Gahh, finally I update! It's almost been 3 weeks!
GirsWaffles22: You're welcome. Thanks for the comment about Bloody GIR.
Invader Cakez: Did you end up having nightmares?
The Girl Who Questions Sleep: Thanks! It took me ages to create a nightmare version of Zim.
Haku1013: Yeah, but Dib's seen aliens before (and not just Zim).
shadowdib: It will be very different, that's for sure.
When I was making up the events in Dib's nightmare, I wanted to put GIR in there, but at first I had no idea what he was going to look like. I was sure there was going to be a nightmare version of Zim, but I didn't know what to do to make GIR look scary. Then I remembered how Jhonen wanted him covered in blood in one episode, so I decided to put him like that. Anyway, here's chapter 10 which is from Dibs point of view. I think I overdid one of his desires, though. Also, this is the first chapter of the part 2 I was talking about. It takes place almost 10 years later.
Part Two
(Almost 10 years later)
Ch. 10 Birthday
Life, Dib realized, was like a domino effect. A very complex domino effect, but a domino effect, nonetheless.
It all started with his memory as a baby. If he didn't have that vague memory of aliens testing on him, then he would have never gotten into the paranormal.
If he hadn't gotten into the paranormal, then he would have been just as ignorant as everyone else. He would have never realized Zim was not human.
If he hadn't realized Zim was an alien, he wouldn't have tried to stop him, wouldn't have tried to get proof of his alienness.
If Dib hadn't tried to stop Zim and get proof that he was an alien, then Zim would have conquered Earth already, and wouldn't have had to resort to changing himself, changing GIR (as to why he did that, Dib still wasn't sure).
If Zim hadn't made the personality upgrades on himself and GIR(which made him smarter and GIR obedient), then GIR would have never caught Dib sneaking into Zim's base.
If GIR didn't catch Dib sneaking into Zim's base, then the Irken would have never sent Dib into space.
If Zim hadn't sent Dib into space, then the Resisty would have never found him.
And if the Resisty hadn't found him, then he wouldn't be spending his 21st birthday in one of the last few Vortian ships in existence, which was currently drifting lazily through space.
Of course, he realized, If Zim hadn't came, I probably would never have been in this position likewise.
Zim. The very thought of the Irken's name made him shudder in fear and anger, remembering the impact he had on his life.
He was afraid because he knew that Zim was no longer a pushover. No. That was ten years ago. Now, he was one of the most intelligent in his race(which is saying a lot considering the average Irken IQ is much higher than the average human IQ) and almost impossible to stop. He was scared, knowing that his old enemy would not go easy on him. He was afraid to die, afraid to be bested by the very being he tried to best so long ago.
But he was also angry. No, not just angry. He was pissed. Why wouldn't he be? All through elementary school he was humiliated, ridiculed for his beliefs. But what was worse was the very day Zim came.
After Zim came, he tried his hardest to prove that the newcomer was inhuman. But all he got was more ridicule. Some even made snide comments about his head, saying that he was probably insane as a result of "that swollen head".
But the ridicule wasn't enough. No, Zim had to become smarter. Zim had to force Dib from his own home planet, then hand it over to his race of cruel, heartless, buglike aliens as an addition to their vast empire.
Every year on his birthday, Dib thought about his deepest wishes and desires. Though it became pointless after he was sent to space, he still managed to do it every year. Even as a kid, the things he wanted most were rather important. A more loving family, a much better birthday, a friend…. But ever since he was shoved in a pod and blasted into space, the main focus of his desires was so hard to do, yet so simple it could be described in only one word.
Revenge.
Well, that wasn't exactly true. Yes, he was still intent on getting back at Zim for putting him through hell. But there was another, strong drive, one that he was kind of embarrassed about, even though it was normal. It started when he was about 15, and continued to get stronger and stronger as time passed without getting the very thing he thought about often, especially those few times he had seen a human female(never the same one).
It had come when his system was hit by testosterone, which now ran through his veins like crazy. It had burned inside him the few times he saw the only women he had ever seen since being launched into space. It had drove him crazy at times, and just like his original desire to get Zim for ruining his life, his desire was best described in only one word.
Sex.
Dib wanted it, wanted it so bad that he felt as if it were hardly a want, that it was more of a need. The more he thought of it, the more he wanted to find a woman, any woman, and get in a bed with her, sleep with her….
And yet Dib knew that he would probably never get a chance to do it. After all, he was a member of the Resisty. He was on the run from the largest empire in the universe, and well known for being a rebel. The very chance of meeting a girl who would actually accept him for who he was seemed extremely slim.
An interesting question popped into his head suddenly. Did his father ever have to deal with this? Because it never seemed like it. His father was always too interested in science to actually get a wife. In fact, Dib and his sister were supposed to be clones of him. Imperfect, but still. Maybe he just ignored it, he figured. Though how he managed to ignore such a strong desire was something Dib could not explain.
He sighed, pushing his thoughts aside, and got up to face the day.