I don't own Invader Zim. But I think if you didn't know that by chapter 37, then you need to go back to kindergarten. Anyway, I left the last chapter off on a cliffhanger so right into the next one.

"You have got to be kidding me!" One of the aliens in the Resisty said. "Why would Tak join us? She tortured some of humanity's rebels! Why would she join them and us?"

"You doubt my convictions? Let me tell you one thing. One, I did not ask for the job, I would have been left floating in space after my attempt to please the Tallest failed. They pretty much said take it or we shoot you into space. Spend 5 Earth years floating in space and you are given that offer, see what you do." The alien smirked. "Yeah, we'll see if it ever happens to you. But before that I was denied the chance to be an Invader because the door was stuck and I missed the test and the Control Brains would not let me retake it and then dumped me on a planet literally called Dirt that I was to clean. It was never going to be clean. So someone with my brains left and tried to earn the position. Spend a lot of time floating in the void of space, you do some thinking on priorities and trust me, I wasn't having a good time at that job." Tak explained. She looked over the crowd and knew they weren't believing her. "I'm here. Helping the Resisty giving what I know. If I betray you from here on out, I give you permission to kill me. That better?" She said.

"You want to know why I exposed you Tak?" Lord Nar said stepping to her rescue. "To show that while we all come from different places, we have the same goal. That's what unites us. And to show we have some of the best information sources that could ever be asked for." Lord Nar explained. "With Tak coming to our side, we have a lot of information that we NEVER would have known of. Like the risk of the Ultimate Solution. We never knew of the snacks before." Lord Nar then turned to the crowd. "She's been the most valuable tool we could ever wish for!"

The crowd looked mutinous. 777 had expected this and was ready to take control if something had gotten out of hand. Many of the races that had a long and horrible history with Irk were looking furious. Tak bit her lower lip and slowly moved her hand to her right side where she had her pistol, ready to defend herself if a riot broke out. 777, while still carrying an intense hatred for what she was, did the same thing in case he needed to defend her. As Lord Nar looked down, he saw Frank walk up and put his hand in the air. "Yes, Frank is it?" 777 asked.

"Let me up there to come to the lady's defense." Frank said. With this, the crowd fell silent. They had been informed of what Frank was on Earth, a wanted rebel and fighter who had held up Irk and killed two Irken elite soldiers.

"If you have something that might help, feel free." Lord Nar said, not knowing if it would really help.

"You guys probably know more about me than I do with all your alien technology. I'm Frank Rendell, owner of a farm in Northern Pennsylvania in North America that was a target for the Irken Empire. In fact Tak had me and my wife Kathy on the top of the list. Well, maybe not tippy top, that was Dib and Professor Membrane. But anyway, she sent those two fools I shot to hunt me down. But when the reality of things and her situation hit her, she ended up switching to our side. Her reasons, well she told you. Took me some time to trust her, but she showed her worth to me. So if she can win me over to trusting her, I think she can with you. Now like most of you, I don't trust her fully, but she's fought back to back with me and if any of you were in some sort of military before this, you'll know when you've seen battle, that bond is true. She could have easily killed me and handed me over and still been at the top of Irk's forces on Earth. She didn't." Frank looked around and saw some of the aliens scoff, some look genuinely interested and some looked just blank. "But we've got the same goal, she didn't fuck me over, especially when she could have done it easily. I have to admit that Tak's quite the firebrand when she wants to be. So ignore me, take what I said into consideration what I said, whatever. I just couldn't let the mob rule destroy her while she's proving her worth. You're welcome." He said as waved at Tak and walked off stage.

"Thanks..." She said in awe. Normally she would come up with some sort of insult but he didn't add his usual 'Miss Ant Queen.'

"It's what I do. You earned it. Miss Ant Queen." Frank added with a friendly wink. Tak understood that the name was not intended to be an insult but a sign of comradery now.

Tak looked at Lord Nar and 777 as the crowd below mumbled. It was obvious they were discussing what Frank had said about Tak. If he had accepted her as an ally after all that she had done to him and his family, then maybe she really had changed and was actually fighting the Empire. It was very rare to be see an Irken even dare to question the rule of the Empire but here she was willing to aid a rebellion against it. She headed slowly back to where Dib was waving at her and hoped she would not be stopped or questioned on the way back. That was hard enough being put on the spot when she knew that a good 75% of the Resisty would want to burn her at the stake for what she and Irk did. She'd have been able to handle it a lot better if Lord Nar had warned her that he was going to do that in the first place. Tak sat beside him and he held her close.

"Would have been better if he warned me. I can take hatred towards me, that was just so sudden." Tak sighed.

"I guess." Dib sighed. "But now everyone's clear on the intentions."

On the Massive, Red and Purple were sitting back after hearing Zim's report on the snack facilities. They both knew it was Gaz who really put it together, but Zim had to deliver so the Tallest just sat through it and waited for him to finish. They munched down on the snacks that were sent to them. Every one that was opened was one that had everything in it that was supposed to be. Purple seemed to be of the theory that his empty pocky box was just what Red told him, an accident. A flash of light appeared and they turned to see it.

"A new shipment!" Purple said excitedly looking for the chocolate covered and sweet snacks.

"Calm down." Red said. "You can eat only one thing at a time anyway."

"So?" Purple said as he picked up a candy bar and unwrapped it greedily, popping the melty sweet goodness in his mouth and savoring what he had left. "This is still excellent. Why didn't we conquer this planet sooner?"

"We didn't know about the snacks then. We just thought we were banishing Zim. Who would have known he would have found this? I love the chips!" Red said as he opened a bag of salt and vinegar chips and threw them in his mouth like his very existence depended on it. "Patrols are still good in southeastern Pennsylvania, right?"

"From what I know." Purple said as he grabbed another chocolate bar. "They have some of the best snacks in North America!" He said as he threw the wrapper in the face of one of the technicians on the Massive who wiped it off his face and put it in a nearby trash can.

"You can say that again." Red said as he picked up a bag of onion flavored puff rings. He then opened it to find it empty. "Huh..." Red said curiously. "Nothing in here."

"HA!" Purple laughed. "Happened to you too! Now you can't make fun of me."

"Oh I'll still make fun of you, loser." Red said as he tossed the bag aside. "See, this bag has the rings in them." He stuck his tongue out at Purple. "It's quite possible there's been a fluctuation with the teleportation ray. We are dealing with controlled wormholes here after all. There's a reason I am the smarter and head Tallest."

"We're the same height." Purple moped.

"Doesn't matter. I'm still better than you." Red smiled as he began to eat the onion rings.

As the group of aliens on the Vortian ship known as the Resisty began to shuffle away back to whatever they were doing before his announcement, Lord Nar headed over to where Dib and Tak were sitting to let them know what they would need. "Dib, Tak, can I have a moment to talk to you?" He said.

"Sure." Dib said earnestly.

"You heard what I said about beaming humans we think are worthy up to the ship and if need be taking them to another Earth like planet in the Andromeda galaxy." He started.

"Yeah." Dib said, looking at Lord Nar with interest.

"Well I am sure that many of the people who come aboard will be pretty shocked. Not by the fact of the aliens anymore, being Invaded by Irk solved that. No, just such a dramatic shift. Well I want you and Kathy, maybe Frank to be a kind of welcome wagon. Being Undesirable Number 1, you are sort of a symbol of hope to them. Many from what we can tell don't know if you are alive or dead. Seeing you will ease that. And with what Frank and Kathy had gone through, they would relate to many of the ones we choose." Lord Nar explained.

"And how will you be doing the choosing?" Tak asked, looking at them suspiciously.

"Why, by you going back to your old job." 777 said with a smile.

"Huh?" Tak asked confused.

"Well it's like this, most of the people we found for the Resisty were the same ones you had wanted by the Irken military. You found these people out. You had them hunted down. You figured out who was a real threat and who wasn't to Irk." 777 said with a smile. "Those threats to Irk and the ones we want. And you can be colder than Dib can be. No offense."

Dib looked shocked but Tak placed her hand on him as she turned into business mode. "Don't be mad, it's the truth. So you want me to find who is the biggest threats Irk would have in the human population and bring them aboard." She said simply.

"Well, we'll have the final say." 777 explained. "Only Nar and I have permission to use the teleportation beams, we made sure of that. But you will find who on Earth we should save and who would be of biggest and most willing help. As I am sure you have noticed, some humans will kiss the ass of whoever is in command and that is dangerous. If they get ahold of what we know, we can be sure the Massive will blow us to bits."

"Understood. I know this." Tak said.

"Good. We'll give you some time as we slowly amp up the snack disruptions but we want to start this mission as soon as possible. The longer Irk stays on Earth the longer they get a stronger hold." Lord Nar said as he and 777 walked away.

Dib blinked at the thought. Realistically he knew they couldn't save all of humanity if the Ultimate Solution came to pass, but the job Tak was given seemed so cold and calculating. She didn't exactly hate humanity but she didn't love it with all her heart either, and this Dib could understand. Humanity hadn't been too nice to him either. However, his heart wasn't hers in matters like this. He knew Tak could handle it better than he could. "You okay with that job Tak?"

"It's just funny. Not like I am ever going to escape the role the Tallest gave me huh?" Tak said with a bittersweet laugh.

"At least you'll be doing it for a good reason. Even if only a fraction of humanity will be saved." Dib said grimly.

"And the Tallest may not even blow up the planet anyway. I just wanted them to know about the worst case scenario. It's best to be prepared for that." Tak said, her rational and cold side coming over her. "Chance favors the prepared mind."

"That it does." Dib sighed.

"Besides, I think Lord Nar may have been onto something about you being one of the ones to help the saved humans adjust to what they have had happen to them. Because they were right. Part of the reason I wanted to scare people from helping you when I had that job was how the rebels saw you." Tak said.

"Didn't realize I was that important." Dib said with a smirk.

"Well you are always important to me." Tak said kissing him on the lips, entwining her hands with his.

"No one gets us." Dib laughed.

"Who cares?" Tak smiled. "Well I have got to get to work. Humanity's finest isn't going to save itself. That damned rebel scum." She said with a laugh.

"And I will get Frank and Kathy to make a welcome to the Resisty group." Dib sighed. "Make sure you get the best you can. We want to save them."

"That we do. And remember I was good at that job." Tak said with a smile.

"I love you Tak." Dib said as he hugged her close and kissed her.

"I love you too Dib." Tak said as she kissed him back. When their kiss broke, she headed to the main headquarters where Lord Nar and 777 were. While she had hoped she had gotten away from her old life. Now it seemed she never did. The fact she was doing it for a good reason settled it kind of but did not make it sit much easier. She opened the door and Lord Nar turned to him. "Let's get down to business." She said.

"Good. You're the best for the job." Lord Nar said.

"And don't you forget it." Tak said.

So how was that? Good? Bad? Short? Long? Let me know in a review. I don't normally get this updated so quickly but this hit me and I really had to get it up. Wish me luck with finding a new job. Got one but they didn't put me on the schedule for 2 weeks now due to some weird thing with the DM on labor hours, don't know, but wish me luck, I got applications in elsewhere. As long as I can make it a few more weeks, I got student loans coming in to carry me through but still. Life sucks sometimes. Well remember to read, well you just did, and to review. Ciao for now,

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