Disclaimers: I do not own Invader Zim

Author's Notes: I can't believe Part 1 is almost over! It makes me want to post both chapters today, but no I'll make you wait because I'm evil (Zim laugh). Any way hope you enjoy the end of the Germ episode, I promise the last chapter will be the heart felt one you've all been waiting for. Thanks for reading and please review, or I just might forget to update. I kid, that was a joke. Please don't kill me!

Shout Outs: Everyone! Seriously guys this would be impossible without your tireless devotion. Thank you for reading and please review!

(Back with Gaz and Peg)

The Girls knew something was wrong the moment they arrived at the Membrane home. How did they know?

Simple, the house was nearly gone, as if termites had eaten it away. "Don't tell me." Peg said.

"Yep." Gaz answered and pulled out her phone. "Dark Booty." She said moments after dialing his number. "We have another problem."

"Let me guest the misfits are on the run again?" Dark Booty asked.

"Yeah I have their location." Gaz said pulling up Dib's Tracker on Peg's Phone. "They're at Mac Meaties."

Suddenly there is a commotion on the other end of the phone and Gaz barely hears someone say. "Something's entered Earth's Atmosphere!"

"Dark Booty?" Gaz asked.

"Girls you're going to have to handle this on your own." Dark Booty said. "Somethings…come up."

"But what do we do." Gaz asked. "Our house is nothing but splinters!"

"Find them and come to HQ." Dark Booty instructed.

"Understood." Gaz answered and hung up. She stops for a moment and touches her hand to her heart.

"Problem?" Peg asked.

Gaz wasn't sure, but it felt like a part of her had suddenly returned home, a part that she didn't even realize was gone until now. "Something entered the atmosphere." She answered.

"Oh No." Peg said. "I hope it's not more Irkens."

"I don't think so." Gaz said. "In fact, I think our luck is finally changing."

Peg smiled. "So, we on recue duty again?"

Gaz nodded. "We find them and then go to HQ together." Peg nodded and within seconds the girls are off.

(Back with Dib and Zim…)

Dib raced towards Mac Meaties pulling Miz along for the ride. He was sure that if they made it inside they would find some more cleaning spray and a phone to call for help.

Zim on the other hand was sure that going inside a building was the worst thing they could do right now. Inside they were enclosed, and surrounded by people and furniture that would just slow them down. Allowing the destructive strand of germs to close the gap between them and finish them off.

And yet, even he had to admit that they wouldn't last much longer if they didn't find more cleaning spray.

Once inside Mac Meaties the two look around in horror germs are everywhere. They see John Fountain, who is sitting at a booth, scoop food into his mouth. Zim's micro goggles zoom in on John's mouth as he chews. It's full of gross meat and germs. And even Dib nearly barfs at the sight.

He looks over to where a woman kisses a giant germ sitting in a baby seat. The micro goggles zoom in on her lips as she kisses it.

Zim backs up in horror. "People actually eat here?" he asked in disgust.

"Yeah well now one less does." Dib promised.

Suddenly a lady asked, "Are you next in line?"

Dib and Zim both jump despite themselves; they know they must look like a couple of morons for being so jumpy.

"No, we're good." Dib manages to say.

Suddenly an employee walks out and Zim grabs him by the shirt. "The disinfectant! We need it!" Suddenly the door of Mac Meaties begins to break down.

"Miz!" Dib warned.

"We need cleaning spray Burger man!" he demanded. "Oh, we don't have any of that." The employee said.

"Then how do you clean." Zim asked.

"Clean?" The employee gave him a vacant look.

Zim cringed, and let him go. "Okay now that is just disgusting."

"I am never eating here again!" Dib decreed.

"We'll never eat anything again if we don't figure out something." Zim pointed out as the floor began to dissolve.

However, no one seemed to notice.

"This planet is full of idiots." Zim declared.

"I know!" Dib agreed.

"Look sorry about the spray." The employee said, and pulls out a large dripping burger. "Wanna bite!"

"Dude the floor is disengaging!" Dib yelled. "And you want us to eat a burger."

Zim however, perked up with interest. "Wait a minute!" He snatches up the burger. "There are no germs on this thing!"

"Wait what?" Dib said.

Zim lifts up the top bun and their micro goggles scan the burger for germs.

"You're right." Dib said as he examines it too. "It's completely germ free!"

The word 'CLEAN' flashes in the micro goggles.

Zim pushes to the front of the cashier counter in front of an old man. "You! Burger lord!" he demanded. "How is it that this meat is so pure, so perfect?"

"Burger Lord?" Dib asked, than he looked at the guy's name tag and read 'Burgerlord'. His name was actually Burgerlord!

"Well, it all started in 1962..." Burgerlord said as the restaurant continued to dissolve around them. "Utilizing advances in modern food synthesis, scientists at NASA began work on a germ hostile space meat to be used during long expeditions into deep space! Only recently has their hard work paid off. As even more advances in the field of space meat have been made and applied to what is now called "Operation Meat". However, seeing this as a way to end their streak of being sued by angry costumers poisoned by their burgers, the Mac Meaties Corporation decided to try this miraculous space meat. Not having access to that technology, we make ours out of napkins." Burgerlord motions to a bin full of used napkins.

"Napkins." Dib said. "You feed people napkins?"

"Well yeah." Burgerlord said.

"Are you crazy?" Dib screamed.

Zim on the other hand was smiling from ear to ear. "It's ingenious."

"Wait what?" Dib asked.

"This gives me an idea; the answer is in the meat!"

"Great and now Miz has lost it!" Dib muttered. He turned around and saw the enemy germs closing in. "And now we're dead."

"We are not dead!" Zim said and grabs Burgerlord by his dog tags. "Give us all the meat!"

"It's in the kitchen." Burgerlord said pointing to the window behind him.

"Come Dib!" Zim instructed and grabbed Dib just in time.

"Wait what we are doing." Dib screamed as his boyfriend pulled him into the kitchen. Inside there were barrels labeled Meat.

"Hurry jump into the napkin meat!" Zim ordered as he forced one of the barrels of meat open.

"Seriously?" Dib asked. "This is your plan?"

"No Germs can touch the meat." Zim declared. "It will work!" He jumped into a barrel then.

"This is insane." Dib yelled.

"Dib do you want to live?" Zim asked.

"Yes!" Dib yelled.

"Then get in this meat with me!"

Dib blushed. "There is so many things wrong with what you just said."

"Oh, just get in here!" Miz demanded, grabbing him by the arm.

Dib reluctantly obeyed. "Ew it's all squishy."

"I know." Zim said trying not to think about it.

"Here they come!" Dib screamed and watched as the germs got closer, and closer and stopped. "It…it worked." Zim said almost in disbelief.

"We're saved!" Dib yelled in relief.

"Napkin meat is my new favorite fake meat." Zim declared.

Dib laughed. "Me too."

"What are you idiots doing?" Gaz said as she opened the door.

"The enemy sent an evil strand of germs to destroy us!" Dib exclaimed. "And this napkin meat is the only thing protecting us!"

Peg tried to keep a straight face, she really did, but she just couldn't. Seconds later she's rolling around on the floor in a fit of laughter.

"Now look what you did." Gaz yelled. "You broke Peg."

"I'm sorry I just can't take this seriously." Peg laughed. "You mean to tell me you've been running from germs!"

"You know she may have a point." Dib admitted to Miz.

"Dib." Zim said.

"Yeah." He asked.

"We're taking this to our graves." Zim declared.

"Agreed." Dib decided.

"Let me see!" Gaz snatched Dib's micro goggles off his face and put them on. "Wow, they're not delusional it's definitely an unknown strand of germs." She confirmed.

"Hey give those back!" Dib snatched them back from his sister. "These are the only thing keeping us alive."

"That and the meat." Zim added.

"So, what do we use dollies and load them up in a car?" Peg asked through giggles.

"You know the meats not free." Burgerlord said from the window.

"How much?" Gaz asked.

"$650." Burgerlord said.

"Dib?" Gaz asked.

"The germs ate everything we touched including my phone and wallet." Dib answered meekly.

"I just bought you that!" Zim growled, referring to the wallet.

Gaz growled but pulled out her own wallet. "You two are so dead."

"And here I thought we were in the clear." Zim teased. "Well, it was nice knowing you Dib."

"Miz don't make things worse." Dib begged to which Zim laughed, after all fear was funny no matter who it was for.

"You will both pay!" Gaz swore.

"Fine 50/50 split." Zim told her.

"Deal." Gaz said. "Now does this place have a dolly?"

"Dolly?" Burgerlord asked.

"You've got to be kidding me!" Dib yelled. "You make your burgers out of napkins, you have no cleaning supplies, and now you don't even have a dolly!"

"Wait the food is made out of napkins?" Peg asked.

"Guys just focus please!" Zim advised stepping out of the barrel. "We're fine as long as we're covered in the meat."

Dib threw the meat at the germs and smiled. "Hey, it kills the germs." He said.

Zim found a smile slip on his face. "Well would you look at that, Irk outsmarted by a human. Guess we're not as easy of a target as the enemy thought!"

Tak who had been watching the whole time banged her fist down in rage. How her ingenious plan could be ruined by meat was completely unbelievable to her. And Zim's smug look of victory was just like rubbing salt into an already existing wound!

"Curse you Zim!" She screamed. Punching the counter before her once more. "These humans are smarter than I thought Mimi." She admitted to her Sir unit.

"Meow?" Mimi asked.

"No, we'll have to wait for our next move." Tak answered her minion. As much as she hated to admit it her enemies were on their guard about her. She needed to lay low until the enemy did something to give her the advantage.

Yes, soon they would mess up, and once they did she would be there to strike.

"Come on meat boy's." Gaz said. "Dark Booty wants us at HQ."

"Why?" Dib asked.

"Something about an object entering the atmosphere." Peg answered.

The two boys suddenly grew serious.

"Dib." Zim said "let's go!"

"Right!" Dib said stepping out of the barrel taking a sample of the meat so that Dark Booty could use it to rid the world of the killer strand of germs forever.

"Hey what am I supposed to do with all this bad meat?" Burgerlord asked as they left.

"Please like selling napkin meat is any better than that!" Gaz shouted back.

Burgerlord suddenly looked forward to seeing half his restaurant has been eaten away. "What happened to my burger palace?" He demanded.

"Darn termite." Zim said. "They'll eat you out of house and livelihood."

"Termites?" Burgerlord asked. "Hey maybe we can add them to the meat."

"That is so gross." Peg said making a sick face.

"All for never eating her again say Aye." Dib decreed.

"Aye." Everyone said.

"And the ayes have it!" Peg declared. The four friends laughed.

"Man, what a day." Dib said.

"Definitely the weirdest day I've ever had." Zim admitted.

"Me too." Dib agreed.

"Well at least it's over." Gaz said.

"Thankfully." Dib agreed.

Not knowing that before the day was done that fate would have a few more surprises in store for them.

To Be Continued

Author's Notes: thanks for reading and please review! Next update will be soon.

For now, this is Emily Signing off :)