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Greetings! I hope you like this story I reciently came up with... and bare with me if it is not what you usally expect from a ZADR.
Thanks!
The " x " is a page braker. Italics are thoughts or highlighted words.
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Chapter 4. Halloween Special
"Uff!", sighed Deb, relieved, while walking to the lab, "That was a close call. I should be more careful next time… geez! I never thought guys could be so primitive… it makes me wonder if all this is worth saving". She looked at her shoulder, covered by Torque's red jacket, and her worried sight grew soft. Of course is worth saving, the Dib in her head told her – even if it was not usual for him to say it –, who could have know that Torque remembered that time on 7th grade and still be grateful for that?
Since Deb was walking without looking where she was going, she bumped against someone… again.
EEEKK!...
Ouch!...
Both girls fell to the floor, one over the other, forming and X with their overlapped bodies; Deb fell on top.
Great!, the raven-haired girl thought, Am I going to run into trouble all day, today?
"Excuse me!", yelped the girl that was down her, "can you stand, now? You are heavy!"
"Oh… Sorry, sorry!", said Deb and stood up; she helped the other girl stand, "Are you hurt?"
"Nah! I'm fine", the pink-haired girl said, "I was walking without looking… that's why I always end ramming against people. Clumsy me!"
Deb was shocked for the girl's hair color that she didn't really listen to her. "Umm…", she muttered. The girl immediately knew what the other girl was thinking.
"Oh… this?", she said and blew a lock of pink hair out of her face, "I am a genetic experiment"
"WHAT?", Deb chocked.
"Hahahahaha… nah! I'm not!, the girl giggled, "it's just a normal hair coloring gone bad. Now its pink and it seems it will last like that for around 3 months… but I don't see it as something terrible, today is Halloween and I'm organizing a party at my house, and this pink hair is great for a costume I want of the character of Dragon Pink!"
"I see…", Deb had seen a couple of chapters of that anime of said character, "… don't you think is a bit dangerous to be dressed like that if you are going to invite boys?"
"Nah! Pink-haired cat girl is a winning match everywhere: boys love it!", she said. Deb thought, that's why I would worry. "Besides", the girl went on, "my boyfriend is going to be characterizing Santa, he is Pink's hero".
"Oh… ok", Deb said.
"Here!", the girl gave Deb a few of her fliers-invitations with the phrase Halloween Costume Party!, "I think you should go, if you don't have a costume yet I can help you get one".
"Thank's but…", the raven-haired girl said, "… I'm not the partying type of girl".
"If you are worried about going alone, you can bring your boyfriend along", the pink-haired girl said, "just don't sneak into a room to get an alone time and everything will be fine".
"Don't worry", Deb said, "I don't have a boyfriend".
"So… that school red jacket is your brother's?", the girl asked while looking at the cloth. Deb blushed a bit.
"I can help you spread your invitations", Deb said to change the topic, "but I cannot guarantee I'll go, ok?"
"Oh, thank you! Em…", the girl realized she had been talking with a perfect stranger; she swung left and right awkwardly.
"Deb", the black-haired girl said.
"Sigrid", the other replied.
"Nice to meet you", both said at the same time and giggled.
"Well, Debby", Sigrid said and handled some more fliers to her, "Thank you for helping me with the invitations… and I really hope you can come along, boyfriend or not". The pink-haired girl smiled mischievously.
"No problem", Deb replied, "I'll help you gladly… and I may drop by, but don't hope too much". She decided to ignore the boyfriend part.
"Ok", Sigrid said, "See ya'round!". She left to the opposite way Deb was going.
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Deb's luck was improving when she finally arrived to the lab, the teacher wasn't there and the class was creating experiments of their own. That will end bad, her mind stated; she nodded. Her eyes were looking for the green invader she hadn't had the chance to locate on the P. E. class. Zim was seating on the stool of the lab table closest to the door, Deb walked toward him.
"Hello, Zim", she said in a grim voice, "do you remember me?"
The irken looked at her, uninterested, and finally said: "Of course not!"
"Maybe this will refresh your memories…", she said threatening, "… space boy". Zim's eyes perked a bit, the only one that would dare to call him like that was…
"… Dib-worm?"
Deb nodded. Zim chuckled evilly.
"I see… I was disappointed that my cannon had not killed you, but I think this is something I can use to my advantage… yesss", the invader replied with certain pride.
"Oh, I think not… green menace", Deb said and slammed the palms of her hands on the lab's table, "I will make everyone know the truth about you". If I want him to help me recover my old body, the Dib in her mind told her, he needs to see this new body as a menace.
"Oh, yeah!", Zim said, very confident, "I don't think a little girl like you can stop me now".
"Ok… I warned you", Deb smiled sweetly. Zim frowned; he didn't like the girl confident attitude. She showed him one of the fliers. "I'm going to invite everyone in this lab to a Halloween party… at your house"
"You wouldn't dare…", the alien growled and his eyes closed into slits.
"That's what you think?", Deb said triumphantly, "Let me show you". The girl turned around to walk away from the irken invader and lifted her hand with the flier over her head.
"PARTY EV…"
She had no chance to make her announcement due to Zim grabbing the wrist of her free hand and taking her out of the lab. The alien dragged her a few steps away from there and found a concealed alcove where none would bother them.
"Are you crazy, Dib-stink?", Zim growled, "Taking the whole school to Zim's base? What were you trying to prove?"
"I'm proving that, with this new weapon you gave me", Deb said and smiled victorious, "I can move the masses at my will".
Zim seemed to process that statement and looked at the Dib's new body. Mhmm… maybe this isn't going to work as I thought, the invader pondered to himself.
"If you want me not to take all the school to your base, Zim", the girl's voice brought the invader back to reality, "You will have to come with me to this Halloween party… we will talk, then". She handed him the flier. The alien read it and discovered that the address on the paper wasn't his.
"And what if I don't go", he threatened.
"If you don't go to the party…", Deb said as a prophet, "… the party will come to you". She used all the confidence she could muster. Zim got caught on the bluff because he growled and mumbled and then he said: fine.
"Fine", said Deb chirping, "see you there, Zimmy… and don't you dare disappoint me". Those last words she said them in a menacing tone. Zim growled and walked away.
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"I'm so glad you came with me to look for our costumes together", Sigrid said to Deb while they got in the store, "This is the biggest costume store of all… and you know what", she said confidentially to Deb in a whisper, "It only opens for three days, when Halloween is near. After that, you don't find the store anywhere anymore".
"A ghost store", Deb said back to Sigrid in a mysterious tone, "Maybe you have to pay the costume with your soul…"
"That would be really creepy", the pink-haired girl said, "it gives me goosebumps just to think about it".
Sigrid found her costume immediately since she knew what she was going to wear. Deb, on the other hand, didn't have the slightest idea of what to wear. For her, all the ladies costumes seemed very sluty: Why do girls wear costumes like this?
"Here!", Sigrid told Deb while she packed her arms with a pile of costumes, "Try them on!"
Deb sighed and went to the dressing room. She came out a moment later wearing a Cleopatra costume.
"Mhmm…", the pink-haired girl contemplated the new look, "Nah! Doesn't fit you. Try another".
Deb went and came, this time, with a cat woman costume.
"We can both be cats", said Sigrid. Deb shook her head and went into the dressing room to change… she came back with a werewolf costume.
"I like it!", her voice came muffled from the mask, "I think is very complete".
"Maybe too much", complained Sigrid, "I cannot tell you are a girl".
"Even better!", replied Deb triumphantly.
"Dddeeeeebb…", started to warn her the pink-haired girl.
"Ok, ok… geez! I'll get changed", whinnied Deb. She came moments later with a gothic vampire costume: platform lace-up knee boots with chains and straps, black webbed pantyhose, a black miniskirt – that Deb keep trying to make larger by pulling it down with both hands –, a dark purple, lacey corset that framed her curves even more than she had liked – leaving her shoulders and neck uncovered; making her pale skin even more noticeable –, black webbed arm-long gauntlets, and a black velvet chocker with a silver bat on it.
"It's gorgeous!", Sigrid exclaimed, "and it makes your… mhmm… attributes stand out!"
"That's exactly what I don't want!", Deb said not knowing how to cover herself with only her two arms and hands, "I rather not to stand out!"
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A grumpy goth vampire girl was seating on a couch with a frown on her face, arms and legs crossed.
"C'mon, Deb!", Pink said, "you look great! I know you have to get in character, but I don't want your gloom mood mess the party".
"Ha ha ha", the goth chick let out a fake laugh, "then you should have let me get the werewolf costume as I wanted".
"But that's not even a girl costume!", Pink replied, "I don't even know how I could have mixed it with the other ones".
"Wathever…", was Deb short comment. A boy, looking like a medieval knight, with spiky hair joined the girls and hugged Pink.
"Hi, kitty!", he said and kissed the girl forehead, "you look amazing!"
"Thanks, Rick", Pink said, "I mean… Santa. You look very handsome, too". She giggled.
"Meh", muttered Deb under her breath.
"Ahd who's your friend?", the boy asked.
"Oh, she is Deb", Pink answered, "Deb, he's my boyfriend Rick".
"Nice to meet you", the goth vampress said, "nice costume".
"Not as nice as yours", he said; Pink stabbed his boyfriend side with an elbow. "Uff!"
"Why don't you, lovebirds, go and merge with your guests and have fun?", Deb suggested, "I'll be here a bit more".
"Oh… ok", Pink said, "Let's go Santa, Goth-girl will tag later". She pulled her boyfriend to the hall where the party was being held. Some furniture was taken out of the room to get more space, and Deb had decided to use the two-seat couch that was out to seat away from the noisy party.
Deb was waiting for Zim to show up and was starting to worry that he was not going to arrive when she felt someone sat by her side. Not another moron, please, she silently complained.
"Well, well… I thought you were part of the furniture with all those webs on your clothes", a raspy voice and familiar cackle said to the girl. She turned around.
"So nice of you to drop by, Zimmy", Deb said with a hypocrite tone, "I wouldn't have let you miss this party for anything". The irken growled.
"Well, Dib-worm, let's get down to business", the invader said not to gently, "which are your demands?"
"I'm not demanding anything, Zimmy", the girl said in a sweet tone this time, "I think I can make people listen to me with this weapon you gave me... as I told you before". She completed her speech with a swift hand movement that followed the curves of her body. The irken grinded his teeth together.
"And what if I undo what has been done?", Zim threatened.
"I know you can't do that, Zimmy", Deb said, "I broke your precious machine, don't you remember?"
"ARGH!", the irken grumbled, irritated, "How can I forget? I should have shred you on the spot!"
"And I'm very sure that it will take you a lot of time to fix it", the goth girl went on, "time I will use to wake up my fellow students' minds to see the real you".
"Not if I silence you first", the irken growled menacing and Deb felt a sting on her neck. While the invader was distracting her with the conversation he had injected a serum with a small syringe hidden in his black gloves. The girl vision started to become blurry and she stumblingly stood from the couch.
"W-what… w-what did you… inj…", she couldn't finish her question, she felt herself falling and darkness swallowed her.
Zim caught the unconscious girl and escaped with her on his arms; the spider legs swiftly took both of them away from Sigrid's house and into the night.
"You will curse the day you decided to threaten me, Dib-stink", the irken said and laughed evilly.
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HAPPY HALLOWEEN, EVERYONE! It is my favorite time of the year and I thought I should do something related to it. What will happen to Dib now that Zim has traped him? Oh, no! (LOL).
For the next chapter I promise this story will have a name. Thanks for reading!
A/N3: No need for reviews unless you feel like doing so.
