Chapter 1: Leaving
"Gir! Come down here!" Zim called. The small blue-eyed robot came crashing down the stairs, holding his brand new rubber piggy.
"I gots a new piggy! HIS NAME IS STEVE!" Gir yelled, pushing the pig in Zim's face.
"I don't CARE about your pig! I just want you to get in the voot!" Zim replied, pointing at the voot.
"Ok! But…where are we going?" Gir asked. The pink-eyed irken turned his work desk and picked up a piece of paper torn out of a textbook.
"Gir, have you ever realized we have been here forever and never made any progress? It's time for a change. Using this map, we will navigate the world, observing Earthlings at a better-than-average vantage point. IT'S THE PERFECT PLAN!" Zim declared. He turned to Gir, expecting praises to his brilliant plan.
"DANCE, PIGGY, DANCE!" Gir laughed, playing with his piggy.
"GIR! Did you hear a word I said?" Zim asked furiously. His only reply was Gir showing off his pig's poorly done dance moves. With a quick face palm, he returned to his work.
"This is it, Gaz! This is the day I finally catch Zim!" Dib declared proudly to his little sister. She wasn't paying much attention to her brother, too consumed in her Game Slave 2 to listen to anything.
"Your plan will just fail like every other time. By the way, did you have to drag me along?" Gaz asked.
"Of course I do," Dib replied, "I need a witness to my victory. I'm feeling extra confident today. It may just be my lucky start!" The two siblings made it to Zim's base in no time.
"Ok Gaz let me show you how it's done!" Dib said, walking confidently to the sidewalk. Suddenly, the eyes of Zim's gnomes started to glow. One by one, they shot lasers at Dib. He dodged them with a series of acrobatic maneuvers, eventually making it to the other side.
"Ok Gaz, try to do what I did!" Dib called from the other side. Rolling her eyes, Gaz stepped onto the sidewalk. To Dib's surprise, Gaz kept walking. The lasers didn't even touch her.
"Ok, Sherlock, how do we get in?" Gaz asked, arriving at the door. Dib waved aside his shock and showed her to the side of the house. There was a hole just big enough to crawl through.
"This leads straight into Zim's base. For misunderstood visionaries everywhere!" he declared, hopping into the hole. Gaz simply walked away, paying her crazy brother no mind.
Meanwhile, Dib had landed in Zim's base. Soon realizing Zim was nowhere to be found, he began his investigation. There were many contraptions that made Dim just squeal with excitement as he took their picture. Then, out of nowhere, a giant claw grabbed him.
"Hey, what's the big idea?" Dib screamed at the computer. He got no reply, and he ascended upward until he was dropped in the voot room. Quickly noticing Zim in the corner, he dove behind the voot, where he ran into Gir.
"Hi! Wanna see my piggy?" Gir yelled, shoving the pig in Dib's arms. Dib quickly pushed it back in Gir's hands.
"You don't like piggy?" Gir asked, tears forming in his eyes. Gir scrunched up in a ball and, much to Dib's surprise, started screaming at the top of his lungs.
"GIR! What's going on back there?" Dib heard Zim say. Dib dove into the trunk of the voot.
"Hey, Dib," he heard a familiar voice say. It was Gaz, playing her Game Slave 2.
"Gaz, why are you up here," Dib asked, "and how did you get here?"
"I figured you would need my help. Usually your extra confidence leads to failure upon failure, and I'd probably get in trouble if dad found out some thing happened to you. As for how I got up here, I used the back entrance," Gaz replied, eyes glued to her video game screen. Then, they heard what they thought was the engine start.
"Quick, Gaz! Get the trunk open!" Dib yelled. Gaz rolled her eyes and threw the trunk door open.
"DIB! WHAT ARE YOU DOING IN MY BASE?" Zim yelled. Gaz had opened the trunk to find out Zim was standing right behind it. He pushed a button, and suddenly the two siblings were roped and knocked out.
When the two woke up, they found Zim in the driver's seat.
"Zim, what did you do to us? Where's your robot assistant?" Dib yelled.
"Oh, I kidnapped you. Gir's in the trunk. I couldn't stand to have him in the front. I need to keep an eye on you two. Plus I couldn't stand having him sing another round of the Doom Song," Zim said, shuddering at the memory of Gir's song.
"So, what are you going to do with us? I'm sure you've come up with a plan," Gaz said sarcastically.
"In fact I have, Earthling. I have created plan to go around the world, observing the weakness of humans outside your filthy city. I'm not letting you out of my sight until we're done. I don't want you turning in any evidence," Zim explained with a sinister expression on his face.
"Thanks for telling us your plan. Now we have an excuse as to why we missed class," Dib laughed.
"That doesn't matter. I've already created a robot to take my place. Of course, I told computer to create two robots to take yours just before we left," Zim snickered.
"Hey, I wonder where Zim and Dib are. I can't stand it when I don't get to make fun of Dib," Zita whined.
"Yeah, I know. It's not like them. But I guess we should be happy they're gone," Mary replied, fiddling with her eraser.
"Greetings, fellow humans," came two robotic voices. Everyone turned to face the door, where two robots that looked identical to Dib and Zim stood.
"Hey Dib, your head looks bigger than usual!" Poonchy declared. The Dib robot completely ignored Poonchy and returned to Dib's desk.
"I'm talking to you, Dib! What's the alien accusation today? Or are you going to stick with Zim?" Poonchy teased. The whole class erupted with laughter.
"Your comment does not compute. Initiating hibernation mode." The Dib robot said. Then suddenly, his face fell into the desk.
"Isn't Dib acting weird today? He's weirder than usual," Melvin commented. This was followed by a series of nods.
"Hey Zim, what do you think? He did come to school with you," M said. The Zim robot just sat in his seat and continued to stare off into space.
"Quiet down, class," said Ms Bitters, appearing behind her desk from the shadows, "Today we'll be learning about how to prepare for your eventually doomed lives." The Zim robot raised his had.
"Yes, Zim?" Ms. Bitters asked with an annoyed tone.
"If we are all doomed, then why are we sitting in class?" Zim's robot said in a metallic voice.
"I conquer," the Dib robot said, "We are wasting our lives. Life should be lived to the fullest. PRISON BREAK!" The robot then sent a missile through the ceiling. The whole class erupted in applause.
"Wow Dib, you're cooler than I thought. Come on everyone, let's go outside and live our lives!" Zita yelled. The whole class cheered and ran out the door, the two robots being carried like heroes.
TBC…