Chapter 4
Another hideous space mutant writhed in pain, was enveloped by flames, and disappeared. Gaz grinned to herself. She had only five more levels to go and she would beat Deadly Invaders of Deadly Deadliness 6, the game that had frustrated, no, taunted her, all week long. There, the secret portal, if she could just concentrate-
"Waugh!"…thud.
Her finger slipped…game over. Rage washed over her, a terrible, annoyed, and yet all-too-familiar rage…
A rage named Dib.
She marched out of her room and down the hall. Some people grit their teeth, Gaz gritted her face. There was a thin whine emanating from Dib's room. Something heavy dropped to the floor and broke. Gaz stood in front of her brother's door. She kicked it open.
Dib and Zim were again at each other's throats, literally.
"L-l-gasp-let go!" Dib managed to choke out as Zim tightening his grip.
"Y-you first s-s-stink-beast!" gurgled Zim.
A toy flying saucer hit him in the head, knocking him off balance and sending both of them keeling to the ground. Dib lay gasping like a fish.
"Thanks Gaz!" he wheezed. "That was…ouch!" He rubbed his head where the alien figurine had whacked it.
"You'll pay for ruining my game, Dib." hissed Gaz, staring down at the hapless duo. "You'll pay through the nose." She whacked him again in the nose. He yelped.
"Gaz! Listen to me. Zim has…"
"…fused himself to your crotch in a hideous mockery of nature. Tell someone who cares, Dib…" She whacked him once more, for good measure, and walked out of the room.
Dib rubbed his nose and turned back to Zim, just in time to catch a toy flying saucer in the face.
"Ouch!"
"Ha ha ha! Victory for Zim!"
"Shut up. We have to get down to my Dad's lab, there may be a way out of this somehow…"
"Filthy vomit-worm…there is no escape from Zim!" He cackled. Dib sighed.
"Zim! I've got the legs, remember. As long as we're like this, you're just an appendage, a hideous, annoying appendage!"
"Ungrateful scum!" Zim shrieked. "A stink-beast like you is not worthy to have such an amazing extremity as me! It is you who are the appendage."
"Maybe Zim, but if I knock you out, I can still walk around. If you knock me out, you're stuck until I wake up…"
"Hmmm. I see your point, appendage. And I admire your ruthlessness. For now, we work toge- ow!" Dib raised the alien figurine for another blow to Zim's skull.
"Hey, quit it!" he yelled. Dib lowered the memento, red faced…
"I, uh, thought I could knock ya out there…heh heh." He grinned sheepishly.
"Ugh. Alright, let us go to your worm-parent's lab…"
Dib began to throw the coffee bag over Zim, who thrashed about and threw it to the ground.
"Not like that! I don't want you knocking me out again!"
"Well you have to stay out of sight, Zim, I can't shock my dad with an alien dangling between my legs. He hasn't seen me naked since I was five, and…"
"Never mind that! I have a brilliant disguise." Zim chuckled…