WARNING: ZDAR/YAOI Don't read if you don't like this stuff, and if you don't know what it is don't read :P
Disclaimer: I do not own Invader Zim, I just love the characers
Synopsis: Well, they finally did it, convinced Dib that there were no such things as aliens, using unconventional means. Now Dib doesn't know what's real, and what isn't anymore. Is he Zim? He must complete his mission!
A/N: this is my first ZADR and Yaoi, please R/R :D
Rated M for intense violence/slash and of course yaoi
To say Zim was furious would be an understatement. Livid, pissed, there were no words in English that would described his anger. Oh, how he wanted to press that code, wipe Dib from this infernal dirt hell permanently. But that would have left him sooooo unsatisfied, not when he wanted to rip him apart with his own hands. Wanted to feel that hot burning blood sear him as he ripped the soft organs from his body. That would be so much more gratifying. With a cry of hatred he deleted the code that had flashed up on his screen. Dib better survive those retched humans until he got to him.
He listened to everything through the still opened line, seething, plotting. The problem was how to get to him. His Voot Crusier was long gone, destroyed years ago.
"Incoming transmission." The computer voice sounded. Zims antennae pick up at that.
"Skoodge reporting for duty sir." The small Irken face appeared on the screen.
"Ehh? Skoodge?" It took Zim a moment to get his thoughts together. "What are you talking about?"
"Well, the-the Tallest thought they would send me ahead to-to help out with the invasion plans." He seemed nervous.
Zim gave a malicious laugh, "Yes, YES perfect! I have just the mission for you Skoodge."
Skoodge's antennae wilted at this. He knew all to well of Zims plans and how they usually ended. "Y-yes Zim, I mean sir."
Zim almost rubbed his hands with glee. Oh, how Dib was going to pay for those words, that stupid dirt-monster. He waited for Skoodge to arrive, his cruiser finally landing in the empty place where his Voot once sat. The ship looked sleeker, the design modified, newer, which just made Zim angrier with all that he'd missed.
Skoodge was the same size he had always been, short, even for an Irken. He looked up wide eyed at Zim, and Zim only looked down at him, his own eyes narrowed. Had Skoodge shrunk?
"Y-you've gotten taller Zim." He squeaked.
Zim smiled at this, "I have, haven't I." Although he was still short by Earthen standards. "Come Skoodge, we have much to do."
Zim turned and headed back to his control room, Skoodge close on his heels. He began to pull up the invasion plans that Dib had initiated. They only had seven hours before this planet wouldn't know what hit it. But there were a few things that still needed to be taken care of. Dib had been quite thorough in obtaining the various government defense systems information. They were all so paranoid about each other, they wouldn't even suspect where the threat was coming from. It wouldn't be hard to get them to blame each other and start a world war.
He angrily typed in his codes. That Dib, even though all this was his now, it still infuriated the Irk. Once it started, they would initiate the other countries defense programs to begin destroying each other. So simple, so ingenious. But first he needed to get back what was HIS. Dib needed to be punished, severely.
Zim found Dibs location through his bracelet. Connecting to his satellite base, he brought up the pictures and scans of the place. The trick was going to be getting in there and out with all the security.
"This is the place we need to infiltrate Skoodge" The images flashed across the screen. The room that held Dibs beacon flashed red, and he pulled back to study the rest of the building and then the whole compound.
"GIR!" he yelled, Skoodge jumped.
"Yessss?" Gir poked his head down from the ceiling, then dropped down to where Zim sat. He glanced at Skoodge. "Intruder." His eyes flashed to red.
"No Gir, this is Skoodge."
Gir's eyes flashed back to turquoise, he began to scream and run around Skoodge. "Yeaaaa, a new friend, you want a cupcake?" Gir retrieved a cup cake from his head and shoved it Skoodge.
Skoodge took a step back not sure what to make of the SIR unit. Then Gir proceeded to eat the cupcake, most of it ending up on his face.
"Ahhh, Zim?" Skoodge asked
"I need your ship Skoodge, we must go get the Dib-monkey so I can make him pay."
"Who?" Skoodge was clearly confused.
The ship was small, well it was fine for Skoodge, but for Zim it was a little tight to squeeze in.
"Gir, get off my head!" Zim yelled
"Awwww" Gir complained, he slipped off and ended up on Skoodge's head instead.
Zim looked over the controls a moment before he started pressing buttons and pulling things. It was slightly different than what he was used to. The ship lifted slightly and then jerked right and smacked into the wall.
"A-are you sure you don't want me to fly?" Skoodge timidly asked.
"Of course not, I'm an excellent pilot." Zim scoffed at him while he was still was figuring out the controls. The ship hit into the other side of the wall before it flew up into the sky. Skoodge gave a small squeek.
It was just getting dark outside which would help, not that the humans ever noticed his Voot before, so stupid they were. He had to be careful though.
"First we need to draw their attention away from the area we need to infiltrate." Zim told Skoodge "a diversion of sorts."
"And what's that going to be?" Skoodge asked.
Zim looked over at him his eyes narrowed and he grinned. The hatch opened and Zim kicked the small Irken out. Skoodge screamed the few feet to the ground.
"You have ten minutes Skoodge, and if you fail, I will give YOU his punishment."
Skoodge quickly looked around him and then jumped off and scuttled towards the building, keeping low to the ground, watching, moving ahead cautiously but fast. He had no idea what Zim was talking about but had no doubts about being given a punishment.
Zim watched him a moment, satisfied that his threat had worked, and moved the cruiser to the opposite side of the compound. It wasn't difficult to land the ship among the other moving machines the Earthings had. Many of them seemed to be using technology not unlike Irkens, albeit more primitive. Thanks to humans like Membrane.
He had his human disguise on, the contacts, the wig it had gotten him through all those years of that horrible skool.
"Gir, stay with the ship and be ready when I call you."
"I obey." He saluted and then began to jump up and down on the seat, pulling out a small plush piggy and moving it through the air. "Look piggy is flying."
Zim glared at him a moment before exiting the ship. He really needed to so something about that SIR unit, but remembered the last time he tried that and shuddered. Maybe it was best to leave him like this.
It wasn't hard to find a guard and take him out. Zim pulled the new acquired hat down on his head and put the jacket from the uniform on. It was a little big, but it would have to do. No one tried to stop him as he entered the compound.
"Sergeant!" A uniformed officers yelled at him.
Zim stiffened, than turned to the voice that seemed to address him. "Y-yes?"
"Take these reports to Colonel Radford." A thick file of papers were thrusts in Zims arms.
"Of course right away." Zim turned down the corridor away from the annoying man. And as soon as he rounded the corner he dumped the files into the nearest garbage can. He pulled out his communicator to check his position. The nearer he got, the more intense the security. He caught a glimpse of Membrane up a head and his eyes narrowed. He walked down the hallway speaking with one of the soldiers. He began to follow them. Skoodge better not fail him. Zim paused as Membrane and the other solider passed through a guarded door. It slid shut behind them.
The lights went out, and the red emergency lights flashed. Zim wasted no time in extracting his spider legs and propelled him through the hallway, climbing to hold onto the ceiling to avoid soldiers running here and there. The door Mrmbrane has went through only had two guards posted outside it. Zim paused as the door opened and Membrane and the other solider rushed out it.
"How can it just fail for no reason?" The soldier yelled into his communication device. "Just get it fixed!" he yelled.
"I'll check on the containment field General, make sure it hasn't been damaged." Membrane told him as he hurriedly passed below Zim through the hallway.
"I'm surrounded by idiots." The General muttered as he hurried in the opposite direction. That left only the two guards at the door. They really were no match for Zim as he landed in front of them and used the lasers from his spider legs on them. They fell with barely a sound. Then he pried the doors open.
The room wasn't too large, monitors lined the walls, desks with computers and instruments along the side.
"Hey, this room is off limits to unauthorized personal!" A surgeon, his face mask in place, ready for surgery, turned to him. The eyes above the mask seemed to widen as he saw the metal spider legs that were extended moving Zim into the room. Zim wasted no time in killing him, his legs impaling him as he fell back to the floor.
Zim turned his attention back to the table at the center of the room. The reason he had come and risked all this. He thought it would have given him some pleasure, joy at seeing Dib laying there. Strapped to that cold metal table. After all those times Dib had threatened him with this same sort of treatment, he thought he would enjoy seeing the tables turned. But he didn't. It sent a different feeling through the Irk, something he didn't like.
Dib just laid there. His breathing shallow, his coat long gone, along with his glasses. He looked bad, but it was hard to tell in this lighting.
"Dib?" He looked down on the frail human. Zim used the lasers on his spider legs and blasted through all the restraints and let them retract back into his Pak. Hs hands grabbed Dibs shirt and shook him. "You stupid dirt-monkey, wake up!" Zim yelled down at him.
Dib moaned softly, "Zim, why didn't you do it? Why? Why?" his voice was so soft, almost as if he were saying a mantra, over and over again. Zim swallowed, he didn't know dib was going to be in this bad of shape. He gave Dib another shake .
"I order you to wake up stupid Dib-stink!"
Dibs eyes fluttered open and the golden-brown orbs looked at him. He blinked and squinted slightly.
"W-who are you?"
Zim growled and raised a fist to hit the already beaten Dib. Then Dib smiled and tried to laugh but stopped as he cringed from the action. He sat up slightly reaching his hand to grasp Zims shirt and pulled him towards his chest, wrapping that one arm around him. "I never thought I would see you again." Dib buried his face into Zims neck.
The Irken was surprised to find his own arms wrapped around Dib, hugging him back.
"We need to go, there won't be much time." Zim pulled back away from him.
"I-I don't think I can." Dib answered.
"I didn't come ALL this way, to risk EVERYTHING just for you to say NO to me! NOW MOVE IT!"
Dib struggled to sit up and carefully swung his legs off the table. His left leg was going to be useless in its splint. The lights flickered back on, making them both squint in the now bright light. Zim looked at Dib and felt anger wash through him, a heat so intense he wasn't used to. Dibs shirt was covered in blood, the wound in his shoulder leaking freshly down his arm, through the already soaked bandage. He gave a small hiss, eyes narrowed.
Dib hooped off the table, trying to put most of his weight on his good leg, which still made him stumble and would have fallen if Zim hadn't reached his arms around him. Dib placed his good arm around Zims shoulder as they tried to move him towards the door.
It felt as if they were going at a snails pace, Dibs breathing was getting heavier and heavier, his grip hard on Zims shoulder as he could hardly put any weight on his broken leg. Aggg, this was getting them no where fast.
"Gir, come get me!"
Silence on the other end.
"GIR!" still nothing. "That idiotic robot! What is he DOING?"
Then someone came through the door.
"Who are you? What do you think you are doing?" Professor Membrane demanded.
Zim let that heated anger rush through him as his eyes narrowed towards Membrane.
"I'm taking what's mine." He hissed at him.
"Are you in league with Dib? Have you been helping him? I would suggest you turn yourself in before it's too late, he's insane you know."
Zim laughed, deep, menacing. "Oh, I know, he's quite insane thanks to you. But I suppose I should thank you for that. He has helped me accomplish so much. "
Dibs hand tightened on Zims shoulder slightly as he squinted at Membrane. "Zim?"
"Zim?" Membrane repeated, clearly confused.
Zim couldn't help it, he brought his spider legs out to help steady himself and Dibs weight, watching with some glee as Membrane tried to understand what was going on. He pulled off the wig and took out his contacts, letting them fall to the floor, grinning at the stupefied Professor.
"Yes you foolish stupid huumun. ZIM! I am Zim, I AM the Irken invader. I have ALWAYS been real. There was nothing wrong with Dib until you tried to fix him." Zim couldn't help but laugh at that. He pulled the wounded Dib closer to him, tipping his face up towards his as he looked down into it. Pain laced through those brown eyes and face as he looked back at him. Dib smiled at him as Zim gently ran his hand over his jaw, his cheek. Then he looked back at the Professor. "And now he belongs to me. And I will make you pay for what you've done to him"
"This is madness, there are no such things as aliens." Membrane took a step back. Not wanting to comprehend, not wanting to fully understand what it all meant.
There was a slight rumbling as the far wall seemed to collapse and the Cruiser appeared.
Zim pulled Dib towards the Cruiser as the hatch opened and Skoodge jumped out to help Zim.
"I-isn't he one of them?" Skoodge asked
"NO! Just help me get him on the ship!" Zim snapped at him. Zim would have liked to have finished it, liked to have ripped his claws through Membrane, hear him scream like he had heard Dib scream, but he could hear the commotion beyond the doors and knew it would only be a matter of seconds before the soldiers would swarm in.
"Puppy smelly head" Gir yelled as he leaped out and attached himself to Dib who winced with the impact. "Look, piggy missed youuu" He shoved the piggy into Dibs face and Zim had to push him away.
"Where have you BEEN!" Zim didn't have the time to reprimand the robot, "Ahhgg, never mind just get back on the ship Gir!"
Zim turned and helped pull Dib in, finding a spot he could pull the boy so that Dib laid on top of him. Dib cried out with the pain, and Zim cringed, but there was nothing that could be done about that now. Skoodge shut the hatch and the cruiser pulled away.
Zim sat squished against the back of the cruiser, Dibs face and hands clutched into his uniform, his breathing was fast, and rapid, his body shaking from the pain and tears he couldn't hold back any longer.
"I'm sorry" Dib cried, "I'm so sorry." Zim just kept his hand on his head, gently running his fingers through his hair and twisting it around the reluctant piece that always stood up. It wasn't long before Dib lost consciousness, either from exhaustion of just from the pain, Zim didn't know.
His spider legs extended slowly as they gathered Dib as close to him, although they were pressed tightly together, as he possibly could, holding him tightly. He closed his eyes and leaned down and pressed his head against Dibs and let out a sigh.
He wasn't sorry, not in the least. Zim liked this Dib, this Dib belonged to him. And he wasn't going to let anyone else touch him.
a/n tanks Darkdagers :D
Invader ang: hahaha I know pretty lame on the name :P