Psyche

Hah! Well, I can honestly say this one is finished from the get go! Yup! Its ending is already written! I consider this loose cannon… though since we're seeing events as they're depicted in the head of an insane person it can be either.

DISCLAIMER: These characters have been disclaimed!

Anyway on with the story… Happy brain probing Psyche Cadet!

INT: ZIMS BASE

Deep in the bowels of the earth... under several layers of sedimentary crust and grime lies the layer of a most sinister creature, a being not of this world!

Carefully, he wove the intricate wires of machinery together hopeful that this would be his most successful creation yet! Suddenly, the sound of metal clanging in the distance drew his attention. At first, he thought it must be the disturbing antics of his defunct servant, Gir, but then his paranoia drew him to take a glance to where the noise had emanated... And standing there in the shadows was none other than his mortal enemy Dib!

The alien yelped in surprise as he realized his nemesis had managed to sneak up upon him at such a vulnerable time. His stress peaking, Zim shot out his pak legs in defense and took to the air.

"You can't escape me this time, Zim!" The large headed boy exclaimed as he slid across the shiny pink linoleum of Zim's inner lair, halting in front of the looming creature.

"Or so you would think!" Zim snapped in response, swiping a metallic appendage forward with a 'hah!'

"Joke's on you! I came prepared!" The boy exclaimed while holding up a small blue wooden door that looked like it belonged to a child's play house. "That psychonaut cadet kit I ordered online finally arrived and with it I will defeat you from the inside out!"

Zim looked at the model in his nemesis's had for just a few moments before bursting out into laughter. His pak legs plunged back into him as he landed on the floor, gripping his stomach in glee.

"That play toy is no threat to Zim! Be gone with you!" he exclaimed, swatting at the boy with his eyes closed in supremacy.

Seeing his opening, Dib threw the door forward. "Hahah!" He exclaimed as the item slammed into the alien's cranium with a smack.

"Hu, eh… aah!" Zim yelped as the door on his head creaked open.

Dib chuckled to himself before he realized he was being sucked in and tried to brace himself for landing. Behind him, he heard the door slam shut as, yelling, he spiraled off into darkness.

INT: Zim's mind

It was a hard landing despite his best efforts and Dib stumbled sheepishly to his feet. Somewhere above him, a spotlight hung in the darkness and illuminated the black floor around him. Fearing for a moment that he'd be trapped in darkness forever, Dib frantically looked around until his eyes fell on a figure crouched over ahead of him.

"Uhm, hello?" Dib queried when he didn't immediately recognize the monochromatic figure.

In response, the creature turned its head slightly, revealing a pair of angled antennae and one large round eye.

"Zim?" Dib recognized immediately as the creature slowly stood and looked to him.

"What are you… doing here?" The greyed out figure asked with a cock of the head.

"This is your head Zim! I've infiltrated it and I'm prepared to…" Dib trailed off as he observed the creature taking in its surroundings and ignoring him in the process. "Hey! Aren't you going to try to stop me or something?" Dib started, when the sound of a large light flickering on made him cringe. In the distance, an oversized red spotlight raced towards them, bathing the unnatural Zim in its hue.

"You die here…" he suddenly seemed to seethe, turning to look at the intruder. "Haha!" the red Zim shouted, springing forward on spindly metallic legs.

"Wah!" Dib yelped, backing up frantically as the enraged irken landed in front of him. Plunging into darkness, Dib began to run away from his foe, fearing for his life.

"You can't outrun me…" He heard Zim's psychotic tinged voice call after him as the scuttling of spider legs echoed all around. "I will catch you and then I'll rip of your gigantic head!"

"Aaaah! No nyah!" Dib shrieked as he dashed off into the darkness, daring a peek over his shoulder at the advancing irken. Weighing his options, Dib quickly ducked to the ground as Zim closed in.

Having been caught off guard by the sudden change in velocity, Zim miscalculated and tripped over the huddled figure, sending him crashing into the ground and rolling away as the red beam faded away and blackness surrounded him.

Dib winced and rubbed the spot where the metallic appendage had slammed into him as he slowly came to stand. Ahead of him, he began to hear the sound of light sobbing. Slowly, a blue light faded into view, bathing Zim in its fluorescence.

"Failure… always a failure…" he heard the alien mumble from where he lay, stomach pressed to the ground with only his elbows keeping his head from the ground.

Nervously, Dib began to approach his nemesis. "Zim?" he called out to the sobbing creature.

"Will nothing I do ever be right again? This is the fate I have been bestowed…" A pang of guilt struck Dib as he watched the pathetic form slowly come to a stand, clutching its stomach in sorrow.

"Uhm…" Dib stated as he came up to his enemy, but was startled as the light shifted back to a hard white beam and Zim was staring at him hollowly.

"You should go Dib… this place isn't safe with you here." The monotone Zim announced, straightening. "It's not normally so…" he glanced about into the darkness. "unpredictable."

In the distance, the sound of a light switching on echoed… followed by another … and another…

"What?" Dib exclaimed as the spotlights circled like sharks… closing in on them with every oscillation. Even the grey Zim seemed nervous as the two edged in back to back, watching the myriad of primary colors close in with increasing speed.

Zim squeezed his eyes shut as Dib winced. The colors all came together, centralizing themselves around Zim and suddenly the floor funneled out underneath them. Yelling in unison, Dib and Zim, now restored to his normal palate, plunged past the darkness and landed in a world that was neither lacking in color or light...

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