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The rest of the week was rather normal for Gaz, Dib and Zim, who all attended the brain-worm factory that most people are forced to call Skool. There were some whispers here and there about Zim being invited to Gaz's house. It didn't help that Dib kept telling Gaz not to go to an amusement park with an alien. Eventually, some rumors spread around about them hanging out and being friends. Some of the simpletons even began to speculate that they were actually dating...in which Gaz responded by throwing mashed potatoes in the student's eyes, and terrorizing the living daylights out of everyone in the Skool. That sent most of those horrible rumors to an early grave, and made Zim feel relieved. Dib as well. Being teased about having Zim for a brother-in-law was downright scary- even scarier than whatever goop the Skool was passing off as "lunch" this week. Ever since going over to the Dibsister's house, Zim's been watched and whispered about by all of his fellow classmates. He was certainly the talk of the Skool. It was finally Friday, and Zim was stuck in Ms. Bitter's class, anxiously awaiting the bell to ring so he could go home.
" That's why the negative stigma that zombies eat human flesh..." Ms. Bitters droned on with her pointless story.
Zita kept looking at Zim curiously. "Hey! I heard you like Gaz!" She whispered to the green boy who was seated near her.
"Who? Me?" Zim asked her, looking around the room in confusion, a non existent eyebrow raised.
"Yeah, you guys like hang out and stuff..." She continued.
"Your point?" Zim asked angrily.
"She's Dib's sister! You guys fight, like all the time! Isn't Dib mad that you're dating his sister?!" Zita asked him.
"Eh, uh, I guess you could say- No! Wait...DATE?! What do you mean?!" Zim began to quietly yell.
"Well, isn't that why you two are going to that amusement park? On a date?"
The word "date" echoed hauntingly in Zim's mind. "I, uh, eh, um..." The invader searched for words, but he fumbled and couldn't find any.
"Did you even kiss her yet?"
Zim cringed at the word "kiss". The very idea of kissing Gaz would be the equivalent of poking an angry grizzly bear with a stick. It was just a really bad, terrifying idea in which his chances of survival were slim to none. The girl kept asking more awkward questions, and Zim couldn't take it anymore. His grip was tightening on the desk. He didn't answer.
"You should go for it. I think you and Gaz would make a cute couple!" Zita, who was smiling, told him.
Unfortunately, Dib heard the whole conversation. He wanted it to stop before his ears would bleed. "DON'T ENCOURAGE HIM! CAN'T YOU SEE HE'S ABOUT TO DESTROY US ALL ANY MINUTE?!" Dib screamed like a lunatic, unable to hold back any longer.
A cold draft blew through the now dead silent room and a few student's papers fell on the floor. The kids just looked around in confusion.
"Dib! That's enough! They don't pay me to listen to your brain rotting gossip! My job is to crush all your hopes and dreams with prophecies of doom!" Ms. Bitters hissed.
The Skool bell rang, and all the kids rushed out the door, Zim included. He activated his spider legs and ran home as fast as he could before anyone else could even talk to him.
Back at Zim's base, the door was kicked in promptly by Zim's boot as he entered the room. Skoodge (who was now living with Zim since the hobo 13 incident) was sitting on the couch, eating some snacks and watching TV with Gir.
"SKOOOOOOOODGE!" Zim shouted in a panic.
"Huh?! Whuh?! What's wrong?!" The short Irken asked his friend.
"It's an EMERGENCY!" Zim dramatically announced.
"I like emergencies!" Gir shrieked.
"No, Gir, emergencies are BAD!" Zim corrected.
"What's happening?! Are we under attack?! Did the humans discover us?! Did someone actually believe Dib?!" Skoodge asked.
"No! Even worse! Far worse!" Zim shouted.
"OOOOOOOOOH NOOOOOOOOO!" Skoodge screamed and ducked for cover behind the couch.
"The humans suspect that Gaz and I are...IN LOVE WITH EACH OTHER!" Zim screamed, grabbing Skoodge by the shoulders and shaking him dramatically.
Poor Skoodge's face went from pure panic... to confusion...and then vacant. "..."
"YAY!" Gir shrieked in insane excitement as he bounced a chicken leg off of Skoodge's head..
"Skoodge, did you not hear Zim?! The filthy humans think that I am in love with Gaz human!" Zim yelled.
"...Are you?" Skoodge asked fearfully, waiting for Zim to punch him in the face for even suggesting such a thing.
Zim's face was now a vacant expression. "...No! Don't be ridiculous!" He yelled.
"Wait...Gaz? Isn't that Dib's sister?" He asked Zim.
"Yes!" Zim said.
"The really scary one with the purple hair who just loves to torture other humans?!"
"No, Dib's other scary sister!" Zim said sarcastically.
"Holy Tallest! There's another one!?" Skoodge asked in fear, about to drop over from a heart attack at the possibility of two scary girls related to Dib.
"No! There's just Gaz human! Pay attention, soldier!" Zim commanded.
Skoodge was trying not to hyperventilate. He would go to Skool sometimes, and he saw firsthand how terrifying Gaz can be. It made Blorch and the mobs of slaughtering rat people look like a playground in comparison.
"She expects me to accompany her to this park of amusement and arcade games tomorrow! On a date!" Zim screamed.
"Wait...did she say it was a date?" Skoodge asked, a nonexistent brow raised .
"Foolish Skoodge! Of course it's a date! That's what I have been trying to tell you!" Zim screamed.
"Well, Zim, it was nice knowing you..." Skoodge nervously told him.
"NO! This is NOT the end for Zim! It cannot be!" Zim shouted.
"Maybe it won't be so bad...She's ...actually kind of pretty...She likes destruction as much as any Irken..." Skoodge began to trail off.
"Don't speak that way about Zim's date! She is my date, not yours!" Zim said, growing a little jealous.
"I thought you didn't want to date her?" Skoodge acknowledged, rather confused by Zim.
"...Well she has set up this 'date' with me!" Zim argued.
"You know, if you don't want to go with her, I could go...I've conquered a planet of slaughtering rat people, so spending one day with her couldn't be so bad... it's not like I have anything else to do." Skoodge suggested.
"Open your eyes, Skoodge! She clearly chose me, as she recognized my amazing superiority!" Zim screamed.
"I wanna go with Gazzy! She pretty!" Gir squeaked in excitement.
"No, Gir. Remember the last time you went an amusement park?" Zim asked.
Gir just stared at Zim with a vacant expression. Flashback to one month ago: dark stormy clouds are looming over an amusement park which was engulfed in flames. Radioactive gerbils were raining down from the sky, biting people who were running around in mass hysteria. Zim and Dib were being attacked by the radioactive gerbils gnawing on their flesh, and were yelling in fear for their lives. Gir was laughing insanely as he began using a shovel as a spoon and eating a mountain of popcorn that overloaded an exploding snack booth and poured on the ground. It was horrifying. The entire scene looked like a demented apocalypse. Gir smiled as the flashback ended.
"Oh, yeah...good times." Gir said as he laughed. Zim grimaced at him.
"Hmmm..." Skoodge hummed thoughtfully.
"What is it, Skoodge?" Zim asked.
"It takes two people to go on a date...it wouldn't be a date anymore if me and Gir tagged along..." Skoodge suggested to Zim.
"Hmmm...you may be onto something..." Zim said, pondering the idea.
"We's could be the third wheel!" Gir yelled.
"Third wheel? What do wheels have anything to do with it?" Zim asked.
"I don't know about wheels, but at least you wouldn't be alone with her! I could stop any chance at romance! You might survive this after all!" Skoodge hopefully told his friend.
"Very well- Oh wait a minute! I need the Voot cruiser or something to take her there! But I cannot have the humans seeing it!" Zim realized.
"Oh, don't worry. I got you covered. I just finished making another cloaking device. We could use it on your Voot!" Skoodge told him.
"Excellent, Skoodge. This plan is really coming together! I am truly amazing!" Zim shouted, giving his friend a thumbs up before heading down to his lab.
The following day, Gaz was awaiting Zim's arrival rather impatiently. Dib was holed up in his room, thanks to his Dad grounding him. Professor Membrane told Dib he was not allowed to come downstairs until after Zim left. He thought this was Gaz's one and only chance at a possible friend, and he didn't want Dib screaming in the green boy's face or spraying him with rainwater again. However, Dib sure enough came down the steps and ran toward the kitchen.
"Son, you're supposed to be upstairs moping in your room! And stay 25 feet away from your sister's friend!" Membrane reminded him.
"Sorry, Dad. But I didn't come down here to see Zim. I came down because I got hungry." Dib told him.
"Oh, okay. Grab some food and take it upstairs before he arrives." Membrane told Dib.
Dib opened the door to the refrigerator and peered inside. He pondered about what he wanted to take upstairs to his room. He quickly grabbed a rather large watermelon, placing it under his arm and proceeding to start to run as fast as he could to his room. Gaz stared at him in question. Membrane took notice to this as well.
"Wait a minute, son!" Membrane said to Dib, stopping him in his tracks.
"What? I'm not doing anything!" Dib told him with a guilty look on his face.
"Don't forget to take a fork and a knife! How else are you going to eat that entire thing!" Membrane said with a chuckle.
"Oh...okay." Dib said as he came back to the kitchen and grabbed a fork and knife. He quietly ran upstairs.
Membrane smiled and laughed. "Ho ho! That boy and his appetite!"
"Since when does Dib eat anything remotely healthy? That watermelon is almost as big as his head." Gaz asked with an eyebrow suspiciously raised.
"Hmmm...good point. Oh well. At least he's trying to eat better." Membrane reasoned. "So, are you excited to hang out with your little foreign friend?"
"He's five minutes late." Gaz grumbled to her Dad, her arms were crossed.
"Maybe he just ran into a lot of traffic. You know how busy it gets on the weekends. " Membrane reasoned.
Not a moment too soon, a loud rumbling noise and a crash was heard just outside of their house, followed by terrible loud pounding on the door.
"Ah, that must be your friend! Answer the door, honey!" Membrane eagerly told Gaz.
She flung the door open, and sure enough Zim stood there arrogantly.
"The AMAZING ZIM has now arrived to escort you to your land of amusement!" He loudly announced.
Professor Membrane quickly snapped a photo of Zim, temporarily blinding him once again from the flash. Zim fell backward as Membrane handed the photo to Gaz.
"You're late..." She told him, reluctantly taking the photo and stuffing it in her purse.
"Yes, I was about to arrive on time, but my friend here just had to stop for some tacos!" Zim grumbled as he pointed to Skoodge, who was now wearing brown contacts and a red wig. But, what was even worse than that is the vehicle they arrived in.
"Uh, Zim? What is that?" She asked, not really caring to know the answer. It was already dumb.
Skoodge and Gir were waiting in the cloaked Voot Cruiser, which was oh so cleverly disguised as a giant pig levitating just a foot above the pavement. Zim had crashed said pig into the Membranes' mailbox, knocking it over, as well as a telephone pole. A small fire randomly started in a nearby bush. Professor Membrane was shocked.
"What? Oh that? That...is my Earth vehicle..." Zim desperately lied.
This left Professor Membrane nearly speechless. "...Oh, how wonderful! An Earth- friendly vehicle! What a wise choice! Green is the future, you know!" He applauded the alien in disguise.
"You have no idea..." Zim mumbled under his breath with a wicked smile on his face.
Gaz just smacked her head. "Alright. Let's just go already."
"Wait! I just want to take another photo before you two leave!" Membrane told them.
Gaz rolled her eyes as she stood next to Zim, who just wanted to get this over with as well. Zim opted to place his arm around her and smiled, turning on the charm, while Membrane snapped several more photos before they could leave.
"Alright! You kids have fun! And don't come home too late!" He said happily as he ran to post the photos on the refrigerator.
Zim shrugged and got in the Voot Cruiser, and he helped a reluctant Gaz inside the ship by taking her hand. As she sat down aside of Zim, she grumbled as she realized how crowded the small spaceship was. She was surrounded by three green, smiling morons.
"Gazzy! Smell dis taco!" The little green dog yelled in excitement, shoving a taco in her face.
"Hi, scary girl!" Skoodge kindly said to her as he started fixing his wig. He gasped as he realized how close she sat to Zim, and he quickly jumped into action by crammed himself in the seat between Zim and Gaz, separating the two. He smiled at her nervously.
Gaz growled. "Zim...I thought we were going by ourselves..." She said as she struggled to look over at him.
"Oh, they just insisted they had to come along." Zim rolled his eyes and lied.
Gaz just growled in annoyance.
Meanwhile, Dib was upstairs carefully watching out the window as his little sister just got in his arch nemesis's spaceship.
"Okay, I'm ready!" He quietly shouted to himself. He had the watermelon in place on his pillow and another pillow was placed on his mattress. He quickly covered it up with a blanket, to make it look as if he was still asleep in his bed. He quietly sneaked out of the window via a rope. The spaceship was already starting to take off, but he quickly ran to Tak's ship and jumped in to try to follow them. There was no way he was going to let his little sister alone with Zim.
"I'll stop you, Zim..." Dib quietly said to himself as he sat down in the ship.
"Oh, please." A familiar voice sarcastically said to him.
"Oh, come on! I was trying to be dramatic!" Dib pouted.
"Don't worry, you are the queen of drama, Dib. Aside from Zim, of course." The voice taunted.
"Knock it off, ship!" Dib shouted.
"I'm merely joking..." Tak's ship assured him.
"Good. We need to focus! Zim's alone with my sister and my Dad just thinks that Zim is wonderful! I gotta do something!" Dib yelled in desperation.
"Perhaps I could be of help to you..."
"Yeah, that's what I'm saying. Ship, if you could-"
"I didn't say anything, Dib." The ship immediately replied. Dib looked dumbfounded.
"Then who-" Dib turned his head to look behind him. He got the biggest surprise of his life. "YOU!?" Dib rubbed his eyes. He thought he was hallucinating.
"Tak?!" He shouted, not believing who was standing before him.
"The one and only..." She told the large headed boy, a glint of purple light flickering in her eyes.
I couldn't resist bringing Tak back! She's awesome, and sometimes underestimated. I also wanted to include Skoodge! Let's just say things are starting to get interesting... Sorry if this chapter was a little short. It's kind of a filler. The next chapter will be coming out very soon, though!