Author Notes. Hi everyone invader phoebe here!, I bet some of you are confused about Zim's attitude last chapter, well he's in what i would call... a cranial meltdown his whole life fell apart and not in the nicest way, normally he would have destroyed the whole city by now, afterall he did destroy his lab in half a minute..., but somehow the membrane Siblings calm him down, mmm i guess next chapters should explain it better, plus we'll see a bit angry Zim on this one without the membranes to hold him down, i sorry it took me a while to update but i had some hard homework around here and boy! does math gives me headaches!

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Chapter 10

Zim was standing in a platform with his tallest by his side, and all the irkens in the universe below him, they were praising him and the tallest were about to give him the greatest irken alive award, he was happy and very proud then when he saw the inscription he read 'Defective', what? Then he felt the tallests piercing trough his squeedlyspooch with light spears and he heard the crowd and his tallests laughing and pointng at him 'defective!, defective!' he heard being screamed then he saw what had terrified him the most in his whole life, he saw Dib and Gaz in front of him, dead...

"ZIM!!"screamed Gaz "Ahhhhhh!" Zim woke up screaming "Zim!, dude are you allright?" said a worried Dib "Dib-worm?... Gaz?... oh thank god yiu are alive" "... okay... i dont know what your nightmare was about, nor do i wanna know, but its fine now dude" "Its not fine, its 5,30 in the morning Zim, 5,30!!""sorry about that Gaz i had a very bad dream, but what does it matter thats 5,30am?" "what doe...we were sleeping Zim and your screams woke us up" "I was screaming?" "yep" "well... i'm sorry guys, i'll make it up to you!, how about some waffles for breakfast" "sure dude" "I wont doom you this time cuz i know the circunstances, just dont repeat it ok?" "ok"

a little later Zim was in the kitchen with making breakfast while Dib was in the kitchen table and Gaz in the living room watching TV, "Hey dude by the way how did you learn to cook earth food?" "Well Dib-beast, i ran out of irken food about a month after i arrived to earth and thanks to GIR i discovered some earth food didnt hurt me so i began cooking as a result, since he cooked fine but after a while i couldn't tolerate soap and bacon waffles... specially when i found an eye in one of those... anyway i took some cooking courses and here I am" "an eye?..." "yep an eye" "wow" "yep... now call Gaz, the waffles are ready" "Im allready here" said Gaz while entering the kitchen door "It smelled nice and i came" "well, help yourselves" Zim placed 3 plates full of waffles on the table "if you guys want anymore i can make some"

it was allready 6.30 and they were about to leave for school Zim was wearing, besides his black pants, a pair of military black boots, a while long-sleeved undershirt and the red shirt Dib gave him yesterday, he had his wig and contacts on and was waiting at the door with Dib (dressed in his normal attire) for Gaz who came downstairs dressed as allways and putting on her skull locket "Well you certainly are slow Gaz..." "Dont push it Dib, just because Zim is here won't stop me from pounding you" "allright, geez!" "Ehm Gaz, you have your skull backwards, lemme put it straight" said Zim after reaching to her locket without her consent, Dib was waiting for Zim to be on the floor with a broken antennae while Gaz was saying 'No one touches me you got that?' but what happened surprised him...nothing, not even a growl he then saw Gaz face and while she had a blank expression Dib noticed a faint pink shade on her cheeks almost invisible tub definitively a blush, 'what the?... well that was wired very weird...' "all set Gaz, lets go Dib" with that Zim left trough the door leaving a dumbstruck Dib and Gaz behind they just shrugged and followed him to school.

When they reched school Gaz left he rway to her classroom and Zim and Dib went toward their own and entered together to class without a single argument, plus they sat together (more like dib sabe besides Zim anyway) this of course earned them a few looks from their fellow students and the students Eyes only widened when saw them beggining to chat, not an argument just a common fiendly chat "well looks like the freak and the loonatic finally hit it off as friends" said the letter M "maybe now, we won't be hearing as much crazy talk from Dib" said Zita "whatever they are still freaks" said sarah

Zim and Dib ingored the idiocity from the rest of the class while chatting amoungst themselves "So dude, uhm... what do you think about Gaz?" "why do you ask? I like her of course just as i like you" "well... if you say so... but why do you call her "Gaz" so cassually and still adress me as Dib-stink, human, beast or any other mean thing you can imagine" "...welll first of all i never gave those little nicknames to your sister so i'm not used to calling her names, you on the oher half i've been calling you that since we met, and since we are friends now... you can see them as... uhm... friendly nicknames!" "jerk" "thanks" Miss Bitters entered the classroom and shushed every one as she started her 'doom' rant Zim was playing with his pencil, and dib was in his own little world 'So Zim doesn't think anything much of Gaz... btu still, they have this little force field when they are talking that makes me kinda nervious like if i was a third wheel... oh well maybe im reading too much into it besides, Gaz having a crush? Or anything near that? Lol'

When the lunchbell finnaly rung miss bitters said "Now get out of here i'm repulsed by you" "dude you know she is veeery creepy" "you just realized Dib-beast?" "well i used most of the time in class, by trying to spy on you" "i dont know if to feel flattered or deeply disturbed Dib, but i'm gonna punch you anyway" Zimthen punched Dib softly in the shoulder "Ouch!" "So you wont say stupid things no more, seriously now, lets go to the cafeteria and meet your sister" as they were walking down the hallway Dib Said to Zim "Dude, wait for me here i'm gonna go to the bathroom, i can barely hold it" "Allright Dib-stink but please dont say that again just say you are going to the bathroom, geez dib-human i've been your frend for a day, not all your life -though it certainli feels like it-" Zim finishd his sentence in a lower voice "what was the last part?" "Nothing, now go before i get tired of waiting" "Ok"

As Dib went to the bathroom Torque and the rest of his goons were walking ever-so cassually near Zim ( you see up till last year torque was a nice kid, until he joined "popular" team, then he became a classic bully)"wow Zim so you finally became friends with the loonatic no? Must be a charm, and what about her sister?" "Yeah, that chick is crazy" "No kiddin she made her teacher cry" "maybe she should also go to the crazy house like Dib" "I don't see why you wanted them as friends Zim, but then again... defects get along nicely, dont they" At the last comment Zim, who was merely growling yet trying to ignore them, snapped "what the fuck! Did you just said!"Zim's red eyes lit up behind his contacts making his sky blue eyes turn an bright amethyst color and a overall bloodshot look to them "i said defects get" " I heard you, you imbecile, and noone calls me or my friends defectives" "relax skin-boy it was just a joke" "joke!?... dont fuck around me Smacky, im pretty pissed right now, but i'm letting you live trough this since i would not like to stain this shirt with your and your parrot-beast friends's blood so dont ever call me nor Dib nor,Gaz that or-" "Or what Zim!?" "OR!" Zim punched trough a locker door (reinforced steel by the way) and got an apple out very siftly and held it in front of Torque's face "Our next conversation will beome alittle more..." Zim then Squished the apple and all that was left of it was a mashed yellow goop on his claws "Messy" Torque and his friends remainded frozen in fear and amazement, first, Zim the one that allways screams but never does anything bad actually treathened them, second, he displayed a strenght that surpassed even theirs, and finnaly his eyes scared the crap out of them, Torque actually fell to his knees sweating with his face covered in the apple's remains, and the guys gave a step back from Zim "Zim! I'm back dude!, hey there Torque, whats up guys why are you all here?" "Nothing Dib-stink, in fact Torque and the guys were just leaving now, Arent they" Zim eyed Torque with hs bloodshot eyes "Yes Zim, Sir!" Torque and the gang removed themselves from the hall faster than you could say 'holy crap!' "what was that all about?" "I dont know Dib, i've no idea" Zim's contacts had returned to his common clear sky-blue color "Now lets go to the cafeteria shall we?" "... Allright dude whatever you say"

Later at the cafeteria, Zim, Gaz and Dib were sitting eating some homemade lunchboxes Zim made as an apology "Serously dude your cooking is awsome" "What did you expect Dib-stink, I am afterall the allmigthy Zim! My sheer awsomeness surprises even myself" "shut up jerk, you are a lousy cook" interrupted Gaz, earning a small glare from Zim "now there's no homemade pizza at home for the little Gaz" "what? Oh you are giving me that pizza Zim" "really? Then i guess my food ant lousy, isnt that right?" "Grrr... yes Zim! You cook fine...!" "Good" "That pizza better be above bloaty's ones" "Bloa... Ewwww that place creeps me the heck out..." "Why dude?" "the evil demon-beasts that haunt that acursed place scare me" "the anymatronics? Well yeah they are very creepy..." "Shhh... girls" "Hey!-Hey!" said Zim and Dib ant the same time only to be silenced by a glare from Gaz and the bell ringing "well losers see ya when classes are over" she recieved an awnser in the form of a scowl from her brother and her friend

at the membrane residence later... "Allright Dirt-children prepare to eat Zim's Pizza of awsomeness" "jsut give it to us allready i'm starving man!" said Dib, -after they all had their slices and eated them- "well Dude i prefer your hot dogs but your pizza is indeed better than bloaty's" said Dib making Zim grin his Zippertooth smile "Only a little better thn bloaty's ... a little" said Gaz while looking the other way obiously she liked it better than bloaty's but was to proud to admit it, this only made Zim's grin even bigger "by the way dude, i haven't seen you use those spiderlegs of yours, i remember you loved to use them for everything what's up with that" "Well Dib-worm this PAK is in fact an emergency one i was working on at the time it has no spiderlegs and no links to the empire whatsoever wich explains why havent i been detected alive, it does however posses most gadgets irken PAK's have, plus its life-support system and more advanced nanites wich heal me faster than normal, yet i hadn't finished the arsenal for it" "you made that thing?" "yes Dib, in spite of my removal from the empire, and my bad plannig skills let it not confuse you human-worm, i'm still one of the gratests scientists and inventors of the universe, i used to be one of the wisests you know?, of course before Red and Purple removed the wisests from power on the empire" "wow" "yeah Dib, among my inventions are a portable wormhole-projecting device, a near infinite storage technology, the adaptation to weapons and armor of medical vortian liquids, etc... in short, i built a lot" "and yet those idiots tryed to kill you?" "and i dont even know why! Hell they own their bloody jobs to me! I accidentally killed the previous tallests, with one of my inventions, tough its really the fault of the idiot that placed the infinite energy producing thingie next to my infinite energy eating blob" "They are really retards, your ex-leaders i mean" "yeah... they are, but they are the leaders Dib, to the rest of the universe im a... defective, a dead defective" "Dont say that Zim... please" Gaz finally spoke, concerned for Zim whose head hung low now "Yeah man, you know you aren't that! You sure are a nutjob, and a very lousy invader... but you are a great guy" "Dont help Dib" said Gaz "if you'll excuseme guys... i'm gonna go take a shower"

As Zim was heading from the kitchen to the stairs the doorbell rang and then entered a tall figure wearing a labcoat "Good afternoon my Offprings!"

A/N Yay tenth chapter I'm surprided had continued this, i'm too lazy! Well that was good, i loved the locker scene i bet torque wont be having any apples in a looong time,by the way is sarah really the name of the blonde bitch at Zim & Dib's class?the one from the "bestest friend" episode that called almigthy Zim a friendless weirdo?, I dont remember it quite well... Oh yeah since the end of the first arc is near im gonna hold a little contest, say, you deviant artists draw a nice pic of my story (any scene you liked the most) and post them under the tags 'Quetzalcoatl' and 'ZaGr' i'll give further explanations next chapter so you should be gettin ideas Seeya next chapter, Invader Phoebe Signing off!