ZaDR Oneshots (Invader Zim)

If We Were Younger (discontinued)

Summary:

A fun what if that follows a younger Meb as he's trying to carry the weigh of his responsibilities and move forward to a future unknown.

Zeek shows up cuz why not lol! And guess what it's because the Irken Empire wants to destroy earth.

Meb is the only one who can stop the royal solider from destroying all of earth.

(Probably going to be more oneshots of younger Meb cuz why not)
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Responsibility.... Is a cruel mistress... One that demands complete obedience and no resistance....

"Do you understand son. For the sake of the future of the Membrane family you will marry this women and produce the next heir." His father a strict man and one not to be denied glared at Meb coldly with no sympathy.

"You'll learn to love her as I loved my wife." He explains, when Meb refused to speak staying kneeled down on a single leg and the other had his hands and head resting against his knee.

"I understand father." Meb replied calmly never showing his emotions or signs of defiance.

He's had that crap knocked out of him long ago. His rebellious soul is all but shattered glass and he has almost accepted his fate as his father's puppet and nothing more. Responsibility... duty... honor... so forced into his mind and down his throat that it's all he knows.

"Good. One day you'll make me proud." The man with golden eyes smiled, but there's no warmth only expectation that Meb must reach and for what exactly?

The fake promise of making his father proud of him. Meb was smarter than that. He slightly wondered if this what those princes from story books had to go through, before they found their true love and got their happy endings. He'd never admit that he's a hopeless romantic, when it came to fairy tail lovers. Love like that seemed so magical and rewarding. Nothing like his arranged marriage is going to be like that's for sure.

"You are dismissed." His father turned around to go back to his work.

Meb slowly stands up. His face blank along with his eyes as he put his hands in his pockets of his pants to walk out of there. Just go anywhere to breath and feel any sense of freedom he knew he didn't have.

In order to become the greatest inventors. To make a name for themselves. Just simply making inventions isn't enough. Though they have been slowly growing in fame and getting noticed, his father demanded more from his family. A legacy that would conquer the world and refuse to let it's name be forgotten.

Meb just wished he was an ugly guy, but seems there's always someone who can work with whatever Meb is going for in style or personality. His arranged marriage candidate seems interested enough in his appearance to purse him. His father was eager to ensure that connection was built and locked into place.

Meb wanted to smoke, but he didn't want his ass kicked by his father for doing that. That was not an experience he wanted to repeat. He decided to just linger next to a store and let himself lean against the wall to just relax. He felt so stressed. It was like he was drowning. He had no choice, but to keep fight and keep pushing forward though.

Some people have him nervous looks as they probably think he's a troublemaker or thug. Not that he cared what they thought about him. He just stared into the blue sky wishing he could sprout wings and fly away from it all.

He heard the war sirens go off and was startled as people started pointing at the sky freaking out. Meb couldn't believe what he was seeing. All sorts of ships coming out of seemingly nowhere flying toward earth. People were terrified and running around not even sure where to hide.