"What happened to the people that did this to you?" Dibblet asked as the slave sprawled out on the bed. The adult version gave a teasing smile as he pointed to the shelf on the next wall. On the wall was what looked to be a crystalized human heart. The Dibblet had seen the display but he had thought it had something to do with science.

"Are you telling me you killed them!" The thirteen year old screamed.

"No, I killed one. Master killed the rest." The slave answered happily.

"God! I know that you almost died but you didn't have to do this to the world! You didn't have to join Zim!" The paranormal investigator yelled. The older version looked at the younger with hard eyes.

"What do you know? Yes, I did! I was in a coma for six months and the only reason I survived was due to Zim's machines! Then I wake up and Zim tells me to get out, well I tried that! I walked right out and I was terrified, everyone looked like they wanted to kill me! But did I give up? No! I marched right back home and Gaz didn't even talk to me. Dad decided to give me a lecture on how I should be mature enough not to run away, and then he decided to ship me off to the asylum."

"So he always ships us off to the asylum." The thirteen year old answered blandly.

"It was different this time! He wasn't planning on coming to pick me up. He was planning on leaving me there! I barely escaped the guards and I ran back to Zim, because he was the only one who I didn't feel would kill me. I know how wrong this sounds. Zim was my enemy and possibly the only one that wouldn't hesitate to kill me but I felt safe with him."

"Safe with Zim? That's a joke." The younger muttered.

"I asked him if I could stay but he said no. I just kept begging and I asked if I could be a slave. I figured that would be the only way that he would let me in. It worked and Master let me stay but he wanted me to go outside and do missions for him but….."

"He was horrible! The Dib was terrified of anyone but me!" The older alien ranted as he remembered the past.

"But that was your plan right? The ALMIGHTY ME must have planted a chip in the Dib-stink's brain to make him ours!" Zim responded. The older one raised an eyebrow.

"Actually no. My plan when I saved Dib-Pet was to make him someone that I would feel satisfaction from when I beat him. He was supposed to want to kill me even more! He was supposed to be my ULTIMATE ENEMY!"

"So what happened next?" The younger Irkan excitedly asked. Zim shrugged.

"I kept him with me in the labs to help me with the hypno- spiders and the element controller 2000. Who was I to turn down free help? I used to beat him regularly to try and make him go back to the humans but he always stayed. Dib-Mate was pretty miserable for those two years. I had finally had enough and planned to make a therapy room since the Dib seemed to be defective, only I found an article where these humans were debating whether BDSM could be used a therapy."

"BDSM?" The thirteen year old alien questioned.

"Yes, it is what humans consider a relationship based off of a power imbalance. One holds the power, the other does not. It was similar to our situation so I started researching this BDSM. It was perfect! And on that day I decided to test it out…."

"Master called me in, and I was expecting another beating because he only called me in when he wanted to check on the progress or beat me up. Instead he pulls me in his lap and just holds me for about two hours. No words or anything and then he just let me go. I'm happy he did that. I probably would have killed myself if things had continued as they had been."

"Ok, so Zim holds you. That does not explain what I saw in the closet!" The Dibblet said with a blush. The older version took on a small smile.

"I don't know what he was reading, but things changed. Master started praising me when I did something right. He began to check on me more and make sure that I was healthy. He only punished me when I did something wrong and well….over time the holding turned into more…" The older finished with a blush, it made no sense since he was proud of being Zim's slave but there was something about talking about the issue.

"You apparently don't have any problem getting near people now. What about that?" The younger human asked as he laid down on the bed in the older's personal room.

"That was due to exposure therapy. Master said he didn't need someone who couldn't carry out his plans so he made a room where I would be given exposure to humans in limited amounts…"

"And after that Dib-Pet was GENIUS! Not to my level of genius but as close as a FILTHY HUMAN could possibly get. He seemed to love the freedom and he went and dumped the hypno-spiders in the forest to get my ideas into the humans brain meats. He dug underground to place the Earthquake maker there and he found hiding places for the element controller 2000!"

"But why are there humans here? I'm sure the Tallest have rewarded us greatly by now!" The young alien said as he rubbed his hands together thinking about how happy his leaders must have been that he had finished his mission.

"Oh, I kept some humans around to be of use as slaves to the Tallest, but when I called them to inform them of my victory they said they wanted me to run Earth. They said they were thinking about having me go into politics and they wanted to see how I did running this ball of dirt." The older Irkan explain with a small bit of hidden resentment.

"Oh, YES! I see. This certainly changes my plans. I KNOW the tallest have the GREATEST FAITH in me!" The younger one declared.

"Yes, well I ran out of ingredients to make the spiders but thankfully about 98 percent of the human population had been bitten and after that it was all about getting me on TV for my rule. The additional two percent however we not very accepting of me. In my first public appearance they tried to attack me."

"Those FILTHY MONKEYS! What did you do?"

"I didn't do anything. Dib-Pet pushed me out of the way and took the attack. He tried to fight back but he was just a human, all it took was a few pushes of a button and that whole town was unrecongnizable, and of course some space debris just HAPPENED to fall precisely on the traitors heads!" Zim cackled as he remembered the day! The younger alien couldn't resist and joined in, and when Gir walked through the door he didn't even need a reason to start running around the couch and laughing insanely.

"And that was the day Master tattooed a collar and shackles on me." The slave happily explained. The younger's eyes widened.

"Wait! So we don't destroy the world?" The human asked in disbelief. The older version looked at him like he was an idiot.

"Does the world look destroyed? I have only killed about five people in my life. I actually wouldn't have killed Torque but Master said that he needed to see if I could overcome my past but overall I say we've done pretty well. The test scores in the education system are the highest they've been in the last fifty years. We managed to stop the food crisis and we have managed to bring peace." The more experienced slave couldn't help that bit of smug satisfaction that rose in him as he looked at the younger.

"So I really do save the human race….No! It's not saving them if they're enslaved!" Zim's mate scoffed.

"Save it. You asked anyone what they prefer, safety or freedom and one hundred percent will choose safety."

"I can't believe we actually help the Dib-Stink achieve his goals. Can't we just ignore him?" The young alien asked. The taller Irkan's eyes narrowed.

"No, Dib-Pet is to never be ignored! That would kill him! That is only what I use as THE MOST TERRIBLE PUNISHMENT!"

"Eh? But the Dib-Monkey is always ignored!"

"Dib-Mate was always ignored before I started to pay attention to him, after that Dib-Pet became used to having attention and affection. He used to not be able to comprehend attention from others but now that he's had it he doesn't know how to live without it. ESPECIALLY AFFECTION FROM THE ALMIGHTY ZIM!"

"Oh." The alien stated.

Both pairs looked at their doppelgangers and their pairs looked back with a little better understanding, but everyone had plans.

Dib's plan was to go to the past and stop Zim. Zim's plan was to make Dib his faithful slave. The older Zim only wanted to be with his slave, while said slave knew he had to stop Gir from making waffles for dinner.

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