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Across the vast starry emptiness of space, a red and white space ship (know as a Starcruiser) flew at top speed.

“X-5 report” the young voice Atomic Betty, Galactic guardian extraordinary, sounded with hurry and a bit of fear in her tone.

“The scans have detected a trace of gravital particles that match those found at the crime site” replied the robotic voice of his second in command as he placed a map on the screen that showed a blue trace" according to calculations we should catch up on the culprits in about 5 Earth minutes "

“I still can't believe that someone was able to STEAL the Earth” Sparky said as he pushed the ship even faster at orders of his captain “I mean shrunk? Sure, we have seen Maximus do it before, cloaked? Again possible, Destroyed? Would be sad but still I would understand it” he turned to see his robotic friend “but a whole planet plus moon being dragged out of orbit without destroying it? That’s crazy!!!!” he finished “even for our typical bad guys”

“And that’s why we know it wasn’t Maximus or another of our typical villains” said Betty.

“The number of species with the technological capacities to drag planets like this is quite limited and none fit the profile of any of the Galactic Guardian´s most wanted criminals” added X-5

“Which is even less comfortable that any of them being the ones behind this” Betty said “hit it with all we have Sparky!!!”

“aye aye chief” the green alien set the ship at maximum speed.

Soon the red ship came out of Hyperspace to come across a quite incredible yet disturbing sight.

“X-5 what am I watching?” Asked the red hair.

“Scanning now captain” the robot said.

In front of their ship was what could be described as a planet sized metallic ball being dragged with a really large metallic tube by a small (in comparison) greyish green ship.

“Scan completed, captain I have good and bad news” X-5 said as the Starcruiser flew over the metallic ball as it moved towards the other ship. “The good news is that this is in fact Earth” the robot said “the entire planet has been cover by a mechanical shell with an holographic interior simulating the night sky, meaning no one inside it have noticed the planet being moved”

“Ok that’s a relief” Betty said “what’s the bad news?”

“The bad news is that I have identified the species responsible” the image of the ship appeared on the screen “it appears we are facing against the aliens known galaxy wide as the planet jackers”

“Wait what?!!!” Sparky said in fear having heard rumors about those guys.

“I have heard of them” said Betty also in horror “according to the records of the academy they look a bit brutish but have the technology capable of moving planets across space” she looked at the ship in the screen “Due to the fact that their planet's star is dying, they steal or jack other planets, hence their name, and throw them into the star like firewood”

“According to reports they are being charge with mass genocide of multiple species” X-5 added.

“How in the name of the galaxy are those guys not behind bars?!!!” asked Sparky in disbelief.

“Intergalactic law 14-3-66/C” said Betty “Any species has the right to preserve the life or integrity of their planets by any necessary mean”

“That added to the fact the majority of the jacked planets have been proven to be non sentient have kept them out of being charged” X-5 finished.

“And now they have Earth” said Sparky.

“Exactly!!!” Betty said in anger “they have a very well sentient-inhabited planet that is also a home world of a galactic guardian” she added “that alone broke more rules than what I can count” she turned to her crew “send a message to admiral DeGill and inform him of the situation, then get close to that ship and prepare for battle”

“You got it chief, time to kick some butts” Sparky said ready for a fight.

BEEP-BEEP

“Uh? Excuse me captain, the scanner has pick up something else” X-5 announced.

“What is it X-5?” Betty wondered what else could happen “more bad news?”

“Umm not sure what could I call this” the robot said “it appears we aren’t the only ones trying to stop the jackers” the robot put up an image of the shell and zoomed in on something flying on the sides. “According with the data, there are two laser pods currently cutting away the upper shield, what is more there is a small wingless ship of the same color and design close by probably guiding the process” there in the screen appeared both the pods and a small purple ship “the potency of the laser is strong enough to cut through the metallic exterior…calculations said that if uninterrupted the planet would be free in less that 10 earth minutes”

“Well that’s great” said Sparky “one less worry...so lets kick those thugs already”

“WHAT IS WORRYING” said the robot cutting the alien “is that the technology used matched a profile under the highly dangerous archive” he typed a command an a new purple symbol filled the screen “Irken”

Immediately everyone in the ship fell in silence out of shook.

“Ir..IRKEN!!!!!” Sparky exclaimed in fear and anger.

“X-5 are you sure of that?!!!” Betty asked with dread.

“95.5% sure” said the robot making everyone gulp.

The Irken Empire.

The biggest and most dangerous empire in the whole universe. A race of planet conquerors that have been in an endless crusade of bringing death and destruction to every inch of creation. Not even Maximus would dare mess with them.

The simply idea of those…creatures close to her world made Betty sick.

“However what puzzle me is why this particular ship its trying to save Earth” the words of the robot also puzzled the other two “according to some reports both species have a deal where Jackers won't target soon-to-be conquered planets of the empire”

“Yeah I don’t know what’s worse” said Sparky with sarcasm “be incinerated or be conquered and possible incinerated out of torture.”

The female guardian however thought about that.

“Think you are onto something there X-5” she turn to the robot “can you scan the rest of that station?...maybe we are missing something”

“Is good that someone still can use the head to think under the circumstances” said the robot as he got to work.

“Hey you talking about me?” said the green alien.

“Case and point” X-5 said before finding something “you were right captain there is something happening on the tracking cable” he zoomed on the metal tube. There on the line were two aliens seemingly locked in combat (and one getting quite the beat down).

One was a really big hulking green alien with yellow eyes, wearing a metallic deep green armor.

The other alien (the one getting its ass kicked) was smaller (the same size of Betty) also green but with two antennas and red eyes.

“Facial recognition coming up” said X-5 “the smaller alien is definitive an Irken...one match in the data base”

“Oh yeah and who is that little green plague” said Sparky on angry tone.

“That’s funny coming from you since you are also small and green” said the robot “however I wouldn’t laugh at this… facial recognition has identified him as the hero of doomsday better know across the galaxy as…”

“THE INVADER ZIM?!!!!!” Betty cried in excitement “OH MY GOD, I'VE READ ALL ABOUT HIM ... THE LONE REBEL IRKEN, THE ONE WHO SAVED THE UNIVERSE THE FIRST TIME THE IRKEN EMPIRE TRIED TO TAKE CONTROL, HE DEFEATED THE ENTIRE ARMADA AND DAMAGED THE IRKEN HOMEWORLD ALL IN ONE IMPRESSIVE MILITARY MANEUVER NEVER REPLICATED SINCE!!! " the girl was literally blushing and gushing over the alien.

“Whoa boss never thought of you as a fangirl” said Sparky a bit disturbed.

“Its normal actually” said the robot “a lot of cadets in the academy had take inspiration on the invader story and have based their training on his military movements” he turned to Sparky “something you should known if you didn’t take naps in the history lessons” he returned to look the screen “but according to records he disappeared years ago after the new Irken leaders managed to capture him” he turned “from what is know he is supposed to be dead or at least incarcerated on a desolated planet”

“Well if not he will be soon” Sparky said on disinterested tone “the little guy is getting his ass kick down there” and it was true as they focus back on the fight only to see Zim been kicked by the more that obvious bigger and stronger alien “oh well what a shame, all hero but can't be that smart to fight that thing all alone”

“Or maybe that’s what he wanted” said Betty “he must be keeping the jackers distracted so they won't notice the laser cutters”

“A solid theory with a 90% of chances of being true”

“90% of yada yada” Sparky mocked

“WE MUST HELP” said Betty “we cant leave a hero of his caliber facing this alone, even less when he is trying to save my world” she hop off her chair “ I will take a hover board and help him directly, Take us close Sparky and keep their ship from moving!!!”

“uff fine” Sparky groaned.

“I detect some sarcasms there”

“Bite me metal bucket” the green alien said back.

Today definitely sucks for Zim.

In fact as of right now he decided that everyday he passed without conquering the earth and turning the humans into slaves for The Tallest sucked.

But today was the suckiest day of all.

First of all he learned that other, much inferior to Zim, invaders have done biggest advances on conquering their planets that him.

Then, when investigating a really big disturbance, he was attacked by that hideous worm-Dib when he DEMANDED the very much inferior telescope of his…did he mention Dib is hideous? BECAUSE HE IS.

And the cherry of the top, it was that a pair of very confused, and very hideous (but not as much as WORM-DIB) planet jackers had taken the Earth as their next target.

“Just wait until my Tallest hear about this” Zim thought as he bounced on the metal surface “ taking a planet marked for conquest and saying it isn’t…LIESSSSS!!!!! ALLL LIESSSS”

“Are you ready to give up?” said the big ugly Jacker “you are really starting to annoy me”

“Is that all?” said Zim standing up all beaten and hurt “because Zim is getting bored of your weak punches” he activated his PAK thrusters launching himself at the alien ready to deliver the wrath of Zim on him!!!!

Only to be grabbed by a bigger hand and smashed against the metal floor...again.

“Little green man you really are infuriating” the bigger alien said with angry tone and more that ready to smack the little one like a bug.

“Let the alien go and surrender!!!” a female voice sounded before a volley of laser shoots impacted his back forcing him to release his hold.

“uggg…ok now I’m piss” said Zim in groggy tone before turning up and see quite a curious sight.

It was a red haired female human ridding on a hover board dressed in a pink dress, white gloves, pink bracelet, white belt with a nuclear symbol, and white thigh-high boots. 

“ehhh Oog-Ah i think we have a problem” said Nik from the cabin as the Starcruiser floated in front of their ship, its tip shining ready to shoot.

“What now?!!!!” The jacker asked annoyed by all the bugs coming to bother him. However the human girl flew at great speed jumping from her craft and kicking the alien with great force making it fall.

Not stopping the red head ran to the fallen Zim and helped him to stand.

“Don’t worry Zim…I mean sir” she saluted causing her to let go of Zim which made him fall again “oops...Sorry sorry.” The red head said embarrassed as the alien stood up on shaking legs “come on Betty act professional…not as a fangirl in front of your hero”

“uggg and who...are you?” asked Zim wondering if the pathetic punches of the Jacker had caused him something to be seeing human girls in space...and what did she mean with hero?

“Oh yeah sorry sir” she said saluting him again in military way “Atomic Betty reporting!!!” she said in professional tone.

“Eh? Wha…uggg” he fell again, but this time he tried to grab onto Betty to not fall causing him to pull her into the floor too…. which was lucky cause seconds after her own board passed over them with great force, exploding some meters away at impact.

“ahhhhhh IM SICK AND TIRED OF THIS” Oog-Ah roared in anger at missing.

“Whoa” Betty said amazed “great reflexes Zim sir, I didn’t see that coming” she then stood and addressed the bigger alien “By order of the Galactic Guardians, I place you under arrest! Under the crimes of stealing an inhabited planet under the protection of the galactic federation!!!”

“The galactic guardians?” Zim wondered in his mind “what are they doing here? And did she say something about earth being under who´s protection?”

“Grrrrr I'VE HAD IT WHIT SO MANY INTERRUPTIONS!!!!” the giant jumped on them forcing the alien/human duo to separate.

Seeing that the fight still continued, Zim activated his rockets and launched himself at the jacker´s head and began delivering blow after blow of fury on it…which only caused a minor headache to the already angry alien.

However this gave Betty the chance to bring out a rope from her bracelet, catching the arm of the alien and trying to force it down. The sudden pull caused Zim to fall on the floor, something Oog-Ah took advantage of it to try and step on him but in luck Zim only opened his legs making him miss. In fright Zim called for his spider legs to impulse himself away. This had a nice bonus since a pair of legs managed to pierce the boot of the jacker and go through his foot and leg making him not only growl in anger but also to fall on one knee which gave Betty the chance to finally toppled the giant down.

“Nice movement Sir” called Betty who was quite exited to not only fight along side a legend but also see his brilliant military mind at work.

However her distraction cost her as the jacker didn’t stay down and grabbed the lasso pulling the girl at him and sending her against Zim again.

“YOU MISERABLE BUGS” Oog-Ah´s left hand was covered in metal that shifted into a canon that didn’t lose time in firing against the two fighters.

Meanwhile X-5 and Sparky had their own problems.

In a quick movement Nik activated the defenses of his ship taking the Starcruiser by surprise with an energy pulse. The impact not only sent the red ship spinning out of control, but also affected its weapon systems stopping the crew from responding to the volley of plasma balls sent at them by the turrets of the jacker´s ship.

“Shield integrity down at 70%” X-5 called “our weapon systems are down to 10% and unable to fire back”

“Tell me something I don’t know bucket head!!!” said Sparky as he tried to maneuver the ship through the shoots.

“In that case, I’m afraid the captain is also in a bad spot” he said showing on the screen Betty (behind a force field created by her bracelet) being bombarded by the other jacker.

“Isn’t she suppose to be with a super fighter Irken?” he asked in disbelief and anger “why isn’t he…”

However what he was going to say was interrupted.

“Atomic Betty” the hologram of admiral DeGill appeared in the console “we received your message, what’s the situation?”

“Admiral, at this moment our ship´s weapon system is heavily damage. What is more the captain is under enemy fire above the Jacker´s craft” informed X-5 as he sent the feed of what was going on “alongside that, its appear the jackers were being confronted before we arrive by no other than…”

“INVADER ZIM?” his pipe fell out of shook “I CANT BELIEVE IT ITS HIM”

“Oh not you too admiral!!!” groaned Sparky “not time to be all uhh and ahhh over an Irken!!!

“Oh yes, you are right Sparky ehem” he put a professional face “link me to Betty´s communicator”

“Opening communication channel”

“Atomic Betty…”

“…We have your coordinates, at this moments I’m leading a float of ships ready to put those jackers behind bars. Just resist a bit more ”

“Understood Admiral” grunted the girl. “You hear that!!!” she yelled at the shooting alien “its over...the Guardians will soon be here” but the big alien just screamed increasing his shooting.

However Zim did hear what the girl said and he didn’t like the idea of facing a float of Guardian ships, so he also activated his communicator”

“GIR how long before the cutters finish?!!!” he yelled.

“Almost ready master!!!” called happily (too happily) his robot companions.

“Then prepare the Cruiser for emergency extraction once they are done.” Zim ordered closing the communication as a shoot pass to close of him.

“I don’t think I can keep this up” called Betty on strained voice, her shield presenting some holes already.

However a small escape of vapor called Zim´s attention. Smiling he looked at the jacker who was ready to shoot again.

In one movement Zim pushed Betty propelling himself away. Fortunately, the push sent Betty away enough to not receive damage as the next shot hit the metal floor causing an explosion where she was standing after impact. Turning she looked in awe as Zim pulled a big tube from the hole until it broke. At breaking it released a cloud of cold steam at Oog-Ah who groaned in pain as his eyes were blinded.

“hahahahaha feel Zim´s cold vengeance!!!!” laughed the Irken. However this was cut short by another shot that pushed him off the metal rail.

“Zim!!!!” Betty called running at him preparing a lasso to catch him. Unfortunately this was grabbed by Oog-Ah´s hand and she was pulled at him again.

“Oh no not this time!!!” he said angrily tearing the lasso away and catching Betty by her wrist “I've had enough of you little hairy bug!!!” he called closing hard his hand.

“Ahhhhhh!!!” Betty cried in pain as the hand of the alien cracked her bracelet in her arm causing small shocks of electricity to run through her. Not satisfied by this the alien raised the girl and smashed her with force enough to leave a dent on the metal.

“I will finish you now little red bug” he growled hoisting up wounded girl.

But before anything else could happen multiple ships appeared around the Jacker´s.

“This is the Galactic Guardians” the voice of the Admiral was music for her ears “surrender now!!!! You are under arrest!!!” alongside this the metal shell surrounding the planet suddenly separate in half revealing the planet inside.

“Its...over...” called Betty smiling through the pain seeing her planet free “you lose”

The alien however was beyond pissed and more seeing his target being free.

“This is not over yet!!!” he cried before spinning in place before launching Betty to the space.

However moments before.

“uggg ok…Zim feels…pain” said the invader holding at the tube as he hanged from it.

In that moment his communicator activated.

“Master!!!! Its ready!!!” the singing tone of his robot made him groan “also we have visitors!!!” Zim noticed the arrival of the Guardian’s ships. “Should I get cupcakes?”

“Forget the cupcakes GIR and bring the Cruiser NOOOOOOOOWWWWWW!!!!”

“YES SIR” the robot answered in his more serious tone.

Zim let go of the tube and activated his rockets flying under the metal rail to not catch the attention of the other ships. Then he flew up in where he knew his ship would catch him for a strategic and quick retreat….

…only for a female body to impact him sending him in spiral towards his ship.

Fortunately this time GIR did remember to open the cabin letting his body hit his seat.

“Ugggg” Zim groaned.

“Uhhh who is she?” GIR asked looking at the girl on his master´s arm “she smells nice”

“Wait what?!!!” Zim turned to see the girl in his arms.

“Uggg good catch…sir…” she tried to smile but she was quite hurt.

Outside Oog-Ah look in rage as the little green man caught the hairy bug.

“AHHHHHHH!!!!!” in rage, and before anyone could stop him, he brought out his canon and shot with all his force.

KABOOM!!!!!!

“AHHHHH WE'RE HIT!!!!WE'RE HIT!!!!! Zim screamed as his ship received a direct impact sending him towards the planet

“We are falling weeeeeiiiiiiiiii!!!!!!” the robot cried happily as the Cruiser spiral down entering the atmosphere.

“ugggg” Betty groaned as sparks and fires started inside the cabin. With the strength she still had left she managed to push the Atomic symbol of her belt, which began blinking before she fainted.

“Ahhhhh HOLD THIS GIRL” He screamed pushing Betty to his robot as he took hold of the console trying to stop his ship from falling

“Uhh what this do?” the robot wondered as he looked at Betty´s broken bracelet and push a button.

Immediately the small cabin was filled with Firefighting foam.

“AHHHHH ZIM CANT SEEE AHHH THIS BURN IT BURNSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!”

The small ship broke through the clouds as its dome opened making all the foam to fall out.

“ugggg that was disgusting” Zim groaned as he puke out some foam.

“Taste good ummm” GIR added as he put some inside his mouth. “uhh look a pigeon”

The little robot pointed at a SEAGULL flying close.

“Eh?...that’s not a pigeon GIR that’s one of those disgusting flying rats that live…by...the…disgusting…ocean” in dread Zim turned to see in front of him.

And noticed the ship was about to crash into the open sea.

The duo (and the unconscious girl) screamed in terror as Zim closed the cabin and began pushing buttons like crazy trying to get the ship to fly. Fortunately for him (again) the ship came to life and shots itself inches from falling into the water.

Like a bullet the damaged ship flew over the surface, its pilot screaming and pushing/pulling things like crazy, as it came across a beach. It was quite lucky it was still nighttime as the ship blow through the place sending sand, rocks, water and a lifeguard tower flying away. The ship broke through the trees entering a small city, destroying light posts, breaking windows and demolishing a small fruit market. Then it flew up. Spun in the air as it gained altitude (shaking everyone inside until Zim end up over the girl), its back exploded one last time and the motors died off causing the ship to fall like a smoking meteor and impacted somewhere in the forest with a big boom.

“ehh?!!!!” inside a close by blue house with a red roof, a 13 year old girl awoke after her sleep was interrupted by a big boom “what was that?” the girl removed her covers reveling an olive skinned girl with black hair wearing a sea-green nightshirt that barely covered her thighs leaving a pair of bare slender yet strong looking legs.

The girl opened the window of her room and exit to a small platform outside what was a dome like room.

“Yitaba?” another voice called as a blue creature climbed up to her.

“I don’t know Stitch” said the girl as she looked towards where a column of smoke was rising “but I think we should investigate” she said entering her room to put on a pair of black sandals. “That sounded like a crash, better wake up Nani and the others”

And with while the blue dog creature awoke the other inhabitants of the hose, the little teen ran inside the forest towards the fallen ship.

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The sunrays phased through the window alongside the singing of morning birds.

“uggg my head” slowly Betty felt sleep leaving her “what...what happen?” she was quite confused as she slowly opened her eyes at a dark pink ceiling “where?...where am I?”

“Hello how feeling today?” a big, round, pink, four eyed, very much NOT human, koala like face suddenly appeared over her.

“AHHHHHH” Betty reacted immediately by screaming, jumping on the bed and round kick the face with all the strength she could.

“ugggg” a large and obese, hippo-like alien fell like a log in the floor “I can see very much better” he said in pain putting a hand over his now black two left eyes.

“WHO ARE YOU? WHERE AM I?” she felt a breeze making her look down in dread “EPPPPPP AND WHY AM I NAKED?!!!!!” Betty cried covering herself with the bed sheet.

Well, naked was an exaggeration but it was quite close since the red head only had a long pink shirt (that wasn’t hers) on that didn’t cover the green panties she had put on before her mission.

“Jumba what was that scream?!!!” a young voice sounded making Betty prepare herself for battle as the room´s door opened.

However what came in wasn’t what the galactic guardian was expecting.

It was a girl that looked of her age with long black hair and olive skin. She was dressed in a short red muumuu with white leaf patterns all over it, black biker shorts and red sneakers on her feet.

“JUMBA!!!” the girl cried as she ran towards the fallen alien. “What happen?”

“Seems that little girl can pack quite a punch uggg” he said holding his face in pain “or a kick in this case”

“wh…ahhhhh” Betty was going to ask when suddenly a blue thing tackle her back into the bed.

Betty reacted quickly and rolled on her back and kicked her attacker against the wall before jumping putting distance between the two (not easy when she finally noticed she was inside a small very much normal looking bedroom).

“Grrrrrr” a growl called her attention and she saw that her attacker was a blue dog like creature with big ears eyes and claws, that was looking at her in anger.

“Stitch no!!!” the girl called (while the other alien sat on the floor) “take it easy she may be just confused” she then turned to her “I’m sorry about that we didn’t mean to frighten you” her tone was quite sincere (and the “dog” huffed before clawing his way to her) “I’m Lilo” she said in friendly tone.

Betty thought for a moment before relaxing her stand.

“i..i am..wait!!!” the words of the girl finally reached her brain “you said your name is Lilo?” she asked in surprise and the other girl nodded “as in Lilo Pelekai?!!!”

“Eh yes that’s me” Lilo asked a bit confused

“Oh my gosh...you are Lilo Pelekai!!!” Betty said in awe “Earth´s ambassador on the Galactic federation” she then looked at Stitch “which mean this is experiment 626 AKA Stitch” she turned at the big alien “and you the doctor Jumba Jookiba, one of the greatest minds of the galaxy when it comes to bioengineering”

“Hehehe THE most greatest mind in the galaxy actually” said Jumba with a smile

“Whoa for you to know that must mean you aren’t from earth right?” asked Lilo.

“Well, actually I am” said Betty with a blush before putting a professional face and saluted “Atomic Betty of the Galactic Guardians at your service”

“Galatic Guardian?” Jumba said “well that certainly will explain the uniform you had on”

In that moment Betty remembered her actual cloth situation and blushed trying to pull the shirt she had on to try to cover her panties.

“Umm about that...why is it that I don't have it on??” she asked with a blush on her face.

“Uniform was quite in bad shape after we managed to pull you out of that wreck you were in” said Jumba “little guardian must be lucky to survive crash with nothing more that some scratches and ruined cloths”

“Wait crash?!!!!” she said as the events of the previous night came rushing to her mind “the planet jackers…the ship…” and then she remembered “ZIM!!!! where is he?!!!!!”

“Zim? Is that the name of the alien that was protecting you?” asked Lilo calling the attention of the panicking guardian.

“Protecting me?” she asked.

“What Lilo said” said Jumba “you and the little guy where trapped under the remains of little ship, however you also where under the body of said alien which protected you from some really sharp remains”

“Yeah he also had quite a strong hold on you” added Lilo “took all of Stitch´s strength to pull you out of it”

Trying to not focus on the fact her idol held her in a protective hug Betty tried to get more info.

“Is he ok?” she asked in worry.

“He was more hurt but nothing to serious” said Jumba “fortunately Jumba had a regeneration chamber ready to use in case anyone of our little Ohana was hurt” he said with pride before blinking “wait did you say Zim?”

KABOOM

“AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!”

A girly scream echoed the house after a big explosion making everyone worry.

“ZIM!” the guardian soon ran pass her hosts to make sure her hero was ok, no longer caring of her dressing state.

She came running out the room just in time to see a close by door been blow to smithereens by a big laser blast.

“YOU WONT CAPTURE ZIM ALIVE!!!!!!” the voice of Zim echoed around as everyone arrived at the scene.

“Help!!!!! Irken in the house!!!! IRKEN IN THE HOUSE!!!!” crawling like a lizard under the continuous fire, another alien made itself known.

It was a slender lime green alien with three stout legs, a sole big eye on its face and a little antenna on its head. He was wearing an orange sleeveless jumpsuit with white muumuu designs on it and a matching sarong.

Behind it however, emerging like a monster out of a horror movie was Zim. Three multiheaded-laser tip-tentacles emerged form its PAK. His red eyes glowed with fury as they zoomed on the poor Cyclops in the floor.

“WHO ARE YOU? WHO DO YOU WORK FOR? HOW DARE YOU TAKING ZIM PRISONER?!!!!” the tentacle tips glow ready to shoot and vaporize the slim alien who only could scream in pure terror.

“ZIM SIR NOOOOO!!!!!” Called Betty, tackling the alien.

This however made them both fall and roll down the stairs that were close by, and end up with them crashing into a table in the living room.

“uggg…ok that really ahhhh” Betty couldn’t hold a moan as she felt something touching her down there.

Looking up from her position she was shocked to see that she was laying over the alien, with Zim´s head between her legs making muffled screams against her panty-covered crotch.

“Epppppp!!!!!” the red headed guardian couldn’t help but squeal in embarrassment as she jumped away from the alien; her face turning totally red and almost glowing while she covered her panties.

“A gag agg you…you almost…almost suffocated Zim!!!!” he cried in anger “YOU!!!! You!!! You…you?” he suddenly blinked as he recognized the girl in front of him “its you!!!! The girl on the planet jacker´s ship!!!!”

“Oh yeah Atomic Betty reporting sir!!!” she saluted at him only to blush again when she remember (again) she was basically only in underwear

“wha…but what happen?...where is zim?… and why you tried to use your feminine parts to choke Zim?!!!” this made Betty´s blush to grow even harder.

“hahahaha I can´t believe it!!!” the boastful voice of Jumba made the two look up to see the big alien descending the stairs with a big smile on his face (while Lilo tried to calm a hyperventilating Pleakley) “its really him!!! The invader Zim...oh it’s an honor meeting someone of your intellect!!!”

“Eh..i…thank..you?” Zim said very confused as he saw not only three types of aliens (as Stitch was trying to “help” Pleakley by licking him), but also two very human girls that didn’t seem to care about ANY of their presences. Not to mention that he awoke in a very cramped laboratory of non-terrestrial technology INSIDE a very much terrestrial house.

The little invader shook his head.

“CAN SOMEONE EXPLAIN TO ZIM WHATS GOING ON?!!!”

“I would like to know that too”

Everyone turn to the front door where a young woman that looked like Lilo (but a bit older) was standing with a paper bag on hands, looking at the scene with sincere confusion.

A great silence fell on the room.

“MASTER!!!!” that was interrupted when a green dog (also holding a paper back) zoomed in and hug Zim with all he had “I WAS SO WORRIED… NEITHER YOU OR THE PRETTY GIRL WERE WAKING UP AND I DIDN’T HAVE WAFFLES TO HELP!!!!”

“Eh what? GIR? i…”

“Well think today we will have two extra plates for breakfast” said the older girl entering the house.

Meanwhile miles away in the home of certain big headed “alien hunter”

“Ahh stupid thing work!!!” Dib said in anger as he tried to get his computer to connect a video call. “AHHHH ZIM!!!! I KNOW THIS IS YOUR FAULT SOMEHOW!!!”

Next thing he felt was pain as a black boot impacted with the back of his head and made him hit the computer.

“Shut up Dib!!! Is bad enough there isn’t Internet or TV signal, I don’t need to hear your annoying voice” called his sister Gaz, as she caught her boot like a boomerang and put it on again.

The girl was a 12-year-old girl with purple hair on a fang-like styled bob cut with a white hairpin in the form of a skull. She was wearing a dark teal-gray striped sleeves t-shirt with a white pixelated rabbit skull on it, a short black skirt with striped reddish leggings and black boots.

“Gaz!!!” Dib called out annoyed (and in pain) “don’t you see I’m trying to contact Lilo?!!!” he said in exasperation “the fact that all satellite type communications are down must be part of Zim´s evil plan from earlier when he try to steal my telescope” he returned to the computer “she must be warned and be ready to defend earth!!!!”

“Ugg, I still cant believe you found someone that want willing hear your stories or that wanted to expend time with you” the purple haired said in half disgust “every time you two talk I’m expecting her to never call back yet she keeps impressing me and that’s really weird to happen” the girl then walked to a table and grabbed some money before walking towards the door.

“Hey HEY!!! WHERE ARE YOU GOING?!!!” Dib jumped and soon blocked her path to the door “This is not the time to go out we must be ready to battle!!!!”

But his sister only gave him an annoyed look.

“I wont expend ONE MINUTE more hearing you ramble about how it’s the end of the world and you are its last hope WITHOUT TV or internet to block you!!!” a dark aura began covering her body “I’m going out with Jinmay to get some pizza and play videogames on her console until you stop been an idiot or dad returns home” she gave a step towards him “so I will probably return until tomorrow night when dad comes for dinner!!!”

“How did you even talked with that girl without cellphone signal to call?” asked Dib confused.

“That enter in the none of your business category” growled Gaz “now move away from the door before you enter a world of pain!!!”

“No Gaz!!” said Dib “we´re are on the verge of history, today could mark the start of the fight for Earth´s survival and WE have the responsibility of guide humanity on its darker moment against the evil forces of…”

WHAM

Whatever he was going to say was cut short as the door opened from outside crushing him against the wall.

“I told you” said Gaz calmly as she turned to greet the person at the door “Hey Jin”

Jinmay or Jin for friends (only Gaz) was a girl with green eyes, a tale skin, and pink hair on a pair of down pigtails. She was dressed on a gray shirtdress with one black button on the top, red gloves on her hands and a red scarf around her neck. A black belt with a glowing pink heart in the buckle and black uggs boots with black thigh high socks.

“Hey Gaz, was your brother here?” the girl said in soft tone using her pinky to clean her ear “I think I heard his irritable yapping from three blocks away.

“Yeah you just crush him with the door” said Gaz.

“Ah…sorry if I leave a hole then” Jin said in uncaring tone “so ready to go?”

“Yeah with some luck there will be riots in the city and we could grab some poor sap´s money” said the purple haired girl.

“Sounds like a plan” added the pink haired one “we could get a family size pizza with that”

“That’s the idea” said Gaz closing the door as she went out

Dib was leave there with the door handle, somehow, stuck on his left eye.

“uggg” he groaned as he pushed himself from the door and rubbed his eye “seriously that girl gives me the creeps” he said “how is it that another girl so similar to Gaz can exists?” rubbing his eye he walked back to the computer “come on how its that even the Swollen Eyeball Network satellites are down?” he groaned “Zim..He must be behind this I just know…I bet he is right not plotting the demise of the human race, calculating all the ways to beat me and take over on the most diabolical way”

CRACK

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“And that’s how you make a fried egg” said Nani as Zim saw her cooking breakfast.

“Fascinating” said Zim. He didn’t know that such cruel way to cook unborn egg spawns existed. Breaking them from the security of their capsules, making them fall on a hot surface and let them burn on slow fire…certainly he must remember try something like this with Dib next time he annoys him “GIR now we can eat eggs outside that disgusting scramble mess you do every morning!!!”

“ahhhh” the little robot paused in the waffles he was doing “but it taste so good in my mouth before I put them in your plate” he said in innocent tone.

“I’m sorry WHAT!!!!!”

If there was an award for the most “bizarre breakfast of all” then the kitchen of the Pelekai family probably already won it.

On one side we had a little robot on a dog suit preparing a tower of waffles while a big four eyed alien made orange juice in what looked like a futuristic machine.

Then we have the green alien invader using four tentacles to set the table while two 13 year old girls (one dressed only in a pink shirt and green panties) served the eggs that the older sister of one of them did, all while a cyclopean alien looked from the
door frame with a frightful expression.

“Come on Pleakley” called Lilo “come here and help us with the food, you are being ridiculous”

“Me ridiculous? ME RIDICULOUS?!!!” the alien cried in disbelief “am I the only one seeing the IRKEN in the kitchen?!!!!”

“You said that before Pleakley” Nani called him “and I still don’t see what the big deal is”

“What the big deal is?!!! WHAT THE BIG DEAL IS?!!!!” Pleakley looked ready to have a hearth attack “IRKENS ARE MONSTERS, EVIL SAVAGES THAT DESTROY EVERYTHING THEY SEE WITHOUT ANY KIND OF REMORSE!!!”

Nani turned to see Zim, who´s attention was focus on pocking the egg yolk and uhhhing when it dripped out, then turned back at Pleakley rising an eyebrow wondering if the so call “earth expert” finally has lost it.

“Bah don’t be so dramatic Pleakley” said Jumba “sure the Irken empire is a race of planet conquerors that have reached far into the galaxy” the ex-evil scientist brought some glasses wit juice at the table “but calling them savages is quite far from the truth” he turned to Nani and Lilo “in fact the Irkens are well known for their technology, pioneers in the fusion of organic materials and machinery, creators of wonders for space traveling and weapon manufacturing” the big alien got a dream look on his face “during first years on academy for evil geniuses I would have gave my left arm to be able to visit one of their factories” he looked at Zim “and of them all there were you” Zim looked up at him confused “ohhh one of the greatest scientific minds in the whole empire must say sir my entire bioengineering experiments were based on your work” he pull out a small computer opening it “your creation was anything but perfect” he then show the image of what could be destroyed as a Cthulhu-like monster…with a pet collar and tag on its neck?

“Hey! that’s Zim´s Infinite Energy Absorbing Blob” said the invader in surprise “I was wondering where it went after the incident with Tallest Spork”

“Infinite Energy Absorbing Blob?” Lilo asked in confusion as she sat down.

“I have heard of that” said Betty also sitting “Kweltikwan is one of the cleanest planets thanks to its use on perpetual energy” she shook her head “scientists all over the galaxy have to spend moths before allowed close to it for studying and all the time under military surveillance” she took a bite of her egg “its one of the biggest energy mysteries of the galaxy”

“A marvel of bioengineering its what it is” said Jumba “it landed on my planet I think 20 or so years ago” he said in remembrance “it was not only an indestructible absorbing creature capable of harnessing any type of energy as food. But also, after some tests, we discovered it can also give infinity amounts of the same without tiring” Jumba laughed “hahahaha 5 cities and 3 artificial colonies destroyed in its way..ohhh only remembering the destruction bring tears to my eyes” he cough as he noticed everyone looking at him “ehem…of coarse since then it has been the power core of the entire planet… and since then we haven’t need to search or exploit other form of power” he looked at Zim “and thanks to the metal tag on it neck and the recordings on it we knew who to thanks”

“Wait recordings?” asked Betty.

“oh yeah Zim wanted it to film the expressions of awe of everyone who gazed on his marvelous creation” said the invader also taking a bite out his egg “ummm ok this must be the first time I don’t find earth food disgusting” he said before turning to Nani “YOU HAVE PLEASED ZIM!!!!”

“Well...thank you” said Nani. That must have been the most dramatic way to said her food was good

“Anyways” said Jumba calling everyone´s attention back to him as he brought out a video recording on its machine “thanks to the overexposure of energy the records were quite damage…but what it could be save was quite informative” and he click play.

“TALLEST MIYUKI, welcome to VORT RESEARCH STATION 9. You honor us with your visit!” the voice of an irken sounded close.

  “Tell me what my finest minds are dreaming up for the Empire. The female voice of Tallest Miyuki sounded, alongside some static before a semi-clear picture of the Irken leader was show.

  More static

  “Well, there's our infinite energy producing thingy. And Lard Nar here has begun work on preliminary designs for your new BLUDGEON CLASS fleet leader” the voice of the Head Scientist sounded

“Bah Zim remember that day” huffed the invader “stupid Lard Nar making an infinity energy thingy to power up the so call new ships of the fleet” Grunted Zim while Betty looked in awe and horror…the Irkens had a fleet with infinite energy? What happen with it? Since she has never read reports of captured ships with something like that “BUT ZIM SHOWED HIM WHO WAS SUPERIOR THAT DAY!!!!” screamed the alien making Betty look at him…could it be?

More static..soon the voice of the Head Scientist sounded with fear on its tone

  “Zim… static …He destroys everything… static”

A roar then a tentacle could be seen reaching for the energy producing machine

  “ Keep it away from the infinite energy producing thingy!!!!”

Static and roars.

The video showed the facility been destroyed by the now giant creature, Tallest Miyuki captured in its tentacles.

More static.

Explosions and roars.

“Victory for Zim!!!!” was the last thing heard.

“VICTORY FOR ZIM!!!!” cried Zim alongside his recorded self. Then he turned to Nani and hanged her his plate “can I have more?

“Oh my gosh!!!” Betty exclaimed “that was you?!!!” she asked at the invader “I can't believe it...well I shouldn’t, after all you are Zim, but still!!!” she looked quite excited “I read reports of that time...the Irken empire was suppose to move a great fleet and attack planets close to its frontiers of that time… the guardians of that time didn’t have the numbers or the capacity to create a proper response. However the day of the attack never came and what´s more, news of the disappearance of the Irken leader reached the system, giving time to those planets to create a strongest defense” Betty looked at Zim in awe and admiration “all thanks to you...all this time thanks to the hero of Doomsday”

“Hero of Doomsday?” wondered Nani making the question Zim was also wondering “that sounds quite an important title”

“It IS an important tittle” said Betty “our galaxy as it is, could have been dominated already if it wasn’t for the heroic actions of Zim in stopping the Irken empire” the red head looked in respect at the green alien who was about to eat another egg stopping midway.

“I’m sorry Zim what?!!!” he exclaimed in surprise.

“It was one of the text I loved to read the most in the academy” said the guardian “the Irken empire was ready to launch a massive galactic scale attack, the guardians and their allies were outnumbered at least 10 to 1 but yet they fought with all they have” her eyes focus in Zim a blush appearing on her face “it looked like defeat was close yet in the tip point of the battle the Irken ships soon disarray, communications began reaching both fleets about an attack directly at the Irken homeplanet” everyone was focus on the tail of the girl, specially the green invader who couldn’t believe what he was hearing. “Intercepted feeds from the planet showed what was happening, a giant mechanic robot was laying waste to Irk´s capital, targeting primarily communication hubs and causing so much damage around it that none of the Irken´s tanks or war machines could reach it”

Zim blinked…he did remember doing that, any invader worth of its title knew that it was important to stop the enemy from calling for backup…AND ZIM WAS MORE THAN A WORTHY INVADER.

“ Then the first ships arrived trying to stop it, however it shot them with such strategy accuracy that every single one of them fell straight in the power plants of the planet sending it to darkness and cutting away any transmissions from the planet leaving the Irken fleet blind and without orders” a proud smile grew in her face “the alliance fleet then was able to push back the enemy back to their planet before having to regroup, not having enough ships for a planetary strike, but” her smile grow in admiration “during all that time one name sounded through the communication hubs, being called “traitor” “defect” “destroyer” yet for the fleet, and the galaxy, the name was synonymous of hero” everyone turn to the invader “ Zim…The hero of Doomsday”

Everyone stood still letting the guardian finish the tale. Lilo looked at her then at zim in excitement and awed hearing about the alien´s actions, Nani looked between amazed and confused, after all the tale sounded a bit farfetched for someone like Zim, yet she just met the alien and outside its dramatic speech patters there wasn’t anything else she knew about him, Jumba looked in pride at his “fellow scientist”, Pleakley looked like if someone had told him that earth was flat an mosquitos went extinct; and GIR was still cooking waffles and putting them on Stitch´s mouth (who immediately swallow them before opening his mouth again to repeat the process)

But the more dramatic (or normal depending how you see it) was Zim´s

“WHAAAAAAAAAAAATTTTTTTTTTT???!!!!!!!!”

Birds went flying; dogs howled, late sleepers were awoken.

On ground zero everyone was seeing at Zim in shock after that scream.

“WHO TOLD YOU THAT?...HOW ITS POSSIBLE THAT SOMEONE HAD BELIVED THAT?!!!” cried the alien.

“Eh?” Betty was confused “what do you mean sir?” she asked at the angry alien “it’s the story everyone at the academy and across the federation is taught about your heroics that day”

“LIIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSS!!!!!”

“Wait I’m confuse” said Lilo “so you didn’t do anything extraordinary that day?”

“Zim did a lot of extraordinary things that day!!!!” said Zim in dramatic tone “but Zim didn’t do anything to be called… a hero” he said making finger quotes “And Zim certainly hasn’t heard anything of this before” this time Zim really was confused.

“How could that be?” asked Betty confused “after what you did I would think you will expect people calling you a hero”

“Zim never did anything to be called that by others!!!!” Zim said making Betty flinch at his tone “that day the armada was on the move, invaders where being dispatched, orders were given to cover the universe in DOOOOOOOOOMMMMM!!!!” Zim expression looked like one of anger and powerless “yet Zim couldn’t do anything…I was there trapped on the circle made by the Tallest, just listening others being sent to battle” he shuddered and Betty wondered what kind of torture devise or prison THE CIRCLE was “There was no time to think only to act!!!!” Zim jumped on the table “ and ACT was what Zim did, not because Zim thought would be heroic but because it was what ZIM needed to do!!!!!” he finished pointing to the sky/ceiling.

However the reaction he got wasn’t what he expected.

“You are right!!!” said Betty suddenly feeling abashed “you didn’t save the galaxy that day because you thought you would be seen as a hero, but because it was the right thing to do!!!!” she also jumped on the table startling the alien “a true hero doesn’t call himself a hero, he is just called that by other, but TRUE heroes are the ones that do the right thing even if they don’t receive anything after that” her hands found themselves on his shoulders bringing them closer (and already scaring Zim) “and that’s why you are such a hero not only to me but for the whole galaxy!!!! you are the Lone rebel whose name is praised by hundreds of systems and you didn’t even knew or care about it because it was secondary to the face that you did the right thing!!!!” she finished her exited face inches from his.

Zim´s mind went blank at her approach. He could basically feel her breath on his skin and he could swear he could see stars on her eyes alongside his reflection. What is more he could feel her crotch pressing against his.

“i..ummm..Are you planning to smoosh me with your female part again?” he finally said.

And then Betty reacted at the position she was and the fact she was pressing her almost naked body against his.

“eppppp!!!!!” she squealed in embarrassment and jumped off the table, sitting on the chair pulling her legs up trying to put them inside the shirt to cover.

“Could I have my clothes back now please?!!!!!” she cried, her face glowing red.

“On it” said Lilo “Stitch?” she called the alien.

The blue experiment growled as he was been interrupted for eating more Waffles but still followed the instructions and crawled out the kitchen.

Meanwhile a silence fell in the kitchen (except for GIR doing his “doom song”) Nani coughed and called Zim´s attention.

“Look, I know for experience that aliens don’t always understood human body language or expressions” she said to his ear “but for what a see you mean a lot for Betty and she is already quite mortified for what had happen” she looked at the blushing red head “so I think it should be good if you said something…I don’t know not so embarrassing, maybe a compliment to her”

Zim scratched his head…a compliment? Sure why not…anything else was confusing anyway today, no reason to get more attention on himself, at least not until he checked the state of his ship, be sure there was a way out of this place, AND THEN find a way to get REAL answers.

“umm...Betty?” he called her “don’t feel…umm bad…umm” he tried to find the proper words. What could someone like him say that´s positive about someone like Betty? Then he remember something GIR said earlier “if it make you feel better, my robot was quite right” he smiled making her curious “you do have a nice smell” he finished, feeling quite proud of himself.

“i...i..what?!!!!” Betty said feeling her face and steam up.

Lilo blushed.

Nani facepalm.

Jumba chuckeld

Pleakley open his mouth in horror.

And GIR kept singing as he continued making waffles.

Chapter Text

After (awkwardly) finishing breakfast, Zim asked (ordered) to see his ship to see how extensive the damage was and see how long it would take to repair.

“Here you go Betty” said Lilo passing the red head a fondle pile of clothes that were her uniform.

“Thanks Lilo…I’m glad things aren’t that damage” the pink and white set of clothes wasn’t that damage presenting some tears and burn marks all over it but nothing too serious “eh?” Betty took up a white boot from the pile “that’s weird my left boot is missing” she wondered what could have happen to it.

Behind her Lilo sent a reproachable glare at Stitch who just licked his lips.

Next Betty pulled out her belt noticing the nuclear symbol of the center was dull with only a small light dying in the center.

“ummm out of power…I hope they had been able to track my signal. Oh well, for now the important thing is this” she said setting the clothes on a chair and pulling out her bracelet “oh no this is bad” she said seeing the damage state it was “I hope it still works” she said putting it on.

“Oh what it is? Asked Lilo.

“Well miss Pelekai” began Betty only to be interrupted.

“Lilo its fine Betty” said the Hawaiian girl.

“ehem…of coarse I mean…Lilo this is an official Galactic Guardian Bracelet” the red head explained “it has multiple functions, alongside being a communicator it also contain different tools for missions and what is more let me do this” she pushed a bottom. A white light surrounded Betty for a moment.

When it dissipated, it was shown that Betty now was dressed in a more “Terrestrial” outfit that consisted on a green headband on her head, a yellow sweater, a green knee-length short skirt, white knee-high length socks, and black-and-white athletic sneakers.

“Ahh much better” said Betty before screamed as the bracelet short circuited shocking her and forcing her to take it off.

Both girls saw it crack with electricity before proofing some smoke and remain still.

“And with that, it is ruined” said Betty picking it up “you gave good battle old friend” she said to it before putting it inside a pocket of her skirt.

“Hey you ready?!!!” asked Zim pocking his head on the door frame “oh? I see you decided to put on extra layers of armor” he said noticing Betty´s outfit.

“Umm yes sir ummm” she blushed remembering the past two incidents.

“Ummmmm” Zim gazed her up and down “Zim likes it!!!” he said making both girls look at him “green is a great color” he said since he is green so green was certainly a great color “you look good in Zim´s colors” he said before retire leaving a blushing Betty behind (again).

Moments later, the entire group was climbing the stairs to where Jumba and Pleakley were keeping their ship, and where Stitch has left Zim´s ship after pulling it out of the crater where it crashed.

Zim walked of the group guided by Jumba (wanting to reach his ship as quick as possible) followed by a very nervous Pleakley who was only there cause Lilo made him come to “get over his fear of Zim”, then Stitch who was still eating a tower of GIR made waffles, and finally at the rear were Lilo and Betty talking happily as the guardian gave some information at the Hawaiian girl and her sister (who also came out of curiosity about the whole thing).

“So the guardians are like an intergalactic police?” asked Lilo.

“Exactly usually we operate independent of the Galatic federation´s main forces and also attend emergencies of planets neutral to it, but usually we work together fine and we all responsible to keeping peace in the galaxy” Betty explained “more importantly because of that we can take care of more “local” emergencies while the main forces of the federation take care of big troubles like the Irken expansion”

“Whoa sounds like a lot of responsibility” said Nani quite amazed by the info.

“It is” said Betty “more when there are criminals like Maximus I.Q. and other warlords trying to take over” she looked at her “not to mention incidents like the recent one with the planet jackers”

Nani shuddered.

“I still cant believe Earth was stolen like that and about to be use as a fire log for a star” honestly she was quite frighten that something like that just happen while she and her family were asleep.

“yeah I know” shared Betty “I just returned from a mission to stop a giant sun devouring monster from causing a solar system black out, and I found my planet been dragged out to be burn” she shivered “it’s a good thing Zim was here to stop them” she said in delight.

“Wait… sun devouring monster?” said Nani in horror “and you fought against it?”

“Yeah my crew and me” she answered in normal tone.

“But…you cant be older that Lilo” she said in shock

“Nani…” Lilo called her in warning

“Well I’m 13 so that means we are actually the same age” said Betty not really getting the worrying tone on Nani´s voice.

“And you are a space police fighting against monsters and space villains?” Nani said half amaze half in horror “how your parents allow that in the first place?

“umm well” Betty gained an uncomfortable look “they don’t exactly know i´m a guardian” she ended making Nani look in surprise “don’t take it wrong I love my parents and we have quite a normal life, but the thing is they are NORMAL” she emphasized the word “and sometimes we clashed on what I like” he sigh “my mom more that my father, she is always trying to make me a bit more….well her and try to push me away from things I like” she scolded “I mean what’s wrong with liking space, comics or movies or sports” she almost screamed “I know she just worries I never going to” she makes finger cues “find a man if I act like this” she sighed again “but its just so frustrating sometimes” Betty turned at Nani “sometimes I do want to tell them, specially when my guardian duties clash with my earth life, but its juts I know they wont understand and worse case scenario they will stop me from been a guardian”

Nani looked at the red head with sadness.

“Sorry I asked” she said “but you know what?” Betty looked at her “I know on first hand what is finding someone close to you doing something you think its dangerous or simply out of the norm” she looked up at her little sister who walked towards Stitch wanting a waffle “after all, you think I was comfortable with the idea of Lilo tracking and facing against evil alien experiments that could potentially destroy everything in the island?” she also sighed “sure sometimes I tried to ignore that, others I actually try to go against the idea” she smiled “but at the end I allowed her to do it cause I saw how happy it made her” she looked at Betty “and if your parents loves you as much I love my little sister I’m sure they will understand...but you must do the first movement and show them that you trust them with this”

Betty thought about it…could it be that her parents would let her continue with her job as a Galactic guardian if she tells them? Would they be proud of all she has done?

The group finally reached the summit where Jumba´s ship was, alongside the damage Voot Cruiser.

“Oh my ship!!! What did that ugly dumb idiot do to you?” Zim said running towards it. The ship presented a lot of burn marks in and outside, a lot of dents on its surface, the cabin dome destroyed, not to mention a big hole on its left side.

“That’s the ship of the big hero?” Pleakley said in confusion/disbelief and a bit of mocking on his tone “it looks like a piece of trash”

“DON’T YOU DARE INSULT ZIM´S SHIP!!!!” the Irken was suddenly on his face, almost making the yellow alien wet itself at finding himself on the ground with multiple laser canons (coming out of Zim´s PAK) pressed against his face “ITS NOT TRASH, IT WAS MADE FROM TRASH BUT IT WAS TRASH THAT ZIM PICKED SO IT WASN’T THAT TRASHY SO YOU BETTER SHUT UP!!!!!”

“imsorryimsorrypleasedontkillme!!!!!!”

Zim huffed deactivating his weapons and walking back to check the damage.

Pleakley sat on the ground holding his chest (more that sure he was going to have a heart attack).

“For shame Pleakley” said Jumba walking pass “have a bit more of tact, you know how scientists like me are when it comes to our creations” the four eyed alien shook his head almost in disappointment leaving behind a yellow alien with a drooping jaw.

“Come on Pleakley” said Lilo also passing by “don’t just stay there let’s check this out” Betty ran after the Hawaiian girl also wanting to know the situation with the Cruiser.

Nani walked with a smile on her face seeing the two girls interact.

The cyclopean alien blinked.

“Doesn't anyone care that someone wanted to vaporize me TWICE today?!!! And it's not noon yet ”He shouted in a dramatic/pitiful tone.

“ummm, mas mababa sa dati” said Stitch licking his fingers of the remains of his waffles.

“What do you mean with less that usual?!!!” asked Pleakley “do you plan to vaporize me every day or what?” the blue experiment didn’t answer “stitch? Stitch!!! Answer me!!!”

With that everyone stood in front of the small purple ship while Zim crawled around and inside it examining the damage.

“Must say do is quite a small ship” said Lilo “looks cool but small” she chuckled “just like you Stitch”

“hehehe” the blue alien gave his friend a fanged smile.

“Its not small…its perfect for Zim!!!” cried the green Alien as he examinated the hole.

“That’s quite a fitting description” said Jumba looking at Zim pulling a small tablet like object from his PAK and tap something that made some lights on the ship turn on “Irkens are quite small yes but their technology and destructive capabilities are nothing to laugh at” he hummed a bit “for what I remember I think this is a classic Voot Runner type ship” Zim entered the cabin “bit obsolete compared to the new versions, but this one seems to have been personalize to be complete deferent to the normal type” he chuckled “although for what Zim said he actually build his ship by his own”

“Whoa really?” asked Betty.

“yeap Zim did” said the invader taping commands on his control panel making small holograms appear making Zim hum as he read over the damage reports “Zim had to build it from scrap to be able to leave Foodcourtia in time” he typed new commands making the thrusters turn on for a second.

“Foodcourtia?” asked Nani incredulous at the name.

“Its true name is lost” said Jumba “after the Irken empire took over they change the name for that one”

“I think I have heard of that one” said Pleakley (“hiding” behind Nani) “it’s the biggest intergalactic food court of the universe, species from all over the galaxy can get almost any type of food of any planet of the galaxy”

“Yum” said Stitch licking lips.

“Don’t even think about it 626, Yeah sounds delicious, and that’s what make it also a dangerous planet” said Jumba in serious tone “you can find ANYTHING there which means also things that can potentially poison, kill, or even eat you”

“Not to mention that even YOU can become an ingredient at anytime” said Zim remembering seen costumers becoming ingredients for other costumers. “Which is, apparently, also a good way to cut down the competition” Jumba chuckled at that only to receive a warning look from Nani.

“Ehem, Zim is right, Foodcourtia is a planet I wouldn’t recommend visiting” he shuddered “specially during The Great Foodening”

“What’s that?” asked Betty.

“An event that pass relativity every 24 years or so and that also last 24 years” said Jumba “more or less, the planet has a time dilatation that make things hard to calculate cause time past slower making 24 years be actually longer” he shook his head “in any case whoever find himself on the planet at that time its condemn to it already”

“Wait what? How its that possible?” asked the red head

“Because thanks to all the customers swarming to the snacking planet, the gravity is so dense that nobody can leave” said Zim looking at Betty with a quite serious and (to be honest) scary look “no ship can resist the gravitational attraction of thousands over thousands greasy blobby bodies rushing at the same time to one place” the Irken pulled out of the cabin using his spider legs giving him a frightening look as he walked to Betty “anyone trapped on the planet is condemn to never leave until the Foodening is finish...and even then not many manage to find the strength to leave after” Zim pull back his spider legs and turn to his ship and began typing “it’s a good thing Zim managed to finish his ship before that”

“What were you even DOING there in the first place” asked Lilo.

“Umm that umm” Zim thought for a moment wondering what he should said “the Tallest sent me there?” he said

“Wait what?!!!” Betty exclaimed

“Ummm yeah umm” Zim really hated to have to think of a excuse instead saying it was a silly mistake on their part thanks to a defective control brain (as he believed) he couldn’t said anything that show his true SUPER LOYALTY to the Tallest and the empire (not until he fully understand what this hero business was and for that he needed to keep things down and leave the island) so he needed a convincing lie “after the destruction I umm caused..ummm the Tallest decided to banish me to that planet as punishment”

Ironic how the truth was helping Zim now.

“Uff cruel yet effective” said Jumba “so many ways to die and with the Foodening close the madness would have end you”

Everyone was looking at zim with different expressions from horror (Nani), to disbelief (Pleakley), surprise to (Jumba) to awe and respect (Lilo and Betty).

“umm uggg…yeah yeah Zim is awesome I know!!!!” said the invades after shaking his head “lest focus on fixing my ship NOT in thinking about easy questionable events of the past” and with that he pressed a last command.

The Cruiser glowed purple as cables filled the big hole and the dome over the cabin repaired itself. Soon the ship wasn’t as damaged as before but still was notable that it could be in better shape.

“This should hold it until I can get it back to my base for deeper reparations” declared Zim.

“That doesn’t seem be able to fly back to space” said Pleakley on a tone that the invader didn’t like.

“FOOL WHO SAID I WAS GOING TO SPACE?” yelled Zim at the yellow alien (again) who got the scare of his life (again)

“Wait?...your base is HERE..AT EARTH” Betty said in excitement…does this mean she could be living close to her idol all this time?

“Ehhh umm yeah” said Zim wondering if he mess up again "but DON’T TELL ANYONE..MY LOCATION MUST BE KEPT SECRET!!!” he turned to the Pelekai family “THE SAME GOES FOR YOU!!!!”

Betty saluted.

“Don’t worry sir I understand” she said in formal tone “the last thing we need is the Irken empire knowing that you escaped banishment and search for you”

“we don’t even know where you live so don’t worry” said Lilo with a smile.

“GOOD!!!!” Zim turned back to his ship “now then. Unfortunately the combustible cells were heavy damaged and leaked out almost all” said the invader “fortunately I think I’m capable of creating a temporal substitute but will need some materials for this….GGGGGGIIIIIIIIIRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!” he called in really loud voice.

A blur and a dust cloud later the little robot was standing in front of Zim, hands full with another waffle tower.

“Yes sir?” he asked with innocent tone

“Throw that away you have work to do” the invader ordered.

“Ok” he said before throwing the tower behind him…and causing it to fall over Pleakley, much to his horror and the amusement/delight of Stitch who began devouring them.

“Now I want you to use to long rage scans and find me something with these components” he said pointing to his tablet, On it said.

• Potassium sulfate 
• Potassium nitrate
• HFCS
• C12H22O11
• C8H12O6
• C27H48O20
• H2O
• C15H11N2NaO2
• Na4O7P2
• C8H8O3
• C37H34N2Na2O9S3

“NOW SCAN!!!”

“YES SIR” GIR said turning red for a moment before his little antenna rose up above the tree line and emit a small blue pulse. “Do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do” pause…everyone blinked “do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do” another pause...a sound of microwave ending “FOUND IT!!!” he said happily before pointing on a direction.

“Eh?” Lilo looked in the direction the robot was pointing “that looks like its in the town´s direction” the Hawaiian girl said.

“You know I shouldn’t get surprised anymore with all the alien stuff that happen around” said Nani “yet cant help but wonder what could be found there to make fuel for an alien ship”  

“Well doesn’t matter we need those components” said Zim “time for the costume GIR!!!!!”

(cue dramatic anime-like sequence)

A pair of claws emerged from the PAK and put two contact lenses on his eyes and a bouffant wig on his head.

GIR´s head open and expeled a Green cloth, he made some kung-Fu moves before the cloth fell on his head. Then time become normal again and he put his dog suit on and pull up the zipper.

Then the two posed as a leash shoot from GIR´s neck into Zim´s hand.

Everyone just blinked…what just happen?

“Don’t worry it is I Zim!!!” he said removing a contact showing his red eyes “I just put on my human disguise so I can blend into the town with the other humans”

No one wanted to say it but Nani, been the most responsible, decided she was the one that should point it out.

“Ehh Zim…are you sure that will work?” ok yeah she went with GIR earlier to buy some bandages and food but a green dog of his size among all the other experiments running around wasn’t that weird…Zim´s disguise however.

“Don’t worry this is totally idiot proof”

In that moment Pleakley managed to get out of the Waffle pile.

“*Deep breath* i´m ok if someone care” he said before gazing at Zim “wait who are you?!!! Where is the Irken?!!!”

“See? What did I tell you” said Zim with a prideful smile.

Nani had to make quite the effort to not facepalm.

“Don’t worry Nani” said Lilo palming her sister´s back “me and Betty will go with him to make sure nothing bad happen” the red head nodded.

“Ok you can come” said Zim “Zim could use extra hands for this”

“Oh oh something I can do?” asked Jumba.

“Actually yes” said the invader before pulling his tablet out again and throw it at the bigger alien “here see if you can build this”

“Ohhh what’s this?” asked Jumba looking at the blueprints in the screen.

“It’s a elemental synthesizer” answered Zim “I don’t think we will find the components in its basic elements so this will help us separate them from whatever form they have now and put them together to create the fuel”

“Not bad...not bad at all” said Jumba admiring the schematics “umm the energy needed to feed this electromagnetic field will be quite high but think I can use some cells from my own ship to feed them until the ion generator becomes self sufficient”

“Good, nice to find another great mind that understand Zim!!!” said the green alien with a smile “now come on girls lets find the components” he pulled at the now green dog “guide us GIR!!!”

“Little girl wait” called Jumba at Lilo “if go to town make sure to show Zim the experiments...oh!!” he pulled a recorder “if can I want you to record his reactions” he giggled “my fellow associates at the galactic sciences club will be so jealous when they hear the creator of the blob talk high of my creations”

“Whoa Jumba I suppose you are quite fan of Zim” said Lilo.

“Oh more than that my dear Lilo..He was my inspiration for each one of my experiments, in fact” he lower his head to whisper “626 was actually my homage for him”

“Really?” wondered Lilo.

“Yeap will tell you more when back…for now this fellow Zim brain have work to do” he said happily walking to look out for parts.

“Sigh...come on Pleakley lets make sure Jumba doesn’t disassemble the house again for parts” said Nani following the mad genius.

With that Lilo ran after Betty and Zim.

Morning came to the island of Kauaʻi awaking the inhabitants of Kokaua Town into discovering half their town and one of their most popular beaches trashed like a hurricane had passed through them. Of coarse authorities were called and the residents gave their declarations, but of coarse everyone was asleep so no one heard or saw anything.

So some declarations taken and some insurance received, soon everyone decided to move on and let the cleaning and reparations to begin.

“I’m quite surprised on how people are taking things” said Betty looking around. The girl having decided to take off her sweater (considering the weather she decided that using only her white shirt was enough) and tie it around her waist “I mean I would expect police driving around, people asking what happen and more that one dramatic fellow launching conspiracy theories”

“Yeah but some broken windows and posts aren’t that big of a deal comparing to things we have had in the past” answered Lilo “specially…” she pointed towards the street where a big purple roughly wombat-like creature about three feet tall with long blade-like claws on his front paws and blade-like neck was cutting away any fallen poster away. The sawdust and trash were then absorbed away by a small, blue-green gastropod-like creature green crab-like claws, and two spinning sweeper brushes for feet.

Close by a gray mole creature with large black claws and a yellowish tan meerkat with a long drill-shaped tail where doing holes in the ground where later a large, purple, muscular, beastly, Tasmanian Devil-like creature with bulky legs and torso, four strong arms inserted new light posts by carry them to their places.

“Fascinating creatures” said Zim eyeing them “I’m guessing these are the experiments that Jumba mentioned” he said to Lilo.

“Yeap those are Deforestator, Ploot, Backhoe, Digger, and Kixx” said the Hawaiian girl point at each one.

“Uhhh great names”

“Thanks I choose them” said Lilo giving the green alien a smile. “Want to meet them up close?” she asked before calling the experiments.

As one each stopped what they were doing and approached the girl acting almost like puppies around her (except Kixx…he just grabbed her on a big hug hoisting her up).

“whoa…have heard about them at HQ and have read about Jumba” said Betty eyeing Digger “but seeing them up close like this” she patted the alien in the head making it purr “hehehe its quite incredible they where inspired by one energy consuming blog”

“Why? I believe it” said Zim admiring Deforestator´s blades “Zim´s blob was amazing so anything coming from it its obvious amazing too” he declared “and these creatures are amazing, powerful creations” the tree cutter liked how that sounded and pose to show his blades.

“You think so?” said Lilo with a smile “Jumba really will be happy hearing that”

“Of course he will...ZIM SAYS IT” he finished in dramatic tone.

“Want to meet the rest?” asked Lilo “I think we have time”

Zim hummed and asked GIR in what direction were the components they needed. The little robot pointed straight for a moment before pointing east (meaning there were two directions where they will be able to find what they were looking).

“Seems we have two places to go so I think we could meet the rest of the experiments” said Betty with Zim nodding

“Then lets go and meet the rest of the cousins” said Lilo with a smile.

(Montage start- aloha e komo mai)

The three of them crossed a street with Lilo waving at a yellow experiment with a long, narrow neck like a traffic pole, and a traffic light-shaped head, who waved back as it blinked changing the colors of his eyes. Zim stood there watching up at it wondering why it was so tall. Although had to run when the light changed to green and a car almost ran over him.

They passed by a movie theater were they looked at a gourd-shaped experiment with popping out popcorn off a large opening at the top of his head. Zim grabbed a bit and munch it licking lips at the salty snack declaring that the experiment had pleased Zim…then had to pull GIR away, who decided to put the entire opening inside his mouth and fill his insides with popcorn.

Continuing they stopped to see two experiments working repairing the streets. One (A red lizard creature) shoot magma into the ground for the other (A blue cephalopod) to douse it with water solidifying it at the moment...followed by a third experiment (A small purple ankylosaurus-like creature) which impacted the ground not only flattening the zone but causing a small earthquake.

Next the three of them are in an ice cream shop where the ice maker experiment 523 (Slushy) made two Shaved Ice cones for Lilo and Betty (blue and red respective) then the two girls turn to see Zim, who was holding a giant ice version of his head (red eyes and all) in his hands.

On a construction zone a mini black hole suddenly appeared sucking any debris left behind. Zim looked in awe before approaching it when it became a small, red chipmunk-like experiment with a wide, large mouth, two thin antennae, and three thin back spines. The invader pulled out another instrument from its PAK and began scanning the creature…that decided to open its mouth and suck Zim inside.

Lilo and Betty were talking to each other not noticing Zim stopping to talk with Bonnie (149) and Clyde (150). Seconds later he catch up with them and offer them some candies from a bag he had…neither looked back to see the two experiments, now armed with Irken laser guns, running towards downtown.

Finally the group stopped at the baseball field where Zim proved Slugger (608)´s efficiency as a projectile deflector by shooting him some plasma balls from a canon of his PAK.

(Montage end)

It was here where GIR also announced that they have found the thingy that they were looking as he pointed to a couple of fertilizer bags laying close by.

“It’s the best fertilizer of the island” a gardener told them “really make grass grow here”

Zim checked the list of compositions and found what he was looking for.

“AHA here it is Potassium sulfate and Potassium nitrate” announced the alien.

“Principal component of earth´s fertilizer of coarse how could I forget that?” said Betty remembering all the times her mother had make her help in the garden. “You think it’s enough?” she asked Zim.

“ummm I would say a couple of this bags should be enough” answered the alien pointing to the bags of 50 kg each.

After Lilo talked to the gardener they were allowed to take three of the bags.

“Umm this will be heavy to carry” said Lilo “want me to call one of Stitch´s cousins to help?”

“No need!!!” declared Zim “don’t forget we have the assistance of the superior Irken technology!!! GIR CARRY THEM!!!!”

“YES SIR” the small robot pushed his arms under the bags before slowly rise them up “READY!!!!” he said wiggling a bit for the weight.

“See? No problem” said Zim to the girls “now we must find the rest...to where GIR?”

“That way!!!” the robot pointed…but because the bags none could see where it was pointing.

Everyone blinked.

“Walk GIR and guide us” the alien said almost facepalming.

“Ok!!!” the hyperactive robot began walking with the trio following him.

They soon returned to downtown, passing by more experiments, without complications…except for one:

“YUM!!!!” a big growl made the group stop and everyone turn to see what looked like a car size round orange armadillo/bulldog-like experiment looking really mad at a small red dragon-like experiment with small bat-like wings, a reptilian head, who also was looking angry at the bigger experiment before shooting a small blue flame at it that the big one manage to evade (causing it to hit a close by roof melting it complete).

Both experiments growled at each other and seem to be ready to fight.

“uhhh entertainment” said Zim pulling out a camera from his PAK.

“Melty! Tank! STOP!!!” Lilo yelled running towards the experiments.

Immediately both experiments looked startled at hearing the girl´s voice that immediately broke up trying to look innocent.

“Don’t gave me those looks” said Lilo in angry tone “care to explain what was happening?”

Both experiments began “talking” at the same time while pointing to each other. Only to look back at each other and growl again.

“ENOUGH” the girl yelled making both experiments look down like scolded puppies.

“Sorry Lilo” a man in garbage man uniform approached the trio “I think this is my fault.”

As Lilo and the man talked both Betty and Zim looked in awe/shock at the scene.

“Ok...I’m impressed” said Zim.

“You can said that again sir” said Betty back.

Both looked as Lilo and the man talked for a moment, then called both experiments, Lilo seems to say something to them before both nodded in agreement. With that solved everyone parted ways.

“Sorry about that” said Lilo approaching the duo.

“Its not a problem” said Betty “what was that about?”

“Oh that?...well turns out Jorge asked Tank and Melty to help him get rid of some accumulated scrap” explained Lilo “but then Melty melted a car that Tank wanted to eat which in turn made him mad and try to stomp on him” she turned to see both experiments walk to separated ways as they melt/eat the remain metal “at the end it was better divide the junk in two so each experiment can do what they want with their half without bothering the other”

“YOUUUUUU!!!!!!” Zim pointed at her making her blink I surprise “how did you did that?!!!!!! You made those two submit to you with just an order, and you aren’t even tallest to one of them!!!!!” the invader do respected power and the fact someone showed such command like what Lilo did was nothing short but amazing on his mind.

“hehehe it wasn’t hard we know each other for a long time so…” she blushed not getting why the, in her mind, more amazing alien looked in awe at her.

“I must say I agree with Zim” said Betty “the fact they listen to you on that way certainly is something” she said making Lilo blush “not to mention the rest of the experiments. You are like their commander or something like that”

“EXACTLY!!!” cried Zim “COMMANDER LILO OF LITTLE ISLAND…THAT SHOULD BE YOUR TITTLE!!!!”

“What?! No I’m not like a commander!! I mean they are more like...family so..” Lilo tried toe explain whoever she noticed something “wait...where is GIR?”

In that moment the other two turned to see the little robot wasn’t there anymore.

“GIR!!!! WHAT DID I TELL YOU ABOUT RUNNING AWAY WITHOUT YOUR MASTER?!!!!” Zim cried as he ran in the direction they were going before the incident.

They didn’t have to walk long before they came across the fertilizer bags on the floor and see the robot trying to pull something from the hands of a girl.

“Let that go you little freak!!!”

“GIR COME HERE NOW!!!” Zim ordered the robot.

“Yes master!!!” said the small dog before letting go of the bag and running to his master, causing the girl to fall on the floor.

“I’m sorry about that, are you...” Lilo sarted but shut up when she saw WHO was it.

“Oh you...of coarse it has to be you” the girl said in a snobbish tone.

There in the floor, dressed with a short green sleeveless shirt, blue mini skirt and low heels was Mertle Edmonds.

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No one said anything as a trio of girls approached the fallen orange head and help her stand.

“And here I thought I could get a nice day without having to see you” Mertle said as she stood up “but of coarse…I should had know this little freak was with you the moment it attacked me”

“yeeeeeaaaaahhhhh” the other three girls said in unison making both Betty and Zim cringe at the sound.

“Actually calling it an attack would be a bit overdramatic” said Betty “it looked like he wanted something from you”

Mertle turned to see the girl arching an eyebrow.

“And who is this?” Mertle asked looking at the red head up and down. Betty couldn’t help but feel the girl was judging her appearance. “If she is with you she mustn’t be from around here or she is a weird as you…and where did she get those clothes? From a 50-cent store?” she and the trio of girls laughed at that.

“Sigh...Mertle this is Betty, Betty this is Mertle” said Lilo on a semi-depressed tone that called the attention of the alien.

“And for your information YES I’m with her and YES I’m not from here” Betty said stepping forwards “got a problem with that?”

Mertle gulped at the angry expression of the red head, however before things turned violent Lilo decided to intervene.

“Hey come on...don’t fight” she said getting between them “we are all friends here”

Mertle looked quite insulted by this.

“tsh whatever freak” she in uncaring tone that made Betty frown “i have better things to do than lose my time with a weirdo and whoever this one is” Betty huffed in anger at the orange head.

In that moment they all heard the screams of the trio of girls. They turn to see them on the floor while GIR held 3 big bags showing them to see who was inspected a fourth (the one Mertle had before).

“AHA…THIS IS IT¡¡¡¡” cried Zim in excitement “THE LAST COMPONENTS ARE ALL HERE!!!”

“Hey!!!” cried Mertle “those are mine” she turned to Lilo “I buy the best marshmallows for a specially party at my home which you aren’t invited” she turned back to Zim “so you better…” she paused as she gazed on the alien “ewwww what the heck are you? Another of this freak´s pets?”

“PET!!!” Zim cried enraged “I AM ZIM!!!! NOT SOME PET!!!” he cried on Mertle´s face making her jump in fear “and who you suppose to be!!!”

“What?...im Mertle Edmonds. I am like, the most important girl on the island” ” she said full of herself.

However she noticed Zim wasn’t paying attention to her. Instead he was more focus in opening the bag and squishing a marshmallow, while GIR began eating the other 3 bags.

“Hey I’m talking to you!!!”

“Sorry what?” the invader turned to her “eh, doesn’t matter” he then talked to Betty “this is exactly what we need!!!!”

“Marshmallows?” wondered the red head.

“YES!!!” Zim cried “these squishy thingies have all the remaining elements we need for the fuel” he yelled in happiness.

“Excuse me!!!” Mertle cried not liking been ignored.

“You are excuse now run along we can't lose time with you” said Zim shooing the girl.

“Zim don’t be rude” said Lilo “sorry Mertle he is new and we are looking for…”

“I don’t care what you want freak” the orange head said in rude tone “I should have known you would bring more weirdoes if you had the chance”

“Hey!!! That’s not a correct way to talk to your superior!!!!” cried Zim. “Show more respect!!!!

“Zim!!! I told you I’m not superior to anyone” Lilo said embarrassed.

“Yeah if anything I’m superior to her” said Mertle with pride.

Zim blinked twice before turning to Lilo.

“Are you telling me this noisy thing is superior to you?!!!” Zim said before laughing “hahahahahaha that’s a good joke hahahahahahaha”

“Joke?!!!! JOKE!!!!” said Mertle in anger “I’m not a joke!!! Stop laughing!!!” she demanded, but much to her anger the invader just kept laughing “grrrrr I said” she took a bottle of water one of her friends had “Shut up!!!!” and she squished the bottle at the alien.

Time seemed to slow down as the water hit the alien…then it resumed as the liquid made effect on him.

“AHHHHHH IT BURNS, IT BURNS!!!!” Zim cried as steam came out his body and burn marks began appearing on his skin. “AHHHHHH!!!!”

“Zim!!!” cried both Betty and Lilo worried about their friend as he writhing in pain in the floor.

The other girls just looked shook for a moment before Mertle began laughing.

“hahahaha you really are one of those beasts and quite pathetic if you go like this with some water” she kept laughing.

“why you…” Betty looked up in anger ready to pounce on her.

However if there was one thing Zim didn’t like or allow was someone laughing at him. Even if he was burning he wont allow that to happen.

“GIR!!!! DEFEND YOUR MASTER!!!!”

“YES SIR!!!” the little robot said in hard tone before turning to the girls. His cheeks swollen for a moment before he opened his mouth… and soon a torrent of melted marshmallow fell on the orange head.

"Ahhhhh!!!!” the girl cried as the warm and sticky liquid cover her from head to toe “I’m blind…I’m blind!!!!” she tried to push the melted candy off her face “ahhh this is disgusting ahhh help!!!!!”

“Easy Mertle don’t worry we will help you” said her friend Teresa trying to calm the girl “look what have you done you freak” she called at Lilo who flinched. However the burned alien stood in front of her with a really angry expression.

“And there is more from where that came!!!” he said looking enrage “NO BODY LAUGHS AT ZIM!!!!” for good measure laser canons appeared from his PAK “NOW GET OUT OF ZIM´S VISION FIELD OR IM GOING TO SPLAT YOUR INSIDES OUTSIDE!!!!”

The girls cried in fear as they run away (pushing/helping their candy covered leader).

No one said anything, as Betty looked worry at the burn marks on Zim´s body, which let out a gasp of pain before sitting.

“Uggg Zim hates this planet´s liquid so much!!!!” he said in pain.

“wha…what just happen?” asked Lilo not knowing what to said. However her question made the angry alien turn to her.

“That’s what Zim is asking!!!” he said to her “what was that?!!!! Why did you allow that more that obvious inferior talk to you in that way?!!!!!”

“I…umm..well” the Hawaiian girl looked quite nervous and that already made Betty worry.

“Zim is right” she said “who was that girl and why did she talk to you like that?” she has a BIG suspicion of what had happen and she didn’t like the idea.

“Its ok Betty really” Lilo said “she has been like that since I was little, but she really is a friend” she said however her tone didn’t convince any of them of that. “She is just…complicated?”

“Sounds to me its quite simple” said the galactic guardian “from what I can tell she is nothing but a bratty bully”

“What?!!! No that’s not it” Lilo tried to said. “Its just…its complicated” the girl said in defeated tone.

“Sigh...the way I see it its not that complicated” Betty said “let me guess she act all high and mighty all the time, thinks she is somehow better that you, takes her time to insult or/and humiliate you and it seems no one cares about it right?” Lilo didn’t said anything and just look down “sigh just what I needed, another Penelope” she groaned “a girl in my school that acts like Mertle” she cleared when Lilo looked up confused “bottom line both are just bullies that think they can get with whatever they want, basically not someone you want to lose your time with and that only will hurt you if you try” she sentenced crossing her arms.

“ummm” Lilo looked sad at this “i…I know she can be handful sometimes but” she sighed “we have known each other since we were little…and…I know she can do good if only given the chance” she said and Betty had the feeling she was trying to convince herself more that her “I just…want us to be friends”

“Friendship bah” Zim talked making both girls turn to him. Betty was glad that his burns seem to be healing themselves “such complicate yet apparently needed thing between humans” he gained a thoughtful look “between Irkens there is no concept of friendship...maybe just camaraderie between invaders and that can easily turn into rivalry” he looked at them “yet since I arrived at earth I learned that having friends seems to be an obligatory protocol in human society. And anyone without it its at risk of been classified as weird or inhuman” he looked directly at Lilo who couldn’t help but feel like Nani was scolding her for doing something bad “yet even Zim!!! Understood that you can’t simply accept everyone as such. If you wanted friends you need only those that are WORTHY of been in your presence” he declared as he remembered his own experience “sure you could pick anyone and just be acceptable in society eyes” like he did “but if you are the best then you must be with the best!!!!” he pointed at Lilo “and THAT GIRL isn’t the best!!!! She is no right for someone of such command like you!!!!!”

“But...I’m not the best either” Lilo said.

“LIIIIIEEEEEESSSSSS!!!!!!” screamed the alien “YOU ARE WITH ZIM SO YOU ARE THE BEST!!!!” sure he still needed to have more info about this whole hero stuff, but it didn’t hurt having points with someone with access to an army of powerful genetic experiments…plus if anything she should be proud of been around Zim so his point stand.

“Zim is right” said Betty calling their attention (and making Zim smile proudly…of coarse he was right, he was Zim!!!) “I understand that you want to be the big girl and try the high road with her, but as Zim said you cant keep hurting yourself over someone that clearly don’t DESERVE to be your friend” the galactic guardian gave Lilo a smile “plus you are a great girl Lilo, I don’t think you are short on friends do you?”

This made Lilo think…sure becoming friends with Mertle had been always like this big dream/project she had from a long time, but Betty was right it wasn’t like she didn’t had friends at all. The Hawaiian girl blinked…she DOES have a lot of friends. Outside 626 experiments on the island there was also Victoria (a girl she had a lot of things in common), not to mention the friends from the continent she had become friends and still keep communications with.

This made her thought the boy she made friends with some months ago and that have been talking with almost daily. Someone that shares her love for aliens and monsters, although she still had to talk to him about Stitch and his cousins…Dib seems to have this idea all aliens were evil and were trying to take over earth…she really needed to work that.

But still thinking about him made her face blush and a smile to appear.

“Your right, I have a lot of friends” she said with conviction “people that don’t think of me as some weirdo and like the same things I do”

“But bet no one is a better friend that Zim!!!!” called the alien.

This made Lilo smile at him.

“We are friends then?” she asked

“We both are” called Betty using one arm to bring the girl into a hug “we space girls must be together after all”

“Hehehe I like how that sounds” she said hugging back “space girls!!!”

“Yeah spice girls!!!!” called GIR jumping into the duo and began dancing “just tell me what you want, what you really really want...i wanna I wanna I wanna…TAQUITOS!!!” and he did ended up expelling taquitos from his head.

Both girls laughed at the shenanigans of the little robot.               

“Yeah yeah you are all happy you have the honor of been Zim´s friends but can we concentrate?” he said picking up one of the marshmallow’s bags “as I was saying before that...THING…interrupt me, the elements contain in this squishy thingies are exactly what we need to complete the list and made the temporal fuel for the Cruiser”

“I'm still trying to wrap up the idea of marshmallows been use as ingredients for ship fuel” said Betty.

“Well Nani does tell me about junk food being good for a lot of things but food” said Lilo “specially with soda” she did remember that time when Nani prohibited soda in the house and try to throw any to the trash. Stitch end up consuming all of the soda from the house before Nani could throw it away…the burp that followed end up breaking all the windows and leaved poor Pleakley deaf for three days “in any case if we need that there is a store not far from here were we can find a lot of them”

“Perfect then guide us commander!!!!” cried Zim.

Lilo smiled as she began walking with the duo behind her (with GIR having to return to pick up the fertilizer bags).

“By the way Zim” said Betty as she walked “what happen there? It looked like you were burning”

Zim shuddered.

“That, is what happens when Irkens come in contact with the water of this planet” he said in harsh tone “Zim learned thanks to the rain that this liquid can be quite harmful for me” he looked at his (almost healed) burns “but Zim developed a special method for water to not be a problem for a while, yet it seems that its time to apply it again”

Betty thought hard…water could harm Irkens like that? And yet Zim came to a planet that its 75% that? Well on paper do sounds smart after all if the Tallest do find out he escaped exile then they wont try looking on a planet that can be that harmful for their species but still.

“Must be hard to move around and try to evade rain when it comes” said Betty.

“It is yeah” his expression morphed to one of anger “but nothing like that stinky human larva trying to bombard me with those balloon things filled with water after he found that weakness”

“Wait what? Someone know you are an alien?” she wondered.

“The only human that didn’t fall for Zim´s master disguise” he thought for a moment “well he and his scary sister, but Zim doesn’t have much issues with her” he shook his head “anyways he has made his mission..ummm reveal Zim as an alien and…ummm make the earth government capture me and do…tests” he shuddered.

Betty looked worry about this. If someone was trying to hunt Zim down and reveal him as the alien he was that could end up badly.

“Should I be worried?” Maybe could ask the Guardians to set you a place with them if this human is really that dangerous” she suggested...maybe he could end up joining the guardians. That idea really sounded excited for her.

“HA…don’t worry, he is nothing Zim cant handle” he said in boastful tone “he has tried before and since Zim arrived at earth but he always fails before Zim´s superiority”

Still feeling worried Betty was about to ask something else but in that moment the group finally arrived at the store. Deciding to archive that for later the galactic guardian decided to focus in helping in getting Zim´s ship ready and worry about things later.

(At the Pelekai home)

“Ok 626 give the sonic screwdriver” said Jumba as he worked on Zim´s machine with the help of the blue alien “I only need to calibrate the energy feed and….”

Kaboom!!!

“coff coff coff”

“Eh Jumba? You sure that’s safe?” asked Nani after the third explosion covered the alien scientist in smoke

“Of coarse its not safe!!!” cried Pleakley cowering behind some electronics that Jumba disarmed for parts “its an Irken machine!!!” he hid again “who knows what kind of destructive power it could have”

“Bah Pleakley is being too dramatic” said Jumba cleaning his face “machine isn’t dangerous” he thought for a moment “at least not in this scale” he shook his head “what it will do its separate elements and fuse them again to create new components that can be use to energize Zim´s ship” he smiled at Nani “actually if feed the right elements this machine could create basically anything”

“Anything?” Nani asked, “Ok that’s actually impressive”

“Of coarse its impressive its Zim´s personal design!!!” Cried the green invader as he, Lilo, Betty (each carrying at least three big bags of marshmallows) and GIR (carrying the fertilize bags) walked back. “And Zim is quite impress that you manage to finish it so quickly” he added at Jumba.

“Hahaha I will take that as a compliment” said Jumba palming the machine.

The machine itself was composed of two separate transparent chambers connected to a third bigger one in the middle. On one side of it a hose seems to be connected directly at Zim´s ship while a second one was put inside a metal barrel.

“Actually it was” said Zim examining the machine “and this looks like a great job” he continue feeding Jumba´s ego.

“What about you?” asked Nani “did you get what you needed?”

“yeap” said Lilo as GIR approaches the machine “we found all we need to make the fuel including…” she gave her one of the bags she was carrying

“Are those marshmallows?” asked Nani confused.

“I had the same reaction don’t worry” said Betty “but according to Zim they are useful”

“Yeah useful to eat while his machine destroys us all!!!”

“Is Pleakley still on that?” asked Lilo as she and Betty walked to the machine.

“He hasn’t stopped since you left” answered Nani “must admit I’m starting to get worried, I know he tends to dramatize a lot but this is starting to be too much”

“Actually he made Zim remember another annoying thing that bothers Zim a lot at home” said Zim opening the two chambers “but must say this one doesn’t really bother me that much” he thought for a moment “actually I kinda like him for his voice…for some reason it feels nice and familiar to Zim”

“Really? Weird” said Betty.

“Ehh whatever” Zim then turn to GIR and order him to open the fertilize bags and dump the contains in the camera.

“So this will work?” asked Lilo as she, Betty and Nani open their candy bags and dumped the marshmallows in the second camera.

“Of coarse it will...its ZIM´S!!!” the alien said moving to a small control panel and began working.

“Plus it was made by me” Jumba said with pride “so you can bet it will be perfect” he turned to Lilo “by the way did you introduce Jumba´s experiments to Zim?” asked exited.

“Oh yeah I did” she returned the recorder to him “he actually was quite impressed by them.

“Uhhh Jumba so happy of hear that” said the scientist “the inspiration for my lifework find it amazing I’m so happy” he actually clean off some happy tears “I hope 626 is also of his liking. After all Jumba use some remains of Zim to make him”

“Wait what?!!!” asked Lilo “what do you mean by that?”

“You see apart from the recording on its collar, the energy blob also had some skin remains on it" the alien explained “Jumba build 626 using those pieces of DNA”

“Wait, so Stitch was based on Zim?” asked Lilo turning to see her blue friend trying to steal a marshmallow only for Zim to stop him causing them to growl at each other.

“On his genetic base yeah and fortunately it gain enough of that for his intelligence and personality” Jumba said with pride.

Meanwhile Zim had managed to return the marshmallow to the machine and continue tapping at the control.

The machine hummed as arcs of electricity seems to emerge from it. The two chambers glowed and everyone saw in awe, as the contents seem to be disintegrating.

Zim smile looking at the screen and tap more commands

“What’s happening?” asked Nani as Pleakley ran away and hide behind her in fright.

“The two lateral chambers break down the substances down to its chemical components, then Zim can edit them to mix them differently and create what he needs." Jumba explained.

The central chamber hummed glowed in purple light as one of the hoses began to be filled with a pinkish liquid and travel towards the cruiser while the second one expelled small grey pellets into the barrel.

With that Zim jumped inside his ship and checked the systems.

“Hahahaha VICTORY FOR ZIM!!!” cried the alien in happiness “the cells accepted the substitute meaning soon we will be able to fly” he announced to the group.

“That’s great guys!!!” said Lilo happy for them.

“Umm yeah it is but” said Zim making everyone get worry “unfortunately this new fuel wont last long. Once the Cruiser is full we will need to leave immediately or there is the risk of the fuel to spoil and damage even more my ship”

At this Lilo gained a sad look.

“So your going to leave now?”

“Umm not now now, still we have time before the ship is ready” said Zim “probably 10 to 15 earth minutes”

“Still not much time.” said a sad Lilo “it’s a shame you can’t stay much longer”

Betty hugged the girl.

“Hey don’t worry its not like we wont see each other again…in fact, do you have a paper so I can write down my number and e-mail?” she smiled at her making Lilo smile back.

“Sure lets go!!” the Hawaiian girl grabbed the red head´s hand and both ran back to the house.

“I will get waffles for the way!!!” announced GIR before running after them.

“GIR GET BACK HERE!!!” Cried Zim.

“Don’t worry I will keep an eye on him” said Nani to the alien “why don’t you come too and grab something for the way?”

“Ummm Zim would like another of those fried eggs” the invader said walking alongside the human licking his lips in delight.

“Say what’s this?” called Pleakley looking at the barrel now filled with pellets.

“Uh?...oh those must be the remained elements that Zim didn’t needed for the fuel” said Jumba “they also needed to be mixed to be expelled from the machine”

Stitch grabbed one and threw it inside his mouth before biting.

BANG

“Gahhhhhh” and opened his mouth again releasing a thick curtain of smoke.

“Umm mini smoke bombs. Really useful” approved Jumba.

(Back at the house.)

While Zim was watching as Nani prepare a “new offering to the great Zim” both Lilo and Betty where in her room exchanging info.

“And there” said Betty with a smile “this is my e-mail we can connect in any time you want”

“And this is mine” Lilo answered giving the red head a paper with her number and address “it’s a shame you have to leave so soon”

“Same but now we can communicate, and once I get a new communicator I will be able to come and visit” she winked at Lilo “remember I have a space ship of my own”

Both girls chuckled but then Lilo noticed something.

“Ehhh Betty?” she pointed to a beeping glow coming from Betty´s pocket.

“Eh?...” she pulled out her broken communicator to noticed it was glowing “my bracelet?” she pressed the bottom some sparks came out followed by static noises.

“c…..capt…..hear……capt…..sp….tracking……”

“What it saying” Lilo asked.

“Not sure…” Betty said “seems that the communication signal its still working…which means” she pressed another bottom. Making the static to stop.

Both waited for something to happen…and that something was the sound of a red ship flying over the house.

“That’s my ship!!!!” Betty cried in excitement and both girls ran off.

The Starcruiser floated for a moment above the forest before landing in the pathway to the house.

Lilo, Betty, Nani came out the house (while Zim spied form a window). From the ship both X-5 and Sparky came out.

“Boss you´re ok!!!!” the green alien cried hugging Betty.

“Its good to find you working at optimal conditions captain” said X-5.

“I´m also happy to see you´re both ok” said Betty “now report...what happen after I was knocked out?” she asked in professional tone.

X-5 was about to answer when Sparky put hand on his mouth.

“Wait not here” he said looking at Nani and Lilo “There are earthlings we must take care of that first, go get the memory ray” he then looked at the sisters and talked in fake Germany accent “ehem fan you for finding our circus sister me froyland”

The robot pushed Sparky´s hand away looking annoyed.

“First of all your acting skills still need a lot of work” said the robot on a deadpan tone “secondly we don’t have something like a memory ray so even if there was needed we don’t have it” the robot floated to the duo “and thirdly, outside the fact the captain came out of that house and they haven’t even reacted to our ship or us, that’s Earth's Ambassador to the Galactic Federation Lilo Pelekai” he then gave the girl a small bow “which by the way it’s a pleasure meeting you your excellency”

“Hehehe not need for that” said Lilo blushing at the attention “it’s a pleasure to meet you..X-5 I believe right?”

“Affirmative”

“Wait…Earth has an ambassador?” asked Sparky confused “since when?”

“Since earth became a rehabilitation center and sanctuary for 625 of the most powerful and dangerous genetic experiments ever created in the universe… this added to the fact that the planet has become a hot spot for different races looking for a place for different kind of deals, a lot illegal I must add, have push the Federation to give Earth a voice in the senate”

“Whoa…and this little girl do that? Unbelievable” said Sparky.

“What I don’t find unbelievable it’s the fact you once again ignore a common fact of modern history”

“Hey!!! What’s that suppose to mean bucket head?!!!”

“Enough you two!!!” Betty ordered making both shut up “X-5 report, now”

“Yes captain” saluted the robot (while Sparky mocked him) “as I was saying...after the arrival of admiral DeGill and his reinforcements we were able to subdue the planet jackers. You will be glad to know that soon Earth will be back to its original orbit in approximately two earth hours”

“Wait, back to orbit?” asked Lilo.

“After Earth was saved, the Galatic Guardians were able to encapsulate the planet again and began pulling it back to place” explained X-5 “also the time will allow the guardians recover or recreate the communication satellites that were either push out or destroyed by this incident.”

“Well good to know that way we wont need to worry about connecting once I leave” Betty said to Lilo “speaking of how are things back home?”

“Noah has been covering for you with your parents if that’s what you are asking boss” said the alien with a smile “great guy he is isn’t he?” he wiggle his eyebrows.

“Yeah I’m glad I have him as a friend” said Betty missing the whole point. “And you guys arrive just in time, we just finish repairing Zim´s ship and were about to leave but now maybe I can stay for a little bit longer”

“Oh that little annoyance survived?” grunted Sparky “and where he is suppose to be?”

“Him? he is inside the house” Betty pointed to the building. “Hey Zim come out to say hello!!” she called but no one answered and no one came out “Zim?!!!” she called again but again no answer.

Finding this really strange Betty ran back into the house followed by everyone else.

“Zim sir?” she called again only to get an empty house as answer “ok this is weird”

“Zim!!!!” called Lilo yet again no one answered.

“Huff so important that can’t even tell someone where you are?” criticized Sparky.

“You sharped your tongue especially for today?” asked X-5.

In that moment the back door opened to show Jumba, Stitch (carrying the barrel filled with smoke bombs) and Pleakley.

“Great what I need” said the yellow Cyclops “more visits”

“Uhh! a standard X-5 robotic unit from the galactic guardians” said Jumba looking at the robot “always wanted to dismantle one of these to see how their pocket technology works”

“Unfortunately for you, I’m protected under the galactic guardian law #23-32-7 where tempering with official Galactic guardian equipment is penalize with prison time” said X-5 floating back to Betty.

“Hey Jumba have you seen Zim?”

“That little monster? He went up to the ship just now” said Pleakley. “Almost put one of those creepy robotic legs on me”

“Wait what?” asked Betty when everyone heard the sound of a ship over the house again.

Everyone ran out to see the Voot cruiser already on the air. The cabin dome opened showing Zim in the controls.

“Zim? Where are you going?” asked the red head.

“Sorry Betty but Zim heard that satellite communications will be up soon and I wont risk someone detecting the Cruiser while I return to my base” said the alien “what is more since you got your own ship back I really need to leave now” he added much to her confusion “for one I’m really not ready for any type of encounter with the galactic guardians…at least not yet” he said eyeing Betty´s crew “and secondly you gave Zim a lot to think about...a lot of actions I haven’t considered and I need time to make heads and tails of it”

The guardian thought about it…it seems that her hero need a time for himself. She suppose it was understandable after all it seems that this was the first time he came across the results of his heroic and uninterested actions.

Still…

“Will we see you again” asked Betty with some nervousness on her voice. A feeling that Lilo shared.

“Umm you will that’s for sure” said Zim “you have done something Zim considered impossible. After all his time on this planet you certainly had impress me Atomic Betty” her eyes sparkle hearing him said her full name “you are a great warrior and I certainly will want to see more of that later” he turned to look at Lilo “and you Commander Lilo of little island” she looked up “Zim certainly wont forget someone of your status and power” Lilo blushed as Zim turned to Nani and Jumba “neither I will forget about your delicious food Nani the cooker and your creatures have really impress me doctor Jumba” both smile at him (although Jumba seems ready to cry) “ugggg ok enough sweet words…Zim is really not use to this” he began making his ship turn to leave.

“Zim wait…catch!!!” in a bold movement Betty took her broken bracelet and throw it at him. The invader caught it and look it in confusion “the communicator circuit is still working so sue that to find and contact me if you want” she blushed yet saluted, as the captain she was “was a pleasure to meet you sir! Jumba, Lilo and X-5 followed her example (although Sparky and Pleakley looked annoyed or unimpressed with the whole thing)

“Ehem …well i…yes…yes I will” Zim coughed “ok that enough of this!!!...LETS GO GIR!!!!”

“Yes master” said the little robot before giving Nani a quick hug in the legs “goodbye big sister” he said then he gave Stitch the newest tower of Waffles he made and rocket up to the ship “BY PRETTY GIRL!!!” he called to Betty before the dome closed and the Irken ship shoot itself away at great speed.

Chapter Text

The Voot cruiser flew at maximum speed over the sea´s surface as it traveled away from the little Hawaiian island. Even when satellites wont be coming up for a little longer Zim decided to fly low for a while to make sure he was undetectable by land detection systems…and to think.

“One of the greatest scientific minds in the whole empire”

“We are friends then?”

“It has been an honor to meet you”

“…Save the galaxy”

“Zim…The hero of Doomsday”

 Those words echoed in his head and all they did was only give him a headache.

Part of him loved the idea of people, planets, and civilizations!!!! Knowing and claiming the name of Zim!!!! All showing the respect he DESERVED. His name and legend being known all across the known cosmos!!!!

However the most prominent part of those moments was filled with confusion and doubts.

He, an enemy of the Irken empire?...He a savior of the galaxy?...he a traitor of his own race?...he helped stop Operation Impending Doom I?

How it’s that he never head about this?

How many people knew about this? According to…Betty (it felt weird the fact he really wanted to remember the name of the red head)…the entire galaxy knew about it.

A feeling of dread hit his Squeedly Spooch.

Did this news traveled to the Irken side?

Did other invaders have heard about this?

Or worse

Did the Tallest know about this?

His hands tighten its grip on the control panel. He needed answers, he needed data, he needed to know all about this and make plans.

His eyes gazed on Betty´s communicator. Fortunately he has the means to get all the answers he needed.

The Irken ship got closer to the shore and shoots itself into the sky.

Actually being stealthy for once, the Cruiser kept itself hided in the clouds as it approaches the city where Zim had installed his base. Smoke and dark skies helped the ship to fly almost invisible until it reached a green house with a purple roof and door. It would look quite normal except for the enormous satellite dish on one side of the roof, and the big cables that were connected to its neighbors.

The roof actually opened as the Cruiser descended into its hide hangar.

“COMPUTER!!!” cried the invader as the ship was lowered into the deepest part of his subterranean base.

“Welcome back master” the casual electronic voice of his computer answered back “need another reparation cycle for the ship?” it asked in sarcastic tone as claws and tentacles with tools began tinkering with the damage ship.

“Yes computer...but also there are more things to do” said the alien as he jumped off his ship and began walking “GIR take this to the kitchen and into the freezing machine” he pass a small lunch box (filled with Nani´s fry eggs) to the little robot “and it better survive or there wont be tacos in this house for 10 stellar cycles!!!!”

“YES SIR” the robot glowed red and grabbed the box summoning weapons around him as he walked out the base.

“Whoa that must be really something for you to threaten GIR like that” said the computer a bit taken by his creator mood.

“It is!!! Now shut up we have work!!!” said the alien as he approached his main computer and began tapping orders “apart from keeping the repair protocols for the Cruiser I want you to divert all the energy from none-essential systems of the base” he put down the broken communicator on a surface and using a mini torch he opened it “also rise the security protocols at maximum and put the house on lockdown...double the number of gnomes in the garden if you must but I don’t want anything to come in or out” Zim began connecting cables to the internal circuits of the communicator.

“Are these measures having something to do with what I’m assuming is an official Galactic Guardian communicator?” said the computer sounding a bit worry “should we expect an attack?”

“No I don’t think so and yes it has to do with this” said Zim as he began typing again “use the protocols inside this devise and infiltrate the main frame of the Guardians HQ. Be as stealthy as a Cironiellian Chrysalis Eater and use their communication network for a galactic scale search and data transfer.”

“Whoa ok that’s a high order” the computer said as it began hacking the communication network of the galactic guardians “what I’m looking for exactly?”

“Anything related to Zim” he answered.

“The answer shouldn’t surprise me but still it does” the computer said in dry tone “initiating hacking and data search” a map of different planets and space stations began to fill the screen “diverting energy to feed the search” on the house and around the base some lights and equipment began to turn off “Galactic guardian´s main computer infiltration success, security protocols deactivated…initiating data transfer”

“I don’t have time to read it all, I need answers now…activate direct transfer to PAK unit” Zim ordered as a trio of tentacles descended from the ceiling and connected with his PAK.

“WARNING…its my duty to inform that a direct transmission of this size could cause..ehem…extreme pain to user”

“I AM ZIM!!!! I CANT BE STOPPED BY SOMETHING AS AN INSIGNIFICANT AMOUNT OF PAIN…JUST DO YOUR JOB AND BEGAN TRANSFER!!!!”

“Sigh…sometimes I wonder why I even try. Commencing transfer!!!”

BZZZZZZZZZ!!!!!

“AHHHHHH!!!! THE PAIN!!!! THE PAIN!!!!!!

(Galactic Guardians HQ)

“Excellent work today Atomic Betty” admiral DeGill said to the red head girl. “I’m glad you were able to return in one piece”

“Thanks sir” Betty (wearing a clean uniform and new bracelet) saluted back “what’s the status with the planet jackers?”

“After this stunt on a protected planet, the federation has ended any contract or treat with them and put their foot down with the government body of that planet” answered the fish “as now talks between the two are being held to plan for a planetary evacuation and transfer of any sentient life on it to a new solar system”

“At least they wont be stealing planets any longer” said the girl with a relief sigh.

“Agree” said the admiral before getting a nervous look “so...your crew told me that the hero…ehem…That the invader Zim left to before Earth could be put back in place, so I was wondering if you…”

“Sorry sir, but from what I have learned the information about invader Zim´s current location is too sensitive to be out in the open” Betty said on professional tone “for the moment only I and my planet ambassador have that info and, under the petition of Zim himself, we will keep that way for now to make sure no…unwanted characters learn about it”

“No I understand” said the admiral “this would make waves across the galaxy for sure so better keep things quiet for now” he sigh “but is a shame I really wanted for him to sign my...i mean my nephew´s invader zim card collection” he looked around nervously trying to not blush.

Betty just giggled and salute once more before walking out the admiral´s office

“Betty!!!”

The guardian turned around to see her friend Noah running towards her.

“Noah!!!” she greeted back as he stopped in front of her.

He was a brown haired boy of her age dressed on an orange full body jumpsuit with atomic symbols over it.

“Its nice to have you back” he said with a smile.

“Oh come on don’t act as I was gone for long time” she gave him a friendly push “it was just a few hours at most” she began walking with him at her side.

“Still I heard you were hurt on this last mission” said the boy “I wish I had been there so I could have fought those aliens and help you” he added making some karate moves.

“That’s a nice feeling Noah, but you still are a young cadet and not ready yet for missions like this one” said the red head “plus at the end I did have help”

“Oh yeah Sparky mentioned you meeting some sort of galactic hero?” he asked.

“uff need to talk to him about NOT revealing some info” she said shaking her head “but yeah I met one of my heroes from my academy days” he sigh “and it was as great as I imagine” she said with a smile on her face

“Oh? It was?...this isn’t like one of those meetings that you understand the saying never meet your heroes?” asked the boy a bit uncertain.

“No it isn’t” said Betty “in fact its all the contrary…Zim is just whoa” said the female guardian “he really is a true hero...can you believe he didn’t know he was called like that until today? All the amazing things he did he did it not for the glory but because it was truly the right thing to do” she sigh with a small blush “he even said I impress him…can you believe it? I impressed one of very people that inspired me to be a good guardian!!!”

“Oh...yeah that’s cool..i guess” he said in low tone not liking how Betty was acting towards that guy “but still its good you are back” he said returning to normal “maybe we could take the rest of the day…maybe pass the afternoon together?”

“Of course we will” said Betty making Noah smile “I haven’t forgotten we have a study session today” and the smile was gone.

“Wait what?” he asked.

“Come on Noah you know what I’m talking about” she said pressing a button of her bracelet and showing a calendar “the cadet´s exam is around the corner and we still need to finish covering up coded messages” she let the hologram disappear “we have been doing this for a week now but I feel you will be ready for the exam in no time” she smiled at him.

“Oh yeah...the exam…yeah the reason why I ask you out…for help” he said in a down tone that Betty didn’t catch.

“Ok I will go speak with Sparky and X-5, then pick up today´s lesson books, and then we can go home to study” she said walking away.

“Sigh” Noah looked ahead making sure she was out ear reach “ok Parker no biggie…just stick to the plan” he pulled out a ball of paper with a small list written on it.

Plan to win Betty´s heart

1. Pass more time with her (under any excuse)
2. Win her over and make her fall in love
3. Confess your own feelings
4. KISS!!!

“Ok just concentrate, you are really close” and with that he was about to run after Betty when he noticed a small flash in a close by room “eh?” it was an unused sleeping quarter with a personal computer on a desk. However the machine was on numbers in purple color changing patters on the screen “what is…?” suddenly a symbol appeared on the screen followed by a deafening static noise that made him cover his ears.

The machine then turned off completed leaving a confused Noah in a dark room.

(Hawaiian Islands)

Beep-Beep……Beep-Beep...Beep-Beep……Beep-Beep

Click

“LILO!!!”

“Hey Dib nice to finally be able to talk to you” said Lilo as her computer finally recovered its Internet signal “seems satellite communications are returning to normal”

“ARE YOU OK? NOTHING WEIRD HAS HAPPEN THERE? HAVE YOU SEEEN SOMETHING LIKE GIANT SHIPS OR MAYBE AN ARMED FORCE IN THE STREET?!!!!”

“Whoa Dib lower the volume before someone think something weird is happening here, and to answer your question no, nothing like that had happen here” said the girl wondering what could have caused her friend to act like this “did something happen to you?”

“IIIIIIIII!!!!!! Ehem well no….umm but I’m sure it will happen!!!” cried the boy again “around the world there has been multiple reports of communication failing nothing that use satellites had worked in the last few hours up to this point” he put on his screen multiple news about this incident “do you know what this mean?!!!”

“Ehhhh people should search for a better plan services?” the Hawaiian girl answered.

“No!!!! It means probably that some alien tried to take down our means of communication so we could be easier to invade!!!!” the spectacles wearing boy said “and I suspect WHO that as”

Lilo flinched at that. Dib was a great friend and shared her love for the paranormal, but his view about aliens made things tricky for the girl to talk openly about her everyday life in the island.

“You sure about that Dib?” asked Lilo “I mean, I think you mean that alien that you said live close to you…but did you actually see it doing something like that?”

“IIIIII!!!!!! Well not really…but is suspect it was him!!!! He came to my house around the time communications were failing!!!”

“Wouldn’t that mean he also was affected by this and wanted to ask help?” the girl wondered.

“HA…oh Lilo you are still to innocent about the dangers of the universe” said Dib “but don’t worry I will make sure to teach you everything I have know and soon you will see Aliens are a very real threat to our planet”

“Lilo!!! Victoria is here to see you!!!” Nani called from the house. Lilo looked at the window where Snooty was flying giving her a smile.

“Sorry Dib I must attend this” said the girl.

“Oh…ok still be careful we don’t know when an alien will try to invade us….I will try to look up for more evidence and will talk later” and with that he ended the communication.

Lilo sighed as she descended from her room into the living room where her friend was petting the bat-like experiment making it purr.

“Sigh…don’t give up Lilo, you manage to keep positive for years with Mertle…you can take some time to try change Dib´s mind” she shook her head and smiled before greeting her friend.

At least Dib did believed in aliens and didn’t thought Lilo was weird. That already was an improved she could hold on to.

(Meanwhile at the ship´s site)

“ummmm” Jumba was testing Zim´s machine when his computer began beeping too “voice command: answer” said the scientist as he put on his lab bath and goggles covering his eyes.

“Ah Doctor Jookiba its nice to finally be able to talk to you” the caller was a man wearing a white lab coat, purple gloves, and big black boots. His eyes are never clearly seen due to him wearing goggles. With his black hair styled in scythe-like shapes.

“Doctor Membrane always a pleasure hearing from you” said the alien looking at the screen “how have you been?”

“Could be better as my attempts to reach our fellow scientists have been less that successful”

“Ah yeah...the satellite problem...juts recently we have recover our means of long distance communications…so I suppose its just matter of time”

“Time wasted!!!” sentenced the human professor “the great symposium of science is less than 5 months away and communication between our team is crucial if we wanted to present a revolutionary project and not one of those out of this word discoveries that professors Sundac and Stone try to pass for ACTUAL scientific inventions” the professor huffed “alien technology huff if I haven’t test it already I would think my son´s craziness is contagious” he doctor suddenly blinked “said...what’s that?” he asked noticing the weird purple machine behind Jumba.

“This? Oh something I tinkered this morning” said the alien doctor “it uses ionic electromagnetic fields mixed with high speed censors to identify, separate and combine elements” he opened one of the chambers and began filling it with rusted metals “now this usually only can synthesize one new component and discard what its not needed into random things. However in theory, using the correct amount of energy plus a program based on time dilatation, I can use that to actually choose what elements I want to take and mix to create more that one new component” once filled the scientist walked to the command panel and began typing. The machine glowed as the metals on the chamber disintegrated. What it looked like a cloud of particles traveled to the main chamber that began humming and releasing sparks of purple energy.

Jumba kept typing as sweat fell from his forehead.

Finally something traveled back to one of the lateral chambers; at the same time a metallic liquid fell into an empty barrel.

whenall was done, Jumba turned off the now smoking machine as he checked the barrel.

“hahaha success!!” he said as he looked inside “one barrel of the more pure iron ready to use” he opened the chamber and put a cup inside “and on the other side clean water ready to drink” he took a sip “umm and not iron taste that’s good!!!

KABOOOM!!!

At that moment the machine exploded.

“Coff coff coff…ok machine made with spare parts and two big uses on one day is not good combination” the alien coughed.

“Fascinating” Membrane said “my dear doctor I think you found the solution for my dilemma. Can you tell me more about the machine?”

Chapter Text

1 month later.

“Their coming from above”

“I have half a charge”

“Don’t bother, save it for the big one”

“Oh yeah level 32...You can praise me now”

“Watch out behind you”

“Oh come on that’s not fair!!!”

Inside a small room two black wearing girls were busy passing the time playing on their consoles.

“Why is there a demonic warthog on this level? It doesn’t make sense!!! We are in a literally bloody swamp!!! how is it on fire?” Jinmay complained as she pushed the buttons on her console with rage as her character tried to evade fireballs coming from the hellish beast.

“Blood is flammable I think” Gaz answered from her position laying in a gray colored bed. The room itself was quite simple. A bed, a simple desk (with a laptop on it) and a wardrobe (filled with black, red and pink clothes). The walls were filled with posters usually about motorcycles or bikers. “Thanks again for letting me crash for the day Jin”

“I knew you would love playing the new Vampire pigs V” said the pink haired girl sending a small smile at the purple haired girl “but I know there is another reason for you to not want to go back home” she finished as they finally defeated the beast “is Dib still being an annoying paranoid?”

“More than usual” answered Gaz “ever since Zim seemed to vanish a month ago he has been extra annoying yelling about how he must be planning something big and that the battle for Earth is going to be soon” she groaned “I should be happy about how he decided to not leave his room but believe me, the smell is starting to get noticeable”

The pink haired girl shuddered.

“And you don’t live there so you can imagine how its for me” Gaz said with a sigh “I really hope Zim is planning some sort of doomsday machine”

“My my if I didn’t know you better I would think you are missing him” Jinmay said with a mischievous smile “should I get jealous?”

“tch” Gaz didn’t even answered.

“I’m not hearing a no” Jin said in singing tone.

“As if” the purple haired girl said concentrating on the game “the only thing I miss about Zim is how he makes Dib miserable sometimes, and how he cause him to be out the house most of the time”

“And his lethal weapons and desires to enslave/eradicate humanity aren’t a factor why you...ehem…tolerate him” Jinmay said having fun in teasing her friend “I mean outside me I think he is the only person that you allow to even touch you” she wiggle her eyebrows.

Gaz looked at her with a deadpan expression.

“You know for the way you talk people could get the wrong idea” she said making Jinmay chuckled.

“And neither of us care about that” she giggled as she push a stocked foot against her friend’s sides “and I didn’t hear a negative...again”

“Im going to bite that foot if you don’t move it” threaten Gaz.

“You promise?” Jinmay said in her soft tone giving the other girl a provocative look.

“You only played in that position so you can tease me like this right?” said Gaz finally looking at the other girl.

While Gaz was lying down in the bed, Jinmay preferred laying upside down in the floor with her legs on the bed, causing her skirt to fall on her belly reveling her pink, lace trimmed, panties.

“Maybe” the pink haired said in the same soft tone “am I provoking you?”

Gaz just raised an eyebrow before returning to her game.

“How it’s that I’m friend with a pervert like you?” she asked.

“ummm… common love for pizza and videogames and we both hate your brother?” said Jinmay returning also to her game, but also keep pocking Gaz´s side with her toes “plus the fact you found me, help me back into shape, the fact I’m the only person who you don’t want to fulminate and that I like your bad girl attitude?” she finished smiling at Gaz

“I ask just a reason not the whole list” said Gaz back although she tried to hide the very small smile on her face.

Later both girls were walking down the street.

“All I’m saying its that if you can…put up with Zim...maybe we should hang out together” said Jinmay “I mean you two can plot humanity´s end together and I can have fun watching” she passed and arm around the other girl´s shoulders “plus imagine how Dib would react” she giggled “bet he would have a heart attack.”

“Although I enjoy the idea of making my brother suffer, I’m not going to simply look for him and ask him to hang out” she said pushing Jinmay away.

An ice-cream truck drove close by.

“Yeah yeah I know big bad Gaz doesn’t ask others to hang out” said the pink haired “They beg for you to let them follow you only for you to crush those ideas and humiliated them instead”

“Exactly” sentenced the purple haired girl.

The truck reduced speed and drove alongside them. Gaz signaled it to stop.

“But come on!!!” wined Jinmay “just think about all those weapons, and vehicles… and the weapons!!! We could really go wild with them” said the pink haired girl as she began fantasying while Gaz approached the truck “just me, you and him traveling through the cosmos doing whatever we want causing chaos and mischief all over the galaxy” the side of the truck opened “I know this bar close Alpha centaury where they don’t care about drink ages and that you cant leave unless you punch at least one person” metallic tentacles emerged from the truck binding Gaz before she could cry and pulled her inside “oh man, the fights I got into with the old gang hahaha” she laughed as the truck sped away “…ahhh good times...so what do you say Gaz?” she turned around and blinked twice “Gaz?”

She could feel herself floating yet when she tried to move, it was like she was swimming but couldn’t move in any direction. The hum of machinery gave her quite a good clue about where she was, and even when she felt annoyed of her day ending with her as part of a plot of certain more-than-obvious not gone alien, she couldn’t help but wonder why this time it was HER the one being taken and not her brother…oh well, better get done with this.

Gaz opened her eyes.

And blinked.

A pair of eyes blinked back at her.

She blinked again…yeap there was a floating, chibi looking, moose in front of her.

“nya” the little thing squealed at her before floating away.

It was then when Gaz noticed two things.

1.- she was correct on her guess as she looked around at the purple machinery that conformed Zim´s base.

And

2.- Zim REALLY had been busy.

Every single inch of the room she was was filled with weapons, weapons and MORE weapons. There wasn’t a single free space that didn’t had alien looking pistols, rocket launchers, things she couldn’t identified as weapons yet she knew where weapons, deadly looking tools and traps, multiple robots…A GIGANTIC MECH SUIT!?

“Ok...I’m actually impressed and a little perturbed”

“Welcome to my life” the mechanical voice of Zim´s computer said back.

“So…what’s going on here?” the girls asked with genuine curiosity “is Zim actually going to try a hostile take over?”

“If it was THAT simple” the tone of the machine was filled with such tiredness that Gaz actually raised an eyebrow in wonder “its better if you see for yourself. Mini-moose take her with the master”

“nya” the now identify Mini-moose squealed before looking in her direction. A small humming noise came for it before Gaz found herself floating behind the small creature.

There behind the pile of killing tools was Zim himself staring at a monitor.

“Excuse me sir?” called the computer the Computer

“What is it computer?!!!! Don’t you see Zim is busy?!!!!” the alien cried before turning and noticing Gaz. “Oh” he blinked at seeing her...silence fell on for a moment before the alien coughed and turn around. Then slowly he turned back at her with an evil smile “welcome Gazling...to your DOOOOOOMMMMMM!” He finished screaming pointing at her.

“Zim” she started only to be interrupted.

"It’s no use screaming!!!!!” The invader said in dramatic tone “no one will hear you when Zim unleashes the evilest of the evil horrors on your soft and squishy persona!!!!”

“Soft an squishy?” Did Zim just call her fat?

“Soon everyone will tremble at mentioning the name of the EVILEST INVADER ever!!!!!!” He finished getting close to her face.

If Gaz weren’t stuck on a force field she probably would have punch him already. However something felt off.

“So...”

“TREMBLE!!!”

“Your plan...”

“FEAR ME!!!”

“What is it exactly?” The girl finished.

Zim fell in silence.

“My plan? Errr well...it’s a plan...ehhh”

Gaz blinked.

“You don’t have a plan do you?”

“LIES!!!!!!” Zim yelled, again “I have a plan. A really evil plan so evil that your bladder won’t be able to hold its content if I tell you”

The girl only sighed.

“And that plan is....?”

Zim actually looked nervous as he looked around as if looking for something to proof his claims.

“I well...it’s...ummm with this thing and that one ummmm” Gaz raised an eyebrow “ehhh COMPUTER!!!!”

“Sigh what?” The robotic voice asked with a groan knowing what was coming

“What’s Zim’s ingenious and totally evil plan?” The alien asked.

“I don’t know” the computer answered with an exasperated tone “you suddenly told me to send a bot to kidnap someone, when I asked who? You simply told me” he activate a recording “I don’t care, take anyone from my personal favorite list for what I care just do it” the record stopped “and in that list there is only one person so here she is”

Everyone stood quiet for a moment.

“Wait...what’s that list about and why I’m the only one on it?” Gaz asked.

Bzzzzt

Zim’s PAK suddenly sparked.

“It’s a list Zim made with the ones that impressed Zim to the point I decided to keep them as personal slaves or maybe pets” Zim answered “and you are on it cause you are really fascinating, both terrifying and nice looking”

Gaz had to fight back a blush growing in her face as Zim’s PAK sparked again

“Ahhhhhhhhh!!!” The alien cried as he smash his face against a close by table “computer I thought those attacks would end by now!!!!!”

“I told you that it will take at least 73 hours more for those glitches to disappear completely and could happen at random times” said the tired voice of the A.I.

“Glitches?” Asked Gaz happy to change subjects.

“An error in the PAK’s systems caused by an data overload that will cause him to randomly speak only with the truth for a while” said the computer before adding on a sarcastic tone “why he thought no backlashes will come from downloading a literal galaxy of information in one go? it’s something not even I dare to try to answer”

“Literally a galaxy?” Asked the girl receiving an affirmative answer “what was he looking for?” She asked in sincere confusion.

“Computer don’t you dare!!!!” Cried the invader but it was to late as multiple screens turned on.

“What?” Gaz asked in honest confusion. Around her it looked like numerous new websites, online pages, conspiracy pages, book chapters, among other things. However it was the tittles what called her attention.

“The hero of Doomsday”

  “Zim...hero or legend?”

“The renegade Irken...the history of invader Zim”

“The heroic Irken, Theories and conspiracies”

“Is there really an invader Zim?”

“The search of the great hero, where is Zim?”

This was accompanied by pictures of festivals, toys, banners and other media products all showing the face of the green invader.

“What...the...hell?!!!!” Gaz couldn’t help but cry.

“Ahhhhhhhh!!!!!!” Zim yelled in desperation before smashing his head against his console again…and again...and again…

“Believe me I also thought my systems had been corrupted by all this info” said the tired voice of the computer “apparently the entire galaxy believe Zim is the greatest hero that's ever existed. A rebel against the conquering path of the Irken Empire.”

“Zim…a hero?” asked Gaz feeling a headache growing “Are we talking about the same alien that is always yelling to the four winds about how he will take over the Earth?, the same alien that sent a school bus full of children through a wormhole? The same alien that harvested the organs of all the kids in school, me included?” Gaz was actually impressed by that considering even she couldn’t defend herself against the alien. Then again she was more busy trying to break her high score and it didn’t matter since she knew her father had an extra liver to replace the one the alien took from her “The same alien that stole all the water from the entire state an use it on a giant balloon that demolished half the city? THAT Zim?!!!”

“YES EXACTLY FINALLY SOMEONE GOT IT!!!!” cried the invader “ZIM IS NO ONES HERO...ZIM IT’S THE UNIVERSE´S DOOM!!!! THE GREATEST INVADER LOYAL TO THE LAST CELL TO THE EMPIRE!!!!!!” he end up posing hands up like claws (if this was a cartoon there would be a firewall as background and a lighting bolt would strike behind him) suddenly the fire was extinguished as his head fell on his open hands a feeling of hopeless filled the room. “But that doesn’t fix all this mess” Zim said almost in desperation making Gaz look at him in surprise by his tone “no matter where I look, no matter how far of the galaxy I track…all I found are THESE!!!” he end up pointing at the papers in the screen “Zim is suppose to be FEARED, have people BOW IN DEFEAT BEFORE ME AS I SURRENDERED THEM TO THE MIGHTY EMPIRE!!!!” Once again he slammed his head on his console “instead all they said is how I’m a traitor to my own race, that I’m the reason why the Irken Empire hasn’t conquered the universe yet!!!” he turned to her “I AM NO ONE´S HERO!!! I AM ZIM!!!!! THE GREATEST EVILEST INVADER EVER!!!!” he fell on his chair letting out a tired sigh.

“Is this the reason you haven’t being around for a month?” asked Gaz.

“YES!!!” cried the alien again as his PAK sparked again “I needed to clear my name!!!!” he turned to her again “I don’t know if the Tallests have heard about this. But I can’t take risks…I need to prove that I’m still the most evil and lethal of the invaders. So I have been arming myself, putting all my mind and soul into these weapons; I even manage to finish my ultimate weapon” he said pointing to the floating moose “say hi Mini moose”

“Nya!!!” the chibi creature squealed making Gaz raise an eyebrow. Ultimate weapon?

“Then as final touch I had you kidnapped so I can bring your brother for a confrontation that will echo across the galaxy and show the terror ZIM IS CAPABLE OF!!!!!” his PAK sparked again and he smash his head again “but instead of a glorious battle I have to deal with THAT” he pointed at the screen. This time it showed the front of his house where Jinmay was fighting against a literal legion of gnomes “on that note where did you get such a robotic unit?”

“She literally fell in front of me” said Gaz looking at the screen. The pink haired girl (now showing a silver coloration on her skin plus black lines over her eyes) was trashing the robots all over Zim´s front yard; flipping around evading lasers, landing to round-kick gnomes against another 5, and then jumping causing 4 gnomes to shoot themselves. The girl then landed another kick only for a group of 6 gnomes (transformed in their spider form) to jump at her for all the sides. Smiling the girl stood on her hands and helicopter-kick them all away. Standing she clean her hands in satisfaction…only to be tackled by a new group of robots out of the camera. “That’s a lot of robot-gnomes”

“He wanted security raised to max” called the voice of the computer.

“And what good that did” Zim said with sarcasm as his PAK glitches again “what I’m I going to do?” he said in a depressed tone “I know for a fact the rest of the armada don’t know anything about this but is only a question of time before the Tallests learn about it. And when they do I will be DOOM!!!” Gaz turned to see the info on Zim as the invader continue to vent “I will be ridicule by all this. Probably put on trial for treason…ME…CAN YOU SEE ME BEING PUT ON TRIAL BY TREASON? I am the most loyal invader of the whole armada” he began smashing his head on the console “WHAT.AM.I.SUPPOSE.TO.DO?!!!”

Gaz was still quite confused as her eyes read the information in the screens. Were all the aliens really that dumb to believe that Zim of all people was someone heroic? Well according to what it was in front of her… they were. Or was there something else at play here? Thinking about it (and according to the info she was reading) she could really see Zim almost blowing up his planet, but not on propose, and even less PLAN it. Yet it seems the entire galaxy was ready to praise him and do whatever he…

The purple haired girl blinked as a thought crossed her mind.

“Ok I maybe have being spending too much time around Jin” she thought as the idea bounced in her head “but actually I’m curious if we could pull that up. I mean she and I alone couldn’t, but if I put Zim in the equation…”

Now she will never admit Jin was right, but the idea of causing a bit of havoc in the universe and (more that anything) cause a bit of pain to Dib was a nice thought. And while Gaz will never say it out loud, she did admire some things about the little green alien. For one no matter what he never gives up; no matter how many times thing blow up on his face or how many times her brother “foiled” his plans he just keep coming back time and time again with a new bigger and, the majority of times, dumber plan to take over the earth.

That type of tenacity was something she admired, as it was just like her and her games (no matter how hard a level was, no matter how though a boss is, she will keep fighting and leveling up until she got the victory)

The next thing she admired about Zim was his mind. Jin was the only one that was “in love” with Zim´s technology. Even she could get amazed by all the weapons and machines the alien could build and would be lying if she said she wasn’t curious/ager to see if she could use any of them (the idea of having a laser gun and chase Dib with it as if was one of her video games was a secret dream of hers). This however was a bit dampened by the alien´s enormous ego and sometime overconfidence that caused a good number of his plans to go kaput quickly.

The only thing he needed to “fit” into their plans (and actually be “tolerable enough” for her to work with) was having someone to help him channel all that potential into a workable plan.

And fortunately (for Zim) she was such someone.

Gaz smiled…perhaps it was time for a small “test period” to see if they could do have fun between them. But first she needed to get Zim out of his “pity zone” and back into his “invader setting”

“Whoa Zim” she began calling his attention “I never thought was possible for me to said this but…. I’m quite disappointed of you”

“WWWWWWHHHHHHAAAAAAATTTTTT!!!!!!” the alien roared basically teleporting to Gaz´s face.

Again the immobile girl wanted to cause damage for being on her personal space like that but she hold up that feeling…for now.

“Yeah I mean I thought you were suppose to be this super evil genius…but it seems I was wrong” she finished in fake disappointed tone. However this only caused the alien to reach higher levels of anger.

“ZIM IS THE EVILEST GENIOUS IN THE ENTIRE GALAXY!!!!” he roared “MY MIND AND INTELLECT IS HUNDREDS…NO!!!! THOUSANDS GREATER THAN ANY MIND ON THIS STINKY PLANET!!!!!” his eyes basically were glowing in rage towards the girl.

“Oh yeah?” challenged Gaz not feeling intimidated at all. Although a part of her brain couldn’t help but find the whole thing quite…fascinating “anyone on this stinky planet could make a super weapon and threat to kill someone. Yet very, VERY few people can win the love and respect of even a city and make them do anything he or she wants· she smiled at the growling alien “yet here you are…with the love and adoration of the ENTIRE GALAXY at your hands yet instead of thinking how use that to take over and give it to your leaders as proof of your greatness you complain and cry about it” she gave him a smudge smile “I suppose a plan of THAT magnitude is just too much for you to handle”

Something inside the alien snapped (and Gaz could swear she actually heard the sound of a glass breaking).

“YOU FOOLISH HUMAN!!!!” Zim´s hand grasped the neck of her dress and pulled her down to his level. The green alien looked ready to actually murder her for the way his eyes glowed, some veins pooped on his green skin and his teeth clashed together in fury. “YOU DARE INSULT ZIM´S BRILLIANT MIND? YOU ACTUALLY DARE TO SAY I'M INCAPABLE OF SUCH A IDEA?!!!!” two of his spider legs burst out his PAK impacting the floor at her sides. The legs broke through the metal causing a deafening CLANK that echoed around the base (Gaz would negate this later, but part of her did got nervous for a moment) “ZIM COULD COME UP WITH HUNDREDS OF PLANS TO DO SO IN THIS VERY SECOND…I COULD MAKE YOU EAT YOUR WORDS AND FORCE YOU TO BEG FOR ZIM´S FORGIVENESS FOR DOUBTING HIS BRILLIANT MIND!!!”

Gaz simply smiled

“Prove it” she said in challenging tone.

“Oh Zim will show you” he said in a more calmed (and quite frankly, threatening tone) “I will come up with the most ingenious and diabolical plan to use this situation at my favor” his smile grew in his face “this galaxy soon will be BEGGING Zim to rule it and ZIM WILL DO SO!!!! BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!”

Gaz couldn’t help but feel a small shiver through her body. Once again she wouldn’t tell this to a soul but…damn serious/threatening Zim was quite a sight on her book.

Shaking her head to get rid of such thoughts the girl turned to the alien again.

“Good…now. Can I get down now?” she asked knowing that now the alien would get into plotting mode and she would prefer he doesn’t forget about her position and leave for who knows how much time.

“Eh? Oh yeah sure” he said in uncary tone “Mini-moose put her down”

“nya!!!”

After a squeal from the chibi creature Gaz felt herself being put down as the force field around her dissipate.

“Umm that’s better” she said stretching and moving her numb limbs “ok so I think I will leave you with your plans...you know to not interrupt you” and also cause she had enough of Zim for today and wanted to get back to Jim and tell her of this…she really wasn’t looking for the teasing she probably will do…maybe get some Pizza and ice cream first was in order.

“Yes leave if you want” suddenly Zim was, once again, to close to her face with a really smudge smile in his face…with his PAK sparking again “enjoy your last moments of freedom because once Zim put this plan in motion the entire galaxy will be his to take and you will be honored to be in first row next to Zim´s throne as the good pet you will be for Zim”

“If you said so” said Gaz when suddenly his last words registered in her mind “wait…what do you mean by pet?”

However before he could answer a great explosion barged from above them and the entire ceiling carved down on them.

“Never fear cause I’m!!!...here?” Jinmay´s voice sounded as she stood proudly over the remains of the ceiling (holding the dismembered head of a gnome) until her eyes fell on a quite particular image that made her smile like the Cheshire cat.

Zim had Gaz pinned to the floor, their noses touching, his hands on the side of her head while her hands were on his chest, one of his legs between her arched legs (causing her dress to hike up enough to reveal her black panties).

“Am I…interrupting something?” the metallic looking teen asked in teasing tone that made the two turn heads towards her (one looking more that ready to murder someone).

“NO/YES” both said at the same time making the girl to turn to the alien in surprise.

“Yes you interrupted Zim´s victorious statement to the future evil pet of Zim” he said which made said “evil pet” look red and promptly kick him away from her “uggg my Squeedly Spooch”

“hahahahahaha”

Followed by the pink haired girl´s laugh echoing through the base much to the purple haired girl ire.

“ugg that's not the way to treat your future owner” said the alien as he rubbed his affected belly.

“hehehehe yes Gaz for shame” teased Jin with a smile. Which in turn made the goth looking girl to take one of the fallen alien looking gun and shoot the other girl, who simply kicked the laser through the now self repairing hole in the base ceiling and give her friend another teasing look “tsk tsk what a rude kitty”

Gaz growled and mumble a lot of threats (all including the use of a screwdriver)

“hehehe you aren’t helping your case” Jinmay said in singing voice before her body shined and returned to a more human color.

“umm fascinating” Zim said approaching the girl “must said I didn’t thought you would have access to such robotic unit” said the alien to Gaz while he eyed Jinmay. Who simply smiled at him and posed.

“my my such boldness” she said making modeling poses (making sure to stick out her chest or tease her legs to him) “like what you see?”

“Actually yes” he added putting out a scanner “you really are quite an art of machinery” he turn to Gaz again “so where did you get her?”

“Sigh please don’t feed her ego ” said Gaz feeling a headache coming “and can you stop doing that?!!!” she said to Jin (who had turned around sticking her butt out and shaking it almost making her skirt to hike up)

“oh do I have to?” she asked in a fake innocent tone; Gaz´s body was surrounded by a dark flaming aura. “Ok fine...party pooper” she whispered before turning to Zim “and to answer your question…I simply fell in her garden”

“Really?” asked the alien feeling a bit disappointed for such anticlimactic answer.

“Yeap crash on her garden, make a big hole, she helped me out, put me back together and since then we have become really close” she said skipping to the goth wearing girl and give her a side hug “REALLY close” she finished with a sultry tone that made Gaz sigh again.

“As for from where she came from” the purple girl said taking the arm off her shoulder and sending a threatening look to her smiling friend “honestly we don’t have a clue. Her memory banks were already a mess thanks to some weird screw thing on her head” explained Gaz “although I can fix my games without a problem, I had to improvise a lot with her to get her systems running and even then I don’t think I get everything right”

“Eh, I’m not complaining” said the robot girl shrugging before pointing at her head “I know some things inside here are a bit mixed up, but have enough memories to prefer myself as how I am now” she once again hugged Gaz “so why worry about the where I came from when I have all I need right here?” she finished rubbing her cheeks against Gaz´s hair much to the smaller girl´s irritation.

“If by that you mean driving me crazy way to often” Gaz said.

“You know you love me” Jinmay said winking at her making Gaz huff (but not push her away)

“Ufff never thought will see the day you let someone touch you and said person to NOT combust at touch” said Zim “and honestly it gives me the creeps” he shuddered a moment “BUT NO MATTER!!!” he declared “now that your…ummm robot friend…”

“Robot girl-friend”

“I swear I will use a jigsaw to open you and pull out your cables one at a time!!!!”

“You promise?”

“WHATEVER!!!!” Zim interrupted them “now that you are here you can take her and leave” he turned to his computer and began typing on it bringing some articles to the front while he began making some blueprints “but know that Zim will be in contact so you can come and see his brilliant plan take form…so he expect you be here tomorrow so you can admire Zim!!!!”

“Do we really need to come just to feed your ego?” Gaz asked. Hey! She might want to help in this whole take over the galaxy plan but that’s not reason to have to be around Zim on a daily basis…yet.

“Ok come on Gaz, you heard him” said Jin with a smile “we have to come to see his geniality at work” she smiled as her eyes looked around “plus…have you seen all this!!!” she cried in excitement as she finally took note of all the weapons laying around “have you seen this!!!” pick up a gun “or this!!!” pick up a glowing sword “or this!!!” pick up a giant four mounted missile launcher “or….GASP” she gasped let the thing fall (causing some missiles to be launch and explode some walls) “IS THAT A GIANT MECH SUIT?!!!!” her eyes sparkled in delight “ohhh can I have some of this please pretty please Zim!!!!” she begged like a child on a toy store wanting to get all the toys.

“Eh? Oh sure sure grab whatever you want” he waved at her without caring or turning from his work.

Jinmay´s smile almost threated to break her face in two as she squealed in delight and soon began zooming around picking up whatever weapon she put her eyes on.

“Sigh…I better keep an eye on her” Gaz said wondering if she didn’t bite more that she could chew with this idea of hers.

Especially with her apparently future position as Zim´s pet if this worked. Once again she shook her head trying to not to think much about it…as she had to stop Jinmay from (literally) putting her head in the Mech´s main computer.

(Galactic Guardians HQ-one week later)

“Ok Noah lets try this again” in an empty room both Betty and Noah sat in a bed, surrounded by books and test sheets. The red head guardian raised her arm and began typing slightly on her communicator. At the sides of it two, almost imperceptible lights began flashing.

White.

Blue.

Blue.

White.

Blue.

Blue.

White.

“Ehhh…ummm…” the boy looked down to the book he was reading “careful…enemy close by?” he asked making the girl smile.

“Correct Noah! Very good” Betty said with a smile “I’m really impressed. Only a month into this and you are already picking messages coding like a fish to the water” the guarding smiled as she turned to began looking through the piles of papers and books “you certainly will ace the exams at this rate”

“hehehe is all thanks to you Betty” Noah said blushing “you are really smart …and a really great girl” he said in a loving tone.

“Nah…you are quite a great student” said Betty not picking the feelings behind Noah´s tone as she kept checking books.

“Sigh…if you say so” Noah said a bit down for this. His eyes fell on the book he was holding…or more specific the small piece paper hidden between the pages that had a good number of different codes wrote on it.

“Here you go Noah” said Sparky as he handed the paper to him “I was able to get the codes the examiners will use on this year´s exam”

“Thanks Sparky you are a life saver” the boy said with a smile.

“Nahhh I’m only doing this cause even when I don’t show it, I’m a sucker for love” he said with a conspiracy smile “and what better way to impress a girl like the captain that show her your brilliant mind”

“You think this will impress her?” asked Noah

“For sure…soon you will be hearing the bells of romance sounding when she see you can ace this tests”

WEE WOO!!!!!

WEE WOO!!!!!

WEE WOO!!!!!

WEE WOO!!!!!

WEE WOO!!!!!

WEE WOO!!!!!

“ahhhh I didn’t do anything!!!” Noah cried almost losing hold of his book thanks to the alarm to pull him out of his memories.

“That’s the emergency proximity alarm!!!!” Betty said in a hurry as she jumped out of the bed “come on Noah this could be serious!!!”

“Do we have to?” asked Noah before taking the paper and put it inside one of his suit´s pockets “I mean we were in the middle of a lesson” he said in hurry as he ran behind Betty “and you know that an emergency could mean the General ran out of coffee or that we have another asteroid rain close by” as they ran they noticed other guardians looking up in confusion, fear or simply annoyance at the noise “just look at everyone, what chances are that something is really…”

“Calling all guardians!!!! Calling all guardians!!! Emergency code Magenta!!!! This is not a drill!!!! I repeat this is not a drill!!! All guardians battle stations!!!”

At that a lot of guardians also began running around towards their ships or turret stations barking orders to their respective crews.

“Ok this is real” Noah said with a bit of fear “but what's a …ufff” he suddenly crashed into Betty who stopped suddenly “Betty?”

“A Magenta code? But that means…”

“Boss!!!!” Sparky and X-5 came running towards them “we heard the alarm and we are ready to kick some green butts!!!”

“You plan to kick your own butt then?” the robot asked.

“Shut it metal can!!!” the alien said in anger “any way the ship is ready chief…chief?” they turned to see that Betty was running, not towards the ship bay but in the other direction towards the control room “chief!!! You going the wrong direction!!!” the trio of human-alien-robot boys ran after the red head “seriously the other captains are going to beat us into beating them for this”

“Them? Can someone explain me what a Magenta code is?” asked the human.

“Aren’t you and the captain studying for the exams?” asked X-5 in interrogating tone “you should have already covered this”

Noah got nervous at the gaze of the robot

“Give him a break tin-can” said Sparky getting between them “with all they have being studying you can't expect him to remember all of it at the same time”

“That’s exactly what studying is for” said the robot narrowing his optics at them.

“yadda-yadda uff don’t listen to him” said Sparky at Noah “now what this alarm means is that we have an incoming little and stinky…

“…Irken ship coming close…5 minutes for visual range” a female green skinned alien called from her position in a console.

“All weapons ready and waiting orders” another female, this time a blue skinned blond haired alien, called from another console.

“Thanks angels” from his chair Admiral DeGill looked at a scree with a serious look while he blow some bubbles from his pipe. “Status of the guardian fleet?” he asked.

“All ships taking positions handsome” a female purple alien answered “umm but apparently there is one ship missing”

“What? Who is the irresponsible that think he could simply ignore THIS alarm?!!!” he asked in anger.

His answer came with his door opening

“Admiral DeGill!!!”

“Atomic Betty?!!!” he asked in surprise “but…but…you?!!!” what are you doing here?!!! Didn’t you hear the alarm?!!!

“I did sir” she answered back in hurry tone “that’s why I came...how many ships the system detected?” she asked much to the confusion of the fish.

“w-what? Why that matter?...Betty this is quite irregular from you”

“please Admiral I need to know!!!” she pressed (literally as she came close to the fish almost touching faces) “how many?!!!”

“I…I…” the fish backed up still in shock for the aptitude of his best guardian “well...ehem if its that important…umm just one”

“What?!!! one?!!!” Sparky´s voice echoed in the room “just for one ship the entire base loses its collective head?”

X-5 face palmed behind him.

“And once again you show you are incapable of reading the room´s atmosphere”

And behind them, Noah was also wondering the same thing that Sparky, and also wondered why the name Irken sounded so familiar to him.

"Irken ship entering fleet range” the blue alien announced.

“Everyone ready to engage!!!!” ordered the admiral.

“Wait!!!!!” Betty called again jumping to the green skinned girl console “have you sent a hailing to the ship?”

“What?!!! Chief have you lost your mind?!!!” asked Sparky

“Sparky is right Atomic Betty” said the fish narrowing his eyes “what has gotten into you?”

“Please Admiral” begged the girl “if it is who I think it is we need to send a hail” she looked at his eyes “please trust me”

“Ummm” the Admiral hummed thinking about this. Betty was his best guardian and he knew she wouldn’t be asking things without reasons. However this was an Irken ship that somehow entered Guardian space undetected until the proximity radar was triggered.

“Orders handsome?” the purple alien asked turning to him “the captains are getting anxious for the silence”

“ummmm” he looked at the begging eyes of the girl. Then to her crew; Sparky was shaking his head in irritation, X-5 looked at him not betraying anything and Noah was just confused of the whole thing. The fish took a deep breath “everyone in stand by, don’t do anything yet” he finally said making Betty sigh in relief (and Sparky´s jaw to fall in shock) “I hope you know what you doing Atomic Betty”

“I am sir” she said before turning to the screen “send a hailing to the approaching ship.”

The green skinned girl nodded and type in her console.

“Hailing sent…waiting for answer”

Everyone held their breath. Silence fell on the room only being interrupted by the beeping of the radar as it showed the ship coming closer…

Betty looked anxious as the ship came closer to shooting rage of the fleet and no answer came.

And closer…

The girls in the consoles began sweating as no new orders were given.

And closer…

Sparky looked ready to scream in impatience but X-5 was quicker in covering his mouth.

And closer…

DeGill gulped puffing bubbles faster as the ship pass the mark into HQ´s weapons range

And closer…

The fish looked at Betty (who´s eyes were glued in the screen) through the communicator sounded the voice of a captain announcing having visuals on the ship and was asking for orders.

The fish sighed and was about to give an order when the console beeped.

“The ship is hailing back” the green girl announced making Betty to sigh in relief and a smile to appear on her face as she turned to face her admiral.

The fish nodded at her.

“Communication on screen and give me visuals of the ship” he ordered.

“Yes handsome” the purple girl said typing on the console.

And in the screen the image of a small purple ship appeared. Purple ship that made Betty´s smile to grow, X-5 actually looking shook, Sparky face palm and mumble something about “not wanting to see that green calamity again in my lifetime”, and Noah to look both confused and, for some reason, feel something akin to dread when he noticed Betty´s smile

But soon the rest of the guardians and especially the admiral shared the shocked aptitude of the robot when a small screen appeared showing the message of the pilot of the ship.

“Greetings galactic guardians” Noah gazed on a small green alien with deep pupil-less red eyes “this is the invader Zim” the rest of the fleet made way allowing the smaller ship to pass through “I’m here to help” the Irken finished his message with a smile.

However the teeth filled smile of the alien cause Noah's dread feelings to increase

Chapter Text

The small purple ship approached the docking bay without an issue. 

Inside Guardian´s HQ many of the remaining forces moved towards the docks trying to give a look at what, for most of them, was a legend in real flesh.

“I can’t believe this”

“You think this is real?”

“I thought the invader Zim was a myth”

Murmurs broke in as Admiral DeGill, Noah, Betty and her crew descended in a platform.

“Ok everyone quite down now!” the Admiral commanded.

“Yeesh what’s with them?” said Sparky clearly not liking the situation “acting like that is certain pathetic don’t you think chief?” he turned to Betty

Who was busy trying to look more presentable.

“How do I look? is my hair alright? is my uniform up to code?” She said fussing at her skirt “I don't want embarrass myself like last time.” She than blushed at certain memory and glanced down mumbling to herself "Really hope he's forgotten me nearly suffocating him with my underwear."

Noah eyes blew open.

 "WAIT WHAT!?" He said loudly with a yelp.

Sparky facepalmed.

Finally, the ship touched ground and the cabin dome opened revealing the smirking Irken inside.

Zim stepped out of the ship and with a wide grin raised his fists high into the air as he proclaimed, "Greetings to you all my allies in freedom and justice!” He said with fanged filled smile while internally gagging a bit as he surveyed the docks. Really enjoying the looks of shock, awe, and respect so many were sending them, despite their very misguided reasons for them. He heard mutters break out before a louder voice broke through.

"It's him..IT'S REALLY HIM!"

Then the dock filled with cheers causing Zim to smile and wave as he basked in the adoration, ah if only it was from his Tallest and fellow Irkens. Though the moment ended when a loud cheerful crazed voice broke through

 "WHERE'S THE PARTY!?"

Zim gave a grunt and slight growl as he felt something heavy bounce off his head with none other than GIR of course landing in front of him in his Earth disguise and proceeded to do a little dance spinning on the floor.

He palmed his face as the cheers stopped and everyone blinked dumbly than with a sigh as he dragged his hand down his face he barked.

"GIR!!! I told you wait in the ship till I called for you."

The robot hoped up and looked up at him with what he believed the Earth monkey termed putty eyeballs or something of the sort.

"Ah but master I wanted to join the party." He declared before laughing crazily with Zim groaning into his right hand before raising his left hand "Ignore him everyone, ignore him."

He said before raising his head with a twitch of an antenna as a cough for attention caught his attention and he raised an eye ridge seeing what appeared to be an Earth fish in uniform who proceeded to salute him.

"It is an honor Invader Zim I am Admirer DeGill." He said with a wide smile than spread his hands...fins? Apart gesturing toward their surroundings "And as the leader of the Galactic Guardians it is my honor to welcome you to Guardian headquarters."

Zim smiled at the greeting and show of respect with the smile growing bigger when a familiar face stepped up beside the Admiral.

Betty herself gave a nervous cough before she saluted.

 "Um..it's good to see that you're looking well sir." Zim´s grin merely widened in reply with Noah getting more intimidated as he can't help but think of a shark, while Betty in contrast becomes even happier at the fact that Zim appeared so happy to see her.

Unaware of those thoughts Zim replied.

 "It is good to see one of my favorite humans looking good as well." He examined her uniform and gave a nod "While it isn't green like Zim the uniform of the galactic guardians looks good on you." He gave a nod with closed eyes and smirk, "Yes you look like a fierce warrior standing ready to crush her foes!" He said with great energy and exclamation. He then pointed at her with his finger landing on her nose as Betty founds herself giving a tiny meep "Why the Tallest themselves would probably throw themselves at your feet pleading for mercy the moment they laid eyes on you!”

Zim said while internally apologizing over and over to his mighty leaders for such a treacherous comment.

Betty meanwhile tried (and failed) to keep her blush and emotions under control.

“T...thaks Zim…I mean sir…I mean Zim sir I mean” she groaned turning around “take a hold of yourself Betty”

Noah looked incredulous at how the most badass girl he knew suddenly turned into a fan girl.

“Yeah, yeah all pretty and all” said Sparky advancing “what are you doing here?” he asked in rude manner making more than one gasp.

“Sparky!” cried Betty scandalized.

Zim jut gave the fellow green alien a shark smile.

“didn’t you hear Zim´s message? Or maybe you were too distracted to noticing a ship approaching?” he mocked before turning to Betty “you Atomic Betty made Zim think hard and deep about a lot of things and made Zim realize he still has a part to play in the current conflict of this galaxy so Zim decided that he must do all he can to help the people and be worthy of the heroic tittle it was given to Zim!!!”

“yessh he likes to said his name a lot” Noah couldn’t help but said only to be shhhed by others close to him.

“That’s why Zim is here” he turned to DeGill “admiral DeGilll I’m here not to just help but to END one of the biggest treats of this galaxy so you guardians can help in the fight against the evil Irken empire” he made an effort to not gag “in other words I’m here to end Maximus IQ´s reign of terror!!!!”

Zim proclamation was heard throughout the other docks and considering the ensuing shocked silence you'd think it echoed.

Only for the silence to be broken by a certain green "dog"

 "Whooo!!” GIR cheered pumping up his arms, "GO MASTER!" 

GIR´s cheer seemed to act as a catalyst for those in the present in the docks various Galactic Guardians and HQ personnel to join the cheer with many excitedly chatting with each other.

"Can you believe this?"

"Zim…THE ZIM he wants to help put Maximus behind bars!?

“Could that be possible?”

“Well, he is the hero of Doomsday so…”

“I still can’t believe he is real”

"Those that means he wants to join the Galactic Guardians?”

"Sigh he really is as dreamy and heroic as they say"

All those and more were whispered and said excitedly among the cheers though even with the cheering background many of the words reached the group in front of them with Noah giving a nervous twitch at what sounded like a feminine admirer of this guy.

Said nervous twitch developed into practical full-blown panic when he turned and saw Betty staring at Zim in awestruck made all the worst at her whispered words. 

"He's so amazing"

Admiral DeGill at first found himself blinking dumbly he gave a soft cough as he blew into his pipe with some bubbles popping out.

 "Well…we'll of course have to discuss the finer details for something as important as this later.” then with another blow of his pipe as he arched his eye at Zim, "But I think I speak for everyone here when I say this." A wide popped onto his face directed at Zim "How could I refuse the aid of one our galaxies greatest heroes!!!" He said as he offered his hand or um fin in a shake? Which Zim took with a wide smile.

As Betty spook up in a squeal before coughing into her fist.

 "Oh, this is wonderful news Zim I mean Sir!” She saluted with a wide smile "Being able to work with you again will be an amazing honor."

Betty though she tried not to show it her mind was going a mile a minute after Zim´s declared the reason for his presence, and she could hardly believe herself. I mean… to think that just little over a month ago she got to meet one of heroes Invader Zim! The Hero of Doomsday himself!

She not only fought by his side to save her home planet, but managed to even impressed him! Even after...some hiccups. Betty thought with a blush much as she continued to stare at Zim in awe, to Noah wide eyes and growing internal panic as he took certainly took notice.

And now, now she has the chance to work with Zim again, and to finally bring her biggest enemy to justice with his help. Really it took every bit of herself control to not squeal out and embarrass herself in front of all the Galactic Guardians and personnel present at the dock.

Zim unaware of any of her thoughts simply shook his head with a chuckle.

 "Yes, yes I know… Zim is amazing!" He declared proudly placing his hips on his waist and gave Betty a smile "And Zim is certainly looking forward to working closely with you Atomic Betty."

Betty gave a slight low yelp at his phrasing as she blushed with it taking all her willpower to not look away embarrassed as she continued to listen to Zim.

"I'm also looking forward to teaching this Maximus IQ the error of his ways" the Irken said in a chuckle that Noah couldn't help but find unnerving and sent chills down his spine.

During all this X-5 and Sparky stood side by side with the latter jaw having dropped ever since Zim's declaration and everyone going nuts over him.

 X-5 turned to his crewmate.

"Well now I don't think any of my calculations could have predicted this outcome."

Sparky gave X-5 a glare before he glanced over at the green bug soaking in everyone's praise with his chief acting like a floorping fan girl over him no less.

He growled and his face began to turn red. Before he realized it, he roared out silencing the hall.

"HAS EVERYONE LOST THEIR MINDS!"

Everyone turned toward him in shock but Sparky gave no heed as he pointed at Zim. 
"You're all going to actually trust this green bug!" He asked in stunned belief, "He's a BLORPING IRKEN FOR GALACTIC SAKES!" he looked at Zim with a hateful look “How you even think one will want to help us? And what you think everyone will say about this?!”

Everyone looked uncomfortable at the green alien. Some with anger, others with disbelief.

“Sparky!!!” cried Betty in shock “what is wrong with you?! Apologize this instant!”

Sparky turned to her not believing what he was hearing.

“But chief…!!”

“ehem”

Both turned to see the admiral with an awkward look on his face.

“Rudeness aside…Sparky do has raised a good point that I might *coff* overlook” the space fish approached Zim “not that I’m not grateful for your offer and its certainly an honor having you here” he coughed again “but you do are in fact an Irken and your…ehem…people are well known enemies of this galaxy” he scratched his neck “and even with your history I’m afraid we…I…can’t exactly accept your offer”

“What?! But admiral” Betty started were they really going to reject her…ehem…their hero like that? 

The mumbling around them also agreed with her.

DeGille put up a fin.

“At least not before we inform the federation about this first” he continued “they probably will like to know about this development and we need to have their authorization to allow an Irken in our ranks.” 

Zim was internally fuming at the green (not Zim´s Green) plague that were interfering with his plans. Fortunately, it seems he wasn’t out yet.

“of course,” he said with a (hidden) stressed smile “If…if you think it necessary, I’m whiling to submit to their decision” he gave Sparky a narrowed gaze “in fact we probably will need to do that right away so no other…minor setback occur” 

“Very well” smiled DeGille “come to my office and we will do so” With that he turned to the others “Everyone´s dismiss…return to your posts. Atomic Betty? if you could come with us your testimony will be of help”

“Right away sir!” she saluted before turning to Sparky “you and I will be having a talk later” she said in angry tone before turning to Zim (smiling again) “this way Sir”

“Thank you, Atomic Betty,” he smiled at her “I am under your care” he turned to the dog “come on GIR!!! And take off that costume you aren’t fooling anyone!!!”

“ahhhh ok!!!” GIR took off the costume and throw it away before approaching his master “hey pretty lady!” he greeted Betty.

With that everyone began vacating the docks leaving Noah, Sparky and X-5.

“Ah bliznaks!!” Sparky cursed.

“Well, you certainly…as humans said…put your foot on your mouth” said the robot narrowing his optics at his partner “anything you want to share with the class?”

“Yeah, specially, who was that guy?!” asked Noah quite confused and finding himself not liking the close that green alien was with Betty.

“THAT is a pest we are going to regret even meeting!” answered Sparky with anger stomping out the docks.

Noah blinked…he has never seen Sparky that tick off.

“Is he…”

“He will be fine…probably haven’t eat his second lunch yet” said X-5 “come on let’s make sure he doesn’t do anything stupid…again” the two began leaving “in the meantime let me put you to date about the Irkens and Zim”

With that the docks were left empty.

So, no-one was around to see a hole opening at the side of Zim´s ship from where a chibi-looking floating moose emerged.

“nya” the moose floated up to a control panel and began glowing. A section of the panel opened (allowing to see the circuits inside) “nya!!!!” the moose glowed again this time turning into liquid metal that entered the panel (closing it behind him).

(Later)

“You do realize what you said is hard to believe right admiral DeGill?” the great councilwoman asked from the communication screen.

The leader of the galactic council had heard the stories about the “rebel Irken” but even so one thing was the old stories/legends and another is having an actual Irken inside the Guardian´s HQ claiming to be said “hero” 

Even more having an Irken offering to join the Guardians.

“I know this is out of protocol and quite irregular councilwoman” the fish said “but I can assure you my best guardian can give honest testimony of what I have tell you”

“The honesty of Atomic Betty is not put in question Admiral” said the councilwoman “her reputation, after all, is well known in the galaxy…yet you must understand that legend or not, the idea of giving an Irken such post and access to one of the galaxy´s primary security corps is not a decision that can be take or made lightly”

"Believe me ma'am I understand." The Admiral said blowing some bubble into his pipe, "The Irken Empire infiltrating our systems or the Galactic Guardian's itself is a nightmare scenario true."

The Grand Councilwoman bluntly inputted.

 "Nightmare scenario is an understatement admiral." She narrowed her eyes, "The Galactic Guardians being potential sabotaged by the Irken's could only lead to disaster and chaos, which they would exploit with glee." She stared hard into DeGill's eyes from across the monitor, "Never mind if they got their claws onto any of the sensitive or classified data the Guardians have access too."

DeGill however narrowed his eyes right back staring hard at the Councilwoman across the screen.

 "I understand that ma'am but I truly believe the reward is worth more than the risk." He took his bubble pipe out of his mouth with a sigh "After all the Hero of Doomsday actions have more than proven that his loyalty is with anything but the Irken Empire. After all the amount of damage the Empire has received due to his actions rules out this being as the Earthlings might say a long con." DeGill stated while shaking his head in disbelief at the thought with the Grand Councilwoman reluctantly nodding in agreement.

"True." She sighed but firmed her posture once again, "But that's only if this Irken is truly who he claims to be." She said remaining rigid and firm when it came to the safety of the galaxy.

"I truly believe he is Councilwoman." Admiral DeGill spoke out imploringly, "More than that I think his actions against the Planet Jackets for the safety of Earth alone speaks volumes of his trust worthiness."

Meanwhile outside the room.

Betty, Zim and GIR were waiting outside the admiral´s office as they were asked to step outside after Zim was introduced to the councilwoman and the admiral explained the reason why the Irken was in their base in the first place.

At the moment there only was this pragmatic and tense silence between them (well between Zim and Betty as the robot was “busy” humming that infernal doom song).

The red head guardian kept glancing at the green alien with a nervous look before looking away with slight blush when noticing his attention.

Though of course Zim easily realized the reason for her strange nervous behavior. After all Zim could see through anyone, and read them like a book as the Earth monkeys say. So it easy for him to see why she was behaving strangely around him Zim though with smug smile. He was ZIM!

While these so-called Galactic Guardians (HA! As if they could Guard the Galaxy against the Irken Empire much less ZIM HIMSELF!) were of course fools to believe he was really a traitor to the Empire or his All Mighty Tallest they were at least right about one fact ZIM WAS AMAZING!!!

Something the Betty human was eager to share the last time he saw her. He gave a quiet chuckle while closing his eyes causing her to look at him curiously. Yes, she certainly had no problem giving Zim all his due praise, that alone (Despite her very VERY mistaken reasons for the praise) showed Zim she was a step above a majority of the other Earth Monkey's on that pathetic planet.

But that aside for now it seems even with their past interactions back on that island with Commander Lilo of Little Island, Atomic Betty was still nervous around the greatness that was ZIM!

As these thoughts crossed his mind he was taken by surprise when an all too familiar weight jumped on his back and yelled in his ear causing him to go wide with a surprised grunt.

"MASTER, AREN'T YOU GOING TO ASK THE CUTE LADY HOW SHE'S BEEN!?"

While this caused Betty face to go crimson once again Zim gave a scowl at his robotic minion.

 "GIR! How many times do I have to tell you Zim does not give Earth wine rides!" he yelled throwing the robot off his shoulders “NOW GET LOST”

GIR simply whined at first.

"Ahhhhhh...okay!”  before running away with his signature crazy laugh.

All while Betty watched the little by play between the Irken and his robot curiously earlier nervousness forgotten for now and found herself giving a little giggle at the scene.

At the sound of her laughter Zim who had been giving a little grumble turned to her finding the sound of her laughter oddly pleasant.

But he shook off that weird thought as he decided to follow his minion’s advice and inquire about her status since they departed ways.

"So Atomic Betty, how have you been the incident with those Filthy Planet Jackers?" He said spitting out the Planet Jackers name with heavy venom. Then arched an eye ridge, "You haven't attempted to suffocate anyone else with your neither region, have you?”

That made her face go thermonuclear again.

“w-what?! No! I haven’t! you are the only one I have…I MEAN I don’t…I…sorry I” the red head was reduced to a stuttering mess.

The Irken just blinked at her. Ok not the answer he was waiting…ummm maybe try one of the “advices” Gaz´s robot companion told him?

“Hahahahaha” he began laughing calling her attention “Relax Atomic Betty it was… what the human call…a joke hahahaha”

Betty also began laughing, although more awkwardly.

“hehehehe sorry sir…it just…can we NOT talk about that incident?…please” she said almost begging.

At least it was only them as her crew and Noah went to the cafeteria 

Zim waved his hand.

“Fine, fine…although do is an effective fighting method” said the invader. “But my question remains…how have you been? Any battles worth of telling?”

Betty though sporting a lingering blush from Zim's "joke" found a small smile growing on her face feeling excited at Zim taking interest in her career and adventures as a Galactic Guardian.

"Well...um." She than found herself thinking back over the last month since she last saw Zim, "I stopped a shape shifting villain known as the Chameleon from impersonating a planet's Ambassador on the Galactic Federation Senate." She said and once again she was happy to stop that scheme before the Chameleon could do any real damage while masquerading as a galactic ambassador.

She than continued as she began to tick off some of her fingers.

 "Foiled an attempted jail break from the Prison Asteroid K-37." Her smile grew a bit wider as she had to restrain a giggle from the memory of kicking a certain gerbil like a soccer ball while yelling he was a hamster. She heard of that particular Doctor and the grief he caused her newest friends in Hawaii so she couldn't lie took quite a bit of pleasure in spoiling his day. Though all those Leroy's were certainly nasty customers thankfully X-5 taking over the prisons communications and playing some aloha oi knocked them out for the count.

"Oh, and I foiled Maximus latest scheme." She said smiling bright as she turned her head toward Zim, "He was threatening to steal all the drinking water of Altair IV." She gave a shrug, "It's a desert planet and water is one of their most valuable resources." She gave a dark frown, "The jerk was threatening to let them thirst to death if they didn't swear allegiance to him."  a smirk formed, "But my crew and I were able to step in, stop Maximus, and deliver all the stolen water back to Altair IV." She said stating proudly finding herself eager to hear her idol's thoughts.

Zim shuddered a bit at the last one.

“uggg water” he complained “ehem…still that’s quite the impressive record Atomic Betty” he said “Zim had heard of Asteroid K-37…home of some of the most dangerous criminals of the galaxy” he nodded “you really must have shown all your skill as a warrior to be able to fight there and come out in one piece…quite admirable”

Betty blushed,

“It…it was nothing really” she said “I had the help of my crew so it wasn’t all me”

“Still, they were led by you” continued Zim “brains and strength…you certainly are one unique human” added the Irken

Although internally he couldn’t believe he was talking so positively about a human of all things.

Well…at least Atomic Betty had potential…maybe she could end up on his list with human Gaz if she was lucky

at Zim's words Betty found herself smiling yet also blushing as a sense of pride and accomplishment filled her. Zim, The Hero of Doomsday, one of her idols since her academy days giving her such praise this combined with the chance, she could soon find herself working side by side with him to protect the galaxy well today was really feeling like a dream come true.

"So, what about you sir?" She than found herself blurting out causing Zim to give a slight jump as he was brought out of his own thoughts as Betty gave a cough with a lingering blush continued, "Um I mean how have you been since we last saw each other?" Betty than frowned giving Zim a look of concern as she remembered something he mentioned back in Hawaii, "That human you mentioned who knows you're an alien." She brought up speaking in concern for her idol, "He hasn't been giving you any trouble, has he?" before hastily finished, "Not that you can't handle them of course I mean." She chuckled looking away, "You're Zim you've handled worse than some human alien hunter."

“HA, as you said Atomic Betty is not like that big-headed worm could give me any problem” Zim laughed “if anything Zim won an advantage over him as I gain quite the close ally to him” he smiled thinking on the purple haired girl “maybe I will introduce you later to her…I think you share the same like about kicking people that mess with you…although she does it with some extra fire” 

Zim wondered if he should try to find the source of that dark flame of Gaz´s…although one part of him wondered if he had enough organs to sacrifice to get there.

“Either way I have passed the time since we met tinkering in my base” continued the Irken “as I said earlier our meeting left me with a lot to think about so that’s what I did…build and think until I came to the decision to come here” he looked at her “which I hope will end with the two working together as the more incredible team of the galaxy!!!” he finished with his typical dramatic tone.

Betty gave giggle as she smiled brightly.

 "That sounds amazing sir." She clenched her fist holding it up, "I know that working together Maximus doesn't stand a chance!" her smile grew brighter, "And it'd be so amazing to work with and fight beside you." 

Zim smiled brightly.

"Of course, it would be I understand." Zim said with bit of arrogance in his tone. "Who wouldn't want to work with Zim after all." He said smiling at Betty who gave a nervous blush.

"It's not just that sir." She said turning her head away as she nervously rubbed her arms, "It's...um well." She fidgeted nervously, "You've been an inspiration to a lot of people for so long." She looked up into his eyes staring at him with a sense of belief in him that Zim found himself feeling uncomfortable at it despite at same time enjoying it though he tried to shake this strange feeling off, "An inspiration to me Sir." She took a step forward, "And when I finally met you all I could think is all the legend and stories don't do you justice." She held her hand over heard, "I think no I know." She sent him a warm smile, "That you're going to make this galaxy a better place, and I want to help you do it sir!"
For the first time on his life Zim was 100% sure that he DIDN’T know what to said...at all!!

There was something…charming? Maybe? About the way she was looking at him but at the same time he had NEVER have anyone seeing him with the level of respect and adoration the red head in front of him was looking in that moment.

And even when a big part of himself wanted to enjoy it…another BIGGER part was hell of confused…and a big scary.

Fortunately for Zim it seems the universe decided to pity him as in that moment the door opened and the Admiral walked out.

“Ah good you still here” the fish said pulling both out of their thoughts.

“Ah yes…of course we are here!!! I mean I’m still here!!!” Zim claimed.

“So, what’s the news admiral?” Betty asked a bit more calm but still excited “are they as excited as us to have one of the biggest heroes of the galaxy working with us? When can he start?!”

The down look on his face turned down her excitement.

“Well good news…the grand councilwoman had accepted to hear our petition about accepting Zim into our ranks” he said before sighing “bad news, she needs to discuss it to the rest of the council and they will need to reach a decision before we can do anything…so we will need to wait a bit longer”

“What!?" Zim exclaimed in disbelief while grabbing ahold of his antenna, "How can they waste such valuable time!" He asked in undertone of outrage Zim is of course a patient mastermind and he realized that there would likely be issue in trust but that doesn't mean he likes to be kept waiting.

Betty spoke up with a frown.

 "I know how you feel sir." She said looking at Zim with deep sympathy, "I know that you want to get out there and fight the good fight against scum like Maximus and the Irken Empire." She said with bit of righteous tone before giving a sigh, "And honestly part of me thinks this is wasting valuable time too sir." She than looked at him imploringly, "But just need a little more patience and I’m sure the council will make the right choice."

Admiral DeGill than piped up.

 "Until than while you're waiting the Galactic Guardians would be proud to host you the hero of doomsday." He said with warm smile than arched a finned brow at Betty, "And i'm sure Atomic Betty would love to be your personal guide and handler while you're here." He gave a mischievous chuckle sending her wink with Betty frowning with a blush.

“I…ehem…yes I will be honored” she said trying to keep her blush under control.

Zim sighed.

“Oh well I suppose knowing the place I will be working in could be entreating” he smiled “ok then lead us Atomic Betty. Lest go GIR” he blinked “GIR?” he looked around and noticed his robot wasn’t there “GIR!!!! I DIDN’T MEAN LITERALLY GET LOST!!!!” the invader groaned.

“don’t worry sir I’m sure he couldn’t go far” said Betty “we will find it and I assure there won’t be any problem”

Zim grunted something on the lines “you shouldn’t bet on that”

(Guardian´s HQ-Cafeteria)

“Grump…stupid Irken…much…what the chief…much munch…what everyone…munch much…” Sparky grumbled as he ate from his third food tray (with other four waiting)

The cafeteria was quite full yet it seems the majority of its commensals were more busy chatting among them.

And, unfortunately for the green alien, the subject on everyone´s mouth was certainly Irken.

“You know although speaking with the mouth full is not a universal lack of decorum you certainly are making merits for it to be” X-5 said.

“Shut it trashcan!” Sparky yelled (and getting munched food on the visuals of his robot companion)

“Case and point” the robot said with annoyance as he cleaned himself.

On the same table Noah was reading a book that X-5 had led him to try to understand the subject at hand.

“Ok…so the Irken are this universal threat level empire that are on a constant mission to take over any planet they set their eyes on? And somehow are responsible for the galactic union of systems under the sole propose to stop them?” he asked really confused

"Indeed" X-5 spoke with a nod, "The threat of a common enemy such as the Irken's played a large part in many worlds and systems that compose the Galactic Federation today uniting."

"O-k." Noah spoke slightly unnerved at what he was learning really when he first learned about Betty secret double life and the Galactic Guardians, he thought that cat alien was the worst threat around. Speaking of the thought entered his head and he voiced, "And these guys are apparently worse than Maximus?" Sparky snorted while chewing his food while X-5 gave a scoff.

 "An understatement if there ever was one." He then explained further in a flat tone, "As much as Maximus likes to paint himself as the worst villain in the galaxy." X-5 optics stared into Noah's eyes, "The truth is the galaxy, the universe itself. is quite large and to say that there aren't threats just as dangerous if not worse than Maximus would be highly illogical."

Sparky swallowed as he input bitterly.

 "Yeah, I’ll give the walking scrap heap this he's right about that." He said to Noah before his tone grew dark, "And frankly when it comes to the universe scum, they don't come worse than Irkens!"

He hissed out with such vile disgust and rage that Noah actually gave a nervous gulp.

 "Okay but about this Zim guy?" he grew more nervous at seeing Sparky's face grow darker, "If the Irken's are all such bad guy's what's this guy's deal?" He looked around the cafeteria easily able to pick up on the excited gossip, "And why does everyone like him so much?" He frowned, "Even Betty is going gaa gaa over the guy."

Sparky grumped more and began eating faster...and messier.

“The invader Zim is the only Irken in recorded history that actually have opposed the empire…a rebel is you might” the robot continued with Sparky grumped something about dirty bugs and lies “in a marvelous display of military tactics he managed to redeem useless the great majority of the Irken´s home world armada to the point that took them years to even re-take efforts of universal conquest” the robot clean again some food that fell from his companion on him “this actually allowed the galactic alliance build up their own forces and resources to the point they are now and allow corps like the Galactic guardians to exist”

“yadda yadda yadda bunch of crazy farfetched propaganda!” Sparky yelled (dirtying X-5 again) “those butt-cooked stories are noting but fever dreams about something that never happen! Tch hero Irken…give me a break!” he slammed his fist on the table causing his tray to jump and fall on X-5.

“ummm…excuse me” the robot said with stressful tone as he floated away to clean himself.

Noah stared as X-5 left before looking nervously at Sparky.

 "Wow..um." He tapped his fingers together nervously, "So you really don't like this guy huh?" He asked slightly curious with Sparky giving him a look before replying back in biting sarcasm.

 "No realllllly what was your first guess?" he scoffed giving Noah a hard stare, "Mark my words Earth boy that bug is nothing but bad news for everybody especially us!"

He banged his fist onto the table with Noah fidgeting nervously.

 "Well, the guy comes across as a bit unsettling I’ll give you that." With Sparky grumbling under his breath as Noah asked "But if what X-5 said is even half true is he really a bad guy?"

"HA!" Sparky gave a sarcastic laugh before pointing at Noah face, "Kid listen to me there is no such thing as a nice Irken." He frowned, "Much less a Irken who's a hero. All this guy is a scummy con artist who's trying to manipulate us like were puppets!" He gave a growl, "First chance he gets he'll stab us all in the back and hand over all our secrets to his leaders."

“ALL YOUR BASES BELONG TO US!!!”

SPLAT

“agggg what the hell!!!?”

Both Noah and Sparky needed up covered by food as GIR came out of nowhere landing on Sparky´s food tray.

“uhhhh can I eat this?” the robot asked before grabbing the tray and putting all of it inside his mouth.

Noah blinked at the random robot…but Sparky was not in the mood.

“You rusted bucket of metal!!! Give that back!!!” he yelled angry.

The little robot just blinked.

“ok” he said in cute tone before opening his mouth.

SPLAT

And puke the food in a torrent of munched goo on the alien.
Sparky remained there for a moment before angrily gather the food on his face…make a ball and try to hit GIR with it.

Only for the robot to jump out of the way.

SPLAT

And the ball of food to hit the back of the head of a Rhino-like alien guardian.

The table where it was fell on silence as the alien stood up (reveling its 4m of pure muscle on a cyber armor) and turned to Sparky´s table.

The green alien paled.

“I…I…hehehe sorry… it wasn’t for you…it was this…” he pointed at GIR only to discover the robot has banished “eh?”

The alien rhino growled.

 "So first you try to make trouble for the hero of doomsday." He said growling a rough deep voice, "Now you've got the nerve to throw your garbage at me?!"

He snapped than grabbed Sparky lifting him up by his uniform glaring murder at him with Sparky giving a nervous gulp.

 "Hehe come on buddy let's be reasonable here we're all friends here right?"

He said smiling a wide nervous grin with the rhino alien staring into his eyes but the moment was broken when…

SPLAT!

More food hit the rhino in his face right in his eye causing to give a slight growl of pain, 

"My eye!" And as he wiped it off and whirled his head toward where it came from, he saw Noah giving a nervous chuckle and the look of someone who just realized he'd made a very very big mistake.

"Um...'

He stammered to explain with his eyes swerving back and forth in skull and before he knew it, he found himself shouting the only thing he could in hopes of distracting the ticked off Rhino from squashing him.

"FOOOOOOOOODDDDD FIGHT!"

He tackled Sparky out of the way as the Rhino smashed his fist on the table catapulting the remaining trays hitting other guardians.

“FOOD FIGHT!!!” 

others yelled and soon food was being used as ammunition in a free for all.

“Thanks for that Noah” said Sparky as they hide behind a tumbled table using trays as shields to block “incoming fire”

The human´s eyes widen.

“Thank me when we leave still in one piece!” he cried pointing in front of them where the rhino guardian fell on four steaming looking at them

“YOU BOTH ARE DEATH!!!”  it yelled charging at them.

Sparky and Noah eyes went wide at the sight of the charging rhino but before they could do anything a form crazily laughing fell out of nowhere from the air
 
“HEHEhehehe..riddem cowboy!"

Exclaimed Girl the crazy robot the two recognized from earlier causing the rhino to give a small Yelp as its charge turned into a skid across the floor as it tried to stop and buck the robot off.

“Hey get off me!!!” the rhino began bucking (sending tables and people on the air).

“You bucket of bolts you and I have unfinish business!” Sparky yelled at GIR only for Noah to force him down.

“How about we try to get out of here alive and then we talk about getting revenge?” he suggested as he began crawling 

Sparky and Noah eyes went wide at the sight of the charging rhino with Sparky snapping toward Noah.

 "Quick find something to throw!" Noah instinctively reached down at some food that had been thrown and landed behind their table cover and picked up a partial squashed red spiky fruit wasting no time handing it to Sparky, "Here!"

Sparky gave a devious smile grabbing the fruit.

 "Perfect!" And as quick as he could pulled his arm back and threw it right at the eyes of the charging rhino guardian.

 SPLAT!

 "AAAAAAAHHHH IT BURNS!"

Who proceeded to yell out in what seemed a great deal of pain as Noah looked in shock and Sparky with a smug smirk as he explained.

 "Altair solar peppers one of the spiciest things in the galaxy." He gave a little chuckle, "The Chief got a whole crate full of them after her mission on Altair IV as thanks for stopping Maximus."

But unseen to Sparky as he was explaining this Noah eyes had widened in fright and was trying to get his attention because he quickly realized something Sparky had missed

"HE'S STILL COMING!" Noah finally managed to yell out after getting his fear under control long enough.

"What!?" Sparky exclaimed as the smug look and smile fell when he saw the rhino was still charging toward them only now more wildly and much more enraged while blinded by the spice and pain from the pepper juices.

"Uh oh.." Sparky muttered as Noah grabbed him and tried to pull him away from the toppled table as the room echoed with a loud CRASH!

"Arg..did someone get the number of that space trunk." Sparky muttered dazzed on the ground

 SPLAT! 

Before getting hit on the head with what seemed like some pie from the still ensuing food fight happening in the chaotic cafeteria. 

"Mmm..not bad." He muttered after taking a lick before shaking it off quickly spotting Noah laying on his back beside him and wasted no time grabbing and pulling the Earth boy up by his shoulders who gave a groan himself as he blearily blinked his eyes.

"Agg..Betty?" He questioned dazed with slight dopey smile.

SMACK!

 "OW!" 

Only to get slapped in the face by Sparky who proceeded to shake him by his shoulders.

"Snap out of it Earth!" He glared at Noah who quickly shook his head, "This is no time for one of your lovey dovey fantasies about the chief!"

Noah himself while giving a slight embarrassed blush at Sparky words found himself instinctively feeling over his body as he softly muttered.

 "We're alive?" Then raised his arms up in the air exclaiming with joy, "We're alive!" 

SPLAT! 

"Oof!" Only for himself to get knocked down on the ground by a mush of food as Sparky rolled his eyes.

"Yeah...yeah we're alive." he snapped "Now help me find some cover!"

Only to pause as he heard a groan and growing growl of anger behind him causing him to whirl behind and pale at the sight of the Rhino Guardian though still blinded by the pepper juices starting to push himself up from the wreck of their former cover.

 "Where..where are you cowardly rats?!" He gave a roar, "I'll use your spines as back scratcher!"

Sparky and Noah exchanged looks of fear but it was at that moment they heard crazed insane laughter and a form fell out of nowhere from the air laughing like a maniac as it landed on the Rhino Guardian while he was trying to push himself up,

“HEHEhehehe...riddim cowboy!" Exclaimed GIR the crazy Irken robot the two recognized from earlier now kicking at the guardians back.

“You piece of rusted metal get down there!!!” Sparky whisper/yelled at GIR trying to not call the attention of the rhino.

GIR just blinked.

“Hey look Mr. cow! they are Infront of us” the robot announced and the Rhino growled.

“YOU RAT!” Sparky yelled and pounced on GIR.

Only for the robot to jump out the way leaving the green alien on the back of the Rhino.

A small pause.

“You know…I kinda should have seen this coming” said Sparky in calm tone before a giant hand seized him.

Squeezing him as a stuffed toy the rhino used his other hand to try clean his eyes as he brought the alien closer to his face.

“Grrrrr…any last words?” he asked growling. 

"Um.." Sparky gulped as he stared at the Rhino eyes noticing the blistering red color likely from the peppers he internally winced before giving the widest dumbest smile he could, "Live long and prosper?" He said in nervous chuckle with the Rhino snorting into his face.

"Ironic last choice of words" The Rhino said pulling back his fist but before he could launch his punch…

 SPLAT! 

Once again food was thrown onto his face though luckily it wasn't as painful as the pepper it still didn't help his mood as a young voice called out.

 "Hey...gulp.. pick on someone your own size!" Noah said holding some more food in his hand while speaking up in a nervous tone that he hoped sounded braver than he felt.

The rhino towered over the earthling ready to smash him to a pulk.

And in that moment the doors of the cafeteria opened.

“…and this the cafeteria, one of the best of the galaxy if I say so myself as it can actually replicate food from any…WHAT THE HECK?!!!” Betty had to duck a flying piece of what looked like green mash potatoes.

“ummm I will say that’s a good method of delivering” said Zim looking the chaos inside the cafeteria as he licked the food that fell on his face “although its reminding me a lot of Foodcornia”

“Oh, so sorry Zim sir I…aggg” a pink colored smoothie fell on her head “grrr excuse me…” the angry girl walked into the chaos taking off an airhorn from her hammer space.

HOOOOOOOOOOOONNNNNNNNNNNKKKKKKKKKK!!!!!!!!!

Immediately everyone covered their ears putting an end to the fight.

“WHO IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THIS!?” Betty yelled in anger. Her face fully red and sending a scary glare at everyone (no matter if she had pieces of food falling from her hair)

Immediately everyone pointed at the center of the cafeteria where the Rhino had both Sparky and Noah on his hands.

Noticing everyone looking at him (and the angry look of Atomic Betty) he let go of the two boys before also pointing at them. 

“Oof"
 "Oof"
 
They let out in groans as they fell to the ground and looked up giving Betty nervous smiles and waves.

"Sparky?! Noah!?" Betty yelled out in utter disbelief and large undercurrent of rage before her glare deepen and people could swear they saw literal steam coming out of her ears as she stopped over.

Zim himself decided to follow her while raising an eye ridge intrigue at her anger, as well as developing a small subtle smirk at the chance of seeing the annoyance from earlier getting torn into.

"Chief listen I know this looks bad." Sparky began only for Betty to look at him disbelief as she stood across from down while giving the boys on the ground a hard stare.

 "Looks bad? this LOOKS LIKE A DISASTER SPARKY!" She snapped, "Just what in the name of galactic peace has gotten into you?!" She snapped jabbing her finger down hard onto his nose, "First that incident in the docks now this!?" She gestured toward Zim, "Are you actively trying to embarrass me and the rest of the Guardians in front of Zim?!" Then she turned her glare onto Noah, "And Noah, I expect better of you." Noah gave a flinch as she looked down, "Is still really how a prospective Guardians behaves!?"

Noah tried to speak up.

 "But-But Betty! it wasn't our fault." He stammered nervous as Sparky continued.

 "Yeah, it wasn't us!" He threw Zim a nasty glare pointing at him "It was the bug´s crazy robot!"

Zim blinked

“GIR?” he looked around “Yeaaaaaaah no” he deadpanned “if it was him, he would be eating everything on site or using it to build a…food house or something like that” he waved his hand “not throwing it like this” he blinked “which is quite surprising how much respect he had towards food”

“And if it was him” added Betty “then where is he?” she asked also looking around.

Everyone also did but no one could see trace of the little robot.

“But…but…he was here!!!” insisted Sparky.

"Enough!" Betty snapped after as she rubbed her forehead, "You don't even have the decency to own up to your actions." She pulled down her hand, "Honestly I don't think i've ever been more ashamed and embarrassed of you." She sighed trying to regain control of her emotions "Trying to blame an innocent robot for all of this!" She gestured across at the wreaked and food covered cafeteria with all the present Guardians and personnel giving them nasty looks with one X-5 after wiping some mush from his face giving his own look "Most disappointing." He stated bluntly.

"But..but." Noah began to speak up only for Betty to snap.

 "NO BUTS!" She said practical roaring with Noah giving a whimpering gulp as Betty took a calming breath before giving the two hard glares "The Admiral will be hearing about this." She crossed her arms as Zim gave the two a smile behind her back much to Sparky´s anger "I'm sure he can figure out a fitting punishment for you too."

"In the meantime, I might have an idea to keep them occupied." Zim than spoke up giving the two a dark grin before giving Betty a look of concern as she turned her head toward him, "If i'm overstepping my bounds of course."

Betty shook her head.

 "No..not at all sir!" She said before giving him an apologetic look, "If anything i'm sorry you had to see...well this." She said gesturing toward the two sending them a look of shame that certainly cut deep with Noah feeling like his heart was breaking in two.

"Oh, it is no fault of yours Atomic Betty." Zim spoke up with a smile as he placed his hand on her shoulder, "These two just need some proper discipline." He gave them his best evil smile, "And what better way to start than cleaning up this mess."

He gestured toward the cafeteria with many of those gathered speaking up agreement with the Rhino alien giving a nod as he crossed his arms.

"You can't be serious!" Sparky snapped glaring at the bug, "Why should we clean up your robot´s mess?!"

"Sparky!" Betty snapped with a tone of warning.

 "But..." Sparky began only to trail off seeing the dark look in Betty's eyes as she continued.

 "I won't have you lying anymore just take responsibility and stop embarrassing me!" Then she called out, "Someone get a mop and bucket!" she gave the two one last look of disappointment, "These two have a lot of cleaning and lot of thinking to do."

Though Zim than gave a little chuckle that he managed to disguise as a cough with Betty looking at him curiously.

 "Sir?" Zim grinned.

"It occurs to me Betty." He gave the two an evil nasty look, "Perhaps these two would learn their better if they clean the entire cafeteria with toothbrushes instead"

"WHAT!?" "WHAT?!" Sparky and Noah yelled out in utter disbelief at the idea. Although the big nosed alien was more vocal.

“YOU ARE OUT OF FUCKING MIND IF YOU THINK WE WILL DOING THAT YOUR MISERABLE EXCUSE OF A PORMA DISSY…

“SPARKY!!!”

Betty exploded in anger making Sparky shut.

“I was going to said that it was a bit extreme that punishment” she narrowed her eyes “but after using that language I think it’s fitting!!!” she used her bracelet and materialize a green toothbrush “so congratulation you will be using the toothbrush while Noah use the mop”

Noah couldn't stop a breath of relief at that relieved that he wouldn't be stuck using a tooth brush though this was certainly noticed by the others with Sparky giving a small glare while Betty snapped causing him to freeze.

 "Don't think this means you're getting off easy compared to Sparky Noah!" She crossed her arms, "Because believe me taking responsibility and cleaning up your mess isn't even the start of your punishment." Her eyes narrowed, "Especially when the Admiral finds out what you two did." Causing Noah to give a nervous gulp.

Meanwhile It took all of Zim's amazing willpower to not break into some wonderful evil manically laughing at the puke green expression and suffering though he was certainly grinning like a shark at the two.

"Well said Atomic Betty." He said giving a nod as he gazed into Sparky's eyes, "Perhaps this will help teach your subordinate proper respect and conduct befitting a Galactic Guardian." He then gave a frown, "After all I ask you all." He then gestured toward the destroyed surroundings, "Would the citizens of the galaxy really feel safe if they saw a Galactic Guardian behaving like this?"

This statement caused many of the other guardians and personnel to mummer in a mixture of shame and disgruntled agreement as Betty gave her own frown of disapproval at the two only to get startled somewhat when Zim placed his hand on his shoulder and gave a slight blush at that and the comforting "smile" Zim shot at her.

Which only made Noah feel all the worse as he saw this with his gut stirring in fear and jealousy as Zim spoke up with a sigh.

 "I'm only sad to see such an amazing warrior such as you Atomic Betty being saddled with such poor subordinates." He blinked for a moment “except for your X-5 unit…it seems that he is the only one with the right mindset”

If robots could feel smug X-5 would probably be showing it right now…although his ocular receptors shinned a big brighter.

Betty smiled.

“Thanks sir but I trust my team and they have proved their worth time and time again…this was just a…hiccup…that won’t happen again” she narrowed her eyes at Sparky “…ever…right Sparky?”

Sparky gave a low growl as he grumbled slightly under his breath only to wilt at the glare shot by his Chief as he gave a low annoyed sigh.

"Right...Chief." Causing Betty to give a slight smile though still annoyed with his attitude.

She gave a nod.

 "That's good to hear now than." She gestured over to Zim "Before you two start cleaning up this mess, I think you in particular owe Zim an apology for your behavior today."

At Betty's words Sparky freeze as a wave of anger and revulsion seemed to watch over and he could just tell the green bug was getting a kick out of this whole thing as his eyes gleamed evilly and his fanged smile widen. Never did he thought he'd hate so much as he does now but he supposes the fact it's a Irken shouldn't surprise.

“I…ummm…”Noah was the first to approach “I’m sorry?” he said to Zim.

 honestly, he wasn’t sure if he should be apologizing.

In the first place it was the little robot´s fault all of this started.

Secondly the way the red eyed alien was smiling was quite…disturbing…if anything it reminded him of a bad guy from a Saturday cartoon…he didn’t know how to feel about it.

Thirdly for what he had heard about Irkens…they weren’t a race he would like to meet…in fact, they sounded like the bad guys Betty usually kick around.

Which took him to the reason why he was (trying) giving an apology.

Betty, for some reason, was acting quite…well...weird around the new alien…in a “fangirl meeting pop start” kind of way that Noah felt was quite out of place for her. But as long as she acted like that, he should be careful of how he acted around the Irken and see if all that had happen is just a classic “bad first impressions” …or if his gut feeling was right and he should get Betty away from the alien as fast as he could.

Betty gave a smile.

 "Thank you Noah." She said while she was still angry and disappointed at him, she was happy to see that he seemed to realize what he did was wrong. Though she made a note to have a serious talk with him and give him one heck of a lecture later when they got back to Earth for embarrassing her like this in front of Zim.

This was not at all behavior for a prospective Guardian cadet though she thought as she turned her narrowed glaring gaze toward Sparky at least he had the excuse of not being a proper Guardian yet.

Sparky on the other hand well while he wasn't always the best when it came to manners or proper attitude befitting a Guardian, he had as she told Zim always proved himself a great friend and comrade. But this?! She had no idea what his reasoning behind his behavior and actions today but she was putting a stop to it.

"Ah hem!" She said as she coughed into her fist looked into her Subordinates eyes, "Sparky don't you also have something to say."

Sparky fists tighten as it took seemingly everything, he had not to blow a gasket as his teeth grind together, he'd rather kiss Maximus feet than apologize to an IRKEN! ESPECIALLY WHEN IT WAS SAID IRKEN'S CRAZY ROBOT THAT GOT HIM INTO HIS MESS!!

But he thought as he stared across at Zim as much as he hated it fact is everyone was buying the garbage about this so-called hero irken pfff give him a break the only good Irken is one behind bars or better yet dead! The fact that his Chief… THE Atomic Betty was so gaga over the bug was like salt on the open wound of this entire mess.

Though it was also proof that until he found some kind of evidence about the bug´s true nature, he'd have to swallow his tongue...for now. Which means he had to apologize...to a Irken...oh galaxy give him strength.

"I'm..." Sparky started "I'm…" He repeated "So...” he felt he will choke himself.

Betty gestured at him.

"Go on."

Sparky took a deep breath.

“I…am…so…so….” He growled and closed his eyes “Im sorr…ugggg” another deep breath…come on Sparky you can do it…his face turn red as he held his breath and finally let all go out “I’m sorry!!!!” he finally said…before falling to his knees.

Betty frowned at this but decided to not say anything. It was enough for a day.

“Apology accepted” said Zim with a smug look “it’s good to see you can admit when you are in the wrong”

“Grt!" Sparky said with him literal biting down on his lips trying not to explode and resist the desire to beat the crud out of the bug!

Zim smiled was quite wide making a mental note to himself that if GIR turned out to be behind this mess that he wouldn't punish him for running off heck for this he might just give the robot a treat later when they returned to base.

After all nothing like seeing an enemy having to submit to the greatness that was Zim!! He gave an internal blissful sigh as a thought entered his mind 

"Really the only thing that could make this moment better is if it was Dib-worm.”

But he shook that thought away as he clapped his hands together.

"Now then, as..." He looked around "Entertaining as this has all been."

Sparky and Noah shame and embarrassment stung harder at his words and the others in the cafeteria giving them dark looks as Zim continued on.

 "I've still got a robot to find and these two." He pointed at Sparky and Noah giving them a smug look, "Have a lot of cleaning up to do"

Betty nodded in agreement.

 "Of course, sir!" She turned her head at her friends, "You heard him and it better be spotless!" She than gave them one last look of disappointment "And don't forget I’m sure the Admiral will have plenty to say to you two later."

Causing Noah and Sparky to wince as they were handed the mop and toothbrush with Betty than speaking out to the rest of the cafeteria-

 "As for everyone else the show's over so back to your stations please!"

With that the cafeteria began to empty leaving the two boys to their punishment (with the Rhino giving them two a final death glare).

“Now then Atomic Betty…where to go next?” Zim asked as he and Betty also left the cafeteria “knowing GIR he probably is running around in circles so if we don’t find him soon, we probably should return to the Admiral´s office”

Betty pulled out a towel from her hammer space to clean herself as she gave a hum in thought filling herself with determination. Not only to help Zim locate GIR of course but also to try to find a way to make up for the trouble Sparky and Noah's behavior.

She didn't want to give and leave the Hero of Doomsday with a bad impression of the galactic guardians after all or...of her." She thought with a worried frown as she shook her head and ended up blurting out the first location in headquarters that came to her mind.

“Well sir how about I show you our training installations?” she said “maybe a small spar could be a good exercise?”

Zim thought about it…a spar could help to test Betty´s warrior abilities up close. Although he might not get much as he probably will beat her quickly so maybe he will go easy on her.

“That sounds like a good idea...please lead the way” he smiled at her and she (mentally) gave herself a pat in the back.

This will work clean the incident of the cafeteria as the training room was a nice place to show her abilities and gives her a chance to see Zim´s (what an honor)

Nothing could go wrong.

Chapter Text

(Training room)

Betty wanted to hit herself.

Nothing could go wrong UNLESS that something was wearing red, have a ridiculous tall blonde hair, and liked the tone of his voice TOO MUCH.

“It was really horrible…a hair just fell out of place. It would have been the worst day of my life but fortunately I had an emergency hairspray…that really saved the day.”

Atomic Roger wasn’t on Betty´s favorite person list for multiple reasons.

the number one?

His unbelieved, unmatching, ANNOYING!!! Ego.

Number two?

He never stops talking!!!

“And what happened with the space pirates that were trying to kidnap the princess of Krystopsis?” a first-year rookie (probably just enrolled) asked.

In front of Rogers where at least 10 first-year students from the guardian academy.

Betty had forgotten that today was a fieldtrip scheduled to visit HQ…she just didn’t expect for Roger to take over it.

"Why once the cowards realized they were dealing with Atomic Roger they couldn't drop their weapons and surrender quick enough." He said with a wide teeth gleaming grin, "And the princess was so grateful she tried to make me her king."

His so-called winning smile probably would be reason number three.

"Buuutttt." He trailed off staring into the distance "I had to sadly turn her down because my place with the Galactic Guardians and my belongs to another." He said taking a heroic pose as Betty in the door way rolled her eyes at Roger's story.

She might not know precisely which mission he was telling the academy students but she seriously doubted it happen like that...if it happened at all.

Meanwhile Zim after hearing the nonsense from this fool with the ridiculous hair cut couldn't stop himself giving a loud snort at this blow hard with an ego bigger than Dib's head unknowingly attracting the attention of the academy students whose eyes all went in shock and disbelief as soon as they saw him.

"Zim seriously doubts it happened like that." Zim said turning his head toward Betty, not realizing Roger and the first years could hear his words "Frankly I’d sooner buy the Tallest outlawing snakes." He said shaking his head at that crazy idea.

Rogers eyes open wide.

“Excuse me!?” who said tha….” The words stopped on his mouth as he took a good look at Zim.

The green alien just blinked and raised a hand.

“IRKEN!!!!” Roger cried before letting out a girl-like scream and ran.

CRASH.

Straight into some exercise equipment.

Although that did cause the class that was with him also began screaming in panic.

Zim blinked at the chaos though at same time certainly enjoyed the fear caused by the mere sight of him. Betty, on the other hand, felt like face palming and pulling out her hair at the same time she wanted to give Zim a better impression this was anything but!

Some of the braver students took up combat position or tried to find something to use as a weapon. While others...

"WE"RE ALL GOING TO DIE!"

"HOW DID A IRKEN GET ONTO GALACTIC HEADQUARTERS!"

"DOES THIS MEAN THE MASSIVE IS COMING!?

Well...the Irken had a well-earned reputation with Zim unable to stop a slight evil smirk at the words and panic just than a braver rookie (the same one who asked Roger about the pirates and princess) spoke up.

"Freeze...Irken...gulp...scum!"

Pointing at him trying to hide her fear.

Zim looked at her.

She was humanoid, of some sort of cat specie if he was interpreting the fur, claws, slit eyes and the furry tail. Her brown and blue hair was stylized on a small tail 

She was barefoot wearing a modified version of a standard female guardian uniform leaving her midriff discovered  

Another voice speaking up caused Zim to blink in disbelief and give a double take.

 "Yes, please do the surrendering now!" Another voice exclaimed trying and failing to sound brave. 

Though the reason for the disbelief Zim had been the one who had spoken was a Boov; A race he thought was rendered extinct during Tallest Miyuki era.

The Boov possessed blue eyes and curled head tentacles while wearing the galactic guardian uniform for its multiple tentacled "feet".

“Hey aren’t you Atomic Betty?” another female voice asked. This time it was Betty who turned to see a human looking tanned skinned girl with short black hair. She was wearing a standard uniform although it had an extra ornament on her chest of a red star imposed on a golden shield “you are a senior guardian!!!” she exclaimed in excitement “quickly you must help us”

Betty blinked at the student before sighing and yelled out.

 "EVERYONE PLEASE STOP!"

Her yell caused all the panicking to stop screaming while also freezing the braver students from mustering enough courage to attack the Irken. While also rousing a groaning Rodger who raised his head dizzily from under the exercise equipment currently crushing him.

"There is no reason to be afraid or alarmed!" She said with her most commanding voice with many looking at her in shock and disbelief.

"But Atomic Betty that is an IRKEN!" Shouted out the Boov gesturing toward Zim "The most dangerous and most evil race in the galaxy." He gulped hiding behind cat alien student as Zim gaze fell curiously onto him. "They're the ones who destroyed the Boovs original home world!"

"Not to mention all the other atrocities they've committed!" Yelled out a male voice with Zim gaze falling onto one that reminded of the criminal Maximus whose files he researched. Because like Maximus this alien also heavily resembled the Earth feline species only in a humanoid form perhaps the same species as Maximus?

The main difference was this one possessed orange fur along with a blue mohawk in the middle of his head and like all the other students wore the galactic guardian uniform.

"Yes, but this Irken is different." She said with a smile stepping up besides Zim placing her hand on his shoulder.

"How?!" Asked the tanned student who asked Betty for help in disbelief yet hint of curiosity.

Betty gave all the students a warm and proud smile.

 "Because this is none other than the Hero of Doomsday." She gestured grandly to Zim, "Invader Zim!"

A lot of students looked confused at this.

However, the tanned girl just gasped.

“Wait… the Hero of Doomsday!!! THE invader Zim!!!” she asked with stars on her eyes “I have read of him in…story of the galaxy vol IV…Myths and truths of the first alliance 3rd edition…Great battles of galactic story and Unsolved mysteries vol. X!!!”

“Coff nerd coff” said another human looking boy (looking quite older that the rest of the students) with black hair with what looked like a green colored Mohawk 

"But he is supposed to be a legend, a myth!" The Boov exclaimed in disbelief walking from behind the female alien cadet with cat features who like a number of her classmates was confused as the Boov continued to speak "The rebel Irken who bravely betrayed his own species for the rest of the galaxy!"

Another voice spoke with a gasp as another boy ran over staring at Zim in utter awe and rapture, he was a brown eyed and brown spiky haired boy with the galactic guardian uniform.

 "It really is you!"

He then fell to the ground and started bowing over and over to Zim.

 "I'm not worthy, i'm not worthy!" With many looking at the scene in disbelief though Zim was certainly enjoying it " I can't believe I’m meeting Ultra Zim!" The boy exclaimed with Zim smiling smugly though gave a blink at the title, "Um ultra...I suppose that one word to describe the amazing Zim!" The Irken said proudly.

The boy than reached behind into his back pocket and pulled out a comic issue

 "Can I have your autograph!?"

He exclaimed holding a comic which depicted Zim at the front only he seemed to be wearing some kinda purple earth superhero outfit?

“Ok…this do is the weirdest thing Zim has seen” the Irken couldn’t help but said “although I do have a battle armor but with no mask” he said putting his name on the comic.

“Ugg can we return to the fact there is an IRKEN in here?” a rude female voice sounded.

The group turned to a pale, grayish skinned girl with grayish freckles, and a black mask streaked across her eyes. She had grayish black hair tied in a downward braid that had a black-to-white end. She possessed a bluebell flower growing from the top of her head and unlike the others, she was not wearing a uniform but a black dress with a white part that cut by the knees and black, open-toed sandals.

“And you” the girl turned to the still recovering Roger “aren’t you supposed to be this mighty star warrior? Then why don’t you take care of this?”

Roger gave a groan before he shook it off standing up with a grunt while lifting some of the equipment off of him.

 "Of…of course!" He said smiling brightly, "Stand aside everyone and I shall easily vanquish this menace!" He said with signature smile and pose number 8.

 Only for laughter to rang out.

"Hehehhahahahahah...YOU!" Zim exclaimed pointing at him "Vanquish the mighty ZIM?!" The Irken burst out laughing holding his stomach "Hehehahahahahhahahahahah!" Before managing to send Roger an evil grin, "I'd sooner expect Dib-Stink head to shrink to normal size than you having a chance of vanquishing ZIM!" He exclaimed holding his fist in the air.

Roger blinked confused at the comparison but knew he had been insulted.

 "Hey!" Roger snapped irritated "do you have any idea who you're talking to you insect!?"

"Do you?!" Betty spoke up with a snap placing her hands on her hips, "This is Invader Zim! THE Invader Zim, The hero of Doomsday!" She snapped stepping forward but Roger protested.

"He's a Irken!"

"He's an ally!" Betty rebutted crossing her arms "And as now an official guest." She then gave a grin, "After all he's offered to work together with the Galactic Guardians to protect the galaxy by helping us bring down Maximus once and for all."

That caused a new wave of murmurs.

“Really?!!!” the tanned girl “this is amazing!!! To think a real-life legend will be working with the guardians is astounding, breathtaking, awesome, awe-inspiring, spectacular…”

“Sheesh did she ate a dictionary?” asked the green mohawk boy “also aren’t Irkens supposed to want to explode and/or enslave planets? Why would one want to help save them?”

“Because Zim is not a normal Irken” the comic book boy said “he is the most spectacular warrior of the galaxy!!! He fought alone against the Irken armada and beat it!!!”

“Whoa really?!” the cat-girl said in awe looking at Zim.

“Tch yeah sure…and next you will tell us he did it in the back of a flying space baby” the flower girl said full of sarcasm.

"Space baby?" Zim blinked confused before scoffing "As if Zim would use a pitiful baby as a weapon." Especially after that incident with the aliens that looked like Earthling young.

"No Zim used a front-line battle mech during operation impending doom 1!" He exclaimed pointing his finger high in the air with a voice than squealing excitedly in return.

 "An IRKEN BATTLE MECH!"

"Ooof!" Zim than found himself tackled by a purple blur.

 "Ohhh what was it like!? How did it work!?" Zim shook his head and blinked staring at the form holding his eyes widening when he realized he was being held up not by arms…but by hair!

Very very long purple hair attached to the form of an olive skinned girl with aquamarine eyes, wearing a galactic guardian uniform but in the style of a mechanic, with wielding mask on her head.

Though her most notable trait as stated before was her long purple hair which she was somehow moving and controlling like another limb. While the girl herself was still speaking excitedly.

 "Ohhh i've always wanted to examine and study Irken tech." She lifted herself up with her hair peaking over at Zim's pack “It's supposed to be among the best in the galaxy!"

She said as she started to poke and prob at his PAK!

“Hey HEY!!! DON’T TOUCH ZIM´S PAK!!!!” the Irken exclaimed in anger/shock and more than ready to summon his spider legs or his blasters to get the weird girl away from him.

Fortunately (for Zim and the girl) salvation came in the form of the red-head guardian.

“CADET PUT HIM DOWN NOW!!!” Betty ordered in anger. Thanks to her studies and some talks with Jumba (thanks to Lilo) she knew an Irken´s pack was not only a piece of machinery but a very important part of their biology…one that she was more that sure shouldn’t be tempered like that (at least when it comes to Zim)

The cadet blink but did just that letting Zim drop to the floor with an "Ooof!" Then looked at him as she questioned.

"You sure I can't study it just a bit?" She said with an easy grin, "I could get so much data studying it!" Her grin grew an excited edge, "I might even be able to find ways to improve it!"

While the idea of improving any of his technology was normally a welcome one though Zim personally doubted this girl would be able to do that. Zim was certainly not going to let his PAK get compromised!

"No!" He snapped glaring at her, "No one is allowed to touch Zim's PAK but ZIM!" He grumbled dusting himself off as he muttered distractedly, "Though feel free to tamper with GIR once I find that annoying robot."

"EEEEEEEEEEEEEE!" The girl squeal clapping excitedly, "You'll let me examine study a Irken robot!" She pushed herself forward her face inches from Zim's own “What kinda robot is it? What's it function!?"

"Okay that's enough cadet!" Betty said stepping forward as she felt bit of annoyance at this first-year student getting so close to Zim for some reason.

“Yes, that’s enough” Roger called feeling quite annoyed too. Although his reason was that he was no longer the center of attention of the group.

And that was a big no-no for him.

More when it was an IRKEN of all things gaining their attention.

And why was Betty on board of that? He really should talk to the admiral about this.

“We are REALLY busy right now as I was about to delight these young minds with my dashing story of how I was crowed Galaxy´s best hair for three years straight” he looked at Betty “although if you want to stay to hear I won’t oppose it” he winked at her.

Betty held the urge of groaning.

“El…Gyem…”a small aqua-green alien hummed. 

It had an oblong head with depressions on either side with black, symmetrical lines going down the front of its head. On the front of its head were shiny, green button-like eyes. Its hands have three finger-like digits: one red, one green, and one yellow. It had short, stubby legs and a small tail.

It only had the atomic belt of the uniform on.

“Ellie said we are actually behind schedule” the final student said. 

She was human looking with fair-skin, with bright blue eyes (that had a small extra pupil) and long, waist-length brown hair with straight cut bangs at her eyebrows (fixed in a small ponytail). She was wearing the standard uniform plus black stockings with floral patterns.

“she said we should have visited the simulation room and have a series of mock-battles to test our advance an hour ago.”

At those words Roger found himself frowning annoyed at the cadet interruption and reminder of the schedule (Never mind that learning about Atomic Roger was worth far more than some silly mock battles) but than an idea popped into his head as a slightly evil grin grew on his face. 

"Why so we are!" He shook his head in mock sorrow "I'm sorry cadets it seems I lost track of time telling you about the amazingness that is well me" Roger said with wide grin to those gathered with Betty rolling her eyes and Zim just feeling annoyed at this buffoon. 

Pft like he could be half as amazing as ZIM!

While the Cadets themselves were a mixture of curious, annoyed, bored, irritated, depending on who you were looking at.

Roger clapped his hands together.

 "So, to make up for getting slightly behind in schedule what say we." He gave an ominous grin over at Zim "Make the mock battles a little more special by seeing what the Hero of Doomsday can really do." he said with an ominous tone already picturing squashing this disgusting insect and receiving so much awe and praise from the Cadets and more importantly Betty.

“That…” Betty began but then thought about it “…that’s actually not a bad idea” she turned to Zim “what you said sir? Would you be up to show us some of your battle experiences?” she asked “would be educational for the cadets to see it” and to me too. She added in her mind quite excited at the idea of seeing her idol in action.

Zim blinked a bit surprised at the request but found a menacing smile growing across his face.

 "Why…Zim would be happy to show everyone his amazing battle skills." He said with smug air with some of the cadets chatting excitedly while others

"Oh this is going to be so awesome!" The comic book boy squealed in excitement, "I get to see Ultra Zim in action!"

The purple haired girl clapped her hands together sharing the excitement while lifting herself up by her hair.

 "And I get a chance to see Irken technology at work first hand!"

"I know to see a legend in action first hand this is amazing, incredible, stupendous!" The tanned skin girl said to the girl with a flower on her head who simply rolled her eyes in slight huff.

 "Well guess we'll get to see what makes him so special I suppose."

All those words Zim heard all those clearly the praise and excitement fueling his ego while the sourer female attitude only caused his smile to grow as Zim would certainly show her and everyone that he was beyond special.

(Minutes later)

The entire class (plus Betty) were looking through the windows leading to the simulation room where Zim began doing some “stretches” ready for the “battle”

For now, the simulation room was just a big empty-white room. But from the control panel-room (Where Roger was setting himself up) one could change the settings to transform the room into anything one needed to practice…from a simple obstacle course, to use the “simulation” feature to transform the whole room into a perfect replica of any environment one wanted.

Also, one could add and program a great variety of robots to use as foes or obstacles.

Each feature could be set individuality with its own “danger level” going from the easier (setting 1) to the hardest (setting 11).

“uhhh I can’t believe I’m going to get to see a true legend in action” said the dark skinned girl looking in anticipation at the area with a notebook and pencil out and ready “I wonder if we will see an example of his battle tactics he use on the Irk´s homeworld…according to great battles of galactic story the precision needed to pull out what he did could only be made by the most powerful AI of the galaxy yet in Living legends and mysteries vols. 3-6 it was speculated that probably Zim got an upgrade to his PAK system that according to military records are one of the most advanced techno-organic systems of the known universe. Not to mention that…”

Betty couldn’t help but chuckle at bit seeing at the girl next to her practically recite and entire section of the HQ´s library like that. It kinda remind her of herself when she was also just a newbie in the guardian force. Thirsty of learning all she could.

The girl stopped hearing the superior officer at her side.

“Oh…sorry…am I being overbearing?” the girl blushed “I can’t really control when I do that…is just like a reflect of my race…and…”

“Hey don’t worry about it” said Betty calming down the nervous rookie “is quite refreshing to hear a cadet so thirst for knowledge like that” the red head guardian sent her best smile at the girl “although now that you mentioned it…are you by chance from Lexicon…?” 

“Oh sorry…Becky…oh ehem” the girl straight up and properly saluted “Cadet of first year Becky Botsford reporting for duty sir!!!”

“At easy cadet” Betty smiled saluting back.

“Thanks sir” the girl smiled “and yes you are right…I’m a proud learning inhabitant of Lexicon”

Betty nodded at this a bit curious about the girl; since Lexiconians were known for keeping themselves away from any type of conflict outside their homeworld. Focusing more on the learning and investigation about basically anything to the point they were one for the so called “smartest civilizations of the galaxy”

But before she could voice her question.

“pffff so you are from planet nerd?” a rude tone called their attention.

The owner of the voice was the green mohawk boy who was snickering looking at Betty.

“hahahaha I should have recognize one of the biggest nerds of the galaxy right away hahahaha aren’t you afraid of breaking your reading glasses? Hahahahaha”

Becky blushed looking annoyed at the boy.

“For your information I DON’T wear glasses!” the girl yelled.

Betty put her hand on Becky´s shoulder to calm the girl.

“I’m sorry and who you are cadet? You seem too old to be a first year” asked the red head to the boy who simply snorted away.

“Name´s Duncan, red head” he said not caring for protocol “and you are right…I shouldn’t be here at all” he simply looked down “although now I can say I will finally see something interesting”

“Oh? You don’t seem like a guy that are interested in learning about battle strategy” Becky said crossing her arms.

The green haired mohawk boy crossed his arms snorting.

 "Oh, I’m not…I just want to see how long it will take for that little guy to get squashed." he laughed before calling the other cadets "Hey anybody!!! want to make this more interesting?"

The blue haired mohawked orange furred cat raised brow asking.

 "In what way?"

Duncan smirk grew a bit.

 "10 credits say he doesn't even make it pass level 2."

"Hey!" The comic book boy had heard this and snapped over glaring at the thuggish boy, "You take that back!" The boy glared "Ultra Zim can easily handle this training up to its highest level!"

Duncan smiled.

“Then put your money where your mouth is kiddo”

“I will and I will bet double…NO…triple on Ultra Zim beating its opponent in record time!!!!” the boy cried.

“hehehe is a deal” Duncan smiled at the easy money.

“Hey! No betting during the lessons!!!” Betty called them “you are here to learn not to play around” 

“She is right students” Roger called from the intercom “you are all here to see and learn…Especially if learn how easy an Irken can break” he thought as he began typing in the controls. “Ok hero” he called Zim with some mocking on his tone “we are ready for your lesson…what will you teach us fist?”

Zim blinked from his position in the room.

That do was a good question…after Zim had a lot of things to teach these larvae so what should be first? How awesome Zim was? How to bow correctly before Zim? The right number of ways to cheer for Zim?!!! Nah that was still to advance for them.

He supposed he could teach them basic invader combat stuff…something to admire more the magnificent of Zim!!!!

“Ok listen up larvae!!!” Zim cried calling everyone´s attention “if you want to be great invaders like Zim!!!! There are two things you must learn”

“Invaders?” flower girl scowled “doesn’t he means guardians?”

“shhhhhhh!!!” 

She was shushed by Betty, Becky, comic boy and tendril hair girl. 

“First of all, information is key!!!!” Zim declared “a good invader must always gain as much information as it can about its enemy as about their surroundings.” The green invader continued “Even in the heat of battle one must be able to learn all you can to be able to make your enemy know the agony of defeat AS YOU STAND TRIUMPHANT OVER ITS DEFEATED SQUISHY BODY!!!!!” he finished raising his fists in the air.

Roger blinked slightly nonplussed at the Irken while those watching in the control center had their own reactions.

“He's..so...cooool!"  The comic boy exclaimed with wide excited grin holding up his arms. 

The orange furred cat frowned thoughtfully as he crossed his arms.

 "Well at least it sounds like he knows what he's talking about." He then muttered softly to himself "Reminds me of the stuff my dad would teach me.”

Becky herself nodded.

 "He's only speaking the truth. The key to victory is knowledge." She smiling brightly with Duncan giving a snort causing her to give a glare toward the boy.

"So basically, know your enemy and environment?" The cat-girl stated/asked her fellow cadets and Atomic Betty with tendril haired girl sending her a wide smile as she replied.

 "Exactly!" Before turning her attention back to the simulation room. "Ohhh so much potential fascinating data from the hero of doomsday himself this is the best day ever!" She cheered with a laugh.

Meanwhile the flower girl just frowned looking over at her fellow cadets and Atomic Betty.

“Okay…am I really the only one bothered by the Invader thing?" She asked.

“Shh I’m trying to write this down” Becky said focusing on her notebook; writing word for word what Zim just said.

“Ehem…the second thing you must learn is simple yet it will guarantee victory if used correctly” Zim continued “and that’s it that you always must take advantage of the element of…SURPRISE!!!!”

And before anyone could blink Zim´s pack opened releasing multiple turrets, tentacles and even his spider legs; all shooting indiscriminately a mighty barrage of laser beams/shots alongside a pair of guns that materialized in his hands.

All while Zim let out one of his craziest laughs yet.

“BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA”

This of course caused some students to fall back on their backs as others throw themselves to the floor looking for shelter (although the lasers were stopped by the barriers on the windows)

“HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!”

“HEY….HEY!!!!” Roger cried from the control room as some lasers bounced against the protection window “YOU MANIAC…STOP!!!!”

Quite the surprise…Zim did stop, smiling proudly of himself as his weapons returned to his PAK.

The previous white room was now marked and charred with multiple impact marks everywhere. Some cracks could be seen in the floor, walls and ceiling as some ruble fell from them.

“Victory for Zim!!!” the Irken declared.

Roger stood up in shock.

 Vict…? WE HAVENT EVEN STARTED YET!!!” he yelled half in anger half in disbelief of the green alien´s aptitude.

Zim just smiled.

“Ah but if you were an enemy, you wouldn’t have expected that right?” the Irken asked “Zim would have taken you all by surprise; ergo, you wouldn’t have been able to respond Zim´s mighty attack; ergo, Zim would have beaten you all; ergo, you would be defeated at Zim´s feet; ergo Zim just proof his point; ergo VICTORY FOR ZIM!!!”

"I...I…what?!" Roger could only gap at the insane Irken he knew like the rest of the galaxy that the disgusting insect specie was messed up in the head. But really this particular Irken was really taking the cake as possible the craziest and most annoying Irken in existence!

(Meanwhile far, far, far, FAR away from Galactic Headquarters inside the Irken flagship known as the Massive.)

Inside the main chamber of the Irken flag ship one particular tall Irken with Purple colored eyes and uniform who was lounging on a "throne" suddenly paused as he was about to take a sip from his soda gaining a strange look on his face.

Something his friend and co-ruler; an equally tall Irken with red eyes and dark red uniform noticed sitting beside him in his own "throne" as the technicians steered them to their course and next targeted planet.

"Something wrong Pur?" He asked in slight undertone of boredom and potential concern while arching an antenna curiously at his co-rulers behavior. 

The purple Irken "Pur" blinked shaking his head

 "I'm okay…but for some reason…." He trailed off before shooting the other lounging Irken a look of confused sympathy "I suddenly feel like someone, somewhere is experiencing the same pain we do whenever we have to deal with Zim."

At those words Red blinked before snorting.

 "Well better that poor loser than us Purple." He chuckled "Besides we haven't heard from that pest in so long let's not tempt fate" He feared forward towards Purple holding a bag of snacks "Now donuts?"

"Ohhhhh don't mind if I do!" His co-ruler exclaimed with glee as he grabbed the bag from red and started chowing down as he eagerly shoved his head into the bag while his partner rolled his eyes slightly.

(Meanwhile back at Galactic Guardian Headquarters in the simulations training room.)

The Boov cadet was trembling shaking covering his eyes and his skin had changed color into a bright yellow.

 "Is...is it over." He whimpered slightly as he uncovered his eyes only to hear a growling voice under him.

"No." He looked down noticing that he was laying on top of the flower cadet who back was looking up with a dark gaze as her flower seems to glow red "But if you don't get off me right now, you'll be!"

The Boov yelped as he got off his fellow cadet in fright.

 "I am most sorry!" Only for the flower guardian cadet to snap slightly at him.

"Save it!" She said in tone of annoyance as she got up brushing herself off.

Meanwhile the other cadets.

 "Gyem..Elgyem!" The aqua-green cadet alien exclaimed with the pony tailed cadet once again translating for the others nearby.

 "Ellie said they certainly weren't expecting Zim to attack before the training session began." She frowned "And honestly got to agree isn't that kinda of...um well...unfair." She trailed off slightly nervous while putting it in the nicest way she could think of before the cat alien with blue mohawk spoke up.

 "Well dad always said if you go into a fight expecting your enemy to play fair than you'll only wind-up dead." He stated slightly bluntly with the others giving him slightly surprised and concerned looks with him shrugging "He's a military man...though I think he did a bit of mercenary work when he was young." He said more to himself than the others.

Betty arched her brow curiously at the young Ventrexian recognizing his species.

"What's his name?" She asked curious "Maybe i've heard of him."

"Oh...uhhhh." The orange furred Ventrexian scratched the back of his head suddenly acting a bit nervous, "He's uh General Avocato." Betty gave the cadet a surprised look, 

"The former General of Ventrexian who helped end the war between them and the Tryvuulian's Avocato?" She said with surprised tone in her voice with the orange fur Ventrexian giving a sigh.

"Yeah, that's dad." He said with a tired yet proud smile, "Name´s Little Cato." He sent the others a proud smirk, "I signed up for the Guardians as a way to both step out of his shadow, but also make him proud." He gave an earnest smile, "I can only hope to become half the man he is."

Just nearby the Duncan stood up after falling to the ground in slight surprise from that laser barrage (not that he would admit it) to anyone giving a snort at the cat he arched a brow.

 "You're a real daddy's boy aren't you pussy cat?"

Causing both the orange cat alien and the cat-girl to give a slight growl at those words with Duncan smirked down at the simulation room.

"Alright I’ll admit while the little pipsqueak probably won't make it pass level 2, he's got the right attitude." He said with a slight chuckle of approval after all he was always down for fighting dirty or doing what it took to win.

“But he is right” said Betty “our enemies won’t wait for us to be ready. That’s why we train to be ready for when that happen” the guardian explained to the class “also what Zim just did was a bit unorthodox but still a good example of what he was saying” she smiled “having the element of surprise on your side can give you a great advantage over your opponents. Known when to use at is fullest is something all great warriors must know”

Some nodded to that…others (flower girl included) just didn’t look that convinced.

As for Roger…

He was quite steaming in anger…did Betty was really praising that crazy bug?! 

Oh no…that CAN’T happen.

Huffing he began tempering with the control.

“Ok hero” he said in angry mocking tone “let’s see what you can do against this!!” he moved the danger setting all the way to 8.

Immediately a door began opening under the control room and strong, heavy steps began echoing from a hallway.

From it emerged a 30f giant robot of grey coloring with red claws in his right hand and a large canon on its left.

Though rather than show any fear or concern Zim simply gave a bored yawn into his hand.

"Really is this the best you can do?" Zim asked bored "Zim demands a challenge!" He exclaimed with his fists raised in the air before pointing it at the giant robot, "Zim has seen his robot pull out more threatening things from his storage space!"

Roger at those words gave a slight annoyed growl with his annoyance only growing worse as Betty gave off a little giggle smiling at the others in the control room.

"Pay attention cadets. Just like Zim's you've got to stay cool and control." She said taking on a slight lecturing tone "You can't let yourself be intimidated or let your enemy gain a psychological advantage."

At her words the robot raised its left arm aiming its blaster at Zim and immediately fired! 

"BOOM!"

The blast hitting the ground with small yet powerful boom only for mad laughter to echo right in the aftermath of the blast with many in the observing room looking up at the source seeing Zim with PAK legs extended high in the air having deployed and used them to launch himself into the air just as the mech fired its weapon.

"HEHHAHAHAHHHHAHHAHAhAH!" The Irken laughed with a crazed wide smile as he began to fall down back to the ground.

“ultra-whoa” comic book boy said with the biggest smile in his face.

“Impressive he deployed those legs and used the expansive wave of the explosion to propel himself into the air putting himself in advantage position for an aerial strike” Becky said noting everything down as crazy.

“ahhhhh look at those legs…they are beautiful!!!” Tendril-hair said with stars in her eyes

“Ok that do gives me the chills” flower girl said not liking Zim´s laugh.

Zim gave a predatory grin as gravity pulled him down towards the robot.

“PREPARE TO MEET DEFEAT!!!” he cried falling straight into its head and impaling it with his mechanical legs.

Sparks flew off as the robot began trashing like crazy causing small tremors in the room until it managed to force Zim to jump off it.

The Irken landed in the floor and raised his fists in the air.

“Victory for Zim!!!!” he declared with a smile.

Roger wasn’t impressed.

“Seriously?!” he asked “does he think that a serie 4 destructo-bot is so easy to beat?” the guardian was more that sure that bug was crazy.

And he was quite right as the bot manage to stabilized itself and was ready to attack again (no matter the holes it had in its head)

However, unknow to him (or everyone for the matter). Because of Zim´s previous “demonstration” some parts of the ceiling were damage quite severe and an entire chuck began to carve out.

Because of the bot marching into the arena, the explosion when it shot Zim, and the subsequent trashing the fragment finally came loose and fell straight into the weakened head of the bot.

CRASH!!!

Everyone just could see the stone and metal crash into the bot´s head caving it in and in turn causing the bot to fall to the ground.

Zim just raised an eyebrow at the fallen bot.

“As I was saying” hands up “VICTORY FOR ZIM!!!”

All those in the control room could only just stare in shock with a mixture of emotions and expression.

Ranging from awe, shock, disbelief, joy, and anger. The last one in particular was certainly what Roger was feeling.

 "Are..you..KIDDING ME!" He yelled out in utter disbelief as he banged his fist against the controls.

As Betty cried out with a smile.

 "Yes!" Pumping a fist enjoying seeing not only her idol in action, but also seeing Roger eating some humble pie. Though quickly noticed she had attracted the eyes of many in the room so she quickly composed herself coughing into her fist. "You see Cadets?" She said once more taking on a lecturing tone "This is what meant earlier about information is key to victory." She flashed Roger a smug smirk "In this case knowing your surroundings and taking your enemy by surprise." Bringing up the other example Zim gave in his "lesson" as she gave a giggle, "Allowed Zim to easily handle even a level 4 destructo-bot." She said with a smile of pride with the cat girl speaking up in slight tone of disbelief.

"Wait..you..mean..." She trailed off staring down in the training room with shock and growing awe.

"He actually planned this!?" Her sentence was finished by the brown-haired cadet who was also serving as the translator for the alien floating beside her.

"HAHA!" The comic book boy exclaimed laughing as he bounced off his feet before pointing at Duncan with a smirk, "Are you ready to acknowledge the utter awesomeness that is ultra-Zim now?!" He said with a wide and slightly crazed grin.

"No way…not buying it." Duncan said shaking his head in slight disbelief "It had to be a lucky fluke...right?" He asked arching a brow at the flower head standing beside him who gave a snort.

"Of course, I mean come on you can't expect us to believe the whole reason he did that crazy rampage earlier was to..."

"Turn the environment to his advantage ohhh how fascinating!" The Tendril-prehensile- haired girl exclaimed in awe clapping her hands before sighing sadly "Though shame about the about the destructo bot." She said in slightly sad tone before Becky spoke up next.

"Amazing!" She gushed in excitement, "I knew from the history books that Zim is recognized as a tactical genius...but I never imagined." She said trailing off staring at the proud Irken in the training room. “he must have noticed the entrance door meaning he deduced it would be more likely for the enemy to come from it, then the laser barrage worked both as a distraction as a way to set a trap weakening the structure so it would fall on the enemy…then when he was sent flying by the bot he took advantage to weaken the exterior shell of its head making it more easy to be damage” Becky gushed writing down as fast as she could “ohhhh this is amazing…oh if I could only know how he knew it would be a robot in the first place…”

Betty giggled quite deciding she have found a favorite in the class.

“The trap could also work with other enemies apart from the robot” said the red head turning to the class “after all with a weakened structure any type of energy or physical impact could lead to the same result” she explained “that’s why a good guardian knows how use the field and if you can’t then you must learn to turn it into your favor”

As the Cadets either frowned in thought or nodded in assessment to Betty. Roger found himself glaring in utter rage and contempt at the smug bug in the training room.

And as his blood boiled, he gained a small evil smirk as Betty last words echoed in his mind, into your favor. Yes, he could still swing things in his favor he thought reaching for the training room level control.

 "Well then." He said with his evil smirk, "Since it's clear level 8 isn't enough to challenge the hero of doomsday." He said with slight undertone of disdain at the title, "We'll have to give our esteemed guest the challenge he desires." Roger than gave a chuckle as Betty looked over at concern, "And what better way to do it…” He turned the dial all the way to level 11 the maximum danger level of the training room restricted to only the most elite and skilled of the galactic guardians "That giving him the highest and best the training room has to offer!"

He chuckled evilly ready to unleash hell.

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As the Cadets either frowned in thought or nodded in assessment to Betty. Roger found himself glaring in utter rage and contempt at the smug bug in the training room.

And as his blood boiled, he gained a small evil smirk as Betty last words echoed in his mind, into your favor. Yes, he could still swing things in his favor he thought reaching for the training room level control.

 "Well then." He said with his evil smirk, "Since it's clear level 8 isn't enough to challenge the hero of doomsday." He said with slight undertone of disdain at the title, "We'll have to give our esteemed guest the challenge he desires." Roger than gave a chuckle as Betty looked over at concern, "And what better way to do it…” He turned the dial all the way to level 11 the maximum danger level of the training room restricted to only the most elite and skilled of the galactic guardians "That giving him the highest and best the training room has to offer!"

He chuckled evilly ready to unleash hell.

"…Roger?....ROGER?!!!"

Until the yelling of Betty called his attention.

"I wasn't doing anything!!!" he cried.

"Teah, I see that" said the red head unimpressed "I said activate the re-start protocol and set the room for level one…it's time for the cadets to take their battle tests"

The blonde boy looked at the room as Zim moved towards the exit platform to take him to the observation level.

"But…but…was that all?" he asked wanting to know why he won't have the chance to crush the bug

"Unfortunately, yes" said Betty "I…I mean…WE would like to see more but we got reminded that the trip is already behind schedule…so the cadets need to do this now"

 "Ah well are you sure?" He asked nervously before giving a strained grin, "After once in life opportunity to see hero of doomsday in action and all that." He said with a forced laugh

 Betty raised an eyebrow.

"sigh...Agree but let's not forget the cadets are on a schedule and they are already close behind" she added.

"I do will admit I wouldn't mind see what the larvae can do" said Zim as it was never a bad idea try to find weaknesses on future enemies/slaves.

 "Oh oh OH!" The excited fanboy raised a hand with the largest possible grin, "it would be a honor to have Ultra Zim watch me take this battle test!"

 "love the enthusiasm cadet" said Betty "ok you're up" she turned to the others "any other volunteer?

 "I'll go.." The feline girl said stepping up with a eager expression

 Betty smiled.

"Very well…now you two get into the arena" she then called her fellow guardian "Roger can you send me the student list?" she would like to know who the rest of the group was and to see their stats.

 "Ah but of course.." Roger said turning to do so while doing his best to hide his disappointed scowl that only grew when that miserable bug walked into the operating room, "

 He sent something through their communicators.

Betty blinked.

"Roger this is a picture of you smiling" she deadpanned at him

 "I know and doesn't that bring a smile to your face~" Roger said with a chuckle sweeping his gorgeous hair back while shooting Betty a wink as she scowled in annoyance with a twitching brow, "Zim thinks this fool has a bigger ego than Dib stinks head.." Zim muttered off to the side not even realizing the hypocrisy in his words

 "The list Roger!" called Betty with more anger as the two chosen cadets entered the arena.

Roger scoffed.

"tch..fine" the blonde guardian called sending another archive.

Fortunately, this time it does was the list.

"Ok let's see…" Betty found the names "Wilykit of Thundera and Sheen Estevez from Mektar…oh! he is an ultra-lord...I wouldn't have guested" she admitted.

 "Hmm ultra lord?" Zim questioned looking over toward her with a blink while rubbing his chin trying to recall if he had heard of them

 "their specie are symbiotically linked to a swarm of nano bio-metallic beings that use their bodies as a hive" explained Betty "and in exchange they can use them to create armors around them that amplified their strength and agility alongside being able to produce weapons"

 "Oh Zim believes he knows the race you're talking about!" He said snapping his fingers in realization before frowning in thought, "Zim actually thinks he met one before come to think of it." He admitted rubbing his chin

 "Really? When?" asked Betty

 "Hmm well.." Zim hummed out trying to bring his mind back to the when

(Flashback years ago)

In the depths of Irken space in the the halls of Prison Lab Station 13 where dangerous experiments were done for the glory and progress of the Irken Empire war machine Zim recently transferred under the belief he'd be one of the scientists when actually it was a attempt to get him out of the way as a guinea pig at most was grumbling as he was making his way down the hall, "Stupid cafeteria worker how dare they serve the last pizza to someone other than Zim!"

The annoyed irken exclaimed out before shaking a fist, "They will suffer Zims mighty wrath for denying me the last slice!" He called out with a dark scowl

 Unseen by the Irken a camera was following her movements.

"Huff…what an idiot" on a room another Irken (wearing a white version of the invader uniform) commented "no wonder the Tallests sent him to be use as test for our more recent bioweapon"

Because seriously ever since arriving on the station Zim had been driving everyone up the wall with his ego and craziness, "Well...he'll soon be out of all our antenna soon enough.." The irken said with a dark chuckle as he cast a glance at another monitor, 'because this monitor will tear through him like a pack of slaughtering rat people through a screaming prisoner~"

 And with that he pushed a button and a door opened.

(With Zim)

At the same time the lights on Zim´s hallway suddenly went off.

 "Huh!?" Causing the irken in question to freeze mid ranting tirade before looking around the darkness in confusion, "What is this!?" He yelled out angrily with a dark scowl trying to find his way through the dark, "Zim knows this place was helpless before he showed up, but don't tell me that the power is malfunctioning now?!"

He demanded with annoyance before huffing out, "No wonder the Tallest sent Zim to whip this facility into shape." He muttered before pausing as Zim swore he could hear something in the darkness

 CLANK!!

Although in that moment the floor under him suddenly open (revealing a trap door) and he fell down through a long tunel

"UFFF!!"

Before falling into a big round room with multiple doorways

 "Urg...someone is so going to be doom for that." The Irken groaned out rubbing his head as he stood up before looking around with a frown, "Now where is Zim now?"

 BZZZZ

"in the testing pit!" the voice of the head scientist called "and the place where you will meet your end Zim!"

 "Eh test...Zim needs no testing!" Zim repeated with a blink before calling out angrily, "Why are you wasting Zim's valuable time?!" He demanded glaring up at the ceiling in annoyance

"Grrrr we are not testing you!!!" called the scientist "we are testing IN you!!" he yelled "you have been nothing but a pain in the squeedily spooch for TOO LONG! And now we will get rid of you!!"

"What?!" Zim demanded scowling angrily, "This is treason the Tallest will have your head for this!?" He cried angrily shaking a fist, "Not to mention a clearly pathetic jealous attempt to get rid of Zim's superior intelligence!"

"HA if anything the Tallest will reward me greatly once you are nothing but wastes of the new bioweapon project!!"

Then a door opened and a snarl and multiple feet-like-sounds began to be heard coming from a hallway.

ZIm turned on it just to see a gigantic spider creature with green eyes, hooked front legs and five purple crystals coming from its back.

 Zim scowled at the creature before barking a laugh, "This is your weapon!?" He called out laughing mockingly, "Zim fears no overgrown bug!" He called out with a mocking if slightly forced smile while taking a uneasy step back

 "In fact…ZIM WILL MAKE BUG-JUICE OUT OF IT!!" he called as the holes on his PAK opened"

However the crystals on the spider´s back began glowing and Zim´s PAK sparked.

"whaaaaaaat!!!!"

"HAHAHAHAHAHAHA FEAR MY CREATION!" the scientist laughed "the new prototype of the techno-terror arachnid is a success!!" he called in delight "it create a small EMP field around it…nothing technological will work close to it!"

"Ah...that's...mildly impressive...Zim supposes.." The irken admitted with a much more nervous look now to the spider creature which gave out a angry hiss, "Ah but Zim just remembered.."

The irken took a step back as the spider took a step forward, "Zim has left a very important experiment unattended so Zim must be going now!" He called out before attempting to break out into a run

HISSSSSS

With the spider rushing after him.

"HAHAHAHA RUN ZIM RUN HAHAHAHAHA!" the scientist laughed.

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!" And as the scientist laughed Zim ran as fast as he could around the testing chamber trying to spot a way out there were a number of doors in the room but for all he knew there could be another one of these hideous bug things behind them!

HISSS

Although there is also the ACTUAL HIDEOUS BUG chasing him

Without much options Zim choose a door and rushed towards it

"Zim is not bug food!" He screamed out as the spider hissed out behind him

Rushing into the hallway, Zim tried to activate any of the tools of his PAK to either go faster or try to defend himself.

But the proximity of the spider made it impossible as he seems to be still inside the EMP field

"Urg cursed multi legged abomination how dare it mess with Zim's equipment!" Zim growled out as he continued to run as fast as he could in his strategical retreat which is exactly what this was because Zim was no cowardly baby smeet that ran from a mere inferior bioweapon insect!

 HISSSS

the BIG inferior bioweapon!!!

the corridor had an interception of left and right coming ahead

 And naturally Zim took right because Zim was always right....

PEW

PEW

PEW

PEW

And immediately doubled back to take the left corridor instead when he came afoul of attack drones

SWING

SWING

having to duck under two giant spikes coming from the walls

Than jump over what appeared to be a pit of fire, "WHAT KINDA CRAZY RESEARCH LAB IS THIS!?" Zim found himself screeching feeling the heat of the flames at his back

"One were we test on those that we dont want to ever live again!" the scientist laughed in delight

"ZIM WILL DOOM YOU FOR THIS!" Zim cried out to the laughing voice with a dark glare up to the ceiling

"hahahaha if anything your death will cover me with glory!!!" the head scientist called back

Zim gritted his teeth truly whatever traitor behind this was begging for the Tallest to punish him greatly that is if he survived Zim's wrath which Zim doubted highly!

HISSSSSSS!

Though the angry hissing behind him and a glance over his shoulder seeing the spider creature still chasing after him reminded him of his current circumstances

PEW

PEW

PEW

Made all the worst with him having to dodge fire from attack drones hovering by the spider monster as well

Wait...the drones were working?

shouldnt they be also be affected by the so-called EMP field?

PEW!!

AHA!!! the drones must be impervious to it (somehow) if he managed to get even one of them he could use his superior intelligence to adapt his PAK and be able to use his weapons.

"HAHAHAHAHA SILLY SCIENTIST!!! ZIM´S SUPERIOR MIND HAS SEEN YOUR WEAKNESS HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!"

"Weakness?" The scientist scoffed out with a large smirk, "Please the EmSpider has no weakness!" He boasted out laughing, "it fries any technology not prepared pre hand to block out it's specific energy signature!"

He explained smugly, "And from the looks of it it's only a matter of time before it's gets it's jaws on you and rips you apart!"

 HISSS

"Not if it cant catch Zim!!!" called the invader turning a quick left into another corridor..his eyes however were on the ceiling were he already could see multiple air ducks

 And as a Drone appeared floating beside him he gave a dark eager smirk as he quickly and flawlessly acted by jumping on the drone...which proceeded to fly straight to the spider, "AAAAAAAAAAA!"

Zim screamed as the spider hissed out opening it's hungry jaws dripping with venom but the irken pulled at the drone with all his might causing it to fly up and with a grunt managed to steer it directly to the air ducks

PEW

PEW

PEW

Only for the other drones to launch their attacks toward his commandeered ride causing Zim to be flung off with a scream toward the vent

CLANK!!!

With enough force for him to go through the duck into the vents

"ugggg!! im not hurt!!" Zim declared

PEW
PEW
PEW
PEW
PEW

and immediately had to crawl as the drones began firing into the vent

And the Irken yelled out as he crawled as fast as he could, "You will not destroy Zim so easily!" He declared with vehemence, "And Zim will make you rue this day...RUE IT!" He yelled out crawling as fast as he could

"Grrr dont you think you can escape Zim!!!" the scientist called through the speakers "I will find and destroy you!!!"

 "Not if Zim destroys you first!" The irken yelled right back with a scowl

 (outside the station)

A purple ship (that looked like a cross between a space ship and a motorcycle) approached the station.

"This is Maximus...i found the Irken station!" driving the ship was a muscular man covered in a purple armor with a mask/helmet with grey eyes "if our sources are right multiple prisoners are inside!"

 "Be careful Ultra Lord Maximus sir our sources also say this might be one of the empires most valuable and secure facilities.." A voice said over the communication line, "there's no telling what kinda weapons, secrets, or dangers are inside that station."

"HA good..would hate this to be an easy mission" the ultra lord joked "i will find a way in, find the prisoners and teach whoever is inside that you dont kidnap people on MY sector!"

"All while making sure everyone's returned home safely and giving those irkens a parting gift to remember~" He said with a low laugh as he looked upon the facility smirking as he saw the security drones activate and proceed to open fire

He materialized a shield to block the shots and then throw it at the machines.

BOOM!!!

Blowing two

BAM!!

and then rushed punching a third into pieces

He than accelerated his ship straight toward one machine dodging it's shots as two drones followed him before peeling up at the last moment causing them to crash straight into the turret

BOOM

With him soon hitting a button that caused him to be shot out to the space station, "ULTRA LORD JUSTICE!" He shouted out with a wide grin

KABOOM!!!

And punch his way INTO the station itself

BAUM
BAUM
BAUM
BAUM

Alarms began flaring on the control room where the head scientist was

"WHAT!?" The scientist exclaimed out in confusion before turning to the security feed and his eyes widen when he saw the sight of Ultra Lord Maximus attacking and infiltrating the facility, "A ultra lord here?!"

He exclaimed out with open disbelief before giving a low growl, "The gall of this fool to think he can attack a irken facility much less Prison Lab 13.." He said his hands quickly tapping away at some commands, "well he'll regret this defiance once he finds himself as our newest lab rat!"

"Sir should we tell the Tallest about this?" called another of the scientists

"NO!" The head scientist snapped with a glare to him, "If the Tallest find out we let this happen on our watch we'll be right after Zim in being fed to the bio weapon!" He exclaimed with a wild eye look of fear and anger at that possibility

"Grr...prepare to activate the inner defenses and guide that muscled brute towards the EmSpider!" he called "and where is Zim?!"

"he is still in the air conducts!" called another scientists "he is moving fast and soon will be out the range of the EMP field"

"Grr well get him out of the conducts than!" The head scientist snapped with a glare to his subordinates, "The last thing we need right now is that moron screwing around when we have a intruder to deal with!" He growled out before roaring out, "So just kill him already!"

"Activating turbines...we will try blowing him out" called another Irken as he typed the command

Meanwhile in the air ducts Zim gave a pause while still attempting his strategic retreat as he swore he could hear something and the next thing he knew a large powerful gust of wind hit him

"WAAAAAAAHHHHHH AH AH AH AH AH AH AH!!!" sending him tumbled and hitting the walls of the duct again and again and again until he fell out of one

"UFF!" And landing with a pain grunt in another section of the station, "Urg...Zim...is so going to...double doom...someone..for this." He muttered out as he stood back up rubbing his aching head only to blink as he started to hear voices, "It's one of the irkens." "But what he's doing falling from the vents?"

He blinked and looked around realizing he was surrounded by cells with laser bars with the prisoners staring at him with a mixture of fear and anger

Zim blinked...the holding cells!!!

An idea came to mind..there must be at least a dozen or so prisoners here...perfect number to be an effective shield/distraction to keep that horrible bug busy while he capture one of those drones.

Ohh Zim´s brains did it again!!!!

"Hahahaha be thankful prisoners!!!" he called "today you shall follow Zim !!!!"

At that the prisoners went still at the name, "Wait did he say Zim?" One alien that appeared to be like a living crystal exclaimed out in a hushed out whisper, "Like the Zim?!" Another younger slug like alien with red hair and nasally voice said awe these and more were whispered out before the prisoners started to chant Zim's name, "Zim, Zim, ZIM!"

Causing the irken to give a surprised blink before grinning smugly

"hahahaha yes prisoners!! Victory for Zim!!!" called the Irken basking in the glory for a moment before rushing to the master control of the cells

 So lost in his ego he didn't hear their awed whispers at the hero of doomsday coming to save them as he wasted no time in ingeniously hacking the masters control

WHACK WHACK

By pounding as hard as he could onto it destroying it

 CRASH!!

fortunately it seems that did work as the system got overloaded and all the bars dispelled allowing the prisoners out.

"VICTORY FOR ZIM!!!" celebrated the invader

 "VICTORY FOR ZIM!" The prisoners all cheered out as they started to evacuate the cells before gathering around the irken who before he knew it was being tossed up and down in the air as they chanted his name

 "hahahah yes cheer for Zim!" the alien called in delight "but we have to move!!" he added "there is still that nasty bug Zim must defeat!!!"

 "We are with you Zim!" Called out a large green armored alien that Zim recognized as a Gorlock, "Gorth swears we shall bring to death to our enemies in your name!' The gorlock Gorth said punching a fist into his open palm with a snarl

"Good!" called Zim "Zim needs all the flesh and muscle you all have!!!" she declared "lets move out everyone!!" he ordered moving down the cell hallway

(In the command center)

"Sir!! emergency!!" one of the irken called "a report came from the cells!! the prisoners escaped!!!"

"What?!" The lead scientist yelled as he grabbed the irken roughly by their uniform glaring straight into their eyes as they growled out in a murderous tone, "HOW!?" causing the irken to gulp nervously as he stuttered out one name, "Z-zim.." causing the lead scientist to growl in frustration as he threw the irken to the side, "Urg of course that defect couldn't just die like a good lab rat!"

He exclaimed out in frustration grabbing at his antenna before taking several deep breaths than barked out a order, "I want that defect and those prisoners ripped to pieces and their remains blasted to atoms, and I want it NOW!"

"On that note our internal defenses are herding the Ultralord towards Zim´s location" called another Irken "they shall cross paths soon"

"Perfect than we can deal with all these irritant in one fell swoop!" the head scientist declared with a cackle, "in fact the ultra lord should make for the perfect test subject against the EmSpiders capabilities~"

they said rubbing their hands together with a dark smile

"Opening paths for the EmSpider to guide it towards the subjects!" another Irken called.

(With Zim)

The irken grinned as he guided his make-shit army/meat shields back into the corridors of the testing maze.

Of coarse they were eager to follow Zim...they seems to be quite smart wanting to serve the best Irken around so he will give them points for that

However Zim was brought out of his thoughts when one of his meat shields spoke up, "Uh..I know this probably isn't the time or place sir.." Spoke out the nervous slug like alien as they adjusted their spectacles, "but what are you of all people doing here?" He asked as they made their ways through the hall

"Huff...Zim was sent here" answered the Irken "and that miserable would be-scientist tried to test his new ridiculous bug on me...ME!!!"

The irken exclaimed out in insult and rage before growling out, "Oh Zim will be having words with the Tallest about this indignity!" He vowed because surely the Tallest would want to know of this treason and the attempt on the life of their favorite Irken soldier he thought with a dark smirk

Of course the prisoners took his words the wrong way believing that Zim had been sent here as a prisoner just like the rest of them before escaping and setting them free and was already swearing vengeance on the Tallest themselves for this, "Hehahah truly you are a warrior without fear Zim~"

Spoke out Gorth with a large approving grin he himself also wouldn't mind having "words" with the tallest if ever given the chance

"HA! Zim knows!!! and know i will show that putrid excuse of Irken waste that nothing can put zim down!!!!" he declared in dramatic tone.

WHAM!!!!

only for a round shield to collided to his face.

"stop right there Irken scum!!!" Ultra lord called after hitting Zim

 Gorth at this growled and got ready to attack this apparent enemy before the crystal alien spoke out, "Wait that's a Ultra Lord not a enemy!" he called out placing a hand on Gorth's arm, "But he attacked Zim!"

The Gorlock growled out with a glare causing Ultra Lord Maximus to give a surprised blink, "Zim?" He repeated the name with slight shock and surprise because surely it couldn't be

 "ugggg...Zim didnt feel that" the irken said seeing stars before falling back down

"By Ultra Lords of old it really is him?!" Ultra Lord Maximus exclaimed out in disbelief recognizing the face that the people could put to the name Zim or what they had managed to gather on the hero of doomsday, "I am so sorry comrade I mistook you for a enemy!"

He called out offering his hand to help the irken up

"uggg...eh...all fine" Zim said in confused tone as she tried to recover from the hit "who..who are you?"

"Ah of course I am Ultra Lord Maximus!" The ultra lord called out taking a heroic pose, "Hero and leader of Planet Mektar!" He took yet another heroic pose, "here to rescue the prisoners taken from their homes by the evils of the irken empire!"

he declared grandly and you guess it heroically

Zim shook his head...An ultra lord? Where had he heard that one before? doesnt matter right now...it seems he found another pawn to help keep the spider busy.

"YOU WONT DO ANYTHING!!" the voice of the head scientist called "BECAUSE YOU AND THE REST ARE ABOUT TO BE FOOD FOR MY CREATION!!!"

This caused Zim attention and his re surging anger to focus back on the voice of that backstabbing scientist, "ZIM FEARS NOT YOUR UGLY BUG!" The irken declared dramatically while pointing up to the ceiling

The prisoners cheered too.

"YOU WILL!!" the scientist called as the walls suddenly sink and open to leave the place bared as everyone could hear the steps of something big approaching

With Zim grimacing taking a step back though the other prisoners mistook it as him readying himself for a fight, "Uh Zim sir?" The slug alien spoke nervously up looking warily at the opening ,"What kinda bug did you say we're dealing with again?" He asked nervously and a moment later he got his answers

HIIIIIIISSSSSS! As the form of the EmSpider revealed itself with a angry hiss, "EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!" Causing a loud feminine screech to pierce the air...with the prisoners blinking toward the source that being the slug alien boy who looked ready to faint

"Dont worry citizen!!" called Ultralord ready to fight "I..." only for the crystals on the spider back to glow again..and suddenly the armor of the man dispelled

 Revealing a man with a black haired buzz cut and black body suit with a surprised expression on his face

 "Ehhhhh...ok....what?!"

HISSSSS!!!

he didnt have time to think as the spider charged against the group

 "ATTACK!" Zim roared out with the intention of leaving while the creature was busy tearing them to shreds

 "FOR GLORY OF DEATH!!!!" Gorth cried before rushing in

This caused the other prisoners to give out their own battles cries as they all charged forward leaving Zim standing by Ultra Lord Maximus

"Well what are you waiting for?!!!" called Zim at the now disarmed lord

"My nano swarm hive has somehow been neutralized." Ultra Lord Maximus told him with a frown looking at his clenched fists, "i'm still trained in combat but.." He glanced over to the hero of doomsday, "something tells me we need more than brute forced to triumph this day."

"Grrr its that spider power!!! however not all technology is deactivated!" called Zim pointing to the only remaining exit of the room where some drones where set to stop anyone from leaving "I need to get one of those drones!

"Sounds like a plan to me." Ultra Lord Maximus said with a grin and before Zim could blink he was thrown onto Maximus shoulder as the man charged toward the drones, "ULTRA BATTLE CRY!"

"Hey HEY!!!!" Zim cried as the duo charged in.

Drones soon began shooting at them with the Ultra lord actually evading the attacks while Zim cried on his shoulders

With Ultra Lord Maximus dodging each blast with a battle cry mistaking Zim panic screaming for his own battle cry, "Let me go!" The irken screamed out angrily, "you got it!" Ultra Lord called back with a smirk misunderstanding what Zim meant as he grab him and than threw him as hard as he could to one of the attacking drones

"WAAAAAAAHHHHHH!!" the irken landed on the drone who began flying around trying to get its passenger off... "uggg stupid drone submit to zim!!!" he cried using his hands to try pry open the chassis

with the drone soon weaving and waving in the air ramming into other drones as sparks went out as Zim worked and examined it's inner machinery before it started to zoom down to Ultra Lord while dodging blasts from the other drones in erratic fashion

"HAHAHAHA NOT ENOUGH TO HIT ME!!" called the ultra lord "HANG IN THERE ZIM!!!"

"ZIM FEELS SICK!" The irken cried out as the drone continued to fly erratically with him feeling like he was going to throw up

BLAGGG

And he did.

But in turn this blocked the lens of the machine causing it to crash onto a wall..falling down deactivated.

"uggg....Vic...ugg..victory for zim!" called the Irken

who gave a groan as he sat up just in time for Ultra Lord to slide next to him, "Excellent work Zim!" Ultra Lord praised with a grin, "now than.." he frowned glancing at the drones remains, "lets see if we can figure out how to reawaken my nano hive."

"uggg..brrr" Zim shocked his head "there must be something that is interfiring with the EMP...a way to shield the drone from its effects"

"I think i have it!" called the Ultra Lord pulling out what looked like a glowing small blue battery out the drone

"That's it!" Zim cried out snatching the blue battery out of Ultra Lords hands with a wide grin, "This is what we need to even the playing field against that stupid insect!" The irken cried out triumphantly before quickly getting to work as the meat shields likely weren't going to hold up that much longer

Well in part he was right as the great majority were knocked away..but the Gorlock somehow managed to get on its back and ride it like a raging bull

"Hehahaha like riding morbuck worms of gorlorn canyon!" Gorth cheered out with a laugh as the hissing spider attempted to buck and shake him off

Meanwhile Zim connected his PAK with the battery using spare cables from the drone.

"Ok ultra lord...connect the cables!!!" he called at Maximus that had two cables from the drone ready to crosswire them

With Ultra Lord giving a nod and following the order and in the next moment both Zims and his bodies shook with electric blue energy coursing through them

"UGGG AHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!" of course such current was quite BIG for Zim as the energy traveled into his PAK which had to adapt to it

"Urrrrg." With Ultra Lord gritting his own teeth from the shock as he felt his nano hive reactivate and his armor start to reform on his body, "It's ultra working Zim!" He exclaimed out with a laugh

"HAHAHAHAHA OF COARSE ITS WORKING!!!" called the invader feeling her PAK coming online "NOW FEEL THE WRATH OF ZIM!!!!" he cried deploying multiple laser tentacles and opening fire on the spider

"AND FACE ULTRA JUSTICE!" called out Ultra Lord as his armor completely reformed and he deployed a blaster on his wrist opening fire as well

Gorth leaped out the spider in time for the barrage of attacks to hit it making it hiss in pain

"HHEHHAHHAHAHAAH FACE ZIMS FURY!" And as Gorth had to smirk as he saw Zim engaged the beast with true warriors passion truly people were right to revere the hero of doomsday as it was clear that Zim was not a cowardly troq like the rest of his species

"WHAT!!!!" the head scientist exclaimed in fury "How is this possible!!!!?"

A screech of fury that was heard over the still on intercom causing Zim to laugh, "It's possible because Zim says it is!"

the invader turned to a camera (while ultra lord kept firing on the spider)

"surrender now and face doom!!!" ordered Zim

"And Ultra Justice!" Called in Ultra Lord in agreement as the scientist growled out, "No..no..NOOOO!" He snapped banging on the control panel, "I'LL SEE YOU ALL BURN AND YOUR REMAINS DISSECTED!"

with that he pulled a lever.

in the chamber suddenly the floor began opening showing a deep chasm from where the wounded spider fell.

Meanwhile the only open door began closing

"The exit!" Cried out the slug alien worriedly, "We need to leave now!" Added in the crystal alien as he picked up the slug alien as the crowd of prisoners started to run toward the closing door with the sentry drones launching their blasts straight at them in the process

 Ultra Lord jumped in front of them with a shield ready to cover them.

"BEHIND ME!!" he called.

 With the prisoners moving to follow with Zim as well taking position growling, "Urg if that coward believes that Zim will meet his end today he is even more of a fool than Zim thought!" He yelled out over the fire as he unleashed his pak legs opening fire with them toward the drones while Gorth laughed with glee next to him, I couldn't agree more!" The gorlock said cracking his neck getting feeling the blood pump, "lets us show the irken empire our might!"

 "ACTIVATE ALL THE DEFENSES!!! BURN THEM DOWN!!!" the lead scientist cried in madness

 At that the technicians moved hurriedly to follow the orders as defenses were set loose from lasers, drones, buzz saws, and more it was complete pandemonium as the prisoners rushed to survive and escape, "Hehahaha it is a honor to fight alongside a legend!"

Gorth called out to Zim as they found themselves fighting by each others side, "Should we both survive I promise my daughter to you to repay my debt!" Gorth yelled out as he ripped a drone in two believing that a legendary warrior like the hero of doomsday could make a good mate for his little April

 "HAHAHAHA YOU HAVE SHOWN TO BE A GREAT SPECIMEN!" called Zim back "WILL LOVE TEST YOU IN AN ARENA AT SOME POINT ALONGSIDE THAT DAUGHTER!!!" called Zim back imagining all the tests and entertaining battles this one could give the Tallests

 This caused Gorth to laugh once again misunderstanding Zims intentions, "Something to look forward to after we're done here than~" The gorlock said with a wide grin imaging Zim and his family facing each other or fighting side by side in a battle arena putting their mantle to the test his daughter facing him on one on one combat to truly test his capability as a mate, "For now.."

He gave a bloodthirsty grin, "LET US BRING DEATH TO OUR ENEMIES!" He roared out punching a drone back

"GRRRRR ZIM!!!!" the lead scientist called in anger "All drones target him!!!!"

Something Zim noticed and as the drones targeted and raced toward him while firing he deployed his pak legs to leap back into the air to avoid their shots, "YOU WILL NOT TAKE ZIM!"

With that he began rushing down another hallway.

"ZIM!!" one of the aliens called.

"the Irkens are focusing on him!" the crystal boy called "he must know this and is trying to keep them focus on him!"

"he is giving us a chance to escape" said Ultra Lord in awe

"A true warrior to the end." Gorth said with a nod all of them in awe and impressed at the bravery of the hero of doomsday as they could even hear his fierce battle cry in the distance, "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH!!"

"WE WILL MEET AGAIN ZIM...I WILL HONOR MY PROMISE!!!" he declared hitting his chest.

Before turning to the sound of Ultra Lords voice, 'Quickly now we can't waste the chance Zim's bought us!" He called out over to the prisoners before proceeding to lead the way down a hall heading directly to the stations hanger bay

"The prisoners are going towards the hanger!" a scientist called "they will try steal one of our transports!!"

"I DONT CARE!!!" the lead called "I WANT THAT ANNOYING PEST OF ZIM GONE!!!"

The leader scientist had a wild look in his eyes and seemed to be foaming a bit at the mouth, "He's been nothing but a pain in my and the rest of the Empire squeedily spooch..AND I WANT DEAD DEAD DEAD!!!!"

And he began typing commands on his terminal activating all drones and traps he could after the invader

"Die you miserable little defect...DIE!" The head scientist cackled out madly while the other irkens exchanged nervous looks

While Zim himself, "AAAAAAAAAAAAAH!" Was screaming his lungs out while running as fast as his paks legs could take him trying to survive the onslaught of drones and traps

It was only thanks to his sharp reflexes and superior combat skills (AKA pure dumb luck) that he was able to outlast and defend against the attackers.

But even he knew he couldnt do this forever...he needed a plan..a way to turn things around...to...

Zim blinked when he suddenly noticed where he was.

Between the twist and turns, moving walls and closing doors..it seems he was herd directly to the main core room of the station

Which meant..."HAHAHAHA!" Zim suddenly burst out in laughter as the realization hit, "Just as Zim planned!" He exclaimed with triumphant glee as he quickly wasted no time heading toward a control panel

"Only need to cut out the energy of the station which would in turn deactivate the defenses" he said to himself "then I only need to go arrest that traitor and tell the Tallests about this!"

"They will surely punish him harshly for attempting to kill Zim with that inferior bio weapon while forcing me to free those prisoners.." He said with a scowling mutter as he got to work eager to see the Tallest enact vengeance on the traitor

with that he tried to get access to the system..only to rejected...and again..and again...

And when this happened again...Zim got angry.

"STUPID MACHINE OBEY ZIM!!!!" he called...before blasting the console...and hitting the main core just behind it.

Red alarms began crying.

"REACTOR COMPROMISE!!!" a scientist cried "EXPLOSION IMMINENT!!!"

 "WHAT HOW!?" The lead scientist cried out, "ITS ZIM HES IN THE CORE ROOM!" Another scientist called out frantically pulling up security feed, "AAAARRRGGG!" Roared out the head scientist as they punched their fist through one of the screens

 "We need to evacuate!!! Send a distress signal to the closest fleet!!!" another irked called in fear

As the surrounding scientists panic and moved to flee the head of Prison Lab Station 13 stood there with gritted teeth, "Damn...you...ZIIIIIIMMMM!" Before roaring out that cursed name

A madness look feel on his face.

"BUT IF IM GOING DOWN IM TAKING YOU WITH ME!" he cried as he began typing in his console looking for the command of the escape pots"

"SIR WHAT ARE YOU DOING!?" Cried out one of the technicians frantically, "MAKING SURE THAT DAMN DEFECT DOESN'T ESCAPE!" Answered the head scientist with a wild look of promised vengeance in their eyes

"BUT..BUT...THE ULTRA LORD BLEW MANY OF THE SHIPS ON THEIR WAY OUT!!...WE NEED THOSE PODS!!!" cried the Irken trying to stop the leader

"I DONT CARE!" The head scientist snapped kicking back the irken, "ALL THAT MATTERS IS THAT ZIM DIES TODAY!" He said cackling madly as he slammed his fist down on the controls

EMERGENCY DEPLOYMENT OF ESCAPE PODS ACTIVATED, "NO!" Cried out all the other Irkens in the room, "HEHHHAHAHAHAHH YES YES!" The head scientist laughed in wild twisted glee, "WE MIGHT DIE BUT WE'RE TAKING THE EMPIRE BIGGEST PROBLEM WITH US!"

"BUT SIR!!!! SOME OF THE PODS ARE CLOSER TO THE CORE CHAMBER!!!" called the Irken in desperation!!!

At that the head scientist froze as he remembered that little fact, "WHAT!?" Before shoving a irken out of the way as he called up security feed of Zims last location only to pale when he saw the irken in question jumping into a escape pod, "No..no...NOOOOOOOOOO!" He screamed out in fury as another voice spoke up frantically

"THE SHIPS IN THE BAY HAVE BEEN DESTROYED AND THE PRISONERS HAVE ESCAPED!" A female technician than screamed out while pulling on her antenna as a realization hit her, "WE'RE ALL GOING TO DIE!"

Because with no escape pods or ships...there was no way off the station in time

"AHHHHHH!!!!!"

"ZIIIIIIIIMMMMMMM!!!!!!"

And from a stolen transport the prisoners looked in awe as the station exploded into cosmic dust

"Is..is Zim...dead?" Asked the low voice of the slug alien as the prisoners muttered worriedly to each other ,"A true ultra hero to the end.." Ultra Lord Maximus said bowing his head in respect only for Gorth to let out a snort, "Something tells me it'll take more than that to put down that irken."

The Gorlock said with a slight smirk

"Multiple pods were ejected from the station" said a robot looking dude...maybe he was able to get into one"

"Yes...yes...you're right!" Exclaimed out Ultra Lord with a wide grin, "Something like this would not be the end of a hero like Ultra Zim!" He declared heroically in a pose, "mark my words he's out there ready and eager to continue the fight against the Irken Empire!"

he told the gathered prisoners restoring their morale and faith in their savior surviving

 "Yes...yes...you're right!" Exclaimed out Ultra Lord with a wide grin, "Something like this would not be the end of a hero like Ultra Zim!" He declared heroically in a pose, "mark my words he's out there ready and eager to continue the fight against the Irken Empire!"

he told the gathered prisoners restoring their morale and faith in their savior surviving

Meanwhile said savior, "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHH!" was currently screaming his lungs out as the escape pod through to the emergency evacuation mixed in with the force of the explosion and him attempting to quickly hotwire the pod for a quicker escape....ahd lead to the escape hurling through space at high speeds while heading straight to Irk

And meanwhile on Irks capital at the top of the highly guarded and luxurious Tallest estates Red and Purple were currently chilling back and enjoying some snacks, "So you think Zim's dead yet?" Purple asked while stuffing his face with some nachos

"Well that brainy drone promised us that his...weapon I think...would get rid of him" said Red with a sigh "which I hope he does because I dont want that annoyance anywhere close to us with the Big day so close"

 "Yeah it took us forever to fix the mess he made last time." Purple agreed with a scowl, "And having to start over AGAIN and call it operation impending doom 3 is the last thing I want." He said with a whine, "I mean that's just a stupid name!"

He said to Red who rolled his eyes but gave a agreeing nod, "yeah well hopefully it won't come to that and that pesk will finally be out of our antenna!" Red growled out clenching his soda before taking some sips, "Here, here!" Purple cheered out lifting up a cheesy nacho that he threw in his mouth before pausing as a loud whistling sound started to fill the air, "You hear something?"

He asked before both him and Red flinched as their rooms alarms started to go off and flash red, "WHATS HAPPENING!?" Yelled out Purple frantically as Red quickly moved summoning up a floating screen, "A unidentified object is hurling through Irks atmosphere!" Red called out with a frown, "WHAT?!"

However Purple couldn't hear him over the alarm causing him to growl, "I SAID SOMETHING IS CRASHING ON IRK!" Red yelled out, "WELL BLOW IT UP ALREADY!" Purple yelled back trying to cover his antenna from the loud screeching sirens

"Its sending a identification number!!" called a officer who rushed into the room but heard Purples shout "is one of us!!!"

"What?"

"Who?!"

Exclaimed out both Tallest turning to the officer only to have their question answered in the next second

BOOOM!

As the escape pod crashed right on top of their estate/palace

Everyone blinked at it..when the door of it exploded outwards

"I LIVE!!!!!!!" and Zim emerged in a victory pose

At this silence stood before the Tallest roared out together, "ZIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIMMMMMM!" Two twin roars of rage that echoed across all of irk at the realization that Zim refused to die again and that it was time to go back to the drawing board...hmm maybe sending him to Foodcourtia and Sizz Lorr will finally get him out of the way.

(End flashback)

"And that's what happen.." Zim said as he finished telling his viewpoint of the events with some edits so as to not let slip his true loyalty to the listening crowd composed of Better, Roger, and the cadets including Wilykit and Sheen in the training area, "looking back the Tallest were quite angry.."

He muttered out rubbing his chin while of course realizing why wouldn't they be upset after all that traitor tried to kill Zim!

"ULTRA WOAH!!!!" Sheen called in amazement.

"Yes Zim is amazing ~" The irken agreed with a smug smirk as the audience processed everything they just heard

"Incredible" said Betty in awe and delight of hearing more about her hero.

A small part of her felt a slight sting if jealousy at the parts about the Gorlock swearing his daughter to Zim but otherwise this was a amazing tale of Zims exploits against the irken empire

"tch if thats true one must ask how you are still alive" said flower girl not actually believing Zim´s words

"One must admit...or he is really skill or really lucky" the dual pupil girl added

 "Zim is the most skilled of all!" The irken exclaimed out in response basking in their awe and praise, "It would take more than a inferior bio weapon and exploding space station to doom Zim!"

 "unfortunately" Roger said in low tone.

"I will say im starting to believe that" said little Cato

 "A shame that biological creature had to be destroyed." The purple haired girl said while pouting

"Agree" called the dual pupil girl "no creature should be destroyed like that"

"Aha" Duncan said not caring "then how are we suppose to eat?"

 "After all I'll take me a steak over a salad any day." Duncan added with a smirk

 "Technically it all depends on the specie" said Becky "after all a full carnivorous specie wont that the same nutriment income if it tries to eat a salad.

"Oh thank you captain nerd..no one asked" mocked Duncan

 This caused Becky to send him a scowl, "Well.." Roger than cough for attention, "As fun story time has been we do have some testing to do." The man said with a annoyed jealous scowl at the irken being the center of attention

 "HE IS RIGHT!" called Sheen (much to everyone's surprise) "AND AFTER HEARING SUCH STORY IS MY DUTY TO HONOR THE FRIENDSHIP BETWEEN TWO GREAT HEROES AND GIVE ALL I HAVE!!!" he declared as his body began to be covered in a purple armor "ULTRA SHEEN!!!"

 At this declarations and the armor that formed on his body Wilykit took a nervous step back suddenly feeling she might of jump the gun for who shed be going against in this exam before firming her expression, "Don't expect to scare me off like some scaredy cat just because you got some toys!"

She snapped entering a crouched stance while getting her claws at the ready

 "hehehehe I like the enthusiasm" said Zim remembering some pit fights back on Irk "SHOW YOUR WORTH TO ZIM!!!!"

"You heard him cadets... BEGIN!" Betty shouted out officially beginning the first exam, "ULTRA POWER!" Sheen roared out activating some rocket boots before rocketing toward Wilykit who flipped over him using her agility to dodge the best she could

"WOAH!!!" Sheen had to give a sharp turn up to not crash onto the wall "ULTRA GREAT..BUT ULTRA SHEEN IS NOT DONE YET!!!"

"jeez he likes to say ultra too much" complained Duncan as the armored boy rushed trying to tackled the cat girl

"Actually that speech pattern is quite typical of Ultra Lords.." the purple haired girl said while pushing herself up using her hair while adding with a shrug, "At least it was when I visited their planet to study their nano hives."

"Ultra Lords could almost be considered comic-superheroes bring to life" added Becky "but that also give them a honor bound aptitude and a straight moral compass always trying to fight for justice and truth...or thats what the Manual of Galactic societies Vol XV says"

However Duncan just groaned out, "If I knew I'd have to listen to space nerds I probably would of sticked to juvie." He grumble out with a grimace while focusing back in on the action

"huff with that aptitude I will be surprise if you live a week in juvie" jabbed the Lexiconian back

"What's that supposed to mean!?" Duncan demanded with a glare

"oh im sorry I thought you didnt wanted to hear this nerd" called Becky again

As Duncan gave a slight growl Zuk snapped out, "Silence!" The irken called out with a slight glare, "And save your disputes for the arena!" The irken proclaimed while watching as Wilykit took out what appeared to be a slingshot after dodging Sheens last fly by with a roll.

"umm kat girl has the disadvantage when it comes to weapons..yet she is more agile" noted the invader

"she is from Thundera" pointed Betty "they have cat-like agility and reflex"

"Hmm impressive....but not quite as impressive as Zim or Atomic Betty." Zim said with a nod causing Betty to flush before coughing, "Well she's still just a cadet sir." Betty reminded him despite enjoying the praise

"yes but for what i heard..Thuderians are a warrior race arent they? they took over their planet after countless wars against other species on them" added Zim "so i would suspect she must have some previous training"

Zim than pointed to Wilykit, "She also has the eyes of a fighter." He added seeing the look in Wilykit eyes

"she has seen battle and has battle before" he added.

"really?" said Betty looking up the profile of the thunderian "thats weird...according to this she is the...fiance? of the Thundera prince" she looked confused at this "sent to test her fighting capabilities before marriage?"

 This comment certainly got the attention of the others, "Oh that is the romantic I believe the term is!" The boov cried out eagerly while the floating alien gave several bleep and beeps allowing the dual pupil girl to translate

 "Elli said she thinks so too" she said "although she is also surprise to see someone of royal blood being allowed to join a fighting force"

 "Hmm if you ask Zim true leaders always have experience in combat." The irken said with a nod and slight smirk

 "Umm on that i agree" said Cato "how can a leader order someone to fight when he has never do so himself?"

 "Indeed even the tallest were former invaders." Zim said with a nod remembering those days before Red and Purple were tallest and even than they adored the greatness that was Zim!

 "Well i suppose you must know how destroy planets in order to order them destroyed" said Duncan looking a bit bored

 Zim scowled but before he could snap Betty spoke up, "What Zim means that combat experience for leadership can be a great boon when leaders find themselves making calls related to military matters."

Betty explained with her own frown, "The tallest of the irken empire are sadly a good example of this with their attempt at operation impending doom."

 "and yet they were beaten by..this guy" said flower girl pointing at Zim "so not that great"

 "Do not speak lightly of the Tallest!" Zim snapped toward the girl before he could stop himself than froze remembering he was supposed to be a traitor he couldn't screw this up even for the loyalty to his Tallest and defending their name

"Zim is right" said Betty "you cant take neither the Irken Tallests nor any of our enemies lightly" she explained in professional tone "underestimating your enemy is a way for you to lose to them"

 "Yes but whatever the enemy threatens the universe you cadets ccan rest easy with Atomic Roger on duty." Before giving a slight annoyed groan when Roger spoke up

 Everyone turned to the blonde guardian with a deadpan expression before turning back to the duel.

Kit knew she wont be able to win as she was now...she certainly was more agile but she would get tired before she could even scratch that armor...she needed to think on...

wait!

What did Zim say? observation and element of surprise....maybe thats as the key?

 At that her eyes honed in on the flying Sheen paying close attention to how he was flying and the pattern of his passes

 Smiling she realized he took more speed each time he tries to tackled her...speed that force him to go straight for a little bit before turning up again.

She had an idea....first she needed to get closer to the wall

 And after the next dodge she quickly bounded over to the wall while the audience watched, "hmm seems like she has a plan." Zim said aloud watching with a curious gleam in his eyes

 "Come on Sheen! is that the best you can do?" called the cat girl "not ultra at all"

 At this Sheen actually let out a scandalized gasp, "I'll show you who's not ultra!" He called out as he started to zoom straight to Wilykit position, "Prepare to face the might of....ULTRA SHEEN!"

 And like last times he took speed as he dived on the cat girl at great speed.

Only this time when Kit managed to leap over him evading the attack, he realized he was TOO CLOSE to the wall...with no time to pull up.

CRASH!!!

which translated on him crashing on the wall so hard that every cadet flinched.

"pffff hahahahahahaha" well almost everyone "oh my lord hahahaha please tell me that is in video? hahahaha" Duncan cracked

"Well...all training sessions and exams are recorded for review." Betty admitted with a wince as that had to hurt while Zim himself let out a bark of laughter, "Yes yes excellent use of your surroundings."

He praised before yelling out, "Now finish it before your enemy recovers!" he called out not acknowledging this was a mistake he had made multiple times before with Dib-stink

"ugg..ultra sheen...is not..done.." Sheen (after peeling himself off the wall) stutter as he tried to advance.

HYAAAA!!!

only for Wilykit to ax-kick him sending him to the floor unconscious

 "Sorry but you're ultra done~" Wilykit said unable to resist the bad joke as she giggled, "Wonderful work!" Zim called out clapping his hands, "Not as good as Zim would of done it but still pretty good none the less!" the irken back handed complimented the thunderian while clapping his hands

 Kit smiled up at Zim feeling quite proud of herself.

"indeed..she adapted and thought of a wining strategy quite fast" added Betty before turning to the cadets "anyone can tell us what Sheen did wrong?"

"He got cocky and went in with no strategy?" Little Cato spoke up questioningly

"yes..he only tried to overpower Kit with only brute force over and over again" added Becky

The floating alien let out some beeps as the browned haired girl with dual pupils translated, "he let Wilykit take control of the situation by falling for her mocking."

"Excellent cadets" called Betty "all those points are correct" she said with pride "take in mind to never rush into battle, like Zim said information is key in a battle"

"Yeah yeah.." Duncan rolled his eyes, "Honestly the only information I need is how to throw a punch and make the other guy cry."

Betty narrowed her eyes on Duncan clearly not impressed by him.

"We will see..now...whos next? any takers?" asked the senior guardian

 "Hehe i'll go i'm in the mood to kick someones butt~" Duncan said cracking his knuckles

 "uff ok so your partner..." Betty thought about it "lets leave it to chance" she said activating a function to pull out a random name.

DING!

"OH the Boov" called the guardian

"What?!" Squeaked out the Boov as yellow ripples started to flash back across his skin while Duncan let out a sinister smirk and chuckle, "oh easy A here I come~"

"Mistake must have been done!! OH is no fighter!" called the Book clearly not wanting to go into the arena with the crazy boy

"Sorry but this is the test that all Cadets have to take." Betty told the boov apologetically, "Yes if you want to be a galatic guardian you must be prepared to fight and face overwhelming odds!"

Zim added in with his own flair

"OH prefere not-overwhelming odds!" called the Boov back.

"Come on OH dont tell me you scared of going down against that boy?" called Becky "I bet he is all bark no bite"

At that comment Duncan just grinned all the more menacingly toward the boov cracking his neck and knuckles as OH gulped

"Oh not sure about that!"

Zim huffed not wanting to lose any more time so used a claw tentacle form his PAK.

"A warrior knows to face his fears!!!" he declared using the tentacle to send the Boov into the arena

 "A little tough love sir?" Betty inquired with a arched brow as Duncan headed into the arena

 "Maybe" said Zim "but considering what he will have to face as a warrior later on its better start making him use to danger since the start!"

At that Betty and a few other cadets had to nod in agreement with criminals and threats like Maximus or the Irken Empire a galactic guardian had to be ready to face all sorts of dangers after all and with that statement the rest of the tests begun

With it kicking off with OH bravely......running away screaming as he waved his arms while Duncan chased after him

"So what we have here?" asked Zim looking at the race.

"well OH is a Boov...nothing that notable about him..apparently he was sent here as recommendation from his leader" said Betty "and I quote here by him saying..we ALL the Boov will like to have him with guardians...far away...end quote"

She explained with a blink and arched brow, "Huh...something about that wording...is familiar to Zim for some reason." The irken muttered out rubbing his chin with a slight confused expression

"As for Duncan...umm a trouble maker trough and through" said Betty "he actually was sent to us as an alternative instead of going to prison for a long time" she scoffed "multiple calls for fights, destruction of property and arsonist"

Zim and the other cadets blinked or arched brows at that, "Zim is surprised he was allowed to enlist as perspective guardian than." The irken said with a tilt of his head

"He impressed some with his ability to create weapons and explosives with little to none materials" said Betty "and his fight-win record is quite surprising"

"in other words his talents outweighed his sour personality to the recruiters." Little Cato said dryly with Betty giving a agreeing sigh, "Ah he just needs some stern discipline to whip himself into shape."

Roger said with a wave of his hand watching as Duncan kicked the Boov high up into the air after finally catching up with him, "And maybe a bit of boot camp." he added before wincing as what happen next caused him to actually feel sorry for that poor boov

"If thats the case I will recommend at least double of work with him" scoffed Betty as Duncan grabbed OH in the air and landed with a backbreaker

A sight that caused several cadets to wince and groan, "Zim believes that the victor is pretty clear here.." The irken said trying to not show his amusement and as much as he enjoyed the show he did have places to be and a plan to continue, "perhaps we should call it and move things along."

He added looking over to Betty

"Agree..." said Betty "and can someone please help OH out?" she added.

"Man just when I was starting to warm up" mocked Duncan walking out the arena leaving behind a hurt Boov

"I..think...my splort...is mixed with my bones.." The boov groaned out as the floating alien cadet and the brown haired girl gently helped him back to the others, "Next!"

Zim called out, "Hey we're the ones giving the exams here Irken!' Roger snapped only to wilt at Betty snap, "Roger!" "But.." He protested before grumbling as he turned his head away with crossed arms, "Now...who wants to go next."

Betty smiled over to the cadets as they exchanged looks before proceeding to the rest of the exams

First off was Little Cato vs Entrapta

"One of the..ruling nobles of her world" read Betty "her hair actually is her best weapon/tool as she can move it almost independly as multiple extra arms"

"Hmm quite a useful ability despite lacking raw power." Zim acknowledge stepping up to her side and reading the data, "The other is a Ventrexian royal the son of former high general Avocato who brought a end to the civil war of Ventrexia."

"The war where one general turned on the king and queen and kill them?" asked Becky

 "The one and the same.." Zim said with a nod as he read at the data banks inwardly quite impressed by this high general's ruthlessness, "Little Cato is his son sent here to help prepare him for the day when he assumes leadership."

 "must be quite the heavy burden being expected to lead a whole army at some point" said The dual pupil girl before turning to Wilykit "is that the same to be expected be queen?"

 At that question Wilykit seemed to freeze, "Ah...yeah." she gave a cough not looking into the other girls eyes, "of course." she said with a strained laugh

 "I mean...lessons, lessons, lesson etiquete..all day..yeah really hard"

 Wilykit gave a nervous laugh feeling like everyones eyes were on her, "But uh..shouldn't we be focusing on the exams." she yelped out with a slight cough

 Everyone shrugged and returned to looking at the combtants.

Cato seems to be getting quite annoyed as his opponet seems more focused in talking about how impressed she was with their military weaponry and keep suggesting upgrades she could do to it

 "Hmm seems to be someone more suited for the science division." Zim noted with a slight amused smirk

 "Indeed...her scores in techno-areas/subjects do are off the chart" said Betty "not so much the others..."

 "Oh?" Zim blinked over at her, "I'm surprised she hasn't been moved to a more specialized division class than."

 "Me too..maybe should ask why later" said Betty as finally Cato managed to win the encounter..by simply telling Entrapta to said she gave up in exchange of letting her a look at his armor later

 This caused some dumbfounded looks at the result, "I don't know what's worse that so called performance or the fact I find myself agreeing with a irken." Muttered out Roger with a twitching brow because it was clear to him this girl might shine in the lab but she was in no way suitable for the field

"Umm the furry student showed some intelligence at learning he could beat the haired female by offering her a deal" said Zim "i suppsoe it can be considered a win"

"Well...it's thinking outside the box." Betty said with a sigh marking down results, "but we might have to retest those two later more properly.." she added to the others shaking her head

"Although make sure to send Zim the data about her later" said the Irken "im curious to see how good she really is with machines" maybe he could use this gal for something later.

Never a bad moment to get new pawns for his plans after all

"Ah...sure." Betty said with a blink and nod trying to hide a frown and ignore the twisted jealous feeling in her gut while Roger just scowled, "hole on we aren't actually sharing classified data with him are we?"

He demanded sternly over to Betty causing her to give a annoyed groan at Roger once again being difficult

"what part of ally of the guardian you dont understand?" groaned Betty

"The part where you're sharing information with a irken without so much as asking the Admiral for permission." Roger said right back with a scowl

Betty flinched at that.

"huff silly haired boy! the admiral is now fighting to give Zim a place among this magum body so im sure once does the great Betty will be able to share the infromation Zim wants!"

 At that Betty gave a nod in agreeing, "yeah that's right.." she said smiling over to Zim, "and i'm sure the grand councilwoman will see that Zim is nothing but genuine in his desire to help make the universe a safer place."

she said determinedly before adding with a sigh, "though i'm afraid.." Betty scowled with a slight of disgust at her next words, "Roger is right...at least in a way." she admitted as Roger smirked while Zim tried to hide a scowl, "until permission is granted I can't share any data with you."

 Zim had to resist the urge to grolw.

"Its...ok Attomic betty i understand..dont worry about it" he said "im sure we can spend..hours sharing information after i get accpeted in" he added sending Roger a side glance promising venganze later

 While Betty....well she was suddenly lost in dream land her cheeks glowing red as she thought about spending hours alone with her hero~

 Roger huffed noticing this...was Betty...fangirling over an Irken?

A honestly to plark IRKEN! Seriously had everyone lost their minds or something?!

 "Ok next...Blythe Baxter and Kiazuki!" called Betty after a moment.

"Tch..whatever" said the flower girl

 "Hmm and what do you have to share about these two particular recruits." Zim asked while doing his best to hide his earlier frustration

 "Lets see..Baxter is from LPS a quite pacific planet according to the archives" said the red head guardian "their most unique trait is the fact the inhabitants of that world are quite close to nature to the point everyone have the capability to understand animal languages" Betty hummed "and some like Blythe here apparently have an upgraded version of that allowing them to basically be universal translators"

 Zim blinked recalling how this Baxter had been acting as a translator for the floating alien cadet, "impressive.." Zim admitted with a nod, "That talent would serve her well in either espionage getting answers from native fauna or in diplomatic corps."

 "indeed sir right as always" said Betty with a smile "as for Kiazuki...ok..this is interesant...she is a Moonflower..woah..those are quite rare" she added with awe

 "Moonflower?" Zim with a blink tilting his head, "aren't those just silly children's stories?" He asked while his mind went over of what he heard of moonflowers

 It was said they could transform barren moons into lush full worlds and the plants they created could cause special effects to those close to them.

"For some yeah..and not surprising" said Betty "Moonflowers are rare..as in extremely rare..for what I know there is only record of 3 of them I think..." she hummed

 "Hmmm fascinating.." Zim said his eyes honing in the moonflower in question it seemed this latest genius plan of Zims was leading to quite a number of potential unexpected boons even he didn't expect when he expects everything!

 "Ummm according to this she was actually found by a rescue party on a destroyed moon system." added Betty

 "Oh?" Zim looked curiously over at Betty, "any information on what destroyed the system?" He asked fishing for more information

 "unknown" said Betty "and she seems hesitant to share the info" she added "as she was one of the few known Moonflowers she was taken in protection...apparently was either be part of the academy or be relocated into a secret location"

Zim simply hummed as his eyes slightly narrowed while recalling the distrust the moonflower had shown toward him so far but a actual living specimen of her species could surely be useful to Zim and of course the Irken Empire...so he'd just have to find a way to either gain her trust or capture her without appearing to be the culprit

"Well...I suppose..good luck?" Blythe said at Kiazuki as they entered the arena

 "Please I don't need luck.." Kiazuki said entering a battle stance with a dark looking smirk

 "O-ok.."Blythe blinked "you..really don't smile right?" she asked "I thought your kind was all about..smiles and sunshine"

 Kiazuki at that seemed to get a angry look, "I'm plenty happy!" she screeched out causing Blythe to flinch back feeling she might of touched a nerve by accident, "I just choose not to act like a naive moron!"

 "Jeez ok..sorry I asked" she said pulling out a beginner blaster.

"Ok cadets..begin!" called Betty

Blythe wasted no time in blasting with Kiazuki moving to dodge and weave before leaping up to perform a downward kick at Baxter that she dodged in a roll with the girls than exchanging some punches, kicks, and dodges from each other, "Hmm while cadets their combat skill seem to be progressing nicely."

Betty noted thoughtfully with a slight smile

"umm indeed..." said Zim "for a flower the little one move with agility and its obvious she had practice" he said "as for the translator...basic fighting style for a rookie guardian so I suppose she is ok"

Betty nodded easily agreeing with Zim's assessment, "hmm yes Baxter isn't bad but it's clear she's better with her side arm than physical combat." she surmised with a nod

And it was obvious as the dual-pupil girl was always trying to put distance between her and the Moonflower while this one tried to keep herself at close combat

"Hmm definately need to work on her combat drills some more in the future than." Roger found himself muttering out with crossed arms while looking boredly at the match watching as Blythe jumped back while blasting at Kiazuki with the girl dodging in a roll

"Tch is using that toy the best you can do?" Kiazuki snarked at Blythe

Here Blythe shot a small annoyed scowl, "Don't underestimate me!" She warned her fellow cadet before making her next move

This time she rushed in instead of away keeping firing on the Moonflower

With Kiazuki now in the defensive dodging her increased fired shots while working to keep one step ahead of Baxter

"hehehe seems miss flower cant keep up" Duncan mocked from the observatory.

"she seems used to have control over the field..so being counter like this might put her out her game" Becky deduced

"Hmm yes though it's strange that she hasn't used any of the natural abilities moonflowers like her are said to possess." Entrapta pointed out with a slight disappointed frown, "Zim must agree that is odd.."

The irken nodded with a frown tilting his head, "perhaps she is luring the other cadet into a false sense of security." He added speculating

"huff if so she is thinking it too much" said Cato "I have count at least 5 different times she had an opening to use her power"

Sure he wasnt that sure how Moonflowers could use their power, but if they didnt need previous plants to sue so then this Hiazuki should have use them already

And as soon as he thought this Kiazuki let out a grimace after dodging another shot with a roll, "Alright i've had enough!" she snapped with a glare to Baxter, "Time to show you what i'm really capable of!"

she called out as she raised her hands up and started to concentrate

 the flower on her head seems to glow..black? before a sphere of a light of the same color appeared between her hands.

"Take this!!" she cried throwing the light on the ground.

BOOM!

from it emerged a tree...a tree with its trunk and leaves...black...deep black

"Woah!" Blythe called out in surprise taking several steps back while everyone looked at the tree in interest, "Man that thing is ultra creepy." Sheen spoke out with a tilt of his head, "OH must agree the tree does appear most ominous." the boov agreed taking a step back to hide behind his fellow cadet

"is this how Moonflowers work?" Cato asked also feeling a chill by looking at that tree.

"well..considering how she is looking at the tree? I dont think so" said Wilykit.

And that was true..Kiazuki was looking at her tree in..frustration? anger?

whatever that tree does..it seem it WASNT what she wanted to happen

"Grrr...not one of you things again!" she snapped kicking the tree in frustration before grimacing as she started to hop up and down in pain while grabbing onto the foot she used to kick the tree while Blythe just gave a confused blink at the scene

"eh...are you...?" she started.

"IM FINE DONT BOTHER ME!!" yelled the Moonflower in anger.

Blythe flinched...and then her eyes seems to become..darker?

"I..Im sorry..of..of course you are right..I ..I dont know why I asked..." she said suddenly with a broken tone "I mean...why am I even here? im useless as a guardian..im useless as a person.." she fell on her knees

This reaction naturally took the observers aback, "Uh...what's happening?" Duncan asked with a confused scowl before looking at the others, "Whys baxter suddenly going all emo?" He added with a raised brow, "Hmm it seems that the tree can affect a persons emotional state."

Entrapta said with a eager grin while observing the scene, "how absolutely fascinating~"

"A tree can do that?!" asked Duncan back in shock.

"A Moonflower tree can" said Betty feeling a bit taken off by the effect of the tree "we..should get Miss Baxter out of there"

"Huh? Ah I mean yes of course!" Zim exclaimed out shaking his head back to focus actually having been enjoying the other girls pity party but agreed that the match was concluded, "We might also need to get a chainsaw or something in here to deal with that tree before we have the final test."

Roger added sending the tree a slight uneasy look after seeing the affect it had on cadet Baxter

"Bah chainsaws? Why? All we need is a LOT OF FIRE!" said Zim as various laser tipped tentacles emerged from his PAK "OPEN ZIM A WINDOW AND I WILL TAKE CARE OF IT!!"

This caused the others to throw him a look of shock though Entrapta suddenly looked interested at seeing the Pak at work, "Uhhh..that might be a bit excessive sir." Betty said with a little laugh shaking her head

"and crazy! and dangerous!" added Roger.

"huff...well..then what you propose?!" asked Zim in anger putting his weapons away

"Lets just get some bots in there to remove it.." Roger said right back with a shrug, "The tree shouldn't be able to affect them.." he said smugly before adding with a blink questioningly, "right?"

"Technically no...and sounds like our best shot" said Betty before opening the sound canal "Haizuki? you are not affected by your tree right?"

"tch..no..we Moonflowers are immune to our tress" said the flower with clear frustration.

"could you then please get miss Baxter out of there while we send some bots to deal with it?" asked the red head

"Right...sure...whatever." The moonflower spat out bitterly stomping over to Baxter with a scowl as Betty gave a blink, "She won but she's clearly not happy with the results." Betty observed with a frown

"ummm maybe it wasnt how she wanted to win?" suggested Zim..sure a win was a win in his book...but there are those wins that were more winning that others so maybe this was the case?

"Hmm...I think it might be more than that.." Betty surmised giving the tree one last examining look

Something to investigate later.

Soon Kiazuki moved back with the group pulling at Blythe who slowly began returning to normal

"Uggg..that...was something" said the girl with a shiver

 "You okay?" Little Cato asked with a concern frown, "Yeah...think so." Blythe said rubbing her arm, "It's just..." The girl bit her lip, "I...it felt like I lost meaning of joy and hope there."

"yeah we noticed" called Duncan "good thing you didnt have a knife because all we can say that would of ended up badly for you"

At that Blythe actually shivered hugging her arms, "Wait.." Betty however frowned at that possibility before turning to the moonflower cadet, "The trees effect aren't that severe are they?" she asked worriedly with a frown

"ehhh...depend" said Kiazuki

"on what?" added Betty seeing the girl didnt seem ager to share.

"on the...intensity of the emotion...one is feeling..." she added looking away

Those words caused some concerned glances for sure, "Right.." Betty said frowning and staring at Kiazuki in concern, "i'm going to have to make a report of this.." she said with a sight as Kiazuki gained a slight worried look, "and closer examination and training of your abilities might be needed."

"huff...whatever" the Moonflower grunted walking away from the group

Not noticing a certain irkens eyes narrowing at her back oh yes this was a cadet Zim would have to keep a eye on if her abilities could be replicated and weaponized...a sinister grin crossed his face before he blinked as he heard his name, "Zim sir?"

"Uh what yes Zim was listening!" The irken yelled out as he turned to face Betty who blinked before giggling, "i got no doubt.." The Galactic Guardian said with a nod, "and i'm sure the last two cadets are eager to show you what they're capable of."

"El..?" the flying creature approached Blyte.

"Im fine Elli dont worry...you go there and show them what you can do" the girl called with a smile.

Meanwhile..Becky was also..mentally preparing herself.

"uff ok Botsford...you can do this...just remember what you have read and study..uff...dont think you will be seen by two of the biggest warriors of the galaxy...ufff...."

That thought caused the girls eyes to go to Atomic Betty and Invader Zim two of the biggest heroes in the galaxy watching and judging her performance....and if she screwed up or embarrassed herself

"Oh my stars...im doom" she thougth with a big gulp

"Hmm one of the cadets seem to be leaking out a lot of perspiration." Zim noted with a tilt of his head

Betty blinked

"you mean sweating?" she asked looking at the nervous Lexiconian.

 "Yes she is sweating quite a bit." Zim nodded in agreement

 "ummm..Cadet Botsford! a word in private before you start" called Betty

"Huh.." Becky blinked before hurriedly coming over, "Ah yes ma'am!" she yelped with Zim actually blinking in surprise when the girl lifted off the ground and zoomed over

Both walked some steps away from the others.

"nervous?" Betty asked at the girl

"I..ah...yeah a little." Becky admitted rubbing her arms, "I mean.." here Becky gave a nervous strained laugh, "not everday your performance is judged by some of the galaxy's greatest heroes." she admitted to Betty who gave a understanding not while giving Becky a sympathetic look

"first of all..thanks for the kind words" said Betty with a smile "secondly..i get it..i was also nervous the first time i have to showcase my abilities in front of a crowd with not only the admiral watching..but also the great councilwoman AND my master at the same time"

Becky eyes went wide at that information in front of not only her teacher but the leader of the galactic alliance?! "How did you handle it?!" Becky demanded with a slight desperate edge to her tone

"honestly? i was hands down terrified" admited Betty "but my master gave me one last piece of advise before going out" she smiled at Becky "forget about them...only focus on what you have in front of you" she told Becky "right now what matters is what you can do not what others will think..go out there and show them what you are capable off"

"Right...show them what i'm capable of.." Becky repeated before taking a deep breath than exhaling out, "I can do that.." she muttered floating up and heading over back to the arena, "uh.." before pausing mid air and gave Betty a thankful look, "thank you for the pep talk...I really needed it."

"its no problem" said betty with a smile.

Not wanting to reveal she might found a "favorite student" in the lexiconian girl

Before making her way over with Zim and others looking over at her ,"just bit of pre test nerves nothing to worry about." Betty assured them

"nerves before battle? that seems something she will need to get rid off" said Zim

A good invader is never afriad of combat after all

"Hmm more like nervous about being judged by us in particular sir." Betty informed him causing the irken to blink and Roger to scowl, 'but don't worry i'm sure she's got a handle on things." Betty said with a smile

Back on the arena both cadets looked at each other.

"ok...breath..show what you can do..." Becky breathed "ok..i can do this...WORD UP!" she called and the shield on her uniform glowed and soon her whole clothes changed to a red suit with a yellow cape and helmet

 "What is this?!" Zim found himself exclaiming out in surprise looking at the sudden outfit

 "hahahaha she thinks she is some superhero?" Ducan couldnt help but laugh

"Actually.....she is." Betty repeated with a slight shock as she read a few certain bits of data from Becky's file, "Ah...what?" Duncan repeated giving Betty a confused look

"she is known on her planet as Wordgirl..a super hero of sort...part of a guardian program to train protectors to the planet"

Lexiconians kept themselves from any conflict but they knew problems could find them so they had a special corp to become protectors of their planets

 "Huh not often you run into a lexiconian who's a combatant come to think of it.." Zim muttered out his eyes narrowing, "nor many that possess more than the lexiconian gift for language and knowledge."

 "they are a reclusive specie" said Betty "but that makes them be able to give us surprises as they can know a lot more that what they appear"

"Hmm agreed.." Zim said with a nod of his head, "And the last cadet?" He asked his eyes going over to the floating alien

"Ellie is an Elgyem" said the red head "they are nomadic species that can live in the void of space and usually like to make small groups in asteroid fields"

"hmm fascinating Zim looks forward to seeing what a Elgyem is capable of." Zim said with a nod and with that statement the last test began

"Ok..lets go!" called Becky before zooming onto Elli

FLASH

who simply disapered form by to reappear behind the girl.

"Gyem" the pads on her hands blinked in their colors before she shoot a purple beam of energy at Becky

"Woah!" With the girl narrowingly dodging before Ellie started to firing more beams at Becky that she quickly moved to dodge several times than when she spotted a opening lunge toward Ellie only for the Elgyem to disappear in a flash of light again

"uhh she can teleport" said Zim with interest.

"yeah her species might look small..but they have a strong psychokinetic power allowing them stuff like float, telekineis, teleport among other stuff" said Betty looking at the list of abilities

"Fascinating.." Said not only Zim but also Entrapta watching the match with interest with Becky dodging beams with evasive maneuvers and Ellie dodging Becky's attacks in turn by teleporting away

It was quite the stalemate as Becky couldnt move fast enough to actually hit the little creature..yet fortunalety it made a beeping sound before firing which gave her enough time to evade the attacks

Something that Zim noticed as well, "Hmm the Elgyem needs to work on giving her enemies forewarning of her attack." the irken said rubbing his chin

"At the same time it seems Becky needs alternative attack methods" said Betty "maybe add gun training to her resume would be a good idea"

"Hmm yes she does seem to be lacking in long ranged attacks." Zim said watching as Becky lunged forward in a grab only to slam into the wall as Ellie teleported away again

"Elgy..gyem.." Ellie called.

"umm Elli is asking Becky to surrender" traduced Blythe "she is..hesitate..about keep fighting"

"Why?" Zim asked with a confused blink toward Blythe, "As far as Zim sees they are currently at a stalemate."

"Elli...actually is not going all out" answered the dual pupil girl "she actually doesnt like to fight as she fears she could hurt others..thats why she has limit herself to teleport and beam attacks"

"Hmm than what convinced her to sign onto the Galactic Guardians?" Zim asked with a tilt of his head from the knowledge that another of the cadets might not be suited for the battlefield this time despite possessing impressive abilities that would make them menace on it

"for what she has told me" Blythe said "her colony was expelled from their asteroid field by Maximus forces...she wants to help stop evil..but she is nervous..about hurting others" she added "apparently she suffered accidents in the past that have left her scared of her own power"

"Considering those powers are a natural part of her species that can't be healthy." Little Cato spoke up observing with a frown

"yeah what could something so small be afraid of?" called Duncan half doubt half mocking

"A lot actually.." Blythe said sending Duncan a glare before sending her friend in the Arena a concerned glanced as Becky made it clear she wasn't giving up

She charged again at the Elgyem which simply teleport again.

Only this time the moment it reapered and charged a new beam attack, Becky turned and charged at it

However this time she didn't appeared intent on dodging anything thrown her way as she narrowed her eyes with determination as Elgyem continued to charge her beam till at the last second let loose their attack

"Grrrr!!!" Becky grindded her teeth as the attack hit her fully but still she pressed trying to cut through it

with Ellie adding more power to the attack while Becky struggled with all her might to slowly and steadily press through it with everyone watching with anticipation as they leaned forward to see the results of this match

Ellie tried to add more power...wich in turn caused a small blue aura to began to form around her

 And as she did so Becky with gritted teeth called out, "I'm...not giving...UP!"

 "gyem" Elli called back in stressful tone as the blue aura grew; close by some of the residual debrii from past fights also began glowing and floating

 "O-kay...maybe the pipsqueak does have some power." Duncan stated while observing the scene with slowly widening eyes

 "yeah but, as i said, she has control issues" said Blythe as suddenly all the debri began flying around in an orbit hitting the walls and ceilin of the training chamber with force

"Clearly a understatement if there ever was one.." Roger observed the chaos of the scene while watching the lexiconian keep trying to push herself through the beam attack even flinching back when a piece of debri hit the window of the control room

"Maybe we should stop the fight now?!" called OH in fear

"Nonsense if anything the added risk will help test their capability further." Zim rebutted with a shake of his head watching the show and clash of power with a dark look of enjoyment

"umm Im all for testing limits but..." Cato flinched as another rock hit the glass "you sure it will withstand?"

"I don't know.." Zim said in reply giving a shrug attracting incredulous looks, "You don't know?!" Demanded Kiazuki incredulous, "Zim's expertise lays with Irken technology not Guardian equipment." The irken snapped back a tad defensively

"ummm it should.." said Betty as another rock hit the glass "but if there is no winner soon i will call them off before anyone gets hurt"

"And Zim believes a winner is about to be declared anyway." The irken added his gaze focusing back onto the match

And he was right..as it seems Ellie couldnt hold any longer

"GYEM!!!"

And explosion of blue light blinded everyone as all the debris where sent flying at great speeds across the room

 "WOAH! ULTRA COOL!" Sheen yelled out as everyone else flinched back, "ohhh I know it's thrilling to see such prime examples of two species capabilities in action!" Well almost everyone as Entrapta shared Sheen's enthusiasm

 "Indeed!" called Zim "nothing like seeing two warriors giving all on the battlefield!"

 "And control rooms defenses are still holding..." Betty reported with a relieved sigh, "though they certain tested it to the limits on that last blast." she muttered with a frown raising her head, "think i'm about ready to call it in if a victor hasn't' emerged."

she told them with a frown, "And emerge she has!" Zim declared pointing out to the center of the training room as the dust from the blast cleared revealing Becky Botsford uniform torn and tattered weakly stumbling up to her feet while the form of Ellie laid unconscious some feet away from her

 "well look at that..the nerd won" said Duncan

"cadets can you hear me?" asked Betty through the microphone

"Ah..yes...ma'am.." Becky answered with a groan before giving Ellie a concerned glance, "but Ellie is out cold...requesting medical assistance." she reported while going over to her fellow cadets side hoping she was okay

"Ok maybe it was too much let this fight keep going" said Betty with a flinch "we'll send some bots to take you and Ellie to the infirmiry"

"sounds good to me ma'am.." Becky agreed with a groan, "I could use some ice and rest right now.." she said before freezing as she heard Zims voice, "you performed quite well admittedly not as well as Zim but still amazingly well for a cadet.."

Becky actually looked up to see Zim nodding at his words.

"I..I..thanks...sir...I..im glad.." she said with a smile.

"hehehe be proud cadet" added Betty

 Becky looked up and saw Betty smiling at her through the control room glass, "you've shown that you have the spirit of a true galactic guardian today." she heard Atomic Betty herself say and despite how sore her body was Becky couldn't help but be filled with pride knowing that her had work had paid off and she had earned the praise of two of the galaxy's greatest heroes

 with that she soon was taken by a pair of medic-bots alongside the unconcious Ellie.

"I hope this doesnt affect the rest of the visit" said Betty with some worry.

"I dont think so" said Zim "they proved to be great warriors to zim and that is the most important thing!!!" declared the Irken

 At that Betty let out a giggle, "i'm glad that you're impressed by the future of the galactic guardians sir." she said with a warm smile to the irken not noticing Roger stewing and sending the irken a dark glare off to the side

"I will said they did impress me" said Zim "think the Galaxy will be in good hands...with some extra training but yes I think they will grow nicely into great invaders..i mean..guardians thanks to the example of the great Atomic Betty!!"

"Hehe sir....really i'm not that great.." Betty protested weakly though couldn't hid the smile or blush on her cheeks causing Roger to let out a low jealous growl, "i'm just....more well known is all." she added modestly

"well more well known but already i have seen your superiority as a warrior so take in hearth you keep impressing Zim even now" added the Irken

 Betty felt like the ground could swallow her as she continued to listen to her idol praise her and those words of praise alone made up for the embarrassment she felt from Sparky and Noah stunt, "I...well...thank you sir."

Betty said giving off a girlish little giggle

 Roger feel himself growling

How...how is it that this..this BUG!! was making Betty FREAKING ATOMIC BETTY!!! Giggle like some sort of fangirl!!!

And what was worst...she wasnt acting like that AT HIM!!! HIM!!! ROGERS!!! the best more hadsome guardian of all times!!!

He was the best of the best! The only one in entirely of the Guardian corps just as good looking and just as skilled as her!

He should be the one Betty mooned over like a fangirl! He should be the one causing her to blush with that silly cute smile! NOT A FLORPING FREAKING IREKN OF ALL THINGS!

Honestly hero of doomsday! Give him a break he was just another bug threatening the galaxy and should be locked away or better yet squashed!

Not to mention what did he have that Roger didn't?!

NOTHING!

Oh how he wish he could squish that bug right there and then!

BEEP
BEEP
BEEP

A beeping from Betty´s communicator called everyone´s attention.

Answering the hologram of admiral Degill appered.

"Atomic Betty" he called

 "Ah yes reporting sir!" Betty said with a salute to the hologram, "At ease.." Degill said blowing some bubbles from his pipe while everyone watched with interest, "Hmm.." Degill of course noticed the audience, "I see your tour for Zim took you to the cadets being tested today."

he observed with a arched brow

 "we got lucky to come across them sir..and they did show us they are in good road to become guardians" said the red head

 "Yes and impressive guardians quite a few of them will be." Zim added in with his own praise as the Admiral smiled with pride at hearing this

"Im glad to hear this" said the admiral with pride.

"Ah..Admiral?" called Roger "you mean the whole...Irken as our guess is actually real?" the blonde guardian couldnt help but ask

At that Degill blinked and shot Roger a confused look, "Of course it is...why wouldn't it be?" He asked scratching at his head, "I mean Zim's status as the hero of doomsday aside do you really think I'd be having Atomic Betty guiding him on a tour rather than putting him in the holding cells if he wasn't a guest rather than prisoner."

He stated as Roger found himself flushing in embarrassment at the observation being put so bluntly

"Thats what Atomic Betty has been telling fat hair dude all the time" said Zim "but he didnt listen"

"There's nothing wrong with my hair!" Roger retorted back with annoyance sending Zim a glare but a pointed cough from the Admiral cut him off as he saw his superior shooting him a dry look, "Uh...that is."

Roger stammered nervously while regaining his composure, "I was just concerned...after all with the Irken Empire there's certainly a difference between paranoia and caution sir." He stated as seriously as he could while Zim gave a snort to the side

"true and many share that view" called the admiral "which brings me to the reason of my call" he added with somber tone "the council have reached a decision...they are asking for Zim and Betty to come to the meeting room"

At that Betty and Zim went still, "They have?" Betty said eagerly yet nervously, 'yes and before you ask orders are to tell you the results in person.."

Admiral Degill added with a slight pointed look, "understood sir.." Betty said with a sigh while Zim despite his anticipation felt uneasy at this....could his offer not only have been turned down but he's also being targeted for captured by the Guardian in a trap?

"we will be awaiting you" finished the admiral cutting the transmission

With silence standing for several moments.."Well.." Before being broken by Betty's sigh, "you ready sir?" She asked looking over toward Zim

 The irken took a breath.

"I am" he said as confident as he could.

He must be ready...his plan depended on it

Chapter Text

With silence standing for several moments.."Well.." Before being broken by Betty's sigh, "you ready sir?" She asked looking over toward Zim

The irken took a breath.

"I am" he said as confident as he could.

He must be ready...his plan depended on it

(Admiral´s office-a bit later)

"After talking with my fellow council members and taking into consideration the evidence presented to us..we have reached a..conclusion" said the grand councilwoman as she addressed the admiral, Betty and Zim

"And what is the verdict?" Betty asked eagerly with Zim giving the admiral a cautious look internally hoping he wouldn't need to pull a escape from Galactic Guardian headquarters

The woman´s eyes became harder.

"The idea of having an Irken being given total clearance into one of our security bodies is something we all can agree none of us are comfortable with, no matter if he says to be some rebel against his own species" she said "however we can't deny Zim did have a hand in saving Earth, plus we have heard about his actions against the Irken empire as a whole, plus having someone that knows the insides of the Irken armada could give us valuable information in the future"

"Yes there is no one who knows the Irken Empire better than Zim!" the irken bragged with his best smile that came across as menacing while trying to hide his annoyance at the thought of not potentially being given total clearance as he looked at the monitor screen where the Councilwoman image was displayed

The tall alien didnt seem impressed.

"So after some discussion...we have decided to give Zim the benefit of the doubt and run a small...trial period with him"

Betty gave a brief sigh of relief, "That sounds perfectly understandable ma'am.." she said with a salute, "And I know Zim will prove that we can trust him with our secrets if not our lives." she said with a beaming smile

"I hope you're right Atomic Betty" called the councilwoman "Because it will be your responsibility to keep track and report any activity he does" she said "Im putting you and your team in charge of him and if after a while we are...satisfied with his performance, then we might talk about actually including him into the Guardian´s roster"

 "Zim would be honored to work with Atomic Betty!" Zim said with a grin seeing that the plan could still go on it'd just take some more time was all and it wasn't like the amazing Zim didn't expect this~

 Betty smiled at that.

"and I with you sir" she called in happiness...ok this maybe not fully what she had in mind but she will still be working side by side her hero "and dont worry Councilwoman...I accept this assignment" she saluted

"I'm pleased to hear this.." The Councilwoman said with a small smile before looking over to Zim, "Rest assured you will best tested to see how much you can REALLY be trusted." She informed the irken with narrow eye

Zim had to made quite the effort to not pull out his weapons and blast the woman off (no matter if it was just a screen)

"I can assure you Councilwoman..." he said trying to keep his anger in check "i will prove myself worthy of your trust"

 "That...remains to be seen." Councilwoman said before giving a glance toward Admiral DeGill, "I expect regular updates on his behavior and progress during this trail period." she ordered with the admiral giving a understanding nod

 With that the transmission was cut.

"well...i suppose that went pretty good...considering..." DeGill called trying to sound hopeful

 "It could of gone worst I suppose." Betty said with a low sigh before giving Zim a encouraging smile, 'but don't worry sir we'll help her see that you can be trusted."

"Yes...im sure you will" said Zim with a strained smile..internally steaming with some anger

 "But Zim is curious.." The irken said trying to not think about his anger, "what will this trail period be like?"

 "Nothing big..just accompany Atomic Betty and his team in C to B class missions nothing that need special or restricted information" called the admiral "also she will be your superior while during this so anything and all will have to pass through her authorization"

 "Sounds simple enough.." Zim said with a shrug and slight smirk before scowling, "Though Zim isn't looking forward to working with Atomic Betty green big nosed subordinate."

 Betty flinched at that.

"Im..sorry about that sir..honestly this is the first time Sparky acts like this" she said remembering to have words with him later "but i assure you it wont happen again"

 "What won't happen again?" Admiral DeGill asked with a frown of concern from his desk already recalling Sparky behavior at the docking station and wondering what else had happen at that Betty sighed before proceeding to explain about the incident in the cafeteria

 "Umm you right Atomic Betty...this is extreme even for Sparky" called the admiral "yet he is acting in a way a guardian of his level shouldnt be acting" he huffed as he puffed some bubbles "and his actions and words are scratching the surface of Speciesism! something i dont need to tell you is NOT tolerated in this organization!"

 "Of course not sir!" Betty agreed with a large frown after all the Galactic Guardians stood united in the face of criminal acts and evil...united no matter what species you were or what planet you were from acting against those beliefs was one of the worst things a guardian could do.

 "Then i hope you leave that clear to Sparky next time you talk with him" said the admiral in business tone "I know Irkens are not the most loved specie in the universe but thats not excuse for him to start acting like..THAT with one..even less one wanting to join in and help us"

 "Rest assured sir this attitude problem of his will be put to rest one way or another." Betty said with a salute and firm frown, "Excellent for now you and Zim are dismissed.." Admiral DeGill said at first before pausing, "Though before you leave.."

He looked over toward Zim and gave a embarrassed cough into his fin, "any chance you could sign a couple of things for me?" He asked with a sheepish smile

 Betty had to hold a giggled while Zim looked confused

Later other guardians will swear they saw the admiral with a 1M dollar smile for the rest of the day

(Later)

"Well Atomic Betty it seems for now we need to go our separate ways" said Zim as he and Betty walked into the hangar towards Zim´s cruiser "I have a secret civilian life i need to prepare for my soon-long-absent to fight against evil alongside you!!"

"Yes sir and I for one am looking forward to working with you." she gushed out slightly before sending him a nervous smile, "And about your civilian life.." she said with Zim looking toward her as she looked around before lowering her voice, "I know you can't share your location on Earth...but."

she gave him a tentative smile,"If you'd like I can tell you where you can find me on Earth.." she said before quickly adding with a blush, "you know in case of emergencies of course."

Zim blinked.

That..actually could be a good idea...have the location of a galactic guardian all the time could be useful for him and will allow him to learn more weaknesses for sure.

"Thats quite smart Atomic Betty" he said with a smile "and i will be honored to have it"

Atomic Betty smiled and flushed, "hehe okay I live at a place called Moose Jaw Heights whose coordinates are.." she than happily shared with Zim exactly where he could find her internally hoping he'd give her a visit outside of emergencies

With that out the way she soon was waving goodbye as the Cruiser left HQ.

Once she knew she was alone..she let out a quick squeal of excitement

"I'm working with invader zim, i'm working with Invader Zim, i'm working with INVADER ZIM!" She gushed out over and over again while hoping up and down

She will be working side by side with one of the heroes that inspired her to be a guardian.

She will be fighting against criminals with Zim himself!!!

And (she hopped) in little time he might become a full guardian!!!

They could save and protect the universe together from all sorts of threats from Maximus to the Irken Empire itself.

Growing a close bond of trust in so many shared battles and adventures.

Becoming the closest of comrades till one day Zim corners her alone and gets on his knee and pulls out a small box and than.."Woah settle down Betty!' Betty suddenly froze as she realized where her imagination was taking her

"one thing is being a fan of your hero dont take this to fan-crush of all things" she scowled herself "be professional"

No matter how cute he looks...no matter how the idea of working him is so exciting...no matter how much you'd love for him to visit her town just to hang out with her.

"ehem...ok..maybe its time to go check on Noah and Sparky" better keep her mind busy and away from...certain thoughts

 And with that she walked off not realizing a pair of eyes was watching her entire reaction and behavior

 Roger scoffed, he had seen Betty escorting that bug back to the hangar so he...follow them...to make sure Betty was alright.

Yet all he saw was she apparently giving him some info (that he was sure they werent allowed) and then once it was gone she began acting..well..like she was suppose to act towards him!

He gave a low hateful jealous growl, "What does that disgusting but have that I Atomic Roger doesn't!?" He demanded incredulous shaking his head in disbelief, "And how can someone like Betty act like this for a irken of all things!?"

It doesn't make sense!

He was THE Atomic Roger..and that BUG was nothing but space trash

And don't even get him started on this Hero of Doomsday nonsense!

"Grrr that should be me!" He snapped before whirling around to punch the wall in anger causing his eyes to widen in sudden pain, "OW!" And as he jumped back shaking his fist he gave a low hiss, "And it will be..."

He vowed one way or another that bug would be taken out of the picture and it would be him that everyone worshiped, and it would be him Betty adored!

(With Zim)

As the Irken flew away from HQ his computer announced he had a call.

"Hey Zim...did you ruin everything or the plan is moving?" called Gaz from his base.

"Tch silly Gaz!!" called the Irken "you doubting Zim is insulting!!! you should known your future master cant be beaten!!!"

"Right. And all the times Dib stopped your plans was dumb luck." Gaz said with a roll of her eyes from the command chair she was seating on game slave in her and, "Precisely!" Zim called out with a large smirk

Gaz rolled her eyes.

"so you a..how you call them? guardian now?" she asked...Galactic guardians? didnt they have a less cliche name?

"IIIIIIIIIII....no...unfortunately Zim came an unexpected bump in the road" scoffed Zim thinking on certain fat nosed alien "But manner little as i still have won access into the guardian´s HQ!"

"That so?" Gaz asked with a slight blink honestly part of her was half expecting Zim to blow everything looks like there was hope for him yet just like she thought, "So got your foot in the door how you going to go all the way and secure their trust?"

She asked while killing some vampire piggies on her game

"For that I will need to spend more time with Atomic Betty and her minions for a while" answered the alien.

"ohhh going to spend time with Gaz´s competition?" asked Jinmay entering the frame much to Gaz´s irritation

"competition?" Zim repeated with a slight blink sending a curious look to the robot girl, "she didn't strike Zim as someone to participate in one of those gaming tournaments." He admitted rubbing his chin at first thinking that's what Jinmay meant

"Ignore her" called Gaz pushing Jinmay away "so you actually will be acting like space police with that red head?"

"I will have too...both to gain the trust of the guardians and to make sure Mini-moose finish his mission" he added bringing another screen "even with his superior software it will take time for him to infect all the guardians network and have full access to their systems"

"yeah on that.." Gaz shot him a skeptical look, "I know he isn't Gir but you sure he won't get found by them?"

She asked while Zim suddenly froze as his eyes slowly widen, "Actually.." Gaz gave a frown looking at Zim cockpit, "Where is Gir?" she asked with a frown

"I..." Zim blinked "Ahhh Irk dammit!!! i forgot to find him!!!!" cried Zim "uggg now i will need to return and get him!!" he groaned in frustration

 "But as to your question rest assured Mini-moose is not just the perfect weapon. But the perfect infiltration unit!" Zim exclaimed with a smirk, "The Guardians will not find him!" He said before scowling with a groan, "That is if Gir somehow doesn't blow his cover." He said with a face palm

"Eh how much trouble could that little guy get into." Jinmay said coming back to the screen causing both Gaz and Zim to shoot her flat looks for those words

 (Back at HQ-Cafeteria)

"uff...took us a lot but it seems we finally over" said Noah with a smile as he smiled at the sight of the clean cafeteria

 "Urg...yeah finally.." Sparky said with a groan covered in dirt and filth, "Still can't believe I had to use a tooth brush!" he snapped out with a scowl

"yeah...i mean extreme but..well..i dont know alien language enough to know what you said" Noah scratched his head "But if Betty got that angry..."

 Sparky winced with a grimace, 'Yeah i'll admit I don't i've ever seen Betty that mad even against Maximus.." He said with a scowl, "And it's all because of that stinking bug and his stupid robot!" He exclaimed throwing the toothbrush to the ground

 Being called down not once but TWICE the same day and all because that bloody Irken and his metallic menace!!!

 "I swear if I see either of them again it'll be too soon!" Sparky snapped to Noah with a dark growl

 Noah flinched noticing how angry he was.

"Ok..maybe we need some..cool down" he looked around when he noticed something "hey didnt you told me that was an ice-cream machine with multiple flavors? how about we celebrate we done with one?"

 "That.." Sparky paused his anger and face falling as he sighed out, "Actually sounds pretty nice." He said with a small smile, "Thanks Noah.."

"Its no problem" called the boy taking a cup out the dispenser and pulled a lever to get some

CRACK!!!

Only for the machine to make a strange noise and nothing came out

 "What the?" Noah said with a blink before deciding to pull the lever again

CRACK!!! Only for once again nothing to happen except for that strange noise

 "Is something wrong with the machine?" he pushed an ear against it trying to hear inside.

CRACK! BAM!

Only for something to burst out it followed by a literal wave of Ice-cream

 "AH SPARKY!" Noah barely managed to yell out in time before the tidel wave of ice cream overtook him

 "let it go!!! let it go!!! i want my taquitos!!!" And surfing over it was no other than GIR

 "ARG NO! NOT YOU!" Sparky yelled out after staring in shock for a moment before recognizing the robotic pest, "And we just finished cleaning bolts for brains!" He added on seeing Ice Cream everywhere...what a waste

 However the robot seems to ignore him as it began eating ice cream out the floor

 This of course just caused Sparky to steam and glare, "would you beat it you tin can!" He yelled out stomping forward ready to pound this walking pile of junk into scrap metal

SPLAT!!!

only to get ice-cream on the face

"Arg hey!" Sparky stumbled back while wiping the cream of his face, "Would you stop causing a mess!" He snapped glaring at the giggling robot making a snow angel in the cream, "You've already gotten me in enough trouble today!"

He added with a snap while off to the side Noah started to dig himself out of the ice cream avalanche with a groan, "why if the chief saw this she'd.." Suddenly Sparky froze before a slow smile spread across his face, 'That's it!"

He exclaimed with a life before pointing at Gir, "you're my proof!" He yelled out with a wild look, "If I bring you to the chief and commander they'd have to see that you started that food fight, and that bug isn't to be trusted!"

 This was perfect..only he need to make sure to keep that bucket in place.

"Noah you capture him!" Sparky cried rushing to the exit "I will go get the chief!"

 "Ah..what...catch who?" Noah asked standing up while rubbing his head and wiping some ice cream from his eyes only to get tackled down by a laughing Gir, "I'm gonna make a snowman!"

 Meanwhile Sparky was rushing throughout HQ looking for Betty.

"Gotta hurry! gotta hurry! gotta hurry!"

 He had to find the chief and get her to see the robot before it pulled a disappearing act! Hopefully Noah would be able to distract it long enough.

Admittedly probably a bad idea to leave him alone against a crazy malfunctioning irken robot but Sparky was sure he'd be fine......maybe.

 "Sparky?!" a voice called him and, much to his relief, it was Betty...although she didnt look happy to see him "what are you doing here? I hope this means you finished with the cafeteria" she called crossing her arms.

 "Chief! Oh thanks goodness I found you! That crazy Robot is causing trouble again!" He called out as he stopped in front of Betty before grabbing her by the hand and attempting to drag her off

 "Crazy..? wait you're talking about GIR?" she asked not moving from her place "oh stars...i totally forgot about him!" she called a bit embarrassed realizing she and Zim must of accidentally forgot about him!

"Honestly I wish I could forget about the little menace.." Sparky mutter out in turn as well

Betty narrowed her eyes.

"but thats not the point! that menace is destroying the cafeteria again!!!" called Sparky "you need to come see what he is doing!!!"

"I..whoa..Sparky!" Betty yelped out startled as her subordinate and friend started to drag her off, 'you aren't...seriously...trying to blame...Gir again are you?!"

she asked sending him a stern look as she followed none the less while kicking herself for forgetting about the little robot she and Zim got so distracted and preoccupied with the cadets and meeting the councilwoman he must of accidentally been left behind

"This time i can prove it!!!" called Sparky "he is at the cafeteria right now messing everything!!!"

And at that they arrived at the Cafeteria, "Just look!" He exclaimed pointing into the lunch room without looking

 Betty looked inside the room.

Only to see GIR with a mop cleaning the floor of the cafeteria...one that looked REALLY clean and sparkling.

While Noah ate an ice-cream on the sides

"Oh i'm looking alright.." Betty said her tone full of disappointment as she crossed her arms with a slight scowl, "i'm looking at the fact that you two are apparently slacking off while having Gir clean your mess!"

she snapped glaring at Sparky who flinched back, "What..but...that isn't .." He tried to explain but the chief wasn't having it

"GIR come here!!" Betty called at the robot while Noah jumped in sudden fear at hearing her tone

"Huh! Oh hey Betty!" He greeted her with a smile, "you want some ice cream?" Noah asked with the oblivious who had no idea he was digging his grave deeper

Betty narrowed her eyes.

"GIR why are you cleaning the kitchen?" she asked the robot.

"They said that if i clean all i will get taquitos and ice-cream!" called the robot happily.

"Yeah turns out the guy can be handle quite easily with the offer of food" called Noah with a smile

"So rather than clean up and take responsibility you thought it'd be easier to bribe a innocent robot to do your dirty work." Only for that smile to die a quick death at Betty words and tone

"What?! No Betty thats not..." Noah tried to say "we only got him to clean the mess he did!!!"

"Really?" Betty however wasn't buying it as she gave him a look, "because it looks more like you had Gir clean up all of the cafeteria while eating ice cream."

"Really?" Betty however wasn't buying it as she gave him a look, "because it looks more like you had Gir clean up all of the cafeteria while eating ice cream."

Noah flinched.

"I..." Noah tried to say only for GIR to interrupt.

"I clean the floors, the ceiling, the windows, the tables, the trash...EVERYTHING!!" the robot called with a smile "I even got to keep all the gum" he added pulling out of his head a big ball of chewed gum

"And you did a very good job Gir.." Betty said sending the robot a smile, "We'll see about you getting rewarded for your hard work in a bit." she said to the robot who let out a excited cheer...right before throwing the big ball of chewed gum in his mouth and started to chew away, "Right after I figure out a fitting punishment for you two ducking out of your earlier one!"

Betty snapped turning a glare toward Noah and Sparky

"WHAT?!!!" both cried.

"Chief!!! we did what you ordered!!" called Sparky "all was clean before that menace blew up the ice-cream machine and made another disaster!!"

 "Keep up this lying and you'll only be making it worse for yourselves.." Betty said her voice full of disappointment

 "BUT WE ARENT!!!" Sparky basically yelled in frustration

"ENOUGH!" Betty however had enough and sent them a reproachful glare, "I.." she gave a groaning sigh rubbing her face, "I just can't deal with you two right." she said shaking her head in disappointment, "I'll pass word to the Admiral and see if he can figure out good punishment for you two."

"But Betty..." called Noah.

"Noah! i said not now!" she called "get to the hangar im taking you home RIGHT NOW"

Noah flinched but proceeded to follow her order while looking sadly down at the ground

"As for you Sparky" called Betty "know that the admiral wants to have words with you, but for now im going just say that this behaivor of you gets fixed soon as we will be working with Zim from now on"

"Wait..WHAT?!" Sparky exclaimed in disbelief, "WHAT DO YOU MEAN WORKING WITH THAT BUG CREEP!?"

"Sparky!" scowled Betty "its that language that neither me or the admiral want to hear again!" she called in anger "and answering your question, Zim will be on a test trial before he can join the guardians and we are the chosen team for him to work with"

Sparky just gaped at her with a twitching eye this...could not...be happening to him

"So i hope there is no more incidents like the one in the hangar..or the cafeteria" called Betty again "I dont know whats going on with you Sparky but you better take a breath and fix it soon"

"But..but...but.." He stammered out however Betty turned and left while taking a giggling Gir by the hand, "But.." leaving him alone in the cafeteria to stammer helplessly in disbelief

"Ahhhh bliznaks!!" he called kicking the mop´s bucket which hit the ice-cream machine

PFFFFFFF!!!!

That then shot a torrent of freezing good at his face

 Leaving him in stunned silence for several moments before groaning out, "I hate my life....but not as much as I hate that bug!" He exclaimed in anger at the end

(Back on Earth)

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"Hello Lilo how are you?" an older teen girl with red hair saluted next to her was a blonde boy

"Lilo!!! how are you alien girl?" on another screen appeared another younger teen girl with black hair in pigtails and wearing a bean.

"Hey Lilo!"

"sup alien girl!"

"as always nice to hear of you"

"how are things in the eternal paradise?"

"Hello Lilo"

Followed by an african american boy, another boy wearing a red cap, a girl with glasses, a big rounded boy and a blonde one also wearing glasses

"Hey hey hey Lilo in the house" an african american teen girl wearing pink clothes greeted.

"Hello girl! Mama Trixie here!" followed by another with puffy pigtails.

"Hey! why is everyone upside down?" and a boy wearing an alien shirt..that for some reason was upside down

"Hey guys how you all been." Lilo said with a large smile sitting in her room alongside stitch currently staring into her computer as she made multi video call while Stitch sat beside her, "Aloha!"

With said experiment greeting the foreign friends they made back when they were hunting for his cousins

"Stitch my man!!" called the blonde older boy with a bald rodent jumping out also greeting the alien

"Hehe hi!" The rodent greeted with a wave as Lilo giggled, "it's so great to hear from you all and boy do I got a lot to tell you."

Lilo said with a slight eye roll and grin

"Does It have to do with the communication failures we had last month?" asked the upside boy "cause i bet Trixie and Jake $20 that were aliens!!"

"Spud.." Trixie gave a groan before pausing at Lilo getting a sheepish expression, "Actually it was.." she said with Spud shouting out, "Ha told you guys!"

He said smugly while the girl with glasses Gretchen Grundler spoke up next with a intrigued look, "Please enlighten us my Hawaiian comrade I've been trying to figure out the source of those failures with no luck."

she admitted with a pout, "Yeah even Wade couldn't find anything.." Kim said with a sigh frowning, "unless he did and decided not to tell us for some reason." she said before another screen appeared that of a young african american boy sipping a soda, "Sorry Kim but when I was digging in Lilo old friend Cobra Bubbles told me everything was under control."

he said surprising everyone with his presence, "Still wonder how someone with a name like that can be so scary." The blond haired boy with the rat Ron Stoppable said, "Hey Wade.." Lilo greeted the young genius with a grin, "And yeah it's all good...but.."

Lilo gave a heavy sigh, "We all kinda had a close call." she said with a wince prompting worried looks from her friend, "Well spill the detaiils girl what happen?" Asked the African american girl in pink clothes at that Lilo and Stitch exchanged looks before explaining about the planet jackers and what they did (until recently with the broken treaty agreement) and how they managed to snag earth with almost everyone unaware

Needless to say NONE of the listeners couldnt believe what they were hearing..but considering who was telling them.

"Im sorry girl..could you repeat that?" Trixie called "did you juts say we all were almost turn into wood fire without knowing?!!!"

"yeah not even my uncle jumba radar sensors caught anything wrong.." Lilo said with a wince though she knew Jumba was working on that problem along with his current project to make sure they weren't caught so unaware again

"That would explain the weird readings i got from the NASA ground telescopes" called the glass wearing girl who tried to keep the stress of this revelation down "they looked like the stars suddenly became...tv-like"

 "I can't believe we almost ended up like roasted marshmallows!" Said the big rounded boy
Michael 'Mikey' Blumberg with a freaked out look, "Yeah and I thought that loon who almost threw the planet into a new ice age to end summer was crazy." Added the pigtailed girl
Ashley Spinelli with a grimace

"Looks like we got lucky.." Theodore J. 'T.J.' Detweiler the boy with the red cap said with a relieved sigh, "yeah but not that i'm complaining why aren't we all burnt to a crisp?" Asked Jake Long a eastern boy wearing red with a greenish tinge to his hair

"Me and Ron are wondering  the same thing" called Kim possible.

"Oh thats because we got saved by two spaces heroes" said Lilo and proceed to tell them about Atomic Betty, the galactic guardians and Zim

 With her friends all listening with intrigue and shock, "Wait...wait..WAIT!" Kim made a time out expression her eye twitching, "This Atomic Betty she wouldn't be so high with green eyes and red hair.."

She said her eye continuing to twitch, "Uh yeah.." Lilo said with a curious confused look, "Did you happen to catch her last name while she was there.." Kim asked her voice screaming forced calm

 "no but i learned it later" said Lilo "it was... Barrett..yeah thats it" called Lilo

 "Ah...of course it was.." Kim said with a strained smile, "Excuse me for a moment.." she said getting up and exiting the view of the screen causing everyone to blink in confusion before a loud scream sounded out off screen

 "ehhh...if she....ok?" TJ asked in confusion (that everyone shared).

"I..think so?" Ron answered also confused

 At that Kim returned after taking several deep breaths, "I'm fine.." she said before anyone could ask, "just that I apparently need to call and have a long talk with my cousin.." she groaned out rubbing her eyes

 "O...k...." Lilo blinked deciding to archive that for later "but yeah, between Betty and Zim they managed to save Earth..although they were shot and have to crash land just outside my home" she continued.

"Hmm so what's the story behind this Zim dude?" afroamerican boy Vince LaSalle asked with a curious look, "Sounding like he's some kinda big deal."

"He actually is" smiled Lilo "he is like a superhero from space!" she added "he apparently rebelled against his people´s evil empire saving the galaxy from being taken over; but he was captured and sentenced to some food planet that apparently is more horrible that it sound, only to escape and hide here on Earth"

"Sounds cool.." TJ said with a look of interest in his eyes with some of the others giving a agreeing nod, "Betty certainly thought so~" Lilo said with a little giggle

"She couldnt stop gushing over him and basically go all gaga when he talked" the Hawaiian girl said "not that cant blame her, it seems that little dude have lived an action-packed life and if really a good...person" she added remembering his advice to her

The others gave curious looks with Kim in particular looking interested at what they were learning

"Well it seems he also leave a mark in you girl" called Trixie "haven't see you this excited in a while"

 "What? Me!?" Lilo exclaimed with a a slight startled look blushing, "Come on Trixe were just friends m"

 Lilo coughed

"plus..I already have..something with Dib" she added

"you mean that pen pal of yours obsessed with aliens to the point he thinks one of his classmates is a alien out to rule the world?" Penny Proud asked with a arched brow and skeptical look

"ehhh yeah?" Lilo said speechless

"The same you also admitted have and alien hunter vibe?" added Kim

"Eeeh just a bit..." Lilo said holding finger and thumb apart by a inch or so

"but...arent you like...all helping aliens and stuff?" asked Spud really confused

"I am...i'm just working on helping Dib see that not all aliens are automatically evil or hostile.." she explained with a sigh, "one step i'm working on is that classmate of his." she said frowning as she rubbed her chin, "Dib always just calls him the alien scum so don't know his name but if he's really a alien than maybe we can see if this whole thing with Dib is a misunderstanding or not."

"well you are the alien expert" said Jake "and in my experience, do is possible for a bad guy to turn good with the right approach"

"yes but your bad guy or girl in this case, almost needed up killing you multiple times" said Trixie raising an eyebrow.

"wait are we talking about Rose? thought the Huntsman was Jake's bad guy?" said Spud

"I've said it before and i'll say it again your love life is crazy man." Ron Stoppable added in shaking his head, "yeah makes me glad the guys and I don't have worry about things like that." TJ said a little laugh

On another screen Spinelli coughed while blushing

"uff even if was crazy I would at lest want to experience it" scoffed Penny

"your dad still being overprotective." Kim said sending Penny a sympathetic look causing the other girl to scoff and roll her eyes, "Do proud snacks taste bad?" she rhetorically asked before giving off a grumble, "Honestly if he had his way i'll only be allow to date when I hit a hundred."

she said getting sympathetic looks from the others before sighing out, "But we're not here to discuss my lack of a date life." she reminded everyone as she looked over to Lilo

"yeap we are here to make sure everyone is alight after the experience we had" said Lilo "plus I wanted to go ahead an extend an invitation to all of you"

 "Invitation? Invitation for what?" Jake asked with a curious look

 "well its too early, as its months away, but still wanted to make sure you all get an invite for the Aloha festival of this year" said the Hawaiian girl

 "Ohhh some tropical fun in the sun sign me up!" Spud cheer out with a excited smile, "yeah could use a vacation." Gus added in

 "wouldn't mind visit Hawaii again" said Kim

"only this time without having to worry about Drakken working with alien bunnies" said Ron

(Out in space)

"IM A HAMMSTER!!!!" a yell was heard inside a cell on a spec jail much to the confusion of the guards

(back on earth)

"if its during summer I could do a break after the end term" said Penny.

"yeah as I said still some months away but im sure it will come around mid summer" said Lilo

 "Awesome! Nothing like enjoying summer break in Hawaii~" Vince cheered out with his friends agreeing, "Sounds like we're all in." Spinelli said with a wide smirk, "Same goes for us." Trixie called in happily

 "bet my grandpa would love it too" said Jake with a smile remembering their first journey to the island

"Hehe i'm sure Ms. Hasagawa would be happy to see him again~" Lilo said with a giggle also remembering Jakes grandfather having hit it off with the fruit vendor, "But glad to hear you're all in~ It will be great to see you all in person that's for sure." Lilo chirped out with Stitch giving a agreeing nod beside her

It will be nice to have all her friends in one place..now only need to contact Betty...and Zim..somehow

"I will keep you in touch for anything...and maybe can convince Jumba to give you all a lift to the island using the spaceship" said Lilo with a smile

"Ohhh riding a real life extraterrestrial vessel would be a dream come true!" Gushed out Gretchen excitedly with everyone certainly sharing the sentiment

Lilo laughed at this actually feeling happy and expecting the festival

Plus this was a good reminder that whatever her worries or problems she always had her ohana and her friends to count on.

And she was sure that this year the aloha festival will be one to remember~

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Lilo laughed at this actually feeling happy and expecting the festival

Plus this was a good reminder that whatever her worries or problems she always had her ohana and her friends to count on.

And she was sure that this year the aloha festival will be one to remember~

 (One week later Doomville)

While a Hawaiian born Earth ambassador caught up with old friends, and a alien invader continued his latest plot of gaining the trust of the Galactic Guardians.

Back in Doomville the sight of numerous conflicts between said alien invader and a paranormal expert...Zim's absence hadn't gone unnoticed.

"Im telling you Gaz! he must be planning something big! something really maquiavelic! something like this world have ever seen!" Dib called as Gaz had to (for the third time that hour) make an effort to NOT murder her brother as she put her books into her locker at school.

"First off is maquiavelic even a word?" Gaz growled out sending her brother a annoyed glare, "Secondly your obsession with the crazy alien is starting to get creepy Dib." she said giving him a pointed look, "you were in your room all weekend watching his house from your planted camera outside of the house.."

she said frowning, "dad had to actually force you to shower and go to school."

 Dib grunted.

"ok first of all, I'm trying to create my own word brand" he mumbled "all the high name paranormal hunters have one" he turned to his sister "secondly i didn't smell that bad to..."

"Dib I had to use 10 cans of air freshener on the hallway after you came out and it still stank like you" scoffed the girl "I actually had to set the washing machine to self destruct cause there is NO WAY I'm putting my clothes to clean where you set yours"

"Wait...that's was the explosion!? I thought one of dad's cybernetic animal escaped the underground lab!" Dib protested with a upset look toward Gaz who rolled her eyes.

"It did, but then it came up the ventilation to your room and got a full experience with your odor" said Gaz closing the locker.

Dib gave her a incredulous look, "honestly with your hygiene on top of annoyance it's no wonder your only shot at a girl is long distance."

"Hey!!! I will let you know Lilo..." he shut up

"You were going to say she has never said anything about your smell, right?" Gaz asked with raised eyebrow.

"...And then realize we haven't meet in person yet" groaned Dib facepalming

"Which is the only reason you haven't gotten dump yet." Gaz finished with a smirk at her brothers glare, "Oh, ha ha.." he said sarcastically, "i'll have you know that when Lilo and I do meet she'll be just as impressed with me than she is now." he said proudly, "So...not at all?" Gaz retorted back with a smirk.

Before Dib could come up with a comeback, the bell rang announcing the start of classes

"well better hurry, maybe you will be lucky and Zim will reveal his plan to you before the class start" said Gaz happy (?) to cut that conversation

Dib at that had his eyes light up because Gaz was right Zim always loved to brag about his plans and would usually at least hint at something he was planning..."Good idea!" And without a word Dib rushed off missing Gaz's annoyed look

"And THATS a reason for me to hope whatever he is planning..actually work" scoffed the purple haired girl as she knew Dib was for a surprise.

(Ms. Bitter classroom)

BAM!

The door opened with a kick.

"Cim!!!! I know what you're planing!!!!!" screamed Dib on top of his lungs...well he didn't but that was a good way to get the alien talking.

Any moment...

Any moment...

Any moment...

"hey genius!" the voice of his classmate Jessica called filled with sarcasm "Zim hasn't arrive yet"

 "Oh...well.." Dib flushed coughing feeling embarrassed, "Well he's still up to something!" He declared strongly, "Urggg not this again.." Zita groaned out rubbing her head as if to ward off a migraine..."Can't you just give one day where you don't accuse Zim of being some crazy space monster, or annoying the heck out of the rest of us?"

"Thats like asking his sister to not be terrifying or addicted to games" called a boy named Chunk "not happening"

"Good point...still be nice to get a break from Dib being all crazy, and making Zim act even crazier." Zita grunted out with a annoyed look toward Dib, "honestly if you stopped antagonizing him and getting him so on edge, than maybe Zim would be able to calm down and relax."

"Me?!!" called Dib "its HIM the one that always is trying to either take over the world or destroy us all!!!" he yelled in frustration "I bet he is planing just that in this moment!"

The class all shot him bored annoyed looks, "Right just like he was stealing organs, or mutated the class hamster." Letter M grunted with a annoyed roll of their eyes, "He was!" Dib yelled out incredulously but before he could say another word, "Quiet!"

He flinched as a shadow loomed and formed over him causing him to turn and gulp at of the sight of Miss Bitter glaring down at him, "you're disrupting class with your nonsense Dib." Bitter said scowling picking him up by his large head, "And we have some announcements to get through."

"But Ms. Bitters! Zim..." Dib tried to say only for the teacher to become a shadow, wrap around him and the next second he was sitting on his chair with duck tape on his mouth.

"Now..as I was saying...we have some announcements" said the teacher standing now in front of the class "now first thing is...we have our first permanent leave of the year" she scoffed "surprised it didn't happened earlier" he returned "ehem as was saying I'm obligate to inform you that Zim will no longer be part of our class"

"WHAT?!" Was the shocked yell...prompting a confused blink from many of the class because Dib was still duck taped but was stock still with wide eyes...before everyone's gaze went to the true source of the yell...Zita, "Uh..that is.."

the girl flushed giving a cough at the attention, "Any particular reason why?" she asked with a strained grin ,"because if it's because of Dib, wouldn't it be more fair to get rid of him over Zim?"

"ehhhhh!!!" Dib muffed cry was ignored

"Believe me if I could I would have done ages ago" scoffed the teacher "And no its not for Dib..surprisingly" she added "According to what the principal was told there have been some family issues back on Zim´s home country and he and his family needed to return" she pulled out a paper "its all in this note that Zim left and for some reason that I don't care yet I must follow, the principal wanted me to read it in front of you all" she coughed and began reading.

"Dear fellow larvae, it is I Zim!!!!" Bitter coughed..yes she also was told to make the yelling "I must apologize for I wont be able to honor you with my presence as personal, VERY REAL, family issues will keep me busy for sharing the daily torture of school with you" a pause...she agreed with that "ehem...Also I'm very sorry you all will have now to endure Dib´s ugly big head as he no longer will have me to pour any alien craziness his ugly big head can produce, and really his head is really big..as in BIG! and UGLY like HOW can someone have such and Ugly and big head like that?!!!"

This prompted a scatter of laughs from the class while Dib just looked between insulted and worried, "Hehe give green boy this he nailed the big question there~" Chunk called with a laugh banging on his desk...though while the rest of the class laughed....Zita only gave a weak smile...seeming upset at this news.

 "Yes yes, we all know his head is big and ugly but shut up and let me finish!" called their teacher "ehem...as such as a farewell gift to all of you for giving me such an experience, even the bad ones with Dib, I leave with you a nice surprise that like you would say...is to die for"

And with that the door opened again and some...obvious to Dib but not to anyone else...robotic postman pushed a car with a green icing, 6 level cake with a black metallic object on the top with Zim´s name in purple icing on one side

 "Ahhh he sent us a cake....so sweet~" Zita said with a sigh and sad smile, "dibs on first slice!" Jessica called with a eager grin, "Man who knew Zim could actually do something cool." Brian muttered out, "Yeah Zim's the bomb!" Melvin shouted out excitedly

 Bomb? the word echoed in Dib´s head.

"Oh yeah...i'm suppose to do this too" grunted Mrs Bitter as she raised an arm and touch a button on the side of the object on the top

A countdown appeared with 1 min.

BOMB!!!!!

Dib´s eyes widen and tried to yell...only to remember he had the duck tape on...so he began to fight trying to take it off

 Leading him to focus on the cake...or rather the bomb on top! He couldn't waste any time! He thought getting on top of his desk and leaping toward the cake!

"Dib!" Only to fall short as a scowling Bitters grabbed her by the neck mid hair pulling him up to her face with a dark glare, "What do you think you're doing?" she demanded with annoyance

"Umm!!! umm!!! ummmmm!!!!" Dib cried and began to struggle trying to break free

"Hey! I called dibs!" yelled Jessica

"Dib's not only crazy but also rude" scoffed Sara

Finally Dib managed to get the tape off his mouth

"RUN ITS A BOMB!!!" he yelled managing to rip himself off Bitter´s grasp...and tackle the cake down.

"Hey! he's ruining the cake!" Mary called out angrily, "Zim gave that to everyone as a gift you jerk!" Zita snapped standing up from her desk

But was too late, he was able to bring the upper half of the cake down in a sonorous splat on the floor.

The weird machine slip on the icing a couple of inches from impact and the boy (now covered in cake) pounced to try grab it

"DIB!!!!"

Or tried as the claw/hand of Mrs Bitter grabbed him by the head and bring him closer to his furious expression

"NOOO!! ITS A TRAP!! ZIMS TRYING TO BLOW US SLL UP!!" Dib screamed out in horror struggling in his teachers grasp

The countdown reached 5...4....3...2....1...

Dib closed his eyes expecting an explosion.

And then a compartment opened on the machine...and confetti alongside candies began to be shot onto the air alongside a small flag that read "HOPE WE SEE EACH OTHER AGAIN" with a heart and Zim´s name

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"Uh...what?" was all Dib could say in dumbfounded silence at what just happen....they were alive...the machine shot out candy?!

"Oh well done hero" Jessica drooled in sarcasm "you just ruined a nice cake because of your craziness"

"Yeah what's your problem?" Zita demanded with a glare, "Zim went through a lot of effort to do something nice for the class, and you got to wreak it!"

"Yeah you stupid!" Chunk added managing to grab some candy and began eating "umm these are quite good"

"DON'T EAT THAT!" called Dib "they could be poisonous or have some alien virus!!!"

"Please the only virus here is big headed craziness.." Jessica said before giving a mocking smirk, "fortunately it's not contagious~" she added as the class let out a laugh at the gaping Dib, "Dib.." who quickly realized he another another major problem as Bitters spoke his name in a hiss, "give me one reason why I shouldn't send you to underground detention for the next month!"

"I..ummm...ehhh" Dib looked around "you dont...like sweets and that cake was too sweet?" Dib tried

The teacher growled and looked ready to murder when the door opened again

"Oh woah...i shouldn't be surprise yet I am" Gaz said as she entered pulling from another car with another cake "good thing Zim made two cakes just in case"

"Gaz?!" Dib said giving his sister a surprised confused look, "Alright cake!" Chunk cheered out with other students all of the happy they'd be getting some cake after all.

"Huff...I suppose this is a good moment to say the next announcement" scoffed Mrs Bitters "In the event of Zim departure and because of her high grades, Gaz Membrane will be move a grade and be taking classes with us" she looked at the girl "welcome to hell"

However Gaz simply gave a sort looking up toward her unflinchingly, "you say that like i'm not living in hell every minute of every day by sharing a home with Dib."

Bitter hummed

"Thats...actually a good point" she said with a nod "maybe wont be so bad having you here"

"What?" Dib spoke out looking both shocked at Bitters admitting this while giving his sisters a confused look, "Gaz what are you doing here?" He demanded wanting some answers ,"Weren't you listening i'm being moved up a grade to your class moron."

Gaz replied back rolling her eyes, "I mean why are you here delivering some kinda evil cake from Zim!"

Blink

"cause he knew you would destroy the first one and asked me to deliver the second one in exchange for a full battle pass for my game console?" she answered in a, you stupid?, tone

This caused Dib to raise his hand but paused with his mouth open unable to say anything to that...while getting the feeling that Zim had played him and he hated it! "Looks like Zim's got a handle on Dib's craziness from having to deal with his harassment all the time." Zita said with a annoyed huff.

"Although I wonder if now he will accuse her sister of being a robot or something like that" Carl mentioned with a mocking tone

 "No next he'll start saying Zim went back to his home country to conquer it or something." Jessica added in mockingly

 "Oh oh I have one" Sara called "Maybe he thinks Zim is recruiting Bigfoot and the loch ness monster to create a monster army" she laughed

 At that the class just laughed while Dib gaped at them in Bitters grip missing Gaz's own amused smirk, "settle down you little hellions you can all mock Dib later.." Bitters called out, "for now all of you form a single file line to get a slice of cake."

she said before giving Dib a pointed glare, "except for Dib who will not be enjoying any cake."

"But I....!"

"And if he keeps talking he can add an entire month in detention!!!"

 Dib at that paled as Bitters dropped him hard onto hisbutt, "oh and before I forget.." Gaz walked up and held out a envelope toward Dib who blinked, "Zim asked me to pass this along to you." she said with a grumble, "since when is Zim chummy with Dib's sister?" Zita asked from the forming line with a frown, "I'm not but figure going along with this was less of a headache and could get a laugh or two from Dib being a moron."

Gaz said putting more irritation into her voice last thing she needed was Dib suspecting anything.

 Dib looked at this in confusion and grabbed the note

"Hey Dib stink! you really thought would be THAT easy? FOOLISH LARVAE!!! I knew you would jump into Zim´s sugar threat!!! you were so predictable HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA" Dib´s eyebrow twitch..was writing the laughter necessary? "on that note congratulation you were right about Zim´s plan..but so wrong about WHERE I left my deathly surprise, Good luck living pass class time!!!!" more writing laughter "PS...this letter will self destruct now!" and the letter caught fire suddenly

 "Ah hot, hot, hot!" Dib let out a yelp dropping the burning letter before quickly patting down his jacket sleeve as it caught on fire too and wait..Dib eyes went wide as he suddenly froze processing the note, "THERES A BOMB IN THE SCHOOL!"

He screamed out in horrified realization this whole thing with the cakes wasn't just to taunt and mess with his head, it was meant to distract him! "ZIM YOU COWARD! YOU CAN"T BEAT ME SO YOU RESORT TO THIS!"

he screamed out moving to rush out of the classroom before pausing at the door way, "Miss Bitters you've got to evacuate the school!" He cried out hand on the door knob

"Dib sit down!!!" cried the teacher in anger as she began taking slices off the cake "You cant have cake and thats final! and i'm not in the mood for excuses or falsehoods!"

 "But i'm not lying! Zim's just using this whole thing as a distraction to blow us up!" Dib cried out in disbelief, "Urg even when he's not here you have to bully Zim and make up crazy nonsense." Zita said with a groan shooting him a glare, "just give it a rest already!"

"Yeah, I mean you go crazy if he is here, you go crazy if he is not here" scoffed Sara "you already ruined a field trip with your craziness now you want to ruin cake?"

"Yeah man, why you got to be a buzzkill all the time." Brian said with many students pretty much all calling out similar things with Dib standing there eye twitching before letting out a groan as he slammed the door shut and took off running, "I don't have time for this!" he yelled out as Bitters suddenly scowled, "Ditching class, he's begging for underground detention."

she hissed out before pressing a button on her desk as the ceiling open up deploying multiple flying drones, "we've got skipper, Membrane shoot to kill." Bitters hissed

Gaz had to make an effort to not smile..who would thought she would see the day one of Zim´s plans would work.

she took a plate with cake and took a bit

Uhh ok double surprise...this was quite the good cake

 Note to self ask Zim where he got the recipe for this..she thought swallowing another bite of cake.

 (In the hallway)

Dib rushed as quick as he could, he didn't know how much time he had before the bomb exploded and the school was quite big on the inside so he had a lot of terrain to cover.

"Can't believe I didn't see this coming! Of course the bug boy would try to just blow everything up when he realized he couldn't win!" Dib groaned out scowling as he rushed through the halls, "And what's worst i've got no idea where Zim OR the bomb is!"

Should he go tell the principal? no he suspected he wouldn't listen to him..without proof that is..maybe he could ring the fire alarm? that certainly would get everyone to safety and maybe call the authorities to search for the bomb

Though just as he thought this he suddenly let out a yelp as a laser flew past his head hitting the wall!

"what the?!" he cried out before paling as the sight behind him, "student skipping class, Eliminate at all cost!" Cried out the flying drones, "are you kidding me! They've got budget for drones but not a decent school lunch!"

More lasers were shot at him making him had to jump and weave to evade the attacks

"Wait stop!"

Pew

"I'm trying to.."

PEW

"Save the.."

PEW

"School!"

Dib cried out but was ignored by the drones as they fired and he dodged the best he could, "There's a bomb!"

The boy managed to gave a sharp turn and rush through some late students still leaving their stuff on the lockers.

This gave the drones new targets for a moment

"Okay..Dib think..you've fought against a alien invader...you can handle some school robots...right?" Dib asked himself as he panted looking over his shoulder only to pale at the sight that awaited him

"Please have mercy!" Gretchen cried out as she was lifted up by a robotic arm, "I have a note from my dentist in my backpack!"

"I have stomachache!!! I only needed to use the bathroom!!" cried Dirge as another robotic arm grasped him by the legs and began dragging him away

"Yayyy! new robot friends!" While one frankly creepy by the name of Keef simply smiled as as the drone grabbing him shocked him, "Hehehe...that tickles~"

"Wait! Im the Janitor! the janitor!!!!" an older scream was heard followed by cries of pain

Dib sighed in relief.

However as he gave a sharp turn on another hallway.

"Halt!!!"

He was stopped by the Hall Monitor in turn.

"urg seriously?! I don't have time for this!" Dib cried out in frustration as his fellow student looked at him with a scowl with a scanner over his left eye, "Where's your hall pass!?" The hall monitor demanded

 "Listen! right now we are all in danger! so move aside or better yet help me evacuate the school!" yelled Dib

 "The only one in danger here is you if you don't show me your hall pass." Said the hall monitor with a sharp glare.

"Ugg for saturn sake I dont have time!" yelled Dib before trying to make a break for it.

"Oh no you don't!" called the monitor "hallway watchers attack!" he called

and literal ninja star shaped cookies landed in front of Dib...cookies that he knew quite well

"Oh no...please...no.." Dib said suddenly paling all the more as number of forms surrounded him, "so out without a hall pass huh.." Moofy proud member of the Girly Rangers said as some of her fellow Girly Rangers surrounded Dib, "that's going to cost you big head.."

she said with a smirk holding up some cookies as if they were a deadly weapon and in her hand they might as well be, "I...what are you doing here?!" Dib demanded nervously, "We go to school here...duh."

Said a girl wearing a purple girly ranger uniform in a dry blunt tone

"And we got the hall monitor position" added the one dressed in green

"In this hallways we keep order and the law" added the blue wearing one

"So now we're going to pound you!" Declared the large form of Greg as they punch a fist into their palm

 "Come on!!! cant you hear me out for a moment?! there is an alien bomb hidden in the school and we need to find it!!!" Dib cried out in frustration

 At that silence filled the halls before everyone suddenly burst out laughing

 "Oh god you serious? hahahahaha" Moofy (red) laughed harder

"Oh wait wait! you are the big headed crazy guy from Mrs Bitter´s class aren't you?" Mia (Purple) asked

"My heads not big!" Dib yelled out disgruntled with his eye twitching as he was partially ignored.

"Right the crazy boy who always bothers the green skinned kid." Millie (Blue) said with a look of realization, "you man the kid that always looks so jumpy and always shouts his name a lot." Madelyn (green) asked with a arched brow, "yeah that's the one!" Millie said with a nod.

"yes that one!!! thats Zim!! and evil alien wanting to conquer our world!!!" yelled Dib "But I have always stop him! so he now plans to blow us all so he can have free way to do his evil plans!!"

At this everyone just exchange looks, "Have you considered seeking professional help?" Spoke out the hall monitor with a arched brow, "Last I heard from the grapevine, the crazy house actually kicked him out." Said Moofy with a snort

 "They didn't kick me out! they realized I was sent there by mistake!" Dib tried to defend himself

 "Right..." Moofy said with a dry look that was shared by everyone else, "We're going to beat you up now.." she than added with a bright happy smile

"But dont worry, we will leave some intact" added Madelyn "we do need to take him to the principal" she added to the others

Dib gulped at their looks giving out a groan, "Seriously? Is there anyone out there who ever has days even half as bad mine?!" He asked before the girly rangers descended on him and he let out a girly shrill yell.

(Moosejaw Heights Junior High)

Noah smacked his head on the door of his locker

"I want to die" he said in low sad tone

"woah..whats with you?" Paloma asked. she was a long brown hair, brown skinned girl with, dark lips, and brown eyes. She also had multiple ear piercings, a red t-shirt with a golden buttlerfly and blue jeans. She wore her hair down, adorned by two ponytails on top.

"sigh...nothing its just...Betty is kinda..mad at me" answered the boy

 "Oh? How come?" Paloma asked with a arched brow, "well.." Noah paused for a moment, "you're from space too right?"

 "in more than a way but yes" Paloma giggled

"Ok nice..ummm" he looked around to make sure no one was listening "so you would know about Irkens right?"

 At that Paloma suddenly looked worried, "There's not many sentient's in the universe who don't know one of the most feared empire of conquering invaders."

 Sure she might technically be the daughter of a demon...but at least her parents were more "rule over everyone" guys and not the "we will ram our ship through your planet cause we bored" like the Irkens

"yeah I was told about them and I can tell they are bad news" he coughed "on that...have you heard about a rebel or good irken?"

 "You mean Invader Zim?" Paloma asked with a blink, "Again hard not to there are planets that built monuments for his actions, and entire star systems that started holidays celebrating the hero of doomsday saving them from his own people."

 The girl shrugged

"Honestly I never knew what to think of it, at times i think its just like a symbol against the empire or something like that, I mean I have heard somethings he supposedly did but i think if half of those were true then the empire should be standing by now"

"yeah well he dropped by for a visit at guardian headquarters." Noah said getting a surprise look from Paloma, "He what?!" With Noah giving a nod, "yeah and .." Noah sighed out, "Apparently Betty really looks up to the guy."

"I...looks up?" Paloma blinked

"yeah was weird...like...you girls when you see some pretty face singer? like that" said Noah

 Paloma arched a brow at that comparison, "and I honestly can't understand why! The guy give off nothing but bad vibes!"

 He scoffed "His robot pet, or helper or whatever it was messed up the cafeteria and put blame on me and Sparky!" he called up "And Betty was convinced we did it and was so angry at us that made us clean the whole place"

 "Why did she think you did it?" Paloma question trying to process this and get the full picture of all this, after all it wasn't everyday you heard the hero of doomsday paid the galactic guardians a visit.

 "I suppose wrong place, wrong time moment" said the boy; he had been thinking this since it happened and yet his head couldn't wrap things around it "I kinda started a food fight to save Sparky from being beaten...but the second time that bot messed the cafeteria i get him to clean it...but then Betty thought we made him do ALL the work"

"Ah...yeah that wouldn't look good." Paloma said with a wince, "it didn't, and I'm pretty sure Betty's still upset at me and Sparky because of it."

A week later and he was sure Betty was giving him the cold shoulder still just exchanging some words between them and focusing on training in a more "I teach you learn" approach instead of the friendly way he was used to.

"You just to make it clear you're sorry.." Paloma said before holding up a hand as he moved to speak, "I know you said you didn't do it..' she said sighing, "but if you're telling the truth it's pretty much done and over with, and getting Betty to believe it will probably be impossible without proof."

she said with Noah wincing internally at that point, "and i'm sure she'll forgive you you two are best friends after all." She added as Noah gave a chuckled, "Yeah...best...friends." he said sighing at the last word not for the first time wishing they were more, "besides at the end of the it sounds like it was just a little mess, it's not like you're doing something really bad like cheating on galactic guardians exams or something crazy like that."

Paloma joked laughing a bit missing Noah going suddenly very stiff and nervous,"Than she'd never forgive you~" she added with a snort

"I..hehee yeah..i..never ummm" Noah coughed trying to think on something FAST "I..ehem...ok so just say I'm sorry and let by-gones be by-gones? ummm not sure if it would work with Sparky...he has been in quite a foul mood lately"

 And at Paloma curious look he sighed, "He REALLY doesn't like this Zim guy...or Irken's period." he said with a grimace explaining some of what happen at the Guardian headquarters including the small scene Sparky caused when Zim had arrived, "Ouch.."

Paloma said with a wince, "Admit outside of Zim you'd be hard pressed to find anyone in the galaxy who actually likes any irken." she admitted to Noah frowning, "but Sparky should of known going off like that would of only landed him in hot water."

"Yeah i get that" said Noah "heard, and by that I mean he told me, the crew will be working with Zim for a while"

"And i'm guessing he isn't happy about it...nor are you?" Paloma stated as Noah groaned leaning against the locker, "I know it's dumb...he's suppose to be some big hero...but something about him makes me uneasy."

He said grimacing, "plus the way Betty looks at him it's.." Paloma gave him a sympathetic look, "listen Noah...she's just a little star struck...I doubt she's going to drop you for this guy or anything."

Noah coughed and blushed

"I wasnt worrying about that!" he said in hurry

Paloma rolled her eyes

"Sure you weren't" she sighed "I'm just saying, maybe its the concept of what Irkens are that is messing with you..give it time, maybe Betty will get bored of this guy or you will see he is not as bad as you think" she blinked "or will be as bad as you think but you would be there to help Betty if need"

 Either way, you and Betty have been through thick and thin, and nothing's going to change that." Paloma said encouragingly

"umm you know..you right" Noah said with a smile "we have been close for years and once I become a guardian we will be even closer" he called out "no green alien dude would change that"

 "That's the spirit.." Paloma said with a smile happy she could raise Noah spirits while also internally planning to question Betty about her side of things and this irken, "now come on we should get to the auditorium.."

She said while Noah suddenly gave her a confused look

 "oh come on space-boy...even Betty knows about the festival the school is planning, she told me need help to present her theme for the contest at the auditorium today"

 "Ah right the festival!" Noah said nervously nodding his head with a strained smile, "I totally didn't forget.." he added with a strained laugh ,"After all who doesn't love a festival celebrating um...the um.."

he trailed off at the end before adding unsuredly, "good grades?" He asked more than stated sheepishly

 Paloma rolled her eyes shaking her head.

"come on, I will explain things on the way" she said signaling the boy to follow her "who knows, maybe you could use this chance to start fixing things with Betty"

"Yeah...you're right.." Noah said with a smile of encouragement, "I just need to remind her how useful and dependable i am!" he said determined to earn Betty's forgiveness and all that

(Auditorium)

The place was a controlled cacophony of creativity and chaos as students prepared their models to present to the teachers and principal. The air hummed with the low chatter of voices, the rhythmic snip of scissors, and the occasional frustrated groan as a piece of cardboard refused to cooperate. Empty soda cans and crumpled snack wrappers littered the edges of the tables, testament to the long hours already poured into these projects.

Near the back, a boy from homeroom 8B was painstakingly gluing miniature seashells and iridescent glitter onto a large, wavy blue sheet, trying to evoke the shimmer of an ocean. His "Under the Sea Soiree" model featured a cut-out cardboard whale with tiny, googly-eyed fish swimming around it.

Across the aisle a girl had transformed her section into a miniature desert town. Tiny, hand-painted wooden cacti dotted a sandy landscape, and she was currently trying to prop up a minuscule saloon door made from popsicle sticks for her "Wild West Roundup" theme. The faint, sweet smell of floral spray paint wafted from a table where a pair of girls were meticulously arranging silk roses and daisies onto an archway of green pipe cleaners for their "Blossom Bash."

Their model was a riot of color, with tiny paper butterflies seemingly fluttering above. And over by the risers, a group of boisterous boys, led by Duncan, were in a heated debate about the placement of tiny, painted plastic figures on a green felt field. Their "Sports Dance-Off" theme was a chaotic but energetic display of miniature basketball hoops alongside disco balls, all illuminated by a string of battery-operated fairy lights.

On her own section of the auditorium, Betty looked like have gone 100 hours in a flight simulation while fighting Maximus (which she did recently) as her brow was furrowed, a stray strand of hair escaping her usually neat ponytail and falling across her tired eyes. She stifled a yawn, scrubbing a smudge of glitter from her cheek with the back of her hand.

Her "Galactic Gala" model, a sprawling diorama depicting miniature rockets soaring around a shimmering, star-dusted dance floor, was almost complete. Almost. She'd been up for hours, meticulously cutting out tiny alien figures and wiring a miniature LED light strip to simulate distant galaxies.

 "Just a few minor touches..and it'll be all ready for the festival." Betty said to herself with a smile it was a lot of work but as always the hard work would be worth it in the end. Plus seeing her hard work appreciated while getting to enjoy the festival was just what she needed after everything as of late.

Don't get her wrong things were looking great! After all she would be working with Invader Zim now! And just the thought of fighting side by side with him and getting to chance to know him more...she had to hold back another squeal of joy.

She thought smiling as she imagined the Invader...a part of her wondering if Zim would like her model too....maybe she should take a picture of it to show him later? Or perhaps see if she could could contact him to attend it?

Betty thought smiling at the idea of spending time at the festival with her idol....though she was sure some like Sparky wouldn't like it.

Which of course brought a weary sigh reminding her of some of the issues that had been coming up as of late.

 "Ugg even after talking with him each time I see him he still acts as if he ate some rotten food" she scoffed as she fixed some planet models she plans to use as dance lights "and if he thinks I didnt see him trying to buy Irken repellent online he is crazy"

"Crazy the girl talking alone" a snooty voice called making her groan

Betty didn't even need to turn around to know who it was. That nasal, superior tone could only belong to one person at Moosejaw Heights Junior High. She sighed, her shoulders slumping slightly. She'd been so close to finishing her model, to losing herself in the excitement of the festival and the thought of Zim. Now, Penelope, queen of the dramatic entrance and self-appointed arbiter of all things cool, had arrived to disrupt her peace.

"And what's with all... this?" the snooty girl asked, her perfectly manicured hand sweeping dismissively towards Betty's presentation. "This is suppose to be a dance, not a nerd convention."

 "It's not nerdy!" Betty protested with a glare, "and i'm sure it's better than whatever model you're working on." Betty added before snorting, "That's if you even bothered to work on one instead of letting everyone else contribute to the festival."

 Penelope scoffed, a superior smirk twisting her lips.

"Unlike you, I do have a vision of art and beauty." She snapped her fingers, and like clockwork, Megan and Sarah appeared pushing a wheeled cart. On it sat a dance model, intricately designed with a disco ball and flashing lights... and filled with dozens of pictures of Penelope herself, striking various poses. It was less a model for a festival and more a shrine to her own self-admiration.

"Nice tribute to yourself.." Betty remarked with sarcastic disdain never failed to see Penelope exploit a opportunity to feed her own ego, "but where's the vision of art and beauty?" she asked with a smirk while making as show of looking around.

Penelope shot her an annoyed look, her hands tightening on her hips.

"Careful, Barrett!" she scoffed, her black hair swaying as she tossed her head. "Or you can find yourself banned from my dance once the teachers choose my vision."

"Okay one even if they chose your model which they won't you wouldn't have that authority." Betty retorted back giving her a flat look, "and two what makes you think it's your dance even if they did?" She added with finger quotes on the word your

"Easy," Penelope said, flipping her hair with an air of absolute certainty. "I propose it, I lead it. That's simple math."

Betty look became flatter

"No wonder you make Sarah do your homework then."

Sarah and Megan held back slight giggles at that while Penelope gave a a annoyed low growl, "I'm smart enough to that you plus geeky model equals snooze fest!" The haughty girl retorted

"And dance minus you equals you leaving me right now!" Betty yelled back, her patience finally reaching its limit.

"make me!" Penelope snapped glaring right back at her having no clue how easily and how much Betty just wanted to kick her butt

Before Penelope could utter another word, a sudden, unseen force shoved Sarah and Megan. With startled yelps, they stumbled forward, their hands slipping from the cart. Penelope's self-tribute dance model, a glorious, glittering shrine to her own image, began to roll. It picked up speed, the tiny disco ball wobbling wildly, pictures of Penelope flapping precariously as it trundled across the auditorium floor.

"My vision!" Penelope shrieked, her earlier bravado dissolving into panic. She shot Betty a furious look, then turned and sprinted after the runaway cart, shouting back at her bewildered friends, "Megan! Sarah! You useless nitwits! How could you lose it?!"

"Sorry!" Sarah squeaked, stumbling after the cart.

"So, so sorry!" Megan added, hot on Sarah's heels.

Just as the trio disappeared around a corner in pursuit of the runaway model, Paloma sauntered into view. A satisfied smirk played on her lips as she casually remarked.

"Oops... seems I tripped back there."

"Heh careful you might break something that's actually important." Betty said before both girls let out a shared giggle.

Betty and Paloma's giggles subsided, the last echoes of Penelope's shriek fading down the hall.

Paloma walked over to Betty's table, her eyes scanning the "Galactic Gala" model with genuine interest.

"Wow, Betty," Paloma said, leaning in for a closer look. "This is actually really cool. The way you did the stars, and those little alien figures are amazing. It's way better than Penelope's 'Ode to Penelope' exhibit." She grinned, nudging Betty playfully. "Seriously, this must've taken you forever."

"A week, three cat-related incidents, a lot of glue, one accidental teleport to another planet, two attacks from Maximus, and almost a full night without sleeping," Betty sighed dramatically, leaning against the table. "But who's counting?"

"you okay?" Paloma asked with a concerned expression noticing that while Betty was joking a bit her eyes held a bit of a tired gaze.

"I'm fine...just been a lot going on lately." Betty assured her with a weary smile.

 "Sounds like it," Paloma said, her gaze sympathetic. "You sure you're up for this? It's not exactly mandatory, nor is it for extra credit."

"Pff, and let Penelope somehow transform this into an 'everyone praise me' night? Not a chance," scoffed the galactic guardian. "Plus, I think I have a nice idea here," she added, looking proudly at her model. "We've had plenty of common and old themes. Why not try something new and out of this world?" She giggled at her own pun, a spark of her usual enthusiasm returning to her tired eyes.

 "I like it after all lot of people would enjoy a space theme." Paloma said with a encouraging smile

"Not if your name is Tanya," Betty grunted, rolling her eyes in frustration.

 "What do you mean?" Paloma asked with a confused blink

 Betty's eyes widened slightly. She'd said that out loud. "Nothing important... just my mom... suggesting stuff... again." She offered a weak, dismissive wave of her hand, hoping Paloma would drop it.

 However Paloma just looked concerned, "you want to talk about it?" She asked placing her hand on Betty's shoulder, "if there's anyone who understands family issues it's me."

Betty sighed again, a deeper, more frustrated sound this time.

"It just... It's... sigh, it's nothing serious," she finally said, though her weary expression suggested otherwise. "I just... want to show her dances don't need to be all... proper... like she calls them." another sigh "and hey! think this will work pretty well" she added with a more energetic tone looking at her model "just a few more details and will be perfect"

"and then I can show mom that I don't need to be more ladylike or girly for a dance." She muttered out scowling, "and after I show her I can show my cousin that I've got a handle on the whole hero lifestyle."

Because that was another thing she had to deal this week..a call from her "hero teen" cousin Kim Possible who apparently also was friend with Lilo and learned about her being a space guardian

"And it seems Miss 'cheerleader-who-fights-villains' had issues with her younger, by three years, cousin saving the galaxy on a daily basis," Betty muttered, a new layer of annoyance settling over her.

"wait cheerleader fighting villains..." Paloma repeated with a blink before here eye's widen, "your cousin is MFFF!" Her exclamation was cut off by Betty eyes wide quickly moving to cover her mouth with her hands, "Quiet!"

If there was one secret above the fact she was a galactic guardian, it was the fact she was cousin of the world-trotting heroine teenage Kim possible

"The last thing I need is word about this getting out.." Betty said looking around nervously, "I'd never get a moments peace, and I could just hear Penelope comparing me to Kim at every moment she can.."

she admitted with a scowl before adding with a smirk, "after she gets over her jealous fit from the attention i'll get."

"That or try get on your good side" said Paloma "I mean no secret she is quite fan"

"Ugg her and half the school" scoffed Betty "I don't need nor want that kind of attention on myself"

"Not only would it make sneaking away to perform my duties harder, but I honestly don't need people either trying to get on my good side to get to my cousin, or deal with people comparing me to her or the like."

Betty admitted with a groan rubbing her head, "I'm picking up a few issues with your cousin?" Paloma inquired with Betty sighing, "Don't get me wrong...professionally I do admire and respect her for what she does.." Betty replied back frowning before adding with a mutter, "even though I think she could use a little more humility about it...I mean girl who can do anything.."

she rolled her eyes but focused back on her friend, "but having a cousin with that sort of reputation...while keeping your own heroics a secret from everyone in your family...can put a bit of a pressure on you."

Paloma blinked at this and signal her to continue

"Sigh, well, for starters" Betty began, running a hand through her hair "there's the constant feeling that I'm not doing enough, even when I'm literally saving the galaxy. Kim's out there, fighting villains with her cheerleading moves and gadgets, and everyone knows about it. She gets the accolades, the first page headlines. Meanwhile, I'm dealing with interstellar threats, battling alien warlords, and nobody, nobody in my regular life, even knows. It's like I'm living this whole other life that no one acknowledges."

She gestured vaguely at her model. "Then there's the comparison. Even though she doesn't know what I do, sometimes she'll say things, you know, about being 'responsible' or 'handling things.' And I'm just sitting there, thinking, 'If you only knew what I handle on a Tuesday night!'"

Betty sighed, a tired smile touching her lips. "It's just this quiet pressure to measure up, even when you're operating on a completely different scale, and you can't even talk about it."

she scoffed "But apparently, knowing your cousin has dealt with a evil aliens and planet-busting bombs is enough to warrant a call and a scolding about keeping secrets and putting myself in danger," Betty scoffed, crossing her arms. She muttered something about hypocrites under her breath, a fresh wave of irritation washing over.

 Paloma gave a wince shooting her friend a concerned look, "I'm sure she's only worried...after all she's likely processing that you're just as much of a hero as you are." Paloma said gently, "you just got to show her and your mother that you're perfectly capable of handling yourself and that your views are validated too."

she added gently placing her hand on Betty's shoulder, "In the mean time just be patient and remember they do care." she added glancing away, "trust me having family that cares about you...it's something that you should appreciate."

she muttered with a melancholy despite what her family was like a part of her still wished that things had gone another way.

 Betty took a deep breath, her shoulders relaxing slightly under Paloma's comforting hand. "

"You're right," she said, a renewed determination in her voice. "And first thing on the list, make the best space theme dance and festival ever!" She looked at her "Galactic Gala" model, a spark returning to her tired eyes. "Which means finishing this."

"It already looks great," Paloma said, offering a genuine smile.

"Thanks, but it still needs a small detail," Betty said, her eyes scanning the table. "Now... where did I leave that silver glitter bucket?

Unknown to Betty, Noah had arrived alongside Paloma, though he'd kept himself at a distance just in case Betty was still mad at him. He'd heard everything.

First, he had to, quite literally, almost ate his hands to keep from screaming at the news of Betty being cousin to Kim Possible of all people! (Yes, he was also a fan.)

 And he was glad he managed to keep quiet because he didn't want Betty even more upset at him for spilling her secret to the entire school.

Though a part of him was a little hurt she kept yet another secret from him, he supposed he could understand since being related to a famous teen heroine couldn't be easy. But he realized this was his chance to make himself look better again in Betty's eyes!

All he needed to do was help her win and make sure everyone admired and cheered Betty for her work.

Noah's heart hammered in his chest. Yes, it was perfect! He would help Betty win, make sure everyone admired her work, and then he would show her how much she meant to him. Maybe, just maybe, she'd see him as more than a friend. Perhaps, he'd even be able to confess!

And the first step was getting her that glitter bucket!

He began looking around, his eyes scanning the tables and the organized chaos. Then, he spotted it—a shimmering silver glitter bucket, sitting innocently near the auditorium stands.

"Score!" Noah celebrated under his breath, already moving to pick up the glitter bucket.

 Though as he did so he missed Penelope stomping back to the Auditorium with a scowl as Sarah and Megan followed after her, "All that work I paid for ruined because you two morons had to be clumsy!"

The heavy door slammed directly into Noah, who was just straightening up with the glitter bucket in hand. He let out a surprised yelp, stumbling backward, arms flailing to keep the bucket from spilling. But his efforts were in vain. He tripped over his own feet, windmilling wildly before losing his balance completely. With a gasp, he toppled backward

CLANK!!!

"Agggg!!!"

Ending with the bucket falling straight on Betty´s head.

"Betty!" Paloma let out a startled cry of concern as Betty stumbled her hands going to the bucket trying to get it off, "What's happening!?"

Betty flailed her arms, trying to dislodge the silver glitter bucket from her head. In her struggle, her hand smacked one of the meticulously placed planets on her "Galactic Gala" presentation, sending the foam sphere rolling across the table.

"Betty!" Noah cried out, his voice filled with panic as he lunged forward to help. But his haste was his undoing. He tripped over the runaway planet, a yelp escaping his lips as he stumbled and, in an unfortunate chain reaction, shoved Betty against her model.

CRASH!!!!

Bringing the whole thing down on them.

 Prompting wide eye stares from everyone in the auditorium with silence filling the room before Penelope burst out laughing, "HEhahahahah not so funny when it's your model is it Betty!?" she called with cruel amusement

 Paloma shot Penelope a furious glare, a low growl rumbling in her throat. Ignoring the gloating girl, she rushed forward to help her glitter-covered friends emerge from the wreckage of the "Galactic Gala."

 "Betty are you okay?" Paloma asked as Betty finally removed the bucket scowling with a glitter covered face, "I'm fine but...my model!" Betty cried out in despair, 'I...who did this?!" she demanded looking furious at all her hard work being ruined.

"Hahaha, why don't you ask your shadow?" Penelope mocked, pointing a triumphant, glitter-dusted finger directly at Noah, who was still trying to untangle himself from the remnants of Betty´s model

 "urg..blah..pah..urg I think I swallowed some..." He trailed off as a shadow loomed over and he looked up nervously to see Betty glaring down at him with shaking fists, "Glitter...gulp...um hey Betty...uhh.."

Noah looked nervously around, "Need a little help cleaning up?" He asked wincing getting the feeling that this was going to turn ugly for him.

 Outside the school, a giant yell of "NOAH!!!" ripped through the air, making nearby birds scatter in fright.

 Though as Noah found himself the source of his friend/crush wrath...Dib own bad day was continuing.

(Doomsville Skool)

"Urg...arg..." Dib battered bruised with a black eye winced as he sat at the lunch table groaning into the table, "Oh stop being such a baby." Gaz grunted out annoyed next to him, "you only got yourself to blame."

 "me?!!! uggg" Dib cried before his eyes sting again "what did I do other that trying to save everyone?!!!"

"Oh you trying to save us? thank you Dib" Jessica mocked as she walked by with her friends "you finally will find a way to reduce your head´s size?" she laughed alongside the others

"Or maybe stop talking and save us all from your voice?" Sasha added

"Or save us from your crazy delusions~" Letty chimed in with a laugh that was shared by other skoolchildren

"hey hey Dib look!" Chunk called from his table before smashing his face in green smash potatoes "Ohh im an alien ohh someone come and stop me!!"

More laughter sounded out as Dib scowled, "Hehe yes beware Dib as I have a evil plan to doom you with cake, candy, and a annoying laugh~" Chunk added laughing as he pounded on the table before pausing at another voice speaking up, "What's wrong with Zim's laugh?"

Zita asked with a frown, "I always found it passionate." she said before blinking as the laughter in the cafeteria stopped and everyone shot her strange looks, "What?! I just appreciate how Zim embraced life...nothing weird there."

she muttered picking at her food while Gaz arched a brow at this.

"see!!! bet she is already infected with some mind control virus from that invader!!" called Dib pointing at Zita "no one in their right mind would say anything positive about someone like Zim!"

Oh if you only knew...Gaz thought holding back a snort while Zita shot Dib a scowl, remembering how entire planets apparently celebrated Zim with even holidays existing for him.

A part of her was tempted to tell Dib just to see the ensuing heart attack, "ARRRRGG!" But she'd settle the squeal of pains as the shock collar that had been placed around his neck suddenly activated.

Turns out trying to escape classes (specially Mrs Bitter´s) mean you not only will have half day of detention..but also have to wear a "behavior collar" programed to ensure kids wont try escape school grounds nor raise their voice pass certain levels...by giving them an electric shock

"Although seems Zim was right" said Sarah "without him around Dib now will focus his craziness in any of us"

"Green boy might of had a few screws loose himself, but he'd know how big head thinks after getting harassed by him so much." Jessica added with her own nod.

"Hey! Thats...thats....thats...actually you might have a point" Dib said blinking

"oh? finally agreeing how big your head is?" Jessica asked

"Not that!" yelled Dib "Zim and I have battle for so long that he probably had started to study and analyze me to learn how I think so he can defeat me!" he facepalmed "how could I be so ignorant? he probably knew I would rush to stop his plan! which means the bomb must also be in a place he knew I wouldn't look into!"

 "Or maybe and hear me out on this.." Zita gave him a look between dry and annoyed, "there is no bomb!"

 "Just like there wasnt a room with a moose or your organs weren't stolen?!" yelled Dib back

 Prompting glares from the rest of his class, "Urg don't bother Zita there's no arguing with crazy." Letty said with a scoff, "Yeah, big head is so lost in his delusions of being some hero fighting against aliens he blocks out anything that doesn't mesh to his crazy reality." Jessica added with her own scoff

 "Im surprise he hasn't driven his own sister mad" added Sarah

"Oh he has tried" said Gaz "but I usually simply ignore him"

 "Good strategy.." Chunk said nodding while Dib scowled, "Will you all just listen to me!" He demanded slamming his hands down on his desk, "We're all in serious danger!"

 "you guys hear something?" Chunk called

"Umm maybe an annoying mosquito" said Jessica as she and her group moved to another table

 Dib scowled with a twitching brow wondering why he even bothered trying sometimes as his fellow students laughed before shouting out in pain as the collar around his neck once again shocked him, "arg..nneed...to..find...the bomb!" He shouted out while spasming on the floor

"sigh this will be a long day" sighed Gaz..and she was right

(Skip)

Chemistry class was already a hazard on a normal day, but with Dib extra paranoid and with the lab being a "primary place to put a bomb as the amount of chemicals would increase the collateral damage and the amount of victims" it turned into almost an actual disaster

Specially with another "zim gift" waiting for them the moment they entered the class

 With Dib's eyes widening at the sight of a large wrapped present that the teacher brought out with the tag from Zim on it, with Dib immediately lunging toward the present tackling the teacher down in the process to grab at it.

BAM

BAM

BAM

"And proceed to grab it and smack it as hard as he could to the ground.

Now many would find impressive that a boy his size was able to hold a big metal box over his head and smack it repeatedly on the floor...but

1.- it was Dib so no one care

and

2.- the moment it cracked (over his head) a shower of lab coats and security googles fell on him, followed by a note falling close to the teacher who proceed to read it.

"Dear teaching unit, as Zim will not be able to continue his education under your tutelage, I decided to leave a gift as contribution to you as a thanks of all the funny moments Zim had seeing Dib-stink exploding in your class-hearts Zim"

Needless to say when Dib head poked out from the pile of lab coats and goggles it was to meet the laughter of his classmates....and the annoyed glare of his teacher.... with his shock collar once again activating a moment later.

(Skip)

the next incident was between classes when Dib opened his locker....and found another (smaller) box with a note saying SURPRISE!!!!

Dib in surprise, grabbed the box and throw it as hard as he could and took cover

SPLAT!!!

Only to hear the sound of a pie hitting something

"Grrrrr"

Or someone as Dib looked in the direction he throw the box...and saw a spring with a cream pie on the tip..pie that had hit not other than Torque (muscled, part time bully of the classroom) in the face

And as it turned out really hated and was allergic to blueberry pie which caused him to break out in hives and happen to be the very flavor of the pie that Dib threw...so after Dib gulped giving a apologetic strained smile and tried to explain.

"GLRT!"

He found himself grabbed by the neck and dragged to the rest room where he was forced to endure a swirly over and over...made worse by the collar shocking him painfully with the toilet water he was getting soaked in making the electricity easier to conduct for more pain.

(Skip)

At recess time a very hurt Dib limped into the yard where everything seems normal...if it wasnt for the TWO boxes on the middle one with the sign "For male-larvaes" and the other "for female-larvaes"

Dib was about to rush in when he noticed kids began to approach

"are you sure you want to do that?" Gaz asked as she appeared next to her "It was funny the first two times but now its starting to look sad" she sighed "you should have realize already that Zim is leaving these boxes for you to mess things up" she scoffed "and considering you already will have a month worth of detention for teacher assault I don't think you should risk to see if by any chance one of those is actually a bomb"

Dib frowned admitting Gaz had a point not to mention he wasn't sure how much more his body could take....but on the other hand,"Urg...I can't take the chances...for all I know Zim's just trying to wear me down...and distract me with decoys.."

Dib said with a groan while Gaz rolled her eyes, "Dib, if there was really a bomb Zim would of just blown it up by now, or would of sent some message to brag and taunt you to your face before you blew up?" she asked simply with a arched brow

Ok that...did make sense..but still

"I know but..that letter! Zim said I had up to the end of school day, and Zim is not someone that would said something and not go through it!"

"Than just leave.." Gaz said quite bluntly with a annoyed grunt, "Even if he blows up the building it's not like it'd be a real loss...everyone here is a idiot.."

Gaz said before adding with a frown, "except for Bitters...but honestly could see her surviving a explosion."

"Gaz!" Dib called in shock "A hero never leaves the people its trying to protect!" he declared "sure the path is rouge but at the end it will be worth to see them realize that you were right and not only apology but also join forces to keep our planet safe!"

He said smiling a wide strained smile while Gaz simply gave him a flat look, "Right, and you'll have girls lining up to join your personal harem too." she stated with a snort making it quite clear how likely she thought either possibility.

"Ummm well...not that I'm against that" he coughed "But would be good with one wanting to be with me"

Gaz just gave him a flat look, "Right...have fun explaining that to your online girlfriend and embarrassing yourself further." she grunted turning to leave having enough of her brothers idiocy...seriously was her dad distracted while Dib was in the science incubator or what?

"OH WOAH!!!"

A cry called their attention

The boxes had been open, on the "male larvae" was filled with balls and sport equipment while the "female larvae" was filled with dresses and jewelry

"Look this one has my name on it!" Zita gushed out holding up a fancy purple dress, "wow who knew Zim had good tastes, or money to spare." Jessica added examining a jewel necklace with a greedy smile, "That's nothing check out the density on these balls.."

Chunk called holding up a large dodge ball that he suddenly hurled straight toward Dib! Who barely had time to widen his eyes before he was hit in the gut and sent flying back straight through one of the school walls!

"Ow...urg..." was his groan of pain under the pile of breaks, "Dib! That's more detention for destruction of school property!" Hissed out Bitters from a near by open window with a dark annoyed scowl.

"Ugggggg" the boy groaned in pain

"As for the rest of you go change!" yelled the teacher "the cafeteria food ate your math and art teacher again so PE will be the last class of the day!"

At that the students let out excited cheers celebrating a shorter school day, Zim's gifts, and Dib's humiliation.

While Dib himself once again groaned out in pain, frustration, and humiliation...wondering once again if anyone else had days like today?

(Moosejaw Heights Junior High)

Noah froze solid, his entire body rigid with fear. The furious, glitter-dusted silence emanating from Betty was far more terrifying than any yell. He watched her try to salvage the ruined remnants of her project, each careful, disheartened movement a fresh stab of guilt. He'd done it. He'd actually done it. All his grand plans of impressing her, of finally confessing his feelings, had just collapsed into a sparkling, plastic-strewn disaster, taking her hard work with it. The faint scent of glue and foam mingled with the metallic tang of fear in his mouth. He squeezed his eyes shut, wishing desperately for a cosmic rewind button, or perhaps a sudden alien abduction to spare him from the impending explosion of Betty's rage.

"Hahahaha, well, it seems we don't have to worry about the nerd gala now," mocked Penelope, her laughter echoing. "Well done, Parker!" she called to Noah, who still looked like he wished the floor would swallow him whole.

 "Betty i'm.." he tried to stutter out with Betty simply giving a low growl, "Not...a...word.." she stated with a glare making it clear she wasn't in the mood for excuses...and what was worse wasn't only the anger in her eyes...but how her eyes watered with some unshed tears from seeing her hard work ruined, "I'm...going to the bathroom to clean up."

she stated emotionless as she turned to stomp off.

 "Betty!" Noah called out, scrambling to his feet and attempting to follow her.

Paloma, however, stepped in his path, her expression firm.

"I think it's better for you to leave her alone for now."

It was obvious her friend was not in the mood, and Noah pressing in wouldn't help anyone.

Penelope's laughter echoed again, and she called out in a loud, mocking voice.

"Better call the janitor to clean up the trash!"

 This prompted scowls and glares from both Paloma and the guilty feeling Noah, "you know, you don't always have to be a jerk Penelope!" Noah burst out in frustration

 "Me, a jerk? I'm only seeing it as it is," Penelope retorted, completely unfazed by Noah's outburst. "Now if you'll excuse me, I have my own winner presentation to do."

Before adding with a annoyed look, "Provided some people can do their jobs right and fix the mess they made!" she snipped to her two "friends" who flinched at her annoyance

Noah looked ready to launch himself at Penelope, his hands clenching into fists. But Paloma, sensing his intent, placed a firm hand on his arm.

"Noah, stop," she urged quietly, her gaze meaningful. "We need to do something to help Betty."

Noah thought about it. She was right... they needed to do something.

"Go get some glue," Noah called out, already starting to sift through the glittering debris. "I'll try to see if anything survived."

"Oh please keep digging your grave deeper should be good for a laugh~" Penelope called as she turned to leave with a cackle

Paloma bit back the insult that sprang to her lips. In part, Penelope was right; the model was a disaster.

The main plywood base lay askew, one corner splintered where it had taken the brunt of the fall. Betty's carefully constructed cardboard planetary rings were crumpled and torn, resembling deflated accordions rather than celestial orbits. Several of the foam planets had rolled far afield, while others lay cracked or dented amidst the debris. The delicate tinsel nebulae were ripped, hanging in pathetic shreds from broken wire frames. Worse, the entire scene was blanketed in a thick, shimmering layer of silver glitter, clinging to every surface and every broken piece.

They both stood amidst the glittering wreckage, acknowledging the undeniable disaster. Noah, however, refused to let despair set in. He took a deep breath, shaking some glitter from his hair, and started to strategize.

"Okay," he said, more to himself than Paloma, his brow furrowed in concentration. "Okay, so the base is splintered, the rings are shot, and the planets... well, they're everywhere. But we can fix this. We have to fix this." He began mentally assembling a list of supplies, already picturing how they could re-cut the cardboard, re-glue the pieces, and somehow, miraculously, make it even better.

Paloma, however, had her doubts that solidified into a knot of anxiety in her stomach when she noticed the arrival of the teachers who were serving as the judges for the event, their clipboards at the ready and their gazes already sweeping the auditorium.

"I don't think we have much time," Paloma said, her voice tight with worry, pointing subtly towards the newly arrived teachers.

Noah's eyes snapped to the judges, his face paling.

"Okay, okay, buy me some time," he said urgently to Paloma, already beginning to furiously gather the larger pieces of the shattered model. "I'll fix everything."

 "I hope so, because Betty seemed really upset." Paloma said with a sigh wanting to believe that Noah could pull off a miracle here but it wasn't looking good, "just trust me, I won't let Betty down again." Noah said with a determined expression before setting out to work.

 Fueled by a potent cocktail of guilt and determination, he dove into the glittering chaos. His hands, still dusted with silver, moved with desperate speed. He snatched up the largest pieces of splintered plywood, trying to ascertain if they could be salvaged, his brow furrowed in intense concentration.

As he did so Paloma looked nervous as the Judges started to look through the exhibits..starting with Duncan Pine.

 The exhibit..well... it couldn't really be described as anything other than a bizarre and unsettling hybrid. If someone had taken a school gym and inexplicably mixed it with an execution pavilion, that's precisely what it looked like.

Toys, crudely altered to resemble known school "nerds," were meticulously arranged in what could only be described as a miniature torture set. Some were crammed headfirst into punch bowls, mimicking a swirly, their tiny plastic legs flailing. Others were bound tightly to punching bags, positioned as if awaiting a brutal impact. A third group was lined up in a row, set up precisely like targets on a shooting range.

 "Well Duncan...it's certainly creative." Said Miss Dowerly in her best neutral like tone

 "Indeed its....well..something" Principal Peterson

"seems my kind of dance" Coach Sorenson sneered a dark chuckle rumbling in his chest as he eyed the 'shooting range' particularly.

"thanks I call it, nerd cry-out night" the bully boy declared

 wearing nothing but a proud smug smirk at his idea of a REAL dance while a spying Paloma just gave a disgusted look, this was almost as bad as Penelope ego tribute in her opinion.

 Principal Peterson cleared his throat, adjusting his tie.

"However, Duncan," he continued, his gaze firm on the smug student, "this particular 'dance,' as you call it, raises some... significant concerns." He gestured vaguely at the toys. "Our fair is meant to celebrate innovation, discovery, and positive community spirit. This display, while certainly attention-grabbing, appears to promote... rather less positive themes."

Coach Sorenson, however, stepped forward, a broad, unsettling grin spreading across his face.

"Hold on a minute Principal" he interjected, his voice booming. "I like this. This here shows competitiveness, action. A 'sport dance' to keep everyone on their feet? Sounds good to me! This kid's got spirit, he's showing initiative!" He clapped Duncan on the shoulder, making the bully's smirk return with full force.

"Thanks, Coach!" he beamed. "If you like it now, you can't wait 'til I show you its ball cannon!"

Still hidden from the judges' direct line of sight, Paloma noticed a machine lurking behind Duncan's display. It was filled with balls and looked suspiciously like one of those automatic tennis ball shooters...only, these balls were much, much bigger.

"Hello there...looks like Duncan display might actually be useful for something." she muttered to herself with a smirk as she sneaked over to the machine

The judges were still mid-argument, some praising Duncan's "spirit" while others condemned his theme, when a sudden whirring sound cut through the air. Before anyone could react, they were struck by a barrage of larger-than-average balls. Coach Sorenson yelped as a dodgeball smacked his chest, Principal Peterson stumbled back from a basketball to the midsection, and Miss Dowerly gasped as a volleyball bounced off her head. Chaos erupted as the ball cannon, now fully operational, began pelting them indiscriminately.

"Mr. ahhrg Paine! What is the meaning of this!?" Demanded Principal Peterson with a gasp of pain before another ball slammed into his face while Duncan just looked wide eye.

Duncan, wide-eyed and sputtering, tried desperately to reach the rogue ball cannon, but it was relentless. He yelped as a basketball bounced off his forehead, then stumbled backward as a volley of smaller dodgeballs peppered his chest and arms.

Meanwhile, amidst the chaotic pelting of balls and the bewildered shouts, Noah had managed to gather all the broken parts of Betty's exhibition. His heart lifted slightly as he found a few pieces of the diorama still remarkably complete

"Okay damage isn't as bad as I feared...if Paloma can keep them busy long enough we might just have a chance."

As Noah frantically worked, the chaotic barrage from Duncan's "ball cannon" finally subsided. The teachers, ruffled and slightly disheveled but ultimately unharmed, quickly gave Duncan a firm "no" for his unsettling exhibit, accompanied by a swift detention. With the disciplinary action handled, they moved on, their expressions grim as they approached the next presentation.

This one belonged to Chip and Dalton Osborne, and it was a stark contrast to the previous one. They had set up a quite impressive "concert-like" exhibit mixed with a NASA base. The backdrop was a chaotic yet somehow harmonious mural depicting rockets blasting off towards planets that were also giant musical amplifiers, with sound waves depicted as fiery exhaust trails. Wires crisscrossed the display table like a tangle of guitar cables and launchpad connections, leading to blinking LED lights and small speakers blasting snippets of heavily distorted electric guitar riffs.

"Let's get ready to rock the stars!!" Chip declared, striking a pose with his twin, Dalton. Both had their guitars out, held high and ready.

"Oh my, how musical~" Said Miss Dowerly with a happy grin

Even Principal Peterson, still a little flustered from Duncan's "exhibit," seemed to thaw, a small smile playing on his lips as he nodded along.

"Very... energetic, boys! I like it."

Coach Sorenson, however, remained unimpressed. He crossed his arms, his expression flat.

"It's... loud," he grunted, clearly not seeing the "action" or "competitiveness" he admired in Duncan's more aggressive display.

Paloma, ever the opportunist, noticed the volume control for the Osborne twins' concert speakers. With a mischievous glint in her eye, she slyly moved towards them, her hand inching closer until she swiftly pushed them to the maximum setting.

Then she moved behind the teachers and cried.

"come on guys!! rock on!!"

"You want a encore you got a encore!" The boys cried out in tandem from the cheer of encouragement

and with that they struck their guitars

And the next minute the windows of the entire school exploded by the sound wave

Prompting the three judges along with many others in the auditorium to cover their ears in pain.

Amidst the shattering glass and the cries of pain, Noah remained a beacon of focused determination. Wearing a pair of comically large, sound-dampening earphones, he barely registered the chaos erupting around him. His hands, moving with renewed urgency, meticulously worked on fixing the miniature figures of Betty's "Galactic Gala," his brow furrowed in concentration.

Fueled by determination and the desire to make up his mistake to Betty...he couldn't let her down!

After several more minutes of sonic assault, and with the principal and Miss Dowerly clutching their ringing ears, Coach Sorenson finally took matters into his own hands. With a surprising burst of speed, he forcefully tackled the speakers, silencing the cacophony, before swiftly disarming the Osborne twins of their instruments.

The group continued their rounds, leaving the dazed twins with a passable verdict for their exhibit's concept, but also a firm detention for the shattered windows. The twins vehemently insisted they hadn't adjusted the volume to such a deafening level, but their pleas were lost amidst the lingering ringing in everyone's ears.

"Perhaps," Principal Peterson suggested, rubbing his temples, "we should take a brief pause to recover our hearing." The other two judges quickly nodded in emphatic agreement (after crying "what?!" for two minutes).

Paloma let out a shaky breath, the ringing in her ears slowly subsiding, and rushed back to Noah. She felt a bit bad for the twins, to be honest; they clearly hadn't intended to shatter all the windows.

 And she internally promised to find a way to make this up to them later...but it was for a good cause...right?

 "Noah, you better have something," Paloma said, her voice a little strained as she reached him. "I'm not sure how much more I can stop them without hurting someone... again."

"I just started!" Noah called back, not even looking up from the intricate reassembly of a miniature Saturn. "I need more time!"

Paloma groaned.

"I'm not sure what to do. I can't keep going after them and hope each exhibition has something to hit them with."

"Well... how about empty the school at once?" Noah suggested, a glint of desperation and perhaps a touch of madness in his eyes as he looked up from the fragmented model.

Paloma's eyes followed his gaze... and landed on the bright red box of the fire alarm.

 "Noah...I..." Paloma suddenly licked her lips looking nervous she wanted to help Betty but..."isn't this going to far?"

 "You just cover me," Noah said, already pushing the wheeled table with Betty's salvaged project towards a less exposed corner. "I need to finish this."

Paloma paused for a moment, her gaze darting between the determined Noah and the still-recovering judges. She let out a long, resigned sigh.

"Okay, but if something goes wrong, you are explaining things to Betty."

 "Don't worry...by the end of this Betty will be thanking me." Noah assured before running to the fire alarm leaving Paloma to sigh, "I hope so..." she muttered out hoping she was making the right choice here.

 The teachers were just beginning to recover their hearing, rubbing their temples and shaking their heads to clear the lingering ringing, when the piercing shriek of the fire alarm began to blare throughout the school.

 "Fire!" Shouted out Miss Dowerly, "everyone remain calm and evacuate in a orderly fashion!" Called out Principal Peterson as the sprinkler system kicked on.

And as the students and teachers evacuated the auditorium Noah stayed behind ignoring the water from the sprinklers determined to use what extra time he had to fix Betty's exhibit no matter what.

(Back in Doomville)

Though as Noah was racing against the clock so was Dib having been running across the school all day trying to find Zim's bomb, but continued to have no luck getting only pain and humiliation for his efforts.

 And to add on things, PE was moved forwards in the school scheduel wich means

BAM!!

PUM!!

WHAM!!

Dodgeball...or as he calls it...hitting Dib with balls for 20 min straight!!

WHACK

"OW! Isn't this suppose to be a team sport!?" Dib exclaimed out groaning in pain, "It is.." Answered the Coach uncaring in a blunt tone, "than why is it me vs everyone else!?" Dib yelled out rubbing his bruised face just to get a ball to the crotch.

BAM!

"URG! Mama!" He squeaked out in a high pitched squeal

"they are being a good team against a common threat" answered the coach

WHAM!!!

"OUCH! GAZ!!!" yelled Dib at the new hit

"what?" asked the female Membrane. Like everyone else, she was dressed in a white shirt/red shorts uniform "Its my first class with you guys I'm just participating"

His sister said with a smirk, "Hehe yeah, and have to admit your sister got a mean throw~" Chunk called out with a laugh launching his own dodge ball that Dib jumped to the left to avoid.

WHAM!!

"Urg!"

Only to get nailed right between the eyes from another ball thrown by Gaz.

"thanks, I have years of practice" said the goth girl

"Uggg!!!"

"Dib enough of your moaning you are embarrassing me" called the coach "on the ground and give 50! the rest of you go outside and refresh a little!"

"URg...can't...we take a raincheck.." Dib groaned out on the ground before spazzing out as his body was shocked again.

The others ignore him and began walking out

Gaz remained behind and approached her brother

"you know...you wouldn't be so tired if you haven't spent all day running around and getting beaten looking for a bomb that might not be there" she said

"Urg...it's there...Zim...doesn't...brag about something like this...unless he at least thinks..he can back it up." Dib groaned out face down on the ground.

"You already searched all the school and got enough detentions to make the full year" said Gaz "unless you think Zim really is smart enough to..I don't know...hide that thing in the last place you would even think to look into" scoffed the girl "but I dont even know why I'm talking to you, outside the fact that since i'm in your classroom now your actions could and probably will affect me so dont so anything weird" she added before walking out

Missing Dib suddenly going still and raising his head with a look of realization and horror, "the last place...i'd ever look..." he thought aloud his mind racing at the implications...Zim...he couldn't of have..could he?

Even with his limited knowledge about humans there is no way...

"Good luck living pass class time" thats what zim´s letter said

PE was the last class of today, whatever it was advanced or not sooner it doesn't matter...which mean if Zim wanted to get rid of him and everyone the bomb would need to be close...in a place Dib wouldnt look into!!!

And the only place like that he could think of was..."the girls locker room.."

He muttered staring at the door warily, "I..know I shouldn't...but there's too much at risk, the bomb has to be there!"

and with that Dib rushed the opposite direction towards the locker rooms.

He didn't pause as he opened the girl´s one and enter.

There, standing just at the end of the room, was a round black sphere with the irken symbol on it...an holographic countdown over it

And there was only a few minutes left on the countdown! "The bomb!" Dib shrieked out lunging forward toward the...dangerous explosive...as soon as he remembered that he skid to a stop in front of it, "Easy Dib...don't get reckless..for all you know one wrong move could set it off."

The paranormal investigator muttered to himself as he nervously sweated.

"or no move at all and blow up!!" zim voice suddenly yelled

"ZIM!!" cried Dib and suddenly lockers opened and robo-gnomes emerged soon jumping and pinning down Dib

"HAHAHAHAHA YES DIB WORM IT IS I ZIM!!!!" the voice called again from one of the gnomes

"Coming to you from my new base!" The voice added with a cackle, "And while it took you all day, it seems you finally found the bomb~ Just in time to MEET YOUR DOOM!"

New base? where..ok no time for this

"Zim!!! I knew you were planning something!!" yelled Dib "too much of a coward to face me head on?" he called hopping to use the alien´s ego to escape and stop him

 However the irken simply gave a bored yawn, "hardly Dib-Stink I simply have more important matters to deal with than a human smeet with a over inflated cranium."

 "My head is not that big!!!" yelled Dib

"It wont soon!!! once my device reach zero you will be nothing!!!" Zim laughed "Hahahahahaha you lost stinky human and Zim is victorious!!!"

"Not on my watch Zim!" Dib cried out defiantly his eyes honing in on the bomb okay think..maybe he could disarm it...he'd been learning a thing or two about Irken technology.

 BZZZZZ!!!!!

his cry made the collar to shock him again. Although this time it also gave the gnomes a quick shock making them glitch and release him

 "Urg...for once...the schools...cruel and unusual...punishment systems works in my favor...who knew." Dib groaned out

 with that he moved towards the bomb..he only had a couple of minutes

"you silly worm!!! you think it will be that easy!!" Zim voice called and more gnomes emerged from other lockets "you think Zim didn't come prepared!?"

 "I'm not scared of your gnomes Zim! No matter how many you send I won't let you blow up the school!" Dib called out glaring at the surrounding Gnomes while gritting his teeth...this wasn't good..he was racing against the clock here and didn't have much time left...he couldn't waste time with Zim's nefarious machines when the bomb could explode at any minute!

Think Membrane, think!

 his hand moved to his neck...the collar..it worked to get rid of the gnomes...so..one..painful option

"ugg..for the survival of Earth" he called before yelling "AHHHHHHHH!!!" and charging to the gnomes

The robotic lawn ornaments charged against Dib, but because his yells the collar activated

BZZZZZZZZZ!!!

transforming him into a walking bugzapper

With the locker room filled with Dibs cries of pain but also..

WHAM

BAM

The sound of him powering through the pain to fight against the Gnomes

"Uggg agggggg Viiiiictooooryyyy for EEEEEEarth!!!" Dib cried between shocks as he kicked and punched any gnomes that approached him

Because it didn't matter what that alien menace threw at him...he wouldn't let Zim win! He'd stop this bomb, and expose him for the menace he was once and for all!

Crash!!

bam!!!

Pum!!!

The locker room was filled with the sound of metal crashing and breaking as each gnome as soon sparking on the floor

However...the pain steadily became too much for Dib and the numbers of the Gnomes were soon overwhelming him...and as he struggled against both the shocks and gnomes...the timer of the bomb began to wine down.

"nnnnnnoooo...noooo" Dib called as he fell and crawl to the bomb

"Urg...can't..let...Zim...win.." Dib groaned out...but it was helpless as before his gaze the clock reached three...two...one...and Dib found himself bracing himself for the worst.

BOOM!!!

Only "the worst" was him suddenly being rained by...dresses? shirts? jeans?

What?

Yes clothes were expelled from the sphere...and the gnomes began to self-implode living no evidence of their presence...

leaving Dib to blink dumbfounded before groaning, "Urg...another decoy!" he said slamming his face into the floor...maybe Gaz was right...maybe there really wasn't a bomb....maybe Zim was just messing with his head.

A blue dress with black stripes fell on his face

"eh? why does this dress look familiar?" he wondered

as he moved to pull it off his face only to freeze at a voice screaming out, "WHAT THE HELL?!" Causing him to pale as he looked toward the entrance to find Zita along with many other girls staring at him in shock...and growing anger.

 Oh yeah..he forgot he was in the girl´s locker room...and this dress...wasnt it Zita´s?

wait!

he looked around him and he identify THESE were the normal clothes of his female classmates...oh no

"w...w...wait!!" Dib called trying to explain things

"so being weird and crazy wasn't enough but also want to add being a freaking pervert!!!" Zita erupted in anger

 "It's not what you think!" Dib protested, "it's all Zim's fault!" He exclaimed out however this only made Zita angrier it seemed

 "You IDIOT!!!!" Zita yelled and launched with fury to beat the big headed boy

 "Ah wait I...ahhhh!" Dib screamed out in pain as Zita hands latched onto his neck choking him, "lets get him girls!" Jessica cried out as the other girls stampede to deliver a righteous beating to the crazy pervert.

 Gaz shook her head as she walked to her locker and open it

Well, at least Zim didn't use her clothes for this....and she cant believe he accepted a suggestion from Jinmay..or that it actually worked

 And she just knew the girl was getting a hoot out of this...though was probably disappointed none of the girls were naked knowing how perverted her friend could be.

She would know...she made sure to disable the cameras she had put beforehand

"Ahhhhh please let me explain ahhhhhh!!!!"

 Almost a shame though...because this was just simply priceless~ Gaz thought with a smirk closing the locker while listening to Dib feeling the brunt of his female classmates fury.

 (Moosejaw Heights Junior High)

Students poured out of the building, a colorful torrent of backpacks and chatter, guided by teachers ushering them into designated assembly points on the green lawns.

Outside, the air was filled with the murmur of relieved voices and the occasional shout of a teacher making a headcount. Paloma scanned the dispersing crowd, her heart sinking when she spotted Betty standing a little apart from her classmates, her shoulders slumped, a picture of quiet dejection.

"Betty!" Paloma called, waving an arm, her voice carrying over the din.

 But before Paloma could reach her, Penelope had moved, blocking Betty's path with a angry expression.

"Huh? What is it now Penelope i'm not not in the mood." Betty said at first giving a surprised blink at being called out before frowning in annoyance,

"Don't play dumb with me! I know you're the one behind all of this!" Penelope snapped stomping forward, 'and really are you such a sore loser that you have to sabotage everyone else."

"Me?! What are you talking about?!" Betty demanded, her brow furrowed in genuine confusion.

"Oh, please! Don't act all innocent!" Penelope scoffed, placing her hands on her hips. "You knew your little 'nerd dance' would never be able to compete against my magnificent idea, so you had to activate the alarm to get rid of everything, didn't you?"

 "That isn't anywhere close to the truth." Betty snapped back glaring, "even if I thought your exhibit had the chance to beat out mine, I wouldn't stoop to sabotage of any kind!"

She exclaimed out defensively missing Paloma wince from her position.

 "Oh yeah? Then where were you? I don't remember seeing you!" Penelope shot back, her hands on her hips.

Betty crossed her arms, a hint of a smirk playing on her lips despite the situation.

"Oh, whoa, I didn't know you admired me so much, Penelope."

 At that Penelope froze before stuttering out with a sudden flush ,'I...you...shut up Betty!" she snapped with Betty herself actually surprised at how her little jab flustered her that much.

"Whatever!" Penelope called, recovering her composure quickly, though a faint blush still lingered on her cheeks. "If you didn't do anything, then one of your shadows probably did!"

"Ehh, excuse me?" Betty called out, her voice rising in disbelief. "If you're referring to Paloma and Noah, then you must really be out of your mind!" She scoffed, crossing her arms again. "They didn't even participate in this. Why would they do this?"

 "Because they're your lackies, they do anything you'd say like Megan and Sarah would for me, duh." Penelope stated as if it was obvious

 "They are my friends, not my lackeys," scoffed Betty, her voice rising. "And they know I'm not a cheater, so they wouldn't do something like this!"

 Paloma at that flinched again suddenly feeling and looking a lot more guilty and a lot less sure about what she and Noah did.

 "Huff! We'll see!" Penelope scoffed, dramatically whipping her long black hair to Betty's face as she turned. "Cheating or not, my dance will be chosen and you can spend that day alone in your house with your nerd stuff!"

 "After all i doubt you'd even be able to get a date." Penelope added with a smirk, "why you could beg on your hands and knees and even I wouldn't take you out.."

she said laughing but while Betty scowled at the insult she blinked arching a brow at the last part, "asking you out?" she repeated causing Penelope laugh to stop as she froze before growling out in a scowl, "Just..just shut up cheater!"

 And with a small blush, Penelope hurried to leave, muttering something unintelligible as she practically stomped away.

Betty blinked, watching Penelope's hasty retreat.

"O-kay... that happened."

The red head turned, still slightly bewildered by Penelope's odd exit, and finally noticed Paloma.

 "Paloma hey!" Betty greeted with a small if half hearted smile, "Crazy day huh.." she asked with a sigh, "Yeah...crazy day.." Paloma said rubbing her arm wondering how to tell Betty what she did, "How are you doing?"

she asked first instead,"As well as can be after one of my friends completely ruined my hard work.." Betty said back in a tired mutter rubbing her face, "Honestly if it's not Sparky it's Noah, I just don't know what's up with the two of them lately."

 "Ehhh, you know it was an accident... right?" Paloma coughed, wringing her hands. "You know Noah wouldn't do something to hurt you of all people."

"I..I know.." Betty said with a groan, "but still that doesn't excuse his or Sparky's recent behavior." she said frowning, "and accident or not...I put a lot of work into that exhibit model."

Paloma flinched again.

"And... I'm sure he knows it," she said, gathering her courage to continue. "After you... ran out of the auditorium, he actually began fixing your model..." She paused, her gaze flickering, not knowing if she should really say the next part.

"but.." Betty asked sensing there was a second part to this, "He...we.." Paloma sighed out as she explained how she kept the judges busy and what happen at those particular displays...and how Noah ultimately pulled the fire alarm.

Betty blinked... blinked again... opened her mouth... took a deep breath... and began walking away, taking Paloma by the arm. "Betty?" the other girl asked, confused, as her friend pulled her away from the dwindling crowd.

Once they rounded a corner, making sure no one was looking, Betty spun to face Paloma, her eyes wide with disbelief.

"You guys did what?!" she exploded.

Paloma winced, "we just wanted to help fix your exhibit.." she said rubbing her arm, "by sabotaging other peoples hard work!" Betty exclaimed out in disbelief

"Technically, it wasn't as much sabotage as it was... making some accidents happen?" Paloma defended weakly, her gaze dropping to her shoes. "you know...to buy time...so Noah could fix your work"

"that doesn't make it any better..Paloma.." Betty sighed out pinching the bridge of her nose, "I can't believe Penelope was actually right about this.." she muttered out shaking her head, "hopefully no ones exhibit was damaged to badly by the sprinkler system.."

"Umm, okay, I'll admit the fire alarm might have been a bit too much," Paloma coughed, wringing her hands. "But he really wanted to fix his mistake."

"And I still want to... if you let me," Noah's voice sounded, making both girls turn to see him pushing a covered, wheeled table towards them.

"Noah..I appreciate the thought of where you're coming from...but you have to understand that what you did went too far." Betty sighed out

Noah flinched.

"I... I know... but... before you get angry," he gulped, his gaze fixed on Betty, "I'm really sorry. It wasn't my intention to mess up your work, nor make you feel like I'm being a burden." He took a deep breath. "I know I have many things to learn to be a good guardian, but I want to prove to you that I take our friendship and the opportunity you gave me seriously." With that, he took off the cover

The model, though still bearing a few battle scars, was a testament to Noah's frantic efforts. The miniature planets of the "Galactic Gala" no longer lay in shattered pieces but were painstakingly reattached to their orbits, some slightly askew but undeniably whole. The tiny, glitter-dusted figures of Betty's alien attendees, once scattered, were now mostly upright, frozen mid-dance in their celestial ballroom. The delicate wires and supports, previously snapped, had been re-secured with surprising ingenuity, holding the cosmic scene together. It wasn't perfect, but it was a far cry from the wreckage Betty had left behind.

"Noah...this...this is.." Betty had so many conflicting emotions at the sight of her hard work restored, she was still upset at what Noah and Paloma did...but at the same time a part of her couldn't help but feel a bit touched and grateful for how far they went for her, "thank you.."

she finally settle on saying as she pulled Noah into a hug with the boy stiffening for a moment but choosing to enjoy the hug with a blush, "but you and Paloma are still in trouble." Betty added flatly

"Yeah, I thought so," Noah said, scratching his head.

"Hey! Why am I in trouble?" Paloma tried to protest, her voice rising. "I didn't get this idea, plus I'm not either a guardian or part of your crew so—"

Betty cut her off with a sharp glare.

"I mean... yes, ma'am," she quickly amended, her voice deflating.

"Sigh... let's take this home. With what you guys did, I have a feeling school will be canceled," Betty said, a weary but determined look on her face. "That'll give me time to finish fixing this." She was thankful for Noah's efforts, but she still intended to win with work made by her own hands.

 "Sounds like a plan...I think they're going to be postponing the judging do to this anyway.." Noah added glancing over to the principal who was addressing and telling the students just that while also explaining that they'd be given extra time to fix any damage caused by the sprinklers...but also promised that he'd be personally investigating the source of the fire alarm and whoever pulled it falsely would be given detention for the next year.

Causing Noah to nervously gulp from hearing that part.

 "Let's just hope whoever did it doesn't do anything similar in the future," Betty said, giving Noah a particularly harsh look.

 "Don't worry Betty I promise that from here on out I won't break your trust or do anything remotely dishonest that will disappoint you ever again." Noah vowed holding his right hand over his heart...while also crossing his left hand fingers behind his back.

He felt guilty about this lie...but if Sparky methods helped him become a official part of the Galactic Guardians than...there wasn't anything wrong with a little cheating....right?

 He was sure once they work together...and become closer...and eventually become something, he will be able to explain things and both will get a laugh

 After all Betty and him were a team and nothing or no one would ever change that....right?

 (somewhere in space)

The air crackled with the low hum of advanced alien technology, casting an ominous red glow across the room. Sleek, angular consoles lined the walls, adorned with blinking lights and intricate wiring. At the center of it all, a massive screen glowed, displaying a surveillance feed of the Galactic Guardians HQ. In front of it, the menacing, crimson eyes of Zim narrowed, fixated on the image before him.

"Infection and hacking... 20%," the flat, mechanical voice of the computer announced, its monotone breaking the silence in the room.

Zim cackled, a high-pitched, gleeful sound that echoed in the red-lit room. "

Yessss! All is proceeding perfectly!" he shrieked, his antennae twitching with excitement. Mini-Moose was doing his job, and it was only a matter of time before the Galactic Guardians' HQ would be entirely under his control. "Keep monitoring, computer!" Zim shrieked, his voice laced with unbridled glee. "And alert Zim the instant Mini-Moose breaks into the archives of HQ!"

"seeking anything in particular within the archives?" the computer's mechanical voice queried.

"Anything related to the cat space overlord, Maximus IQ!" Zim shrieked back, his eyes gleaming with a malevolent intensity. "Every scrap of information, every whisper of his actions! Zim will have it all!" his smile became predatory "left no bite untouch...Zim will need to know everything if he is to be an useful tool for my plans"

 "And than the universe will truly tremble before the Hero of Doomsday!" He added as he cackled out madly his eyes alight with maniac glee.

It seemed everything was going according to plan and soon he would deliver far more than just the Earth to the Irken Empire and the Tallest.

After all he was Invader Zim! And unlike the foolishness the rest of the universe believe he was the Empire and Tallest most loyal soldier! And nothing! NOTHING! Would ever change that!

He thought with certainly though whether he was determined to convince himself of this fact over the rest of the universe remained to be seen.