1st Chapter: Night Air - by X-KAT
Disclaimer: I don't own any of these IZ characters. (duh, and we all know who really does, don't we.)
The night air was crisp and clean. Dib drew in a long breath and savored it. He had always loved the night air, it helped him think. He lay on his roof staring at the sky, wondering how such a peaceful display of glistening stars could bring such trouble. Zim. He cringed as he thought of the name. Before Zim came Dib had thought that meeting an alien would be a wonderful thing, and a frontier towards a new breed of science. Dib had been thinking of a peaceful alien, an equally curious alien who respectfully wanted to learn. Instead, Dib had received from the heavens an invader: a heartless, egotistical creature who loved nothing more then destruction. Time after time, Dib had to stop Zim, but each victory was a narrow victory. How could he stop Zim for good?
"Dib, come in for bed!" Gaz called to her brother, bitterness in her voice, "Dad says you think too much about crazy things when you're up there."
"All right, I'm coming." Dib responded after being jerked from his thoughts. " But I do NOT think about crazy things!"
"Yeah, whatever, just get in here before I hurt you with some kind of blunt object."
Just then, an explosion that sent Dib falling off the roof went off beside Gaz. Gaz flew into the air and landed beside Dib.
"Gaz!" Dib gasped.
She had been knocked unconscious, but was basically all right. Dib hurriedly carried Gaz into the house, and wasn't surprised when he heard that all too familiar cackle of Zim coming from outside.
"Mwa! Ha! Ha! Seems as if I missed", jeered Zim while holding some kind of irken rocket launcher, "Oh well, I will just have to try again!"
Dib ran outside, not wanting a rocket to go into his house and hurt Gaz more then she already was. He jumped over and into a bush just as another rocket exploded behind him. Zim walked to the bush to get a clear shot, but Dib used this to his advantage and did something Zim was obviously NOT expecting.-He jumped out towards Zim, scaring Zim and making him lower the rocket launcher.
"Curse you, earth-monkey!" Zim yelled, "How dare you try to scare an irken invader! Just accept your fate and give up!"
"Give up?!?" Dib yelled back while zig-zaging behind trees, "That's one more thing you have to learn Zim, us humans will never just 'give up'."
I must admit that I have seen that humans aren't as pathetic as I thought they were 7 years ago when I first came to earth." Zim responded, all the while shooting random rockets at Dib. " But you still haven't given me a good reason why I shouldn't destroy your race."
"Yes, and I admit you aren't as stupid as you look", Dib smirked in between gasps of breath, "But you still haven't given me a good reason why I shouldn't just kick you like a football because you are the same size that you were 7 years ago.very, VERY, short."
That did it. That crossed the line. The standard soft spot of every irken.
Adrenaline now filled Zim's whole body, giving his reflects and accuracy a boost. Enough of a boost anyway to land one almost directly where Dib was standing, sending him flying headfirst and landing with a thump.Right in front of Zim.- And a fuming Zim at that.
"Um.I'm Sor-sorry .Zim, I.." A stuttering Dib started knowing his life was on the line.
"Silence!" Yelled an almost beet-red Zim. " You will now meet the DOOM that you most readily deserve!"
Zim raised the immense gun and pointed it directly at Dib's forehead. He narrowed his eyes as a sly sneer grew across his face. Dib looked down the wide barrel of the gun, and a thought hit him. He quickly grabbed an equally wide branch from a smoking nearby tree and jammed it into the gun barrel nanoseconds before the rocket could escape.
BOOM!!! The explosion knocked both human and irken into the air and they both collided into trees.
Dib was the first to tremble back onto his feet. He saw Zim, still unconscious, and decided it was time for Zim to pay for the pain he had caused. He walked, or rather limped since a piece of debris had shoved itself into his left ankle, over to Zim ready to finish what he had started 7 years ago. Then Zim stirred, his backpack came to life and lifted its owner up. Zim merely glanced at Dib with a mixture of hatred and pain, and his spider legs came into action and carried him quickly away.
"Oww!" Dib yelped suddenly having the painful realization that his ankle was fractured and bleeding. Dib also had another realization, maybe the key plan he had been searching for all this time.Zim's little attack had given Dib an idea.
Disclaimer: I don't own any of these IZ characters. (duh, and we all know who really does, don't we.)
The night air was crisp and clean. Dib drew in a long breath and savored it. He had always loved the night air, it helped him think. He lay on his roof staring at the sky, wondering how such a peaceful display of glistening stars could bring such trouble. Zim. He cringed as he thought of the name. Before Zim came Dib had thought that meeting an alien would be a wonderful thing, and a frontier towards a new breed of science. Dib had been thinking of a peaceful alien, an equally curious alien who respectfully wanted to learn. Instead, Dib had received from the heavens an invader: a heartless, egotistical creature who loved nothing more then destruction. Time after time, Dib had to stop Zim, but each victory was a narrow victory. How could he stop Zim for good?
"Dib, come in for bed!" Gaz called to her brother, bitterness in her voice, "Dad says you think too much about crazy things when you're up there."
"All right, I'm coming." Dib responded after being jerked from his thoughts. " But I do NOT think about crazy things!"
"Yeah, whatever, just get in here before I hurt you with some kind of blunt object."
Just then, an explosion that sent Dib falling off the roof went off beside Gaz. Gaz flew into the air and landed beside Dib.
"Gaz!" Dib gasped.
She had been knocked unconscious, but was basically all right. Dib hurriedly carried Gaz into the house, and wasn't surprised when he heard that all too familiar cackle of Zim coming from outside.
"Mwa! Ha! Ha! Seems as if I missed", jeered Zim while holding some kind of irken rocket launcher, "Oh well, I will just have to try again!"
Dib ran outside, not wanting a rocket to go into his house and hurt Gaz more then she already was. He jumped over and into a bush just as another rocket exploded behind him. Zim walked to the bush to get a clear shot, but Dib used this to his advantage and did something Zim was obviously NOT expecting.-He jumped out towards Zim, scaring Zim and making him lower the rocket launcher.
"Curse you, earth-monkey!" Zim yelled, "How dare you try to scare an irken invader! Just accept your fate and give up!"
"Give up?!?" Dib yelled back while zig-zaging behind trees, "That's one more thing you have to learn Zim, us humans will never just 'give up'."
I must admit that I have seen that humans aren't as pathetic as I thought they were 7 years ago when I first came to earth." Zim responded, all the while shooting random rockets at Dib. " But you still haven't given me a good reason why I shouldn't destroy your race."
"Yes, and I admit you aren't as stupid as you look", Dib smirked in between gasps of breath, "But you still haven't given me a good reason why I shouldn't just kick you like a football because you are the same size that you were 7 years ago.very, VERY, short."
That did it. That crossed the line. The standard soft spot of every irken.
Adrenaline now filled Zim's whole body, giving his reflects and accuracy a boost. Enough of a boost anyway to land one almost directly where Dib was standing, sending him flying headfirst and landing with a thump.Right in front of Zim.- And a fuming Zim at that.
"Um.I'm Sor-sorry .Zim, I.." A stuttering Dib started knowing his life was on the line.
"Silence!" Yelled an almost beet-red Zim. " You will now meet the DOOM that you most readily deserve!"
Zim raised the immense gun and pointed it directly at Dib's forehead. He narrowed his eyes as a sly sneer grew across his face. Dib looked down the wide barrel of the gun, and a thought hit him. He quickly grabbed an equally wide branch from a smoking nearby tree and jammed it into the gun barrel nanoseconds before the rocket could escape.
BOOM!!! The explosion knocked both human and irken into the air and they both collided into trees.
Dib was the first to tremble back onto his feet. He saw Zim, still unconscious, and decided it was time for Zim to pay for the pain he had caused. He walked, or rather limped since a piece of debris had shoved itself into his left ankle, over to Zim ready to finish what he had started 7 years ago. Then Zim stirred, his backpack came to life and lifted its owner up. Zim merely glanced at Dib with a mixture of hatred and pain, and his spider legs came into action and carried him quickly away.
"Oww!" Dib yelped suddenly having the painful realization that his ankle was fractured and bleeding. Dib also had another realization, maybe the key plan he had been searching for all this time.Zim's little attack had given Dib an idea.