Bloody Watercolors.
By: Alien Freak and Xmimi89eR
Rate: M
Story may contain gore/blood/violence/strong language.
Dark ZaDr
Disclaimer: We do not own invader Zim, but we own the story and idea.
English is my second language, my apologies if there any mistakes.
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'and once the storm is over, you won't remember how you made it through. You won't even be sure, whenever the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won't be the same person who walked in.'
-HARUKI MURAKAMI-
SPACE.
THE MASSIVE.
OID2 was a complete success, Operation impending doom two was a success because of one invader.
An invader that everybody feared.
He was an irken. But most other species call him a murderer or a psychopath. He won't hesitate to kill his own people just for fun. And that made the tallest also fear him, yet they needed him; he was a perfect elite,
a walking death machine.
In OID1, the insane invader killed other irkens, saying he was bored. So the tallest sent him to a far planet years ago, saying it was a vacation, and he could kill anyone in there since they didn't need the planet or its people.
The invader agreed.
When OID2 started, the tallest called him to come back to be assigned. They could still see his insane smile when they told him the news. OID2 ended faster than they ever imagined, and they won. Just because of their psycho irken.
They liked him, but also feared him.
His image, covered in colorful bloods, played in every other irken's head, his big proud smile, and his big bloody red eyes gazed at nothing as he laughed, right underneath him was horribly killed vortians, Their insides were everywhere, blood in his clothes and face.
He played with his non-damaged antenna,
"We won."
His smile became bigger as he looked at his fellow invaders, they were shaking. No one would forget that image no matter what.
The red-eyed tallest swallowed, "congratulations invader Zim, we won, operation impending doom two was a success! We are proud of you,"
"Yes, you did good, we're honored to have an invader like you," the purple-eyed tallest said, he tried to act cool and not show his fear.
Invader Zim bowed and wiggled his antennae in a show of respect, "thank you, my tallest," he looked at them as he bowed, his smile never left his face.
"We will study more planets to invade soon, but for now, every invader can rest, including you," Purple said,
"You know what that means," Red said, trying to be cool as he fought to keep his smile and cold voice.
"What? But I don't want a stupid vacation," he frowned dramatically.
"It's not any vacation, you'll be able to kill more of those... what was their name?"
"Hoomans," Purple whispered to Red,
"-those homans!"
Zim thought for a moment, the stink worm babies were fun, yes.
"It's been years since you went there, and you can have fun with them, they're stupid," Red said trying to convince the skinny invader.
"If that what makes you happy, my tallest, then fine, I agree."
Purple tried not to jump in happiness, they would be safe if Zim was away, they only needed him for wars.
"Good," Red smiled, at less Zim was loyal to them, maybe.
The irken Zim smiled back with dark expressions.
"Farewell, my tallest." He bowed again, he gave his tallest one last glance that scared them in a way they would never admit; then left the room.
The tall and skinny invader walked back to his room to gather his stuff, his SIR unit greeted him when he first walked in.
"Hello, master!" The small robot that was covered in cute little stickers jumped into his master's arms,
"Hello, Gir," Zim hugged him tightly.
Everyone thought it was weird for an irken like Zim to have such a broken SIR unit, and to make matters even weirder; the robot was always covered in bright stickers and wears small colorful shirts, Zim would hold his hand or hold him to his chest as he walked, he was so protected to it.
One time, he swore if anyone even dared to look at his SIR, he would rip their eyes out and make them eat it.
"It's time to go, Gir," Zim put the robot down and went to get his stuff.
"Where are we going?" The SIR unit followed it master as he gathered his belongings,
"You remember the planet where you ate a baby?" Zim glanced at Gir for a moment then went again to his work,
"Uh-huh!" He answered,
"We will have more fun in there," he smiled,
"Yeaaaaah!" Gir screamed happily,
"Oh, and i'll let you use watercolors, i know red is your favorite," oh the robot loved it, what a beautiful bloody color, that is made of real blood.
Gir gasped, "reallyyyy?" His cyan eyes are wide. Zim nodded, "yes, Gir,"
Gir gasped again and held his master leg, "aww, thank youuu!"
it didn't take long for him to get ready, he cleaned his room; of course, they were all Gir's mess. he asked the robot to help him, but Gir only made it worse, so Zim told him to set on the bed till he's finished.
most of what he packed was weapons, oh he's going to have fun!
XXX
he got to his voot runner, Gir jumped in, Zim followed.
his voot was full of all the weapons he likes, it was much bigger than most of his fellows, it was sharp, strong; colored with smoky purples and reds colors, and some lines were black.
It's been three years since the last time he saw that planet. if his memory is right, then its name was earth or something.
"I love that color," Gir daydreamed about it as he sat in his master's lap,
"me too..." Zim smiled as he put the voot on autopilot.
he sighed and relaxed his back on the chair, he could feel some kind of excitement rush in his body. what he liked about humans was their lack of knowledge about outer space and the fact that they're not the only ones in space, they thought they were the smartest, it was funny.
oh he loved how their faces changes when they see him, crawling towards them, some would freeze in place, some would scream, some would try to run, some lose conciseness; and some would plead for mercy.
no matter what their reaction was, the end result is always the same.
they won't scream no more, or run so far.
they would no longer live, to say the least.
he would let his SIR unit suck all the blood it wants and hide it in its head so it would color with it later. he liked when Gir is pleased, it made him happy.
It's just a matter of time.
XXX
EARTH.
MEMBRANE HOUSE.
"Stupid, Stupid, Stupid, Stupid...!!"
On the second floor of the membrane house, was a boy's bedroom, it was locked from the inside. The lights were off, the window was closed shut. It was cold, and suffocating inside.
In the far corner. Sat the helpless boy, collapsed on the floor, sobbing.
He cried with every cut he made.
"Stupid!!" He cut one more, "Stupid!" And another, with every word he made a new cut to put to his collection.
"I HATE YOU!"
He made a huge cut that cannot be ignored. The blade fell from his hand as he held his bleeding wrist, he panicked.
"Shit..!" He tried focusing his eyesight, but everything was a blur, of course, he wasn't wearing his glasses, they were shuttered next to him on the floor.
The bleeding didn't stop.
He looked around helplessly, desperate to find something to cover his wounds. He could feel the blood wetness cover his clothes, it was warm yet cold. His gaze went to the door; but he can't just get out like this, even though his sister knew about it somehow, he still can't just walk out,
It was shameful.
He knew it.
And he hated it.
But he can't stop.
He stood up on shaky legs and made his way to his closet, sure there must be something he could use. His right arm searched between the clothes, more and more clothes were thrown on the floor. Then he came across sport wrist braces, he had it since middle school, it was to help him against the stronger boys in The PE class.
Quickly, he put some tissues on the wounds then wrapped the brace on his wrist tightly. Everything was quiet again, quieter than before, he only can hear his heart and his deep breath. He gazed at the brace, waiting to see if any blood would come out, but nothing, thankfully.
His eyes were filled with tears again as he remembered what happened earlier.
"why can't you just listen to me for once!"
"You want me to hear your mumbling about ridiculous things that don't exist!?"
"NO! I want you to act like a parent!"
The fight between them became bigger,
"You'd be dead if I wasn't there!" The professor yelled at his son's face, he was raged, he could feel his hand shaking from anger.
"I WISH I WERE DEAD!" The boy screamed, tears gathered in his eyes but he refused to let them fall.
Gaz watched from behind, it wasn't new, so she didn't care.
"AND I WISH YOU WERE DEAD!!" Dib added, as he looked hard into his father's eyes.
The professor lost his patience.
He gazed blindly at his son,
Through his son...
Only rage left.
He shifted his weight on his other leg as his strong metallic fist bunched his son's poor face,
It hit his left cheek, breaking his glasses on his face, blood drew from the boy's lips as he fell to the ground, everything starts spinning, he was amazed he didn't lose consciousness.
Gaz smirked from where she was sitting.
The professor stormed out of the house, not even bothering to close the door behind him, he got into his car, and drove fast away from them, back to his work of course...
Gaz looked from behind the couch, her brother was trying to stand on his shaky legs, she gave him an evil look, her smirk only grew wider.
The boy didn't even bother to look at her, his heart was racing, he felt like vomiting, the urge to slap someone, to hurt someone rose higher and higher in his blood.
Dib stood there for a moment then made his way to the stairs, he almost tripped with his clumsy feet.
Gaz stared at him as he walked away, she let out a laugh then went back to her game.
His family was being torn apart in front of him, but he can't do anything.
There's no way this family could be together.
It's a fact all of them knew about.
He leaned back at the wall, exactly where he was before, he could see the blood that was on the floor, it sacked in the ground. A damn hot feeling filled his chest, his breath was shallow, he felt lightheaded as his sanity became numb.
He should take his medicine. But it was far away. And he was far too tired to move.
A smile formed on his lips,
'Shit...'
He knew what was coming, and he feared it. The boy tried to hold his laugh. More tears fell down. He gazed at his black trench coat, then at the window, it won't be bad to have a nice walk to the park. He stood up and got his coat, then slid it in. Outside his window, was a dark cold night, the streets were empty, it was passed midnight.
Climbing down his window, he jumped into their yard and quickly ran down the streets before his sister could see him.
XXX
Zim finally set up his house, it was green and cartoon looking, because Gir was the one who designed it.
"Great job, Gir." He held his small robot hand,
Gir giggled.
It was night, what a perfect time! Zim sighed, it's good to be on a vacation that involved more thick blood. Humans blood was unique, he liked how red it was, he liked the color red.
"We're gonna have fuuun!~" Gir sang his words as he jumped with excitement.
"Sure we will." The smile on his face grow wider. He made his way to his house, to his voot.
It's going to be a long night.
XXX
Blood.
Dib could see blood.
Poor poor little bird that happened to be in his way. It was hurt, he knew it because the bird couldn't fly. An animal would have eaten it alive, So he had to put it out of its misery.
He did it quickly.
He was sure the small bird didn't feel a thing. His small knife was full of blood, he gazed at it, an insane smile on his face as tears ran down his eyes. He really should have taken his pills. He hoped no one would be in there.
He feared he may do something much worse than killing a small bird.
XXX
Just like last time, Zim would land his ship on the small mountain in the park, he would look and chase humans, making them get from the small park to the big forest.
It was like a game.
And every human fell for it.
His ruby eyes followed the old man as he walked,
"Now Gir," he whispered to his disguised dog, Gir nodded and jumped close to the human and barked.
"Awww, what a cute little dog, are you lost?" The man leaned to pet the dog, but it ran further into the woods, "Oh, you want me to follow you?" The man stood and walked blindly after the dog.
Zim liked how humans believe that animals would want to show them important things, and they always follow them. Gir barked more as he ran further and further.
The man kept following.
"Moron..." Zim said under his breath.
The green dog stopped under one of the trees and gazed at the human.
"W.. what did you want to show m-... me?" He huffed as he tried catching his breath.
Gir giggled, and pointed up.
XXX
The boy almost jumped out of his skin as he heard a bark, it was far away.
"Huh..?" He looked from left to right.
The noises became slightly louder. He followed the noise, What a beautiful dog bark, it was unique, and high-pitched, he needed to see that dog. Dib walked through the trees, trying his best not to make a sound, his hands shaking, and his head demanded his pills.
His eyes caught a man running after a small dog, or was he following the dog? Is it his dog? He played with the knife in his hand, his eyes wide, and a smile took half of his face,
"It's dangerous to walk alone in the woods." He whispered as he got closer.
He was now behind a tree, waiting for the right moment, he heard the man talk, and thought that was it. He ran towards him, his knife high in the air, pointing its sharp edge at the man.
He heard a weird giggle but ignored it. The insane boy jumped at the top of the man, holding the knife with two hands as he stabbed the poor man in the chest,
"ITS. DANGEROUS. TO BE. ALONE!! He stabbed him with every word he said. The man screamed, his voice muffled as blood filled his mouth, he was too old to fight an insane teen.
Blood was everywhere.
Zim froze at the top of the tree, where he was hiding, where he was about to jump at his prey.
He gazed at the boy who had thick round glasses that were broken on the left side, just where a purplish bruise was, the boy's lips were slightly bleeding. He had a band-aid on his nose, it was blue. wearing a black trench coat and jeans, his shoes were red, and his shirt was yellow with a dead smiling ghost on it.
amber eyes shining with insanity, wide as blood splashed on his glasses. He had a big smile on his face as he screamed at the man for being alone in such a place.
Gir looked from the weird insane boy to his master, when their eyes met, the robot shrugged. The alien gazed at his SIR unit then at the human teen, his expressions went from surprised to amused.
He felt a smile sneak to his green lips.
His prey was gone, but the seen in front of him was much better. He even forgot to tell Gir to back away from them.
The boy's stabbing motion became slower and slower, he gazed blankly at the lifeless man, his insides were now everywhere on the grass, some of his organs were on Dib's hands and clothes.
He blinked.
His hands started to shake, tears rolled down on his big smile, he could taste the bitterness in his tears. He laughed and cried at the same time as he murmured some words under his shaky breath.
Zim could hear:
'i told you'
'I'm sorry'
'You weren't supposed to be here'
It was all muffled and hard to understand but his antennae picked it up.
That was interesting.
The boy freaked out, yet kept laughing, he couldn't feel his legs as he sat atop the man. He didn't dare to raise his head as he looked at his bloody hands.
He was a murderer.
He knew it.
And he hated it.
He was insane.
He didn't know how but he managed to look slightly upwards, just enough to look at the dog. The dog was green. And standing on two legs. He did not look like a dog, but yet he looked indeed like a dog. The boy's freaky smile faded as he looked at the green dog, he knew he was imagining the whole thing, he wished he took his pills.
The dog looked back.
From Zim's view, he wanted to jump on the boy, break his neck or stab him with his PAK legs. But the boy caught his attention more than he should. Zim's smile grew wider.
He wondered who's that boy.
But everything is on time. He could get all the information he needs tomorrow.
Zim waived his hand at Gir so he would flee from the area. Gir got the signal, he gave the boy a small smile then ran away. The human boy looked at the tree, just where the dog was looking, he swore he saw something move in there, but it didn't matter, right now everything wasn't real.
Yes, he didn't see anything on the tree.
He didn't see a green dog that smiled at him.
And didn't just kill a poor man.
No.
He was normal.
XXX
Zim watched the panicked boy leave as if he did anything, he ran as he closed his trench coat to hide the blood that sank on his yellow shirt.
Hiding evidence wasn't Zim's type, but right now he will play in level one, he didn't want other humans to see a dead man in the woods, that would make stupid police officers try to investigate the whole thing,
He just got there, he wanted to have fun in peace before the real game began. The irken gazed at his robot, who was sucking blood from the human's body and into his head, so he would use it as 'watercolors' later.
"Are you done?" He frowned dramatically, hands on hips, he had to clean after the stupid human's mess, how disrespectful!
He looked at the sky, it was weird how earth skies change colors, not only two colors as most planets he invaded, but six colors!
Red, orange, yellow, blue, green, and purple!
It reminded him of irkens eye colors.
Interesting.
Oh and he won't forget how dark the night is, every planet has it night, even earth,
He liked that color.
"Done!!" Gir said, disconnecting the bloody thin wire from the man's chest.
"Good," he brushed his antenna slightly, "destroy the body." He said as he walked away to his voot.
"Yes my master!" The green robot eyes turned red, he then giggled, a laser popped out of his head,
"Bye bye!" He waved a hand at the lifeless body before he shot it,
The body heated up, smoke coming from the flesh and clothes, he then exploded into tiny pieces, no one would ever think a human was there. The animals would eat the left pieces off of the ground.
Ingenious.
Gir smiled when he saw some bugs that start crawling towards the food smell. The small robot jumped, and flew towards his master's ship.
He had some drawings to draw!
XXX
Dib walked home on shaky legs, his face blank, eyes red from crying, he was glad blood doesn't appear in black fabric. The front door was closed, his sister must be asleep, even if it was open, he would get in from his window. He started climbing, it amused him how he still had the strength to do so.
His room was much darker than the last time he left it, he jumped in his bed, face first at his pillow, the knife fell on the ground, the boy shook his head to toss his broken glasses away, his eyes hurt badly, and his wrist did too.
He wanted to take a look at it, but it didn't matter, his blood was probably mixed with the man's one, he won't tell if it was bleeding and taking his life with every second he waist laying down,
And he didn't care.
XXX
Zim's voot landed inside his roof, the ceiling closed behind him as he got out of the ship, he stretched his limbs then turned around to his robot that was still sitting in the pilot chair,
"Come on, Gir," he said as he opened his arms towards the SIR unit. Gir jumped with a smile in his master's arms, he hugged him tightly as they made their way down the lab.
The elevator opened with a hiss to their new base, he walked to his main chair in front of the big screen, he almost forgot to call his tallest, they must be worried.
"Computer! Call the tallest," he sat, Gir slid from his chest to his lap, Zim's hands still warped around him,
"RIGHT AWAY." His female voice computer replied, the screen came to life with the irken symbol.
As always, the tallest answers him as fast as they could.
"Zim!" They both forced a fearful smile on their faces, "you made it! We're glad." Red continued,
"Uh-huh, how's everything going?" Purple asked, he stopped eating his donuts to focus his gaze on the invader, Zim wanted to call them when he got there, but he was too excited, so he came up with a lie.
"We ran to a stinking human, so i had to kill him, at less i got colors for Gir," he pointed out the blood in the robot's hands, he got a small tissue out of his PAK and wiped it off.
"Oh, i see," Red tried to sound interested as he stared at the invader, who was cleaning his SIR unit hands like if it was a smeet,
They could see something like this only with Zim.
"I just wanted to report that i'm okay," he finally looked at his beloved leaders, "sure you wanted to know..." Zim smiled, he sounded like he was threatening them with his words, but they both knew he wasn't, He was more than a good invader to do such a thing, it was just his unstable personality.
"Of course, we wanted to call you, but we were too busy with the new plans for the next operation," Purple said as he nodded, he gazed at Red, wanting him to agree to his excuse,
Red nodded as well.
Zim smile became wider, for a moment it didn't seem that crazy, but rather sweet, he closed his eyes as he smiled. A second passed, his expressions turned dark again when he opened his ruby eyes and gazed at his leaders,
"Well then..." he freed a hand from his robot and rose it to his head sharply, fingers joined, saluting "this was invader Zim, signing off."
Purple almost saluted to Zim, but caught himself as he remembered that he was a tallest not a damn invader, that was too close. The screen went black as the transmission was cut. Both tallest let out a breath they didn't know were holding.
Zim leaned back at his chair, his smile was small now, eyes half closed as he looked at the red screen. Then something else came to his mind.
"Hey, Gir," he gazed at big cyan eyes,
"Yes master?" Gir's little voice answered, it sounded sleepy, he loved how his SIR unit was the only one that needed sleep (or loved acting like it).
"Do you have a saved image for the boy with glasses?" He played with the robot's irken symbol that hangs from his antenna,
"Hmmm? You mean the big-head boy?"
Zim considered if the boy's head was actually big or if the robot was joking, he couldn't remember.
"Yea him,"
"Lemme see! Hmmmmmmmmmmm," he thought for a while as he searched his memory drive,
"OH! I found him!" He smiled,
"Good," Zim smiled back, his gaze traveled to the ceiling, "Computer! I wanna know who's that boy,"
A thin wire slid from the ceiling and inside the robot's head, some weird images of squirrels appeared, the computer searched for a moment. Then a picture of a boy who was sitting on a bloodied body showed, his amber eyes gazed at the robot ones, tears and blood hid his features, he looked terrified.
"ANALYZING..."
The photo was tossed to the screen corner as information appeared,
"THE NAME IS DIB MEMBRANE, SEVENTEEN-YEAR-OLD, A MALE, HE LEAVES WITH A FATHER UNIT AND A SISTER UNIT, BOTH HUMANS..."
One of Zim's eyes narrowed as he read more information.
"Interesting..." he murmured, "Computer, do you still have my human disguise saved?" He asked, it's been years since he used it, and was too lazy to create a new one.
"YES, IT IS SAVED IN DOCUMENTS,"
Another picture of a boy appeared, this one was different.
He was a pale boy with an undercut hairstyle, his hair was black with a shade of green, and purple eyes, The clothes weren't so different, but he had to make them more human, Wearing a red hoodie that had the same irken symbol on its left side, its sleeves were black. With black jeans and boots,
He also had to wear what humans call it 'backpacks' to cover his PAk.
The only flaws about this are the inside features, including teeth and tongue, as they looked the same, and he still had three fingers instead of five. But he was too lazy to fix it and thought that even if he wore a stupid wig with lenses, no one would ever notice. He looked at his robot who was sleeping peacefully in his lap, then gazed back at the screen,
"Computer, sign me in the same skool the big-headed boy goes to," he watched the screen change every now and then as it showed what it was doing. "Tomorrow is going to be an interesting day..." he played more with the irken symbol on the robot's antenna.
"So interesting."
END OF CHAPTER ONE!!
Alien freak: I wanted to thank my bestie for her amazing idea, she's the artist for all the covers i used here, and the profile picture.
This story was her idea, she was the one who designed the characters and their personalities, Mary would help with writing but not much.
We both love blood and gore, so this story is going to be fun!
It would be amazing if you visited her on social media.
YT: Xmimi89eR
Insta: Mary._.0v
Most credit for her :D
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I'm so excited to write this one story, I wanted to write about the characters looks but thought i'll reveal this in later chapters!
Hope you don't mind.
Thank you.
This was alien freak, signing off.