Zim groggily pulled himself into consciousness. He was in them main body of the church. A murmur filled the room as Zim looked around. A hundred or so humans huddled in the pews. They sat in ragged clothing glaring ahead at a sight on the wall. Where the podium should have been a large well like hole was torn into the floor spewing smoke. One the far wall the same rune found in Dib's room was painted. Before it Dib's gurney was vertically mounted. He lay motionlessly bound to the bed with leather straps.

Unaware of Zim's lucidity, Membrane addressed the humans. "As you can see I have come up with a solution to our problem." He gestured to Dib, "All I need to do is cut his ties with the paranormal world, permanently." Struggling to undo the ropes Zim remained silent. A sharp pain shot through his arm as his hand brushed something in his back pocket. Blue blood dripped onto the floor as he gasped in pain. Something had cut him, but what? The knife! He still had it from the carnival. Grabbing it loosely, he poised the knife to cut the rope. The light weight was taken from his hands, to be shaken in his face by Membrane. "There won't be any of that here." He scolded. The doctor grabbed Zim's shoulder, forcefully bringing him to the front. He turned to his small audience, a smile on his face. "This noble little boy will make everything worthwhile!"

"What is it exactly that Zim has to do?" He growled. There had to be a way out of this! Membrane walked Zim to a small wooden plank and made him walk out to the center. The thin wood reached a forth of the way into the hole, which stretched longer than it seemed while Zim had been sitting.

"Oh nothing much, all you have to do is stand here and be our sacrifice."

"Your what!" Zim shouted as he turned to face the human mob.

"Yes soon the insanity will end, and it starts with your death." Membrane gave Zim a gentle push causing the invader to tip backwards. Something inside the deep hole lurched. The swish of metal echoed and grew louder as Zim fell. He cringed, waiting for the inevitable, scorching death. All he heard however were the startled gasps of the humans around him. He opened his eyes and found he was face to face with membrane. "H-h-how?" The man stuttered. Zim looked around and saw a strip of barbed wire was coiled around the rope that bound him. The charmed piece of metal hoisted him to the edge of the sacrificial tomb. It sliced through the fibers and moved on to the leather straps that bound Dib. Membrane fell back as the remaining humans scrambled in terror. "It couldn't have worn off by now?" The man whispered, horrified.

"What couldn't? What's going on?" No one answered Zim as Dib fell free from the hospital bed. Mumbling something he stood on shaking legs. He waved his hand and the wire snaked around several bodies cutting deep into the sensitive flesh. Zim's eyes widened at the sight. "Dib's the messenger." He mumbled. People screamed and writhed on the floor as Dib made his way over to his father.

"Now son," he chided, "you know I had only your best interest in mind. I had to." His resolve firmed, "No child of mine is going to be chasing fairytales." Dibs hand closed around his father's throat.

"No one hurts Zim." He slurred, tightening his hold. The bloodied, barbed wire coiled around his parental figure. Membrane's body fell lifeless to the floor. Rushing around the gaping hole Zim came to Dib. The human's eyes were droopy and unfocused as he struggled to remain conscious. The sedative was still coursing through his veins.

"Zim is fine you stupid stink-beast." Dib leaned forward, resting his head on the alien's shoulder. "Come on let's go home."

"Nnn…five more minutes." Dib moaned.

"No, we really have to go." Dib didn't move. "Dib?" A light snoring came from the human as his whole body weight leaned against the petite alien casuing him to top backwards. He hit the wood floor with a solid thump and the world went black.

-Blood Candies-

His eyes shot open and darted around the room. A brilliant white assaulted his eyes. He was in the hospital again lying on a cleanly dressed gurney. His head and neck was bandaged and he ached all over. Above all he was scared, what had happened while he blacked out? Struggling to sit up he grabbed his arm, it hadn't been bandaged, almost as if he had been injured after his wounds were treated. Florescent light reflected off the sterile floor, it seemed too clean now, too new. A woman stood with her back toward him, sifting through some papers. Loud music was blasting in her ears as she did her mindless task.\

"What's going on here! Where's Dib!" The invader demanded. He got no response from the nurse. "Hey! Hey! Hello? Answer Zim!" The woman continued looking at the papers on the counter. Zim growled in frustration and threw the bed side lamp at the nurse. "No one ignores Zim!" The nurse jumped with a start and stared wide eyed at the lamp as if to ask it why it decided to join her. She then looked up to see her patint glaring daggers at her. Pulling out her head phones slouched, writing down a few things on a clip board.

"Oh, you're awake." She drawled.

"Yes Zim is awake, where is Dib!"

"What your crazy little friend?" Zim glared at her as she continued. "He probably in another room, he's hurt pretty bad? Your lucky he was there."

"Why?" Zim demanded.

"He shielded you from the impact. You could probably walk out of here right now."

"Crash, what crash?" Zim thought a moment. "The bus crash but that was three days ago!" The nurse eyes him a moment.

"I don't know where you think you've been, but we've been dealing with patients from the crash for three hours not days."

"…How's Dib?" The nurse shrugged flipping through some papers.

"I don't know, he's not my patient." Zim stared at her for a while.

"Zim is leaving." The alien got out of his bed and left the room.

"Whatever." The nurse sighed putting her headphones in.

-Blood Candies-

Zim entered 308, Dib sat in the hospital bed looking painfully board. His right arm was in a cast, his chest and left leg wrapped in clean gauze. He looked up at the alien as he walked in , an eyebrow raised.

"You know they don't put backs on hospital gowns." Dib greeted. Zim immediately looked over his shoulder to see he was fully clothed underneath. "Of course that doesn't matter if your wearing clothes on underneath." The human snickered. "I see the crash hasn't hampered your intelligence any."

"And you're still stupidly optimistic." Zim scoffed, the two stood in a comfortable silence. "How long until they let you leave?" Zim asked. His nemesis sighed and looked out the window.

"Four weeks, two if I'm lucky. I guess you're going to take over the world then." The human looked back at Zim, a mournful look in his eyes. Silently asking for Zim to change his mind if only briefly. He invader stretched his arms.

"Zim has survived a crash, I'm tired and despite Zim's incredibly good looks, am in pain. I'll probably take a break for a while." He casually looked over at the bed ridden human for a response. A small smile crossed the young boy's face. "Until then Zim shall entertain himself by bugging you." The small smile was now a smirk.

"Well I hope that won't be too long. I hate hospitals." Zim sat down in one of the visitor's chairs.

"Why is that?"

"My mother had been attacked. People said it was a car crash, but I saw her get stabbed by something inhuman. They carted her to a hospital and she sat there for weeks in a coma." His eyes glazed over. "My dad told them to pull the plug while I was at school. She died alone in a room like this one."

"Zim is…sorry that, that happened to you." The two sat in silence for a while. "Zim is also grateful for your sacrifice."

"Hey someone has to stop a full out invasion." Dib smiled weakly.

"No I meant for saving Zim."

"Well, I'm mean..." Dib floundered. "You'd do the same for me wouldn't you?"

"Yeah…I guess I would." There was a long pause.

"Zim… did you have any strange dreams while you were out?"

You have received the normal good ending. You are a sensible person and fairly brave. If I only had one ending, this would probably be this one. ^^

It was a real trial getting all of the endings written by the end of the week, but it was totally worth it. Each one is different and reveals a little more about the world that Zim was wandering through the first nine chapters so feel free to read the other endings. Like you weren't going to anyway. . I'm glad that so many people stuck with the story and hope to hear what you thought of your ending. ^^ Below are the inspiration for the story and the tracks that go with each chapter.

Inspiration: 1408, Invader Zim: Halloween Spectacular of Spooky Doom, Evanescence: The Open Door, Silent Hill 1 and 3, The Suffering, and Resident Evil.

Evanescence: The Open Door

-Sweet Sacrifice: Theme/Level 1

-Your Star: Level 2

-Snow White Queen: Level 3

-Lose Control: Level 4

-Cloud Nine: Level 5

-Like You: Level 6

-Weight of The World: Level 7

-The Only One: Level 8

-Lacrymosa: Level 9

-Good Enough: The Hospital Scenes at The End