CHAPTER TWO

The rest of the school day was uneventful for Gaz- most afternoons were. Sometimes she would get to doom someone, those were the good days.

However, she could not keep what Zim said about not being here for long from crossing her mind more than once. She was sure he meant him graduating in a few months but she wondered... What if he meant something else? What would he mean? Leaving this town? State? Country? Earth?!

Gaz instinctively smiled at that last one- not something she often did- imagining what it would be like if she could leave Earth. She'd be free from all the annoyances she suffered through on a daily basis. Her brother, skool, kids at skool. Everything. She liked that thought. Gaz let her imagination wander and envisioned herself on a new planet, all alone with her game slave. Well- maybe a few people attending to her. She could see herself sitting in the sun, game in hand. No worries about her brother or anyone barging in on her alone time. All of her servants would not speak unless spoken too. And Gaz would certainly not speak to them. She wished that's how it was here, but it's nice to dream.

From the corner of her eye, she saw the green boy pass by the window in the door of her classroom and snapped out of her fantasy. She suddenly stood up in the middle of the lesson and headed towards the door.

"And JUST where do you think you're going?" The teacher pressed, but Gaz kept walking, putting her hand on the door, "Young lady! Tell me where you are going at this instant! Or… Or… Or else I will have to give you detention!"

This teacher was new, he did not know Gaz's potential. Her head snapped towards the teacher and she stormed up to him, the floor began to smolder with every step.

Gaz simply started the teacher down before growling, "If you EVER threaten ME again. You will feel deeply sorry. If you can even feel anything." Gaz spat out that last comment. Satisfied, seeing her teacher shaking in his boots, she promptly turned on her heel and stomped out of the classroom- slamming the door behind her.

Once Gaz stepped into the hallway her anger subsided, a new mission came to light:

Find Zim.

She looked back and forth at the two sides of the hallway and just caught him turning the corner. She sprinted towards the alien, this was the fastest she ever ran- and for what? Some loosely threaded fantasy?

Well… Anything is possible with Zim.

She skidded to a halt as she saw him walk into the boy's bathroom, without thinking twice she ran, flung open the door and came face to face with Melvin- who was currently at the urinal, pants at his ankles and shirt pulled all the way.

He shrieked and quickly pulled his shirt down shutting his eyes tight, almost as if since he could not see her, she could not see him.

Gaz looked away and groaned in disgust what the hell am I doing?! She thought. Seeing Melvin like that was not worth it. And all for some dumb daydream? She grunted, mentally kicking herself. Just then Melvin bolted past her, pants barely above his waist, leaving her alone in the bathroom.

Gaz put her head in her hands and shook vigorously, desperately trying to erase the image from her memory. After a few seconds of this, she managed to calm down enough to remove her hands from her eyes and scan the room. No sign of Zim.

She could have sworn he came in here. Great. I had to see Melvin with his pants down for nothing. Disturbed with what just happened she turned around to leave. But just when she put her hand to the door,

"Dib-sister?" She froze hearing his voice, "What are YOU doing here?" he questioned with a disgusted tone.

She was still facing the door, heat rose to her cheeks. Fuck. She could just run- but Gaz Membrane does not run from anything.

"Well…?" Zim was getting frustrated, he was tapping his foot impatiently, "ANSWER ZIM!" He shouted.

Gaz took a deep breath and turned to face Zim. God this is dumb. She then spoke, "Look. You said something about 'not being here soon' earlier. I want to know what you meant by that."

Zim gave a hearty laugh, "HA! And why do youuu care?"

Gaz could feel her blood start to simmer Why does he have to be so ANNOYING?! She gritted her teeth and said, "'CAUSE If you are leaving this shitty planet, then I want in."

"And why do you think Zim would help you? Sister of Dib." He spat.

Gaz raised an eyebrow, questioning if he was serious. He continued to stare, arms on his hips. He was serious, "Because I say so. Besides- why do you think I want to LEAVE the planet, I bet I hate Dib just as much as you do." She said crossing her arms.

"Zim listens to no one." He scowled.

"I'm not no one" She retorted, a smirk on her face.

Zim scoffed, breaking his gaze, "Well you're out of luck because I, the almighty ZIM, am not leaving this planet, I'm…" His eyes bounded across the room, "... graduating." He then puffed out his chest, happy with his response.

Gaz nodded, "So when do you leave earth?"

Zim took a step back and scoffed in surprise, his face became a darker green and he stumbled, "Wha- I- Zim TOLD YOU! I was not leaving the PLANET! I was gravitating-"

"Graduating" Gaz corrected.

"WHATEVER!" Zim yelled flabbergasted, "Zim is NOT leaving the planet and even if he was he certainly would not be taking YOU!" Zim then charged towards the door and pushed past Gaz. She just watched him leave, he knew everything he just said was a lie. Now it was time to find out just how to get on that space ship with him…


For the rest of the day, Gaz followed Zim around for any clues as to how to get on his ship.

She pushed Francine away from her locker to get a closer look at Zim, going through his own locker. Whenever Zim would glance around she would duck behind the locker door.

He seemed to take out some handheld device, it looked almost like her game slave, she felt her body tense up before she realized- oh … I'm holding it. She looked back up to eye the machine again but Zim was gone. She ran towards his locker and showered for any clues. Suddenly a shadow was cast over her.

"Gaz- What are you doing?" Dibs voice rang.

"Nothing you need to be concerned about" Gaz gritted through her teeth, not turning around to face him.

Dib squinted his eyes at her and looked at the locker she was in front of and recognized it as Zims locker, he gasped, "I knew you'd finally see it my way!" he grabbed onto her shoulders and spun her around then hugging her tight, "I knew you'd finally realize that alien was evil and want to destroy him with me!"

Gaz burned with rage and shoved her brother off of him, "I don't WANT to destroy Zim" she glared up at her brother.

Dib laughed nervously, "Yea but Gaz you were going through his stuff-"

"UGH! Why do you always obsess over Zim?" Gaz cut him off.

"Well, I wasn't the one-"

Gaz rolled her eyes and walked away, "You're hopeless"

Gaz had had enough interacting with people for one day, especially two idiots like Zim and Dib. She went on with her afternoon, escaping to her game slave. Escaping Earth would have to happen another day.


A/N: Aaaa! Omg, thanks so much guys for all the reviews and favorites. This makes me so unbelievably happy. I'm sorry this took a bit to come out- I had the first part written but didn't know how to start the second part. Also, I've been at camp all week. Let me know what you think! I'll try to post at least once a week :)