1 Fallen Angel
Disclaimer: I do not own Invader Zim. Jhonen Vasquez does. Lucky him.
Ch 1: Reunion
Brandy gazed out of the window of the bus she was in, remembering events that occured three months ago... "Dib... I think I love you..." She remembered his smiling face... "I think I love you to." She remembered those amber eyes...oh, how she loved Dib's beautiful eyes! Usually, she didn't fall in love with someone so quickly, but there was something about him that made her heart melt like candle wax.
Exactly three months ago, Brandy and her three friends Heather, Jennifer, and Allison were supposed to go on a vacation in Tokyo, Japan. But, as it turned out, fate had other plans. Another one of Zim's schemes to destroy all of humanity caused her and Dib's destinies to collide quite literally. While Zim and Dib battled it out, they knocked Brandy and her friends into a small plane named the 'Flying Ace'. Zim's insane robot brought Gaz into the plane, and soon followed the archenemies. The plane took off, and after flying for who knows how long, it crashed on a desert island due to Gir hitting the 'empty fuel' button. There they were stranded for a week, until they were finally rescued.
The brunette brought out a shining pearl hanging from a chain around her neck. During the three months, Brandy had made a necklace out of the pearl Dib found on the island. He had given it to her as a present. The pearl wasn't shaped like an orb; it was more of the shape of a flower, one native to the Island they were stranded on. " An unusual pearl... for an unusual girl" She murmured to herself. Brandy had a gift with making jewelry: if you give her a box of junk, fastenings, and fishing line, or any other type of string, she would create a masterpiece fit to wear to the Oscars. She had big dreams of becoming a jeweler. As she absent-mindedly gazed out the window...
...Dib couldn't concentrate on his schoolwork. It has been two months since his sophmore year had started, and three since he had last seen Brandy in person. He sent her letters, telling her about the town and places he knew she would like to go to (cough the library cough ), and she had replied, telling him that, since her town was an hour's drive from his, they should come by and visit her friends. Dib shuddered a bit at this. It wasn't the kind-hearted red-head Jennifer, or the sympathetic blonde Allison that rattled him, in fact they approved of Dib dating their friend. It was Brandy's overprotective friend Heather that gave him a scare. She was the one who didn't trust Dib. She was the one who thought he was out to break Brandy's heart...or get into her pants, whichever acusation suited Heather's defense best during whatever situation they were in. Dib opened his book, "Ghosts and Other Spooky Supernatural Creatures" to where he had a book mark in. The book mark was the slip of paper that Brandy had given him before they parted ways. On it was where she had written her address and phone number in her scratchy-yet-still-readable handwriting. He picked it up and examined it. Immediently, Torque Smacky (who, I will mention, sits behind our big-headed hero throughout this entire fanfic) snatched the prercious piece of paper from Dib's hands. He waved it out of his reach. "Who's this from?" the slow-witted jock taunted, "Your imaginary girlfriend?" Dib seized the paper back in offense. "For your information, Torque, she isn't imaginary. She's-" The classroom door burst open, interuppting Dib. He gasped when he saw who walked through the door. "Here" Dib finished. Ms. Bitters, who recently took a High Skool job as a history teacher, hissed as the new student made her way to the front of the classroom. "Class, say hello to the newest failure of the school system."
Everyone stared at the new girl. " Her name is Brandy." Ms. Bitters turned to the brunette. "Brandy, if you have something to say, you have better say it now. Any other time we'll just ignore you." Brandy gave her new teacher an apathetic glare. "Okay then." She turned to her classmates. "So... you sorry lot are in first period with me. Just peachy. Let's get some rules straight before this wonderful (note the sarcasm) social interaction begins. One: do not speak to me unless I speak to you first, which will be most likely never. Two: I have a bubble with a five-feet radius; I highly suggest that you respect that. Three: My personal life: 'enter at your own risk'. Violations of these rules will have excruciating concequenses." Ms. Bitters's response to this introduction was along the lines of this. "Your all doomed" Dib stared at his long-time-away love. She had a few changes to her: first of all, she was wearing combat boots, the kind that would hurt someone if the boot's owner kicked them. Second of all was that Brandy dyed the two front locks of her hair a deep shade of blue, the shade you would see the sky wearing during a full moon.
Ms. Bitters had pointed Brandy to her new seat, and she gasped when she saw who would be sitting next to her. "Dib? Is that you?" He looked up. "Brandy?" he responded. There was a moment of silence, followed by a cry of happiness from both of them as they were finally reunited. The entire class stared at the two when they hugged each other. No one had even guessed Dib, of all people, to know the new girl before she was new. "It's great to see you Dib, I didn't expect you to be in my first period class." They let go of each other to talk as they sat down. "I didn't expect you to come so soon... and unpredictably" Dib confessed. Brandy just smiled. "Well, I am known to be unpredictable-"
"You two! Be quiet of I'll make you both sit next to Willy for the rest of the period" Dib glanced back at the unkempt teen. Brandy, following suit, realized how cruel and unusual the punishment would be, so the couple piped down until the bell rang for next period.
Zim had noticed something odd in his archenemy's attitude during fifth period, the earliest period they had together.. Dib wasn't moping, or staring at that slip of paper he kept as a book mark. He was happy, alert, and attentive in his studies. Zim was entirely clueless of what had caused Dib's behavior, so when the bell rang for lunch, Zim busied himself with following his enemy, until he saw the cause waving to Dib outside the ceramics classroom, waiting for him to escort her to lunch. Zim fumed over the unexpected appearance of Dib's ally and girlfriend. "The pathetic earth female! What's she doing here?" He then remembered Brandy saying something to the Dib-pig about moving to their town. "Oh." he said to himself, hurrying to grab a nutritious plate of nothing. He proceeded to his usual seat in the cafeteria to mope about how more difficult his mission was going to be from this point forward.
(A/N: So, what did you think so far? If I get a good reveiw, I'll continue. If I get a bad review, I'll continue anyway. BWAHAHAHAHAHA! Either way, the story will continue. To SaiyanKing Vegeta and Call Me Blue Streak, I started this story with the intention of a sequel, but if I wasn't your suggestions would've helped anyway! Damn, I use that word a lot...)