I do not own invader Zim or any of the characters. I am just an insignificant insect that is just a fan. All characters belong to Jhonen Vasquez and nickelodeon.

This is my first fan fiction...

A/N & Intro

The events that are to be started, that will snowball into an unbelievable adventure is soon going to take a little trip to la la land. These events have always been around but one might find one self (in a hell) of a situation... the characters here are not of my doing but that of a cartoon that has seen tragedy and injustice. I pray that the cartoon lives on, in the silver discs we purchase and most of all, in our imagination...

It all started with a simple game of cruelty and segregation. Where this game takes the outcasts and the physically inferior to be pitted in an old game of survival of the fittest. This is labeled falsely as "DODGE BALL" an innocent but farce label. A more fitting name would be "STONING PRACTICE" or an equally cruel label.

THE SEGREGATION OF DODGE BALL

A shrill whistle sounds off, as the very butch gym coach in a drab yellow jogging suite starts her lesson,

"All right class!" She (or he?) calls out in a hoarse smokers voice
"We are going to be playing dodge ball, last time we were here we had to witness the game as one on one, but seeing as we get older, we are going to learn about team work and cooperation. This game, we will be separating into two groups... as in life we are going to go as followed... jocks, preps, and their lackeys are on this side." The rotund man-she of a coach pointes to the right, then she narrows her eyes at the kids and sneers, "nerds, geeks, weirdoes, and outcasts (as I would call them) so basically individuals go to the other." The coach points them to the left.

The kids go to each side of the gym court. The popular kids were giving high fives to each other and elbowing each other. The girls were in their groups chatting away and giggling, "Oh my god, like hella cool!"

On the other side, it was some shy kids trying to stay in the back and eyeing the other side nervously. Some of the nerdy people were trying to figure out of a way to have their sick notes taken seriously by the coach.

On the front lines of the crowd were three characters we all know too well…
Zim was on the front eyeing the whole event as if it just all disgusts him. Dib was beside Zim, glaring at the little alien. He turns his attention to the coach and spoke up,
"is this fair? We are being separated just for being different?"

The coach gave him a smile and said in a sickly sarcastic voice, "life isn't fair... " She mocks at him.
The coach places a rusty whistle to her lips and then looks at her stopwatch and holds her hand up, she was waiting for the clock to strike the hour to start, and she was going to time on how fast it was going to be until all the poor outcasts were to be pummeled.

ZIM LOST & DIB EXPLAINS

Zim had no idea what was going to happen or what was going on. He turns to Dib,
"hey, HEY!" Zim elbows Dib. Dib turns to Zim. The green alien pointes to the other group, and ask, "What is going on here? Is this some kind of battle practice you dirt-monkeys insist on practicing in case of an invasion! TELL ME THE TRUTH! I SEE THROUGH YOUR LIES!" Zim screeches!

Dib rubs his ear because of Zim's high pitch yelling, he replies simply, "no you alien scum, this is what we call DODGE BALL.".

Zim eyes him and then he folds his arms and huffs, "oh, just a stupid game then".

Dib glares at Zim! Dib grabs Zim by his collar!
Dib tells Zim in a deadly serious low voice, "Not just any game! It's a game of SURVIVAL!"
Zim's eyes went wide in fear...

Dib releases Zim's collar and turn to the opposing group of jocks and such. Dib takes a defensive stance in preparation.
Zim was awe struck as he saw the kids on the popular side with balls in at the 'ready'.

Zim's side was looking rather sad. He then looks at Dib and then he spots Gaz on her brother's side, she looks like she was ready to fight. Zim walks a bit behind her and wants to retreat to safety. Zim observes quickly that the back wall was already crowded with kids.

In his viewpoint, he could use Gaz or Dib as a shield. He evaluates as much as he could. He could use most of these pitiful human monsters as shields. He smiles at his own ingenious.

He chuckles evilly, just then Gaz turns to look at him. She just looks at him for a moment. It was as if she read his thoughts. She frowns a bit and turns back to the adversaries.

"Go to the back wall with the others Zim." Dib orders, "I may have to save earth from your clutches in another time… but for now I have to face off these nemesis. You may be evil but THEM! They are much worse. I may have to save a much smaller group for now... like us."

"Be quiet!" Gaz mutters, as she tenses up. She could do this, but they are intimidating. She did not care if she won or lost, it did not matter. She stresses on having a ball planted to her face. Despite liking the idea of Dib being pummeled, she still had family pride.
Gaz did not care for the other brats and they were trying to target them out of all the losers… just because.
Therefore, it is war!
Gaz looks at Zim; he might try something to make them lose, so in her perspective Gaz had only one ally… her brother. If she is going down, she was going to take a whole hell of allot of them with her. At least she will outlast her brother!

Zim was insulted to say the least! "DON'T TELL ME WHAT TO DO DIRT-MONKEY! THIS BATTLE PRACTICE IS NOTHING BUT A SMEET GAME COMPARED TO THESE UGLY-WORMS!" he points to the opposing side, where Zim got a few angry glances from the jocks and preps…

Zim wants to say more but a whistle shrills out to signal the initiate the game. A mila-second later, a ball whizzes by his head, barely grazing him. Zim yells in surprise and in a flash, the Membranes were in action.

Dib dodges and leaps away from the rubber cannon balls.
Gaz was turning and ducking as the red menaces shot at her.
Zim runs to the back wall and the whole crowd of kids at the back wall, as they stampede side to side, away from each ball that was hitting them.
Some are being taken out.

SAVING PRIVATE ZIM… THE WAR OF DODGE BALL

Zim held up one kid in front of him as he felt two balls pummel at the poor dirt worm's body. He leaps into the crowd and grabs another human kid to use as a shield. Zim saw the kids being struck left and right.
They fall one by one, as the horrid sound of the balls, bouncing off the walls and floor were all around him. Zim is shocked to see one kid fall and as he reaches out his hand for help, another kid tries to help him. Both were struck down by the dodge balls. He crouches behind another kid as then he hears the worst sound of all ...laughter.

Zim looks over his human shield to see the enemy side, laughing and pointing at Zim's side. Almost like they were laughing… at… at… Zim.

Then, it was as if everything went into slow motion, the balls sounds like mortars going off and the kids were falling as they try to defend themselves. He looks over his human shield to see the enemy. There they were, laughing and mocking as they propelled those… those…DODGE BALLS! Something sparks in Zim's eyes…revenge…

Zim observe Dib leaping not to just avoid the balls but to catch them. Dib caught one and blocks another by using the ball as a shield. Dib then launches it at full might and it strikes one kid on the other side down.

Zim catches in sight the flash of purple and in his amazement; it is the little Goth girl… Gaz.
Gaz holding a ball in her hand, then she drops it. Two balls catapult toward her from each side of her. She side flips, in amazing speed, as they narrowly miss her. Gaz lands in crouching tiger mode and picks the ball she had dropped. Gaz thrusts it at the adversaries. In a blur, they are on the ground moaning in pain.

Gaz realizes the enemy is barely losing any people; she drops her scowl and looks... anxious, but only for a second. She shakes it off, and returns her expression back to a scowl.

Zim feels something burning in his chest. The laughter and everything else in this battle was getting louder and congregate closer. He could hear the laughter and the mocking.
Zim is being mocked!

Zim feels the rage fill him and he shuts his eyes. Their noise got louder and louder… then something cracks!
Zim's eyes snap open… silence… despite the chaos he is surrounded by.

Zim's squiggly spooch of a heartbeat is the only thing he can hear. He got up from his human shield that by now is unconscious and walks over to where Gaz is.

Balls whiz by Zim, just centimeters from his face but he does not slow his pace. Zim stops between Gaz and Dib. They did not even notice… until Zim catches a ball heading for Dib's head!

A/N (Next Temporary Truce!)