A/N: Ah, yes. It be one of my favorite times of the year. New Years Day. I just love that fresh start feeling I always get with this time of the year. So, to celebrate, I'll be getting my butt back in gear this year and updating on a more manageable schedule. So for those of you who were bummed about how scatterbrained I've been these past few weeks, you can all look forward to those weekly updates again. =3 Updates will officially be set to take place every Saturday from now on. As always, I must thank those of you who faved or added the story to your story alert lists. And I feel the need to extend an extra thanks to those of you who actually reviewed the last chapter. So thank you, you guys. Now, without further ado, let me get this new chapter posted. Chapter 31. The first ZADR Orange chapter of the year 2011. =3 Feedback be much appreciated, so we hope to hear from you guys later this week. =3
Warnings: Extreme OOCness
Rating: M for later chapters
Disclaimer: We do not own Invader Zim, nor any of the characters from it. We do not make any money from the writing of this story.
Zim/Tak: Notgonnadie
Dib: Me
Gaz/Gir: Both of us
Beta: Notgonnadie
Tak could only smirk at Dib's words. "As much as I'd love to watch the two of you dance around like idiots, I've been recruited by a very high source to complete this task." she informed him, smiling at him teasingly.
"And what source would that be?" Dib tried yet again to get the information out of Tak.
Smirking even more at his attempt, Tak merely shook her head. "That's for me to know, and you, never to find out. Unless you tell me why you're Irken." she turned the tables on him again.
Cursing to himself in his mind, Dib just continued to glare at Tak. "I'm not telling you anything..." his voice came out in a quiet whisper, laced with hate.
"Then you'll never know, will you?" Tak leaned in close to him.
Struggling against her some more when she closed in on him, Dib tried to push her away with one of his legs. "Just let me go already!" he demanded, wanting to get to Zim before she did.
Pulling away from him at all his struggling, Tak merely tossed him down the hall onto the floor. "Fine. I have work to attend to anyways." she said, no longer caring what Dib did so long as he stayed out of her way.
Landing flat on his stomach, temporarily knocking the wind out of him, Dib curled in on himself in pain for a moment before slowly attempting to sit himself up enough in his spot to recover so he could go warn Gaz about what had just happened.
Cackling to herself as she turned to leave, Tak strolled back down the hallway, not wanting to stay there now that she knew Dib was there.
Waiting until Tak was gone, Dib pushed himself to his feet and made a mad dash down the hallway towards the library. "Gaz! Gaz!" he called out as he threw open the doors in a panic and ran to her side, giving her a rough shake, knowing he didn't have much time.
"Nnnn." Gaz growled at him, rolling over. "What do you want, Dib?" she asked in an agitated voice.
"Gaz! I need some change for a payphone! Please! This is a matter of life or death! I promise to explain to you later if you just give me some change!" Dib continued to shake her frantically.
Growing more and more annoyed with Dib's shaking, Gaz mumbled before finally flinging some change into his face. "There! Now go away." she ordered, turning over in the chair so her back was to him.
Scrambling to gather all the coins into his hands, Dib bolted back out of the room and down the hallway to where he knew the school had some payphones. Then, coming to a screeching halt at one of them, he deposited the change into it and dialed Zim's number, something he hadn't realized the Irken had until only a few years back. He had acquired the number from Gir on one of his spying missions and taken it to memory.
Hearing the phone ring on the other end, Dib fidgeted nervously in his spot as he waited for somebody to pick up. "Come on...Come on! Pick up!" he practically yelled into the receiver. That's when he finally heard somebody picking up on the other line.
On the other end, Gir sat upon the couch, rubbing the sleep out of his eyes as he held the phone to his 'ear'. "Helloooo?" he sounded out.
"Gir!" Dib exclaimed, happy that at least SOMEBODY had answered it.
Gasping happily at Dib's voice coming through on the other end, Gir seemed to perk back up instantly. "Big-Head Boy! I missed joo!" he said in an all too happy voice.
"Gir! I need to talk to Zim! Give him the phone! And hurry!" Dib didn't have time for pleasantries at the moment.
Looking over at Zim, who was still fast asleep, Gir wasn't sure whether he should wake the other up or not. "Master is sad...He's takin' a nappy...Mary hurt master..." he responded back, his eyes watering up a bit.
"Please, Gir! I need you to wake him up and put him on the other end! Please! This is important!" Dib begged with the other to put Zim on.
"You're not going to hurt master again, are you?" the little android just wanted to make sure before he did anything.
"No, Gir! Please! He's going to get hurt or worse if you don't put him on right now!" Dib exclaimed a second time, desperately.
Turning to look back at Zim again, Gir finally shrugged before screaming at Zim to wake up. "MASTAH! MARY'S ON DA PHONE!" he held out the phone to the sleeping Irken.
Waking up only a tiny bit, Zim merely yawned in response. "I-I don't want to talk, Gir..." he said in an obviously still upset voice before turning over onto his side.
Turning his attention back to the phone, Gir then yelled back into it. "HE SEZ HE DON' WANNA TALK!" he returned Zim's response.
"GIR! MAKE HIM! HE HAS TO TALK TO ME! IF HE DOESN'T, HE COULD DIE!" Dib screamed back, panicking now.
Turning back to Zim, Gir relayed the message to him. "HE SAYS YOU'RE GONNA DIE!" he said, having only caught a few of Dib's words.
Balling up in his spot at those words, Zim hugged his knees to his chest. "Tell him that if he wants to threaten me, he's going to have to do it to my face..." he said, on the verge of tears again.
"HE SAY YOU GOTTA THREAT HIS FACE!" Gir once again scrambled the message.
"GIR! I didn't threaten him! Tell him that Tak is back on Earth and on her way over to kill him now if doesn't get the hell out of there!" Dib tried to set things straight.
"Gir, just hang up." Zim ordered him, able to hear Dib's screaming over the phone but not wanting to listen to what he was trying to tell him.
"OKAY! BYE BYE, MARY!" Gir obeyed Zim, hanging up the phone before Dib could say another word.
"No, don't-!" Dib tried to stop him but couldn't. Dropping the phone once he realized Gir had hung up on him, he took a few unsteady steps backwards. "H-He...He didn't believe me..." he said, staring down at the floor wide-eyed before bringing his gaze back up to look out one of the windows. "E-Even if I do run there, she'll definitely beat me there...B-But if I don't at least try, he'll...he'll..." he couldn't finish, squeezing his eyes shut and shaking his head. "No! Don't think that way! If he can hold on until I get there, I may have a chance to save him!" he told himself before turning towards the front doors of the school to bolt out of them, not even caring if he got locked out.
Meanwhile, back in the library, Gaz had gotten tired of trying to return back to sleep and decided to head on over to the computer lab to see if there were any good games on the teacher's computer. Little did she know that Tak was already in there. "What are you doing here?" she asked upon entering, not really caring however.
"Hmmm?" Tak looked up from her game to glance over at Gaz before returning her attention to the screen, knowing the other really didn't care. "I got bored...So I came to play some games..." she shrugged.
Taking a seat next to her, Gaz turned her own attention to the computer screen. "So I take it YOU'RE the reason my brother came running to me for extra change, proclaiming it was 'a life or death situation'?" she said, making little quotey fingers as she said the last part.
Never taking her eyes off the screen, Tak merely nodded her head. "Yep." she knew Dib was bound to have some reaction to her being there.
"Makes sense...So tell me, what exactly are you doing here anyways?" Gaz asked, slumping down in her seat a bit to get more comfortable.
Sighing, Tak decided she really didn't care whether Gaz knew why she was there or not. "Apparently Tallest Red can't let go of his grudge towards Zim, so he sent me here to kill him." she yawned. "But it's not like I'm in a big hurry or anything...He's dangerous enough to himself anyways." she said, leaning back herself.
"Heh...Yeah. He's already nearly killed himself three different times in the past two days because of my brother. And the funny thing is, they're not even out to kill each other any longer. Only thing I'm certain of is that Zim's out to get into my brother's pants...Of course, they DID just have a huge argument a few hours ago..." Gaz said, as though it were just common knowledge.
Sighing again, Tak merely shook her head. "Males..." she glanced over at Gaz. "This is why I swore off them. Nothing but trouble." she said, already well aware of all this.
"Heh...Same here. Besides, my brother's enough trouble as it is." Gaz smirked over at her.
Chuckling amused to herself, Tak tilted her head back to rest against the back of her chair. "I'm glad I never had to put up with a brother. Though I feel sorry for you...How did he become Irken anyways?" she asked, figuring Gaz must know.
Gaz just shrugged. "Eh, I don't know. I walked in on Zim playing around with his DNA. I'm pretty sure that had something to do with it." she said, crossing her arms over her chest as she continued to watch Tak.
"Ahhh...Yes. I know that procedure...I thought it was illegal though." she said before glancing over at Gaz, eyes half lidded. "But then again, what does an outcast like Zim know about the law?" she said mockingly.
Smirking back at her, Gaz nodded her head in agreement. "Nothing, I'm sure. And if Earth actually knew that aliens existed, it'd probably be illegal here too." she said matter of factly.
Nodding back at her and smirking also, Tak couldn't help but let out a satisfied cackle when she finished the level she was on. "So." she looked over at Gaz. "You wanna play?" she asked, pointing her thumb at the computer.
Pulling her chair up closer to the computer, Gaz grinned wide. "I thought you'd never ask." she said, taking the controls.
A grin of her own spreading across her face, Tak watched in interest now. "Well, let's see if you can beat my high score." she challenged.
Gladly taking on the challenge, Gaz set to work on catching up with the other.
Meanwhile, back across town, Dib barged through the front door to Zim's base with the neighbor's hose in hand. "Hang on, Zim! I'm here to rescue you! Where is she?" he turned this way and that, his eyes wild with panic as it took him a moment to realize that the Irken was still on the couch where he had left him, and Tak was nowhere to be found.
A/N: And there you have it. Your weekly update of ZADR Orange. =3 Heh...I REALLY like this chapter. XD So I hope you guys enjoy it just as much as I do. With that said, let me take this time to respond to those of you who reviewed. =3
To lillybean queen of the i ocean: We're glad to hear it. =3
To Meta-Knight-1-fan: Can't have a good ZADR story without Tak in there somewhere. But don't worry. Zimmeh will be joining the story again very soon. =3
To Vithian: We haven't received a lot of Gaz hate mail here on FANFICTION, at least. On other sites, however, we have. And a few we got this last chapter seemed to be bordering on it just a bit, but I let it slide. I only see my cousins when somebody's getting married or when somebody in the family dies. Otherwise, we don't see them at all. Though, I'll admit, we've had a lot of deaths in the family the past few years. So I've seen them at least a few times lately. And I think they joined us last Christmas as well. Can't really remember. But Christmas is ALWAYS celebrated on my mom's side. My dad's side of the family is pretty screwed up, so we see them even less than my mom's. And beside, most of his side is dead already. Either way, I spend my time hidden somewhere in my room. I'm one of the most anti-social people I know, something I get from my mom because she's really anti-social too. Honestly, it surprises me each day that her and my dad get along so well. He's super social, in a really annoying way too. But everybody seems to love him. We can't go ANYWHERE without SOMEBODY knowing him. Even when I'm not with him, I run into people who say they know him. It's kind of creepy. But anyways. Yeah. No snow for us either. I wish we would get snow, but we only get cold weather with nothing to show for it. But don't worry. I'll bet you'll get to see snow someday. =3 I don't play my instruments as often as I used to nowadays. But that's basically because they broke when I didn't clean them. XD But oh well. I don't take lessons any longer either so I guess it doesn't really matter. I've fallen behind a bit on watching Pokemon nowadays, so I'm not sure HOW far behind I am compared to newer episodes. But I still find reasons to enjoy the show. And my friends and I always enjoy sitting down to watch one of the many Pokemon movies because we're weird like that. It's really nostalgic for us though. I think that's why. Sonic I have to buy the tapes for nowadays though. Unfortunately, we don't get the really old episodes. I used to record them, but I lost the tapes. Personally, I always really loved Robotnik. He's such an awesome character, even if he does lose to a bunch of woodland animals all the time. XD And I never could understand why they would change his name to Eggman. It's just such a random name. But my brother and I have fun making fun of it. XD We even wrote a song about it at one point long ago. I'm play SA2B at the moment, taking care of those chao I was talking about. If you'd like to adopt a chao, go ahead and PM me. 8D I can send you pictures. I have one at the moment who needs a good home and name. ^.^ And I think I will offer some next chapter. =3 I can understand your pain though. D8 Nowhere really sells memory cards here either anymore. I think they have to be ordered online nowadays. And I like raising as many different kinds of chao as possible also, so I wish there weren't a limit in the chao gardens. I try to space them out fairly evenly though. =3 I also still have all except for a few of my original chao. My brother and I raised a lot. And I always love visiting them in the game. Such fond memories I have of taking care of them. It really saddened me when one of the first two originals died though. D8 His name was Dr. Evil and he was such an awesome chao. But we still have our other ones so I guess it's all good. Just wish my Gamecube had lasted as long. But so long as I can play on the Wii, I guess it's fine. I have really bad luck with technology. I've gone through two different laptops in only a few years. The first one, somebody knocked onto the floor and shattered the screen. I was blamed for it, of course. -_-; And the one I'm using now is the same kind but such a piece of crap. It's totally fucked up and I worry each day about how much longer it will actually last me. Because about every 6 months or so, I get this really deadly virus that kills my computer and makes my brother and I have to restart the whole thing. The sad part is, it erases ALL my files. So I have to keep everything on a flash drive just in case. Also, it spazzes out no matter what I do. So I really need to buy a new one really soon before it crashes beyond repair. The unfortunate thing is, I don't even know where the fuck this virus keeps coming from. It's like I'm cursed or something. Speaking of curses, no I doubt colds can be transferred over the internet. XD Though it would suck if they could be. I have a really bad one right now that just keeps getting worse. I went from having a swollen throat to having a fever, headache, nausea, body pains, cough, sneezing, inability to fall asleep, chills, and inability to taste ANYTHING all overnight. So yeah. I'm cursed. And all this on my birthday too. DX But oh well. At least you've recovered from your fever and infection. =3 Just be sure to stay away from your brothers while they're sick. Because this is NOT a cold you'd want to catch. The only upside is that I have a reason to hide in my room Christmas day and nobody can make me come out of it for any reason unless they want to risk getting sick. Awwwz...It sucks coming that close and missing it just because your computer was being an ass. DX But perhaps you'll catch it next time. I'm glad you enjoy reading and reviewing though. =3 So thanks so much for doing so. (Hug) P.S. Don't even worry about it. XD Even if it does seems a bit ranty to you, mine is a full blown rant in comparison. XD So sorry about that. I think rants are contagious. At least, mine are. XD
To heartofstone15: Well, Gaz doesn't really have much more contact with Dib in this story for a while now. They'll be parting ways very soon. As for Zim...Eheheh...Oh, really? You think so? X3 Well, all I can say is you'll see soon enough how things unfold. But we're glad you enjoyed the chapter. =3 So thanks for reading. =3