Hey...so yeah you may have noticed that there was no chapters like I promised. Look I'm not going to make any excuses other than that I'm lazy. : P So I think I'm just going to upload chapters whenever, I'll try to do it once a week but no promises.

Two weeks later.

Gaz and Dib sat onstage in front of a crowd of people with a group of people from other countries. The audience looked at the stage with an unbroken concentration as Viscera walk onto the stage in military dress and went to a podium with a microphone. He was quiet for a moment, as if he was trying to piece together the final words of his speech. Finally, he looked up from some papers and took a seep breath.

"My fellow people. Americans, Canadians, Chinese, Mexicans, British, French, Italians, Germans, Russians, Japanese, Indians and so on. We as a people have faced a threat like no other, a threat that had been hiding beneath our noses for so long. Some people speculated this threat existed." He gestured to Dib. "But nearly all of us doubted them. We called them crazy, idiots, morons. Though if not for them, we would not be here today. They put their disputes aside and answered the call, not to their country, but to their planet. These people designed weapons and armor to aid us and their youearch prevailed. I am here to address these people, of which are all sitting up here." He turned to them. "If it were not for you, we would all be dead or slaves. You have all showed bravery, intelligence, and forgiveness to us all. With this I present you all with new honor that the global leaders have come up." He took out a box and removed a earth-shaped medal with a Swollen Eyeball symbol. "This is the first medal to be made of its kind. Only for those who have gone above and beyond the call of man. This is the Solar Guardian Award."

Each person got up and walked to Viscera and back to their seat. With the medal in hand. Gaz and Dib watched each person go the Dib got up. He went to the podium and shook Viscera's hand, but when he went to hand him the medal, Dib refused to take it.

"I can't accept this...not after what I've seen. I walked beside you in the heat of battle." Dib turned to the crowed. "I've personally seen the sacrifices your sons, and daughters have made to ensure our safety and existence. Brothers, sisters, mothers, father, and couples forever separated from these sacrifices. No person should be receiving a medal because they were aware of a threat before it came, but rather all of those out there who have paid the price for freedom and survival with their limbs, bodies, and lives should be receiving one." Dib turned, walked to his seat, sat quietly.

The others onstage began to look at the medals in hand, and one by one they walked back up to Viscera, saluted, and went back their seat. Each person in the crowd cheering and applauding them for their modesty.

Viscera turned back to the podium. "...and now a word for those who have died in the heat of battle fighting for us all, we remember you. Your bodies may have died, but your spirits and memories live forever in us, we remember you. Those of you who have gone to the edge of our reality to save us from this threat and fighting a seemingly impossible war, we remember you. Those of you who have gone above and beyond the call to duty, we remember you. And now a moment of silence for those people." He stood there with his head bowed for a moment, mouthed a prayer and looked back up. "And that is the closing ceremony. Ladies and gentlemen, if you would please leave in an orderly fashion. Outside there will be memorial for those who are dead or missing, if you would please pay your respects that would be a blessing for the families. Goodnight." With those words Viscera walked off stage and out a door to right while the crowd stood up and left.

Dib walked outside and same Viscera standing next to a section of the memorial. A woman dressed in black walked over. He said something to her and she broke down crying. He picked her up off her knees and handed her a locket. Then it hit Dib. ' Arsen Virgil' he thought. The vivid memory of his death hit him. The terrified sound of his voice and his winces and grimaces of pain. Him slowly fading out and going limp in Viscera's arms.

"Dib!" Gaz said shaking him

"Huh?" Dib said, snapping put of his hallucination.

"Come on, I know of at least two people we need to pay our respects to." She and Dib walked to Dib's car. "You don't look so good, let me drive."

"Sure." Dib reached into his pocket and handed her the keys.

They got in and drove off. "So Dib, where did all that come from?"

"What do you mean?"

"That whole speech you gave about why you couldn't take that medal?"

"I don't know. I guess it was just that I remembered what had happed in that hangar, seeing all those people getting killed and..." Dib trailed off.

"And what?"

"...and Zim. He died in a way that I would have never imagined. He saved our whole planet, and sacrificed himself for not only you, but me." Dib looked at Zim's pak and metal sphere Zim gave to Gaz before he died.

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They arrived at the cemetery and went to their dad's grave. They looked at the tombstone which read:

Here lies Professor Membrane

1968 - 2015

Leader, innovator, genius, father.

He may have not been the most connected father, but he worked for his children, to give them the life he never had as child. With every moment he was working, he was thinking of them.

Gaz laid some flowers on top of the grave and stepped back. "We'll miss you..."

They continued to walk through, passing tombstones an finally arriving at a grave that lie in the corner and seemed to be isolated. It simply read.

Zim

Unknown - 2015

Outcast

He was a tough one, he pushed others away, but all he needed was someone to push back to open up.

Gaz took out his pak and laid it on top of the grave. Then she took out the sphere, she dropped it and heard a soft *click*. The sphere opened and began to unfold into a small stand, then a hologram appeared. Gaz immediately collapsed crying.

"Gaz if you are receiving this message then I am dead, of which I had figured would be an inevitable consequence of this war. If this is true then please listen carefully, the pak that I carry not just a weapon, it has all of my memories and personality, my very existence, but also can be attached to any Irken to upload my consciousness. Effectively making that body me. That is why I gave my pak to you, because I had a plan for this. There is a cylindrical container in the basement of your house, inside is an exact clone of my current body."

Dib had a flashback from the day his dad died. He had seen one when he was looking around in Zim's room.

"You need to go to the computer next to it and type in '9-8-4-2-1-6'. Doing this will open the container and will allow you to attach my pak and then a shock from the container will awaken it...or...well me. Afterwards I have a question for you." The hologram cut off.

Gaz was still on her knees, tears running down her face. Dib stood in shock and awe of what he had just seen. Gaz got up and grabbed the pak and Dib's arm and ran off as fast as she could. They got to the car, got in, and Gaz floored.

They stopped in front of the house and dashed in. Gir laid on the couch looking depressed, he had been like that ever since he had found out about Zim's death. They ran the basement and looked around until they found it. Gaz quickly punched in he numbers and the metal container opened. She sat the lifeless body up and shoved the pak on, matching up the holes in the back with a series of plugs in the pak. She laid it back down a stood back.

Then a robotic voice came from the machine. "PAK PRESENCE DETECTED INITIALIZING DEFIBRILLATOR!" There was a buzz followed by a few shocks and then the eyes opened

Shorter chapter, but it's another setup for many more chapters to come. I'm happy to say that there were to people who favorited my story this week and I hope to see them in the reviews soon.

WEEKLY QUESTION: What is true love to you and to what extent would go for it?

MY ANSWER: To me true love is not just when two people decide to be together, but also when they have a functioning relationship to where they are not only a couple, but they are each other's best friend, allowing them to continue to be together for he rest of their lives. No I'm not saying they're relationship should be perfect, any relationship will have hardships and difficulties to deal with, but the couple should be able to work through these troubles together. To me if a relationship is like this then I would go to the ends of the universe for this person if that means we are able to be with each other.

Leave your answer in the review section as well as your own comments on the story so far. I hope to see more favorites in the future. I'll see you later and until then, have a beautiful life! THOOPID OUT!