Detention!

Zim and Gaz are sitting at their desk at detention. Gaz is writing in her book. She says to Zim. "That stupid jerk tore the corner of one of my pages." She turns around and raises her book to show him. Zim examines it.

"Why did you feel trapped? Who held you against your will?" Zim asked.

Zim could read the characters perfectly.

Gaz froze! Her eyes went wide in surprise! Zim just looks at her and blinks, oblivious to what significance that just happened.

Gaz turns away from him. Zim knew how to read Japanese?!?!?!

Zim then shows her his journal. Zim grins as he brags, "See Gaz, all earth language is just a smeet's doodle compared to the superior Irken writing!"

Gaz took a hard look at Zim's scribbling and saw the plan of escape from earlier. She is surprised to find she could read Irken also!

She just smirks at him, "Japanese is better." Zim glowers... "Whatever earthling!" Zim snub's at her. He crosses his arms and turns away from Gaz in a huff.

Zim felt a tickling on his neck and he brushes it off. He felt the tickling again and he swipes at the small paintbrush Gaz is tickling on him.

"HEY, quite it." Zim rubs his neck. She looks at him with a small smile. He looks at her and he softens his frown. However, he turns away and tries not to smile back.

Zim winces "err! These boots! Why does it pinch!?!?" he complains.

The detention bell rang. Gaz got up and took her books. Zim hurries after her. He hops a little, as the boots are killing him! They head to the school exit; Zim spoke up, "Gaz! You will have the honor in being invited to my base! You have raised my curiosity in your manual combat skills. A human like yourself will be a good specimen to study... for the invasion."

Gaz pauses in her stroll and looks deeply into his eyes.

Zim looks into her eyes and he got real close to her, their lips almost touching and then... said the most wrong thing ever!

"As your future master, you will obey as ordered!"

Gaz raises her brow and turns away from him. "No... Your being stupid." she replies and walks off.

Dib is waiting at the school steps for Gaz. "I thought that I would wait for you after your detention"

Dib looks over at a frowning Zim, "I will see you later Zim and when I do you will see that your plans will be thwarted!"

Dib is not going to succeed in thwarting Zim's walk with Gaz! Zim ran up to catch up to her and Zim shoulders Dib out of his way. He walks between Gaz and Dib. Dib decides to take head charge of the group and walks a little ahead.

Gaz is occupied in her game slave. She is concentrating in trying to get in the flock of flying pigs. Zim is trying to keep an eye out for any of Dib's tricks.

Unfortunately, Zim had a habit of letting his ADD kick in and he found he is distracted by Gaz's game device. He is leaning over her shoulder cheek to cheek to Gaz,

"Oooooh… LOOK OUT! Press those buttons! Press those buttons! Get him, get that pig-smelly!" Gaz presses pause on her game and turns to Zim. She is giving a low annoyed growl to him.

Zim flushes red and backs away a bit.

They are passing through the park by its fountain. Dib saw they are near the fountain, he thought of something malicious to do to that alien. A simple trick he could pull on Zim. As Zim is still having his eye on Gaz's game. Dib stuck his foot out, tripping poor Zim into the fountain. He fell head first into the cold water. He found himself in the water for a few seconds before rising to the surface screaming his head off. It is wet and cold!

Zim glares daggers to Dib and in a flash; he grabs Dib by the collar and is dunking Dib's head in the water. Dib took a deep breath before getting dunks in. Dib reaches around to feel for Zim's wig and antennae and pulls it hard. Zim screeches out and releases Dib's head.

Zim gave a boot to Dib backside causing Dib to fall over. Dib grabs Zim's foot and kicks Zim's standing leg. Dib is dunking Zim in and out of the water until he lost his grip and Zim seems to have vanished in the water.

"Did Zim melt completely?"

Dib searches around the water until he spots a ripple right below him. As he peers in to see if it is Zim.

A black gloved fist rose right up from the churning water, and punches Dib right on the jaw.

Dib fell back in a big splash.

Zim rose up from the water, his chest heaving as he is taking deep breaths. He turns to Gaz. His contacts are gone and his wig is floating down the other side of the fountain. He is in his true form.

He slows his breath and he realizes that Gaz is staring at him with wide eyes!

She reaches out to Zim; she is staring into his revealed ruby eyes. He did not know what to expect but he held out his arms for her. He had defeated his adversary and is going to claim his prize... she reach up to his face. His eyes sparkle in anticipation!

Then she yanks him by the collar and threw him aside. She reaches down to her brother and pulls him up.

Dib is sputtering water out of his mouth, "Yuck! Fountain water!" Dib complains.

"Be quiet you whiner!" Gaz fumes. Gaz presses her finger to press Dib's lower eyelid to open it wider, like a doctor. She looks deeply into Dib's pupils.

Zim is staring with a disappointed expression as Gaz look deeply into Dib's eyes. He could not think of anything!

Zim had won! Won! Why did then he felt like he lost... "So looks like you're going to live Dib," she said.

Dib nods, "It was a sucker punch Gaz..."

Zim wants to retaliate and show that earth stink another sucker punch!

SMACK! Gaz has slaps Dib on the back of his head. "GOOD, NOW THAT YOUR DONE BEING STUPID! GO FIND ZIM'S STUFF!"

Dib is shocked! He rubs the back of his head, "Why do I have to-..."

Gaz gave him another smack, "TODAY DIB! MOVE IT!"

Gaz wades in the fountain. She fishes out Zim's wig. Dib had Zim's contacts in the cup of his hands. It was somewhat freaky. It looks like a pair of eyes is staring at him from his hands. Gaz wrung out Zim's wig and shook off any access water. She climbs out of the fountain and hands the hairy mess to Zim.

Dib hands the contacts to Zim also. Gaz places her hand over his soaked disguise. "Don't put the contacts on yet, you will get pink eye." she warns.

Zim places the wet mop of hair on his head. Gaz places her hand over her mouth to cover her smile. One laugh escapes her lips in a cough.

Zim is kneading his hair but it is useless. Gaz reaches up and combs her fingers through his wig. She brushes it down.

"Try to pull the hair over your eyes... and wear these..." she grabs Dib's glasses

"HEY MY GLASSES!" Dib protests

"Hush up WILMA!" Gaz shot back and she places them on Zim's face. "That should help...," she says as she looks up at Zim.

Zim began to feel a little better, though now everything is blurry... She is trying not to smile. She cocks her head to the side and scrunches up her face a little, "you look emo"

Dib is waving his hands in front of him trying to see where he was. Gaz grabs his sleeve and guides him. Zim is trying to see, but the glasses made everything very blurry. He is waving about almost hitting the fountain again. She grabs him by his hand.

She drags them home, first dropping Zim off at his silly green home. She took the glasses back and she could not help but break out a small smile as she saw how silly he looks. She lowers her eyes and turns away.

Zim waves as she drags Dib home. Zim held out his hand where she held it, and wiggles his fingers... then a thought struck him like a hard slap! He ran into his house.

ZIM'S ABODE

GIR and MINIMOOSE are taking hula lessons from the TV. They had on a grass skirts and are twirling in circles. "Hula Aerobics." sang the TV spoke girl.

Zim zooms to the kitchen to head straight to the lab. Zim froze just before he hit the entrance and turns around at GIR and MINIMOOSE... "What are you doing?" Zim asks the robotic duo.

"Squeak!" MINIMOOSE replies.

"Oh, okay" Zim nods in approval and turns to head to the labs.

IN THE LABS… DEEP UNDERGROUND…

"COMPUTER! I NEED A FULL ANALYSIS!"

"Why?" computer responds in a bored tone.

Zim then gave the computer a hard stare, "BECAUSE I had something significant happen to me!"

"Like that time you dreamed about Gaz and you're nude in front of class?"

Zim taps is foot impatiently and glares… he mock laughs at Computer, "Oh computer, you are so funny... ha, ha, ha, HA! Computer... had your fun yet. Good… because you know what I find fun? Letting GIR eat your motherboard! Does that amuse you?"

"Fine, fine sheesh... so go ahead."

"My shoes are pinchy!"

"Oh no, stop the presses. So? Get new shoes..."

"ANYWAY Computer! I have found myself not hurting when I got wet. The water was just wet and cold... (Brrrrrr) so very cold... I need to know why computer and I want real answers!"

A/N

Computer's got some attitude... huh?