Author's Notes: Sorry this took so long. It's...been hard for me lately.
Anyway, I really hope I wasn't too OOC...I actually pictured this in my
head, better than I could write it down. If you picture it in your head it
will be a lot funnier. And, I forgot the disclaimer last time...oops. DON'T
SUE ME!
Disclaimer: I don't own any of Jhonen's characters, who, are the only chracters in this thing. I noticed I said thing a lot during this chapter...oh, and I don't own "The Matrix" or "Mr. Rodger's Neighborhood"
When Comics and Cartoons Collide
Chapter Four: Reality?
The two boys stared up at the towering, ugly.funky green house before them. They had a plan in mind.
Dib walked up to the porch and rang the doorbell. Todd looked at his watch. Noon. After about, three seconds, the door creeped open all, creepy like and stuff.
Todd suddenly had that familiar fearfulness he had felt many, many times before, and began to doubt what he was doing there anyway.
"Hey, come'on!" Dib's voice jolted Todd out of his fear.ness.stuff. Augh, I'm bad with words today.
The two cautiously stepped inside.
"Glad to see you could make it, Dib-monkey!" Came a voice from the shadows.
Todd jumped. Being in this strange place made him more scared than ever. Dib's house wasn't so bad, but this place was spoooooky!
"Okay Zim, what did you do with the Skool??" Dib yelled, pointing at Zim. The only response was maniacal laughter, which Zim was quite good at.
"It's quite a good plan if I do say so myself, you humans are pitiful creatures. It was sooo easy to.hey, who's that?" Zim looked at Todd, who started to sweat. Dib grinned.
"This is Todd, he believes me about you. You don't have to hide in the shadows, he knows who you are." Dib said smugly.
Zim looked around him. He was in the shadows.
"Oh, oh yeah. I forgot the dramatic exit from the shadowy abyss of my base," Zim said, stepping into the light, all, dramatically. He was out of disguise.
Dib looked at Todd, as if for approval.
Todd looked at Dib, wondering why he was looking at him.
"Well?" Dib asked.
"Well what?"
"Aren't you, um, going to say something?"
"Should I?" Todd looked back over at Zim, who looked quite bored.
"Enough of this, I have to tell you my master plan! It has to be done! Now shut up so I can tell you!" Zim sneered.
Dib and Todd took a seat on the couch. Next to GIR, who had absentmindedly been watching t.v. the whole time. Todd looked at the weird green dog.
"Alright. You are undoubtedly wondering where your stink-beast classmates are. Well, I shall tell you. They are in my lab, hooked up to a virtual reality port." Zim said, pressing a button on his wrist-watch looking thing.
Suddenly, the couch flipped down, flinging Todd, Dib, and GIR down into a lab-looking room, where rows upon rows of people, mostly children, were hooked up, each in an individual test tube chamber. They had funny devices connected to their heads, which brought back strange memories from Todd's past.
"Wow! What is this!" Dib exclaimed.
GIR got up and walked away.
"I TOLD you, they are hooked up to a virtual reality port!" Zim said again, irritated.
"Why?" Todd asked.
"BECAUSE! It's part of my evil master plan of evil doom!" Zim ranted.
"Which is...?" Todd looked a bit irrated himself, "you said you would tell us."
Zim blinked slowly. He didn't say anything, his hands cupped together, with a smug smirk on his face.
Dib raised a brow.
"This is...um...akward..." Dib said, scratching his head.
"Alright. My plan is to connect all you humans up to this virtual...thing. So that I can conquer you planet while you are all living in your little fantasy worlds! The Skool was just an experiment, to see how well you humans would cooperate..."
"I think Zim watched "The Matrix" last night..." Todd whispered in Dib's ear.
"SILENCE!" Zim bellowed, "so what if I did? Anyway, I set up a force field around the Skool campus, so that anyone who walked on it would immediatly be transported to my lab, in one of these containers, where it would seem they had just walked on into the Skool, continuing their normal, disgusting lives..."
"Um, question..." Dib said, raising his hand.
"Yes, Dib-human?" Zim said, annoyed.
"If you put the entire Skool under this, virtual port thingy, then how come we aren't under it?"
Another long silence.
"How do you know you aren't?" Zim said, all creepy like, then started laughing hysterically.
Dib and Todd's eyes opened wide.
Zim stopped laughing abruptly.
"Now, I have conquering to do. You HUMANS can do whatever you like, because, this is your WORLD, not the real one." Zim got in a dramatic stance, like he was about to phase out or something, but instead walked off quietly, leaving a stunned Todd and Dib.
"So what do we do now?" Todd asked suddenly.
"I...don't know. I'd have to say, this is the best plan Zim's come up with yet. I mean, we can't DO anything, because, we probably look something like that in the real world..." Dib said, pointing at the test-tube things full of people.
"Hm, what about Gaz? We have to tell her we aren't in the real world!" Todd told Dib.
"Yeah, and, we can flush our plan down the toilet..." Dib pulled out a walkie talkie thing, and turned it on.
~*~*~*~
Gaz was still playing her Gameslave happily on Zim's desk, when a voice crackled from some unknown place.
"Gaz? Gaz you there?" Came the voice.
Gaz continued playing.
"GAZ! I know your there. This is important, please pick up!"
Gaz grumbled and picked up a huge walkie talkie, from who knows where.
"What do you want now, Dib?" She sighed.
"Gaz, it seems we're not in the real world! We're in some virtual reality thing, you have to come right now! We're in a world of make-believe! Wait...that sounded like Mr. Roger's Neighborhood or something didn't it...?"
"Whatever Dib." Gaz replied, and shut the walkie talkie off.
A few minutes later, her Gameslave ran out of batteries.
"NO!" She screamed, "wait, if this world isn't real then..." Gaz got a very evil looking grin on her face...
~*~*~*~
"So should we let the people out?" Todd suggested.
"No, it doesn't matter. We wouldn't REALLY be letting them out." Dib replied.
"But, something really doesn't sit right. How come WE aren't thinking school was still going on just like everyone else? How come we saw the school as it really was?" Todd asked.
"I dunno...aliens are smart that way I guess..." Dib said, "they have to be, after all, I've been abducted before, and..."
"You have?" Todd interupted.
"Yes," Dib said proudly.
"So have I...a long time ago."
"REALLY?!" Dib shouted, making Todd duck for cover, "can you tell me about it?"
~*~*~*~
Nny walked up to the wierd green house. He had seen Squee and that other kid go inside. He had followed Squee and that other kid from their house that morning, lacking anything better to do. He thought it strange that Squee would just leave Skool like that, and come here a few hours later.
He cautiously walked up and rang the doorbell. After a few minutes, Zim answered the door, disguised of course.
"Who are you?" Zim asked.
"Did two boys stop by here?"
"Yes, why?" Zim asked supsicously.
"I'm a friend of one of them, and wondered..."
"Which one?!" Zim accused.
"Um, is something wrong?"
"No, of course not! WHICH ONE?!" Zim was afraid it was one of Dib's Club member things, that maybe Dib had him tracked to his house or something like that. Zim wasn't about to be outsmarted by a human.
"The kid with the blue striped shirt." Nny answered, a bit suspicious himself.
"Oh, that one. What do you want?"
Nny peeked in through the house, and saw a green dog sitting on the couch.
"Is he there?"
"Err...yes." Zim said. Then cursed himself for saying it.
GIR got off the couch and walked to the door.
"Hi! Spooky man! HEEHEE!" GIR screeched.
"GIR!"
"That dog talked...what is going on?" Johnny asked.
"NOTHING! GO AWAY!" Zim slammed the door.
Nny walked to the side of the house, the gnomes following his every move. Aside from the strange tubing sticking out from the building, everthing seemed normal. Till Zim walked into the kitchen, where for some reason there was a toilet in, and went DOWN the toilet.
At that point, Johnny decided there was something definatly wrong. He walked back to the front door and went in, it wasn't even locked.
~*~*~*~
"...and that's it." Todd finished.
"I can't even remember...well, okay, I'm not SURE if I was abducted, but I'm pretty sure..."
Todd looked at Dib skeptically.
"Well, at least someone believes me..." Todd sighed.
"YOU!" A voice boomed from the shadows. Todd jumped behind some tubes.
Zim stepped out.
"Will you stop that?" Dib said, looking at Todd.
"Kid!" Zim pointed at Todd, "you leave. Some wierd looking guy was here for you, I don't want to attract any more attention. So you have to leave."
"But, I thought we weren't even in the real world...?" Todd said.
"...um..your not! BUT GO ANYWAY!" Zim pointed at a big sign that said 'EXIT'.
"Excuse me?" Another voice from the shadows came.
"HOW?!" Zim turned around, "what are you doing here?!"
"This, isn't a normal house is it?" Nny said, looking at the lab around him.
"Stupid humans! Stop infiltrating my base! GIR!"
GIR plummeted out of no where, and landed in front of Zim, then crashed into a heap of sparks and metal parts.
"GIR?!"
"Oh, um, he kinda got in my way so..." Nny said boredly.
Todd had taken this time to hide. Dib was wondering if they were really in a virtual world or not.
"Squee, what the hell is going on anyway?" Nny asked, somehow knowing exactly where Todd was.
"Um," Todd peeked out from behind a wall of circuts, "Zim, that green kid, is an alien and stole the Skool and put them here. He wants to conquer Earth."
"Hm, I see."
"I can't have any more humans lurking around my base!" Zim pulled out a laser gun thing from his pack, and fired it at Johnny, who dodged it.
Nny calmly walked up to Zim, who was for some reason bewieldered at missing his mark.
"That wasn't very nice. If I don't get it from other people, I get it from aliens." Nny started looking rather disturbed.
Dib picked up the walkie talkie.
"Gaz?" He said, talking into it.
"What?" Gaz replied, strange noises were heard in the background.
"It turns out, we're not in a virtual reality world..."
~*~*~*~
Gaz had some guy by the shirt, he looked rather frightened. There was a fire in the background and people screaming.
"PLEASE DON'T HURT ME!!" The guy cried, "I'LL GIVE YOU THE BATTERIES! JUST STOP!"
Gaz looked at the guy, then at the walkie talkie she was holding.
"Dib, where are you?"
"At Zim's, why?" Dib replied.
"DON'T MOVE..."
~*~*~*~
Dib put the walkie talkie away. He looked up and saw...Zim being chased around the lab by a crazy knife-wielding man!
"WHAT KIND OF HUMAN ARE YOU?!!" Zim screamed, running away frantically.
"THE INSANE KIND! C'MERE SO I CAN KILL YOU!" Johnny threatened, laughing insanely and chasing Zim around.
Todd was hiding again.
Dib just stared. He didn't know wiether to laugh at Zim or feel sorry for him. GIR had somehow mysteriously gotten back into one piece and was standing by Dib.
"Wanna squeek my moose?!" GIR asked Dib, holding up a moose squeeky toy.
"No thanks..." Dib declined.
Just then, a very angry looking girl burst into the quite full lab.
"DIB!.." She stopped mid-sentence when she saw Nny chasing Zim around. Then quickly gather her thoughts back together, "DIB! I'm going to hurt you...very very badly..." She advanced at him.
"What did I do?!" Dib yelled.
"YOU TOLD ME THIS WASN'T THE REAL WORLD! YOU LIED! YOU MADE ME ROB A CONVIENCE STORE AND ALMOST KILL THE CLERK! YOU DIE TODAY!" Gaz lunged and started beating Dib up.
Suddenly GIR started dancing around in the chaos, squeeking his moose and singing the star spankled banner.
Todd watched from a corner. Nny was chasing Zim around, trying to kill him. Zim was screaming his head off. Dib was being beaten rather harshly by his little sister, and GIR was running around like an idiot. It was quite a sight to behold, if you weren't Todd that is.
"AM I THE ONLY SANE PERSON IN THE UNIVERSE?!!" Todd screamed, but it was drowned out by all the other noises in the room.
THE END! Actually no. One more chapter. Then the end. I really, didn't write this as well as I hoped I could. And sorry if I was OOC on Nny, or something. REVIEW PLEASE! AND THANKS FOR THE REVIEWS I GOT SO FAR!(you know what I like about this fic? It's not a SI, or have anything to do with Nny falling in love with an SI...I've seen a lot of those lately. Tis scary.)
Next Chap: YEAH! ONE MORE CHAPTER! Then it tis finished. It's actually going to be a very short chapter really, like an epilouge.
Disclaimer: I don't own any of Jhonen's characters, who, are the only chracters in this thing. I noticed I said thing a lot during this chapter...oh, and I don't own "The Matrix" or "Mr. Rodger's Neighborhood"
When Comics and Cartoons Collide
Chapter Four: Reality?
The two boys stared up at the towering, ugly.funky green house before them. They had a plan in mind.
Dib walked up to the porch and rang the doorbell. Todd looked at his watch. Noon. After about, three seconds, the door creeped open all, creepy like and stuff.
Todd suddenly had that familiar fearfulness he had felt many, many times before, and began to doubt what he was doing there anyway.
"Hey, come'on!" Dib's voice jolted Todd out of his fear.ness.stuff. Augh, I'm bad with words today.
The two cautiously stepped inside.
"Glad to see you could make it, Dib-monkey!" Came a voice from the shadows.
Todd jumped. Being in this strange place made him more scared than ever. Dib's house wasn't so bad, but this place was spoooooky!
"Okay Zim, what did you do with the Skool??" Dib yelled, pointing at Zim. The only response was maniacal laughter, which Zim was quite good at.
"It's quite a good plan if I do say so myself, you humans are pitiful creatures. It was sooo easy to.hey, who's that?" Zim looked at Todd, who started to sweat. Dib grinned.
"This is Todd, he believes me about you. You don't have to hide in the shadows, he knows who you are." Dib said smugly.
Zim looked around him. He was in the shadows.
"Oh, oh yeah. I forgot the dramatic exit from the shadowy abyss of my base," Zim said, stepping into the light, all, dramatically. He was out of disguise.
Dib looked at Todd, as if for approval.
Todd looked at Dib, wondering why he was looking at him.
"Well?" Dib asked.
"Well what?"
"Aren't you, um, going to say something?"
"Should I?" Todd looked back over at Zim, who looked quite bored.
"Enough of this, I have to tell you my master plan! It has to be done! Now shut up so I can tell you!" Zim sneered.
Dib and Todd took a seat on the couch. Next to GIR, who had absentmindedly been watching t.v. the whole time. Todd looked at the weird green dog.
"Alright. You are undoubtedly wondering where your stink-beast classmates are. Well, I shall tell you. They are in my lab, hooked up to a virtual reality port." Zim said, pressing a button on his wrist-watch looking thing.
Suddenly, the couch flipped down, flinging Todd, Dib, and GIR down into a lab-looking room, where rows upon rows of people, mostly children, were hooked up, each in an individual test tube chamber. They had funny devices connected to their heads, which brought back strange memories from Todd's past.
"Wow! What is this!" Dib exclaimed.
GIR got up and walked away.
"I TOLD you, they are hooked up to a virtual reality port!" Zim said again, irritated.
"Why?" Todd asked.
"BECAUSE! It's part of my evil master plan of evil doom!" Zim ranted.
"Which is...?" Todd looked a bit irrated himself, "you said you would tell us."
Zim blinked slowly. He didn't say anything, his hands cupped together, with a smug smirk on his face.
Dib raised a brow.
"This is...um...akward..." Dib said, scratching his head.
"Alright. My plan is to connect all you humans up to this virtual...thing. So that I can conquer you planet while you are all living in your little fantasy worlds! The Skool was just an experiment, to see how well you humans would cooperate..."
"I think Zim watched "The Matrix" last night..." Todd whispered in Dib's ear.
"SILENCE!" Zim bellowed, "so what if I did? Anyway, I set up a force field around the Skool campus, so that anyone who walked on it would immediatly be transported to my lab, in one of these containers, where it would seem they had just walked on into the Skool, continuing their normal, disgusting lives..."
"Um, question..." Dib said, raising his hand.
"Yes, Dib-human?" Zim said, annoyed.
"If you put the entire Skool under this, virtual port thingy, then how come we aren't under it?"
Another long silence.
"How do you know you aren't?" Zim said, all creepy like, then started laughing hysterically.
Dib and Todd's eyes opened wide.
Zim stopped laughing abruptly.
"Now, I have conquering to do. You HUMANS can do whatever you like, because, this is your WORLD, not the real one." Zim got in a dramatic stance, like he was about to phase out or something, but instead walked off quietly, leaving a stunned Todd and Dib.
"So what do we do now?" Todd asked suddenly.
"I...don't know. I'd have to say, this is the best plan Zim's come up with yet. I mean, we can't DO anything, because, we probably look something like that in the real world..." Dib said, pointing at the test-tube things full of people.
"Hm, what about Gaz? We have to tell her we aren't in the real world!" Todd told Dib.
"Yeah, and, we can flush our plan down the toilet..." Dib pulled out a walkie talkie thing, and turned it on.
~*~*~*~
Gaz was still playing her Gameslave happily on Zim's desk, when a voice crackled from some unknown place.
"Gaz? Gaz you there?" Came the voice.
Gaz continued playing.
"GAZ! I know your there. This is important, please pick up!"
Gaz grumbled and picked up a huge walkie talkie, from who knows where.
"What do you want now, Dib?" She sighed.
"Gaz, it seems we're not in the real world! We're in some virtual reality thing, you have to come right now! We're in a world of make-believe! Wait...that sounded like Mr. Roger's Neighborhood or something didn't it...?"
"Whatever Dib." Gaz replied, and shut the walkie talkie off.
A few minutes later, her Gameslave ran out of batteries.
"NO!" She screamed, "wait, if this world isn't real then..." Gaz got a very evil looking grin on her face...
~*~*~*~
"So should we let the people out?" Todd suggested.
"No, it doesn't matter. We wouldn't REALLY be letting them out." Dib replied.
"But, something really doesn't sit right. How come WE aren't thinking school was still going on just like everyone else? How come we saw the school as it really was?" Todd asked.
"I dunno...aliens are smart that way I guess..." Dib said, "they have to be, after all, I've been abducted before, and..."
"You have?" Todd interupted.
"Yes," Dib said proudly.
"So have I...a long time ago."
"REALLY?!" Dib shouted, making Todd duck for cover, "can you tell me about it?"
~*~*~*~
Nny walked up to the wierd green house. He had seen Squee and that other kid go inside. He had followed Squee and that other kid from their house that morning, lacking anything better to do. He thought it strange that Squee would just leave Skool like that, and come here a few hours later.
He cautiously walked up and rang the doorbell. After a few minutes, Zim answered the door, disguised of course.
"Who are you?" Zim asked.
"Did two boys stop by here?"
"Yes, why?" Zim asked supsicously.
"I'm a friend of one of them, and wondered..."
"Which one?!" Zim accused.
"Um, is something wrong?"
"No, of course not! WHICH ONE?!" Zim was afraid it was one of Dib's Club member things, that maybe Dib had him tracked to his house or something like that. Zim wasn't about to be outsmarted by a human.
"The kid with the blue striped shirt." Nny answered, a bit suspicious himself.
"Oh, that one. What do you want?"
Nny peeked in through the house, and saw a green dog sitting on the couch.
"Is he there?"
"Err...yes." Zim said. Then cursed himself for saying it.
GIR got off the couch and walked to the door.
"Hi! Spooky man! HEEHEE!" GIR screeched.
"GIR!"
"That dog talked...what is going on?" Johnny asked.
"NOTHING! GO AWAY!" Zim slammed the door.
Nny walked to the side of the house, the gnomes following his every move. Aside from the strange tubing sticking out from the building, everthing seemed normal. Till Zim walked into the kitchen, where for some reason there was a toilet in, and went DOWN the toilet.
At that point, Johnny decided there was something definatly wrong. He walked back to the front door and went in, it wasn't even locked.
~*~*~*~
"...and that's it." Todd finished.
"I can't even remember...well, okay, I'm not SURE if I was abducted, but I'm pretty sure..."
Todd looked at Dib skeptically.
"Well, at least someone believes me..." Todd sighed.
"YOU!" A voice boomed from the shadows. Todd jumped behind some tubes.
Zim stepped out.
"Will you stop that?" Dib said, looking at Todd.
"Kid!" Zim pointed at Todd, "you leave. Some wierd looking guy was here for you, I don't want to attract any more attention. So you have to leave."
"But, I thought we weren't even in the real world...?" Todd said.
"...um..your not! BUT GO ANYWAY!" Zim pointed at a big sign that said 'EXIT'.
"Excuse me?" Another voice from the shadows came.
"HOW?!" Zim turned around, "what are you doing here?!"
"This, isn't a normal house is it?" Nny said, looking at the lab around him.
"Stupid humans! Stop infiltrating my base! GIR!"
GIR plummeted out of no where, and landed in front of Zim, then crashed into a heap of sparks and metal parts.
"GIR?!"
"Oh, um, he kinda got in my way so..." Nny said boredly.
Todd had taken this time to hide. Dib was wondering if they were really in a virtual world or not.
"Squee, what the hell is going on anyway?" Nny asked, somehow knowing exactly where Todd was.
"Um," Todd peeked out from behind a wall of circuts, "Zim, that green kid, is an alien and stole the Skool and put them here. He wants to conquer Earth."
"Hm, I see."
"I can't have any more humans lurking around my base!" Zim pulled out a laser gun thing from his pack, and fired it at Johnny, who dodged it.
Nny calmly walked up to Zim, who was for some reason bewieldered at missing his mark.
"That wasn't very nice. If I don't get it from other people, I get it from aliens." Nny started looking rather disturbed.
Dib picked up the walkie talkie.
"Gaz?" He said, talking into it.
"What?" Gaz replied, strange noises were heard in the background.
"It turns out, we're not in a virtual reality world..."
~*~*~*~
Gaz had some guy by the shirt, he looked rather frightened. There was a fire in the background and people screaming.
"PLEASE DON'T HURT ME!!" The guy cried, "I'LL GIVE YOU THE BATTERIES! JUST STOP!"
Gaz looked at the guy, then at the walkie talkie she was holding.
"Dib, where are you?"
"At Zim's, why?" Dib replied.
"DON'T MOVE..."
~*~*~*~
Dib put the walkie talkie away. He looked up and saw...Zim being chased around the lab by a crazy knife-wielding man!
"WHAT KIND OF HUMAN ARE YOU?!!" Zim screamed, running away frantically.
"THE INSANE KIND! C'MERE SO I CAN KILL YOU!" Johnny threatened, laughing insanely and chasing Zim around.
Todd was hiding again.
Dib just stared. He didn't know wiether to laugh at Zim or feel sorry for him. GIR had somehow mysteriously gotten back into one piece and was standing by Dib.
"Wanna squeek my moose?!" GIR asked Dib, holding up a moose squeeky toy.
"No thanks..." Dib declined.
Just then, a very angry looking girl burst into the quite full lab.
"DIB!.." She stopped mid-sentence when she saw Nny chasing Zim around. Then quickly gather her thoughts back together, "DIB! I'm going to hurt you...very very badly..." She advanced at him.
"What did I do?!" Dib yelled.
"YOU TOLD ME THIS WASN'T THE REAL WORLD! YOU LIED! YOU MADE ME ROB A CONVIENCE STORE AND ALMOST KILL THE CLERK! YOU DIE TODAY!" Gaz lunged and started beating Dib up.
Suddenly GIR started dancing around in the chaos, squeeking his moose and singing the star spankled banner.
Todd watched from a corner. Nny was chasing Zim around, trying to kill him. Zim was screaming his head off. Dib was being beaten rather harshly by his little sister, and GIR was running around like an idiot. It was quite a sight to behold, if you weren't Todd that is.
"AM I THE ONLY SANE PERSON IN THE UNIVERSE?!!" Todd screamed, but it was drowned out by all the other noises in the room.
THE END! Actually no. One more chapter. Then the end. I really, didn't write this as well as I hoped I could. And sorry if I was OOC on Nny, or something. REVIEW PLEASE! AND THANKS FOR THE REVIEWS I GOT SO FAR!(you know what I like about this fic? It's not a SI, or have anything to do with Nny falling in love with an SI...I've seen a lot of those lately. Tis scary.)
Next Chap: YEAH! ONE MORE CHAPTER! Then it tis finished. It's actually going to be a very short chapter really, like an epilouge.