Wow I really didn't really realize how mean I was to Dib last chapter :/

I actually ended up changing the ending from what it was originally meant to be because I felt really bad for him. Anyways this chapter should be a bit nicer to Dib.

Sorry it took so long to get this chapter out

…. Guys. I hate to do this, but I have some bad news.

This story is going on hiatus. I kind of started losing motivation a while ago but I have been able to keep going because of all the lovely reviews and because I hated to let you guys down.

I might pick it up again someday but for now, it's on hiatus. Sorry if this seems rather sudden.

I know that it is actually coming near the end of the story but for some reason even though I still feel motivated to write, I just never feel motivated on this one anymore. I want to continue writing, but I know that if I try and drag out this story when I really don't feel like it, it won't turn out that well.

This is why I am putting it on hiatus until I finally feel motivated and can continue it properly. Honestly I would rather have a shortened but higher quality one than one that loses its heart.

Hopefully I will pick it up someday. I don't want to have two stories on at the same time and I feel as though this story is dragging me down because I kind of want to start another one but won't let myself. Thanks for understanding.

The good news is I do have a new chapter for you guys. I managed to bring myself to write it because I already had it laid out and I hated leaving you guys hanging.

Disclaimer: Does anyone actually read these things? I'm just going to write it anyways, I in no way shape or form own any part of Invader Zim. Actually, I found a better way to say it. All publicly recognizable characters, settings, lyrics, etc. are the property of their respective owners. The plot is the property of the author. The author is in no way associated with the owners, creators, or producers of any media franchise. No copyright infringement is intended, nor should any be inferred. No profit is being made

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Rocky Rooster: I am glad that you thought that it was more entertaining with the comments. Yeah the Prof. can be pretty oblivious, can't he?

the-siRNA: Yeah I kind of get that feeling too. Dib is much more rational and intelligent than most humans and Zim is way more crazy than most Irkens.

CE: Yeah it can be hard to keep Dib from being too bullied what with most of the people in the room hating him, disliking him, or tend to be a bit oblivious to feelings. Since I am trying to think of what would actually happen based on their personalities they tend to gang up on poor Dib :/

I felt like the least Dib deserved was for the end of the chapter to go a bit better for him. And I am glad that you like that idea of the Tallest fixing GIR in hopes that he will destroy Zim. The not-crazy GIR is actually pretty competent, if a bit extreme. And you are fine, I assume you are referring to the thing about it being a bit heavy with the Dib bashing? Yeah I agree. You worded it nicely and a little constructive criticism never hurt anybody.

Invader Johnny: Yeah Dib always has the worst luck. My reasoning is that if footage of Dib was beamed all over the galaxy he wold indeed be quite famous.

Zim'sMostLoyalServant: It was a bit excessive, I agree. Yeah as I was telling Rocky Rooster, Dib 's dad isn't the most observant man is he? Glad you are still enjoying my comic references.

Guest: Thanks a lot for letting me know. Pointing out problems like this helps me become a better writer. And yeah as I mentioned before to CE, it can be hard to keep Dib from being too bullied what with most of the people in the room disliking him or just being a bit of a jerk in general to everyone. Since I am trying to think of what would actually happen based on their personalities and stuff poor Dib can end up being a bit of a victim

Im-Gay-For-A-Cultist: Glad that you liked the chapter, I am not crazy about the episode either honestly but I thought I could make it a bit more interesting if I used my plot bunny. This should be one of the more exciting episodes though.

Cf96: Thanks, and thanks for reviewing :)

Guest: The Professor is always an interesting character to write, I am glad you liked seeing him :)

Now onto the newest chapter, but first I just want to take a minute to thank everyone who reviewed. You guys are the MVPs :) You are the reason I found the inspiration to keep writing for this long.

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Zim sits on a hovering platform looking through his telescope.

"Another one?" Red groaned. How much longer could this last? He was missing some serious partying right now and that did not make him happy.

"They didn't pause between them like usual, the person behind this must be getting impatient too. Maybe that means they won't make us stay much longer." Dib noticed, optimistically.

"I miss my thing. I don't remember what it was called but I threw it away the other day because it was useless, but I want it now." Purple complained. He never knew what he had until it was gone. "The first thing I'm going to do when I get back is force someone to dig through the rubbish for it."

"Skoodge has been gone a while should somebody check on him?"

"Meh," Purple shrugged. "Skoodge can do what he wants."

"I dunno, what if something is really wrong?" Dib pointed out. He actually didn't hate Skoodge because he was so hard to hate, but he didn't like him either as he was Zim's evil assistant. His confusing relationship with Skoodge aside he still needed to interrogate him.

Dib decided to wait.

"Enhance." Zim commands, looking at a planet through the lense. The planet's surface is crawling with rock creatures. "Computer, locate Invader Flobee."

The computer complies, zooming in to show Flobee and his SIR unit lounging on a throne in a disguise that consists of several rock strapped to his body. He is being fanned by some of the rock creatures.

"Flobee seems to be doing alright." Zim notices. "Computer, show me Invader Stink."

"Stink never was much of an invader, I'd be surprised if he's even got a good disguise yet." Zim mutters. The telescope finds Invader Stink lounging on a hill, disguiseless. Zim chuckles. "Resting on the job, eh, Stink? Pathetic! But then the telescope view zooms out showing that the dome has an Irken flag on it and that the city below is flaming.

"Huh?!" Zim gasps, then begins to wail. "All the invaders are farther along in their conquest than I am! Computer, show me Invader Skutch!"

"Hmm, they all got the easy planets." Zim laughed. "Thank goodness you didn't give one of them Earth. They wouldn't even have a disguise yet."

Dib snorts. "And your disguise is so amazing?"

"Yep." Zim nodds in affirmation, not understanding the sarcasm.

"You know why the earth remains unconquered, a free planet, Zim?" Dib asks.

"Because Zim is a total moron? Red suggests.

"What?" Dib looks confused. "No, because it has me! The ultimate protector, a dedicated paranormal investigator, and a- hey that's not funny!"

"Look at me, I'm so smart." Zim mocked Dib with exaggerated motions and stupid faces. "I have a huge head. You know what you should do Dib? SHUT UP!"

Dib glares at Zim. "I hate you, you know that?"

"Skutch was a total failure in the academy." Zim mutters desperately. But the telescope shows Skutch laughing maniacally as his surroundings burn.

"Hey, what is this!?" Zim complains as the telescope suddenly goes static. "Computer, I wanna see Invader Skutch!"

"Exact Skutch coordinates set."

"I see no Skutch!" Zim complains. "Go back to Stink."

The telescope once again shows nothing but static. "GIR! Come to the observatory!" Zim tells the robot after grabbing a communicator. GIR pops his head out of a hole on the observatory wall. "Yes?"

"What have you done to the telescope?"

"Nothin'." GIR answers innocently. Zim responds with scepticism. "You haven't touched it? Something is broken and it's not your fault?"

"I know, I'm scared too." GIR replies fearfully, using his jets to fly down and join Zim on his platform. "Computer, display scope image on screen."

The entire conservatory dome wall becomes a view screen, showing static.

"Wait, I feel like I know this from somewhere." Red muses.

Zim speaks up. "It was the Planet Jackers."

"Hey, no spoilers!" Red complains. "And I would have gotten it eventually. Probably really soon."

"What is that?" Zim stares up at the wall/screen. "I know this from somewhere..."

"Hey I just said that!" Red informs the screen before being elbowed by Zim. "Great minds think alike, eh?"

"Yeah, but my mind is way, way, way, way greater than yours." Red corrected. "Compared to me you are like a PAK-less smeet."

Zim didn't seem to hear this. "You know, this is great isn't it? The galaxies greatest irken, and you, the Tallest! It took you forever to finally visit but it finally happened!"

"Yeah, I don't really think being kidnapped is a positive."

"You say the funniest things."

The observatory starts shaking and chunks of debris start falling from the ceiling, causing Zim to scream as the telescope breaks loose and crashes to the ground, and the walls change back from their television state to normal walls. The hover platform dodges falling debris and chunks of the telescope, but a small chunk still hits Zim in the face. Once the shaking stops, the entire observatory is filled with the broken chunks of the debris. The hovering platform floats above it.

"Wooo! Do that again!" GIR suggests in excitement, but Zim does not share his enthusiasm. "If what I saw was what I thought I saw, then there isn't time to fix the scope! I'll have to find another more powerful telescope to confirm my... suspicions."

Zim and GIR are standing in their disguises on a hill. The sky seems to be pulsing with waves of electricity. "What about that one?" GIR suggests, pointing out a telescope. Zim looks at it through a helmet that emerges from his PAK.

"Hello." A voice hisses.

"Ms. Bitters?" Everyone gasps but Purple who look confused. "Hey wait, isn't that the teacher lady?"

Their question was ignored though. Zim gasped again before shrieking. "Don't look at me!"

Dib's heart soared before Ms. Bitters scoffed. "It doesn't matter. I've always known you were an alien."

"You have?!" Both Dib and Zim yelled at once.

"Ummm," Red spoke. "This is nice and all, but who are you?"

"Remember, the teacher lady?" Purple reminded him.

"Unfortunately for me, that is correct, I am indeed their teacher. Unfortunately for them, I am also now a truant officer. That's why I am here."

"Wait, why would you become a truant officer. You never leave the school?" Dib asked, surprised.

"I'm a truant officer now. I normally don't leave the school as…. I have duties there." Ms. Bitters explained. "But I heard that if I became one there would be more opportunities to punish you stupid morons."

"But we're not even supposed to be in school right now are we? It's the middle of the night from what I can tell." Dib argued.

"Oh." Ms. Bitters sounded disappointed. "Well, bye then I guess."

"Where are you going to go, you are stuck with us now, aren't… you." Dib looked around in shock. "Where did she go?"

"I don't know, I must have blinked."

"Me too!"

"There is no way we all blinked at once." Dib argued. "Zim, did you see anything?"

"No, I swear the Bitters human vanished into thin air."

"Yep, there is no way that thing is human. It gave me chills just being in the same room as her." Red decided.

"It certainly looks powerful enough... but it belongs to the Dib human." Zim realizes.

"So? He seems nice!" GIR tells Zim.

Dib scoffed. Zim's robot was crazy, it didn't even seem to know which side it was on.

"We want to destroy these people, not ask them for help. The very thought makes me make little... sicky noises."

But Zim was indeed desperate enough. Zim and GIR both stand out in front of Dib's house, and Zim is obviously not pleased to be there. He looks to GIR, who smiles in an encouraging manner.

After a great inner struggle and more encouragement from GIR, Zim finally pushes the doorbell. Dib opens the door slowly, but Zim smacks the door open the rest of the way due to a lack of patience and Dib groans as he falls backwards into the couch.

"I need the use of your telescope." Zim demands bluntly. As Zim approaches, Dib scuttles away, and then grabs the Prof. Membrane lamp behind the couch and holds it threateningly at Zim.

"Gaz, there's an alien in the house!"

"You mean besides you?"

It seemed that Dib wouldn't be getting help from his sister.

"That's a weird insult." Purple noted. "As you two are from the same planet."

"She was just being Gaz. I'm not an alien." Dib answered dismissively.

"Well you actually are an alien too us, but that's not the point. I wonder…"

"What?" Dib asked as they all stared at him

"Are you from Earth?"

"What kind of question is that?" Dib asked, taken aback. "Of course I am!"

It all makes sense now. Your strange intelligence when compared to the rest of "your" species, and your head. It is impossible for a human to have a head so large!

"Just stop it with the head thing!" Dib complained. "That got really old a long, long time ago."

"REVEAL YOUR TRUE FORM!" Zim shrieked, hoping to catch The Dib off guard and startle him into blurting out something.

"I don't have another form!"

"Hmm, if you say so." Purple muttered, not really buying it. They continue to eye him suspiciously.

"We don't have time for this, Dib! Your world might be in very great danger!"

"Well, yeah, you're trying to destroy the human race, remember?" Zim chuckles dismissively. "Oh, yes, but this is different, there's something else entirely. I need to use your telescope!"

Dib wasn't falling for it. "You think I'm stupid? I mean, what kind of weak alien needs the help of the people he intends to conquer?"

"Have you seen the sky?"

"I'm not going out there, Zim! I'm not falling for whatever it is you're up to!"

Dib pokes Zim in the face with his lamp, causing him to squeal. Dib does it again and Zim runs out the door, shrieking.

Dib slams the door behind him and smugly speaks to himself. "Earth is safe once more, but for how long?"

Zim shot Dib a judging look.

"Well what did you expect me to do?" Dib spoke. "You were an evil alien breaking into my house to use my telescope."

"I told you that it was different!" Zim indignantly replied. Dib questioned. "And why would I have believed you?"

"You know Dib actually has a point." Red said.

"How would you know, you insolent FOOL?!" Zim automatically shrieked before sinking down in horror as he remembered who he was talking too. "My apologies, My Tallest, force of habit."

"I'm just going to pretend that never happened." Red replied. Normally he would have kicked up a huge fuss but by now he had had way more than his daily dose of Zim and figured his best choice was to try and roll with it until he got out of this nightmare.

"Stupid human!" Zim rants before deciding. "We only have one option, GIR! We're takin' the Voot Cruiser out to investigate."

Zim heads home and soon Zim and GIR are flying in the Voot Cruiser. "It's a good thing I fixed the g-force compensators on the cruiser before this little trip we're about to take. It was acting kinda funny."

Zim had jinxed himself. The voot cruiser blasts away, out of control, at incredible speeds. Before they know it, they are high above the city. Screams belonging both to Zim and his robotic companion fill the vehicle.

The cruiser crashes into something and Zim flies out of his seat, hitting the windshield. His eyeball comes out of his socket. He groans as he puts it back into its socket.

Dib gagged a little. "Your eye, it just…"

"Oh yes, that?" Zim shrugs. "I was a bit surprised too. Had no idea I could do that."

"Hey, did you know we could do that?" Purple asks Red. "That's so weird!"

"And a bit disturbing." Red admitts. "Was it painful?"

"A little bit, my Tallest." Zim answers.

"Huh. Who knew."

"What did we hit?" Zim groans before realizing the answer to his question. "Noooooo!"

"The Earth has been stolen, GIR!"

"Wait, don't tell me…." Red realises.

"By the Planet Jackers!"

"Ugg those losers?" Red groans.

"Who are the Planet Jackers?" Dib wonders aloud. Red stares at him for a few seconds before remembering. "Oh yeah, I always forget that you humans wouldn't know about them."

"If he really is a human." Zim mutters, not ready to let the idea go. Then louder he says. "Don't bother explaining it to him, there is no way his feeble mind can comprehend the topic."

"Hey, earlier you said I was smarter than other humans." Dib retorts and Zim scoffs. "Being smarter than a human is not really a compliment. It's like saying you are smarter than dirt. Or GIR."

"Computer, bring up the Planet Jackers holo simulation."

A hologram is projected from the dashboard. It shows a planet with a moon orbiting it.

"They sneak up on unsuspecting planets and enclose them in a hollow metal bubble."

As he speaks this is demonstrated in the hologram. "The inside of the sphere is one big television screen, which projects a sky so know one knows what's happened."

Zim continues to explain. "Those earthquakes we've been feeling are the pull from when they change direction."

"Tell me a story about giant pigs!" GIR demands and holds up a pig toy, as distracted as ever.

"The Planet Jacker's homeworld orbits a dying sun. They throw planets into it like firewood to keep it burning. And now, they have the Earth."

"Yay!" Shouted GIR.

"No GIR, that's bad." Zim informs the robot. "Do you know what this means?"

"Yes." GIR answers.

"You don't really, do you?" Zim jumps onto the dashboard where a holo-projection of the Earth is. "It means WE won't get to destroy it! Our mission will be a total failure!"

"Imagine the Irken army showing up and the entire planet is missing!" Zim pounds the dashboard in frustration before hopping back down. But then he spots something."There's got to be a way out of the shell… There!"

They fly into an opening that is labeled 'for Planet Jacker use only.'

"Hey wait, don't people leave the atmosphere all the time on other planets?" Dib questioned. "Spaceships are like cars on some planets right?"

"Yeah, so?" Zim replied, not seeing what was up with the question. Dib continued."Wouldn't they notice something was wrong pretty quickly? Why bother projecting a sky? Or having an exit?"

"Well the planet jackers normally only target very primitive planets, where this is not a problem. Or in the earth's case, primitive and stupid." Zim says, explaining and insulting at the same time. "Even if you could casually leave the planet I suspect you would bang yourself against the shell repeatedly, expecting it to open for you."

"Oh. I want to say that wouldn't happen but.." Dib trails off. Zim shouted out his plans to take over the world every day, in public, and nobody ever noticed. Humans really were stupid.

They see that the planet is being pulled along by only a tiny ship. "That's it! That's them!"

Two planet jackers sit inside the cockpit of the tiny ship.

"Look at that, binary system." One of the planet jackers comments. "That's a pair of stars orbiting around each other. You ever been to a binary system?"

Something caught Dib's eye. Somebody was peeping out from the bathroom.

"Hey Skoodge! What are you doing, come on over here!"

Skoodge squealed in terror and dove back into the bathroom.

Dib ran after him but when he tried the door it was locked.

"Hey, are you alright?" Dib asks but receives no response. "I know you're in there, come talk too me!"

This time heard a muffled response, but he couldn't make out the words. "I can't understand you, come out here so we can talk."

"I don't wanna." The words were still quiet and a bit muffled, but were clearer. "Don't make me."

"Don't make you come out?"

"No."

"Then what? What is it?"

The Tallest and Zim had been watching the odd conversation with mild interest. Dib was suddenly struck with an idea. "Hey you!"

"Me?" Zim asked. Dib scoffed. "Not you, your leaders. Can one of you order him to come out? He has to listen to you right?"

"I guess." Red came up next to the door. "Umm, Skoodge was it?"

A whimper of confirmation. Red continued. "So, I guess I'm ordering you to come out. As your supreme leader."

"Co-leader." Purple corrected. Red rolled his eyes. "Whatever."

The door cracked open and Skoodge reluctantly slipped out. He shrunk under their stairs.

"So…" Dib finally broke the silence but was suddenly interrupted by Skoodge.

"Please don't make me test that thing again!" Skoodge pleads "These ears are enough, they're so large I can hear everything that tv show is saying, and GIR's babbling. If I hear one more think about Floopsy and Shmoopsy and yet another round of maniacal giggling, I will go insane!"

"Oh, you were just worried about the machine thing." Dib realized.

"Oh yeah, my machine thing! You know I forgot about that…" Zim trailed off.

Skoodge looks nervous at the mention of the machine.

"If only the bitter human had stuck around we could have tested it on her." Purple laments. That could have been funny. But then again she didn't seem like someone you wanted to get on the wrong side of.

"Ms. Bitters was here?!" Skoodge was surprised. He thought she never left the school.

"Wouldn't you have heard her with your… ears?"

"I couldn't hear anything but that stupid tv show." Skoodge explained, shivering at the thought. "I passed out from the horror for a while but then… it was back."

"She called us stupid morons then left." Purple elaborated.

"Stupid morons?"

"Yeah."

"You are stupid morons." The familiar hissing voice of Ms. Bitters spoke, causing everyone to jump.

"I thought you left!" Dib shouted in surprise. Ms. Bitters spoke again, but somehow they couldn't pinpoint where in the room she was. "I never leave. I'm always watching you. ALWAYS!"

"Oh. Don't suppose you want to help us test this teleportation machine?" Zim suggested. There was no reply. "Any other volunteers?"

"We will!" Purple speaks up.

"We won't!" Red argues, giving Purple a funny look. "Did you see what happened to Skoodge? Do you want ears too?"

"I don't know about you, but I've been here way too long! You can stay if you want, but I'm out."

"I guess."

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"Ok, prepare for teleportation!" Zim pulls safety goggles over his eyes and starts laughing maniacally.

"Should we ask why you need those?"

"Oh, in case it explodes."

"That wouldn't help much if it actually ex- wait did you say explodes?"

But it was too late. Zim yanked the lever and with a beam of light the Tallest disappeared.

"Wow, it actually worked." Zim commented, then looked up at Skoodge and Dib. "Ok, who is next?"

But then, with another blinding flash of light, the Tallest were once again standing in the room.

"Never mind."

"My head feels dizzy." Purple complained. They looked up to observe their surroundings and realized where they were again. "Oh shplicksphlort. They rerouted the beam. I didn't even think of that, but of course they would. If they could reroute the beam to the party they could reroute our escape beam.

"So we are still stuck here?" Purple asked.

"Yep." Red groaned.

"Drat." Purple wanted to say some much stronger words but his head really hurt.

The footage came back on. Evidentially the person controlling it felt like enough time had been wasted.

Zim flies the Voot Runner in front of the Planet Jacker's ship and turns around to face them. "S'cuse me."

"Hey, look at the little green guy!"

"What do you think you're doing?" Zim asks.

"Well, you see that planet back there?" The Planet Jacker asks. Zim replies with a simple. "Yes."

"We're going to throw it into our sun. Why, you gotta problem with that?" The first one explains, then the bigger one speaks up. "That one's gonna burn real good, lots of critters! Critters burn good!"

"Yes, I have a problem!" Zim replies in frustration. "Maybe you have forgotten about the Irken/Planet Jacker treaty, stating that all planets marked for conquest by the Irken military are to be left where they are!"

" No, no, this planet wasn't marked." The smaller one explains, looking at a map. "This one's free game."

"Then it's a mistake! I know for certain the armada expects me to insure this planet's doom! Can't you just go get some other planet?"

The Tallest laugh nervously. "Must be those idiotic Planet Jacker's faults. Because we would never forget such an important thing."

Zim smiles and nods, having no reason to doubt his Tallest.

The Planet Jackers continue to refuse to leave Earth be, and end up flinging Zim's ship out into space with the impact from a blast, laughing.

"Look, Oog! Pick up the pace, we're almost home!"

"There isn't much time! GIR!" GIR pops his head up, saluting, in duty mode. "Fly the cruiser. I have a plan. An amazing plan..."

"Is it really the best idea to let that robot fly the ship?" Red wonders aloud. Purple agreed. "Yeah, from what I've seen it might just fly it in circles."

"Exactly, CONFUSE the enemy!" Zim shouts excitedly. "The hidden brilliance that you hid behind the robot's seemingly… less than perfect actions… is brilliant!"

"Well, now that you mention it…" Purple starts and Red finishes. "We are brilliant, aren't we?"

They both now bear matching smirks.

Zim confronts the Planet Jackers and the bigger one goes outside to get rid of the "annoying green thing".

"Wow that guy has really thin legs." Dib notices, referring to the Planet Jacker. "How do they support his body?"

"Huh, I've never actually thought about it."

The Planet Jacker finds Zim on the outside of the ship, pounding on it and groaning.

"That was your master plan, Zim? Figures." Dib chuckled.

"Like you could have done better?" Zim scoffed. "Irkens are the masters of strategy. Those Planet Snatchers never stood a chance."

"Please, stop that. It's really annoying!" The Planet Snatcher grunts, flying over to where Zim is by jetpack.

"Fools!" Zim shrieks, balances on his PAK legs. "I am Zim, Irken Invader Zim. I am responsible for the safe obliteration of the human race, not you!"

"That's it." The Planet snatcher grumbles. He had asked nicely, but now the green thing was going to get it. He leapt at Zim, who used the agility his PAK legs provide him to leap out of the way.

"Release the planet, thief!"

"There's only one way to undue the coupling, but you'll have to get through me first!" The large alien pulls out a set of keys and twirls them on his finger. Zim, seeing a small key-hole on the coupling, leaps up with his PAK legs.

The Planet Jacker moves out of the way and Zim flies past him. When Zim tries again, the same thing happens except this time the Planet Jacker grabs him by his PAK legs, spinning him around until the legs snap and Zim is sent flying into space.

"GIR! GIR! Catch me! Bring the cruiser around and catch me!" Zim commands frantically through the communicator.

GIR snaps into duty mode and he salutes. "Yes, sir!"

The cruiser flies straight into Zim, leaving him stuck on the windshield. GIR, no longer in duty mode, happily waves at Zim. "Hi!"

"Let me in, GIR!" Zim is not pleased. GIR pushes a button on the control panel, letting him in.

"Huh, it actually did what Zim asked." Red notes in surprise.

"Yes, it was a… different experience." Zim muses. "Though that day was full of surprises."

"They're getting away! We're loosing the planet, GIR!" Zim growls. "The Tallest will kill me for sure! Now, time for another amazing plan from me, Zim!"

He releases the pods on both sides of the Voot Cruiser and they begin cutting the planet free of the shell.

"The pods should cut through the shell." Zim explains to GIR, now wearing a purple spaceship. "I'll just have to keep them occupied so they don't notice what's happening. You let me know when it's done."

Zim leaves the spaceship, heading for the coupling.

"You know, I never know the Earth was so… small. I can't believe it fits inside that shell." Dib spoke.

"What are you blabbering about, Dib-Stink?" Zim asked. Dib waved it off. "Nothing. It's just a bit weird, that's all."

When Zim reaches the coupling, he lands on it with magnetic boots that let him stick to the surface.

"Look who's back." The smaller planet jacker says, noticing the intruder. The bigger one growls and heads over to where Zim is with the help of jets.

"Let's get this over with, little man!" The alien looks extremely violent. Zim replies. "Sure. Why not?"

Both make jet powered charges towards each other.

"Huh. Zim is going to get beat into a pulp. That guy is like a hundred times bigger than him." Purple casually commented.

Skoodge who had been sitting quietly, still a bit nervous about the whole teleporter incident spoke up. "I believe in Zim. Trust me, he has survived worse."

"Unfortunately, that is true."

"Unfortunately?" Dib thought. Something about their attitude towards Zim wasn't quite right. It really bothered him.

"You had enough yet?" Zim asks, and receives a punch to his face for his trouble. Zim has been badly beaten up. But luckly, the pods from the cruiser have managed to cut the planet free of the shell.

"It's done!" GIR informs Zim.

"Okay... I think I'm through with you!" Zim manages to weakly mutter before slowly escaping to his ship. The Planet Jacker does not follow.

On Planet Earth, Dib peeks out of his house just in time to see the shell floating away, revealing the true sky, which is unfamiliar.

The moon, still stuck in a shell, crashes into the planet.

"Yeah it took me forever to get earth back to where it was." Zim complains. "And the thing with the moon... phew. I would have just left it but GIR started throwing a tantrum so I really had no choice."

"Why did you put the planet back?" Dib asks, surprised. He had always wondered what had happened. At least now he knew how they got to a completely different galaxy, but when they returned to normal he had no idea how that happened. And Zim had refused to answer his questions.

"Duh." Zim smirks as if it is the most obvious thing ever. "Cause if the earth moved how would the Tallest find it?"

"You could have given us the new coordinates." Red points out.

"Oh." Zim realized. But then Skoodge jumped in to help his friend out. "The planet Jackers would probably have noticed it and thrown it in for real if it just stayed there."

"Yep, that was what I was just about to say." Zim lies.

"The Earth is safe! I did it, GIR! Now let's go destroy it!"

"Yay!"

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There you go. I read over it once or twice but I didn't extensively check it like I normally do, I don't think I got the tenses quite right. But I put it out because otherwise I might have forgotten and let it sit in a file on my computer forever. Please let me know if you find big mistakes. I don't think there are but I can never be completely sure.

This was actually supposed to be the chapter where Dib finds out that Zim was actually banished, but I decided not to leave you with a cliff hanger like that.

So, I guess, bye for now.

Thanks again.