ZaDR Oneshots (Invader Zim)

Finding Himself (Discontinued)

Summary:

Dib's big adventure to find out why his place on life leads him to finding Zeek and learning a hole bunch of truths about not just the Irken Empire and Zim, but his family as well.
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It was snowing... Zim's eyes widen in horror at the sight of the deadly flakes as they drifted to the ground and stuck to it. One would think the alien would have it all figured it out by now. Things between him and Zim have been kinda weird since Zim had a seizure right in front of Dib. Dib recalled that day like yesterday...

It happened two years after the event of the Florpus. At first everything was normal... About half way into the year it was as if Zim was struggling with coming up a good plan. He just had plans.... Most not even good ones.

It went from turning cars into actual monsters, deadly assaults on Dib's life with playground equipment to flooding the earth in chocolate and shooting bigger and more powerful explosions into the earth's atmosphere that had pictures of his name and rulez. Those who don't know Zim like Dib, knows that these plans are getting more weak.

Though credit where credit is due, it look Dib way longer to see that. Zim hides things so well for being such a loud mouth that it's honestly a miracle that he kept himself together for so long.

By the second year Zim's plans became month instead of weekly routine and sometimes every other month. That's what tipped Dib off the most that something was wrong and he started to look into it more.

A few months past Dib's fourteenth birthday is when Zim's seizure happened. It was seemingly out of the blue for both them. It freaked Dib out. He's never seen anyone have a seizure, before but he's at least well educated enough to know the symptoms and signs...

He was just bragging to Dib that there was a new tallest that recognizes Zim's talents and that he must face a trial to see if he's worthy to become the leader of the Irken Empire. It all sounded so suspicious, when Dib knew how the tallest Red and Purple felt about Zim. Dib didn't believe a word of it and though he wanted to give the Irken this moment, he just had to open his dumb mouth and point out the obvious.

"Sounds like a trap." No sooner than those words left Dib's mouth did he want so badly to take it all back.

Zim stiffened at the word. His lips quivered as his eyes widen in fear and realization. Dib had never seen so Zim so completely mortified by a single statement. His eyes didn't look right anymore and Zim fell to the ground as if he just fainted. Dib had jerked back to watch in utter disbelief that Zim was shaking violently on the ground and foaming at the mouth.

Dib had never been so scared in his life. Being nearly killed by Zim was nothing compared to seeing Zim like that. They managed to get him inside and stabilized, but holy shit... How long as he been dealing with the fear, the worry, and the stress?

When Zim did stop and was coming out of it... Dib didn't ask if he's okay or what happened like he wanted. No, his dumb ass decided to ask if Zim was there... what kind of dumb question was that?!? Though maybe it was the right one Zim needed to hear? Because there seemed to be relief from just saying... He was here. He was alive.

And don't Dib even started on what Zim had asked him. Zim had asked to stay with him... his arch nemesis... as if Zim rather take his chances with Dib than whatever else he was worried and unable to face. That's so messed up. Dib didn't have the heart to refuse him after that.

So... now they are friends and Zim was officially done with conquering the earth. Dib is now sixteen years old and Zim has been mostly the same though he often has weird quiet spells where he just watches everything around him unsure what to say, so he usually doesn't say anything.