Irkenized: Chapter 1
It was just another average Friday in upper Michigan, around the time when the local high school would dismiss its students so they could go home. Said students were practically pouring out of the front doors to leave the wretched building they loathed most.
All of them were leaving, save for one boy. He was a pale boy, probably from lack of sunlight, with glasses and a black trench coat. His raven hair had a strangely shaped cowlick. The boy, known as Dib, waited for one last student to come out of the building.
The one Dib waited for wasn't human at all. Infact, he could clearly see through the other's disguise, and knew that that student was an alien. The green skin, the lack of a nose and ears, the three fingers, and his eye shape. They were almost like ellipses.
Dib crossed his arms and narrowed his burnt honey-tinted eyes hatefully as he waited for the alien, Zim, to come out of the school. A thousand thoughts flooded into his abnormally large head as he pondered what the hideous space bug would be doing in there. As he was lost in his thoughts, Zim was walking out of the double doors almost unnoticed by Dib.
Dib snapped out of his thoughts as Zim walked by, somewhat stiffly. The raven haired boy almost ran to catch up with him.
"Why were you so late to get out of school, huh ZIM?" Dib spat out the irken's name with venom in his tone.
Said irken turned his gaze to the Dib-human. Zim had arrived on Earth when Dib was still in middle school. The human was actually taller than the average 10th grader, but Zim remained the size of a small 9 year-old. Oh, how the irken hated the fact that his enemy was taller than him.
"I'll have you know, HYOOMAN, that I was merely finishing up my homework in the hall of which you study in." Zim retorted.
Dib huffed out with a roll of his eyes. "It's called study hall, you lizard." The insults and nicknames remained the same as when they first met.
The irken would have screeched out something along the lines of "SILENCE", or "YOU'RE LYING", but he was in a rush to get back to his base. He had a very important experiment set up that needed to be taken care of immediately.
As Zim started to quickly walk towards his base, Dib thought it'd be a perfect opportunity to try out his alien sleep-cuffs, a newer and more advanced version which he'd built himself after the first incident with them. He dove towards the alien, pinned him to the hard cement and pulled Zim's arms behind his back to fasten them on.
Zim let out a loud screech, mostly out of shock more than of pain from being under and human's weight, and the impact of hitting the ground so hard. He quickly extended his metal arachnoid legs from his Pak, using them to escape from Dib's grasp and to also get away from him. Though, that wasn't enough as Dib kicked one of the legs out from underneath Zim, causing the irken to wobble and fall back down.
Zim let out another screech. It had been so long since they last fought, he never realized how much stronger and agile the human had become. Out of sheer panic, he swung a metal leg out towards Dib, o which collided with the boy in the stomach hard and practically threw him a couple meters away.
The tip of Zim's attachment pierced part of Dib's stomach, which the human quickly grasped in pain, his blue shirt already being stained by blood. He was slightly writhing from the burning of the wound. He was in such pain, Zim could tell, that Dib looked as if he was about to start yelling out in pain.
The alien took advantage of that, as he pulled out a communicator from his PAK and obeyed for his defective robot, GIR, to come rescue him before Dib could try something else.
In mere seconds, the little robot was in front of Zim, dressed in his green dog disguise. His "feet" were glowing blue, showing that he was using his jets to come get his master. He quickly saluted Zim, then grabbed the irken and flew off towards their base, leaving a wounded Dib behind.