Disclaimer: I don't own Invader Zim, I'd be one happy mad genius if I did. MWUHAHAHA!!! But sadly, all I own is this story and the characters Karcy Wolfbane and Invader Blundra (and any other characters that I happen to throw in that aren't from the series). Okay all, enjoy this fiction and I'll go ahead and point out that this first chapter is from Gaz's point of view. Pairings include Karcy/Dib and of course Zim/Gaz!!!

The Obscurity in Us All

Part One: Gaz Comes Forward

You're gonna think I'm crazy…

Don't ask me how I know, I just know you will. Especially after you hear what I have to say.

It all happened on a cold rainy day in October. Halloween. The worst day of the whole year for me. Now I know what you're thinking, 'What?! Gaz Membrane not like Halloween?! She's gotta be the creepiest girl out there! Why the heck wouldn't she love Halloween??'. Well, I'll tell you why. Halloween's the night when things changed for me, forever. And it was on the Halloween night that I'm basing my tale on that my life changed forever all over again.

But I won't get ahead of myself, forgive me if years of Game Slave have done away with crucial story-telling brain cells. The thing is, it was Halloween when I lost my mom. Don't worry, I won't get all gushy about it. No…the years have worn on and left my heart a cold lifeless thing, withered and without pity---or so I thought.

Losing my mom was hard. She got sick and well…she never got better. I was young then, six and almost seven. Dib was eight. It was hard on both of us. Especially our poor dad. Hey! I can show sympathy if I want too! I'm capable of emotions besides rage and depression!! The thing is, dad stopped spending time at home after mom died, he buried himself in his work, devoted his life to science, and just pretended that his kids were okay.

Okay?! HA! He couldn't BE more wrong! We're not okay, Dib, my older brother, he's so wrapped up in the paranormal that he's become the laughing stock of the entire skool! And if he weren't my brother and one of the only people I have left in this world so help me I'd have put him out mankind's misery a long time ago!

As for me, that's a laugh, I already told you I'm a slave to the Game Slave…and all its sequels. Yep, video games are my escape from the dark, harsh reality that is my life. Pizza's my main dish, not a home cooked meal by a loving parent. We had a puppy once, but me and Dib aren't really the pet types. So Fido or Rover or whatever we named it has no doubt gone to a better place now. Lucky him.

I've gotta be one the most independent elementary skoolers I know. And ya know what? I like it that way. Who cares what the other kids might whisper in the halls. I bet ya not a one of em would dare repeat it to my face! Yep, life is sweet. Or it was…until HE came.

Who's HE? Well I'll tell ya who he is. He's that green Irken guy Zim that came to conquer Earth. Don't freak out, he's REALLY bad at it. Hey, if DIB could foil his schemes ANYONE could. Anyways, Dib and Zim are constantly out to destroy each other and prove themselves superior or whatever…boys are so stupid. I'm usually neutral in their dumb little war but lately a new friend (yes I've finally sunk to making a friend) has pointed out that my heart isn't as dormant as I'd thought---and hoped.

Now you're probably asking who this new friend of mine is. Hold your blood pigs already I'm getting to it! Sheesh. Her name's Karcy Wolfbane. She's a werewolf. Don't roll your eyes at me! If Zim can be an alien out to rule over mankind then my best and only friend can be a werewolf!!

Karcy and me hang out pretty much all of the time. Sure it cuts into my video game time but I can make an exception for her. We usually hang out laughing at how dumb Dib and Zim are for bullying each other and not teaming up against the geeks at skool that kick them around. I mean, an alien and a science wiz should be able to come up with SOMEWAY of getting revenge on their pre-teen tormentors!

The best way of describing the latest Halloween, the second time my life made a permanent change, is to explain how Karcy and I first met that stormy October night. Okay kiddies, here comes the flashback. Don't act like G.I.R. (Zim's crazed robot sidekick) and have a panic attack just cuz the story gets a little weird. We're all a little weird, if ya stop to think about it. And the tale you're about to read, has got to be the weirdest of them all. And it's all about me, Karcy, a kid 'paranormal investigator', an Irken invader, and one seriously disturbed second hand robot…