Everyone is too tall.
I remember that lesson in the other Skool; how the humans are always growing and, by the age of 17, they will reach their full height.
But why does everyone have to be so tall?
This hallway is filthier than the other Skool's. There's garbage everywhere! Yeck, I see bottles of Poop Cola all over the ground. Why didn't the humans just drop them in the disposal unit? It's right there!
Eww! I stepped on something! It's slimy and sticky and sticking to my boot and it won't come off!
I swing my leg really hard. The gooey thing finally flies off and lands on a tall humans head. They don't notice. I walk away.
It's crowded. There are humans everywhere. I always need to watch where I step; because of the pig- smellies and the dirt. It's futile, anyhow. Everyone keeps running into me, shoving me aside so they can get by. They smell funny.
"Outta the way, shorty!" Hm, here's another one. He's rather hairy. And tall. I best move out of his way before- AUGH!
HE PUSHED ME! ME! Well, it was more of a shove, but STILL! I'm on my hands and knees. On the dirt covered floor! Why did I have to move out of the way for that pig! The hairy child is laughing as he walks away. All the other humans are laughing too. I hate this planet. These humans are too tall.
They weren't this tall in the other Skool! After finishing the 'Ate Grade', we were all put into this 'High Skool'. Huh. Stupid name. This skool is tiny compared to some of the other buildings on this planet, or compared to the ones on Irk.
I bet they named it that to taunt me, just because their ''high't', and they're comparing it to mine. SO! They used to be as short as me! No, wait, that doesn't sound right... Ah, they used to be the same height as me. Yep. That's how you say it.
Bleh.
"Stupid Earth-pig!" I get up and quickly fix my wig. It almost flew off when I fell. Phew. It would be horrible if the humans found me out after all this time. But that will never happen. My disguise is still flawless, even after all these years.
Human years, that is. It hasn't even been half a year on my planet, but that doesn't hide away the fact that the conquering of this dirt-ball is taking so long! My leaders, the Almighty Tallest, don't look annoyed by this, but I guess that's because this planet can already be considered a part of the Irken Empire! After all, this planet is subject to the wrath of INVADER ZIM!
I'm laughing. Hard. Most of the humans are looking at me funny. Some of them are shooting glares at me. Others pay me no mind. Maybe they're used to it. Oops.
"... Normal." I say. That's all I have to say. The humans are too stupid to realize I'm lying. They shrug and continue whatever boring activity they were doing before hand.
The bell is ringing. All the foolish pig-smellies are picking up their books to... hurry to their classes.
I jump into an empty storage unit and slam it shut as the stampede of children rush by. They're all yelling rude words at each other. I think. The words they are saying have all been used to describe me at one point, and they used them in what appeared to be a bad way. Fools! They shouldn't say those things to their superior! They should say it to their own stupid faces!
...I think. I don't really know what the words mean. I'll have to ask the computer when I get back to base.
I don't hear anything now. I open the storage unit door and look around. Nothing. Okay, then, time to head to class. Now, where is it? Lessee, left turn, straight, straight, right, DODGE THE HUMAN, straight, left, through this door, up, forward, right, finally!
I enter through a crooked door and sit down at my desk. My 'Ten Grade' HighSkoolmates are already sitting at theirs. They are laughing and talking to each other. Ha. They're lucky Ms. Bitters isn't in this Skool. She would immediately send them to the underground classrooms. But they don't have Ms. Bitters. They have this emotionless man.
My HighSkoolmates are silent now. They must hear Emotionless Man coming. He's different than the other teachers. He has dirty clothes. There's mud stains all over his sweater, though they're hard to see 'cause the sweater is brown, but I can see them.
I can always see them. Ugh.
Emotionless man steps into the room. He looks around at the humans, and then me. Funny. I thought I saw him frown. He never frowns. He never does anything with his face except talk in a monotone voice. He's worse than my computer.
He sits at his desk for a minute writing the a-ten-dunce, as usual. Now he's standing.
"Get out your textbooks and open to page 357." He says. All the earth-monkeys obey. I glare at him. How dare he tell me, Zim, what to do every single Earth day! He should be listening to me! The stupid human doesn't know his place! Look at him, with his dirt covered sweater filled with filthy germs! I won't listen to him! He will listen to me! All will obey Zim!
I grunt and pull out the stupid book.
"...Horrible Earth material..." I mutter. I can't turn the pages properly. The trees here will be burned. There will be no more of these idiotic Earth manufactured books. Get 'em from planet Bukwarm. It's all that new addition to the Irken Empire is good for.
"Aha! I found it! Victory for Zim!" I cheer as I open the book to the ordered page. I stand up on my desk, smiling with my arms raised into the air and knocking the book over. The humans all look at me. I hear them muttering to each other. They are saying things like 'Freak' and 'Weirdo' and one of the other words I don't know the definition of. Emotionless man gives me a cold look of disapproval.
I sit down.