He rammed his shoulder into the force field wall over and over until his arm felt raw and numb, but still there was no sign of the barricade weakening. Dib looked up again at Zim across the room, or rather only a few feet away considering his height. The alien was already plotting his newest plan to conquest the planet, wasting no time in opportunistic revelry. Dib took a deep breath and tried again. There was no way he would let Zim win, not while he was still alive. Sure he was the size of a large rat now but he was still alive. He rammed repeatedly grunting, looking for a weak point in the cage that held him.

Zim's antennae perked up as Dib continuously used himself as a battering ram. He kept his eyes on his computer screens and smiled.

"You can abuse yourself as much as you like," Zim smirked, "That force field is impenetrable." Dib continued despite Zim's words. The alien simply sighed with self- content. "With you no longer a problem to me, continuing my mission should be a breeze. The only thing I have to worry about now is where to build the giant statues of myself."

Dib halted his battering momentarily.

"Don't you think people are going to notice my being missing?" He asked rubbing his sore shoulder.

Zim thought a moment.

"Even if someone does care to notice your sudden absence they'll have no way to connect your disappearance with me." He turned back to his console, "Now I have a planet to destroy. You can go back to dislocating your arm or whatever."

Dib looked the force field over again. He had tried punching, ramming, kicking, everything but the enclosure had no faults. Had Zim finally won? No, he would never allow it. He leaned his back to the purple wall gathering his thoughts. Sitting on the cold floor he felt his balance shift slightly accompanied with a light creaking sound. A sound a table or chair makes when being pushed along the floor. He got to his feet and pushed against the wall. To his surprise it moved, the entire cage had shifted along the ground. It wasn't fastened down to anything and was light as a feather. Dib was elated, even at his size he could easily lift the cage and crawl out underneath it. Zim wasn't paying attention, now was the right moment.

He ran to a corner of the cage and gripped the cube that helped generate his enclosure. The groves and exposed wires on its surface made for good finger holds as he lifted it gently off the ground. As he expected the force field lifted along with it. With a heave the human tossed the cube over his head toppling the entire structure onto its side.

Zim could hear Dib's tiny grunts again. He laughed to himself.

"I told you Dib, the force field is too strong. Any attempt to escape will end in failure..."He glanced over just in time to see his force field cage come crashing to its side and dissipating back to its original four cubes as Dib made a run for freedom.

"YEEAAH!" Zim shrieked seeing his prisoner escaping.

He gave chase, determined to make Dib pay for his resistance. But at his size dib was hard to locate.

Dib ducked behind a piece of alien technology and his in the shadows of it. As soon as he had gotten free Zim took notice and was already after him and he had no want to face off with the now relatively gargantuan invader.

"Where are you hiding Dib?" Zim demanded, "Come back here right now!"

"No!" Dib called from his hiding place.

Zim moved slowly, scanning his lab carefully for Dib. He peered behind a consol and spotted the human huddled by its wires.

"There you are!" He announced.

Dib gasped narrowly leaping away from Zim's advancing hand swooping down to grab him.

"Stand still human." Zim growled trying to grip the shrunken one.

Dib hesitated then stomped his boot down on Zim's finger. The alien yelped and reeled back his hand sucking his damaged digit tenderly. Dib laughed at this.

"Your resistance will only make things worse Dib." Zim snarled over Dib's laughter. "Now come here and face your doom." He stood up to loom over his adversary.

"I'm not giving into you Zim." Dib said defiantly, "You may as well bring me back to my normal height."

"Or else what?" Zim smirked, "You're going to bite my ankles?"

"Bite your ankles?" dib frowned in disgust. "No way, who knows what you bathe in."

Zim stuck out his lower lip with distain. Dib had no right to insult his personal grooming habits.

"Insult me all you want mini-Dib, you're in no position to be making demands. The very thought of you at this stature trying to stop me is laughable." And just to prove his point the green one began to giggle wickedly.

Seeing him momentarily distracted Dib took this moment to attack. He didn't know what results he would get but it was better then nothing. He ran to Zim shouting out his best battle cry and scuttled up his leg.

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Zim laughed heartily at the thought of the pint sized Dib trying to harm him. Suddenly he felt something crawl up his leg and creep into his uniform. He squealed and shrieked as it moved about beneath his garment. He flailed his arms trying to get it out, grabbing at it and smacking his hands against his body as the intruding bulge tickled and pinched against his sensitive skin.

Dib crawled about blindly inside Zim's clothes. Gripping the dark undergarment beneath the red dress he scurried around trying to avoid the gripping hands aiming to get him. He could hear the loud yelps of discomfort through the fabric as he made his way to the nearest way out. Zim pulled the collar of his uniform just as Dib popped his head out. The two met eyes and screamed. Dib picked up some footing and jumped from Zim's clothes landing with his usual graceful clumsiness and waited for Zim's reaction.

Zim caught his breath feeling very violated. That human had been in places no human had the right to be on an Irken body. He stood over Dib, eyes glinting with anger.

"You asked for this Dib, now you'll have to be crushed by the crushing boot of Zim."

Dib dropped his smile and his jaw as the dark shadow overcame him. He made mad dash narrowly escaping being squashed by Zim's fearful stomp. Zim lifted his foot for a second try. Dib ran quickly to avoid the squishing death. Zim looked under his boot to see if he was successful. The lack of Dib on the bottom of his shoe indicated failure. He spied the little human scampering across the floor, grunted and gave chase.

Dib panted trying his best to outrun the giant Zim pursuing him. The alien lunged for him aiming to clutch with massive black mitts. Dib jumped ahead as the ground shook beneath him, the impact of Zim hitting the ground.

Zim groaned seeing Dib flee from his fallen body. He quickly got to his feet and gave chase again.

Dib couldn't decide if this experience was more like a "Tom and Jerry" cartoon or a nightmare as he looked around for some escape. The extraterrestrial equipment toward over him like skyscrapers, lost in an unfamiliar city with a monster alien chasing him. Zim dropped to his knees and tried to smash Dib with his fist. Dib slipped past the enemy hand and dashed behind a thick wire laying on the ground.

"There has to be a way I can get away from him." He told himself, "I'm not going to let myself get squished by Zim." The room suddenly shifted upwards. Dib gasped, "and I'm still shrinking."

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Zim peered around the room, Dib had to be here somewhere. The little pest's stench was still lingering in the air.

"You're only delaying the doom Dib." He called out to the human now slinking his way behind the wire. "You could consider me doing you a favor squishing you now instead of leaving you to face the horrible dangers of the microscopic world."

Zim continued searching the contours of his lab, eyes wide, antennae perked, ready to hear or see any signs of movement from a certain dinky human. Out of the corner of his eye he noticed a mouse-sized figure creeping up an electrical conduit leading to a lab table.

"Ah ha!"

Dib turned his head at the shout only to see Zim heading towards him. He leaped up onto the table and ran around a gauntlet of tools and equipment in order to escape the wary Zim.

Pushing his equipment aside violently with his arm Zim cleared his sights for a perfect glare at Dib. Dib froze, caught in the vision of two giant ruby eyes looming over him. A devilish, childish smile curling green lips.

"Smashy, smashy!" A playfully evil tone smirked as a fist came crashing down.

Dib rolled from its impact and darted across the table in the opposite direction. An arm stretched down in his path. Before he could turn again two colossal hands tightened around his body and lifted him off the ground.

Zim joyfully gripped his prize, clutching the miniaturized human closely watching him squirm between his fingers.

"Ha! Got you now Dib." He smiled following up with maniacal laughter.


Dib faded to panic; he writhed, wriggled, wiggled, pulled and pushed against his captor's grip. He kicked and slammed the fists that held him. Seeing this was giving him no results he quickly thought of an alternative. It wasn't pleasant but it was the best he could come up with. With a gulp and a gasp he opened wide and sank his teeth into Zim's hand hoping he could at least penetrate the glove.


Success! Zim let out a holler of pain releasing his grip. Using some quick gymnastics Dib grabbed hold of Zim's arm so he wouldn't fall to the ground and ran up it speedily.

"You bit me!" Zim screeched "You bit me with your filthy human germy mouth of filth!"

Dib leapt from Zim's shoulder and snatched hold of one of his antennae. Zim make some high- pitched noises that Dib assumed were the noises aliens made when they were in pain seeing as how he now was hanging from Zim's antenna twisting and pinching it in his hands.

"Gah! Stop! Ow!" The alien squealed swatting at Dib to remove the offending pest.

Dib felt something hit him across the back with a powerful blow. Its strength knocked him off Zim's feelers and sent him plummeting to the ground. As he regained his composure Zim was once again lifting his leg to attack.

"I will take great pleasure squashing your Dib-guts under my heal!"

Dib groaned and started running again. He was starting to get tired and did know how much longer he could keep this up. A morbid game of cat and mouse taking place in an alien's home turf. Things weren't looking to well in his favor. He spotted what looked like a hole in one of the machines. Without second thought he ducked in and waited for Zim to pass. The alien rushed by without noticing, now stomping blindly in a rage, not even realizing his quarry had vanished.

Dib ran out of the hole in the opposing direction Zim was facing. As long as Zim was distracted by his anger, all the boy had to do was find a way out of the lab and a way to quickly get home. Perhaps he could get his father to reverse the shrinking process. But first he needed to escape

Dib glanced back; Zim was still stomping any shadow that moved on the other end of the room. Dib laughed a little now feeling better seeing his adversary act like such a fool.

Suddenly something hard and solid hit his face and chest. He fell back getting full view of the large pale sliver gray robot standing before him. It looked down upon him with smiling cyan eyes and bent its head to get a better look at Dib who was slowly crawling backwards to get away from it.

GIR had gone down to the lab to see if his master wanted to play, but now it seemed he had found something else to play with. Something small with a black coat, and little glasses, and spiky hair. He kneeled forwards telescoping his eyes with intrigue.

"Oooohhh...." He drawled, "Hellooooooo....?"

Dib gasped in horror as GIR's hand grasped him around the waist as the robot let out a happy giggle.