Disclaimer: I don't own Invader Zim or related characters. They are owned by Jhonen Vasquez.
Gaz walked out of the high skool, on her way to visit Dib in the hospital when she saw her. The girl who put Dib into the hospital was sitting outside the high skool. Gaz had also noticed two strange things, first the girl held a long thin cane.
"So its true," thought Gaz, "Dib was right, she is blind" It was true, the girl who brutally injured Dib was blind. None of the officers believed Dib, seeing as the girl looked hopeless enough. Dib's explanation had been simple and believable.
"Psychokinesis," thought Gaz, "I wouldn't have believed Dib if Dad hadn't told me it's real, and that it runs in the family." Gaz thought back to what her dad had told her. "Our grandpa and uncle had it." thought Gaz, "Our uncle by marriage though." At that moment the second strange thing sunk in. The girl was accompanied by a green dog with a zipper going down its belly. "G.I.R." thought Gaz. At that moment Zim walked up to the girl and she stuck out her arm in front of him.
"Hmm?" said Zim in a rather questioning voice.
"I nearly died on the way here with G.I.R. as my guide," said the girl in a very irritated voice, "you will lead me back home." Zim sighed.
"Very well Lydia, I will lead you home." said the Irken invader, "G.I.R. go to the club or something, I need to speak to Lydia alone."
"Yes, my master!" said the little robot. Gaz walked away, continuing towards the hospital.
Flashback
"What happened here?" asked a surprised Gaz to a police officer.
"Well, we're not sure." said the officer, "Your brother is in the condition most people would be in after being shot by a cannon ball, and then having an elephant sit on them. We have no idea what caused this to happen, your brother is lucky to be alive." It was true, Dib looked worse than half dead. He had to be three fourths dead. He was lucky to be alive, conscious and talking.
"I'm telling you, it was that blind black haired girl over there!" Dib said weakly.
"Dib." said Gaz in a doubtful voice. "I don't think-"
"It was her!" Dib said cutting his sister off, "She has psychokinesis, PK!"
"How do you know she is blind?" asked Gaz.
"Look at her eyes!" commanded Dib, "You'll know." Before Gaz could protest, Dib passed out. Gaz turned around to look at the girl but she had already gone. Then Gaz turned around to look at the paramedic
"Will he be alright?" asked Gaz.
"Well, seeing as he survived the assault, we think he will live. Just as long as nothing happens, your brother will be fine." the paramedic reassuringly as he helped to load Dib onto the ambulance.
End Flashback
"That was three days ago," thought Gaz, "Dib is doing much better, but if Zim and this girl are working together, then Dib could be in grave danger."
Zim looked at Lydia who had just walked out of her bedroom. She had changed cloths for the assignment. When she entered her room she had been wearing a light pink dress over a yellow shirt with cyan tights. The dress had a smiley face on it. Paired with a pathetic look, no one would guess that with a thought she could bring down a building.
"The ultimate strategy," thought Zim, "to make her look pathetic. Otherwise, I doubt she would wear the pink dress every day." Now, she was wearing a black dress with a skull on it with a red pair of tights and a dark purple shirt under the dress.
"All finished!" said G.I.R. triumphantly. Due to her blindness, Lydia needed help with putting cloths on and color coordination, which was G.I.R.'s job, and surprisingly he was good at it.
"Do you have the radio?" asked Zim.
"Yes, I have it." said Lydia as she held up an earpiece that she put into her ear.
"The med-packs?" asked Zim, "Although you might not need them for yourself someone else might need them." Lydia rolled her eyes at the possibility that she would help someone else with Zim's technology.
"I have all six ready to go." said Lydia in a monotone way. Zim smiled, after two years, he had begun to think of Lydia as a sister.
"Is your PK energy built up." asked Zim slyly.
"Full power." said Lydia, with a grin. She understood the Irken's concern for her, she knew he thought of her as a sister and she thought of him as her brother. In fact, that was the cover story that Zim had used since she had moved in with him.
"Report mission objective." ordered Zim
"Kill Dib." Lydia stated flatly. She found this kind of job easier if she could abandon her conscious before leaving Zim's underground lab.
"Yes, now go, I will hack the hospital mainframe to help you find him. If you are attacked, you are on your own." Zim said.
"Yes sir!" Lydia said as she saluted while leaving.
"Squeak!" said Minimoose.
"Yes," said Zim, "she has the mind of an Invader."
"I don't get it," said Skoodge, Zim's Irken companion, "she has been living with you for two years, she is blind yet she carries out these assignments without help."
"Its her psychokinesis, she uses it to see the same way bats can see in the dark, through sonar, except it isn't sound she sends out its PK energy." Zim said.
"So, she sees shapes only?" asked Skoodge. He looked around trying to imagine how that would seem.
"Precisely." said Zim. Lydia walked through the hospital admiring the building design.
"Nice trim," she thought, "if only I could really see what it looks like."
"Ok Lydia, third hallway on the left." said Zim. As he was about to give her further instructions the computer alerted him that he was getting a call from the Massive.
"Right." said Lydia. As she walked down the hallway she remembered when Zim had told her about himself.
Flashback
"I shall tell you about myself, but you must tell the great Zim about yourself." said Zim with a grin.
"You talk in the third person," said Lydia through giggles, "and I could easily search your mind to find out about you, but I'd rather you tell me."
"Alright." said Zim and at that moment he reached up to his eyes and did something that appeared as though he removed his eyes and then pulled his hair off.
"Ok you need to explain a lot. What just happened?" asked a very confused Lydia.
"I am from another planet called Irk, my race is the Irken race." said Zim in a prideful manner. "I am nearing my four-hundredth birthday in two weeks. The distinguishing features of my race are that we have green skin, antenna, eyes that are round and only one color and we are kind of short except for our leaders, the Almighty Tallest, who chose me for a special mission to take over this planet."
"Ok you are old," said Lydia stifling a laugh.
"Actually I'm young for my kind." said Zim, "About 14 years old by your kinds reckoning."
"One question, why did you take me in if you want to rule this planet?" asked Lydia.
"Two reasons, one G.I.R. took pity on you," said Zim, "and I am in need of learning human social skills to fit in better with the worm babies."
"How long have you been here? Depending on that, you might have learned something." said Lydia.
"Two years," said Zim, "and your right, I have learned something but my classmates are beginning to believe the Dib earth-monkey. So I need some help to change their minds." At that moment Lydia burst out laughing.
"You can start by calling us humans not worm babies and earth-monkeys." Lydia said through giggles.
"Now you must tell me a little about yourself." Zim said clearly irritated at being the object of her laughter.
"Alright, I have been blind since birth. I am fourteen years old in human years, and I lived in the streets for a year before you took me in. A year before that the orphanage I lived in was destroyed and I moved from terrible foster home to terrible foster home. Your first year on earth was the worst year of my life. Which is the reason why I decided to live in the street." said Lydia.
"I see that stinks." said Zim.
"Yeah." Lydia said with a downcast look.
"So, how do you
identify people without asking them who they are?" asked Zim,
trying to change the subject.
"I have a rare human gift known
as psychokinesis, my father had it and it's found on a recessive
gene, so it was in my mother's family as well. I send out waves of
PK energy to see shapes and if I send out enough energy to actually
move objects I'm told that it causes a visible disturbance in the
air." said Lydia with a smile on her face.
"What else is there to know about you?" asked Zim who was now very curious about the girl's hidden talents.
"Before I was born I was able to use my powers to learn Southern-Praying Mantis style kung-fu, which my mother knew." Lydia boasted unable to help herself.
"I look forward to seeing both in action, I shall call you my adopted sister if that is alright." stated Zim.
"Yes, that's fine." said Lydia. Then they shook hands on it.
End Flashback
Lydia just realized that Zim had stopped talking to her ten minutes ago.
"Zim? Zim are you there?" asked Lydia, who was beginning to get concerned.
"Lydia, there has been a change in plans." Zim said sounding utterly depressed, "You are to go to Dib, tell him that I wish to speak to him in person. When you do, give him the med-packs."
"May I ask why?" Lydia asked getting more concerned.
"My mission is a fake." Zim said dryly.
Dib was having the weirdest dream, he saw a pregnant woman with long black hair and deep amber colored eyes, and next to the woman was a man with black hair green eyes and glasses. They were talking to his father.
"Well we had better go home." said the woman.
"Yes, we'll be coming back here tomorrow." said the man.
"Wake up!" a completely different voice said.
"What? Oh no it's you!" exclaimed Dib upon seeing who woke him up.
"Don't speak! I'm not here to hurt you, but to deliver a message. My guardian would like to speak to you in person. Here, take these they will help you heal faster." said the girl, "Now I must go." Saying that, she turned around and started to walk away,
"WAIT!!" shouted Dib and she stopped.
"Yes?" said the girl.
"Please, tell me. Who are you?" Dib asked.
"My name is Lydia, I look forward to meeting you again." she said, and with those words she left.
"So that's who has been teaching Zim human behavior." said Dib to himself, "Well, I wonder what the Irken wants this time."