A/N: Oops, sorry about the delay. I have no real excuse except that I've been drooling in front of the computer screen instead of finishing this little horror of mine. This chapter features Gaz and lots more Dib. Good yes? Once again a big thanks to all my reviews so far, you guys are awesome :thumbsup:

Chapter Four: Run Dib Run

As like every other day Dib and Gaz had a whole table to themselves at Recess the following morning. Gaz had brought her own food from home, not trusting the slivering organisms called 'food' that was given to them while Dib sat with his School brought 'snack' poking it with his spork while talking about some stupid crap, again. Gaz growled trying warn her clue-less brother as she pulled herself even closer to the book she reading.

"He's planning something Gaz!" Said the clue-less brother, waving his spork about in excitement a little piece of this 'food' that attached to the spork had become air born and hit the demonic sister right in the cheek, not good. "I know it! Something... sick and horrible! Man, you should've seen the stunt he pulled yesterday in Bio-"

"Dib," Gaz breathed, interrupting him and trying to keep her voice as level as possible. "I am not kidding, you make one more mention Zim or anything else and I'm going to rip your fucking tongue out with my hands Dib, with my bare hands."

So it was that the frightening being known as 'Gaz' had become ever more darker and spookier with each passing year, a true demon on earth if ever there was one.

"You should've seen what Zim was doing!" Dib went on not seeming to notice his spooky sibling's threat and the even louder growl escaping her jaws now. Actually he wasn't all that sure what exactly Zim was planning or doing yesterday. It had happened so quickly he barely noticed Zim running out of the classroom. And what the other students were saying to him, it really did spook him out, Zim must've put some sort of mind controlling device on all of them to freak Dib out. Well surely Zim must've under estimated that he was dealing with the future leading paranormal scientist and the alien's plan failed to work it the slightest. Yep, this sure didn't affect him in the slightest. He would've dealt with Zim sooner only he had to miss his first three classes before lunch due to some unsettledness in his stomach, but that wasn't his fault you know?

Dib was so busy thinking and talking about how the whole incident didn't affect him that he didn't notice the dark shadow that loomed over him, a dark, sinister looking shadow holding a lunch tray.

"Heya Dib." It hissed interrupting the Dib mid-sentence. Dib gave a high pitched scream as he fell off his seat. Gaz gave one of her rare grins.

"Zim." He spat out, making his land on the floor as casual as possible lest he show weakness in front of his enemy. "What are you doing here?"

"Oh nothing, nothing, can't a normal human wormbaby like myself socialise with the other horrible stink beasts around him?" Zim replied as innocently as he could. "Is this seat taken?" Before Dib had a chance to reply Zim sat himself down right next where Dib had managed to crawl back up only seconds before. Zim turned to Dib and starred at his general direction, his eyes running up and done the boy thin boy's body.

A moment passed in silence, then another. Dib eyed Zim suspiciously.

"If you think you're going to get any information out of me you've got another thing coming Space Boy!" The Earth boy mumbled out a little more loudly and forced then he wanted to.

Zim didn't reply and simply continued to stare at Dib ever intently making him even more suspicious.

"Zim, are you listening to me?" Not that was practically usual for the little green man but Dib couldn't think of anything to say at that moment and he felt he needed to say something. That creepy alien seemed entranced by something or something.

"Zim?"

"..."

"ZIM?"

"..."

"ZIM!?" Dib bellowed at the top of his lungs. Luckily due to the high noise volume already going on in the crowded cafeteria his screams went mostly un-noticed with only the first 3 desks around him turning around to stare, although it seemed enough to rouse Zim out of his trance.

"Hmm? Yes, what is it?" He mumbled sluggishly.

"Did you hear me before? I said-"

"Oh yes, yes that's great." Zim waved his gloved hand dismissively. "Say Dib-monster, could you turn around and bend over for a minute?"

This time it was Dib who was doing the starring. Searching for something on Zim's face that would jump up to him and yell something along the lines of 'HA! HA! I fooled you Dib-beast! My plans to mess with your head have succeeded!'. Not finding that something, he stood up silently and sprinted out of the room.

"Dib-human! Come back! I'm not finished with you yet!" Zim yelled to the back of Dib's trench coat.

The ever determined Zim got up hastily, amazingly having the sense to take enough care as to not even fling one of the scary Dib sister's hairs out of place and took off after him. Finally Gaz was left alone to her peace.

"Freaks." She hissed to no one in particular.

All the while Dib had managed to stumble his way outside and was running through the playground, vaguely aware that he would most certainly get detention for leaving the lunchroom early but not caring all the same.

The hell? Wasn't it supposed to be him chasing Zim and not vice versa? This whole sudden extra strangeness from the alien had both scared and confused the tormented earth boy. For once confronting Zim about his behaviour wasn't something that he wanted particularly to engage in. As Dib swam in his gooey thoughts inside his so-called over-sized head, he failed to notice a spooky green figure popping up straight in front of him. That is until he ran smack into to it.

Instead of the expected shouting and yelling that would've come from green one on any normal day, it managed to quickly recover its posture and look up directly at Dib.

"Hiya Dib-beast!" Zim sneered at him, his sinister grin growing ever wider despite the strain that his superior Irken neck had to face in order for his violet contacts to meet with the Dib's own petty eyeballs.

Dib stifled a scream.

"Zim! You, what, how d-did you get- so fast-and- not- before- uh..." Was all he could manage to mumble out, feeling both out of breath and brain smacked.

Zim gave him a look bordering on disgust.

"As usual your sense maker makes none of it!" He stated smugly. Dib would've scratched his head in confusion had he not been so used to Zim's somewhat unusual dialect. "But enough of this! Come now, there is no time for your physical exercise we must get back to class where we shall bask in pathetic earth knowledge together since you're in every one of Zim's classes."

With that said he grabbed Dib rather painfully by the wrist and dragged the bemused young man towards the Skool building. Dib coming quickly back to his senses started pulling and tugging for his arm back, all the while expressing a ton of angry protests. For his petite and rather weak looking frame Zim was surprisingly strong, many times stronger then poor, weak Dib at any rate.

The end of the lunch bell had just happened to ring as the two made their way back into the delightfully shabby Hi Skool. A turn to the left, then right, then right again led them into their designated classroom for that period. Zim's grip seemed to loosen momentarily as they stepped into the classroom and Dib used the opportunity to pull back his now aching wrist from the mighty grasp of Zim. Then without looking back he made a mad dash to the other end of the classroom (only knocking over a few desks and bitchy students along the way) and rather ungracefully sat himself down at his usual desk in the corner.

Stretching out his tried limbs on his lonely desk Dib let out an over-dramatic sigh. He pulled off his glasses placing them on the desk and rubbed the ridge on his nose as he attempted to piece his jumbled thoughts together. Strange, it was almost as if someone was breathing hot air down his neck... and rather loud breathing to go with it...

Ever so slowly turning his head to the direction of the rather heavy breathing Dib found himself once again face to face to with Zim. A fixated stare was on the alien making his eyes bludging out more then usual.

'Okay... this is getting spooky.'

Dib turned to the front of the class where the teacher had just come in and was shuffling through her notes. He waved his left hand franticly in the air hoping to get the teacher's attention as soon as humanly possible.

She noticed soon enough and let out an exhausted sigh.

"Yes Dib, what is it now?"

Dib was a well known problem child and reputation went with him where ever he seemed to go.

"Miss Spleen?" Said Dib, for that was her name. "I'm not feeling very well right now, uh... a terrible toe infection I think... could I go see the nurse?"

Another exasperated sigh escaped Miss Spleen.

"Very well, put on the Hall Pass and take a bucket with you lest you spill out your lunch unto our Skool floors."

Dib nodded thankfully. He pushed himself of his chair, attached the Hall Pass on his neck before Miss Spleen had a chance to do so and headed out the door.

"Don't forget the bucket!" shouted Miss Spleen.

Dib re-appeared from the doorway, quickly pulling the smelly mop from the metal bucket at his closest corner and ran out the door again.

Zim panicked. That sneaky Dib had managed to make himself scarce from him again. Why must he always ruin Zim's mighty plans!? Zim got up on his chair and waved both him arms about in the air [like he just didn't care, no, wait, scrap that].

"Teacher woman! Teacher woman! Zim is uh- very sick to. I must go to the nurse as well, yes."

"Sit /down/ Zim. You know about my rule of only having one student absent from the class at a time." He didn't. "Now open your textbook and go on memorising chapters 5 through 9, while I flick through this lifestyle magazine."


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