Hey. My life is dying, rapidly. I found a bottle of sleeping pills. That's
good. Almost "accidentally" overdosed because of family stupidity. God, if
only you all could see what I see and do what I do. But then again, the
world would be a much worse place if you did. Anyway, sorry for the lack of
update in a while. I truly, truly am.
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Before Zim could snicker at Ari's newfound concrete friend, an alarm rang out.
"Warning-Intruder Found on Base Grounds, proceeding to underground entrance Number 6!"
Zim growled to himself as he leaped from the chair and ran past the body of Ari laying dazed on the ground. He snarled the word "Dib" before dashing out of the room and to the elevator.
Tapping his foot impatiently as the elevator's tingly music played, ruining the mood for a chase altogether, Zim issued an order to lock down all other entrances and begin searching for Dib. Soon, a little blob of body heat was located down in sector G.
"THAT'S MY FAVORITE SECTOR!" Came the squeaky voice of Gir.
Zim double took after shouting in surprise. "Gir? How did you- Eh never mind. NOW, go and fetch me the Dib!" he said ecstatically pointing out of the elevator. The robot flashed its eyes a shade of red before wildly screaming and skipping off to catch his prey.
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Dib nervously looked around, a horrible screeching noise could be heard, and it was getting louder. He ducked behind a trashcan of sorts and whipped out a small black ball. Tossing it into the little robots' path, he ducked low as Gir's footsteps paused.
"Girrrrrr. . . . GIRRRR. . . ." He said in a spooky long drawn out voice.
The robot continued to space off, holding the ball in its hand.
After several more attempts, Dib gave up. "Oh for crying out loud, GIR! Yea, you, little robot!" he exasperatedly said as Gir looked paranoid and transfixed himself to the black ball.
"Mmmmmmyeeeeessssss???" was the late answer.
"Take the shiny ball to Zim. He will uh. . .reward you for it."
Gir looked excited beyond all reason. "Con taquitos y las orejas de los cercos gordos!?" Switching languages was a bad result of him watching the new show Nickelodeon had decided to air, Muzzy. Dib looked puzzled, but he had no time to waste, as Zim's footsteps were growing closer.
"Ehh Si, con botas y el nariz de una jirafa! Ahora, andale! Andale!!!" Dib tried to quiet his voice as Zim rounded the corner at a run.
"What was that noise? And what's this Zim hears about a jirafa!?" he said, panting as Dib huddled behind his Trashcan of Salvation.
Gir merely smiled and shoved the ball close to Zim's face. Dib grinned at his look of confusion and smashed his fist into a small control panel clutched in his hand. Zim's outburst was ignored as a large flash issued from the object in Gir's hands. Zim gasped and stumbled backwards as the Dib grabbed the black ball as it rolled towards him.
"Aghh! What WAS that!" he hissed, rubbing his eyes, unaware of his long time enemy standing before him.
Dib smiled evilly as he stepped from behind the trashcan. "It was just a neat way of temporarily blinding you and snapping picture of your ugly green face at the same time Zim."
He paled at the sound of Dib's voice so close, but he was right. Zim's eyes weren't functioning, that flash definitely messed with his optic implants or something. His antennae twitched as he tried to sense where Dib was, but the pitter patting and beeping noises that were echoing in the lab weren't helping.
"DIB! Get out of my lab! Before I'm forced to set my minions on you!" he glared around, unable to see still, but things where getting better, vague dark shapes were appearing. Zim's antennae twitched once more.
Dib glanced down to Gir, who was drooling stupidly as he squeezed a moose toy repetitively.
"Your going to use HIM to attack me?" his voice was shrewd and unwavering.
Zim smiled. Not a sheepish smile, or an embarrassed one either, the kind of smile that someone gives you when they know something you don't. His teeth lined up in a Cheshire cat resembling grin.
"What are you smiling about Zim." came the sneered reaction to Zim's smile.
"I wasn't thinking of using Gir."
Even though Zim couldn't see Dib's face, he knew what it must have looked like as Ari came up behind him, putting an arm around his neck and holding him there.
"Aww Zim, were you thinking of me?" was what broke the short silence.
That was very familiar, but he couldn't figure out who it belonged to. . .Dib tried to turn his head to see his captor, but their grip was too tight, breathing itself wasn't an easy task.
Zim grinned, his sight was returning quicker now, the optic implants must have rebooted almost fully by now. "Yes yes, be flattered. What do you say we bring him to the lab and experiment on him?"
Dib gagged as the grip convulsively tightened for a second or two. Before Ari could respond, Dib ripped himself from her grasp as he writhed and thrashed.
Ari subconsciously reached for her knife, but gravely remembered that Zim had told her to take off all her weapons before the operation. Oh well, just another fist fight then. Ari's antennae wavered on their own as Dib stood gazing at her and Zim in an old fashioned stare-down.
He nearly ordered the question, saying his enemy's name with spite. "Who's this Zim?! Call for help from your home planet?" There may have been a slight bit of a sneer in his voice as he said the last part.
Ari snarled, her lip curling as she tried not to rip him to pieces, he was well out of leaping range, so pinning him and beating the life out of him wasn't an option. Somewhere in the back of her mind rang that tinny annoying voice, "Don't kill him, Don't kill him, he's your brother he's your brother-" She shook her head savagely like a dog when its wet, blinking slowly as the voice faded out. Zim was smiling again.
"Need me to introduce you to someone you already know? You humans really ARE as stupid as she says. . ." Zim nodded to Ari who smirked and took over, the look of surprise and confusion on Dib's face was priceless.
"Don't you recognize me Dib? It really hasn't been that long since we last talked." Ari sneered, her antennae flying back as her eyes narrowed.
The unsuspecting human's eyes widened in shock, finally recognizing the voice, not to mention the sneer was a bit familiar as well.
"Ari!?" his voice was full of disbelief. "What have you done?" it wasn't really a question directed to Ari the way he looked back and forth from Zim to Ari.
"I improved her." said Zim simply.
As if what Ari had just said was now getting through his big head, he may have done a slight mental twitch. "Talked!? Last time you nearly gutted me! Like a salmon!" Dib's hands were outstretched fists, his fingers twitching as he remembered what had happened. Zim looked rather amused at this and thought to himself, "I wonder just how badly she did kick Dib's ass-" he shook his head at the human term "Eh, I mean, inflict damage upon him. . . Yea." His mental conversation ended when Ari started snickering.
"Hehehe, Yea. . .But I could've done worse things to you. Much worse."
Dib gave her a shrewd look and a blatant response. "Like what."
Ari had to think for a moment, "Just because I can't think of one now doesn't mean I couldn't then." she crossed her arms and looked away from him.
Dib scoffed, the cloud of terror in his mind lessoned enough for him to make a snide remark. "I think you've spent too much time with Zim, he's rubbing off on you."
Zim glared before the thing cable snaked down from the ceiling and wrapped itself around the 14 year old boy's humanly body. Zim seemed to mutter something about his computer's late intruder reactions as he walked up to be face to face with his long time foe. Ari figured she'd let them be alone for a moment, not wanting to ruin the moment with her presence. . .That happened a lot with her. Her footsteps faded as he turned and walked off to find Gir.
Dib wiggled and squirmed, but like an electric python the cable squeezed him at every escape attempt he made. Dib stopped after a few futile tries and shot a venomous look to Zim and hissed, "You'll never get away with this Zim, no matter how hard you try." he glanced over as Ari left and narrowed his eyes, a smile flitting across his face. "Or how low you stoop for that reason."
Zim's antennae flew back as his eyes widened when he got what Dib meant. "I have not 'stooped' to any low, she admits she's a worthless human and was able to help me finish off my final plans on destroying you and your stupid planet." Zim smirked at the thought of the earth of fire with people running and screaming.
"Wait, your TRUSTING a human? And somehow by your standards that's not sinking to a new low. You don't make any sense Zim, you never did and you never will." Dib looked away, trying to slip his hand into his pocket.
Zim growled and restrained himself from hitting Dib, being the good chance he'd miss and hit the cable and somehow with a massive amount of unfortune free Dib by mistake.
"Silence you pathetic creature, I tire of your stupid dribble of conversation attempts. Besides, she's an Irken now, not a stinking human anymore." Zim seemed to add the last bit on quickly, as if trying to make a bad excuse for trusting her.
Ari found Gir sucking a tube of honey in the elevator by now, and decided to carry him back to Zim for no apparent reason. She arrived just in time to hear what Dib had to say. "That's your excuse?! She is no Irken, she's a human, Just Like Me. She'll always be a human, she was born a human, she'll live her whole life as a human, then-"
"I will probably die a slow painful death, and in my last agonizing breaths I will have the honor of knowing that somehow I helped the greatest species ever to exist in destroying this god forsaken world we live in."
Dib has paused when he saw her enter holding the for once silent Gir. The human made a twisted face, as if trying to figure out what the hell Ari really was. All he could say in response was,
"Your sick Ari. Somewhere along the way you got messed up," he looked down for a moment, trying to figure out what to say next, "and I don't think anyone can ever fix you." He shook his head as if it were a pity.
Zim was really just sort of sitting there in the background now, watching the events unfold as Gir sat next to him playing airplane with a toy moose and a duster.
Ari closed her eyes for a moment and made a small click, like a tsk but sadder. "Dib, did you ever think that some of us weren't meant to be fixed?"
Dib had almost gotten an arm free by now, he squinted an eye in confusion.
"What? That doesn't make any sense! You don't make sense!" his face contortioned as he strained his mind for the right words. "You-you speak in riddles or something! Why do I get called crazy when people like you exist!?"
"Heh, now who's speaking nonsense?" She smirked.
"What?"
"Exactly." A cruel smile and a narrow of the eyes, maybe she truly was crazy, maybe just weird, but as Ari had always told herself growing up, she was just different. Never special, never unique, hell no. She was different and that was about the only thing she really knew about herself.
Zim smirked as he watched Ari play mind games with Dib, although the quick nonsensical retorts were starting to make his head hurt.
The alien yawned and decided to make things a bit clearer for the human. "Ari, tell him why you think all the humans should be dispatched. Maybe it'll be a simple enough explanation to get through his big head."
Ari sighed and bowed to Zim, an act she'd taken a liking to.
Before Ari could begin her reasons of woe, Dib interrupted.
"Look Ari, I'm not too proud of what my uh, species has done and all, but that doesn't mean you have to help obliterate it!" He sounded like he was trying to achieve a convincing tone but then failed horribly. But while his persuasive attempts were failing, his hands weren't. The computer must have spaced off, as now his arm was almost completely free behind his back.
"Pah! Why can't you accept the fact that the human race should fall!? This worthless planet is just a breeding ground for vermin now! Mankind has completely screwed himself over, and I for one am sick of it." Ari stepped away as Zim motioned for her to step down. "Its time for the human race to fall Dib, and the Irken Empire to rise."
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Buttons were frantically being smashed in vain, controls whizzed and whirred out of control. Britt was in the background screaming her head off as the curly antennae Irken in front tried desperately to regain control.
Sparks flew from Britt's head as the atmospheric damage took place, Jes wishing she'd still be alive to see her next birthday-but at the moment couldn't quite remember when it was. All too soon, -CRUNCH!
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Zim's death glare and traditional speech of victory was over before it begun as his legs quaked. Something had struck the Earth not more than a mile from the base.
"Ari! Bring up what just happened on the computer monitor!" Zim commanded.
Obediently tapping the controls on the keyboard, a smoldering black thing was soon on the screen among the wreckage of a former house on Zim's block. She could just barely make out the Irken Symbol on the scorched left engine.
"Hey Zim. . .Its an Voot cruiser." she said oddly, squinting at the picture.
The vengeful alien looked a bit unnerved and surprised, angry that his speech was ruined but also curious. Was the Armada finally coming?
Dib wrenched his other arm free, scraping it up a bit but it didn't matter now. Pushing himself out like a cork in a wine bottle, he fell to the floor and took off running for the nearest exit he could remember. Zim's yells to the computer sent wires and cables shooting after her like tentacles, but surprisingly enough he reached the emergency escape route he had planned out. After a few minutes of dark space and storage compartments, Dib finally found the way to the sunlight. He grinned and congratulated himself as he reached for the black camera ball, only to find it was nowhere to be found.
Gir sat unnoticeably in the corner of the lab while Zim fumed and took off running with Ari, chewing not so silently on the black toy that Dib had dropped. It flashed once or twice in his mouth, giving it a tingly feeling. He giggled insanely, which ended up in his little robot jaws clamping down on it and spraying film all over the place.
Jes groaned as she stood from the wreckage of her ship. She whistled and a rather tipsy looking Britt popped out of the junk pile. She stared at her ruined ship for a moment, not remembering to put on a disguise. A panting noise became louder as Zim's lilac colored lenses met her dark colored eyes. A slight gasp for a moment, or maybe just an extra oxygen intake was heard.
"Who-Who are you?" he panted, having given up the chase for Dib and deciding getting to the Irken Ship was more important anyway.
Jes made a smile and looked away. "What's the matter with you? Can't you recognize an old friend when you see one?"
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Bum Bum bum! Next chapter! Ari may get jealous! Jaz will be in it! Sorry about that, bit of a rush to get the story-not sucking as much level so I had to shove some info and bla bla bla in it. Anyway, I think the next chapter should have baloney in it. Mmmm. And you know Dib'll do something, cuz I'm the author of this junk and I control him. Oh, HUGE alice in wonderland roleplay over the week, I drew Muchos Picturas for it, I'll upload them onto my fan quarter account soon! Yay!
Before Zim could snicker at Ari's newfound concrete friend, an alarm rang out.
"Warning-Intruder Found on Base Grounds, proceeding to underground entrance Number 6!"
Zim growled to himself as he leaped from the chair and ran past the body of Ari laying dazed on the ground. He snarled the word "Dib" before dashing out of the room and to the elevator.
Tapping his foot impatiently as the elevator's tingly music played, ruining the mood for a chase altogether, Zim issued an order to lock down all other entrances and begin searching for Dib. Soon, a little blob of body heat was located down in sector G.
"THAT'S MY FAVORITE SECTOR!" Came the squeaky voice of Gir.
Zim double took after shouting in surprise. "Gir? How did you- Eh never mind. NOW, go and fetch me the Dib!" he said ecstatically pointing out of the elevator. The robot flashed its eyes a shade of red before wildly screaming and skipping off to catch his prey.
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Dib nervously looked around, a horrible screeching noise could be heard, and it was getting louder. He ducked behind a trashcan of sorts and whipped out a small black ball. Tossing it into the little robots' path, he ducked low as Gir's footsteps paused.
"Girrrrrr. . . . GIRRRR. . . ." He said in a spooky long drawn out voice.
The robot continued to space off, holding the ball in its hand.
After several more attempts, Dib gave up. "Oh for crying out loud, GIR! Yea, you, little robot!" he exasperatedly said as Gir looked paranoid and transfixed himself to the black ball.
"Mmmmmmyeeeeessssss???" was the late answer.
"Take the shiny ball to Zim. He will uh. . .reward you for it."
Gir looked excited beyond all reason. "Con taquitos y las orejas de los cercos gordos!?" Switching languages was a bad result of him watching the new show Nickelodeon had decided to air, Muzzy. Dib looked puzzled, but he had no time to waste, as Zim's footsteps were growing closer.
"Ehh Si, con botas y el nariz de una jirafa! Ahora, andale! Andale!!!" Dib tried to quiet his voice as Zim rounded the corner at a run.
"What was that noise? And what's this Zim hears about a jirafa!?" he said, panting as Dib huddled behind his Trashcan of Salvation.
Gir merely smiled and shoved the ball close to Zim's face. Dib grinned at his look of confusion and smashed his fist into a small control panel clutched in his hand. Zim's outburst was ignored as a large flash issued from the object in Gir's hands. Zim gasped and stumbled backwards as the Dib grabbed the black ball as it rolled towards him.
"Aghh! What WAS that!" he hissed, rubbing his eyes, unaware of his long time enemy standing before him.
Dib smiled evilly as he stepped from behind the trashcan. "It was just a neat way of temporarily blinding you and snapping picture of your ugly green face at the same time Zim."
He paled at the sound of Dib's voice so close, but he was right. Zim's eyes weren't functioning, that flash definitely messed with his optic implants or something. His antennae twitched as he tried to sense where Dib was, but the pitter patting and beeping noises that were echoing in the lab weren't helping.
"DIB! Get out of my lab! Before I'm forced to set my minions on you!" he glared around, unable to see still, but things where getting better, vague dark shapes were appearing. Zim's antennae twitched once more.
Dib glanced down to Gir, who was drooling stupidly as he squeezed a moose toy repetitively.
"Your going to use HIM to attack me?" his voice was shrewd and unwavering.
Zim smiled. Not a sheepish smile, or an embarrassed one either, the kind of smile that someone gives you when they know something you don't. His teeth lined up in a Cheshire cat resembling grin.
"What are you smiling about Zim." came the sneered reaction to Zim's smile.
"I wasn't thinking of using Gir."
Even though Zim couldn't see Dib's face, he knew what it must have looked like as Ari came up behind him, putting an arm around his neck and holding him there.
"Aww Zim, were you thinking of me?" was what broke the short silence.
That was very familiar, but he couldn't figure out who it belonged to. . .Dib tried to turn his head to see his captor, but their grip was too tight, breathing itself wasn't an easy task.
Zim grinned, his sight was returning quicker now, the optic implants must have rebooted almost fully by now. "Yes yes, be flattered. What do you say we bring him to the lab and experiment on him?"
Dib gagged as the grip convulsively tightened for a second or two. Before Ari could respond, Dib ripped himself from her grasp as he writhed and thrashed.
Ari subconsciously reached for her knife, but gravely remembered that Zim had told her to take off all her weapons before the operation. Oh well, just another fist fight then. Ari's antennae wavered on their own as Dib stood gazing at her and Zim in an old fashioned stare-down.
He nearly ordered the question, saying his enemy's name with spite. "Who's this Zim?! Call for help from your home planet?" There may have been a slight bit of a sneer in his voice as he said the last part.
Ari snarled, her lip curling as she tried not to rip him to pieces, he was well out of leaping range, so pinning him and beating the life out of him wasn't an option. Somewhere in the back of her mind rang that tinny annoying voice, "Don't kill him, Don't kill him, he's your brother he's your brother-" She shook her head savagely like a dog when its wet, blinking slowly as the voice faded out. Zim was smiling again.
"Need me to introduce you to someone you already know? You humans really ARE as stupid as she says. . ." Zim nodded to Ari who smirked and took over, the look of surprise and confusion on Dib's face was priceless.
"Don't you recognize me Dib? It really hasn't been that long since we last talked." Ari sneered, her antennae flying back as her eyes narrowed.
The unsuspecting human's eyes widened in shock, finally recognizing the voice, not to mention the sneer was a bit familiar as well.
"Ari!?" his voice was full of disbelief. "What have you done?" it wasn't really a question directed to Ari the way he looked back and forth from Zim to Ari.
"I improved her." said Zim simply.
As if what Ari had just said was now getting through his big head, he may have done a slight mental twitch. "Talked!? Last time you nearly gutted me! Like a salmon!" Dib's hands were outstretched fists, his fingers twitching as he remembered what had happened. Zim looked rather amused at this and thought to himself, "I wonder just how badly she did kick Dib's ass-" he shook his head at the human term "Eh, I mean, inflict damage upon him. . . Yea." His mental conversation ended when Ari started snickering.
"Hehehe, Yea. . .But I could've done worse things to you. Much worse."
Dib gave her a shrewd look and a blatant response. "Like what."
Ari had to think for a moment, "Just because I can't think of one now doesn't mean I couldn't then." she crossed her arms and looked away from him.
Dib scoffed, the cloud of terror in his mind lessoned enough for him to make a snide remark. "I think you've spent too much time with Zim, he's rubbing off on you."
Zim glared before the thing cable snaked down from the ceiling and wrapped itself around the 14 year old boy's humanly body. Zim seemed to mutter something about his computer's late intruder reactions as he walked up to be face to face with his long time foe. Ari figured she'd let them be alone for a moment, not wanting to ruin the moment with her presence. . .That happened a lot with her. Her footsteps faded as he turned and walked off to find Gir.
Dib wiggled and squirmed, but like an electric python the cable squeezed him at every escape attempt he made. Dib stopped after a few futile tries and shot a venomous look to Zim and hissed, "You'll never get away with this Zim, no matter how hard you try." he glanced over as Ari left and narrowed his eyes, a smile flitting across his face. "Or how low you stoop for that reason."
Zim's antennae flew back as his eyes widened when he got what Dib meant. "I have not 'stooped' to any low, she admits she's a worthless human and was able to help me finish off my final plans on destroying you and your stupid planet." Zim smirked at the thought of the earth of fire with people running and screaming.
"Wait, your TRUSTING a human? And somehow by your standards that's not sinking to a new low. You don't make any sense Zim, you never did and you never will." Dib looked away, trying to slip his hand into his pocket.
Zim growled and restrained himself from hitting Dib, being the good chance he'd miss and hit the cable and somehow with a massive amount of unfortune free Dib by mistake.
"Silence you pathetic creature, I tire of your stupid dribble of conversation attempts. Besides, she's an Irken now, not a stinking human anymore." Zim seemed to add the last bit on quickly, as if trying to make a bad excuse for trusting her.
Ari found Gir sucking a tube of honey in the elevator by now, and decided to carry him back to Zim for no apparent reason. She arrived just in time to hear what Dib had to say. "That's your excuse?! She is no Irken, she's a human, Just Like Me. She'll always be a human, she was born a human, she'll live her whole life as a human, then-"
"I will probably die a slow painful death, and in my last agonizing breaths I will have the honor of knowing that somehow I helped the greatest species ever to exist in destroying this god forsaken world we live in."
Dib has paused when he saw her enter holding the for once silent Gir. The human made a twisted face, as if trying to figure out what the hell Ari really was. All he could say in response was,
"Your sick Ari. Somewhere along the way you got messed up," he looked down for a moment, trying to figure out what to say next, "and I don't think anyone can ever fix you." He shook his head as if it were a pity.
Zim was really just sort of sitting there in the background now, watching the events unfold as Gir sat next to him playing airplane with a toy moose and a duster.
Ari closed her eyes for a moment and made a small click, like a tsk but sadder. "Dib, did you ever think that some of us weren't meant to be fixed?"
Dib had almost gotten an arm free by now, he squinted an eye in confusion.
"What? That doesn't make any sense! You don't make sense!" his face contortioned as he strained his mind for the right words. "You-you speak in riddles or something! Why do I get called crazy when people like you exist!?"
"Heh, now who's speaking nonsense?" She smirked.
"What?"
"Exactly." A cruel smile and a narrow of the eyes, maybe she truly was crazy, maybe just weird, but as Ari had always told herself growing up, she was just different. Never special, never unique, hell no. She was different and that was about the only thing she really knew about herself.
Zim smirked as he watched Ari play mind games with Dib, although the quick nonsensical retorts were starting to make his head hurt.
The alien yawned and decided to make things a bit clearer for the human. "Ari, tell him why you think all the humans should be dispatched. Maybe it'll be a simple enough explanation to get through his big head."
Ari sighed and bowed to Zim, an act she'd taken a liking to.
Before Ari could begin her reasons of woe, Dib interrupted.
"Look Ari, I'm not too proud of what my uh, species has done and all, but that doesn't mean you have to help obliterate it!" He sounded like he was trying to achieve a convincing tone but then failed horribly. But while his persuasive attempts were failing, his hands weren't. The computer must have spaced off, as now his arm was almost completely free behind his back.
"Pah! Why can't you accept the fact that the human race should fall!? This worthless planet is just a breeding ground for vermin now! Mankind has completely screwed himself over, and I for one am sick of it." Ari stepped away as Zim motioned for her to step down. "Its time for the human race to fall Dib, and the Irken Empire to rise."
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Buttons were frantically being smashed in vain, controls whizzed and whirred out of control. Britt was in the background screaming her head off as the curly antennae Irken in front tried desperately to regain control.
Sparks flew from Britt's head as the atmospheric damage took place, Jes wishing she'd still be alive to see her next birthday-but at the moment couldn't quite remember when it was. All too soon, -CRUNCH!
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Zim's death glare and traditional speech of victory was over before it begun as his legs quaked. Something had struck the Earth not more than a mile from the base.
"Ari! Bring up what just happened on the computer monitor!" Zim commanded.
Obediently tapping the controls on the keyboard, a smoldering black thing was soon on the screen among the wreckage of a former house on Zim's block. She could just barely make out the Irken Symbol on the scorched left engine.
"Hey Zim. . .Its an Voot cruiser." she said oddly, squinting at the picture.
The vengeful alien looked a bit unnerved and surprised, angry that his speech was ruined but also curious. Was the Armada finally coming?
Dib wrenched his other arm free, scraping it up a bit but it didn't matter now. Pushing himself out like a cork in a wine bottle, he fell to the floor and took off running for the nearest exit he could remember. Zim's yells to the computer sent wires and cables shooting after her like tentacles, but surprisingly enough he reached the emergency escape route he had planned out. After a few minutes of dark space and storage compartments, Dib finally found the way to the sunlight. He grinned and congratulated himself as he reached for the black camera ball, only to find it was nowhere to be found.
Gir sat unnoticeably in the corner of the lab while Zim fumed and took off running with Ari, chewing not so silently on the black toy that Dib had dropped. It flashed once or twice in his mouth, giving it a tingly feeling. He giggled insanely, which ended up in his little robot jaws clamping down on it and spraying film all over the place.
Jes groaned as she stood from the wreckage of her ship. She whistled and a rather tipsy looking Britt popped out of the junk pile. She stared at her ruined ship for a moment, not remembering to put on a disguise. A panting noise became louder as Zim's lilac colored lenses met her dark colored eyes. A slight gasp for a moment, or maybe just an extra oxygen intake was heard.
"Who-Who are you?" he panted, having given up the chase for Dib and deciding getting to the Irken Ship was more important anyway.
Jes made a smile and looked away. "What's the matter with you? Can't you recognize an old friend when you see one?"
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Bum Bum bum! Next chapter! Ari may get jealous! Jaz will be in it! Sorry about that, bit of a rush to get the story-not sucking as much level so I had to shove some info and bla bla bla in it. Anyway, I think the next chapter should have baloney in it. Mmmm. And you know Dib'll do something, cuz I'm the author of this junk and I control him. Oh, HUGE alice in wonderland roleplay over the week, I drew Muchos Picturas for it, I'll upload them onto my fan quarter account soon! Yay!