(Gaz POV)

We're the fuck is he!? He wasn't in his stupid room, and he wasn't at stupid Zim's house. I only had twenty minutes to find him. If I couldn't, that meant no Bloaty's with dad, who refused to go without both of his children. Something about wanting to look like a good father and maximizing his time with his kids or some shit. I needed to find Dib now. I didn't really care all that much about where he was. Infact, he could probably leave on some space quest for months and I wouldn't care, let alone notice. But I needed him in this rare moment of my dad wanting to spend time with us. He basically never spends time with us, and it sucked.

I remember when I was young that he used to spend time with us. That was a fun time. Then stuff had to get complicated with my mom. She had some like, freaky mental break-down, and tried to drown me in the bathtub during bathtime. She almost succeeded, too. It was when I was four, almost five. I vividly recall my head going under the luke-warm water and the burning in my eyes from the soap that was floating around. My nose had started stinging from accidentally breathing in water. I was probably under there for forty seconds. I remember how it felt like my lungs were going to burst from a strong, suppressed urge to breathe. I also remember how I was too small to fight against the strength of two adult arms forcing me under. Thanks to my dad coming in at the right time, I was saved. He shoved her aside so hard that her neck rammed into our broken towel rack. She bleed out and died. I've never felt so much loyalty to someone. He was my literal hero.

After she died, my dad felt a weird sensation of guilt and got a little quiet. He also got a little cold towards us. Maybe we remind him of mom from our appearance? To try and suppress some of his feelings, he keeps himself very busy with work. To suppress my feelings, I keep myself busy with video games. I guess Dib suppresses his feelings by being obsessed with paranormal stuff? ... I don't know for sure. Dib wasn't there when it happened and my dad and I never told him the truth. We just said she had a heart attack. He believed us, to my dad's releif. I didn't care if he did or not. I didn't and still don't like Dib. I pretty much hate him. Mom would have never tried to drown HIM. He was her intentional child. I was just her accident. He always got her attention and sweetness. She was always just awkward with me. The only person who gave me even a little attention was dad, and now, that was gone because he was hardly ever around.

Anyways, Dib. Where was he? I was walking the path from Zim's house to our house, having just checked there. Zim's computer let me in after I offered to empty the gutters. It wouldn't tell me anything though. It was weird. Zim wasn't there either. I turned around and bolted for the park. Maybe they were beating each other at the park?

I ran there and did a quick search. Nothing. I noticed that the sky had blurred from a dull, baby blue, into a sort of orangy-pink. My ten minutes were up, and I hadn't found him. No Bloaty's with dad. Whenever Dib comes back from whatever the hell he's doing, I'm going to make him pay. I trudged back home with my head low. This bites. Who knows when dad can or will want to hang with us next?

When I got home, I entered the front room with a defeated ora, lightly shutting the door behind me. I looked up at my dad, who had been patiently waiting on our leather recliner. "Any luck with finding your wacko brother!?" I gulped.

"No. ... But we could maybe just eat witho-"

"Of course we can't! Eating out is a Family event! Sorry dear. Maybe next time. Welp, back to work." He got up without hesitation and left the house.

Dib was probably off, screwing around with an alien, dad was leaving me home once again for work, and I was heading towards my SlaveMasterPro so I could play non-stop until my brother returned home so I could beat him.

(Dib POV)

Planet Hedrit was checked off of Zim's planet search list days ago. It was pretty much the same as Flubdrit. Now we were on a planet named Rus. This time, all three of us were searching together. Apparently this planet was extremely dangerous and not to be underestimated. According to Zim, every person who has ever visited this place has never been seen again. He said they were all probably eaten by the planet's guardian, Chast-Chast, which translates into tooth-tooth. I'm glad we're all grouped together for this search, cause I definitely didn't want to get eaten by a toothy monster. I have no doubt that I'm safe with Zim. I know what Zim is capable of, so I feel safe with him.

We had just gotten done with searching the North side of the planet, and were now searching the South. Right now, we were looking in craters of a giant open, rocky area. For the most part, this planet was just like the other two, having plenty of vegetation, but along with vegetation, it had humongous rocky areas ... and a monster.

Right now, I was peeking into an empty crater, Zim and Gir doing the same just a few feet behind me. I had a pretty strong hunch that we were going to find nothing here, too. "Hey Zim! Did you find anything in yours?"

An annoyed yell came back. "No Dib-fleshy! On to the next ones!" I pulled my body up straight and headed towards the next craters, which was about fifty feet away to the right. As I walked, I listened as Zim and Gir's footsteps trailed behind. Maybe Zim could use a break? His walking sounded kinda forced.

"Hey, Zim. Maybe we could take a break and rest for a minute?"

"That would be a complete waste of time. Why would we do that?" I couldn't say that I thought HE needed a break. That would probably insult him.

"I'm just kind of wore out a bit. Uh, it would only be a few minutes to rest. Promise." I turned around and faced him with a pleading look. It most likely went to waste though because he was STILL refusing to give me direct eye contact.

"Fine. You rest here. Gir, stay with Dib-thing." Wait, no! He's supposed to rest, too!

"Zim, wait! Uh, you should rest here, too! You would have a much more efficient search if you took a little break!" Please don't yell me, please don't ye-.

"Alright." Thank God. I sat down on the ground and made a gesture for Zim and Gir to do the same.

"I sure do like a break. I- *snores*" Gir's head leaned back as he slept ... I wasn't aware Gir could also sleep, ... or be capable of being tired. I turned my gaze towards Zim, who was looking at the ground and rubbing pebbles together with his fingers. I had concluded earlier that the reason I still seem to be worried about Zim was his transmission with his leaders back on Earth. They had seemed to mock him about something, and I felt empathy. I've been mocked my whole life by people. The difference was, I understood that I wasn't liked. Zim appeared to have been clueless. I still hate him. I just also, feel worried about him? I don't know.

"Dib?"

"... yeah Zim?" He still kept his gaze averted.

"Do you think we'll find ... uh, nevermind."

"Wait, go ahead and as-..."

*RRRRRRRRRRRR!*

The hell was THAT. Cause whatever it was, it nearly busted my eardrums, and it shook the ground.

"Uh, Zim, what was that?" Zim stood at attention with his antennas perked up.

"Not sure. Break's over. Let's continue our search and get out of here. Get up Gir." Darn it. I was really wanting a break lasting longer than two minutes.

(GIR POV)

Something awfully loud waked me up and then Zim made me get up so we could start searching for his other him again. I don't like searching. It's boring. I tooked note that Dib was with Zim, so I wasn't needing to be watching over him. While them two went to search a giganto crater together, I ran towards a shiny thing I saw in the corner of my ... EYE! It wasn't too far away.

When I runned up to it, I checked to make sure Zim didn't notice that I went off, and turned my attention back to the shiny and stared in awe. It was the prettiest silver triangle I ever saw. And the cutest. It twitched like a sleeping puppy and it was small as a dog bone. "It must be a baby! Awwww!"

I bent down to pull the lil' angel out of the ground. It was really stuck in there good. Poor thing. "Don't worry baby, I'll SAVE yOu." I started to pull harder and suddenly I was flung back and the rocky ground before me seemed to rise up. After the dust cleared up, there was the baby, fifty feet in the air, hanging in a row next to what I assume we're it's siblings. ... They were all stuck inside the hand of that giant lizard thing! The hand made a swooping movement towards me, and I prepared to make a move to swipe the babies away from the lizard, but suddenly I was yanked back ... by Zim!"

"Gir! Are you crazy?! RUN!" He grabbed my arm and activated his PAK legs and we were taking off fast. I saw that he had Dib in the grip of his other hand.

"Zim! Is that the m-monster?!"

"No Dib-beast. I believe the guardian is much more terrifying. This is most likely a spawn of the original."

"So that one's just a baby?!" Wait, wasn't the triangles the babies?

"Ain't the shiny, silver triangles the babies?"

"You mean the claws, Gir?" Oooh.

"Oooohhhhh."

Sorry updating took so long. I forgot to. Whoops. Fast-paced, but here ya go.