Hey there! well, sorry to anyone who's reading this that I haven't posted on this for a while. I was goin to post this chap
last week but I desided to type up something I'd been thinking about. So Instead I wrote my first fic outside the IZ section!
well, sorta. It's a crossover with Invader Zim/Hey Arnold/The Simpsons. Anyone who likes sugar-high fics You'll most likely
like that one. it's called 'Madness Crossover'. Just to let y'all know! So now here is chapter 7! Just when you think the conflicts
are being resolved...... well, read and find out!
Oh, and just for the record, I don't own Invader Zim. Kay?
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Chapter 7- Better...... Or Worse?
"Now what's the password?" Jen asked. She, Dib and Zim were standing around the giant computer in
Jen's lab. Gaz was sitting a few feet away. Jen and Dib had managed to tie her to a chair so she couldn't hurt Zim
again. Gaz sat quietly now but continued to glare at the back of Zim's head.
"I can type it myself." Zim grumbled. "I don't need anyone snooping around in my computer systems." He
glanced at Dib. Jen jumped out of the chair so Zim could sit down. Zim squinted at the keyboard a moment then slowly,
one key at a time, typed out the password.
"Password denied." The computer anounced.
"What?" Jen whispered. "Zim, you haven't forgoten your password, have you?" She sounded worried, but
not nearly as worried as Dib looked.
"Of course not!" Zim exclaimed. "Irken Invaders never forget!"
"I thought that was elephants" Dib muttered. Zim shot him a warning look to remind him who was helping him.
"I must have pressed a wrong key or something." Zim said and turned back to the keyboard to try it again.
"Password denied." The computer repeated.
"Zim......" Jen said, sounding more worried. He tried it again, but it was denied. Zim sat up straiter and scowled
at the computer.
"Jen! What is wrong with this computer?!" Zim demanded. Jen looked surprised.
"Nothing. I just gave it an upgrade last week."
"Not that! What's with this keyboard?! Are those even real leters? I've never seen them in ANY language!"
Zim exclaimed, pointing at the keyboard. Jen looked at the keys then at Zim.
"What are you talking about? They're English letters!" She pointed at the keys. "See? Here's A and B, there's
C. Here's Z, I, and M. See? English!" Jen gave him a look as if he'd gone crazy. Zim scowled at her.
"I'm not a baby Jen! I know English when I see English! And THAT is not English! And your screen looks
like you have something smeared over it!" he squinted up at the screen. Jen just stared at him.
"There's nothing on the screen."
"Then what's wrong with it?!" Zim asked, annoyed.
"Nothing!" Jen answered, also getting annoyed. "Listen, Zim, just get on with the cure! you're not getting out of this!
unless of course you want to stay human the rest of your life."
"I think I know what's wrong with him." Dib said. "Zim, I think you need glasses." Jen looked at Dib then Zim.
"Hey, I bet you're right!"
"What?" Zim asked.
"Glasses. To Improve your vision." Dib answered. "Like the things some humans ware over their eyes."
"Like Dib does." Jen added. "Or....used to."
"Me?" Dib asked. "Oh, yeah. Like I used to."
"Where are we going to get glasses?" Jen wondered out loud. Zim looked horrified.
"I don't need those horrible human things! My vision has always been perfect before!"
"you must have picked up the trait." Jen told him. Zim didn't look any happier about it. Jen looked over at
Gaz. "But Gaz doesn't have glasses."
"No, but the trait must be present in her." Dib answered. "Both me and Dad have glasses. So Gaz must have
it. It probably just doesn't show up." Zim looked at Jen then Dib then Gaz.
'What does THEIR family have to do with this?" Zim demanded.
"They used my DNA." Gaz grumbled from her chair. "A waste of perfectly good blood if you ask me." Zim
looked disgusted.
"That's probably where you got the purple hair and brown eyes from too." Jen said. "Now where are we
going to get glasses?"
"I've got Dib's." Gaz said. "Mybe they'll work on Zim. They're in my pocket, untie me and I'll give them to
you." Jen walked over to Gaz's chair, losening the ropes only enough to get the glasses from her pocket, then tightening
them again.
"Nice try." Jen murmered before handing the glasses over to Zim. Zim hesitated but took them, but hesitated
again to put them on.
"I don't want to ware DIB'S glasses!" He complained. "Can't you find a rat with glasses or something for
me to ware?" Jen and Dib joined Gaz in glareing at him.
"Try them." Jen comanded. "If they don't work we'll see about that rat."
Zim reluctantly put them on. He looked around the lab a moment to get used to them. Then he looked down
at the keyboard againand typed in the password again. This time it went through and Zim's files showed up on Jen's
computer.
"So, i'm assuming the glasses work?" Jen asked with a smile. Zim grumbled a reply that the others couldn't
hear as he opened more files and typed more passwords.
"I was kinda hopeing to look for that rat." Dib informed them, crossing his arms as he watched Zim. "But
since we don't have a choice i guess i have to let you use them don't I?" Zim egnored him. "But if there's even ONE
little scratch on those--" Dib stoped in mid-sentance and turned to look at his sister, a look of confusion on his face.
"What were you doing with my glasses?"
Gaz just shruged. "Mm."
Dib looked at her. "Oh.....kaaayyy...."
"Almost there!" Zim cried. jen and Dib turned to look at the computer. Two files came up. The first was
called "Baloney Dib" and the second was "Irken Dib".
"What's "Baloney Dib"?" Jen asked ceriously. Dib and Zim both shuttered.
"Long story. Explain later." Dib said. Zim clicked on the "Irken Dib" file. The screen filled with tiny writing
in both Irken and English. in the top left corner was a picture of Dib as a human. Dib stared at the picture, he couldn't
seem to take his now Irken eyes off it, and his antenea drooped.
"Dib? What's wrong?" jen asked, noticing the sudden change. Dib took a deep breath then let it out.
"I'd almost forgoten what I looked like." he answered sadly.
"But it's only been four days!" Jen exclaimed.
"The change happened much faster this time." Zim explained. "If it's still working the way it's suposed to
the irken DNA should be erasing his memory of ever being human and replacing it with other memories."
"WHAT?!" Dib and Jen both screamed. Gaz growled and struggled to get out of the ropes. For a minute
Jen thought about letting her out herself.
"My plan at first was to just make it so that Dib couldn't expose me, and ruin the mission, without doing
damage to himself." Zim explained, still clicking away at the computer. "Then I desided he may be usefull to me, if he
would join me. So then having Dib be Irken wasn't enough, i wanted Dib to actualy think he was irken and always
had been! So I switched the salt with the DNA altering substance on porkchop day." Zim looked away from the screen
to look at Dib who was frozen in place, stareing, shocked, at Zim. "And from what Dib just said, that should still happen."
The color in Dib's face faded so he almost looked human again and he looked about to fall over. Jen caught
him just as he fell over. She pulled him over to a chair beside Gaz, Jen's pretty stronge for her size. Dib gained enough
strength back to sit up and some color came back to his face.
"No...." Dib whispered, shaking his head slowly. "No..." But he knew it was true. He couldn't stop it from
happening, and if he couldn't remember ever being human, started thinking like an Irken, then there was a huge possibility
that he would join Zim. Infact, he could almost gaurantee it. The realization made him weak again.
Dib had worked so hard to protect Earth! if he gave up now..... joined Zim.......actualy HELPED conquer
Earth..... He couldn't even think about it!
Jen bit her bottom lip a moment, watching Dib, then she turned back to Zim. " How long till the transformation is
intirely complete?" She asked, she couldn't keep the fear out of her voice. She had been thinking the same things Dib had.
Zim paused to think a moment.
"Some time tomarrow morning." He answered calmy, loving the fear in his cousin's voice, then turned back to
the computer. The screen reflected in his glasses.
"To-tomarrow morning?!" Dib stamered. "That gives us...." He paused to count off the hours on his green fingers.
"Not enough time!" He slid down in his chair, a depressed look came over him and Jen thought he might cry. "I might as well
surender now. At least that way i could keep some of my dignity."
Zim turned to look over at Dib, an interested smile on his face. Jen stared at Dib. That wasn't like him. Dib was
giveing up too easy. The Dib she knew would never give up! But Irken Invader Dib might.
"ZIM!! GET BACK TO WORK ON THAT CURE!!" Jen screamed. "You're not getting yours till Dib has his!!" Zim jumped
a little, surprised, but turned around obediantly and began working again.
"I'm almost done!" Zim answered. "There! That should do it!" Zim pressed a purple dot on the screen. a hole opened
up in the floor and a vial floated up out of it in a blue light. Zim closed a hand around it and handed it to Dib. Dib took it and
stared blankly at it a moment, almost trying to deside if he wanted to take it or not. This scared Jen.
"Well? Go on! Drink it!" She urged. Gaz sat up straiter in her chair, watching her brother with wide brown
eyes.
Dib smiled, a look of relief. "Well, here goes!" he said. He sat up in his chair and drank the orange liquid quickly.
he made a face as if he had bitten a lemon. But other than that nothing happened.
"Uhh....it might take a few hours, every DNA is different." Zim said quickly. "Now, give me mine!" Jen walked over
to a cupboard and took out a glass with a purple liquid in it. She brought it over to her human cousin. Zim snatched it from her
and drank it.
The effects were instant. Five seconds later Zim was back to normal. Dib's glasses fell to the floor, luckily they
didn't brake.
"Yes!!" Zim cried in triumph. "Now, I must be going. Sorry i can't stay to chat." He smiled evily and ran out the door
conecting Jen's lab to his.
jen walked over and picked up Dib's glasses. She walked back over to the chair and handed them to Dib.
"Here, you're gonna need these soon."
Dib took them and looked at them. " I sure hope you're right."
"We all do." Gaz replied. "Now will some one untie me?!"
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Hey there! well, how did you like that? It's not over yet! if you're still reading this please review! i'm starting to think
no one's reading this any more! If you want it to continue I need you to review! Like it? Hate it? TELL ME!! thanks!
~HelgaGP
last week but I desided to type up something I'd been thinking about. So Instead I wrote my first fic outside the IZ section!
well, sorta. It's a crossover with Invader Zim/Hey Arnold/The Simpsons. Anyone who likes sugar-high fics You'll most likely
like that one. it's called 'Madness Crossover'. Just to let y'all know! So now here is chapter 7! Just when you think the conflicts
are being resolved...... well, read and find out!
Oh, and just for the record, I don't own Invader Zim. Kay?
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Chapter 7- Better...... Or Worse?
"Now what's the password?" Jen asked. She, Dib and Zim were standing around the giant computer in
Jen's lab. Gaz was sitting a few feet away. Jen and Dib had managed to tie her to a chair so she couldn't hurt Zim
again. Gaz sat quietly now but continued to glare at the back of Zim's head.
"I can type it myself." Zim grumbled. "I don't need anyone snooping around in my computer systems." He
glanced at Dib. Jen jumped out of the chair so Zim could sit down. Zim squinted at the keyboard a moment then slowly,
one key at a time, typed out the password.
"Password denied." The computer anounced.
"What?" Jen whispered. "Zim, you haven't forgoten your password, have you?" She sounded worried, but
not nearly as worried as Dib looked.
"Of course not!" Zim exclaimed. "Irken Invaders never forget!"
"I thought that was elephants" Dib muttered. Zim shot him a warning look to remind him who was helping him.
"I must have pressed a wrong key or something." Zim said and turned back to the keyboard to try it again.
"Password denied." The computer repeated.
"Zim......" Jen said, sounding more worried. He tried it again, but it was denied. Zim sat up straiter and scowled
at the computer.
"Jen! What is wrong with this computer?!" Zim demanded. Jen looked surprised.
"Nothing. I just gave it an upgrade last week."
"Not that! What's with this keyboard?! Are those even real leters? I've never seen them in ANY language!"
Zim exclaimed, pointing at the keyboard. Jen looked at the keys then at Zim.
"What are you talking about? They're English letters!" She pointed at the keys. "See? Here's A and B, there's
C. Here's Z, I, and M. See? English!" Jen gave him a look as if he'd gone crazy. Zim scowled at her.
"I'm not a baby Jen! I know English when I see English! And THAT is not English! And your screen looks
like you have something smeared over it!" he squinted up at the screen. Jen just stared at him.
"There's nothing on the screen."
"Then what's wrong with it?!" Zim asked, annoyed.
"Nothing!" Jen answered, also getting annoyed. "Listen, Zim, just get on with the cure! you're not getting out of this!
unless of course you want to stay human the rest of your life."
"I think I know what's wrong with him." Dib said. "Zim, I think you need glasses." Jen looked at Dib then Zim.
"Hey, I bet you're right!"
"What?" Zim asked.
"Glasses. To Improve your vision." Dib answered. "Like the things some humans ware over their eyes."
"Like Dib does." Jen added. "Or....used to."
"Me?" Dib asked. "Oh, yeah. Like I used to."
"Where are we going to get glasses?" Jen wondered out loud. Zim looked horrified.
"I don't need those horrible human things! My vision has always been perfect before!"
"you must have picked up the trait." Jen told him. Zim didn't look any happier about it. Jen looked over at
Gaz. "But Gaz doesn't have glasses."
"No, but the trait must be present in her." Dib answered. "Both me and Dad have glasses. So Gaz must have
it. It probably just doesn't show up." Zim looked at Jen then Dib then Gaz.
'What does THEIR family have to do with this?" Zim demanded.
"They used my DNA." Gaz grumbled from her chair. "A waste of perfectly good blood if you ask me." Zim
looked disgusted.
"That's probably where you got the purple hair and brown eyes from too." Jen said. "Now where are we
going to get glasses?"
"I've got Dib's." Gaz said. "Mybe they'll work on Zim. They're in my pocket, untie me and I'll give them to
you." Jen walked over to Gaz's chair, losening the ropes only enough to get the glasses from her pocket, then tightening
them again.
"Nice try." Jen murmered before handing the glasses over to Zim. Zim hesitated but took them, but hesitated
again to put them on.
"I don't want to ware DIB'S glasses!" He complained. "Can't you find a rat with glasses or something for
me to ware?" Jen and Dib joined Gaz in glareing at him.
"Try them." Jen comanded. "If they don't work we'll see about that rat."
Zim reluctantly put them on. He looked around the lab a moment to get used to them. Then he looked down
at the keyboard againand typed in the password again. This time it went through and Zim's files showed up on Jen's
computer.
"So, i'm assuming the glasses work?" Jen asked with a smile. Zim grumbled a reply that the others couldn't
hear as he opened more files and typed more passwords.
"I was kinda hopeing to look for that rat." Dib informed them, crossing his arms as he watched Zim. "But
since we don't have a choice i guess i have to let you use them don't I?" Zim egnored him. "But if there's even ONE
little scratch on those--" Dib stoped in mid-sentance and turned to look at his sister, a look of confusion on his face.
"What were you doing with my glasses?"
Gaz just shruged. "Mm."
Dib looked at her. "Oh.....kaaayyy...."
"Almost there!" Zim cried. jen and Dib turned to look at the computer. Two files came up. The first was
called "Baloney Dib" and the second was "Irken Dib".
"What's "Baloney Dib"?" Jen asked ceriously. Dib and Zim both shuttered.
"Long story. Explain later." Dib said. Zim clicked on the "Irken Dib" file. The screen filled with tiny writing
in both Irken and English. in the top left corner was a picture of Dib as a human. Dib stared at the picture, he couldn't
seem to take his now Irken eyes off it, and his antenea drooped.
"Dib? What's wrong?" jen asked, noticing the sudden change. Dib took a deep breath then let it out.
"I'd almost forgoten what I looked like." he answered sadly.
"But it's only been four days!" Jen exclaimed.
"The change happened much faster this time." Zim explained. "If it's still working the way it's suposed to
the irken DNA should be erasing his memory of ever being human and replacing it with other memories."
"WHAT?!" Dib and Jen both screamed. Gaz growled and struggled to get out of the ropes. For a minute
Jen thought about letting her out herself.
"My plan at first was to just make it so that Dib couldn't expose me, and ruin the mission, without doing
damage to himself." Zim explained, still clicking away at the computer. "Then I desided he may be usefull to me, if he
would join me. So then having Dib be Irken wasn't enough, i wanted Dib to actualy think he was irken and always
had been! So I switched the salt with the DNA altering substance on porkchop day." Zim looked away from the screen
to look at Dib who was frozen in place, stareing, shocked, at Zim. "And from what Dib just said, that should still happen."
The color in Dib's face faded so he almost looked human again and he looked about to fall over. Jen caught
him just as he fell over. She pulled him over to a chair beside Gaz, Jen's pretty stronge for her size. Dib gained enough
strength back to sit up and some color came back to his face.
"No...." Dib whispered, shaking his head slowly. "No..." But he knew it was true. He couldn't stop it from
happening, and if he couldn't remember ever being human, started thinking like an Irken, then there was a huge possibility
that he would join Zim. Infact, he could almost gaurantee it. The realization made him weak again.
Dib had worked so hard to protect Earth! if he gave up now..... joined Zim.......actualy HELPED conquer
Earth..... He couldn't even think about it!
Jen bit her bottom lip a moment, watching Dib, then she turned back to Zim. " How long till the transformation is
intirely complete?" She asked, she couldn't keep the fear out of her voice. She had been thinking the same things Dib had.
Zim paused to think a moment.
"Some time tomarrow morning." He answered calmy, loving the fear in his cousin's voice, then turned back to
the computer. The screen reflected in his glasses.
"To-tomarrow morning?!" Dib stamered. "That gives us...." He paused to count off the hours on his green fingers.
"Not enough time!" He slid down in his chair, a depressed look came over him and Jen thought he might cry. "I might as well
surender now. At least that way i could keep some of my dignity."
Zim turned to look over at Dib, an interested smile on his face. Jen stared at Dib. That wasn't like him. Dib was
giveing up too easy. The Dib she knew would never give up! But Irken Invader Dib might.
"ZIM!! GET BACK TO WORK ON THAT CURE!!" Jen screamed. "You're not getting yours till Dib has his!!" Zim jumped
a little, surprised, but turned around obediantly and began working again.
"I'm almost done!" Zim answered. "There! That should do it!" Zim pressed a purple dot on the screen. a hole opened
up in the floor and a vial floated up out of it in a blue light. Zim closed a hand around it and handed it to Dib. Dib took it and
stared blankly at it a moment, almost trying to deside if he wanted to take it or not. This scared Jen.
"Well? Go on! Drink it!" She urged. Gaz sat up straiter in her chair, watching her brother with wide brown
eyes.
Dib smiled, a look of relief. "Well, here goes!" he said. He sat up in his chair and drank the orange liquid quickly.
he made a face as if he had bitten a lemon. But other than that nothing happened.
"Uhh....it might take a few hours, every DNA is different." Zim said quickly. "Now, give me mine!" Jen walked over
to a cupboard and took out a glass with a purple liquid in it. She brought it over to her human cousin. Zim snatched it from her
and drank it.
The effects were instant. Five seconds later Zim was back to normal. Dib's glasses fell to the floor, luckily they
didn't brake.
"Yes!!" Zim cried in triumph. "Now, I must be going. Sorry i can't stay to chat." He smiled evily and ran out the door
conecting Jen's lab to his.
jen walked over and picked up Dib's glasses. She walked back over to the chair and handed them to Dib.
"Here, you're gonna need these soon."
Dib took them and looked at them. " I sure hope you're right."
"We all do." Gaz replied. "Now will some one untie me?!"
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Hey there! well, how did you like that? It's not over yet! if you're still reading this please review! i'm starting to think
no one's reading this any more! If you want it to continue I need you to review! Like it? Hate it? TELL ME!! thanks!
~HelgaGP