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A/N: Hey guys another chappie this one is a setting it up chappie so to speak. Who will betray who and who will feel the sting? Find out soon!

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Invader Dib

Beginning From the Start

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Sera took a breath, she decided to start from the beginning. When all of this began, the day she lost her ability to reproduce to become a queen. She told him everything even the fungus that had nearly wiped out all of her people. She hated how pathetic her voice sounded, as she spoke but she couldn't stop the quavering and quaking of her body. Every word she spoke seemed to add more distance between her and Braitak. She wanted to stop telling him but she had to, how could he trust her after this? How could anyone trust her after all the lies? She closed her eyes and continued on explaining how she had molded their world into the metal planet it had become. She even explained why she kept the queens and their mates separate, the explanation sounded weak even to own ears and she slowly began to realize how she had become more like her mother than she had intended.

She suddenly stopped, her explanations and her story finally finished. "I'm a monster," she whispered. Goo filled her eyes as she realized what she had done, she had done something even more despicable possibly than what her mother had done.

"You're not a monster," Braitak replied. She looked up her vision blurred from the excess goo.

"But I am, I did something horrible," she replied. She felt horrible, at the very least, for what she had done.

"So what you made a mistake," Braitak replied, his voice was a bit loud and his grip on her arms was tight as well. It wasn't bruising but still, she felt a tiny bit terrified and yet amazed that he wasn't running to turn her in.

"But I tried to kidnap you, your siblings," she was grasping at anything now. She didn't want to be turned in, but didn't she deserve it? "I lied to you.."

"Yeah, and?" He replied, gruffly. "I made a promise and I intend to keep it. I want.. No, I need to protect you. Things won't be like this forever, one day you will be my queen." She felt shocked by those words, yet somehow she felt warm and fragile like she would break at the slightest touch. Did he mean those words? Would he really make her his queen? "I know why I want to stay on the Massive now, I was meant to find you and we are meant to be together. I know what I have to do, stay here and I will be right back." He left her side then, she was too shocked to say anything, until the door was already closed between them.

"Braitak.." She breathed, nothing but stunned silence answered her. She shouldn't be here, in his room, he could betray her anytime. No.. she had to trust him, it was too late to take back all the words she said and she wouldn't. "I shouldn't have told him.. I'll be caught for sure this time." She smiled sadly, goo puffing out her eyes a bit as she remembered their embrace and everything else they had done together. Mate.. Her face heated up at that thought. She didn't know how long she had been sitting and thinking but the whoosh of the door had her jumping up. "Braitak I.." the words caught in her throat.

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Braitak rushed through the halls he had to find something, he knew she would love to have it back. It was hers after all, a journal that Aunt Gaz had been reading before the struggle for dominance over the irken empire. It was sure to lift her spirits, maybe even show her that despite her choices she wasn't all that bad a person. Sure her methods weren't ideal but that was no reason to punish her for it, right? He burst into the library, an irken all the way in he back noticed his entrance and scurried away. He thought, he recognized him but shook his head as he searched the shelves. An old binding caught his eye, it was one of the journals. He picked it up and leafed through it, it's pages were full of details related to the tragedy that befell the empire in it's early years as a colony. He nodded and tucked it away into a backpack, that he had started to wear since his first meeting with Sera. The same pack he used to sneak her snacks and other goodies from the kitchen. He kept looking, finding two more old journals each full of writing. He picked up the last one but was disappointed to find it full as well. Surely she was still working on a journal, there was no way she would just leave things at this last bit, where was the info about his mother? And his father?

He packed away his latest find and kept searching, surely it was here somewhere. He just had to keep looking, it felt like hours he had been searching for this lost treasure but every book he picked up turned out to be something unrelated. He was just picking another book, this one about lost treasures, when a familiar voice interrupted his search.

"Hey Braitak, looking for this?" He turned, around dreading what he would find. Aunt Gaz stood there holding a fairly new looking journal, that had very familiar handwriting.

"Yeah, wanted to find out why everyone is looking for this so called tallest," he replied, casually. "And maybe so I can get some hint as to what, or I guess who I'm looking for. After all everyone keeps asking me about whether I have seen anyone."

"Oh really?" Gaz asked, sounding suspicious. "Is that why you have been stealing snacks from the kitchen? Going out of your way to avoid everyone? Oh, should I mention when you rushed your father out of your room?"

"I didn't rush him out of my room," Braitak replied, coolly. He felt far from cool however under her scrutiny.

"Don't lie to me, I know who you are hiding from us," Gaz replied, clearly angry. He was suddenly quite worried for Sera, if his aunt knew where she was then.. Braitak made a break for the hall, Gaz didn't even attempt to stop him. "I wouldn't bother going back to your room. We already have her, Tallest Sera is being incarcerated until further judgment is handed down by Zim." He stopped dead in his tracks, he couldn't believe it. His aunt never lied but why would she do this? Least of all to him. "Oh by the way, you can have this last journal, I've finished reading it already." He flinched as she trust the journal into his chest, he couldn't let it go down like this.

"Auntie Gaz, she isn't like that," Braitak said, softly.

"She tried to kill Ryak," Gaz yelled. "She could have killed you." He felt the pain and anguish in her voice, it was clear she was worried for his safety but that was unnecessary. Sera had changed and maybe, just maybe, she had changed for the better.

"Please, she was a broken shell when I found her," Braitak begged. Gaz's face softened, a sigh escaped her but she didn't reply. "I can't leave her, if you kill her.. I'll never be able to live with myself."

"You care about her, huh?" Gaz asked. He nodded and it was true he did care about her. "Mm, well there might be another way. I don't think Zim would go as far as to kill her, if she does I will do my best to offer different solutions. But you better come up with a good reason to present to Zim, otherwise she'll stay locked up."

"So you'll help?" Braitak asked.

"Yeah, well.. that's what family is for," Gaz replied. "I'm still not ready to forgive her though. And you owe me big for this, got it?"

"Yeah, I got it!" Braitak replied. He couldn't keep the smug expression off his face for long, as he watched her stomp off down the hall. Now all he needed to do was find her, he couldn't leave her to his mother's tender mercies. He frowned as he walked out into the hall, he had no idea what cell they may have put her in and with as many cells as there were, it could very well take him a long time to find her. "Damn, why does Auntie Gaz have to be so smart." Then there was the problem of how to get her out once he did find her, he punched the wall leaving a dent and some goo stuck to it. He ignored the pain, as he tried to come up with a plan that didn't involve two steps.

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Gaz fumed a bit, she knew Braitak was probably going to do something stupid but there was no way she was going back to try and stop him. She had other things she needed to do, one such thing was delay the news to Zim. She knew that once Zim got wind that their nemesis had been caught, she would seek out judgment right away and that was not what she wanted. If she was being honest, she wanted that little witch to sit and stew in that cell and think about what she had done. She had tormented them long enough since they arrived on the Massive, only to go silent the moment she lost? She was clearly a coward. Gaz thought back to the journals, especially the latest one that had even had some recent entries. It was clear that Sera knew how to evade them on the ship and that made her dangerous, she could have done anything.

"But she hadn't," Gaz admitted to herself. Maybe she was thinking too much on this but if the little witch really had changed, then maybe she deserved a chance to prove she wouldn't be a threat. "Fat chance.. Stupid hormones." She had just found out she was pregnant again but if Ryak wasn't so virile, she wouldn't have an excuse for her suddenly soft heart. She rubbed her small bulging tummy and smiled, she actually liked having little kids running around but the sheer number they could have was a bit scary.

"Gaz there you are," Dib's suddenly cheerful voice rang out. She smiled as she fully entered the cloistral chamber. "We just got the great news, Sera has been apprehended."

"Oh shoot," Gaz said aloud. Dib looked a bit surprised at that, it was clear that wasn't the reaction he had expected. "I mean, I had wanted to tell you myself. I was the one who ordered her to be locked up."

"Ah, I see," Dib replied, looking relieved. "It's just so weird where they had found her, I mean really? She snuck into Braitak's room? What could she have been planning?"

"Erm," Gaz replied, intelligently. "Well maybe she was giving herself up?"

"No I don't think so, unfortunately Zim is indisposed right now and I don't want to wake her, so questioning Sera will have to wait," Dib explained.

"Yeah, of course," Gaz replied, she gave a strained smile she wasn't feeling.

"Are you okay you're acting weird," Dib asked. She turned on him with her angriest expression, she was going to yell at him. "Sorry, sorry, I didn't mean it like that."

"I'm pregnant again," Gaz spit out to explain away her odd behavior.

"Oh, you are?" He asked clearly happy.

"Yeah," She replied, her cheeks heating up as she remembered the last few days. She and Ryak had been so wrapped up in one another, that she had barely any time for reading. After their little interlude, she had finally gotten to the library that last day only to find a new journal. She read all about the struggle between Zim and Sera before she got to the last and most recent entry. I met a male, Braitak, he was kind to me. Sneaking me snacks and telling these wild stories. It's why I have time to write this.. I don't know why I'm writing.. but I just have to. I want to tell him the truth, tell him everything, but I just can'.. the rest of the entry was left blank, as though she had been in a hurry to get away and had left the journal on the table where Gaz had found it. That one entry is how she found out that Braitak had been keeping the secret, so she had waited until he slipped up and left the tallest alone. It was how she knew, that Braitak had rushed his own father out of his room. She sighed, it didn't make her feel good and somehow she knew she had to make this right.

"I was thinking however," Dib suddenly said. "If we fixed her somehow maybe we could put our differences aside, so we can just go home and she would run the irkens while leaving earth to us, you know? Who am I kidding though? She wouldn't go for that, she just wants us to suffer."

"Could always just ask," Gaz murmured, she felt foolish but she knew if anyone could fix that witch is was her brother. And maybe just maybe the irken would accept their terms, it might be worth asking.

"Eh, maybe," Dib replied, revealing he had heard her.

"Whatever," Gaz said, in typical fashion. She couldn't help the secret smile, that curled her lips as she walked away.

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*intercept's* Hey guys I know this chappie is a little confusing but trust me it's not over yet, in fact the story thus far is far from over and many trials await our protagonists and our antagonists too. Who are the Protagonists? Who are the Antagonists? I leave it up to you all to decide! And I will definitely see you all in chapter's to come!

Also here's a little teaser for next chappie (I know I don't usually do this), but you guys deserve a treat!

Sneak Peek: ..Betrayed, that's how she felt, he had betrayed her. She poured out all of her truths and this is how he had repaid her. Then again she did deserve it, she just didn't think he would turn her in. What was his word, if this is what she could expect?

"Hey.." She spun toward the door. That mocking voice had haunted her but this time it didn't sound like it was mocking her. The hooman was there to torment her, she was sure. "I liked that last journal entry you left for me, made it easy to find you." The statement pierced her like an arrow to the chest. She had completely forgotten, her journal, no wonder she had been caught.

"You won't get away with this," She promised. Granted what was she going to do? She was trapped..