Hello, everyone! I hope you enjoy this new chapter! It's where everything starts to get super dark.

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Chapter Four: Dib

I renewed my fight as they wheeled me away. I strained to pull my arms apart like I did in the van, but the straps that were keeping me secured to the bed were restricting my movement too much. I couldn't get out. I would be stuck here forever. I'm not crazy. They said that I'd be held here until I was "cured", but you can't cure what you don't have.

They took me into an elevator and up to level three-"Treatment Level" as the button was labeled. They pushed me down another dark hallway and stopped outside of a blank, wooden door. One of the people around me opened the door, revealing a small room that had nothing inside except a bed. They undid the straps that kept me bound, picked me up and took me inside. They threw me down onto the bed, and one kept me secured while another undid the straight jacket.

The second that my arms were freed, I pulled against them. My sudden movement managed to get me out of the hold of the one holding me down, but I wasn't fast enough. The third doctor snatched up my hand and slapped a handcuff to my wrist. He secured the other end to the metal guardrail on the side of the bed. The second doctor keeping me here lifted my other arm and held out my wrist. I fought against him, but he was too strong for me. The doctor handcuffed my wrist to the other guardrail, and then the three of them let me go.

"Your treatment will begin tomorrow morning," the one who handcuffed me informed. "Get some rest. You clearly need it." With that, the three of them walked out and closed the door behind them, the sound of a click coming a second later meaning that they had locked the door.

I sighed and fell down against the bed. What happened? I thought I had fought hard enough. If only I was older. Then I could have fought against them better.

I glanced out the window that clearly didn't have any way to open it. The sun was setting. The drive here must have taken longer than I thought. It was probably about seven or seven thirty at night.

I looked up at the blank ceiling. What were they going to do to me? They would try to convince me that aliens didn't exist, of course, but how. Drugs? Conditioning? I had to keep my mind intact, but I didn't know how. If I knew exactly what they were going to do to me, it would be easier, but I don't.

But I don't care what they do. I will keep my own mind, and I will fight against whatever it is that they'll try. They are not going to do this to me. That doctor was right, though. A well rested mind will be the best defense I have against them, but it took me hours to fall asleep. The freezing cold air and unyielding metal around both of my wrists made it seem like they were trying to make sure that I wouldn't sleep, but eventually, I drifted off.

A tapping on my window made me jump and wake up. I sat up as quickly as I could in my binds and looked towards the window. There was nothing out there.

After a minute of two of staring outside, I was about to go back to sleep, thinking that I had dreamed the noise, but then a blur of green and pink burst through the window, shattering it to pieces. I turned away from the flying glass to protect myself, but then an instantly recognizable voice made me look back. "Good to see you, Dib. How you like it here so far?"

"Zim," I growled, looking up at him. The mechanical legs extending from his pack made him tower over me. Luckily, the chains of the handcuffs were long enough to allow me to stand up on the bed, but that didn't make much of a difference in height. "What are you doing here? Coming to see if you plan worked?"

Zim crossed his arms and raised a condescending eyebrow at me. "As long as they keep you here, my plan will have worked. It doesn't matter what they do to you, just as long as they keep you out of my way."

He leaned down towards me so that we were on eye level. I had seen him without his human disguise before, but his large, pink, double-pupil eyes were still unsettling. I growled to shove down my nerves, pulling against the handcuffs so hard that they dug painfully into my skin. "They won't keep me here because I'm not crazy! Face it, Zim. This plan will fail just like all of the rest of them!"

"AHAHAHA!" he laughed, his mechanical legs extending back to their full height. "But will it, Dib?"

His hand shot forward as he threw something at me. The pain in my wrist suddenly vanished. I glanced down and found that the blade Zim threw at me had cut the binds and planted itself into the thin mattress. Why would he let me go?

Footsteps thundered in the hallway, and Zim and I both glanced towards it. "Sorry, Dib," he said with fake sympathy, "but that sounds like my cue to leave."

Zim used his mechanical legs to quickly jump back out of the window like a spider. I picked up the blade Zim threw at me and rushed towards the broken window and watched him hop over the rooftops of the city. I raised the blade and aimed for him. I was about to throw it when the door burst open behind me.

The same three doctors who locked me in here ran inside and quickly glanced at the broken cuffs dangling from my wrists, the blade in my hand and the shattered glass on the floor. The doctor in the front took a small remote out from the pocket of his lab coat. "Looks like we're going to have to get a jump start on your course of treatment," he muttered, raising he remote.

I took a wary step back towards the broken window and dropped Zim's blade, suddenly terrified. I could guess how this looked to them, but that didn't mean it was true. Zim was trying to keep me here indefinitely, which means that he's going to try and make me look as insane as possible. Getting me to scream, and doing who knows what else.

The doctor pressed a button on the remote in his hand, and a searing pain wracked my body, coming from the collar around my neck. I instinctively grabbed for it and tried to pry it off, but the pain was quickly draining my strength.

The two doctors behind the one with the remote rushed at me. I tried to dodge their hands, but my vision was rapidly becoming blurred, and the pain was making it difficult to focus and even more difficult to move. It was like I was being stabbed in the neck with a thousand different electric bolts. It was so paralyzing that I couldn't even scream.

I fell to the floor and one of the doctors-or both. I couldn't tell-picked me up from the ground and carried me out the door, throwing me down onto another one of those hospital beds that they used to bring me here. They didn't strap me down this time, and I didn't think that they needed to. The pain from the collar was keeping me in place well enough. I couldn't focus on where they were taking me. It was just a long blur of white walls and dark hallways. Eventually, the paralyzing pain ended, finally allowing me to relax and focus enough to see where I was, not that there was much to see anyways. The room was so dark that I couldn't see anything except vague, human silhouettes around me. The silhouettes came towards me, and I tried to raise my arms to fight them, but I could barely raise myself up, let alone push them away.

The people easily grabbed me and held me in place while another person strapped me down. As soon as they let go of me, a blindingly bright light was turned on and shone directly in my face. "Now, Dib," a deep voice came, "you're here because you believe aliens to be real, but they are not."

Of course aliens are real. Zim was just here five minutes ago without his human disguise. This was their plan? To just say that aliens aren't real? It's not going to work. "I'm not crazy," I muttered.

The voice laughed darkly. "Of course you are. Why else would you be here?"

I tried to squint past the bright light to see who was speaking, but all I could see was the outline of a lab coat and a pair of goggles, or glasses, or whatever they were.

"But don't worry," the voice continued. "We'll fix you."

I hope you guys liked it! It just get continually darker from here. hehehe... Hope to see you soon in chapter 5!