Summary: Zim hasn't been on Earth long & chaos has ensued. 1st Lard Nar crashes back into his life without warning bringing several refugees including Dib's Mom & Granddad. Meanwhile his relationship with Dib continues to grow which only makes things harder. Not to mention Tak's efforts are getting more extreme. & now this once easy mission might turn out to be more than he bargained for.

Disclaimers: I do not own Invader Zim

FYI: This Story is A ZADR AU of The original Invader Zim TV Series that aired on nickelodeon where Zim is actually a well-respected and successful invader, who is loved by his leaders, and his people. He has a good disguise and fits in perfectly with the humans, and befriends Dib, and lives a double life while trying to keep his secret under wraps.

Zim is not short in this AU he is average human height. Also All characters are aged up for obvious reasons. So just think of invader Zim happening in high school instead of grade school. I wanted to write a story with a smart respected Zim, and give my readers a feel for what the series would have been like if Zim wasn't defective, and was actually appreciated for his loyalty, and tireless efforts. I also added a little ZADR twist because who doesn't like ZADR? Also, this is different from my Prince AU series. Zim is just a regular Irken in this story with no royal heritage.

Author's Notes: So my fellow ZADR fans we are back with Part 2 of what I can say is easily my second most successful Series, and I know I left you all on a huge cliff hanger with Mrs. Bitters which is why this first chapter will shed some light on the whole "Mother" thing. Even though if you picked up on the Father part of that chapter it's kind of obvious, or at least I think so.

Anyways as always, thank you for reading and please enjoy!

Chapter 1: Mother

(Somewhere in Space...)

[Nearly 5 hundred years ago…]

She would like to believe she could have prevented this…

Nigai, held her beloved in her shaking arms, as anger coursed through her. Here laying in her arms as his pink blood pooled around them was her love, her life, her everything. "Zorn…" She whispered his name as if her tone made it forbidden to speak.

Clantarian that was what she was; an intelligent lifeform from the furthest regions of space. Her appearance was surprisingly quiet human due to the fact that her home world Clantar was very similar to Earth in appearance as well as its position in the solar system. Clantarian were a noble race, one that had stood beside Irk since what could have been the dawn of time. And not in just a theoretical sense, Clantar was the sister planet of Irk! They had stood side by side for millions of years. No one knows for sure which came first of the two, but back then it didn't matter. All that mater was that they were bonded by the same gravitational pull of their large undying sun.

But now, such ideals were lost to them and it was all her fault!

Nigai had known the Irken female was bad news from the start, her ideals would certainly be the end of them all! How many times did she beg the AI's to reconsider? How many times did she plead with Zorn to force that cursed female to step down?

Thousands, no billions of times! And neither had listened to her desperate please.

"Nigai…" Zorn's voice is but a whisper.

"Darling please." Nigai is shaking more now. "You must save your strength."

"It is too late for me…" Zorn rasped coughing up blood as he spoke.

"No I can do something." Nigai wailed desperately. "Just tell me what to do and I'll do it! I'll save us." She cried.

"I should have listened to you." He realized a little too late. "I am beyond saving…" He told her the obvious. "But there is something you can do…"

"Yes Zorn." Nigai spoke through tears. "Tell me…"

"She plans to start using a cloning process…" Zorn rasped. "Too purify the blood lines."

"I know." Nigai stated. "I'm the one who sent you her plans." It was true she had broken into the female's Quarters and had made a copy of them herself. However, now she regretted it dearly for it would appear Zorn had plaid the ultimate price.

"I thought as much." Zorn said with a smile. Oh how could he smile at a time like this? He was about to die and it was all HER fault!

"My fault." She whispered.

"No…" Zorn weakly shook his head. "I chose this…" He assured her.

"Why?" Nigai cried.

"I started this blood lust with the elimination of the Gorgonians…" he rasped. "I made us this way…"

"No she did!" Nigai snapped.

"I helped." Zorn admitted, and she knew it to be true, still Nigai could not blame her mate for in her eyes he was flawless. "Hurry we do not have much time before she returns." He said urgently.

Nigai nodded furiously. "What would you have me do?"

"Take a sample of my DNA." He instructed. "Place it in Daughter's care."

Daughter, she was top AI of Irk and all other AI's answered to her, and since she often referred to Zorn as Father, Zorn in turn referred to her as Daughter.

"Once the heat dies down instruct her to place my DNA among those to be cloned." Zorn went on.

"How will that help us?" Nigai questioned.

"She will only chose the blood lines she thinks will obey her brain washing without question." Zorn explained. "This new Irken Program will turn them all into nothing more than machines." He rasped for breath once more, he was close to death now. "I am 99% pure Irken." He went on. "If anyone can fight the program than it will be someone like me…a true Irken."

"You mean a defective." Nigai said using the word the Irken female had expressed so much hatred for in her plans.

"Yes." Zorn nodded. "Now the next thing I say will be hard for you to do." He warned.

Nigai could only managed a nod as she wondered what this request could possibly be.

"You must not take him away from Irk." Zorn warned.

Nigai was stunned. "But she'll ruin him! The programing-"

"Will not ruin him." Zorn assured him.

"Zorn why?" Nigai pleaded.

"He must save Irk." He explained. "And in order to do that he must understand why it is broken. He must see it through a Defective's eyes."

"I do not understand." Nigai admitted.

"You will." He promised. "Now Hurry…call Daughter."

Nigai nodded franticly and pressed a button on her communicator in seconds the AI known as Daughter appeared.

"Mother…" Daughter notices Zorn and scans him. "I cannot help." She said the obvious.

"Yes you can." Nigai assured her. "Take a sample of his DNA and store it; keep it away from HER at all cost."

"Keep something from my future Tallest?" Daughter is obviously confused and rightfully so. It was her duty to obey her Tallest not keep things from her.

"She is not your Tallest yet." Nigai screamed. "He still breathes."

"For now." Zorn reminded her.

"I understand." Daughter said. "Please my Tallest give me you last command."

"Do as she says." Zorn instructed.

Daughter does not hesitate, she takes out a syringe and collects as much blood as possible. "It is done Father." She tells him.

"Good." Zorn praises her. "Now take my PAK."

"What!" Nigai is stunned. "You will die almost instantly!"

"Take it and hide it." Zorn told Daughter, ignoring his love. Not out of spite, but because he is running out of time. Time that is too precious to waste on arguing. "Once the Computer brain Lineage is creator instruct her to only attach this PAK to the one with my DNA."

"Lineage will not obey the orders of a past Tallest." Daughter told him the obvious.

"Than corrupt her!" Nigai snapped.

Zorn grabbed her hand to calm her, Nigai was a strong female, but her temper usually got the best of her.

"Corruption is against Irken law." Daughter reminded her.

"The Computer Brains are already corrupt." Zorn revealed to her. "All I am asking you to do is Correct Lineage."

Daughter is silent for a moment and then she speaks. "I Understand I will correct Lineage." She moves to relieve her Tallest of his PAK. "Is that all my Tallest?"

"Once the computer brains are made." Zorn told her. "You and the other AI's will be in danger you must go into hiding." He instructed. "Correct Lineage and give her my PAK and DNA before you leave."

"I understand." Daughter spoke as she began to disconnect the PAK. "How long do we hide?" She asked.

"Once my kin is born her law will have its expiration date." He assured her. "Find my kin and end this blood lust forever." He ordered.

"How?" Daughter asked.

"Correct him." Zorn ordered as his PAK was completely detached.

"Yes Father." Daughter answered and took the DNA and PAK with her for safe keeping. Once Lineage was created she would remove the Irken programing from her and place the items in her care before leaving Irk for the time being. "Goodbye Mother." Daughter said as she left.

Nigai watch the AI as she went looking unsure. "Are you sure she can be trusted?" She asked.

"She will carry out my last order." Zorn rasped, he only minutes left now, if that. "It is Irken law, one Myuki will not change."

Nigai hisses at the mention of HER name.

Zorn smiles it is a painful one. "I wish you would stay with him." He said. "My Kin will need you."

Yes, it was no secret that Nigai planned to leave, it was written on her face which would explain Daughter's need to say goodbye. "I will not stand by and watch her destroy everything you built."

"We built." Zorn corrected her. "Where will you go?"

"I know a place where my kind fit in perfectly." Nigai assured him. "A place that will not stay hidden from Irk's blood lust for long."

"You think she will send him?" Zorn asked.

"If you're Kin is anything like you." Nigai smiled. "Then yes."

"I wish you would stay." Zorn rasped.

"I will return to see his birth." Nigai promised him. She knew it wouldn't be a real birth, the Kin would be a clone after all. But Nigai would make sure he was created all the same. "Besides I fear if I don't leave I will be dead before then."

Zorn nodded. "You are my forever." He told her.

Nigai's smile widen, Irken's rarely said the words 'I love you'. However, she had learned that to Irkens the phrase Zorn spoke now was just as meaningful, and maybe even more so. "And you are mine." She told him.

Zorn smiled and closed his eyes; before he breathes his last breath.

He's dead…and she knows it.

Tears spill down her face, but she forces herself to leave him, Zorn was gone now and no amount of tears would bring him back. But at least she would have a part of him back some day. Nigai allowed that one thought to fill her with the strength to keep moving. She had to leave for now, but one day soon she would return.

For the very fate of Irk depended on it…

-To be continued