-1The Other Invader-Chapter 8: Search for the Dib-Worm

Author's Note: Well, seeing as no-one's reviewing, I really should give the updating a rest. But, I'm having too much fun to stop now! Heh, I hope whoever's reading is enjoying this. I know it's not getting many reviews, bu I hope there's someone out there reading it and not reviewing...Heh.

Disclaimer: I don't own Invader Zim. It belongs to the Jhonen Vasquez dude.

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'So, where exactly are we supposed to be looking?' Mynx questioned, gazing around the seemingly empty streets. Zim had managed to find his "disguise" in his labs, and Mynx had managed to activate her hologram. Not the search for Dib was on.

'We're going to look in the Dib-worms home.' Zim replied shortly.

Mynx shrugged and followed the Irken, who apparantly knew where he was going. Thankfully.

As they stopped by what Mynx assumed was Dib's house, she glanced through a window, to see a girl. Gaz.

Without stopping to so much as knock, Zim broke the door down. Mynx sighed.

'You really had to do that, didn't you Zim.' She said.

Gaz turned around and stood up. 'Zim?' She questioned. 'What do you want?' She asked, a scowl on her face.

'Where is your brother?' Zim asked her through clenched teeth.

Watching them both, it seemed the two were ready to tear each other apart. Mynx didn't bother say anything. It seemed Zim had that covered anyway.

'He's not here.' Gaz snapped.

'Where is he?'

'I don't know.'

'Fine.'

Zim turned swiftly and headed out of the house. He did so at exactly the right time, as it looked as though Gaz would have punched him there and then had he not moved.

They walked on in silently, Mynx having no idea where they were headed.

Walking further into the city, Mynx began to wonder where the heck Zim was taking her.

'Zim...do you have any idea where we're actually going?' She questioned.

'Of course I do!' Zim snapped back, though really, he was clueless.

'Where would he go? I mean, if he does have pictures of your labs-'

'He will!'

'-Yes, anyway, where will he be?'

'He's probably gone to that Swollen Meatball Network place.'

'The what?'

'Nevermind. We just have to find him.'

Sighing, Mynx continued walking, wondering what Zim was talking about. But, for once, she actually thought he was right about something.

As the rounded a corner, a familiar big-headed kid came into view.

'Dib!' Zim yelled, running towards him.

As the boy ran towards a tall building, the two Irkens followed, not letting him out of their site.

Dib ran into the building, wondering what to do. They had caught him, and he needed to find somewhere to hide. But there was two of them and one of him, which made it even more difficult to find somewhere. They were advancing on him fast, and he found the only way of staying away from them was to climb the seemingly endless flights of stairs.

'Okay, so I'm assuming he maybe does have something to hide from us.' Mynx guessed, running as fast as she could to keep up with Zim, who wasn't going to let Dib get away. Not that easily.

Climbing more and more sets of stairs, Dib was beginning to get tired. He stopped at the top of the building, meeting a dead end. Looking around frantically he found one more door- leading the rooftop.

Zim followed quickly, not letting the human get out of hid view. Mynx stopped when they were all on the rooftop, and the pair of them only a few inches away from Dib. She took a couple of steps back as Zim activated his spider-legs, advancing quickly on Dib, who obviously wasn't going to find somewhere else to go from here.

'Okay Zim...I get it...you want payback for me destroying your labs...right?' He questioned, backing away slowly.

'And anything else you have from my labs.'Zim answered angrily, towering over him.

Mynx stood behind Dib to prevent him running away, but it appeared that Zim would be able to take care of this...for once.

Not saying anything, Dib turned suddenly, pushing Mynx out of the way.

He didn't realise how close to the edge of the building they were, and knocked Mynx over the edge.

Mynx knew what she should do-activate her spider legs and grab onto something-, but her body wouldn't respond to her. She closed her eyes, not wanting to look at the fate that most surely awaited her.

As she braced herself to fall to the ground she felt someone grasp her wrist. Looking up she saw Zim; he had grabbed something with his spiderlegs and grabbed her before she fell.

It seemed to last and age as he dragged her back up. She breathed out a sigh of relief and looked to Zim. 'Thanks.' She said slowly. Looking around, she noticed Dib had obviously taken this as a chance to escape, and had run off again.

Zim, however, merely brushed off the comment. 'Yeah, sure, whatever. Now we have to find that Dib-worm again.' He didn't seem to care much at all that he had just saved Mynx's life. All he cared about was getting the photos off Dib.

'What makes you so sure he even has anything like pictures of your labs?' Mynx asked him curiously.

'Because he wouldn't have run away from us otherwise!' Zim argued, running back towards the stairs.

Mynx shrugged and followed him, ready to search again for Dib. As they ran out of the building, Dib seemed to have vanished. Looking around, Mynx sighed. 'He's probably long gone by now Zim.' She told him, looking around again, double checking. 'Besides, we can get him tomorrow if we need to.' She said to him.

'But what are we going to do if that horrible filth has anything from my labs! What if he has pictures? We can't let him get away!' Zim cried, looking about ready to explode.

'Believe me Zim, he knows that you'll kill him if he does it. He'll probably wait for a better chance and use them to blackmail you or something, knowing that horrible Dib-Human.' Mynx sighed and turned around, heading back to Zim's base. She just wanted to get back. She didn't think she could handle much more excitement. She'd had enough for one day.

Zim grudgingly followed, muttering under his breath about "that horrible Dib-Worm", but he went home all the same, knowing that Mynx did have a point. He'd kill Dib some other day.

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Appearing again from within his labs Zim saw Mynx sitting on the couch with a rather happy looking Gir. After they had returned home Zim had gone straight to his labs to sulk and make sure Dib hadn't broken anything too important.

Meanwhile, Mynx had remained upstairs with Gir and Nuk, and had discovered a wound on her shoulder from her fall. As she had tried to bandage it up, Gir had seen it was time for him to "help". Now Mynx was almost covered in bandages, and it seemed she was only just getting the last of them off now.

Zim smirked as he looked at her. Mynx put an indignant scowl on her face as she folded her arms.

'Could you please stop laughing every time your robot tries to "help" me?' She said mockingly.

Though for some reason, she began laughing herself. Along with Zim.

Soon enough, Gir joined in, and all three of them were laughing about absolutely nothing ((not much of a change for Gir)), despite everything that had happened. All of the chaos, the nightmare and the worries they had. Everything seemed to disappear for a few fleeting minutes as their problems dissolved in their laughter.

Something both Zim and Mynx never thought Irkens were actually capable of.

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The next day as Zim and Mynx walked into the Skool, they set about finding Dib straight away. They couldn't waste any more time sitting around and doing nothing. As Zim gazed around, he spotted the big-headed kid sneaking across the Skool grounds and hurrying into the building, hoping the two disguised Irkens hadn't noticed him.

Casting a glance over to Mynx, she nodded, and the pair of them began the chase once more.

Having a bad feeling about what was going on, Mynx kept running, feeling something was wrong. Zim, on the other hand, didn't give anything a second thought, thinking he was right about everything and didn't even see what was going on. Worse times were yet to come, and neither of them actually saw it coming. Though Mynx felt like something was up, she hadn't paid attention to it.

Running down the hallways the pair of them ignored all the stares the were getting from curious Skool kids as they hurried past.

Zim was a long distance ahead of Mynx, not letting anything stop him getting to Dib. After a while Mynx managed to catch up, trying to catch her breath.

'Zim...I don't think- Aaah!'

Everything went black as Mynx found herself being knocked out. As her eyes closed she gazed around for a fleeting moment, and couldn't see Zim anywhere. Where had he gone all of a sudden?

That horrible human filth...

The last thought which crossed Mynx's mind as she blacked out, with Zim nowhere in sight.

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Okay, so I KNOW this one is probably shorter, but I wanted to keep this a little short. There's a hell of a load of trouble for Zim and Mynx, bless 'em. XD

A couple of notes on this chapter:

The "Swollen Meatbal Network" Is what Zim would have called the Swollen Eyeball Network in an unmade episode of Zim.

Poor Gaz and Dib had to fork out a fortune to repair the front door without Membrane finding out. But ah well. Its better than that draft that was coming though XD

Well, I hope you enjoyed it!