A/N: Apologies for the late update guys. I was busy lately with some stuff. Thank you Invader Johnny and Idkwhatusername17, you guys are very faithful in my story. I hope you guys continue to be so :)

Well, I will not keep you guys any longer. Take a gander at this piece :)

"Dib. What do you want." It seemed to be more of a statement and a demand than a question. "If you came for trouble and a reaction, then you won't find any from me." Zim crossed his arms with a frown.

"I came to find out what you're doing. That last plan of yours nearly succeeded and I won't let that happen again." Dib answered, narrowing his eyes and clenching his fists. However, Zim stood silent and did not react much to his pledge. Aside from giving Dib a once over and snorting.

Zim stepped out of his way. "Go ahead, I don't care anymore." Dib gave an incredulous expression, wondering whether this was a trap.

"What is this... if this is a trick, I won't fall for it." Dib stepped back a little, caution present in his body. Zim rolled his eyes and walked back in. His hand rested on the door.

"Suit yourself then." Zim made to close the door before Dib's foot stopped it. Zim looked at Dib with annoyance through the slit that Dib's foot had made. Dib forced the door open while Zim stepped back with an impatient frown. "Make up your mind."

Dib grumbled something under his breath angrily and marched in. Zim was not concerned with the young adult's antics and followed him in. They stood next to each other on the toilet and they were flushed down into the bowels of Zim's base.

They came to a stop as the lift hit the hard ground of Zim's lair. They stepped off the lift but Dib took a miss step and fell forward. Zim caught Dib by the wrist and pulled him back to his proper orientation. Dib pulled out of his grip and mumbled angrily. "...Thanks..."

Zim gave a curt nod at Dib and they stepped off properly this time. Zim leaned against a wall and observed Dib looking around and prowling through machinery. Dib stumbled over a bit of fallen debris and fell on his face. Zim snickered in response to his struggle. Dib picked up the debris and threw it at Zim's face. Zim smacked the piece of metal away and resumed leaning against the wall but with his eyes putting a steady ray of watchfulness.

"So, did you find anything that pleased you?" Zim asked with boredom. He went toward Dib and leaned over to look at what he was examining. Dib pushed a button on the scanning machine and a disc-shaped device jutted out softly. Before Dib could pick it up, Zim snatched it away and was walking toward where the dashboard just under the... large broken screen..?

Dib looked around his base and noticed several signs of destruction and fallen debris. He looked back at the large broken screen with caution. Then he looked at Zim who's eyes no longer carried the previous "zeal" it used to have and lost a lot of its glow. It seemed grayer and more dull. "Zim..? What... happened?" Dib asked carefully, he seemed to just realize the conditions of that the base was now in and the condition of his arch nemesis.

Zim gave a long sidelong glance at him before jamming in the disc into a slot on the dashboard. An audio recording went live saying the conditions to Zim's PAK as well as his biology. Through it all, Zim looked at Dib with an impassive expression. Dib was clinging onto each report of damage and mutation to Zim's biology with rapt attention. After the audio recording was finished, the disc came out and Zim pocketed it.

He walked slowly yet deliberately to Dib who looked quite uncomfortable yet guilty. Dib slunk back as Zim walked slowly towards him, backing Dib into a wall. A PAK leg jutted out of his PAK, heading for Dib at frightening speed. Dib saw that the PAK leg was ready to impale him to the wall and grabbed readily for a plasma pistol in his pocket. Yet the end of the PAK leg formed a spherical form. The front end looked similar to the screen of a TV. It turned on and showed from Zim's perspective of what had transpired yesterday and earlier today. Zim was knocked into unconsciousness as he was forced to relive the events of yesterday all over again...

"Fourteen years..." Zim growled. His SIR unit following him giggled. "Fourteen years on this dirt ball..."

GIR glomped the back of Zim's head. Zim roared and grabbed GIR and slammed him down. "STAY, YOU USELESS PIECE OF TECH!" He kicked GIR away with him crying. He continued down towards the toilet.

"Computer." Zim called out. Computer took awhile to respond as he had not heard his master call out his name in this tone. He sounded unbelievably calm and devoid of any arrogant or unhappy emotion.

"Y-yes?" He stuttered.

"Bring me the Tallests."

"Yes master."

A couple of minutes later, the screen showed the very tall duo, each standing at seven feet. "What is it Zim?" The red of the the two asked with his eyes closed whilst scratching the back of his head. "Look, if it is another failed mission don't waste our..." He opened his eyes and paused at the sight of Zim. His eyes were gray and they were devoid of emotion - not even a trace of fanaticism - he looked as if he were looking at them but yet he was not... it looked as if he was looking through them. "...time..?"

Zim only responded with a slight twitch of his right eye.

"Tallests." Zim said the one word which shook them to their core. His voice all the more cold. "I am requesting a resignation of my status as Invader post-haste"

The Tallest looked at each other with great worry. "What produced this... development... Zim..?" The red one asked. He immediately grimaced as Zim's head swiveled towards him slowly.

"...Many things." He answered coldly. Both Tallests grew a very dreary feeling inside of their spooches. "I cannot help but notice that... for one I have a defective SIR unit." He gestured to GIR who was crying on Zim's feet. "The equipment you've sent me, utterly useless." Zim kicked a machine softly but watched as it fell apart all together. He did this all while staring at them. "Explain, now."

The Tallests were utterly speechless. "You're SIR unit isn't defective, its specia-"

"Shut up." Zim snapped his head towards Purple. "Tell me, if I look into GIR's head right now will I find machinery or... something else that isn't there?" Zim asked as he grabbed GIR by his arm and let him dangle whilst screaming. He took the top off of GIR's head and peered inside.

His eyes momentarily turned into pitch black voids at the sight of garbage inside GIR's head. He looked up at the Tallests. "So, after my "undying" loyalty to both of you... this... is how you much you respected me?" He growled and threw GIR at the large screen causing it to crack a little. With his eyes pitch black he advanced on and grabbed him by his left leg and dragged him upwards to deactivate him.

"Master! Don't do this please!" GIR begged. For the first time of all time, GIR had formed a coherent sentence. Zim paused and a little of his color had returned to his eyes. GIR started sobbing openly. "Master! Please don't deactivate me! I only did what I did on the orders of those two!" He pointed to the two tallests. "It was out of my control!"

Zim's lips were working themselves into several phases from a simple to a heavy frown and back. He let his SIR unit fall to the ground unceremoniously. GIR crawled to a corner and quietly cried. Zim looked up at the tallests. "Tell me, was my mission... real?" Zim's PAK was sparking and started to sputter.

Red stared at him in silence then started chuckling. "Since its been fourteen years and we've had our fun. Yes, your mission was a fake." He laughed openly. "BWAHAHAHAHA! I CANNOT BELIEVE IT TOOK YOU FOURTEEN YEARS BUT YOU FINALLY DID IT! YOU'VE FOUND OUT! SOMEONE TELEPORT HIM A COOKIE!"

Zim's PAK started to shake violently. He started chuckling too but this one had no other emotion besides frustration and greif. His expression turned crazed and his PAK started sparking black electricity. He picked up a plasma knife. "After many years of taking advantage of me, you will find yourselves riddled with blood as your corpses are paraded throughout Irk and beyond. Be prepared Tallests." He threw the knife at the screen like a javelin and watched as it hit the screen. The screen went black.

After the video shut off, Zim's eyes regained focus and he stared at Dib with pitch black voids. "Now you know." The words were simple yet carried a deep hatred and resentment for all that had wronged him. Dib was shook to his very core as a lot of that hatred was directed at him. Zim continued to stare at him with a cold visage, his eyes boring through Dib's soul. No sparkle was in them, no passion or sense of sanity were in them. Just a sensation of utter hatred, frustration and insanity was the vibe they gave off.

Dib could feel a strange sensation as his body reacted to his face. His breathing accelerated and his body started to sweat profusely. Zim's hormones transferred to his body and was choking him alive. Zim stumbled back before his eyes faded from black to gray back to a red with a hue of gray. Zim regarded him oddly for one moment, his eyes holding its spark for just a moment as if unsure about something, before he walked towards the lift quietly. Zim stood on the lift and looked back at Dib, the spark in his eyes fully gone.

Dib walked toward the lift next to Zim and looked at him with worry. "What will you do now, Zim?" Dib asked in a manner to a close-friend who had lost the ability to walk. Dib was unsure why he suddenly felt so worried for the alien. But after thinking back to the visual recording, the only reason why Zim was here and why they were enemies was because of his "job" and the lies that the tallests had spewed out of their arrogant mouths.

Zim turned back to Dib, his mouth in a stretched frown and his eyes half-lidded. "I'm leaving. This baleful rock has been a bane to me. I will find it best if I left it." Zim sighed and turned away from him and went towards his Voot Cruiser. "Get some sleep, Dib. I know that you humans need it. By the time you wake up, "Zim" would have already been long gone and out of your hair... and for what it's worth, I'm sorry for all the trouble I caused for you and your species." Dib didn't know why, but he suddenly felt very sad and lost. Without Zim on Earth, his planet will be less threatened and free of any slavery by an extra-terrestrial empire. He could be free to resume back to a... normal... life...

Dib stared into nowhere as his heart rate suddenly raced to high levels. He could live a normal life again and come home to a... neglectful and disappointed father and a sister who just recently started to appreciate Dib for what he was after nearly losing him to near fatal injury in Zim's previous mission. A job working for a Paranormal organization with people who tended to not believe him most of the time despite having very plausible evidence and a woman working there who continuously teased and made him confused about his body.

He started pacing around Zim's living room. He could go back to living in a lonely house with loud and hateful neighbors. By this time, Dib was already walking towards Zim subconsciously in a daze. No. He will not go back to living on this planet. With people who cared so little about him, besides Gaz and Keef who is already happily married to classmate he knew back way when.

Suddenly, Zim's door burst off its hinges as Gaz kicked the door down and burst in. "ZIM, I KNOW THAT YOU HAVE MY... my brother..." Gaz paused and looked towards Dib with a shocked expression. She composed herself and coughed awkwardly. "Right - well, Dib are you okay? I knew you were coming here and I wanted to make sure you're okay. I saw that you didn't come out for awhile and decided to check for myself as you can see..." She gestured to the fallen door. She regained her squinting expression and walked up to Dib. "Time to go home Di-"

"Zim is leaving Earth." Dib paused her, to her annoyance.

"What?" She opened an eye wider with one eyebrow raised.

"I said-"

"I know what you said, Dib. But why?" Gaz asked curiously and sat down on the couch.

"To make a long story short, the Tallests lied to him about his mission and fooled him for many years." Dib answered sadly. Gaz nodded on while looking at him. "Do you think that if Zim was never given a false mission, that we could make great friends?"

"No, because we would never get in contact with him. Irken space is too far from us." Gaz replied back to him. "Why, do you want to go with him?"

"I don't know, but I don't think that he would even agree to let me join him either way." Dib scratched the back of his head. "Tak's ship doesn't work and I highly doubt that he would accept to fix it."

Gaz turned to his toilet. "Well, at least you have access to his technology now. It is what you've always wanted." Gaz picked up Zim's remote and turned on his TV. She turned back to Dib. She found him crying silently. Alarmed at what she possibly said, she went towards him and held him. "Hey, hey... shhhh... calm down. You're too old for this, Dib..." She patted him comfortingly. "Shhh, buck up. Act like the big, strong, smart and caring older brother I know you to be." She let him rest his head on her shoulder. "Speak. Tell me what is eating you, I'm here."

Dib sniffled as he wiped his eyes. "It is all I've ever wanted. But, what happens afterwards? Our father hates me and everyone else in the world does. "World famous professor's son is a loony", you saw the news report broadcasted worldwide, I'm a laughingstock. There is no future for me. I may have a job working for the SEB, but they rarely listen to my discoveries. When ever I create something new and innovative that could benefit humankind, they scoff at it and don't pay it any mind."

"All they see and will ever see is a loser..." Gaz tried her best to comfort him, at least he had stopped crying. "I'm sorry for making you uncomfortable Gaz. It's just that, what use could I be on Earth if no one will listen to me? Even when I saved this planet thousands of times over."

Gaz did not respond and thought to herself. She had become a better sister than she was before, her outlook on life less gloomy and cold. She was a more approachable person now and things are looking up for her. But after seeing all of the wonders in space, Earth had become quite boring and mundane. She had left her husband after two years of dating and one and a quarter years of marriage. While saddened, he seemed like a good husband but he was not faithful. Hence, the reason she divorced him.

"Well, i believe the choice is simple. Ask him to take you along with him. Both of us. I can't have my brother getting into trouble with space monsters without me." Gaz replied as she broke the hug and playfully punched him in the arm with a soft smile. "Go to him." She pointed at the at the toilet.

Dib smiled at her and wiped his face. He kissed her on the cheek and went to the toilet.

When Dib found the hangar to the voot cruiser, he saw a purple female robot helping in picking up various little machines that looked helpful but he paid her little mind as he saw Zim with Gir on his head, ready to go the Voot Cruiser's pilot seat. The female robot turned to look at Dib with a "What are you doing here" expression. Zim turned to look at Dib with a calm visage. Dib sighed and went towards him.

"What do you need, Dib?" Zim looked around awkwardly then his eyes settled on Dib. Dib was nervously twiddling his fingers.

"Zim, I've been thinking, and I don't believe that I'll have a good life on Earth." Dib stepped closer to Zim. "I've realized that people here are just not worth it. They never cared for me and all that I've ever done. I'd find it best if I were to come with you and explore the universe together." Dib was face to face with Zim now. He grabbed both of Zim's hands and cupped them between both his hands. Zim figured it was a human gesture of trust so he did not draw back his hands. "I am asking you. Will you please, allow me to explore with you?" Dib was in a crouched position whilst begging Zim.

Zim chuckled and got out of his grip. "Sure, why not. After all, I can understand all that had happened. So, if you wish you may come. Bring your sister if you wish." Zim looked to the lift to find Gaz coming down and stretching her body. He nodded at her while she nodded at him in response.

Computer meanwhile looked on with an everlastingly bored expression while rolling her eyes. "That's cute. Can we go now? The longer we stay on this mud ball, the longer we are from freedom." All of them turned to Computer. Computer's rolled her eyes again and she went into the ship. She was tapping it to show them all that she was waiting for them and they were being slow.

"Is thaaat...?"

"Yes."

"Aaahhh..."

And so, they got ready to leave the Earth. Forever.

Zim was about ready to take off before he realized how cramped his ship was. "Um... Dib do you have Tak's ship back at your base?" Zim asked with difficulty moving around.

"Yes, I do. Why?" Dib asked while being crushed between Gaz and Computer.

"I need to scrap her ship and mine to make a bigger and better one." Zim responded with Gir trying to squeeze through to get to a more comfortable position. "Plus this one lacks FTL."

"I agree." Computer responded, grunting as Dib was trying to get more comfortable.

Things were delayed. But after they got Tak's ship to Zim's base, Computer and Zim stripped both ships of their parts and put the materials inside the bigger version of the fabricator. This version was used to make ships. "The process will take a few hours, so get comfy." Computer responded in a bored manner. After a few hours had passed with them getting to know one another as companions instead of enemies, the ship was finished being built. "Wow. I did a good job on the blue prints." Computer observed her work as she was rubbing the ship lovingly with one of her hands. "I shall call you, Void Dancer."

They clambered onto the ship, finding that it had a lot more space and looked more advanced than before. The ship went into a slow climb as the roof opened up to allow the vessel through. The Void Dancer, faced upwards and traversed way smoother than both Tak and Zims' ships combined. Soon enough, they broke orbit. "We're going to make a quick venture into Irken space to pick up some food from Foodcourtia. Without visiting Shloogorgh's Flavor Monster of course..." Zim added while shuddering.

And so, the ship engaged its FTL drives and zoomed off to its set course.

A/N: So! How'd you guys like the chapter! Comin' at you with +3,500 words :D

Anyway, things are looking up for them! I hope Sizz Lorr doesn't come prowlin' 'round the corner...