ZADR Orange Chapter 113

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: Notgonnadie

Dib: Me

Enjoy. =3

Smiling sadly at Dib's words, Zim sent the hybrid a hopeful look. "Will you forgive me?" he asked, just wanting to put their argument behind them now.

"That depends...Are you going to keep on accusing me of wanting to leave you?" Dib glared down at his food again.

"No...I know you won't..."

Again, Dib sighed. "Fine...I forgive you...But you're sleeping on the couch tonight..." he said, shooting Zim another small glare.

Zim smiled wide. "Alright." he nodded, completely ignoring the glare.

Holding his stomach, Dib merely continued to eat silently, putting down his fork after finishing most of his spaghetti.

Worried, Zim glanced at him. "You okay?' he asked almost cautiously.

"I'm fine...My stomach's just a little upset is all..." Dib said, the smeets only continuing to kick more and more inside of him instead of calming like they usually did after a meal.

Glancing down, Zim sat up and smiled a little, leaning in to whisper to him. "I don't think they like us fighting." he said, thinking that was the reason they wouldn't calm.

"Well, they're upset about something...They won't stop kicking..." Dib said in a low voice back to the other.

Zim nuzzled him. "Let me see what I can do." he stood up and took Dib's hand, leading him out of the kitchen. "We'll be right back." he said to the room of people as they left. Once he had Dib alone, he then pushed his shirt up and kissed his belly gently. "Come on now, little ones. Your mommy needs a break." he spoke softly to the smeets.

"Ugh..." Dib groaned out a bit. "If they don't stop soon, I'm going to be sick..." he held his stomach more, pacing back and forth in an attempt to walk it off.

Zim pouted. "Maybe Rose would know what to do..." he suggested.

"No...No...I think we've caused enough trouble for her already today..." Dib said, continuing his pace around the room slowly, rubbing his hand soothingly over his stomach so as not to get sick.

"Uhh...Maybe you should lie down..." Zim then said, worried Dib would lose his dinner.

"I'm going back upstairs..." Dib headed for the stairs quickly, just wanting to lay down before that very thing happened to him.

Zim's antennae drooped. "Want me to come with you?" he asked as Dib went to head for the stairs.

"No. No, I'm fine...I'll come back down in a little while..." Dib said, heading up the stairs without another word.

Heading back for the kitchen, Zim sighed. "Dib felt sick..." he said once he had joined everybody back at the table.

"Sick? Again? W-Well, is he alright?"

Shrugging, Zim sighed again. "I don't know...He went to go lay back down..." he said, returning to picking at his food.

"Do you want me to go up there and check up on him?"

"Please? He probably wants to be alone...But I don't want him getting sick without someone watching over him..." Zim sighed before dropping his voice even lower. "Then again, it might just be me he can't stand to be around...Stupid pheromones..." he half mumbled to himself.

"Alright then, but what's this about pheromones?"

Zim sighed. "Don't ask..." he said with a shake of his head.

"Alright, alright, I'll go check on him now." Jack said, heading out of the kitchen to make his way up the stairs to the bedroom Dib had been staying in, knocking on the door when he got there. "Dib, are you alright?" he asked.

Curled up on the bed, Dib went to sit up slowly, a hand to his stomach. "Yeah...I'll be fi- AH!" he got cut short by the sound of a firework going off outside, causing one of the smeets inside of him to jump, startling him.

"Dib?" Jack opened the door, worried now.

Meanwhile, downstairs, Zim heard a loud firework and screamed before dashing under the kitchen table, eyes wide.

"Z-Zim, are you alright?" Rose pulled up the table cloth to see Zim sitting with his knees to his chest under the table before looking over at Purple, who had also reacted, having jumped out of his seat and pressed his back to the wall, eyes wide as he took a defensive pose and looked about the place, as though expecting something to come flying out at him.

Dib following behind him, Jack came bounding down the stairs, both of them having heard Zim's scream and reacted to it in the same way. "What's wrong?! Is everything okay in here?!" he asked in a panic.

"Where's Zim?!" Dib's own eyes were wide, a bit shaken by how much louder the fireworks sounded with antennae now.

Under the table, Zim whimpered, clapping his hands over his antennas to try and block out the noise.

As more fireworks went off, Purple clung to the wall more, his eyes growing wider than ever.

Going to kneel down near the table where Zim was, Dib had his own hands clapped over his antennae as he winced every time one of the smeets jumped inside of him, startled by the fireworks. "Zim...It's just fireworks...Nothing to be afraid of..." he tried to coax the other out from under the table as Rose and Jack set to work trying to calm Purple down, realizing this was his first time on Earth and therefore his first time experiencing fireworks.

Closing his eyes tightly, Zim shook his head.

"Come on, Zim! It's not like this is your first time hearing fireworks going off! You should be used to this by now!" Dib removed his hands from his antennae, still keeping them pressed as far back against his head as possible as he held out both his hands for Zim to take. "I'll even show you that they're nothing to be afraid of!" he said.

Taking Dib's hands, Zim whined but let him pull him out from under the table. He then clung tightly to Dib's side and whispered, "At least now we know what was wrong..." he said, referring to the smeets.

"Th-The smeets are afraid of the fireworks..." Dib said, hugging Zim close for a few moments before finally pulling himself back up onto his feet with Zim to head outside, Rose and Jack having by now gotten Purple to at least sit back down.

As they left the building, Zim clung to Dib. "Wh-Where are we going?" he asked, looking about almost frantically.

"Somewhere where you can get over this fear of fireworks you have. The only reason you don't like them is because you never actually ever took the time to just look at them. Every year, you just hide away in your base and listen to them. But that's not why we set them off. We set them off to look at. If you saw them, you wouldn't be so afraid all the time of hearing them go off." Dib said, dragging Zim outside into the backyard where Rose's nieces and nephew already were, watching the fireworks as they waited for their mother to light some sparklers for them to play with.

Clinging tighter to Dib, Zim whined. "They're so loud!" he buried his face in Dib's chest. How could anything like that be good?

Dib pulled Zim out onto the lawn. "Just look up, Zim!" he said, looking up himself to see the sky lit up beautiful colors of pink, green, and blue.

Looking up, Zim bit his lip, eyes widening at the colorful display. "Oh...Wow..." he said in some wonder once he got a good look at them.

"You see? I told you it was nothing to be afraid of." Dib said when he saw the look on Zim's face. "They're just a display. Nobody is attacking the planet or anything like that. Now, come on." he pulled Zim down to sit on the grass with him, just wanting to enjoy them while they still could.

A/N: And there you have it for Chapter 113. =3 Until next time~