By animeninjaNIPPON
"Stupid Dib-monkey," Zim muttered, stomping his way through the thick park vegetation. "We had a DEAL! He's OBVIOUSLY avoiding me so he won't have to give my DISK back…"
"HEEELP! I'M BEING CHASED BY A CRAZY HOBO WITH A KNIFE!"
Zim cocked his head to one side. "That sounds like the DIB-WORM!" He quickly ran in the direction of the persistent cries for help. "Hang on, DIB-WORM!"
"ZIM, is that you?" Dib called out from the distance.
"I can't let him think I want to help him…" Zim ran even faster towards Dib. "YOU STILL HAVE MY DISK!"
"DON'T START THAT AGAIN!" Dib narrowly avoided being stabbed in the head, but his shoulder was badly grazed. "Ouch!" He grasped his injured shoulder with his other hand and scrambled away with all his remaining strength. He looked back just as the hobo was hit in the head with a tin can.
"Hey STINKBEAST, over HERE!" Both Dib and the hobo looked up to see Zim standing boldly with his hands on his hips. The hobo growled incoherently and pursued Zim with his knife.
"ZIM, NO!" Dib cried, but the hobo was already gaining feet on the doomed green boy. Zim swore something in Irken as the deadly blade got closer and closer.
Without thinking, Dib tackled the hobo to the ground. That and a swift kick to the creepy man's groin bought Zim the precious seconds he needed to get away. Dib caught up to him, and they ran along the bank.
"What were you thinking?" Dib yelled.
"I should say THAT to YOU!" Zim fired back. "We had a DEAL – "
"FORGET the stupid disk for two seconds!" Dib grabbed Zim by the shoulders and shook him, not realizing in time that Zim was going to get loaded from the closeness…
"AHAhahaheeheehee…" Zim pressed his light body to Dib's.
"Zim, NO!" Dib tried to shake Zim off as he watched the hobo recover and charge straight for them with the knife in his outstretched hand. "Fight it!"
"I'm… TRYING!" Zim struggled against his own will power. "GET…AWAY!" He summoned every ounce of strength in his Irken body to send Dib flying into a pile of debris, safe from the hobo's wrath.
But it was too late for Zim.
End of part fifteen