I decided I'd ask Sizz-Lorr why he had done such a stupid thing. For he would pay…
I walked into the restaurant, still wearing my pajamas. My hair was straight as a line- I hated it! I liked my hair curly!
"SIZZ-LORR!" I shouted. I saw him give me an evil glare. Then it widened into an evil smile.
"What could you possibly want?" he asked. I detected sarcasm.
"TO BE HUMAN AGAIN! AGAIN, WHAT DO YOU GAIN FROM THIS? FREE PIZZA FROM ROUND TABLE? ICE CREAM?"
"Nope." he said, "I have a new slave to work for me. YOU. And, this slave is the same race as me which means I know everything physically and mentally about you"
"Talk about desperate…" I said with a sigh.
"And I'd like to see you TRY to escape." Sizz-Lorr said.
"No. This is…this is getting to repetitive. Like a video game. You know what? Keep me here. Do whatever. If it makes you happy and keeps me out of prison…I'm fine with it. You could kill me if you wanted to." I said with a sigh. Sizz-Lorr saw just how serious I was. Any sympathy for how much I had given up? No. he smiled.
And I just walked away.
When Sizz-Lorr went on his coffee break, Zim walked up to me.
"You…you're really giving up?" he asked.
"Yup," I said, "There's no way I'm going to become human again and we're not going to fit through that vent."
"NO! THAT'S NOT THE CANDY I KNOW! I HAVEN'T GIVEN UP, HUMA-…Candy…" Zim shouted. I looked up at him.
"But if…if we try to find some kind of loophole to get out of here, Sizz-Lorr will find one too." I said, my head down.
"C'mon, you know better than this! Two against one!"
"Aww, Zim, you know we'd make a horrible team." I said.
"I smell negativity." he said.
"HOW? WE DON'T EVEN HAVE NOSES!"
"You've got a point. But we smell through our-"
"POOP! THAT'S OUR PROGRESS IN GETTING OUT OF HERE! WE HAVEN'T GOTTEN ANYWHERE! I'M GOING TO DIE IN THIS PLACE! I'M GOING TO GROW UP HERE! I KNOW IT! I…I…THIS IS HOPELESS!"
"Well…what do you say? A team?"
"I think Dib and me-"
"NONSENSE! WE HATE DIB!" Zim shouted.
"Yeah but I don't-"
"YOU HATE HIM! YOU ARE TO NO DEGREE FOND OF THE DIB!"
"…why would you care?" I asked.
"…because…Irkens hate humans…"
"But I am human…by heart…" I said.
"FOOL! YOU HAVE NO HEART! YOU HAVE A SQUEEDLYSPOOCH!" Zim yelled. I looked around and saw that the whole restaurant was just staring at Zim and me.
"Well…maybe I'm a…rebel." I said and smirked a little.
"A rebel would try and get us out of here." Zim said and smirked at me while my smile went away.
"Zim I-"
He put his hand out.
"A team." he said. I stepped back a little.
"I don't know…"
"Yes you do. In your…squeedlyspooch." he said. I inched my hand forward very slowly.
"I'll give you twenty Earth dollars." Zim said, I put my hand all the way forward and shook his.
"Alrighty then," I said then walked to the back of the restaurant. I sat at the top bunk and started to think again.
We were getting out of this place and with a… "Team"…I was already one step ahead.
