Kim: Yay! The new Empty Brooke and Invader Zim story! This one is going to be fun to write! I just know it! And this time I know that people want to read this one because one of my fans said in their review of the last story, quote, unquote, 'hope to see Empty Brooke and Invader Zim 3 soon!' So… Here it is! Yay!!
Brooke: Oh, and we've finally got this into clarification. EB, or the Brooke in this story, is NOT me. She's a character based on me. That's it. Because this one shows way too much emotion and gets close to kissing far too much. So, it's not me and it never will be.
Kim: Right. So now I can say this… (Clears throat) I do not own Invader Zim or the rest of the IZ cast. However, I do own EB and if anyone tries to take her I'll send my friend to their house and have her break their legs off! Ok… Also, I know that I said that Menace to Society would be the next one in my profile but I decided to do this one before I forgot about it.
Empty Brooke and Invader Zim3
TrianglePrologue
It was a ship.
An alien ship. The scary thing was that… it looked familiar…
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"Holy Shit! I'm an Irken!"
"And you're by MY ship."
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"What were you doing to my ship?"
"Nothing."
"Nothing? What jerked me awake?"
She shrugged. The she stopped. "Wait a second. What am I to you?"
Zim raised his invisible eyebrow. "That depends on what your PAK signature is."
"So… I'm an Irken? Just like you?"
"Yes."
"A real Irken?"
"Of course! And you have been since you were a little smeet! What are you thinking?"
"N… Nothing."
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"What're you doing?"
I practically fell down again. How many times was that now? I'd lost count. Anyways, I turned around to see Zim's green face eyeing me intently. He had his contacts on as well as his wig and he had his bottom lip sticking out in that funny way that I liked so much where it was like an added triangle to the base of his head. I really like it when he made that face. Even more so when his eyes were big and sort of weird looking. But that's not important right now…
"N… Nothing…"
"Why is it that you're always doing 'nothing'?"
"Uh…"
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Zim smiled in triumph. He crossed his arms and closed his eyes, trying to picture what the Dib-human would do when he got home. Hopefully he'd do that suicide thing that Zim had been studying up on recently. "You see," he said leaning back slightly, even though he didn't have anything to lean against. "That's how you treat enemies. Horribly. They're stinking humans! You'll get used to this quickly, EB…" He turned to where his apprentice sat. EB wasn't there. "EB?" Zim turned to where Dib sat. EB was walking towards the table. Surprised as he was Zim lost his balance and fell backwards, his head smashed hard against the ground and his wig went askew.
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"Brooke? Is that you?"
"Yeah… It's me…" I could see again. When I looked at them they looked a little bit more scared than I had anticipated but I went with it. "What do you guys think?" I spun around once to show them that I truly was an Irken. "I can't be making this up."
"That's for sure…" Ahva poked at my head again.
"Knock it off!" I slammed my foot down on the ground.
There was a cracking sound.
Everyone froze.
"Uh… oh…"
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I landed hard on my back. It didn't hurt as much as it should have but it still stung a little bit. I didn't open my eyes. I didn't really want to. I knew that I was dead and this was just the calm before the storm. Soon I would open my eyes and see my broken, bloodied body next to me. I'd scream and then back up on my bum. Soon, once my hand passed through a rock, I'd realize that I was dead and I'd be all happy. I wanted the happy part to come. But, if I was a ghost, didn't that mean I couldn't dream? I'd never be able to have that Invader Zim dream again.
Yes, I thought that it was a dream again. What else could I do? I was dead. What else was I supposed to think? I found that I had been stupid to think that it was real. I'd probably done something bad and my mind was filling it up. Maybe that girl that had gone missing wasn't me. Maybe I had killed her and then my mind, in so much trauma, had ordered me to forget about it. Then what was left blank was filled with a dream about Invader Zim that felt so real that I walked to and acted out the actions of the dream.
But that didn't explain why no one had realized that I was walking in my sleep if I was on the road. And how would I have been able to avoid the cliff? None of it made sense.
I felt the pain that I should have when I first landed. This was it, I was dead and my ghost was feeling the pain that came after you died. It was never meant to be pain from when you died but it was supposed to me the mental pain that came after you realized that you were dead.
I sat up and groaned, my eyes still shut.
"EB?"
My eyes jerked open so quickly that I had to shut them again. I looked to my right and saw Zim. He was standing at the door with Dib on the other side. The Irken was pointing at the human like they had just been arguing before I came. Dib's arms fell to the side as he looked at me. His right eye twitched with confusion. "How did you do that?"
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Apparently I'd only been gone 5 minutes. Ahva, Aimee and B hadn't left the spot where I'd been for those five minutes and then I'd fallen from the sky, back in my human form. It had taken me a long time to calm them down after seeing Zim. I mean, he was invader Zim after all. And it took me an even longer time to get Gir out of Aimee's arms and back with the Irken.
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"When did she get Internet?"
"About a year ago… Here." Kim plucked four pictures off of the rack and crossed to a small table that you had to lean down on. It was located just close to the closet. She spread the pictures out over the surface and let Dib lean down to see them. Kim pointed to one. "This was taken a little while after we first met. We were 3 at the time."
"I need a more recent photo."
"The most recent ones that I have are these ones." Kim pulled two photos up. She pushed the rest of them away. Kim pulled the first photo up to his face. "This one was taken the day she moved away. She was seven at the time." They both looked at the face of a pale little girl. She was missing a front tooth and she had on a dark blue shirt with a dark blue skirt. Her hair was dark brown and she looked really nice. "This one," Kim said, holding up the other, "was taken last year."
Dib took the photo from her. It did look an awful lot like EB when he thought about it. The girl he saw, however, didn't look like she had once been that happy seven year old. This EB's hair was much longer. She had long bangs that hung in front of her face and her dark brown hair looked so much lighter than before. Little freckles had appeared in a few places on her pale face and her eyes were so sunken with bags that she could have looked dead. There was another girl in the picture as well. She had on a blue shirt with a large smiley face on it. Her pants were black and she had her arm around EB's shoulders. Dib wasn't really interested in asking who it was. (It's Carly! She's a big Dib fan!) The dead-like girl had on a red shirt with thin, black stripes that went just like Zim's. Her pants were black as well and her hair stuck up in such a way that it reminded him of Zim's antennas. The other girl's red hair was standing up in a way that sort of looked like his hair but he noticed that it was just the wind blowing. There were green leaves flying everywhere in the breeze. Dib passed the picture back to Kim.
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He took a look at the food.
He sighed. My stomach's going to hate me for this…
Kim raised her head out of her hands and looked up at Dib, her pain stained with tears. What she saw made her hands sink down low and her eyes open wide with amazement. Dib was scarfing down the food like there was no tomorrow. But with each bite she saw his eyes twitch and she thought that he would gag. Kim thrust her fists up to her chin and yelled, "Why are you eating it if it tastes so bad?"
He didn't answer, because his mouth was full of horrible, ash bacon, and just smiled at her.
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"You probably know more about human emotions than I do, what is the one that makes the victim feel nervous around someone? That makes the victim feel strange and uneasy around them?"
He likes you back! came Brooke's call.
"Shut up!!"
"What?"
I snapped back to attention. "Sorry. Um… I think that that is called love. Yeah. The emotion you're thinking about is called love. Why do you ask?"
"No reason."
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EB didn't have time to wait for the green light and so had to drive on the wrong side of the road.
Engines blared and horns honked at them as they avoided the automobiles. The police were on the right side, firing at them the whole time.
They were nearing the school now.
EB tried to swerve onto the right side.
"Look out!" came a boy's voice. It wasn't Zim's but it was familiar nonetheless.
Two faces stopped her and she had to turn abruptly to avoid them.
That turn was the worst that she would ever do.
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The cold, clammy surrounding of the time lapse left her with a chilled tail and the thoughts of home coursing through her mind. Dark and tempestuous was the world that enveloped around her form, coursing through each particle as though each were one and everything with the universe.
Inflections of the surrounding thunder constantly sent hard vibrations towards her, not necessarily to her ear, for it was no longer existent. Bright flashes of lighting struck through the night, the chambers of the heavens above became known to the rest of the rhyme that sat within her temple.
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She smiled. "Morning Zim."
"EB?"
"The one and only."
His mind went black. "When? How?"
"How what?"
"How'd you survive?"
"Survive what?"
"The car crash! You were in a crash! I saw you bleed to death! How'd you survive?"
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She put her hands on her hips and slanted his way a little bit. One eyebrow was raised to him and her mouth was cringing slightly at the top. She glared Dib in the eye for a moment. Then she leaned back and smiled. "Morning Dib. What brings you here so early? It is a Saturday you know. Shouldn't you be sleeping in?"
"Huh?"
"You're standing on the doorstep with the stupidest grin that I've ever seen…"
"Wha-?" Dib wiped away at the droll that had sort of leaked from the corner of his mouth.
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"You see, when you never have a real date and you never have a real boyfriend you sort of start to think that… you know… Sure, I had a crush on a few boys in lesser grades. But then there came that one boy in grade three…" Brooke felt her hand clench at her side as she though about him. "Well, let's just say that when your heart is broken once you never want it to happen again. So, that day I changed permanently and I became what I had been until I was introduced to that horrible Purple dinosaur…"
"What was his name?"
"Dylan… Ugh… I still go to school with that freak. I don't like him anymore though… The basterd…"
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Zim's jaw dropped.
Brooke had on a black dress that went down to her knees. Then she had a pair of boots on that were metal at the bottom and had strips of metal going all around the sides in fun little patterns. There was a red belt around her waist as well. It looked far too large for her but, somehow, stayed up. There were little white sculls around it too, it looked like they had once been keyholes but a sharpie marker had been used to draw eyes and lines along the bottom for a jaw. She had the Irken Empire symbol newly sews into the chest of the dress and, when he looked, Zim could see that the shoulders were enlarged and sort of like his shoulder pads. Her eyes had heavy, dark purple across her lids and it shined when she blinked. There was a strip of long fabric that went down to her ankles around the back of the dress, not the front, and she had a pair of loop earrings on. What surprised him the most was the fact that her hair was brushed! Brushed! As long as he'd known her Zim had never even see her go near a hair brush and now she was in front of him with wavy, brown locks. It was sort of creepy yet, oddly, hypnotizing.
Brooke caught his stare and her eyes drooped. Her shoulder folded back and she shrank where she stood. "I know…" she sighed. "I look ridiculous, don't I?"
Zim shook his head but, because her mood didn't change, he assumed she hadn't seen him do it. The Irken took her hand, making her eye look up, and dragged her inside. "Come on," he said. "Ms. Bitters doesn't want anyone left outside."
They walked into the doors together. Zim tightened his bowtie and Brooke straightened her dress out a little bit.
Together they walked into the gym.
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Then Gir hopped onto the stage. And he sang, "Two cheese covered cows go dancing outside, dancing outside, dancing outside…" Some girls did a little beat thing with their mouths. "Two cheese covered cows go dancing outside, dancing outside, dancing outside…" Then girls again. "Whoo!" Then Kita went 'voooddoooo' from in the crowd.
"Guess who's back, back," sang Melvin, Keef and Dib. "Back again. EB's back, back. Tell a friend. Guess who's back. Guess who's back. Guess who's back. Guess who's back. Guess who's back. Guess who's back. Guess who's back. Nanana. Na. Na. Na. Na. Na. Na. Nanana. Na. Na. Na. Na." There was the sound of a match lighting.
EB jumped out from the top part of the stage where the band was to the part where the mike was. She grabbed it and pulled it to her lips.
"I've created a monster,
Cos nobody wants to see Brookie no more,
They want EB,
I'm chopped liver.
Well if you EB this is what I'll give ya,
A little bit of me,
This isn't hard
Well the doc getting ready
To jump start my heart
And I get shocked when I get shocked
I'm at the hospital not cooperating
Cos I'm rocking the table while he's operating,
Hey!
You wait this long to stop debating
Cos I'm back, I'm on a rack and calculating
I know that you got a job Miss Bitters
But your student's heart problem starts to flicker
So the FCC won't let me be,
Let me be me so let me see,
They try to shut me down on YTV
But it feels so empty without me!
So, come get off of my lips,
Jump back, jiggle a hip and wiggle a bit,
And get ready cos this is about to get heavy
I just settled on my lawsuit,
You get it!
Now this looks like a job for me so
Everybody, just follow me,
Cos we need a little humanity
Cos it feels too happy without me!
Now this looks like a job for me so
Everybody, just follow me,
Cos we need a little humanity
Cos it feels too preppy without me!
Little aliens! She pointed to Zim, who jumped back.
They're feeling rebellious. Wet bears!
My parents, well they listen to Elvis!
You start feeling like a prison is home, witch,
'Till someone comes along on a mission and yells 'bitch'!!
M'a visionary, vision is scary!
Let's start a revolution, polluting your airways,
A rebel! So let me be a rebel,
There's the fact that I got everyone kissing my ass
And it's a disaster
Such a catastrophe
Well you can see, so damn, bitch gotta ask
My mind so you ask for me,
Well I'm back!"
"Nananananana!" came Dib, Keef and Melvin. "Hey! Fixing Gir and eating tunananana!" (Kim: OMG!!! I LAUGHED SO HARD AT THAT!!!!!!!!!!!!)
"I ain't anorexic,
But my skin'll give you a splinter!
Centre of attention, back for the winner!
I love the West Wing!
Best thing since wrestling!
Resting in your kids ears and nesting!
Then Gir said: "Testing, I want some cheese!"
Feel the tension, when someone mentions me.
I got ten senses,
Gave 2 cents to B
New sense, which cent, you sent for me?
Now this looks like a job for me so
Everybody, just follow me,
Cos we need a little humanity
Cos it feels too empty without me!
Now this looks like a job for me so
Everybody, just follow me,
Cos we need a little humanity
Cos it feels too perky without me!
A tis in a tasket, I got tip for tabway,
Anybody who's talking this and that shit,
Got their ass kicked!
You can get you ass kicked!
Worse than the little man in the basket
And Hommies, you can get stomped by Low keys!
You 106 boys need to lie down!
You don't know me; you're too old, let go,
It's over, nobody listen to techno!
And let's go; just give me the signal,
I'll be there with a whole list full of sick insults,
Peter with that lame old thimble, like when Prince just turned himself into a Symbol.
And, sometimes, man it just seems
Everybody only wants to discuss me,
Well this must mean I'm disgusting,
Well that's EB,
She's just obscene!
I am not the first queen of controversy
I am the worst thing since Elvis Presley
Use the music, get yourself busy,
I used it to get myself wealthy,
Hey!
Here's a concept of verse,
20 million other autographs, birds and worse!
But no matter how many fish in the sea it'd be so empty without me!!
Now this looks like a job for me so
Everybody, just follow me,
Cos we need a little humanity
Cos it feels too sexy without me!
Now this looks like a job for me so
Everybody, just follow me,
Cos we need a little humanity
Cos it feels too golly without me!"
Dib, Keef and Melvin then went, "Nanananana, nanananana, nanananana, nananana, nanananana, nanananana, nanananana, nananana!! Queen!"
Then the music died away.
Zim fell backwards.
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"Look! Over there! The Massive ship is landing! My Tallest!"
Brooke hurriedly whipped her head around to see.
"The Tallest? Why would they come t—"?
Zim locked his hands together into one big fist… Then he hit Brooke in the back of the head.
She fell and hit the pavement quietly without another word.
He only then realized that he had been holding his breath. The Irken breathed out. Zim looked down at Brooke as she lay on the pavement in front of him. His hands came up and grabbed his forehead. His eyes got really big. "This is not good…"
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Then a series of familiar squeaks surprised them and the music began to play with more of a rhythm.
"Percussion…" came a weird, Jamaican voice. "Strings, winds, words…"
"There you see her…
Sitting there across the way…"
Zim turned his head away from looking at the water. He was just about to ask Brooke if this was a lame attempt at scaring him when something caught his eye. The light from the moon, which was coming down through the trees, made her hair glimmer and shine like she had just washed it and that she actually cared about her hair. It was hypnotizing, the way she looked just then.
Suddenly the boat seemed to turn and a wave of water towered over Brooke head in such a way that she could only glisten more. And with the added effect of the moonlight it was just beautiful.
"She might got a lot to say…
But there's something about her…
And you don't know why…
But you're dying to try.
You want to kiss the girl."
Jets of water exploded around the boat. Zim was so surprised that he fell backwards and his head landed in Brooke's lap.
"Yes, you want her…
Look at her you know you do…
It's possible she wants you too.
There is one way to ask her.
It don't take a word,
Not a single word.
Go on and kiss the girl…"
There was that human thing again! A kiss!
Zim noticed Brooke's face go red again.
He sat up and then turned back to her…
"Say it with me now…Shalalalala!
My oh my looks like the boy's too shy,
Ain't gonna kiss the girl.
Shalalalala!
Ain't that sad,
It's such a shame, too bad.
He's gonna… miss the girl…"
Then a series of little effects on pipes or something came forth and a breeze swept through the trees. Brooke's hair was swept into her face and boy was she surprised. But then Zim pushed it out of the way again.
Brooke gripped his hand, though she didn't know why, and then looked up into his wonderful, red eyes. And for the moment they just stayed like that and looked into each other's eyes.
"Now's you moment."
"Ya, ya, ya…"
"Floating in a blue lagoon."
"Ya, ya, ya…"
"Boy you better do it soon,
No time will be better."
"Ya, ya…" "Ya, Ya…"
She says lots of words,
But she won't say a word when you,
Kiss the girl!"
Two fish pushed up and out of the water. They were on either side of the two people in the boat and so they pushed them together more. Their faces almost touched again.
"Shalalalala,
Don't be scared."
"Shalalalala"
"You better be prepared."
"Ya, ya, ya…"
"Go on and kiss the girl…"
"Whoa, whoa!"
"Shalalalala,"
"Ya, ya, ya…"
"Don't stop now,
Don't try to hide it now…
You wanna…
Kiss the girl."
"Whoa! Whoa!"
More jets erupted and went all around the boat. Zim took Brooke's hands in his own. Now was his moment to discover the secrets of a 'kiss'.
"Shalalalala,
Float along,
And listen to the song.
The song say 'kiss the girl'"
"Whoa, whoa!"
"Shalalalala,
The music play,
Do what the music say,
You wanna kiss the girl."
"Girl…"
"You've got to…"
"Kiss the girl… I tell you…"
"Kiss the girl…
Go on and…
Kiss the girl."
"Girl…"
"You gotta…
Kiss the girl…
Go on and…!
Kiss the girl…"
"Kiss the girl…"
Brooke and Zim leaned in close. Brooke's eyes were closed; Zim's hopes were up.
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Dib walked out of the skool and sighed. He was pretty bummed that Brooke had gone home already. He'd been having such a good time with her. But at least he was away from Gretchen for a while.
So he slowly walked back home. But he stopped when music caught his ear. He listened carefully and then followed it to where it was coming from. Slowly he made his way to where the old, black lagoon was.
Dib pushed his way past trees and the like. He moved into the brush and then looked out at the water. And in the dense light that the moon gave him he could see two silhouettes on the water in a boat. They were slowly leaning in on one another and he could recognize them both when they were on the brink of touching.
"Zim?… Brooke?!"
The boat tipped as the figure jerked in surprise and they both fell out.
Dib's face flushed and he hurried away so as not to be clobbered by an angry EB.
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"Help! Anyone! Gir! Minimoose! Brooke!"
A hand gripped his and Zim was lifted out of the water by it. It pulled him up and the pain was gone instantly.
He opened his eyes, one at a time, and looked at the water below him. It was still black but the waves were getting calmer and calmer until, eventually, there weren't any left at all. Zim sighed in relief and then looked up to see who had saved him.
Zim expected to see Gir or Minimoose, seeing as only they could fly. But he didn't see either of them. Instead he was staring into the smiling face of Brooke as she hovered above the water and held his hand tight in hers.
She was just floating there, in mid air, and holding him tight in her hand so that he wouldn't fall into the black waters of the ocean underneath. Zim saw her smile at him and, just then, she looked so much nicer than he had ever seen her before. She looked like she could have been a happy girl with not a care in the world and so much love in her heart that, had it been tranquilizer she could have killed an elephant with one kiss.
"You called?" she asked, still smiling.
Zim gulped. "Uh… yes… I guess so…"
Then suddenly he felt so light. Zim felt light gravity no longer applied to him and he was so over whelmed that he turned to Brooke to give him answers to explain why he felt like that. But she just smiled and then she did the last thing that he wanted her to do just then.
She let go of his hand.
Zim waited for the sting of the water to come onto him but it never did. And when he heard her laugh out loud he opened his eyes to find that he was floating too. He was flying without anything to help him. Zim was actually flying!
He floating up in front of Brooke and looked into her face as she smiled at him with her eyes closed.
"How? How is this possible?"
"Does it really matter?" Brooke said as she took his hands. "It's happening. Do you truly need the specifics of how such a wonderful even is occurring?"
"Yes," was his answer.
Brooke pushed his hand up to his neck and then slowly let go. She wrapped her arms around his neck and moved in close. This made Zim go quite red. Her eyes opened and her smile softened. Then she leaned in and so did he…
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Kim: And THAT was my newest Prologue.
Brooke: I don't think that anyone really would read it though, after all, if they read your other stories they would know that you only cut and paste.
Kim: But it was 16 whole pages!! 16 whole pages of gold.
Brooke: …