Betrayal, Treachery, and Hate

Just keeps getting better and better doesn't it? Okay, maybe it doesn't, but it will! IT WILL! Its like da Energizer Bunny: It just keeps going, and going, and going, and going, and going….

Dib gaped at the lifeless form that lay strewn in front of him. The rain beat down his face, and on the face of his captive, mixing blood and tears.

He looked amazed, and a sense of pride over took him.

"I…. I did it."

He let loose a flow of joyous noises. After his small victory celebration, he glanced back at Ally, still under the effect of the stun cuffs. He moaned in despair as he wondered how he was ever going to drag his prize far enough to an appropriate area.

A look of realization came over Dib's face. He reached into his trench coat and took out his dad's cell phone. Hurriedly, he punched in the numbers and listened eagerly for the reply.

"Hello?"

"Jessica? It's me, Dib."

"Oh, hello! So, what's up?"

"You won't believe this, Jess! Ally's an alien!"

On the other line, Jessie's face whitened. Her pale hand gripped the phone as she mentally pulled herself together.

"Is that so?"

"Yeah! Who would have thought, right? Well, don't worry! She can't hurt anyone right now!"

There was something in Dib's tone Jessie didn't like at all.

"So, did you need anything?"

"Well, yeah, I was wondering if you would come and pick us up in my dad's cruiser. You know how to drive that thing, right?"

"Yeah, Dib, but I…"

"Great! Okay, we're in the city park, okay? And hurry, the aftereffects might wear off any second!"

"S…sure, Dib. I-I'll be right over."

Jessie hung up the phone. Questions were running through her head. Dib knew? How much did he know? Did he hurt Ally? Was he aware that she was an alien too?

Not knowing what to do at the moment, she pulled her hood over her head and ran the block and a half to Dib's house.

Once inside, she grabbed the controls to the cruiser, and settled down in the comfortable cockpit. Remembering the time when she first learned how to fly an aircraft, she pulled the throttle and the craft lifted up through the floorboards and out of the rooftop.

Once in the air, Jessie got a look at the scenery around her. The rain was coming down heavily. If Ally stays out any longer, She thought Her paste might wash off.

Jessie wouldn't allow herself to think of what would occur if that happened.

Finally, she reached the park, and opened up the hatches. She ran up to meet Dib, and her gaze settled upon the still figure of her best friend.

Ally's body was already beginning to give off fumes. Jessie could feel her own paste melting away a little. Dib stood next to her, letting the rain soak into his skin. Jessie envied him that he could retain water so very easily, and how she had always been forced to take extra precautions whenever it rained.

Dib shook her out of here trance. "Come on, Jess! Let's get her inside the ship!"

Together, they managed to pull Ally out of the rain and into the safeness of the sleeping quarters. There, they were able to lay her down on a bed while Dib went into the cockpit to call the authorities.

Jessie sat down beside her fallen friend. She ran her fingers lightly through her red-brown hair and sighed. She felt so lost, so helpless. There was no way she could ever convince Dib that Ally was not here to enslave the Earth, nor could she think of a plan to save her friend.

Dib returned from the cockpit. He glanced at Jessie, and went to kneel down beside her.

"I know…I can't believe it either." Dib said, misunderstanding completely. "Don't worry, she's going straight to the labs."

Jessie's eyes widened.

"L-lab?"

"Yeah, I talked with the scientists who work at my dad's lab. We're going straight there, just as soon as I start this contraption up."

Jessie glimpsed Dib's retreating back. She should go after him, she knew, and stop him before they drove to her friend's terrible fate.

But Dib was her friend too, right? Jessie had to ask herself the most important question ever: Who was the better friend, Ally, or Dib?

Jessie got up decisively. What should have happened next was that she should have marched into that cockpit and demand that Dib let her friend go. Should have.

But just then, Dib had started up the cruiser, and Jessie was thrown to the back of the ship by the sheer force of the gravitational pull. Her head crashed against a computer, and she knew no more.