skin changed from its normal, pale green color to a darker, more mottled version of it. His fingers grew longer,thinner,until they looked less like fingers and more like claws. He raised himself on his four metallic legs, but those changed, too, looking like real spider legs rather than metal appendages.

What now stood before him was not Zim. Rather, it was a freakish nightmare of the alien, one that nearly frightened him to death.

Dib turned, and ran. But when he got to the exit, he saw GIR there, blocking it. His eyes were the same color as his master's was now, and glowing just as much. But that wasn't what scared him. What really scared him was the liquid on the android's body, which was just as red as his eyes, a liquid that could only be identified as blood.

Dib woke up suddenly, his skin coated in an icy sweat. The first thing he saw was a weird, upside-down purple cone thing that was floating in midair. The weirdest part was, it had a face.

"HE'S AWAKE!" the cone-thing yelled, so loud it hurt his ears.

Someone muttered a few words in a language he didn't understand. Then, they said, "You didn't have to scream that loud. Why don't you make yourself useful, Shloonk, and go watch the controls?"

"Alrighty!" Then, the cone-thing (which Dib figured was an alien) left, only to be replaced by another alien. This one was just as big as he was, with light grey skin and beady eyes framed by green goggles. He wore a navy blue, full body jumpsuit with two belts, both with roundish off-white buckles, and armbands that went almost to his shoulders, two on each arm. To top it all off, the alien had a pair of horns that curled, but not a whole lot.

"Now, to deal with you," he said.

"Wait," Dib asked. "Who are you?"

"I am Lard Nar, if you must know. I am leader of the Resisty!"

"Okay," Dib answered. "That name is rather…. stupid."

"I know, isn't it?" replied Lard Nar, automatically losing his façade of pride. "I mean, seriously! Spleenk gave me that idea. Ugh, I should have never listened to him."

"What do you guys do, anyway?"

Lard Nar gave him a look that asked, Are you serious? Then, he said, "We resist, duh. More specifically, we're going up against the Irken Empire. We're trying to stop Operation Impending Doom 2."

Dib was silent for a moment, thinking about what this could mean. Then, he asked, "Can I join you guys?"

"Sure!"

And so started Dib's first day as a Resisty member.