I hope I didn't keep you all waiting to long, but here it is, episode 7 for the fanfiction series. I hope you enjoy it!
Episode 7: a walk through the city
We open in the Membrane home to see Gaz and Dib sitting on the couch playing a video game. (What the game is, I'm not exactly sure, but whatever)
"Ah come on Gaz!" complained Dib, who was obviously losing the game. "Can't you show some mercy? …please."
"I'm afraid that such a word does not exist in the gamer dictionary," said Gaz very coldly.
The two were just beginning to get really into the game when their dad walked in holding a plate with a pancake on it. Now this was very odd considering that their dad had never quite enjoyed pancakes, and that it was about 9:00 at night, a time in which no one eats pancakes.
"I can see that you two are enjoying yourselves," he said not noticing Dib straining just to sit right and play the game at the same time. "But I'm going to have to ask that you two leave the house tonight."
"What!" exclaimed Dib. "Why?"
"You see son, I have been working on a very important project lately, and need all the concentration I can get to finish it. So I need you two to leave until about midnight tonight."
"Won't it bother you that your only two children will be out alone for 3 hours with out supervision?" asked Gaz not looking up from the screen.
"Ah ha ha," chuckled the professor. "Of coarse not honey, now you best get moving." He then proceeded to push his children out of the house. After they were out, he slammed the door shut and looked the six locks that were on the door. The laser fence was then activated along with the houses giant auto turrets.
"ANTI TRESSPASER SYSTEM WILL BE DISABLED IN 3 HOURS, NOW REMOVE YOURSELVES FROM THE PROPERTEY!" said the home's computer.
Upon hearing this, the two quickly scampered off the property to the other side of the neighborhood, but not before having a few rounds from the turrets being unloaded on Dib. (That means he gets shot, yay.)
The two looked back at their home only briefly, but continued their walk.
"So," said Dib, trying to break the silence. "What do we do now?"
"Well, I was going to go into the city to buy a new game," said Gaz with her usual expression.
"You can't go into the city alone!" exclaimed Dib, showing concern in his vice. "It's dangerous and you could get hurt!" (Aww, he cares about his little sister )
"It's dangerous to scream in my ear to Dib," said Gaz looking back up at her brother with a very annoyed look on her face.
"…How bout we go to the city?" asked Dib with a great amount of fear in his voice.
"That's what I thought you said," said Gaz, giving a cold smile.
As the two came up on the city, Dib began to walk on the short fence rail that was on their left. Now, children do this all the time, to see for how long they could keep their balance, although normal children usually do it on road curbs, and not fences that are made to separate the side walk from the dog pound. Never the less, Dib continued to do so, trying to keep his balance.
"Okay Gaz," said Dib, assuming the position of supervision. "We should stick together so that we don't get lost…" Dib was however cut off by his sister, who was quite obviously annoyed with his assumption of false power, shoving him off the fence and into the dog pound. Immediately upon entering the pound, hordes upon hordes of angry dogs rushed over to him and proceeded to bite and claw at him, causing him to scream in unimaginable pain.
Gaz continued to walk over to the game store. As soon as she entered the store, her brother crawled out of the bushes covered in cuts, bites, and bruises.
"…ow."
Dib began to brush himself off, when he noticed that Gaz was missing.
"Gaz? Gaz!" he yelled in horror. He had lost his sister, and knew that he had to find her.
"I have to find her before something horrible happens to her…or me! AHHHHHHHH!!" he yelled. Dib continued his moronic screaming as he ran down the side walk in horror. Thankfully, the people of the city did not seem to notice his apparent disturbance of the peace, and continued about their daily lives.
At this point in the episode, we now find Gaz in the game store, looking at their selection of games. As she walked through the isles, she noticed the latest addition to one of her favorite games series.
"Hmm…" she began as she started to read the back of the box. "The same basic game play as before, just with 8 new levels of mind numbing idiocy, and costing 18 more than usual…" she read. "Fine, I guess I'll buy it." Gaz then proceeded to walk up to the register with a wad of money to pay for the game.
"Can I help you miss?" asked the cashier in a very board tone.
"I'd like to purchase this copy of Mega Moose Mayhem 4," she said handing him the role of money. The cashier looked at Gaz and then the game. He handed the money back to Gaz and looked her in the eye very annoyed.
"You have to be 18 years or older to buy this kid."
"Look!" said Gaz giving the man a death glare. "I have more then enough money to buy this worthless excuse for entertainment, and I intend to walk out of here with this piece of over priced garbage."
"It's not my call kid, it's just our policy." Gaz became engulfed with rage. One could see a vein showing on her head, from her straining to contain her anger.
Outside the game store, Poochie walked up with his hands in the air as he always did, with a smile on his face. He was about to enter the store when he heard a loud scream of terror emerge from the establishment, followed by a strange red liquid being splattered on the door's glass windows, and a mass of people running out of the store in horror. Poochie's eyes widened in horror as well.
Shortly after, Gaz walked out of the store seeming very angry, having not purchased the game she had intended to buy.
"Stupid liberal minor game control laws," mumbled Gaz to herself. She then continued to walk into the night in search of another game store, leaving Poochie curled up in the fetal position, to scared to move. (Heh heh, Poochie…drinker of hate, how we love him.)
Meanwhile, Dib sat in a familiar dinner, talking to someone.
"And so, I get away from the dogs, and then I realized that she's missing! I am so dead." He then collapsed on to a very inconveniently placed tray of chicken salad.
"I know how you feel," said the hobo that he was talking to. "I remember the time that I was kicked out of the house and lost my sister in the city. It was awful!"
"You know what's worse?" said Dib getting his face out of the salad. "She's my only remote allay in my fight to save earth from the Irken armada, despite the fact that she hates helping me with it. I mean, I thought I could handle just Zim and GIR, but then Tak and Mimi, and now Das, I just don't think earth stands a chance." Dib threw his head into the back of his seat and gave a sigh of defeat.
The hobo stared blankly at Dib as he took another sardine out of the tin package he had with him.
"Yeah, I remember the time when I had to defend earth from two aliens, their robots, and a classmate of mine that decided to betray the human race. It was awful! The whole ordeal turned me into a hobo."
"Wait a minuet," said Dib bringing his head back up. "I thought that cursing your sister with pig mouth, is what turned you into a hobo."
"It was a combination of a lot of things," responded the hobo. "But a word of advice for you…"
"I still don't wanna be a hobo though."
"Oh, then never mind."
As the hobo began to leave Dib looked out the window to see Zim running in terror from a creepy dog with a lobotomy, which was in turned closely followed by GIR with a lease around his neck, dragging Das who held on to the other end of the lease.
"Zim!" said Dib to himself. "Thanks for listening Mr. Hobo!" The hobo heard Dib, and gave him a wave and watched as the big headed child ran out after Zim. The hobo stood there for a moment, but then ripped the dinner's Jut Box out of the wall and ran away with it, never to be seen again.
Going back to Gaz, she walked through the streets looking at the shops. As she walked down the street, she noticed Zim running towards her very quickly.
"Ahhhh!" screamed Zim. "THE MADNESS!!" He then quickly passed Gaz and continued running, not looking back. Gaz looked at her feet to see a Chihuahua with a lobotomy slowly walk past her. The dog looked up at her, and proceeded on its merry way.
"Meh," said Gaz not caring about the little creature. She looked up again to see GIR, running in his disguise with a lease around his neck, dragging Das behind him.
"AH! STOP GIR! STOP!" screamed Das. "Wait a minute, why am I walking you?"
Gaz watched as the two disappeared into the night.
"Well, that was interesting." She then looked up to see her brother running after them.
"You'll never get away with whatever it is your doing!" he yelled. Gaz quickly caught him by his collar and threw him to the ground.
"Dib, they're running away from a dog, a Chihuahua at that. I don't think they're planning anything."
"GAZ! Where did you…how did you…oh never mind."
"Also Dib, it's about 11:40, we should start heading home," said in her usual tone.
As the two began to walk home, Dib noticed that Gaz wasn't holding a new game, and she had no pockets large enough to hide one.
"So…" he began. "Where's your game?"
Gaz raised an angry eyebrow at this. She gave her hateful growl, and looked up at her brother with displeasure. She then grabbed her brother, and threw him back over the fence and into the dog pound, and continued walking home while he screamed, once again, in unimaginable pain from the dogs biting and clawing at him.
End of episode 7
Thank you, I hope you all enjoyed this episode. Special thanks to my co-author Christian. Stay tuned for episode 8, coming soon!
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