A/N: Alright. Let's make this quick. Since I still have a ton of homework to get done tonight and not enough time, I'm going to keep this author's note really short. Sorry for the lateness. I had a ton of homework to get done last week. But now that I'm somewhat caught up, I guess I'll update for you guys really quickly. Here be Chapter 37 of ZADR Orange for those of you who've been waiting. And also, this be the chapter that all you TAGR fans have been waiting for. So we hope you enjoy this next installment and extend much love to those of you who have faved or added this story to your story alert lists. And as always, feedback be much appreciated. =3 So we hope you guys enjoy. ^^
Warnings: Extreme OOCness
Rating: M for later chapters
Disclaimer: We do not own Invader Zim, nor any of the characters from it. We do not make any money from the writing of this story.
Zim/Miss Bitters: Notgonnadie
Dib/Random Teacher: Me
Gaz/Tak: Both of us
Beta: Notgonnadie
Dib couldn't help but let his antennas droop again. "They say things like that about me all the time, don't they? And you can hear it all." he sank down in his seat a bit, resting a cheek in his arms before closing his eyes, not feeling much like getting up now.
"Ohh, Dib..." Zim leaned down and wrapped his arms around the hybrid. "Don't listen to a word they say. I never did. Just be the good old Dib I love, and everything will be fine." he assured the other, nuzzling him before glaring out the door in the direction the other students had left. "They have no idea how much you've done for them..." he then said in a quiet whisper to him.
"Ehem!" Miss Bitters interrupted their conversation before either of them could say anymore.
Freezing at the sound of their teacher's voice, Zim turned around to glance back at Miss Bitters.
"As much as you two must 'LOVE' being in class together, I want to have lunch... SO GET OUT!" Miss Bitters ordered them, pointing out the door.
His face flushing a deep red color, Dib was out of his seat in a matter of seconds and scurrying out of the classroom with Zim, the sound of the classroom door slamming shut behind them following their departure. "Ow..." he wrapped his arms around his abdomen once they were out in the hallway, not ready for such treatment after the night he had had.
"Heh...Well...I guess Miss Bitters doesn't really mind 'US'." Zim laughed uneasily before squeezing Dib's hand. "But, uh...Shouldn't we be looking for your sister?" he asked the other, reminding him of their original reason for even coming to school that day.
Nodding his head slowly, Dib looked back at Zim with tired eyes. "Sh-She was in the library last I saw her...We were sleeping there for most of the night...B-But I'm not sure whether she actually went to class this morning..." he said, trying to think of all the other places she could possibly be in the school.
"Hmm...She likes video games...She probably would be in the computer room if she skipped classes for the day...But wait...Isn't that room locked on Mondays..? Hmm...Yeah, it is! I bet that's where she is...After all, she wouldn't have to worry about anybody walking in on her." Zim said before pulling Dib close and smiling. "She's probably playing some weird game to keep herself entertained." he said, almost certain that's where they would find her.
"Y-Yeah...That sounds like something she would do. If I know Gaz, she's probably been in there for hours. She knew how to break into the school, so I don't doubt she could get into that room as well." he agreed, nodding to himself assuredly.
Nodding his head also, Zim looked in the direction of the computer lab. "Then we'll check there first." he said, taking Dib by the arm and leading him off in the direction of it.
QQQ
Meanwhile, inside the computer room, Gaz and Tak continued playing their game without interruption.
"Hah! Looks like you lost, Gazzy." Tak grinned wide, twirling a finger around in the air in celebration. "You know what you promised, riiight?" she held out her last word, having made a bet with Gaz when they first started playing their game.
Scowling at her, Gaz growled out lowly at the other. "Yeah, yeah...Fine. You win. Just make what you want to do quick." she turned to face her, waiting for Tak to make her move.
A sly grin spreading across her face, Tak seemed to savor this small victory over the human girl. "Naturally." she said before reaching forward a hand to grip Gaz's chin and pull the girl forward to press and hold their lips together.
QQQ
Little did they know who was approaching the room in search of them.
"Ahh... Here we are." Zim smiled back at Dib as they reached the computer room.
"Well, what are we waiting for?" Dib wasted no time at all in reaching forward to grab the doorknob, twisting it and opening the door for them. Unfortunately for him, the next sight to meet his eyes just about caused him to have a heart attack as he gasped and practically fell back against the door frame, his eyes growing wide. "Gaz?" his sister's name was the only thing he could manage to say in that moment.
Eyes half lidded, Gaz didn't respond as she was still in a daze from the kiss Tak had given her.
Pulling back at Dib's shout, however, Tak turned to face him rather alert still. "Oh, hello again, Dib." she smirked back at him, feeling rather pleased with herself now.
Stumbling into the room at Dib's shout, Zim looked about the place frantically, as though expecting the worst. "Wh-What is it?" he froze upon seeing Tak and a surprisingly very pleased looking Gaz as well. "Oh..." he seemed to piece things together rather quickly in his head before glancing over at Dib nervously.
"Zim!" Tak spat out like venom, her demeanor changing very quickly as she let go of Gaz. "I guess this saves me the trouble of finding you then." she said, taking up her weapon before stepping forward towards him.
Still getting over the shock of the situation, Dib for the first time since he had entered the room, narrowed his eyes on Tak before lunging at her, knocking the weapon out of her hand and grabbing her by the front of her uniform top. "What the fuck do you think you're doing kissing my sister like that, you bitch? Huh?" he shook her roughly, his hands shaking slightly from how tightly he was gripping her shirt.
Snapping out of her trance at all of Dib's yelling, Gaz instantly grabbed Dib from behind and threw him off of Tak. "Back off, stupid!" she shoved him against Zim.
Understanding very little of what was going on here, Zim merely stood silently at the door, catching Dib when he was thrown at him but otherwise not making any other sudden moves.
"Me?" Dib then moved to grab hold of his sister's shoulders so he could give her a rough shake of her own. "What the hell do you think YOU were doing letting her kiss you like that?" he screamed back at her, narrowing his eyes on her and staring her straight in the eyes so she wouldn't look away from him.
Glaring back at him, Gaz, didn't even try to push him away this time. "I lost the game. And we made a bet, so seeing as she won, she got to kiss me." she said as though it were obvious.
"But why would you agree to something like that?" Dib continued to interrogate her about the matter.
Gaz merely shrugged. "Why not?" was her only response, not really caring.
"Because she nearly destroyed Earth the last time she was here, remember?" Dib exclaimed before then turning to glare at Tak. "And YOU! Why would you WANT to make a bet like that anyways? What could you possibly hope to gain by kissing my sister?" he demanded.
Smirking at him, Tak was interrupted by Zim before she could even say anything at all.
"A mate most likely." Zim finally joined in on the conversation, crossing his arms and leaning back against the door frame.
His eyes growing wide at that response, Dib's face seemed to pale at those words. "A mate...?" he released Gaz and took a few steps back, dazed as everything around him seemed to blur before going dark, causing him to stumble into Zim as he blacked out on the other.
"Dib? DIB! " Zim held him close, shaking him. "Come on, Dib. Wake up!" he tried to bring Dib back around.
"He freaks out so easily nowadays..." Gaz merely stared down at Dib's prone body on the floor.
"Hmm...Odd thing to freak out about, considering his relationship with Zim after all." Tak commented also on Dib's reaction.
"Hey, you!...Eh...SHUT UP!" Zim tried to shut them up as he attempted to wake Dib back up.
Merely shrugging Zim's words off, Gaz turned her head to look over at Tak again. "Is that really why you wanted to kiss me though?" she asked, curious as to Tak's motives for making such a bet.
Snickering into her hands, Tak turned back to face Gaz. "Well certainly...We like the same things...And you're spicy. I like that." she said as though it only made sense they become mates based off those facts alone.
Smirking back at her, Gaz turned also to give Tak her full attention. "And you don't care about the fact that I'm a 'lowly human'? Heh...Well, what the hell? I'm willing to give it a try. Though I doubt my brother will be all too happy about it when he wakes up." she said, gesturing to him on the floor, his head in Zim's lap.
Wrapping her arms around Gaz, Tak smirked back at her. "It's traditional for Irken Invaders to take mates outside of their own species. Besides, your brother doesn't have much to complain about, right Zim?" she said, sneering at him. "That is...Unless I kill you now." she took up her weapon again to point at Zim.
Swallowing nervously, Zim could only hold Dib closer.
Groaning at the movement, Dib finally began to come back around, blinking his eyes slightly open to look up at Tak and his sister. Then, eyes flying back open at seeing Tak with an arm wrapped loosely around Gaz and gun held up to Zim's head, Dib sat up quickly, screaming at her to let go of Gaz.
"You let her go, you bi-" he stopped mid-sentence as his eyes grew wide and he instantly doubled over in pain, a sharp pain ripping through his abdomen. "Ouch!" he practically yelped, needing a moment to catch his breath as his insides had begun screaming at him again.
"Dib? Dib, what's wrong?" Zim just about panicked, pulling him close and rocking back and forth with him. "Tell me what's wrong. Please..." he pleaded with the other in a soft voice to tell him.
Looking amused, Tak thought things over for a moment, slowly coming up with reasons for this outburst.
Waiting for a portion of the pain to pass before opening his mouth to speak, Dib was suddenly interrupted by somebody else yelling at them from down the hall.
"What's going on down there?" another random teacher began making her way down the hallway towards them.
Looking out the door at the approaching teacher, Tak cursed under her breath. "Well, it seems I should be going for now." she said before leaning forward to brush another kiss to Gaz's lips again, smirking, her eyes half lidded. "I'll meet you after school, little Gaz." she purred out the little nickname before pulling out her spider legs and disappearing into the shadows above, not wanting to be caught without a disguise on.
Reaching the entrance to the computer room, the teacher pushed open the door all the way to find Gaz, Zim, and Dib inside. "What on Earth do you all think you're doing in here? You know very well that this room is off limits on Mondays!" she glared down at them. "Now, come on! All of you! Return to your classes!" she ordered them, pulling Zim and Dib out by their shirts and Gaz by her arm.
A/N: And there you have it. Your weekly update of ZADR Orange. Though it had less ZADR in it and more TAGR this time around. But we'll get back to the ZADR next chapter. X3 That said, let me now respond to those of you reviewed last chapter. =3
To Sandria-who-is-sorry: Lol. XD Creative name for this week's response. Ahem. But anyways. Don't even worry about not reviewing. =3 I know you're always good for getting back to us and I don't worry about losing you as a reviewer when it comes to this story. So no need to apologize. ^^ You're still one our best reviewers, whether you think so or not. (Hug) And as for the adult chapter, since I know you've read through this story on DA already, you should be able to find the other link to it in our author's note for Chapter 33 there. It shouldn't give you any problems since you don't have to sign up. Just press the "confirm your 18 years or older button" and you'll be good to go. =3 Lol. XD I'm not so sure Dib has a post-sex afterglow of any kind after the night he had. XD Though I can agree with just about all of those afterglows except for the post-butt-sex afterglow. Technically, what Zim and Dib had wasn't butt-sex. Dibbles' anatomy has changed in this story due to the procedure. Therefore, he actually has a slit, which we'll discuss more later on in the story. And I know how you feel. Homework has for the most part sucked the life out of me these past few weeks. But thankfully, I HAVE been getting it done. So I won't complain too much. I've even given some thought to starting another solo fic during my free time. Though I've planned for it to be only a short 5 chapter fic with prologue and epilogue at most. We'll see. And yes. I do know how it feels to lose my drive. My remedy for that though is to just look at other people's works to inspire myself, which very rarely fails me. So I'm usually always good to go. =3 Happy belated Valentines Day to you as well, and we hope to speak with you again very soon. ^^
To lilybean queen of the i ocean: Glad to hear it. 8D
To heartofstone15: Lol. XD Indeed. And don't worry. The perv-monster actually lives in my room. Those noises are perfectly NOOORRRRMMMMAAAALLLL... XD But, yes. Poor Dibbles can hear lots of things with his new antennae, some bad and some good, but mostly bad. XD He'll get used to it though. And this isn't the first time I've run across a rabid Dib fangirl so it's alright. XD We all love Dib here anyways. It's just that some of us love tormenting him for the sake of our stories. XD And as I've said multiple times already, the rating here doesn't matter. It's rated as M because the story itself does in fact contain sexual content. FF does NOT allow sexual content on their site though. The people who get away with it are the one who just haven't been reported yet by some hater. As for me, I'm not one of those people. FF has banned me in the past, removed a story of mine, and warned me against posting sexual content on their site. I refuse to risk having this story removed from the site just because FF is afraid of sex. So it only gets the rating to let people know what they can be expecting in it. I will not actually POST those M chapters however.
To Vithian: Lol. XD Indeed. If only he knew what had happened to him the night before. Then maybe all the pain would make sense to him. XD As for Tak, she did indeed pop in then disappear. But as you can see from this last chapter, she be back! And with some sexy TAGRy goodness too. (Hurr~) But nope. Neither her or Gaz went to class that morning. Why would they? They had video games to distract them that entire time. XD Lol. That's because your reviews are massive blocks of text. You're the most talkative person here...err...well, next to me, at least. I could talk for HOURS. Lol. As for your apology, I accept it then. But really, you didn't have to apologize. =3 Hmmm...That's weird. You may want to try again then. Sometimes FA is just butt munch to its users. Worst comes to worse though, you could try just looking me up on there. My username is patthekitsune, same as here, and you may want to continue playing around with your settings some more if it still won't let you view. I know it's possible. The mature setting on that site can be quirky at times though. Notgonnadie was trapped with a mature block for several months because the site wouldn't register that she was over the age of 18. She finally got it off though. FA will lock your mature setting if your age is set at under 18 years of age, so sometimes you gotta be careful about that when getting set up. As for the lack of constructive criticism here, it's sad really how few people actually know the proper way to give it. Hell, few teachers actually know the proper way to give it and that just ends up fucking over half the population of young critiquers out there. Because if something somebody says to you makes you feel like crap about your writing, they're obviously not presenting it in the right way. Saying how you think a person should write something does them no good. You might as well write it yourself. Analyzing a work though and leading them in a direction of improvement, however, is how it should really be done. You don't need to tell them how to do it, just offer possible suggestion they can take from or not depending on where they want to take the story. And, no. It's not just you. We are going in circles with a good chunk of our conversation. The parts about being social, our musical instruments, and Robotnik vs Eggman have been going on long enough now so I think I'll drop them for us. XD We've talked a bit about Pokemon and other series we've watched but I'm a bit surprised you haven't seen Card Captor Sakura. It's such an awesome series. You should look it up. As for Pokemon, if you just google Pokemon episodes, you should be able to find the episodes to watch for free online. I've been doing it the past couple of weeks. They're there if you just look for them. And it's better than paying money to buy them at a video store. Lol. Every character in the Sonic the Hedgehog universe is better than Amy. XD Not that I don't like Amy. I can't say I know of any character I don't like in the STH universe. Except for maybe Rouge just because I don't like the advances she makes on Knuckles. I'm a traditionalist. I prefer his relationship with Julie-Su in the comics. You probably worded your response wrong when talking about your laptop. It makes more sense this time around though. And I know what you mean. Sometimes it's just a matter of what will kill your laptop first. Viruses or technical difficulties. I don't get sick often either but the few times I do, it's always really bad. My parents don't usually realize just HOW bad until it's too late. To them, I'm the healthy child. So when I get sick, they very rarely do anything for me because they think I'm faking or will get over it by the time I reach a 104 degree fever and don't want to be moved from my bed, they offer to take me to a doctor, which pisses me off to no end because by then I'm hardly able to stand without falling back over. My teachers don't care either. They just automatically lower my grade the second I miss their class. And I'm give absolutely no extra time to actually catch up. It's just a game of keep up or you fail. Simple as that. But whatever. I stopped caring. I didn't even catch up on homework for this semester. I decided to just start from wherever we were and blow off what I missed. I even blew off a midterm portfolio of poems I was supposed to turn in for one of my classes because there was no way in hell I was getting done three weeks worth of poems with revisions and working notes all in one night. I just said fuck it. I may not have a perfect grade this semester but I don't really care. It's not like anybody else will be seeing my grades if I screw up on a class. And I can always take it over again for a better grade. It'll just prolong my graduation an extra semester or two. No big deal. Anyways. It would seem I left quite a long reply still despite the dropping of three subjects we've already discussed. But oh well. We'll get it down to a shorter conversation soon enough. XD I'm certain of it. So until next time~
To MysteryPainter: Well, hello there, new reviewer. So nice of you to join us. =3 I'm sorry for the wait on this next chapter. I needed some time to get homework out of the way first. But, for the record, I do TRY at least to keep this story updated on a weekly basis. And we're glad to hear you're enjoying our story so far. =3 There will definitely be plenty more to come in the near future in case you were worried. So please do feel free to add this story to your story alert list if you haven't already. As for a story with Gaz in it, I'm actually in the process of plotting out a TAGR story that I may post here soon. So if you're into that sort of thing, it might be something you'd want to keep your eyes open for. Here's your next update of ZADR Orange though. We hope you enjoy it and hope to hear back from you again very soon. Until next time~