The television set filled the room with a pale blue light as Dib Membrane sat on the living room sofa. He looked at his watch, the green digital readout informing the young paranormal investigator that it was 8:59pm. He looked back to the TV.

"Come on, I've waited two days to watch this show." He said impatiently, clutching his notebook.

"Why don't you just watch the reruns like a normal human?" Dib's younger sister Gaz said meanly as she walked past with a soda.

"You just don't get it, Gaz." Dib said. "This is the premiere of 'Quest for Cryptids', and they're gonna be talking about the graboids that were discovered in Nevada. They say that they're prehistoric animals, but I think they're some sort of extraterrestrial…worm…thing that…" He trailed off as he noticed Gaz was no longer in the same room. He looked back to the television as the show came on.

"Tonight, our quest for strange and unusual animals takes us to the American southwest, to the small town of Perfection, Nevada where a large underground animal has the residents and science all shaken up." The camera showed video of a small cluster of houses built along a single road. A red general store seemed to be the only business in the tiny settlement. Dib wondered who would live in such a dilapidated old shantytown. He wrote some items of interest down in his small notepad.

"Here is a local expert on the creatures, noted graboid hunter Burt Gummer. Dib looked back up to the TV to see a middle aged man with a police-like moustache, wearing a white Atlanta Hawks baseball cap and aviator glasses. The caption at the bottom of the screen read: Burt Gummer, Monster Hunter. Dib wrote down this name, thinking that he may later contact Gummer with questions about the so-called Precambrian monsters.

"The graboid, being a subterranean brute, is completely without vision." Gummer said militantly. "It hunts strictly by sound, which it senses through any medium, dirt, rock, even capable of detecting potential prey on the roof of a building through the infinitesimal vibrations carrying through the structure."

"Hmm…" Dib said to himself. "How could an earth animal so big be blind…it MUST be from outer space."

"The sightless beast, by means of large spikes on its body can achieve underground speeds of 30 miles per hour in loose sandy soil, making it a very dangerous animal."

"I understand the creature living here now is sterile, and so cannot metamorphose into the second stage of it's life cycle. Is this correct?"

"You understand correctly." Gummer replied, seeming a little annoyed. "The graboid has three stages of life, being a hermaphroditic animal, it requires no mating to do so. However, the protected animal we have here in Perfection Valley in unable to transform, and will probably remain a graboid until it dies naturally."

"Whoa!" Dib exclaimed. "I gotta see it!" He jumped from the sofa. "Dad!" He called.

"Yes son?" A voice replied from downstairs.

"Can I take a bus to Nevada?" Dib asked, as if he'd asked if he could order a pizza.

"Just don't be too long." Professor Membrane's voice stated. "You have school in a week.

In all actuality, Dib wasn't the only person in town thinking about visiting the state of casinos, silver mines and giant underground carnivores. Inside his not-so-cleverly disguised base, Zim was watching the show as well. His red Irken eyes grew wide with wonder as his large television showed an image of the 30 foot graboid.

"The graboid takes its food whole," The host said as video images of the giant worm played. "taking prey as large as donkeys and humans into its mouth with three long and powerful tentacles. Food is digested slowly in…"

"I WANT ONE!" Zim exclaimed, leaping onto his couch and pointing at the screen. "With a creature such as this, I could destroy the humans! I…MUST…HAVE ONE!"

"Currently, the Perfection graboid, known as 'El Blanco' is the only known living graboid in the western hemisphere." The host said, showing a map of the world with red dots on it.

"Then I'll take THAT ONE." Zim growled. "GIR!" Zim's SIR unit looked up from the floor where he was sucking mustard from the bottle.

"Yeeeeeeees?" GIR replied, dripping mustard from his mouth. Zim shuddered in disgust.

"Come, GIR…" He said diabolically. "We're going to capture that worm."

As usual, my first chapter is incredibly too short. Oh well, the next ones will be much more longer and better. Well, how are you enjoying it so far? Think it's worth finishing? Hello? *Crickets chirp* Stay tuned for the next chapter, Dr. Lovekill-ites. Till then, cheerio.