By animeninjaNIPPON
It was raining down even harder now that night had fallen. Zim ran through the darkness back to his base, carrying Gir. As soon as they got there, Zim burst through the door and tossed Dib's trench coat across the room. "That was close," he sighed. "We'll have to get that disk back tomorrow."
Gir skipped over to the couch and turned on the TV. "We have breaking news here, live at Channel 666," some reporter announced. "A boy named Dib has been found at the bottom of this nearby canyon. Cause of death appears to be a blow to the head. We found his camera at the top of the cliff, which is how we found out his name is Dib, but we have yet to go down there to investigate."
Zim slowly turned his head to the TV. "The Dib… is dead?"
Half a million thoughts raced through his mind at once. He had nothing to fear anymore…well, except for meat and that Chihuahua, but that didn't count. Nobody would try to stop him from completing his mission anymore. No one would try to hurt him anymore. No one would write slurs about him like "Zim is an alien" on the restroom stalls at skool… wait – skool! He had no one to compete against anymore. No more enemies… no one to blame his personal screw-ups on. Zim began to feel empty.
"We're going down to look at the body right now," the reporter continued excitedly. "Ah, here we are at the bottom of the cliff – OH NOOOO! IT'S GONE! GOOONE! ZOMBIE ATTAACK! GONE WITHOUT A – "
Gir changed the channel.
The next day, the two donned their disguises yet again and went out to get the data disk back. (It was, after all, a very important disk.)
"You wait here and distract the scary female," Zim instructed Gir, "and I'll get the disk."
"Yes sir!" Gir gave a salute.
Zim smashed the window open – Dib was dead, what would he care? – and went inside. "It's gotta be around here somewhere…" He glanced at the shelves, then went over to the desk where his late adversary kept a microscope and a flower in a vase of water. Something drew Zim to the flower. He picked it up, and immediately he felt lightheaded and giddy. He giggled like a schoolgirl as he twirled it between his fingers, then gave it a little lick with his long, purple tongue. He burst out laughing for no apparent reason and fell backwards onto Dib's bed, rolling around in a state of ecstasy.
Suddenly, Dib walked into the room, alive and unmarked. "Zim! What are you doing in here?"
"GAH!" Zim dropped the flower over the side of the bed. "Dib-human, you're alive!"
"Too bad I can't say the same for YOU!" With that, he raised a giant butcher's knife as he loomed over the semi-stoned alien.
"NOOOO!" Zim screamed, throwing his hands out to push Dib away.
End of part six