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The Ally?
By: Chaotica
Gaz glanced around. Something was different about lunch. Then she realized Dib wasn't sitting beside her. She looked around the table then the lunchroom. If he was bothering Zim again she'd make it life even more of a hell that it already was.
She saw him standing alone by the lunchroom entrance. He was leaning against the wall like he was waiting for someone. She shrugged and looked back down at her paused game then to her half eaten lunch.
She suddenly had the feeling she was being watched. She looked up to see Zim standing behind her. As a Junior in high school he was somewhat different than back when he was in the fifth grade. Taller for one thing and a little more mellow than his days in grade skool.
Zim for his part considered the advanced height a byproduct of some mineral or nutrient found on Earth. He couldn't identify half of them on his own. And though his hair did look more 'normal', there was nothing he could do about his skin or lack of nose and ears. Though the majority of humans accepted the 'skin condition' excuse.
"What?" She asked.
"Your brother, what is he doing now?" Zim asked taking a seat beside her.
"I don't know. He's your sworn enemy." She said letting her Game Slave dangle from its wrist strap.
Zim glared in Dibs' general direction. "Could it have anything to do with that new girl?"
"What new girl?" Gaz asked before braving a bite of her 'meat' sandwich.
"I believe her name is Ami. She reminds me of Dib."
"You mean she's an obsessive nerd that wears a trench coat so she looks like she's interesting?" Gaz asked off hand.
He nodded. "Something like that yes."
"So you think Dib has convinced her you're an alien?"
"Perhaps."
Gaz glanced back at her brother. Some girl with short blue hair was standing beside him. He was talking to her then he pointed over to where Zim was then stopped dead. She could almost feel the anger boiling off him seeing his enemy so close to his sister.
"Uh oh, nerd boy saw us within ten feet of each other." She said pushing her tray away.
Zim narrowed his eyes and muttered under his breath before turning to her. "Well then I'd better go." He got up. "See you later Gaz."
"Hm, bye." She said un-pausing her game.
"What were you doing with him?"
She stuttered on the buttons barely managing to press pause before she lost any major points. She glared up at him and he recoiled a bit.
"I was five seconds from winning this level. What you have to say had better be important."
Dib glanced nervously at the girl next to him. "Uh, Ami, this is Gaz my sister."
Ami and Gaz exchanged looks.
"Hello." Ami finally said.
"Don't listen to Dib, he's on crack. He was also dropped as a child. A lot." Gaz said. "Zim is perfectly normal."
"He said worm baby after that." Dib said.
"And you once told Gramma Deedee that you had alien transmitters implanted all over your body. When you showed her the places they had put them in we had to rush you to the hospital for a severe case of Chicken Pox." Gaz said rolling her eyes at her brother.
"Ehehe." He laughed nervously. "I was five."
Ami looked amused. "Uh come on Dib. You can tell me more about some of the things you've seen." She took his arm and led him away. She glanced over her shoulder to Gaz and waved bye.
Well, at least she had taken dork-boy away from her.
Gaz was about to start her game up when a slightly green flash caught her attention in the corner of her eye. She looked up. Zim was sitting at his usual table actually watching her.
His eyes didn't leave her even when she had spotted him. He looked around then motioned for her to look down. She did and found the oddest looking piece of folded paper. It was no folding design she had ever seen.
She looked back up at Zim and he nodded. She picked it up and found it was actually very easy to open.
It read:
Gaz,
I was wondering if you would mind if I came over to your house today. Perhaps we could cause some problems for Dib together.
Zim
She pulled a pen from her back and wrote her reply then amazingly folded the paper back to how it was. She got up and took her tray to put it up. On her way she passed Zim and dropped the note in front of him.
He watched her walk off then opened it.
Zim,
Good idea. Come by after skool around four if you can. If all else fails we can play tournament on my Slave Station.
Gaz
He smiled to himself. She would let him go near her game systems? This might work out better than he had imagined.
* * *
Dib walked slowly to his home. Ami believed him! Not only did she believe him but she liked him! This was the best day of his young life. The next best day of his life would be when he proved to the world that Zim was an alien.
He opened the door and went in. "Gaz, I'm home! Is dad here yet?"
"Dib shut up! We're on the eighth level of 'Total Doom'!"
We?
He went towards Gazs' computer room. His jaw would have hit the floor if it could have.
"What are you doing here?" He demanded.
Zim didn't look up. "I'm playing a game you blind human. Now shut up."
Dib stared in disbelief at his sister and that alien scum.
"Get out!" Dib grabbed Zim by his jacket that had a 'Z?' symbol on the back.
"Dib! Let him go! Right now!" Gaz shrieked. She pressed pause on automatic and stood up.
Dib had seen her angry. She was really pissed off at the moment.
"He's an alien Gaz!"
"I know that!" She yelled in his face. "I'm not stupid you know!"
Both Zim and Dib stared at her blankly.
"What?" Dib asked letting go of Zim.
"Oh come off it Dib. We are from the same gene pool you know. I'm just not obsessive about it." She crossed her arms.
Both males just blinked.
"You, knew? For how long?" Zim finally asked.
"Since I noticed you were green." She said a bit more sarcastically than she had intended. "You both go on trying to prove that the other is either an alien or crazy. Sides I also found those pictures Dib was babbling about in grade skool in my game bag."
"You had them? And you didn't give them to me?" Dib asked. "How could you?"
She rolled her eyes. "Dib just shut up will you? I liked Zim too much to see him get turned in by you of all people."
Zim stared at her. She had known? This Goth-ish human female that was overly obsessed with games and could not understand the words 'anger management'. This human knew and said nothing? How, Irkan of her.
"Now, can we get back to our game Dib or did you want to pull on his hair again?" Gaz asked.
"Uh." Dib was at a loss for words.
Gaz motioned at Zim to sit and the two continued while Dib continued his silent vigil.
Dib finally shook everything off and went to his room. Not that either Zim or Gaz minded that fact.
The game was finally won, Gaz of course.
"Gaz." He said setting his controller down.
"Hmm?"
"What do you know about me?"
"Not much, you're an alien.
"Do you know why I'm here?" He asked.
She put down her controller. "Nope, don't care." She said giving him a look that said just that on it's own.
He stood up. "I have to go. I'll see you later Gaz." He turned for the door.
"Okay, just don't take over the world." She said.
He paused and looked at her. She wasn't facing him and had turned her Slave Station back on.
How much did she really know? She was quite the actor. He had seen her in her classes Goth-rendition of Alice in Wonderland. She had played Alice of all parts. Of course it had fit her. That version of Alice had been a killer psycho.
He went out the door and headed for home thinking the whole time.
Gaz had known. She had known he was an alien when she had told him about a party she was going to a few years ago. She had known when she had showed him how to use a Game Slave. She had known when they had become fairly good friends last year.
That means she had known when she had been drunk at a party and had fallen asleep on his shoulder.
He finally reached home and went in.
His robot parents no longer greeted him at the door. Instead they went about on preprogrammed activities around the house.
Gir wasn't around so he wouldn't immediately get in Zims' way.
He sat down on the couch. What was he to do now that he knew that she knows?
After a long time he came to a conclusion. She was his ally, perhaps she could help him in his quest.
Yes. That was a good idea. She could help him.