What You Don't Know Won't Kill You Chapter 1

It had been three degrading years since the almighty Zim had landed on the pitiful excuse of a planet, Earth.It had been a normal day, just like all the other days, except Zim had agitated poor Dib a bit too much.

-Zim's Lab-

A very aggravated Zim threw the filthy Dib-worm at full force knocking him off-balance and plumeting into a nearby table. The impact of his back and the table severely injured his spine. Dib let loose a pained scream and tears crept to the corner of Dib's eyes where they started to fall on his face.

Zim laughed maniacally at the pathetic Dib-worm. "BWA HA HA HA HA! The stupid Dib-beast canNOT fight! HaHa HaHa HaHa!"

"Well, at least I wasn't assigned a fake mission!" DIb shot back while trying to hold back blood that was ready to spill out of his mouth.

"What are you talking about, Dib-stink?" Zim said suddenly serious.

"You don't even know your own past. oh my god, you're stupid" Dib muttered."Well if you must know. You were never part of 'The Great Assigning.' We both know that. If you were, you would have been on the stage when they were assigning planets to conquer. You wouldn't have been some outlaw beeging to be given a planet. The only reason you were given a planet is because they thought Earth didn't exist. They thought you would just keeping driving your Voot crusier into empty space until you finally died."

"LIES! You tell LIES!...Wait...How do you know of this human? You were not there, only Irkens were allowed to attend the event, and Zim! most certainly would not have told an enemy such an event in his past."

"What you do not know Zim is that every night before you came I would go and sit on the roof listening for any sign of life that might live in space besides ours."

Zim lauched a deadly spiderleg at Dib and it would have hit him too, if it wasn't for the fact that a blaring alarm went off startling Zim giving Dib enough time to dogde the leg and make his way to the exit. 'The alarm means . . . the Tallest are calling! Good. The Dib-beast is gone. Damn, that means he got away.'

The giant computer screen turned on and the Tallest appeared.

"Zim." Purple said pointedly.

"Yes.My Tallest." Zim raised a fist to his chest and bowed deeply.

"Your late. We want the weekly progress report." Red growled as if he were just wasting his breath and precious time. Zim could never conquer anything.

"Well, how's that?" Zim questioned the superior.

"WHAT DO YOU MEAN, ZIM! You're SUPPOSED to be collecting infoemation to destroy the planet!" Red barked back at him.

"Well, I just thought that for some reason I was sent here to get away from the Empire and my mission was nothing but a huge lie."

The Tallest just stared wide eyed at the Irken. They turned to look at each other, then burst out with laughter.

"What's So Funny!" Zim snapped at his leaders.

"That's perposterous, Zim!" Purple yelled.

"I think you're starting to go crazy. You better have your PAK checked, Zim," Red told him.

"Maybe your right. What was Zim! thinking! I apoligize, My Tallest. Nothing to report aside from the usual." Zim said dimissively.

"Very well."

The screen went black. Zim released a breath he didn't know he had been holding. 'What was I thinking. Dib was just making up lies to save his ass.'