Ch 5: Brandy's boy-toy & Gir's rebellion

Disclaimer: Invader Zim belongs to Jhonen Vasquez, not me. But I do have a pet monkey- thanks Invader Crystal!

CRACK! BOOM! Storm clouds had gathered during the night, and now it was raining, along with thunder, lightning, and wind. This had woken a certain brunette from her slumber. Brandy shivered, scared and frightened of the storm. But soon she remembered something: that a certain large-headed paranormal investigator was asleep on the living room couch.

"Dib? Dib, are you awake?" Dib stirred. He was a pretty hard sleeper so the storm didn't wake him. "I'm awake now, Brandy. Is something wrong?"

"Please come and sleep in my room. The wind from the storm scares me." Dib thought for a moment 'It could be more comfortable in there' "Okay, if it'll make you fell better"

She took Dib to her room, which had blue curtains and a blue bed. There were boxes that still needed unpacking. But despite that, it looked like a functional bedroom. The brunette laid down in her bed. Dib followed suit. "Wow...you have a nice bed" that was all Dib could say as Brandy threw the covers over them. She placed her head on Dib's chest. Dib blushed. 'It is more comfortable' "Good night" Brandy said to her boyfriend. Instantly she fell asleep. "Good night" he whispered in her ear.

Meanwhile, Zim wasn't fairing too well. "How? How could they defeat Zim so easily? Computer!"

"Huh? What?" Apparently, Zim's computer had jerked out of a deep sleep. "Computer! Are the security cameras still functioning?"

"Yes?"

"Good! I want footage of what just transpired here. I must find the secret to how they could defeat the great Zim so easily!" For nearly an hour, Zim viewed the fight in the lab via security camera. After what seemed like hours- "Wait! I think I just saw something! Freeze frame it!" The part where Brandy was threatening Zim stood still. "Zoom in on her eyes" Zim's computer did just that. But instead of seeing the beautiful, tranquil blue-green eyes Brandy usually possessed, Zim saw piercing, hateful yellow eyes. "Something tells me that the pathetic earth female is hiding something from the Dib." Zim then remembered something. "Computer! Find that thing the female was wearing in her hair. There must be a hair in twined in it or something."

"Hair tie located. Running DNA scan" Zim waited for what seemed forever and than "DNA scan completed."

"Computer, display results and compare with normal human DNA" The computer did just that. What Zim found made him laugh manically. " Yes...I think I could use this to my advantage. But I'll need evidence..."

That morning, Brandy and Dib woke up to a very strange noise. "Ohhhhhhh- Brandy, are you in trouble!" There was a girl in the doorway. She looked a lot like Brandy, only her hair was straight and she didn't wear glasses. It was Brandy's sister, back home from who knows where."Tiff, can I speak with you in private?" Brandy rose from her bed, Dib still in it but not sleeping, to join her older sibling in the hallway. "Before you say anything, hear me out: nothing happened. It was late when we came back from Bloaty's and he was tired.-" but Tiff cut off her younger sibling in mid sentence. "So, Mom and Dad's little favorite has got a little secret."

"You'd already be in big trouble if I didn't keep your secrets." The spiteful sibling of Brandy laughed. "True, I'm grateful for your silence. And that's why I'll keep quiet...this time" But before Brandy could return to her room, Tiffany added "Oh, Mom's in the den working on her new painting. You could get away with having your boy-toy stay for breakfast." As Brandy entered her bedroom, she knew Dib had heard the entire thing. "'boy-toy'?" he asked. Brandy shrugged.

"She had a nickname for my last two boyfriends. I guess now you'll be referred to as 'boy-toy' in future conversations" Another awkward silence, then "You heard Tiff, you can stay for breakfast." Toast, milk, and cereal was what they had for breakfast. By then Dib had changed back into the clothes he normally wears to skool, and Brandy was wearing her combat boots, black jeans and a green shirt with a grinning cat on it. The lettering below the cat read 'beware'. She styled her hair the same as when they trashed Zim's base the other night.

Their day at skool wasn't as exciting as yesterday. The only thing that entertained the two was their classmates's terrified faces at the mere sight of Brandy. Truly her outburst in the cafeteria had yet to be forgotten by the general population of the skool. "Look out! It's the insane brunette and her boyfriend!" a random kid shouted as they walked down the hallway. True chaos ensued; students scattered to their classrooms, teachers cowered behind their desks, and that hobo on the sidewalk panicked and hid behind a skinny tree. "My, have you got a reputation now" Dib mused as Brandy basked in the fears of her peers(wow...that rhymes!). She shrugged "At least no one will pick on us for a while".

After Skool, Dib decided to take Brandy to see his house."I'm guessing it's a lot closer to the skool than your house, besides, I saw your house; it would be unfair of me not to show you my house" Little did they know that a weird green kid was following them. "Soon I'll find proof of your little secret, filthy mate of Dib. And when I do, you'll be a puppet in my hands. I'LL MAKE YOU DANCE! DANCE MY PUPPET! BWAHAHAHAHA-" But Zim soon realized that his cover had been blown when he saw Brandy and Dib staring at him. "Why have you been following us Zim?" the paranormal investigator asked his archenemy. Brandy giggled. "Maybe he was hoping on studying human mating rituals." Her comment made Dib blush. "Not that we're planning that, right Dib?"

"Yeah, right." Zim then cut into the conversation."I wasn't thinking of that, but I'll make a memo for another time." It was Brandy's turn to blush. "Zim... I was kidding."

"Whatever, pathetic earth female." Suddenly, Gir came up in his doggy costume. "GIR! Where have you been!" Gir giggled. "I was with friends of Crazy-Lady! Red-head Jenny real purty." Zim soon grew angry with Gir. "Gir, you WILL NOT feel human emotions for ANY of these filthy inhabitants on this spinning ball of dirt." Gir burst into tears. "I can't help it! Red-Head Jenny nice to me 'cuz she gives me slushes and hugs! You never do! I hate you!" Zim was taken aback by Gir's out burst as his robot slave ran off. "What was that about..." Zim suddenly looks about to see that Dib and Brandy had already left without him. Losing interest in them all together, Zim heads to his base to see if Gir would be there.

Meanwhile, Dib and Brandy had finally made it to Dib's house. Brandy gazed at it. "Your house looks cool." She commented. Dib smiled, "Thanks." Dib opened the door to find a very angry Gaz. "DIB!" the spooky girl shouted, "where were you last night! You were supposed to be here for the annual family night out, but-" She stopped terrorizing a flinching Dib to see who he was with. "Oh...I see now...too busy screwing your girlfriend to spend time with your family, eh?" Dib at this point was blushing a scarlet red. "Why does everyone we know assume that we're sleeping together!" Dib frustratingly asks Brandy. She shrugs. "I guess it's because that's what everyone is predicting from us... Either that or they're making bets"

Halfway across town, in Heather, Allison, and Jennifer's motel room-

"Okay, who bets $20 on next month?" Heather asks her friends. "I bet on next Tuesday" Jennifer announces. "I bet somewhere between the 24th and the 31st of this month" Heather puts down Allison's bet on the motel's calendar "you want to place a bet to, Gir?" the SIR unit had ran away to the girl's room. "I bet a waffle!"

"That's nice Gir, but what time do you think It'll happen?" Gir pauses from eating a chicken to answer Jennifer's question. "I think...on Pasta Day!" Having no clue what to put on the calender,Heather marks the date of Elvis's birthday as Gir's bet.

(A/N: HAHAHA! Elvis's birthday! Anyway, in The stranded, Gir was acting like a three-year-old, and I decided that for this fan fic, Gir will be acting like an aghsty teenager. That's all I have to say. Wait! No! I have one more thing to say: Brandy's secret will be revealed soon enough. There! Now I will leave you in suspense!)