*Sigh* Hi... Been awhile and I'd like to apologize for that, life has been backhanding me for a while now. I'd also like to apologize for the disaster that was Chapter 4 of this story. That was probably the worst editing job I've ever done and I will do my best to ensure that it won't happen again. So as an apology I've Re-worked and proofed the entire chapter for you guys, there are still a few grammatical errors because I can't think straight 90% of the time so sorry bout that. I hope you enjoy :)

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Chapter 5: Truce?

The three teens sat in the newly redecorated living room with an awkward silence filling the room. That silence was broken by a rambunctious robot holding a tray of cookies and glasses of milk, which, looked slightly green in color? Gir placed the tray on the coffee table between the two green chairs and elongated couch, and left running into a nearby hallway while screaming and holding his stuffed piggy that he'd pulled out of his head. Dib sitting on a chair across from the couch with the coffee table between them reached for a cookie, while his thoughts took over. "So...what's your plan this time Zim? Poisoning your cookies is so cliché." He snarled as he tossed the cookie into the nearby fireplace.

Zim was sitting on the couch across from Dib and eyed the fireplace before focusing his eyes on him. "There is no plan, Dib. You win."

"Ha see I knew that was!-say what now?" Dib interrupted his bragging, taking in what Zim had said.

"You win, Dib. I no longer desire to conquer your world." Zim sounded almost saddened when he uttered those words.

Dib being the 'Persistent Paranormal Investigator' he was, wasn't giving in. "Pffft, yeah right. I know that this is just some sick plan you've got going Zim! I know that you've already brainwashed Gaz and my father, and when I foil your plans, again, I'll set them free!

Zim not moving from his position shifted his eyes while raising an eyebrow, towards Gaz, who sat in the chair beside Dib. She simply shrugged her shoulders while slowly nodding her head side to side. She then mouthed 'welcome to my world'. Zim lightly shook his head after hearing the idiocy that Dib had spewed out. "Ok. Listen. Dib-stink, I no longer wish to quarrel with you. I have no reason to.

"And you just expect me to believe that?" Dib scowled at Zim.

"Are you always this ignorant or is today a special occasion?" Zim asked.

"No I'm just keeping a watchful eye on a possible threat to earth, my home!" Dib quickly retorted

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Zim shook his head. "You weren't this stubborn in the lab! You seemed to be enjoying yourself with laughter!"

"Yeah, I was laughing at your pain, and your poor attempt at "Befriending" me so you could take me out of the game, leaving earth vulnerable to atta-"

"Oh for fucks sake!" Gaz had reached her limit and broke the wall of division. "Zims leaders abandoned him!"

Zims head immediately fell and he mumbled to the siblings shortly afterwards. "I...I will be in the lower labs should you need me…"

With that Zim immediately stood up and left towards the kitchen, entering the fridge which lowered him the lower parts of the house. Shortly after, Dib turned to his sister. From the look on her face, he could tell that she was regretting her choice of words. "Gaz? Is that true?" Dib began to interrogate his sister.

"Is what true?" Gaz spit with a voice so potent it would make a rattlesnake piss itself. Noticeably shivering in his chair from the passive threat, Dib scoffed. "What you literally just said! About his leaders!"

"Yeah, so?" Gaz obviously annoyed continued. "It's not like you've ever cared!"

Gaz abruptly stood up and flipped the tray of milk and cookies towards Dib and walked towards the other side of the living room. The small table folded into the wall and a small platform raised up. She stepped onto it and made her way down to the lab. Dib paused, he began thinking to himself 'Zims leaders abandoned him?'. "This is the perfect time then!" Dib began to speak to himself. "If I move quickly enough I can get in touch with someone from the Swollen Eyeball and I ca-. "Do you always talk to yourself like that?" Dib was cut off immediately by Ajax.

"It's called planning!" Dib yelled

"I call it insanity, you act the complete opposite of normal."

"Funny coming from you, you're just a bunch of bolts and… stuff."

"Good one". The sentient machine sassed.

"Ah shut up! What do you know anyway." Dib turns and begins to walk towards the door.

"I know that Gaz's heart rate increases to 105 beats per minute when she talks to Zim."

Dib freezes automatically and turns around, facing the ceiling he speaks. "What did you say?"

"Your sister's heart rate increases rapidly when she is with my master. This usually implicates Fear, Anxiety or Nervousness. However I'm betting the cause is the last one."

Dib now furiated raised his voice. "I'm going down to the lab!"

"Not with that attitude im afraid, I am detecting a rather large amount of hostility directed towards my master."

"What? No! I just wanna talk that's it." Dib attempted to fool the AI.

"Sarcasm detected, you're doing great."

"Oh screw you! You know what? Fine! Who wants to be in a dumb alien lab anyway?!"

"You did about 17 seconds ago."

Dib exploded with anger. "Fuck this, I'm going home." Dib turned around and headed through the door slamming it behind him.

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Gaz leaned against the work table Zim was at and watched as he carefully and expertly put together various different pieces of chips and wires.

"So…" Gaz attempted to start conversation.

"So?"

"What are you doing? I thought you didn't want to destroy the earth anymore?"

"I don't, this is isn't a weapon."

"It looks like a type gun or something." Gaz inquired picking up the rather small pistol looking item, it was surprisingly light as well.

"Yes but it isn't, it's called a Mind Phaser. It's just a little something I thought would help keep the big head off my back, It erases any set amount of time of a person's memory and leaves them dazed for about 10 seconds."

"Isn't that a bit dangerous? You could end up melting their brain into paste or end up erasing all of their memory."

"Not likely, I've worked out all the bugs and calculated the results countless times. Besides Irken tech is far sup-." "Superior to ours, you've told me. About 40 different times now." Gaz mocked as she allowed her eyes to roll.

"Oh… Right" Zim said while rubbing the back of his neck and letting out a soft chuckle.

Hours passed as the two of them continued to chat about pointless things such as Zims humorous failed plans, Dib being Dib, and Human societies' impending doom. The very next day, Zim was back in school. Almost as if he hadn't cheated death at all, but, he was different. He was no longer loud and obnoxious, in fact with his new dressing appearance making him look normal he seemed more... human. Sure the green skin still stuck out like a sore thumb, but other than that he acted like an everyday person. Dib still kept a watchful eye on Zim, especially after he started to sit at the Membranes table. After noticing that Zim placed himself right next to Gaz and, remembering what the compu- err...Ajax, had told him. He was very much on edge about Zim. So much so that he placed himself in between his sister and Zim and jokingly called himself "The Berlin Wall", which in return made gaz question if he paid any attention to his history lessons.

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(The wall gets torn down :P)