Chapter 11

As we walked home I could feel Zim's eyes on me. He hadn't said or done anything o show that he was curious about my new attitude but I could tell that he wanted to ask. Ever since lunch I'd been a horrible person. I'd scared ten children away from a table with just my stare and I hadn't even bothered to buy a lunch I was so mad. Zim had tried to converse with me but I had ignored him completely and merely listened to my music. I hadn't even bothered to glance over at him all through class. Really, I wasn't surprised that he had insisted on walking home with me after skool.

He was walking a little bit behind me to the right. My headphones were on and I had it on so high that anyone else would have gone crazy with the pain. But I didn't give a damn.

Zim came up a little bit closer. I saw his lips move from the corner of my eye and I toned down the sound of the music to hear what he had to say. "… you didn't seem like yourself in skool today and I was wondering what was wrong."

"What's wrong?" I said with more hatred in my voice than anything before. "Nothing's wrong. Why do you ask?"

"Like I said. You were hostile all day. Even towards Zim."

"I'm mad. So what?"

"At Zim? Did Dib tell you about the noodles? I swear! I didn't do it! I'm innocent! They had no proof!"

"Noodles?"

"Uh… Never mind…"

I sighed. "I'm not in a talking mood right now Zim. Just leave me alone." Then I ran down the street so quickly that I knew he wouldn't be able to follow. I ran hard and fast down the street. A black form came up fast but I shoved past it and knocked it to the ground. "Out of my way you freaking shisno!" I heard a voice but I didn't listen. Instead I put my headphones back on. My knees were hurting me, I was out of breath and I was limping slightly.

But I continued.

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Zim watched EB run down the street. He was amazed at her speed. He was aware that, even if he ran his hardest, he wouldn't be able to keep pace with her. So he kept at his own pace. He'd be able to catch up with her when he got back to the base.

A black figure came up close as he was walking around a corner.

Dib was on the ground rubbing his head. He stood up and wobbled a little bit. The boy leaned against a fence and put his hand on his head. He moaned as Zim watched with amusement. "What's wrong, Dib-stink?" he chimed with laughter. "Something knock on that big head of yours? You know that it's like a hippo don't you?" Zim's cold laughter echoed down the street.

Dib just sighed.

Zim raised an invisible brow. "Don't you realize that Zim is laughing at you? Recognize that the great Irken Invader Zim is laughing at your pitiful human ways. Feel depressed! Feel horrible!"

"I already do Zim… I lost my only friend…"

"Who?"

"Brooke."

Zim laughed again. This time he laughed so hard that he lost his breath several times. He ended up falling onto the ground in his laughing fit and rolled around a few times, pounding the cement with amusement. Dib glared at him. The boy was angry with the Irken now. He watched as Zim sat up, still giggling at him and then eyes the boy. "Brooke was never your friend you silly human."

"What?"

"She's the Irken that you met not too long ago. EB."

"Wait… So I was right?"

"Yes Dib. You were… For once in your life!" Zim started to laugh again. When he stopped he was able to speak once more. "She's from another dimension where she's already established an entire home and a family. I'm going there once she goes as well."

"Really? Another dimension?"

"Didn't Zim say that already?"

"Yeah but… OMG! What's happening?"

Zim looked down at his arm. He gasped at what was happening. A blue light was engulfing all up his arm. He couldn't feel it there but he could see it and it was unnerving. The light the stretched to his feet and soon went all the way up to his chest. It was only then did he realize what was happening to him. The Irken smiled at Dib in a manner so evil that the boy flinched back a little bit. "Looks I'll get to go to the dimension a little bit sooner than I first thought. I'll see you in a while Dib. But by then I'll have destroyed the world!" Zim started laughing again.

"Oh, no you don't!" Just before his other hand was engulfed by the blue light Dib held onto it and was engulfed as well. He felt very strange going through the portal.

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I came up to the door to the house. After knocking a few times Gir answered and let me inside. He seemed to notice my distress but he kept quiet and went back to the television. I followed after him and sat myself down on the sofa. My back leaned on the cushion while my head stayed on the part of the couch where my back had been. People had always thought that I was uncomfortable like this. Truth was, I loved it that way. It was very comfortable…

That is… as long as a robot doesn't decide to jump onto my stomach and start 'dancing like a monkey'. That just pisses me off the deep end… yeah… that's it… aw hell! I don't know! I'm too mad to think right!

Gir bounced up and down on my chest. I sat up, unable to breathe, and pushed him off. The little guy fell to the ground with a loud clank and started up at me with huge, hurt eyes. They didn't come at me. Truly. I told you before… When I'm mad I don't care about anyone or anything… not even Gir. (Kim: (gasp!!) Not even Gir?!)

I took the clicker from him and flipped through the channels to the one that I wanted. Gir looked at the screen, confused and sad. He looked back at me. "Where you make the monkey go? I wanted to watch the scary monkey show."

"I clicked it off. I want to watch House. It's supposed to be a good episode today…"

A humming came from the other side of the room. I looked over to see minimoose. I hadn't seen him the whole time that I had been living with Zim so I was surprised that he would be right there in front of me. He levitated over to me and started to sing something in my ear. I couldn't really understand was he said because it was all a series of squeaks and grunts that came out cutely. But I didn't think that they were so cute…

"And now back to 'my life as a bug housewife." Came the TV man's voice.

"What?! What about House?!"

"We're in a house!" Gir leapt onto the couch and then onto my head. He leaned down and started to dose off while minimoose sang again. He let the chorus swell…

Whatever he was singing was getting murdered horribly!!

Between Gir on my head and minimoose singing I could feel my mind snapping under the pressure and from the anger they set on me. I clenched my fists to them but they didn't stop. Then Gir started to dance on my head. His hard, metal feet pounding on my scull. I received a headache in no time at all. My teeth clenched with the fact that I wanted to bestow annulment and termination upon the minds of the two of them.

I lost it…

"MINIMOOSE!! STOP SINGING NOW YOU IRK FORSAKEN PIECE OF FLUFF! STOP BEING WHO YOU ARE YOU INSOLENT PIECE OF DIRT! HOW COULD ANYTHING HAVE GRACED YOU TO THE EARTH?! SCENTED MARKER! YOU'RE A DISEASE!! GIR!! YOU IDIOTIC, MALFUNCTIONING ROBOT!! GET OFF MY HEAD BEFORE I TAKE OUT BOTH OF YOUR EYES AND DRILL THEM INTO THE WALL BEHIND THE TV SO THAT YOU CAN'T WATCH THE SCARY MONKEY SHOW EVER AGAIN!!! HEADLESS DIB! YOU INSIGNIFICANT PILES OF TRASH! I'M SURPRISED YOU HAVEN'T BEEN THROWN INTO THE GARBAGE CAN!! AND WHY THE HELL IS THERE NO HOUSE?! I WANT HOUSE!! I WANT TO SEE ORGANS AND BLOOD SPILL FROM PEOPLE AND I WANT TO SEE IT NOW!! GOD FUCKING HEARTS THAT BLEED OUT IN YOUR HANDS!! LET ME SEE THE ORGANS!!" I was panting now…

Gir started to dance again…

Minimoose started to sing…

"I WANT TO GO HOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

There was a bright light in front of my eyes. It spread and engulfed the whole room. I heard Gir scream and minimoose squeal.

I fell…

Then I landed hard on my back. This was the second time now. I was getting tired of it. My eyes were closed. I could feel grass underneath my hand when I made a fist. There was a rock by my foot. No… It wasn't a rock… It moved! I heard someone scream. The voices were familiar ones when the people spoke out loud.

"EB? Brooke? Can you hear me?"

I opened my eyes.

"OMG! You're alive!" It was Aimee. And Ahva and B were there too. They were all looking down at me, leaning over my body. I saw Aimee turn her head. "OMG! It's Gir!" I watched as she hurried over and snuggled the little robot in her arms. Gir seemed to like it enough to shut him up and so I was glad for that.

"Ow…"

I saw Zim sit up about three feet away from me. Ahva went crazy. "INVADER ZIM!!"

My smile came back when I saw his fan-terrified face.

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When he came out he felt very strange. Even stranger than he had when he went in. Looking down at his hands he found that he had an extra one and they looked so weird… Not like his normal ones. They looked all shadowed and 3-dimentional. It was pretty scary.

Dib looked around him. Everything was completely different from what he knew.

"Hey! Get off me you creep!"

Dib realized that he was sitting down. He realized that he was sitting on someone. He realized that someone was a girl.

Dib hurried off of her as quickly as he could.

She stood up and brushed dirt off of her red top. Then she leaned down and brushed some more off of her blue jeans. The girl had long blonde hair with a strand of fake blue that hung from her bangs. When she looked at him Dib could see that she had green eyes and a tanned face. She seemed to have a smile etched into her face. What he saw her wearing, though, scared him the most. "Where'd you get that?!" The shirt that she wore was bright red with a picture of Invader Zim on it. Then, in big, black letters, the message 'destruction is nice!' was printed across her chest. Plus, she had a long, black jacket on just like his but hers was tighter to the body.

The girl looked at her shirt and then back at Dib. Her eyes went wide. She came up really close to him and eyed him for a moment. "What's your name?"

"What's yours?"

"Kim. Now answer my question."

"It's Dib… But why do you…"

"DIB!!"

She glomped him.

"Ah! Help! I'm being attacked!"

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Kim: It's me! I was the turkey all along! R&R PEOPLES OR I'LL HAVE BROOKE COME TO YOUR HOUSE! YOU'LL BE SITTING IN YOUR HOUSE, THINKG YOU'RE ALL SAFE AND THEN SHE'LL BE THERE… DOIN STUFF…

Brooke: You're an idiot…

Kim: I'm hyped up on chocolate! Whoo!

Brooke: Fuck this… I'm going home…

Kim: Beware the birdie conspiracy! They're aliens in little spinning tops!

Brooke: That's from MY fanfiction story! I haven't even posted it! You copy cat!

Kim: I know you are but what am I?