AN: I hate the way this is going, but you guys might not, I'll just have to see. So heres another chapter on Zim.

Disclaimer: Invader Zim and all related characters belong to Jhonen Vasquez. Tara and any other fan characters that might be used belong to me.

(I'm getting really tired of doing this disclaimer... oh well)

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Zim had returned home after a hour or so had passed. And now he was down in his lab, working. But his mind kept straying from his work. It kept drifting to other things.

He strained his mind to try and think if there was anyting after he came out of his test tube. But nothing came to mind. It was almost as if the next few hours he'd been dead. If he hadn't existed the hours after he was brought to life. It was a pretty strange idea, but thats how he felt. He remembered nothing after being shocked into life. Others did though. So why couldn't he? He didn't even remember him getting his name. Being registered. Being given his uniform. He remembered nothing.

He remembered nothing but being first being brought to life, and jumping at the robot arm. And he wished he had more then that. But he didn't...

But wait... he thought he remembered something...

He remembered seconds after he had jumped back off the robot arm. He had looked out of the glass window that sepreated him and all the rest of Irk. A female was on the other side, watching him. She had been wearing a white lab coat, and had had light red colored eyes.

But then his memory blanked off. He was never going to know what happened. And to some the next few memories were always something they never wanted to forget.

Then an idead popped in his head.

"I could call the Tallest. I could ask them what had happened. There supposed to be there when more importnant things happened. Maybe soemthing happened and they were there to see what..."

The idea was absurd. They weren't going to be there for his creation, and no one else's. But what was there to lose?

So he walked over to his computer and sat in front of it. "Computer, please contact the Tallest for me." he said as he focused his eyes on the screen.

Seconds later his leaders faces appeared on screen.

"What do you want Zim?" asked Tallest Red, as he flashed a look of slight annoyance.

"Sirs, I have been thinking a lot on this." he started. "And I was wondering if you had any clue what happened to me when I was brought to life?" he said.

The Tallest looked at each other with wide eyes before turning back to the screen.

"Why do you want to know that?" asked Tallest Purple.

"Becasue Sir, every Irken has memories. Memories of getting their name, being registered in academies, being given their uniform, or well anything like that." He paused a second "I was was just wondering if something had happened to forget that." he said.

Red grabbed Purple by the shoulder and pulled him away from the screen.

"What do we do?" asked Purple in a slightly panicked voice.

"Well, we're not telling him. Hes not supposed to know, thats why we erased him memory." he said before turning back to the screen.

"Zim, nothing happened to you." Red said "You just forgot I guess." he said as he reached and switched the transmission, so he could avoid answering anything else.

Purple turned to Red. "You know this is going to be hard to keep from him now." he said. Red gave a quesitoning look. "Tara, has probably already looked at the transmission." he said as he lowered his voice.

Red's eyes widened. Purple was very right. Tara had probably already seen it... if she was still on duty. There was still hope.

Tara, even though she lived on Irk, was to watch them recieve transmissions, and hack into it while they talked. She was to make sure it wasn't fixed with a computer virus. If it was she was to shut it off, and immediatly send in a anti-virus chip to find and destroy it if it had entered there computers.

What else were they supposed to do with her after the incident she was in? She was good with computers, and she had to do something. And she was no longer capable of her job. Especially after what she pulled.

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Back on earth, Zim had already closed off his transmission, and was wearily making his way back upstairs. He didn't want to go back up, but if he didn't Gir would completly destroy the base. But actually he just wanted to sleep.

When he got upstaris he saw Gir sitting on the couch. He was holding his rubber pig in one hand, and a burrito in the other. He was watching the TV hypnotically. Zim wouldn't have to worry about him messing things up for awhile. Especially since the movie that was in was about four hours long.

So Zim just climbed up next to him, and started to watch the movie with him.

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Heh, this needs work... and I'm workin' on it. Can't tonight tho, I have the evil Health class baby! But luckily it goes back tomorrow, heh.