Dib shot through the front door and zipped up the stairs directly to his bedroom. Once there he opened up the internet and searched for any news clips his homepage had to offer. As he expected, there were dozens of clips by several news crews all of which focused on the explosion that had destroyed a third of the city. The local news told the story of one student, an oddly green teenager, killing another student by ripping his arteries out through a bite wound in the victems neck.
Dib shuttered at the vivid image he managed to conjur but forced himself to read the articles. The few described the purple blur that shot through the solar system and into the atmosphere colliding with the west end of the city. Nobody had pictures to video clips of the actual U.F.O, only the after match. Of course a third of the city was killed in the explosion; the buildings were completly demolished. Luckily, a majority of the houses on Dibs end of the city had energy generators in their basements, only several dozens homes were without power. The other few described how a student got into a fight with another and ended up biting the other then tearing out his arteries. Everybody evacuated, and now the student was missing. Every cop who wasn't involved in the U.F.O. inncident was trying to locate the crazy student.
Quickly Dib hacked the news websited and got a live feed of both investigations. Tayak Apartmahayrdriive was covering the search for the crazed green student. Dib began to curse and shout when he found out that they were searching Zims base mainly because he'd been trying to get them to for a few years. Also, they were missing all of the secret passaged into the underground base. Zim and Gir were gone which alarmed both Dib and the investigators.
He switched over to the explosion envestigation and found that all of the cities fire units were working on keeping the blaze controlled. Meanwhile, special flame units were actually entering the Hell like forest of fire in search of survivors or salvagable bodies. Helicopters hoverd ahead in the dozens spraying tons and tons of water and sand, neither of which seeming to work.
Just then a new window popped up, and in it was another reporter with a spanking-new story. The fire triggered many more explosions thanks to smaller fuel tanks and was now actually traveling through the gasline. Everybody trying to tame the blaze stampeded towards safety as a series of blasts began to erupt simultaneously in perfect patterns along the gas-lines. Building that were thought to have been safe now erupted and thousands more people were killed or brutaly injured. Meanwhile, the smoke above was blocking out the sun and contaminating the clouds above. Ash and soot rained all around and coated everything withen a 200 mile radius in a thick blanket of grey.
Dib plopped back gawking with shock and awe. "How?" he whispered. "Did they plan this? Do they want to destroy the city?" he wondered outloud.
"Duh. Less people to deal with." came Gaz's voice from the doorway.
Dib looked over, surprised. "What? How do you know?"
"Because. If I were trying to take over a planet, I'd start out small, beginning the home of my enemy. Plus, it eleminates human threats to their offspring." Dib stared, "Commen sense." she scoffed. "Stupid."
When she was gone Dib pulled up a window to his 'fathers' hover-moniter. When it activated, his 'father' wasn't before it.
"Membrane! Membrane!" Dib called frantically.
Suddenly Professor Membrane was standing before the camera taking up most of the screen. "Yes? What is it? I'm very busy right now!"
"Wait, are you helping with the disaster and homicide?"
From somewhere off screen came a womans voice, "What could possibly be so important right now?"
Membrane leaned off screen, "Hold on one moment! Dib, I'm a little busy. Can this wait?"
"NO! Membrane! A third of the city is up in flames! And it keeps getting worse! A U.F.O. crasheed! You know that green kid? He KILLED somebody and he's running loose!"
"What?! How could this be?! What happened to by anti-aircraft missiles?!"
Again came the womens voice, "You'd better get your missile over hear before I'm anti-"
"Okay okay! I'll get there as soon as I can!"
Before Dib could say anything more, the screen turned black.
"Euch. That was weird."
Dib turned and again Gaz was in his doorway. "What was?"
She scoffed. "Wow, you really are stupid. What do you think was so important that he didn't even know the city was on fire?"
Dib thought, "A cure for cancer?"
"No, fool. They already found a cure for that. That woman? Dads 'missile'?"
He thought some more.."He's working for Russia?"
Now she exhaled, "Forget it. You're just too dumb."
"No wait! Tell me! I need to know how Membrane doens't know about this!"
She gave him a look, the 'are you serious?', look. "He was getting laid, your moron! That's why he isn't around so much. Not only is he busy saving the world, but he has girlfriend!"
Dib gaped, "WHAT? EEW!"
"Yeah, and knowing my own gender, he's not leaving until she's done with him. You're on your own."
Dib groaned, "I alway am."
