A/N: So here's the deal. My computer is broken and Geek Squad is expecting it to take 2-4 weeks (as of 3 days ago) for it to be repaired. I'm such a computer addict that I had to borrow my mom's laptop to do a little writing. Losing My Mind!

Anyway... This might be the last chapter for this story until I get my repaired computer back. I'm going to try and do some chapters for my other stories with my mom's laptop while I'm waiting but I can only use it as long as she doesn't need it. She was being nice when she let me use it for most of the day today because I was going insane.

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Chapter 7 –New Friends and a Robot

"DIB-STINK!? WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE?" Zim stared at me looking completely obfuscated. I stared back at him and raised an eyebrow.

"What do you mean? This is my desk. Where else would I be?" Zim opened his mouth to say something but closed it a minute later. He tried the same thing two more times before Miss Bitters slithered out of the shadows behind him and made a noise that told us all of her dislike of having to talk to us. Zim shut up and went back to his seat. I sighed and rested my head on my hand. "I'll never understand him."

"You're the only one that ever wanted to." I turned around to look at the girl who sits diagonally behind me, I think her name is Zita. She didn't look back at me just stared at her paper, her pencil moving back and forth slowly on the page. I sat up tall in my seat to try and see what she was drawing but she moved her arm over the page.

"So.. um…" This was my chance to hold a real conversation with someone. I wasn't going to let it pass without at least trying. "Has he always been…"

"Insane? Yeah. Almost as much as you were." She still didn't look up from her drawing. I just couldn't help but ask exactly how insane I was. Her pencil kept moving at a steady rate, "If I had to put it into words, I'd have to say you were so insane that none of us knew whether you even had a brain or not. Well… That's not true. We knew you did but you just didn't think like everyone else." She looked up from her paper like she realized what she'd just said. She squinted at me as she continued, "Don't get me wrong. Even if we knew that, you were still were really annoying."

"But I'm not now?"

Zita shrugged and went back to her drawing. Class went on as usual. When the lunch bell rang and I was getting up from my chair, Zita walked by and, without looking at me, said that it might be okay if I sat at the lunch table with her and her friends. I was so excited that I grabbed my stuff and quickly followed after her.

I grabbed my tray and went to the table I remembered most of my classmates sitting at before. Everyone glared as I sat down. "What's he doing here?" someone whispered. Another hissed something about moving to a different table. Some of them looked like they were considering it until The Letter M came and sat down on one side of me. He didn't say anything; just started eating. Any left-over uncertainty was eliminated when Zita came and sat down on the other side. She didn't say anything either. Conversation resumed with the other kids. Someone mentioned that school had been surprisingly quiet this week.

"Well what do you expect?" The Letter M snorted. "Zim and Dib aren't constantly yelling anymore."

"Actually Zim was still yelling this morning." Zita added.

The Letter M scratched his head with his fork, "Oh yeah… What was he yelling about anyway?" All eyes were on me again. I just shrugged. The Letter M stabbed at his food again, "I guess it doesn't really" he said. "As long as he's not bothering us, I say let him do whatever he wants."

"Zim really is weird isn't he," I said half to myself. Some of the kids nodded in agreement.

"Yeah, I mean you remember that time he had bologna stuck on his head?" Everyone started laughing. "Or how about when he was scared of the class hamster?" Everyone except for me. I of course didn't remember any of this.

"He was scared of a hamster?"

Zita nodded. "Zim's a freak. He doesn't have any friends and he's always over reacting to everything."

"Well yeah…" I said, "but I mean come on? A Hamster?" Zita just shrugged. "Were he and I ever friends?" I got the stink eye, I was afraid I was about to get ousted from the table so I quickly corrected myself. "Zim was the one that told me that. Since I have no memory I didn't know either way." Zita returned to her food.

"As long as you're not friends with him now it's okay."

"I'm not allowed to be friends with him?"

The elbow in my side came from The Letter M. "Come on Man. Why would you want to be friends with the green freak?"

I shrugged, "Well he may be annoying but at least things are interesting around him." Everyone looked at me like I was back to being that crazy kid that no one liked. I ducked my head and mumbled a small retraction. For a while it irritated me to listen to talking bad about Zim, but when I thought about it I had trouble figuring out why it bothered me. I guess it bothers me because even though they don't like him…. They really don't know Why they don't. Something about everything they say. I feel like they're completely blind and don't notice the most obvious thing about Zim. Only problem is… I can't figure out what that obvious thing is either. I kept my mouth shut all during the rest of lunch.

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"You ready to go?"

I closed my locker and looked back at Gaz, surprised to find her willing to walk home with me. I slung my bag over my shoulder. "Yeah." We turned and walked out. At the front steps we found Zim standing right in the middle of the stairs. His arms folded and his eyes glaring at us. Gaz moved to walk around him but Zim stepped in her way.

"Move now."

"Make me, Stink-sister." Zim and Gaz glared at each other. The Letter M walked past and waved at me as he left. I waved back. When I looked back at Zim and Gaz, they were both staring at me. I shrugged and they went back to growling at each other. Zim was taller than my sister by only a few inches. His eyes narrowed on her. "You are an annoyance in my side Little-Gaz. Keep in that human brain of yours that continued interference will result in your destruction. No one shall stop ZIM!" With his loud announcement he turned on his heal and stalked off.

"What was that about?" I asked Gaz.

"Never-mind. It's not a big deal."

"But… what did he mean by 'destruction'?"

"Who cares. He's too stupid to do anything."

"What do you mean? Gaz… What exactly is Zim trying to do?" My hand went to my head trying to stave off a headache I could feel coming. I should know the answer to what I just asked her… but I don't. My head felt like it was going to split in half. I quickly gave up thinking about it. I sighed and just started walking toward home.

Gaz watched me silently as we walked along. She didn't say anything all the way home. I'm getting used to nothing but silence from her. I kept my eyes on the sidewalk. I didn't want to look at her. She's supposed to be my sister but something about her knowing things I don't bothers me. I finally looked at her after we reached our house, after I noticed she had stopped walking. Gaz was just staring ahead her usually squinty eyes were open wider but narrowed on the front door. There was another box.

I ran up and looked at the label. It was the same as the one from yesterday, the same blue crayon, only difference today was that this time it said 'Tew Purple Hair'.

"I think it's for you."

Gaz walked up and examined the box, but instead of taking it she just went inside and closed the door behind her. I followed her but no matter what I said she just insisted on leaving the box alone. Eventually I gave up and went out in the back yard to stare up at the stars.

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"HI MARY!"

I gasped when something slammed down on my stomach. "WHAT THE!?" I opened my eyes and found myself staring at some kind of robot. I yelled and leapt back. The robot fell off of my stomach and laid face down on the grass. It rolled over onto its back and started moving its arms and legs as if it were making a snow angel. "What are you!?"

The little robot sat up. Its eerie blue eyes were glowing in the dark. "HI!" it squealed happily.

"Uh… Hi?" I watched nervously as the robot walked around my yard. "Who.. or What.. are you?" The little robot turned and stared at me. He opened his mouth to say something when suddenly the top of his head opened up and a TV screen attached to a metal arm extended from his head.

"GIR! RETURN TO BASE AT ONCE! I need to figure out what you did to damage the lights." I stared at the back of the TV when I heard Zim's voice.

"Zim?" The screen turned to face me. The screen was almost completely dark. I vaugly saw two pink circles before the screen started yelling insanely.

"AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH! GIR! RETREAT IMMEDIATELY!"

"Yes Sir!" The robot's eyes turned red and he saluted the screen. Right before he blasted off with rockets built into his feet, his glowing-red eyes narrowed in on me. I was sure I was about to be attacked but those eyes went back to blue and he waved stupidly at me. "BYE MARY!" The only proof I had to show myself I didn't hallucinate the whole thing was a grassless charred circle in the backyard.