Okay, I finally updated! Yes, Writer's Block is doom, but now that Skool's out, I should be able to update more often. But then again, I am a lazy little piggy. :)
Disclaimer: Jhonen owns it all!! Except for Rin and Rei. x)
Dedication! Yes, I dedicate this chapter to my friends in the I.I.N.! :D
On with the fic!!
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Dib whimpered lightly and clawed the leather seat as he tried to get out from underneath Rin. He gasped for breath and croaked out, "Can't... BREATHE... Rin... get.. OFF... meeeeee...!"
Rin sighed heavily, apparently insulted for some reason. "FINE, what's-your- name, FINE." she snapped. "I'll get OFF you." She sourly got up and sat next to the window, leaving only a bit of room for Dib to sit in. Dib shifted around until he had gotten himself in an acceptably comfortable position. He sighed unhappily.
All the passengers inside the vehicle where wriggling around, occasionally crying out whenever someone sat or stepped on another person. After a few minutes, however, they where all seated happily in the spacious, stylish car. Well, not really happy... in semi-decent moods, more like.
Zim seemed to have some sort of death grip on the steering wheel. He clutched it with his small gloved hands, and leaned forward in his seat, staring straight ahead, his eyes wide open. He had a silly grin on his face, and he pushed the accelerator even more, urging the car to go faster.
Purple leaned forward and tapped his shoulder. "Uh... little guy? You might want to go... uh... slower, there."
Zim grunted in agreement, but did nothing. Actually, he seemed to be enjoying himself.
Gaz frowned as Zimm shifted in his seat next to her's. Rei leaned away from Gazz and Dib, both of whom where whimpering, shivering and moaning. They where obviously rather scared. Purple looked down at them and smiled reasurringly.
"It's okay, little monsters. We aren't going to hurt you..."
Gazz looked up at him, eyes wide with a preppy, yet scared innocence. "Wha- Wh-What are you going to do to us?" she whispered hoarsly.
Rei shook her head. "I don't know." she responded gravely, pushing her antenna back with her claw. She opened her mouth to say more, but Dibb abruptly lunged forward and pulled his sister back. "Watch out, Gazz!" he hissed, glaring at them all. "They're evil aliens hell-bent on conquering our planet!!"
Gazz hesitated a bit, before she closed her mouth and nodded in agreement. But she couldn't help but notice that the other two kids weren't scared at all. Now that she thought about it, they seemed rather familiar...
Rin smiled, but in a more tired, weary way. "Okay, so... what do we do now?"
Purple grinned sneakily. "Weeeell..." he said, coyly. "First we... GET THE IRKEN AWAY FROM THE STEERING WHEEL." he yelled, as he reached over the car seat and plucked Zim from the seat. The car swerved from left to right, and it's occupants panicked as they realized Purple's mistake. Gazz and Dibb clung to each other, sibling instinct causing them to hold on tight, and Purple seemed about ready to jump out of the broken windows himself. Rin made an odd noise, somewhere between a scream and a cough, as she quickly took Zim's place and stabilized the vehicle. Soon after, the car was cruising along at a reasonable speed, and everyone sighed in relief.
Zimm glared up at Purple, who coughed lightly and innocently asked, "What?"
Zimm shook his head in response, and looked at Zim. He blinked in surprise. Zim seemed to not have noticed that he had been taken away from the seat; his hands where still wrapped around an invisible steering wheel, and his eyes where fixed ahead on an unseen road. Zimm prodded him uncertaintly, and the whole back seat let out a yelp as the Irken snapped out of his reverie, and brandished his PAK weaponry. Zim looked around wildly, before he realized there was no danger, and put his laser back in his PAK.
He looked around at everyone and chuckled. "Heh heh... sorry..."
Zim was met with frosty glares from most of the passengers in the back seat, and he quickly decided to change the subject. "So... where are we going?"
The abrupt subject change seemed to work, and Rei responded, "Area 10, of course."
Zim, Dib and even Gaz's eyes lit up some. Dib smiled in releif. "We're going there right now? So.. we're basically going home!"
Gaz looked at her brother, eyes opening slightly. After a moment, she presented a thin smile before returning to her game. Although she hadn't shown it, she too had been anxious to return to her home dimension.
Dib threw his arms out and cried out happily. "Yes! Whoo-hoo! Home!"
Rei leapt into the front seat as Dib celebrated, and pushed Rin a bit. "Rin, get in the back and let me drive."
Rin looked down at her, eyes pleading. "But whyyyy??" she whimpered, pouting.
Rei sniffed airily. "You don't know the way to Area 10, of course."
Rin frowned, and huffily scooted out of the seat, allowing Rei to drive. She clambered into the back seat, and looked around.
"Okay." she began professionally, "Let's get a bit organized here, yes?"
She looked around as if waiting for a response. When she got none, she clapped her hands together and nodded. "Very well then!" she continued sportingly. "First things first; the tykes!"
She motioned to Dibb and Gazz to present who she was talking about. Zimm, Zim, Dib, and Purple nodded. Rin turned towards them. She leaned close to Dibb until they where eye to eye.
"Do you realise the amount of trouble you have caused us?" she whispered menacingly.
Dibb cringed a bit, but a moment after he sat up and stared defiantly at them all. "Yes I do. And I am proud that I am doing something to protect my planet! You will never take earth!" he finished, crossing his small, yet muscled arms over his chest.
His statement was met with an annoyed sigh from the Rebels. It was obvious that nothing was going to change his mind.
Dib, however, smiled lightly, and leaned back against his seat. He couldn't help but notice a few similarities between himself and his doppleganger; both trying to protect earth, both faced with the Irken Race... true, his doppleganger was rather thick-headed and stupid... but still....
Rin shook her head and dismissed it. After a brief moment of mental rest, she motioned to Dibb and Gazz and said, "What do we do with them?"
Purple smiled importantly and cleared his throat. "AHEM, AHEM, hem hem hem, HEM!!!"
Zimm leaned away and rubbed his antenna a bit. "Is there something you want to say, Purple?" he asked sarcastically.
Purple smiled even more, and nodded. "Yes! Before we left the base, I managed to pick out a few special things..." he said, as he reached into his pocket and pulled out the metal spheres he had picked up earlier. "Ta da!" he cried triumphantly, shoving them into Zimm's face.
Zimm stared at them for a moment, and when he saw what they where, his face split into a slightly scary Irken grin as he happily responded, "Yes! These are perfect! Actually I'd forgotten all about them."
Zim stared at them blankly. "What are they?" he asked. They vaguely reminded him of the Vortian Power Cells he had used for powering that damned device that had lead to all this.
Rin took them from Purple's arms and responded, "They're holographic disguises, of course! A bit impractical, if I do say so meh-self, but perfectly acceptable for this situation."
She handed one to each person, except for Dibb and Gazz of course, and small clicking sounds came from all around as the Rebels did... SOMETHING to the spheres, and a fraction of a second later they where all in the disguises they had been wearing at the movies.
Zim looked at them, his face a blank, before he looked down at his own sphere and poked it. When the sphere failed to respond, he took out one of his spider leg attachments and poked it some more, a bit more viciously this time. The sphere, however, didn't seem to register this as it still didn't respond. Zim stared at it; he was starting to get really angry at that thing...
"I, Almighty Irken Invader Zim, command you, Thing, to WORK!" he snapped, hoping that it could be activated by voice. The device yet again failed to respond.
Zim's eyes narrowed. "So that's the way it's gonna be, eh?" he whispered before beginning to bite it rabidly.
Meanwhile, Rin had clicked the disguises over Dibb and Gazz's heads, ignoring Dibb's complaints ("What are you doing? Stop! Stop I say! Nooooo!!"), and Gazz's pleading ("Please don't hurt me, please oh please, I'm too gorgeous to die! I'm a cheerleader, PLEEEASE!!"). Now Dibb and Gazz's forms had been replaced by two twin children, both with lovely, brown eyes and black hair, both of some sort of Asian origin.
Dib and Gaz where staring at their disguises, both looking a bit... hesitant. Dib pushed his glasses up the bridge of his nose a bit, and asked Purple, in a timid voice, "Uh... Purple is it? Right... why do we need these, again?"
Purple looked at Dib, smiling and deciding that he didn't completely hate him. He took the sphere and held it over his head. "Well you see, Human Smeet, it is best to completely change our identities, you see. That way, there really is NO WAY AT ALL of the humans finding us. Not that I think it matters," he finished, clicking a small button on the sphere, "Seeing how we'll get to Area 10 tomorrow and you'll be back by tomorrow NIGHT."
A hologram appeared on Dib, and he now looked like an average brunette girl of around 13, with sparkling blue eyes. Dib looked at himself in the mirror and cringed.
Purple chuckled lightly. "Whoops." he said. He held the sphere over Dib again, and clicked it once more. The hologram went back into it's containment unit, and Purple grabbed the one from Gaz and put it on Dib, now revealing a slightly odd teenaged boy with spiky red hair and glasses. (Guess who dat be? xD )
Gaz glared at the sphere Dib had discarded, the one with the brunette girl, and scowled. Purple clicked it over her head, and that same blue eyed brunette was now sitting there, playing her Game Slave. Really, to Gaz little things such as physical appearance mattered very little, especially here where no one she knew was about to show up.
Zim frowned lightly (he had long ago given up trying to bite his disguise into working). He tapped Purple's arm, and spoke. "Purple? Did you say... we will get to Area 10 tomorrow?"
Purple nodded airily. He turned in his seat, and was met with an angry Zim floating in front of his face on his spider leg attachments. Zim sputtered a bit, before he could speak.
"What do you MEEEEAAAN we will be home by tomorrow night!?" he yelled into Purple's face. Without awaiting a response, he continued, "I have stuff to do! The Skool will get suspicious! GIR will be worried! And so will my Tallests-!" he stopped abruptly, sensing that he had crossed into a touchy subject.
With some effort, Zim leaned back in his chair and closed his mouth. Zimm nodded, and whispered to him, "Yes, it's best to shut up now... Purple's a bit touchy about the T-word..."
As Zimm activated Zim's disguise, he noticed that he and his doppleganger had just had a brief moment where there was not an open feeling of dislike and tention between them. His thoughts where cut short, however, when his disguise came into view, revealing a tan faced youth with sandy colored hair. Zim looked at his reflection in the window, and saw a human boy around the age of 12 looking back at him. The hologram was large enough to completely cover his real self, and his Irken uniform had been replaced by slightly baggy jeans and a well-worn red tee.
During all this time, Dib had been looking around, reclining in his seat. As he studied his surroundings, he had been getting an increasingly sick feeling in his tummy, and as Zim examined his disguise, Dib's suspicions where confirmed. This car... 'I've been in here before!' he thought to himself in shock.
He looked around at everyone and yelled, "THIS CAR BELONGS TO A PARANORMAL INVESTIGATOR NAMED BILL!"
What little conversation there was now ended as they all stared at Dib. Rin was the first to speak.
"Wha?" she asked dumbly.
Zim looked at Dib suspiciously. "How do you know this?" he asked skeptically.
Dib looked at Zim. "Bill is the guy I got paired with for the Career Day thing, remember?"
Zim nodded and smirked at him. "Well, he was an idiot, wasn't he?"
Dib sighed and shook his head. "Yes he was." he responded. "But here... well... what if he's not?"
This latest bit of unfortunate news caused much more conversation to arise in the group, and had they been paying more attention, they'd have noticed Gazz's newly disguised eyes, staring with mounting adoration at the sandy haired boy that was now Invader Zim.
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Hooray for sucky endings! Yay! So, now we have Bill involved in the story. :) And Gazz seems to be getting a crush on Zim. xDD
Now, Dib is disguised as a young teenaged Jhonen V. Because, come on... we all luff Jhonen...
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Yeppers. Well... would you please review? :)