Yay! Lots of chapters up today, because I have a SNOW DAY!! Wee-HOO! In Akron, Ohio, it snowed about two feet in the last 24 hours. GOD BLESS THE SNOW!

(Zim's POV)

I will never ever ever ever play a trick on Dib again. Nothing good comes from it.

Wait. I'm thinking. Which means I must be conscious again. In theory.

The last thing I remember seeing was Gaz coming out of the yard. I hope he didn't go for Gaz after me. God, my nose hurts. I think there's pressure on it… Let's try opening my eyes. No, wait. They are open. I see light.

I lifted up my arm, to see what was covering my face. This apparently scared the crap out of Gaz. She told me what had happened, while I held the towel over my nose. Most of the bleeding had stopped, but most is not all. Dib was nowhere to be found. Gaz said he ran off after she had explained to him what was happening.

"We shouldn't have done that." I said.

"Ya think?"

"No. Really. It wasn't all his fault. He's protective. And we should have known that."

"I couldn't help myself, with the story. It gives you a rush, doesn't it? You've conquered a whole planet. I almost fell for my own ruse. And it gives you a rush."

"I fell for it too. I kept looking over my shoulder, looking for the Massive breaking the horizon." I blew my nose, more blood came out. It's stopped bleeding, I think. "They're never coming, you know. The armada. For years I hoped they would. I would wake up in the morning, and be sure that this is the day the Massive would come. But they never did. And now I'm glad. Because no Planet has ever escaped the Armada."

I stood up and began to walk with Gaz into the house. Gir saw me, and started screaming. I looked in the mirror in the bathroom. And I didn't blame him. Green blood caked my face. It was even splattered up into my fake hair. Dib can really hit. My nose didn't look broken, although it felt it. One of my eyes was blackened.

Or, technically, greened. The dark green on pink skin made an interesting mix. But not so interesting that I'd like to see it again. Ever. I had some green bruises at random spots, and my lip was split.

Yes, I will never piss Dib off again in my life. I turned on the faucet, and gel came through the faucet. It used to be water, but I fixed that. I filled my hands up, and washed off the blood. Gaz looked pained.

"This is my fault. I could have just acted confused. But nooo, I had to go for evil warlord. He's never going to trust either of us again."

"It's not your fault. It was my idea to play a trick on him. And you played the most convincing prank I have seen in a long time. And with all the holographic projectors on Irk, I have seen a LOT."

"I think that was a compliment."

"It was."

(Gaz's POV)

There was a frenzied banging on the door.

"Shit, Zim!!! What have you DONE!!??"

Zim and I rushed to the door. Dib was there, fury etched across his face. Without taking his eyes off us, he gestured to the sky.

The Massive was there, in all it's glory. Zim's jaw dropped.

"I swear I didn't know it was coming!"

"Yeah, like you and Gaz came up with that on impulse."

"We did!" I protested. "I made up the whole thing! Zim and I were trick-or-treating when we saw you, and we decided to play a trick on you. Zim didn't even know what I was going to say."

"If you were trick-or-treating, at the same place I was, then what did house 777 give out?" "That was the weird house. That guy asked us if we wanted our eyes removed."

"Okay, fine."

"See, Dib. We do tell the truth."

"Excuse me for not being trusting, but it seems AN ALIEN SPECIES IS HERE TO KILL US!"

"Speaking of that," Said Zim, "we should get inside. The rest of the armada will be coming soon. And those lasers will flatten anything they hit."

Just as he said it, the fleet flew over the horizon, multicolored beams flying out in every direction. Hundreds of them crissed and crossed, effectively destroying everything in their path. Zim pushed me into the house, and Dib followed us. I jumped into the toilet, and it started down. When I was at the bottom, I heard Zim or Dib coming down next. They came through the tube, and I saw it was Dib.

"Dib, honestly, we didn't know they were coming."

"Well, it doesn't matter now, because we're all gonna die."

"He's right." Said Zim, coming down the tube.

"Isn't there something we can do?" I asked.

"No. There really isn't. It's the organic sweep."

"Organic… How many planets have they DONE this to?"

Zim looked at the floor, not saying anything. Dib ventured out.

"I'm sorry about beating you up so bad."

"Yeah, I'm sorry about that too."

"I'm being serious. That was a really good prank. Too good. And I fell for it a little too well. Did you know there's a NasaPlace only a few blocks from here?" Zim didn't react.

"What does that have to do with anything?" I asked.

"They have radar. Radar that can pick up anything in out atmosphere."

"Great. So they know the Irkens are here. Glorious. I can die happy, now."

"And when they see something that shouldn't be there, they start up an alarm. A LOUD alarm."

Wait. There wasn't an alarm… "Great prank, guys, but mine was better."

Zim stared at Dib. I stared at Dib. He smirked back at us. We all jumped for the elevator at the same second. Zim got there first, and disappeared up the tube. I went right after him. Dib was last again.

(No particular POV)

Zim ran out onto the front yard, followed by Gaz, and shortly after, Dib. They stared at the ships flying over their heads, but they had taken on a screensaver type quality. It was easy to see the same patterns fly overhead over and over. Soundlessly, the massive floated off in the distance. Zim stepped past the fence, and the illusion disappeared. He stepped backwards, and it reappeared. He turned to Dib.

"How did you do this? You had less than fifteen minutes!" Dib shrugged.

"My dad's most recent holograph. He designed it for the police, to make convicts think that there's more policemen surrounding them than they thought. It was a pretty simple matter to reprogram it."

"But… these ships, the massive, how did you know what they look like? I mean, how did you know Stickers always skim to the right?"

"Heh. I used to have a couple bugs in your system. They've all been destroyed now, but I downloaded a lot of stuff through them." Gaz laughed.

"Yeah, and after that he paraded it all over. I used to hate you doing that."

"I think we've all been sufficiently tricked, don't you? I want to go inside. It's cold out here."

Dib shut off the holograph, and they all tramped back to the Membrane's house.

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