Hey everyone! There's a little cussing in here, like a lot of 'Damn's from Rosella, but you'll see why! So since this chapter sux, I'm going to post chapter 9 right after I post this, so you won't lose intrest! YAY!
CHAPTER 8- Winter-Painerland
DECEMBER 3RD
It was lunchtime, and I plopped down at Zim's table. I had'nt the chance to talk to him this morning, because I came late, no thanks to my alarm clock, which I forgot to set last night in all the madness. I still had partially racoon-looking eyes. At least it was Friday. The good news, I told my mom this morning to get me a new wig, and she brought it. It wasn't exactly what I expected, but it was fine.
The material was soft and fluffy, like Joy before her fur got matted down from age and being worn out. It was deep brown, with highlights of red here and there. It was about shoulder length, and it was insanely curly. The ringlets were always in my face, no matter what. But it was still better than my blonde wig. The dark color didn't stand out as much.
Zim hadn't gotten to the table yet, and was in the lunch line, getting 'food' he never ate. It still confused me why he got the crap. I never brought or bought lunch, and Dib wasn't onto me; Yet.
I felt a tap on my shoulder. I turned around and saw Dib. I smiled. "Hey. What's up?" I asked, turning around.
"Can I sit here?" He asked. I nodded.
"Yeah, we're a team now, remember?" I said and flipped my legs back over so I was facing the right way. Dib sat down.
"I like the new haircut, is that why you were gone this morning?" He asked.
"Er, yeah," I said, lying. Of course. When WASN'T I lying anymore? "So... any new information on this Tak?" I asked, steering the subject away from my hair.
"Not yet, I've positioned my moniters to look for any alien spacecraft that enters the earth's atmosphere, Zim and my ship's not included. If she comes within the atmosphere, we'll know. I just hope it works," Dib said, giving me an essay of an answer. I nodded. Zim plopped down at the table, opposite Dib and I. He looked straight at Dib.
"Dib," He said, his voice low.
"Zim," Dib greated back darkly. Zim then turned to me, completely ignoring Dib.
"Oh, I like the new wig, Rosella," He commented. My face grew pale from what he said.
"Wig?" Dib asked. He looked at me, questioningly. Zim's eyes grew a little, realising what he just said.
"Er, you mean my hair, right Zim? He just calls all wigs hair, I guessing, heh heh..." I said, not too convincingly. Dib still looked skeptical, but he dropped the subject. I sent Zim a death glare that said, 'If you screw up again, I'm going to kill you.' He gave a sypathetic smile in return. I rolled my eyes.
"Okay, so how do we stop this Tak girl? If she has the same experience as Zim, then she must be pretty easy to defeat, right?" And then I added, realizing that might offend Zim, "I mean, we'll know exactly how everything works that she tries to use. So we'll know the weapons inside and out."
Dib shook his head. "No, Tak is a LOT smarter than Zim-"
"Hey!" Zim interupted. I held my hand up to him.
"Dib, continue," I said.
"Thank you. Anyways, Tak is smarter, and more well-trained. She was supposed to be an invader, before Zim stopped her, accidentily. Unfortunatly, she is also very skilled. She knows how to steal and sneak well. That means she can steal more powerful weapons, and a bigger ship. She's going to have a lot better technolodgy and secret ways that we don't know about," Dib explained.
"Oh, like what?" I asked.
"Well, if we don't know about it, then I can't really tell you-" Dib said awquardly. I blushed at my stupidity.
"Oops, I screwed up, er, sorry. So... how DO we stop Tak, if we don't know what she has. Zim put his shoulder on the table and sighed.
"That's my problom. I don't know HOW we can get ahold of anything in her posetion. There's no possible way!" He said and hit his head on the table. "UGH!"
"I know," Said a voice behind me. It was Gaz. I twirled around and looked at her.
"You do?" I asked, surprised the girl would be interested in the topic, let alone have an answer to the important and impossible question.
"Yeah. Boys, remember last time we defeated Tak? Zim, you were up in space with Tak, so you saw her robot malfuctioning, right?" Gaz said, sitting next to Zim. Zim seemed as surprsied as me to see Gaz becoming an active part of the conversation.
"Er, yeah... I did," Zim said slowly. Gaz nodded.
"That was your little robot thingy's work. We hooked up some cables to him from his head, and we programed it for Tak's robot. Your robot controled it and I had to dance to get him to freak out and make her robot go crazy. We could do the same thing, seeing through her robot's eyes, talking to her through it," I stared at Gaz, dumbstruck. I'd never heard her say so much in her life.
"Yes... yes! That's it! We comunitcate through Mimi! GENIUS! Your lucky I thought of it!" Zim said, taking credit for it. Gaz bared her teeth and turned to Gaz.
"Make it 30 bucks," She growled. I turned to Dib too.
"Oh, I get it. You're bribing her to help, huh?" Dib bit his lip.
"Er, yeah. We kind of need her skills. She is actually tallented once you get past her pizza eating and Game-Slave playing," I nodded, looking to the purple-haired girl, munching on a cold slice of pizza. She really did like pizza, huh?
"Okay, so now that Gaz thought of a plan, we should put it into action. So, no meeting after skool. We just head to Zim's house. That's where GIR's cords and stuff are, correct?" I asked. Zim nodded.
"Wait, GIR?" Dib asked.
"Oh, that's Zim's robot's name, you didn't know?" I said, not thinking it was too valuable of information. Zim kicked me under the table. I turned and he gave me an irritated look. I shrugged. His name wasn't too important, was it?
"Oh, cool," Dib said. He took a sip from his milk, then spit it out. I looked at him.
"Are you okay?" I asked. He nodded while coffing.
"Yeah, *coff coff* I'm fine *coff*. I was just *coff* thinking about something," He said inbetween coffs. I pounded his back to help, like I was burping a baby. Zim started to laugh. I raised an eyebrow.
"What's so funny?" I asked. Zim chuckled again.
"I find it mildly amusing that you hit the Dib-human in his time of pain, hehe," He said, not understanding that I was trying to help Dib, not beat him to death. I looked at Dib and I rolled my eyes.
"Okay, so after skool, we all go to Zim's house, is that good?" I asked everyone. Zim nodded. Dib gave me a thumbs up. Gaz shrugged and took another bite of pizza. I smiled at them all.
"Cool, the bell's going to ring any min-" RING! I giggled. "Okay, it JUST rang, so I'll see you after skool, Gaz," I said, nodding to the girl. She shrugged back and walked to her class. I turned to the boys. "Shall we be off?" I asked. They smiled and we walked to Ms. Bitter's classroom.
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Before I knew it, the bell for the end of skool rang and I raced out of the classroom before Ms. Bitters could say "Doom" one more time, making sure I didn't run into Jessica and the pink-bots today. Nothing could stop me from getting together with my friends. I ran out the front doors, but skidded to a stop when I swung the doors opened and gasped at the sight.
There was snow. EVERYWHERE! And it was still snowing at that very moment! I gasped at the amazing sight. I took one step down, checking for ice. It was a little slippery, but it was fine.
Until I was trampled by a stampeed of wildabeasts.
Okay, I'm overexadurating. It wasn't wildabeasts. But it WAS a stampeed of children. And as soon as they got outside, they started screaming "SNOW!" and pushed me down into a snowbank. I pulled my head up from the snow and spit out the wet, cold crap. I stood up imediatly and started to brush myself off. Already, my side had began to sting from the water in the snow.
"Damn, ouch, I muttered and rubbed my side. It felt like a ful shot, over and over. I winced in pain. Besides my pain, I looked up to the doors to see if anyone in my friend circle was there. Sure enough, Zim came out, looking all around at the white world in amazment. He looked at me and waved. Suddenly, he was screaming and flying through the air, and landed right next to me, shoving me down with him into the snow.
"GET OFF ME!" I yelled, not because Zim jumped on me, but because the snow was pinching and poking me like CRAZY! If I sawn'd being poked to death, I would've been blushing like crazy at my clumsiness. I winced and bit my tounge from screaming in pain. Zim jumped up, blushing like crazy. I scrambled up, doubled over in pain. "Oh, ow ow ow ow ow ow!" I said, holding my back. "DAMMIT THAT HURT!" I yelled.
"Thanks for breaking my fall, but I didn't mean to, Rosella! Someone pushed me and-" Zim started apologizing, but I held my hand up, stopping him.
"No, it's fine. The snow just hurts a ton. Like millions of needles at once in my side. It's the stupid water in the snow," I explained. "Who pushed you?" I asked. And then I saw Dib, standing on the steps of the skool with his hands over his mouth and Gaz half-smiling and chuckling.
"Omigosh, I'm SO sorry, Rose, I didn't think you were right there!" Dib ran up to me. Gaz took her time walking down the steps. I shrugged it off and the pain in my side seemed to being going down a little bit, slowly but surely. "DId you hurt your side?"
"Er, yeah, I just landed on it wrong when I fell," I lied and gave Zim a Don't-say-a-word-or-die look. He nodded, understanding.
"Sorry, again," Dib said. "Well, should we go then?" He asked. I nodded. Despite the snow incident, I was excited for this afternoon. I was going to see a real life Irken flying a ship in SPACE! I skipped all the way to Zim's base. It was amazing how different we all were, but we were friends all the same. Er, ALY'S all the same, I should say. I was friends with them all, but they weren't friends with each other in the least bit.
I sighed as I watched Gaz push Dib in the snow for no reason, and while in the snow, Dib throwing a snowball at Zim. My poor little, broken up team. How could we defeat the enemy if we were trying to fight ourselves? I was like kicking our own butts in a fight.
I know, I KNOW! It sucked! But WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR? GO READ CHAPTER 9 IT IS REALLY GOOD! XD I PROMISE!
-Aktress (AKA Invader Akt)
