** YALL, THIS WAS MY FIRST FANFIC, WRITTEN WHEN I WAS TWELVE. PROCEED WITH THAT IN MIND, BECAUSE ITS PROBABLY HOT GARBAGE THROWN INTO THE BURNING PITS OF HELL AND THEN TAKEN BACK OUT ONLY TO BE DRENCHED IN LAVA. ** After unexpectedly finding the irken crying in the corner of the men's bathroom, Dib tries his best comfort him despite not knowing what was wrong, and despite what they still continued to believe was mutual hatred towards each other. The two suddenly became closer, however, and after a while the human became sick of the people he shared a planet with. He and Zim were both equally as tired of their societies, and one day the two decided to team up and take over worlds, and eventually even the galaxy, together. *･゜ﾟ･*:.｡..｡.:*･･*:.｡. .｡.:*･゜ﾟ･* Alternative title: Two gay dumbasses go on a space adventure, get in trouble, and fall in love while denying it constantly. Probably would've been better than "Salt and Sugar" but TOO LATE The first three parts are absolute sh!t but it gets better ig so don't worry. We get into actual plot around chapter 12 so if you're sick of fillers GUESS WHAT IT'LL BE OVER SOON This fic is a rewrite because the old version had no plot or anything interesting whatsoever. TW) Cursing, mentions self-harm (specifically the scars) Characters are aged up to be in the range of years 16 and 18, Zim's a bit less... Weird. Nothing 18+ because they're canonically children and I am not into reading OR writing that kind of stuff All characters belong to Jhonen Vasquez and are from the show Invader Zim (except for the occasional made-up space aliens that say random lines for some reason, those are just random dudes I make up. Also some characters that might exist for uhhh maybe epilogue haha-)

After 6 years, Zim starts to realize that his plan to take over Earth isn't working. When he contacts the Tallest, his suspicions are proven to be correct. They tell him everything they've kept as secrets and banish him to Earth, leaving him to die. However, life has different plans for him.

It's been nine earth years since Zim left to return to Irk after learning the truth about his mission. Dib has been bored out of his mind without the one person who paid attention to him. Irk, Zim's home planet is now engulfed in turmoil as both of the tallest 's heads are at the ends of spears. The event of the tallest's murders was drawn to Zim, who was now mentally unstable. He sat upon a red and silver throne, his red eyes glistened with hate. The cause of his rise to power and mental instability were from two years of torture and humiliation. All that was left of his broken mind was just a faint memory of a human he had once known. Disclaimer, this is a work of fan fiction, I do not own any of the characters from the show Invader Zim nor do I own any images used in this story. Cred goes to the original artists and creators.

We all know about how Zim and Dib are enemies, but what if that's not all it. The two must go on a class trip, and are stuck with each other. It's not like one of them are hiding anything, right? This is taking place in high school (let's not get this confused. (Warnings: contains swearing, and suggestive themes)

"Never give up. Because you don't know what destiny has in mind for you. You won't know till you get there." "It doesn't matter what they say, as long as I've got you." It's what they do that matters. And sometimes you forget not to give up, If they try to tear you apart.