For the past few weeks, Tak and Zim didn't hear from Zak, they spotted him working by himself every once in a while. He never said a word. Ever since Kal died, he's the one that was the ghost.

Zim had to find some sort of way to keep Tak from being too upset, too much stress could hurt the smeet. Everytime the thought of Kal came up, she'd start her emotional rollercoaster and being pregnant effected her extremely. Tak would be happy, hyper and friendly to so depressed she could kill herself. Mostly it revovled around Kal. Zim was far from focused, he couldn't imagine losing Tak and his smeet, he did however know what it was like to loose something important to his life.

Zim was in the dorm room with Tak and Gir, Zim was finishing a statis report on his last scouting. He sets everything down to relax and looks at Tak who was on the bed letting Gir feel her tummy, Zim could tell she had gotten bigger, the time was close. He knew any week now he'll be a father.

"Zim, your brat's kicking me" Tak told him, Gir put his head against her. Zim laughed,"I don't blame it, I practically want to kick you all the time". Tak throws her pillow at him and he dodges it.

"Get used to your mom being mad all time, it's a rare thing to see a smile on her face", Zim told his unborn smeet, Tak rolls her eyes, "That's just your dad, he's an idiot, but I'm sure you'll be much smarter" Tak said to her stomach, Zim walks over to the bed

"Your mom, she's pretty, but she's crazy" Zim rubbed Tak's stomach. Tak chuckles, "Did you feel that?", Zim smiles, "Yeah, I did, we still need to come up with a name".

Tak pokes him, "You're suppost to come up with a name"

Zim smiles, "Okay, I'll come up with a name for a boy and you come up with a name for a girl, how about that?"

"Okay", she jumps and looks at her tummy, "you're just hyper today aren't you?"

Zim has a mini-heart attack, "Are you okay?"

Tak smiles and kisses him, "I'm fine, this smeet isn't coming yet"

Zim calms down and looks at his watch, "We gotta get going, the Tallests are holding a meeting today in the lobby", Gir grabs Tak's arm, Zim gets off the bed and grabs the other, they both help her off the bed, "Why does this kid have to be heavy? ..Ugh…", Tak attempted standing, Zim held her tightly, "I can barley walk", she said as she wobbled to the door "Complain…complain...complain, that all I ever hear from you anymore", Zim teased staying close to her as they walked out.

Later in the Lobby of The Dormitory, Zim and Tak walk into a huge crowd of soldiers, Zim only notices one. Zim leaves Tak with Gir to help her, he walks over to Zak, "Hey". Zak turn to him, almost dazzed, "Hey"

"You okay?"

Zak sighed, "I've been better"

"Yeah, us to" Zim said, "So, what's going on?"

Zak looks around and shrugs, "I dunno, the Tallests have never called all of us in at once, there must be an emergency".

Zim rolls his eyes, "If I know the Tallests, it's probibly because they're out of snacks". Zim crosses his arms. Zak looks around quickly, "You could get killed for ridiculing them like that".

Zim sighed, "I know...". He didn't say anything further for his unborn smeet's sake.

"Welcome brave Irken soldiers!", Tallest Red announces, getting everyone's attention, "As some of you are aware of, 5,000 of our men have lost their lives while scouting an unknown area in Meekrob's Shadow, underground", he informed.

"We've come to think that an attack by the Resisty is being planned", Tallest Purple added ,"We've decided to get one of our military captions, along with their numeral team out, find the ambush and eliminate them".

Red looks at the slip of paper in his hand, "the numeral team is OID1", Red announced, "Your numbers are imprinted in your belts you reseived with your uniform",

Zim looks at his belt, "That's me…Zak?" Zak stares at his belt , "Yep", Tak looks at hers "No", Zim stands up and packs his gun, Tak pulls Zim's antennae, pulling his face lower then hers, "Your kid's gonna have a dad…", She told him feriously.

"Yes Honey, I love you, let me go now", ZIM twitched. She let's him go like you would a yo-yo. Zim rubs his antennae.

"OMD1 head to the Transportation Vehicals, your commander will be out with you in a moment", Red told them, ZIM helps Tak out of her seat, "You're okay by yourself right?", Zim asked

"I'm fine, I promise I won't have this smeet before you get back", Tak reassured, Zim kisses her goodbye as Zim and Zak leave, Gir tags along.

They get on to a Transportation Vehical. Zim looks at the familiar soldiers around them. "All the Invaders of Operation Impending Doom 1 are here",

Zak smirks, "Gee...I wonder what OID1 stands for", he said sarcasically.

Zim harshly laughs, purposely faking it. "you're halarious, what are you doing being a soldier, you should be a comedian"

"Hey, Zim!", Zim turns around and see's Skoodge walking toward them.

"Hey, Skoodge it's been a while", Zim greets.

"I heard about you and Tak! congrats man!", Skoodge smacks Zim's back, Zim smiles and nods, "Yep!", he said proudly.

"Couldn't keep your hands off her could you?", Skoodge winks

Zim shakes his head, "Nope", he also said proudly, putting his hands on his waist, superman-like.

"Zak, I heard about what happened, I'm sorry", Skoodge apologized

"It's okay", Zim looks at him worrily, "I'm fine, really", Zak assured.

On Meekrob, the team spend the night inside the caves underground, Meekrob's Shadow. It was named for the simple fact that it was dark. Zim was inside a tent with Gir. He was reading a map while Gir cleaned his gun.
Zim's antenna lifts up, he listens for a sound he heared outside the tent, the sound of footsteps, ZIM grabs his gun,
The tent door opens quickly, a shaow jumps inside, Zim screams and shoots the gun upward, leaving a hole in the roof of the tent
Zak laughs hysterically, "That's not funny", Zim wined like a four year old, GIR laughs and point at Zim.
"You should have seen your face!" Zak laughed and pulls out a book, "look what found"
He opens it, revealing old pictures.

"What's this?" Zim asked,

"These are pictures from our years in the Irken Elite"

"Oh yeah.." , Zim smiles and looks at one of him and Zak on campus, making goofy faces. Zim notices Tak in the background

"Hey there's TAK! god, she was hot, she's really let herself go"

"I'm gonna tell her you said that", Zak flicks his head, Zim's laughs.

Zak flips the page, showing a picture of Zak, his wife and a very young Kal. All three of them looking very happy, Zak was holding Kal in the air, playing with him and Karla, Zak's wife, was next to him, laughing. Zim stares at the photo and looks at Zak, who was smiling weakly.

"This was taken a year before she died", Zak traces his finger on Kal and sighs. "You okay?", Zim asks, Zak nods, "It's funny, you know?, losing the only thing that kept you alive, that made you feel like you were worth something"

Zim nodds. Zak flips the page

They find another picture of Zim and Zak in the food court on Devastis, acting goofy. Another of Zim and Zak durring their graduation with Zak kissing Karla. The next one was of Zim huggin Karla durring the graduation.

Zim laughs, "She was awesome". Zak smiles. "The sweetest darn thing, never gave in, never saw the downside of anything", Zim commented. Gir looks at the picture of young Kal, sadly, "I miss him", Gir said, Zak leans on the wall of the tent. "So do I...", he said staring at the star infested sky above them.

Well, that's the 6th chapter, I'm working on millions of other things as well as editing the rest of this story, but I'll try to get the next chapters up.

I'll have to explain the lengh of the whole story. When Battle for Meekrob is done, I'll be editing the 2nd story and then a 3rd story. This is a very long three piece fic, all together it takes place over...I think 30 to 40 years.

Please remember to review, I do enjoy other's opinions.