(a lime green, female Irken with dark blue eyes and dressed in a dark blue Irken uniform walks in and waves to the readers)
?: Greetings, humans of planet Earth! I come in peace to bring you this tale of…well, mainly pure entertainment. I am Irken Firr. I am part of this story as well, but I will make myself known when the time is right. Before we start, I would also like to introduce my SIR unit, Tera.
(a light brown ferret with white paws padded into the room before turning into Tera and standing at Firr's side.)
Firr: Tera, greet the humans, if you please.
Tera: (waves and speaks in a feminine, robotic voice) Hello, humans!
Firr: Very well, let's get this done and over with. Invader Zim does not belong to my creator. The show and its characters are copyrighted to their original writers. My creator only owns me, Tera, and the humans in this story. Farewell until the next chapter comes. Irken Firr, signing off!
Tick, tock. Tick, tock. Tick, tock. Tick, tock.
Zim's cleverly disguised human eyes roamed around the clock, following the second hand rotate around the clock. It was a detestable bore to sit through and suffer through the useless lessons in the institution known as 'Skool.'
His eyebrows arched at the thought, Perhaps some improvements could be made once all of humankind is enslaved. Maybe install lasers, blades…YES! Many, many blades!
Zim started scribbling on the papers on his desk, continuing his ignoring of the lesson. He drew a model of the classroom with the human children inside, screaming in pain and agony at all the possible torturous scenarios for the people of Earth once his mission was complete and the human race was enslaved.
RING! RING!
"What?...ugh, not more of them," Bitters hung up the phone and distastefully announced to the class, "Terrible news, children. Two new students will be joining our class today. So keep your mouths SHUT!"
At that very second, the door blew open and in walked a girl and a boy. A good majority of the males in the class let their jaws drop. The only non-dumbfounded boys (mainly Zim, Dib, and one other boy whose name is not important enough to mention) either didn't pay the girl any mind or looked at her with only mild interest.
The girl in question was the age of the majority of the classroom, of course, but something about her made her seem more mature than most of them, though she did emit a sort of playfulness. She had brown hair which was held back by a white headband with a blue flower and bluish-green eyes that roamed around the room, probably either trying to read the reactions out of her new classmates or looking for an open seat that she would probably be put in. She wore a dark green turtleneck and black shorts with white sandals.
The boy had his dark brown eyes look around in complete disinterest with his fiery red bangs covering his forehead. He wore a black t-shirt with a white crescent moon on it, dark blue denim jeans, and black sneakers.
The girl walked up to Ms. Bitters' desk and handed her a slip, which she forcefully accepted. After briefly examining the slip, she threw it to the side,
"Class, this is Shay and Lilli. They will be joining our horrible class. Shay you sit…there! Next to Dib," she pointed her wrinkled finger to the front desk next to Dib's.
"Kay," Shay shrugged and walked casually over to his new desk.
"Lilli…meh, take that desk. The one behind Zim."
Lilli looked to where she pointed and went to the desk without a sound. She felt many of the eyes of the boys in the class on her and felt rather uncomfortable, but was actually happy to see the boy who sat in front of her didn't pay her much attention.
"Despite my dislike for happiness of any kind, the school board now instated a 'Welcoming Perimeter.' Everyone sitting near the new student must introduce themselves. Start now so we can move on with our doomed lives!" Ms. Bitters ordered, making most of the class shrink down in fear.
Awkwardly, they did as they were told.
"Uh…hey, Shay. I'm Dib. Expert paranormal investigator, at your service," Dib greeted, nervously sticking out his hand. The redhead looked down at the boys hand then back at his face.
"Hey," was all he said, shaking the boys hand before closing back up again. It wasn't until two minutes later that everyone had finished performing the 'Welcoming Perimeter.' Well, almost all of them.
"Psst! Zim!" the disguised Irken raised his head with a loud 'hmm!' and turned to his desk neighbor.
"How DARE you interrupt Zim when he is planniiing!" Zim bellowed, holding up his clenched fist, which broke the pencil he was holding in two. From behind him, Lilli blinked her large, bluish-green eyes and immediately went through her school bag.
"Planning what? Normal kids don't plan things!" Dib accused, the rest of the students inwardly groaning at the beginning of another string of alien accusations.
Immediately, Zim forced himself to relax and calmly correct, "No, no! I wasn't planning! I was merely…merely…"
"Doodling?"
"YES! Doodling is what I was doing and nothing else! I AM NORMAL!" Zim closed his eyes, a smug smile on his face. Both went away as he realized that he hadn't recognized the voice that had answered for him. "Eh?!"
He swiftly turned around, only to come face to face with…!
A pencil. He blinked at the pencil, then looked at Lilli's neutral face as she held it up to him. Her eyes roamed down to the ground and his followed, locating the broken pencil before looking back at her.
"Hi. I'm Lilli."
"Hmph! Weirdo…" Shay grumbled to himself turning his attention back to the front of the class as Zim took the pencil.
"H-here, Lilli! If you don't have another pencil, you can have mine!" Mikey anxiously shook as he held up a pencil, shaking and sweating quite noticeably. Zim narrowed his eyes as he observed the boy next to Lilli and his strange behavior. He had to admit that it was quite interesting to watch.
Lilli chuckled a bit, using her hand to gently push away the boy's hand and pencil, "Thank you, but I have plenty of pencils."
"Haaawww," Mikey swooned and fell to the ground, gaining a good amount of laughter from the rest of the class. All except for Lilli, Shay, Dib, and of course Zim, though he had a different thought in his mind.
What is THIS?! Is it…a mind control technique? Finally, something useful comes from the human worm-babies!
Lunchtime had come around and everything was as normal as it would get. Zim had gotten out of line with his own tray and looked around, his eyes watching for the human named 'Lilli' so he could gain more intelligence on the female's mind-controlling methods.
Finally, he spotted her in the middle of the cafeteria with the boy Shay. As they ate, they had tried to ignore the stares given to Lilli by the boys at the surrounding tables.
It appears that this human's methods are limited to only males. I must find out more.
Narrowing his eyes, Zim marched onward to the table, earning strange stares from people at other tables before they turned away.
"Away! You are not worthy to look upon ZIIIM!" he bellowed out to the rest of the cafeteria before casually sitting at the table across from Lilli. Many of the other students turned away from the table.
Lilli looked around, still chewing on the peanut butter sandwich from her packed lunch, "Impressive. Never saw anybody make a declaration like that and have people actually listen to him."
"Yes, yes, I am truly amazing to you, now tell me why it is that the pathetic fainting fools come to you! Tell me!"
Quirking an eyebrow, Lilli and Shay looked at each other before looking back at Zim. The Irken invader looked back and forth between the two, his face that of determination and seriousness.
"Hmph. Weirdo…" Shay muttered, going back to eating his packed lunch, only to grunt and cringe at Lilli elbowing him in his side.
"Be nice!" She hissed quietly to him with a slight glare, then told Zim, "Sorry, my brother can be edgy around new people."
It was as if he hadn't heard the words and asked/demanded harshly, "Why?! Tell me!"
Lilli raised an eyebrow, "Uh, what are you tal-"
"Tell me!"
Shay narrowed his eyes and growled up, "Shut up or I'll-"
"TELL ME!"
Lilli shrunk down a bit, both at Zim's raised voice and everyone turning to stare at the strange scene once again. Dib suddenly ran up to the table and slammed his palms onto it,
"NO! Lilli, whatever you know, whatever you're keeping a secret, don't tell him anything! He's an alien!"
All of the awkwardness and unease went away immediately and Lilli sat up straighter while furrowing her eyebrows, "Excuse me?"
While the sudden accusation was a surprise, the girl couldn't help but notice that Zim's authoritative demeanor disappeared and he tensed up dramatically. A very curious change in behavior over a silly statement, indeed.
"You heard me! He's an alien, don't you see it?!" Dib asked dramatically before pointing at Zim, "He has green skin! Who has green skin, anyway?!"
"Sick people and people with skin conditions," Lilli answered almost immediately. The faces of the people at the table changed to that of confusion, surprise, and very mild interest.
"Oh yeah?! Well…try to see him go outside in the rain! What normal human being gets burning skin from water?! Huh? Huh?!" Dib asked, his arms crossed with an expecting scowl. Zim was starting to grow more and more nervous, fearing that the new human would start to grow suspicious.
"Easy. With his skin condition, of course he's more than likely to become irritated by things such as rain if the toxicity levels here are higher than usual," Lilli replied again, frowning a bit in annoyance.
One by one, Zim and Shay watched as Lilli shot down each and every one of Dib's theories of the Irken's disguise. If it weren't for his dislike for the humans and his pride, Zim would admit that he was mildly impressed with her.
Hmm. Perhaps this human worm-baby will be more useful to me than I thought, Zim thought, a malicious grin starting to form on his face.