A/N:

And the story continues! For those still reading, I'm glad you're still interested. Sorry I don't go into much detail about everything that is going on. So in this chapter Miz discovers what this human love is.

The next morning she woke up to Zim rummaging on the top floor. She grumbled under the covers of the bed because he interrupted her blissful dream with Dib. She slumped up the toilet-elevator to see Zim up and early eating more waffles. "Zim, why on Irk are you up so early?"

Zim looked up at her, "Oh it's Monday, which means I have to go to skool."

"Skool?" She raised an eyebrow, "what's that?"

"It's a place of learning about this filthy planet." He said in disgust.

"Excellent! I'll come with you!" She chirped.

"Why would you want to go there?" Zim asked, shocked. He wasn't even sure why he still went, it was boring and full of filthy, disgusting, germ-carrying human children.

Miz smiled shyly, "Well you go, so I might as well, too. Plus I need to fit in, so..."

"Okay, grab a waffle and come with me." Zim said standing up as he made his way toward the front door.

Later that day:

The morning bell rang for class to begin and Ms. Bitters droned on with her announcement, "Congratulations, class! To celebrate the misery of spending every day with you terrible children, we are having a new student, Miz."

Miz shyly waved her three-fingered hand at the class of children before her, "Hi, I'm MIZ. And I am as normal as any of you FILTHY WORM CREATURES! YOU DISGUST ME! ALL OF YOU! Except that kid!" She thruster her index finger at Dib

Dib's brows shot up upon seeing her gesture. "Me?"

Miz sighed, "Yes, you. There's just something about you that doesn't want to make me hurl. I can't quite put my finger on it, but it seems ever since I met you yesterday, I feel this urge in my GUTS!"

Zim slammed his head on his desk. She talked too much.

Sarah stood up and pointed at Miz, "Look, Dib's got a girlfriend! Hahaha!" The rest of the class uproared in laughter.

Miz clenched her fists at this insult, "It's VERY rude to embarrass people like that! And if I ever catch you doing that again, I will get my robot to-"

Zim shot his head up, eyes wide with fear. He whispered loud enough for her to hear, "Mis, sit down! You don't want to get exposed on your first day, do you?"

Miz growled under her breath in response.

Ms. Bitters interrupted the scene, "Miz, take a seat at the mysteriously empty desk next to Zim."

Dib raised his hand high, "Ms. Bitters, where is that kid that normally sits next to Zim?"

"None of your business!" She snapped. Class carried on as usual with Ms. Bitters boring lessons on how the world is doomed, till the lunch bell rand and she dismissed everyone.

Miz followed Zim through the lunch process and sat across from him at the lunch table with her tray of food. "So this 'skool' thing, is it always this boring?" She asked as she picked up her fork.

Zim was poking at her food, but looked up upon hearing her speak. "Heh? Oh, nah. I have the Dib monkey who normally keeps me out of boredom."

"Really? I didn't seem much of that going on today. He seemed pretty distant from you." she noticed.

"Yeah, I know. It seems that something has been bothering him ever since you came. He didn't even TRY to expose you! There's something seriously wrong with him. But I don't care." Zim dismissed, putting his focus back on the food on the tray before him.

Miz glanced at her food, too, poking it with her fork. "What is this stuff?" She scooped up the sledge from her tray and put it up to her mouth.

Zim looked up and immediately leaped up from his seat and advanced toward her, "No! Don't eat that! The lunch food here is REVOLTING! I don't know how these 'Humans' eat this FILTHY er uh er er!"

Miz put her fork down on the plate and looked over at Dib again, her expressions going to worry. "Dib seems really upset . . . Go over there and talk to him!"

Zim looked at her like she was insane, "Have you broken your ANTENNA! Besides, why would I ever help the Dib human?"

"Cause if you don't, you'll have to deal with me later!" She threatened.

Usually he wouldn't cowar away from a little threat, but he knew what Miz was capable of doing to him, and she's done it before so he knows she'll do it. "Ok, ok. I'm going. Even though what you did back then did cause us to be best friends, it still gives me nightmares." He slowly stood up, mumbling to himself as he wandered over to where Dib was sitting alone with Gaz.

Gaz looked up from her game and scoffed, "Ugh, I'm outa here." She stood up from the table and walked away.

Zim ignored her exit and leaned forward, gripping the table. "Hello, Dib."

Dib glanced at Zim but looked away. "Not now Zim, I'm not in the mood."

Zim screamed, waving his arms like a madman, "I'M HUMAN! Wait, what? Not in the mood? Do you have AMNESIA!"

"Go away, Zim." Dib moaned.

Zim hesitated then remembered why he was there, "Not until you tell me what's wrong."

Dib looked up, eyeing Zim with suspicion, "Why do you care?"

Zim turned away, crossing his arms, "I don't. MIZ cares."

"Miz? Ugh, I'm fine, Zim. Now go away!"

Zim smiled, "Oh, ok." He stalked away awkwardly and sat back down across from Miz at the lunch table.

Miz leaned toward him, "So what did he say?"

Zim dismissed her curiosity, "Nothing. He's fine. . . I'm sure."

Miz looked back over at the slumped over boy who was eating by himself. "Hmm." Miz decided to drop it and talk about something else.

After school she spotted Dib exiting the building and caught up to him. She was still determined to seek out what was wrong. She didn't know why, but she just felt concerned about him. "Hey, Dib."

Dib gloomily glanced up at Miz, "Oh, hey Miz..." He quickly looked back up and realized who it was who was greeting him and tripped over the step and fell to the cement ground. "OH, MIZ! I didn't notice you were there!"

"Yeah, so anyway, Dib, what was wrong with you earlier? Was it something I said?" she inquired toward the boy.

"No! Well . . . yes." He glanced away in shame.

"What is it?" She then demanded the way Zim would, "TELL ME!"

"It was how you said I was the only kid in there, other than Zim, who didn't disgust you. And you also acted like you had feelings for me." He turned his head away so she doesn't see the red hue that slightly tinted his pale cheeks.

Miz raised her brow in confusion. "'Feelings?' What are these 'feelings' you speak of?" She just got to this planet. She barely understood half the things she experienced so far: the nasty food, all the vehicles seems to only drive on the ground, everyone seemed to have parents and families, and now these "feelings"? The planets she conquered before never focused on this junk.

Her attention snapped back to Dib as he started to speak, "You don't have love on your planet? Irk, I think, or something like that?"

Miz tried to understand this subject of "love" on this planet. "Love as in to love animals and snacks?"

Dib shook his head, "No, I mean love as in to love one another."

Miz spouted out a laugh at his comment. "Oh no, Irkens do not EVER fall in love or form these 'feelings' for one another. That would mess up our internal programming of destruction and conquering. It would mess everything up."

Dib scoffed, "That's just stupid. What planet doesn't have love in it?"

"Mine!" she shouted through gritted teeth, insulted. Love didn't make a planet great, it made it weak.

Dib threw up his hands in defense, "Sorry, its just not normal for me." Dib sighed as he looked up and his eyes locked with Miz's. He explored the details of her eyes and for a few seconds they were stuck like this, locked in a trance. Her eyes were much different than Zim's were. His were cold, full of indifference, confusion, and hatred. Miz's were encased in kindness and compassion, but also a fierce ruthlessness that could strike fear in the souls of her helpless enemies.

Zim barged through the school doorway in a huff and glanced down to find Miz chatting with the Dib monkey. He let out an exasperated sigh at her stupid antics that have been going on with the human since she got there. He stubbornly marched down the steps to Miz. Once he reached her he grabbed her arm, whipping her around to face the opposite direction. He slowly started dragging her away from Dib toward their home. "C'mon Miz," he shouted, "we need to go home NOW."

"Oh, ok." she responded calmly. She looked over her shoulder and waved to the human she left behind her, waving fair-well, "Bye, Dib!"

Once they turned the corner and were sure they were out of ear shot, Zim turned to his friend as they continued walking and addressed her, "What were you doing talking to Dib? Do you want him to turn you in to the human authorities?!"

Miz shook him off, "Psh, he wouldn't do that to me."

"Yes he would. I've known Dib for a really long time by now, and I'm pretty sure he would."

"Doesn't seem like that around me." she said through innocent eyes.

"Hmm, he must be planning something." Zim inquired suspiciously.

They walked the rest of the way back in silence, both lost in a train of thought. Zim pondering about Dib's next plan of action to expose his alien background, and Miz wondering about the odd things earth contained. They spent the rest of their day snacking on her Irken snacks as they discussed the things they both experienced at skool.

-Next Day-

Ms. Bitters droned on with her lesson, per usual, "And that is why if anything from space comes here, the military will come and take it away and do horrible tests on it. Let's say Zim's an alien. If he was, then the military will take him away and rip his insides out and he would be doomed, doomed, doomed, doomed..."

Zim immediately stood up onto his chair and addressed his class, "I'M HUMAN! HUMAN, HUMAN, HUMAN! I AM NO ALIEN! I AM NORMAL!"

Ms. Bitters interrupted him, "There's no such thing as aliens, Zim, now sit down!" she shouted, pointing down at his seat.

Dib stood up to get everyone's attention, "But Zim really is an alien! I've seen him without his disguise on! He's an alien, AN ALIEN!"

Ms. Bitters glared at him through her glasses. She was getting really fed up with his shenanigans since Zim came into the picture. "I'm sending you all off to recess so you can get away from Dib's annoying head. Now go!" she pointed toward the doorway for them all to leave. Everyone flay obeyed. They picked themselves up and scurried out of the classroom.

Zim got up after everyone left and spoke aloud directed toward Miz, "Whew… that was close. Did you see that, Miz? Dib almost had us exposed! We could have gotten taken by the MILITARY and had our INSIDES RIPPED OUT!" he exclaimed, using his hands to exaggerate.

Miz lowly shook her head, smiling a bit, "Not to break it to you, Zim, but that's not ever going to happen, and secondly he only said you were the alien. Nothing about me. So even if anyone believed him, if that ever ever happens, most likely not, then you would be the one they would haul away. Not me. So ha!"

Zim didn't take another second to absorb all that she said, "YOU'RE LYING! Anyway, I have the greatest plan to finally destroy that Dib human for once!" Miz laughed at his silly antics she knew never worked out. She averted her eyes to two figures talking a few yards away in the playground. She took this opportunity to wander off to see what Dib was up to.

He was standing alone thinking next to Gaz. Thinking about what? She couldn't guess. That's what she was going to find out. As she strayed farther away from Zim she could barely make out the rest of his plot on Dib, "I will get a. . . um. . . a basketball . . . and uh, replace it with his GARGANTUAN head! And that will make it less big and yes! I will. . . Miz? Miz? Oh, Oh well."

Miz reached Dib and asked from her curiosity, "Hey Dib, why do you always try to expose Zim? Why can't you just give him a break? He's not a bad guy and if-"

Dib immediately cut her off, "Hello! He's trying to destroy the human race!" he shouted, exasperated, whilst flailing his arms to get his point across.

Miz leaned against the nearest wall and answered slyly, "And has he succeeded yet?"

Dib looked away and said in a low tone, "No..."

"When the time comes that Zim somehow gets the smarts to conquer this planet, then you can get all crazy paranormal on him and see what happens. By the way things are going right now, people won't believe you on the real day that he does take over this planet. The world is treating you like The Boy Who Cried Wolf, even though what you say is 'legit'."

Dib tumbled over his words, realizing she was right, "Okay...I guess so, but I just...never think that's...never mind."

The bell rang shortly afterward, signaling the end to the recess hour.

"Ok, catch ya later, Dibby." she said before scurrying away to Zim's side again. She hadn't realized she slipped up with her nicknames. She enjoyed using nicknames. It was her way of signaling a friendship between her and her newly found companion. She never thought of it having more meaning.

"Dibby?" Dib repeated, whispering to himself. "Dibby! I like it."

Gaz walked close to him, "Stop talking to yourself when you're near me."

Dib ran up to catch up with her as she walked ahead, "Gaz! Did you hear that? She called me Dibby!"

"Who cares?"

A/N:

Now that I think about it, the name Dibby sounds really weird. Miz has a weird way of nicknaming. I bet she calls Zim Zimmy, or something. I dunno. Anyway, I love Gaz. She's so sassy. So Dib and Miz are officially friends...for now...