The Zimagorgon (An Invader Zim AU)

The Mutations

Dib ran home, holding his side as his cut bleed out of his shirt. He kicked the door open to be greeted by Gaz and Professor Membrane. "Why hello so-" Professor Membrane tried to say but got cut off. "Dad! I got abducted by aliens in my sleep and they put stuff into me! I need you to take them out!" Dib yelled, panicked. Gaz gave Dib a confused look, "Dib, what in the hell are you talking about?" Dib pulled up his shirt to show the terribly cleaned, stitched up cut. "See?! They cut me open and put shi-" Dib yelled but got cut off. "Ah ah ah, son, no swearing, and that cut is sure messy. You could get an infection." Professor Membrane said, grabbing some disinfectant and paper towels. "Something worse than an infection could happen to me unless you find the stuff the weird aliens put into my body and take them out!" Dib shouted. Professor Membrane cleaned the cut and mumbled under his breath, "My poor insane son... I should just get a different clone.." Dib took a step back. "A different clone?" Dib said, sadly. "Different clone? I meant... Different clown! For.. Your birthday!" Professor Membrane said hesitantly. Dib looked at the door, then got pissed. "Dad, please listen to me! I might die if you don't find these objects and get them out!" Dib shouted, in which Professor Membrane ignored him. "Now, go get a different shirt. Dinner is almost done." Membrane said. Dib scoffed and walked to his room. Gaz then looked at Membrane, "This is why I'm your favorite, right?" Membrane puts the disinfectant and paper towels away and looked at Gaz, "It's wrong for a parent to pick favorites, but yes."

As Dib was changing his shirt, he was speaking to myself, "God.. I feel like my dad doesn't even care about me. I tell him I might die and all he cares about me getting an infection! What the hell.." Dib noticed a tiny pain on his cheek, but it didn't hurt much and he was too pissed to care. Once he got his shirt on, he then acknowledged the pain. He then looked in the mirror to notice a whole new mouth on his cheek. He was gonna scream but thought about how his dad and sister would react, so he just put on a turtleneck sweater that covers his mouth and nose. Dib was panicking. "OHGODWHATTHEFUCKOHSHITOHFUCKOHMYGODAAAAAAAAAA" Dib said quickly. "Yeah, it happened to me too" a voice behind Dib said. Dib jumped and turned around to see Zim, covering his forehead. "Z-zim?! What the hell are you doing here?!" Dib said, stuttering. Zim climbed into his room, letting go of his forehead, showing a mouth. "It's those weird things those alien creatures put into us. They're doing this to our bodies" Zim said. Dib took a step back, "How the hell do you know?!" Zim stretched out his arms and legs. "I dunno. I just lined up the events that happened today and last night and made an educated guess," Zim yawned, "I also did research on my own body to find the objects being connected to my nervous system, so maybe they're causing mutations to happen to our bodies." Dib started shaking for a short moment, then started shouting. "How the hell can you be so calm?! You're body-OUR bodies- are mutating at rando-" Dib said but got cut off. "I'm calm because they are connected to our nervous system, meaning we might have a chance to control the mutations," Zim said. "Yeah, but how?" Dib shouted. "Stop yelling, Dibshit, and I don't know. I'll figure it out. I just need you to come with me," Zim said, going to sit on Dib's bed. Dib looked at his bedroom door and looked back at Zim, "I-I'll do it later. I have to eat dinner," Dib stuttered. "How are you gonna eat in front of your family with that mouth on your cheek?" Zim said. Dib grabbed some toilet paper and tape and started taping toilet paper on his cheek. "I'll hide it with toilet paper and tape. I'll take it off when I'm done," He said. Zim turned around and started to climb out of Dib's window. "Ok, but that's a promise, Dibshit. If I don't see you by sundown, I'll let you become a horrific monster in the middle of everyone," Zim said in a serious tone, "By the way, you don't look awful in that sweater." Dib blushed and tucked his head in the neck of his sweater as Zim jumped out of Dib's window. He heard his dad calling him for dinner and left his bedroom.

As Zim was experimenting on some more squirrels, he heard someone kicking the door down. Zim quickly put his disguise on and went into the living room. "Is that you, Dibshi-" Zim said but got kicked to the ground before he could finish his sentence. "Hey! What the fu-" Zim tried to say but hushed. Zim looked up and see Tak, who looked more pissed than ever. "Zim! I have came back and I will take your mission, and that's a fucking promise!" Tak hissed. "Tak?! Now is not the time! I am expecting someone to visi-" Zim said but felt his face slightly distort. Tak looked at Zim oddly, then took a step back. "W-what the hell happened to your face?" Tak stuttered, her face turning confused to scared. Zim felt around his face to accidentally poking an eye on his cheek. "Oh, that. Let me explain.." Zim then explained the whole situation with the objects in Dib and his bodies and how because of those objects, their bodies can manipulate and mutate with little pain or effort, Tak was looking confused yet interested the whole time. "Odd.." Tak said quietly, "Say, Zim, I'll help you and the human out as long as you don't use your abilities against me when we fight." Zim got up and stretched, "Deal. Ill bring the Dibshit here as soon as I can," He said. "I'm already here. I'm just confused on why Tak's here," Dib said, which scared Zim and Tak a little bit. Tak shot a look at Dib and started walking towards him. "So, Dib, Zim told me about your guys' whole shitshow. Me and him agreed that If I help you guys, you won't use your abilities on me," Tak said seriously, "I would use Zim's lab, but his base smells like rotten squirrel corpses. Does your base have some sort of lab that tests on humans and stuff?" Dib stuttered for a bit and then remembered something. "My dad's team used to test on people to try to find cures for deadly diseases, but they got sued for manslaughter and illegal testing, so they ditched the testing site and started working and studying on different stuff. He told me that the testing site is still under the main lab, but he blocked it off so me and Gaz wouldn't hurt ourselves exploring the site," Dib said in a happy tone, "If we're lucky, some of the stuff he used might still be in the testing site!" Tak smirked. "Excellent. It's perfect. Im guessing it hasn't been used in years?" Tak said. "Yeah. My dad said he hasn't touched it ever since I was born," Dib said. Tak looked at Zim, then back at Dib. "Great. You two will find it, and once you do, I'll start working," Tak said, smirking.