After such a long time I'm finally getting back to this story. I have big plans for it. ;)

Chapter 13:

In the Massive, the pilots were fiddling with the controls while the Tallest were slurping drinks. Suddenly one pilot spotted a bunch of dots approaching on his screen.

"My Tallest, I think you should see this."

Red groaned. "Okay, put it up on screen." The pilot did just that and both Red and Purple spat out their drinks. It was a massive wave of ships in the distance, and they were getting closer...

IZ

Zim was still lying on the bed in one of the ships. He opened his eyes and saw everyone over him, including Kizo and Hogi, who had come aboard to examine him. Gir and Mimi had been repaired too.

"What happened?" Zim asked weakly. He looked at the Korbos. "Who are they?"

"Zim, this is Kizo and Hogi," Gaz said, "They helped save your life."

"Don't we have something to tell him?" Tak reminded her.

"Tell me what?" Zim asked quickly sitting up, "I've been saved from a race of aliens trying to kill my race and already you want to tell me something?"

"That's the thing," Gaz sighed sadly, "They're not your race."

Zim was confused. They told him all about the truth behind an Irken's birth planet. He was so shocked by this he clutched his head and began breathing heavily.

"It's not true! It can't be true!"

The heart monitor beside him began beeping rapidly, because Zim was starting to have a heart attack. (Not that he has a heart. I mean the heart-like part of his squeedlyspooch.) They tried to calm him down, but he passed out. Gaz looked at Kizo.

"What happened to him? Why did what we told him nearly kill him?"

"Sometimes when Irkens hear the truth, it's too much for them to handle. Enough to harm their squeedlyspoochs," Kizo told her, "Do you recall him ever trying to avoid the truth of things in his life?"

They remembered. All the time. Zim always accused them of lying or ignored them completely. He also told many lies himself. Now they knew why. But how was he going to survive now that he knew this?

Suddenly a light beeped in the cockpit. Dib rushed over and saw through the window that they had found the entire Irken Armada, and were heading straight for them. He turned on the transmitter and said to all the ships following them, "This is it, everyone. After this your planets won't be in danger anymore. We're going to give these monsters what they rightfully deserve. Nobody should make fun of other people for being short, or enslave them to do simple things they can do themself! Are we going to let them get away with this!?"

"NO!" the other ships shouted.

"Good! Now, on my mark-"

"Dib, wait!"

Dib turned to see Tak entering the cockpit. "I thought we were going to talk to them, not blow them up."

"Plans changed, Tak," Dib told her, "We can't lose more lives."

"But you said back on Dryface we don't solve problems with violence," Tak said placing her hand on Dib's cheek, "What's happened to you? When you rescued us we saw you slash those Androids into a bloody mess and destroy the ship we were on. It's like you changed while you were gone."

Dib pulled Tak's hand away. "You don't know what happened back there. And even if you did, you wouldn't understand."

"What did happen?" Tak asked, "What's gotten you so hurt? It's not like you lost anyone you loved on that ship."

"I DON'T WANT TO TALK ABOUT IT!" he screamed at her. Tak looked at her husband with tears in her eyes. He wasn't how she met him 25 years ago. He had turned cold and heartless, no longer that sweet misunderstood little boy. Dib looked down at the controls and said, "Look, I... I just don't want to talk about it okay?"

"Then maybe you need to go back to talking to yourself like you used to," Tak said quietly as she left the room. Dib just continued to look at the controls. How could Tak understand that Chimpah gave her life to help save them? If he told her what happened, that would also mean telling her that he married Chimpah. He couldn't let that happen.

"Dib? Dib, orders!"

Dib remembered all the Korbos and Dust Monkeys waiting onscreen for orders to attack.

"Sorry. As I was saying, on my mark, all Dust Monkeys will come at them from the left, while the Korbos will come at them from the right."

"What about the front and back?" asked a Korbo onscreen.

"My family will come at them from the back," Dib said, "I'll get them from the front... alone."

The Dust Monkeys and the Korbos were shocked by this, but they agreed nonetheless.

IZ

The ships surrounded the entire armada. In the Massive, the Tallest were still watching on horror as the enemy ships surrounded them.

"My Tallest!" a pilot yelled, "What are your orders?"

"Uh..." Purple was clueless, but Red shook out of it. "Fire! Tell the other ships to do the same!"

"Fire!" Dib ordered from his ship. It wasn't long before a battle broke out. During the battle Dib flew towards the Massive. He planned to break inside and take care of things himself. He landed in the hatch and headed through the tunnels of the ship to the control room. Meanwhile, the Tallest were just about to leave and abandon their army when Dib burst in through the door pointing a ray gun at them.

"Let's not do anything stupid with that gun," Purple said nervously.

"It's you who did the stupid thing," Dib said, "Your people kidnapped babies, erased their memories and turned them into soldiers... and slaves."

Red sighed. "It's true. We did. But what use is a small child anyway?"

"Children grow if you give them the chance," Dib said, "All you did was kill them off because you weren't satisfied for their current size! Well you are now paying the price for it! Zim was kidnapped by a race of angry aliens who hated you guys for enslaving them! Half of the aliens attacking you were once Irkens who evolved on a dried up wasteland! If you give them a new home I'll consider sparing your lives, but if you refuse, I'll blow your brains out right now!"

Red and Purple looked at each other and back at Dib.

"Okay," Red said, "You got us. We'll do it... if the backup ships hadn't already arrived."

Dib looked at the screen and saw the ship containing his family being surrounded by Irken Elite ships.