She led them into a bright white house. They sat down on a couch in the
living room and stared at her, their eyes demanding answers. "You want to
know how I know so much about you right?" They nodded. "ZIM, Dib, Gaz, GIR.
Your dimension in my world is a TV show. You have merchandise and many
psycho fans. However, you are a real dimension, merely running parallel to
our Earth. Your Earth is similar, yet different. Do you understand?"
"I think so," Dib volunteered. "Like two sides of a coin sort of. Right? One heads, one tails?"
"Yup," Luck-Charm said. "As for ZIP, Neera, GIZ, Faroeh, and KAT, in a way, you were created by Lizrah here. And yet, you lead your own lives. Lizrah records what she finds out is happening and people read it. It's called fan- fiction here, but if you wrote it in your world, it would be about equal to a diary. So you see, this is not our normal dimension."
"Are you saying we're not real in your dimension?" ZIP asked.
"No. You're very real. Just….a different kind of real. And to explain my odd reaction, the last time I saw you in person, it wasn't here. It was a different environment and I was trying to not interfere with my silly fan ways." IZ23 stated.
"What nonsense you speak! I've never seen you before in my life!" ZIM growled.
"Maybe this will help." LC jumped down from her shoulder and ran over to a stereo in the corner. The floor beneath IZ23's feet glowed and she reverted to her NightFox StarTail form. "Ring a bell?"
"NightFox!!" they exclaimed. "It's you!"
"Yup. Your average, meddling dimension hopper. However, the human form is my true one." Luck-Charm placed a CD in the stereo and In The End by Linkin Park began to play. IZ23/NightFox jumped up and pulled them all up. "Now that our big explanation is over, let's have some fun!" She began to sing as the words began. "It starts with one thing. I don't know why. It doesn't even matter how hard you try. Keep in mind I designed this rhyme to explain in due time."
"All I know. Time is a valuable thing. Watch it fly by as the pendulum swings. Watch it count down to the end of the day. The clock ticks life away." LC added.
"It's so unreal. Didn't look out below. Watch the time go right out the window. Trying to hold on but didn't even know. Wasted it all just to.." ZIP sang.
"What is this, karaoke hour?" Dib exclaimed.
"Come on ZIMMY! Dib! It's fun!" ZIP declared. "I tried so hard. And got so far. But in the end, it doesn't even matter! I had to fall to lose it all. But in the end, it doesn't even maaaaaater!"
"So we're only semi-existent in your dimension?"
"Yup. I tried so hard in spite of the way you were mocking me. Acting I was part of your property." She sang. ZIM rubbed his eyes and she stopped singing. "You guys can take off your disguises here. I'm the only one, and I already know what you are. And you know what each other are so why not?" The aliens happily piled their disguises off to the side. She hugged GIR and GIZ tightly. "Oh, you guys are so cute!"
"Yay!!" they both exclaimed.
"So why ARE you here?" Neera asked.
"I don't know. I think something is wrong that I can help to fix. Your dimension has gone through a bit of trouble lately."
"Like what?"
"The president of the network that airs your show doesn't like it and is trying to destroy it."
"WHAT?!!" ZIM roared. "How could ANYONE, even a FILTHY stink-beast dislike the all-powerful ZIM?!!!"
"I don't know either. All I do know is that something is wrong. I don't normally get sucked into dimensions like this without trying to go there or anything. And it's weird. Everything in my house is the way I've always wanted it to be. Something is seriously wrong."
"The stars have predicted something shall happen to endanger the Irken race, but I figured they were just speaking about Miyuki's mistake once more. I never thought that…." Neera's voice trailed off with embarrassment. "I was a fool." Faroeh placed a paw on her shoulder to comfort her.
"'S all right Neera. You didn't know. I probably would have done the same thing." The doorknob rattled and Neera and Faroeh bristled. They transformed into their beast forms and threw their clothes to the side. The two Sphirynx ran to the door and bared their teeth. The door opened and the human standing there stepped backwards in fright. She had short blond hair and wore a "Somebody Needs A Hug!" shirt. She had on a pair of baggy blue jeans and tall black shoes. She was quite short. A Red-Tailed Hawk was perched on her shoulder. InvaderZIP23 transformed back into her human form and shouted to them.
"NEERA! FAROEH!! IT'S ALL RIGHT!! I KNOW HER!!" They backed off and lay down on the couch, still bristling. Luck-Charm waved to the human.
"Halo!!"
"Elizabeth?" the human asked." Is that you?"
"Yeppers."
"'Sup foo?"
"Nothin' much. And you know Luck-Charm from way back when he was just a plushie. Who's the hawk?"
"His name's Toby."
"Surprise surprise," Luck-Charm muttered.
"It's so weird. I was about to watch the new ZIM episode when the power went out. Then I fell asleep and when I woke up, I was here!" She suddenly noticed ZIM, Dib, Gaz, and GIR standing off to the side. "Oh……my………GOSH! Is it really them?" IZ23 nodded. The human raced over to ZIM and Dib and took them both into a big bear hug." SOMEBODY NEEDS A HUG!!" she screamed. She released them and looked around at the others. "All your fan characters are here too."
"Mmm-hmm." A bunch of other humans piled in the doorway, miscellaneous creatures on the shoulders or heads.
"Liz I…" a boy declared. They all noticed the characters and there was much happy screaming that drown out the blaring Linkin Park music.
"Holy Irk!! It's THEM!!"
"Yippee!!"
"Somebody needs a hug!"
"You know all these stink-people InvaderZIP23?!" ZIM howled over the noise.
"Yup."
"InvaderZIP23?" the blonde asked. "Your ffn alias?"
"Yeppers! EVERYONE!!" They stopped screaming and stared. The characters ran away and hid behind Neera and Faroeh. "INTRODUCE YOURSELVES!!"
"I'm Juu-Juu," a brown-haired girl said. "And this is Heero." She gestured to a monkey on her shoulder. It bowed politely.
"I'm GIR!" a boy with glasses and an "I'm Dancin' Like A Monkey!" shirt said. He looked at the real GIR and thought for a minute. "Actually, my name is I.M.GIR. And this is Gir." He pointed to a mongoose-dog beside him and it nodded its head respectively.
"I'm Kero13!" said a girl with a black Dib-like trench coat. "And this is Minerva." The snowy owl grinned.
"My name is Hawk6002," the blond said. "And I've already introduced Tobias."
"I'm HAL9000DT!" a boy shouted. "And this is OTF." The mongoose nodded.
"It stands for Obey The Fist," it said.
"I'm Carla," a tall girl said. "And this is Link." The Jigglypuff smiled happily.
"I'm Mooing Duck!" another tall girl. "And my friend here is named Sandy." The squirrel jumped on her head.
"I'm S," said a girl with a Spongebob shirt on. "and this is Luna." Her black cat danced around her feet.
"I'm Kelley!" a girl with curly hair cheered. "And my animal person's name is Nennen" The Bejil in her arms squeaked happily.
"My name is Zag," said another girl, "and this is Kat." Her black panther wound itself around her legs, purring.
"That's all of 'em!" IZ23 exclaimed.
"I have a question IZ23." Kero13 asked. "Why do we have these animals with us?"
"I guess these are our spirit animals or something. Kewl huh?" The door suddenly opened and a tall, skinny man ran inside. He was panting heavily.
"Squirrels….everywhere…evil..evil.." He noticed the squirrel on Mooing Duck's shoulder. "Noooooo!!!"
"Nny!! Calm down! It's just Sandy and my friend Mooing Duck." He turned around and looked at her.
"Who are you?" He looked around. "And where am I??"
"GREAT. THAT'S smart." Zag stated. "Run INTO a house and you don't even know WHOSE it is!"
"Zag, I wouldn't do that if I were you," I.M.GIR muttered. His mongoose-dog nodded.
"What's he gonna do? A moron who's afraid of SQUIRRELS can't be VERY powerful. OR smart!" Nny's eye began to twitch and a crazed look came into his eyes.
"The reason I wouldn't make fun of him is simple," Kero13 exclaimed.
"I'll torment who I want!" She turned back to Nny. "Why on Irk would someone be scared of HARMLESS LITTLE SQUIRRELS??" Nny began to look REALLY ticked off.
"The reason you shouldn't make fun of him is.." IZ23 began.
"HE'S JOHNNY THE HOMICIDAL MANIAC!!!" IMGIR, Kero13, and IZ23 bellowed. Zag looked as though she was going to be sick.
"OH…hello Mr. Johnny. I didn't recognize you. Your hair grew back, didn't it? Good look for you. He he he…" She was sweating nervously. Johnny pulled out a blade and lunged at her. Faroeh leapt and cuffed Nny on the head, knocking him out of the way of Zag. The human went flying and hit the wall. Faroeh turned to Zag and exposed his saber-like teeth in a growl.
"You're lucky I was here or else you would have been Nny's next victim. Grrarrwl…" He stalked away toward Neera, his tail twitching in agitation. Nny stood up and shook his head. He lunged once more, this time with two large knives. IZ23 transformed into her NightFox mode and drew the swords from her back. Steel met steel in mid-air as she ran in for the defense.
"JOHNNY C!! STOP THIS THIS INSTANT!!" she hissed at him. Oddly enough, he put the blades away and sat down on the couch.
"So explain. What is this place and who are you?" he growled.
Introductions and giving the extremely tempermental Johnny an explaination took about an hour, considering the pains that had to be taken to stop him from killing HAL9000DT and Zag. In fact, he hated everyone except for IZ23, Hawk6002, and Kero13.
"Harumph……aliens….." he muttered.
"You know, if my mother was to show up now, we'd have a lot of explaining to do," InvaderZIP23 laughed.
"Yah. 4 aliens, 2 robots, 2 strange kids, and a guy in his twenties or so sitting in the living room listening to Linkin Park music? Plus all of us and our spirit animals? THAT would take a lot of explaining!!" Hawk6002 replied. Suddenly Luck-Charms ears perked up and Tobias let out a screech.
"Lizrah….something's wrong," the Pikachu exclaimed.
"I think so," Dib volunteered. "Like two sides of a coin sort of. Right? One heads, one tails?"
"Yup," Luck-Charm said. "As for ZIP, Neera, GIZ, Faroeh, and KAT, in a way, you were created by Lizrah here. And yet, you lead your own lives. Lizrah records what she finds out is happening and people read it. It's called fan- fiction here, but if you wrote it in your world, it would be about equal to a diary. So you see, this is not our normal dimension."
"Are you saying we're not real in your dimension?" ZIP asked.
"No. You're very real. Just….a different kind of real. And to explain my odd reaction, the last time I saw you in person, it wasn't here. It was a different environment and I was trying to not interfere with my silly fan ways." IZ23 stated.
"What nonsense you speak! I've never seen you before in my life!" ZIM growled.
"Maybe this will help." LC jumped down from her shoulder and ran over to a stereo in the corner. The floor beneath IZ23's feet glowed and she reverted to her NightFox StarTail form. "Ring a bell?"
"NightFox!!" they exclaimed. "It's you!"
"Yup. Your average, meddling dimension hopper. However, the human form is my true one." Luck-Charm placed a CD in the stereo and In The End by Linkin Park began to play. IZ23/NightFox jumped up and pulled them all up. "Now that our big explanation is over, let's have some fun!" She began to sing as the words began. "It starts with one thing. I don't know why. It doesn't even matter how hard you try. Keep in mind I designed this rhyme to explain in due time."
"All I know. Time is a valuable thing. Watch it fly by as the pendulum swings. Watch it count down to the end of the day. The clock ticks life away." LC added.
"It's so unreal. Didn't look out below. Watch the time go right out the window. Trying to hold on but didn't even know. Wasted it all just to.." ZIP sang.
"What is this, karaoke hour?" Dib exclaimed.
"Come on ZIMMY! Dib! It's fun!" ZIP declared. "I tried so hard. And got so far. But in the end, it doesn't even matter! I had to fall to lose it all. But in the end, it doesn't even maaaaaater!"
"So we're only semi-existent in your dimension?"
"Yup. I tried so hard in spite of the way you were mocking me. Acting I was part of your property." She sang. ZIM rubbed his eyes and she stopped singing. "You guys can take off your disguises here. I'm the only one, and I already know what you are. And you know what each other are so why not?" The aliens happily piled their disguises off to the side. She hugged GIR and GIZ tightly. "Oh, you guys are so cute!"
"Yay!!" they both exclaimed.
"So why ARE you here?" Neera asked.
"I don't know. I think something is wrong that I can help to fix. Your dimension has gone through a bit of trouble lately."
"Like what?"
"The president of the network that airs your show doesn't like it and is trying to destroy it."
"WHAT?!!" ZIM roared. "How could ANYONE, even a FILTHY stink-beast dislike the all-powerful ZIM?!!!"
"I don't know either. All I do know is that something is wrong. I don't normally get sucked into dimensions like this without trying to go there or anything. And it's weird. Everything in my house is the way I've always wanted it to be. Something is seriously wrong."
"The stars have predicted something shall happen to endanger the Irken race, but I figured they were just speaking about Miyuki's mistake once more. I never thought that…." Neera's voice trailed off with embarrassment. "I was a fool." Faroeh placed a paw on her shoulder to comfort her.
"'S all right Neera. You didn't know. I probably would have done the same thing." The doorknob rattled and Neera and Faroeh bristled. They transformed into their beast forms and threw their clothes to the side. The two Sphirynx ran to the door and bared their teeth. The door opened and the human standing there stepped backwards in fright. She had short blond hair and wore a "Somebody Needs A Hug!" shirt. She had on a pair of baggy blue jeans and tall black shoes. She was quite short. A Red-Tailed Hawk was perched on her shoulder. InvaderZIP23 transformed back into her human form and shouted to them.
"NEERA! FAROEH!! IT'S ALL RIGHT!! I KNOW HER!!" They backed off and lay down on the couch, still bristling. Luck-Charm waved to the human.
"Halo!!"
"Elizabeth?" the human asked." Is that you?"
"Yeppers."
"'Sup foo?"
"Nothin' much. And you know Luck-Charm from way back when he was just a plushie. Who's the hawk?"
"His name's Toby."
"Surprise surprise," Luck-Charm muttered.
"It's so weird. I was about to watch the new ZIM episode when the power went out. Then I fell asleep and when I woke up, I was here!" She suddenly noticed ZIM, Dib, Gaz, and GIR standing off to the side. "Oh……my………GOSH! Is it really them?" IZ23 nodded. The human raced over to ZIM and Dib and took them both into a big bear hug." SOMEBODY NEEDS A HUG!!" she screamed. She released them and looked around at the others. "All your fan characters are here too."
"Mmm-hmm." A bunch of other humans piled in the doorway, miscellaneous creatures on the shoulders or heads.
"Liz I…" a boy declared. They all noticed the characters and there was much happy screaming that drown out the blaring Linkin Park music.
"Holy Irk!! It's THEM!!"
"Yippee!!"
"Somebody needs a hug!"
"You know all these stink-people InvaderZIP23?!" ZIM howled over the noise.
"Yup."
"InvaderZIP23?" the blonde asked. "Your ffn alias?"
"Yeppers! EVERYONE!!" They stopped screaming and stared. The characters ran away and hid behind Neera and Faroeh. "INTRODUCE YOURSELVES!!"
"I'm Juu-Juu," a brown-haired girl said. "And this is Heero." She gestured to a monkey on her shoulder. It bowed politely.
"I'm GIR!" a boy with glasses and an "I'm Dancin' Like A Monkey!" shirt said. He looked at the real GIR and thought for a minute. "Actually, my name is I.M.GIR. And this is Gir." He pointed to a mongoose-dog beside him and it nodded its head respectively.
"I'm Kero13!" said a girl with a black Dib-like trench coat. "And this is Minerva." The snowy owl grinned.
"My name is Hawk6002," the blond said. "And I've already introduced Tobias."
"I'm HAL9000DT!" a boy shouted. "And this is OTF." The mongoose nodded.
"It stands for Obey The Fist," it said.
"I'm Carla," a tall girl said. "And this is Link." The Jigglypuff smiled happily.
"I'm Mooing Duck!" another tall girl. "And my friend here is named Sandy." The squirrel jumped on her head.
"I'm S," said a girl with a Spongebob shirt on. "and this is Luna." Her black cat danced around her feet.
"I'm Kelley!" a girl with curly hair cheered. "And my animal person's name is Nennen" The Bejil in her arms squeaked happily.
"My name is Zag," said another girl, "and this is Kat." Her black panther wound itself around her legs, purring.
"That's all of 'em!" IZ23 exclaimed.
"I have a question IZ23." Kero13 asked. "Why do we have these animals with us?"
"I guess these are our spirit animals or something. Kewl huh?" The door suddenly opened and a tall, skinny man ran inside. He was panting heavily.
"Squirrels….everywhere…evil..evil.." He noticed the squirrel on Mooing Duck's shoulder. "Noooooo!!!"
"Nny!! Calm down! It's just Sandy and my friend Mooing Duck." He turned around and looked at her.
"Who are you?" He looked around. "And where am I??"
"GREAT. THAT'S smart." Zag stated. "Run INTO a house and you don't even know WHOSE it is!"
"Zag, I wouldn't do that if I were you," I.M.GIR muttered. His mongoose-dog nodded.
"What's he gonna do? A moron who's afraid of SQUIRRELS can't be VERY powerful. OR smart!" Nny's eye began to twitch and a crazed look came into his eyes.
"The reason I wouldn't make fun of him is simple," Kero13 exclaimed.
"I'll torment who I want!" She turned back to Nny. "Why on Irk would someone be scared of HARMLESS LITTLE SQUIRRELS??" Nny began to look REALLY ticked off.
"The reason you shouldn't make fun of him is.." IZ23 began.
"HE'S JOHNNY THE HOMICIDAL MANIAC!!!" IMGIR, Kero13, and IZ23 bellowed. Zag looked as though she was going to be sick.
"OH…hello Mr. Johnny. I didn't recognize you. Your hair grew back, didn't it? Good look for you. He he he…" She was sweating nervously. Johnny pulled out a blade and lunged at her. Faroeh leapt and cuffed Nny on the head, knocking him out of the way of Zag. The human went flying and hit the wall. Faroeh turned to Zag and exposed his saber-like teeth in a growl.
"You're lucky I was here or else you would have been Nny's next victim. Grrarrwl…" He stalked away toward Neera, his tail twitching in agitation. Nny stood up and shook his head. He lunged once more, this time with two large knives. IZ23 transformed into her NightFox mode and drew the swords from her back. Steel met steel in mid-air as she ran in for the defense.
"JOHNNY C!! STOP THIS THIS INSTANT!!" she hissed at him. Oddly enough, he put the blades away and sat down on the couch.
"So explain. What is this place and who are you?" he growled.
Introductions and giving the extremely tempermental Johnny an explaination took about an hour, considering the pains that had to be taken to stop him from killing HAL9000DT and Zag. In fact, he hated everyone except for IZ23, Hawk6002, and Kero13.
"Harumph……aliens….." he muttered.
"You know, if my mother was to show up now, we'd have a lot of explaining to do," InvaderZIP23 laughed.
"Yah. 4 aliens, 2 robots, 2 strange kids, and a guy in his twenties or so sitting in the living room listening to Linkin Park music? Plus all of us and our spirit animals? THAT would take a lot of explaining!!" Hawk6002 replied. Suddenly Luck-Charms ears perked up and Tobias let out a screech.
"Lizrah….something's wrong," the Pikachu exclaimed.