ZADR Orange Chapter 60
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.
Zim: Notgonnadie
Dib: Me
Squeezing Dib's hand back as the screen connected to the Massive's communication signal, Zim could only shake his head slowly at the others question. "I hope not..." he sighed, really not knowing how the Tallests would react to the news.
"Wha- ZIM?" Tallest Red glared at Tak when the first sight to meet his eyes on the screen was Zim. "Why is he still alive?" he pointed accusingly at Zim.
"Well, my Tallest. If I killed him, I would be breaking the law."
"Law? What law? The only law you should be worried about breaking is MY law! And my law is for you to kill Zim!"
His antennae shuddering and drooping, Dib could only shrink back behind Zim a bit at Red's words as he squeezed the others hand even tighter, truly scared now for Zim's life and that he wouldn't agree to help them with the smeets.
"I'm sorry, my Tallest, but this law overrules your own. It is one of the old laws...You see...Zim is a father."
Eyes growing wide at those words, Red looked first at Zim and then at Tak and then back at Zim again, not once noticing Dib's presence. "With you?" he asked, pointing at Tak, his face one of confusion in that moment.
"WHAT? NO! THAT'S DISGUSTING! WITH HIM!" Tak jabbed a finger at Dib, bringing Red's attention to him.
Shrinking down when Tak pointed at him, Dib hid slightly behind Zim.
"Hmm?" Red stared at Dib for a few moments, not recognizing him at first. "Wait a minute...I know you...I don't know from where or how...But you look vaguely familiar..." he said, trying to pinpoint where exactly he knew Dib from.
Pulling Dib close, Zim glared at Red. "This is Dib." he said, seeing if the name would ring any bells inside his leader's head.
"Dib? You mean that human you had with you the last time you were here?" Red looked back at Dib, eying him up and down. "Hmmm...Yes...You had that weird, horn thing on the top of your head..." he said, twirling one of his fingers around before pointing at his scythe lock. "But something is different about you..." he said, still not noticing the obvious fact that he was part Irken now. "Did you gain weight?" he asked, practically disregarding the fact that they had just told him Dib was pregnant.
Eyes growing wide at those words, Dib's face flushed, though more out of anger than anything else. Then, without saying anything, he glared before pulling his hand from Zim's and turning to storm out of the room in a silent fury.
"Dib? Come back!" Zim ran after him, leaving Tak and Gaz to the monitors.
Tak face palmed. "Stupid emotional wreck." she muttered under her breath before glaring at Red. "He's not fat! He's pregnant! And he's half Irken!" she exclaimed, quickly becoming frustrated with Red as well.
"Pregnant? I thought you said Zim already WAS a father. And since when did that human become part Irken?"
"He IS a father, and Dib is the mother! And he apparently became Irken right before I got here."
"Well, was he pregnant BEFORE you got there too?"
"Not that I'm aware of. No."
"Then why didn't you do away with him before something like this could happen?"
Tak glanced at Gaz. "I got a little...distracted...And he got pregnant right after I saw him, so..." her sentence trailed off.
"So...Why are you telling me all of this? What possible reason could you have for contacting me about it?" Red narrowed his eyes on them slightly.
Tak sighed. "We need the blueprints for an incubation tube." she said slowly, in a low voice.
"An incubation tube? And what makes you think I'd just give you the blueprints for one of our incubation tubes? Zim thinks he's so smart! Let him figure out how to build one on his own!"
Tak growled at that response. "According to law, you cannot allow naturally born smeets to die when you could have prevented it!" she snapped back at him.
Red glared at her. "And who are you to tell me what I can and cannot do?" he demanded, standing up out of his chair to, in a sense, tower over her.
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Meanwhile, back out in the living room, Dib headed for the front door to leave, stopping when he felt Zim grabbing his wrist from behind. "Let me go..." he said, not even turning back around to look at Zim.
"Dib, please...This is for the smeets. As soon as we get the blueprints, we can leave, and I'll never make you come back."
Dib turned on Zim. "He called me fat, Zim!" he exclaimed, frustrated tears stinging at his eyes now. "And he wants you dead...Does that sound like somebody who's going to be willing to help you?" he said, not seeing what the point of going back in there would be.
Antennae drooping, Zim sighed. "No..." he released Dib, dropping his arm away along with his gaze.
Sniffling wetly, Dib wrapped his arms around his abdomen. "I want to go home..." his body trembled slightly as he knew for a fact already they couldn't do anything to fix the situation. Then, bringing his gaze up to stare at Zim now, he panted out heavily in the empty room. "Zim...He's not going to give them to us no matter what you say...So please...Let's just go..." he begged the other to leave with him, though Zim seemed reluctant to leave without at least trying to convince Red to give them the blueprints.
"I-I can't go, Dib. Not when there's a chance...I don't want to lose the smeets..."
"Well, neither do I, but don't you think you could come up with something on your own?" Dib asked, getting upset again as he stumbled back against the door to press his back to unsteadily. "I don't want to go back in there, Zim..." he said, squeezing his eyes tightly shut, antennae drooping as he shook his head.
Zim pulled Dib into a tight hug. "Please, Dib. Just...come back for a little longer...You don't even have to say anything...J-Just...Do it for me...Please?" he tried to convince Dib to return to the room with him.
Shuddering in Zim's arms, Dib peeked his eyes open after a moment to stare up at him. "I-If he calls me fat again, I won't stay..." he warned the other before he made him go back in there with him.
Zim smiled a little bit. "If he calls you fat again, I'll kick his ass." he said, not about to just let Red get away with insulting Dib, Tallest or not.
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Meanwhile, back in the room, having walked in a few moments before, just in time to hear the last exchange of words between Tak and Red, Purple approached the screen to see what all the commotion was about. "What is this about smeets?" he asked, walking up behind Red.
Red jumped at hearing Purple behind him. "N-Nothing!" he lied, turning to face the other, just knowing that if Purple heard about Zim's smeets, he'd want even more to try for his own.
Purple glared at him. "I don't believe you. What are you two talking about?" he asked, only mildly surprised to see Tak on the other end of this conference call.
"My Tallest." Tak bowed to Purple when he joined the conversation. "I was just discussing with Tallest Red here why I cannot kill Zim" she said, causing Red to flinch.
"Hm? Wh-Why would you be trying to kill Zim?" Purple asked before turning his attention to Red, narrowing his eyes on him now. "Red, what's going on here? Didn't I tell you already to keep your hands off of Zim?" he reminded the other of their earlier conversation.
"Uh...W-Well..."
Entering the room right at that moment, holding Dib tightly, Zim looked up to see Purple on the screen and smiled wide. "Oh! My Tallest!" he exclaimed, knowing there was a chance now.
"Zim?" Purple stared at him in some confusion then Red then Tak then Zim again. "Somebody please explain to me what exactly is going on here! And somebody OTHER than Red since everything that comes out of his mouth seems to be a lie!" he glared over at Red.
"Dib is pregnant!" Zim shouted out rather bluntly as he made his way back over to the screen with Dib.
Red mumbled. "Just looks fat to me." he said under his breath, inevitably bringing about a reaction from both Zim and Dib.
A/N: And there you have it for Chapter 60. =3 Now to get to your guys' reviews~
To SkyDrops: Oh, yes. Generally speaking, almost ALL of ZO's chapters are short, give or take one or two chapters. But that's just because I like to try and keep all the chapters relatively the same length. Also, there's a higher probability of me updating with short chapters since I tend to get sidetracked easier when working on fics with LONG chapters. So yeah. Thanks for reading anyways. =3 There's definitely a lot more to come. It's just a matter of me ficafying it all (which I'll have to return back to doing once we reach Chapter 116 again).
To lillybean queen of the i ocean: Glad to hear you're finding the story awesome still. 8D