Tem had cooked breakfast before he went upstairs to wake Kelly up. He first tried tapping her, which had no reaction, so her tried shaking her a little, which got a mumble, but nothing more. Then, as Tem was about to try again, the doorbell rang, and Kelly sat straight up, bonking Tem's head in the process. Kelly blinked, looked down at Tem, who was rubbing his jaw, shrugged, then went dowstairs, where the robot had already answered the door. Kelly deactivated it, after seeing that Zim was at the door. Zim blinked once.

"Kelly? What are you doing here?"

Kelly dragged Zim inside and shut the door, then looked down at her watch.

"I got here....5 hours ago."

"Yeah, but why?"

"I decided to move in early. Well, it smells like breakfast is ready, you hungry?"

"What is it?"

Kelly ran into the kitchen, and ran back out a moment later.

"Pancakes, butter, syrup, milk, orange juice, and anything else in the fridge."

Zim grimaced, he'd had too many pancake experiences at his own house to ever consider eating them. Kelly grinned.

"No? Oh well. So, why'd you come here?"

Before Zim reply, Tem had gotten dowstairs and grabbed Kelly's shoulder.

"No talk. Eat."

Kelly laughed as she allowed Tem to push her into the kitchen. As she sat down at the table she poked Tem.

"Looks like someone hasn't had their gramol yet."

Tem grinned and rolled his eyes, pouring himself a cup of the aforementioned coffe-like substance. Zim blinked.

"You've heard of gramol?"

Kelly laughed a bit, swallowing a mouthful of pancake.

"The first time Tem stayed on earth, he drank that stuff every morning. Once, he forgot, and all he could manage was incoherent babbling the entire day, so I ended up brewing some every morning, just in case he forgot his, which he did pretty often, once he found out I did that....Hey..."

Tem chuckled.

"Took you long enough to catch that."

Kelly had just enough time to stick her tongue out at him before shoving more pancake into her mouth.

As Kelly ate, Tem turned to face Zim.

"So, why did you come over so early? Skool doesn't start for an hour."

"Kelly had told us about a battle you two once had, and I was curious as to how you healed her."

Tem blinked.

"Why would she tell you about that?"

"Something similar happened with Dib."

Tem's eyes shot open.

"Is he okay?"

Kelly swalloed and looked up at Tem.

"We got him fixed up just fine."

Tem nodded, and turned back to Zim.

"So, you wanted to know how I healed Kelly?"

Zim nodded, and Tem hopped up onto the counter to sit.

"You know that I basically destroyed over a quarter of her heart, and that the heart is one of the two essential organs in a human's body?"

Zim nodded again, and Tem leaned back slightly.

"Cybernetics. Well, not really. I had my computer simulate human heart tissue, and simply reattached it to her heart. It's arttificial, but works just the same."

Zim nodded once again.

"It's a good thing that that's not what happened to Dib. My computer does not have those capabilities."

Kelly looked over at Zim, after putting her dishes in the sink.

"You were really worried about him."

"No I wasn't."

"Yes you were. You looked like you were about to faint. And the way your voice shook when you called Gir....You were definitely worried about Dib."

"I would never care about some filthy meatbag."

Kelly glanced at Tem, who was doing all he could to keep from laughing at the whole thing, then looked back at Zim.

"You're right, you don't care about him. You love him."

Silence. Then, Zim yelled.

"You're just begging for some doom, Kelly!"

Kelly laughed.

"Aha! I was right!"

"I do not love that worm baby!"

Tem snickered.

"Oh yeah, that's real convincing, Zim."

Zim growled and stomped his foot.

"You both have the brainworms if you think I love Dib!"

Zim stomped out of the house, and Kelly looked at Tem.

"Please tell me you had the surveillance cameras tapeing that.'

Tem smiled as a screen extended down from the ceiling, and played Zim's little rant. Kelly chuckled a bit, before picking up her backpack, which Mir had brought downstairs for her, and heading outside, with Tem next to her.

"One down, one to go."

Tem smirked.

"Yeah, and all we have to do is to get them to start thinking about the possibility. I love matchmaking."

Kelly smirked.

"Perhaps a bit too much. Remember what happened to the punk and the prep you tried hooking up?"

"What, back in freshman year? Of course I do."

"Do you remember what happened to them? They went on one date, and the punk tried assasination attempts at least once a week for the rest of the year!"

"Oh yeah..."

Kelly just rolled her eyes.

"Hey Tem, so why did you really leave Irk?."

Tem sighed, then giggle a little.

"I think you're right about me liking to matchmake too much. I was banished."

Kelly paused, jaw dropped, then she began laughing.

"Oh no! What could you have possibly done to get you banished that had to do with matchmaking?"

Tem looked a bit sheepish.

"Well, I used to be a pretty high-ranking invader, beleive it or not. I may not have liked my job, but I was very good at it. Well, I went to a lot of meetings with the Tallest, and just thought that they'd make a cute couple. Well, I tried all sorts of tricks to get them together, and when they discovered who was behind it, they had me banished pretty quickly."

Kelly blinked, then started laughing. From behind them, Tem barely heard someone say

"What about banishing?"

Tem turned around to see Dib, eyebrow raised, looking at Kelly, who was sitting on the ground, holding her sides, and laughing hard enough to make her eyes water. Tem motioned for Dib to walk with him, and ignore Kelly.

"She'll calm down eventually."

"So, what did you say about banishing?"

Tem gave Dib the extremely short version. Dib blinked.

"But Kelly said that you left because you didn't like to fight."

"Well, it's true that I didn't like to fight, but I didn't just leave, I was banished first. I escaped from the planet I was banished to, then came to Earth."

Dib shrugged, then looked back at Kelly, who seemed to have found a new source of amusement, and was laughing just as hard as she had been. Tem noticed also and rolled his eyes.

"I can't beleive she brought that..."

"What?"

Tem chuckled a little bit.

"Zim came over this morning, asking about how I healed Kelly that one time, and after I told him, Kelly and I had a bit of fun."

"What do you mean?"

"Well, it's nothing really."
BJust then, Kelly came running over to Tem.

"You didn't tell me this thing had an 'edit' feature. Lookit what I can make him say!"

Kelly hit play, and instead of screaming 'I don't love Dib!' like he really had, Kelly had edited out the 'don't' so Zim was now yelling 'I love Dib!'. Tem Just held his hand to his forehead, laughing.

"I suggest you don't show that to Zim. He might kill you."

Kelly just laughed.

"Yeah, well right now I'm more worried about being late to school."

Suddenly, they all realised that they probably were, and began running. They all managed to slide into their seats just before the bell rang. Zim simply glanced at them, before returnng to staring blankly at the chalkboard at the front of the room. He shuddered, on the board, Mr. Geen had written what they'd be discussing today: 'Why the age of Aquarius is important'

"Hey, Zim. Lookit this."

Kelly tossed the handheld screen at Zim, who hesitantly pressed play. She had edited everything so that it sounded like he was telling Tem and Kelly that he loved Dib. At the top of his lungs. Not noticing or caring that Mr. Green was in the room, Zim stood up, chucked the screen in the general direction of Kelly, and Tem caught it. He pulled a laser pistol out of his backpack, and leveled it at Kelly.

"Shall we see if that artificial peice of your heart is bulletproof?"

Everyone but Tem and Kelly began to slowly back away from Zim. Tem simply sighed, he knew what Kelly was up to. As Zim tightened the claw that was on the trigger, Kelly flipped up and over Zim, lasnding behind him and pulling his arm up so that the laser blast harmlessly shot at the ceiling. Kelly took the pistol from him, and used one arm to hold one of his arms behind his bck, wrapping the other around his throat. Zim splutered a bit.

"How did you do that!?"

Kelly smirked.

"Training and practice, mostly. What, you think Tem never tried to pull a gun on me?"

Zim simply growled and tried to get free of Kelly's grip, but couldn't. By now, Mr. Green had called the principal, who was just arriving. Seeing Kelly restraining the strange boy with the gun, and the hole in the ceiling, he glared at the only people still in the middle of the room: Kelly, Zim, and Tem. He also saw Dib, but he was far enough away to not cause suspicion. He looked at Tem.

"What is going on here!?"

Tem paled slightly, he knew Zim looked like the bad guy, even though it really was Kelly's fault, but if they called Kelly's parents in about it....It would be very bad.

"Well, um, you see, sir," Tem began hoping he sounded nough like a frightened human child, "There was a guy with a gun, and...umm...Zim took the gun from him...he jumped out the window so..he's not here anymore...and Kelly thought that Zim was who shot the ceiling....so she restrained him....it wasn't his fault though..."

Tem tried to keep from exhaling too loudly as the principal seemed to buy it. He turned to look at Kelly and Zim.

"Kelly, let go of him, he's innocent. Zim, thank you for taking the weapon from that man. Now if you'll just give it to me, I'll send it to the crime lab so we can find out who that man was."

The two Irkens and their two human friends all paled. Then Kelly, who was still close to Zim, whispered at him.

"Doesn't that thing have a self-destruct?"
BZim's eyes widened in comprehension. He carefully twisted a knob and handed it to the principal. The large man left, and Zim looked at Kelly.

"It's timed to go off in five minutes."

Kelly smiled and breathed a sigh of releif. Then Mr. Green allowed them to leave early, since it had been a very stressful day.

As soon as they were out of the building, Kelly jumped on Tem, hugging him tightly.

"You are a genius! I love you!"

Tem froze for a moment, surprised, then returned the hug.

"Thank you. And I love you too, Kelly."

Kelly smiled up at him, then began walking towards his house, the others behind her. When she stopped in the middle of the street, Dib almost ran into her.

"Ack! I almost forgot, if my parents see me go into your house, Tem, they'll come searching for me."

"Well, how are we going to get around that?"

Kelly smiled as she pointed to the general store across the street.

"I'll just dye my hair. C'mon Tem, I want you to help me pick out a color. I've never really liked blond, anyway."

The foursome walked out of the store fifteen minutes later, Kelly holding a box of black hair dye. Tem looked down at her.

"You know, I don't think it'll be much of a help while it's still in the box."
BKelly laughed.

"You're right. Well, I'm guessing Zim's place doesn't have running water, so...Dib, could I borrow your bathroom for a couple minutes?"

Dib shrugged.

"I don't see why not."
BKelly smiled.

"Thanks Dib. Well, let's go!"

Gaz hadn't even bothered to look up when the foursome walked in, and Kelly locked herself in the bathroom for fifteen minutes. When she came back out, her hair was just as black as Dib's. Tem smiled.

"It looks good on you."

Kelly smiled also.

"Thanks Tem. Well, what say we go home?"

"Actually, I was thinking of going over to Zim's. He wants me to look over an experiment he's conducting."

"Am I invited?"

"Yes."

"Okay! Sounds fun."