Zim burst into the hospital wing, exclaiming "I will rule you all with an iron fist!"

Zim jumped up on the bed, shaking his fist at Ron and Harry. "You! Respect the fist!"

Harry noted the abnormally large zit on the side of Zim's head, and the fact that it had a face drawn on it, along with wearing a little hat and a suit and jacket. "Who's the little guy that's attached to your head?" asked Harry.

"Ah...yes. Won't you say hello to Pustulio?" asked Zim.

Harry stared into Pustulio's eyes and was immediately hypnotised. "Pustulio...command me," said Harry.

"What's with the green guy?" said Hermione.

"I told you, the Golden Toothpick of Thebes..... It has something to do with this, I just know it....." Ron broke off in a moan. "Eyes.....throbbing madly.....pain....sickly...."

"Pustulio commands you to obey the fist!" Zim shouted over Ron's shaky whimpers, balling his hands into fists. "It is as Pustulio wishes that you ---"

"DON'T LISTEN!!!!" shouted a kid in a trench coat and glasses, barging in on the situation. "Don't do it! He's an alien, I'll prove it, I will!! He's trying to rule us all!"

"DIB! SILENCE!" shrieked Zim. Hermione just watched the scene, aghast, and Ron certainly wished he could have surveyed what was going on, but his eyes had ceased to exist.

"Whatever happened to the days when we were carefree and all we had to worry about was an upcoming concert by Touch of Newt!?" Hermione whined.

"SILENCE! THE FIST COMMANDS YOU!!!"

"Never, Zim!" Dib shouted in reply.

Harry, in a daze, staring at the bulbous zit on Zim's face, said in a monotone, "I love you, Pustulio.... By the way, Zim, your Sir unit went on a rampage through this school, and if I were you, I'd find him."

Zim turned and ran out the door of the hospital wing, laughing like a maniac, in pursuit of GIR. Dib glanced at his watch and announced,

"Mysterious Mysteries is on in an hour...but I must stop Zim..." He too left the hospital wing in search of Zim. Hermione slapped Harry back to his senses.

"Thanks," Harry said in the manner of someone waking from anesthesia.

Hermione said, after a few moments, "What about the Golden Toothpick of Thebes, Ron? Isn't Thebes an ancient Egyptain city?"

"Yes, I think I remember hearing about it somewhere," said Harry.

Meanwhile, Professor McGonnigal waltzed into the hospital wing and over to Harry's bed. She pulled out her wand, uttered a few magical words that I'm too lazy to make up and restored Ron with a new pair of eyes, with an explosion free guaruntee no less.

Ron, amazed he could see again looked in the mirror. "Hey! I had green eyes!"

"Oh bugger off you ungrateful twat!" replied Professor McGonnigal.

"Com'n Ron! We have to find out about the golden toothpick of Thebes," said Hermione. Ron bounded out of bed and followed Harry and Hermione to the library.