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A/N: Hey guys I ended up getting covid but I survived yay! Then I logged on today to read some comments and there was a particularly rude comment with no constructive critisism. I deleted it so none of you would have to deal with their lack of love for themselves, after all they did tell me to go kill myself. Haha oh man anyway I have better things to do than bother with that nonsense. I got writing to do after all. By the way I love all you guys and want to tell you all to have a safe and happy new year. With the Covid happening right now we all need to be there for each other in spirit. Wishing you all well!

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Invader Dib

Technical Challenge

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Dib wasn't precisely sure what he was looking at when he entered the lab, everything was written in Irken and not a very current form of it. Even some of the notes were untranslatable to him, it was like it was the latin of the Irken language in some way.

"I can't understand most of this jarble it's just gibberish," Zim complained. "You don't really need these notes do you?" he smiled at her as she gave him a grin almost as though she planned to do something horrible to the pages should he say no.

"Unfortunately I do," Dib replied. "You know what this means though?"

"Ugh, you'll have to work with her," Zim replied a bit disgusted.

"Remember we're doing this so we that we can eventually go home," he reminded Zim.

"This could take years to translate," Dr. Membrane said as he combed over the notes.

"Dad, we don't need to translate them when we have the person who wrote them," Dib said pinching the bridge of his nose.

"Oh right," he said setting them down. "I was so engrossed in the design of the letters I missed that. They have quite the intricate language, not so different from Egyptian yet different enough to be distinguishable in their own right."

"I don't want you working with her alone!" Zim replied angrily. He knew that Sera could try something the moment they were alone but when he saw her last she just looked so defeated, unrecognizable from the strong Irken tallest he had only glimpsed of before Zim took control of the Irken's from the barren princess. He had recognized the fear in her gaze, the uncertainty hiding behind those pupilless eyes.

"I doubt she'll try something with Braitak nearby," Dib replied. "Besides I'm a strong human male, able to subdue any Irken who stands between me and my love." he replied sweeping her off of her feet and carrying her from the lab.

"Dib," she gasped a bit breathlessly. Oh yeah he knew just how to keep her on her toes and craving him, as much as he craved her. He would of course confront Sera later with the unfortunate news, he was certain she would not expect to be asked to help with the research.

Dib carried his beloved queen into the bed chamber and gently laid her on the bed before lavishing kisses and licks along her sensitive skin. He smiled as Zim cooed at the attention, he peered up to see her cheeks flushed darker and her eyes hooded as though she were enjoying his actions. He grinned before paying extra attention to her womanhood, teasing and licking the area before sucking lightly. She moaned loudly and arched her back, as he tongued her.

"Oh Dib, please," Zim begged. He didn't wait for her to finish, he was already climbing his way up her body before thrusting lightly into her. The slick hole accepted his length easily, even though they hadn't done this in a while it was like they were made for each other. It wasn't long before he was hilted within her. "Oh I missed this Dib, I really missed this so much."

"Me too," Dib replied. He pulled out slowly and thrust back in reveling in her expressions and surprised gasps. Again he pulled out and thrust back inside and she groaned in pleasure.

"Mm don't tease me, I need it!" she complained. He grinned and kissed before thrusting three more times, each one eliciting a heated moan of pleasure. Then her toyed with one of her antenna, pulling it to his mouth and sucking lightly. He couldn't resist anymore he had to fill her with his seed, he began a frantic rythme, one of need. It had been so long since they had done this but now, now they were free to do as they pleased. The pleasure was building and Zim's moans were growing louder, then at the peak, pure bliss as he came deep inside of her.

He grinned releasing the antennae and pulling Zim with him, he was tired and surely she was too.

"What about your research?" Zim whispered.

"It can wait for a few hours," Dib groaned, he was tired now after all.

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Sera woke to the sound of the door whooshing open, she could hear voices but she wasn't sure who's voices. She sat up groggily and began to redress herself, she yawned Braitak appeared in the doorway.

"When you're dressed, dad wants to talk to you," Braitak groused. Sera was surprised at that, she didn't really want to speak with him. She did try to abduct him several times since they arrived, he probably wasn't happy with her attempts. She bit her lower lip but in the end she relented and sought out some fresh clothes to wear. Once dressed she and Braitak stepped outside where Dib was waiting.

"You wanted to speak to me?" she asked, feeling really small.

"Yes, I need you to translate your research notes," Dib replied.

"My notes?" she was surprised by this new. She looked over the notes he had handed her. "Oh right, they are in old irken, of course I'll translate them right away. She followed him to the lab where he sat at his own flat computer, she couldn't understand anything on it, it was even formatted differently. It was a wonder the other could understand what was on the screen. She shook her head and began to translate her notes on the irken computer, her lab computer. She was exceptionally careful to ensure the wording was exact so as not to confuse those who read it. She paused a few times to see that Braitak was reading over her shoulder at her notes. Sera smiled a bit before going back to work, it was many hours spread over the next few weeks before she finally had the last of her notes translated over.

"All done?" Braitak asked.

"All done," Sera replied. She looked over to see that the hooman was looking over some form of diagram. Of course she didn't understand any of it, the hoomans language was strange, foreign, alien to her. "I translated it into modern Irken."

"Okay, mind helping with this then?"

"Um.. well sure," she wasn't exactly sure what he needed her to do but as they began to work over the diagrams and with him explaining what she was seeing she started to understand. What he had found was miraculous a few well preserved embryo's that he claimed might have the dna to rejuvenate her preserved smeetlyspoodge. She couldn't help the goo that filled her eyes at this news, there was hope. Of course he did want to keep a few of the embryo's in case that failed as there was other ways to accomplish the task of restoring what she lost but she had never thought of such things before. She gained a new perspective on how things could be done and what embryo's had been used for on his own planet.

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Sera was in her element by week's end they were working together and pooling their scientific knowledge but there was no way to tell if the results would be as they expect them or if they would fail. Of course the rejuvenation was taking much longer than they anticipated and she suspected it was because of the way she had preserved the organ. Zim had even offered her own smeetlyspoodge as an option but Sera quickly rejected the idea. She would not take Zim's smeetlyspoodge, to do so would endanger the other's life. Queen's who couldn't lay eggs usually died, and the technology Sera had built to save her own life had been made hastily and with Zim being off of that necessary life support. No, she couldn't do the same thing her mother did to her, even if they could make a version of life support for Zim as she is now, the Irken queen was too changed from how she had been because of the hooman influence.

The pak on Zim's back now is merely a shell compared to most paks and it certainly wasn't as intricate as Sera's own pak. Sera's pak is the only thing keeping her alive. A rather depressing thought, if she stayed separate from her PAK for too long she would expire. She spent many days studying the ways of this Dib hooman but was surprisingly impressed with what she saw. She often found herself realizing more and more what special conditions were needed as they experimented with Stim cells that had been procured from Zim's eggs. She wasn't sure how dib got the eggs and he never explained only saying that he figured out how the Smeetlyspoodge worked helped him better to understand it all. The smeetlyspoodge was a reproductive super-organ, of course she knew that and had explained how it worked but it as each experiment failed to revive her old smeetlyspoodge the more doubt that began to creep up inside of her.

She held out a hope that the Stim cells would fair better but the organs it created were only full of basic cells that held the super-organ together and it was then that she realized that it wasn't going to happen. No matter what they did it was impossible to recreate the smeetlyspoodge, she could feel her eyes puff with goo. Eventually she stopped going into the lab leaving everything to the hooman, she couldn't handle the disappointment. She was going to be stuck in this psuedo existence forever. She was trapped between life and death by a single machine.

She sighed as she felt Braitak's hand on her arm, then his lips on her neck. She smiled and turned toward him, if all of that hadn't happened to her, if she hadn't lost her Smeetlyspoodge. She would have never met Braitak, maybe she would have died with everyone else who had been infected by the spores. All of Irk survived because of her, but she also could never experience what she had missed.

"I know I've been gloomy," She whsipered.

"I get it," Braitak replied. "Dad'll figure it out, no matter how long it takes. He's supposedly the son of the greatest scientist of all time back on earth." She chuckled at that, and hugged him close. "And when he does, I will be sure to give you lots of smeets." She gaped at him in surprise, then her eyes filled with goo as she hugged again this time a little tighter. Words couldn't express how happy she was to hear that, it made her not want to give up but she just couldn't go back into that lab.

"I hope he does," she replied. She wanted to have smeets with Braitak as well.

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*intercept's* Hey guys! I have a very special chapter just waiting to go up very soon after this one so get excited! Teehee! Also so sorry it took so long on this one! This is a very very foreshadowy chapter but don't worry there is a solution where everyone wins! I hope it's gunna get scary guys, something might go wrong but Dib is a great scientist so I'm sure he'll fix any issues!