Author's note: This must be the shortest chapter ever! I said before (I think) that it was supposed to be in the previous chapter, not one chapter alone, so actually, in a way it is the longest. The reason for the wait is that I've had 7 big tests in the span of 2 weeks! I was almost brain dead by the end of it and my hand hurt so much, I could barely write anything. Only one more test on Tuesday and then, done! Easter break. Then there's back to the tests… what do I go to skool for again? About the end of this chapter, I had to make it a little odd in the Jhonen Vasques spirit. I'm not sure if Gaz is a little ooc in this chapter… but this is how I see her.

The Zim and Dib romance

Chapter IV

There's some damage to the cerebral cortex, but otherwise he's fine…

Gaz had never liked Dib. Ever since the day she was born she had hated that bigheaded jerk. Or more exactly, on her second day of living. She had been lying in her crib with her stuffed piggie, just sleeping when he had come and taken it. Her favorite piggie! And after that, he had just continued to take her stuff. Whether it was food or toys, just taken it! So that her beloved father was having another baby scared her slightly. Not that she would admit that. She hid her insecurities by playing her GS5… and she was also just about to beat the next level. Oh yeah. She was good. Die Zombies! DIE! And yeah, she hid her… what was it again… oh no you didn't just try to kill my character, DIE ZOMBIE!

"Daughter, put your game down. Professor Cerebral will be here soon," her father said to her.

"Just a sec dad," she replied. She beat the boss in 5 seconds, (It was a difficult one) and put the game down.

"Good girl."

On the other side of the table sat her brother and his green friend… whatever his name was. They were in a fancy restaurant where they were going to meet her father's boyfriend for the first time. The one that had made her father pregnant.

"Ah, here he his!" her father exclaimed and stood up. The group turned to the person entering. It was a tall man with dark hair. A pair of huge, thick framed glasses covered half of the man's face, but from what they could see, he seemed handsome enough. He was probably a few years younger than her father, but not much.

"Is that the person who knocked your father up?" the green kid whispered to her brother.

"Yeah, but… where did you learn that expression?" Dib whispered back.

"TV. Did I use it incorrectly?"

"No, but it's a little rude to say it like that. You should say…"

Gaz tuned out. Those two were boring as hell. After talking to a random waiter about something, professor Cerebral walked over to them. Her father greeted him with a polite handshake before the two of them sat down.

"So how are the plans for the nuclear waist removing device coming along, professor Cerebral?" her father asked the man.

"It's going quite well, professor Membrane. Of course, we'll need your assistance with the…"

Okay, that was boring too. Maybe she should tune in on Dib and the green kid again.

"For the last time Zim, it's pudding!"

No. Maybe the table next to them was more interesting.

"Will you marry me Sophia?"

"Alex… I can't. I don't know how to say this but… I'm pregnant with Josh!"

Yuck! GS5 it is.

And on the other side of the table…

After explaining pudding to Zim for the eleventh time, Dib turned to professor Cerebral. He didn't like him. There was something about the man that was wrong. Very wrong. (imagine Dib saying this in his overdramatic way. It's funny)

"So, professor Cerebral," Dib started. "Why don't you tell us something about yourself?"

"Of course, Dib! I'm 35. I work for your father and I'm from Greendale," the man smiled.

"That's it? No hobbies or something? What about your family?"

"I enjoy working and my family lives in Greendale." His smile was robotic like. It was creepy. Maybe he was a robot… Dib grabbed a pen, scribbled on a napkin and passed it subtly to Zim. Zim looked at the napkin and raised an eyebrow. He looked at Dib with confused eyes. Dib nodded reassuringly back.

"Are you a robot?" Zim asked professor Cerebral.

"Of course not, little green kid." The man kept smiling his weird smile.

"Don't worry kids. I've seen him without clothes and I can assure you he's not a robot," Membrane chuckled.

"That's disgusting dad!"

"Why is that disgusting?" Zim asked.

"Because it is!"

"So seeing each other naked is disgusting?"

"Yeah… sometimes… but not always…"

"I've seen you naked and I didn't find that disgusting."

"Shut up Zim!"

"Will not!"

A chair to the right of Dib, a few will nots and will tos later…

Zim was annoyed. Dib didn't have to take his anger out on him! And of course professor Cerebral couldn't be a robot. Robots could be very realistic, but they couldn't reproduce… as he knew anyway. The man could be a robot. Dib and Cerebral was busy discussing and Membrane was just looking at… something, and Gaz wouldn't notice a bomb going off. Zim slipped under the table and crawled to Professor Cerebral's legs. He grabbed a small ball from his pocket, pushed it and the ball transformed to a table with several instruments. He grabbed his brand new x-ray glasses first and studied the professor's internal organs and bones. Not robotic, but Dib's intuition wasn't usually wrong. He had managed to see through Zim's disguise after all, and he would hate to have some dangerous person living with his Dib. After putting away the glasses he pulled up Cerebral's pant leg before pulling out one of the hairs with some tweezers.

The man's leg twitched. "What was that?" professor Cerebral shrieked.

"What?" all the others, except Gaz who didn't give a damn, asked at once.

"I think someone just pulled one of my leg hairs out…" Cerebral explained.

"NO!" Zim shouted. "It was just a…a… a mouse!"

"Oh, good God. There's mouse in the restaurant!" Membrane exclaimed. With that women began screaming, waiters began to search the floors and a few creepy men in strange suits carrying spray cans with poisonous gasses jumped into the building. Zim took this as his cue to get back into his seat.

"Please evacuate the building! Please evacuate the building! There is a mouse in the building! I repeat, there is a mouse in the building!" a man's voice shouted from some speakers. The people quickly left the building in a panic and the family ended up a few blocks away from the restaurant. While professor Membrane and Cerebral walked a bit away from the kids to call for a taxi, Dib turned to his alien boyfriend.

"You had to say mouse!" he shouted.

"Well, sorry! I couldn't think of something else!" Zim shouted back.

"What were you doing under the table anyway?"

"Confirming that he wasn't a robot."

"Guys?" Gaz asked suddenly. They turned to the girl who was looking confused about. "When did we leave the restaurant?"

Author's random rambling: I've been reading Jhonen Vasques' livejournal blog. He's quite funny. And while writing the last part I wanted to watch the grim adventures of Billy and Mandy, but the remote was too far away and now my mom took it! I wonder how my teacher would react if I suddenly started writing skool instead of school in English class. I got A in English after all.