A/N: Hello all my fellow IZ fans looking for a good horror fic to celebrate Halloween. I hope to have this done in October, but it can't be guaranteed. I still do have 4 other Halloween fics I'm planning. Anyways, enough chitter chatter. Get ready to be left in suspense with the Prologue.
Disclaimer: I don't own IZ.
Zim and Dib held on to each other for dear life as the figure cornered them in. "Well," the shadow spoke. "It looks like your doom has come before this pathetic excuse of a planet."
"It's not pathetic!" The boy exclaimed. "It's good! In fact, if it's so pathetic, why did you decide to be here for this long?"
"It's not like you're on a mission like the almighty ZIM!" The Irken screeched out.
The two wore smug looks on their faces for a moment until they spotted the small smile forming on the figure's mouth. Then, that smile turned into a grin, than a chuckle, than finally, an evil laugh. "You really think I'd reside here for this long if I didn't have a reason? Of course I had a reason you idiots! Unlike you, Zim, I truly am on a mission. You were wrong."
"What do you mean 'unlike you'? What's that supposed to mean?" Dib's hand slid into Zim's clawed one as they stood side by side now, trying to tell the Irken to stop, but it was too late.
The figure growled in annoyance. "Don't you get it, Zim? You aren't really on a mission! Your SIR unit Gir? He was made of scraps and is stupid, not advanced! Your Pak has you encrypted as a food service drone and not an Invader, you're responsible for the deaths of two of your Tallest. If you don't get it by now, you truly are an idiot! You're a defective!"
Zim gasped. "You take that back! There is no way the almighty ZIM is a DEFECTIVE!"
"Yes!" The creature cried out. "There is! Infact, that's because you are! Call up Red and Purple! They'll tell you the same thing! Oh, wait, they already did!"
The defective in question gasped for two reasons. The first being that it had been unheard of to refer to the Tallest by their given name! You were to only call them 'My Tallest' out of respect. This being had just broken that! However, the shadow had simply waved it off as if it was nothing! The second was the fact that The Tallest had already told him he was a defective. However, that was one detail the alien niglected to tell the human beside him. He wasn't sure how this Devil infront of them could have found out, but either way, the cat was out of the bag. He lowered his head in shame, closing his eyes as well.
"Zim?" The one being spoken to didn't even have the courage to face the boy. "Is this true?" There was silence between the two. The human than flashed back to Chistmas. "So that explains that..."
(Flashback)
Dib was hiding in the bushes outside of Zim's bace. He had been spying on the alien for a few hours now, and he was getting a bit cold. So far, he had only seen the Irken sit around and do nothing. It almost looked like he had lost the will to do anything. The boy was about to give up when the green-skinned one finally did some thing. He walked into the kitchen and emerged a moment later with a bottle of something. The bottle looked like what humans might hold wime in. Peeling off his black lether gloves, the cork on the bottle was no match for the claws of the Irken. As soon as the cork had flown into the other room, Zim was all over that bottle. He wouldn't let go of it. Not even once Gir came in and asked if he was making buiscets. After about 30 minutes, the bottle was empty and Zim was all giggly, looking like he was a cat high on catnip!
Seeing this as his oppertunity, Dib took a risk and got to the front door, unharmed by the wacky gnomes. The human barged in, yelling, "Zim!"
Zim looked up from his position on his back, than flipped to his stomach. As he spoke, his speach seemed to be slurred. "Ahhh~ Dib-thingers! Come here~" He used his claws to motion towards himself.
He did so carefuly. What happeded?
However, before he could voice his worries, he was yanked down to the floor by his ankle, and the alien in question was curdling with him.
"Z-Zim!"
However, the alien wouldn't let go. He just layed there, cuddling with Dib. As if it wasn't bad enough the Irken seemed to be drunk, but his disguise was off and he was rubbing up against a certain...somehing.
"Z-ZIM!" Dib screached, but the one being spoken to just decided to ignore him.
Dib finaly overpowered him and escaped the dangerous base.
(End Flashback)
"The time that Christmas?" The Irken mumbled, finishing the human's scentance. Dib strained to hear, but he did. "I went into a deep depression at that time. I wasn't sure what to do after that. I thought that if I told you, you'd give up on me. Than I'd truly be alone. But if I continued to pretend to want to take over this dirt ball, you'd still wanna chase me around and give my life meaning. I guess that's over now..."
"Hey! Look at me!" Zim refused to, so his head was forcably jerked up to face the big headed one. Once eyes locked, minor fear and confusion could be seen in the magenta, but understanding and strength in the hazel. "You don't seen to understand. You're what gave my life meaning! Before you came, everyone alreary thought I was the crazy, big headed boy who was obsessed with the paranormal! In fact, I only knew you were coming to Earth because I heard the transmission come in one night. I warned everyone about it, but they didn't listen. I thought they might have tried to play a prank on me! I was almost ready to give up! But then you came along, and I knew that what I had heard was true! You had come to take over our planet! So that's why I was chasing you around and all that for the first little bit, but then I realized something. Remember when you were kidnapped from school that once?" Zim nodded, and Dib continued. "Well, I was pretending to be you in an improved disguise. I was talking to your Tallest, and they gave very obvious hints that they hate you. Once they mentioned defectives, I was curious. So, I managet to wiggle some info out of them, and I realized that we were both so similar! We were both working for our own kind who didn't even want us! I never would of left you Zim. Never in a million years."
Zim had shed a few tears, so Dib wiped them off. Unexpectedly, the alien's arms flew around the boy's torso. "Thank-you Dib."
"Oh for badness sake!" The shadow's voice broke them out of their little trance. "You can work all this out in the afterlife!" They pulled out their claws and got teady to attack.
The defective stood infront of the human. "You shall never hurt Dib as long as I'm around!" He pulled off his gloves and gave them to Dib. He was ready to defend the boy no matter what! "Bring it on-"
Yea, why would I revile who it is now? You wanna know who it is? Than les's return to the begining...
A/N: Well, what cha think? Reviews are appreciated!
