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What Lies Beneath
by
~Miriah~of~the~Wind~
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Chapter 6: Vio and Shland's disguise
"I refuse to wear this." Back at Zim's base Zim had Shland put on a black skirt and a pale blue blouse.
"This is the way 'good girls' look. This is what my studies of Earth say." Zim said.
"Empress Shland is right. This outfit says, 'I'm a weak little female, who is dependent, whiny, and unintelligent.'"Vio replied. She wore a bright pink dress.
"And look what you've done to A.I.R.!" Vio said holding her robotic unit. A.I.R. looked just like G.I.R. except that A.I.R. was black all over instead of green and around her neck was a bright pink bow.
"Do I have to wear this Sir?" A.I.R. asked. "It's itchy."
"Yes. You do. And when we're out of the house don't talk. 'Dogs' aren't suppose to talk. The bark." Zim said. Shland, Zim, and Vio walked out of the house and walked towards skool. Shland looked up at the sign in confusion. She spent all of last night studying all the human languages: Dutch, Italian, French, German, Spanish, and English.
"Skool? Isn't it spelled S-C-H-O-O-L? Because that's how your research on the language says."
"The humans spelled it wrong and didn't change it. Go figure."
Zim replied as though he expect such a reaction from a superior race when questioning the acts of a very inferior race. All the way in the school library Dib was looking up on the Internet everything about aliens. After all, he was kind of a spokesperson for the entire human race. He made a bad impression, Earth would be destroyed. But if he made a good impression, perhaps she could persuade Zim and his people to give the Earth some slack, and maybe help advance it. Yet he could find nothing on Alien signs of peace, and absolutely nothing about Irkens or Cosovians. He sighed and leaned back in his chair. He jerked up and saw Shland outside the window in between Zim and Vio. This was it. It was now or never.
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