Twix invites her friends from other timelines over for dinner, what an assortment
"This isn't sweet enough for-"
"Papa tested it, it's fine." Twix held up a slice of cookie pizza- a thick brick of sugar cookie dough sprinkled with red candies over white frosting and formed in a circle big enough to be an umbrella so they could all share. "How's Zira?"
"Oh, she's fine." Irken Twix took a bite, licking the frosting off her lips. "Bree got stuck in an alternate timeline for a few days where Zee-Zee was the only child, but other than that things have been pretty normal."
"Bree's the wuss, right? She end up pissing her pants?" Swap Twix smirked, giving a discreet high-five to Tallest Twix, and irken Twix popped a pair of guns out of her Pak without even blinking, one aimed at each of them.
"She could blow you both to bits if you said that, you know."
"She'd be whining the whole time, though," Tallest Twix scoffed, leaning forward and lording her solid foot over irken Twix even while sitting.
"Don't be rude." Mothhuman Twix smacked Tallest with one paw as bloody drool slid down her chin from the raw steak still in her mouth. "Bree was nice."
"You're just saying that because she scratched your tummy."
"And?" The hulking Twix's shoulders hunched up as she growled, nearly making the whole table shake, and WLOD Twix rubbed at her arm.
"It's not worth it."
She spat on the floor. "Fine."
There was the sound of chewing for a few seconds before all of the lights flickered out at once, leaving only the bright glow of the few Paks on. Immediately chaos began to rise before static crackled and a familiar voice echoed over the loudspeaker.
"Good news everyone!"
Twix stood up. "Wait, where's the one from the universe where Dad wears piss-yellow?"
The 'intercom' gave a few seconds of blistering feedback before the voice continued. "I figured out how to activate the deathtraps!"
anyway wlod dib and zib would probably shake hands at the pza meetings with ‘what the fuck is wrong with all of these other dibs that they’re actually with their zims, clearly we’re the only ones that were successful’, and then they would fight because wlod dib thinks that zib is a fucked up little freak and zib takes massive personal offense to the fact that the one other successful dib thinks that he’s a fucked up little freak
(the other dibs are watching and making bets probably because watching The Worst Ones beat the shit out each other is very fun)
I love the idea that when Dibbrane finds out his husband is an alien and starts diving into paranormal studies for the first time, he decides to try on a trench coat and all the other Dibs at the PZA are just chanting ONE OF US, ONE OF US, ONE OF US because it was WEIRD to have this guy who looked so much like their dad show up to the meetings.
They'd known that Swap Dib was the one to have his Twix, but still, when he waltzed into the meeting with an unmistakable bump, half the Dib room swarmed him to be the first one to touch his stomach.
There was a crash. Tallest Dib poked his head out, then grinned, waving. "You have got to see this."
Tallest Zim had pinned down Irken Zim with Dib watching, all three heavily pregnant, while other similarly gravid Zims crowded around. Swap, the only Zim without a bump of his own, held a recording camera.
Capture au Dib, if he made it to the PZA meeting somehow, upon seeing Tallest Dib: Your Zim has you in a collar too?
Tallest Dib: Yeah, it’s the only way I’m allowed to see Twix. He can get nasty about using the extra functions when he wants me to fall in line and I hate the muzzle thing, but it’s worth it.
Capture Dib: He’s the worst... can you believe a bunch of these other Dibs are actually in a real relationship with their Zims?
Tallest Dib, not wanting to admit that on the way here he was making out with his Zim hard enough that his lips are still sore: ...Noooooooope.
I am once again thinking of WLOD Twix getting to visit the Irken AU ship where some of the smeets chirp excitedly over her and think she’s cool, she helps the Twix there with her garden and just enjoys the chance to get away without being around humans.
So what is the dibpit and pza? Is it like this own slice of reality all the other au’s are canonically aware of? Or is it like a lawless domain where nothing that happens matters?
Okay, so: Canonically, the PZA only exists after the events of Temporal Displacement. This won’t be in the fic because it’d just double the length and completely derail the plot and pacing, but on the way back to her home timeline, Twix jumps through several other ‘universes’, most prominently WLOD, Tallest, Adoption, and Pilot, although it’s safe to assume she hits most of the major ones. She helps WLOD Zim and Twix escape and informs her parents of the fact that ‘holy shit I exist in a bunch of other dimensions’ and Zim sends out a signal to meet all these other versions of himself without the whole ‘planet tearing apart’ thing from Florpus. (WLOD Zim probably doesn’t show up for the first few meetings while he gets settled in.)
However, I like it being a sort of split-off thing too, with them meeting much earlier because Zim just happened to be curious and they all crash the AIP wedding when Twix is five or six.
So basically: Yes, they are canonically all aware of each other after the events of TD, but I still futz about with it as a side-au at times where nothing actually matters to the aus’ ‘canon’, like the aip shipverse stuff.
