Disclaimers: I do not own Invader Zim

Author's Note's: Okay I laughed through out writing this chapter, so I hope you guys find it as funny as I did, BTW merry Christmas and enjoy.

(Back with Zim…)

[The next Morning]

School…

He found it hard to believe that they were back here once again.

Dib looked up at the towering building before him, the damage made by the giant spiders was gone, and Zim had made sure that some crazy scientist had taken the blame for mutating spiders, and now with the damaged fixed, everyone could return to school.

Yes, it would appear life went on even if it aliens were about to take over the world. The sun kept shining, the sky a clear blue, not a cloud in sight.

"Today can't be the end of the world." Dib muttered as they got off the bus. "It's too beautiful."

"You think the Armada cares that it's pretty outside?" Zim asked as they started up the ramp. He honestly didn't see the need in showing up at school, but Dib said it was for the best that they acted as normal as possible. The big headed idiot was under some false belief that they could take down the threat unnoticed. No one else on Earth needed to find out about the impending doom over them. Of course Zim saw the need to keep mass panic to a bare minimum, but he thought Dib would want to tell everyone.

"They would hurt you." Dib had told him. "I don't want to lose you Zim… I love you."

Zim bit his lip, Dib wanted them to be together, but could they possibly even hope for a world where they could be by each other's side?

Would it really be fair for him to force Dib to choose between staying here on Earth, or leaving with him? No, it was not fair, just like it was not fair for Dib to ask Zim to stay here when his people needed him.

Yes, their love had been doomed for the start, he knew that from the get go; they both did. However neither one of them wanted it to end, they were stalling for time…time they just didn't have.

"You're right, all we can do is wait for Maz to reveal himself." Zim had told Dib and Gaz last night.

"So until then we're just supposed to pretend nothing's happening?" Gaz yelled.

"What do you want to do tell dad?" Dib had yelled. "He's all the way in Peru right now on some stupid business trip. Not to mention he won't even believe you."

Of course Gaz had no choice but to agree, Prof. Membrane would be no help with this challenge they'd only waste valuable time trying to convince him.

So in the end Dib's plan had become their best choice of action, so here they were at school when any second an Irken in disguise could sneak up on them and end their lives.

Zim was sure that Maz would be that Irken, he was also very sure that they would see him very soon.

Zim and Dib entered the school and headed towards their first period, Mrs. Moody's class.

He knew they were in trouble the second they stepped into the building, it was like his Irken senses had kicked in letting him know that one of his own was nearby, plotting against him.

Planning his demise!

Zim looked around he knew the enemy was near, but he could not see anyone that fit the bill.

"Zim?" Dib asked unsure.

"He's here." Zim whispered. "I can feel it."

Dib nodded and reached for Zim's hand grabbing it with his own, hoping to reassure the other.

Zim gives him a warning look, the human knew better than to show him affection in public, and he is tempted to remind him of his place, but stops himself. After all it wasn't like everyone in the school didn't already think that they were together, besides he was pretty sure the Tallest and his father had figured it out too; so why not let him indulge?

Especially when these days were most likely numbered, and for several reasons.

Dib could die,

Zim could die,

Or worse they would live and go their separate ways forever knowing where the other was, but never being able to touch like they were now.

No, it was best to let Dib be Zim decided. After all he secretly enjoyed the feeling of the human's hand in his. No, not the Human, his human…no he was more than some possession now. He knew there was a word for it, humans called their significate other a certain name.

"Mate boy?" Zim thought out loud. "No it's boy pal…wait no that's not right."

"What are you talking about?" Dib asked.

"Humans when they are in a relationship they call each other something…" Zim said not really giving Dib much of a glace as he kept muttering under his breath. "Mate friend…boy something or other."

Dib's eyes suddenly widen. "You mean boyfriend?" he asked.

Zim's eyes lit up. "That's the one, that's what we are right?"

Dib suddenly blushed. "I guess…We are." He admitted.

"You guess?" Zim asked looking somewhat offended.

"No I don't mean it in a bad way." Dib assured him. "I just never thought my greatest enemy would become my boyfriend." He admitted. "I mean come on Zim if you went back in time, and told yourself that in seven years you'd be bonded to a human as your mate tell me the idiot wouldn't slap you."

"Slap me?" Zim scoffed. "More like down right murder me." He chuckled. "I probably deserve it too I mean what self-respecting being falls for their enemy?"

"You've got a point." Dib laughed. "I guess that makes us both idiots."

"Just as long as you're the bigger idiot I could care less." Zim teased.

Dib gave his boyfriend a playful punch in the shoulder at the insult.

Boyfriend, it was going to take a while for that to roll off the tongue with ease. However, Dib couldn't help but smile as they continued to hold hands as they entered Mrs. Moody's class.

Zim was allowing him to show affection, something he had not been allowed to do since they started this relationship one month ago. The two of them let go as they sat down beside each other in the front row most of their classmates were already seated, and no one seemed shocked by their open hand holding display, in fact Mrs. Moody gave them a twisted smile.

"I always knew you two weridos would end up together." She said cruelly. "Now sit down!"

"But we are sitting." Zim told her.

"Silence you-" She stops as the phone rings interrupting her. "What!" She asked answering it. "Another one? Really? You guys are killing me!" She hangs up the phone and clears her throat. "Class to celebrate their hatred for me the school as accepted a transfer student into our school."

The door suddenly opens to a very familiar human disguise, and Zim suddenly cursed Skoodge internally, how dare he betray them! Betray him!

"Zim isn't that-" Dib began, but Zeta interrupted him.

"Hey Dib isn't that the guy you danced with at the School Ball back in October."

"No it is not!" Zim hissed. "As if Dib would ever dance with that worm!"

"OOOO Drama!" Trina laughed. "Looks like the current boyfriend is jealous of the old boy toy."

"Why you!" Zim looked ready to bounce. 'How dare she say such a horrid thing, like my Dib would ever be with the likes of him?'

Dib gulped this wasn't good, apparently their new bond also had a huge jealousy factor. "Hu Zim..." He began.

He never got the chance.

"Silence!" Mrs. Moody hissed. "As I was saying His name is Maz, now Maz this is your one chance to speak in front of the class." She warned. "After this I don't want to hear another word from you. So chose your words carefully.'

Maz snickered Zim's response at his arrival was delicious, and his reaction to the other humans assumptions about him being some ex-mate of the Dib was equally as amusing. So much so that he decided to use his brother's jealousy to his advantage. "Greetings Human word babies my Name as you know is Maz and I am Zim younger yet better looking brother."

A gasp filled the room!

"Brother!" Zeta exclaimed.

"You snatched up your own brother's boyfriend oh Zim you are a dog!" Trina giggled.

Zim growled openly Oh he had some nerve, 'He thinks he can get under my skin by admitted we're related? Well he's wrong and I will prove it!'

"Is this true Zim?" Mrs. Moody asked.

"Yes." Zim admitted. "Our parents split up when we we're younger." He lied. "But unfortunately my snotnose brat of a brother doesn't seem to get the gist that he and our father are not welcomed to live in the same town as us, much less the same state!"

A loud OOOOOOOO filled the class room as Mrs. Moody's class suddenly became the most liked class in school!

Maz snickered. "Now brother there is no need to make a scene." Maz assured him, as he approached Dib's desk, and grabbed the human's hand. "I understand what this is about, you think I'll try to steal Dib back from you." he leaned in and kissed Dib's hand.

Dib openly cringed, and Zim...well Zim was seeing RED!

Maz smiled as Dib's hand trembled in his grasped, perhaps his father and brother was right; perhaps taboo did have its own strange allure. After all seeing his brother like this was exciting, and to touch something of his brother's without permission while he could do nothing about it, now that was addicting. 'Perhaps I will have a little fun of my own with this human.' He thought before letting go of Dib. "But you do not need worry." He assured the human. "Zim won you fair and square."

"Wow Dib I had no idea your life was so interesting." Trina complemented.

"Yeah you've got two hot guys fighting over you in front of class." Zeta exclaimed. "I am so jealous."

"They are not fighting over me!" Dib cried, finally finding his voice.

"Oh but we are." Maz cackled taking a seat on the other side of Dib causing the class to erupt in another chores of OOOOOOOOOO.

Dib wanted to deck him right then and there, but he could afford to, it was obvious that Maz had been watching them for a while, and knew they could not afford to start a fight at school! They were in the Safe Zone now, and in order to keep themselves from getting expelled they had to let Maz do as he pleased with in these walls. Dib looked to Zim, he was furious, practically growling like a wild best at his brother; his moth dripping with saliva almost as if he was venomous!

'If I don't say something, or do something soon Zim is going to lose it!' He thought. But what could he do? There was only one answer, he had to play along with Maz's sick game about being his ex, it was the only way to explain Zim's behavior.

"I'm with Zim Now Maz." He said his voice firm despite his fear. "Not you."

Maz chuckled, eying Dib knowingly. "Not for long." He promised.

"OOOOOOOO!" The class chanted, even Mrs. Moody had took a seat to watch the show, heck she even pulled out a bag of popcorn and laughed at their misery.

"Soon you will be mine." Maz vowed. "And once you are you'll never want to go back to my halfwit brother ever again."

"That's it!" Zim shouted getting up to tackle him.

"Zim!" Dib jumps up and grabs his derange boyfriend by the hand before dragging him out the door.

Zim is raving the whole way out, shouting at Maz in some unknown language.

Dib is pretty sure it's Irken, because he recognizes some of the insults due to the fact that Zim once said them to him during their own battles. He thanks his lucky stars that everyone thinks Zim is from some unknown third world country, otherwise this would be really hard to explain.

Maz simply laughs this Dib was making this battle more entertaining by the minute. No wonder Zim was so absorbed by him.

"Hu Mrs. Moody I think Zim needs a breather so we'll be a moment." Dib said as he managed to get to the class room door. He opens it and manages to pull Zim out of the room.

"Until next time love." Maz shouts after Dib.

"I am not your love!" Dib screamed. "And I never will be!" he slams the door close than before pulling Zim down the hall.

Zim turns his rage towards Dib shouting at him in Irken.

Again Dib recognized some of the words, Pathetic, filthy, dirty, worm…words like that.

Finally Dib stopped and faced his boyfriend. "Zim will you stop it, can't you see this is what he wants?"

"How dare you let him touch you!" Zim screamed, reverting back to English. "You are mine Dib, MINE not HIS!"

"Zim!" Dib screamed, but Zim wasn't finished, he continued going on and on about how he thought last night meant something, and how he gave up everything he believed in for him, and on, and on, and on!

Finally Dib had enough and slammed Zim up against the locker before kissing him roughly.

Zim returned the kiss with an equal amount of aggression, and before Dib knows it Zim's hands are all over him, squeezing, clawing, as he bites any expose skin he can find.

"Zim we're in the middle of the hall." Dib warned knowing all too well that he just unintentionally started one of their right there moments.

"I'm reclaiming what's mine." Zim growled.

"Not out here you're not!" Dib shouted as he pulled away. "And you don't to fuck me to prove I'm yours Zim! I already am yours you don't have to prove it to anyone. Just like I never had to prove to any girl that you are mine."

Zim froze, it was strange, but Dib had a point, plenty girls found him attractive, but Dib never got this way with them. "Those girls are harmless." Zim reasoned. "Maz is not, he'll claim you just to spite me!"

"Maybe." Dib agreed. "But this is the Safe Zone Zim, besides we agreed no one would know what's really going on here. Earth isn't ready to know aliens exists, and I don't think they ever will be."

"You liked his attention didn't you?" Zim argued. "That's why you are defending him."

"Zim I'm not defending him." Dib assured him.

"YOU"RE LYING!" Zim screamed.

This was how they used to fight beck before the Safe Zone, back before the ship wreck, and now they were reverting back to it.

NO!

Dib threw his arms around Zim hugging him close. "Please don't leave me, don't make things go back to the way they were before. I don't know how to live without you anymore." Tears spill down his face.

It's the tears that seem to calm Zim down.

He's not entirely sure what came over him, but he doesn't like the fact that it caused Dib to burst into tears. he returned the hug openly, and kissed Dib deeply. "I'm sorry." he admitted.

It's not like him to admit he's wrong, and Dib knows it's just because of the bond, he'll never apologies to anyone else, no one but him.

"it's okay." Dib assured him. "He's to blame and we'll make him pay as soon as school let's out."

"I'm gonna make him wish he was never born!" Zim vowed.

"You okay to go back?" Dib asked.

"We have no choice." Zim told him as he grabbed his hand and led the way back to class. "No doubt father still wants him to secure the planet despite my betrayal."

"So your father doesn't want you dead?" Dib asked.

"Probably not." Zim admitted. "Heck he probably blames you for messing me up."

"So Maz won't kill you?" Dib asked hopefully.

"No he will try." Zim assured him.

"How do you know?" Dib dared to ask.

"Remember what Skoodge said?" Zim asked. "my father, and Brothers are here, brothers Dib."

"But there is only Maz." Dib muttered not getting it.

"Exactly." Zim answered.

Dib suddenly got what he was hinting out. "You don't mean-"

"I do." Zim said.

"But surely your father-" Dib began.

"Would care?" Zim scoffed. "He has two other sons he's not worried I assure you."

"That's awful Zim." Dib admitted.

"NO that's simply the Irken way." Zim told him. "But don't worry my Love pig, he will be the one to die." he vowed before entering Mrs. Moody's class once more.

"Awe look they're holding hands." Maz mused. "How adorable."

Zim hissed openly, already allowing Maz to get the better of him all over again.

"Uh Mrs. Moody I know this is entertaining and all." A boy name Zach said. "But don't we have a test next week to review for?"

Everyone growled in his direction including the Teacher.

Dib takes this moment to lead Zim to their seats, and reluctantly they let go of each others hands.

"So this is school?" Maz asked Dib as he looked around.

"Yeah what royals never been or something?" Dib snapped not really wanting to talk to this jerk.

"No, school is for rift raft." Maz snickered as he eyed his brother.

"Guess that makes you rift raft too." Dib smiled cruelty.

Maz is taken aback by the boy's boldness to call a royal rift raft, but he recovers quickly. "You know I see now why Zim likes you so much. You're daring as you are interesting."

Zim growled. "How dare you speak to him!" he hissed in a low whisper. "How dare you even look at him!"

"Oh I plan to do more than look." Maz vowed.

Oh no! Dib looks at Zim fearfully, he did not just threaten to...oh Zim would not let that go!

Zim looks ready to murder him right then and there, but to Dib's relief they are saved by the bell. Dib jumps up from his seat, and grabs Zim dragging him back out of the class once more. "Breathe Zim! Breathe!" He ordered.

Zim does his best to obey as Dib hopes some distance will help.

it does, the further way they get from Mrs. Moody's class the more relaxed he becomes.

That is until they enter their next class.

"What took you so long?" Maz mused, he was sitting in the front row, the desk right by the door.

"That's my seat!" Zim growled. "I always sit here!"

"In every class?" Maz looks amazed. "How predictable."

"Move Maz!" Zim hissed.

"Make me." Maz teased.

Zim goes to do just that, but Dib grabs him by the hand and tugs him over to the desk on the other side of the room, by the windows. "No Dib not there I don't want to be surrounded by human filth!" He complained.

Dib shook his head. He should have known that was why Zim chose to sit there in every single class. "Seriously Zim I thought you were over this."

"No I still hate them." Zim admitted. "But you don't so I won't act on my hatred." he said as he sat down.

Dib smiled. "Awe Zim." he cooed.

"Yeah, yeah, I know I'm amazing." Zim laughed. His brother forgotten for a moment. "But do continue to show your gratitude."

"Jerk." Dib said with a smile.

Zim sighed this was how things should be.

Dib couldn't agree more unfortunately the moment was ruined as a ball of paper hit Dib's head. "Hey!" Dib exclaimed.

"Hey worm how come your head is so big anyways?" Maz teased.

"Hey only I get to say that!" Zim growled.

"Not any more." Maz laughed.

"Oh that's it." Zim hissed. "I was going to give you a chance to live Maz." He admitted. "But now, now this means war!"

"Bring it!" Maz challenged, but Zim made no room to get up, and Maz knew why.

This school had rules that he had to follow, if he didn't he'd be kicked out, leaving Dib here alone with him.

Something Zim couldn't afford to do.

Dib rolled his eyes just what he needed, not one but two Irkens in his school! Irkens who were determined to kill each other.

'Well Zim better do it quickly.' he thought. 'Otherwise this is going to be one long school year...'

(Back on the Massive)

Emperor Nax chuckled at the scene before him, it would appear this human was effecting Zim more than they realized, and Maz was taking full advantage of it.

"Sir should we intervene before this gets out of hand?" a soldier asked.

"No." Emperor Nax assured him. "This is between Zim, and Maz and we will not make our move until one of them as breathed their last breath." He vowed.

"As you wish sire." The soldier answered with a trembling voice.

Emperor Nax's eyes narrowed as he watched the show before him, at first he had thought Zim would win easily, but now thanks to the Dib this fight could go either way. He laughed, it would appear both his sons had their work cut out for them, but he wasn't worried.

Why?

Because either way he would still win.

Earth would still be his, weather Zim liked it or not.

It was only a matter of time.

Chapter End Notes

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