A/N: Yay! A prologue/one-shot for a story that I might not continue! It depends on your reviews and how lazy I get with it. xD Ah, well. On to the boring stuff that lawyers need to see as verification that:

Invader Zim is property of the Almighty Jhonen Vasquez; and

Talia is property of me. So ha. Feel horribly sad.

Talia

Prologue

The first thing that Dib noticed when he walked in the room was that the class was deadly silent. Everyone was staring at the front (with the exception of Zim, who looked like he was going to be sick), and they said nothing when he passed in front of them. He sat in his seat and looked around at everyone else once more. "Hello?"

No one moved. Ms. Bitters didn't even appear out of nowhere to scold him for 'yelling in class'.

Dib twitched. "Aliens!" he yelled suddenly, pointing dramatically out the window. No one said a thing. He faced the front, disgruntled, and aw what everyone was staring at. He froze in shock and slight disgust at the figure at the front of the room. "What the…?"

A pale, pale girl stood up front, with heavy lidded eyes lined with dark purple eye-shadow. She appeared deathly skinny, though it was hard to tell from her dark gray/purple tinted sweater. The sleeves of the sweater went far past her gloved hands, and her washed-out black jeans almost seemed two sizes too big. Her black combat boots shone dully in the fluorescent lighting. She blinked her purple-blue eyes slowly, and her purple-lipstick colored lips curled into a rather creepy grin. "Doom." She said simply, and Ms. Bitters appeared at her desk.

"Thank you, Talia; you get an 'A' for spreading doom to your doomed classmates. Now take a seat!" Ms. Bitters said with a slight hiss.

"Yes, Ms. Bitters." The girl said in a medium-pitched voice, and she walked over to her desk. Ironically, that spot happened to be right next to Dib. She took her seat and turned to Dib with a malevolent look.

"The kid who used to sit here," she whispered to the young paranormalist, "disappeared under mysterious circumstances." She smiled, and faced the front. "No worries, right?"

Dib shuddered. There was something in that smile that was a lot more like an evil smirk.

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A/N: Ooh, that was shorter than I thought it would be. Darn. Anyways, review, or you may never see Talia again! –gasps- Wouldn't that be just terrible?! –laughs maniacally and runs off-