Dib dodged a laser blast (which hit a vital computer panel but that was beside the point) and ducked behind a large wire. Zim's boots clacked on the metal floor as he entered the area.

"I know you're here, Dib-beast."

Dib held his breath and tried to peer around the wire without revealing his hiding place. Zim whipped around, pointing his laser at a shadow.

"You can't hide forever, Dib-stink. This time... this time ZIM WILL NOT FORGIVE! This time YOU WILL PAY!"

Dib took advantage of Zim's rant to move behind another wire. Assured of his safety Dib took a deep breath.

"It's just a toilet seat, Zim! You don't even use the toilet!"

"SILENCE! Zim may not use it but it's still annoying!"

"Why do you even care?"

Zim fired his laser at a wire, ignoring the sparks and smoke since it didn't cry out in pain.

"Because, Dib-hyuman... because."

"... That doesn't even make any sense."

Zim saw movement out of the corner of his eye and fired. Dib flinched as the laser left a smoking hole a few inches away from his leg. He decided to bolt for it and took a run of faith. Zim saw the Dib and grinned malevolently, he levelled the laser and locked the target-

Dib froze.

Zim paused, puzzled. Normally the stink-beast would continue to run and Zim would fire, usually missing (ON PURPOSE!). Eventually a laser would hit a piece of machinery and he'd have to fix it while Dib got away. However, the Dib wasn't moving this time... in fact he looked rather horrified. Disgruntled, Zim stalked over and glared at the Dib's gargantuan head. And then Zim saw it.

Dib could only stare at the monstrosity before him. Its eyes were huge, taking up much of its face and a deep maroon color. Its skin had a light green tinge and three blunt claws decorated the ends of its arms. Two tiny antennae perked as it turned towards Dib, staring with its grotesquely massive eyes.

Zim could only stare at the monstrosity before him. Its skin was that disgusting pinky color humans came in with horrible moving eyeballs instead of the normal solid color. On the top of its head grew a tiny tuft of hair, already slicing back in a familiar scythe shape. It had a tiny, blunt nose and horrible three-toed feet. Zim gasped when it turned, its disgusting eyeballs moving within its sockets.

Dib heard Zim gasp and was spurred out of his dazed state. He turned and glared at his enemy then lunged forward, grabbing a thin spawn arm.

Zim saw Dib's glare and glared right back before lunging forward and grabbing a thin spawn arm.

"It's mine, alien!"

"NEVER! Zim's... eh, smeet shall become a great irken warrior!!!!"

"No, my baby will aid me in my paranormal studies!"

GIR walked in and watched them fight over the tiny spawn/smeet/baby thing for quite a while. He became bored after a while and wandered forward, thinking someone would want to play. Maybe they could play Pig... or watch the Scary Monkey Show...

"HIIIIIIIII!!!! Issat a mutant weasel, mastah?!"

"What? No, no GIR it's a smeet."

Dib glanced down at the baby and yelped, "Uh... Zim... I think it's having trouble breathing."

"SILENCE! Zim is TALKING!"

"No... no, Zim, seriously... it's turning a weird yellow color."

Aggravated, Zim whipped around but froze in mid breath. "Gah! It can't breathe! COMPUTER!"

"... yeah?"

"Scan the smeet and put on a pak according to it's biology! NOOOOW!"

The computer sighed and grumbled about workers compensation and unions before a long arm descended from the ceiling and plugged a small pak into the spawn's back. Immediately the tiny thing began gasping and it's... normal color returned.

Zim pointed a finger at Dib, eyes narrowed, "HA! It's more irken than hyuman! Your filthy hyuman air caused it to choke!"

Dib rolled his eyes. "It's part human and irken, Zim. That means it's going to have issues related to both human and irken."

"YOU LIIIIIIIEEEEEEE!!!!"

Unbeknownst to both combatants G.I.R was leaning in close to the newly hatched smeet... thing. The malfunctioning robot grinned.

"Hiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii."

The smeet looked up at him, antennae twitching slightly.

"Are you my new tooooooooy?"

The smeet, much too young to understand what G.I.R was talking about (it is only a few minutes old) stared blankly.

G.I.R squealed. "YAAAAAAAAY! Imma gonna LOVE YOU SO MUCH!" The robot grabbed the smeets' arm and proceeded to drag it to the elevator.

"Oh yeah?!" Dib snarled down at the diminutive invader.

"YEAH!" The invader screeched back, claws grasping the air in front of him.

"Well, then I'll prove it!" Dib whirled around to find the spawn and discovered it wasn't there. "What the... where did it go?"

Upstairs, the sound of screaming and shattering objects was heard.

Author Notes: So.. finally done. See my profile for the full story but Chapter Four will be a while in coming. Enjoy