Warning! This story is going to be very long! If you cannot stand long stories then do not read. If you do not like stories about incompetent aliens that no one likes then do not read this. If you cannot stand reading about the imminent destruction of Earth and enemies having to unite to stop the greater threat then DO NOT READ!

Thank you, that is all…

Invader Zim- The End?

Chapter 4

"So Kim, what kind of things do you do if you don't alert people that aliens exist? What is there really left to do at that point?" Dib walked along side Kim on their way home. She had moved in down the house and so he had offered to walk her home. She had accepted.

"I just try to get them off our planet any way I can. Sometime I have to sneak onto their ships and take their plans to conquer the planet. That's how I acquired so many weapons. It's pretty simple when it comes to getting an alien life form off of the planet though. They don't really know all of the aspects of Earth because it's so far away from any alien civilization."

"So that's why Zim's an idiot?"

"For all we know Zim could be the most feared Irken on his planet. He's only a fool here because he, most likely, has no information here. Not many extra terrestrials have bothered to collect data on this planet before. They always found such an act to be a waste of time."

"Out of the way losers!"

Dib pulled Kim far to the side and up close to him as a purple, blue and black stream streaked past them. It stopped a little ways in front of them, just at the corner. Gaz stepped off her black skateboard and stepped on the back. It flipped up and she grabbed it in mid air. Dib looked at her face. She seemed a lot happier today than she usually did. It was a little bit frightening. She was smiling at him and she had a strange gleam in her eyes. He scrutinized his face and tried to look at her more closely. She had a rosy color to her once pale cheeks and her smile was somewhat like she had just found something she had been trying to find for a very long time. "Gaz? What's wrong with you?" He asked. "You look… you look like… you're happy. Almost human even. Something really weird must have happened for you to be like this. Tell me, you were sitting next to Zim, did he brainwash you or something?"

She turned to him and frowned at the fact that she was pulled away from her thoughts so abruptly. "You should give Zim a chance you know. Have you ever even thought of the fact that he CAN'T take over this planet? Maybe he's been on it so long that he's grown to like it somehow." She thought for a second. "Although, on this planet, with all the smoke, crime and death, I'm not sure if any alien could ever grow enough to call it 'home'." She looked at Dib and Kim for a moment and then smirked her old Gaz smirk. "I see someone's found a new friend."

Dib and Kim looked at one another. Dib still had her clutched in his arms from when he pulled her out of the way of Gaz's skateboard. The two blushed and then quickly separated. Dib bumped up against a brown fence and rubbed his arm with embarrassment. Kim placed one hand on her hip and scratched the back of her head.

Gaz smirked and then hopped back onto her board. "Don't forget Dib, this is one night that dad's got time for us. He told me that we were allowed to invite friends over if we wanted to. If you do then do, if you don't then don't." Then she was off.

Dib turned and faced Kim. He rubbed his arm a little more. "Do you… Want to come?"

Kim smiled and then nodded. "I'll just go tell my parents and put my blaster away."

"Ok."

(That night)

"OK kids." Professor Membrane walked into the living room where Dib and Gaz were sitting. Another blonde girl had come home with Dib and was going to be his friend for the night out. "I see Dib's friend, but where is yours Gaz?"

She looked at the door and then back to her dad. "He… Should be here any minute. I don't think that it's like him to be late. Then again, I wouldn't know…"

Dib raised an eyebrow. "Him?"

"Yes, him."

"Well we can't wait much longer. Our reservations at Bloaty's Pizza Hut are exclusive and will only last a little while before they give our table away to someone else."

There was a ringing at the door.

"That's him!"

Gaz rushed to the door and looked out of the peephole. She smiled and then turned the handle. As she swung the door open Dib gasped in shock. He stared at the face of his arch nemesis. In the doorway stood Zim. He was not dressed as he usually did. Instead he was wearing a pair of blue jeans and a pair of brown sneakers. He also had a green tank top on and his hair looked slightly more human. Dib stared, opened mouthed, at the transformed Zim. He hardly seemed like the alien he had been fighting against since he was 11 years old. If it were not for his green skin and lack of ears Dib would not have recognized him.

Zim leaned in close to Gaz. "Do I look a little more human?"

"If you were only beige instead of green and you had ears the likeness would be so great not even Dib would notice."

"My machine's a little broken so I can't change those factors."

She shrugged. "That's ok. Come on in." She gripped Zim by the hand and dragged him into the house "Dad, this is Zim. He's the one I invited to eat with us."

"Oh, it's Dib's little foreign friend from all those years ago right? Splendid. Now, let's be off." Membrane walked past them and held the door open. "Come on. We don't have all night." They walked out the door and, single file, piled into the car. Membrane locked the door and then got in after them. Gaz sat next to Zim in the back seat and Dib had taken up the seat next to Kim closer to the front. Membrane started the car and they all drove off towards the pizza place. Dib tried to listen as best as he could to Gaz and Zim's conversation but to no avail. They spoke quickly and he felt inclined to speak with Kim seeing as she was his guest.

The car drove up to Bloaty's pizza hut and the five walked out of the car and into the restaurant.

They sat down at their usual table and each picked up a menu. Dib eyed Zim from overtop of his. He knew that the alien was up to something. Coming as his sister's friend. How low could he go? Probably lower than anything he had ever known before.

Dib leaned in on Kim. "Kim, are you…?"

"I'm watching him…"

He looked up to see that Kim had her glasses on again. She passed a pair to Dib and he slipped them on. She pressed the blue button on the side of both hers and his. The screen lit up for a moment and then Dib could see normal again if not for the blue tint to his vision. "It's just so he doesn't get suspicious." She said as she placed her menu upright. Dib did the same and found that he could fully see through the menu. He could see Zim and Gaz talking and looking at their menus together. For a moment Dib was convinced that Zim WAS a human being. He shook his head and removed the thought. He's an alien… I know that! Why do I keep thinking he's more human?

Zim checked his menu for something that he would like. Gaz leaned over and pointed to 'The Hog Pizza Special'. "That one's good and it comes with chocolate for dessert so you can try that idea I gave you earlier. Zim nodded and then leaned in on her menu.

"What are you having?"

"I'm not sure yet. Probably the same thing…"

Zim could feel something inside of him. He sat up straight and starred out into space trying to get a hold of himself. Gaz looked over to him and saw his strange figure position and facial expression. "Is something wrong?" He looked at her for a moment and then abruptly shook his head as he thought to himself properly.

What is wrong with me? I feel so strange for some reason yet… I don't know why… Maybe it's that Dib's fault. I've always hated him and he has always hated me so maybe he did something a while ago to make me feel weird. But… He looked over at Gaz and then looked away again. It must have a trigger function because whenever I look at that human… I have the strangest feeling… Perhaps I'm just being paranoid. I've fought Dib for so long I wouldn't be surprised if there was nothing I had to worry about at all and I was merely tricking my own mind. It wouldn't be the first time that happened. Oh, but I DON'T want to have to think about THAT incident again. A quiet shiver ran down Zim's back. (He probably doesn't have a spine seeing as he's not human and he has no human organs really…)

A waitress came to their table and looked each one of them over once or twice before she spoke. "OK, you guys," she said in a rather tedious tone, "What'll it be?"

Gaz spoke up first. "We'll have 'The Hog Pizza Special'."

"Will that be with chocolate or vanilla ice cream for dessert?"

"Chocolate."

The waitress took it down with her pen and pad and then turned to Membrane. "What about you?"

"The Membrane Mellow Pizza please."

"Ok, and you two?"

"I'll have the Alien Attack Pizza," Said Dib from under his glasses.

"Me too," added Kim.

The waitress nodded and then walked away to the kitchen yelling their orders at the top of her lungs. Dib frowned; sure let everyone hear about what we ordered lady. Very smart… Zim sneered, ridiculous! Why must humans insist on telling all other humans in the area what you order in a restaurant? Gaz snickered, Dib always looks really ticked off when the ladies do that here. Kim glared at her, fool. Must everyone hear what we want to eat? Do they have to know? Or is it someone's sick joke? Membrane smiled underneath the collar of his lab coat, she's pretty cute. Perhaps I should research woman a little bit more so that I can start dating again. I'm sure Dib and Gaz would like a new mother.

For a while all was quiet as they waited for their food. Kim and Dib watched Zim from behind their menus with the special glasses. Gaz and Zim talked quietly to one another about the stupid things that Dib had done in the past seeing as they both hated him. Membrane sat where he was and pondered prospect of having another woman around the house of whom actually DID something.

There was a beeping sound all of a sudden. Everyone was surprised and looked around. They all ended up turning to Kim. She looked at her watched and pressed a blinking red button on the side. A holographic projection appeared in mid air above her watch as the other four stared. "Oh," said professor Membrane, "I think that we were selling that once at a garage sale. Kim frowned and then looked back at the projection. She widened the screen of one part and then checked the screen of another.

Dib, Zim and Gaz all looked closer to the holographic but the writing in it was of another language not yet known to Earth. Only Zim and Kim understood it completely. The alien looked up to the alien hunter and nodded.

Kim turned to Dib and spoke. "We have a problem. There's a ship coming down very close to this place. I don't know the origin but it my strike dead in the center of the city. We'll have to stop it somehow."

"How would we do that?" asked Dib.

"We were have to steer it off course somehow…" This time is was Zim that spoke out. "We would need a ship that was both strong and durable to nudge the craft away from the city but that still leaves a problem of the crash. If we nudge it away then it will crash somewhere and could cause serious damage if it has potentially high fuel cell ratings." He thought to himself for a second.

"Wait… Why do you care Zim?"

"This planet is mine to conquer! No one else is taking my job!"

"Zim, I don't think that you're particularly qualified to conquer a planet…"

Zim stuck a hand out to Kim. "I don't have time for this human. "He turned back to Dib. "You have a ship, do you not?"

Dib nodded his head. "Ya, I still have Tak's."

"Good… Come on." Kim, Dib and Gaz followed Zim outside. They stopped and stood still. The night sky was glowing red with the oncoming of the ship. Zim frowned and then turned back to the humans. "Ok, Dib, you g home and get Tak's ship. I'll go get Gir and my own ship." As Zim turned to leave Dib gripped his arm tight in his own grasp.

"I don't trust you to go alone Zim. For all we know this could just be one of your plots to destroy the human race and you need to leave before the planet is destroyed."

Zim yanked himself away. "Oh please. If I were going to do that would I be helping you to think of a plan to get rid of the ship? Of course I'm not behind this you insolent fool boy! Why would I do that at a moment like this?"

Dib scowled. "I can list of one hundred reasons right off the back. Would you like me to?"

"Oh, knock it off you idiot." Gaz pushed Dib in the back and stepped up beside Zim. "If it makes you fell better I'll go with Zim to make sure he doesn't try to destroy the human race. If he tries you know I can stop him."

Zim pointed to her with his thumb. "It's true. She can."

"There. See? Problem solved. Come on Zim." Gaz and Zim ran in the direction of his base and left Dib and Kim behind.

Dib turned to her. "Now what? We can't get there fast enough on foot, I know that much."

Kim smiled and gripped Dib's hand. "Then we won't go on foot…" She pressed an unnoticeable button on her belt next to the holster where she usually keeps her blaster and Dib watched with amazement as a jetpack revealed itself from behind her jacket. He held on tight to her as the flames of the pack struck the ground and propelled them into the air with the leftover force. They were sent into the sky with such force that Kim had to hold Dib as well so that he didn't fall off. She leaned forward and waited as the thrusters took effect and she was blasted forth with lightning speed. Dib cheered as they headed for his house.

"Now to get that ship. I'm glad Tak's not here or she'd be pretty mad about me using her ship to save the planet she and Zim both wanted to conquer."

Kim shrugged. "Most aliens just plain hate the fact that others can touch their vehicles. It's like siblings not being allowed into another's room…"

(Zim and Gaz)

They neared the corner of the plaza and took a break to rest. Gaz sighed and leaned up against a lamppost to rest. "We'll… never get there… on time… if we have to… keep stopping… like this…" She leaned down and breathed in heavily. They had both run non-stop from the pizza place and were quite tired. "There's got to be… an easier… way…" She thought for a second. "Wait… Don't you have those… spider arms?"

Zim slapped his head in anger. "I can't believe I didn't think of that before hand!"

Gaz snickered.

"You didn't either."

"Well I don't own them and I've only seen you use them once or twice. It's not my fault if I couldn't remember them right away."

Zim's metallic, spider-like arms lifted him into the air and Gaz looked at him from underneath. He leaned down with the arms and picked her up by holding her hands. She gripped each one of his shoulders and he held her around her waist. Both Gaz and Zim could feel a strange feeling welling up inside them but they tried as hard as they could to ignore it.

"Let's go!" Gaz pointed forward.

Zim directed his arms in the way she was signaling and they began to move forward at a rate much quicker than when they had at first been running. The force was so great that Zim took the advantage in speed to not only move faster on the ground but to also leapt on top of the houses and run along them until he had to turn another way. Gaz watched the world pass her by from within Zim's grip. She saw the houses and the traumatized faces of the citizens below them as the two passed them by.

Soon they came to Zim's house. He set Gaz down and ran inside with her at his side. As they swung the door open Gir was standing in his battle stance with his guns at the ready. "Intruder!" he called out. His eyes glowed a deep red and his metallic face was cold and hard (obviously) so that it could place fear into the eyes of all.

Neither Gaz nor Zim took notice to the robot. Zim ran with Gaz to the pathway leading to his ship. "Come Gir!" Gir reverted back to his normal state and hurried after Zim and Gaz. They dashed up the stairs to Zim's attic and stopped at the door. Zim ordered the computer terminal in the house to open it and it did. In the spur-of-the-moment they hurried inside and found themselves standing directly in front of Zim's purple ship.

Gaz smirked. "Nice ride."

"You think so? I was thinking of adding extra thrusters to the back just to make it a little more speedy."

"But will it have the same look? That's the question."

"Probably not… Come on. Let's go!" Zim pulled Gaz towards the ship and as it opened up for him he practically threw her inside but he also did so as gently as he could. She landed on the seat and waited as he climbed in himself. Gir soon joined them and he and Gaz waited as Zim charged the ship's power cells. In a moment the top of the hose had opened and the ship was in the air heading right for the red sky and the object closing in fast of the planet.

Zim, Gaz and Gir met up with Dib and Kim while in the air. Zim signaled to Dib from his own cruiser and waited to see if the human understood his complicated hand signals. To his surprise, he did. They both charged forth in their ships only to break off in separate directions at they closed in on the smoldering mass of flame.

Zim took a good look at the mass and realized that it was of Irken making. Could this be a piece of the Massive Armada? If so how did it get so far from the explosion sight? And what will Dib do when he finds out that I don't have the fleet to back me up anymore? Zim tried not to ponder the outcome and instead lunged forward in his ship directly to the side of the mass.

The Irken star cruiser hit with impending force sending both it and the object moving in differing directions. The mass headed right for Kim and Dib as he had intended but it also knocked his ship off course. The Irken vessel was sent spinning backwards towards a tall building. Zim, Gaz and Gir were spun around in the small interior of the ship until it came into contact with the stone the building was made of. They were lunged backwards with great force and Gir was flattened like mere paper. Gaz was sent along with Zim to the very back of the ship and then forward again until they hit the glass up front. Zim landed on the seat on his stomach and Gaz landed on top of him. Zim popped his eye back into his head and put his lenses back on as Gaz helped Gir become 3-Dimentional once more.

(Dib and Kim)

"Gaz!" Dib looked out to the side as the ship his sister was in was sent right into a building. "Gaz! Gaz!"

"Look out!"

"What? AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" The ship was struck by the mass of flame as he was looking in the opposing direction. Tak's ship was stronger than Zim's and so was not sent back as far even though it was a little. The object was knocked to the left and Dib hurriedly began the chase.

The flaming accumulation of Irken metal was sent directly for the school. Dib hesitated for a moment and then continued after a serious poke in the back from Kim. He rushed forwards and made it in front of the heap right before it made it far too close to the education building.

In a flash he grabbed onto Kim and held her tight to him. The impact shot them far away from the mound but at least it was going where they wanted it too.

The object collided with the large hill just on the outskirts of the town and knocked down a tree after setting it on fire.

Tak's ship crashed into another house and then skimmed along three beside it. By reflex, the ship's persona activated the robotic arms and it was sent forth with as much force as it had first been knocked away. Dib still held Kim close as they spend forth through the air and towards the crash. For a moment he looked down at her and he felt his head turn red and sweaty. He turned away in hopes that she would not notice.

The ship landed right next to the crash, as did Zim's. Dib helped Kim out of the ship and then turned to the purple Irken star cruiser. Zim was pulling himself and Gaz out of the cockpit using his robotic arms. Gaz was in his grasp and Gir was riding on the back of his pack.

Dib rushed over and waited as Zim set his sister down. Then he lunged forward and landed a blow right to the green face. Zim stumbled backwards and crashed into the side of his ship. The robotic arms retracted and Gir fell off and onto the hull of Zim's ship. Dib punched him again and again. "You could have killed her! You could have killed my sister! You good-for-nothing alien piece of s…" Gaz gripped Dib's arm and threw him backwards so that he collided with the small robot and tripped.

"Stop it Dib." Gaz turned around and looked at Zim's beaten face.

"Gaz! He could have killed you! You were only supposed to go with him and make sure he didn't do anything sneaky. Once I was in Tak's ship I would have been protected, you know that! You weren't meant to jump into the ship along with him! He's a freaking alien! He's my arch enemy!"

"OH SHUT THE HELL UP DIB!"

Dib went silent as the infuriated voice of his sister.

"I'm so sick of all of this Dib! Why can't you just shut up and leave it as it is! Zim saved me you freaking idiot! If not for him I could have been a lot more hurt than just a scratch or two! You should be grateful!"

"But he took you in the ship!"

"I chose to go!"

There was a rumbling of metal from behind them. The four teenagers looked back to the crumbling accumulation of Irken material. A large strip of metal began to move back and forth from underneath another. The door could not be opened and so, for a moment, all was quiet right before a jet of laser shot out from behind the metal and tore it in two within seconds.

The five flinched backwards a step or two before they took a fighting stance on the spot. Gir released his many firearms and transformed his hands into two Gamma Blasters (A newer upgrade). Kim reached down to her boot and pressed a button that released a pair of handle that stretched around her shoulders to her hands. She took hold of them and waited as six-gun barrels popped around from behind her jacket. Dib took out the blaster that had once been in Tak's ship and held it in his hands ready to fire. Gaz thrust her foot forward and clenched her hands into fists ready to beat on anyone or anything that came out. Zim's robotic arms took effect and he rose high into the air prepared to lunge forth with all the speed his pack could muster.

The metal was thrust upwards from underneath and it landed on the grass. A gloved hand reached out from the inside as a dark blue blur swept by the five people (that includes the robot and alien) ready for battle. The blur stopped at the entrance to the hatch and took the familiar form of a dark blue cat with red eyes.

"Wait…" Dib scanned the cat once or twice. "I've seen that cat before."

Zim lowered down from his stance and Gaz relaxed. Dib put his gun by his side and Gir put his weapons away. Only Kim did not falter from her posture. "What are you doing?"

"Don't worry…" Dib put his hand on her shoulder and she tucked the gun barrels back under her jacket. "We know this one…"

The fire of the crash cleared enough to reveal a green face and long purple eyes. The creature had two curving antenna, much like Zim's, and a wed of metal wire on the side of it's head. It wore black gloves and boots along with a purple outfit similar to Zim's old one. There was also a life pack on this creature's back.

Tak stepped out and stood beside her SIR version robot. She looked out at the five faces and smirked. "Did you miss me?"