"ZIM!" I yell out in relief. With new-found strength I'm able to kick off the Zombie that scratches at my neck. He crashes hard into the blocked off exit and collapses, not getting up. I punch the two others with equal power, making both falling back and not bothering getting up. "Yes!" I whoop. Carl lets out another demonic screech, although instead of a summoning it was more of a scream of frustration. "You horrible little snot! You won't be winning that easily!" To my surprise Carl started shaking around. His skull first started thrashing around in the dirt wall, then his un-shattered arm started to break out from the wall, then his legs did the same! I watched in terror as Carl completely detached himself from the wall. His balance wasn't steady, but his hollow eyes are fully fixated on me; turning my blood cold and my limbs locked.

"YOU WILL DIE HERE CRYSTAL! THERE IS NO ESCAPE!"

I try to scream, to try and get the attention of someone, but it's like I forgot how to do something so simple. Carl slowly steps towards me, I can feel my heart beat against my chest. I close my eyes, accepting what was there to come. Well on the bright side I'll see my parents again. As I hear his rattling breath there is an explosion.

"What! You again?" Carl rings out.

ZIM jumps down from a purple VOOT Cruiser into the hole. "Mini Moose alerted me that you stole my ship Crystal-thief." He points at Carl. "Who are you?"

Carl opens his mouth and hisses horribly.

ZIM cocks his head to the left. "What? What was that? I couldn't hear you bone-human."

I look from Carl to ZIM and vice versa. So I really was the only person who can hear him. "ZIM get me out of here!" I yell hoarsely. ZIM snaps back towards me. "Why should I? You stole my ship!"

I'm taken back by this outburst. "I had to! To face this guy!" I point at Carl. Carl flexes his skeletal fingers, just waiting to dig them in my already bleeding neck.

"Why couldn't you ask my to take you down here? I thought we were partners." There's no hiding the tone of being betrayed in his voice. I shrink back. "I just needed to do this myself… I had to." My voice wavers. ZIM gives my one look at hops out of the hole and into the VOOT Crusier. I feel the tears spring up in my eyes.

"HA! Looks like your knight in shiny armor just abandoned you, I guess this means that you have nothing else to live for!" He lets out a loud laugh. I sink to the ground as he reaches for me. I close my eyes as I sense the bony fingers reach for my throat. A bright light and a clatter jolts me up. Carl steps back, looking at the hole that was made in his ribs. I look up to see ZIM at the controls of the ship. "You owe me one good world domination plan Crystal!" says ZIM as he turns on the tractor beam where I am. I start floating up in the colorful beam.

"You can't escape! I won't let you LIVE!" Carl jumps up and grasps my leg as we float up. "NO! Get off!" I scream at him. He grips on tighter. I try kicking him but he wouldn't budge. Then I feel a small object in my free leg, the revolver. I swing my leg up and grab the revolver as it starts to fall. I aim it at Carl's left eye socket. "Say good bye Carl-" I pull the trigger and he falls back onto the ground, shattering into pieces,"–Forever"

I board the ship, flying away into the night sky.

"I'm sorry." I say again to ZIM. It's been a couple of hours after getting rid of Carl, and ZIM as been lecturing me the whole time, starting off with "How can you leave with Mini Moose without my permission?" Followed by, "Why wouldn't you take me with you?" I sigh once again. "I had to go face him alone, he was my problem and mine alone, I didn't want to drag you in."

ZIM paces around the room, shaking his head and making little grunts and muttering to himself. I let my eyes wander as I await his response. GIR is eating a taco on top the keyboard of the supercomputer, whereas Mini Moose is just floating around my head emitting little squeaks time to time. "Crystal-human…" My eyes snap back to ZIM.

He glares at me, his red eyes looking menacing in the lighting. "You are to be my test subject for now on, that is just for stealing my ship! The next punishment is that whenever you are down here you turn Irken, that's for not telling me what you were doing."

Wait what? " You want me to turn Irken whenever I'm down here? Why?"

"Silly little foolish human, Only Irkens can understand the way these-" He waved his arm to show that he meant the whole room. "-So Irken you must be, besides what am I to say to the Tallest when they see you in your human form?"

Well his logic makes sense… I guess. "Fine done deal, I just don't know how to turn Irken at will, but I think it has to deal with high emotions."

ZIM ponders a bit, "GIR! Annoy the girl!"

GIR jumps up and his normal blue eyes turn slant like and red. "Yes my master!" They turn back. "WOOOO! Let's party til' we drop!" GIR jumps onto my head.

"AGH! ZIM call him off!" I shout as I try to get the little robot off my head. ZIM just laughs. Well I guess this is just my new life, oh I could get used to this.

2 months later.

Ms. Bitters is yelling at the phone. "Another one! Why can't the other teachers…well how about the underground class… that's full too? You will pay for this!" She slams the receiver down and it burst into flames. "Class despite my genuine outrage the principal just informed me that we have a new student coming in. Enter AXI!"

A girl with two-toned colored hair stalks in. Her front brown hair covers one eye, the hair behind her ears is pink and super long that it trails onto the ground. She has burning red eyes and a scar over the right eye. She wears a giant blue bauble around her neck like a necklace. She 's wearing a brown dress with a silver belt. She faces us and says in a rough voice. " Hello my name is AXI. And I'm looking for a certain person to destroy!"

(Author Note: Well finally I got the Carl arc done! Wooo! Well now it's time for the AXI arc, and in this arc we'll finally see a more of an "Invader ZIM" cast such as more of Dib, Gaz, and even the Tallest! Not to much the surprise member coming up later on! I hope you still read my work thank you all for reading. By the way should I keep adding on chapters for this arc or just make a new story for the arc? Your choice.

Characters except for Crystal, Carl and AXI are owned by Jhonen Vasquez.)