Greetings readers of fic! I guess I'm trying to make the most of this last slice of summer. To bad I'm not motivated enough to read my summer book. Curse summer reading! With the help of Shadow dark, old TV shows, and phone calls from the muse, I'm writing yet another invader zim fic. But it's a alternate universe type fic.

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Chapter 1

Irkens lived peacefully on a very small planet. They didn't like to start wars or fight, so obviously they were easy prey. It happened on a beautiful sunny day. Nobody saw it coming. Hundreds of metallic ships flew down to the planet and open fired on everyone. The invading aliens had three yellow eyes, red skin, a scorpion-like tail, four claw-like fingures on each hand, and round mouse ears. Their species were called Draconians.

Well you can imagin the panic that spread throughout the planet. Irkens didn't stand a chance. So before they were all destroyed and their planet claimed, the irkens took as many smeets from the hatchery as they could and sent them off into space in cloaked pods. That way the Draconians wouldn't see them leave. The pods were programed to land on a planet that the irken smeets could live on.

now into the present

Red shuffle the deck of cards. He was one of the irkens to escape the planet. He knew other Irkens too. In the present, the Irken population was small, but it wasn't endangered. Red held the cards out in front of him, their backs facing toward him. He then told the group of aliens that had collected up in front of him," Pick a card, any card." an alien with blue skin pick out one card. " Good." Red said. " Show it to everyone. Do you all know what the card is?" everyone nodded." Now put it back in the deck." The blue alien put the card back in the deck. Red shuffled the cards again and pulled out a dagger from his pocket. He threw the cards up in the air and stabbed the dagger through one of the cards. Red showed the card to everyone and grinned at their stunned faces," Is this your card?" The blue alien grumbled and handed gold coins to Red.

Red wore a black uniform (it's like what he wears as tallest except in black) and a red coat like a cape. He collected up the cards again and shuffled them. Grinning, he asked," Who's next?" A purple alien with big black eyes steped up. Red shuffled the cards once more and then lined them up face down. " How much ya betting?" The purple alien pulled out a small bag of gold coins. After Red counted how much was in the bag he said," Whoever picks the highest card wins."

The purple alien agreed and reached down to grab a card. He held up the card to Red and said," Ten of feathers."

Red picked up a card and held it up to his opponet smiling," Sorceress. I win." ( sorceress is like a queen)Red took his winnings and once again asked," Who's next?"

This time an alien with hot pink skin stepped forward. Before Red could ask, she put a large bag full of silver and gold coins on the table. Red thought,' Poor stupid girl.'

" Looks like SOMEBODY has a gambling problem." Red said as he shuffled the deck of cards.

"Look who's talking." she snorted.

Red lined up three cards on the table and showed the girl a card with a silver dragon on it. He put it face down with the other two cards and and mixed all three cards up. He lined them up again and asked her," Where's the silver dragon?" (silver dragon is like an Ace)

The pink girl hesitated for a few minutes then finally she came to a conclusion and picked the card on the far left. She lifted it up to find a three of daggers. Red laughed and said," Sorry." As he took the large bag of gold, the pink girl lifted up the other two cards to see a five of feathers and a nine of daggers. Red laughed nervously as he saw all the angry faces of his ' customers.'

" He cheated!!" one alien screamed.

"Sweet marionette puppets!!" another alien screamed." All the money from my pockets is gone!!"

" So is mine!!" everyone eventually said.

"Look at the time! I've got to go everyone!" Red said as hey stuffed all the money into one bag and ran off on his spider legs, " 6.3 let's go!!"

A small robot dragon ran out from behind the trash cans and off down the street after Red. It wasn't very fast though. All of Red's victums saw the dragon and it being the easiest to catch, cased after it. The little dragon robot tried to fly off but its wings wouldn't support its weight. One of the aliens from the angry mob kicked 6.3 into the wall and another person threw a trash can at it. Red snatched the now brocken robot from the mob's wrath and ran down the street. He cut down the allyways and luckily lost the mob for now.

Red climbed up near the roof of what looked like an abondoned building and slid down the air vent. He landed inside the building that was filled with machine parts. There was also a glass case that held swords guns and other weaponds, a small office, a few repair tables, and in the middle of the building was an old brocken down space ship. Red set 6.3 down on one of the repair tables and looked around the building. Finally he yelled out, " Hey Zim! Where are ya?!" Red was answered with a bang coming from under the space ship and a long line of swears following that.

Zim wheeled himself out from under the space ship while saying," Red, how many times must I remind you not to do that?" Zim was laying on what looked like a skate board.

Red absentmindedly shuffled his deck of cards then said," Oh...yeah...that." Zim sigh and stood up.

Zim was wearing black patchy pants, a black trench coat, and an old dark gree t-shirt. He set his wrench into the floating tool box and attempted to wipe the oil off his face without success. He grinned at Red and asked, " Up to no good?"

Red smiled back and said," You know it! But...I had a little problem..."

" Yes?" Zim asked.

" 6.3 has been totaled." Red explained.

Zim heaved a sigh and walked over to the robot. As he picked it up, 6.3's head fell off. Zim said sadly," Oh you poor, poor thing. What happened?"

Red explained the problem," It couldn't run and it couldn't fly, so the mob got it."

The tool box floated over to Zim and he pulled out a screw driver. He unscrewed the dented robots stomach and poured out the large amount of loot. Zim turned to Red and said," Maybe it couldn't fly or run because it took to much loot. Hmmm?"

Red said," Then make me a robot that can run and fly with large amounts of loot."

Zim sighed again," To do that I would have to make a bigger robot, and not only does that cost money, people would notice it if were bigger, so it couldn't pick-pocket easily."

" Well, you're the mechanic, not me! Find a way to make a small robot that can carry alot!" Red said.

" Hmmm...Maybe I could give it a shrink ray. Or make it out of stronger metal. If I could just figure out how that cloaking divice worked then I could use that." he mumbled to himeself.

Red walked over to the broken ship and asked," Why do you waste your time on this? It's not gonna fly."

Zim stoped working on the robot and laughed," Waste my time!? Ha! I do not waste my time, Red! This ship can and WILL be fixed! I'll show you, one day this thing'll fly! Or my name isn't Bob!"

Red stated," Your name isn't Bob.."

"Exactly! Meaning that this ship won't fly UNTILL I get the right parts. So let's go." Zim said,grabbing a gun from the glass case and walking off.

"Okay." Red said, stuffing some of his winnings and his deck of cards into his pocket.

They walked down the street. All the buildings where old and broken down, other aliens useing them as shelter. Down some of the allyways were aliens selling illegal items or even a few aliens that, like Red, trick other aliens out of their money. The two finally came to a borded up building that was covered in graphiti. Zim walked up and knocked on the iron door. After a few minutes, a thin slot in the door slid open and two purple eyes stared out at them. A mysterious voice asked," Pasword?"

Zim turned to Red and asked," Do you know the password?"

Red shook his head and said," He changes it everyday." Red sighed and then pounded on the door," Purple you idiot! Let us in!"

Purple rolled his eyes and the slot in the door closed. Zim and Red heard what sounded like several locks unlocking. The door opened slowly and the two steped inside. Once they were in, Purple locked the door back up. The lights inside the building were very dim and the air was clouded with incense.

Red sniffed the air and coughed," What's with all the incense?"

"You like it!? It's called aromatherapy." Purple said. Purple wore a long purple trench coat, the collar of it covered his mouth. Purple was into keeping a low profile.

Zim shook his head and breathed through his trench coat." Do you have a book on cloaking devices?" he asked.

"Lemme check." Purple said as he disappeared into the smoke from the incense. You could hear him mummbling to himself the titles of other books. He came back carrying two books and said," One on cloaking divices and another on dissapearing acts."

"Oh, hey! I'll just take that.." Red said while exchanging some money for the dissapearing acts book.

"Okay, I'll also need scrap metal, a ship battery, a spark plug, and a screw driver." Zim coughed.

"Just because we're friends, doesn't mean this stuff is free, ya know?" Purple's eyes glared from the shadows. " I got to make a living to, so do ya have the money for all this?"

"Yes, I have the money," Zim said, holding up a bag of money.

Another knock came from the iron door. Purple opened the slot and glanced out," Password?"

A female voice spoke," Violet sent me."

"See!?" Purple said as he opened the door." Tenn knows the password!"

" Who's Violet?" Red asked.

" Purples first helper robot.." Zim coughed with a dreamy,spaced out look on his face.

" Talk about obsessing over your job." Red muttered to Tenn.

Tenn went over and opened a window," Jeez it's smokey in here!"

Purple gave Zim the items he bought and put his payment in his trench coat. He gasped and said," Keep the windows closed!"

"So Tenn, what brings you here?" asked Red.

"This!" she held up a flyer. " It's a flyer calling aliens to come and join a captin's spaceship. Word going around is that her name is Tak. The Draconians are planning an attack on planet Zercrue. And since creatures on Zercrue don't like to fight, we'll defend them. I say we go!"

"I have to admit, that sounds very tempting." Purple said. " But we have lives here."

"We can aways continue with our lives here! We would just be putting everything on pause." Tenn said.

" Zim would have to build me a whole lot of robot guards to watch the shop." Purple said.

"Ohh," Red moaned." But Zercrue is so far from here. Were is this whole thing meeting?"

" We bord the ship at the docking bay here." Tenn explained.

" How convenient." Zim muttered.

" Well I'm going! What about the rest of you?" Tenn asked.

After some hesitation, everyone agreed. They had three days to prepare before they had to meet up with this captian, Tak. Zim went straight home to start working on his security and his friends security systems. Red went back out to trick more people out of their money so he could have as much as he needed. Tenn went back to the gas station she worked at and purple kept his shop open and tried to sell as much as he could.

End chapter one!! Yay!! I hope everyone likes this fic, so please give me your opinion in your review!!

Shadow dark: Hello muse! Welcome back from your vacation! You're the first back! How are ya!!

Muse: is badly sunburned ha ha...gloat all ya want, I still had a good time...

Shadow dark: snickering sure ya did...

twitches uncontrolably I have found a way to upload chapters on MY computer!! I'm so happy and yet feel so stupid! All I had to do was twitches read the directions!

Shadow dark: rolls with laughter What is it with you people and directions!! It's not THAT horrible to read! And it gets you somewhere...

laughs stupidly Well, that solves that problems...