Locked In

Notes and Disclaimer: VP: I don't own Invader Zim. I'm running out of ideas to do this disclaimer shit...

Dagger: Tell me about it!

VP: You don't even say anything! I make up all this stuff!!

Dagger: Yeah, but I'm your cute little vampire piggy everyone loves!! ^^;;;

VP: Riiiiiight...

Rating: PG-13.

Summary:

What You Need to Know: "Talking"

~Thinking~

[author notes]

~~~ Storage Room ~~~

"What the fuck do you mean he's gone?!" Dib's voiced raised with every word he said. "That's what I said!" Zim snapped at him, his voice rising too. "Great! Just what we needed!" Dib's words sounded angry, but his eyes were worried, worried for Zim and him.

"Let's split up." Zim suggested turning around to face the black-haired boy. "Ok." Dib said shortly. "I'll that area," Dib pointed to the west. "and you check that area." He shot his hand in the direction of the east of the huge room. "We'll meet back here in about... 15 minutes. Agreed?" "Agreed." They turned their backs to each other and went to go secure their areas.

~~~ Zim ~~~

Zim searched around every box, looked around every corner, nothing, not a trace of anything. "There has to be something here!" He said to himself checking around a corner to find what else, nothing. "Well, since it's only been 10 minutes I might as well check around again." Zim sighed and walked around searching for anything.

Than he suddenly tripped and landed on his back. "AHHH!! MY SPINE!!" He screamed holding his back and standing up. "Damn it..." He cursed aloud squinting on of his eyes. When he looked down to see what had made him fall he spotted a small black gun. He picked it up.

"This is the gun that Dib used..." Zim realized abruptly. He looked the gun up and down, it looked fine. Than he heard something that made him jump, a scream. Dib's scream.

Zim gripped the gun tightly as he ran toward where the screaming was coming from. He ran as fast as his Irken legs could carry him. The screams were getting louder and louder as he ran west. Than he saw sickle-like hair. ~That has to be Dib!~ Zim thought running a little faster.

The sight before Zim wanted to make him scream. The man had a gun in one hand and a dagger in the other. The figure was trying to cut Dib's neck with the dagger, but Dib was holding the arm back. "ZIM!! HELP ME!!" He shouted. Zim didn't need to be told twice as he took out the gun he found on the ground.

His hands were shaking as he put his finger on the trigger. "You asked for it!" Zim screeched at the man as he pulled the trigger.

Not a bullet came out.

He kept pushing it but all he got in response was an annoying clicking sound. "Shit!" Zim cursed again. He threw the gun down on the ground. His mind was racing, telling him what to do. It was telling him tons of things he couldn't think straight.

And he must have not been thinking straight as he lunged at the Man. He held out his hands and he knocked the man off Dib. Dib just laid on the ground, shocked. Zim on the other hand was now fighting for his life. [Fight for your life! Fight for your life! Fight for your life! Has anyone besides be has ever heard that song?! ^^;;;]

Zim was onto of the Man as the figure under him tried to stab him in the stomach with a dagger. Dib acted quickly as he grabbed a six-pack can of pop out of a nearby box. He smiled as the memory of Zim and him spraying each other with soda and trying to hit each other with tomatoes. But quickly snapped out of it as he heard Zim scream, the Man had flipped Zim over, and now he was on top of Zim.

Dib swiftly and quietly walked up behind the Man and with one gesture he hit the six-back on the Man's head. The six-pack of pop knocked him unconscious as he fell sideways. Zim got up and walked beside Dib.

"Dib, we need to do something before he wakes up!" Zim whispered, as if one little sound would awaken the Man. Dib didn't say anything but take the dagger out of the Man's hands. "We have to... kill him." He replied finally. "But Dib you sa-" Zim was cut off. "I know what I said Zim. But I was being foolish and stubborn. He almost killed me," He glanced at Zim, "and you." He said quietly.

Zim stood quiet, waiting for Dib to do something. Than Dib stepped forward and held the dagger strongly in his fist and he cracked the dagger into the Man's heart. He held it there for a minute and than took it out, it was bloodstained with red liquid, blood.

Dib threw the dagger by the man and turned his back to both the dead corpse and Zim. The alien grabbed Dib's arm. "Dib..." Zim put his head down, un able to say anything at the moment. Dib turned around and Zim hugged him as Dib hugged back. Zim now understood how Dib felt, killing one of his own kind, it was hard. Even though he wiped out his whole planet, but that wasn't the point. [^^;;;] The point was he understood Dib's feelings and emotions now.

Dib pulled away slightly as he looked at his watch. It was 2: 30 in the morning. Dib sighed. "Zim, although I would like to stand here and hug you, we have to get rid of the body and clean up this blood." Dib stated pulling away from Zim. "Oh, yeah..." Zim rubbed the back of his neck sheepishly.

Without a word to Zim, Dib picked up the body and dumped it in a nearby box. "What are you doing?" Zim asked. "You'll see." Dib taped the box up with duck tape that he found near it. He pushed the box out of the way of the area they were in. "Now let's clean this up." He said looking around for a mop or something. He spotted two near the wall and a bucket of dirty water. "It'll work..." Dib muttered grabbing the mop handing it to Zim. "Clean." He ordered jokily.

Dib dipped the mop in the dirty water and scrubbed the floor as Zim followed. In about 5 minutes all the blood was cleaned from the ground. "Now, we have to go clean up the little 'Store War' we had." Dib grinned picking up the bucket of water as he and Zim made their way to the door.

They arrived in the aisle minutes later and Dib put the bucket down. "Now, let's start cleaning!" He declared as he scrubbed the floor again. Like last time, Zim followed Dib, cleaning the floor. About 10 minutes later they were all done, tomatoes in the trash and a spotless floor.

Dib walked back to the Storage Room and put the two mops and the bucket down beside the wall walking up to some empty boxes. "Now, if we just push these aside..." He murmured. He pushed them all aside with ease as a door appeared. "there should be a door right here." He finished turning around and smiling at his boyfriend.

Zim smiled back. "So, it's been there all along?" Zim questioned walking up to Dib. "Well, when we were searching for that Man I found this door. He had pushed boxes so we couldn't see it, what a sly guy." Dib made a disgusted face at mentioning the Man's name, but shook it off.

"But I just wanted to clean everything up before we left because we would have been in deep trouble if we just left with the store looking like that." Dib said as Zim nodded in agreement. "So, what do we do with the body now?" Zim asked. "Well, we dump the box in the ocean [Just say they live by an ocean or something!] and we leave him there." Dib confirmed.

"Ok, well we better get going!" Zim said marching to the box. "Hold the door." Zim said as Dib held open the door as the green alien pushed the box outside in the cold fall air. "Fresh Earth-like air!" Zim said happily as he was outside.

Before Dib went outside he spotted a full box of Whipped Cream. He quickly grabbed one stuffing it in his trench coat pocket. He stepped outside and the door closed behind him. "So, what are we going to do after we dump him in the ocean." They acted as if it was an okay thing to dump a body into the ocean, but they were both a little uneasy. That was ignored though.

"Oh, I don't know." Dib said smirking as he fingered the Whipped Cream in his pocket. "How about going to my house?" Dib asked, the smirk still spread across his face. "Well, ok." Zim shrugged. Dib, still smirking, helped Zim push the box down the street and to the ocean, it was going to be a very long night.

~~~ The End ~~~

For those of you who didn't get the last part, to bad!! ::cackles:: I'm just kidding! You can e-mail me if you don't get it! ^^ Well, that was the last chapter. I am proud and sad to announce that Locked In is finished!! I'm sadder though, I loved this fan fiction, but I just hope you loved it as much as me! Read and review please! No flames!!