Family
I don't own Invader Zim. I leave the disturbed 'leftovers' of this show to their rightful owner, Jhonen Vasquez.
Only Deed Membrane belongs to me, as well as any future... smeets...
Chapter Five
It was five in the morning before Deed stopped getting the busy signal from Darian's home phone.
"Sorry about that, my sister kind of..." At Deed's silence, Darian cleared his throat.
"Uh... yeah... As I said, I got the results. Professor Membrane, while having almost no background file, was born around the same time the last known demon disappeared." Deed nodded her head, having studied the case several times over.
"So what, you think he's a demon?" Deed asked, picking at a hangnail on her ring finger with her thumb.
"I think it's possible that he's either a demon or was born at the same time of the last report." Deed nodded, considering this for a moment. That demon had been a reject, accepted by noone. There had been suspicions of it still hanging around.
Swollen Eyeball hadn't believed the case, of course. They'd brushed it off as a loon that had finally died.
She clipped her phone shut, walking out of Zim's house and walking the short distance home.
Professor Membrane woke up to someone calling his name.
Deed stood above him, white hot rage burning in her eyes.
"So Dib and I are just your experiments, huh?" She hissed, and Membrane's eyes widened.
"And faulty ones at that!" He spat at her, eyes narrowing dangerously.
"I've been rejected from Heaven and Hell, forced to live on this poor plane of existance for as long as it takes me to repent." Membrane laughed, and Deed frowned.
"So you've decided to subject Dib and I to the same fate, huh?" She sneered. Membrane fought down the sudden wave of panic surging through him.
"Too bad we've found a way around it, dumbass. Or do you not remember Dibby's little accident?" Deed snarled, remembering all too clearly the site of her brother's dead body on the middle of his floor.
It had taken three times the normal amount of electricity that it took a normal human. They had overlooked it at the time.
"Accident? I was trying to take apart his genetic stucture!" Membrane laughed, only to be punched in the gut by the child he'd created.
"We'll just have to see if you've repented enough yet." Deed spat down at him.
Zim stared at Deed as she dragged her father into the lab. She strapped him down onto a table.
"Zim... I'm going to bring Dib here. Do not touch him, you understand?"
"Why?" Zim questioned, and Deed sighed.
"Because he's not our father. We're just his fucking science project."
"Dib come on." Deed said, pulling her brother into the car with her.
She had already moved Professor Membrane to Zim's base, and he was fastened down onto the operating table.
Dib looked at her, curious as she pulled out of the driveway.
"What's this about?" Dib asked, turning off his cd player. Deed sighed, debating wether to tell him here or with Zim... But she'd already told Zim...
"Dib, do you know how sometimes a person can think that someone is their parent, but they really aren't?" Deed asked softly. Dib stared at her, nodding his head.
Deed pulled up infront of Zim's house, looking at her brother.
"Well, we're not Membrane's children... we were his experiment, and we are our own kind... we'll outlive this planet..." Deed said slowly, letting it sink in to her brother's mind. Dib stared at her blankly for a second before beginning to ask a question and thinking better of it.
Anger bred through the confusion, and Dib fisted a hand as he got out of the car.
"That bastard! I'll kill him!" Deed nodded, glad that she had brought out the sadistic side to her brother. That was what her plan needed.
And Dib began to plan their creator's death with glee as the elevator lowered.
