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GIR: HEY LOOK! THERES A PICTURE OF MEE ON THERE!

Yes, GIR is my computer wallpaper. He also plays frequent visits to my brain. But I'm not crazy, I swear. I haven't burned down a building since… well actually we won't get into that right now! Hehe *innocent face*!

Now about this story. Well. For one thing, I'm hoping to make this one looong story. Maybe thirty-forty chapters? If I reach my goal that is.

Second. In this story, it's been a six years since Zim came to Earth. The characters are sixteen (except for Gaz, she's fourteen).

I know there's going to be romance in here but I'm not sure when. It won't be right away, but I'm adding some hints in the beginning. I'm not exactly sure what pairings I will have because I'm not sure what characters are going 2 be in the story, but I feel a love triangle coming on (not ZADR, its impossible becuz of something that happens). Here's what I have decided about the characters so far.

Zim: a very important character in the story! Duhh!

Dib: ditto

GIR: Of course GIR is in it!

Gaz: at the beginning of the story she's missing -read the story to find out what that's all about- but anyway I think she'll end up being alive unless I'm feeling evil and decide that someone was tough enough to kill her.

Tak: she'll be in it, but not right away.

Prof. Membrane: …*shrugs*

If a character is not mentioned, they are most likely not going to appear in this story. If you want someone to be in the story that isn't just write it in a review or message me or something and I might add them in a plot twist (I LOVE plot twists).

And then I have my OC, Ria! Her family and friends are in this a little bit, but I didn't want to put too much OCness in this so they aren't in it all that much. Wow, I have just wasted a lot of time and space on this. I must really have no life, huh? Hahaha kidding, kidding, kidding! I hope u like this and please review!

P.S. I DON'T OWN INVADER ZIM!

Ria

Two months. That's all she had. All she had to try to convince the Irkens to spare her planet. They'd swept through the entire universe, conquering planets as they went, until they finally had reached Earth. For the first time in her life, Ria felt quite helpless, all alone against an entire empire of aliens. There weren't many things that could make Ria feel helpless, because she always found some way to fix things. This time, though, she had no idea what she was supposed to do.

There was a lot to do aboard the Massive, where she was currently being kept, but Ria was too dazed and confused to do any of it. She wasn't sure why the stupid Irken leaders had decided to spare her. It probably had something to do with her strange mind reading gifts, or maybe because she had ability to never forget anything. Ria had never much liked having those "gifts", because they made her different. She didn't like to be different, even though she was quite abnormal.

The way mind reading worked was not as simple as it may seem. You may think that you can just look at a person and hear what they're thinking, but it doesn't work that way. First of all, you only get an idea of what the person is thinking, not really a specific thought directly from their mind.

The other thing is, some people are much easier to read than others. It seemed that the more complicated someone's thoughts were, the harder they were to read. The stupid Tallests for example, Ria could read like a book. But that boy with the big head and scythe hair… Dib, he was different. His mind was hard to penetrate, his thoughts difficult to find. Ria did get glimpses of what was in his mind, sometimes even memories of his. Ria had known Dib before all this, but not well.

She was into paranormal things a little, but she didn't like to talk about them much. The other kids thought she was weird when she did. Except for Dib, that is, but the other kids thought he was weird too. And he was, in a way. In other ways though, he was smart. Ria had never been in his class or homeroom at Skool, even though they'd gone to the same elementary, middle, and high skools, so she didn't get to talk to him much. She remembered he used to yell about some alien kid a lot though. Ria chuckled.

The other kids had thought that there were no such things as aliens, and look at the Earth now. Many places were in ruin, others were waiting in fear to be destroyed. Such a shame. What would Niri say if she were here now? She would probably say something that would make Ria laugh and smile, and then giggle that contagious giggle. Ria's eyes welled up with tears at the thought of her old best friend. She would never giggle that giggle again; never tease Ria for thinking her brother was cute, never pretend to be interested when Ria talked about ghosts or bigfoot. Niri was gone now.

Just then, there was a knock on the door of Ria's small room. She walked over and looked at the screen from her security camera. There was Dib now. She sighed. "Come in…" she said, even though she would have rather been alone at the moment. She would rather be alone to wallow in her memories… the good ones at least. With so many memories, there were a lot of bad ones too.

Especially with all that she'd been through. All those horrible images… ones that a normal brain would have been able to block out, stayed imprinted in her brain forever. She shivered. Then again, there were the good memories too. In the good ones, she could see her parents again, and Niri. Her mom and Niri were gone forever, and by now her dad could be too. Ria wished she knew. Then there was a tap on her shoulder, jolting Ria out of her daydream and scaring her to death. She screamed and whirled around, grabbing her "attacker" by the collar of his black jacket. When she saw it was Dib, she slowly let him down.

"Sorry…" she said. After what had happened back on Earth, defensive qualities had sort of engrained themselves into Ria's brain. Dib shrugged. "You get used to it when you grow up with…" his voice trailed away. He was talking about Gaz. He didn't talk about her much anymore since he had left Earth without her. It wasn't his fault though. It was Ria's. Just like it was her fault that Dib's left arm and leg were now robot parts.

She tried to deny that it was her fault, she didn't like to be the one to blame for things like this, but she couldn't. She should have easily been able to choose between her own planet and an Irken, but she had frozen up as the two enemies had started to fight each other. She never suspected that things would go that far.

Dib shook his head. "Never mind. I came in here to remind you that the Tallest wanted to talk to you later. Gosh," he said.

"Gosh what?"

"It's so weird… all my life I wanted to just show someone an alien ship… now I live on one."

Ria laughed. "It's not really just a ship; I'd say it was more of a mother ship really."

"What do you know about a mother ship?" Dib cried, having one of his moments. Ria shook her head. He'd snap out of it in a minute. After all the things that had happened to Dib, he'd been having sudden outbursts. Ria hoped he'd be over them soon. "You've been contacting it, haven't you? Huh? Huh? Huh…" Dib trailed away. "Did I just do it again?"

"Do what?" Ria said, trying to act like she hadn't noticed.

"The-The thing. You know, the thing that you say I do but I don't think I do but you say I do the thing-" Dib stopped to catch his breath, and a mischievous grin pulled at the edges of Ria's lips.

"I don't know what you're talking about!" she said. Ria tried not to make fun of Dib for his outbursts because of all he'd been through, but it was hard when he constantly asked if he had done it again. Dib scowled. "Whatever. I'll… see you at dinner." Then he headed for the door. He gave one final glance over his shoulder as he walked away, and then the door closed behind him.

Ria sighed and looked out her window at the rotating planet that she used to live on. She brushed her jet-black hair away from her eyes. It was a beautiful planet. It made her mind wander back to her memories again… memories of her friends, her family, and the little Irken and his defective robot that she'd met there. As she pondered through memories, Ria unconsciously wondered where Zim was now. She hadn't seen him since… the incident.

This thought made Ria feel a jump coming on. She hated the jumps. She went back to one of her memories, and couldn't escape. It was sort of like a dream, but much more vivid and realistic. How long would she be stuck there this time? And more importantly, where would she go? If she went back to one of the bad ones, she didn't know if she could take it. She might finally go off the deep end, if she hadn't already, that is. When the window in front of her started to fade, she could hear the sounds of her high skool class talking before class began. Oh no, she wasn't going back to the day was she? Too late to think about it now…

Ria looked over to Niri, who was right beside her, and rolled her eyes. Mrs. DioGennero was passing out test papers. Another pointless test. Why didn't teachers understand the way student's brains worked? They studied for a test, took the test, and forgot what they'd learned when they started studying for the next one. Therefore, tests were completely pointless.

"I hate history!" Niri groaned. Ria chuckled.

"You hate every subject."

Niri shrugged. "True," she replied with a little eye roll. "But I hate history most. Especially tests."

"The feeling's mutual."

Mrs. DioGennero scowled and shushed the two girls as she slammed their test papers onto their desks. "No talking," she muttered. Ria rolled her eyes and picked up her pencil, tapping it on her desk as she read the first question.

The first answer came to her right away, and she scribbled it down. The next one wasn't too hard either. This wasn't so bad. Ok, third question. What is the- Ria's train of thought was cut off by a loud rumbling sound. She looked up, trying to see if anyone else had heard it. Most of the other students were also looking around for the source of the sound. Ria looked at Niri, who shrugged and started fiddling with her lucky silver bracelet. Ria tried to focus her brain on the test again, but something was giving her an eerie feeling. She shivered and looked up again.

The other students had returned to their paper. Ria took a quick peek inside some of their minds, but only feelings of boredom or concentration on the test flowed through her. "Is there a problem Ria?" Mrs. DioGennero asked.

"No ma'm." Ria glanced back at her paper, but she still couldn't concentrate. Then there was another rumble, louder this time, and Ria swore she heard screaming from outside. Her heart started to race, and she looked around nervously. The rest of the class either looked annoyed by the sound or scared like Ria. Mrs. DioGennero scowled at them again. "If there are anymore distractions, I will-" That's when Ria saw it.

A big, no scratch that giant, no scratch that massive spaceship was looming out in the sky above, coming slowly closer to the ground. It cast a dark and menacing shadow over the parking lot of the school, and the tiny looking people by their cars were screaming and pointing at the sky in shock. Ria froze up, dropping her pencil to the floor. "Ria!" Mrs. DioGennero said, scowling. Ria tried to say something, but her throat had gone dry. "Um…" she managed to spit out. The students and even Mrs. DioGennero followed Ria's gaze out the window.

There were many different reactions from the class, the most common ones being freezing up or screaming. Many students seemed to be in denial that the ship was really even there, rubbing their eyes and telling themselves it was a dream. Ria had already considered that option, but all the other events of the day had been far too detailed and realistic.

Peter decided to jump up on his desk and taunt the ship by waving and sticking out his tongue at it. That weird kid, Dib, was screaming about 'proof'. Ria looked at her friend next to her, who had frozen, pencil still in hand. Then the ground started to shake. Peter fell off his desk, and Mrs. DioGennero stumbled and caught her balance on the chalkboard.

A bright light flashed seeming to come from the ship, and Ria's mind completely shut down. She couldn't hear sound around her, even though she knew everyone was screaming. She couldn't put together a reasonable thought, but she was sure that she was about to die. At the last minute, she stood up and started running. She didn't know where she was running, but she had to run. Maybe it was just instinctual.

She made it to the classroom door, yanked it open, and threw herself into the hall. She landed on her knees and tried to pull herself up, but then she felt the white hot light on her back. It was over. It was all over. Just before she blacked out, Ria thought she saw Dib standing in the hall. She felt herself be thrown forward and thought; too bad it had to end this way.

Huh. Well I didn't really like how this one came out that much, even tho I did revise it a time or two… oh wellsies. And remember, every reviewer gets a virtual hug from GIR. Or maybe even a real one, if he likes u enough . Did it seem short to you? Well if it did I promise the next one is longer! Did Dibbers seem OOC? I think he did, but I'm already wayyy to self conscious about my writing so hopefully he didn't seem like that to u. review!