Yes. I am updating this poorly updated story. Sorry for taking a long time, but I suffered from writer's block for a while. Anyway…

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Chapter 34

On a familiar planet

The Seeker was being torn apart by the rift, and Mars was already gone, with its ex-passengers now onboard Lard Nar's ship. Wildly it bucked about until it finally was spat out of Shadow's vortex, somehow still intact.

"Am I dead?" Havel groaned from the wall he was stuck to.

"If you are, then so am I." Commented X.

"Oh, so either none of us are dead or we all are?"

"WHOO!" Gir squealed. "I always wanted to die!"

"Ignoring the SIR unit's vaguely disturbing comment…" Lard Nar moaned, slowly dragging himself out from his command chair. "Where did we land?"

Zim looked out through one of the holes that had been torn in the hull.

"I have gone completely and utterly insane." He said in shock.

"What else is new?" Tina growled.

"We're on earth." Zim gaped.

Shast flicked his tail back and forth slowly in a catlike manner.

"That could be trouble," He said darkly. "If the humansss find usss, they'll try hard to do experimentsss on us." He winced. "Even though technically speaking, I am an experiment already."

"A successful one," Zim shrugged. "But if there's one thing I learned from being here, it's that humans are dense."

"Hey!" Dib yelled angrily.

"Well, it's true!" Zim said defensively. "And you know it! They were more befuddled by the size of your godforsaken head then the creepy little house that exploded on a yearly basis!"

"And then there was the fact none of them saw through his disguise." Tak nodded.

"Whaddaya mean? I thought it was brilliant! I mean, I've seen green-skinned humans!"

"Okay, but still. No nose or ears. At least my hologram covered that up." Tak replied, shrugging.

"If not even hiding three-fingered claw hands." Nny snorted.

"Stick to the program." X snapped. "Okay, so maybe that point wasn't random that we warped to?" He questioned Shadow.

The Sklalian considered it. "Maybe." He shrugged. "If we were in an improbability field when I dragged us through the big-headed creature's black hole."

Dib was about to shout indignantly, but his wrist communicator began beeping. On the screen was the familiar insignia of the Swollen Eyeball network. The communicator's battery was low, so the voice that twanged out was distorted and difficult to understand.

"AgenFSSSH MothSSHHSS!" The interference from the Seeker wasn't helping. "You just appearssst onsh Our shht…."

"I can't hear you." Dib sighed.

"Inshhhference!" Grumbled the Eyeball. "Where- shshshshhhhhh…" The battery died.

"Well." Dib sighed. "That was pointless."

"Maybe, but still." Havel began to pace. "We need shelter and disguises. And anything else we can get our hands on that will help us for that matter."

Zim grimaced. "Eh, my base? Not actually big enough though. It only spans enough room to hold four, maybe five of us. Six if Skoodge doesn't mind living in the air ducts again."

"My old base?" Tak suggested.

"Most of it blew up." Dib shrugged.

"Damn." She grumbled softly, thinking.

"Doesn't Zim have a giant space station thingy?" Gaz noted. Somehow, in spite of the ship exploding, she still sat in the little chair she had stated was hers at some point.

Zim nodded thoughtfully. "I do have a station. About three times as big as the Seeker. It isn't mobile, but it makes a good temporary fortress."

"How temporary?" Lard Nar asked suspiciously.

"About seven millennia." Zim shrugged with a smirk.

The plans were made. They would sneak towards Zim's base using various methods and routes to decrease the chances of being caught by humans. There's safety in numbers, but stealth in solitude. Johnny, Dib and Gaz would probably have the easiest time, for obvious reasons.

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Shast flew high in the sky like a massive bat. His oversized wings flapped silently in the night. He was a creature that was built for the sky- with a slender body that sliced the air, wings that were double jointed at the base and a flexible skeleton all provided a boon for him as he sailed through the night. A sense of euphoria filled him as he dove, hurtling downwards.

This was incredible. He had never had room or time to fly like this before. He inhaled deeply… before bursting into a wild coughing fit. The smell of smoke and other gases filled the air. The planet was choked with the human's waste.

Spinning into a glide, Shast could see landfills with the zoom lenses built into his eyes.

A string of anger and what he guessed was pity filled him as he observed them. Finally, he shook it off. He had important things to do.

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X dialed a few icons on his PAK.

"Stealth mode, activated." It whispered in a soft breathy voice. He shimmered briefly before becoming nearly invisible, save for a single flicker that was difficult to make out. Anyone who saw it would merely believe it to be a trick of the light. Humans are gullible like that.

He didn't know exactly what to expect as he skittered through town on his six spider legs. They moved silently, as opposed to a normal PAK. Swiftly, he took cover as a police car zipped along the highway, barely evading the speeding vehicle. He took a safer route along the sidewalks. He froze as a small creature leapt out from an ally.

A cat. It was a small Siamese with a brown head and tan fur. It looked in X's general direction with wide green eyes. X was unnerved. It seemed as though the cat could see him. He wasn't certain though. Cautiously he moved to the side, and hissed softly as the cat's gaze followed him. So it could see him. He relaxed. It was only a harmless stray, nothing that would harm him.

Neatly, it rubbed itself along his legs, causing X to smile briefly. He flinched, almost forgetting that he was invisible when a young girl walked around the corner.

"Hey kitty." She said, crouching down to scratch the cat's ears. It mewed softly before attempting to paw at X, who dodged back.

"What is it?" The girl whispered, staring towards where the cat was looking. "Is it a ghost?"

X snarled silently, before carefully edging sideways, but that blasted cat's gaze was trained firmly on him, making it relatively easy for the girl to track his motions.

"Hello?" She asked, reaching out tentatively. X bolted, but the girl, against all odds managed to catch his wrist.

"Let me go!" He hissed, not wanting to hurt her. He was afraid that if he pulled loose, he would break her wrist and that she would cause a panic.

"Wh-what are you?" She whimpered, scared to let go.

X hissed and pulled gently.

Damn, she has a tight grip. He thought. Finally, he managed to push her away before bolting, charging away as fast as he could, with the young girl yelling after him.

"WHAT ARE YOU!"

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Lard Nar shushed his first mate/gunner/best friend for the umpteenth time. Shoonktapooxis was a spaz, but he managed to keep quite. Unless he saw a cute animal. Sadly, there were a lot of squirrels about.

"Heehee…" He giggled quietly at the sight of yet another of the bushy tailed mammals. The squirrel whipped about and stared at them with its small black eyes.

"It's so… fluffy!" Shoonk whispered in delight.

"I don't care how fluffy the goddamned squirrel is!" Lard Nar hissed. "We need to keep moving!"

"Aww…" Shoonk's body drooped slightly, but he obeyed his captain.

They turned to leave only to see another distraction.

"That… is a lotta squirrels…" Shook gaped.

A mass of squirrels stood before them. Suddenly, they charged forward.

"OH YE GODS!" Wailed Lard Nar, as they began to swarm over him, attempting to devour his flesh. "FLESH EATING SQUIRRELS! HELP MEEEEE!"

"DUCK AND ROLL!" Shoonk yelled, as he hovered just out of the mad rodents' reach.

Lard Nar did so, shaking them off, before running like a maniac.

Shoonk followed him, panic filling him as his friend was chased by the demonic little balls of fur.

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Phantom crawled along a gutter pipe until he was perched atop the building it was attached to. He ran across the rooftops, sticking to shadows. His audio receptors suddenly picked up a voice.

"Let me go!"

Phantom jolted and peered down at the street. He could see a human standing there with their arm outstretched, grabbing something.

She failed to keep her grip, and the girl fell over backwards.

"WHAT ARE YOU!" She yelled, eyes wide.

Phantom silently crept behind her, watching her.

She stood up to run after the hazy blur he could barely make out, but Phantom placed a slender hand on her shoulder.

"Stay where you are." He whispered, but not threateningly. "There are affairs here that you cannot understand. Leave well enough alone."

And the next thing he knew he was hurtling towards a brick wall. The girl had grabbed his arm and flung him hard. With a loud crack! He struck the wall. The crack had been the wall, not his head, by the way.

Phantom became acutely aware of the fact that he had a multitude of pain sensors.

Why… the… FUCK. Do I have PAIN sensors? He thought, metal carapace scraping along the now badly dented brick wall.

The girl backed away, and tripped over the cat, scraping her arms on the ground.

"Ow! Dammit!" she yelped, wincing painfully.

Swiftly, Phantom fled, clambering up a pipe, leaving deep grooves from his clawed metallic hands.

He cursed in his mind as he realized that in his haste he had left claw marks everywhere. It didn't matter too much. Not exactly 'Conclusive Evidence'.

He darted away, leaping from rooftop to rooftop, escaping one of the strangest encounters of his life.

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Nny wasn't sure if he could believe what he was seeing. Lard Nar and Shoonktapooxis were being chased by what looked like a massive wave of furry, fanged squirrels. He turned and ran as well, seeing as the squirrels were branching off to attack him as well.

Why oh why does this world have to be so fucked up? He wondered silently as he tore away as fast as his long legs could carry him.

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In a matter of minutes, the squirrel hordes were just outside Zim's base, pressing their terribly soft and adorable paws against the windows and door, leering in with their terribly soft and adorable eyes, wildly flicking their terrible soft and adorable tails.

"What the hell. What in the fucking hell." Lard Nar panted, staring out the windows at the psychotic beasts.

The door was beginning to strain ever so slightly against their combined weight.

"Yay! The little squirrels are gonna come in here for tea and biscuits!" Gir cheered. "And then we can have cupcakes and tacos and burritos at tequitos and…"

He rambled on, oblivious to the squirrels, as they burst in, murder in their eyes…

DUN DUN DUUUUUN! What will happen? Who knows! (Heehee)

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