When they arrived at Zim's house, Tem and Zim immediatly headed to the lab room where Zim's experiment was, leaving Kelly to have a staring contest with Gir. Kelly lost, and Gir laughed, then hopped down off the couch and began running into the kitchen.

"Hey, Gir! Where are you going?"

"To the base-yment. Master keeps all sorts of neat stuff down there."

Kelly grinned, for all she knew, this could be fun.

"Can I see?"

"Yuh-huh! C'mon, this way!"

Gir jumped into the toilet, Kelly following close behind. When they arrived, Kelly looked around, grinning. This was all stuff from old missions of Zim's. Seeing what looked like a bike handle, Kelly walked over to it, and nearly fell over laughing. It was an old tricycle, with a little license plate that said 'DIB'.

I wonder how he got -that- thing.

Not far from it was some sort of helmet, property of Prof. Membrane, a giant robot, and the mangled remains of some sort of portal-creating machine. He also found, half buried under random stuff, including half-destroyed rubber piggies, was a small, printed up picture of what looked like Dib, when he was very little, maybe around five. Kelly smiled.

"Awww, I think I'll ask Dib how old he was in this picture."

Kelly carefully put it in her backpack and continued walking around.

After a while, she found a small computer disk, and put it into the old, beat up computer on the other side of the room. When she saw what it was, she tilted her head, confused.

"Why would he keep records of Dib's genetic makeup? Eesh, and I thought Tem was weird, keeping one of my skool projects from when we first met."

hrugging, Kelly took the disk out and put it back where she had found it, and continued looking around. Gir came running up to her, holding something.

"LOOKY!"

Kelly laughed.

"Alright, Gir."

Instead of handing the rectangular object to Kelly, he started heading back upstairs. Kelly ran after him, and caught up just as Gir put the object into the VCR and sat down on the couch. Confused, Kelly sat down next to him, and watched as the tape played everything that had happened during the 'Mars Mission'. Just as it got to the part where Dib got knocked out of his chair and landed head first in the butt of mercury, Dib jumped in through the window. Seeing Gir sitting on the couch, watching TV wasn't strange. Seeing Kelly next to the small robot wasn't that unexpected either, since Tem and Zim were friends. However, seeing Gir and Kelly sitting on the couch, watching a tape of the time Zim had planned to squish all life on Earth by rolling Mars on it was just weird. Kelly, realizing who had just entered the house, started giggling. She tried to stop, but intsead just ended up laughing harder. Dib looked at her.

"What's so funny?"

"You...You fell...You fell into Mercury's BUTT CRACK!"

Kelly continued laughing, joined by Gir, while Dib just stood there, looking embarrassed.

"It's not like I meant to or anything..."

Kelly eventually calmed down and looked at Dib.

"You're right, I'm sorry. But still, you gotta admit it's funny when you think about it."

Dib gave a half-grin.

"I guess it is. In a strange, messed up way."

Kelly nodded, then pulled out the picture of little Dib.

"Hey, how old are you in this?"

Dib looked at it.

"I was five. Where'd you get this?"

"I found it in Zim's basement, over by your tricycle, some sort of helmet that belongs to your dad, a giant robot, a big machine that looked like it could create portals, and a bunch of rubber pigs."

Dib shuddered.

"Pigs...Egh...Wait, how'd he get my tricycle?"

Kelly shrugged.

"I dunno, but he also had a record of your genetic makeup."

"Wha?"

"It was actually kinda cute. I mean, I know Tem hangs onto a couple skool projects and drawings that I did when we first met, but I doubt he has a record of my genes lying around anywhere."
B"Are....Are you suggesting that Zim likes me?"

Kelly smiled.

"Well, it's only a hunch....But did seem overly worried about you when he shot you....and he was all sorts of weird stuff in your basement that has to do with you....and, you are the closest thing he had to a friend until Tem showed up, and Tem's taken, so.....It's possible. What, do you like him?"

Dib's eyes widened.

"No way. He's my enemy, and he's trying to take over Earth. Plus, he's a guy."

Kelly shrugged.

"Oh well, you two woulda made a cute couple."

Just then, Tem and Zim came back up to the main floor.

"Hey Kelly, we can go now."

Kelly smiled.

"Okay. And Zim, do you mind if I borrow this?"

Kelly held the tape up so he could see what it was.

"Where di you find that?"

"Well, Gir found this, but it was when we were in the basement. I found this adorable picture of Dib when he was five."

Tem barely kept from snickering, while Zim glared at Kelly.
B"Leave."

"Can I borrow the tape?"

"No. Now leave."

Kelly shrugged and put the tape down.

"Well, let's go Tem. I still have homeowrk to finish."

Tem nodded and the two walked out of the house, leaving Zim, Gir and Dib to stare at each other.

As Tem and Kelly walked down the street, Kelly giggled.

"Hey Tem, I wasn't the only one that noticed that Dib was blushing, was I?"

Tem smirked.

"Nope. Oh, and something interesting, I managed to look through some of Zim's files while he was working, and there was a huge observation file on Dib. It was all pretty basic stuff, hisfamily, physical appearance, abilities, resources, y'know, pretty normal, except for this one thing."

"What was it?"

"Zim had listed what had to be all of Zim's likes and dislikes."

Kelly grinned.

"Really?"

Tem grinned also, though a little sadly.

"Yeah. The only problem is that Zim listed himself in Dib's dislikes."

Kelly nodded.

"Makes sense. Well, it shouldn't take too long to change that, especially with us helping."

Kelly and Tem smiled and kept walking, until Kelly suddenly tripped and fell flat on her face. She sat up slowly, holding her hand to her nose, which was bleeding, to see Gaz standing nearby, looking at them. Before Kelly could speak, Gaz had opened her eyes and stared at the other human.

"You're trying to get Zim and my brother together, right?"

Kelly, a little confused, nodded. Gaz closed her eyes again.

"I've been working on Dib for awhile. Not that he's noticed, the idiot."

Kelly nodded slightly again.

"He's still in denial. Once he's admitted it to himself, it'll be alot easier."

"Zim already knows he likes DIb, then."

"Mmhmm."

Kelly was about to say more, but Gaz suddenly dissapeared in a swirl of smoke. Tem shook his head as he helped Kelly stand up.

"Creepy girl, that one."

Kelly nodded, eyeing the spot that Gaz had been standing.

at skool the next day, Kelly and Tem couldn't keep from laughing at how obviously Dib was avoiding Zim. Kelly walked over to the taller human boy and slung her arm around his shoulders.

"Dib, you are FAR too obvious."

"Excuse me? And move your arm."

Kelly kept her arm where it was.

"If you don't want anyone to think something's going on, you have to continue as always. You are not, therefore it's almost painfully obvious."

Dib glared at Kelly and pulled away from her.

"I do not like Zim!"

Dib spun around and walked away, while Kelly just stood and giggled.

"Now when did I say anything about that?"

Tem sighed and smacked his head against his desk as Mr. Green wrote 'How WE can acheive world peace' on the board. Kelly simply watched Tem, smiling sympathetically. Zim groaned and pulled out one of the few useful human machines he had come across; a cd player. Dib sat in the back of the room, glaring first at Kelly, then at Tem, then at Zim.

I DO NOT like Zim. I don't see what Kelly and Tem are thinking. And...wait a minute, how can Zim use headphones? He doesn't have ears. Hmm...maybe he just has subdermal ears or something....He'd look weird with ears. A nose would absolutely ridiculous. Hey, when'd he change his wig? I never noticed that before....

Kelly glanced over at Dib, nearly laughing out loud when she saw him studying Zim.

Well THAT wasn't very difficult.

Tem tapped Kelly and handed her a notebook. She looked down at it to see that Tem had written 'Did I look like that when I stared at you before?'

Kelly giggled and wrote, before handing the notebook back to Tem.

'Yeah, except a little less confused.'

Tem laughed a little in embarassment, then turned back to whatever he had been working on before. Kelly sat back and began reading a book.

Tem glanced at Kelly before looking back down at his paper, is plans. He had been in contact with another Irken while he was away from earth, who had told him about the state of things back on his home planet, and things weren't good. The female he had talked to, Fae, was one of the leaders of a rebellion that was forming and she had wanted him to join. He had told her about Earth, and Kelly, and she had told him that if she wanted to come, they would welcome her. Now he just had to figure out how to tell her that he felt he needed to go, but she wouldn't be able to come, because hse couldn't survive without water, which didn't exist on Irk.

Tem stood, shocked and holding his calw up to his cheek, that was bright red. He blinked once, looking down at Kelly, who was glaring furiously up at him.

"I can't beleive you'd just give up that easily, Tem!"
BWhirling away from the Irken boy, she yelled at the computer.

"Computer! Could you alter a human's genes so that they'd require some substance other than water to live?"

The computer seemed to think about for a moment.

"Yeah, I could do that. It'd probably end up altering quite a few other genes in the process, but nothing fatal."

Kelly smiled triumphantly.

"How long would it take you to get set up to do that for me?"

"Umm...about a month."

Kelly nodded.

"Alright. Tem, we have a month to get Zim and Dib together."

WEll, you now know what happens to my plots when I listen to System and ICP for too long.