A quick note from Aktress: Hey everyone! Thanks for not killing me, haha! I should be posting a chapter a day/ every two days. I can't believe how easy it is to write on this topic! It just flows, haha. Special thanks to Miloflygon and HumanTestSubject-11 for the great reveiws! They seem to be satisfied with their cookies and puppies. Let's see what happens if I offer a gift card to Bloaty's to anyone who reveiws? XD
WARNING: This chapter includes mild-cussing and a bit of OOC-ness, but otherwise, they're mostly in character! :)
CHAPTER #2- Lunch Robots
I just stared at my lunch tray as I got served the most revolting shade of brown goop, almost like the brown-goo crap those kids were playing with that morning. And was I going insane (Well, was I going even more insane than I really was), or was it moving?
I bit my tounge, so I wouldn't throw up, and walked away, tossing it into a trash can as I walked up to Dib's table. I plopped down. "Remind me to never, ever, get cafeteria food again." I grumbled.
He shrugged. "At least it wasn't mayo and corn day." I stared at him. "Today was spinich and soy sauce day."
"I think I just threw up in my mouth a little bit." I confessed. "So, how is this... Zim, right? How is he an alien?"
"Just LOOK at him!" Dib pointed to a table a few away from ours. There, Zim was stabbing his 'food' curriously with a fork and sniffing it, then gagging.
"So, he doesn't like the food. Neither do I! Maybe I'm an alien?" I questioned, getting a little iritated. He just got really big eyes.
"ARE you? Are you really an alien too?" He asked, getting excited. I could almost feeling my head exploding.
"I'VE HAD ENOUGH OF THIS NONSENSE! I'M NOT, HE'S NOT, NO ONE IS! I'm leaving this nut-house of a table!" I fumed.
"About time you grew some senses," Came a voice I'd not heard yet. It's owner was right in front of me, but she had her back turned, so all I saw was a big puff of cranberry colored hair.
I went over to the girl. She seemed to be focusing on some video game with lots of pigs and a vampire. I looked at her. She was dressed in all black, and had a neckless with a skull on it. Her hair looked like a monster was popping out, jagged and sticking out.
"Er, excuse me?" I asked her. Without looking up or pausing her game she answered.
"Your senses. No one in their right mind would even give my brother the satisfaction of a glance," She said in monotone. So this was Dib's sister. I hadn't seen her in class... she must be in a different grade.
"Oh, okay. I'm Rosella. You are..." I tried to make a decent conversation. She sighed and paused the game. She looked at me with a frown, but with only one eye open, like she was a pirate or something.
"Gaz. Now go away. I'm trying to beat this level, so if you don't want to die, I sugust you stay away," She warned. This shocked me, then I got mad. I grabbed the game from her hands. "HEY! YOU LET GO OF THAT!" But before she had the chance to move, it was back in her hands, with her gasping.
Yeah, I beat the whole game in a matter of seconds. I had always been talented at video games, computer games, whatever. I just have a...gift, you might say. "Yeah, I also made your vampire get a new, better ninja weapon, and upgraded your health to a thousand points.
She stared at me for a minute, and then started talking. "How did you-? Where did-? I mean-! Holy pig-! What did you-?" I chuckled.
"Practice. Lots of it. And pure skill. Now will you TALK to me?" I asked. She owed me. She sighed.
"Sure, whatever. What do you want?" She asked, cranky again.
I crossed my arms. "So that Zim kid. Is he an-"
"Alien?" She finished. "Yeah, but he's too stupid to do anything. He usually blows up himself. Him and my brother are like, worst enemies, or something. But whatever." My eyes felt like they were growing big.
"Really? Wow, this town is a lot different than my other one. We never got aliens, ever. I'm going to go talk to Zim," I stood up and Gaz picked up her game again. I walked over to Zim's table, where he was alone, and putting what looked like a bit of the food onto some alien-anazlyzer. I sat down across from him. He looked up and raised an eyebrow.
"Been sent to spy on me from Dib?" He asked and tried to hide the analyzer thingy. I just rolled my eyes.
"No, he's driving me insane. I just came over to ask you, are you really an alien like he says?" I tried to sound non-interested, but I was still currious. His eye twitched a little.
"The Dib-monkey LIES!" He yelled. "No. I am a perfectly normal human worm-baby and I have a normal head and stomach."
I just laughed. "Okay, talking like THAT really doesn't help your normality level. You serriously need to take 'Acting human 101'" I joked.
"Just where IS this, HUMAN 101, tell meee," He said in all serriousness. I just laughed harder.
"So what planet are you from?" I taunted. He narrowed his eyes at me.
"If I WAS an alien, then I'd say I am the AMAZING invader ZIIM from Planet Irk, sent by the Almighty Tallest to take over this dreadful planet, and turn it Irken. But, you know. I'm human." He said and gave a huge nervous smile. I shook my head and smiled.
"Irk, huh? Never heard of it. Well, you know, you don't really have to hide that your an alien, I wouldn't tell anyone." I shrugged.
"Wait, you wouldn't?" He questioned. I shrugged again.
"Why should I? I've got nothing to gain, or to lose, really. So what if your different? I'm different too."
He looked genuinly surprised. "Are you using mind-tricks, HUman?" He asked.
"Not that I know of, but I wish! That would be cool. Do they have that kind of stuff on Irk?" I asked, actually interested now. But before he could respond, I heard a voice behind me.
"So, talking to the enemy, are we now?" I turned around and saw Dib, frowning down on me and shooting Zim an evil glare. Zim shot one back. I shot a confused look to both.
"Um, enemy? Really? WHY are you enemies anyways? Why do you hate each other?" I asked.
"Don't get into this, this is between me and the earth-monkey," He said. I frowned.
"ExCUSE me, but if you didn't notice, I happen to be an earth-monkey too!" I reasoned. He just rolled his eyes.
"Anyways, Dib, stay away from my table," Zim turned away.
"Why SHOULD I, Zim?" Dib shot back.
"Because you are making me UN-COM-FEE-TOR-BOL!" Zim sounded out. "HUMANS! This boy is making me feel un-com-fee-tor-bol!" Zim yelled and suddenly there were robots bursting through the doors. I jumped up in shock. But the other kids seemed almost oblivious to them.
"DIB. MAKING. PEOPLE. UNCOMFTORBLE. AGAIN?" One robot asked, rolling up to the table.
"Not this time!" Dib yelled and jumped on the table, running away from the robots. I just stared in shock at the scene. Dib was yelling and running across the tables, stepping in everyone's 'lunch', or what used to be their lunch, being seen for a second time. And everyone is just SITTING THERE! Like it happens every day, or something! And Zim just sits at the table, with a smug grin on his face, and his green skin glowing with pride. I narrowed my eyes.
"Let me guess, you do this every day, right? Just like the desk thing in class? That happens a lot, doesn't it," I tried to make sence of it all. He just nodded and put his feet up on the table, leaning back in an imaginary chair.
"I'VE GOT YOU NOW!" I heard, and then Dib yell, and before I knew it, the robots were carrying a cage out the door, with Dib yelling in it, "ROSELLA! HELP! CURSE YOU ZIM! CURSE YOOOOOOU!"
I stared at Zim. "Where do the robots take him?" I wondered. Zim opened his eyes again and put his feet down.
"Outside. They dump him in a garbage can. Happens eeeeevery day." I thought it was meaningless to point out if he wanted Dib gone, then why shouldn't he just have the robots throw him into a volcano, or dump him out to sea? Or just freaking lazer him? But I thought the Dib kid might be O.K, even if he was insane. But who am I to say he's insane. EVERYONE at this hideous new skool and town are. So I'd let him live.
"Oh. So, where do you keep your base, and don't you have anyone to help you destroy man-kind at all?" I asked.
Soon, we were talking like long-lost friends, and even though he was nuts, not to mention he was an alien, trying to destroy my whole race of humans, he was the closest person I'd ever had to a friend, Dib set aside, because he most likely hated my guts that very second in time.
Eventually, the bell rang for class again, and I stood up. "So that's what holds your whole life in it?" I asked, examining his backpack, or as Zim called it, his Pak. Zim nodded, but before he could explain any more, the cafeteria doors slammed open and Dib was standing there, with bananna peels in his hair, gum stuck to his clothing, and a fowl oder to come with. But the worst part was his eyes.
He was throwing eye-daggers at me like I'd killed his puppy; On purpose! That REALLY wasn't nesesarry.
"I'm gonna go talk to Dib, okay, Zim? I'll see you in class," Zim just shrugged.
"Okay, Rosella, that's YOUR funeral," He said and walked away. I walked up to Dib.
"Dib, listen, I-" But before I could say anything else, I was caught in a huge bear hug. "AGH! What are you doing?"
"You are a GENIUS, Rosella! Act like your friends with the alien, and then you report the information back to me that you learn! It's perfect!" He hugged me again.
I got this really confused look on my face. "Wait, what?" I asked, pulling away from Dib.
"That was your plan, right? Well, we can talk later, I'll give you my email so we can talk about how we can defeat Zim! See you in class, Rosie!" He skipped off, practicly dancing. I wouldn't be surprised if he rode off on a unicorn right about now.
Which left me standing in the empty cafeteria, faced with two choices: Who to help, Zim or Dib?
On one hand, I WAS human after all, and Zim is trying to destroy the human race! Plus, Dib was the first person to show me kindness in this skool, if not my life! I should trust him, right?
But Zim, though stupid and poser-evil, was nice too. Even though he wasn't human, he was nice to me like I was Irken myself. He told me lots of things that Dib would love to get in his little hands, plus, Zim WAS kind of cute... but that matter aside, he TRUSTED me. He knew he could confide in me with his secrets.
I was torn. For the first time in my life, I was shown love and kindness, but at what price would I have to pay for it?
OOOOOOooooooOOOOOooh! Cliffhanger ending MWAHAHAHAHAHAHA! I guess you'll just have to wait until tomarrow to find out what happens! XD I know, I'm soooo evil!
- Aktress (AKA Invader Akt)
(Remember, GIFT CARD TO BLOATY'S!)