Psyche
Yay! We made it!
Epic boss battle time!
Are you ready? Well, PREPARE YOURSELVES!
Disclaimer: "I haven't got a bean, but my shoes are clean..."
Last time...
"You really could destroy me this time!" Full palate Zim yelled as the two were plunged into yet another scene.
And now, the continuation..
Colors of the Mind
Dib 'oofed' a landing, looking around swiftly to take in the new scene only to find himself back in Zim's base… the two of them standing in front of his overly large computer monitor… just as they'd been before he'd even jumped into Zim's mind.
"Hey… we're back!" Dib yelped happily. "Zim?" he asked, turning to look at the Irken who was grinning at his enemy despite himself. Just then, the screen buzzed to life… depicting Zim's two very tall leaders as they loomed over him. Zim looked to them reverently, immediately snapping to attention and addressing them with nothing but respect and admiration.
"My Tallest, sirs! To what do I owe the pleasure of this unscheduled call? You must be excited to see my next greatest plan to take over the earth and enslave the humans, yes?" Zim enthused like a child wishing to impress its parents.
"No, Zim…" the tall red one deadpanned.
"You know why we don't call you…" the purple one stated, mouth full of pastries.
"What? What is this?" Zim almost whimpered.
"Oh come on Zim, this is about your 'mission' we've said it… right out in front of you even, but you were just too stupid to notice." The red one growled.
"We're talking about Zim's fake mission, right?" The purple one chimed in.
"Yes… his banishment." Red stated.
"Yeah!" the other one scoffed through a food filled mouth. "Like we would just let you quit being banished!"
"You mean Zim's mission… he's not really here to take over the earth?" Dib enthused, leaping to the front of the display.
"Yes enormously large headed kid!" the red one pointed. "Zim's mission is a sham… it's all just fake! Fake! Fake! Fake! Fake!" the purple one started chiming in and Dib looked over at Zim.
The tiny Irken was shivering, fists at his head as he curled into a fetal position upon the cold tile floors. The Tallest seemed to suddenly break the borders of their display, looming over him in person. As they continued to chant, the world fell away into darkness and eventually so did they leaving Zim, still in color, but broken on the floor.
"No…" he breathed, fists quivering at the sided of his head. "They're lying!" he said, his voice trembling wildly. "Yes… it's just a test… a test to prove that I'm a worthy Invader…" he shook, coming to is feet. "Well, I'll show them… I am ZIM!" He screamed, thrusting his hands overhead.
Dib leapt back in surprise. At first, he thought it was just the weird dreaminess of this place, but now it was obvious that Zim was getting bigger! He kept all his original proportions, but in only a few seconds the invader loomed over everything.
The roof of the darkness seemed to break away, revealing the world outside… all city and skyscrapers lit by an eerie red sunset. Zim's manic laugh echoed off into the distance as numerous grey wires and tubing began to snake about all around him and race to cover everything in sight.
"I'm amazing! Just look at me!" Zim's hubris spouted. "You should feel honored to be in the presence of Zim!"
"That's it!" Suddenly, Zim's problem snapped in Dib's brain and he knew what he had to do. "He really is insane and I'm looking right at the problem! If I can defeat his megalomania then…" Dib steadied himself as a footstep from the oversized Zim rattled the ground.
"You're not getting away from me, Zim!" Dib yelled, following the giant as it climbed the one remaining structure of the world… Zim's twisted insane house.
"Hah! None can stand up to the might of Zim!" He exclaimed from atop his base.
"Well I'm here to knock you down from that high horse!" Dib exclaimed as he dashed into the tube infested yard.
"What is this horse you speak of?" Zim barked out as he pointed to Dib, sending a slew of cords to swipe at him from afar. With quick dodging power, Dib dashed away from the onslaught, landing in front of the structure.
Underfoot, the surface of the cables he was standing on grew red hot. "Ewww… don't forget about my perimeter defense eheheheh!"
Dib leapt away just in time as beams from the buried lawn gnomes erupted into the red sky. "I have to get up to the roof somehow!"
"Aahahahahahahaha! Take that!" Dib heard as a cord swiped low to attack him. At first he was like… but then a look of determination crossed his face and with a 'hiyah!' Dib leapt over the attack and ran up the length of the cord, lunging towards the building as another swiped down at him.
"Hah! I am unbeatable!"
Grasping on to the second level window sill, Dib was able to shift himself just in time to miss an incoming wire that gouged deeply into the house and got stuck there. Taking advantage of the situation, Dib ran up the exposed wire and grabbed on to the base of the roof, pulling himself up and scrambling towards the top.
"Hmm? Hey! Go away!" Zim snapped, directing another cord to attack the human.
"Not a chance Zim, you're going down!" Dib yelped as he ran directly towards his foe trailing a slew of pursuing cords. "Wah!" Dib yelped as he leapt at the somewhat surprised looking Zim. When he didn't budge the over-sized Irken laughed.
"Hah, Dib! Did you really think you could…Aaaaugh!" Zim snapped as the cords barreled into him, knocking him to the edge of the roof where he teetered dangerously for a moment as Dib hopped off and gave the last push.
"Aaaaaaaaaaahhhh…." Zim yelled all the way down, landing with an 'oof!' at the base of the … base.
All around, the cords seemed to loose and pull back into where they'd come from… leaving behind an un-wreaked world that stood as tall as it once had before the gigantic Zim had conquered it. Even Zim's base seemed to melt into the scene, leaving Dib back on the ground level where he saw a normal sized Zim begin to sit up.
Dib suddenly felt himself being pulled backwards… "Huh?" he snapped in surprise as he was ejected from the alien's cranium in a whirlwind of energy.
INT: ZIMS BASE
Dib landed hard on his tail bone, wincing with an 'erh' before pulling himself off the ground. In front of him, the door to Zim's head fell away, rattling as it hit the floor. The alien blinked his eyes a few times in succession before catching sight of his nemesis, making him furrow his brow in contemplation.
"Wow!" Dib snapped, snatching up the door from off the floor. "You've got some crazy things locked away in that head of yours, Zim!" At Zim's sobering expression, Dib stopped prancing about and removed the finger he'd jabbed at Zim's cranium in celebration of surviving the whole ordeal, letting his toothy grin slide away.
"Uhm… Dib? I think we should talk…"
FIN
Dib's presence unwittingly dredged up all of Zim's dark secrets… ending his disillusionment and Dib's defeating Zim's megalomania leaves Zim free to sanely assess his situation and decide that he enjoys being on earth and joins with Dib to be its protector. The end! There were a lot of references to alt media in this piece such as the trial, the show's opening and the nick magazine comic bit where Zim took over the world and went off flying on space piggies with Dib. Also, if you haven't played Psychonauts… you owe it to yourself as a fan of this genre to go play the crap out of it right now!
Anywho... That shall be it for nows! Thanks to everyone who stayed with me for this thingy! It's all done... yous can go home now.. buhbuy g'bye bye!
