Written on the forehead of Invader Sideos. I had this idea while eating a chicken korma and listening to the levellers 'one way' (which is an amazing song might I add) at first I though it was a totally overdone idea. I mean...it was sooo obvious (to me anyway) I was thinking "Golly gosh, top hole and all that rot (I'm British) Dib turning Irkin! What a obviously overdone idea hohoho" Then after a quick scan of the Invader Zim fic archives I found 2, count em 2, Fic's which involved Dib turning Irkin. I found LOADS of Zim being human. I then realised "God save the queen, it must be incredibly hard to write Dib as an Irkin" but then I thought "What what? And all that. It can only be has hard as writing Zim as a human" So here I am filling the gap in what must be an INCREADLBY overlook sub-fic-genre. I'm giving warnings now. This will have NO ZADR! So those of you looking for a bit of smooching can get lost. It WILL be serious and therefore probably have some Ooc scenes. It may get a bit angst...Depends on how I write the planned scene but I'm hoping it won't last the whole story thou so don't worry. It will also have a torture scene which may offend those who have been tortured...or something. Just a warning to those of pathetic fear feeling hearts turn away. Now.
Ps I don't own Zim...but one day I shall... oh the best one is this spoken by the great creator himself
JhnenV: heh...just kick any shifty looking people who look NICK-related, in the groin.
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Zim sat at his desk resting his head on his hand and looking bored. The day so far had been a particularly bad one. It had been raining the night before and he had forgotten to paste himself before going to skool. As a result he had been splashed by several cars and was currently feeling the burning sensation in his skin slowly beginning to were off. To top it off, Dib was being extra mean today. He was still on a high from stopping Zim's latest plan to destroy him.
Zim sighed tiredly and focused on the sinister looking being supposedly 'teaching' them. "And so, to round up, the Easter bunny doesn't exist. Furthermore, Christmas isn't real and all your childhood heroes are dead. Any questions?"
Mrs Bitters looked venomously round the class, daring any pupils to question her authority. "Good." She began to carry on with her usual doom speech as Zim laid his face on his desk. When would this pathetic earth day end?
Just then a shout came from across the classroom. "Hey, Zim! Watch out!" a large ball of soggy paper hit the side if Zim's face. A second later he fell of his chair, rolling round in pain.
"YAAGGG!"
None of the other kids bothered to look up from their desks, as Zim rolled violently around the classroom screaming. The paper had been soaked in water, meaning it could have only been thrown by one person.
"Dib..." Zim picked himself up and gave Dib the most evil stare he could muster, but it quickly fell apart as the tediousness of the day came rushing back in. Dib sat on the other side of the classroom, looking very pleased with himself and already was preparing another water soaked paper ball. Zim slowly trudged back to his seat and resumed his face down stance.
He didn't notice Dib walk over until he was standing right on-top of him. "Hey, Zim, you look kinda down. Too much of last nights defeat getting to ya?"
Zim lifted his face up slightly just to he could see Dibs stupidly large head. He spoke wearily, in no mood for conversation. "Go away, Dib-human. I AM ZIM! I'm not in the mood today for you're pathetic-ness." Zim looked back down again, but Dib wouldn't leave.
Dibs voice faked kindness and was heavy with mocking tones."AWWW, what's the matter? The big bad alien invader had enough? You ran out of worthless ideas to try and takeover the earth? Are you going to finally admit that you're beaten then?"
But Zim wouldn't, for once, rise to Dib's bait. "I said go away, earth waste product." Dib huffed and Zim heard him walk off and second later another water ball hit him.
Waiting in the lunch queue, Zim was even more depressed. The side of his face was quietly smoking and Dib had not let up on his intense torture. His day, if possible, had gotten worse. The other kids had joined in Dib's attack purely for the reason of someone to insult and Zim had already been shoved in 3 lockers and been tripped up 5 times, but every time instead of destroying the one who had insulted his superiority he had just carried on slowly and sadly. A large dollop of sludge that passed of as food was dropped onto Zim's tray and he walked, emotionless, to his table. Finally, he though to himself, some time of my own. He allowed himself a satisfied smile and slowly lent back on his seat. I'll do something to that Dib tomorrow...Maybe if I changed his hands to rocks, no then he could still hit me. Hmm maybe if I fused them together...Yer that sounds good.
"Hey, Zim! Watch out!"
A massive piece of meat landed on the side of his head and Zim screamed in pain. He was already half way round the room when he finally managed to pull the offending meat off. Immediately he turned towards the one person he knew would attack him like that. Despite the mass of laughter in the hall one person laughed the loudest. The big headed, scythe haired human, Dib. Zim was tired of feeling sorry for himself and his face twisted in rage. His eyes narrowed dangerously and an evil fire had erupted in his eyes, his scowl showed that he was grinding his teeth together and his claw-like fingers were digging into his palms. The laughter quickly died down as the children saw the look in Zim's eye, but Dib kept laughing. Zim slowly but menacingly, like a predator would stalk a prey, walked over to him.
Dib stopped laughing, but still smiled coolly in the face of Zim's anger. "What's the matter, Zim have you finally decided to fight back?"
"No, Dib-beast I know exactly what I'm going to do." Even Dib had to falter in the face of the dark menace in Zim's voice. "I gave you the chance to stop, the chance to leave me alone today, but just had to keep pushing, didn't you? You and you're whole stinking race just had to keep insulting me, didn't you? Well, Dib you're going to pay. Oh yes. I'm going to make your worst nightmare reality."
Dib moved forward with a fearless look in his eyes. "You can't do that, Zim, because my worst nightmare," And Dib moved his face even closer at this "Would be to be you." Dib thought Zim was going to stomp off angrily, maybe even hit him, but he did something that knocked Dib totally off balance.
Zim moved his head closer so that their foreheads were almost touching and almost whisperingly, so that only he and Dib heard, said "Then so be it." At that he turned around and walked off, the crowd that had gathered moving around him, leaving Dib very worried.
That night Dib was restless. He walked into the kitchen and hopped onto a seat beside his sister, looking over his shoulder.
Gaz looked up from her meal of instant noodles. "What? You still worried about that thing that Zim said?" Her voice was cold and uncaring, but she asked anyway. It was good to keep Dib under the illusion that she barely cared for what he did. That way it hurt him all the more when she crushed him.
"No...Well, yes. You should have heard the way he said it, Gaz. It sounded like he really meant it." Dib played around with his food.
"Zim's an idiot. If he can't even get a good disguise, how will he ever take revenge on you?" Dib looked up, startled. Gaz was never this nice.
"Yea, I suppose, but I'd still feel better if I did some spying on him. Wanna come?" Dibs hopes had been pushed up by Gaz's comments.
"No."
Dib looked defeated. "Why not? You never do anything else around here."
Gaz finished off her noodles and began to walk towards the living room "I have more important things to do." But Dib wanted a proper answer.
"More important then helping to save the world? All you ever do is watch TV and drink sodas." Gaz didn't even turn around.
"Precisely."
Dib stared angrily after her, as she walked out the room. "My life sucks. Gaz hates me, my dad's never here. I've never even met my mother... Everyone just abandons me. And I still talk to myself?" For a moment Dib looked destroyed, but then he hopped onto the table. "But if that's the life of the saviour of earth then I must carry on!"
Gaz's voice came sharply from the couch in the next room. "Shut up, Dib!" Dib ignored this and ran to his room to prepare himself for a good nights spying. However, outside the window hovered a small bee. A bee with green glowing eyes.
Zim relaxed back in his observatory, looking at his robot bee spy cam screens and smiling horribly. "So you hate your life, Dib-pig...Then I will give you a new life. A better life. An Irkin life."
Dib dodged around the small holes in the gnome field and hopped through the window. He held his camera in one hand and had a rucksack on his back filled with gadgets and devises that could help him against his arch-foe. He had expected some resistance, but Zim wasn't anywhere to be seen. Not even the computer had detected his presence. He felt that there was something not right...It was quiet...too quiet.
Just then, a massive crashing noise ripped through the house and Dib dove behind the couch, his eyes just peeking 'round. "Ok, I gotz the popped-corn, I gotz the so-daz and I gotz the re-motez WOOOO scary monkey show!" G.I.R walked into the room carrying a bowl full of food and a remote on his head.
Dib relaxed and walked out from behind the couch. "Hi, G.I.R, how's it going?" Dib said in a friendly tone, knowing that Zim's robot was too insane to attack him.
However, G.I.R jumped into duty mode."Intruder alert! Must eliminate threat immediately!" But Dib kept his smile.
"I'll give you a cookie if you let me see Zim."
G.I.R seemed to relax back into his cyan mode and launched at Dib, simultaneously attaching himself to Dibs leg. "WOOOO! reeeeeaaaaalllly?"
Dib took out a pre prepared cookie from his jacket and threw it in the corner. "Go get it G.I.R!" G.I.R ran off immediately and Dib took the chance to go down into the under base through the bin. He made sure to take pictures of all the rooms he passed, but suddenly he arrived at one room he had never seen before. Unlike the other ones this room was dark, but the light cast from the corridor showed the shadows of large equipment and some tanks filled with, what looked like, water.
Dib let his curiosity carry him into the room and taking out a torch from his backpack he began to look 'round. What he found was astonishing, there were detailed maps of the human body everywhere, as well as some of what Dib assumed to be Zim's-species. His camera was already snapping away at these invaluable pieces of alien existence. Something caught his attention out of the corner of his eye, it was a drawing labelled in Zim's confusing language, but it was the little picture at the side that really caught his attention. Dib shone his touch on the drawing and narrowed his eyes. It seemed to be of a human, then an arrow, then a Irkin. A feeling of dread built inside him but his hand had already began reaching towards the picture. Closer, closer, his hand was just about to clasp the handle...
"COMPUTER, ATTACK AND DETAIN!" Zim's voice ripped through the silence and all chaos broke loose. Lights exploded around him and all the machines turned on creating a huge assault of sound. Dib jumped up, startled, dropping his camera. A cold robotic arm quickly wrapped itself around him, instantly preventing any more movement. It hoisted him into the air.
Zim strode triumphantly into the room, a huge grin plastered on his face. His voice was cruel and filled with the joy of his new prize. "I see you have found my bio-experimentation room, Dib-monkey. Congratulations."
Dib didn't like the sound of 'bio-experimentation'.
"Don't worry, by next morning you won't remember any of this." Dib was suddenly feeling very ill. A great fear grew within him as his mind went back to the argument in the lunch room.
Dib's voice was hard and angry, but it was laced with fear "What are you going to do to me?" Zim pressed a few buttons on a keyboard and Dib's backpack was taken off him. He was then thrown into a water tank and was submerged in greenish liquid.
"Get me out of HERE!" Dib was silently surprised that he could breathe and talk in the water-like substance.
Zim turned his attention to the main screen and began pulling up files. He began to talk like Dib's farther would when telling Dib how an experiment worked in the rare moments the professor let him into his labs.
"What you are submerged in is a military healing fluid. However, it also serves as an excellent experimentation holder. I have been studying your disgusting human body and I have found ways to alter it." At this Dib had sudden flashes of when he and Zim were turned to bologna.
"Haven't you already done this type of stuff with the bologna attack?" Dib was curious all of a sudden on what precisely Zim had been studying. To him it could be life or death.
"Yes, yes, but that was with substances the human body was linked to, this was much harder. I was trying to find a way to turn the human DNA into something completely different."
He looked at Dib with a sinister smile. "Something alien." Dib slowly began to remember the words he and Zim had spoken that afternoon.
My worst nightmare, Zim walked over to a control panel,
would be, he began manipulating the controls,
to be you. The top and bottom of the tank gave way to reveal two strange looking metal orbs.
Then, Zim pulled a lever,
So, the orbs began to glow,
Be, Dib began panicking and banging on the glass, but Zim's smile grew ever wider as his finger hovered over a button,
It. The finger went down and Dib blacked-out.
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OOOOO! So very tense filled…I hope! Yes I wrote this chapter quite quickly as I suppose all writers do when staring on a project they've wanted to do for ages. More is a-cumin!