Author's Note- I just noticed that these chapters are REALLY short…gosh they look so long on Word.

Chapter 2 No more

Dib didn't know what to do. I can't leave him here to die. But why can't I, he's my mortal enemy. I should be happy.

Dib kneeled down and poked Zim. Then he started to shake Zim, desperately trying to wake him up.

Is he dead?

"Zim, please wake up! You have to get up!" he said urgently.

Zim slowly opened his eyes. The magenta color was glazed over and looked dull. His antennae drooped in front of his face.

Zim struggled to sit up, but failed and fell back to the floor.

"GAZ COME AND HELP ME." Dib screamed to his sleeping sister.

Dib tried to pick Zim up, but was too weak.

Gaz came downstairs looking pissed off.

"What do you want Dib? If it is stupid paranormal stuff I'm going to kill…" Gaz broke off when she saw Zim. "…you. God Zim you look awful!"

Gaz walked over and helped pick Zim up. Together they got him on the couch.

"What happened?" Dib asked.

Zim struggled to talk, "The tallest…lied…mission…fake…tried to…kill me…tried to self…destruct…my base."

"Wait." Dib said confused. "Let me see if I can understand this…your mission to kill us all was just a fake, your leaders tried to kill you by blowing up your house, so you came to me for help?"

Zim nodded. Tears filled Zim's eyes and he started to shiver. "They lied…I'm stuck on this…planet… no base…no protection…no anything. Not even Gir."

Zim closed his eyes and let the tears run down his check.

"Well, I'm going back to bed." Gaz said nonchalantly and walked back upstairs.

"Wait, why did you come to me again?" Dib asked.

Zim looked up at Dib and angrily swiped the tears from his eyes. He hated to cry.

"I…I didn't know where else to go."

"Oh…well…ookay."

"WELL IT'S NOT LIKE I HAVE A CHOICE, ALRIGHT!" Zim screamed, eyes filling with tears again.

"WHERE ELSE CAN I GO? To your government, hmm let me think, NO! They would experiment on me, reveling my existence and irkens. Oh I know how about space, oh that's right MY BASE JUST BLEW UP ALONG WITH MY SHIP."

Zim tried to say more, but he broke off into a fit of coughing.

Zim sat there and started to cry his eyes out.

Dib backed up and walked into the kitchen. He felt sick. He couldn't bear watching Zim cry for some reason.

After about ten minutes, he finally got the courage to go back to the living room.

Zim lay on the couch. He had finished crying and was now fiddling with some button on his gloved arm.

The button had writing on it but it was hard to make out.

Zim moved his hand to press the button.

"What are you doing?" Dib asked concerned.

Zim turned his head around to face Dib, his hand still near the button.

He stared at Dib with a blank expression. "There's nothing left. My tallest hate me, my mission is fake…I feel lost. I don't have Gir or my base. My mission is over; the only thing left for me to do is…die."

Zim moved toward the button.

Dib's stomach lurched which brought back the sick feeling. Zim was going to kill himself! He was actually going to commit suicide!

"NO," Dib yelled, "Wait, I'll help you."

"How?" Zim whispered back.

Dib couldn't respond. He didn't have an answer.

"Yeah, that's what I thought." Zim said turning back to the button. But he hesitated.

"Why would you help me anyways? You hate me…like everyone does."

Dib couldn't believe what he was about to say. He wanted to scream 'Yes I do NOW DIE' and press the button on his own, but he couldn't. He wouldn't let himself. But why? He hated the irken.

"No…Zim, I guess I hated the fact that you were trying to enslave my home planet. You were going to kill us all. I didn't hate you as a person, though, um well alien. You were the only one I could talk to, the only one who knew I wasn't insane, the only one…who was like a friend." Dib said starting to cry. "Before you, I had no one besides Gaz. But even she thought I was crazy. You're kind of like my only friend…"

Zim took his hand off the button. The image of the button disappeared and was replaced by his normal glove.

"Friend? Are you feeling okay Dib worm?" Zim chuckled, surprised, and somehow a little pleased.

"Well invaders need no one…, especially friends…but…I guess I'm not an invader anymore."