Author Notes. Ha ha! Surprise ending!, not gonna say anything else about it until you read it, but I do ask this... what do you think I should put on this story's genre? I wonder... tell me in a review if you might

Disclaimer. Jhonen Vazquez and Nickelodeon Own the sheer awesomeness that takes the form of Invader Zim, I do however, own the rights to this story's plot and OCs.

Chapter 5:

"Guess this is where it all ends, dont you think so, Gaz?" I placed my foot over her stomach while pointing the laser at her head "Zim!..." she says searching for something in my eyes "well babe, i guess this is Checkmate" after that I shoot, smoke coming out of my gun's cannon with a thrilling silence in the aftershot...

The room seemed frozen in time, as nothing moved in what appeared to be hours, until Black broke the silence "What the hell?!!, ZIM!!!" he screamed as one of the royal guards in the room fell to the floor with a hole in his head

I grabbed Gaz's hand and quickly pulled her standing and tossed her gun back to her, she shot the other guard by Black's side, I took both my Maulers and shot the 2 guards by the door and she quickly took the other guard on the right as I shot the last guard in the left

In less than a second all 6 royal guards had fallen to the ground, and I aimed at black, flabbergasted he remained in shocked silence

I then snapped my fingers and the doors opened wide behind me and Gaz, 6 figures entered the room in white cloaks then they removed their hoods and revealed themselves "what is the meaning of this Zim!!" he demanded, I chuckled at this as the figures turned out to be Tak, Dib, Skoodge, Lucien, Luxus and Lard Naar.

"I guess there's some explaining to be done right Black?" I snickered as he glared at me

///flashback///

"so it comes to this huh old friend?" "I guess this is the end, for the ressisty is finished today" "It appears so" he answered accepting his fate with a warrior's resolve "I admire your resolve old friend, so no witnesses will see you in your downfall, Soldiers wait for me outside! This is something you younglings shouldn't see" i told my two soldiers "But Sir!" "No buts! Do what your superior orders!" I said, holding one of them by the collar of his uniform, "y-y-yes s-Sir!" they said and quickly left the room I looked back at Lard Naar and said "Checkmate, old friend"

As the soldiers left the room I sighed with relief to Lard Naar " Lard, we need to get you out of here" I said, he looked at me quizzically "what?" "I'm not going to kill you nor any other of your crew, I ordered my team to let them live, I'm planning on blowing up the ship and make it look like only a ship lived the explosion" his eyes widened at this "But Zim! Wouldn't you be betraying your race then!? I ..." I cut him off

"Listen friend I know Black killed the Red and Purple to grab power, but he gave me a chance to redeem my race without him knowing so, I'm going to play naïve and try to take the empire from the inside" "Zim..." "listen old friend, I presume he'll send me to kill all leaders of the alliance, so I need you to take this data disk with my plan and give it to the mayor figures of the fight"

I handed him a blue data disk and continued my speech "there's a escape tunnel behind that bookshelf that leads to a quick stealth ship right? Take that ship and leave quick, I placed cloaking on the rest of the escape pods so the only one without it will be the last one to leave it'll appear as if I killed you all, now give me your goggles Black told me to bring proof of your demise" I took the goggles and was leaving the room

"wait Zim!" I turned at him "Here take this" he grabbed a knife and sawed off his left horn, my eyes widen and I ran to him "what are you doing Lard Naar!?" as olive blood poured from the wound, drenching both of us he grabbed the piece of the horn and gave it to me "without the blood he'll suspect and not believe you, he's smart, take this as proof quicly" he placed a rag agains the wound and left trough the bookshelf

///flashback end///

"I started Laughing at the ludicrous situation and honestly, my laugh is a little psycho so the soldiers believed I was nuts" I kept explaining him "as for Skoodge's situation..."

///flashback///

"Zim! What are you..." Skoodge couldn't finish his sentence as his left shoulder was pierced by one of my shots, my soldiers take out the 4 guards by Skoodge's side, and as he lays muted in pain clutching his shoulder, I say "Sorry skoodge, but its Check mate for you", then I order my soldiers to leave, this time without complaints they leave and dot wait by the door, they leave directly to meet the rest of the soldiers, probably traumatized by the last time "Cowards" i say as i proceed with my job

I quickly pulled skoodge up and said "sorry about that skoodge but I know you have a very large mouth and couldn't risk you spilling the soup" he chuckled at this "yeah well i's fine I really was gonna "spill the soup"... whatever that means" "it's an earth thing" "oh, OK"

" I trust you got the disk right?" I asked him "yeah Queen Allexyd told me that we'll follow your plan" "Good, now let me see that wound" I grabbed a glass and pured some of skoodge's blood on it then I got out a PAK and drenched it in the blood

"what are you doing Zim?" he asked me "Lard Naar gave me the Idea to fake bringing black some sort of proof of my victim's death and drench them in blood so he won'y suspect anything even if he runs DNA scans, the PAK contains corrupted data so he'll believe you were just a defective if he scans the PAK" he looked at me as if I grew a second head "that is really smart Zim, I hardly recognize you anymore" I snickered at is comment "7 years on earth Did a lot of good to me Skoodge"

I took off the room with the blood-drenched PAK and let Skoodge escape in a cloacked ship while the rest of his crew got captured alive

///flashback ends///

"So the guards in Skoodge's room were nothing but mannequins and the idiots of the soldiers you gave me didn't recognize the difference" I mocked him and proceeded "as for Luxus and Lucien..."

///flashback///

"Checkmate, Luxius" I said, seconds without hesitation later, the shot was heard and smoke trailed off my gun.

Blood started pouring out his ...shoulder?(they are amoebas try to figure out what he shot ok?) I got up and took his collar, proof of him being the leader, I drenched the collar in blood and placed it in the bag

I proceeded to mend his wounds the best I could, enough words were said so we remained silent, I took off his chambers and bowed one last time before leaving, he bowed me back and I left.

Panting heavily I say "It was a fine combat, proud warrior, what I have been ordered to do to you however, is honorless, so I'll order my troops out, no one should see such a warrior's befall" he, defeated, stays in the floor and nods at me appreciatively as my soldiers left, leaving me to my duties

I then took my medical equipment and proceeded to mend his wounds , lucky for me his werewolf healing factor helped a lot so I only had to do some minor fixes "Are you alright now Lucien?" "Yes Zim, however I do feel a little bad since I lost, but It was a fine battle like I haven't had one before"

I smiled at him "Perhaps once this war is over and Black is defeated, we should spar from time to time, what do you think?" I asked him "haha! I would like that, young one!" he hit me in the back softly even tough it hurt a little considering his strength

"wait, I need to take something to prove you're death and It must be drenched in your blood" I told him as I almost forgot "then take my fangs young one" I stared at him as if he was nuts "they'll grow back within a week" he added, I sighed and proceeded to take out my medical equipment but he stopped me

"thats for children and woman young one plus it has to look realistic" he grabbed his fangs and ripped them off his mouth, I stood there flabbergasted as he threw me his blood-drenched fangs, he stood up and left the room as I place the fangs in the bag and followed him

///flashback ends///

"It was a bit of a surprise dealing with Tak and Dib, but she had contacted me before and I was prepared to make a show out of it"

///flashback///

"you know Tak! I'd be also lying if I said I wouldn't enjoy what I'm about to do with you" I took a pair of thongs and a scalpel out of my pack "I always Enjoy playing doctor after a good battle, Checkmate dear Tak" I did my work afterwards

I took out the blade pierced to her shoulder carefully and started treating her wounds "you were going all out weren't you Tak? You weren't holding back, you really wanted to beat me"I said "of course I wanted to you've always managed to defeat me somehow in everything we do together, even after you adopted me as your sister when I came back we kept competing and you kept winning you bastard" I snickered at this

"Dib and Gaz came with me you know probably they'll send you after Dib next, he took the ressisty's command while Lard Naar is hiding" that surprised me a little "I'll deal with that when it comes to it, meanwhile tell them all, Queen Allexyd included, that we'll be executing the plan in a month" I told her and she nodded and left trough a secret passage

"Dib I assume Tak told you everything already" "Yeah man, It's been a while since we saw each other huh? How have you been?" I smiled taking a relaxed sigh

"fine Dib, It's been hell staying on that darn ship with a cold blooded leader that thinks he's some kind of god, you know he's been playing this creepy game of chess comparing it to the war" he raised a brow "thats ...odd" I chuckled "yeah, he keeps grumbling about not knowing who the "king" is, ha!, If he only knew that his favorite pawn is the king"I told him "you must have plenty of fun mocking him them" he said "you have no idea dude" I answered before we heard footsteps going nearing the room

"dammit they're coming!" "quick lets fight!" he said and I sent him a questioning glare "what?" "if we go and start fighting it'll be convincing enough besides you and I were equal in fighting back on earth so I would like to know who is better now" he said, I smiled slightly and nodded "if you hold back you'll pay" he said then even if it pains me I'll knock your lights out dude!"

///flashback ends///

"It was really regretful, the fight, wasn't it Dib?" I asked him "yeah you sucker, and my face is still sore thank you very much" I laughed at his comeback and turned my attention back to Black

"so it comes to this Black! All this time you thought you were playing this sick little game of chess were you put the rules" I told him "well you were playing fairy chess Black, and this pawn you used so much was in fact, the enemy's King" he backed away as realization hit him

"You!, you were the king all along!?!" he screamed at me "but... but thats impossible, you .... Queen Allexyd..." he stuttered "what about me Black" asked a voice outside the room

Through the doors entered Queen Allexyd herself startling Black and shutting him up, everyone bowed to her including myself "no need for that Zim" she said softly to me "Indeed this Irken here is the one responsible for this plan Black, he contacted me as soon as he departed this "earth", at first we didn't trust an Irken, but he proved himself to us many times" she said to Black, who was glaring daggers at both of us, I took the Intercom and Called all ships in the armada stopping their attack, and the war

"This is it Black, this is the real Checkmate, you're defeated, the Irken personnel inside the ship is loyal to me" I said "As of today, you are removed from your ruling as Tallest Black of the Irken empire, the war you waged out of your greed shall be stopped dry, and you'll be banished to a deserted planet, to spend the rest of your lifespan there" I told him and then added a side comment "and your name shall be erased from Irken history, as well as this war"

Black then snapped and tried to attack me with a hidden plasma blade, but I dodged it and tossed it away, I turned behind him and grabbed him "guards! Seize him!" I ordered and two elite guards entered the room and grabbed him, taking him away "You'll pay for this Zim!, you'll pay!" he screamed as the guards dragged him away

"well... that came out right" said skoodge "now what?" said Lard Naar "Now... we'll be needing a new leader for the Irken race, Zim how would you like to be the new Tallest?" Queen Allexyd asked me, I stood there thinking about it and then I agreed with it "Yes Queen Allexyd, I accept"

I kneeled before her as she crowned me "I Queen Allexyd, on behalf of the Alliance's council, offer you, Zim, the position of Tallest of the new Irken Empire, do you accept this title along the responsibility of bringing peace between our races?" she asked me "Yes I do, Queen Allexyd" I said, she smiled softly and said "Then Zim, I name thee, Tallest Crimson, may you lead a peaceful era in the story of the Universe"

I bowed one last time before standing, everyone clapped at me, and then after a few congratulations they left to their own calling, I stood in the room with Gaz, Dib and Tak. Then Gaz spoke "Okay so... the new tallest is my boyfriend? Neat" she said cooly "oh right, Gaz!" I kneeled at her and took out a black box, I opened it and she gasped, inside was a golden ring with white gold stip in the middle and a blood red diamond(native to irk) embedded in it "Gaz... would you marry me?" I asked

She the hugged me and kissed me, Tak and Dib were still shocked at the surprise, "do I take that as a yes?" I asked meekly, the next thing I knew was that she had kicked me in the... sensitive area between my legs

I fell in pain and asked "Ahh! What was that for!?" she grabbed me by the collar and said "that's for putting your foot on my stomach back then" she said, then she kissed me again "and this... is the answer to that... yes Zim, I'll marry you" I smiled in spite of the horrible pain in my lower region, Tak begun laughing soon followed by Dib.

The End...

A/NAllright it's done, I told you guys it would be a happy ending, bet you did not saw that one coming right?, oh and btw, I should be uploading next chapter of Paths Unknown sometime by next week, and someday in the first(maybe second) week of 2009 I shall upload the second part of Warrior from the stars, check the drawings I put on my DeviantArt account on this story, Bye bye!, Invader Phoebe signing off!