Greetings and welcome to my story: Time of the Unexpected
I haven't worked on this story for nearly a year, so the first few chapters may be somewhat like crap then around chapter five or six it'll start getting better.
I uploaded chapters one through three on another account, but lost the email for it. So I will just be re-uploading the entire thing.
-ENJOY!-

Zim looked I dismay as the blue sky started to turn a greenish grey. The winds picked up, and he could smell that rain was not far off. He hadn't thought it would rain; after all, it had been cloudless and hot for the past week. He was defenseless against the coming H2O. Zim quickly started searching in his PAK for any spare paste, but came up short. The only remains of paste in the bottle he found were dried up, the moisture in them evaporated from the heat. "Stupid planet." He muttered to himself. "The sooner you are conquered by the MIGHTY ZIM! The better."

Zim had been walking home from detention at Hi Skool. Apparently it was against the rules to knock someone's teeth out while playing dodge ball. And now he was racing for his life against some stupid water. "Hey, wait a minute!" Zim stopped and started to search in his PAK again. "YES!" he exclaimed when he found the bubble gum. There was a food fight during lunch, and Zim found this on the ground, and thought it looked suspicious. After studying it during English, he concluded it would be a rather good replacement for the paste, in case he ever got into situations like this. What better way to test it out? Zim unwrapped the pink candy, and plopped it in his mouth. The taste was sweet, not unlike the Josmeek, a famous, but rare, Irken candy. Zim savored the flavor in his mouth for a moment, but proceeded to make a bubble immediately after her heard thunder. He took the bubble, and carefully popped it, trying his best not to let the sides stick together. He stretched it out as far as it would go, and spread it all over his body.

Not ten minutes later did the dreaded rain start to fall. Zim cowered slightly as the first drop landed on him, but relaxed when he didn't feel his flesh burning into goo. He continued to walk home, but paused when he noticed a familiar hyooman standing inside a store, buying some mechanical looking stuff. Zim concluded it was Dib, because of the freakishly large head that he was finally starting to grow into. Zim dashed to hide behind a light pole. He peeked around to see Dib leaving the building, holding a huge box and talking to himself just loudly enough for Zim to pick up with his superior hearing. "Why must it be today? Why couldn't it have been held until I was ready?"

"What is the Dib monkey talking about?" Zim whispered. What was today? What wasn't Dib Filth ready for? Zim decided to follow him and find out what the Irk he was talking about.

~oOo~

Dib looked at the box in his hands. He never would have thought it would come to this. He turned many corners before he finally reached it. Dib opened the door to enter a large dark room and-

"SURPRISE! Happy birthday, Dib!" Dib was stunned beyond words. There, in front of him, was the entire freshmen class, except for Zim. The room was the rec center, and it was decorated with all sorts of birthday… stuff. There were balloons snacks presents and music.

"Wow!" Dib marveled at the unusual behavior of his peers. Normally all they'd give him for his birthday was a wedgie or a swirly. Wait a second…"What is this? You guys can't be serious."

"But we are serious!" said Zita, walking up to him and giving him a drink of punch. "Just dance and have fun, birthday boy. We have an even bigger surprise at the end!" She said cheerfully, and pulled him to dance. Dib was a little awkward at first, but eventually accepted the weird party and started to dance.

Zim watched the whole thing from under a table. What was going on? Something was wrong, he could sense it. The teenagers danced and talked, laughed and ate. Pretty much a normal party, until he picked up on a conversation between Zita and Jessica. "I can't believe he fell for it." Zita was saying.

"I can." Jessica laughed. "Man, you'd think with such a large head he'd have a bigger brain!." Both girls started to laugh, sometimes so hard they snorted. Zim couldn't figure out why, but he actually felt some sort of pity for the Dib worm beast. i'What? Pity! Zim feels nothing for anybody! Especially the big head boy!'/i

"Hey, the trap's ready." Said Sarah, walking up to them, holding a little remote control. "We now have this, and all we have to do is see a movie with the nerds." All the girls shuddered, but shook it off. They walked over to where the majority of the group was. "Cake time!" They said in unison.

Dib followed them over to the cake. It had chocolate frosting, and said "Happy B-Day Dib!" in blue letters. There were 15 candles lined around the edge. Jessica walked up and lit them, and then everyone started singing the happy birthday song. Dib took in a deep breath, but before he could blow out the candles, the flames on them grew and burned his face. The teens around him started bursting in laughter as he crumpled to the ground, screaming in pain. Everything seemed to blur together, and go in slow-mo. He remembered everyone gasping when Zim came out of nowhere and picked Dib up over his shoulder, even though Dib was nearly a foot taller than him. He remembered complaining about how sticky Zim was and saying something about the box he got at the store before coming here, and Zim grabbing it and carrying Dib out of the Rec Center. Dib passed out not long after that, and woke under an oak tree with the box next to him, and Zim standing a few feet in front of him, facing away.

"I know you're awake." Zim said, turning to face Dib. "You were foolish to believe they actually accepted you. You are lucky Zim was there to save you!" Zim announced In his usual way, making a pose that just made him look stupid and moronic.

"I can take care of myself. I'm 15; I don't need anyone's help, especially not an alien shit bag like you!" Dib stood up so he could tower over Zim, but fell back down to his knees when the look of anger he made hurt his charred face.

"Yes, of course you don't. Says the boy who just got burnt in the face and would have lost it if he hadn't been saved by an alien shit bag like Zim!" Zim paused for a moment. "Wait…"

"I'm outta here." Dib got back up, grabbed his box, and started to walk home. Zim just stared as he passed and still tried to make sense of what he just said.

Zim is such a moron…