Dib sat in his desk at the far left corner of the room in the front row. He hated his seat because everything he did was monitored by the creepy teacher Ms. Bitters. He wasn't even sure if she was qualified for the job seeing as all she did was ramble on and on about doom and how the world was soon to end. The human sighed as he readjusted the fashion dog collar which hung tightly around his neck. The dog collar fashion was supposed to be banned from school but most of the teachers didn't care enough to enforce any of the rules anyway and he was perfectly okay with that.
A dark figure soon stepped into the room, having to be escorted by a staff member to said classroom. As light hit the figure, it was only to be the rather frightening Zim as lightning hit the sky as soon as the insane irken was revealed by the light. He was wearing his disguise, and his mouth covered by the turtleneck of his uniform. Some of the kids were already scared.
Dib glanced over to the new presence in the room an exasperated sigh escaping his lips, great a new student. Though he paused as he got a closer look at said student, he was green. The human arched an eyebrow as her ran the ball of his tongue piercing over his lips, the silent room being filled with the soft clicking of tongue piercing against lip piercings. He always did this when he was bored or nervous, and at this point it was a mixture of both. He was training to become a paranormal investigator and there was definately something paranormal about the new child.
Ms. Bitters stood up from her seat, circling creepily around the child in the same fashion she did with every new student, examining him before deeming him worthy of her lectures of doom. She walked back over to her desk and pulled out the attendance sheet to look for the new students name. "Uh, Zim is it?" She asked in a creepy tone.
"Yes..." Zim answered, arms crossed as he looked unfaltered by the class. But he smirked under his turtleneck as he noticed some of the students were frightened of him already, "Zim is I..." he said. He didn't notice the goth boy on the left side of the front row, he thought it was some sort of shadow until he finally noticed. Hmm... worm baby that stands out of the crowd of the others? interesting indeed...
Ms. Bitters let her creepy dark gaze sweep over the class for an empty seat, though after finding none she simply walked over to her desk and clicked a button. One of the students was suddenly sucked into the underground classroom and she smiled. "You will sit in that empty seat." She said indicating the indeed now empty seat to the front left of the classroom. "Anyway, today class we will be talking about the big bang theory."
Dib let out a groan, he hated this lecture. He decided it best just to sleep through the stupid class and he lowered his chin to his arms, allowing his eyes to droop closed as he barely half listened to the lecture.
Zim sat in the empty seat that was next to the strange boy in black, his violet eyes moving to glance at him with a hidden smirk. He was a bit to distracted to listen to the lecture as he would supposed to. For some reason, this human interested him.
"Doom, doom, doom..." The teacher droned on and in the end it annoyed Dib too much for him to sleep and he opened his eyes to stare off into space, he hated this class. He pulled the lip piercing, which had continued to roll about on his lips, back into his mouth and the clicking noise that had been a slight distraction to some of the other students ceased.
Zim continued to stare, giving a dark purring sound as he stuck out his serpent-like tongue under the turtleneck. "What is your name, dark one?" he said, glancing at Dib with his violet eyes. He was so curious.
The human tensed up slightly at the sound of someone talking besides the teacher, and glanced over to see the strange new kid staring at him with those creepily violet eyes. He leaned away slightly as though that would keep the other from looking at him. "Dib." He finally said and some of the nearby students looked up in amazement, Dib rarely ever spoke and when he did it was usually out of anger so hearing him having a normal conversation was just bizarre.
"Hu... Dib..." The alien repeated, it was an interesting name for a dark child like the human. He couldn't help but grin insanely, "I apologize... I shouldn't be talking. But I am rather interested of you." Zim smirked, intertwining his fingers together. If he wasn't SUPPOSED to talk to this interesting human, then he's obviously breaking a rule. Zim never followed rules... he was a rebel. Which was why he was once banished to Food Courtia.
"Doom, doom, doom." The teacher continued to drone, completely unaware of the conversation going on, which was once again perfectly okay with Dib. Talking to this creepy student wasn't on his top ten list of fun things to do but it WAS better than listening to the teacher. "It doesn't matter, around here nobody really enforces the rules anyway. They're all just a bunch of idiots." He replied waving the apology off nonchalantly. The human was still wondering about what exactly this new student was and at this point he was tied between martian and reptile man, maybe even some kind of weird deformity of a green gelatinous mass mixed with a human form...that would explain his missing nose...but then again so did the other two. He mentally banged his head on the desk, why was this new kid so confusing?
Zim chuckled, a bunch of idiots. What a good one. "I guess you're right about one thing..." he chuckled more darkly. "I'm still adjusting to this... place... You wouldn't mind... Em. Showing me around later?" he asked, tad bit of evil in his eyes.
"I don't do social interactions." He replied, he didn't really count this as a social interaction seeing as the odd child wasn't really human to him...and the conversation was weird and short. He returned his gaze back to the front of the classroom continuing to wonder about what the new kid really was. He was back to it just being a tie between alien martian thing and reptile person. He glanced back over at the child next to him. He didn't have scales...but that didn't mean anything it could be some kind of genetic modification to make him look more normal, finally he gave up and asked out loud, "Why's your skin green?"
The alien smirked wide, he loved it when they rejected his offers. It turned the insane irken on... he wanted this human. He had a new mission for himself: Claim the Dib, then conquer the world. And when the boy asked about his skin color... He chuckled, "it's a skin condition..." he said stretching his little skinny arms across the desk. His mouth finally revealed from the turtleneck, showing his smirk. He was obviously insane.
The human was a bit taken aback at the reply, a skin condition? That would explain it if he were a normal person, but seeing as he was a part of the Swollen Eyeball organization he didn't buy into the obvious lie. The bell for lunch rang just then and the human stood up, his long trench coat sweeping behind him as he was the first to leave the room.
Zim watched the human go and stood to silently follow, the kids still scared of the creepy child and waited for him to completely leave the room.
The human, having been first into the lunch room. Was already sitting at his usual table with his free lunch. He knew his sister would arrive soon with her game slave and he hoped that would keep the creepy child away, because he'd seen the others sharp teeth before he'd fled for lunch he was now leaning more towards him being some form of reptile...he'd definately take this to his next Swollen eyeball meeting. He glanced down at the food, which seemed to be moving around on it's own on his plate, and made a disgusted face. He should have brought his own lunch.
Gaz soon entered the cafeteria while playing her game slave and sat next to Dib. She was also as goth as he, only wearing purple and black with a skull collar on. Sadly her only piercings where on her ears because Membrane didn't allow her having any other piercings other than the ears. Gaz was in the game zone... As usual.
But Zim... Zim was sitting at an empty seat that was close to Dib's table. He didn't really care about the girl that was sitting next to his target, even didn't care about the cafeteria food of filth. His eyes were on Dib. And Dib only.
Dib pulled out an empty vial and scooped up a sample of the "food" into it, and put the cork on it, he then placed the vial back into one of the inner pockets of his trench coat. He'd have to examine it's chemical compounds later but until then he just hoped that the odd food didn't escape. He glanced up to see the odd child looking at him from across the room, jeez he hoped the kid didn't follow him home.
Gaz didn't notice the new kid staring at her brother because she was busy playing her game. Zim continued to stare, pushing the tray of disgusting-looking skool food aside. No one could really blame him for not eating it. After all.. not like it was very popular with the other kids anyway. Gaz only just noticed when she heard someone push their tray aside and saw the new kid, "Who the hell is that?" she only asked.
"Some new kid named Zim." he replied running his fingers through his hair absentmindedly. "He's just a little beyond creepy." Dib explained putting as much distance between him and the tray of 'food' as possible.
Gaz raised a brow, the Zim kid was weird... and was staring at Dib with a needy look. She smirked, "I think he likes you." she pointed out as the insane irken continued staring.
Dib gave Gaz a look of disgust, he knew that she knew that he hated the thought of dating, in fact the thought of physical contact had him practically hurling half the time. He shuddered, not only that but he didn't know what the kid was, that just made it a little more unbearable. "I think I'll just go home early, I'm not going to sit in the same class with him staring at me all day." The human got up and began heading towards the cafeteria exit.
Zim smirked, it was his chance to get the human. Gaz just went back to her game grinning some as the weird idea was still fresh in her mind. Zim silently followed the human making sure the human doesn't notice him.
Dib stepped out of the school, sticking his hands in the pockets of his trench coat as he took the front steps of the school two at a time. He then simply walked off of school grounds as though it were the most normal thing in the world, then again for him it was. On most days when he was either bothered by something or just bored he just went home, which was basically what he was doing now. It didn't take long for him to arrive in the rich part of the neighborhood where he lived and walk up to the only house with an electric force-field around it. He walked up to the control panel beside the front gate and placed his hand on it. "Dib Membrane ID accepted" The computer said before the electricity for that section of the force-field was temporarily shut off and he stepped inside and up to the unlocked front door.
Zim had followed the human all the way to his house and hid in the bushes to spy on Dib. Smirking evily as he used some equipment from his PAK to keep an eye on the gothic child. He could follow the boy in but he needed to 'research' him before he could do anything drastic.
He opened the front door completely unaware of his stalker as he headed to the kitchen to grab a poop-cola. He popped it open then headed up to his room, since he was home he decided this was the best time to analyze the school's food, and maybe make a call to the Swollen Eyeballs. When he entered his room he made sure the door was closed securely behind him and he sat in the small swivel chair in front of his computer.
Zim was lucky to have the X-ray feature on his spying goggles and watched Dib in his room with said goggles. The alien bit his bottom lip, he wanted this human badly, but he had to be patient... Besides, it wasn't the right time to start. But once he enslaves this human, the human will be his access to the planet's knowledge... He couldn't see the human as an idiot, no. The human seemed far more intelligent than the others.
The human ejected the disk drive of his computer and inserted a couple of wires to hook up the scanner to his computer, then sat said scanner on the desk top. He pulled out the vial of "food" and emptied it's contents onto the surface of the scanner and took another sip from the soda. He knew it would take about 15 minutes for the scan to be complete so that was 15 minutes to kill. He glanced around his room boredly, and found nothing to do. Maybe this would be a good time to call the swollen eyeballs. He minimized the window the scan was being shown on and pulled up a video chat and called the first swollen eyeball member that was available. A shadowy figure popped up on the screen and greeted him in what he knew would not be their actual voice. "Greetings to you as well," He replied then got straight down to business. "Has there been any unexplained entrances into the planet's atmosphere, or maybe a lab defect escape?" He asked.
Zim continued to watch with his spy goggles, to bad he cant hear what the goth child was saying, but he could probably guess. The guesses probably weren't very good, and just continued to watch. What was the Dib up to...? He asked himself, rather clueless to what was going on. And why the hell was he wasting his time spying on Dib? Well... he had nothing better to do. And the Dib was more interesting than those stupid lectures so... Why not? Zim smirked, sticking out his tongue some. He could probably learn something while watching the human.
"In your area yes there was, we could pass it off as a meteor but if you want to check it out I'll give you the general area it was in" The shadowy figure on his laptop said. The human sighed, just as he'd feared. "Yes, I'd very much like directions to the crash sight." he finally replied and a small map popped up onto the screen beside the display image of the shadowy swollen eyeball member. He took a quick glance at the map then stood up and popped his back, looks like he was going on a little adventure. "So why are you so interested in this anyway?" The shadowy figure asked. "Let's just say I've got a weird new kid in class, and he's a little suspicious to me." He replied before closing the video chat, that'd be explanation enough. He picked up his half finished soda and headed back outside.
Zim's eye's widened as he saw that map on Dib's screen and put his goggles away in his PAK. Dib was going to head to HIS base. He glared, then smirked... It was the perfect opportunity for the great and powerful ZIM. He could just SMELL it being so close to his goal. If the human wanted to know if he was an alien... Then all Zim has to do is keep the boy silent. But how?
The human headed in the exact direction the map had pointed out, still completely oblivious to the fact that he was being followed, he would have noticed by now if he'd been paying attention but he was more preoccupied with the fact that he may be able to prove the existence of alien life.
Zim continued to follow the human, making sure he was well hidden. He didn't want Dib to run from him... No. Not yet. The plan was still in action. The human continued completely oblivious until he heard the slight shift of a rock behind him and he stopped short. He turned his head slightly to look over his shoulder. Zim hid into a bush as soon as Dib turned his head, no... He didn't want dib to know JUST yet.
The human shrugged, guessing it was probably some kind of squirrel then rounded the corner onto Zim's street and he looked around, there didn't seem to be a crash sight at all. There was no skid mark, no ship, no asteroid. He stepped forward to look around once more as though he'd missed something, but since he'd rarely been on this street nothing seemed out of the norm except for the oddly colored house, but that could just be the work of a bad decorator...or was it. He stepped into the yard and looked around, this was supposed to be the exact place of the crash...and since there was no sign of a crash it had to be covered up.
Zim hid behind the fence, making sure Dib didn't see him and made closer observation of what Dib was doing. If Dib realizes that the insane ZIM is an alien... Then Zim has no choice but to keep after the genius human. The irken couldn't risk being found out... Not at least until he actually conquered the planet.
The human tapped one of the lawn gnomes on the head curiously, nobody should ever have so many lawn gnomes it was just kind of common sense. He sighed, this was definately that new insane kids house. No doubt about it, which would make the insane kid definately an alien. It just made way too much sense, this was the sight of the crash but it was covered up by the house, and not only that but it was on the same day the new kid had arrived. "I can't believe it." He said to himself. He'd become a paranormal investigator to help with small things like hunting ghosts but it looks like he'd be studying an alien... first he needed to find out said alien's intentions.
Zim smirked, still watching Dib from the fence. he wondered if Dib was going to break in... If so he'll have to commence lock-down that is only activated and deactivated by none other than Zim. but he just had to be patient.
Dib sighed, he had two options, the first was to go home and get his equipment and the other was to just go in now, but then again he might never have a chance like this again. He was sure Zim was still at school and this made it the perfect opportunity. He walked up to the door and knocked to make sure that nobody was home and almost jumped out of his skin when two robots practically leaped out of the door with a loud shriek of "Welcome home son!" Well that was bizarre. He stepped inside ignoring them, they were probably a security precaution anyway.
Zim smirked and muttered into a Comm from his PAK to initiate a lock-down to keep the human trapped. He told the computer to NOT alert the lock-down, and so the house was in secret lock-down without the Dib noticing.
The human jumped a bit when the door closed behind him, but he simply guessed that it was another security measure. He turned back around and let out a surprised squeal when a green dog was sitting in front of him, how much weirder could this place get? He stepped around the dog, but it jumped back in front of him with a creepy smile on it's face. "Helloooooooooooo" The dog said, and Dib's eyes almost popped out of his head, a talking dog? "Uh h-hello...?" He asked not sure that the dog had actually talked. Gir just simply smiled up at him. After the staring contest had gone on for a while he stepped around the dog and began searching through the house with the dog shadowing him everywhere.
Zim smirked some as he went to stand in the yard of his home, crouched by the window to watch Dib. He was mentally planning in his mind on what to do, and finally found one... He just would have to wait until it was at least close to the end of school time.. Which was like what, 3:00?
The human sighed after finding nothing beyond the upper level of the base and went to the front door, he'd need his equipment to spy on Zim and see if he would accidentally reveal anything else about the base. He reached down and twisted the doorknob to leave but the doorknob didn't turn. He blinked confusedly and tried it again a bit of panic coming to his face. Had he accidentally locked himself in? He pushed on the door to try and open it again. Great, just great, how could he be so careless?
Zim smirked and looked at the time, it was nearly time for skool to be over and he moved in the shadows to go to the other end of the street, knowing that Dib cannot escape and hid for a bit, eying Dib with his goggles. Once it was time, he moved to reveal himself and started walking towards his house, his goggles away in his PAK. He made himself look bored as he walked.
"Shit" The human mumbled under his breath as he noticed the alien approach the house, he glanced around for a hiding place and found none, he decided to just play it cool and make it look like he'd been waiting for the alien, he sat down on the couch and made his posture look relaxed, an almost cocky smile crossing his features.
Zim secretly deactivated the lock-down and stood at the door, moving his hand to turn the nob and open it and was suddenly greeted by the parent robots in their usual "Welcome home son!" He snarled, that was rather annoying... He pretended that He didn't know Dib was in the house and closed the door behind him and was about to take off his wig and contacts until he actual SAW Dib on the couch with a smug look on his person. He didn't plan THIS portion, but it damn well was close. "Dib?" he glared, still pretending. "Why are you at the house of ZIM!" he pointed his finger at him, "TALK!"
"Oh, you said you wanted me to show you around, so I did a little bit of digging. I found out where you lived, and decided maybe I'd show you around town." Dib replied. It was the only excuse he could come up with. He ran his hands through his hair to smooth it out a little and it also helped him calm himself.
Zim raised a brow, and decided he'll fall for that. Besides he wasn't really sure what Dib was really doing when he was spying on the goth boy anyway. He grunted and rubbed his eyes, stupid lenses. he kept his eyes on Dib, "I'll believe you... For now." he smirked. "but you didn't have to enter my home you know... could've... Waited OUTSIDE. Unless." he said then glared at Gir.
"Unless what? The door was open so I thought it was okay." He stood up. "If you don't want me to show you around then I'll just go home." He said, heading for the door at what he hoped would be his normal pace, he just wanted to get out of here. With Zim being an alien and all he probably had a wide variety of weapons that could be used against him.
"Wait." Zim said, and grabbed Dib by the arm with a strong grip before the human could REACH the door. His eyes didn't glance at Dib yet, "You don't HAVE to go home..." He said, putting on an melancholy-like expression on his face.
Dib tensed up at the physical contact, and that probably didn't help with the situation. He couldn't leave now, it'd look too weird. "Alright." He stepped away from the door.
Zim's eyes trailed to the human, "want anything to eat? at least... Since you are here after all." he offered, making sure the door was closed, he really didn't want Dib to leave and secretly locked it. The insane alien was paranoid, and rather impatient that its killing him. He's trying to remain sane, at least... not to scare the goth.
At the mention of food the human finally realized just how empty his stomach was, since breakfast he hadn't had anything but that half a can of soda. "Anything to eat is fine." He replied, sitting back down on the couch. He figured he'd be here a while and if he was he figured he should at least look relaxed.
Zim headed to the kitchen to get some, there were some snacks to fill the belly like cookies and such. He got himself one of those candies where you stick an edible stick in the tasty power and lick it or whatever and got some nachos for Dib and headed to the living room with them. He handed the nachos to the goth human, and started dipping the white stick in the odd looking vile that had powder in it. He was wondering if he could take his disguise off...
Dib took the nachos and sat them in his lap, he was a little suspicious, thinking they might either be drugged or poisoned but in the end his hunger won out and he took a chip and plopped it into his mouth, the blend of cheese and chip was almost perfect and it wasn't long before the entire bowl of nachos had disappeared into his stomach.
Zim watched and laughed some, the human was obviously hungry. He couldn't blame him... not even ZIM wanted to eat that questioning skool food. He licked a few times at the white stick before stopping. His gaze was still on Dib, "You know, don't you?" he asked, only of suspicion.
The human faltered slightly, and he knew that was a mistake, but he put on his best questioning look and glanced up at Zim. "Know what?" He asked innocently placing the bowl to the side seeing as he had no where else to put it.
"Don't play idiot with me. It only takes a HYOO-MUN smart enough to guess that I'm OBVIOUSLY not the common worm-baby anyone would see blending into their world." Zim said, glaring some. How dare the human play stupid.
The human's eyes widened and the only thought running through his mind was that he was going to die, he'd probably insulted the alien in some way and he was going to die. "Y-yeah you're not common, b-but who really is ya know?" He asked nervously hoping he could still maybe, just maybe bluff his way out of the situation. His lack of social interaction over the years really wasn't working and for all he knew he could be reading the situation wrong, but one look at the alien's glare had him shuddering in fear.
Zim stared at the human, then laughed. "It only takes an highly intelligent hyoo-mun to figure it out, Dib-worm." He said, smirking, "And you're obviously not the kind of dirtworm, either... You stand out more than the other hyoo-muns." He added, sucking on the stick some, "So cut the act... you KNOW what I am by now."
"This was a bad idea, I'll go home now." Dib said before standing up and walking to the door. He tried the doorknob once more ugh why did the door never open for him? He sighed, there was only a few options that would get him out of the situation without them resulting in a fist fight; running, continuing this little charade, or admitting he knew. He didn't really want to do any of them but the end he would have to choose.
Zim chuckled, sucking on the white stick; it was so sweet, and the powder tasted like tropical punch or something. "I'm not going to do anything... Only as long as you keep quiet about it." he smacked some and set the stick on the little jar and placed it aside as he moved closer to the goth. He ran a hand through his wig, as if he was about to pull it off.
"What's in it for you?" He asked, his hand still on the doorknob as he glanced over at the alien, he was a little uncomfortable due to the other drawing closer and he stepped back. He knew there was a catch. There had to be, he couldn't be getting off the hook this easy. He'd just found out about the alien's existence and broke into his house, there was no way Zim would let him go that easily.
Zim cackled, "what's in it for me? What's in it for ME?" He laughed more insanely, "Hyoo-mun. It is the other way around..." He slowly pulled off the wig, no use to keep hiding from Dib of all people.