Chapter 3

I couldn't believe what was happening.

It was amazing.

I didn't know what to think.

Let alone what to do.

It was coming right for me!

I watched as the purple ship fell from the sky. It landed only a foot in front of me. By this time I had run all the way down to the creek by my grandparent's house. I was really close to the bluffs and I was thinking about the fact that I could fall off at any moment. But the shop intrigued me more and I lost my interest in the edge next to my foot.

The ship was close to the edge too.

It looked like it was going to fall off.

I was frozen.

I couldn't move.

There was an alien spaceship right in front of me and I couldn't move because my freaking leg had given out. I was hobbling. I could hardly stand on it without sending a shot of pain through me. By 'accident' I had forgotten to take my pill earlier today. Now I had nothing to do but sit down because it was too sore to stand. I did just that. My right leg, the one with the problem, was stretched out beside me so that I could rub it a little while I waited for something to happen in the bowels of the ship or for the person/thing inside to do something. It was getting boring.

I knew that someone would come and find me soon. I wasn't too deep in the brush but I was deep enough for people to not be able to see my sitting down. I tried to stand again but it hurt and I ended up falling flat on my face. I hated my leg.

A long silence fell over the area. Nothing moved. Boredom began to sweep across my mind and I lay down on the grass, hoping for something happen soon. I was getting really bored just lying there in the middle of the day. I was actually surprised that no one had come by now. Usually, because I lived in a neighbourhood where nothing happened, if something came up almost everyone would come running to see it. I was surprised that that didn't happen. I was surprised that I ran further than my brother while going to see what was falling. I was surprised that my family hadn't come yet. I was surprised that no police officers or army men or something had come to check it out. I was surprised at the fact that I was actually outside during the day! That was what scared me the most!

I sighed.

Turning my attention to my pocket I pulled out my MP3 player and placed the headphones over my ears.

My leg was still unmovable.

Now I had heavy metal bursting through my temporal lobe… or wherever it should have burst. (Kim: I have no idea but Brooke would have known.)

The day was boring. Then again everyday was. There wasn't a day that went by, save for Fridays, that I didn't hate every second of it. The only reason I didn't hate Friday was because at 12:00 on channel 25, YTV, I would watch one of my most favourite shows ever. Invader Zim. It was back on and I was happy for a half hour each day. Other than that and whenever 'House' came on I was purely bored and loathing everyone that asked if I was 'ok'. That's what I hated the most. Pity. It was a waste of time, a waste of breath, a waste of words, and a waste of a life. If someone asked me that I would rip their leg off and let them bleed to death. (Kim: Not really but she's threatened me a lot!)

I looked at the ship again.

It hit me.

It was the Irken Voot Cruiser that Invader Zim used in the TV show all the time!

My boredom returned.

It was a government device most definitely.

Invader Zim wasn't real. I knew that from all of the fiction about him that I had been thinking about in my head, how many drawings of him I had yet to post on the internet, how many pages of the comic I was doing that I had yet to complete and how many episodes in the show there were. They were all fake. Based on a made up character.

I banged on my hip to check my knee's status of healing.

It seemed ok.

I sat up and banged my heel against a rock near by.

It didn't hurt too much.

I was fine.

I stood up and looked around.

There was still no one in sight.

I turned my attention back to the ship. Maybe there was some sort of reward for whoever found it. I was broke and needed some money, lest I start baby-sitting again. A long break had been taken from that after I made a little kid cry at a park because I was too 'mean'.

No one hired me after that.

Examining the design of it I crossed the space that separated me from it. I put my hands on the hull and felt the smooth metal. It was cold to the touch, as all metal should be. I crossed to the back and looked at the thrusters. They were far from the ones that I had read about in Dimitri's plane books. I figured that it was a new model and then examined them further. They were grey and looked far too small to carry a ship of that size, especially since there were only two of them. It seemed impractical. There was the Irken symbol from the TV show on the back of the shop too. I assumed that it was a clever way for the government to make people think that they were going crazy, just in case they saw it, like right now, seeing Zim's ship in the sky.

I stepped back suddenly as the ship turned on its back. The purple wing-like things… I don't know what the hell I'm really going to call them… came out so that one was on either side of me. The whole thing seemed vaguely familiar. This had been in the TV show. I could remember that. Two rods from the ship then folded out to greet me. They closed the gap between them with a hologram that sent images towards my eyes.

I viewed them with interest.

It was even more like the show now.

I was getting freaked out but I did what my curious mind told me too.

I pressed onward.

The first picture was of a man with orange hair and a long, skinny body. I grimaced. "I'm not a guy…" The computer somehow knew what I said. It switched to a girl. She had purple hair that stood up on her head and a nose piercing and eyebrow piercing. I frowned. "I don't like piercing my face." The computer brought up another selection. It was one of a fat woman with large lumps on the left side of her head and huge, misshaped hands. "Too fat." Then another came up. This one had long blonde hair and a smile that could have brightened any room. I wanted to hit it. "Isn't there like… I don't know… A species selection on this thing?" The screen flickered and brought up a number of planets. I looked around. I was looking for one in particular, hoping my wish was true.

I picked a green one.

A view of a green creature with antenna on its head and dressed in black with red stripes and with a pack on its back came before me. It had eyes black as night and the pupils were a deep grey. Thick boots covered each foot with strips of metal along the side of the left one and then there was a pair of black gloves covering over the hands. My smile became so large that I think I got a smile Charlie horse.

"Amazing…"

As if knowing that I loved it, the computer automatically had the purple cases enclose over me. I felt as though I was in an egg. There was a light that flashed before my eyes. I couldn't see anything but I heard the case open up again.

I rubbed my eyes.

My hands felt weird.

I was missing two fingers on each hand!

My hands were covered, up to the elbows, in black. It was a pair of gloves. I looked down to see that I was wearing a black outfit with red stripes and I had black pants on underneath. There were coverings of red over top of my shoulders and a triangular collar around my neck. My boots were thick and black with metal on the left one and, when I felt my head, I felt two things poking out from on top. They were antennas!

I realised it then and there!

"Holy Shit! I'm an Irken!"

"And you're by MY ship."

I turned around and my smile went back to normal. It was small but happy.

Kim: Ok, Brooke met…? I dunno. Do you? Ha! Anyways. R&R PEOPLES! BECAUSE IF YOU DON'T I'LL COME TO YOUR HOUSE AND GET YOU WHILE YOU SLEEP! Nah. Not really……………………………………………………………………. I'll get Brooke to do it.

Brooke: (I'm talking to her on e-mail right now while I write this. She's helping me out with the story.) And I'd do it too. Heh Heh.