Okie, think I'm more familiar with how to do this now. *taps fingers
together musingly* Anyway, what I needed to state at the start of the
prologue, but didn't cause I wasn't sure how everything worked then, was
that I (obviously) have no ownership what so ever of Zim. None. Nada. Zip.
Much as I would wish otherwise. So yes. Viy & GEM (& Dorm) however, are
MINE!!! *overly exaggerated tone* So nyah =P With that said, please
continue =)
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Chapter 1
Viy stretched and smothered a yawn before turning to gaze up at the newly erected house nestled where a small park had once stood. "Hmmm." she scratched her head thoughtfully and turned to GEM who was busy running around the lawn in pursuit of a couple of squirrels. "Gem - something's missing from this."
GEM paused and regarded the house before the two blue tips of her antennae sparked, "How about some flowers in the window boxes?"
Viy shook her head, "No there's something it needs." She frowned in contemplation before shrugging, "Oh well, I guess we'll figure it out later - let's go choose some disguises for now." She trotted over to one of the windows and extended two robotic spider legs from the shell on her back to lift herself through and into the seclusion of the house, GEM following soon after with a short rush of flame from the jet on her back.
"Let's see. This says Zim's currently in the disguise of one of these Earth kids, and Gir's a dog. We should probably base our disguises on something similar."
GEM nodded, "I'll be a rabbit! My records say Earth females like rabbits."
"Okay," Viy smiled in agreement as the two headed down to the lab buried deep beneath the ground. "Now. If the majority of Zim's studying is done at this. school thing. That's probably where I need to go, so I guess I'd best disguise myself as one of these humans too."
"Makes sense," GEM beamed as they came to the required machine and Viy began typing their requirements in as a small screen materialised. "Ooh, I like that one!"
"Really?" Viy peered up uncertainly at the image now showing of a human with waist length brown hair (which would conveniently cover both her PAK and her lack of ears), a purple vest top and black skirt and boots. "Well the clothes are good -" she glanced down at her own purple top before nodding. "And it has a proper Earth skin colour - this record says Zim's been walking round with green skin, which would be fine back on Irk, but here." she winced at GEM before nodding. "Well who knows, maybe there are other green people. And as he hasn't been discovered yet," she shrugged, "Okay, I guess it'll work."
GEM clapped cheerfully as Viy stepped into the machine which promptly closed around her, emitted a bright burst of light and a faint rumble, before opening again to reveal Viy in her new disguise. GEM promptly flashed a thumbs-up, "Very human!"
Viy glanced over herself before nodding in agreement. "I'll probably have to take a portable applicator if I'm not at the base but need to be in disguise, otherwise there'll be two of us walking round with green skin." She typed a request into the computer and it promptly ejected a small floating device which Viy slipped safely into her PAK. "Okay - your go!"
GEM hopped forward gleefully, selected her disguise, and the machine closed around her briefly, before opening to reveal her in a freshly made rabbit suit, made from pink fabric of various shades with two overly large ears that flopped forward slightly, but conveniently covered her two antennae.
"So that's an Earth rabbit." Viy blinked. "I can see why they like them; they are rather cute. Much better than the rabid killer space bunnies that's for sure." She smiled as GEM danced about cheerfully, enjoying her new disguise. "I like my tail," GEM giggled, turning to examine the small fluffy tail sewn to the back of the outfit.
"Now." Viy watched as the machines limbs folded back into the depths of the mechanical walls, and turned to a large video screen on the other wall. "I'd better sign up for this school thing. After that we can make a primary sweep of the surrounding area and then I guess we should go see Zim. We are supposed to be pretending to be evaluating him and all." Viy rolled her eyes as her fingers worked quickly over the keyboard in front of her all the while, typing in the hoards of required data. "Hmmm." she frowned thoughtfully as she regarded a password demand that had flashed up on screen. "Let's see." she typed steadily into the keyboard. "l-e-t-m-e-i-n. Hey, what do you know, it worked!" she blinked in surprise as an 'Access Granted' message flicked up on screen.
"Okay I'm in the school's mainframe computer now. If outsmarting the humans is as easy as that I'm surprised that even Zim hasn't decimated this planet by now," she shot GEM an 'Oh well' kind of look and began typing again.
"What you doing now?" GEM asked cheerfully, watching as a load of images began flicking over the screen.
"These are the records of all the children and teachers at the school," Viy responded, before hitting 'Pause' and pointing. "Hey look! There's Zim. Wow, he really isn't any less green is he.?" she squinted uncertainly before bringing up another window. "Hmmm, it appears the school has a three month enrolment waiting list at the moment," she frowned anxiously before shrugging. "Well I guess I'll just have to enter myself in the computer here ahead of everyone else."
"Can I come too?" GEM had slid her hood back and now gazed hopefully at Viy. "Please? I wanna see what the school's like too."
"Mmm," Viy considered uncertainly, "Maybe later on once I know it's safe. But only if it's really safe or really necessary. And you really should be defending the base."
"Yeah, but that'll be dull," GEM sighed, "And who would I talk to?"
"You know, I can be quite the conversationalist if given the chance." a robotic voice grumbled sarcastically over the intercom system.
"Oh, you're active already? I thought the Cruiser was still transferring data," Viy blinked in surprise as the computer continued grumbling quietly to itself.
"Nope. I'm here. But no one said hello to me." it responded, sounding fairly hurt at having been ignored.
"Well I'm glad you are here - I'm very sorry we ignored you," Viy added quickly, hoping it didn't sound too forced, before continuing, "Would you do me a favour?"
"It's what I'm here for... I guess."
"Could you run a satellite sweep and locate Zim's base for me?" Viy asked sweetly, thinking that possibly getting off to a bad start with your computer was not a good idea, as it had control over the whole base and could shrink it down to a size equalling a cola can in mere seconds if it wanted, whether or not you were inside.
There was a debating sigh before it grudgingly conceded. "Oh. Okay. I'll let you know when I come up with any thing."
"Aww," GEM glanced up at the intercom sympathetically. "Hmm, maybe I'll make him some marshmallow squares to cheer him up."
Viy considered questioning this but fast reconsidered and resumed typing. "Okay, but don't make a mess. I doubt it'd appreciate if you got all the machinery all sticky and stuff."
"Of course. And I'm programmed to be very tidy anyway," GEM chirped, before skipping off cheerfully, leaving Viy to complete her alterations.
Several hours later Viy and GEM were wondering down the pavement in their Earth disguises following the directions the computer had given them. "Now, we need to go five lampposts down then turn left 48 degrees. Not 49 degrees, not 47 degrees, but 48 degrees." Viy squinted at the directions uncertainly before concluding, "That computer's crazy."
"Aww, I'm sure he's just settling in." GEM replied cheerfully, a large platter of particularly gooey looking marshmallow squares balanced on her head. The computer had seemed rather confused by such an offering, and after GEM's attempt to feed it one through an outlet socket, the three of them had come to the conclusion that computer bases were not meant to eat marshmallow squares, and that they would take them to Zim instead.
"48 degrees leads us directly into wall." Viy stated flatly. "The fifth lamppost won't take us anywhere different from the fourth or the sixth." She scratched her head uncertainly as she puzzled over the computers directions. "Maybe it printed them in the wrong order."
"Oh, hey! Lookie! There's a human, we can ask him!" GEM suggested, pointing to a kid who was heading down the street, albeit in a very strange and peculiar manner.
"Are you sure that's such a good idea?" Viy glanced at him, then back at the hopeless instructions, before balling them up in her palm and chucking them over her shoulder. "Can't be much worse." she conceded. "Let me do the talking Gem." GEM gave a nod and a small salute before diving into some nearby bushes.
The kid was busy sneaking from bush to bush, to lamppost, to parked car, to bush, to fire hydrant, and there he paused, not having taken any notice of them as he passed, and not taking any notice now either. Nonetheless Viy took this pause in his irrational movements as an opportunity to wander up to him. "Uhm. Hi!" she announced, tapping him lightly on the shoulder and causing him to give a startled yelp of surprise as he turned to face her. "Sorry. I was just wondering if you maybe knew anyone called Zim? We're trying to find his house and we're a bit lost."
"We're?" he frowned uncertainly and glanced around.
"Uhm - I," Viy quickly corrected herself.
"How do you know Zim anyway? Why do you want to know where he lives?" he demanded, deciding to drop that topic and discuss the one at hand. As he straightened, his glasses flashed slightly, and his brown eyes squinted suspiciously from behind them.
"Uhm well you see. I'm due to start school on Monday and. he's supposed to show me round.?" Viy winced at the excuse before continuing. "You see - I'm new here. And the teachers organised some sort of buddy system? I dunno. But anyway, I'm supposed to go to his house on Monday morning so we can walk to school together but I figured I'd better make sure I know where it is now rather than get lost on Monday and. stuff." she squinted uncertainly, aware she was babbling horribly, and the lack of change in the Earth boy's expression was somewhat disconcerting.
"Why would Zim agree to that?" the boy frowned suspiciously, although he was addressing the question more to himself than Viy. "He hates humans, why would he want to help one?"
"Uhm. I kinda think they forced him into it.?" Viy shrugged, knowing either way she should be able to persuade Zim to back up her story.
"Why would they chose Zim anyway, he's not exactly got a shining school record," he continued to himself, frowning still. "They'd have been much better choosing someone like. like. Well, me. Maybe they're punishing him for something. Heh, yeah, that's much more likely."
Viy blinked. Did humans always take this long to answer a simple question? She shrugged to GEM before tapping him on the shoulder again, distracting him from his quiet ranting mutters. "Huh? Oh yeah, you wanted to know where Zim's house was!" Viy nodded, praying this time he would just answer her. "Well, you know I should warn you first. See, now you'll probably think I'm crazy, but Zim's. Well, he's not human."
Viy squinted at him uncertainly. "Okay." she replied, disconcerted by this response. "Well if he's not human, then what is he?"
The kid paused now, looking extremely fidgety and glancing around him before leaning in and speaking hurriedly, "He's an alien. Well, an Irken to be exact, and he wants to destroy us all! And he has this lil evil robot- doggy who helps him out. But he's kind of insane. And his race is watched over by these leaders, who I haven't seen, but I know they lead the race because they're tall. How silly is that? Anyway, there's an armada on the way to Earth, and so it's up to me to stop them or all mankind is doomed!"
Viy simply stared back at him, not sure whether to be horrified at the extent of his knowledge, which she was guessing extended beyond these basic facts, or be really creeped out, the majority of that owing to the way he was regarding her now, as if trying to analyse her reaction.
"Uhm." she began uncertainly, trying to keep her tone steady.
"Hey! You didn't call me crazy!" he exclaimed, cutting her off.
"Huh?" Viy blinked in surprise, noting that if all humans were this insane the instant she got back to the base she'd be packing and making a beeline for the Voot Cruiser.
"This is great." he was telling himself, "Finally! An ally in the fight - the fight to save mankind! Here!" he thrust a camera into Viy's hands before she could object. "This is the last thing he'll be expecting! Try to get some pictures on that, and then we can prove to everyone what Zim really is! His house is just down there, at the end of the second cul-de- sac down. You can't miss it; it's green and purple and glows funny. I'm going to go see if the spy-bot I put in the stuffed peacock on his windowsill has picked up anything. I'll see you at school on Monday though! We can go over stuff then! Okay - ! Uhm. What's your name?"
He frowned uncertainly, while Viy who was feeling somewhat overwhelmed simply replied meekly, "I'm. uh. Viy. New here."
"Viy." he nodded approvingly. "I'm Dib by the way. Viy and Dib - Dib and Viy. Has a nice ring to it doesn't it? Wow, I can tell we're going to be unstoppable! Anyway, I'll see you Monday!" And with that he rushed off, ducking behind various objects as he went, leaving Viy standing on the pavement blankly.
"Aww." GEM said, emerging from the bushes and tilting a beaming face to Viy. "He seemed friendly! If a lil crazy."
Viy simply blinked before turning and walking on with a sigh, "I should have used the computer's directions."
Five or so minutes later, Viy and GEM were sauntering up the path to Zim's house. Or what they hoped was Zim's house. It was green and purple, and it did glow. It also had a stuffed peacock in the window, along with various lawn gnomes, plastic flamingos and puffer fish.
Viy gave a sceptical look as the lawn gnomes turned as she passed, following her with eyes that she could have sworn glowed a faint menacing red. Coming to a halt on the doorstep she paused while GEM unzipped the top of her rabbit costume and extended a robot arm from her head to ring the doorbell, before quickly withdrawing it again.
Viy looked thoughtful now. "Hey! That's what our house is missing! A doorbell," she drew herself up proudly for remembering, and made a mental note to herself to remember to add one later.
The door was answered a few seconds later by a kid Viy recognised from the school records, and who frowned with extreme suspicion at his two visitors. "Who are you?!" he demanded fiercely.
"I'm Viy and this is GEM -" Viy began.
"I don't care who you are!"
"But you -"
"Silence! Do not question the mighty Zim!!"
Viy frowned, but at least they knew they were in the right place. But maybe that wasn't such a good thing.
"Now human stink hog, tell me what you are doing interrupting my peaceful, perfectly normal human evening with my perfectly normal human dog -" At this point GIR waved energetically from within the room and issued a loud 'Hi!'
"- with your stinky human ways! Well? WHY??" Zim frowned determinedly at Viy and GEM, while Viy was finding the appeal of her Voot Cruiser more tempting than ever now.
"I'm Viy, I'm your Evaluator," she stated bluntly before he had a chance to say anything else. "This is GEM, she will be assisting me. And there's a camera sitting inside that stuffed peacock on your window sill." With that she swept into the room, GEM skipping after her still carrying the marshmallow squares on her head.
"Hmm. I wondered what that peacock was doing there." Zim considered, before running outside looking rather panicky. By the explosions and screams that followed, Viy assumed the peacock would not be a threat for much longer.
Tossing the camera lightly onto the couch, she found herself distracted by a light tug on her robe. "Would you like some tequitoooo's.?" GIR beamed cheerfully.
"Would you like some marshmallow squares??" GEM exclaimed delightedly, holding the platter out before her. GIR gave a squeak of approval and instantly wolfed down at least half a dozen, before standing there for ages chewing contentedly, the marshmallow proving quite resilient it would seem.
Zim soon re-entered carrying the rather charred remnants of the peacock over one shoulder while muttering, "I bet that miserable Dib-human is the one responsible for this. He will regret it. Oh how he will regret it." He closed the door behind him and chucked the remainder of the peacock into a nearby cupboard, ignoring Robomum's irritated exclamation of "What have we told you about bringing stray animals into the house, young man?!" that followed.
"Now! Down to business." he paused uncertainly. "Firstly, how do I know you're an Evaluator? You may be some filthy human trick sent by the humans." His eyes fell upon the camera. "What is that?"
"It's a camera," Viy responded with a shrug, glancing over at it.
"Yes yes yes, but what is it doing inside my base?"
"This kid gave it to me. He told me to try and get photos of you," Viy made a face. "Are all humans that insane?"
"Kid?" Zim narrowed his eyes in realisation, "Dib."
"Yeah, that's the one. He had pointy hair -" Viy made a gesture before shrugging again before turning slightly and brushing back her hair so she could open her PAK. Taking out the applicator she typed a few commands into it before letting it hover it midair by her. It beeped a few times before sweeping around her, emitting a wide spanning red laser which switched her skin back to its original colour on contact. Viy removed her wig and contacts, blinking a few times to clear her eyes before turning triumphantly to Zim. "See? Irken." She nodded and slipped the pieces of her disguise back within her PAK.
"Hmm? Oh yes, yes," Zim waved one hand to show he had registered the fact, although his concentration was very much at that point still focused on plotting horrible revenge on Dib. "Gir," he order finally, and taking the camera from the sofa he held it out in front of him, "Here. Chew on this until all the film is used up."
"Yes sir!" GIR managed to bark back through the mass of marshmallow, taking the camera in his paws and regarding it curiously.
"And keep your disguise on Gir, we wouldn't want the human ending up with any pictures of your mighty robot self by mistake, now would we?" GIR simply blinked up at him, dribbling a lump of marshmallow goo onto the lens. Zim gave a slight shudder before turning back to Viy, "Come! I shall show you around my amazing base. You are impressed with my base, yes?" He regarded her eagerly. "Well, it does have a doorbell," Viy admitted approvingly.
"Yes. So it does." Zim nodded, looking extremely pleased with himself, before wandering over to a nearby table. "Computer! Take us to the lab!" he ordered.
A heavy sigh followed, "Do I have to?"
"Yes. Do not question Zim!" he snapped back and tapped one foot impatiently as there was another sigh before the table flipped upwards to reveal a small lift. Viy and Zim stepped onto this, and Zim turned back to where GEM and GIR were sitting, now building some sort of gooey construction with the marshmallow squares. "Remember Gir - use up every picture!" he ordered, before the lift whisked downwards and the table slipped neatly back into place.
"So!" Zim announced, "How long will you be staying for?"
"Uhm. As long as it takes to complete my report I guess." Viy shrugged, not recalling been given an actual timescale by the Tallest, which she realised could be a very bad thing.
"Mmmhmm," Zim nodded, removing his own disguise now to reveal the Irken Viy had become familiar with through so many of his (frequently insane) calls to the Massive. "And do you wish to stay here so you can observe me be all masterful or do you have your own base?"
"I have my own base," Viy replied, perhaps a little quickly, but Zim didn't seem to notice.
"I guess that's for the best - we wouldn't want the Dib growing suspicious."
"Yeah, what's with him anyway?" Viy asked, frowning uncertainly. "I just asked him if he knew where your house was and he just kind of flipped out and announced we were allies or something because I didn't call him crazy..."
"Yes, who knows what goes on in that giant head of his," Zim conceded with a shrug.
"You know, he also seemed to know an awful lot about you and the Irkens in general." Viy pointed out, a hint of suspicion in her voice.
Zim's eyes widened a fraction before he waved off the suggestion. "He thinks he knows a lot," he corrected. "But he only knows what I allow him too."
"Then you must have sat him down and given him a pretty thorough talking through the ways of Irken life," Viy muttered sceptically, but Zim, once more, ignored her.
"Enough of the human - there are more important things to be discussed," he announced as the elevator came to a stop, and marched out proudly into the control centre of his underground lab. "First! We shall contact the Tallest and let them know of your safe arrival."
"But I already -"
"Then we shall discuss how this Evaluation is going to be carried out, when and how you shall observe my ingenious. ness. And how you intend to keep your presence unknown from the Earth people," Zim flicked his antennae smartly. "After all, while the majority of them are relatively stupid, we don't want to take any chances."
"No. but -"
"I assume Dib had something to say about your disguise?"
"No," Viy replied, feeling vaguely confused.
"But he realised you were Irken," Zim continued, as if it were more a fact than a question.
"No, he didn't," Viy began, "He warned me that you were an Irken but -"
"Enough of the human! We shall call the Tallest now," Zim interrupted swiftly, before turning to his control panel and quickly keying in various commands. Viy frowned, thinking she would have quite a few things to say to Purple when she got back. When. That was something she needed to clarify. She wondered briefly if she could trick Zim into believing a thorough Evaluators report could be composed in a day or so.
Zim's video screen flicking to life distracted her however, as it cleared to reveal the Tallest in their command chairs busy discussing something before looking up, none to thrilled at Zim distracting them with a cheerful wave, "Greetings my Tallest! Everything is going well I trust?"
"Well. It was," Purple replied, putting the emphasis on 'was' and casting his eyes downwards before Red broke in.
"Can we make this quick Zim? We're kind of busy."
"Of course my Tallest," Zim agreed with a nod. "Now, as I was saying."
"And soon, none shall question the name of Zim!!!"
"Wha -?" Purple jumped awake at Zim's yell, and sat blinking in that state of dazed confusion that followed a deep sleep. "Uhm." he glanced uncertainly over at Red, who was still fast asleep and murmuring something incoherent about doughnuts and Death Wave cannons. "How long have you been talking Zim.?" Purple asked in a slightly pained way as he rubbed his eyes.
"Going on six hours now," Zim replied brightly.
"Six hours?" Purple replied weakly. "But. you haven't even told us why you called in the first place? Or did you.?" he added thoughtfully, trying to recall just how long he had been awake for, and realising he only remembered around ten minutes of Zim's rants.
"Of course!" Zim exclaimed, "How forgetful and completely unlike me of me. I was merely calling to let you know that the Evaluator arrived safely."
"Viy? Viy's there? .And she hasn't killed you already?"
"Yes, she - Hey!!!" Zim frowned as he turned round.
"What?" Purple asked uncertainly, wondering if Zim had actually registered his comment. He didn't usually. He soon realised the cause for Zim's complaint as he followed his gaze to where Viy was slumped slightly against a nearby machine and looking rather contented as she dozed peacefully. Purple smiled with a mixture of sympathy and fondness at this, before Zim distracted him once more.
"My Tallest. I was under the impression that all the Evaluators were properly trained," Zim hinted, frowning in mild irritation.
"Huh?" Purple glanced briefly at Red once more as he gave a sudden yelp of, 'No! You can't mix jellybeans with mayo!!', and rubbed his head thoughtfully. "Oh. Right. Well ya know Zim; maybe she's just a lil tired? She has been travelling for several months you know."
"Irkens don't get tired," Zim replied flatly.
"In this case I think they do," Purple replied back, equally toneless. "Anyway Zim, could you do me a favour and just nudge her awake? I. We," he added pointedly, shooting a frown at Red, "Would like just a quick word with her."
"Without Zim?" Zim frowned sceptically.
"Geez Zim, you've talked to us for six hours already." Purple flattened his brow, still wondering how it had escaped Zim's notice that they'd been asleep all that time.
"Very well," Zim conceded, although he didn't look too thrilled about it. "I should probably go and see if GIR has completed that task I set him anyway." Folding his arms behind his back he marched neatly over to Viy and poked her once in the arm. "Hey. Heeeeey." he poked her a few more times. "Hey!! You dare defy Zim?!"
Viy blinked sleepily as she raised her head slightly. "Zim.?" she murmured in confusion. "Oh. uhm. Incoming transmission from Earth! I think." she sunk back down with a yawn. "Wasn't I supposed to be going there...?"
"You are here," Zim frowned, irritated. "Now wake up, the Tallest want to talk to you."
"But I talk to them every day," Viy complained, very reluctant to wake up. "Ya know." she paused to yawn, "What with me being a p -"
"Evaluator!!" Purple intercepted quickly, cutting her off. "An Evaluator! Cause. That's what you are!"
"Huh.? Oh yeah," Viy frowned dazedly up at the screen. Zim cast an uncertain glance between Viy and Purple before shrugging. "Oh well. I'll see you back up in the house Viy. We still have a lot to discuss," he added the last bit pointedly before strolling neatly out of the room. "Farewell my Tallest!"
"What? Oh yeah. Bye Zim," Purple responded automatically, watching with relief as the elevator whisked out of sight.
"How long was I asleep for.?" Viy mumbled, stretching and rubbing the side of her face thoughtfully.
"He says six hours, but I think he was lying," Purple replied, frowning slightly as he did.
"At least I wasn't the only one," Viy remarked, an amused look flitting across her face as another of Red's mumblings drew her attention to him.
"Uhm. I think it's fairly safe to say you weren't," Purple replied, looking rather embarrassed. "In fact." he glanced around him. "Aww geez, he put everyone in the cockpit to sleep! And I think that may be a black hole up ahead. Although I can't really tell, what with it being black and all."
Viy's eyes widened briefly before she shook her head. "Honestly, I'm gone for a few months and the Massive's already flying into black holes."
"Yeah. It sucks," Purple replied nonchalantly. "Anyway, enough about us! How are you getting on on Earth?"
"Remember how you thought those inside-outside people of planet Inny- Outty were weird?" Viy began innocently.
"What - the ones who turned themselves inside out whenever they sneezed? Or coughed."
"Or hiccupped," Viy nodded before putting on a stern face. "Earth is weirder. Although in a less organ related way. 'part from that I'm doing good."
"Aww well that's good to hear. And remember, sabotage will be rewarded. Rewarded. Maybe if you - Eeeeiiiyah!! It really is a black hole!!"
"Lasers!" Red exclaimed, jumping awake before frowning at Purple who was busy running screaming around the cockpit. "Hey. What got into - Sweet Irk, we're doomed!!"
Viy watched uncertainly as the cockpit erupted into chaos, with pilots rushing everywhere in desperate attempts to save the ship.
"Uhm Viy? We're gonna have to call you back." Purple stated as he paused, realising she was still on screen.
"I figured as much," she replied lightly. "Zim'll be getting impatient anyway."
"Suddenly black holes don't look so bad," Red commented, coming to a stop beside Purple and considering the thought of tolerating Zim further.
"I'll give you a call tomorrow," Viy concurred before giving them a tired wave, "Viy out." And with that she wandered over to the elevator and stumbled in, still trying to rub the sleep from her eyes.
"Viy!!" GEM squealed delightedly as the Irken appeared from beneath the table; now back in her human disguise just in case GIR was still in the process of his photo taking. Instead she found him perched on top of a rather large, rather daunting, and rather gooey construction peaked with a dangerously swaying tower; and giggling insanely.
"Gir! Get down here now!!" Zim was yelling. "Look at this place!"
"How did you.?" Viy began dazedly, glancing from GEM to the construction to the empty platter, noting that the number of marshmallow squares seemed to have increased tenfold. She scratched her head in confusion before sighing in defeat and deciding that for as long as she was stuck here, it was probably easier not to question those little oddities that appeared.
Instead she wondered over to the sofa and picked up the discarded camera, regretting it rather quickly as it attached itself to her hand with a mass of pink marshmallow and refused to let go. After a few vain attempts to remove it, Viy gave up and glanced over at GEM appealingly. "How long is it till school starts.?"
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School, yay ^^ Now this may actually progress slightly *debates* Oh and yeah, Viy's computer's has mood swings. It's a lot like me actually. One second it can be all 'Ugh' and the next it's humming happily to itself and annoying everyone nearby. Computers are fun. Anyway - *forgets what she was going to say* Oh yeah, next chapter will take a lil longer as I haven't written much on it yet, and I'm ill, so it's slowing it down. Apart from that, thanks for reading!
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Chapter 1
Viy stretched and smothered a yawn before turning to gaze up at the newly erected house nestled where a small park had once stood. "Hmmm." she scratched her head thoughtfully and turned to GEM who was busy running around the lawn in pursuit of a couple of squirrels. "Gem - something's missing from this."
GEM paused and regarded the house before the two blue tips of her antennae sparked, "How about some flowers in the window boxes?"
Viy shook her head, "No there's something it needs." She frowned in contemplation before shrugging, "Oh well, I guess we'll figure it out later - let's go choose some disguises for now." She trotted over to one of the windows and extended two robotic spider legs from the shell on her back to lift herself through and into the seclusion of the house, GEM following soon after with a short rush of flame from the jet on her back.
"Let's see. This says Zim's currently in the disguise of one of these Earth kids, and Gir's a dog. We should probably base our disguises on something similar."
GEM nodded, "I'll be a rabbit! My records say Earth females like rabbits."
"Okay," Viy smiled in agreement as the two headed down to the lab buried deep beneath the ground. "Now. If the majority of Zim's studying is done at this. school thing. That's probably where I need to go, so I guess I'd best disguise myself as one of these humans too."
"Makes sense," GEM beamed as they came to the required machine and Viy began typing their requirements in as a small screen materialised. "Ooh, I like that one!"
"Really?" Viy peered up uncertainly at the image now showing of a human with waist length brown hair (which would conveniently cover both her PAK and her lack of ears), a purple vest top and black skirt and boots. "Well the clothes are good -" she glanced down at her own purple top before nodding. "And it has a proper Earth skin colour - this record says Zim's been walking round with green skin, which would be fine back on Irk, but here." she winced at GEM before nodding. "Well who knows, maybe there are other green people. And as he hasn't been discovered yet," she shrugged, "Okay, I guess it'll work."
GEM clapped cheerfully as Viy stepped into the machine which promptly closed around her, emitted a bright burst of light and a faint rumble, before opening again to reveal Viy in her new disguise. GEM promptly flashed a thumbs-up, "Very human!"
Viy glanced over herself before nodding in agreement. "I'll probably have to take a portable applicator if I'm not at the base but need to be in disguise, otherwise there'll be two of us walking round with green skin." She typed a request into the computer and it promptly ejected a small floating device which Viy slipped safely into her PAK. "Okay - your go!"
GEM hopped forward gleefully, selected her disguise, and the machine closed around her briefly, before opening to reveal her in a freshly made rabbit suit, made from pink fabric of various shades with two overly large ears that flopped forward slightly, but conveniently covered her two antennae.
"So that's an Earth rabbit." Viy blinked. "I can see why they like them; they are rather cute. Much better than the rabid killer space bunnies that's for sure." She smiled as GEM danced about cheerfully, enjoying her new disguise. "I like my tail," GEM giggled, turning to examine the small fluffy tail sewn to the back of the outfit.
"Now." Viy watched as the machines limbs folded back into the depths of the mechanical walls, and turned to a large video screen on the other wall. "I'd better sign up for this school thing. After that we can make a primary sweep of the surrounding area and then I guess we should go see Zim. We are supposed to be pretending to be evaluating him and all." Viy rolled her eyes as her fingers worked quickly over the keyboard in front of her all the while, typing in the hoards of required data. "Hmmm." she frowned thoughtfully as she regarded a password demand that had flashed up on screen. "Let's see." she typed steadily into the keyboard. "l-e-t-m-e-i-n. Hey, what do you know, it worked!" she blinked in surprise as an 'Access Granted' message flicked up on screen.
"Okay I'm in the school's mainframe computer now. If outsmarting the humans is as easy as that I'm surprised that even Zim hasn't decimated this planet by now," she shot GEM an 'Oh well' kind of look and began typing again.
"What you doing now?" GEM asked cheerfully, watching as a load of images began flicking over the screen.
"These are the records of all the children and teachers at the school," Viy responded, before hitting 'Pause' and pointing. "Hey look! There's Zim. Wow, he really isn't any less green is he.?" she squinted uncertainly before bringing up another window. "Hmmm, it appears the school has a three month enrolment waiting list at the moment," she frowned anxiously before shrugging. "Well I guess I'll just have to enter myself in the computer here ahead of everyone else."
"Can I come too?" GEM had slid her hood back and now gazed hopefully at Viy. "Please? I wanna see what the school's like too."
"Mmm," Viy considered uncertainly, "Maybe later on once I know it's safe. But only if it's really safe or really necessary. And you really should be defending the base."
"Yeah, but that'll be dull," GEM sighed, "And who would I talk to?"
"You know, I can be quite the conversationalist if given the chance." a robotic voice grumbled sarcastically over the intercom system.
"Oh, you're active already? I thought the Cruiser was still transferring data," Viy blinked in surprise as the computer continued grumbling quietly to itself.
"Nope. I'm here. But no one said hello to me." it responded, sounding fairly hurt at having been ignored.
"Well I'm glad you are here - I'm very sorry we ignored you," Viy added quickly, hoping it didn't sound too forced, before continuing, "Would you do me a favour?"
"It's what I'm here for... I guess."
"Could you run a satellite sweep and locate Zim's base for me?" Viy asked sweetly, thinking that possibly getting off to a bad start with your computer was not a good idea, as it had control over the whole base and could shrink it down to a size equalling a cola can in mere seconds if it wanted, whether or not you were inside.
There was a debating sigh before it grudgingly conceded. "Oh. Okay. I'll let you know when I come up with any thing."
"Aww," GEM glanced up at the intercom sympathetically. "Hmm, maybe I'll make him some marshmallow squares to cheer him up."
Viy considered questioning this but fast reconsidered and resumed typing. "Okay, but don't make a mess. I doubt it'd appreciate if you got all the machinery all sticky and stuff."
"Of course. And I'm programmed to be very tidy anyway," GEM chirped, before skipping off cheerfully, leaving Viy to complete her alterations.
Several hours later Viy and GEM were wondering down the pavement in their Earth disguises following the directions the computer had given them. "Now, we need to go five lampposts down then turn left 48 degrees. Not 49 degrees, not 47 degrees, but 48 degrees." Viy squinted at the directions uncertainly before concluding, "That computer's crazy."
"Aww, I'm sure he's just settling in." GEM replied cheerfully, a large platter of particularly gooey looking marshmallow squares balanced on her head. The computer had seemed rather confused by such an offering, and after GEM's attempt to feed it one through an outlet socket, the three of them had come to the conclusion that computer bases were not meant to eat marshmallow squares, and that they would take them to Zim instead.
"48 degrees leads us directly into wall." Viy stated flatly. "The fifth lamppost won't take us anywhere different from the fourth or the sixth." She scratched her head uncertainly as she puzzled over the computers directions. "Maybe it printed them in the wrong order."
"Oh, hey! Lookie! There's a human, we can ask him!" GEM suggested, pointing to a kid who was heading down the street, albeit in a very strange and peculiar manner.
"Are you sure that's such a good idea?" Viy glanced at him, then back at the hopeless instructions, before balling them up in her palm and chucking them over her shoulder. "Can't be much worse." she conceded. "Let me do the talking Gem." GEM gave a nod and a small salute before diving into some nearby bushes.
The kid was busy sneaking from bush to bush, to lamppost, to parked car, to bush, to fire hydrant, and there he paused, not having taken any notice of them as he passed, and not taking any notice now either. Nonetheless Viy took this pause in his irrational movements as an opportunity to wander up to him. "Uhm. Hi!" she announced, tapping him lightly on the shoulder and causing him to give a startled yelp of surprise as he turned to face her. "Sorry. I was just wondering if you maybe knew anyone called Zim? We're trying to find his house and we're a bit lost."
"We're?" he frowned uncertainly and glanced around.
"Uhm - I," Viy quickly corrected herself.
"How do you know Zim anyway? Why do you want to know where he lives?" he demanded, deciding to drop that topic and discuss the one at hand. As he straightened, his glasses flashed slightly, and his brown eyes squinted suspiciously from behind them.
"Uhm well you see. I'm due to start school on Monday and. he's supposed to show me round.?" Viy winced at the excuse before continuing. "You see - I'm new here. And the teachers organised some sort of buddy system? I dunno. But anyway, I'm supposed to go to his house on Monday morning so we can walk to school together but I figured I'd better make sure I know where it is now rather than get lost on Monday and. stuff." she squinted uncertainly, aware she was babbling horribly, and the lack of change in the Earth boy's expression was somewhat disconcerting.
"Why would Zim agree to that?" the boy frowned suspiciously, although he was addressing the question more to himself than Viy. "He hates humans, why would he want to help one?"
"Uhm. I kinda think they forced him into it.?" Viy shrugged, knowing either way she should be able to persuade Zim to back up her story.
"Why would they chose Zim anyway, he's not exactly got a shining school record," he continued to himself, frowning still. "They'd have been much better choosing someone like. like. Well, me. Maybe they're punishing him for something. Heh, yeah, that's much more likely."
Viy blinked. Did humans always take this long to answer a simple question? She shrugged to GEM before tapping him on the shoulder again, distracting him from his quiet ranting mutters. "Huh? Oh yeah, you wanted to know where Zim's house was!" Viy nodded, praying this time he would just answer her. "Well, you know I should warn you first. See, now you'll probably think I'm crazy, but Zim's. Well, he's not human."
Viy squinted at him uncertainly. "Okay." she replied, disconcerted by this response. "Well if he's not human, then what is he?"
The kid paused now, looking extremely fidgety and glancing around him before leaning in and speaking hurriedly, "He's an alien. Well, an Irken to be exact, and he wants to destroy us all! And he has this lil evil robot- doggy who helps him out. But he's kind of insane. And his race is watched over by these leaders, who I haven't seen, but I know they lead the race because they're tall. How silly is that? Anyway, there's an armada on the way to Earth, and so it's up to me to stop them or all mankind is doomed!"
Viy simply stared back at him, not sure whether to be horrified at the extent of his knowledge, which she was guessing extended beyond these basic facts, or be really creeped out, the majority of that owing to the way he was regarding her now, as if trying to analyse her reaction.
"Uhm." she began uncertainly, trying to keep her tone steady.
"Hey! You didn't call me crazy!" he exclaimed, cutting her off.
"Huh?" Viy blinked in surprise, noting that if all humans were this insane the instant she got back to the base she'd be packing and making a beeline for the Voot Cruiser.
"This is great." he was telling himself, "Finally! An ally in the fight - the fight to save mankind! Here!" he thrust a camera into Viy's hands before she could object. "This is the last thing he'll be expecting! Try to get some pictures on that, and then we can prove to everyone what Zim really is! His house is just down there, at the end of the second cul-de- sac down. You can't miss it; it's green and purple and glows funny. I'm going to go see if the spy-bot I put in the stuffed peacock on his windowsill has picked up anything. I'll see you at school on Monday though! We can go over stuff then! Okay - ! Uhm. What's your name?"
He frowned uncertainly, while Viy who was feeling somewhat overwhelmed simply replied meekly, "I'm. uh. Viy. New here."
"Viy." he nodded approvingly. "I'm Dib by the way. Viy and Dib - Dib and Viy. Has a nice ring to it doesn't it? Wow, I can tell we're going to be unstoppable! Anyway, I'll see you Monday!" And with that he rushed off, ducking behind various objects as he went, leaving Viy standing on the pavement blankly.
"Aww." GEM said, emerging from the bushes and tilting a beaming face to Viy. "He seemed friendly! If a lil crazy."
Viy simply blinked before turning and walking on with a sigh, "I should have used the computer's directions."
Five or so minutes later, Viy and GEM were sauntering up the path to Zim's house. Or what they hoped was Zim's house. It was green and purple, and it did glow. It also had a stuffed peacock in the window, along with various lawn gnomes, plastic flamingos and puffer fish.
Viy gave a sceptical look as the lawn gnomes turned as she passed, following her with eyes that she could have sworn glowed a faint menacing red. Coming to a halt on the doorstep she paused while GEM unzipped the top of her rabbit costume and extended a robot arm from her head to ring the doorbell, before quickly withdrawing it again.
Viy looked thoughtful now. "Hey! That's what our house is missing! A doorbell," she drew herself up proudly for remembering, and made a mental note to herself to remember to add one later.
The door was answered a few seconds later by a kid Viy recognised from the school records, and who frowned with extreme suspicion at his two visitors. "Who are you?!" he demanded fiercely.
"I'm Viy and this is GEM -" Viy began.
"I don't care who you are!"
"But you -"
"Silence! Do not question the mighty Zim!!"
Viy frowned, but at least they knew they were in the right place. But maybe that wasn't such a good thing.
"Now human stink hog, tell me what you are doing interrupting my peaceful, perfectly normal human evening with my perfectly normal human dog -" At this point GIR waved energetically from within the room and issued a loud 'Hi!'
"- with your stinky human ways! Well? WHY??" Zim frowned determinedly at Viy and GEM, while Viy was finding the appeal of her Voot Cruiser more tempting than ever now.
"I'm Viy, I'm your Evaluator," she stated bluntly before he had a chance to say anything else. "This is GEM, she will be assisting me. And there's a camera sitting inside that stuffed peacock on your window sill." With that she swept into the room, GEM skipping after her still carrying the marshmallow squares on her head.
"Hmm. I wondered what that peacock was doing there." Zim considered, before running outside looking rather panicky. By the explosions and screams that followed, Viy assumed the peacock would not be a threat for much longer.
Tossing the camera lightly onto the couch, she found herself distracted by a light tug on her robe. "Would you like some tequitoooo's.?" GIR beamed cheerfully.
"Would you like some marshmallow squares??" GEM exclaimed delightedly, holding the platter out before her. GIR gave a squeak of approval and instantly wolfed down at least half a dozen, before standing there for ages chewing contentedly, the marshmallow proving quite resilient it would seem.
Zim soon re-entered carrying the rather charred remnants of the peacock over one shoulder while muttering, "I bet that miserable Dib-human is the one responsible for this. He will regret it. Oh how he will regret it." He closed the door behind him and chucked the remainder of the peacock into a nearby cupboard, ignoring Robomum's irritated exclamation of "What have we told you about bringing stray animals into the house, young man?!" that followed.
"Now! Down to business." he paused uncertainly. "Firstly, how do I know you're an Evaluator? You may be some filthy human trick sent by the humans." His eyes fell upon the camera. "What is that?"
"It's a camera," Viy responded with a shrug, glancing over at it.
"Yes yes yes, but what is it doing inside my base?"
"This kid gave it to me. He told me to try and get photos of you," Viy made a face. "Are all humans that insane?"
"Kid?" Zim narrowed his eyes in realisation, "Dib."
"Yeah, that's the one. He had pointy hair -" Viy made a gesture before shrugging again before turning slightly and brushing back her hair so she could open her PAK. Taking out the applicator she typed a few commands into it before letting it hover it midair by her. It beeped a few times before sweeping around her, emitting a wide spanning red laser which switched her skin back to its original colour on contact. Viy removed her wig and contacts, blinking a few times to clear her eyes before turning triumphantly to Zim. "See? Irken." She nodded and slipped the pieces of her disguise back within her PAK.
"Hmm? Oh yes, yes," Zim waved one hand to show he had registered the fact, although his concentration was very much at that point still focused on plotting horrible revenge on Dib. "Gir," he order finally, and taking the camera from the sofa he held it out in front of him, "Here. Chew on this until all the film is used up."
"Yes sir!" GIR managed to bark back through the mass of marshmallow, taking the camera in his paws and regarding it curiously.
"And keep your disguise on Gir, we wouldn't want the human ending up with any pictures of your mighty robot self by mistake, now would we?" GIR simply blinked up at him, dribbling a lump of marshmallow goo onto the lens. Zim gave a slight shudder before turning back to Viy, "Come! I shall show you around my amazing base. You are impressed with my base, yes?" He regarded her eagerly. "Well, it does have a doorbell," Viy admitted approvingly.
"Yes. So it does." Zim nodded, looking extremely pleased with himself, before wandering over to a nearby table. "Computer! Take us to the lab!" he ordered.
A heavy sigh followed, "Do I have to?"
"Yes. Do not question Zim!" he snapped back and tapped one foot impatiently as there was another sigh before the table flipped upwards to reveal a small lift. Viy and Zim stepped onto this, and Zim turned back to where GEM and GIR were sitting, now building some sort of gooey construction with the marshmallow squares. "Remember Gir - use up every picture!" he ordered, before the lift whisked downwards and the table slipped neatly back into place.
"So!" Zim announced, "How long will you be staying for?"
"Uhm. As long as it takes to complete my report I guess." Viy shrugged, not recalling been given an actual timescale by the Tallest, which she realised could be a very bad thing.
"Mmmhmm," Zim nodded, removing his own disguise now to reveal the Irken Viy had become familiar with through so many of his (frequently insane) calls to the Massive. "And do you wish to stay here so you can observe me be all masterful or do you have your own base?"
"I have my own base," Viy replied, perhaps a little quickly, but Zim didn't seem to notice.
"I guess that's for the best - we wouldn't want the Dib growing suspicious."
"Yeah, what's with him anyway?" Viy asked, frowning uncertainly. "I just asked him if he knew where your house was and he just kind of flipped out and announced we were allies or something because I didn't call him crazy..."
"Yes, who knows what goes on in that giant head of his," Zim conceded with a shrug.
"You know, he also seemed to know an awful lot about you and the Irkens in general." Viy pointed out, a hint of suspicion in her voice.
Zim's eyes widened a fraction before he waved off the suggestion. "He thinks he knows a lot," he corrected. "But he only knows what I allow him too."
"Then you must have sat him down and given him a pretty thorough talking through the ways of Irken life," Viy muttered sceptically, but Zim, once more, ignored her.
"Enough of the human - there are more important things to be discussed," he announced as the elevator came to a stop, and marched out proudly into the control centre of his underground lab. "First! We shall contact the Tallest and let them know of your safe arrival."
"But I already -"
"Then we shall discuss how this Evaluation is going to be carried out, when and how you shall observe my ingenious. ness. And how you intend to keep your presence unknown from the Earth people," Zim flicked his antennae smartly. "After all, while the majority of them are relatively stupid, we don't want to take any chances."
"No. but -"
"I assume Dib had something to say about your disguise?"
"No," Viy replied, feeling vaguely confused.
"But he realised you were Irken," Zim continued, as if it were more a fact than a question.
"No, he didn't," Viy began, "He warned me that you were an Irken but -"
"Enough of the human! We shall call the Tallest now," Zim interrupted swiftly, before turning to his control panel and quickly keying in various commands. Viy frowned, thinking she would have quite a few things to say to Purple when she got back. When. That was something she needed to clarify. She wondered briefly if she could trick Zim into believing a thorough Evaluators report could be composed in a day or so.
Zim's video screen flicking to life distracted her however, as it cleared to reveal the Tallest in their command chairs busy discussing something before looking up, none to thrilled at Zim distracting them with a cheerful wave, "Greetings my Tallest! Everything is going well I trust?"
"Well. It was," Purple replied, putting the emphasis on 'was' and casting his eyes downwards before Red broke in.
"Can we make this quick Zim? We're kind of busy."
"Of course my Tallest," Zim agreed with a nod. "Now, as I was saying."
"And soon, none shall question the name of Zim!!!"
"Wha -?" Purple jumped awake at Zim's yell, and sat blinking in that state of dazed confusion that followed a deep sleep. "Uhm." he glanced uncertainly over at Red, who was still fast asleep and murmuring something incoherent about doughnuts and Death Wave cannons. "How long have you been talking Zim.?" Purple asked in a slightly pained way as he rubbed his eyes.
"Going on six hours now," Zim replied brightly.
"Six hours?" Purple replied weakly. "But. you haven't even told us why you called in the first place? Or did you.?" he added thoughtfully, trying to recall just how long he had been awake for, and realising he only remembered around ten minutes of Zim's rants.
"Of course!" Zim exclaimed, "How forgetful and completely unlike me of me. I was merely calling to let you know that the Evaluator arrived safely."
"Viy? Viy's there? .And she hasn't killed you already?"
"Yes, she - Hey!!!" Zim frowned as he turned round.
"What?" Purple asked uncertainly, wondering if Zim had actually registered his comment. He didn't usually. He soon realised the cause for Zim's complaint as he followed his gaze to where Viy was slumped slightly against a nearby machine and looking rather contented as she dozed peacefully. Purple smiled with a mixture of sympathy and fondness at this, before Zim distracted him once more.
"My Tallest. I was under the impression that all the Evaluators were properly trained," Zim hinted, frowning in mild irritation.
"Huh?" Purple glanced briefly at Red once more as he gave a sudden yelp of, 'No! You can't mix jellybeans with mayo!!', and rubbed his head thoughtfully. "Oh. Right. Well ya know Zim; maybe she's just a lil tired? She has been travelling for several months you know."
"Irkens don't get tired," Zim replied flatly.
"In this case I think they do," Purple replied back, equally toneless. "Anyway Zim, could you do me a favour and just nudge her awake? I. We," he added pointedly, shooting a frown at Red, "Would like just a quick word with her."
"Without Zim?" Zim frowned sceptically.
"Geez Zim, you've talked to us for six hours already." Purple flattened his brow, still wondering how it had escaped Zim's notice that they'd been asleep all that time.
"Very well," Zim conceded, although he didn't look too thrilled about it. "I should probably go and see if GIR has completed that task I set him anyway." Folding his arms behind his back he marched neatly over to Viy and poked her once in the arm. "Hey. Heeeeey." he poked her a few more times. "Hey!! You dare defy Zim?!"
Viy blinked sleepily as she raised her head slightly. "Zim.?" she murmured in confusion. "Oh. uhm. Incoming transmission from Earth! I think." she sunk back down with a yawn. "Wasn't I supposed to be going there...?"
"You are here," Zim frowned, irritated. "Now wake up, the Tallest want to talk to you."
"But I talk to them every day," Viy complained, very reluctant to wake up. "Ya know." she paused to yawn, "What with me being a p -"
"Evaluator!!" Purple intercepted quickly, cutting her off. "An Evaluator! Cause. That's what you are!"
"Huh.? Oh yeah," Viy frowned dazedly up at the screen. Zim cast an uncertain glance between Viy and Purple before shrugging. "Oh well. I'll see you back up in the house Viy. We still have a lot to discuss," he added the last bit pointedly before strolling neatly out of the room. "Farewell my Tallest!"
"What? Oh yeah. Bye Zim," Purple responded automatically, watching with relief as the elevator whisked out of sight.
"How long was I asleep for.?" Viy mumbled, stretching and rubbing the side of her face thoughtfully.
"He says six hours, but I think he was lying," Purple replied, frowning slightly as he did.
"At least I wasn't the only one," Viy remarked, an amused look flitting across her face as another of Red's mumblings drew her attention to him.
"Uhm. I think it's fairly safe to say you weren't," Purple replied, looking rather embarrassed. "In fact." he glanced around him. "Aww geez, he put everyone in the cockpit to sleep! And I think that may be a black hole up ahead. Although I can't really tell, what with it being black and all."
Viy's eyes widened briefly before she shook her head. "Honestly, I'm gone for a few months and the Massive's already flying into black holes."
"Yeah. It sucks," Purple replied nonchalantly. "Anyway, enough about us! How are you getting on on Earth?"
"Remember how you thought those inside-outside people of planet Inny- Outty were weird?" Viy began innocently.
"What - the ones who turned themselves inside out whenever they sneezed? Or coughed."
"Or hiccupped," Viy nodded before putting on a stern face. "Earth is weirder. Although in a less organ related way. 'part from that I'm doing good."
"Aww well that's good to hear. And remember, sabotage will be rewarded. Rewarded. Maybe if you - Eeeeiiiyah!! It really is a black hole!!"
"Lasers!" Red exclaimed, jumping awake before frowning at Purple who was busy running screaming around the cockpit. "Hey. What got into - Sweet Irk, we're doomed!!"
Viy watched uncertainly as the cockpit erupted into chaos, with pilots rushing everywhere in desperate attempts to save the ship.
"Uhm Viy? We're gonna have to call you back." Purple stated as he paused, realising she was still on screen.
"I figured as much," she replied lightly. "Zim'll be getting impatient anyway."
"Suddenly black holes don't look so bad," Red commented, coming to a stop beside Purple and considering the thought of tolerating Zim further.
"I'll give you a call tomorrow," Viy concurred before giving them a tired wave, "Viy out." And with that she wandered over to the elevator and stumbled in, still trying to rub the sleep from her eyes.
"Viy!!" GEM squealed delightedly as the Irken appeared from beneath the table; now back in her human disguise just in case GIR was still in the process of his photo taking. Instead she found him perched on top of a rather large, rather daunting, and rather gooey construction peaked with a dangerously swaying tower; and giggling insanely.
"Gir! Get down here now!!" Zim was yelling. "Look at this place!"
"How did you.?" Viy began dazedly, glancing from GEM to the construction to the empty platter, noting that the number of marshmallow squares seemed to have increased tenfold. She scratched her head in confusion before sighing in defeat and deciding that for as long as she was stuck here, it was probably easier not to question those little oddities that appeared.
Instead she wondered over to the sofa and picked up the discarded camera, regretting it rather quickly as it attached itself to her hand with a mass of pink marshmallow and refused to let go. After a few vain attempts to remove it, Viy gave up and glanced over at GEM appealingly. "How long is it till school starts.?"
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School, yay ^^ Now this may actually progress slightly *debates* Oh and yeah, Viy's computer's has mood swings. It's a lot like me actually. One second it can be all 'Ugh' and the next it's humming happily to itself and annoying everyone nearby. Computers are fun. Anyway - *forgets what she was going to say* Oh yeah, next chapter will take a lil longer as I haven't written much on it yet, and I'm ill, so it's slowing it down. Apart from that, thanks for reading!