A/n Okay, I'm still developing the story, and eventually, I'm going to go back and edit it all (unless y'all like it the way it is).
Disclaimer: I do not own Invader Zim so don't sue me or else... I 'll doom you to a world from which your mind will be wretched by insanity and woe.
A/n Oh, did anyone ever notice that whenever someone writes a scene about Zim getting intimate with someone, he always end up purring like a kitten (which is soooo kawaii!)? That scene seems to really be popular with the Gaz/ Zim fics. Just thought I'd point it out. Oh yeah, and I changed some characters' roles to fit the story, and Horacio, if you're reading this, I changed the story completely instead of what I told you.
Zim: Can you shut up already? I want to see what happens to me!
Gaz: Shut up!
Zim: Make me!
Gaz kisses him. Zim shuts up and starts screaming something about evil face-eaters.
Spider: Yeah! Go Gaz! Now on with da story!
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Chapter 13: "Once."
Wind blew gently over the heads of two girls walking in the streets of the unnamed city of fucking doom. No one really cared about such a city, so decrepit and dead, but that's beside the point.
"So..." Tak had tried to start a conversation with the desolate girl for over an hour, but to no avail.
"Shut that hole in your face." Gaz gave her signature glare at Tak, causing her to shut her gaping mouth. "We're going to see my friends, and if you try anything, I will doom your alien head to the nearest toilet and make sure that you learn the meaning of diarrhea."
"What the fuck is diarrhea!"
"Just shut up and die." Gaz sped up her pace, and the Irken girl sped up with her.
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"Where the hell have you been Gaz?" Jenn tackled the violet-haired girl with a bone-crushing hug as the Goth girl entered the apartment's doorway. Gaz smiled slightly, and winced as Dokami joined in the hug.
"I'm fine, but I think I might have a broken rib..." Jenn and Dokami released her, and they looked her up and down in disbelief.
"What happened to you?" Dokami inquired as she ran a hand through her dark brown mane streaked with blonde and red. Gaz gave a tired glance at Tak, who gave a look of defiance.
"I...uh...have to tell you guys something important..."
Dokami and Jenn exchanged glances and nodded.
"I think we know, Gaz Membrane..." Dokami said hesitantly as she pressed a small dark stud she had in her right ear. There was a hissing sound, and suddenly Dokami's image fell away...
...to reveal a green skinned Irken in her place, with bright red eyes and a dark blood red uniform. Jenn did the same thing, only to reveal a slightly shorter Irken female, with bright emerald eyes that complemented her green skin. She wore a purple uniform.
Gaz stared awestruck. Tak stared angrily.
"What the hell are you two doing here?" Tak yelled at the two Irken females who smirked in unison.
"I, Invader Dokami, had been requested by the Tallests to destroy you..."
"And I, Invader Jenn, had been requested by the Tallests to destroy Zim..." Jenn answered as she rolled a scythe-like weapon in her gloved claws.
"You two...are Irkens?" Gaz questioned as she found her voice. Both Irken girls looked at her with sad eyes.
"Sorry we had to lie to you Gaz, since we really liked hanging out with you..." Dokami said as she stood tall.
"But we needed you to get to those two Irken rebels..." Jenn finished as they approached Gaz.
"I won't let you kill Zim..." Gaz whispered angrily as she held up her shaking fists in defense.
"Oh, don't worry Gaz! The only reason we took the job was to get off Irk! We aren't going to kill anyone, especially not your boyfriend." Dokami said as she held out a clawed hand to Gaz. Gaz narrowed her golden eyes, threatened.
"How are we supposed to trust you two!" Yelled Tak as she activated her PAK, her speared metal legs at ready.
"Because we know what's going on." Jenn answered seriously as she strapped her retracted scythe on her arm. "Do you think that Professor Membrane was the only acquaintance to Project Evangeline?"
"What the hell does everyone know more about this project than me when I'm one of the fucking experiments?" Gaz shrieked as she tore at her short hair in anger.
"Because not only was Professor Membrane, your father, a part of the project, but everyone close to you and connected is part of it." Dokami said as she pushed back her curled antennae.
"The Tallests gave their greatest tech to the scientist, because they believed that once the ritual is complete, that the entire universe will be theirs to conquer. Funny actually, because nothing will even exist..." Jenn chuckled as stepped up around her room and sat on her bed.
"God, you think that's funny, you're more morbid than I am..." Gaz smirked slightly, cracking her knuckles. She stretched and walked over to her duffel bag.
"So, does that mean you trust us?" Dokami asked as she watched Gaz grab some clothes out of her bag.
"Well, my life is more screwed than I ever imagine it would be, so why not?"
"You have to admit, you were never normal to begin with, so life is pretty okay despite certain circumstances." Tak said as she approached Gaz.
"Well, I admit truthfully to that, and I guess I have to do something about this whole situation before this summer; Desperately-Wykyd is coming to concert in our city, and I pre-ordered tickets. I don't want to have to miss it because the whole universe ended." Gaz walked over to the bathroom, smiling at the three aliens with her usual morbid face.
"That's our Gaz." Jenn said, and Dokami nodded in agreement, her antennae bouncing with the movement of her head.
"I leave you three to get re-acquainted with each other; you seem to have a dark past together. Good luck." Gaz shut the door to the bathroom, and Tak, Jenn, and Dokami stared at each other.
"Bitch."
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Zim sat in his cell for what seemed like hours. Of course, he had only just regained consciousness a few minutes ago, but he was dead-bored, fingering his cloak with utter disdain.
This guy has worse fashion sense than the Sister Queens of Alpha Nine do...
Zim chuckled at his own little joke, and steered his mind to other thoughts...
Gaz...
"How could I have given up my free will and dignity for some...human?" He said with pure disgust on his tongue.
"Quite simple really. She's female, and you're male, so naturally, you'd want to give it up for her." Legion responded as he stepped up to Zim's cell. Zim groaned in displeasure.
"Can't you use your creepy powers to read my mind and find out when I don't want you here?"
"No, but I do have most powers, such as to explode heads. Take this example." Legion demonstrated by proceeding to blow up his own head. Zim stared, unimpressed, until his crimson eyes were met with the unsatisfied eyes of Legion once he reanimated himself. He frowned.
"I can see that you are unimpressed."
"No duh." Zim responded in a bored voice as he played with some pebbles on the ground, pinching them into dust with his black iron armored gloves.
"At least I can see that you are enjoying yourself." Legion ran a clawed hand through his spike, separating the red from the pitch black hairs. He sighed in disdain.
"You waste your time on these humans. They are the most pathetic creatures in the universe." Zim looked at the dark entity, the silence driving him insane.
"You take humanity for granted Zim. You see, on this planet, they earned their right to survive, despite all its violence, disease, and rage hidden in its depths just like rats in the garbage. They are born, suffer, and yet, they survive, blissfully ignorant to the world around them. They feel pain, and they heal themselves, and let themselves forget..." His voice grew quiet, placing his hand over his heart, closing his eyes as in pain.
Zim blinked in confusion.
"But that won't matter once the universe ends, now will it?"
"Oh, you're missing the entire point of my plans Zim. I'm not making the universe end, I'm beginning it, and everyone will begin to realize...and open their eyes..." Legion strode to the spiked gateway at the end of the room, and with a swish of his cloak, he vanished.
Zim narrowed his crimson eyes as he sat up Indian-style. He impatiently tapped his boot on the grey stone, thinking...
He will find out Legion's true intentions...
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"...and when his eyes turn grey, he forces you to see your greatest fears..." Tak said silently to Dokami, Jenn and Gaz as they sat around the pink, cluttered apartment. Dokami and Jenn activated their disguises again, and were now calmly sitting down after they had a cat fight with Tak.
"Sounds like he's some greater enemy than we have ever faced, and we are considered the top bounty-hunters of the Irken Elite." Jenn ran a brush through her hair, separating her highlighted strands in her hair. Despite everything that happened in the past few hours, everything was going quite smoothly...
"Okay, I think we better make a few stops before we go on with your nightmare." Gaz sat up and examined her outfit. She was wearing a black blood-red corset top with a black leather jacket, along with a full embroidered black skirt, with fishnet stockings and her usual black boots. She gave a look of anger at Tak, who glared back at her in confusion.
"What?"
"Where we're going now, you'd better not doing anything you'll regret." Gaz stepped out the door, the three confused looking girls behind her.
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Dib sat once again in his hospital bed, now more aware of the world around him than ever. Ever since his near death experience (which he was not fully conscious for), every sight, every smell, and everything seemed to be multiplied tenfold. He could only ponder in deafening confusion as the days went by, thinking over past events.
In the past few days, a few important people came to him to discuss his future now that Professor Membrane was dead. Tax collectors wanting to collect money, obsessed fans offering money for his Dad's brain, and creepy looking scientists who poked and prodded him, hoping to find some sort of connection with the late Membrane father.
He gave the same response to everyone who walked through his door:
"Fuck you."
He smiled in weak amusement.
The only good news was that his father's genius had left Dib and Gaz quite a large sum of money, an infinite fortune really, for them to live on for the next few years. That was the only thing he was glad for...
"I wonder what Gaz is doing right now..." Dib felt his fatigue returning, and slowly closed his eyes...
"She's here; wanting to break open you head to shut off that gear that makes you so melodramatic..." Gaz entered the door with her usual smirking face on, drinking in her brother's face as she plopped on his bed.
"Gaz! You're alright! Chickenfoot didn't get to you!" Dib exclaimed, partly in worry but also in relief; he had missed his younger sister.
"Yeah, yeah. I can take care of myself..." He words were cut short as Dib grabbed her in a hug, causing her to sigh in annoyance.
"Dude, you're hugging your sister in a paper dress; make it quick." Dokami strode in quickly, causing Dib to pull the covers up to his chin in embarrassment.
"Did you finally get tired of me complaining about me being a virgin and grant me my birthday wish?" Dib looked as though he were on Cloud 9 as Jenn followed behind Dokami, watching Dib with a wary look in their eyes.
SMACK!
"HEY! What was that for—" Dib's words were cut short as he stared at a slightly pissed off Tak in the doorway, her pale face red with anger, a few throwing implements in her gloved hand.
"I believe this is the result when an Earth male is being a pervert, correct?" Jenn whispered to Dokami as they watched Tak stomp forward. Dokami nodded in agreement as they slipped quietly out the door.
Gaz smirked at Tak's anger and slipped off the bed, leaving Dib with a 'Save me' look on his face.
"He's all yours now." Gaz swept her violet hair over her shoulders and stepped out of the room, quietly closing the door. Dib stared at Tak, not knowing what to say.
Silence...
"I hope human spit isn't poisonous..." Tak whispered as she slowly approached Dib.
"Huh?"
Dib never got to respond after that, due to a certain alien's mouth glued to his. His eyes fluttered shut, and neither noticed that there was giggling behind the door.
"You know, this is so ironic since Tak was always sexist back on Irk." Dokami said as Jenn continued to stifle her laughter. Gaz could only smile in amusement.
"Hey Gaz, have you ever been kissed so intimately before?" Jenn asked, as she held her ear to the door again.
Gaz fell silent, a slight burning filling her throat and her face.
"Once." And that was that.
A/n I'm sorry for the long wait and I hope you guys like this chapter. Please don't flame me if something isn't to your liking. I'll gladly improve it if it's a large scale problem.
Review or else.
it's involves a Tak and Dib meeting (and possible makeout, heheh) Gaz, Dokami and Jenn talking, all the complete and mysterious info on Project Evangeline, and possibly Gir and Reverend Meat having a conversation...maybe some exploding heads, i dunno.