A/N: Mmmm...Blargh...Sorry for the wait again, you guys. It's been REALLY hot here the past month and if you know anything about me, I do NOT work well under massive amounts of heat. So, I'm sorry for the wait on this next chapter. Also, I'm sorry to say I WILL be leaving soon on a trip to Alaska with my family. This coming up Friday, actually. So updates won't be coming for a while after that point. I'll be gone at least 11 days, possibly more if I come back motion sick (does fine on boats, not so much coming off of them) So yeah. Please be patient with me. However, because I feel bad about not updating for you guys the past few weeks, I'd like to make it up to you by posting as many chapters as possible in the coming four days before my departure. So hopefully you guys can look forward to that. Also, because I promised my friend I would do this, I'd like to promote my friend, areathena, and her stories here on FF. For the record, a while back NGD and I nearly had a stroke (Well, I did at least) when we realized our ZO file had been completely deleted from my new laptop. Shocking, I know. Well, areathena came to the rescue with a power cord to my OLD laptop and I literally re-possessed the ZO file we needed just a few moments before my laptop died, AGAIN. So send her some love, you guys. She helped make my life a LOT easier. Because now I don't have to look through all our original DA messages to ficafy from. =3 And also, give her stories some love too. Especially if any of you are fans of the Mentalist. She has a story titled, A Sitter for Jane, as well as an original story, Hidden, in her profile. So go spam her with love! She deserves it for helping us, especially since we ALSO recovered some other important story files we were thinking of posting here at a later time. That said, I now leave you all with the long-awaited Chapter 46 of ZADR Orange. Much love to those who faved or added the story to your story alert lists. And, as always, feedback be much appreciated. ^^ We hope you all enjoy. ^^

Warnings: Extreme OOCness

Rating: M

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.

Tak: Notgonnadie

Dib: Me

Gaz: Both of us

Beta: Notgonnadie

To say the very least, Gaz wasn't surprised to hear somebody knocking on the door again that day as she went to open it, thinking that perhaps it was just Zim again. "What now- Dib?" she stopped short of her sentence, looking a little surprised to see her brother standing there and the condition he was in. "What happened to you?" she covered up her surprise quickly, as if she didn't already know.

Unable to even bring his gaze up to meet Gaz's, tears still streaming down his cheeks as he sniffled wetly, Dib merely continued to stare down at the ground in somewhat of a daze. "I-I don't want to talk about it...Can I spend the night here...? Please? I don't know where else to go..." his antennae drooped as he knew he couldn't go back to Zim's base.

Sighing, Gaz stepped aside and gestured for Dib to come inside. "He DID tell you, didn't he? All of it?" she wanted to make sure this wasn't just about the sex so she wouldn't have to put up with this later on again.

Eyes growing wide at those words, Dib finally brought his gaze up to stare at her. "You knew? This entire time? And you didn't even tell me?" he exclaimed, taking a few steps back, his back hitting the wall behind him before sliding down to sit with his face hidden away in his arms as he broke down all over again. "What am I going to do? I can't go back there! It all hurts too much to even be in the same room with him!" he sobbed to himself, not knowing what else he could do at this point.

Sighing again, Gaz shook her head. "We only learned today, Dib...I made Zim promise that he would tell you...I don't know what you should do though...Maybe you should just abort." she threw out the only option she could think of for him.

Eyes snapping wide open at that suggestion, unable to believe that she would even suggest such a thing, Dib snapped his head up to stare at Gaz with wide, disbelieving eyes. "I'm not a murderer, Gaz! How could you even think that I would do something like that? It's not this baby's fault that any of this is happening! It wouldn't be right to just kill it!" he exclaimed, really not so mad about the pregnancy but Zim's lack of honesty. If anything, he was really just in shock, but not so much he would simply allow himself to kill it.

"It's not a baby, Dib. It's an egg. And worse than that, IT is actually THEM. There are three! You could die from that!" Gaz snapped back at him, only trying to come up with the solution that would be best for her brother.

Having overheard what was going on out in the living room, Tak walked into the room, rolling her eyes at that statement. "Maybe a human." she scoffed under her breath.

Taking no notice of Tak, Dib merely narrowed his eyes on his sister. "Egg or not, it's still ali-" he began to protest but cut himself short, just now registering what his sister had said. "W-Wait! What did you just say? H-How many did you say were inside of me? I-I must be hearing things...Th-This has to be some sort of nightmare..." he said, bringing a hand up to hold his head as he felt the room around him spinning suddenly and he tried to get his head back on straight. "I-I think I'm going to be sick. I..." he couldn't finish as he closed his eyes, trying to gain back his composure.

"Uh-oh, Gaz. You better grab him." Tak instructed as she stood back and watched with her arms crossed about her chest.

Lunging forward, Gaz grabbed Dib as he fell to the floor unsteadily, blacking out on her. "Stupid brothers..." she mumbled under her breath to herself before looking back up at Tak. "What should I do with him? I can't just leave him here lying in the middle of the floor, and I doubt he'll be all too happy if I bring him back to Zim." she said, just knowing they were going to be stuck with him for a while now.

Realizing this as well, Tak sighed heavily. "I guess we've got to let him stay here...Maybe we can convince him to go back to Zim..." she then glared at Dib. "He's so sensitive. You'd think he'd be tougher then that." she didn't recall Dib being this weak the last time she had come to Earth.

Merely shrugging, Gaz worked to prop Dib up better. "He's always been kind of a cry baby. I'm not surprised he reacted that way. Besides, if he's as far along as Zim says he is, the pregnancy is probably just making him extra hormonal right now." she said, getting back to her feet with Dib half in her arms.

Continuing to stare down at him, Tak nodded her head at that. "Odd. He used to seem so much more sturdy when he and Zim were enemies..." she said, helping Gaz carry Dib to the couch to lay him down.

"Yeah, well that's because he actually believed Zim would be able to take over the world if he didn't do something to stop him. So he pushed himself to stay one step ahead of Zim whenever he could. But now that they're not enemies and Zim isn't trying to take over the world, he's let his guard down completely, leaving him practically helpless now. The only time he's strong is when he believes the fate of the world is depending on him to be." Gaz said, having known this her entire life.

Sighing again, Tak shook her head. "Maybe if he would be stronger for himself, things like this wouldn't happen...and he could solve his own problems." she glared at Dib again once they had gotten him up on the couch. "Sooo...I guess it's about time for bed now? It's getting late..." she pointed out the window to where the sun was beginning to set.

"Do you think he'll be okay out here alone? He had to swallow down some pretty rough information all at once today." Gaz reminded her, just afraid he would wake up in the middle of night freaking out or something.

Tak merely shrugged. "I honestly don't know...But I'm not sleeping with him." she said before turning to head for the bedroom.

Rolling her eyes at that, Gaz remained kneeling where she was next to Dib. "I never said you had to. Just...bring me some paper or something so I can write him a note for when he wakes up. That way he knows where the bathroom is when he wakes up and needs to puke in the morning." she said, knowing that was the one symptom he had been dealing with for the past few weeks.

Stopping in her tracks, Tak just about face-palmed before pulling out a sheet of paper and handing it over to Gaz. "I forgot about that part..." she groaned, pulling out a pen as well for Gaz to write her note with.

Taking the paper and pen, Gaz quickly began writing Dib a note of where everything was for when he woke up. "Yeah, well get used to it. I'm not so sure convincing him to go back to Zim's base will be all that easy." she said, knowing how stubborn her brother could be at times.

Knowing Gaz was right, Tak sighed yet again. "Probably not...But we have to try. They have to be together for this...And Dib can't be stressing out like this either..." she said, knowing all the stress wouldn't be good for him or the smeets.

Nodding her head, Gaz considered for a moment how they could get Dib to go back to Zim. "I say we sit him down in the morning and have a talk with him about it. His symptoms are only going to get worse the farther the pregnancy progresses. He can't go another 7 months alone on this one. He's going to need Zim there every step of the way." she stated, knowing the pregnancy would only get worse and worse for him.

"S-Seven months? What is he? Wonder Irk? Because Irken's lay eggs, the pregnancy should only last about four months at the most. In that time, he'll have to expand enough for all three of the eggs to get full sized before laying them." Tak explained, having never heard of such a thing as a pregnancy lasting THAT long.

Turning her head to look back at Tak, Gaz considered her words for a few moments before looking back at Dib. "Well, humans carry their young for nine months before giving birth. But if what you're telling me is true about the amount of time Irkens carry theirs, shouldn't he be bigger by now? That would mean he's already half way through his pregnancy. Exactly how big are these eggs supposed to get anyways?" she asked, having a hard time believing he could already be halfway through his pregnancy.

Giving that question some thought, Tak, after a few moments, proceeded to hold her hands out about six inches apart. "They grow slowly the first month or so then start to get much bigger until they reach full size..." she said before thinking about it some more. "He'll probably end up carrying them a little over the four months though if what you're saying is true...But either way, the smeets inside the eggs will still need to grow for several more months after before hatching." she said, recalling from memory what she knew of naturally born smeets.

"So we can expect he'll be carrying them for another 3 or 4 months at least...And what is he expected to do with them after they've been laid if they don't hatch right away? Will he be required to carry them around and keep them warm or something?" Gaz asked, trying to get a better idea of how this would all go down.

"Hmmm...Normally, we use incubation tubes...I'm not sure where he would put the eggs though seeing as we don't have any..." Tak shrugged.

"That could be problematic then if we don't have a place to put them after they're laid...Is there some way these 'incubation tubes' can be produced in the time between now and then? I know for a fact that Dib will be crushed if he goes through all this just to have them die because he had no place to put the eggs after they were laid." Gaz said, able to see it all now.

Tak shook her head. "We can't exactly get the blueprints for one by any easy means. Only the Tallest have access to them. Not even the greatest hackers in the universe could get to them without their say so." she said, knowing how powerful the Massive's computer system was, especially after what had happened back when Zim had managed to take control of it a few years earlier.

"So Dib's pretty mush screwed, isn't he? Your leader sent you down here to kill Zim. The chances of him doing something to help save his offspring are highly unlikely." Gaz assumed that no amount of compromising would convince Zim's leader to help them.

"Well...Not exactly...Red sent me down here, but Purple doesn't know that yet. We might still be able to get it from them...But we should wait until Dib's awake to do so. They may want proof that he's actually pregnant." Tak said, knowing Red could be easily manipulated if done so through Purple.

Agreeing to wait until Dib woke up, Gaz nodded her head. "Alright. We'll wait until he's awake then. In the meantime, perhaps we should get some sleep and let Dib rest up for a few hours." she stood up, placing the note to Dib on his chest.

Nodding her own head, Tak approached her from behind to wrap an arm around her and lead her towards the bedroom.

Meanwhile, for the next few hours, Dib continued to sleep soundly, coming back around at about 4:00 in the morning. He groaned, blinking his eyes open slowly. "Ugh...What happened? Where am I?" he asked himself, sitting up slowly, the small note Gaz had left him falling down from his chest to his lap. Picking it up to read, he then looked in the direction of the hallway across the room from him.

Contrary to what Gaz had thought, he actually wasn't feeling as sick as he thought he would upon waking up but rather heartbroken as all the memories of what had happened less than 24 hours ago flooded back into his mind. "Zim..." he felt the tears coming again, the very thought of the other hurting him so much more than anything physical.

A/N: And there you have it. Your weekly update of ZADR Orange. =3 As I'm sure you can all see, Gaz and Tak aren't too happy about having Dib stay with them. And I can assure you, Dib's not very happy about it either. But what about Zim? What happened to him, I'm sure you're all wondering. Well, you'll all find out next chapter. But until then, let us just quickly respond to those who reviewed last chapter. =3

To lillybean queen of the i ocean: Yaaaaaay!

To Invader Krys (Response courtesy NGD): Yeah. He does. But you would too if you were suddenly overly hormonal and preggers in an alien fashion.

To Invader Kit Membrane: Well, here's the next chapter. I wouldn't know anything about the Star Trek fandom myself. It's not really my thing. But Dib will get over his inital shock eventually. Just you wait and see. As for poor Zimmeh, he'll be needing a hug over the course of the next few chapters. Unfortunately, none of those hugs will be coming from Dib. But you'll see what I mean a little later. Until then, we hope you continue to read and enjoy our admittedly slow updates~

To Illisandria Carthain (Response courtesy NGD): "Sorry you didn't get to enter, but we couldn't stand to have the contest open any longer. Too many douchebags up in hur.

And, yes. I LOVE Danny Phantom. It is my favorite show, after all. (Wink) I've seen every episode and have memorized most of the old ones. I even recorded them on VHS while they were playing on TV, and then I recorded the recordings on cassette tapes so I could listen to them on my tape recorder when a TV wasn't available. I had a toy from the Burger King ultimate enemy kick, and I carried it everywhere (Except the bathroom because he's a guy and that would be weird). I was so hyped with DP that before I moved, everyone tried to insult me by calling me Danny Phantom's girlfriend at school, but I didn't mind. I like Super and Fun Danny best, but Vlad, Mr. Lancer, the Box Ghost, Dan, Clockwork...Aw heck... EVERYONE else is awesome! Except Dani and Nocturne. I hate them and think Dani should not have been made, and if it weren't for the hilarious jokes in the dreams they visited, I would think Nocturne's episode shouldn't have existed either.

I'm not really in to IZ honestly. I like some of the characters and it's an okay show, but I don't really care if they bring it back or not. Sure, if they did, I'd watch it, but I honestly think it's fine where it stopped. Leaves it open for all us fans to make our own endings.

And you will find out about where the other characters are later in the story XD They pop in and out you see, but they aren't important, so we don't really care."

Pat: That said, let me just throw in that I agree with basically everything NGD said in the above response. Danny Phantom has been one of my favorite shows since the time it came out, I've seen every episode multiple times over the past several years, and my favorite character is Vlad, hands down. I can't get over how cute he and Danny would look together as a couple. And while I liked the final movie, it saddened me more than made me happy to know it was ending. So I have mixed feelings. As for IZ, while I loved the show, I won't say I'm necessarily SAD that is ended. Sure, I wish the episodes had continued and I think I would have been happier if they had at least finished up the second season, but at the same time, I'd actually really rather they NOT bring it back. I get the feeling they'd fuck with the universe if they brought it back now, ten years later. I don't want them messing up the fandom anymore. A hoard of Gir-obsessed fangirls have already basically done that. I'm all for preserving the originality of IZ. Not bringing back episodes that could potentially ruin it. And NGD already answered your third question, so I won't even go into it. Thanks for reading, as always. Until next time~