-1Author's note: Thanks for the reviews, you guys. I was gonna wait 'til tomorrow to put this up, but… Why wait then I can do it now, right? Oh and forgive typos in the author's notes and story… I only slept 11 hours total in the past five days… so I'm tired and can't type anymore. XD
So…Yeah. This is the chapter that my friend began to help me write, so… whoot. XD And she is on even though I didn't know. Her pen name is Asterik, so go lookit her stuff. XD
Disclaimer: I don't own the original characters… And that makes me sad. Jhonen Vasquez owns them.
Claimer: But I do own Taiko and crap like that. Which is awesome, no?

Anywho, here's chapter two
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After a moment or two, Zim smirked, "Yeah. I am great, aren't I? So… what is it that you wanted to tell the amazing Zim?"

Taiko looked around, kind of nervously. "Erm… I was just wondering.. Um… Well, first… erm…. Can the Tallest listen to our conversation in anyway?" She asked softly.

Zim scoffed slightly, "Of course! This is an Irken base after all, is it not? It is the most AWESOME Irken base!"

"Erm… In that case, maybe we should go out… This is supposed to be a… surprise for the Tallest… And we don't want them to find out, right?" Taiko muttered softly, looking at Zim. "Could we maybe go get some… food or something? I haven't eaten in a while."

"…Well… in that case… sure, why not?" Zim shrugged.

"Okay let's go!" Taiko screeched happily, opening the front door to step out, before she was stopped by Zim.

"HEY! Are you stupid or something! Going outside… WITHOUT COVER!"

"…What?"

"You need a disguise! The filthy stink-humans will recognize you otherwise, and you'll blow Zim's mission! Have you not the brains!" Zim yelled, obviously upset.

"Oh… Um… Right, sorry. Do you have a disguise for me, then?"

"Yes, yes, yes. Of course I do! Zim is always prepared!"

He pointed over to the toilet. "STEP INSIIIIDE!"

Taiko blinked, giving a shrug before she did as told.

A moment later, Zim and Taiko walked out of Zim's home, both wearing similar, crappy disguises; the main difference was Taiko's disguise was more feminine than Zim's, who was wearing his normal skool-boy disguise.

The two walked through the darkness (though it as only about 9:30) into a Chinese restaurant that Zim had never been to, and ordered various food items… most of them ordered by Taiko, though. When the food arrived, Taiko shooed the waiter away, and began to tell Zim what she needed to tell him, while cramming as much food into her mouth as possible.

"So… oday, Zimb… Whad I neeb to teww you is dat…" She paused and swallowed. "Well… Let me tell you about myself first, hmm? Let's see… I was a new-born smeet when…."

However, outside, Dib was walking by the restaurant, with an ice-cream in hand. He glanced into the restaurant's window and nearly choked, and dropped the ice-cream, when he saw Zim and Taiko.

"Another Irken! This is perfect! If I could catch them other out of their really bad disguises, then I could take pictures and send them to Mysterious Mysteries!" He said, running into the restaurant.

He ducked between many people, tables and slid quietly into the booth next to them, unnoticed for the most part. With a smirk, he sat and listened to the conversation.

"…And so… my friend and I named the planet I.C.O.N.O.C.L.A.S.T. after our organization…" Taiko went on. "Now we have a small rebellion going, and I think that with you, the rebellion could become great."

"ZIM REBEL!" Zim yelled, shocking Taiko slightly, "Why would I go against my Tallest, when they love Zim so?"

"…I'd hate to be the one to tell you this, Zim… and I know you might not believe me… but… The Tallest hate you." Taiko said slowly, before taking another bite of a questionable-looking egg roll.

"IMPOSSIBLE! The Tallest gave me a secret mission! They praise me above all Invaders! They even gave me a special SIR unit! How could they not love Zim!"

"…Zim… All that stuff… has a reason behind it… Your secret mission was just an attempt to get rid of you… There wasn't suppose to be a planet out here for you to conquer. And your 'special' SIR unit is a piece of junk that they put random items into the head, hoping that it'd work… And it did. That's why GIR is so… messed up."

"Impossible!" Zim repeated loudly.

Taiko sat up, and slammed her hands on the table, causing Dib to jump in his seat in surprise.

"ZIM! LISTEN TO ME! You are a defective Irken! There is something wrong with you! The Tallest dislike you because you fail repeatedly and think you've done well! You fail to acknowledge that you've done wrong, and continue to do wrongly! You're a joke to them, Zim!"

"A-a… joke?" Zim muttered softly, not wanting to believe it. "…But… That's… why would… How could…?" He was at a loss for words.

"Zim… If you still don't believe, I have proof, but I can't show it here, obviously…" She sighed, "You'd make a great rebel, Zim…. And I was really hoping you'd help us out… And you could get revenge on the Tallest for turning you into the biggest laughing-stock on Irk. Please, Zim…" She begged.

"I'm… a… defective Irken?" Zim asked suddenly, looking at her. "H-how can that be!"

Taiko shrugged, "Well… some Irkens get fitted with damaged I.D. PAKs, right? Well, the Tallest feel that these people, called "Defectives", must be deactivated, erased, never to be remembered." She muttered.

"And you're one of them… do you not remember the trail you were placed on, on Planet Judgementia? When you were declared defective and the Control Brains went to wipe your memory and remove your PAK?"

"Planet Judgementia?" He repeated, "Oh! You mean my surprise party? Yeah… That was sure nice of the Tallest, huh?"

Taiko sighed, looking at him. "No, Zim. That was NOT a party! It was a trial! A TRAIL. You were charged as being defective, and once you were proven defective, the control brains tried to kill you. Do you remember now?"

Zim paled slightly, "I thought that was… some kind of joke…"

"No, Zim. It was as far from being a joke as possible…"

Dib blinked as he listened. "Zim…. Is defective? That must be why he's so bad at his job…" He muttered. Part of him couldn't help but feel sorry for Zim, and part of him was beaming with I-knew-it-ness.

Zim sat, mulling that thought over in his mind. There HAD to be a way that this was a mistake! His Tallest loved him! They threw a party to see the Zim! He fidgeted, playing with the amount of greasy, Earth-noodle-food-thing before him (Otherwise known as lo mein).

"You must be mistaken. You dare question Zim's superiority? YOU DARE?"

Strange, the way he had gone from emotion to emotion, and was now standing once more, claw-like hands clenching as if to try and get the answer out of the air in them.

Taiko sighed, "Your persistence is rather.. Irritating." She stood on her seat, and put her foot onto the table in an area vacant of food to make herself level with him.

"Listen to me, you dipstick! YOU HAVE NO SUPERIORITY! A Gasquiggasplorch has more 'superiority' than you, Zim! Stop being so… stupid! Listen to me, Zim! I speak the truth! Why would I bother to come all this way if I was just going to lie to you, hmm? It's not worth my time. Now, will you help me or not!" She yelled and stomped her foot; not caring that all the people in the restaurant were staring at her.

Zim grew quiet once more, though standing just as she had. Logic had worked its way into his rather hard head; she had a point.

"If I have no authority, then why do you want me on your side? Why not just let me be? LET ZIM BE!" He flailed his arms, accidentally hitting the guy in the booth behind him, knocking the redhead's glasses off.

Zim looked behind him for a second, then turned back to Taiko. "Why?"

Taiko sighed, getting off the table and sitting back down.

"Because, Zim... You'd make a good rebel... Believe it or not, I think the Tallest are... afraid of you. Why else would they have given you a 'mission' so far away...? Because they wanted to make sure you were as far away as possible... Why did they do that, instead of sending you back to Foodcourtia? Because, Zim. I'm very sure they're afraid... there's something special about you... but I'm not quite sure what that is, yet..."

She looked at him. It was hard not to feel sorry for him. The Tallest had tricked him, humiliated him and even tried to kill him. In a way, she just wanted to help the poor guy, and help herself as well. With Zim's help, she could take over Irk, and restore the planets that had been taken over.

"My... Tallest... Afraid...? Of the Zim?" he asked, posture slumping.

Dib winced with what he was sure was running through the Irkens mind now.

"But why... would they be afraid of me? If I am... 'Defective'... then what could Zim do to them?"

"Well, as I do recall, Zim… You DID kill two Tallest… How ever unintentionally that may have been." Taiko said matter-of-factly, grabbing a bowl of wonton soup and eating some of it.

"De Tawwest may see you af a tfhreat." she muttered through a full mouth.

"He killed two Tallest?" Dib choked, staring.

"I SAID they're FINE." Zim insisted stubbornly, then switched topics. "How can you eat that disgusting human filth?"

"'S reawwy good..." She said through another full mouth. However, she wouldn't be saying that for very long, for as she was about to take another bite, she began to cough.

"Oh, ow! IT BURNS MY INSIDES." She choked out. "OOOOOWWWWW..."

Dib clenched his fist, "No! Talk about what happened to the Tallest, don't change the subject." He hissed softly, curiosity flowing through him.

The redhead from before blinked, now that he could see again, and offered the directions for the bathroom. "There's a bathroom over there if you need to throw up. It happens a lot at this place."

"No, no, I'm fine..." Taiko stammered softly. "Just... Ow. My Squeedly Spooch burns badly!"

Zim then blinked. "WAIT! WE'RE SURROUNDED BY HUMANS!" he screamed, bringing attention to himself, if there had been none before. "I AM NORMAL!"

"Or ARE you?" Dib asked himself quietly, "'Cause you keep getting more mysterious..."

"Umm... What's your problem?" Taiko asked, blinking. "If you yell like that, people are going to think you're weird. And who CARES if they know you're an alien? If you're coming with me, it wouldn't matter 'cause you won't be coming back."

She then turned to the people staring at them and yelled, "WHAT! YOU GOT A PROBLEM? STOP LOOKING." And so, most of them listened and returned to their meals.

Zim blinked, staring. "But... the mission-..." A pause as he fell again. "What mission? There is no mission. No mission for Zim."

"Zim... I'm sorry..." Taiko said softly, looking down. "I shouldn't have told you... I should have just left you alone..." She always hated to see anyone really upset. "Sorry..."

Zim then smirked slightly, his mind scheming up a plot and loophole. "But... you're taller than me, riiiight?"

"Wait, what does that have to do with anything?"

"STAND UP!"

"Erm... O-okay." She said, doing so.

"Hey!" Zim demanded, standing shoulder-to-shoulder with Taiko. "Hey, you! Who's taller?"

"Um... She is. A bit." muttered a random guy.

"THERE! Victory for Zim!" he smiled, turning to Taiko. "Feel special, my Tallest."

"...Wait, wait.. What?" Taiko blinked. "So what if I'm a bit taller than you? What does that have to do with anything at all?"

"What is he up to...?" Dib wondered to himself as he listened.

Zim merely bowed, smiling. "Well, you ARE the tallest Irken within a couple billion miles. Are you not? Huh?"

Dib blinked, wondering even more than ever where he was going with this.

"Well... That's true, but I still don't get what this has to do with ANYTHING." She said, confused.

"I, Invader Zim, pledge myself to you, Tallest Taiko." Zim said cheerfully, bowing once more and then saluting.

"Ummm..." Taiko was at a loss for words. "Well, um... Zim... maybe we should do this somewhere else, hmm?" She muttered, looking at all the people who were staring at them again. "The humans are getting really... stare...y."

"As you said, does it matter...? But... That's RIGHT! To the BAAAAASE!" he nearly sang, strutting out of the restaurant, but not before leaving the rest of his monies.

Dib blinked, scrambling out of the way and into the bushes. "What the...?"

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More author's notes. They are fun and note…y: Yay. Stuff. XD And yeah… And I don't know why Zim doesn't ask Taiko why she knows so much about him. XD;; But, you'll find out in some other chapter. Will be updated sometime later. Probably next week or Sunday. So… Yeah.
Luff.
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