Title: And They All Fall Down

Title of Chapter: Flashback Fever

Author: Tany Gem

Author's Note: Since I've forgotten to put up the disclaimer in the first two chapters, I'll just write it here. I apologize for that, it has been a while since I last wrote fan stories.

Disclaimer: I do not own 'Invader Zim' or any of the characters. Nickelodeon does.

Chapter Three

Zim slammed the skool door open and followed the Dib outside the building. Dib sat down on the steps and fiddled with a watch-like object on his wrist. He whispered something incoherent to it and quickly covered his wrist with his jacket sleeve. Zim narrowed his eyes at this action.

"What were you just doing?" Zim asked suspiciously.

Dib turned his head to the small alien and smirked. "Oh, just telling Lard Nar the location to beam us up. He's the leader of the Resisty, you know."

Zim eyed him. "No, no I did not know. And what do you mean by 'us'?"

Dib turned back at Zim. "You and me, of course. You're going to surrender to me, remember?"

"No."

He deeply frowned. "Really? Because I just said that after I told you how I pretty much destroy your race that you would surrender to me."

Zim glared at the human. "When did you say that?"

Dib blinked and gave Zim a disgusted look. "You really do have a listening problem, but I need you to listen to me right now. Okay, here I go! It was a couple of months ago when I received a strange signal on my computer…."

(Flashback!)

A soft beeping sound echoed in the dark room. Dib slowly opened his eyes and looked over at the clock. It was two in the morning. Sighing loudly, he drew his arm from the warmth of his blanket and clicked the 'off' button. The beeping continued. Groaning in frustration, Dib sat up and rubbed his eyes. He did not need this, not now. It was one of the few nights he could sleep peacefully. Zim had recently figured out that humans need to sleep everyday and began planning his attacks at night. He caught on to his plans and forced himself to stay awake to stop him. After a week without sleep, the night attacks ended by the actions of Miss Bitters (both were caught sleeping in class). But every so often, Zim would attack at night, leaving Dib paranoid.

After his eyes adjusted to the dark, Dib jumped down from his bed and searched for the annoying noise. Moments later, he discovered that the beeping was coming from his computer. As he opened the lap top up, his heart skipped a beat. The beeping was the result of an alien signal trying to make contact. Forgetting his frustrations, Dib sat down at the desk and opened up his connection. A window popped up, displaying a symbol of a fist crushing the Irken icon. The word 'On Hold' blinked several times before the symbol disappeared and was replaced by a goat-like alien slumped in a large chair. Dib did not know how to act so he just stared at the goat alien in awe. The alien raised his eyebrow at the human and frowned.

"Um…yeah? What do you want?"

Dib snapped back to reality and gave a little cough to cover his embarrassment.

"Sorry about that. I just got your signal and-"

The goat alien's face immediately lit up. "Ah! So you're the one who sent that distress signal! I was wondering if we ever reached you."

Dib felt confused. "Uh, I never sent a distress signal."

The alien's face fell and he slumped back in his chair. "Oh…sorry, we must have somehow mixed messages…."

Dib was fanatically thinking of a way to keep in contact with the alien. "Er…I noticed that your symbol had the Irken icon on it. Are you guys a part of a rebellion or something."

The alien straighten in his sit. "Yeah, I guess so. We come together to be a part of the growing resistance against the Irken Empire and Operation Impending Doom II! We call ourselves the Resisty!"

Dib's face lit up with excitement. "Wow! A real resistance!"

The goat alien smiled proudly. "Yep! We sure are."

"That's great! Listen, there's this Irken Invader named Zim that bent on destroying my planet. Is there anything you can do about him?"

The alien rubbed his chin in thought. "An Invader, huh? The planet Meekbob captured an Invader…yep they're pretty much everywhere…."

Dib frowned. "Yeah, well…is there something you can do about that, I mean, you guys being a rebellion and all."

The alien narrowed his eyes. "Are you kidding? They're Irkens! They have most advance technology there is! Well…we-my race I mean-actually make the technology but the Irken machine totally controls us!"

Dib glared at the quivering creature before him. "You're kidding me, right? You are a REBELLION! You're supposed to stop them from taking over the universe!"

The goat alien stopped shuddering and realization glowed in his beady eyes.

"You know what? You're right. We should stop the Irkens…but we don't know how. The only weakness we know is to take the snacks from the Massive and that's suicide."

Dib grinned. "I know other weaknesses! Irkens cannot bear water and they are allergic to my planet's food!"

The alien gave him a surprised look. "How do you know all of this?"

"I kind of have to; I fight Zim on a daily basic. I observe him and collect his trash and talk to his little robot thingy and-"

"I get it." The alien said, motioning for him to stop. "I see that you resist the Irkens as well. How would you like to join us and help fight against the Irken scum?"

Dib's eyes lit up with joy. "I would love to!"

The goat alien smiled widely and gave a little bow. "Well, then, I should introduce myself. I am Lard Nar of the planet Vort. I'm kind of the leader around here."

"I'm Dib of planet Earth."

"Nice to meet you, Dib. Now wait patiently while I find the levitation beam button…"

(Flash Forward a Month Later!)

Great progress has been made for the once small resistance. Dib taught them the things he learned from observing Zim and showed them how to log on to the Irken network. Because of his knowledge and his usefulness, Lard Nar made him a Major of the Resisty. Things began to look up from there. They gained new alliances and continued to grow in strength and numbers. They even saved a few planets from Irken control. However, the Irken Empire did not see them as any threat. While the others were disappointed for not being taken seriously, Dib reminded them that it was a good thing. Although the Resisty was getting stronger, they were still very weak compare to the Irken Armada. Dib did not stay with the Resisty but kept in contact with his computer. He had to stay on Earth for two reasons: The first reason is that Zim would notice his absence and use that as his advantage to conquer Earth. The other reason is that his father would be mad at him for leaving Gaz alone at home.

Lately, he was thinking of a plan to attack the Irkens without them knowing. He did not discuss this with any of the member for he knew that they would dismiss it without regarding it. In their minds it was not possible. Even in his mind, it seemed impossible, but the thought would not go away. He knew that Irkens cannot live without their paks and the thought centered on that, but he did not know how to do it. He lay on his bed, his mind circling around the thought over and over again. It was beginning to annoy him. If only there was a weapon of some kind that would kill all the Irkens with one blow…. Dib sat back up and rested his head on his knees. It would be cool if he could steal a nuclear bomb and just nuked them. The immature thought made him chuckle and then made him gasped out loud.

That was it.

Dib leaped from his bed and to his lap top. He began to type rapidly, pouring all of his thoughts into the computer. If this plan works, if it works, then the universe would be rid of the pests that were from Irk.

(Ending Flashback!)

"The plan was to use an electric magnetic pulse that results from a nuclear bomb detonating. Lard Nar knew someone that could make an electric magnetic pulse without using a nuke. It took a good month to make but it was worth it. The Resisty landed on an ally planet and use the weapon there. But there was one problem. Although the weapon is incredibly powerful and could spread through out the universe, it could not penetrate anything deep underground."

Zim did not utter a sound throughout the story; he was speechless. He did not want to believe a word but in the back of his mind he knew it was true. His race has been wiped out. He continued to listen to the Dib, hating him more and more with each word that came out of that big head.

"While all of this going on, I was on Earth, spying on you. I saw that you were in your lab underground, and I was afraid that the magnetic pulse would not reach you. So to get you up on the surface, I made my spy devise self-implode, hoping that it would make a loud sound. After that, I don't know what happened."

Zim stood in silence not really seeing the victorious look on Dib's face. Strange emotions flowed through his body, emotions that he never felt before. It made his aching head throb even worst and burned his eyes. He needed to go home. Yes, he needed to go home now. He began to walk down the stairs when he felt something grip him tightly around the arm.

Zim narrowed his eyes. "Let go of me, Dib human."

"No way. Don't you remember what I said before? You surrender to me."

Just as Zim turned around to attack the human, a light suddenly beam down on them. As quick as it came, the light disappeared into the sky along with the two.