The monotony of silence was broken up by the door opening. Dib looked up to see if it was Sushi back to explain more about where they were. It was and there was a human with it. The human was a girl about Dibs age, with flowing blonde hair, brilliant blue eyes, and an "I Believe" shirt on. It looked like she had been crying. A wolf thing was leading a slightly torn looking dog into the room.

'If you have settled down, I will explain why you are all here.'

'Zim already knows why he is here, and you have made a big mistake in mistaking ME for an animal.'

Sushi gave him a look. 'I have brought you all here so they rest of the galaxies can see what creatures from other places look like.'

'And then you'll take the creatures from other places and put them in your Zoo.'

Sushi gave Zim another look. 'Yes, but only so other people can know what they look like. You will all be fed at regular intervals, according to your bodily systems. Are there any uestions any of you wanted to ask?'

Zim stood up. 'Yes. Will Zim be let out of these restraints?'

'Only if you behave yourself.' Zim sat back down.

'Will we ever be allowed back home?'

'No.' There were no more questions to ask after that one.

'If you need anything just press that button,' Sushi said, pointing to a big, red button on the wall near the door. Then they left.

The girl turned to Dib. 'Hi, my name's Deborah. Deborah Marais. You can call me Deb. What's your name?'

'My name's Dib. Dib-' he was cut off by Zim laughing at them.

'You humans are so stupid. We're in a Zoo, and you are having pleasentries. No wonder your species is so useless, if that's what you do when you're in trouble.' He sat there in a cloud of smug superiority.

'Well I don't see you trying to get out, or do anything useful. YOU'RE just sitting there.'

'I can't go anywhere. Primitive as this species is, I can't get out of these cuffs.'

Dib decided to ignore Zim, and continued his conversation with Deb. 'So you believe in aliens?'

'Oh yes, I think I might have been abducted when I was a child, but I can't ask dad about it, and I don't ever see my mum (mom), and my sisters laugh at me whenever I mention it, and my boyfriend teased me about it, before he broke up with me, and everybody in my class laughs at me for it, and my friends just don't understand me.'

'Wow' Dib said. 'That sounds exactly like me. Except for the boyfriend thing. And the part about the friends. And the mum (mom) part. But apart from those, we seem to have been created to be together, or one of us is the original, and the other is just a cheap copy made to imitate the style of the original, but with a few differences.'

'That is so deep. I think I love you Dib.'

'Really. You seem to be moving a bit fast.'

In the backround Zim was being silently sick. All these humans and their emotions.

The dog was trying to figure out where it was, what a "zoo" was, and the strange smelling thing in the corner was.
'I don't think so.' Deb was inching closer to Dib.

'Maybe we should get to know each other better first.' Dib said, moving further away from Deb. He may have been a boy, but he was pre-pubescent, and hadn't had much experience when inter-acting with girls, or even other people.

'Oh. Ok' Deb stopped encroaching on Dibs parsonal space, and looked to be sulking slightly.

'Don't be like that. Lets try and find a way out of here. There must be some flaw in their security system' Dib got up, and helped Deb off the floor.

They started searching the walls, fllor and roof, while Zim was laughing at them. 'You think you can escape from a Zoo? These places hold almost every species in the galaxies. If the Tsun can't get out of these things, inferior to Irkens that they are, they are still more able to escape from places than you HUmans are. It has been said that not even a mesomorph would be able to escape from these places. I doubt two HUman worm-monkeys would be able to find a way out. Especially not if they are as pathetic as YOU are, Dib, and no doubt the other HUman is equally if not more unable to discover an escape from this place.'

'Shut up, you stupid insect thing,' Deb yelled at him.

'Insect!? You DARE insult Zim with your stupid mouth of cheese and LIES!!!! The only way Zim could be compared to an insect is that he's far superior to YOU.'

'What?'

'You heard me.'

'That didn't make any sense. Insects aren't superior to humans.'

'Yes they are.'

'No they aren't.'

'Yes they are.'

'No they aren't.'

'You LIE!!!!!!!! You LIE!!!! Pathetic human, trying to lie to ZIM!!!!!! I will crush you under my foot ike you would crush a bug!'

'But bugs are insects.'

'What?'

'Bugs are insects. If we crush insects, and you are superior, like an insect, wouldn't that make you inferior?'

'Stupid human! You are so stupid you do not understand the superiority that is my logic. It is superior, like a bug.'

'That's stupid.'

'You're stupid.'

Dib turned to Deb. 'Never get into a logic arguement with Zim. I have learnt that.'

Zim went and sulked in a corner, well the corner formed by the bed and the wall.

'Let's look for that escape way.' Deb and Dib continued to search the room.

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Deb was, to begn with, just a simple Mary-Sue rip-off. She was going to be called Susan (Sue for short). But then I thought about the most used form of Mary-Sue in the IZ universe, and it was usually a recreation of Dib, but with a few changes, and a more tragic backround. So then I wrote her like that. I changed her name because she reminded me of Jimmy (Mmy) from the jthm comics, and Deb sounds more like a rip-off of Dib. Mary Sues are often tragic UFO lovers so they can get the attention of Dib.

The insect arguement was fun to write.