Ok, here's a new fanfic that I've been planning. Note that I do not own Invader Zim or anything in the world of Invader Zim…Except for my own Voot Runner and Cat. Now that that's done, here's the brand NEW Invader Zim Fanfic…Well actually it the muliti-chapter prologue of my fanfic: "Keeping Score" is the title of the prologue and "For Her" will be the actual story. So with out further ado here's "Keeping Score",
Chapter 1
Awkward Meeting5 years before Zim's arrival:
"The house next door had finally been sold a few weeks ago, and emptied out just last week. The new family should be coming today." Said 7-year-old Dib to his 6-year-old sister Gaz. Gaz was watching the latest and newest commercial for "Bloatie's Pizza Hog" just shrugged. "So?" "So" Dib replied "This is also Dad's co-worker and collage friend Professor Taylor, He has a kid too!" Gaz, taking her gaze off of the T.V, glared at Dib. His little sister, Dib thought, was very scary and smart for her age. She already had the power to beet Dib up when ever she felt like it, and her appearance was scary as well, the skull-bow she had in her hair didn't help tone-down on the scary. While Dib, with his wide-eye glasses and scythe like hair, had an appearance of a boy who was friendless and had a harder time at home then making friends. Any good parent would try to spend as much time as possible with their kids to show that they cared. But then again, since when did their dad, world famous and praised Professor Membrane, care about them?
It was about 7 PM when Dib walked outside and on to the porch to wait for the new kid to arrive. I hope I can actually make a friend this time, he thought to himself. He was always called crazy because he believed that paranormal stuff was real. And when he was right, no one would believe him, when he did have evidence that he was right, it was taken out of his reach at the last second only to be questioned by his dad of "where is this evidence" and later to hear his dad's line of "My poor insane son" just as he walked out of the room. But this new kid, who too had a world famous Dad and about the same age as he was, might understand him, and maybe they'd have the same interests. But who was he kidding, that would be a 10000/1 shot of that ever being true.
His thoughts were interrupted as a large truck appeared in front of the next-door house. A small mini-van pulled up right behind it. A man, who wore the same attire as Dib's dad did (only with blond hair) got out of the car and opened up the passenger seat door. And out came…. A girl…. "Great" Dib muttered under his breath. "A girl, who can be friends with Gaz and pick on me at my paranormal studies." The girl had a brown newsboy hat on her head that covered most of her shoulder length carrot-red hair; her eyes from what Dib could tell at a distance, were china blue. But with out the glasses and with a much smaller head, she looked just like him. Her outfit even looked the same. He looked at her tug at her Dad's coat for a few seconds, just before tuning away. "She's probably going to ask him for a hug or something" he whispered. But just as he opened his house door a voice made him turn around, "CAT, FOR THE LAST TIME, THERE ARE NO SUCH THINGS AS ALIENS!" Professor Taylor yelled at his daughter. Dib stared at the daughter for a few seconds. "Cat?" he said, "That's her name?". "But Dad there's an alien in the truck I swear! I saw it!" Cat said to her father. The professor took on a face of annoyance. "Cat, next door is my very good friend and co-worker, Professor Membrane. I don't want you acting…like you in front of him or his kids. If you act normal, you might make a friend. Then you wont just have your cat Dwiky to talk to when I'm gone at work." Cat was at the point of crying right then when she repeated "But Dad!" her father just turned his back on her and said as he entered the house "My poor insane daughter".
Dib just stood there on the porch. They hadn't noticed him. Dib stared at her for a few seconds. She was just like him. Only worse, he at least had someone to talk to, if you count Gaz as someone to talk to. And he had been living his whole life here, this was a kid who just moved into the city, and had no brothers or sisters, or even a mom. For the first time in Dib's life, Dib found someone who was a lot worse off then he was. "Insane?" he whispered into the air, remembering Professor Taylor's words. Cat's gaze finally met his, apparently she had heard him this time, Cat looked on the verge of crying. She turned around and ran into the street, suddenly tripping over. Dib went over to help her up when a car started to speed towards her. Dib ran forward and tackled Cat. They both rolled on to the sidewalk as the car suddenly to a halt. And a furious driver stuck his head out of the window. "HEY STUPID KIDS, WHAT ARE YOU DOING IN THE MIDDLE OF THE ROAD?" The car suddenly raced on just as suddenly as it stopped. Dib was on top of Cat still as the car left. Both of them just stared at each other. Both of them had the same thing going through their head as their faces blushed to a dark red. "This is awkward".
Yeah, it's a short chappy compared to how long I'm going to write others. See ya as soon as I get 5 reviewers!