By animeninjaNIPPON
Just to warn you, the last few chapters get pretty violent. This is a mature fic, but I just wanted to give the heads-up on what to expect.
It was a bright, beautiful day over a lawn filled with gnomes, despite previous weather reports anticipating rain. Deep within the base, Zim was pacing back and forth nervously for no reason he could name. Gir was mimicking his master's movements until the doorbell rang and he screamed and hid somewhere.
"It must be the Dib!" Zim rushed to put on his disguise, then hurried upstairs to get the door. When he opened it, it wasn't Dib, but a skinny, creepy-looking man with longish black hair and torn, filthy clothes.
"Are your parents home, little boy?" the creepy man asked.
"That's NONE of your business!" Zim snapped. "Why?"
"Because," the man said eerily, leaning in really close to Zim, "there's an eight-foot APE-MAN I want you to see. He's got red eyes, and HUGE yellow teeth!"
The creepy man was freaking Zim out, so he made up some excuse about his TV being on fire and slammed the door. "Oooo, that was weird."
Half an hour later, Zim went over to see Dib, half-skipping along the way. Before he could knock on the door, Gaz opened it.
"My brother's not here," she said. "He left with some weird guy a long time ago. NOW GO AWAY!"
"Who is this WEIRD guy you speak of? Where did he go?"
Gaz pointed down the street and Zim ran where she directed him.
Meanwhile, Dib was walking through the park with the creepy-looking man Zim met with earlier. "So, there really is an ape-man?"
"I've SEEN it with my own two eyes," the creepy man replied. "He's got black eyes, and HUGE green teeth!"
The black-haired boy and hobo-esque man walked casually through the park as ominous clouds formed overhead. The clouds reminded Dib of rain, and rain reminded him of Zim – at least, it reminded him that Zim couldn't tolerate water.
They walked all the way to the edge of the lake, which was strewn with garbage and debris. "OK, now where's the ape-man?" Dib asked, looking up with wide, curious amber eyes.
The creepy man cackled and shook, then turned and loomed over Dib. "I sent him to HEAVEN!" he chuckled evilly, ripping his shirt open and pulling out a knife from an inside pocket. "And I'm gonna save your soul, too, little big-headed boy!"
Dib screamed and fell back on his butt as the creepy, crazy hobo drove the knife deep into the soft sand, just inches away from Dib's leg. The hobo yanked it out and tried again as Dib ran screeching down the banks.
"DAD! GAZ! ZIM! SOMEBODY HELP MEEEE!"
End of part fourteen