Chapter 9
Fear the One Known as Zim
Townsville High Cafeteria
"Then all of a sudden, Ms. Butterbean gives us a pop quiz out of nowhere!" Eddy was complaining. Blossom narrowed her eyes at him, "Well…yes Eddy, that's what pop quizzes are. They're supposed to come out of nowhere."
"Oh don't make me feel better." Takechiro slurped up more ramen, "Uuuh Takechiro…don't you eat anything else?" Double D commented.
"Hehe come on Double D, ramen is good~."
"Yeah, I can't deny that, but their's better food than ramen." Takechiro stops in mid slurp, "Th-Things better than ramen?...Double D, you're not making any sense…"
Away from the group, all of the other students started to gather around in a circle at a table, catching Takechiro's attention. "Huh? What's going on over there?"
"Oh…it's Dib's weekly rant." Buttercup rolled her eyes.
"Huh? It's Dib?..." Takechiro went on over to the group to listen.
"Everyone! You're all being fooled! You all don't know about the evils that live off of this Earth! With this, I'll finally show you the truth that Aliens exist!" Dib pulls out a picture of a bright light that was in a starry sky.
"Ugh, you moron!" One of the students shouted out.
"That's just a big star!"
"Or a comet!"
"Aliens don't exist!" Everyone started to throw food at Dib, booing him all the way…until Takechiro gets up with him. "E-Everyone stop!" The students held fire. "H-Hey, I mean I think Dib may have a point here. I mean, evidence comes up every year that there is indeed something that lives outside of Earth. So hey, why don't we give him an ear to speak to, huh?" All of the students glared before they started throwing food at both Dib and Takechiro now, getting them both completely messy before going on with their day. Takechiro and Dib looked at themselves, "Heh, now I know what a trash can feels like." Takechiro joked.
"Takechiro?..." Takechiro looked over at his fellow food-trodden friend, "Did you…mean what you said? Do you really believe that Aliens exist?"
"Hehe, of course man. I always like to believe in other wordly things like that. I mean from what you showed right here," Takechiro looked at the picture once more, "I think you really got a good lead right here. I've learned about Cosmotology two school ago and I've never seen a star lining like this." Dib's eyes lit up like the 4th of July, "Oh my god! I'm not the only one!" Dib hugged Takechiro tightly, "You really are a chap among chaps bud!"
"So what do you say Dib? Let's prove these guys wrong and get real, compelling evidence." Takechiro and Dib high fived before a shocking voice came out of nowhere, "What's this I hear about Aliens, fresh meat?" Josie was standing before the two boys with a raised eyebrow and crossed arms. "Eh! J-Josie, me and Dib here are going to prove that Aliens exist."
"Aliens….existing…" Her eyebrow raised higher as Takechiro sweated a little. "Hmm….I want in."
"HUH?!" Both Takechiro and Dib's mouths dropped.
"You heard me….I want in."
"Wh-Why?! I never pictured you to do something like this!" Takechiro griped.
"Well it seems like you don't know me as well as you did…When it comes to things supernatural or as you put it, "otherworldly", you could sort of call me an expert at it…" Dib leaned up next to her with heart shaped eyes, "I think I'm in love…" Before he was backfisted by Josie who had a vein on her head from his comment. "So nerd, where do we start first?" Josie got straight to the point. Dib reclaimed his composure, "Well you see, I already know where to find an alien."
"YOU DO?!" Takechiro and Josie were dumbfounded that he already had a culprit. "Wh-Who is it?!" Takechiro pushed. Dib took both Takechiro and Josie as he pushed them both behind a table, "Shhhh! He's right over there…" Hiding with them, Dib pointed off to two particular students who were in line for food. One was a boy and the other was a girl. The boy had short black hair where it curved back in the front and his skin was a pale green. It looked like he was going to be sick. The girl had silver hair like Takechiro, but it was hip length and two strands in front of her, to the side, were braided. "Tch! Dib, that's Zim and Gir!" Josie growled, "Sure they did weird stuff that could be questionable, but that doesn't make them Aliens!"
"No look! I know that guy is somehow an Alien. Th-There's just something about him that rubs me the wrong way!"
"You mean by the fact that Gaz has a crush on him?" Josie teased.
"You take that back! She does not like him! I won't allow my sister to be deceived by this masquerade!" Both Takechiro and Josie laughed at Dib's reaction as he gritted his teeth a little. "Listen, tonight we're going to follow him back home and GET the evidence to prove he's an extra-terrestrial and that I'm not crazy."
"Well we can prove ONE of those." Josie smirked.
"Oh bite me…"
Downtown Townsville; Membrane Household
In Dib's room, he had an entire stakeout set up with Josie looking at all of the stuff he has. She picked up an empty liter bottle as she looked at Dib, "Dib…what are these for?..."
"Hey, a good stakeout means you never leave your place once, not even to go to the bathroom."
"Ew…." Takechiro looked through the window shears as right across the street from the Membrane's house was the home of Zim and Gir. "So wait…if you' ve been living across these guys for five years, how did you not get one scrap of evidence from him?" Takechiro questioned.
"Because you don't know how much of a mastermind that Zim is. Wherever I am, he's two steps ahead of me. Now it's different." He wrapped his arm around Takechiro's neck. "Now I have teammates to help me get the evidence!" Just a minute later, the sounds of Zim and Gir could be heard outside. "So master Zim, what'll be today's plan~?"
"Hehehe you'll see Gir! Soon, everyone in this world will fear the might and mind of Zim! Ahahahahaha!" Dib's eyes glared from his window, watching Zim and Gir walk inside, "See?! He's got some kind of evil plan for world domination!" Josie looked out with the two boys as she then began to leave the room, "J-Josie where are you going?!" Dib tried to stop her.
"I can see why you were never able to get anything. All you do is sit up here. Every greatest evidence ever obtained was people who got right into the action." She ran out the door as she made a break for the house, sliding against the wall right next to Zim's front porch. Takechiro and Dib clumsily followed after, making Josie facepalm in embarrassment for their clumsiness. "Morons…." She noticed a window above them, immediately looking in while trying to stay out of sight. Inside, she sees that Zim and Gir are going down what seemed to be the basement steps. Right next to her, Josie noticed a vent shaft. "Come on, we're going in."
"Huh?! Isn't that breaking and entering?!" Takechiro began to freak out.
"What, and you think stalking from across the street is better?"
"Um…is that a trick question." Josie grabbed the boys by their collars and pushed them into the vent shaft.
"Ugh…it's very tight in here."
"Come on Takechiro, don't tell me that you have claustrophobia."
"Ha ha Josie…" While they were crawling through the vents for the first couple minutes, voices could soon be heard ahead as the group finally made it to the vent that filtered the basement. Looking from the vent, Takechiro, Josie, and Dib could all see that in the middle of the room where Zim and Gir were was something massive covered in a giant cloak. Zim then pulled of the cloak, revealing a giant laser. Takechiro and them were just shocked. "H-Holy crap…th-that kind of technology on that machine isn't even human." Takechiro analyzed.
"Oh my god…the nerd was right." Josie admitted. Smiling from cheek to cheek, Dib took out a camera. Josie quickly caught his hand, "The flash is off right?"
"Of course, I'm not stupid." Dib then quickly took a picture, "Alright, let's get out of here, we got our evidence." The three made their way out as Gir brought a bowl out and placed it on a chair in front of the laser, "Ready to fire master Zim~!"
"Firing! Ahahahaha!" Zim pressed a button on a remote as a blue beam shot into the bowl. When the mist cleared, an ice cream sundae was sitting in the bowl. "ICE CREAM~!" Gir yelled with excitement.
"Hahaha! With this, we now have an insurmountable amount of this delicious dairy treat!"
The next day; Townsville High Cafeteria
Dib was back on his cafeteria table "soap box" as everyone was gathered around again with food in hand. "Alright everyone! Today's the day where you all shake in regret for ever doubting me! Here in my hand is the picture that proves aliens exist! Once it's done clearing up, I'll be happy to see the dumb looks on all of your faces as you reply "Oh no, we shouldn't have ever doubted Dib"." Dib was definitely on his high horse, waiting for this day to finally happen. "Now look and revel in my brilliance!" Dib showed the picture where immediately everyone began to laugh. Dib was completely dumbfounded and looked at the picture only to immediately have his skin pale. "Dib? Is everything alright?" Takechiro and Josie looked over his shoulders only to see that the picture was a blank. "I…I didn't take the lens cap off…" Takechiro and Josie looked at each other and then looked at Dib, before they both whacked Dib on the top of his head.
