Truce? ( Dib X Zim ) [ Invader Zim ] ( bxb )

Chapter 4 - I'll Do This Myself

"Heeeeello?"

"Dib, where are you?" Gaz asked, "You need to come to Zim's house..."

"Why? What happened?..." Dib asked. He stopped in the middle of walking, "I'm on my way back now..."

"Good... Hurry up..." she then hung up. Dib started walking home a little faster.

----

----

Eventually, he made it to the stairs. Before he could press the doorbell, Gaz answered immediately so that Zim wouldn't come answer. Dib stared at her with two bags full of chips and some random sour candy, along with a jar of nacho cheese for Gir.

"What's going on?" Dib asked. Gir took the bags from him. Gaz walked up to Dib's face.

"I sweaaar if you make the WRONG decision in what I'm about to tell you..." Gaz threatened.

"Huh?? Do what??"

She held the orb in front of his face. Dib observed it and smiled.

"Hey, where'd you get this? It's kinda cool looking. Like a weird magic-"

"You're a dad..." Gaz interrupted.

Dib paused at the random slap of information and looked back at the orb confused. He was still smiling a little and took the orb. He looked at the three dots in the middle.

"It's like a giant peach marble," Dib said smiling.

"I'm serious..." Gaz replied.

"Zim coughed it up last night. It has your DNA too..." Gir said sadly, "Please don't hate him or anything..." Gir placed his paws together pleading.

Dib looked between them chuckling a little nervously. His smile then faded when their faces remained the same.

"You're an idiot, but you better not leave him behind either..." Gaz said.

"Wait, are you ser...-" He then remembered that Zim refused to talk to him this morning. Dib's face paled. He looked around for any signs of Zim.

"He wasn't gonna tell you because he thought that you would hate him..." Gir said, "He's in the lab." He pointed to the kitchen.

Dib ran into the kitchen with the other two following. Zim was now cleaning up around the lab and had just finished cleaning his desk for the third time. His nose burned from all the cleaning spray chemicals. He heard the lab doors open and turned to see the group. He began to back up when Dib was walking toward him with the orb in hand.

"ZIM...." Dib started, "Y-you...y-you-"

"Oh I see that you found my DECORATION!" Zim said and tried to take the orb from Dib. It kept slipping from his hands because Dib was holding on to it tightly.

"You weren't gonna tell me??" Dib asked, shaking.

"I didn't know you would even want one of those. I just found it at one of those shops with the weird fortune telling-"

"Gaz and Gir told me that it was an egg!" Dib said.

"An easter egg!" Zim said with a cheesing smile, "It's one of those decorative easter eggs from........" He furrowed his brows, "...Japan?... uhhh aheheh... it's kinda 'kawaii' looking, don't ya think?..."

"Zim! This thing has living beings inside! I'm going to be a dad! ZIM... y-.....you can't just keep stuff like this hidden!"

Dib just looked at him disappointed that he would lie. Zim crossed his arms tightly. He then glared at him.

"Zim, this... this can't exist..." Dib said, "We can't bring this into the world! An Irken- Human mix?? Think of the horror in that! I don't want them to grow up and be raised to take-"

Zim's immediate sharp glare was sharp enough to cut Dib off. Dib swore he heard a humming laser. Dib didn't even know why he said it. It just came out. He barely meant it.

"FINE. I'LL RAISE THEM MYSELF THEN..." Zim said, "I didn't say you HAD to help! I don't need you. I never needed anyone, DIB. I am SMART. I am RESOURCEFUL. I don't need YOU, or the TALLEST, or ANYONE but my own self... LIKE ALWAYS..."

Dib stared back in silence. He reached out a hand, which Zim slapped out of the air.

"...Nono...Wait..." Dib said, "I didn't mean-"

"Leave... I have everything under control~" Zim said. He wiped his hair back from his face and walked off, pulling himself "together" rather quickly. Dib followed him.

"Zim, I'm going to help you!" Dib said.

"You're just gonna demonize them Dib," Zim smiled bitterly, "Go away... I'm not having them raised on the idea that your race is better."

"Zim..."

"Gir, remove the Membranes from my lab. I have important work to do..." Zim said, "If I don't succeed in destroying them before they're born, I definitely won't allow you the chance to destroy them after they're born, Dib..."

Dib had so many thoughts running around in his head. He was only in high school and yet he was going to be a dad. His nerves were spiralling so much to where he couldn't move. Gaz pulled Dib by the arm and was led out by Gir. When they left, Zim looked at the orb. His eyes became glossy, but he painfully smiled through it.

"HA!... It's fine... This is juuust perfect~" He said, "I mean, Irkens haven't been off the cloning system for thousands of years. You probably won't even hatch!" He placed it on the desk, "I don't even care if you don't! No bother!~"

He sat in his chair and spun around in it, "You don't even need Dib. I mean, I know I don't! So don't worry little ones! You will either not live to be born, or you will be raised by a qualified Irkan, such as myself~" He was squeezing his hands together tightly.