(All right on the next chapter!! Visit my artwork on side 7 look under artist search Alicia elder aka niea or griff)

Dib was all in a panic trying to get out of this little crate, looking for something might be of help.. HE was searching franticly for something in the straw that lined the floor of his little cage. He found nothing except for his water dish and a few other things including a little toothpick. He grinned and soon went to work.

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She watched him leave, bordly, her mind half thinking about stopping the ship but she shrugged as she house shut. Zim came back with some food "*munchmunchmunch* RAHAHHAHAHAHAHAAHAAHAHHAHAHA--*COUGH*" He swallowed some food down the wrong tube and began to change color and soon received a firm kick In the gut sending the bits of sandwich flying as Zoea passed him "YOU didn't need to do that!!" "Do what?" "Get that out I had it under control!" "OH I wasn't trying to help you I just felt like kicking you around some." She remarked as she walked out the door into the upper stares of the house sighing looking outside. He looked dumbfounded for a second before he shouted "HEY!!" !!! "Zoea get down here!!" He paused, waiting, "Zoea?!" He walked upstairs and saw the door was open and she had left and he could've cooked an egg on his head by the heat! "Darn that girl. Why do I even keep her around?" He muttered walking out the door after putting his disguise on.

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She was walking down the street, feeling how chilly it was getting outside and she passed into a mall, she had some money from here with her and was looking around for a new outfit. She saw something In the window of a store and walked in perchancing the outfit before taking it into the fitting room and coming out with her other clothing put up in a bag and she had on now a dark blue thick wooly skirt and a shall over hat, white with little gold dangles coming off of it and she had on as a shirt a little dark blue long- sleeved, as in longer than her fingertip length, hippies type shirt due to the fact that the distance between the end of the sleeve was about a foot and a half. And it had little tuffs of fuzz on the end of that too. And she had a large sunhat that matched her outfit as well. She walked out, she had a wad still in her had of money, about $5500. She didn't care and put it in her bag with her clothing in it. She sat down on a table near the window and watched the people go by doing their things with their busy short little lives. She still showed no emotion within her face but her eyes sparked, hinting at her true feelings of this planet, funny but sadly funny. She saw Zim walking outside with Gir in their disguises and Gir spotted her before Zim did and she waved at him before Gir waved back and pointed her out to Zim and they went inside sitting down "Ohh your in so much trouble!! Hehehe!!!" Gir shouted before running off. It was almost dark outside and the mall would be closing down shortly, very few people were still here. "Do you have any idea of how much my patience is wearing then with you running off like that.?" She shook her head plainly "Don't do it agene or you will not have a place to return to. Do you understand me?" Geese he sounds like a worried parent or something. She nodded dully. "Lets go. GIR!" He called whom of promptly jumped down next to Zoea and jumped up into her arms like a bay and she stood up holding him. Zim and Gir and Zoea left the mall, Her mind becoming intertwined with her heart feeling guilty for sending Dib away, it hadn't been like her to do such a thing. She began thinking decisions decisions... Ohh look cupcakes. She grabbed a bag of them and paid for them letting Gir munch on one wail he sat on her shoulders. She walked out thinking following Zim, who by midnight was hopelessly lost and tired and cold. "Looks like we get to sleep on the streets tonight, sorry.." She said finding a large refrigerator box and laying it down climbing into it and doing some odd chant before a light flashed inside it and she made Gir and Zim come in. They blinked and gasped seeing a fully furnished living room/ kitchen with a large bed over towards the corner of the room, it had a fireplace and it was burning. Zim blinked and thought ~Perhaps she is more powerful than I thought.~ She walked over to the beg and laid down setting the now sleepy Gir down as she stoked the fire and laid down next to him motion for Zim to come too but he didn't.. She shrugged and shut her eyes wail Gir held onto a pillow next to her, a large quilt was over them and as the fire died down and Zim's sleepiness encroached upon him he drearily crawled in next to Gir and fell asleep. In the morning he woke up and looked around. He was next to Gir and in his home with the quilt on him, he was utterly confused. Zoea was in the kitchen cooking, no emotion but something new showed in her eye, a sparkle of self relieve. Dib had somehow made it back to earth in once piece. She wouldn't tell Zim she would let him find out on his own wail Gir woke up and smiled waffles cooking and ran out "OOOHHHH!!" there was a huge stack of them on the table with other breakfast foods and he jumped on the table about to grab it and start shoveling it all down but he received a painful slap on his metal little hand and he recoiled it back seeing Zoea standing over him in an apron. "Sit at the table, fork and knife and napkin and manners Gir, bet you cant do that" She said "I bet your wrong!!" and he proved her wrong, doing exactly what she wanted him to do, And Zim observed how she did that and grinned before coming to eat.

(Don't miss the next chapter "Hidden secrets and a killing.")