I am SO sorry for how long this took but I was away from my computer forever! I have it done now and will try to update as often as I can! Also I made this chapter long to make up for it! I'm also starting another new story soon the title is revealed on my profile! It's for a different fandom though (not telling you which one yet though ;) also…

COOKIES FOR LAST CHAPTER GO TO:
Katie Hedgie
SecretlyTTfanTT

And half a cookie to:
GirsWaffles22

For knowing the character but forgetting the name! Gaby is, indeed, Gretchen's daughter!

Invader Zim characters copyright to nickelodeon and Jhonen Vasquez
Xna belongs to me

Chapter 3: Two Girs One Cup-Cake

The Hideous Hi-Skool had just ended. A pointless place, really. The things taught in the germ infested facility where things so easily comprehended by smeets took these "hyoo-man"s years to begin to understand! It was sickening and upright humiliating to have to put up with this inferior species day after day!

A green skinned female's thought angrily trailed in this manner as she stomped her buckle up boots into the ground, marching her way to the elementary school. It was about 3 o'clock earth time and she needed to pick up her "little brother" Gir. She missed his old costume, it required less work to keep up appearances on her half, but her mother had insisted that hyoo-man dogs died much earlier than the usual pets kept by Irkens. And so, reluctantly, her and her father had decided on the disguise of a sibling. Nobody asked questions about the new family member, another point proving how oblivious the earth's prime race was.

Black hair tipped with hot pink shaped into a bob cut bounced seductively with every step. Glittering, hyoo-man looking, blue eyes glared in a deadly way ahead of her, through peripheral vision the woman could tell her body was receiving stares, both from her "skin condition" and her beauty. The green skin may have been a turn off but her lithe and flexible form more than made up for it. Her chest was flatter than that of most hyoo-mans, something that Mel-creature liked to mock her for, well, used to; ever since she had kicked Mel's ass in the cafeteria for claiming the possibility of the flat woman being a cross-dressing male the wretched stink-beast had been less inclined to say anything about her. She was no man! Every last inch of her glorious body was woman! And Irk be damned if she were to be insulted by any of these half-wits. Hell! Even if it had been the Tallests themselves the same actions most likely would have ensued.

Coming closer to the skool she straightened down her outfit. A pink and black striped hip-hop shirt had the sleeves falling from her shoulders and the torso reached past her butt; her neck was covered with a black choker studded with gleaming Vortian gems, which matched her two studded belts resting above her slim hips. Leading up from under her boots were tight black pants.

Finally in the playground, she walked past the smelly-dirt children of filth and to the doors to the skool. Gir was always in the class after school due to his…excitable personality. Once in front of the door to Mr. Elliot's Grade 4 classroom, the young lady opened the door and walked in, not bothering knocking. The aged hyoo-man was sitting at Gir's assigned desk helping the disguised robot glue clippings from a toy advertisement onto a sheet of purple construction paper.

Leaning on the doorframe she cracked a weak half-smile. Despite Gir's constant antics the tiny android could be considered…cute…at times.

The teaching drone laughed and patted the robot's fake, static-y hair. Gir giggled loudly in response. As Mr. Elliot began to stand and dust off his khaki pants, the female in the doorframe exaggerated a cough to get his attention.

In obvious surprise he whipped his head back, quickly sending a hiss of air through teeth from the whip-lash he received.

Rolling her eyes, she pushed the foot that was flat against the wall harder behind her the propel her a step forward walking closer to the human as he rubbed the side of his neck near his vital vein to ease the pain he now had there. "Hello, Xna. Right on time again." He spoke to her with a smile regardless of his obvious discomfort.

Xna grunted in response walking past the smelly, old hyoo-man. She knew she was heightening his awkward state by the way he ran a shaky hand through his once gold, now graying hair and chuckling to himself to fill the silence, though she couldn't say she cared. She stood in front of her "brother's" desk and folded her hands behind her, resting them on the small of her back.

"Gir! It's time to go home!" Xna announced superiorly.

Briefly-and thankfully unnoticed by Mr. Elliot- Gir's eyes flashed red beneath the gargantuan sized, fabric head, which seemed to fool most hyoo-mans. "Yes, master!" he agreed strongly before his eyes turned back to their usual bright cyan. "WEEEEEEHEHEHE!" he laughed jumping up and shoving his paper into her face. On the top, written with red Sharpie marker was the title BIRTHDAY WISHES!

Well that would explain the cut up toy magazines all around the room. Since all normal hyoo-man children had their pathetically celebrated birthdays it had been that Gir would need one to blend in as well, March 30th was agreed to be his "birthday"; that was on Friday. Apparently, Mr. Elliot decided to get the SIR unit excited about that, which, without question, would make life miserable for anyone in their right mind. It didn't help that her father and mother had left to Irk for the famous Battle of Intergalactic Doom. Xna would be facing this birthday alone.

'Great…' Xna scowled with this revelation, snatching the paper from the tiny hands of her father's minion. Stuffing it in her bag while grumbling she grasped Gir's hand tightly and stormed out of the classroom without another word.

Marching in a military like fashion past the hundreds of kids screaming and laughing on the unstable playground equipment, Xna dragged both Gir and herself to the sidewalk before releasing the little irritant's wrist and holding her arms ram-rod straight at her sides. Gir ran ahead wildly, screaming with outstretched arms, pretending to be an airplane.

As the two approached the neon coloured home and walked up the unrealistically clean stone walk-way, the fiery red eyes of the garden gnomes followed their every movement. Upon entering their home Xna tossed Gir's book bag across the room hitting the closet that stored the long-since disabled robo-parents who babysat Xna when she was a smeet and her father was busy and her mother got fed up with his ignorance, outbursts, and overall stupidity and left to stay somewhere alone. Occasionally she would bring Xna or her brother, never both of them at a time, due to the fact that the two of them were completely dysfunctional and often ended in a brawl between the two. That didn't matter too much anymore. He never really came to the place Xna called home now anyways. He now lived mostly with their mother's friends. She supposed maybe the lack of socialization with the majority of her family members is what lead her to constantly be compared to her father and acquire her bitter attitude.

It was pathetic in her eyes that the people she and her father considered "enemies" were closer to Xna than her actual family.

Natalie and Xna had known each other for a while due to their fathers' rivalry but it wasn't until they were both in pre-skool that Xna deemed her a…life form worthy of any amount of time. Xna had just came to the school for the first time and the first person she met was Mel, not a pleasant meeting but quickly ended by the dark haired, four-eyes.

FLASHBACK!

"I don't want to go to school here father! I wish to attend the Invader's training academy with Dem and Robern!" A six year old Xna stomped her foot harshly into the back of the empty passenger seat. Her hair had always been the same but her outfit consisted of a pink T-shirt decorated with a series of darker pink flowers, under was a tight, black, long-sleeved top. Her black tights and pink skirt could definitely qualify her as cute. On her feet, she wore a pair of black wellington-boots. Black gloves hid green and clawed hands.

Dem and Robern were irken friends of Xna's. They were the twin son's of her father's good friend, who Xna looked up to as her hero. He was short, like she was, yet he had managed to conquer the mighty planet Blorge during Impending Doom II, to Xna that was simply amazing and gave her the hope that despite her height she could have a chance to be a great invader. His sons were strong as he was though they lacked the kind heart he possessed.

"We have discussed this," He started. "You are not yet old enough and it wouldn't be fair with a father of such status and respect. You were present when we had this discussion with the Almighty Tallests." His chest began to swell with self pride at his last comment.

Xna rolled her eyes, which seemed far too large for her tiny face. She knew that the Tallests lied to her father, she was 4 inches taller than Tallest Red's own daughter, Rose, was when she began her training and, although she cared about her father dearly, she knew for a fact-that was quickly confirmed by her mother, her hero, and her computer-that her father was a terrible invader.

Finally, deciding to let it go, she slouched into the seat of the disguised voot runner. To the outside world it looked like a regular mini-van but if one was to come inside they would see the numerous alien switches and lettering for safety warnings.

The voot stopped in front of an unsanitary looking building with Pre-Skool written above it in huge, red letters. Xna groaned with the spelling mistake, though it did not surprise her.

Climbing out of the car with a scowl on her face she made her way towards the school. As she walked the entire population of students stared at her, obviously not use to her green skin, one child even began to cry in fear of her difference. Still, she paid it no mind, until a girl about a year older than herself approached her. She had stunning blonde hair, that Xna could tell was natural, tied into perfect pigtails with ballerina-pink ribbon. Her white T-shirt was spotlessly clean and her designer denim overall-dress presented her as a suitable candidate to become a hostage to any lowlife in dire need of money from her obviously wealthy family. Socks the same colour of her ribbons covered her ankles underneath a gleaming pair of mary-janes. Despite her youth she wore light pink eye-shadow and lip-gloss. Right now those gross, sticky lips were pulled into a superiority smirk. Xna hated this earth female infinitely already.

"What's with your skin? Are you some sort of alien?"

"I'm normal…" Xna hissed at her.

"Whatever," she twirled a piece of yellow hair between her thumb and fore-finger "You're a freak is what you are."

Xna clicked her tongue and twitched her lekku under her hair, before pulling them back firmly, a warning sign that was obvious to anyone they should walk away. Anyone but this girl.

From a distance away, a seven year old Natalie could see the warning signs. She knew, from experience, that if Mel didn't stop, Xna would end it herself. And she would more than likely watch the cops and paramedics show up to retrieve a dying Mel and arrest Xna. Playing with a loose thread on her over-sized Misfits band shirt, she weighed the options of saving Mel's life or keeping her own social-life.

A Young Gaby put her hand on Natalie's knee which was covered by her long jeans. Gaby was wearing the same handed down dress her mother used to when she was little, she wasn't in the wealthiest family but it worked fine for her, her hair was still in the same style as always. Her un-braced teeth were crooked and kept in a retainer.

Natalie let out a sigh. She jumped from the jungle gym she was sitting on, scuffing her converse sneakers against the dirt ground. She picked up her denim book bag and pulled a banana-strawberry juice box out of the front pocket, before finding her scissors and slashing off the top.

She stood back up just in time to see Xna's face contort in both anger and sadness. Something was said that hit home and if Natalie didn't act fast Mel wouldn't be waking up in the morning.

Pounding her feet hard into the sand, which transitioned to grass, and finally pavement, Natalie tried hard not o spill any of the juice. She didn't bother hushing her footsteps; she didn't have the time and it wasn't as if Mel would expect something as spontaneous and rude as this.

Natalie made it just at the nick of time, Xna was began to crouch, readying herself for a leap at the obnoxious female. Quickly, and without hesitation, Natalie dumped the entire contents of the tiny, portable, box straight over Mel's head. Xna stopped herself mid-way of her planned attack to blink in surprise; an action mirrored exactly by the girl in front of her. When the initial shock of the situation finally faded Xna's flabbergasted expression turned to a facial contortion to hide laughter, much unlike Mel's conflicting emotions portraying both her anger and her want to cry over her current wet, sticky, and uncomfortable position.

Finally deciding to trade her upset state for one of pure rage, Mel swung her body around to take a deathly glare and stance towards Natalie whose arm still held the empty container tilted high. Taking her arm back she prepared herself for the shouting that would soon follow the hyperventilation from the female before her.

"I HATE YOU!" she screamed at a glass shattering pitch. "I'M GOING TO KILL YOU!" her volume only heightened.

Shoving her arms forward, Mel pushed Natalie onto the black-top. From the force of the push Natalie winced. Seeing the commotion, her friends came rushing over. In an instant Gaby was kneeling at her side to make sure she was okay. Kez was trying to lift her back to her feet by the underarms while Rik and Gordy took a protective stand before them to keep Mel from coming at them.

It took until the class bell rang but Mel finally stuck her nose in the air and headed to the girls' room.

END OF FLASHBACK!

Xna smiled fondly at the memory. Noble was one word to describe Natalie; stupid was another. That was the reason nobody ever came near her, she destroyed her own life to keep a girl who deserved to be sent to a hospital from getting what she truly deserved.

Her thoughts were interrupted with a wailing Gir racing into the room and jumping into her arms. Reflexively she caught the robot.

"CUPCAKE! CUPCAKE! CUPCAKE! NOOOO! I LOVE-ED JOOOO!" Gir screamed.

"GIR! What are you going on about now?"

The heap of metal in her arms went silent but Xna could hear what sounded like him from the underground labs. Dropping the robot so he hit the floor hard she quietly made her way to the kitchen before climbing into the toilet shaped elevator and flushing herself down. The elevator took her down to the main computer level. She could definitely hear Gir coming from down the hall in the central control room.

Strange… she thought. Grabbing a pipe that was rusted and had been replaced but yet to be thrown away she made her way to down the steel hallway. Upon opening the door a hunk of screaming metal flew at her. Swinging the metal pipe in her hands hard the object that came at her went flying brutally into the far wall. When it dropped to the floor Xna was shocked to find that it appeared to be Gir. He was holding a cupcake and his head had been knocked a little loose from the blow. The Gir behind her rushed into the room and began fighting with his copy for the cupcake he held. Footsteps could be heard rushing towards her from her left. Posing herself, she got ready to take another swing at whatever walked through the door. The moment something new entered her vision, she swiped the metal forward and slammed it against the chest of what came at her, hurdling it into the room it just came from.

Pulling herself up on her PAK's spider limbs she entered the room to find two adolescent hyoo-mans, an irken right below a dent in the wall, behind him-spitting out a tooth, which had come out of place when Xna had hit him, and….The Tallests?

Dropping the pipe, Xna bowed her head and closed her eyes in respect; putting a fist over the heart of her spooch she addressed them, "My Tallests. To what do I owe this pleasure?" though she knew that they lied to her family and overall the entire race she still had a high level of respect for them. Granted thatlevel of respect was exceptionally higher with their daughters for their brutal honesty, greater focus, and occasional (albeit; rare) compassion.

Tallest red waved his hand dismissively, "aedeses soldier."

Standing up right Xna spoke again, "I did not expect your visit, sirs. I was uninformed. I suspected you to be in attendance of the intergalactic fights for the next month. Your visit is a pleasant surprise."

"Battle?" Purple piped in. "There's no battle."

"Sir, the Intergalactic Battle of the planets is taking place as we speak." Xna seemed confused.

"You must be mistaken, that event is not for another 260 years!" Red pointed out superiorly.

"With all due respect, my Tallests, you are confused. It is year 2360 on Irk." Xna seemed generally confused. Sparing a quick disrespect, Xna averted her eye contact to the Irken who was now standing; strangely he strikingly resembled her father. Returning her eyes to her superiors, with a idea of what was going on now in her mind she asked a final question; "In curiosity, what year do you believe it to be, My tallest?"

"2110." Red replied simply.

Xna gasped. Her theory was right. These were not her Tallests! They were from over 26 Earth Years ago!

DUN DUN DUUUUUNNNNNN!

Cliffhanger! Do you hate me? Oh well! Hope that this chapter was worth the impossibly long wait! It was both fun and excruciatingly irritating to write! All part of the job as a fanfic writer though I suppose! :P
I currently have two ideas for the next chapter:

A talk with the Tallest's daughters and save option 2 for a later chapter

A visit with Natalie at her job and save option 1 for later.

Review and let me know what you think. The next chapter (as long as nothing goes wrong with my computer or anything) should be up much, MUCH sooner than this one was!