The
usual apology:
Well,
I'm pretty sure the whole Dib's cousin coming to Skool thing has been done to
death by now, but I want to write one… it is original, I thought of it on my own,
but if you have a similar character I haven't heard of or read
about,
tough. This story was a blast to write, so I'm not removing it for anything.
N'yah.
Disclaimer:
Tell you what. You nice people can go to my site, INVASION! For the disclaimer.
It will give me some more hits. If you're not using Internet Explorer when you
go to the site, it's probably going to look really screwed up.
Now,
without further jabbering, I present you with Cousin Shy!
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Dib
sat at a desk in his room, the only light coming from the laptop in front of
him. It glowed blue, and displayed equations and blueprints for some type of
machine. This invention would surely be successful in exposing ZIM to the whole
world…
Directly
in the middle of the last plans, Dib thought hard. He had been idly drawing
pictures of a dissected ZIM with his pencil, but he needed complete silence…
Wait, wait, he had it! Just a few more seconds and his plans would be
completed…
"DIB!"
Gaz yelled. Dib jumped, and whirled around in his chair to see Gaz, GameSlave
in hand, as usual. He narrowed his eyes.
"Gaz,
I'm just about finish the plans that will save all of humanity… what? What do
you want?" Dib growled, snapping the pencil in his hand.
Gaz
looked just as bothered as Dib. "Your creepy look-alike is here. I'm on the
last level here, so you've got to be the entertainer. See ya." She left, and
Dib turned back around. He would not divide his attention now, not even for…
"…It's
me, Shai. Dib? You in there?"
Dib
twirled around again. He saw her then. She was about three-foot-two in height.
Her eye color was a solid black. She had wild, spiky sky blue hair. One large
spear of it in front of each her eyes, one other spike falling, covering her
ears on each side, and a large, really spiky
pointy-tail in the back of her head. Did I mention she had spiky hair? Black
sunglasses sat on top of her head. She sported a black trench coat like Dib,
but her T-shirt displayed the standard green alien's head, but it was obviously
screaming. The royal purple colored fabric of the shirt surrounded this image.
Blue denim jeans disappeared into knee-height black boots.
"Shai,"
Dib said.
Shai
smiled. "Yeah, that's my name. So what-cha doing?" she asked, walking over to
the designs and laptop on Dib's desk. Her eyebrows shot up.
"Dib,
this is pretty cool stuff. What do you need this for?"
Dib
went to her side and swelled with pride. "I
have discovered an alien who has come from a distant planet to take over
the human race."
Shai
was quite reserved in her enthusiasm. "This isn't like the time you said
Bigfoot was in your garage, is it?" she questioned.
The
boy grinned. "Ha ha. It was using the
belt sander. … No, this alien is trying to be a little subtler…and he fails
miserably." Dib held up a sketch of ZIM, and some writings. Pressing the play
button on a tape player, sound bites of ZIM proclaiming various things. The
ignorance of inferiority of humans, how he will be lord over all humans…and so
forth.
Basically,
then all skepticism in Shai vanished. She believed her cousin for once. They
were both paranormal nuts, but sometimes she felt that he went too far. But this time it was different. This time,
Dib was right. Even though she felt
he was right, she didn't believe entirely.
After
Dib had explained all that had happened so far between he and ZIM, Shai
explained that she would have to see ZIM to completely believe Dib. Dib said
that she should come to Skool. The girl had grinned and said that her transfer
was already on its way.
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After
a rather interesting introduction to the class, Shai sat down in the desk next
to ZIM. She stared at him from the moment she sat down to the time that the
lunch bell rang. His green skin, that ridiculous hairpiece, that eerie backpack
of his… ZIM was, without a doubt, alien.
Shai
joined up with Dib and Gaz at lunch. "ZIM is most definitely an alien," she
admitted to Dib, and continued staring at ZIM, not listening to his 'An Elvis
toupee does not a human make' comment. Staring up, she smiled at her cousin.
"Dibby,
you're getting too weird… I'm gonna go talk to ZIM…" Shai said. Then she
smiled, knocked her sunglasses from her head to her face, and walked over to
ZIM, who was examining the mystery meat of the day. After a second of poking at
the excessive amount of gravy on the meat, ZIM pushed it away and looked
disgusted.
Shai
stood behind ZIM until he noticed her presence. He turned, eyes narrowing.
"Go
away, stinkbeast," ZIM growled.
The
shades in front of Shai's eyes glinted in the artificial light of the
cafeteria. "Yeah, like I'll go away when I know what you really are." Shai said
this and waited for the green kid's reaction.
ZIM
began to sweat slightly. More earthen children knowing his true identity?
Impossible! No one believed Dib.
"And
what am I, human?" ZIM asked, trying to convey nonchalance.
Shai
was just about to make a sarcastic remark, but her shades fell from their perch
on her nose and slid down and hung from her ears and below her chin. Her black
eyes sparkled in the light and they reflected ZIM strangely. After a few seconds
of just staring at him, Shai pushed her sunglasses back onto her nose with a
slow-moving index finger. She turned and left the cafeteria without another
word. Dib would've followed, but he didn't know if he should. Instead, Dib
stood up and went to ask ZIM what the hell he did to his cousin.
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Shai
admitted to herself, right then and there. As she leaned against the wall of
the bathroom, which was thankfully empty, she acknowledged that something had clicked
between her and ZIM. Shai was almost positive ZIM hadn't felt it, but the
instant she really looked at him, she could've sworn she saw every aspect of
his life and hers go rushing by in a mad flux of colors. Could that possibly be
love? His image sprung up again in her mind, causing her to slightly quake in
pure emotion.
"Well,
then, it's decided," Shai muttered. She wouldn't reveal this attraction to
anyone, especially ZIM or Dib. Gaz she didn't like at all, so she could not
tell anyone. She would keep it a secret, and hope that this attraction went
away. Otherwise, she might have to go against Dib in this war. Unbeknownst to
him, Shai had great admiration for her sci-fi nut cousin. Shai reassured
herself that this little bit of feeling for the enemy would vanish, yes, all in
due time.
Was
she ever wrong.
