Zim produced his metallic legs and pinned Dib to the wall, aiming the alien device at his head and grinning smugly. I stood in the doorway, sighing at the scene before me. To be honest, I'd given up and trying to break this fight up, I couldn't actually remember how this had started. Something along the usual… Something tugged at my sleeve; GIR peeled back the lid of his skull and tilted towards me. A giggle escaped me; his head was completely filled with popcorn.

I shrugged, and grabbed a handful, it looked like we were going to be here for a while anyway. And this time, I didn't want to be here either. I'd been spending the past few days hiding in my room because of… Girl purposes… Look, long story short I wasn't in a good mood, my stomach hurt like hell and I needed one more night before I was willing to put up with this crap again, okay?

"It's over, Dib, you will always be second rate next to Zim!"

"Yeah right, space-boy!"

I sighed again. Wow this was getting repetitive and my mood wasn't improving. Why did Dib force me to come here anyway? It wasn't like I was missing anything! I stepped forward and started altering my voice, one minute to sound determined and sly like Dib, the next loud and exaggerated like Zim, using air quotes and leaning from one side to the other to signify different character.

"There's no escape this time Dib-monkey!... Oh yeah, Zim? Well I just so happen to have my alien sleep-cuffs on me!... And those have worked so well before! I mock you Dib-filth, behold as Zim mocks you! Bwahahaha!... Mock me all you want lizard! But I'll be the one laughing when you're on an autopsy table! … Take a blast from my ray-gun human!..." now my tone was getting sarcastic and over-dramatic but I didn't care, "Oh look Zim, I avoided it and it's backfired on you… Oh but look human, now it's had some random effects on you too!... Oh yeah but they're fixed now!... True, now I'll come and get you again!... No you won't space-monster cuz I'm already leaving!... Oh not again, Zim shall get you tomorrow!... Yeah same time same place!...

I stopped when I noticed that my voice had gotten a lot louder and the two had paused what they were doing and looking at me with symmetrical expressions of surprise and confusion. Heads tilted to the side as their eyes widened dramatically. GIR stared at me, popcorn falling from his mouth that was hanging open in bemusement. I huffed and folded my arms, leaning against the wall again.

"Uh, Amy, are you okay?" Dib asked anxiously.

I scoffed, "Oh me? I'm fine, I'm always fine, aren't I? I've just played out the entire say so we can cut it short, why wouldn't I be okay?"

Admittedly, I was being a little harsh, but I had my reasons and I chose to feel bad about it later. But right at that moment, I just wanted to go home and curl up in bed where all life couldn't get to me and my hot-water bottle could be my best friend. However, my dreams of this were soon crushed. Why? There started talking again.

"Well you seem a bit, on edge?" Dib muttered.

Zim waved his hand passively, "Clearly the Amy-worm is worried about her severe injury."

"What injury?" Dib asked, eyes darting in panic.

I froze, this was not going to end well. How did Zim… Oh no, I remember now, he had stronger senses and could pick up things in the air with his tongue like a snake. A cold shudder came over me, this was just getting awkward and disgusting. Not to mention downright embarrassing. I just wanted to get out now, so I turned to walk away.

"I'm fine. Zim," I warned, "I'm not injured, so please shut up…"

Zim quirked his antenna in confusion, "But, Zim can taste it in the air, you must be injured severely to be bleeding as such, yet Zim sees no injury."

Oh dear god he said it… Dib looked at me closely from head to toe, he made momentary eye contact with me, to which I glared. He flinched and paled at realisation.

"Uh, space-boy, you may want to leave her alone." Dib muttered.

"And why is that Dib-worm? Don't you want your mate to be healed?"

He smacked his hand to his head, "There's honestly nothing I can do for her right now."

"Oh that's right!" I snapped, "Who's 'her'? Who's the 'mate'? I have a name and I'm right here!"

Zim hesitated, "See, her injury must be pretty unsettling to create such an aggressive change in attitude."

Oh he had no idea…

"Uh, Amy, why don't you go home?" Dib offered, "I uh… sorry I kinda dragged you, you know, down here…"

Seriously? That's what he was going with?

"You're sorry? Sorry? Seriously, you're sorry? When I say that I need a few days to myself, I do not mean myself and everybody else. Yet there you go, demanding I come along and like an idiot I do so that you don't get your but kicked too badly! And you know what? I'm sick of your obsession with aliens twenty-four-seven! And you!" I turned to point at Zim, "Zim, I'm not injured and I seriously suggest you pay attention in biology if you know what's good for you" Now, if you two don't mind, I'm going home and I'll let you know when I'm ready to see you!"

Before they could reply, I turned on my heel and stormed out of the room, slamming the door behind me and leaving them in a state of frozen awe. They both didn't dare to move, slowly their heads tilted to look at one another. Zim shrugged.

"Zim recommends an Earth healer of some sort perhaps…"

Dib rolled his eyes, "She's fine, just take her word for it, okay? You know what, I don't feel like trying to find out your plans today…"

Zim stared at Dib in confusion as he crossed the room. Any chance to get rid of Dib was welcomed, but he was still harbouring a few questions.

"So what is the problem with the she-human?"

"I'm not explaining anything to you, Space-monster!"

"But Zim can sense the earthling life-fluid!" he ran his tongue over his lips, "Although it had an unfamiliar tas -"

Dib clamped his hands over his ears "I'm not listening to this!"

The next morning, I had to admit that I felt loads better, and for good reason. It was over. And I felt… guilty as hell! Oh god I was a horrible person shouting at them like that! Oh they were going to be so miffed! I knew I'd feel guilty sooner or later… I quickly got changed and started to make my way to Dib's house. I kind of figured that he was the one I should make up with first considering I'd shouted at him the most.

I knocked on his door and waited patiently. The door opened a few inches to reveal a pair of curious eyes watching me behind rounded glasses. They blinked in surprise at the sight of me and opened the door a little wider. I smiled sheepishly.

"Hey…"

"Hi…" Dib muttered, cheeks turning rosy, "You, uh… feeling better?"

My cheeks burned, "I'm so sorry, I just -"

He held out his hand to stop me, "Don't be, you forget I live with Gaz, I'm used to temper tantrums of all kinds."

I arched my brow, placing my hands on my hips, "Temper tantrums?"

His pupils dilated, "Oh, no no no, that came out wrong! I didn't mean temper tantrums like… you know… I meant… strops."

"Strops?"

"Not strops!" he threw his arms out defensively, "More like…"

I held out my hand as if I was handing him something, "Would you like a shovel to go with that hole you're digging yourself into?"

He deflated and took the imaginary object, "That would help, thanks…"

I smiled and relaxed myself, "I am really sorry about snapping at you yesterday, I didn't mean it."

Dib folded his arms, "Even the bit about being sick of my alien obsession?"

"Not even that! I've got nothing against you and the paranormal, heck, I'd be a hypocrite if I was but, you've got to admit, you do tend to go nuts on aliens. Namely Zim. I just think, why not have a bit of variety? Take a look at some other phenomena out there? We found aliens, ghosts… there's loads and we are only looking at one, over and over again. Maybe, we should take a breather? Zim could come with us too if he wanted!" why wasn't he stopping my babbling? "Now it's not that I don't like seeing Zim because you know I do and it's fun every time but maybe… I don't know it's just we're ignoring so much else and -"

He pretended to rummage in his pocket and hold out his hand, "Maybe you need the shovel more than I do?"

I smirked, refusing to let him turn it around on me, "Oh, so you did have something in your pocket, I wasn't sure and didn't want to embarrass you by pointing it out."

He narrowed his eyes, but then relaxed and smirked along with me. By this point, my cheeks were flaming, why can't I ever keep my mouth shut? Dib suddenly noticed that he still hadn't invited me in and that we were still on his doorstep. He cleared his throat and stepped aside to let me in. We went up to his room where he sat on the computer chair while I perched on the edge of the bed. He folded his arms and smiled softly.

"So what other phenomena do you have in mind?"

I shook my head, "No ignore me, I'm not going to be the pushy girlfriend who tries to change the boyfriend over a stupid hormonal relapse; so forget I said anything, okay? I'm happy with what we do and it wouldn't be the same otherwise so… Why are you grinning like that?"

He shrugged, cheeks flushing, "Nothing… I just, you know, never heard you say boyfriend and girlfriend talking about, you know, us…"

I couldn't help but grin, "Yeah… I guess not. Do you find that weird?"

"Well, no… Not if you don't."

And a successful topic avoidance completed!

"Tell you what, I'll print off a list of different kinds of paranormal and we can tick them off?" Dib suggested, spinning in his chair to face the computer.

I groaned inwardly and face-palmed. I came around here to get rid of guilt and now I'd managed to gain a truck load more of it! In total honesty, I had no problem with the routine we had, it meant I got to see Zim and GIR and my plans to push Zim and Gaz together could go more smoothly! But then I had to go and open my mouth! Dib always chose to take me seriously for the wrong reasons! Within minutes, he'd printed off two sheets of paper, handing one to me.

On it was a long list of names and definitions of creatures from aliens to vampires, ghosts to pixies. He started running through them and ticking off a few. Aliens were naturally the first to be ticked, along with ghosts, chicken-foot (what on earth was a chicken-foot?), demons and rat-people. I insisted on crossing out vampire too because of my Ms. Bitters theory. After some debate, he finally agreed and placed a tick next to it. Admittedly, this was fun, and I didn't feel as guilty as I did earlier. But that was as long as he didn't bring my babbling back up again.

"So which one do you want to search for first?"

I blinked, "What?"

"Well, considering the alien is almost in my grasp, it wouldn't hurt to look for other paranormal oddities out there, that'll really bring my name out in Mysterious Mysteries!"

"Dib, I know what you're doing." I smirked, "You're trying to twist it so that I think this is something you want to do when actually you're trying to please me. Aliens are your thing! I'm not gonna make you change that and besides, it's fun!"

He rolled his eyes, "I know you have fun! But, looking at it… there's sort of a lot of stuff that's still out there…"

"So, you want to go looking for more paranormal stuff? And not because of me?"

He nodded, "Yeah, and it'll be the perfect trap for Zim! Think about it! If he thinks we're off looking for other stuff, he'll think that he's off the hook and that means he'll be more careless. Then when he's in a false sense of security and least expects it, that alien's going all over the TV!"

"I've told you about how I feel with Zim being exposed…" I sighed playfully.

Dib smirked and shoved my shoulder playfully, "Let me have my moment?"

"Moment away!" I smirked, lifting my hands in surrender.

By the time I'd left Dib's, I had lifted most of my guilt. And I figured, why was I worrying about Dib taking a gander at other paranormal stuffs? We did go on trips together for Big-Foot, squirrel-mutants and imps before. Even if they were a long time ago. Maybe it was good we were getting back in the habit? Hmmm, but leading Zim into a false sense of security didn't sit well with me. Even if it was just banter, hopefully. Ah well, whatever happened, it was bound to be amusing in some sense.

It wasn't long before I was walking down into my street. Zim's house loomed up ahead. Just as I was walking past, I stopped and looked down the pathway towards his front door. Really, I should go for a visit to apologise. He didn't know what was going on and even though I didn't say anything of great insult to him, I still snapped. Just as I was going to take a step forward, my foot caught on something. I looked down and noticed what looked like the handle of a leash around my ankle.

The red leather snaked down the sidewalk to a familiar green dog. It grinned and waved before running in circles around my legs, forcing my legs bound together. I lost my balance and toppled over to the ground. As soon as I was down, GIR sprinted for the house, dragging me along behind him. There was no point in complaining, it would only make him more excitable, so I waited him out. My head bumped uncomfortably against the step before the front door and the tiles on the living room floor made me shudder. Finally GIR stopped and allowed me to unravel myself. Just as I was getting to my feet, a voice from behind made me jump.

"Come to apologise to Zim, have we?"

I smirked, "I am actually."

"You dare defy the almighty…" he arched his eye at me, "Say that again."

"I'm sorry for snapping yesterday, I was… having an off day."

"Do not try to explain yourself human, Zim did in fact look over his biology notes as told." He shuddered, "You humans get more repulsive every day."

I reddened, "If you say so. Look, I'm really sorry and I didn't mean to snap. Truce?"

He folded his arms and nodded curtly, "Zim shall be gracious enough to ignore your fault in tone, yes."

"Awe! Now give a friendship hug!" GIR urged.

I smirked and moved closer, to which Zim swatted at me irritably. As I dodged him, a sheet of folded paper slipped out from my back pocket and drifted to the floor. Zim snatched it up and examined the contents with great suspicion.

"What is this?"

"Shopping list!" GIR cried.

"It's just a list of paranormal stuff." I didn't want to sell Dib out, but I didn't want to lie either, so I played banter, "Awe, will Zim get lonely if another paranormal form takes mine and Dibs attention away form you?"

"Pfft! Zim would welcome the peace!" hw screwed up the paper and tossed it aside, "Speaking of which, Zim has achieved his goal of making the Amy-worm grovel, you can leave now."

I smiled, "If you say so, Zimmers. I'll see you around, okay?"

He tilted his head slightly and nodded in understanding as I left out of the door. Instantly, he dived to the side and flattened the paper back out, scanning the names and descriptions.

"Did you hear that GIR? If the Dib-worm has his mind occupied hunting down another creature, then Zim would be free to complete the latest set of plans without interruption! We must find something from this list and plant it by the Dib… Oh to see his face when he discovered that I, Zim, fooled his giant head once again… But what to choose?"

GIR shrugged, not really paying attention and watched his master stab his finger at each label before shaking his head and moving on.

"Now, it cannot be too big or dangerous, Irk knows we can't have it turning on us now… but it must be quick and cunning, we want it to take up a lot of the Dibs time! AHA!" Zim grinned and one name in the 'S' section, "This one will do perfectly…"

A/N:

So thanks to all who voted in my poll, out of the 5 people that voted, all 5 wanted Amy in this crossover so, wish granted! Wow, I didn't know she was so liked! Thanks again XD

Also, sorry if this chapter wasn't so good, it's just setting the stage and it will get better in time, Smurfs will be appearing in the next chapter! Please review and let me know what you think of this idea so far XD