It was an early Friday morning and Zim was snoozing away in bed, doing his best to stay asleep. They only had one more week of school until summer break and he was hoping that if Gir would shut up for once he'd be able to sleep through it. Unfortunately for him, Gir wasn't about to let that happen and he was desperately trying to wake his Master.

"Maaaassteeerrrrrrrr... Master wake up... You have school today Master!" Gir was shaking him frantically but Zim wouldn't budge, he was happy in his bed.

"Gir, why don't you go watch a movie or make waffles. I have a very big day and I would like some extra sleep so I can finish all of my preparations by this afternoon!" His voice was muffled by the covers and Gir only heard the part about the movie and waffles. So, Gir being Gir, he happily pranced out the door singing about waffles, of course.

Zim rolled over in bed and looked out from under his bed spread to check the time, it was 10:37 a.m. and if he slept any longer he would never get up. He lazily pushed off the covers and sat up before he got dressed. He got off the bed and walked over to his closet, picked out a uniform and tiredly slipped it on along with his boots and gloves. Once that was done he straightened out his antennae, which were horribly crooked, and went downstairs.


That afternoon over in Florida, a school bus stopped in front a pool and let the last bit of kids off to go home for the summer (Zim's school let the kids out a week later than her school). Aneera, a young thirteen-year-old stepped off the bus and headed home. She was your typical school girl, she fit in, had friends and was friends with most of her teachers. She had short brunette/brown hair, bright hazel eyes and a smile that would bring happiness to any gloomy day..

As she was walking home, however, Aneera had a strange feeling in her gut that something weird was going to happen soon, she just didn't know what. She decided she wouldn't ponder on it, instead she kept on walking home.


Zim was down in his lab tweaking his voot cruiser and fixing any glitches that it might have. The last thing he wanted was to have his navigational system go bonkers and get lost. After he finished with his cruiser, which was last on his list of things to do, he headed over to his communications console and sent a transmission to the Tallest. After waiting for a minute or two the transmission was sent and received. Zim stood in front of the screen with his hands behind his back as he waited for the Tallest to appear. Sure enough the Tallest appeared and they seemed... pleased to see Zim for once. He respectfully bowed and wiggled his antennae in salute before directly addressing them.

"My Tallest, all of the chores and requirements have been completed. Is there anything else you would like me to do before tomorrow?" Zim spoke calmly, no matter how excited he was.

"No, you've done quite enough for one Irken, you may take a break for the rest of the day." Red looked the same as he always did, his red eyes gleaming with the power of superiority, but staying calm and content.

Purple, however, was hyper and energetic as always. "Oh, and Zim, when you go to get her, make sure that you let her know gently if Jeff hasn't already, so she doesn't get scared, okay?"

"Of course, my Tallest. Should I tell her about our society or leave that to you?" Zim's eyes changed in size and he slightly stood up straighter.

"No, you may explain that to her, just remember, act as if she was a human." Red reminded and cut the transmission.


Aneera was packing her things for the weekend. Every weekend she would go over and visit her grandmother and father but return in time for school. Since school was out she could stay for a little longer. As she was finishing packing her things she got that gut feeling again. It was starting to annoy her a little but she ignored it like the first time. Aneera zipped up her bag and headed downstairs to wait for her dad.

Because it would be a while before her dad got there she pulled out a guitar and turned on her X-BOX 360. She popped open the disk tray and put in Rock Band. Aneera chose her settings and set the difficulty on medium. She began to jam out to "Here It Goes Again" by OKGO. After about two minutes of gliding her fingers across the frets she picked a harder song, "Enter Sandman" by Metallica. A few songs later the doorbell rang and she put up the game.

Aneera pranced over to the door and yanked it open. Her dad, Jeff, was standing in front of her with a wide grin on his face. She lunged at him and wrapped her arms around him in a tight hug. They stood there like that for a moment before she let go and looked up at her dad.

"Hi Angel!" he said gleefully, beaming down at his daughter. "So, what do you want to do this weekend?" he asked. She paused for a minute and thought about it before answering with a very simple answer.

"J.P. Igloo." she said in almost a hypnotic voice. She smiled and grabbed her things before leaving the house and locking the door behind her. The two hopped in Jeff's truck and pulled out of the driveway and headed towards a very interesting weekend.


It was about midnight and Zim was sitting on the couch watching Earth news, which he found quite boring. The news lady on the TV was wearing a pink top and a little too much eyeliner, it made her look like she wanted to jump out and kill somebody. She was doing a report on some man that hijacked an old lady's car. Apparently the car was almost out of gas so he didn't get very far down the road. Believe it or not the car stopped right in front of a gas station.

"MASTER!! MY WAFFLES ARE MISSING!!" Gir screamed from the kitchen. Zim kept his bored face on and simply replied:

"Did you look in your head?" Gir opened his head and reached inside for his waffles. Sure enough, he pulled out a huge plate of freshly cooked waffles. He smiled happily and ran back to the kitchen table and began to wolf down his waffles. Zim shook his head and stuck out his tongue at the noise that Gir was making as he chewed his food.

"Uhhhh... Don't you think you should get going?" the computer asked dully. Zim's antennas perked up and he jumped off the couch. He was going to go to Florida to make sure that Jeff had told Aneera what he was supposed to. He ran to an elevator and went up to the voot cruiser repair bay. Once there he opened up the top and climbed inside, then set the coordinates. The cruiser lifted up and the roof opened, allowing Zim to fly off towards his destination.

"Computer set the cruiser on autopilot." Zim comanded, leaning back in his seat and propping up his feet on the dashboard, preparing for a two hour ride in total darkness.


It was about 2:00 in the morning and Aneera just couldn't get to sleep. She tried everything, a glass of warm milk, stretching, even running around in the backyard! She then decided that she would just watch TV until she fell asleep. She was watching "Is It Real? UFOs" on the National Geographic Channel, she knew for a fact that aliens existed and thought that the entire human race was stupid for not realizing it. In fact, she claimed that she was racist against humans and hated them all in general, particularly the government.

The speaker on the television was explaining the Roswell incident and how people were still debating if it was a hoax or not.

Of course it's not a hoax!! There is absolutely no way something like that can be fake! I mean, what dumb idiot would believe the government? Oh it's just a weather balloon, it was for some experiment... bull crap!! How could that possibly be a "weather balloon"? Only a retard would believe that!! I hate the human race... they all suck.

Just then she heard a faint hovering noise close by. At first she ignored it and told herself that it was a plane but after a minute she noticed that it hadn't went away and one fact stood out like a sore thumb: Planes don't hover. Aneera slowly stood up and walked over to the window but a soon as she pulled back the curtains the noise completely disappeared. There was no plane or flying object anywhere to be seen, which was very odd.

"I wonder what's going on?" Aneera crept out the back door and hid so that she could see what was going on but nobody or nothing could see her. She waited for a moment and saw a small green figure walk up to the front door of the garage and knock on the door. Aneera's dad, Jeff, opened the door and stepped outside. The two began to converse and this is what Aneera heard:

Figure: "Have you told her yet?"

Jeff: "No, I was going to that tomorrow-"

Figure: "I told you that yesterday would be the deadline! Now because of it I have to tell her!!"

Jeff: "Why can't I tell her tomorrow morning?"

Figure: "Because I'm coming to get her tomorrow morning!! There won't be enough time!!"

Jeff: "But wha-"

Figure: "Just!... Just have her out of her holo-disguise by the time I get her okay? That's eight a.m. sharp!!"

The small figure left and Jeff went back upstairs to go to bed. Aneera sat in her hiding spot and thought for a moment.

I knew it! I knew I wasn't human! Why didn't he tell me? Where am I going tomorrow? Who was that short guy? How did he get here? Why am I asking myself all of the questions I DON'T have answers for?... I'm going to bed...

Aneera finally fell asleep but she had to ask herself all of those questions over and over again, even if she knew she didn't have answers for them. It took her about an hour before she began to fell sleepy and another thirty minutes until she actually fell asleep.


Zim woke up bright and early the next morning, got dressed, jumped in the voot cruiser and headed back towards Florida. He left at around 6:00 a.m. so he would get there at about 7:45 to 7:55 in the morning. As he was cruising along he pulled out a book to pass the time. The clock in the cruiser ticked by fairly quickly and within what seemed like minutes to the invader, two hours had gone by.

Zim activated the cloaking device so that he was nearly invisible but only someone that knew he was there would be able to see him. It would take him a few minutes to find the right house since he hadn't completely fixed the navigational system, it wasn't quite as accurate. He flew around and eventually found the right neighborhood.


Aneera was sitting in the chair in front of the television and was waiting for someone to knock on the door. She had been sitting and waiting for the past three hours and was just about to get up and leave until there was a small faint knock. She slowly walked up to the door and looked at it for a minute before opening it. It wasn't exactly what she had expected, instead of some horrible alien monster it was her dad that was standing in the back door.

"Oh, hi." she said, almost disappointed.

"Umm, hi. Listen there's something I need to tell you... You aren't-" Jeff was interrupted.

"Human? I know. I heard your little conversation last night." Aneera was peeking behind her dad for some sort of spaceship or something.

"Oh, well then-" he began, but was once again interrupted.

"Just show me what you've got to show me." she said in an almost bored tone.

Jeff sighed and began to reach for the small necklace that she was wearing. Aneera braced herself for what was about to happen. He slowly unhooked the necklace and took it off, deactivating the holo-disguise.


Aneera: YAY!! I re-typed chapter one!! The original sucked, it didn't hardly have Zim in it at all.

Zim: Yeah, you just barely mentioned me in the original first chapter!

Aneera: Sorry. Oh, hey readers! I still need reviews, I have chapters nine through... something done. I was being serious when I said I wouldn't update until I had at least five reviews. I'm not trying to be mean but I would like to post the new chapters.

Zim: Why? Just so you can start annoying the crap outta me again?

Aneera: Pretty much, and I want the readers to see what happens.

Zim: Figures...

Aneera: P.S. I can have more than one review from the same person, it'll still count and if I have a review under my pen name it doesn't count as a review!