Board Thread:Roleplay/@comment-28920015-20171014200716/@comment-28920015-20171014222547

(ello)

(this is mostly for Iron, but Andounts and Zim went off planet during that month, and the planet they first went to help was later attacked by the Red Army(did I mention most, if not all of the non-neutral planets have been captured by the RA?) in which they managed to escape a battle, although suffering some wounds. Then they found the planet they were on about the same time that the heroes first moved off the field planet and have been there since.)

(Zim probably wanted to leave Gir with the heroes, since the heroes did know of the Red Army around the time Zim and Andounts left, and on the off-chance that thry would be attacked and captured, he wouldn't want some so potentially powerful falling into the wrong hands.)

(Iron you can add and/or remove bits and pieces of that explanation to make it fit your liking, but for know that's really the only explanation I've got for that plothole)