Okay...the IZ shortage short cirquited my brain. That's why this took so
long to make.

Also, I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but I fractured my wrist last
Friday...my right wrist...I'm right handed. By the time the cast comes off,
in two weeks, I'll be in camp, so this may be the last chapter you see for a
month...sorry. This may seem like good typing, but do you know how many
errors I've made in this one paragraph? More than I can count. So I have to
live with being a lefty for two weeks. You should have seen my writing when
I wrote a message to myself...it took up three lines, and it was messed up,
and crooked.

My riding instructor, Lauren, is surprised how well I'm taking this; when
she called, and could hear me in the next room cracking up during "The
Wettening".

Dedicated to everyone who reviewed.









Silef jerked backwards so hard that her fake eyes popped out. Gaz jumped,
practically scared to death.

"He's home?"

"Yes! I started running around the house when I saw the doorknob twist. I
couldn't find a place to go, so I just closed my eyes, and I started
drunning, and ended up here."

Silef walked towards her. "You do know that means that you just flushed
yourself down the toilet."

Gaz arched her eyebrow. "No...I didn't actually. Hey! Maybe I can find the
way OUT of the lab doing the same thing!" Gaz closed her eyes, and started
to run around the lab frantically. Silef sighed, took her by the shirt
collar, and dragged her back up to the first floor. Gaz continued moving her
feet like she was running.

"Gaz, when we get back, I have to hide you somewhere," Silef said.

Gaz stopped kicking, and opened her eyes. "Where are you going to hide me?"

Silef opened the door, and before Zim came looking for her, she threw Gaz in
the closet.

Zim found her leaning against the closet, and immediately started shouting at
her. "Fool! What were you thinking, leaving your pathetic Voot Runner in
plain view in my front yard! Have you no sense?!"

Silef leaned against the door harder. "Excuse me, but it's not like I had
any time! You wouldn't even open the door for me!" Silef's eyes flashed, and
she stepped forward. Gaz fell out of the closet.

"What are you thinking?" Zim shrieked. "She's a human! Can you be so dense
that you bring her home, and hide her in a closet?! And to make things
worse," Zim snarled, "it's my worst enemie's sister! She'll tell him
everything! Fool! Miserable, pathetic Irken!"

Silef balled her hand into a fist, and shook it at him. "Go rot on Irk! Go
back, and fall victim to the Almighty Tallests like I did!" Silef gasped,
and immediately tried to make Zim angry enough to forget what she had just
said. "Rot, Zim! ROT ON IRK!!! DIE ON CONVENTIA!!!"

Gaz got up, and opened her eyes wide. "Can I say something here?"

"No!" Zim and Silef yelled. "I have to go get your pathetic Voot Runner down
to the lab!" Zim continued. He was about to go into the front yard and take
Silef's Voot Runner out of view, when he did a double take, and turned back
to his sister. "Something happened with you, and the Almighty Tallests?!"

Silef narrowed her eyes. When in doubt, deny, deny, deny. "No!" she crossed
her arms. "Whatever gave you that idea?"

"Oh don't try to deny it! You just said it!"

"I heard it too!" Gaz said.

Silef turned to Gaz, and shouted in a voice quite like Zims, "Feel my wrath,
miserable human! Get back to your GameSlave, and stay out of my business!"
Her sentance ended with a hiss.

"Tell me!" Zim said eagerly. "Tell me what happened, or I'll never tell you
my secret against water!" Zim grabbed her by the neck, and started to shake
her. "Tell me before I strangle you!"

Gaz ran in between both of them, and pulled them apart. "Be careful with
those, Zim!" After they were both on separate sides of the room, Gaz
continued. "Zim, wouldn't you like to know why I'm here first; before Silef
tells you a long and boring story about some Tallests?"

"As a matter of fact, I..."

"Of course he wants to hear that first!" Silef cut in. "But I assure you,
Gaz, the story is not boring!"





A/N: Just to let you in on a little something-I NOW HATE ROCKET POWER!
SILEF AND MY DOOM WILL FALL FROM THE SKY!!! And another thing-Silef, Zim,
and Gaz will have four victims *evil, and deathly sneer*...and their names
are...OTTO, REGGIE, TWISTER, AND SAM!!! *Maniacle laugh similar to Zim's*
MY DOOM WILL CRUSH AND ENIALATE THEM DOWN TO THEIR EVERY LAST CELL!
*grin* And guess who actually helps? *continues the maniacle
laugh* Don't hate.




Z
im held up a hand to silence his sister. "Silence!" He turned back to Gaz.
"You'd better have a good explanation, Gaz."

Gaz opened her eyes again. "I do, Zim! I think it might be fun to help."

Zim shook so hard his lilac-hazel eyes twisted off, hung from his eyelid for
a moment, and then fell to the floor. "Fun?" he shrieked. "FUN? It's not
about FUN! And how do we know you don't work for...DIB! How do we know that
you aren't just going to sit here with us for a while, and then tell our
secrets to...someone?"

Gaz crossed her arms. "I hate Dib. You think I like him? That little pest?
All he ever talks about is destroying you! It gets really annoying!" Gaz
sighed, with a now dreamy look on her face. "You're not the only one who
fantasizes about destroying HIM!"

None of the three had any idea that at the very moment, Dib was in his room
opening some parts he had ordered from a magazine. He had been working on
his creation for days; and he had finally gotten the finishing tools. It was
only going to take him a minute to finish it...and then he was going to pay
Zim and Silef a visit.


A/N: Should I stop here, and leave you with a cliffhanger? *considers* Nah.


Zim considered this for a while. It seemed very farfetched that a human girl
would want to help a few aliens take over her own race. Finally, he made up
his mind; though he was not sure if this was his permanent decision.
"All right, Gaz," he said, narrowing his eyes. "We'll see what happens. If
you slip up one time, on the other hand, then..."

"I know," Silef cut in. "Then she's out. Now I am going to tell you what
happened with the Tallests whether you like it or not!"

Zim frowned and crossed his arms. "Go on, Silef. I'm listening to you."

"You see Zim, I am here for two reasons. One is I wanted to make sure you
were doing well here, and another is...The Tallests wanted to get rid of
me..."

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"And why should we waste our time sending you to that planet?" Tallest
Purple said eyeing Silef. "You're just a puny little Irken. Plus, we don't
wamt to waste our time."

"Would you give me this answer if I were taller?" Silef asked.

Tallest Red rolled his eyes. "Duh, yeah."

Purple pushed him aside. "NO!"

"I'll take his word for it," Silef said, referring to Red. "Well you know
what? I'm going to get taller!" Silef continued like she had been waiting to
say this all her life. "And when I am taller, and both of you are dead and
rotting somewhere, guess who's going to be Tallest? ME! I'll make sure of
that you powerhungry egomaniacs!!!"

Red and Purple were very taken aback by these remarks. No one threatened or
talked back to an Almighty Tallest!

"She's plotting against us," Purple whispered to Red. "I just know it. She's
going to kill us!"

"We could destroy her," Red said. "I mean, it's not like she's important.
She's one of the shortest Irken's on Irk."

"I have a better idea," Purple said. He raised his voice, and turned back to
Silef. "You step away for a moment. We have to have a conference about
your...needs..." When Silef turned back, Purple continued with his plan.
"She wants to get to Earth? We'll send her to Earth..." he smiled deviously.
"On a permanent assignment...but somehow, that part will just...slip our
minds."

Red smiled back. "I think you may have something there. She'll never be able
to come back to Irk again; let alone be a Tallest when she's older!"

"So it's settled," Purple said. "She goes to Earth on a permanent
assignment."

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"Silef?" Red's voice crackled over the TV screen installed in Silef's Voot
Runner. "Where are you?"

"Aproximatelly 15,000 meters from Earth," Silef answered.

"Good, good," Purple said. "I hope you like your permanent assignment on
Earth, Silef."

Silef looked back at the screen with wide eyes. "Say that again?"

"I said," Purple repeated like he had told her so many times before, "that
we hope you enjoy your permanent assignment on Earth!"

"YOU NEVER SAID IT WAS PERMANENT!" Silef shrieked.

"Guess it slipped our minds," Red said.

"No you didn't!" Silef snapped. "I know you to well!"

"All right, Silef," Purple said. "You're right. We just wanted to get rid of
you. No one threatens a Tallest."

"By the way," Red added, "you can't come back. There's no where to land. If
we ever see any sign of your ship, we'll shoot lasers at you. Bye now!"

Silef's screen went blank, and Silef, to busy staring at the screen with an
open mouth and wide eyes, crash landed in her brother's front yard.

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Zim was amazed by his sisters story. So all this time, the Tallests had just
wanted to get rid of her? "So you can't even go home?"

"No!" Silef screamed. "And when I got here--"

Silef noticed something run past the window. According to her, it looked like
a black shark fin that was long, thinner, and sharper than necessary.

"--Dib!"

Gaz had started paying attention by now. "Dib? Dib what?"



A/N: Cliffhanger? No...I'm leaving for a month Monday the 23rd...I don't want
to leave you hanging for a month.



Silef, unable to speak, pointed a shaking finger to the door, which burst
open, revealing Dib with some kind of weapon, seconds later. Zim was enraged.

"Out! Out!" he yelled, shaking his hands at Dib. "Get out of my house, Earth
scum!"

Dib showed them all the weapon. "You see this?" he asked, pointing it at the
wall. "I've been ordering parts for this for weeks. And with Silef here, it
will be even more useful. This will disintegrate you both with the push of
a button." He smiled. "And now I'm going to get rid of you once and for all."

Dib pointed the weapon at Zim, his hands closed over the handle. The second
before he pushed the button, Silef rushed in front of him.

"Don't hurt him, Dib! Please!"

"Why should I spare an alien's life at another aliens request?" he said.
"I'm going to destroy you, too!"

Silef was panicking by now. "Dib, don't do this!" she pleaded. "I'd do this
for YOU!"

Dib was so shocked, he lowered his weapon. "Really?" Silef had sounded
sencere when she said it, but could he trust an alien? "Well..." he
hesitated. "Maybe I'll come back...later. A surprise attack like this...isn't
really fair."

They were both interrupted by maniacal laughter. Dib looked back down at his
hand to find it empty. Zim had grabbed it out of his hand.

"Foolish feeling human!" he laughed. "I knew I would win this war sometime."
He handed the weapon to Gaz. "And now WE'VE won it. Go ahead, Gaz."

Gaz brought the weapon up to her face, and aimed it at Dib. Her finger
lingered over the button that would fire, and destroy her own brother. Gaz
eventually handed it back to Zim.

"I can't do it, Zim. You do it."

Without hesitation, Zim aimed the weapon, and lowered his finger to the
button with an evil grin.

In the second before Zim pressed the button, Silef jumped in between both of
them.

"Wait, Zim!"

Dib was shocked. Zim was appalled. "What?" they both asked.

"Exactly what Dib said! It's not fair! We weren't armed then, he isn't armed
now! That doesn't change anything, except now it's not fair to him!"

"I don't care about what's FAIR!"

"Would you still be saying that if Dib was still the one with that?" she
asked, pointing to the weapon in Zim's hand.

Zim hesitated, and stumbled over his words. "Well...no...but...but he
doesn't have the weapon anymore, does he? So we wouldn't...um..."

Silef took this opportunity to snatch the weapon out of Zim's hand. "Oh, just
give me that!" Silef literally smashed it on the floor, until the whole
weapon was a mangled mess. She threw the monstrosity aside, and opened the
door for Dib.

"Why did you do that?" he asked.

Silef's answer was simple. "I told you I would do it for you."




I had that part planned out in my head since I started chapter three, and I
finally got it out! Bad news, I'm leaving Monday (by the way, my wrist has
healed enough so I can work my fingers very well, and I'm back to my normal
typing speed *with both hands*. I still won't have the cast off for another
two weeks *which I will be in camp during*), so you won't hear from me on
any of my stories for a month. If my dad had only gotten me my laptop, things
would be different, but they're not. So, no chapter 7 until around the end
of August, or a week after.

By the way, I think I'm over being mad at Rocket Power...

Silef: Yeah right! You should have seen her after Invader Zim today!

Okay, so I literally *growled* at the TV when they said Rocket Power was on.
And if Silef tells you anything...roughly, it's the truth...

Silef: Yeah, then when it started, you shouted out "I REFUSE TO WATCH ROCKET
POWER!" and you changed the channel! And then you stomped through the house,
screaming "DIE OTTO! DIE REGGIE! DIE TWISTER! DIE SQUID!" And then you...

Silef, you can stop now!

Silef: Wait, this is to funny! You changed the channel in the living room,
all right...but you left the TV on channel 35 in your room. *laughs* Then
when you got to the room, and saw Rocket Power blazing on your TV, you
SHRIEKED, and changed the channel! *Falls over, and starts laughing, and
rolling around on the floor*

Oh, dangit. .

~Samantha Ishida