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)

Irk has perished. Zim has fled, back to Earth, back to the squishy-skinned being he once called an enemy. But what happens when Dib, or Devon, has just as many secrets as Zim? Just as bad a past? Just an unstable of a future? And what happens when that past comes back to haunt both of them, and they are unable to exorcise the demons of their own creating? And what happens when Zim loses his cool, and alerts those who survived on Irk of his location, opening up the world to an Armada? This and more in the series; The Return of Zim. Book 1; Zim has made a mistake. Haunted by his past, and terrifyed of his future, how can he cope with losing everything? He runs back to earth, back to Dib, his equally troubled old friend. Here on earth, things seem quiet... Until the sound of their hearts, beating in time, gets too loud to be ignored. And now, will Zim be able to defeat his past? Or will they both end up Burned in the end?