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Chapter 3 Blackout

Emma P.O.V.

I herd something crash in the kitchen while I was playing with Dee-Dee. Why did I think Zim had something to do with it? I peaked into the kitchen to see a certain gray and blue robot sitting on the table.

He heard me come in and looked at me with huge adorable eyes. I thought I was going to have diabetes at that instant. No matter who your favorite character is no Invader Zim fan can say Gir is not the cutest thing ever.

"Hi!" he squealed. "Who are you? You're so pretty."

I blushed. Not everyday you get that complement from a cartoon robot.

"I'm Emma." I introduced with a smile.

Gir beamed back at me with his tongue sticking out like the mind-blowingly cute derpy robot that he was. He hopped off the table and hugged my legs.

"I like you. Let's be best friends!" he squeaked.

I smiled down at him. I picked him up holding him in my arms. So damn cute.

Zim burst in the door in total shock of what he was seeing. His shocked expression soon turned to a scowl.

"Gir! Get over here!" Zim barked.

"Aww. But I'm playing with the pretty girl." Gir whined hugging me tighter

Zim gave me an odd look before glaring back at Gir.

"Now Gir! You have to stay in the cruiser so you don't cause any trouble."

Gir sighed and looked up at me. "Bye Emmy." It looked like he was on the verge of tears. I could barley stand it when he cried in the show real life would tear me apart.

"Actually if it's okay with you Zim I can keep an eye on him while I'm working." I cut in.

Zim gave me that look again. The I-don't-know-what-you're-planning-but-knock-yourself-out look as I'm calling it.

"Fine. If you really want to." He growled and stepped back outside.

Gir cheered and glomped me. "Tanks Emmy! You so nice! Like a muffin!"

I giggled and carried Gir back to my room and let him sit on my bed with Dee-Dee and me. I pulled out my laptop and opened my story I was working on. It was just a fanfic I had been writing for the last couple of weeks. It's been doing pretty well. I looked over a few minutes later and saw Gir and Dee-Dee fast asleep next to me. I almost died of cuteness overload.

A few hours later I got up from my bed slowly so I didn't wake up Gir and Dee-Dee and looked out the window. It was growing darker and huge clouds were covering the sky. Remembering Zim's allergy to water I went outside. I found Zim working on the ship in the shed. I was really surprised that his small body could've moved that ship like 100 feet. I herd him grumbling to himself in what I could only assume was irken.

"Hey Zim!" I practically yelled.

It scared the shit out of him making him almost ram his head into the ship's hull. I couldn't help but smirk.

"You should probably come inside. I think there's supposed to be a storm in a few minutes."

Zim growled at me obviously not believing my story or he was still pissed at me for scaring him. I grabbed his wrist and despite his protests and small amount of biting dragged him outside to see the huge dark clouds looming over us and hear booming thunder in the distance. Zim started to shake in fear no longer caring that I was still holding on to him. Was he scared of thunderstorms? Only one way to find out. He walked with me back to the house now dead silent.

Zim P.O.V.

The Emma human went back outside after I went in. Was she insane?! I would've run after her but another roar from outside made me hesitate. She locked up my ship and grabbed a few loose things from outside. Her hair whipped around in the strong wind and she almost struggled to get back inside. Finally closing the door she took a few heavy breaths before turning to me.

"I'm gonna go check on how bad this storm-" her sentence was cut off by a booming strike of thunder.

I saw Gir and Dee-Dee race out to us both of them whining in fear. The human bent down to their level petting them in an attempt to calm them down. Strangely enough it worked. I began to hear raindrops hitting the windows and Emma took off running through the house.

"Of all days for it to storm…" she muttered.

I just watched her try to board up the broken windows with more sturdy materials. Gir eventually jumped in to help her thinking it was a fun game. The Emma human panted wiping the sweat from her forehead when she was finished. She headed for her room and I only followed because some of that horrible rain might still leak in. Yeah that was it.

She pulled up her computer and I could only assume she was looking up the storm.

"Okay. It says that it's supposed to pass around 10 and by the looks of it it's gonna be a big one." She announced pointing at the screen.

From what I could tell the reddish colors were a bad thing and there was a lot of that. I gulped a little. A small drizzle was dangerous enough for me since every drop of water feels like acid on my skin if I didn't wear protection but if it's actually dangerous for humans… I really didn't want to think about what would happen to me.

"But we are protected in here. Yes?" I asked a bit nervous.

The Emma human nodded. "To be honest the worst thing that could happen is a power outage." She added.

I breathed a sigh of relive and walked out of the room.

Emma P.O.V.

I shut down my laptop and grabbed my notebook. It was probably best if I didn't use anything plugged in for now in case of a power surge and my old lappy can't do shit for 5 minutes on it's own battery without shutting down. Flipping through my sketches they seemed different as if someone had been looking through it. Could Zim have possibly..?

FLASH!

With a bright surge of light everything went dark. I almost thought I was dead until I heard Zim screaming like a wimp. My eyes adjusted to the now powerless and pitch-black house and I went to check on Zim. Gotta make sure he didn't run into the wall while he was screaming his head off.

"Zim? Zim are you okay?"

I didn't get a response. I was starting to get a little scared. I shouldn't have watched all those creepypasta videos on Thursday night. Yeah I was still traumatized. Suddenly I felt something grab the back of my neck. I screamed before claws began to choke me and dig into my flesh. I grabbed them and wrenched it off my neck pinning it behind who had attacked me and throwing them against the wall. I herd a familiar cackle in the darkness.

"Z-Zim?!" I stuttered letting him go.

Zim burst out laughing while my heart raced.

"You should've seen the look on your face." He said between laughs.

I would have said something back but I guess it had been payback. Damn. Revenge and I have a complex relationship. When Zim finally stopped laughing I noticed how he was able to sneak up on me. His magenta eyes were glowing in the dark.

"Night vision I'm guessing." I said coldly.

Zim smirked. "Yes I can see in dark areas. Zim got you. Yes?"

I only rolled my eyes. "At least I didn't just scream like a girl. I would've kicked your ass if I didn't know it was you."

Zim only smirked victorious.

Bastard.

I grabbed a flashlight and a lantern from the living room closet. I dug out my stash of chips and candy from behind my bed and dumped some out on the living room floor and set the lantern down with the candy flipping a switch to turn it on. Zim sat with his head resting against the couch and I lay down on the floor. The carpet tickled my cheeks. Dee-Dee came in and sat next to Zim and Gir curled up next to me soon falling asleep.

It was nice.

Zim P.O.V.

We both sat in silence for a while eating the snacks that Emma had brought out. I particularly liked this chocolate substance she had a lot of.

"So… Why did you scream?" she asked breaking the quietness.

I could only assume she meant from when I had scared her.

"I was merely trying to get your attention. It just so happened to be in sync with the lightning strike." I stated.

"So your not scared of storms?"

"Of course not. It's pathetic to fear a flash of light and a loud noise. I don't fear anything. I've been trained to handle all types of situations." I boasted.

The human sighed. "It's not like I'm scared or anything but everyone fears something. It doesn't necessarily need to be any physical object." She replied.

I thought about it for a minute. "Explain."

"Well a person can fear being alone, death, being betrayed…" she stopped.

"…failing."

That word hit me hard. I almost had to struggle for breath. Failing. It bored into my soul and left a permeate imprint on my mind. But I never failed so how could I fear it? I suppose you don't develop a fear of death by dying once before right?

"F-Failing?" I asked. My voice sounded weak and shaky. I hoped the Emma human didn't notice this as a weakness. Zim is NOT weak.

"You believe that not completing your task well means the end of everything. Like one slip up will keep you from any sort of comfort or glory in your life." She explained.

I bit my lip. That's exactly how I felt about my mission here. To conquer the planet.

"If I failed The Tallests would never forgive me. I could be put on trial for my life. They might even kill me with out any warning!" I thought beginning to panic.

Another loud crack of thunder caught me off guard and I jumped. It took me a few seconds to realize I was clinging to the Emma human's arm in fear.

"Pathetic to be scared of storms huh." She smirked.

My cheeks turned a bright emerald. "I-It just startled me is all." I protested releasing the human.

She laughed and opened a bag of chips munching on the snacks contained inside. I shot her a glare until she shoved a chip in my direction offering it to me with a smile. I took cautiously and broke a piece off into my mouth. These Doritos things were kind of good actually. I ate the rest of it and just waited until the girl offered me another one. The past conversation completely forgotten we continued to make awkward small talk while eating from the pile of snacks. After a while my eyelids grew heavy. I saw the human yawn and I did the same.

"I think I'm gonna turn in for the night." She announced stretching. "You can take my bed again if you want."

I nodded standing up. The human went to the bathroom to change and came back wearing a light purple tank top and matching long pants. She grabbed a small blanket and settled down on the couch across the room from the bed I sat in.

This human was strangely nice to me but there was still something suspicious about this. I settled into the bed and figured I could find out in the morning and closed my eyes.