Author's Note:
How did I get that earlier chapter up during a glitchy period, I hear you cry? With great difficulty! But I'm glad I did it and as a treat to all you readers who have "favorited" this story, I give you this fantastic Halloween episode! Remember...REVIEW!
And now...let's begin!
You hear the screeching of an owl, you hear the wind begin to howl...you know there's zombies on the proooowl!
HALLOWEEN SPECTACULAR OF SPOOKY DOOM
DL was walking down the sidewalk to school, passing along a row of bushes. It was then he heard a "Heh-hmm" and turned, looking around. "Huh? Who? Zim, is that you?" He called out.
He then turned to the right and saw Zim stepping out from behind the bushes. "So, little one, you CAN see me somehow…"
"Well…kind of." Darth Lee admitted.
"Tell me…that power I saw you use." Zim rubbed his chin and advanced closer. "What is it?"
"Well, back when I was much younger I thought that's how you got plants to grow, by askin' them." Darth said. "Ya had to say "Pretty Please with Sugar on Top" and stuff! But when I'd talk to the flowers…they'd start talking back. Whole conversations and not a single dropped call either!"
Zim blinked, interested. "You…speak to plants, eh?"
"Oh yeah, I can make them do almost anything I want. My mom was kind of amazed by it, but Dad had the same power I did, so he took it in stride." DL said, shrugging. "Say, didja know Halloween is coming up?" DL asked as he walked along the sidewalk along with Zim, who blinked.
"Hallow...ween? What is this "Halloween"?" He inquired.
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…"Out of curiosity, what ARE you doing for Halloween?" Gaz asked Mr. White, who was substituting for Nick since Nick was unfortunately dead. Don't worry folks, he didn't go to Hell. As it turns out, everyone but Mormons got to Heaven in Jhonen's world! ;)
"This Halloween I'm going out with DL for some old-fashioned trick-or-treating, going as the scariest person I can think of!" White said.
"Who?" Gaz asked.
"Originally myself, but I think I'd rather go as YOU." White remarked. "What store do you go to again?"
"…I can't decide whether I'm flattered or enraged." Gaz growled.
"I'll give you a cut." White offered.
"In that case I'm flattered and there's a brand new Hot Topic on Pine and Fifth Avenue." Gaz remarked.
"I promise not to burn this one down." White said, raising his hand up. "Hand to NICK."
Indeed, everyone was excited for Halloween. Student after student had dressed up and one of them, a fairy princess, was talking to Ms. Bitters, standing at the front of the class. "And I think unicorns and dragons are pretty! So that's why I'm a fairy princess for Halloween!" Mary informed the classroom.
Ms. Bitters sighed, a rotting jack-o-lantern sitting atop her desk. "I…was a fairy princess once, too." She smiled wistfully. "Yes, everything was so nice and peaceful…until one day it all went horribly wrong when I flew too close to the bug zapper!" She announced. "In fact, before that incident, I used to have BLOND hair!"
All of the students let out respective "UGHS" and groans of disgust…save for Dib, who wasn't in his seat, and Zim, who…well…was freakin' out, man!
"Heh, Halloween. Now it's just a shamelessly commercial ploy to turn children into candy starved zombies!" Ms. Bitters went on. "But it was ONCE a nice medieval holiday…"
Zim gulped at the sight of Brian, who was in a fillerbunny costume. Melvin was dressed up as a TV set, Chunk was "The Great Pumpkin", and in a rare bit of genius, had added a piece of security blanket to hang on the "teeth" of his costume for a touch of irony. Aki, who was wearing a wolf man costume, nervously picked her "snout" while Zim screamed as he looked at every single one of the students…
Then he noticed Dib was gone. "AAA!"
"What is it NOW, Zim?!" Ms. Bitters groaned.
"The Dib! He's missing! They've taken him and drained him of his sweet, sweet blood candies!" Zim groaned, hiding under his desk and quivering like a leaf in the wind, sweat pouring down his brow.
"Who's taken him?" Ms. Bitters asked.
"THE CANDY ZOMBIIIEEES!" Zim proclaimed.
Ms. Bitters groaned. Meanwhile, a flash of light lit up the hallway and people could hear Dib…screaming. Zim glanced around nervously as the hallway began to get continuously lit up by flashes of light, the background eerily changing to become darker and edgier…
"It's like you said! The children tried to end the hunger for sweetness... in their... rumbling, undead... bellies!"
Ms. Bitters frowned. "That's NOT what I said-"
"Hah…hah…" Dib ran into the classroom, panting. The sight of his sudden appearance made Zim scream and jump behind his desk. "Sorry…I'm…late…HORRIBLE nightmare visions assaulted me!"
"It's called life, Dib. Get one. Then sit down!" snapped as Dib took his seat.
Zita, who was wearing an alien costume, looked over at Dib and raised an eyebrow. "Gee, Dib's actin' crazier than usual today!"
"YEE! IT'S STARTING!" Zim hissed, pointing at Dib and getting everyone's attention. "He's one of the zombies now! Look out for your blood and hold onto your brain meats!"
"I don't know, Z. Zim's bein' kind of wacked, yo." Brian said, shaking his head. Dib began to babble something about horrid creatures in his desk while Zita shook HER head.
"Dib's got a long HISTORY of crazy. For all we know, Zim's just weird, like the substitute teacher."
"I heard he became a regular teacher. Mr. Elliot apparently died of "Hamster Complications"…" Brian spoke up.
"YEEAAAAHHH!!!" Zim screamed as he looked around the room again.
The Letter M, who was dressed as Dracula, rolled his eyes. "Zim's screaming like a howler monkey. That seems more crazy than weird to me."
"Hmm…The Letter M's got a good point, but Dib's ALWAYS screaming like a howler monkey…"
Dib suddenly noticed that his hands were vanishing and he gasped in horror. "Happening... again!" He announced.
"Except for right now." Brian remarked.
"Yeah, right now he's babbling like a maniac... monkey." The Letter M remarked.
Zim suddenly saw Dib vanish totally and he pushed himself up against the wall, screaming and gasping. "He's gone, he's GONE! AAAA!!!"
"Okay... Maybe Brian's right." Zita remarked, all attention now on Zim…
Suddenly Dib popped back into place, holding his head. Naturally, nobody noticed until he opened his mouth to say "Monsters! HIDEOUS monsters!"
Zita raised her hand. "Ms. Bitters, we think Dib's even crazier than normal today! Can we use one of our crazy cards to send him to the crazy house for boys?"
Ms. Bitters frowned. "Each class only gets three crazy cards a month! Are you sure you want to use one?"
Zita looked over at Dib, who was sprawled on his desk, flipping out onto the floor and babbling. "…yep." She remarked. All of the class nodded and Ms. Bitters nodded, holding up the "crazy card" and sticking it into a slot in a box she got out from her desk. The box then opened up and a metal ring lifted out. She promptly put it around Dib's neck and red lights lit it up as Ms. Bitters frowned down at him.
"I've activated the crazy collar. The white coats will be here any moment."
BOOM! Two white coats named Chuck and Buck rushed inside, pointing at Dib. WOW, they were fast!
"There he is! Get him!" They announced.
Zim stood by the wall, watching as Dib was dragged kicking and screaming out of the classroom. He hid behind a trashcan out in the hall and gulped in fear. "Soon they'll all be after my delicious guts! I must prepare the bases defenses against this Halloween madness!"
He then turned his head to see the hall monitor was looking down at him from his eyepiece. "Hey, I remember you! You're that jerk who-"
THONK! Zim stuffed the trash can over his head and ran out of the hallway, screaming all the way.
Meanwhile, Dib was inside of a truck's back area, which was padded. He kept bouncing around, a frown on his face. "Look, you don't understand!" Dib insisted, speaking through the window that separated him from the others.
"If there's one thing we understand, son, it's insanity." Chuck informed him, shaking her head. Dib sighed and came to a stop on the padded floor. He leaned against one of the walls…and suddenly the arm he'd been leaning on vanished and he fell against the wall! Straightening himself up he gasped at the sight of both arms vanishing.
"No, not again! NOOOO…"
FWOOM. His whole body vanished…and soon he found himself in a horrifying nightmare version of the truck. Everything was darker in tone and sharp spikes were poking out of the padded walls. He looked out the grated window nearby and he saw the buildings outside flashing from "normal" to "nightmare" as a sickening-looking bat hovered by the window, screeching in his face.
Then he heard THEM speaking. The white coats. "He's the one! The one with the flashing neck! The one we've been waiting for!"
"She said he'd come, and he has!"
Dib ran to the grated window and looked at the deformed-looking white coats, frowning. "Waiting for me? What is this!?! What's going on?"
Nightmare Chuck turned her head to look at Dib, showing that she now had TUSKS. She held a clawed flipper up and let out a "Shh". "We're talkin' all spooky!" She told him, making him gape and step back in horror. Suddenly Dib's arms began to fade and he found himself right back in the other truck…not that he could tell, he was getting so confused over what was real, and what was a horrid nightmare…
"Who's been waiting for me? Huh? Huh? Huh? Huh? Huh? Huh? Huh? Huh?" Dib demanded to know, jumping up and down.
"What are you TALKIN' about?" Buck asked from the other side. Dib blinked, realizing he was back in the "real" world.
"Oh…never mind. I'm sane you know. " He said nonchalantly.
Meanwhile, GIR was out of his disguise and fooling around with a toy octopus, putting it on his head. "I wanna be! Unda the sea! In an octopus's garden in da shade!" He sang. Zim quickly walked into the house, slamming the door behind him.
"GIR! We have to prepare the base!" He announced. "Tonight is a horrible Earth holiday, and-"
GIR began laughing insanely.
"GIR!" Zim snapped.
GIR suddenly gasped. "Ah! My taquitos! AAAA! TAQUITOS!" He ran into the kitchen while Zim sighed.
"GIR…" He groaned.
Dib wasn't doing much better. He was strapped into a chair by metal straps, with wires attached to his head, electrical stimuli running through them. A team of scientists were watching him from observatory stands above and Prof. Membrane was among them, looking at the head scientist at the Crazy House for Boys, who sipped a can of Poop cola.
"Now Dib, tell us about these reality jumps, as you call them." He announced.
"Well it started last night." Dib said. "I had been in Dad's lab, making some modification to his dimensional scope, hoping to peek into spooky alternate realities..." He tilted his head to the side. "Also, since Halloween had been coming up, I wanted some cool costume ideas. AND I got this theory that some paranormal phenomenon might be the result of collisions between our worlds and other dimensions."
Prof. Membrane adjusted his goggles and Dib went on. "Since I couldn't see anything I tripled the output, which was a little stupid I admit, but I still didn't really see much. All I got was a brief flash of something, but that's it. It looked like the lab, actually…only everything was covered with whispering shadows…" Dib took a breath. "I THOUGHT it was just a malfunction, but since the flashes keep coming…even without the machine, and getting longer each time…I suspect the worst!"
Prof. Membrane sighed. "So I find you here, son. Oh, I suppose it was only a matter of time. You know not to use my tools for your para-science!" He insisted, waving the "finger of knowledge", which, as discussed before, is VERY powerful.
The scientists began conversing amongst themselves while Dib went on. "Dad, if the jumps keep getting LONGER, as seems to be the case, it won't be long before I'm actually stuck in that horrible dimension!"
The head scientist adjusted his goggles, chuckling. "Well Dib, hehe, we've got some bad news."
"I just TOLD you the bad news!" Dib remarked angrily.
"Yes, yes, trapped in a horrible nightmare world, very nice. Look, we've decided that you're insane. You'll be confined here for a period no shorter than the rest of your life. Enjoy your stay, bye, bye."
"NOOOO! You don't UNDERSTAND!" Dib shouted as more white coats ripped him from the chair, putting a muzzle on his mouth as Prof. Membrane shook his head.
"My poor, insane, son…"
"Listen, this place can't help me!" Dib's muffled voice told the white coats as they led him to a padded cell. "You don't have the equipment, I need someone-
FWOMP! They tossed him inside the cell and he groaned as he stood up, the door closing…and then he noticed he was vanishing again! "It's happening AGAIN?! NOOOO!!!"
FWOOSH! He was out of there as the white coats, satisfied that the problem that was Dib Membrane was "solved", went to the "Taco" floor of the elevator to go enjoy some cheesy goodness.
Meanwhile, Dib was not so lucky, now stuck inside of a cell that was hanging inside of an evil-looking cave. Other cells all contained freakish-looking monsters, some of whom were snarling, others who were picking their many noses, one who was trying to solve a Rubik's cube…
What the? KEEF?
"What are YOU doing here?" He asked Keef.
"Everyone keeps saying "I'm scary enough". Why's that?" Keef asked, looking at Dib with his overly big, cutesy eyes.
"…it's nothing." Dib told him simply. Keef then curled up and went to sleep and Dib sighed. "Great! Tthis is all I need!" Dib groaned as he slid down the slanted floors of his cell. He then noticed somebody was on the opposite end of his cell…it sorta looked like…him…only he could only see a malformed shadow at the moment.
"You're him…the one!" The voice whispered.
"The one what? I'm not the one anything!" Dib insisted.
"So you're telling me the prophecy is wrong? "The boy with the flashing neck shall come. He will be the key to freedom…and stuff"."
"Was that Nostradamus?" Dib inquired.
"I read it on the bathroom wall in a toilet stall. Along with "tap twice to meet a Republican congressman."
"I gotta get outta here." Dib groaned, rolling his eyes as he gripped the bars of his cage, grateful his straightjacket was gone.
"Then you'll have to escape your own head, 'cause that's where we are... In your head!" The shadow said, stepping out to reveal…he was DIB! Only his features were more exaggerated, more frightening…clawed fingers, sharp teeth, a horrid smirk…and he had lobotomy scars on his head, as well as being stuck in a straightjacket.
"You're insane!"
"No I'm-well…" Nightmare Dib looked down at his straightjacket. "Yeah…I am. But it's true! The whole dimension exists in your mind, Dib! Maybe THAT'S why your head's so big!"
"My head's not big! Why does everyone say that!?! And how do you know my name?"
Nightmare Dib smirked. "Everyone knows your name here. They're done with this place, ruined all of it! Now they want out, into the real world, and the only way out is through your head!"
"Are you serious? This world is a result of my imagination? Maybe I am crazy!" Dib realized, looking guiltily down at the ground.
Nightmare Dib grinned. "It's all those nasty thoughts you've been having about Zim. Don't you know that dark energy is created from negative emotions? And when enough of it is gathered…"
Two nightmarish, muscular, red-eyed beings that were the Nightmare world version of the white coats were riding atop a worm-like platform that was heading up to Dib's cell, with a straightjacket-like creature by their side. "Neck-blinking boy!" Nightmare Buck announced, taking a bite out of a green ice cream cone and chewing. "It's time to go, ha-ha-ha!"
"Go where?" Dib gulped.
Nightmare Dib smirked. "Through your big head!" He laughed.
"My head's not biiiiiiggg!" Dib screamed angrily as they carried him off towards a nightmarish-looking truck which would take him to this reality's Crazy House for Boys. Nightmare White Coat Buck walked to his left, holding onto a soda while Chuck was to is right, holding onto a hotdog.
"The machine's almost ready!" Buck said, opening the back of the truck. "SOON THE TIME WILL BE RIGHT-"
FLASH!
They blinked and turned to see…Dib was gone from the straightjacket creature…returned to the normal dimension.
"He's gone! AH!" Buck gasped. He took a sip of the soda to calm his nerves.
"Aw, go on…I LIKE it when you do those speeches all scary like!" Chuck said, putting his arm around Buck's shoulder.
"Really? Okay!" Buck said cheerfully. "But THEN we gotta go tell the boss." He cleared his throat and started again, speaking dramatically. "SOON…THE TIME WILL BE RIGHT FOR…"
MEANWHILE, Dib was running at top speed away from the Crazy House for Boys in his straight jacket, panting as he saw Zim's house in the distance. "I don't like it, but this is my only chance!" He realized out loud.
Zim, meanwhile, had boarded up his door and all his windows and was hammering another board into the window as trick or treaters roamed the streets. GIR was sitting on the floor, playing with his toy octopus.
"They've mutated, GIR! They were disgusting before but this hunger makes them even more!" Zim told GIR, peeking out an opening through a boarded-up window. He saw the trick or treaters coming close. "EEEE! They're coming!" He shouted.
"Trick or treat!" They changed outside, reaching their hands in through the openings of the boards.
"AAA! GIR! Activate the defenses!" Zim screamed, running around in a circle.
GOR popped the toy octopus in his mouth and picked up a nearby remote. "Okeydokey!" He said, pressing a button on the remote. The satellite on the top of the house retracted inside to be replaced with a large group of laser cannons that began shooting up into the air…
KA-CRASH! It was then that Dib broke in through a window and rolled right next to Zim, making Zim fall back.
"Get away from my blood!" Zim shouted.
"Zim, I know how weird this is gonna-" Dib began nervously.
Zim pointed at him. "GIR, stop him! Defensive mode!"
"Doo-doo-da-doo-doo! Doo-doo-da-doo…da-doo…da-doo!" He leapt out the window Dib had gone through and out into the street.
"I don't have time for this! The next jump may be the last one and I'll be stuck there forever!" Dib protested."They're gonna do something to my head! Something evil!"
"TRICK OR TREAT! SMELL MY FEET! GIVE ME SOMETHING GOOD TO EAT!"
"My head's not big!" Dib shouted.
"…I didn't say anything about your head…" Zim mumbled.
"You're the only one who can help!" Dib told Zim.
Zim gave him a look like he was retarded. "Help!?! You!?!"
"My dad won't let me use his equipment and I need to reverse the effect!" Dib insisted.
"HELP!? YOU!?!" Zim said, disgustedly sticking out his tongue. "You come to me, your greatest, most amazing enemy? Your future slave master and you ask for help!?! Have you no PRIDE?!?"
"Pride schmide! This is about common sense! You're the only other person with the technology to-" Dib tried to explain.
Zim, however, would have nothing of it, and pushed him. "Be gone with you! I've had enough of your nonsense from your smelly mouth filled with... corn!"
"But I haven't been eating corn since-"
"LIAR! I remember the kernel teeth!" Zim shouted, trying to push Dib out the window…but then…
FA-WOOSH! BOTH of them disappeared…and the trick or treaters continued to chant.
"TRICK OR TREAT! SMELL MY FEET! GIVE ME SOMETHING GOOD TO EAT!"
Zim tries to push Dib out of the window. Dib grunts as he holds onto the window frame. Dib's
POP! Dib and Zim reappeared, but now they were inside of a freakish, nightmare version of Zims' house. They blinked and looked around. "What the?" Zim blinked.
"The one who's neck blinks!" A voice hissed.
They looked up to see a group of nightmarish beings clinging to the ceiling. The apparent leader, Hummelflesh, grinned at them, his pale blue flesh bulging. He had an odd-looking jester-like yellow cap on his head and big, thick teeth. "We've been expecting yooouuu…" He whispered softly.
"The Halloweenies!" Zim cried. The two grabbed each other, screamed, then ran out the door, shutting it behind them and rushing through town, running as fast as they could as the monsters laughed and laughed and laughed.
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… Zim and Dib ignored the freakish cat that was nearby, eating an octopus tentacle, and panted as they rested in the alleyway they were in.
"Where are we?" Zim gasped out.
"It's some kind of alternate universe. It's based on my imagination somehow."
"And you brought me here!?! You sickening troublesome human!" Zim growled, extending his spider legs from his PAK, towering over Dib. "I should-"
"HEY! The only way back home's through MY head, so if anything happens to me, you're stuck here forever!" Dib told him, crossing his arms.
Zim grunted in annoyance. "Curse you!" He said, his legs retracting back.
"You're as much to blame as I am! I've been having all these nasty thoughts about YOU. If you weren't here, this would probably be a happy meadow filled with pigs that I could fly on or something." Dib remarked.
Zim rolled his eyes. "Always blaming-WAIT…I can still do stuff to your legs, right?"
"I guess but-wait. NO!" Dib snapped.
"Guh, curse you! Well, this is your imaginary world, think of some way out of here!" Zim demanded.
"Hail Caesar!"
They both turned their heads and saw Nick of all people was riding atop a horse, dressed in absolutely nothing but crown made of roses. He was even HAIRER than usual, his chest, arm, leg and…er…other hair… flowing out and occasionally twisting in front of the boys "Hail Caesar! May all your dreams come true!" He announced to Dib and Zim.
"Dreams? Hmm…" Zim tapped his lip. "I dreamed I was forcing a human to…you know. What's THAT mean?"
"It means you will RULE over your greatest enemies!" Nightmare Nick said.
"Ooh, I LIKE that." Zim said, grinning.
"No it doesn't mean that. It doesn't mean anything more than this: you had a dream you were raping a human. It was a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and signifying nothing." Nightmare Nick laughed, riding away on his horse.
Dib gave Zim a look as Zim nervously blushed. Then they turned around to hear another voice. "CAESAR!"
It was WHITE! Only his skin was utterly dark, his eyes like that of a cat, a fanged smile on his face. He wore only a toga as he held his hand up and addressed them. "Beware the Ideas of March!" The Pitch-Black being sniggered.
"Huh?" Dib looked confused. "Wait, hold on, that's not it."
Pitch Black held up his toga and a large parade of women with HUGE beehive hairdos came out, their green skin looking utterly disgusting in the light as they paraded around the boys. "Beware the Brides of Frankenstein!" He laughed as they carried him off over their heads.
"I don't think I can take much more of this…" Dib said, trying in vain to pull the collar off. "We can't go back to your house…but let's try MINE. There might be a version of the dimensional scope there!"
Zim heard an owl hooting and he shook nervously. "Yes, and…perhaps there's something there we can use to defend ourselves as well..."
"Good thinking." Dib said, nodding.
And so, they made their way to the residential area of the nightmarish city, heading for the suburbs as fast as their legs would carry them. Seeing there were more nightmare creatures coming towards them, the two hid behind a tree. "I hate Halloween..." Zim muttered in fear.
Hummelflesh, who was among the creatures, "hmmed" and his head rotated on his base as he looked around. The other creatures stopped and began looking at him.
"What is it? One asked.
Hummelflesh pointed at the tree Dib and Zim were hiding behind…Dib's collar was clearly blinking!
"Look, it's Blinky!" Hummelflesh announced. "Do want you want with the rest of him, just save his head!"
Dib gasped and tugged at his collar like mad…and to his surprise, managed to get it off. He then slammed it on Zim.
"What are you-"
TWHOOP! Dib tossed Zim out from behind the tree and Zim hissed angrily. "Oh you WRETCHED LITTLE-"
"ARR, he's the one!" Dib said, pretending to be a monster. "Arr!"
It worked. Zim screamed and tried to run, but a hollowed-out "Halloweenie" jumped in front of him, showing off a cage-like area on it's chest. It promptly stuck a tentacle from out of it's mouth and sucked Zim into it's hollow body and making him go down it's slimy throat into the waiting cage below.
"I'll get you Dib! You stinking human!" Zim cried angrily as the nightmare creatures took him away.
Dib did feel a BIT guilty for doing this to Zim, but on the one hand, this meant that he didn't have to worry about Zim doing something to him AND if he could return back to his own head, it meant he'd never have to worry about Zim threatening the Earth again. He breathed a sigh of relief, grateful that he'd tricked the creatures. Perhaps it had worked because of his…
He suddenly realized why the trick had, in fact, worked, and he immediately began to spasm in self-loathing, holding onto his head and squirming around on the ground for a good five minutes before he mumbled angrily and took off.
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…Zim had been strapped to a table with the Halloweenies surrounding him. A pulsing, pink, brain-like device was far above him, with large mechanical devices hanging down from it…one of them looking a whole lot like a plasma cannon of some sort. On the other hand, it was in purple. Zim liked purple.
He DIDN'T like what was going on though.
"Hey, let me go before something horrible happens to me! Or else!" Zim demanded, struggling in vain against the bonds of the table.
Hummelflesh smirked and laughed, heading over to a large shadow that was perched on a throne. "We brought him for yeh! His neck flash's 'n everythang!"
Zim protested. "This isn't MINE! That horrible Dib stuck this thing-"
"SIIILENCE!" The shadowy beast hissed. It then jumped off the throne and landed on it's spindly, skeletal feet…it was Nightmare Bitters! And she was HORRIBLE! Her skin was grey, her eyes were purple along with her tattered outfit which read "Bad" on it, she had curled tentacle/horn thingies growing out of her back and she had long, clawed gloves.
She looked Zim over and frowned. "This is the wrong one!" She snapped, turning on Hummelflesh. "You've FAILED me! You shall be condemned to the Realm of Eternal Screaming and…ohh…" She rubbed her head, thinking. "Restlessness!"
She pointed to the left and a large metal door opened up in the wall, showing off a fiery pit within. Hummelflesh frowned.
"But I don't really wanna go there." He complained.
"You'll just have to accept it. Here's your ticket." Nightmare Bitters said, handing him a suitcase of clothes and a ticket.
Hummelflesh's eyes filled with tears, and he hung his head as he walked in through the doorway, sniffling.
"Bye!" The others said sadly, waving goodbye.
"Well…see ya, guys." Hummelflesh said, putting on a hat. He walked inside…
THA-WHOOOOOM! A horrific explosion rocked their sight and they all went "Ooh". Zim gulped as Nightmare Bitters leapt on top of him.
"As for THIS one…he may prove USEFUL…hee-hee-hee…" She grinned. "MAN, I'm spooky!"
"Yes. Yes you are." Zim admitted.
"SILENCE!" She hissed in his face.
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…Dib hid behind a garbage can as he heard a creature approaching. He turned to see a thick, bug-like being with long green legs and a megaphone walking down the street. "We have your friend!" She yelled out. "We will destroy him if you do not surrender your head to us!"
Dib frowned. "Zim's not my friend!" Dib shouted back. "You can KEEP him!"
THONK! Just to make sure Rickisicky didn't misunderstand things, he tossed a can of beans at her head and ran off.
The monster sighed and headed back to the evil "Skool" that Zim and the others were at, walking past a bunch of skeletons who were dancing.
"They did the Mash!"
"They did the Moooonster Mash!"
"The Monster Mash!"
"It was a Graveyeard-"
"Oh SHUT UP." Rickisicky hissed as she headed inside the skool to deliver the bad news. She walked inside and addressed Nightmare Bitters. "I did what ya said."
"AAAAND?" She asked.
"He said we could destroy him. Then he threw a CAN at my head." Rickisicky told Nightmare Bitters. "It hurt."
"Ooh, that little worm! That pig-weasel PIG!" Zim hissed.
"RAAAAR!" Nightmare Bitters hissed.
Naturally, this meant one thing…
"Byyye guuuyyys." Rickisicky said sadly, putting on a hat and heading off into the Realm of Eternal Screaming and Restlessness as the others waved goodbye.
Zim, meanwhile, had managed to sneak out of his bonds and had now managed to get outside of the "Skool". "GRRR…first he traps me in his UGLY mind, then he sacrifices me to save himself!" He tugged at the collar on his neck. "If his head wasn't so crucial to my escape…" He managed to get the collar off. "I'd smush it like a GRAPE! I only hope poor GIR is doing alright against those ZOMBIES!"
ACTUALLY…
"AAAAAAA!"
Kids were running around left and right and screaming like mad. Mary, who had dressed up as a fair princess, held onto her bag for dear life as she looked left and right. "It's after my candyyyy!!!"
GLOMP! GIR, in dog form, knocked her over and eagerly began stuffing all the candy she had into his mouth. "Ha-ha-ha!" He laughed happily, rushing towards another trick-or-treater and knocking to the ground so hard his underwear came off!
Dib, meanwhile, had managed to make it to "his" house. The area was dark and spooky, with a faint blue tint to everything. He nervously closed the door and looked around…
Then HE appeared, swirling up on a shaft of white smoke to form…into Nightmare Membrane! His "dad" turned around ominously, his pale purple goggles now his eyes, his gloved fingers now ending in socket-claws. "So, I find you HERE…it was only a matter of TIME!" He announced, echoing the words of Prof. Membrane before and making Dib gasp in horror as the end of his large scientific cloak swirled around.
"DAD?" He asked. Maybe Nightmare Membrane wouldn't do anything…
Then Nightmare Membrane's eyes popped out and his claws extended as he laughed evilly. Yep. He'd do something nasty. Dib tried to run, but the large folds of his nightmare father's cloak shot out like tentacles, wrapping around Dib and pulling him to the ground.
then SHE appeared…Nightmare Gaz, holding onto a head looked like a skull, save that it had no lower half, with only large fangs at the top, and her body situated on disgusting skeletal legs. She slurped away at the juice, smirking evilly at Dib as her hair curled evilly. "We're gonna open…your…heaaaad…"
Dib screamed.
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…Zim groaned and slapped his forehead, watching as Nightmare Membrane carried Dib away with a "Heh-heh, I'm floating", with Nightmare Gaz following right behind. "Oh, C'MON! I break FREE, and now I have to go back to rescue that little rat that left Zim to rot?! WHYYY must it beeee!?!" He demanded as they headed off.
Then he looked at the nightmarish version of Dib's house and remembered what Dib had said. A SCOPE…
He ran inside and peeked around through the head, tossing bits of machinery left and right. "Where IS it, where IS it, where's the scope-oh…" He saw it…it was DEFINITELY a scope. He picked it up in his claws and put it to his eyes…
"YEEAAAAAHHH!" He screamed, pulling it away. Okay, THAT didn't work. But then…he saw something before him, and his eyes widened. "What…is…THAT?" He asked softly.
Dib, meanwhile, was now the one strapped to the table in the "skool".
"My revolting minions! At lsat the time has come! Today…we'll have a whole new world to ravage! As soon as we open the portal within Dibs' head…the fun will begin once more!"
The evil Halloweenies cheered happily. "Dib's head rocks!" Someone shouted.
"Don't I get any say in this?" Dib asked quietly.
They all turned to look at him.
"…no, huh?" Dib sighed.
"Let the head…thingy…start!" Nightmare Bitters announced.
The pulsing pink brain device above Dib began to glow brightly and the cannon in front of his face powered up. Nightmare Bitters held her face and groaned. "HEAD THINGY?! That was stupid! I shoulda written a speech!"
"Nawww, you did good! It was great!" Another Halloweenie spoke up.
"EEERR!" Dib struggled, trying to get the metal strap on his head of, it's pink gem glittering. "Gotta…get…out!"
"No use, fighting, child. No uuuuseee." Nightmare Bitters said.
The cannon shot a solid beam of pink light into his head and Dib blinked. "Why the heck is it PINK?!" He asked.
"Oh, it's because pink is the color of the element of Time!" Nightmare Nick told him. He had now shaved a fanged smiley face in his chest hair. "Every element's got a color! Cool, huh?"
"Why are you telling me this?"
"I'm EVIL, but not INCONSIDERATE!" Nightmare Nick insisted.
"And soon my army shall march through your disturbingly large head and on to VICTORY!" Nightmare Bitters told him confidently.
"Maybe my head IS big…" Dib wondered quietly inside his head…
BA-BOOOOOOM!
The large glass windows to the left of Dib and the machine shattered and there he was, riding in a large mechanical skull with spiked feet…Zim!
"Zim!" Dib said happily, eyes widening. Zim gave Dib an odd "You're actually GLAD to see me" look and two mechanical tentacles shot out from the back of the large metal skull, yanking him towards the front of the device. Dib saw he was glaring at him and he frowned. "Aw, C'MON, you're not mad about that whole "leaving you to rot" thing are you?" He asked.
Zim's eye twitched.
THONK! The tentacles squeezed their claws tightly into Dib, making him gasp in pain. "Organs…'sploding…" Dib gasped out.
"I am NOT here because I LIKE you, Dib!" Zim announced angrily, pointing at Dib. "I'm just here for your FILTHY, GARGANTUAN HEAD!"
"Oh, so now it's GARGANTUAN!?!" Dib complained.
"Shut up." Zim snapped as he stuffed Dib behind his mechanical skull and more tentacles rose up into the air, firing off disgusting green ooze at the monsters, covering them all.
"Oh, EWWWW!" They all protested.
"What's that smell?" Dib asked.
"VICTORY, Dib…VICTORY!" Zim proclaimed.
Nightmare Bitters, however, was NOT about to give up so easily. Letting out a horrid roar, her body bulged thickly ahd her muscles grew. More spiked legs shot out as her tentacles extended further, gaining sharp tips and her body now took on the form of some freakish demonic goat, making Zim gasp. He quickly high-tailed it out of there, running off.
"Find them! That kid is our only hope!" Nightmare Bitters demanded.
"Uh…gee…okay…uh…" One of Halloweenies said, nervously eating a bag of chips.
"NOW!"
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… Zim approached Dib, holding up the scope as the robot was positioned on buttes above them firing off at the approaching Halloweenies. "I set the robot thing I found in your house for "Auto-Defense." He told Dib as the pink light CONTINUED to beam out, no longer from the gem so much as from a strange portal in his own head. "It'll buy us some time while we use THIS thing to widen the portal in your stinkin' head!"
Dib poked his own head. "I don't really know how to USE it." He admitted.
"Ha! I've used more complicated devices as PLAYTHINGS! I'll figure it out."
TEN…MINUTES…LATER…
Dib was actually STUFFING the small end of the scope into the portal that was coming out of Dib's head.
"Hey, quit it! That's my head!"
BAAA-BOOOOOOM!
The robot exploded and the skull head fell down in a flaming chunk of sinsister wreckage as SHE approached from the smoke…
"There, that should be wide enough!" Zim announced.
"But what about ME?" Dib asked. "How do I get back!"
"Good question!" Zim remarked. He thought about it for a few seconds. "…but I don't CARE." He said cheerily. He then waved goodbye as the scope sunk into Dib's head, the portal now significantly larger.
SCHWOOP! Zim jumped inside…and was VIOLENTLY propelled out of the portal into the neighborhood of his house, striking his house's fence and groaning, joining the moaning collection of kids who were littered all around, their candy taken away by GIR, who was SUPER FAT and lying on a pile of candy in the middle of the street, still scarfing down treats.
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… Poor Dib was stuck between a rock wall and a hard face, up against a canyon wall as the Halloweenies advanced.
"THERE! Through that hole!" Nightmare Bitters demanded, advancing slowly. Dib looked up at the large circular hole in his head and did the only thing he could think of…
He jumped up and tucked his feet into the portal! He was immediately sucked in, much to Nightmare Bitter's horror…
And was deposited as a ball of organs outside Zim's house…but he then promptly UNTUCKED and found not only was he alright, but that he had a lollipop in one of his hands! He looked at Zim and the neighborhood. "We…we made it…I made it!" He proclaimed happily.
Zim groaned. "As soon as my skeleton stops being broken…I'm going to DESTROY you Dib…" Zim groaned.
Then Dib gasped in pain and SHE emerged from the portal in Dib's head, which had not yet closed completely! Her head and front legs were out as she smirked evilly, looking around the neighborhood. "FINALLY! A new, perfect world for me to…ACK!" She suddenly saw all of the children and their costumes, all of whom were beaten up, looking gross, dirty and smelly…
And THEN she saw GIR, aka "Jabba the Mutt", lying on a stack of candy and burping as his chocolate-covered chin downed another sack full of candy. Nightmare Bitters let out a horrified wail and she shot back into the portal, who's pink light faded a few moments later…and with that, the nightmare world was closed off from Dib and Zim…
Dib blinked, looking around at everyone, who had just seen SERIOUSLY freaky stuff. "Uh…well, I'll see you guys at school!" He said, taking off…but not before he grabbed the lollipop from back off the ground and took off with it, as Zim groaned in pain.
"Goodbye, daughter!" Prof. Membrane announced as he waved goodbye to Gaz, who was walking inside the house, still having HER bags of candy. "I'll see you for Christmas-oh. Son?" He turned to see Dib. "Why are you no longer in the crazy house? I'll have to bring you back."
"I'm sorry, Dad…Zim was AWFUL!" Dib lied.
"Huh?"
"He told me if I fiddled with your machines and acted crazy he'd give me all his Halloween candy…but all I got was this lollipop!" Dib said, giving his dad his most convincing Bambi eyes.
"Well we can't have THAT." Prof. Membrane said. "Anybody who told you to tell a story like the one you told must be completely INSANE!" He pulled out a whistle and blew on it, and Zim found himself being picked up by white coats, to be hauled off to a nearby truck. Dib smirked and licked his lollipop as he watched Zim get tossed inside the padded back room of the truck.
"I HATE Halloween…" Zim moaned out.