Tapan/reads the reviews/ hey, Jhonen! They seem to like you as a kitty. I got two reviewers saying they want one!

Jhkitty: NOOOO!

Tapan/ignores the kitten anguish/ hmm, maybe I should lend you out to people so they could use you in their fics! I think I'll do that!

Jhkitty/whimpers/ why me?

Torna: hey, better you than me.

Tapan: yeah, cause no one gets my Torn Torn/hugs Torna/

Torna: oh god.

Disclaimer: I have turned Jhonen into a kitty! But, sadly, he and Nick still own invader Zim, now isn't that sad?

Warning: Slash! If you wanna flame, go right ahead and do so. I have yet to get any though.

The truck screeched to a stop once it hit the road, much to the confusion of the passengers in the back

"Um. Why did we stop?" using her spider legs, Tam crawled up to peer into the cockpit area of the truck to see Gim turn around, looking at her with glaring eyes.

"Don't question me, Tam. Do you remember the last time that happened?"

Tam shuddered at the memory, the cries of pain still vivid in her head. And the mongoose! OH THAT MONGOOSE!

She turned around and hugged Deb, whimpering in the girl's chest. The human just sighed. "But why exactly did we--"

BOOOM!

The labs went up into a fiery explosion. Many people ran from the building, patting the fires out from their bodies. Others could be heard inside screaming for help.

Gaz threw the detonator to GIR, who smiled and then ate it. "That's why we stopped." She then jumped in through the small window as Gim started the pick up again and headed home.

"Gaz, I've been wondering." Pulling the half-asleep Zim, Dib moved up to the front of the bed. "How did you get here, exactly?"

"When you two disappeared, you left your little remote thing behind."

Gim nodded. "I gave her the coordinates to this dimension, she made the adjustment and now here we are, driving down the highway with some aliens we just stole from the labs."

Dib's eyes lit up. "So we can get back home with the one you have."

Gaz shook her head. "Dead wrong."

"W-what?" forgetting about Zim momentarily, the boy jumped up toward the window. "Why not?"

"It broke." She pulled out a bunch of wires from he pocket. " It fell and smashed to bits when I got here."

Wide eyed and astonished, Dib moved back from the window. "What are the odds…?" he shook his head. "Why did you come here anyway?"

She turned to look at her brother and spoke as if it was the most obvious thing in the world. "We're out of soda."

And then a familiar psychotic laugh took over.

Everyone (except Gim, because he's driving) turned to see the source of the cackling. Zim stared at the sky; mouth open wide to allow the sound to come out to it's full potential.

Everyone watched him in confusion. The moment would've been a little more dramatic if it wasn't for GIR giggling along with the former invader.

He calmed down after a while, and then sat up and looked at everyone staring at him. This caused him to laugh even more.

"What's so funny?" Tam demanded.

Taking a few calming breaths, the male irken spoke. "Here I was, innocently trying to get rid of my worse enemy, when I fall into the same problem as him, fall in LOVE with him, and now someone besides him actually believes I'm an alien and we are running away from them. And plus." He chuckled again, restraining his laughter until he got out the last sentence. "We forgot our clothes, so Tam and I are just gonna sit here NAKED." He continued his laughter with full force.

Okay, maybe it really isn't that funny. But he thought it was and soon Tam joined in with the laughter at the ironic humor.

Dib blinked. Love? He hadn't been really thinking about it; was it love? He glared at himself. /What else could it be, you idiot/ He smiled as Tam and Zim sat there, laughing their heads off, holding their sides in pain.

Deb sighed, but joined her counterpart in the smile.

((The Membrane house))

Almost an hour later, they found themselves on a familiar road

Gim sighed as he turned off the stolen vehicle and hopped out, his counterpart mirroring the suit. Walking around to the back, they opened the hatch and went to announce their arrival. However, they both stopped.

In the bed of the truck, four bodies rested peacefully. Zim and Dib laid on one side, snuggled close to each other, both asleep. On the other side, Tam laid on Deb, her head comfortably at the human's neck. The female paranormalist, completely awake, looked over at her brother and "sister" a blank expression in her features.

Gim sighed, frustrated at their obvious comfort. It almost made him not want to bother them. However, his female half seemed to take more force.

"Okay the cute and fluffy crap is gonna make me sick." She jumped up into the bed with little effort and walked over to her brother, tapping him with her toe. When he didn't wake up, she kicked him in the rib.

He gasped at the sharp pain and sat up, much to the displeasure of the irken on top of him. Zim groaned, and cuddled closer to his mate.

Dib, not wanting to invoke his sister's wrath, slipped his arm under Zim's bare legs and lifted him as he stood up. Feeling himself being adjusted, the invader brought his arms up to hand around the human's neck and sighed.

On the other side, Deb took this opportunity to shrug off her coat and wrap it around Tam's slim shoulders before lifting her and standing up.

Gim leaned against the truck and cocked an eyebrow. "What happened to the 'irkens don't sleep' theory?"

Deb shrugged as she carefully jumped out of the bed of the truck. "Maybe it just has to do with the tanks." She then carried the irken to the door, kicked it open, and walked inside.

((Two hours later))

"hmm, from what I see. No damage was done to the pak itself." Tam closed the little pod and felt around the edges. She was now back in her old clothes, a pair that she kept at the human's house for just such an occasion. Zim wore a pair of Deb's pants, which fit him almost perfectly, as he was only a tiny bit smaller than the girl. At the moment, he sat topless as Tam inspected his pod.

She felt around the edge, where the metal met the skin. After a moment, he hand came across something. It was small and paper-like. When she tried to pull it out, Zim whimpered in pain.

She backed away a little. "Zim, take off the pak."

He growled at the idea of being ordered, but did what she said non-the-less. The pack floated off and fell to the ground for the moment. Tam ignored it and looked at the irken's back to see a small piece of metal sticking out of Zim's back, right above the tube the pack hooked into.

"Dib, Deb. Hold Zim still."

Everyone being used to the pushy alien, they both held on to her counterpart, confusing the said double.

"What are you doing?" Zim got his answer as he felt a sharp pain shoot up his back. He screamed out, and tried to pull away from the humans as Tam wiggled the little piece of metal back and forth in order to loosen it.

She smiled as the piece began to slip out and finally detached itself from the green body, making a sound of triumph.

Zim whined in pain, dropping to his knees as the pod reattached itself from the body once again.

Bending down, Dib handed the older boy a shirt, which also belonged to Deb, so it had that trademark face on it.

Zim looked at the shirt then at the human. His eyes watered as he threw himself into the boy's arms.

Unexpected, Dib nearly fell back, but then regained his composure and rubber the extraterrestrial's back. "It's okay, Zim."

Zim sniffled in response, and started to cry harder.

Tam studied the piece of metal that she just pulled out of her counter part. She handed it to Deb. "it must've been a piece of the wire that was jammed into his back."

Deb took it and turned it in the light. "Do you think it's the reason he didn't wake up right away?"

She nodded. "Indeed."

The two watched their counterparts on the floor as the male paranormalist tried to comfort his alien mate.

At the doorway, Gaz turned away, smirking at her new discovery. "I knew it."

Tapan/giggles/ I like the fluffiness of this chapter. Don't you guys?

Torna/eats a sandwich/

Jhkitty: IT BURNS US!

Tapan: oooookay, anyone else think Jhonen's over reacting?

Torna/raises hand/

Tapan: hehe. So R&R! it feeds the poor!