The Reality Helmet
By:ZimGirandtheTuna
This is my very first Invader Zim FanFic
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Gir was happily bouncing a ball, which he had been doing
the past six hours. He bounced the ball really hard and
it flew across the house into the next room. It went down
the trash can shute and into Zim's lab. Gir without thinking
followed the ball. Zim was currently working on a project
and had personally given Gir the ball so he would leave him alone.
The ball slowly rolled towards Zim. Gir not far behing it ran
at full force screaming, "Come here Mr.Ball!!"
Gir ran into Zim and knocked him down.
"Gir I thought I told you not to be in here I am
very busy. What happened to that ball I gave you?"
Gir sat down and looking stupid he pointed at the
ball. Zim looked down at his feet. He picked up the ball
and thought for a minute.
"I know a fun game we can play, Gir"
Looking eager Gir said "I wanna play too"
"Okay I'll hide the ball and you go look for it.
Oh umm you stay here and I'll hide the ball. And while I'm
gone don't touch anything okay Gir?"
"Yea yea ya"
"Good now no peeking"
Zim left the lab and Gir was immediantly struck
with boredom. He started to look around at things, then
he saw something shiny that caught his eye. It was on
the work table and could barely reach it. So he turned
on his rockets and flew up to the table. He sat down and
looked at the object, remembering Zim's orders. It was
an ordinary looking helmet except it had an antenna sticking
out the top of it, and it had a few small buttons on it's
sides. Gir leaned in and sniffed it. Then without thinking
he picked it up and put it on. A green lense snapped down
over Gir's eyes. Gir pressed one of the buttons on it's side
and it made the walls look like they were gone. The walls
were really still there the helmet was allowing Gir to see
through them. Gir jumped off the table and ran around
stupidly bumping into random walls. He finally found his
way out of the lab and out of the house.
"This is soooo fun!! Weeeee!!!"
Gir closed his eyes and then he ran into something.
When he ran into it the helmet flew off. Gir opened his eyes
and looked around.
"What are you doing?"
Gir thinking it was Zim, saluted. He looked over
and saw it wasn't Zim. It was Dib.
"A fun toy for me not you" said Gir
"What is it?"
"A secret project that Zim was making. I'm not
supposed to touch it but I just wanted to try it out"
"Can I see it?"
"No because you aren't supposed to know about it"
"Then ummmm.." Dib looked around on the ground.
"I'll trade you for umm.. this odd shaped.... Rock!!"
"What does it do?"
"It's an odd shaped rock was it is supposed to do?"
"Okay I'll trade you!"
Gir gave Dib the helmet and then picked up the rock.
"I'm gonna go show Zim my odd shaped rock!" Gir
ran off triumphantly.

Zim went back to the lab. He noticed then that the
helmet he had been working on was gone. Gir then came running
into the lab shouting "Looky what I got looky!"
"Gir where is the reality helmet?!"
"The what?"
"The helmet that was right there!"
"Oh that, I traded that"
"You what!?"
"I traded the helmet thingy"
"For what?"
"This odd shaped rock" Gir showed Zim the rock smiling
"You traded my reality helmet for a stupid Rock!!"
"It not stupid it is odd shaped"
"Gir I need that helmet back who did you trade it to?"
"Ummmmmm Wait I know this one" Gir thought hard
"Don't tell me you forgot!"
Holds up one finger "It was... umm.. I forgot"
"Gir you really need to remember! Think harder!"
"I dunno" Gir continued to play with the rock.
Zim went over to a desk and opened a drawer. He reached
inside and pulled out a remote control. He pressed a button
on it. The remote beeped once and Gir looked up.
"What dat?" He asked pointing at the remote
"It is a tracker used to follow the tracking device
I put on the Helmet for just an occasion"
Zim went out of the lab with Gir tagging along behind
him.
"Go get your leash Gir!" commanded Zim "I have to
put on my disguise"
"yea yea ya" Gir ran over to the wall where his
leash hung. Gir grabbed it off the hook and pulled it down
quickly.
Zim came up behind him and clipped the leash to his
collar. Gir hopped around happily as Zim opened the door.
Zim watched the remote control's map showing the
helmet's current location. Gir trotted in front of him quickly.

Dib looked at the helmet before he put it on. A
green lense snapped down. He pressed one of the buttons on it's
side. The helmet zoomed in on a fire hydrent. The word "scan?"
came up on the helmet's lense. Dib pressed another button
on it's side. The word "scan?" changed to "Reading Data"
The following stats then showed up on the screen:
Name: Fire Hydrent
Class: Steal
Race: Appliance
Born: Unknown
Gender: none
Object: Inatimate
Age: Unknown
Then the words "Scan Complete" showed up. Dib contiued
by pressing another button. "Zooming" now appeared on the screen.
A close up picture of the Fire Hydrent showed up. Dib pressed
another button and the hydrent disappeared. It then locked onto
a dog 4 blocks from his current location. Dib pressed the scan button.
The following stats showed up on the screen:
Name: Gir
Class: Material/Metal
Race: Robot
Born: Unknown
Gender: Male
Object: Living
Age: Unknown
Then Dib saw Zim who was walking Gir. He pressed the
scan button. The following stats showed up on the screen:
Name: Tracking Device
Class: Metal
Race: Remote Control
Born: Unknown
Gender: none
Object: Inatimate
Age: Unknown
"Nooo not the remote" complained Dib "Scan Zim"
He began to rapidly press the scan button. The
screen then put up the following message:
You are being to quick for my processer. I need to
be shut down immediantly or I will explode. In 10-9-8...
Dib pulled off the helmet and set it down then pressed
a button on it's side. A green light on it's side turned off.
"Zim's probably looking for this thing with that
Tracker.. What's this?"
He noticed a little glowing blue device that turned off
then on. Dib took it off the helmet.
"Most likely the track signal Hmmmm.."
He saw a car stop at a stop sign. Dib quickly ran over
to the car and slapped the track signal onto it's bumper.

Zim watched the tracker control map. Then he saw the
location suddenly move quickly off the screen.
"What?!" Zim said in confusion "How could it go so
fast the tracker control can't even see it anymore"
Gir looked up a him "Why don't you make another helmet
Zim?"
"I can't do that I have no idea who has it and if
they scan me then they will know that I am not a human..."
"Ohhhhh" Gir said confused. He looked back up at Zim then
he stared forward and forgot all about it.
"Wait a minute Gir" said Zim "I know if the tracker
device can't see it beause of distance then why don't you
use your rockets and fly towards the location the helmet was
last seen"
"What?" Gir seemed confused
"Okay look" said Zim annoyed "Use your rockets and
fly us where I say alright?"
"Oh okay"
Gir turned on his rockets and began to fly towards the
location. In about 30 minutes they had reached a parked
car in a driveway.
"That's odd" said Zim inspecting the car "The helmet
doesn't seem to be around here at all"
Zim heard Gir laughing. He went around to the
back of the car to see Gir laughing at a small flashing blue
light on the car's bumper.
"Nooo!!" screamed Zim "The track signal got put onto
this car.... Now the helmet could be anywhere in this entire
city...."
Gir continued to laugh at the flashing blue light
on the car's bumper.

Dib had taken the helmet to his house, to avoid
being seen by Zim. He watched the helmet for a minute. Then
he picked it up and put it back on. The green lense snapped down.
The helmet wasn't on so he could not see through the dark
green lense.
"I think I'll just take this thing down where I'll
have plenty of things to scan. Just to get used to this thing"
Dib thought for a moment. "I know where to go"

Zim thought for a while. Gir was still laughing
at the flashing blue light. Gir stopped laughing and looked
up at Zim. He wached him think for a while.
"Now let's see if I were a human with a reality
helmet where would I be? Someplace with lots of things to scan
but where would that be?"
Gir watched Zim some more then gave a sugguestion
"How about a... ummmm.... here looky"
Gir reached into his head and pulled out a magazine
article. He gave it to Zim. Gir smiled happily at Zim while
he read the article.
"The zoo?" said Zim "Hmmmm... well it does have a lotta
animal.. things to scan. Alright then Gir use your rockets
to fly us to the zoo"
"Ahhh but I wanna walk" said Gir
"No Gir we need that helmet and walking is way too
slow"
"But I dun have any more fuel" said Gir
"Oh okay then let's just walk then" Zim sighed and
picked up Gir's leash. Although Zim didn't know it but Dib
was also going to be at the zoo....

It had been about an hour and Zim had finally made
it to the zoo. Gir shrieked in happiness upon seeing the
monkey cage. The monkey stood in one place an stared at Gir.
Gir began to mimick the monkey.
"Now Gir remember we are on a mission this isn't
supposed to be fun okay?"
"Ooo Ooo Oooo" Gir mocked the monkey some more
"Gir!! Pay attention" snapped Zim "We are on a
mission and cannot be distracted by anything"
Gir turned around and saluted "Yes sir!"
"Good then get away from that filthy animal thing
and let's go find that helmet"
"But I don't wanna leave the monkey" Gir hugged the
side of the monkey's cage. Then he looked up a Zim and
gave him the puppy dog face "I don't wanna leave the monkey
He'll miss me"
"Oh alright then, Gir you can stay here with that
filthy....thing and I'll go look for the reality helmet"
Gir smiled happily then he turned around and continued
to mock the monkey.
Zim rolled his eyes and turned away from Gir. He walked
away into the crowd.

Dib then walked up next to Gir and scanned the monkey.
Gir looked up at him. He saw the reality helmet and then began
to think "Hmmm I know that I am suppossed to remember something
about that helmet... something important..."
The monkey went over to the edge of it's display,
near Gir. Gir suddenly forgot about what he was thinking about and
began to once again mock the monkey.

Zim by now had reached the lion display, where there
was a crowd of people, due to feeding time. Zim leaned over the
edge of the diplay and looked downwards. The lion dispaly
was mostly composed of rocks. There was a good 10 foot drop
before the bottom of the display. There was a little cave
behind one of the many bushes in the display. Zim sighed and
watched the lion eat it's food like it had not been feed for
3 weeks. Slowly the crowd began to leave the display. The lion had
already eate it's food by now and had layed down to sleep.
Zim closed his eyes for a minute and relaxed. He sighed again.
"Stupid animal.." he muttered staring at the sleeping
animal. "Good for nothing lousy little-"
Something caught his eye, It was... Dib wearing the reality
helmet.
Zim, not wanting to be spotted hid behind the lion display.
Dib slowly walked over to the lion diplay and scanned the lion.
While Dib was busy scanning the lion, Zim slowly crept out from behind
the lion display. He slowly came up behind him. Then he quickly
took the helmet away.
"Hey" Dib quickly turned around and saw Zim
"I see Gir traded you my helmet" said Zim annoyed
"Well now looks like you don't have it anymore huh?"
Dib reached out and grabbed one side of the helmet.
"Noo!" screamed Zim "It's not yours!!"
They began to pull on each side of it. the front
of the helmet was pointed at Zim. Dib pressed the scan button.
The green lense snapped down over nothing and it began to scan Zim.
Zim saw his name appear on the lense but it was written
backwards since he was not wearing the helmet.
"Now all I have to do is show these stats to everyone
then they will finally believe me" Dib kicked Zim backwards
Zim let go of the helmet. Dib was preparing to put
it on when Gir came running around the corner screaming
"Look what I got looky!!"
Gir had a big ball of cotton candy in his hand. He
was also not paying any attention where he was going. He
collided into Dib and the helmet flew out of his hands.
"Nooo!!" Dib watched the helmet fall into the lion's
display. It hit the ground with a loud crack noise.
"That's okay" said Dib quickly "It's still good,
it's still good"
Zim got up and looked into the lion's display. The
crack of the helmet had woken up the lion. It got up and
causiously sniffed the helmet. It turned to walk away and it
stepped on the helmet, crushing it into a million little
pieces.
"That's okay" said Dib slowly "It's still good, it's
still-"
"It's gone" said Zim "And in great timing too"
Gir walked over to Zim and looked up at him.
"Oh yeah and Gir where did you get that thing..?"
"That's what I have been trying to tell you I traded
that monkey my odd shaped rock for it!" said Gir happily "but
now I can't have it at all because it got stuck in his hair"
Gir pointed at Dib.
"Huh?" Dib reached up and tried to pull it out. When
he touched it, it felt all slimy and slicked down. "Ick!
What happened to it?"
"Oh the monkey gave it to me like that I don't
know what is wrong with it"
Zim started to laugh at Dib. Gir, who didn't know
what was going on started to laugh too. Zim just turned away
and walked out the zoo exit.

THE END
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