I don't own Invader Zim okay?

"Congratulations Zim on conquering this ball of monkeys and making the Irken Empire stretch to the other side of the galaxy!" Purple said as Zim smiled evilly at the humans watching on in horror. Gaz was forced next to Zim dressed in a revealing red dress that rested over her slender form. Dib was on the run. There was a 5 billion monies price on his big head. He worked hard to hide himself, but now that Earth was part of the Irken Empire, it was nearly impossible.

He was crawling on the ground hoping not to be spotted but he felt a hand on his shoulder. This is it. He thought. He looked up; eyes closed but in a brave spirit opened them ready to face death. Alas it was only Professor Membrane. He looked terrified. He was disheveled and his lab coat was torn. He lost weight and looked as if he was on the run for a while. "Dib!" He yelled in a whisper.

"Dad! You scared me! I thought you were an Irken Military Police or a slave driver!" Dib panted trying to keep his heartbeat down. He knew Irkens could sense panic.

"They are after me. They'll force me to make their military technology. I'll need you to avenge me." Professor Membrane whispered. Then he saw an Irken guard and hid quickly hid behind a spectator in the crowd that was rather wide. The guard looked around and then looked away and dismissed the noise as the wind. Another guard noticed this and turned to him.

"What is it Larkz?" One guard asked the guard that briefly glimpsed Professor Membrane.

"I thought I saw Undesirable Number 2, you know, the one we need to make better military technology. Professor Membrane. That will be his payment for his horrific crime." Larkz said to the other guard, Floogoo. Floogoo was a more sympathetic guard. He did not see how Professor Membrane had committed any sort of wrong doing what so ever.

"What is his crime?" Floogoo asked.

"Siring Undesirable Number 1, Dib." Larkz said severely. No matter what, he saw anything that was a detriment to the Empire in even the smallest way, was a crime against Miyuki herself. Miyuki was the greatest Tallest ever to live and because of her achievements, she was like a goddess to Irkens.

"Doesn't seem like much of a crime. Really it doesn't." Floogoo said with some confusion in his voice.

"Well it is. It is a crime to start rebellions against our way of life. If he never was the father to Undesirable Number one, we could have taken this planet much easier than we did. Dib is an annoying pest that must be squished like the bug that he is. Also Professor Membrane is one of the most brilliant scientists on Earth. The Empire could use that fact, no wait, we will use it." Larkz said.

"Well he also sired Gaz, Captain Zim's harlot and lover. She pleases Zim, the now governor of Earth. She has it made. Membrane's second child's position should balance it out." Floogoo said with a little compassion. He believed that no one should be judged because of something that someone they were related to did.

"Are you questioning Irken law? Larkz said as he turned around to face Floogoo with a death ray gun square on his forehead in between his red bug eyes.

"No! No! That's not it! It's just that…" but the rest of the sentence was never heard. Larkz had fired at Floogoo. His body fell to the cold unforgiving ground with a "Thud". He died just because he had compassion and empathy.

"You are weak." Larkz smirked. "Crime is a family affair. Gaz is extremely lucky that Captain Zim favors her and loves her." Larkz said as he smirked evilly at Floogoo's cold and lifeless corpse.

"Oh my god." Dib and Professor Membrane said as they looked on at the unbelievable sight that was before them while they hid between the spectators trying to remain unobtrusive.

"Son I have to turn myself in." Professor Membrane said looking at his feet. He couldn't take seeing his children be used and hunted like an animal. He hoped that by turning himself in, he could at least save Dib from being killed, even if it was just a feeble pipe dream.

"Dad, no you're not! I won't let you! You can't hand yourself over!" Dib whispered pulling his father down so no one would see him. Zim approached the microphone to make a statement. Dib and Professor Membrane looked over at the stage.

"Now you filthy Earth Pigs!" Zim said into the microphone. "May I introduce the Captain of Imprisonment and Torture, Invader General Tak." Tak walked on stage staring at the crowd with a murderous intent. Killing and torture were two things she wasn't afraid of doing. When the Tallest gave her this assignment, she took it up with great pleasure.

"Your filthy democracy has failed. Hell it was failing before we even got here. In fact you were as bad as you call us to be. You did the same thing we did; invade a helpless nation for greed. Monkeys are so ignorant. We Irkens will bring humanity the order it couldn't give itself. You make me sick you filthy monkeys." Tak said with a distain. "You have this warning. Cross the Irkens and be prepared to pay all costs including freedom and lives."

Dib looked up and saw Tak. This wasn't the Tak he knew and loved. All the Tak he knew cared about was destroying Zim not the human race. "You're not the Tak I fell in love with." Dib whispered to himself.

"You!" An Irken guard said noticing Dib, but fortunately for Dib this guard was very stupid. "Are you Dib Membrane?"

"NO!" Dib panicked.

"Oh. Okay. Carry on." The guard said as Dib ran off into the nearby forest.

"Stupididough! What did you do?" The other guard with him named Inteliehente asked rolling his eyes. "You let Dib Membrane get away!"

"He said he wasn't." Stupididough said thickly.

"You ideeeeeot! It was! He lied to you. The hair is a dead giveaway!" Inteliehente yelled so loud that Dib heard him.

The hair is a dead giveaway. A giveaway that'll make me dead. Dib thought. I need to cut it. He took a Swiss Army Knife out of his pocket and started to cut his hair holding the blade in his hand. "Thanks Dad for hair that doesn't cut off." But as he said this he felt the scythe hair come off in his hand. He threw it to the ground and ran off. Before he was too far away he decided to go back and singe it in an effort to try and trick the Irkens to think that he was killed. "Hope to God this works." Dib walked through the forest hoping to find a small mountain town.

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"Mi, lady, we believe we have found Dib Membrane's remains." Larkz said as he held out the singed hair "It seems he was desinigrated. What do you think General Tak?"

Tak looked at the hair and pondered what she was told. She knew Dib better; they were romantically involved 7 years earlier. Dib was smarter than to get himself killed by a stray Irken Death Ray. But the scythe hair in her hand was another puzzle. At this she clenched her fist around the hair and looked out the purple stained glass window made into her symbol onto the cold misty and foggy scene below.

"Let me ask you Larkz…if we Irkens have desingagration rays, how come Dib Membrane's hair survived?" Tak growled in anger.

"The Membrane hair is very unique mi lady." Larkz said feebly.

"No. Our death rays would desinigrate the hair too." Tak said shooting the hair with a death ray and it disappeared. "You do realize what this means do you?" Larkz just stared as Tak turned around. "Dib Membrane isn't dead. Find him and bring him back alive. I have plans for him Special, amazing and awesome plans." She said smirking.

"Yes mi lady! Right away! We will bring you back Dib Membrane's living corpse." Larkz said.

"Yes, yes, very good." Tak said sipping a cocktail. "Miyuki bringing the humans into line is easier said than done. And Zim said this would be easy…" At this Zim barged into Tak's study followed by Gaz. Tak looked up and smirked. "Speak of the devil! It's you Zim. I'm afraid to say we have a level 4 maybe even a level 5 crisis going on."

"What do you mean? Dib is dead. Larkz told me on his way over here. His hair was found!" Zim yelled in angered confusion. Gaz looked over in shock at what she heard. "Sweetie why don't you go back to our house and wait for me there. I don't want my lily wilting." Gaz then headed back to Zim's house which now looked like an expansive palace.

"Mmmph, where'd you learn to talk like that?" Tak laughed as she sipped her cocktail again.

"Just something I picked up. Now why is there a level 4 or 5 crisis?" Zim demanded as he pulled out his death ray and Tak rolled her eyes.

"No need for that. Dib is alive; the hair was just a diversion. Too bad for him he forgot that I knew him better." Tak said as she started to laugh. "Alert the troops that Dib is not dead. I will address them on all I know and before you say anything Zim, I knew him much better than you. Now go!"

"Hey! I'm governor of this planet!" Zim yelled in annoyance. He loved his power.

"But I am in charge of human punishment and the Tallest gave me free reign. Now go!" Tak said as Zim left mumbling in anger.