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A/N: Hey guys I am so tired but I am writing this author note for.. why am I writing this again? Something, something cupcakes.. no that can't be right. Something, something.. oh right Invader Zim and Invader Dib or was it Invaders Dib and Zim? Or was it Invader Dib.. anyway there's some Zim and Dib and MORE Braitak action! But what's this? A surprise detainee? Read on to find out who is being held up!

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Invader Dib

Detained!? Or NOT Detained!?

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Zim stomped into the room madder than a wet hornet, Dib couldn't help but frown as he watched her fume over something. "Braitak?" Dib asked. Zim paused and spun around to face him, she didn't answer just sat down roughly on the chair that sat there. They had decided not to have any intercourse, while they were searching for the missing Tallest Sera. It had obviously gotten to Zim the most, to live without intercourse for a queen was like slicing off her own antennae. Dib had nearly consented more than once to mate with her just to ease his lover's suffering but thought better of it. The longer Sera remained hidden from them, the more danger he and Zim were in of being separated. Screw consequences, he decided, it's not like the tallest had any more allies.

He moved up and behind Zim, then began to massage the tense shoulders. She moaned at the touch, her antennae twitching in their delight. He was beginning to see and understand every little reaction from the organs, it brought about a longing in him to just mate her. That and her irresistible scent, the strong pheromones only a queen could produce was maddening to him. He took a deep breath of her delicious honeysuckle scent before lowering his lips toward her neck.

"My queen!" the voice on the intercom was one of the soldiers. Zim groaned and stood up moving away from Dib, Dib himself released an irritated breath before following her. Zim led the way out to the hall only to see the soldier looking a bit panicked.

"What is it?" Zim asked.

"Braitak is missing!" the soldier responded, standing at attention. Dib tensed as did Zim before they both glanced at each other.

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Braitak passed over the goodies from the kitchen, he watched as she accepted them dubiously. "Why are you helping me?" she asked.

"Tch, a pretty Irken shouldn't have to hide down here and steal like a thief," Braitak replied shortly, looking away. Of course, it was the one thing he had gotten from his father's side. The same mistrusting demeanor and sense of justice, or was it more of a protective nature? It didn't matter, it just didn't seem right that an Irken had to hide form her people. He wanted to at least alleviate something, even if it was something small like hunger.

"Y-you.. think I'm pretty?" she asked. He looked back to see a confused look on her face. "What is that? Pretty I mean."

"It's a compliment," Braitak explained. "Have you never been complimented before?" He watched as she shook her head, he couldn't believe it. She was so attractive and slim and.. he paused his thoughts briefly. "They should have complimented you, I mean seriously you're beautiful. I'm surprised male Irkens weren't begging to spend more time you." He felt warmth rise to his cheeks, he wasn't sure if it was from anger or embarrassment that he had had to admit something so personal.

"You don't know much about the way Irkens work do you?" she asked. He placed a finger to his chin, he really hadn't paid much attention to Irken biology class.

"Not really," He admitted, lamely.

"Only the queens get dotted on by zooters," She explained. "Well I guess they are more princesses before they become queens but still. Only an unmated queen gets to mate, the rest of the Irkens are just siblings. At least until the zooters are born, they are genetically different from the female princesses which take after the queen. The males take after the male who mated the queen before with some minor differences obviously." Braitak listened intently to her explanation and nodded, it seemed to make some semblance of sense.

"Well you should be a queen," Braitak replied, suddenly. She looked surprised but then frowned deeply and turned away.

"Thank you, but it's too late for that," She replied, cryptically.

"It's never too late," Braitak blurted, out. "You can be my queen, I'll treat you like royalty." She peered around at him her eyes bulging a bit with goo, he gave an encouraging smile that had her smiling a bit in response.

"Thanks," She whispered, biting her lip. Braitak was a little farther into the room this time and could now see just how dismal it really appeared. There were no vents nearby that could give away their presence but there were several escape shafts off the room, presumably leading to a few different places on the ship. The one nearest him lead to his current room, one of them had to lead to the kitchens for sure but where did the others lead?

"So where all do these lead to?" he asked pointing to the different exits. There were two on the wall opposite of his wall which had two as well. He currently had his back against the wall, his rooms exit on his right. The wall on his left had three more exits, while the one on his right was just a plain wall with no exits. The irken female stared blankly at him for a moment, he wondered if she would reveal it to him or not. She heaved a heavy sigh, not answering right away. He almost worried she wouldn't tell him at all, at least that was until she finally did speak.

"The one you came from was, my room at one time," she replied, he was surprised to hear that. A frown graced his lips, his room wasn't really girly it was more of a functional neutral space. The plain colors and almost precise feel to the room, was what had made him choose it in the first place. "The one there," pointing to the other one on the wall he was leaning on. "Leads to the library eventually after a few twists and turns. Those three lead to the kitchen, the bridge and the lab respectively." She pointed each exit, on the wall to his left, out in turn. "And those two lead to soldier and crew chambers and the last one leads around the ship to the cargo chamber."

"hmm," he replied. It was quite the complicated little setup, he just hoped he wouldn't soon forget this little bit in the future.

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Dr. Membrane sat in the waiting bay for the soldier's to return, they had spent the past few weeks interrogating him. They had been suspicious of him and GIR since his arrival claiming he could be their rogue tallest. They were supposed to be bringing the other Tallest to him. He was certain he would get to talk to his son soon, at least that was his hope. GIR was sitting next to him still singing the doom song. Honestly he wondered how his alien daughter-in-law had survived the trip with this little menace. He chuckled at the line his thoughts had traversed, GIR had it's charming points. The little robot loved everything that had any food-like quality and had shared a few on their way to The Massive. He absently patted the robot, before looking to the door that had finally opened.

"Ugh another Hyuman," the red tallest sneered.

"Hey, uh.. Hyuman why did you sneak onto Our Massive?" The soldier beside the red one shouted. "Tell our Tallest or face punishment."

"I came here to rescue Zim and Dib," Dr. Membrane responded calmly.

"You're a little late," the purple tallest replied. "Zim already saved herself and us.." The red one elbowed the purple one to keep him from saying more. It was clear to Dr. Membrane that these two did not get along all that often. "What?"

"How do you know Zim?" Tallest Red asked. Dr. Membrane thought carefully on that, before offering a response.

"I'm her mate's father," Dr. Membrane replied. Tallest Purple gasped and swiftly bowed, Dr. Membrane frowned and wondered if this was a customary greeting as he looked to see that Tallest Red appeared dismayed by his companion's reaction. Tallest Red elbowed Tallest Purple, the other straightened quickly.

"Go get Zim," Tallest Red said, suddenly.

"On it!" Tallest Purple replied, a huge grin on his face. The purple one rushed out while the red one sipped on his drink. Dr. Membrane waited patiently but he couldn't help himself, it was too quiet in the room so he began to whistle.

"What is that.. thing you are doing?" Tallest Red asked. Dr. membrane paused in his whistling to peer at the curious irken. He half wondered if the other male had never whistled before, maybe he hadn't.

"Wet your lips and pucker them," Dr. Membrane explained, then demonstrated. Tallest Red followed his example, he had a look of concentration on his face. "Now blow air through your lips, softly at first. You should hear a tone." He did that and gave a startled look as a sound was actually produced. "Very good blow harder, keeping your tongue relaxed. You can also adjust your lips, jaw, and tongue to create different tones. Once you feel comfortable with whistling of course." Tallest Red grinned before and nodded before going back to whistling practice. Dr. Membrane grinned as he watched the Irken. All noise stopped however when the door opened again and there stood Zim in all her natural glory. "Ah Zim, you are safe, good."

"Dr. Membrane?" she asked, she looked at him with suspicious eyes. "Wait you know I'm an alien?"

"Oh I've known since the first day we met," he assured her. "I knew you and my boy would become great friends though. You were the very first person my son took an interest in, alien, human or creature. I couldn't keep the two of you from well, each other." Zim looked stunned at this bit of news. "Of course, I had no idea the two of you would one day be married but.. so long as you two are happy. I was so worried when you two were abducted, how is my son? And my daughter?"

"Um.. follow me, you can see them yourself." Zim replied, a one sided grin forming on her lips. He stood with GIR not far behind cheering and zooming around them like an excited puppy. Zim gave an exasperated sigh as the robot giggle excitedly. "GIR.. stop that."

"He's just excited to see you," Dr. Membrane replied, sympathetically. They walked the halls making several turns until they finally reached the Cloistral chamber. Dr. Membrane paused as he noted that several small irkens were tending to a few taller, and possibly half-irkens. "Oh are these..?"

"Oh yes, Dib and my smeets," Zim replied, proudly.

"Oh, grand kids," Dr. Membrane replied excitedly. "They grew up so fast, come here grand kids." They stepped forward one by one some shy about greeting him and a few happy about it. "Oh my you had six?" he asked suddenly.

"Ten, some are in their rooms and one is still missing," Zim replied, obviously worried.

"We should go look for him," Dr. Membrane replied.

"Dad!?" Gaz said, coming into view with a child on her hip. He moved forward to embrace her and the child noting a second was closely following behind her. There was also an invader with her, he was quite surprised about that. "Dad this is Ryak my mate and our two children Kif and Zapp." Kif had dark green skin, purple hair and hazel colored eyes, he could tell by the way the light turned them a green color where it touched. Zapp had more pale yellow colored skin, light purple hair and red eyes.

"Aww aren't they so cute? How old are they?" he asked.

"About a week old," Gaz replied. He frowned they looked much older. "The normal aging for an Irken is about two weeks but it took a whole month for Zim's kids to reach full maturity."

"How long where you pregnant for?" he asked.

"Almost three weeks," Gaz answered, a serious expression on her face. "Seems it could take slightly longer or shorter depending on the mother. I'd been eating like crazy though, I was super hungry during the pregnancy."

"Oh my," he remarked. "Well at least they are happy and healthy." He offered a smile before spotting Dib who was now staring slightly alarmed at him. "Hello son, how are you handling being a father?" Dib shook his head and stepped forward, his expression looked a bit grim.

"You won't be studying your grandchildren," He remarked sternly. "I won't allow them to be poked prodded or experimented on."

"Oh course not," Dr. Membrane replied, with a wink. "I'm much to old to be doing all that anyway. The trip here reminded me of that, I got aches I never even noticed from before." Dib finally cracked a smile and his stance relaxed a bit, Dr. Membrane smiled a bit back at him. It was good they were all safe aside from his missing grandson, he flinched before looking around. "We should find my missing grandson."

"Yeah, Braitak we will look for him right away," Zim stated.

"No need," a deep voice behind them stated. He thought it was a soldier from the sound of the voice but was surprised but what he saw behind him. The male was almost as tall as his father with peach tinted green skin, dark purple hair swept over to one side in three distinct spikes and strikingly red irises and a lighter red tint around that. They still looked quite a bit irken yet still had that human like quality. He had noticed similar things with the other children but it was just a bit more noticeable with Braitak. Another difference between the irken and his grandson was the little raised nose that looked just like his father's. The similarities were striking, but the differences were just as startling. He looked like he was going through some kind of anger-at-the-world phase and seemed to be unapproachable. "I was in the library, surprised your lackeys didn't check there."

"They did check there," Zim argued, it was clear he missed part of the conversation. His old age was definitely getting to him.

"They didn't check good enough obviously," Braitak groused, he quickly headed off. "I'm going to my room."

"Uh.. Braitak!" Zim shouted after him, obviously offended by being spoken down to. "Braitak, you can't just.." the door to his room slid closed before her. "Ooo that smeet!" she grumbled.

Dr. Membrane chuckled a bit, placing a hand on her shoulder before reassuring her, "It's just a phase, he'll get over it."

"Will he?" She asked, hopefully. Dr. Membrane nodded, he remembered when his own son had went through his rebellious phase.

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*Intercept's* Woohoo another chappie sorry this took so long I had to look up how long it took for the pregnancy.. I had completely forgotten. Sorry about that.. anyway hope you guys enjoyed this chappie and don't worry it's about to pick up shortly. And in the future Braitak will learn the sad, sad truth about his TALL lady friend. Love you guys and I will update soon I promise! *hearts*