A/N: RRRG. That large space in chapter three makes me angry like an Asian gorilla. Oh well...if you notist that I changed the dividing lines AGAIN, then...your eyesight is deceiving you o.o Some of the events in this fic are based from RP's I've had with Killer Goth Girl. So...yeah.
Ummm...this chapter is kind of connected with 'The Journal of Tsyami Membrane', so reading that first might help :3. *HI KATE! XD
Disclaimer: You know the routine...All Invader ZIM characters are © to Jhonen Vasquez. Cat, S.B., Taxi, the Daimonion, other folks are © to Wafflecat. Xi is © to Irken Insane.
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Spooky, Doom, Spooky!
Ch. 4- Skool is for Fools
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"This is bad."
Zim squinted his eyes. A bright ray of light spilled over the living room. During last night, the roof had fell in completely, leaving the entire top of his house exposed. He managed to get rid of most of the rubble, leaving the remaining parts of the ship from Melek. A shiver ran up his spine when he had removed the cracked shield, and climbed into the damaged cockpit. He had remembered in the Irken Military Training School that a foreign ship could be carrying spy gear that could send back information about the Irken race unless it was deprogrammed. Zim wasn't sure that if the Irken female had stolen the ship, or worked for the Laij-khans herself, so he didn't take any chances.
"GIR!"
A low whizzing sound flew over Zim's head. The small robot landed next to him, shaking giddily.
"ARR!" Gir yelled in his master's face, making him lean back in annoyance.
"Gir," he said, "I need you to go down to the lab, and watch that Irken. Come back here if anything FUNNY happens."
Gir nodded and screamed as he ran into the kitchen and jumped down the toilet in one quick dive.
Zim looked down at the controls. There had to be something...
He pushed random knobs and buttons before a small compartment next to him opened. Zim, being the (disturbingly) curious guy he was, jammed his hand into the opening and felt around. His fingers ran across something hot. The compartment glowed purple for a flash second before he withdrew his hand.
Something was burning. He looked down at his now-smoking glove. A shrill cry came from his throat; he pulled off the glove to see that all of the fingers on his right hand were blistering from the heat.
Zim peeped into the compartment to see a small purple crystal strung around a thin string. The glow faded away. He touched the gem again to see that it had cooled down.
I miss you, Dib.
Zim jumped up. Unfortunately, he was so alarmed that he slammed his head into the top of the cockpit with such force that a small hole broke through the thin plaster. Zim cursed loudly for several minutes in Irken, making a few sirens in the city go off.
The crystal had just mentioned Dib. What was going on?
The search went on for a few more minutes until Zim's attention span came at its end, and that there wasn't anything else to look for in the ship.
The crystal he had found was clenched in his hand for a few seconds.
"COMPUTER!!"
"Wha-a-at?" responded the computer's flat voice. Zim's computer had a very bad attitude when it was called upon for another request that Zim had. The requests usually dealt with self-repairing itself, cleaning up whatever mess he had left behind from the latest problem he had to get himself out of, or--what the computer PARTICULARLY despised--advice and information. Zim assumed the computer had known more than he did, and this was true in some ways, but only some.
"Computer, scan this crystal for any abnormal substances. Give me the status report in the lab." Zim held up the crystal to the large mechanical claw that had extended from the remnants of the wires that hung on the ceiling. The arm missed the gem , and swung around drunkenly several times. Zim felt his arm weaken; the arm finally grabbed the crystal, and disappeared into the darkness of the ceiling.
Zim looked down. The tile he stood on began to descend beneath the floor. Zim was zooming down a long pipe, going down miles and miles of cyber-kinetic earth. The tube led him back into his lab. He landed a few feet above the floor, where the platform disappeared into the air.
He looked across the room expecting Cat to still be sleeping, but instead was greeted by her operating his lab, pressing several different buttons at the same time. Gir and Strawberry were to the side, rummaging through a slimy bag of candy.
"HEY! What do you think you're doing?!?" Zim was outraged. Who did this person think they were, messing with *HIS* equipment?!?
"You're computer speed was running 46% slower than it should have been, you didn't install your language setting so that it would match the planet's, and your defense shield is down pretty low--"
"Are you telling ZIM that a...non-Invader like you are trying to point out his mistakes--which he doesn't have?!?"
Cat glared at him at the mention of 'non-Invader', and crept back a few feet. Zim closed his eyes pretentiously, and walked back to the front of his computer screen. Much to his horror, his computer was faster than it had been when he had left to his living room-- but only because she had crashed into his house, so she couldn't have been all that smart.
"You never told me how you came to *my* planet." Zim huffed. Cat took the liberty of cleaning off the dirt and slime from the night before while telling him the story.
"Okay...I was working in the main chamber of the Dome--you know, the center for the STCP chain, Super battle equipment Trade Center Planets (notice how Wafflecat has cleverly made this up after forgetting what the hell STCP stood for after making chapter one. Now feel the wrath of Waff's anger for you knowing her secret!)--and the ship got attacked. All the lights went out, and nothing could be seen except for the glowing eyes of some sort of odd creatures that must have found their way onboard.
"One of them must have knocked me unconscious, since when I woke up, I was inside of a place that seemed to be a volcano. This lave-monster...thingy (Zim raised an eye) had told me I had to die for some reason. It then slashed one of its claws against my face (at this point, Zim was staring at the long purple scar on the right side of her face), then tried to eat me. I escaped with Strawberry--not clean, unfortunately--into a room where there was a ship. I escaped and found out the place was really a different planet. On the way to a safe planet, they found me, and shot me down. And so, here I am, with no Oreos."
Zim stared blankly. "How old are you?"
"WHAT DOES THAT HAVE TO DO WITH ANYTHING?!?" Cat growled.
Zim's eyes widened. "Okay. So you escaped not knowing why they wanted to kill you."
"And they took my crystal, I think."
Zim's antennas jumped forward, which must have amused Cat, for she was snickering under her breath.
"You lost a crystal? I found one while searching the ship, thinking you were trying to steal information from the Irken Empire."
Cat's violet eyes battered. "Why, how flattering. You found me to be a bloodless Irken rebel who was out to kill you. I think that's so cute."
Zim rolled his eyes. Cat continued. "So, you found my crystal? Do you mind if I can...have it back?"
Zim cocked his head. "My computer is scanning it for anything FUNNY. Earlier, it had burned my hand, and told me something about Dib..."
"Burned you? That's odd. A distant..."friend" sent it to me...the weirdest thing it ever did was glow, and shrink in size--"
The mechanical arm from before extended down in front of the two, the crystal in its hands.
"The following subject study revealed that the object is nothing more than a quartz crystal, a normal type of mineral on planet Earth."
Zim looked over at Cat. She shrugged. The mechanical hand tossed the crystal into her hand, and sped back up to the ceiling. She tossed the string around her neck.
"What do you want to do now?" Zim asked.
Cat leaned her heard to the side tiredly. "I guess...I could build a ship, and go see what happened to the Dome...," she trailed off, waiting for Zim to talk.
"I'd probably be better to know what kind of planets are around planet Melek, so that we...well, 'we', if I ever found my crew, could go see what's going on around there." Cat slid back onto the cot she was on before, and began to look down.
*"Well...," Zim looked up to see Cat taking off her uniform in disgust, searching through the pockets. "I am pretty good at anatomy..." Zim stuttered. "I mean...astrolo...gy...urm, ASTRONOMY! Yeah."
Zim watched as a wave of nervousness crept over Cat's face as it turned slightly red, along with her suspicious facial expression. Gir and Strawberry only had a look of confusion, which was replaced with the anger and fury of trying to see who would win the Chewy Nerds Rope that now laid between them.
"Anyway, I have to go to skool..."
"Skool?" Cat asked. Zim nodded.
"To blend in with the horrible worm-babies on this planet, I have to go to the human--that's what the species on this planet are called--teaching facilities. No one suspects my plans...except for one annoying human named DIB."
Cat plucked Strawberry off of Gir. Gir raised his arms in victory, and ate the candy bag whole. "Wasn't Dib the person you mentioned earlier?"
"YES!" Zim cried out, "the crystal said something about missing him." Zim turned around to a small container, and pulled out his wig and contacts. "There's something about that thing that the computer can't pick up."
Cat shrugged. Suddenly, she felt Zim pull off her scarf, and place a large wig on her head.
"What the faheezie--"
"Look. You're going to have to come with me to Skool everyday until you figure out what to do. Before you go, you're going to have to be in disguise." Zim adjusted the wig on her head, much to her discomfort. The wig was a light red, and slightly poofy. Long, slender bangs stood on her forehead, along with a small plait on the side of her head. The hair went down past her waist to the jagged edges. Cat tied on her scarf onto her head.
"You also have to wear THESE!" Zim held out two contacts. Cat nervously put them into both of her eyes, giving her light green pupils. Zim cackled at his creation.
"Gir also has to wear a disguise," Zim said, "he should be able to give your SIR a disguise by the time we get back."
Gir nodded, and looked over at Strawberry. "I'ma make you a pretty lion!" Strawberry glanced over at him nervously.
"DON'T LEAVE ME HERE!" she screeched, and flung herself onto Cat.
"Don't worry!" Zim said confidently, "he wouldn't do anything bad!"
Gir laughed maniacally while chewing the head off of a stuffed cat. Cat glanced over at him nervously.
"NOW OFF THE SKOOL!!!"
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Zim pulled the unwilling Irken through the crowd. Odd looks were aimed at the two before Zim stopped in front of the steps. He let go of his grip on her wrist. She rubbed the sore spot and blew a few strands of her red hair out of her face. The crystal around her neck flew around aimlessly before landing back on her chest.
"LOOK!"
Zim jumped forward. About a couple of yards away was Dib and Gaz. Gaz was playing her GS2 while Dib ranted on and on about something that just equaled to a stupid babble to her. The two walked into the skool courtyard, Gaz departing from him to continue her game play.
Dib looked up. There was Zim standing, glaring with much malice, when he then saw the person standing next to him.
Zim leaned over so than his face was a few inches away from Cat's. "That's Dib...the horrible human that's always trying to destroy my plans--BUT HE HAS FAILED EVERY TIME!"
At this point, everyone was looking at Zim, some a tad bit afraid.
"...But if he's failed every time, then how come you haven't conquered the Earth by now?" Cat asked softly. Zim stared.
"YOU LIE!!!" he screamed. Cat jumped back.
"But--"
"LIES! "
"And--"
"THAT'S A LIE TOO."
Cat recoiled. The thought of staying on this planet with Zim was just too...spooky. She figured that she could build another ship, and leave early one late night, eliminating any attention that she would cause if she went earlier. Plus, it saved her the time of trying to think of what to say to him from her sudden unexpected departure. It would be perfect: leave a note, say thanks for the stay, and go see what happened to the Dome. No getting attached to him.
Wait a second...
As soon as she was done thinking about her plan, she felt the body weight of Dib fall onto her, and fell over. He had his hand clenched tightly around the crystal, and was pulling at it with all of the strength in his right arm. Cat felt her throat tightened. Zim screeched and hopped on top of the two, forming a heap of struggling madness.
"You stole my crystal!"
Cat felt her ribs being crushed from the two's weight before kicking them all off.
"Are you crazy?!" she yelled. "Jumping innocent people...a person can't walk anywhere nowadays without getting mugged--"
Zim looked at her oddly. Dib just growled.
"That's MY crystal you have."
Cat hissed slowly. "That's impossible. I've had this crystal long before I even-- ermm...came...here."
Dib's eyes turned into a look of confusion. Zim's was the same, waiting for what Cat was going to make up.
"I'm from...Nor...wed...ianlopolis...town."
Zim grinned. "That's RIGHT. She's from Norwedianlopolistown, where she couldn't have met you, and couldn't be an alien."
Cat slapped her forehead. Dib crept closer to get a better look at the gem, and poked it.
"This used to belong to my mom. She got it from Spain, NOT...Norwedianlopolistown. When she...left, she had her crystal with her. You must have stolen it from her. Now GIVE IT."
Zim jumped in front of Dib before he could do anything else. "She had the crystal first, so SHOO."
The bell rang, notifying everyone to go to class. Hundreds of kids trampled over the three in a large stampede that went on for a few minutes. Dib felt his crushed glasses of his face. Zim grabbed onto the skool entrance door handle in horror, while Cat was trying to relocate a missing contact.
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"Before we start out hideous lessons of doom that won't help you later on in your life whatsoever, lets all pay attention to out newest 'appendage' to the student body who's from Norwedianlopolistown." Ms. Bitters looked over at Cat who was hiding behind Zim. He had taken the liberty of tossing Zita out of her desk for Cat.
"Errm...Cat doesn't feel like talking." Zim said slowly.
"Well, no one really cares. Cat, please stand up and tell us about yourself. Make it quick."
Cat stood up, and looked at the classroom. "My name is...Ca-a-a-at...," she said shyly. Zim snorted. "And I like flowers--"
"Ok, that's enough," Ms. Bitters choked. Cat grinned, and sat back down.
"Come ON...I know you guys can see that she's an ALIEN...," Dib said aloud. Everyone groaned.
"Just because a new girl comes, and you're jealous that she likes Zim and not you--" The Letter 'M' said while looking over at Zim and Cat suggestively, which resulted with a round of laughs.
"WHAT?!" Dib yelled. "For all I know, she may not even be a girl!"
Cat jumped up. "ARE YOU SAYING THAT I'M A GUY?!?"
Zita, who was now sitting behind Dib, giggled. "How do we know if *you're* not a girl, Dib?"
Everyone was laughing by now. Ms. Bitters hates laughter. She whipped a long claw down the middle row of the classroom, making the whole room shake.
"SILENCE!!! Skool is not a place to have FUN!!!"
Everyone was quiet. Zim stuck his tongue out at Dib in victory. Cat slunk down in the seat, still glaring at Dib, who seemed to be having a contest with Zim to see who could stick out their tongue the farthest. Ms. Bitters got out a large book, ignoring the two.
So, the lessons began. Ms. Bitters teaching method usually consisted of several hours of her saying 'doom', or her teaching about the more horrible aspects of life. Today, she taught about the world's most deadly insects, and even had several students touch and feel her specimens. When she commanded Cat to stick her hand into a jar filled with snapping red ants, all of the ants ended crawling into her wig. While most the students found this amusing for a while, all of the ants ended up flying through the air, and landing on their face. Everyone spent the next hour trying to pull off the bugs, not liking the lesson at all.
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Zim looked around the cafeteria. He was once again secluded to a table by himself, plotting. Where was Cat? As soon as the lunch bell had rung earlier, she had rushed to the bathroom. That was about fifteen minutes ago, and she still hadn't returned. Oh, if she had only told him why she had went, his future probably wouldn't be as grim as it was about to be.
Dib studied Zim as he picked at his tray. There was some reason why he and that Cat person had his mother's crystal. He had to find out...
Cat slid next to Zim from behind. He jumped suddenly when he saw her tired face.
"What happened?"
"Nothing, nothing...," she said quietly. She held her stomach dearly.
"Tell me."
"No."
"Tell Zim."
"Nothing happened!"
"TELL."
Cat keeled over. While she was holding her mouth, Zim saw several black scales on her neck. His eyes bulged.
Several people left the cafeteria to the playground, glancing over at Zim and Cat with grins on their face. If Zim was anything, he was confused. Was Cat an Irken like she claimed to be, or was an Irken rebel from Melek.
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Xi fell back. The air was heavy in the chamber she was in. The Daimonion didn't like any cool air, so the chamber door had to stay closed.
"Sir, we have found the location of the two fugitives," she said slowly.
No answer.
"...We have decided to go to their location, and kill them."
...
"If all fails, we decided that we would take over the planet, and all of its inhabitants."
Xi stood nervously. She turned around and walked out of the chamber, not noticing the large cut on the back of her neck.
Ummm...this chapter is kind of connected with 'The Journal of Tsyami Membrane', so reading that first might help :3. *HI KATE! XD
Disclaimer: You know the routine...All Invader ZIM characters are © to Jhonen Vasquez. Cat, S.B., Taxi, the Daimonion, other folks are © to Wafflecat. Xi is © to Irken Insane.
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Spooky, Doom, Spooky!
Ch. 4- Skool is for Fools
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"This is bad."
Zim squinted his eyes. A bright ray of light spilled over the living room. During last night, the roof had fell in completely, leaving the entire top of his house exposed. He managed to get rid of most of the rubble, leaving the remaining parts of the ship from Melek. A shiver ran up his spine when he had removed the cracked shield, and climbed into the damaged cockpit. He had remembered in the Irken Military Training School that a foreign ship could be carrying spy gear that could send back information about the Irken race unless it was deprogrammed. Zim wasn't sure that if the Irken female had stolen the ship, or worked for the Laij-khans herself, so he didn't take any chances.
"GIR!"
A low whizzing sound flew over Zim's head. The small robot landed next to him, shaking giddily.
"ARR!" Gir yelled in his master's face, making him lean back in annoyance.
"Gir," he said, "I need you to go down to the lab, and watch that Irken. Come back here if anything FUNNY happens."
Gir nodded and screamed as he ran into the kitchen and jumped down the toilet in one quick dive.
Zim looked down at the controls. There had to be something...
He pushed random knobs and buttons before a small compartment next to him opened. Zim, being the (disturbingly) curious guy he was, jammed his hand into the opening and felt around. His fingers ran across something hot. The compartment glowed purple for a flash second before he withdrew his hand.
Something was burning. He looked down at his now-smoking glove. A shrill cry came from his throat; he pulled off the glove to see that all of the fingers on his right hand were blistering from the heat.
Zim peeped into the compartment to see a small purple crystal strung around a thin string. The glow faded away. He touched the gem again to see that it had cooled down.
I miss you, Dib.
Zim jumped up. Unfortunately, he was so alarmed that he slammed his head into the top of the cockpit with such force that a small hole broke through the thin plaster. Zim cursed loudly for several minutes in Irken, making a few sirens in the city go off.
The crystal had just mentioned Dib. What was going on?
The search went on for a few more minutes until Zim's attention span came at its end, and that there wasn't anything else to look for in the ship.
The crystal he had found was clenched in his hand for a few seconds.
"COMPUTER!!"
"Wha-a-at?" responded the computer's flat voice. Zim's computer had a very bad attitude when it was called upon for another request that Zim had. The requests usually dealt with self-repairing itself, cleaning up whatever mess he had left behind from the latest problem he had to get himself out of, or--what the computer PARTICULARLY despised--advice and information. Zim assumed the computer had known more than he did, and this was true in some ways, but only some.
"Computer, scan this crystal for any abnormal substances. Give me the status report in the lab." Zim held up the crystal to the large mechanical claw that had extended from the remnants of the wires that hung on the ceiling. The arm missed the gem , and swung around drunkenly several times. Zim felt his arm weaken; the arm finally grabbed the crystal, and disappeared into the darkness of the ceiling.
Zim looked down. The tile he stood on began to descend beneath the floor. Zim was zooming down a long pipe, going down miles and miles of cyber-kinetic earth. The tube led him back into his lab. He landed a few feet above the floor, where the platform disappeared into the air.
He looked across the room expecting Cat to still be sleeping, but instead was greeted by her operating his lab, pressing several different buttons at the same time. Gir and Strawberry were to the side, rummaging through a slimy bag of candy.
"HEY! What do you think you're doing?!?" Zim was outraged. Who did this person think they were, messing with *HIS* equipment?!?
"You're computer speed was running 46% slower than it should have been, you didn't install your language setting so that it would match the planet's, and your defense shield is down pretty low--"
"Are you telling ZIM that a...non-Invader like you are trying to point out his mistakes--which he doesn't have?!?"
Cat glared at him at the mention of 'non-Invader', and crept back a few feet. Zim closed his eyes pretentiously, and walked back to the front of his computer screen. Much to his horror, his computer was faster than it had been when he had left to his living room-- but only because she had crashed into his house, so she couldn't have been all that smart.
"You never told me how you came to *my* planet." Zim huffed. Cat took the liberty of cleaning off the dirt and slime from the night before while telling him the story.
"Okay...I was working in the main chamber of the Dome--you know, the center for the STCP chain, Super battle equipment Trade Center Planets (notice how Wafflecat has cleverly made this up after forgetting what the hell STCP stood for after making chapter one. Now feel the wrath of Waff's anger for you knowing her secret!)--and the ship got attacked. All the lights went out, and nothing could be seen except for the glowing eyes of some sort of odd creatures that must have found their way onboard.
"One of them must have knocked me unconscious, since when I woke up, I was inside of a place that seemed to be a volcano. This lave-monster...thingy (Zim raised an eye) had told me I had to die for some reason. It then slashed one of its claws against my face (at this point, Zim was staring at the long purple scar on the right side of her face), then tried to eat me. I escaped with Strawberry--not clean, unfortunately--into a room where there was a ship. I escaped and found out the place was really a different planet. On the way to a safe planet, they found me, and shot me down. And so, here I am, with no Oreos."
Zim stared blankly. "How old are you?"
"WHAT DOES THAT HAVE TO DO WITH ANYTHING?!?" Cat growled.
Zim's eyes widened. "Okay. So you escaped not knowing why they wanted to kill you."
"And they took my crystal, I think."
Zim's antennas jumped forward, which must have amused Cat, for she was snickering under her breath.
"You lost a crystal? I found one while searching the ship, thinking you were trying to steal information from the Irken Empire."
Cat's violet eyes battered. "Why, how flattering. You found me to be a bloodless Irken rebel who was out to kill you. I think that's so cute."
Zim rolled his eyes. Cat continued. "So, you found my crystal? Do you mind if I can...have it back?"
Zim cocked his head. "My computer is scanning it for anything FUNNY. Earlier, it had burned my hand, and told me something about Dib..."
"Burned you? That's odd. A distant..."friend" sent it to me...the weirdest thing it ever did was glow, and shrink in size--"
The mechanical arm from before extended down in front of the two, the crystal in its hands.
"The following subject study revealed that the object is nothing more than a quartz crystal, a normal type of mineral on planet Earth."
Zim looked over at Cat. She shrugged. The mechanical hand tossed the crystal into her hand, and sped back up to the ceiling. She tossed the string around her neck.
"What do you want to do now?" Zim asked.
Cat leaned her heard to the side tiredly. "I guess...I could build a ship, and go see what happened to the Dome...," she trailed off, waiting for Zim to talk.
"I'd probably be better to know what kind of planets are around planet Melek, so that we...well, 'we', if I ever found my crew, could go see what's going on around there." Cat slid back onto the cot she was on before, and began to look down.
*"Well...," Zim looked up to see Cat taking off her uniform in disgust, searching through the pockets. "I am pretty good at anatomy..." Zim stuttered. "I mean...astrolo...gy...urm, ASTRONOMY! Yeah."
Zim watched as a wave of nervousness crept over Cat's face as it turned slightly red, along with her suspicious facial expression. Gir and Strawberry only had a look of confusion, which was replaced with the anger and fury of trying to see who would win the Chewy Nerds Rope that now laid between them.
"Anyway, I have to go to skool..."
"Skool?" Cat asked. Zim nodded.
"To blend in with the horrible worm-babies on this planet, I have to go to the human--that's what the species on this planet are called--teaching facilities. No one suspects my plans...except for one annoying human named DIB."
Cat plucked Strawberry off of Gir. Gir raised his arms in victory, and ate the candy bag whole. "Wasn't Dib the person you mentioned earlier?"
"YES!" Zim cried out, "the crystal said something about missing him." Zim turned around to a small container, and pulled out his wig and contacts. "There's something about that thing that the computer can't pick up."
Cat shrugged. Suddenly, she felt Zim pull off her scarf, and place a large wig on her head.
"What the faheezie--"
"Look. You're going to have to come with me to Skool everyday until you figure out what to do. Before you go, you're going to have to be in disguise." Zim adjusted the wig on her head, much to her discomfort. The wig was a light red, and slightly poofy. Long, slender bangs stood on her forehead, along with a small plait on the side of her head. The hair went down past her waist to the jagged edges. Cat tied on her scarf onto her head.
"You also have to wear THESE!" Zim held out two contacts. Cat nervously put them into both of her eyes, giving her light green pupils. Zim cackled at his creation.
"Gir also has to wear a disguise," Zim said, "he should be able to give your SIR a disguise by the time we get back."
Gir nodded, and looked over at Strawberry. "I'ma make you a pretty lion!" Strawberry glanced over at him nervously.
"DON'T LEAVE ME HERE!" she screeched, and flung herself onto Cat.
"Don't worry!" Zim said confidently, "he wouldn't do anything bad!"
Gir laughed maniacally while chewing the head off of a stuffed cat. Cat glanced over at him nervously.
"NOW OFF THE SKOOL!!!"
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Zim pulled the unwilling Irken through the crowd. Odd looks were aimed at the two before Zim stopped in front of the steps. He let go of his grip on her wrist. She rubbed the sore spot and blew a few strands of her red hair out of her face. The crystal around her neck flew around aimlessly before landing back on her chest.
"LOOK!"
Zim jumped forward. About a couple of yards away was Dib and Gaz. Gaz was playing her GS2 while Dib ranted on and on about something that just equaled to a stupid babble to her. The two walked into the skool courtyard, Gaz departing from him to continue her game play.
Dib looked up. There was Zim standing, glaring with much malice, when he then saw the person standing next to him.
Zim leaned over so than his face was a few inches away from Cat's. "That's Dib...the horrible human that's always trying to destroy my plans--BUT HE HAS FAILED EVERY TIME!"
At this point, everyone was looking at Zim, some a tad bit afraid.
"...But if he's failed every time, then how come you haven't conquered the Earth by now?" Cat asked softly. Zim stared.
"YOU LIE!!!" he screamed. Cat jumped back.
"But--"
"LIES! "
"And--"
"THAT'S A LIE TOO."
Cat recoiled. The thought of staying on this planet with Zim was just too...spooky. She figured that she could build another ship, and leave early one late night, eliminating any attention that she would cause if she went earlier. Plus, it saved her the time of trying to think of what to say to him from her sudden unexpected departure. It would be perfect: leave a note, say thanks for the stay, and go see what happened to the Dome. No getting attached to him.
Wait a second...
As soon as she was done thinking about her plan, she felt the body weight of Dib fall onto her, and fell over. He had his hand clenched tightly around the crystal, and was pulling at it with all of the strength in his right arm. Cat felt her throat tightened. Zim screeched and hopped on top of the two, forming a heap of struggling madness.
"You stole my crystal!"
Cat felt her ribs being crushed from the two's weight before kicking them all off.
"Are you crazy?!" she yelled. "Jumping innocent people...a person can't walk anywhere nowadays without getting mugged--"
Zim looked at her oddly. Dib just growled.
"That's MY crystal you have."
Cat hissed slowly. "That's impossible. I've had this crystal long before I even-- ermm...came...here."
Dib's eyes turned into a look of confusion. Zim's was the same, waiting for what Cat was going to make up.
"I'm from...Nor...wed...ianlopolis...town."
Zim grinned. "That's RIGHT. She's from Norwedianlopolistown, where she couldn't have met you, and couldn't be an alien."
Cat slapped her forehead. Dib crept closer to get a better look at the gem, and poked it.
"This used to belong to my mom. She got it from Spain, NOT...Norwedianlopolistown. When she...left, she had her crystal with her. You must have stolen it from her. Now GIVE IT."
Zim jumped in front of Dib before he could do anything else. "She had the crystal first, so SHOO."
The bell rang, notifying everyone to go to class. Hundreds of kids trampled over the three in a large stampede that went on for a few minutes. Dib felt his crushed glasses of his face. Zim grabbed onto the skool entrance door handle in horror, while Cat was trying to relocate a missing contact.
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"Before we start out hideous lessons of doom that won't help you later on in your life whatsoever, lets all pay attention to out newest 'appendage' to the student body who's from Norwedianlopolistown." Ms. Bitters looked over at Cat who was hiding behind Zim. He had taken the liberty of tossing Zita out of her desk for Cat.
"Errm...Cat doesn't feel like talking." Zim said slowly.
"Well, no one really cares. Cat, please stand up and tell us about yourself. Make it quick."
Cat stood up, and looked at the classroom. "My name is...Ca-a-a-at...," she said shyly. Zim snorted. "And I like flowers--"
"Ok, that's enough," Ms. Bitters choked. Cat grinned, and sat back down.
"Come ON...I know you guys can see that she's an ALIEN...," Dib said aloud. Everyone groaned.
"Just because a new girl comes, and you're jealous that she likes Zim and not you--" The Letter 'M' said while looking over at Zim and Cat suggestively, which resulted with a round of laughs.
"WHAT?!" Dib yelled. "For all I know, she may not even be a girl!"
Cat jumped up. "ARE YOU SAYING THAT I'M A GUY?!?"
Zita, who was now sitting behind Dib, giggled. "How do we know if *you're* not a girl, Dib?"
Everyone was laughing by now. Ms. Bitters hates laughter. She whipped a long claw down the middle row of the classroom, making the whole room shake.
"SILENCE!!! Skool is not a place to have FUN!!!"
Everyone was quiet. Zim stuck his tongue out at Dib in victory. Cat slunk down in the seat, still glaring at Dib, who seemed to be having a contest with Zim to see who could stick out their tongue the farthest. Ms. Bitters got out a large book, ignoring the two.
So, the lessons began. Ms. Bitters teaching method usually consisted of several hours of her saying 'doom', or her teaching about the more horrible aspects of life. Today, she taught about the world's most deadly insects, and even had several students touch and feel her specimens. When she commanded Cat to stick her hand into a jar filled with snapping red ants, all of the ants ended crawling into her wig. While most the students found this amusing for a while, all of the ants ended up flying through the air, and landing on their face. Everyone spent the next hour trying to pull off the bugs, not liking the lesson at all.
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Zim looked around the cafeteria. He was once again secluded to a table by himself, plotting. Where was Cat? As soon as the lunch bell had rung earlier, she had rushed to the bathroom. That was about fifteen minutes ago, and she still hadn't returned. Oh, if she had only told him why she had went, his future probably wouldn't be as grim as it was about to be.
Dib studied Zim as he picked at his tray. There was some reason why he and that Cat person had his mother's crystal. He had to find out...
Cat slid next to Zim from behind. He jumped suddenly when he saw her tired face.
"What happened?"
"Nothing, nothing...," she said quietly. She held her stomach dearly.
"Tell me."
"No."
"Tell Zim."
"Nothing happened!"
"TELL."
Cat keeled over. While she was holding her mouth, Zim saw several black scales on her neck. His eyes bulged.
Several people left the cafeteria to the playground, glancing over at Zim and Cat with grins on their face. If Zim was anything, he was confused. Was Cat an Irken like she claimed to be, or was an Irken rebel from Melek.
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Xi fell back. The air was heavy in the chamber she was in. The Daimonion didn't like any cool air, so the chamber door had to stay closed.
"Sir, we have found the location of the two fugitives," she said slowly.
No answer.
"...We have decided to go to their location, and kill them."
...
"If all fails, we decided that we would take over the planet, and all of its inhabitants."
Xi stood nervously. She turned around and walked out of the chamber, not noticing the large cut on the back of her neck.