A/N: Hey, you guys. Gonna try and keep this short, but here's a late Christmas update for those of you who have been waiting. Would have updated sooner but have been rather ill the past few days. Still feeling pretty ill even now but didn't want to put off posting this chapter any longer. So here you guys go.

Unfortunately, I couldn't really concentrate much during the revision process before posting, so sorry if it's not that great an update. This WILL be the last update for a while though. I'm hoping to pick up updatage for this story come February, March at the very latest. So please bear with me in the meantime, you guys. As I said in my last update, DIS will be worked on this coming January and hopefully posted mid-February, given Sass has time to draw up a preview image. Until then though, I hope you all enjoy a good rest of your holiday seasons!

ZADR Orange Chapter 168

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

Stepping back after a moment to look Dib up and down again, Rose held up her hands to frame the hybrid's entire body between her fingers. "You know, Zim. We may not have to make as many changes to his face as we thought. I didn't want to say anything before, but I kind of thought Dib had a fairly feminine-looking face to begin with when I first met him." she said, closing a single eye and pulling her fingers back to better fit Dib in her line of vision.

Zim giggled silently to himself a little as Dib's face heated up.

"In fact..." Rose stepped up closer to Dib again and ran her hands through his hair, trying to see how long it was. "You could probably just leave the bows on his antennae out altogether and put them in his hair instead. It's pretty long. We could probably pull off pigtails if we wanted. And with the way his hair already sticks up like that…" she pointed to his scythe lock. "…It would probably look really cute on him. If you could curl back the tips of his antennae and maybe play around with his eye lashes just a little bit, I think we could pull this off fairly easily. I could do his makeup and help with the clothing. Oh! But when the wedding day comes, perhaps we could do something with flowers in his hair instead." she tried to picture it in her head, a wide smile coming to her face at how cute Dib would look. "Adorable!" she clapped her hands together giddily, already able to imagine all the details perfectly in her head.

Zim looked at her curiously. "So we can pull it off then? He will look female?" he asked, tilting his head to one side slightly.

"See for yourself." Rose retrieved two long, red bows from the couch before walking up behind Dib to start fiddling with his hair, combing through it with her fingers until she had divided it fairly equally. Then, taking one of the bows, she tied one side up and then the other into pigtails for Zim to see. "There. Can you see it better now?" she asked, turning Dib to face Zim. "A little bit of makeup and some more feminine clothes and he'll look almost perfectly like a female." she smiled wide, certain they could pull this off with ease.

Looking Dib over once he'd been turned towards him, Zim smiled also. "I guess you're right." he said once he saw what Rose was getting at.

Shifting about somewhat uncomfortably on his feet as he let them have their fun meanwhile, Dib blushed shyly at their words.

Nuzzling a cheek to the top of his head affectionately, Rose hugged Dib tight. "Oh, you're so cute as a female!" she squealed happily, having far too much fun with this.

Zim pouted at this. "Hey! Zim's cuddly Dib, not yours!" he pointed accusingly at Rose when he felt her encroaching on his mate.

"Awww...Come on, Zim...I don't want to let go...And I DID turn him into a female for you..." Rose continued to hug Dib close, though in a more playful manner now.

Crossing his arms, Zim could only pout more. "Fiiine. But he's still mine." he said, not too keen on sharing Dib with anybody.

Rose smiled. "You'll get him back. And who knows. Maybe you'll even get a smeet that looks like Dib as a female." she laughed, trying to imagine it.

"Yes, yes. Wonderful." Zim pouted and hopped onto his feet, pulling Dib away from her to cuddle himself. "Nyahhh." he then stuck his tongue out at her, grinning in victory.

Fiddling around with the bows on the couch still, Gir looked up once Zim had pulled Dib back to himself and gasped. "Da Big-Head Boy turned into a Big-Head Girl!" he squealed, totally convinced by the disguise that Dib actually was a girl now. He then giggled into his hands. "And she's wearing a BRA!" he danced about the room, giggling insanely. "Mastah gots a girlfriend! Mastah gots a girlfriend!" he sang out in a sing-song voice.

Rolling his eyes, Zim kicked Gir when the little robot got close enough to him to do so.

Not thinking he looked all THAT much like a girl as he stared into the mirror, Dib flushed a bright red at the android's words. "...I am NOT girly..." he mumbled under his breath, still trying to get over Rose's earlier comment about him looking like a girl to begin with.

Zim snickered at those words. "Of course you aren't, Dibbers~" he said before kissing him playfully.

Letting out a small whine at the kiss, Dib flailed at Zim in an attempt to pull away. "Stoooop..." he whined, antennae falling back.

Zim looked at him curiously. "What's wrong?" he asked, his smile never leaving.

Dib shot Zim a dirty look. "Stop making fun of meee..." he tried to pull away again, though Zim wouldn't let go, causing his antennae to twitch before falling back again as he let out a small growl. "I'll kick you where the sun doesn't shine if you don't." he then said threateningly, his hormones having been all over the place that morning.

Zim laughed a little at that threat and nuzzled him. "Relax, Dib-love. I'm not doing anything." he kissed him again.

Narrowing his eyes on Zim, Dib growled moodily at the kiss.

Antennas drooping at that reaction, Zim quickly let go of Dib. "Okay, okay." he held his hands up defensively upon realizing how serious Dib was being in that moment.

Instantly making his escape back to the couch, Dib took refuge underneath the blanket and curled around his belly protectively, not wanting anyone else to have any contact with it or his smeets.

"If I didn't know any better, I'd think he was PMSing. " Rose said in a whisper to Zim before giggling a little at Dib's reaction.

Zim looked at her oddly. "What's that?" he asked, having never heard of such a term before.

"Well..." Rose leaned down to whisper what it was in his antennae before standing back up straight. "You've never heard of it before? Even amongst any of the females on your own planet? Or perhaps the past few years you've been on Earth?" she then sent Zim her own confused look now, a little surprised by Zim's question.

Zim shook his head. "The only time an Irken goes into heat is during and after intercourse." he said, still not quite understanding everything Rose had just whispered to him.

"Well, it's not exactly heat. It's just a hormonal change most females go through. They get kind of...touchy...about certain things once every month, u-unless they're pregnant. Then they're just touchy about everything every single second of every day."

Zim looked nervous. "I'm glad I'm not Tak then..." he shuddered at the thought of Gaz going crazy once a month.

"Well, I'm not so sure you're off the hook from having to deal with it right now." she said, pointing over at where Dib was currently burrowed underneath a blanket.

Zim's antennas drooped. "Dib?" he looked about ready to approach the hybrid but was stopped by Rose before he could move over any closer to him.

"I'd stay away for a little while if I were you, Zim. He's definitely giving off the vibe of somebody who would be PMSing. I don't think you want to be messing around with him right now. Jack learned that the hard way with me." Rose glanced over at Jack with a rather amused smirk.

A/N: And there you have it for Chapter 168. Until next time~