Shadowed
Chapter 1-Thing in the Night
Late Monday evening.
Gir had just gotten home from a dance party as something glowing entered the
atmosphere.
It gave of a reddish energy.
Gir looked closely to see a more human-like figure.
It had long, black wings, a jagged, thin tail, and dark red glaring eyes.
Whatever it was, it landed on the roof two doors down from Zim's house.
Gir hurried over to greet the unknown creature,"Hiye!" Gir squeaked.
The thing jumped from the rooftop and went towards Gir.
"Want some of my freezie? It's Chocolate Bubblegum!", just as Gir lifted up the cup, Zim
came out and started yelling,"GIR! GIR! Get away from that, that, THING!"
Emidently the creature gave Zim an evil glance and flew off, disapearing into the night's
sky.
Zim ran over to Gir, grabbing him and leashing him, " Stay away from those horrible
humans! Understand?"
"Aww,but she's my friend." Gir complained.
"No, Gir, not friend. Now promise you will NOT go near those, THINGS again." Zim
opened the door and dragged Gir inside.
"Okay-." Gir said, jumping onto the couch and snatching the remote from the arm rest.
"I'm serious, Gir." Zim headed to his lab,"Don't go near it."
Gir, as usual, ignored him and continued watching the Scary Monkey Show.
The following day, Dib babbled on about his paranoid theories of Zim.
Gaz, however, was not playing her Game Slave, but stamping a letter to the Skool board.
She hit Dib with the letter, "Make yourself useful and go put this in the mailbox, NOW!"
"But the post office doesn't open until 10:00!" Dib reminded.
A blue truck passed by,"Look...there's the mailman. Go follow him."
"But--"Dib started.
"GO!"
Dib did as he was told and Gaz happily walked to skool alone, laughing to herself and admitting in her head that the letter was a fake.
Dib arrived at skool a little late and he ran throughout the hall to Ms.Bitters class.
He looked back to see if anyone noticed and as he looked forward, he ran into a girl, knocking her over.
"Oh, man! I'm sorry!"he helped her up,"I was just in a hurry to get to class and--" he stopped and looked at the girl. She had shoulder-length blonde hair with little red streaks and silvery eyes.
The girl was about Dib's height and wore a similar trench coat only in red and had a black and gray 'X' shirt underneath it.
She also had baggy black pants covering grayish-red shoes.
"Are you new here? I mean, I just haven't seen you--What's your name?"
The late bell rang and the kids who were eating breakfast in the cafeteria poured out almost knocking Dib down.
Dib looked around for the strange girl, but he couldn't find her and figured he should get to class.
He got there just in time and took his seat, taking out a few sheets of paper and begun drawing those little 'Zim Optopsi' pictures. In the corner of the picture, he started neglecting his Zim-hate drawing and started a little
portrait of the girl.
The door opened and in walked the girl from the hallway.
"Class, this is Uko, another pitiful nothing to the student body." Ms.Bitters announced.
The class stared at the girl.
"You have one minute to say something and after that, I don't want to here another sound from you!" Ms.Bitters slithered to her desk.
"Hi.Uh, that's right...my name's Uko and---" her eyes locked on Zim and she stopped for a few seconds studying the familiar face," ...and I'll be here the remainder of the year."
"Take the nearest available seat!" the teacher ordered.
Uko spotted the seat behind Dib and smiled to the class as she approached the seat.
"Oooh, look at the two love birds! It's so romantic!" Sara gossiped.
The class laughed, everyone but Zim, who was more confused than before.
"Love birds?" Zim asked.
Dib's face was flushed, until he looked back at Uko.
She seemed completely calm, but stared strangely at the short green kid across the room.
Dib was curious, but too embarrassed to ask anything for fear that Sara would start something again.
The lunch bell rung and all of the children poured out of their classrooms heading to the cafeteria.
Uko walked in front of Dib until he jumped out in front of her.
"What do you know about Zim?" Dib demanded.
"Zim?" Uko said confusedly.
" The green kid! Tell me!"
"What could you possibly want to know?"
"EVERYTHING!" Dib yelled.
" I've...I've only seen him once before." Uko continued down the hall, looking quite lost.
"Where?"
" He and that crazy little dog live two doors down from me."
" NO! You're in danger!"
Uko stopped and looked around, then to the paranoid-looking Dib "Are you feeling alright?"
Dib didn't answer, so Uko continued walking away.
Dib followed her.
"Why won't you go away?Who are you anyway?
"It's Dib." he sighed,"Look, Zim is an alien! He wants to destroy us all!"
"An alien,eh?"
"You think I'm crazy, don't you?"
"No...well, not really."
"Oh...Wait, why don't you think I've lost it?"
"Do you want me to?"
"NO! No..."then he stopped to think for a second...he could always use an ally and he hadn't had a true friend since, well, ever,--and Uko seemed like the perfect culprate,"Hey, Uko...would you ever consider helping me catch Zim and send him to the FBI through horrible tests?!"
"Well, I..." Uko started.
"And help me stop his plans of DOOM!"
"Hold on a sec, plans of doom?"
"Yeah...he wants to enslave the Earth and take us to our horrible fates!"
"Uh--"
"Look, I might not be able to stop him alone and, well, I could use some help."
Uko looked away.
She wasn't quite sure what to say, after all, for everything she knew, Dib could be some raving lunatic of a psycho.
But he seemed so determined, Uko didn't want caught in a trap either, " Well, what about someone else? Won't anybody--"
"No...they think that I'm crazy, but I know what I'm talking about. You gotta believe me!" Dib fell on his knees,"Please?"
Uko stared at Dib for a few seconds, then forced herself to say," Okay."
Dib sighed, "I knew you wouldn't--what?"
"I said I'd help, if it means that much to you. I don't really want to be a slave anyway."
Dib hopped up and hugged Uko,"Thank you!"
Uko looked around once more, "Hey Dib? Where's the food place? I'm starving."
"This way..." Dib escorted.
As they walked through the hall and into the line of hungry children, impatiently awaiting for their.
lunches, Dib raved on about Zim and for once in his entire life, he actually had an audience who was just as interested in the sort of thing he was. "So, Uko, tell me about yourself." Dib asked.
"Tell you what, exactly?"
"Oh, uh, your interests and stuff.Where are you from?"
"Let's see, well I came from a deserted kind of small town and I like to write and draw and, uh, oh and food, and video games and I really like aliens."
"Video games, eh? I should introduce you to my sister, she obsessed with that little game slave thing."
" Version one or two?"
"I don't know..."
"Well, what about you? What kind of stuff do you like?"
"Anything paranormal I guess. It's kind of like a hobby of mine. I sound like a dork, don't I?"
Uko giggled,"Not much more of a dork than I am."
After they got their food, Dib led Uko to the the usual table where Gaz quietly played her game.
"Uko, this is my sister, Gaz...." Dib announced.
"Hi!" Uko said cheerfully.
"...Gaz this is Uko."
"Hi." Gaz replied, almost hypnotized by the power of the games.
Uko sat between the two.
Gaz stayed silent, as Dib asked Uko questions.
Zim watched from a far.
He was worried that Dib had found help,...help that could, uh, actually help!
'That horrible earth creature,' Zim thought,' With that hideous human...why does she look so familiar?' he glanced over at Gaz, who was near knocking Dib out,'Hmmm, the other earth thing seems to dislike the two so-called lovebirds. Eeewww, love...such a deceiving
word...but maybe,...yes, of course! Why didn't I see it before? The answer to all of my
pesky little Dib problems was right there in front of me! It's in that scary little sister of
his! I befriend the human girl, I get rid of Dib then kill of his sister and that Uko,thing,
then, I rule the world! Why am I so amazing?'
After the bell rang and the kids ran out of the skool and Dib and Uko went ahead of Gaz, of course, she didn't mind.
In fact, she was hoping they'd do that more often.
Zim quietly followed her a distance away, studying her.
At his base, Gir was rolling around on the floor singing some kind of strange song.
Zim came in and went straight to his lab.
Gir followed.
Zim went to his console and typed out the word LOVE in his search engine, "TODAY IS THE BEGINING OF THE END!" Zim yelled as he pressed the enter key.
A long list of sites popped up and Zim began evilly laughing.
Gir squealed and ran around in circles.
"Now Dib, prepare to meet your ultimate competitor, your own sister!"
" I think I'm gonna be sick!" Girl hurled on one of the hardware systems.
Wednesday-lunch.
Upon sat with Dib and Gas again, since Dib insisted," So, I was thinking we could break into Zima's house this weekend and take all kinds of pictures and send them in and--"
"And wait for them to never reply. I don't see why you waste your time trying to catch Zim, Dib. I don't think he's an alien and neither will anyone else, not even WITH proof." Gaz cut in.
She always had some sort of plan to degrade Dib's discoveries.
"You'll see." Dib said.
After class, Dib and Uko ran off ahead, thanks for Gaz.
Zim ran up to Gaz and simply said,"Hello,Gaz."
"What do YOU want?" she snapped.
"I was ,uh, just saying hi...is it illegal or something?"
Gaz growled and tried to walk ahead.
Zim followed,"So, where are you headed?"
"Where do you think?"
Zim shrugged,"How should I know? You rarely ever speak."
"You don't know that."
"Okay then, so are you doing anything this weekend?"
"Other than raining misery upon my deluded brother's soul,no."
"Then do you want to go see a mo-vie?" Zim asked, without any idea what a movie was.
"No."
"Why?'
"Don't you have better things to do than bug me about your stupid dating issues? It isn't my fault I was your last choice!"
"What?"Zim then thought 'Why is she so stubborn? I can't give up...must conquer earth. Let's see, think psychology, where would a scary person like Gaz go? A haunted house?
A Halloween carnival? On a killing spree?' he glanced down at her Game slave,'the
arcade!'
"Well, what about the arcade?"
Gaz glanced up at him and felt like Zim was almost reading her mind,...either that or
stalking her since she always would go to the arcade an Saturdays.
And since there would be a very strong chance that if she said no that Zim would show up there anyway.
"Fine,then." Gaz said firmly.
"Excellent, meet me Saturday around, oh say, noon?"
"Whatever."
"Can I walk you home?"
Gaz stopped at a darkly painted house, "This is it."
"Of course. Well then, see you tomorrow?"
Gaz nodded and went inside.
The idea of her actually dating the green kid was near repulsive to her.
But she figured with some fast talking and playing as many games as possible that she could ignore Zim.
What gaming skills could he possibly possess?
Saturday.
Gaz met Zim as promised.
They didn't really talk much and Zim was begining to think that this plan would become another failure.
That is, until he caught Gaz's attention.
He began playing some aviation game which, with all of his experience piloting the voot runner, was really easy.
"Hey, you're pretty good!" Gaz pointed out.
"Really? I haven't even played a game like this before."
Gaz watched as Zim entered his name into the really high score,"You almost tripled my score."
"Is that bad?"
"No!"
"Oh, uh, well then...does this mean I rule all?"
"No."
"Am I close?"
"Why-well, I don't know."
From that point Gaz started to play against Zim.
Gaz couldn't win, but she did really well.
Zim looked over at Gaz.
She looked like she was concentrating hard.
Something came over him as he stared at her.
The system started playing the victory music and Zim looked over to see that he had lost.
"Finally." Gaz entered her name in.
"Yeah, uh," Zim said blankly, still staring at Gaz.
He shook his head and followed Gaz to the next game.
Somewhere around seven o' clock, Gaz and Zim left the arcade.
He offered to walk her home and even though she didn't really want him to, she let him anyway.
When the two reached Gaz's house, Zim asked,"So, uh, what are you doing next weekend?"
"I'm busy."
"We could go to,eh, Bloaties?"
"I'm busy."
"Okay then, I'll see you tomorrow maybe?"
"Maybe."
Zim threw her a quick smile,then began to walk home.
Gaz looked back at him,"Hey!"
Zim looked back.
"Friday at 7?"
Zim walked over to her and hugged her slightly," Very well then."
He walked home.
Gaz watched him from the sidewalk as her vanished into the distance.
She went inside.
Dib and Uko were sitting on the couch.
Dib had brought out all of his findings on Zim.
"Oooh! What's this?" Uko pointed to a little briefcase.
Dib opened the case,"It's a hologram of Zim as an alien. I made it on my computer."
"Ooooh!!!"
"Yeah, the graphics aren't really great, but it makes a pretty good presentation."
Gaz growled and walked upstairs.
Zim had made it home with the thought of Gaz looming in his mind.
He tried to push it away with the thought of being lord of all humans, but he still couldn't ignore the idea of Gaz and him.
Zim just gave himself the idea that it was from all of that research.
He believed he was only being delusional.
Zim went inside and fell asleep on the couch, dreaming of conquering the Earth.
Chapter 1-Thing in the Night
Late Monday evening.
Gir had just gotten home from a dance party as something glowing entered the
atmosphere.
It gave of a reddish energy.
Gir looked closely to see a more human-like figure.
It had long, black wings, a jagged, thin tail, and dark red glaring eyes.
Whatever it was, it landed on the roof two doors down from Zim's house.
Gir hurried over to greet the unknown creature,"Hiye!" Gir squeaked.
The thing jumped from the rooftop and went towards Gir.
"Want some of my freezie? It's Chocolate Bubblegum!", just as Gir lifted up the cup, Zim
came out and started yelling,"GIR! GIR! Get away from that, that, THING!"
Emidently the creature gave Zim an evil glance and flew off, disapearing into the night's
sky.
Zim ran over to Gir, grabbing him and leashing him, " Stay away from those horrible
humans! Understand?"
"Aww,but she's my friend." Gir complained.
"No, Gir, not friend. Now promise you will NOT go near those, THINGS again." Zim
opened the door and dragged Gir inside.
"Okay-." Gir said, jumping onto the couch and snatching the remote from the arm rest.
"I'm serious, Gir." Zim headed to his lab,"Don't go near it."
Gir, as usual, ignored him and continued watching the Scary Monkey Show.
The following day, Dib babbled on about his paranoid theories of Zim.
Gaz, however, was not playing her Game Slave, but stamping a letter to the Skool board.
She hit Dib with the letter, "Make yourself useful and go put this in the mailbox, NOW!"
"But the post office doesn't open until 10:00!" Dib reminded.
A blue truck passed by,"Look...there's the mailman. Go follow him."
"But--"Dib started.
"GO!"
Dib did as he was told and Gaz happily walked to skool alone, laughing to herself and admitting in her head that the letter was a fake.
Dib arrived at skool a little late and he ran throughout the hall to Ms.Bitters class.
He looked back to see if anyone noticed and as he looked forward, he ran into a girl, knocking her over.
"Oh, man! I'm sorry!"he helped her up,"I was just in a hurry to get to class and--" he stopped and looked at the girl. She had shoulder-length blonde hair with little red streaks and silvery eyes.
The girl was about Dib's height and wore a similar trench coat only in red and had a black and gray 'X' shirt underneath it.
She also had baggy black pants covering grayish-red shoes.
"Are you new here? I mean, I just haven't seen you--What's your name?"
The late bell rang and the kids who were eating breakfast in the cafeteria poured out almost knocking Dib down.
Dib looked around for the strange girl, but he couldn't find her and figured he should get to class.
He got there just in time and took his seat, taking out a few sheets of paper and begun drawing those little 'Zim Optopsi' pictures. In the corner of the picture, he started neglecting his Zim-hate drawing and started a little
portrait of the girl.
The door opened and in walked the girl from the hallway.
"Class, this is Uko, another pitiful nothing to the student body." Ms.Bitters announced.
The class stared at the girl.
"You have one minute to say something and after that, I don't want to here another sound from you!" Ms.Bitters slithered to her desk.
"Hi.Uh, that's right...my name's Uko and---" her eyes locked on Zim and she stopped for a few seconds studying the familiar face," ...and I'll be here the remainder of the year."
"Take the nearest available seat!" the teacher ordered.
Uko spotted the seat behind Dib and smiled to the class as she approached the seat.
"Oooh, look at the two love birds! It's so romantic!" Sara gossiped.
The class laughed, everyone but Zim, who was more confused than before.
"Love birds?" Zim asked.
Dib's face was flushed, until he looked back at Uko.
She seemed completely calm, but stared strangely at the short green kid across the room.
Dib was curious, but too embarrassed to ask anything for fear that Sara would start something again.
The lunch bell rung and all of the children poured out of their classrooms heading to the cafeteria.
Uko walked in front of Dib until he jumped out in front of her.
"What do you know about Zim?" Dib demanded.
"Zim?" Uko said confusedly.
" The green kid! Tell me!"
"What could you possibly want to know?"
"EVERYTHING!" Dib yelled.
" I've...I've only seen him once before." Uko continued down the hall, looking quite lost.
"Where?"
" He and that crazy little dog live two doors down from me."
" NO! You're in danger!"
Uko stopped and looked around, then to the paranoid-looking Dib "Are you feeling alright?"
Dib didn't answer, so Uko continued walking away.
Dib followed her.
"Why won't you go away?Who are you anyway?
"It's Dib." he sighed,"Look, Zim is an alien! He wants to destroy us all!"
"An alien,eh?"
"You think I'm crazy, don't you?"
"No...well, not really."
"Oh...Wait, why don't you think I've lost it?"
"Do you want me to?"
"NO! No..."then he stopped to think for a second...he could always use an ally and he hadn't had a true friend since, well, ever,--and Uko seemed like the perfect culprate,"Hey, Uko...would you ever consider helping me catch Zim and send him to the FBI through horrible tests?!"
"Well, I..." Uko started.
"And help me stop his plans of DOOM!"
"Hold on a sec, plans of doom?"
"Yeah...he wants to enslave the Earth and take us to our horrible fates!"
"Uh--"
"Look, I might not be able to stop him alone and, well, I could use some help."
Uko looked away.
She wasn't quite sure what to say, after all, for everything she knew, Dib could be some raving lunatic of a psycho.
But he seemed so determined, Uko didn't want caught in a trap either, " Well, what about someone else? Won't anybody--"
"No...they think that I'm crazy, but I know what I'm talking about. You gotta believe me!" Dib fell on his knees,"Please?"
Uko stared at Dib for a few seconds, then forced herself to say," Okay."
Dib sighed, "I knew you wouldn't--what?"
"I said I'd help, if it means that much to you. I don't really want to be a slave anyway."
Dib hopped up and hugged Uko,"Thank you!"
Uko looked around once more, "Hey Dib? Where's the food place? I'm starving."
"This way..." Dib escorted.
As they walked through the hall and into the line of hungry children, impatiently awaiting for their.
lunches, Dib raved on about Zim and for once in his entire life, he actually had an audience who was just as interested in the sort of thing he was. "So, Uko, tell me about yourself." Dib asked.
"Tell you what, exactly?"
"Oh, uh, your interests and stuff.Where are you from?"
"Let's see, well I came from a deserted kind of small town and I like to write and draw and, uh, oh and food, and video games and I really like aliens."
"Video games, eh? I should introduce you to my sister, she obsessed with that little game slave thing."
" Version one or two?"
"I don't know..."
"Well, what about you? What kind of stuff do you like?"
"Anything paranormal I guess. It's kind of like a hobby of mine. I sound like a dork, don't I?"
Uko giggled,"Not much more of a dork than I am."
After they got their food, Dib led Uko to the the usual table where Gaz quietly played her game.
"Uko, this is my sister, Gaz...." Dib announced.
"Hi!" Uko said cheerfully.
"...Gaz this is Uko."
"Hi." Gaz replied, almost hypnotized by the power of the games.
Uko sat between the two.
Gaz stayed silent, as Dib asked Uko questions.
Zim watched from a far.
He was worried that Dib had found help,...help that could, uh, actually help!
'That horrible earth creature,' Zim thought,' With that hideous human...why does she look so familiar?' he glanced over at Gaz, who was near knocking Dib out,'Hmmm, the other earth thing seems to dislike the two so-called lovebirds. Eeewww, love...such a deceiving
word...but maybe,...yes, of course! Why didn't I see it before? The answer to all of my
pesky little Dib problems was right there in front of me! It's in that scary little sister of
his! I befriend the human girl, I get rid of Dib then kill of his sister and that Uko,thing,
then, I rule the world! Why am I so amazing?'
After the bell rang and the kids ran out of the skool and Dib and Uko went ahead of Gaz, of course, she didn't mind.
In fact, she was hoping they'd do that more often.
Zim quietly followed her a distance away, studying her.
At his base, Gir was rolling around on the floor singing some kind of strange song.
Zim came in and went straight to his lab.
Gir followed.
Zim went to his console and typed out the word LOVE in his search engine, "TODAY IS THE BEGINING OF THE END!" Zim yelled as he pressed the enter key.
A long list of sites popped up and Zim began evilly laughing.
Gir squealed and ran around in circles.
"Now Dib, prepare to meet your ultimate competitor, your own sister!"
" I think I'm gonna be sick!" Girl hurled on one of the hardware systems.
Wednesday-lunch.
Upon sat with Dib and Gas again, since Dib insisted," So, I was thinking we could break into Zima's house this weekend and take all kinds of pictures and send them in and--"
"And wait for them to never reply. I don't see why you waste your time trying to catch Zim, Dib. I don't think he's an alien and neither will anyone else, not even WITH proof." Gaz cut in.
She always had some sort of plan to degrade Dib's discoveries.
"You'll see." Dib said.
After class, Dib and Uko ran off ahead, thanks for Gaz.
Zim ran up to Gaz and simply said,"Hello,Gaz."
"What do YOU want?" she snapped.
"I was ,uh, just saying hi...is it illegal or something?"
Gaz growled and tried to walk ahead.
Zim followed,"So, where are you headed?"
"Where do you think?"
Zim shrugged,"How should I know? You rarely ever speak."
"You don't know that."
"Okay then, so are you doing anything this weekend?"
"Other than raining misery upon my deluded brother's soul,no."
"Then do you want to go see a mo-vie?" Zim asked, without any idea what a movie was.
"No."
"Why?'
"Don't you have better things to do than bug me about your stupid dating issues? It isn't my fault I was your last choice!"
"What?"Zim then thought 'Why is she so stubborn? I can't give up...must conquer earth. Let's see, think psychology, where would a scary person like Gaz go? A haunted house?
A Halloween carnival? On a killing spree?' he glanced down at her Game slave,'the
arcade!'
"Well, what about the arcade?"
Gaz glanced up at him and felt like Zim was almost reading her mind,...either that or
stalking her since she always would go to the arcade an Saturdays.
And since there would be a very strong chance that if she said no that Zim would show up there anyway.
"Fine,then." Gaz said firmly.
"Excellent, meet me Saturday around, oh say, noon?"
"Whatever."
"Can I walk you home?"
Gaz stopped at a darkly painted house, "This is it."
"Of course. Well then, see you tomorrow?"
Gaz nodded and went inside.
The idea of her actually dating the green kid was near repulsive to her.
But she figured with some fast talking and playing as many games as possible that she could ignore Zim.
What gaming skills could he possibly possess?
Saturday.
Gaz met Zim as promised.
They didn't really talk much and Zim was begining to think that this plan would become another failure.
That is, until he caught Gaz's attention.
He began playing some aviation game which, with all of his experience piloting the voot runner, was really easy.
"Hey, you're pretty good!" Gaz pointed out.
"Really? I haven't even played a game like this before."
Gaz watched as Zim entered his name into the really high score,"You almost tripled my score."
"Is that bad?"
"No!"
"Oh, uh, well then...does this mean I rule all?"
"No."
"Am I close?"
"Why-well, I don't know."
From that point Gaz started to play against Zim.
Gaz couldn't win, but she did really well.
Zim looked over at Gaz.
She looked like she was concentrating hard.
Something came over him as he stared at her.
The system started playing the victory music and Zim looked over to see that he had lost.
"Finally." Gaz entered her name in.
"Yeah, uh," Zim said blankly, still staring at Gaz.
He shook his head and followed Gaz to the next game.
Somewhere around seven o' clock, Gaz and Zim left the arcade.
He offered to walk her home and even though she didn't really want him to, she let him anyway.
When the two reached Gaz's house, Zim asked,"So, uh, what are you doing next weekend?"
"I'm busy."
"We could go to,eh, Bloaties?"
"I'm busy."
"Okay then, I'll see you tomorrow maybe?"
"Maybe."
Zim threw her a quick smile,then began to walk home.
Gaz looked back at him,"Hey!"
Zim looked back.
"Friday at 7?"
Zim walked over to her and hugged her slightly," Very well then."
He walked home.
Gaz watched him from the sidewalk as her vanished into the distance.
She went inside.
Dib and Uko were sitting on the couch.
Dib had brought out all of his findings on Zim.
"Oooh! What's this?" Uko pointed to a little briefcase.
Dib opened the case,"It's a hologram of Zim as an alien. I made it on my computer."
"Ooooh!!!"
"Yeah, the graphics aren't really great, but it makes a pretty good presentation."
Gaz growled and walked upstairs.
Zim had made it home with the thought of Gaz looming in his mind.
He tried to push it away with the thought of being lord of all humans, but he still couldn't ignore the idea of Gaz and him.
Zim just gave himself the idea that it was from all of that research.
He believed he was only being delusional.
Zim went inside and fell asleep on the couch, dreaming of conquering the Earth.