Zim was preparing his disguise for Hi-Skool. His attire did not change much, aside from obvious size changes to his clothes to accommodate his increased height. The only noticeable change was his hair; it was, as the earth worms called it, in-style, it was flat with the hair going around his head covering a greater area, but Zim did not change it for the foolish purpose of style. In actuality, it was a shield generator he had invented. It did not shield against lasers, fire, or bullets, but it did stop his mortal weakness, water. Now he no longer had to worry about the acidic rain touching his Irken flesh. He left after eating Gir's waffle. Gir was not happy with that.

He had a plan to return to Irk, but unfortunately it involved Dib. With his ship fried, Dib now had the only working Irken spaceship on the planet, aside from Tak, but Zim decided it was best to not inform her of his plans.

Zim would've loved to just destroy Dib in some way, maybe torture him with an endless army of jackolopes, maybe try to suck the fluids out of his gargantuan head so that it would be a tolerable size, maybe force HIM to eat cafeteria food. He couldn't however, ever since Dib inserted his personality into Tak's old ship it wouldn't help Zim, especially after their first encounter. Zim had seen the Dibship recently and found it's behavior quite similar to...certain other humans in their teen years. Zim found it quite repulsive. Dib was the only one that could get the Dipship under control so he knew that obliterating Dib would cause him to be trapped on earth forever. He had to do the unbearable, form a truce.

As soon as Zim walked on campus, something touched his PAK and activated the self-defense system causing a laser to fly out and but it missed the threat.

"Huh, what, DIB! Trying your foolish attempts to ambush me? Hey, how did my laser miss your big head?" Zim asked.

"For the last time, my head is NOT big!" Dib replied. Dib had also didn't change much over the years, the same clothes but a different height. The glasses, the big head, still the same. The hair strand thingy on his head had grown much longer though. He still pursued Zim everyday however, he ended his vain attempt to expose Zim since it wasn't working no matter how hard he tried. He decided to be the one man defense against Zim, covertly keeping the human race save from aliens. "And I was just trying to figure out your evil scheme for today, as usual, and thwart it, as usual."

"Well, sorry to burst your giant head bubble but I'm not trying to enslave humanity today. In fact, I'm not going to enslave your pitiful race ever!"

"LIES, HORRIBLE, HORRENDOUS LIES!"

"No, really."

"Really?"

"Yes, I'm actually returning to my home planet for some vengeance of doom, but my ship isn't working so I need the Dibship."

"Doesn't Tak have some spare ships or something? Why don't you ask her?"

"...I'm not going to respond to that, Dib. I'm going to stare into your wormy core, like a mongoose hunting its prey. The mongoose questions its prey's stupid choice of walking closer to it. It wonders why, Dib. Why does the prey walk towards the mongoose? Why is the prey that stupid? They prey knows that the mongoose would feast on its innards like a fat man at an all you can eat Bloaty's. So the mongoose asks, Dib, are you stupid?"

"Well, I see you still haven't gotten over the incident. Anyway, why would I help you? I've given myself the responsibility to stop you at all costs!"

"Foolish Dib! I'm not trying to harm your filthy, slimy earth race! I'm trying to take over my own!"

"Really? So you aren't going to plot anymore evil schemes against us?" Dib asked, he almost sounded a bit sorrowful.

"YES!"

"So I won't be Dib, Lone Defender of Earth anymore?"

"Will you not take yes for an answer or something!"

"Okay, okay, but it just feels kind of sad."

"Yeah, yeah, earthen sorrows and whatnot. Can I get the Dibship?"

"I mean, here's my arch enemy and I find out he quits, and I wasn't the one who made him do it."

"The Dibship, in your yard, I want it, gimme."

"I devote my life to stopping him, but now I know it was all for waste."

"I WANT the DIBSHIP."

"It's like my life has no purpose anymore!"

"CAN I HAVE THE DIBSHIP OR NOT!"

"Quit your whining, can't you see I'm angsting for character!"

"What do you want me to do, PRETEND you DID stop my earth conquest?"

"Yes."

"INSOLENT FILTH! Fine! -ahem- OH NO! I've been foiled for the last time by Dib! I've lost! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO-"

"Okay, that's f-"

"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO"

"St-"

"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO"

"Zi-"

"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO"

"ZIM!"

"What, can't you see I'm pretending to say my last words as I act out my final moments?"

"And how do you see your final moments?"

"Falling into a vat of demonic rubber duckies that are slowly nibbling my gooey flesh."

"Have you been taking earth substances or something?"

"Aside from your disgusting Cafeteria food, NO!"

"Well, that's still not enough. What about all those painful times over the years, like-like the time you threw me into a slow motion explosion!"

"You tried to trap me in a horrible, spooky dimension inside your big head!"

"Yeah, well you tried to destroy my brain!"

"You tried to expose me on a cruddy TV show!"

"You tried to trap me in a room with a moose!"

"You had my skin peeled and liquified to destroy a lice monster!"

"How is that my fault?"

"I don't know but I'm blaming you anyway!"

~LATER~

"You-you hit me with a muffin!"

"YOU hit ZIM with a muffin!" They both had run out of moments of pain they had committed to each other over the years, so they just stared at each other with similar scowls. The look in each others' eyes lit a burning fire of destruction after being reminded just how terrible those five years were. It was like two ogres clawing at each others neck, both dieing at the same time. Then the oozing blood extinguished the flames of malice.

"So we're even," Zim said.

"Yeah, I guess, so you're really never going to enslave humans and instead conquering your home world?"

"Can you let me use the Dibship or not?"

"Depends, can I come?"

"Huh, why?"

"One, because the Dibship hates you and won't fly unless I tell it to, and two if you're going against your own race, known for enslaving other worlds, then if I join you that would make me a Gaurdian of the Universe or something."

"Yeah, sure, whatever, maybe you're die on a star or something,"

"Okay," Dib rushed to the stairs leading to the skool before jumping on the railing, something he's practiced and used far too many times, mostly done to look cool or threatening (it wasn't), and shouted, "I'll still be keeping an eye on you!"

"FINE," Zim said as he entered the skool. Despite the ending of a five year war, there had been one casualty that day. Both of the former rivals failed to notice a lone figure siting in the shadows of the skool. She wore a black dress that went down to her knees over a purple T-shirt. She had purple striped leggings and black boots on. Her long purple hair contrasted with her skin, which was even paler than usual. She had the unfortunate timing of sitting there when Zim's laser went off. She was lifeless, the look of death was apparent on her, but she was not dead herself. She had only registered the situation a moment ago then she swore out in vengeance against the one who committed the travesty that befell her.

"Zim, I will make you suffer the tortures only found in the nightmare realms of hell, ones even the devils find too cruel to use. I will make you pay for destroying my GameSlave!"