The plane was dead brown. Nothing stretched for miles and miles in every direction. It was the most boring thing Dib had ever seen and he made this fact known to all as the group plodded through it.

"Are we there yet?" the boy groaned.

"Yes."

"Really?"

"No."

The boy grumbled. "After all that crystal, how does the landscape change so drastically? It's as if something destroyed all of the crystals, but why would anyone do that? The Meekrob seem to need it and it is kind of pretty."

"Meekrobian crystal is very expensive," Tenn explained. "Lots of beings would want to cut it down but not too many want to face the wrath of the Meekrob. If you must know, malfunctioning SIR units ate the crystal."

"What's a SIR unit?"

Tenn sighed. "Your questions bother me. And besides, that sort of thing is an Irken secret."

"So? I know things from the fact that your leaders are just taller than everyone else to Irken technology to what you eat to …"

"Zim," Tenn said, venom pooling under her words. "How does another species know so much about us?"

Zim, knowing how dangerous an angry Irken female could be, backed down slightly. "A lot of things have changed while you were in that cell."

"Zim."

"Irk…something is wrong with Irk and, Earth being a planet nobody knew about, the Irkens on Irk took refuge there temporarily. Our species formed an alliance."

"Even when we formed an alliance with VORT we never revealed so much."

"It's different with Earth! I've been banished there! It's my planet!"

"That does not justify a whole race knowing so much!"

"Only these two humans know that much! With the rest, it was as easy as showing them how to build some nearly obsolete technology and solving problems with hunger, poverty, and such."

"I can tell that the purple one was yours, but did you claim the annoying, big-headed one as well?"

"My head's not big!" Dib shouted, earning glares from the Irkens. "Umm…sorry?"

"Yes, the Dib is mine. I want to see him in pain! Anyway, Gaz is the sanest of the human race."

"I have not been with her long, but I can tell that she complements your personality very nicely. I certainly hope the others of their race are not like the annoying one."

"By far, they are worse. These two are smeets. Their adult forms are as tall or taller than the Tallest! Most humans are painfully blind to the obvious. I could have walked around without a disguise on and they would simply brush it off as a really good costume. But their physical oddities are the most insane! They can eat everything! Flesh, plants, mold, even eggs!"

"Eggs? That's horrible! They eat younglings?"

"That's the strangest part! Humans don't lay eggs like most creatures. In fact, an entire group of the Earthiniods don't lay eggs! They smeet develops inside the female."

"Inside? Not laying the egg in something else or laying the egg then storing it inside themselves?"

"The smeet does not leave the female host until it is nearly fully developed."

"Ya know," Dib whispered to Gaz. "It feels really weird to listen to someone talk about your reproductive system."

"How long until the human develops completely?"

"Many, many years. You see in a few years, these two humans will reach something they call 'puberty' then they release all sorts of nasty hormones and pheromones that make them smell simply awful! It is maddening how many different scents they produce at once, each one meaning something totally different from the next. There is one, however, that is very pleasant, though it should come to no surprise. The scent of mate-able maturity evolved to be that way."

"Are you saying that they go through a separate process to achieve the ability to mate? They aren't created with that ability?"

"No! The separate process allows them to grow to such proportions!"

"These humans are very strange. No wonder the Empire formed an alliance with these creatures! Scientist would be desperate to have a specimen like them."

"Any scientist would want anything from their planet! Every single scrap of life on planet Earth is based off K2G."

"But that stuff is acid! And the sheer quantity of K2G that it would take for such a thing to be true is so enormous that it should be impossible! The only way for such amounts would be if a comet hit the planet."

"That must be what happened then. Earth is over two thirds covered in K2G, or as they call it, water."

"Fascinating. Oh look we're here."

The group looked at what could only be described as a man-hole cover. Using spider legs to lift the cover, Tenn lead the group down a ladder. After a maze of tunnels, they arrived at yet another door that opened to a high tech bomb shelter.

After everyone had eaten and the humans had drunken, they planned a course of action.

"Let me get this straight," Tenn crushed the skin on her forehead together using her thumb-claw and pointer-claw. "You crashed your ship into a crystal on planet Meekrob? It's probably useless now! You two are lucky to be alive! Well, maybe not so lucky seeing as we have no way to contact anyone outside this planet."

"Why don't we just steal one of the Meekrob's ships?" Dib asked.

This resulted in laughter from both Irkens.

"That's a good one!" Zim snickered. "Steal a ship created by a being made of pure energy? None of us could survive in it much less pilot it."

"What about Gaz? They took her in one of their ships and she's perfectly fine!"

"She's also been fused with a Meekrob!"

"I was wondering how you got us out," Tenn said.

A loud siren sounded throughout the room accompanied by blaring red lights. Tenn and Zim took shelter while Dib looked slightly startled and Gaz just ignored the sound.

"What's going on?" Dib had to yell over the noise.

"The SIR units are near! If they find us they'll eat everything," Tenn huddled under a table.

The lights and sounds stopped and a screen formed from the wall. It showed a large group of blue-eyed SIRs following none other than…
"Is that GIR? What's he doing with all those other robots?" Dib pointed out.

"Something is wrong with their eyes," Tenn inspected the screen closer.

"It appears that GIR is contagious," sighed Zim, going to the door.

"GIR? What does the 'G' stand for?" Tenn's eyes never left the screen. "Don't open the door. We still don't know if it's safe."

"Nobody knows, not even GIR," he continued to the outside. "Don't worry. If I know GIR, the only harm those robots can do is accidently."

Zim lifted the cover, which happened to have a SIR standing on it. The robot noticed it was rising and looked under the cover.

"Hi!" it exclaimed, gathering the attention of all the others.

"Master!" squealed GIR. "I missted you!"

Zim soon found himself covered in robots. "Get off! I can't breathe!"

"Yes, sir! Yay!" all of them saluted briefly.

One of the malfunctioning SIR units tugged gently on Zim's uniform. "Do you know where our master is?"

"Yes," the Irken nodded. "Just be careful. She's just come back from a bad place."

"OOOoooOOO!"

Knowing the others were watching them, Zim waited semi-patiently. The robots just sat around, staring at nothing. When Zim was about to storm down the man-hole and throw Tenn to the robots, Dib's head poked out.

"Move up already!" Gaz yelled from below.

Tenn soon had an army of friendly SIR units at her beck and call.

"So now that these guys won't play with explosives anymore," Dib said, "what should we do with them?"

"Nyaa!" Minimoose squeaked.

"Really? Are you sure?" Zim demanded.

"Nya!"

"Then lead the way!"

The only people who seemed to understand the purple moose was GIR and the herd of SIR units. Everybody else just tagged along because they had nothing better to do.

Yay! An author's note! Any of the stories that you want me to update are going to be updated as soon as I feel like it.