Yes! Second chapter! And I have now updated all three stories in one night! YIPEEE!
Sorry if it's a short one, I'll make it up to you by having something happen in the next one :) For now though, revel in the failure of this fanfic and comment on how much you love or hate it, even ask question which I may or may not answer :P
ENJOY!
Dib groaned his head spinning as he heard a faint voice in the darkness. Dib, Dib, Dib… It sounded familiar, but his senses were too blurry to make anything else out. All he could do was listen and try to process whatever was calling hi-
"Dib-stink!" Zim's ear-piercing shriek made Dib jump with a yell before he fell backwards onto his back again due to dizziness. He forgot, he was on a ship. In space. With Zim. Blinking a couple of times, he found his glasses on as he could see the alien clearly in front of him, smirking. Slowly getting up, he felt something unusually tight around his neck, and looked at the alien with burning hate in his eyes. What did he do to me now?
"Zim, what is this?" He half-slurred, pointing a limp finger to the collar-like device.
"Oh, that. It is a simple piece of modified Irken equipment, Dib-monkey."
"Will it explode if I leave the ship?" Dib asked, an eyebrow raised in suspicion.
"No, don't be a stupid smelly poo. It allows the user to adapt to certain environments quickly and efficiently, in your current case, space in general." Zim stated, raising a claw as he spoke as though he was giving out a lecture.
"Oh. Um… thanks, I guess." Dib looked at the Irken, surprised at his show of generosity. Because this was Zim, and he was generous to no one except himself.
"No problema, hyuman. Once again you are always impressed by my superior knowledge and technology."
"Yeah, whatever. Hey, how long have I been out for?" Dib asked, standing up shakily before gaining his balance. The ship seemed to glow a nice relaxing purple that was easy on the eyes, and the ship was probably set to auto-pilot now that Zim was no longer in the control room.
"You have been unconscious for around two Earth days, during which I have been making that device. I must say, you emit a very annoying noise from your mouth-hole sometimes, discontinue it in future." Zim said, placing his gloved hands behind his back and scrunching up his invisible nose to emphasise his dislike of Dib's snoring. The teen rolled his eyes before Zim's answer sunk in.
"Wait, what? Two days?!" He cried, hands beginning to sweat in panic, paranoia instantly kicking in as his mind wondered to what other experiments Zim had done to him in secret.
"Don't you worry yourself, hyuman, I assure you I have not altered your physical being in any way as much as I would like to. And I also assure you that from the test results I gathered whilst still on Earth, you actually stayed unconscious the least. Well done you." Zim said in a tone that Dib couldn't tell was patronising or not.
Suddenly, it hit him. Gaz, his father, Earth. Probably destroyed by now. The Irken Armada had most likely stripped the planet of its resources and incinerated it, or enslaved the inhabitants, turning it into some sick resort of some description. Either way, a squad had probably been sent out by now to hunt him and Zim down. They were fugitives now, fugitives with no family or friends (for Dib's part) left, just each other on a ship in the middle of nowhere. In space.
"Dib-thing, are you alright?" Zim stepped closer in curiosity as the Dib seemed to be staring into the distance, beginning o tremble slightly, sitting down as he lost his balance before shaking his head as he noticed the alien.
"Zim, won't the Armada be searching for us? And where do we go if Earth is now… destroyed?" He asked, staring the alien in the eyes, demanding an answer.
"Of course, they want to destroy us both now. But don't fret, Dib, for I have programmed the ship to take us to an uninhabited planet that will provide us with everything we need." Zim's eyes glinted slyly, the brilliant plan would fool the Armada for sure. Why did he need them, anyway? He could have conquered Earth on his own, they just held him back. He knew now that he was a defective, a failure, but he would plan revenge upon them, prove them wrong, that he was and always will be the best Invader they ever had to offer.
But what about the Dib? Where did he play a part in this? Why was he even included? Why did Zim save him? Well, no matter how much wrath they had for each other, they were surprisingly similar, even Zim had to admit that. The way they thought, the way they fought, almost everything they did was different yet similar. They may have had different goals, but overall it meant the same thing: Gain approval from their societies, gain acceptance.
And anyway, even though Zim always planned to kill Dib in some way, it was never properly executed. And because of this their feud lasted years. To be honest, Zim could have killed the stinking boy at any moment, but he didn't, for Dib seemed like an exception to all the humans he wanted to destroy. Maybe it was because they had known each other for years, they had grown accustomed to their voices, they looks, their very beings, that it soon became too late to forget.
Besides, isn't this was what Dib wanted to see all along? Space, the unkown, adventure to the farthest regions of the galaxy? Well, if Zim had denied him everything on Earth, then why should he deny him that chance now, in space? Now that would be just cruel.
