I'll be honest I'm really excited about this story. I'm trying to keep Zim as much in his old character as I can but after being on earth for 7 years and knowing that he won't destory the humans for 5 of those years, there has to be some amount of mental growing up to do. Sorry if this annoys anyone.
Also, in the previous chapter when I said all that sciency stuff... I had no idea what I was talking about. If I made them sound smart, Good Great! If I made myself sound like an idiot then... oops... READ MORE OR DOOM WILL FALL UPON YOU!
After a while Dib split off since his house was in a different direction. Kam planned to catch a bus that stopped not too far from Zim's base so the two of them continued walking together. They talked about skool, the disgustingly perky teacher and how best to annoy Dib.
"Ya know Zim you're really smart. Not like the rest of that class. I'm surprised someone like you isn't in Collage already." Zim noticed how her brown eyes turned an interesting shade of red in the dimming light of the earth star.
"Yes well, this is all natural for Zim. You can stand in awe now."
Kam laughed. The white dwarf of Irk wasn't even a good comparison anymore. This human was having a curious effect on his squeedlyspooch and he began to feel very nervous.
"You're also very smart. Though I am surprised you take Dib seriously with much of his paranormal ranting."
Kam shrugged, "Not all of his ideas are impossible. Bigfoot may be just a human with a hair growth disorder, and with a whole universe out there, who's to say there aren't any aliens. Dib's biggest problem is that he assumes that all these phenomena are out for the personal destruction of humans."
"Hehe… Yeah… Human destruction." Zim felt both guilty that he had once given the Dib monkey a reason to distrust everything, and oddly relieved that Kam didn't find alien's repulsive.
"So hey," Zim was cut off when PAK suddenly lit up, screeching an alert. An alarm was going off in the base. "Urgh that useless robot," Zim muttered quickly turning off PAK's alert. "I have to get home. The umm… dinner…?... is finished cooking, yes that's it. I'LLSEEYOULATERGOODBYE!" Zim yelled back as he ran off leaving Kam standing there rather confused.
Ariving back at the base he found the Parental Units were once again malfunctioning, and he had to go rescue the earth-boy-selling-popcorn from Robo-dad. Some major alterations were needed. He had tried many times to fix their programing but they had proved as difficult to manage as GIR. If things kept up like this he would be better off just deactivating them.
He was no longer impersonating a human child that required constant attention from some adult authority human. It would be easy to explain that he simply lived alone.
"GIR! Take the robo-parents down to repair deck 5, and make sure they don't leave."
GIR stared at him for a moment, screeched "WEEEEEEEEEEE" then grabbed Robo-dad and jumped down the elevator shaft.
"Hmf." Well at least he sort of follows orders, Zim thought as he tossed Robo-mom down the shaft as well. GIR had been falling into disrepair as well. Being banished to earth for such a long time was beginning to take its toll on all of the Irken technology. Reprograming and repairing the house constantly kept him busy. Although when Zim thought about it, with no plotting how to destroy the humans he really wasn't busy doing much else.
The elevator opened on repair deck 5. Robo-dad was smashing himself into the wall, Robo-mom was swimming through a pile of scrap metal and spare parts, and GIR had the angry monkey show pulled up on one of the monitors.
"Even working with the Dib stink would be more productive than trying to fix you guys." Zim yelled at the three crazy robots. Perhaps he could use the Kam human's knowledge of computer coding to create proper human action interfacing for the parental units. Gah! No, that wouldn't work. He would have to reveal that he was not an earthling. Zim wasn't sure what her reaction would be. He also wasn't sure why he cared, but for now things were better left as they were.
"Computer! Restrain the Robo-parents. I have a lot of work to do tonight."
When I said there had to be some growing up to do I hadn't yet read the transcript for the unfinished episode "The Trial" Zim you are the most amazing invader ever! That much distruction and yet you get away with the reward of driving the Massive for 10 minutes? Props dude. I'm still going to write that you've mature a bit though. I mean 30 Irk years of destruction doesn't have to be the same as 7 earth years of fighting with Dib.