DISCLAIMER: Why yes! I do own Invader Zim (let's see how this pans out)! Also, THANK YOU for all of the wonderful reviews! They really do make my day!
My whole body screamed with rejection as I tried to sit up. My head, hair tangled with leaves and dirt, had a throbbing head ache. My limbs felt as if they were on fire; my muscles throughout my whole body were weary. When I finally got myself into an upright position, I attempted to open my eyes and failed miserably. I hung my head in defeat. What the hell happened last night? My muscles tightened as I tried to lift my head quicker than my body would allow. I attempted to open my eyes again, still with little success.
My vision was blurry, but I could tell it was daytime. Weird, I thought, as I let my body fall back towards the ground again, the sky looks orangeish. I kept my eyes open, even though my vision was still blurry, and looked around. Every thing looks really weird. Whats up with the clouds? They look... jagged! I stood up quickly, despite my condition, and spun around franticly. WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED LAST NIGHT? I asked myself again, thinking. I started to play the-night-before's events in my head. Fair, Madam Lee, home, devastating call, I halted my thoughts, my face fell. NO! Not right now! I can cry later! I NEED to know whats happening right now! Alright, call, ran away, tripped, drank the pink stuff in the tiny bottle, passed out... I widened my eyes in realization. That pink crap! It did this to me! It brought me here! Where am I exactly am I? I had a pretty good idea where I was, but I still needed proof.
I started to pick leaves out of my hair and rub dirt off my face, man-jamas, and slippers as I waited for my vision to be clear once more. Then I rubbed my eyes, hoping to speed up the process of...um... clearing-eye-sightedness.
I was excited. My hands were shaking violently. Oh God, oh God, please let me be where I think I am! When I was done rubbing my eyes, I opened them slowly and looked up at the trees around me. Holy pig-shit. I thought and leaned on a nearby tree. A smile slowly spread across my face. "YEEEEEEEESSSSSS!" I shouted, throwing my hands up in the air. The trees were outlined with a thick black line and the leaves weren't a regular curvy shape, they had a slight point to them.
I had been transported to the wonderful world of Invader Zim.
I celebrated for a little while longer and actually took sometime to think about what I was going to do... and where the hell I was at the moment. I really don't remember any forests in Invader Zim. There was the one in 'Vindicated!', but would I really be sent there? I stopped my thought and listened. I heard car horns, police sirens, and some guy yelling about weasels and hotdogs. Maybe I'm near the city. I bet I can find some help there. I started to walk in the direction of the noises and soon found out that I was right about what I was near.
When I exited the woods, I found myself in the middle of big city: filled with bustling people moving every which way through streets and sidewalks, skyscrapers, and old, homeless bums. I was overwhelmed by the sudden sight of so many people, I lived in a small town my entire life, I had never set eyes so many people jam-packed in one place. I turned to go back to the forest behind me, but it wasn't there, more people had taken it's place, and I found myself stranded in a boom town... filled with, most likely violent and merciless, cartoon characters. Crap, was all I could seem to process at the moment. So I started to wander into the accumulation of people, pushing my way through them like cells through a fat man's clogged artery.
I was hit in various places a few times, and carried backwards by herds of humans, but after what seemed like hours, I came to the edge of the metropolis and to the beginning of rows and rows and rows and rows and rows and row and rows and rows, and rows... and... rows... rows... rows... of... HOUSES.
Then I just took a moment to scream: "AAAAAARRGGHHH! WHY IS THIS PLACE SO BIG? It's really tiring." I sat down on a curb and hugged my knees to my chest. What should I do? I thought I don't even have any place to stay! I might-as-well go back to the city and befriend a homeless guy, then I can live with him and we can... ugh. Then, I stood up furiously and looked to the sky. "Can I get some help down here?" I shouted, and then I head the confused shuffle of feet behind me.
"Woah, where the hell am I? Maxi?" said a familiar voice.
I spun around. "ROSE? How'd you get here?" I asked running toward her. She was obviously confused, and very cartoonified.
Her once long, curly brown hair was now a dark shade of pink. She still had on her pajamas: a tank-top with an unhappy cloud on it and white pants with navy blue stripes. Her brown eyes were more squinty with three long eyelashes on the sides. The overall picture though, was that she, in fact, looked very pretty.
"That's what I'm trying to figure out." She said, scratching her head. "One minute I'm laying in bed reading a book, and then, ALL OF A SUDDEN, I'm standing here, in my pajamas, like an idiot, and everything around me looks like... HOLY PIGSHIT!" She shouted the last part and I laughed. She had just noticed that everything around her was 'Jhonen Vasquez-ed'. Her expression was pure awe. It was really quite funny. When she finally snapped out of her trance, she turned to me and said: "You look GOOD." That caught my attention. I hadn't even thought of what I might look like yet. What do I look like? I questioned myself, not getting an answer.
"Hey, how did you get here Maxi?" Rose asked, looking around.
"I went to a fair, and there was this lady, Madam Lee was her name, and she gave me this..." I looked at Rose, confused expression plastered on her face once more. "It's a long story. I'll tell you later, but right now we need to figure out how you got here!" I thought, out loud, about what I was doing right before Rose appeared. "Alright, I was mad, so I sat down on this curb." I said to Rose, she nodded, signaling that she got it. "I thought about how I don't even have a place to stay." I clenched my fists as I said this. Ugh, I forgot about that problem. At least I'm not alone now though. I continued replaying what I did before Rose fell into the picture. "Then I yelled 'Can I get some help down here?' at the sky. Then you appeared." I said to her, a hand on my chin. Realization emerged and took over quickly. "Oh." I said. "When I wished for help, you came Rose! I see now! I can just wish for stuff here and I'll get it!" I concluded and looked at Rose. She had a wide grin spread across her face.
"COOL!" She said excitedly. "I wonder if it works for me? CAN I GET SOME ICE CREAM?" She yelled, throwing her head up towards the sky, and waited for a few moments. Nothing. "Darn."
"Come on Rose," I verbalized, "I think we should get going. We need to find a place to stay.
"Why don't you just ask for a place to stay? You asked for help and I came." she stated.
"Oh yeah. CAN I HAVE A PLACE TO STAY?" I shouted at the heavens. Nothing happened... not to me a least, but after I did that, Rose just started to walk away form me.
"Um, Rose?" I asked, concerned, "Where are you going?"
"I think I know a place to stay," she said "just follow me." I did as she commanded and followed her down the sidewalk and into the sea of houses.
It was probably about noon and the sky was a bright orange. Rose and I had been walking for a while in silence. I asked her where we were going and all she said was: "I think I know where we can stay." I was getting frustrated. I was still in my 'man-jamas', I was hungry, and I hadn't taken a shower yet and I knew I stunk. I was about to open my mouth and start complaining when Rose magically took some keys out of her pant's pocket and started to make her way toward a house that seemed vaguely familiar.
"What's this place?" I asked Rose as she put the key in the knob. I held my breath, hoping it would turn, even though I had no idea who's house it was.
"This," Rose began, "is home." and she flung open the door, revealing the interior.
The inside of the house looked some what like Aunt Kat's, Rose's and my house all shoved into one. Maybe that's why it looked so familiar. I thought as I stepped inside and closed the door behind me. Rose was smiling like an idiot.
"What?" I asked her, chuckling slightly at the stupid look on her face.
"Maxi, we have this whole place to ourselves! Don't you realize it! No one can tell us what to do!" Rose's voice was slightly amplifying with each sentence. "We can do whatever we want to!" she yelled, spreading her long arms out as far a they would go. I laughed at her and started to make my way up a staircase on the wall.
"I'm gonna check what the upstairs is like!" I yelled as I bolted up the stairs.
When I reached the top, I was immediately greeted by a long corridor of rooms. I started to throw open every single room, one after the other, checking them out. Family room, bedroom, bedroom, bathroom... SHOWER! I thought and I ran to it and hugged the translucent glass door it had. I sighed and let go after probably a minute. I started to leave the bathroom when movement caught the corner of my eye, and I saw a person next to me.
I screamed and fell down onto the toilet. "Who the hell are you?" I asked, the person mocked me. I raised and eyebrow and stood up, they did the same. I started to march over to the person and soon realized that it was a mirror that was just hidden by shadows. I laughed hard. How could I be so stupid! I looked at the mirror and the reflection in it.
I hadn't seen what I looked like yet and it came as somewhat of a shock to find long, royal and navy blue streaks in my black hair. My eyes were shaped like Tak's were, but they weren't purple they were a startling emerald green. Wow, I thought, touching my face, I do look good. I smiled to myself and left the bathroom to continue looking at the rooms.
I found that the house had a room exactly like the one I had at Aunt Kat's and that it also had Rose's room. All of our clothes were in our dressers still and I found my iPod, which made my day even better. Rose found that the fridge was stock full of food and we made waffles for supper. Afterwards, I went back to the bathroom and took a nice, long, hot shower.
It was probably about five o'clock when I got done with my shower and got dressed (black sweatpants, gray hoodie, and tennis shoes). I went down stairs and found Rose in the living room, on the couch, watching T.V.
"Hey Maxi, they still have House! But it's all cartoony and stuff." Rose said pointing to the television. I smiled and went to the kitchen to make myself a cup of tea, then I went outside and sat on the porch steps and drank my tea.
Hm, what should I do tomorrow? I thought as I watched some kids play in the street and almost get hit by a car. I laughed viciously. Stupid, stupid humans. I thought and shook my head. I turned my head to look down the street, and what I saw made me spill my hot tea all over my pants.
"Oh, SON OF A... argh," I cursed at how hot the tea was and struggled to get up. When I was on my feet, I burst through the door. "ROSE!" I yelled, she looked over at me from the couch.
"What Maxi?" she asked, frustrated that I was distracting her form House.
"Come outside, NOW!" I said, maniac grin on my face. Rose got up and followed me outside.
"Honestly Maxi, what could be more important than Ho-," she stopped dead as soon as she saw what I was so excited about. "Holy pig shit... GIR."
Wow, that was a long chapter. I promise the next chapter will have more characters and character interaction. Also, the whole part about 'whatever you wish for you get it', sorry that was kind of cheesy, but it was the only thing I could come up with. And again, THANK YOU for all of the wonderful reviews! :D
