Chapter 2
Dib's Gut Feeling
Twelve noon. Lunchtime at the skool. The children from Ms.Bitters' class lined up at the cafeteria. Zim watched in near horror as the frighting looking lunch lady plopped on his tray what looked like tuna casserole. He turned into the sitting area to see all of the children gobbling down the human food. His face turned even greener at the thought and went to his always empty table at the back of the room.
He sat himself down and pushed his tray aside, not wanting to have to smell the awful human food. He sighed and looked up, to see none other than Dib, sitting a few tables away from him, with the same cold stare as always. Zim stared back, hoping he would stop, but of course, he didn't. The same thing, everyday.
Suddenly, the new girl caught his eye. Rogue walked by him and sat down at the table right across from him. She looked at the food on her tray with a questionable look before poking at it and then with hesitation, took a sniff of it. Her face turned pale green as she clapped her hand over her mouth and pushed the tray away from her.
Zim lifted an brow and thought it was rather strange for a human to reject human food.
Rogue then felt someone's eyes on her, and she turned her head to see Zim staring straight towards her. She lower her eyebrows at him so that she was staring at him with the same scowel from earlier. Zim realized his staring, and jolted his face away, now looking down at the table, getting the chills again. 'Who is she?!' He thought to himself. He's never felt so freaked with a human before. No question about it, there was something "odd" about this one.
Zim looked up, to see if Rogue was still watching him, but all he saw was a huge clump of moldy casserole come flying at him and hitting him smack dab between the eyes.
He wiped the clump of goo off of his green face only to see Dib, standing a few feet away from him, a grin on his face and tossing another glop of casserole up and down. Zim stood up, growling, and picked up his tray, chucking it right at the troublesome human, hitting the boy in the head and knocking him over backwards.
On the other side of the room, Melvin, as pale as ever, stood up on the table, and in a shrieking tone, screamed, "FOOOOOOD FIIIIGHT!!!". He was then KOed by a flying milk container.
The creepy new kid broke her focus on Zim at Melivn's words, and before she knew it, massive globs of casserole were flying through the air, coming inches away from her head.
Confused as to what the heck was going on, Rogue quickly ducked out of the way of another flying tray, and then under the table. Looking from her hiding place, she gave a disgused look to the sudden situation.
Meanwhile, Dib and Zim were taking this food fighting pretty seriously. The two enemys were exchanging throws with almost perfect targeting with each one. And it didn't take long before the whole lunch room was part of it, with no real two sides, if you didn't count Zim and Dib, that is.
Rogue continued to hide under her table, still ducking loose food chunks that landed right next to her. She looked to hold back barfing with each dodge. But soon, she spotted the door, and started to crawl over to the table nearest to it. Rogue stood and went to duck out of the door, when she felt someone shove her to the ground.
She looked up to see Dib run pass her while throwing another clump of food at Zim, who was already pelted with the stuff. The girl went to stand and tell the boy off, but was stopped before she could even speak. She noticed her headband fell off. Suddenly acting frantic, she started looking for it while tightly holding her hand on top of her head.
Right at that point, Dib was having the time of his life humiliating Zim. It didn't hit him till right then that he knocked into the new girl a few throws back. He turned to see if she was alright He was puzzled when he saw Rogue moving around on her hands and knees, more upset looking then before, still dodging the flying cafeteria food. And she still had her hand on her head, like she was trying to hold on to something.
'What is she doing?' Dib thought to himself. Rogue was so eager to find her headband, she was knocking kids over without any regret. Finally, she found what she was looking for, and ran right out of the cafeteria door in a panic.
"...That was weird." Dib said to himself outloud. "Why would she get so freaked out over a stupid headband?"
Suddenly, a shadow loomed behind Dib. The figure tapped him on the shoulder. Dib turned to see Zim, holding a huge tray of casserole over his head. Dib's eyes widened as Zim brought the tray crashing down upon his human rival, covering him with human food stuffs. Zim brusted out in laugher at his food covered enemy.
"How does it FEEL being covered in your own flithy food slop?!" Zim yelled at Dib, who was taking chunks of casserole out of his hair. He tried to think of a good comeback, but he couldn't stop wondering why that new kid, Rogue acted so strange over her headband. Something was telling his inner paranormal that Rogue was up to something....something...PARanormally.
"I gotta go." Dib suddenly said, and ran out of the cafeteria door.
Zim stood there for a moment abit confused, then smiled and yelled, "HA! You can RUN, human, but ZIM will win ANYTHING you throw at...ZIM!!" Suddenly, a big kid came up behind the screaming Irkin and pushed him face down first into a pile of moldy casserole on the floor.
~Dib ran down the hall, making sure nobody saw him. He kept looking out for Rogue. The more he thought about, the more it was making sence to look for her. After her weird actions in the lunchroom, the situation that morning suddenly came back in his head, the way she kept looking at Zim like that.
'Could she know about Zim?' He thought turning a corner. 'About him being an alien??' That thought was suddenly followed by a more fearful one: 'Could she be...?!'
Finally, Dib spotted Rogue running into a room, which Dib didn't know where to yet. Before she disappeared through the door, he saw she still had her hand on her head. Dib slowed down abit, and quietly walked to the front of where she went. It was the girl's restroom.
At first, Dib started thinking again, thinking if by any chance, would a girl want to run away from a crowd of people with her headband off, JUST to put it back on in the restroom? It didn't take long for him to answer, "Yeah, right."
He placed his hand on the door, but stopped a second to see if anybody was coming, mostly, any GIRLS to see him going in. With the coast clear, he quietly pushed to open the door.
Inside, Rogue stood in front of the restroom mirror, her black headband now back in place. But just as she finished with that, she heard the door opening slowly. She jumped, and ran into the far off stall.
Dib, still being alert, entered the girl's room. He gave a small sigh to see that there wasn't any other girls in there, but it didn't throw his guard to see Rogue was no where in sight. He was SURE he saw her come in, and he was POSITIVE she didn't come out.
'She's hiding...' He thought as he started to make his way down the room, passing the stalls one by one.
In the very last stall, Rogue could hear Dib's footsteps as he grew closer. She felt a small drop of sweat slid from her forehead, but she continued to keep a cool head. '...He KNOWS? HOW!?' She thought. The footsteps got closer. '...Maybe....because of ZIM?'
Dib was now one stall away from Rogue. He stopped, feeling he was getting warming. He looked down, and there were a pair of white boots poking from under the stall door.
"...AH-"
That was the only thing Dib could get out before Rogue came jetting out. Before Dib could blink, his lower body was meet with a folded fist. The boy cleched his stomach and fell to his knees. His vision was blured from the power of that punch. He blacked out.
It wasn't even 30 seconds before Dib regained his sences and opened his eyes. He was on the floor, still holding onto his belly. He shot up and looked all around. Rogue was gone. His stomach felt like it was nearly hammer right through with a steel bar. That wasn't a normal punch.
"...She's CAN'T be human!"
Dib got right up and headed for the door. But just as he got to it, it opened with a group of girls he knew from his class...
".......Uhhh.......ummm......" Dib just stood, frozen with the girls staring back at him.
After about a minute of this, the front girl let out the loudest scream, which could be heard around the whole skool.
"WAITASECOND!! ICAN-"
*BLAM*
Dib left the girl's room with a hurt belly, and a black eye.
~ Recess came. Ms. Bitters' class came charging out to the skool playground, except Zim and Dib. They came walking out about fifteen minutes after recess started. Both got in trouble for starting up the food fight at lunch earlier, plus, Dib now had to stay after skool later for going in the girl's restroom. The WHOLE skool knew about that...
Zim and Dib gave thier glares to each other before parting they ways on the playground. The Irkin headed to where the kids were playing kickball, and the Earth boy went and sat next to his sister, Gaz, who was playing her GameSlave2.
"...What did you do THIS time?" Gaz asked coldly, not taking her eyes off her game.
"I'd rather not talk about it, alright?" Dib answered bluntly.
"I don't mean THAT..." Gaz said, "Why were you late for recess?"
Dib hung his head. She knew about the girl's restroom too. He didn't answer her real question, so she then switched to another one:
"Who gave you the black eye?" She smriked.
"Oh, SHUT UP!" Dib snapped.
Suddenly feeling down right STUPID for what he did, Dib got up and walked away. 'I'll NEVER hear the end of this now!' He thought. 'Maybe I should of just waited for her to come out before-'
Dib then noticed Zim standing about ten feet away from him. He was watching the other kids play thier kickball game. Looking down, Dib saw some extra kickballs next to his feet. After a quick thought, he smiled and picked one up. 'This should cheer me right up!'
As Dib was gearing up to bean Zim in the head, far off in a shadowed corner of the skool building, Rogue was also watching Zim. Her sharp blackish-blue eyes were perfectly focused on the undercover alien. Then, she rosed her left arm straight forward, fist clenched and face solid as stone. A small red glimmer flashed of a second on her wrist...
But just then, Dib chucked the kickball at Zim, hitting him right in the back of the head and knocking him down. Rogue's eyes flicker in confusion, and she let her arm down to see what just happened. She saw it was Dib who threw the ball, and she suddenly grew hot with anger.
The girl walked out from her shadowed place and right towards Dib, who was laughing for what he did. Zim was still on the ground, KOed from the rear attack, and Dib was too busy to notice the new girl coming up behind him...
In a flash, Dib felt somebody grab his arms, swung him around, and SLAMED him against the brick wall. He looked in horror to see the same girl who drove him the gut eariler, the same one who he KNEW couldn't be human.
"LISTEN you..." Rogue started in a cold, hot tempered tone. "I don't know where you think you can ruin my job and get away with it, but I SUGGEST you STOP, if you value your life..." She gripped tighter to the boy's arms.
Dib never thought in a million years that he would be scared out of his mind right now, but he wasn't showing it. He KNEW something wasn't right with this kid. NO girl could have that much grip power.
"...Y-your JOB?" He said, trying to keep from showing his fear. "...I don't know what your-"
"SHUT UP!" Rogue shouted in his face. "What I'm here for is NONE of you busy, so I would like it if you just stay...out...of...MY WAY!!"
She then lifted Dib up over her head and THREW him to the side. He landed on his side, which felt worse then the stomach punch. Rogue coldly stared down at him before turning and walking away.
Just as she did that, a gust of cool wind came through the playground. It breezed through Rogue hair as she walked off. Dib saw something that send chills up and down his spine.
Rogue had no ears.
TBC........
Dib's Gut Feeling
Twelve noon. Lunchtime at the skool. The children from Ms.Bitters' class lined up at the cafeteria. Zim watched in near horror as the frighting looking lunch lady plopped on his tray what looked like tuna casserole. He turned into the sitting area to see all of the children gobbling down the human food. His face turned even greener at the thought and went to his always empty table at the back of the room.
He sat himself down and pushed his tray aside, not wanting to have to smell the awful human food. He sighed and looked up, to see none other than Dib, sitting a few tables away from him, with the same cold stare as always. Zim stared back, hoping he would stop, but of course, he didn't. The same thing, everyday.
Suddenly, the new girl caught his eye. Rogue walked by him and sat down at the table right across from him. She looked at the food on her tray with a questionable look before poking at it and then with hesitation, took a sniff of it. Her face turned pale green as she clapped her hand over her mouth and pushed the tray away from her.
Zim lifted an brow and thought it was rather strange for a human to reject human food.
Rogue then felt someone's eyes on her, and she turned her head to see Zim staring straight towards her. She lower her eyebrows at him so that she was staring at him with the same scowel from earlier. Zim realized his staring, and jolted his face away, now looking down at the table, getting the chills again. 'Who is she?!' He thought to himself. He's never felt so freaked with a human before. No question about it, there was something "odd" about this one.
Zim looked up, to see if Rogue was still watching him, but all he saw was a huge clump of moldy casserole come flying at him and hitting him smack dab between the eyes.
He wiped the clump of goo off of his green face only to see Dib, standing a few feet away from him, a grin on his face and tossing another glop of casserole up and down. Zim stood up, growling, and picked up his tray, chucking it right at the troublesome human, hitting the boy in the head and knocking him over backwards.
On the other side of the room, Melvin, as pale as ever, stood up on the table, and in a shrieking tone, screamed, "FOOOOOOD FIIIIGHT!!!". He was then KOed by a flying milk container.
The creepy new kid broke her focus on Zim at Melivn's words, and before she knew it, massive globs of casserole were flying through the air, coming inches away from her head.
Confused as to what the heck was going on, Rogue quickly ducked out of the way of another flying tray, and then under the table. Looking from her hiding place, she gave a disgused look to the sudden situation.
Meanwhile, Dib and Zim were taking this food fighting pretty seriously. The two enemys were exchanging throws with almost perfect targeting with each one. And it didn't take long before the whole lunch room was part of it, with no real two sides, if you didn't count Zim and Dib, that is.
Rogue continued to hide under her table, still ducking loose food chunks that landed right next to her. She looked to hold back barfing with each dodge. But soon, she spotted the door, and started to crawl over to the table nearest to it. Rogue stood and went to duck out of the door, when she felt someone shove her to the ground.
She looked up to see Dib run pass her while throwing another clump of food at Zim, who was already pelted with the stuff. The girl went to stand and tell the boy off, but was stopped before she could even speak. She noticed her headband fell off. Suddenly acting frantic, she started looking for it while tightly holding her hand on top of her head.
Right at that point, Dib was having the time of his life humiliating Zim. It didn't hit him till right then that he knocked into the new girl a few throws back. He turned to see if she was alright He was puzzled when he saw Rogue moving around on her hands and knees, more upset looking then before, still dodging the flying cafeteria food. And she still had her hand on her head, like she was trying to hold on to something.
'What is she doing?' Dib thought to himself. Rogue was so eager to find her headband, she was knocking kids over without any regret. Finally, she found what she was looking for, and ran right out of the cafeteria door in a panic.
"...That was weird." Dib said to himself outloud. "Why would she get so freaked out over a stupid headband?"
Suddenly, a shadow loomed behind Dib. The figure tapped him on the shoulder. Dib turned to see Zim, holding a huge tray of casserole over his head. Dib's eyes widened as Zim brought the tray crashing down upon his human rival, covering him with human food stuffs. Zim brusted out in laugher at his food covered enemy.
"How does it FEEL being covered in your own flithy food slop?!" Zim yelled at Dib, who was taking chunks of casserole out of his hair. He tried to think of a good comeback, but he couldn't stop wondering why that new kid, Rogue acted so strange over her headband. Something was telling his inner paranormal that Rogue was up to something....something...PARanormally.
"I gotta go." Dib suddenly said, and ran out of the cafeteria door.
Zim stood there for a moment abit confused, then smiled and yelled, "HA! You can RUN, human, but ZIM will win ANYTHING you throw at...ZIM!!" Suddenly, a big kid came up behind the screaming Irkin and pushed him face down first into a pile of moldy casserole on the floor.
~Dib ran down the hall, making sure nobody saw him. He kept looking out for Rogue. The more he thought about, the more it was making sence to look for her. After her weird actions in the lunchroom, the situation that morning suddenly came back in his head, the way she kept looking at Zim like that.
'Could she know about Zim?' He thought turning a corner. 'About him being an alien??' That thought was suddenly followed by a more fearful one: 'Could she be...?!'
Finally, Dib spotted Rogue running into a room, which Dib didn't know where to yet. Before she disappeared through the door, he saw she still had her hand on her head. Dib slowed down abit, and quietly walked to the front of where she went. It was the girl's restroom.
At first, Dib started thinking again, thinking if by any chance, would a girl want to run away from a crowd of people with her headband off, JUST to put it back on in the restroom? It didn't take long for him to answer, "Yeah, right."
He placed his hand on the door, but stopped a second to see if anybody was coming, mostly, any GIRLS to see him going in. With the coast clear, he quietly pushed to open the door.
Inside, Rogue stood in front of the restroom mirror, her black headband now back in place. But just as she finished with that, she heard the door opening slowly. She jumped, and ran into the far off stall.
Dib, still being alert, entered the girl's room. He gave a small sigh to see that there wasn't any other girls in there, but it didn't throw his guard to see Rogue was no where in sight. He was SURE he saw her come in, and he was POSITIVE she didn't come out.
'She's hiding...' He thought as he started to make his way down the room, passing the stalls one by one.
In the very last stall, Rogue could hear Dib's footsteps as he grew closer. She felt a small drop of sweat slid from her forehead, but she continued to keep a cool head. '...He KNOWS? HOW!?' She thought. The footsteps got closer. '...Maybe....because of ZIM?'
Dib was now one stall away from Rogue. He stopped, feeling he was getting warming. He looked down, and there were a pair of white boots poking from under the stall door.
"...AH-"
That was the only thing Dib could get out before Rogue came jetting out. Before Dib could blink, his lower body was meet with a folded fist. The boy cleched his stomach and fell to his knees. His vision was blured from the power of that punch. He blacked out.
It wasn't even 30 seconds before Dib regained his sences and opened his eyes. He was on the floor, still holding onto his belly. He shot up and looked all around. Rogue was gone. His stomach felt like it was nearly hammer right through with a steel bar. That wasn't a normal punch.
"...She's CAN'T be human!"
Dib got right up and headed for the door. But just as he got to it, it opened with a group of girls he knew from his class...
".......Uhhh.......ummm......" Dib just stood, frozen with the girls staring back at him.
After about a minute of this, the front girl let out the loudest scream, which could be heard around the whole skool.
"WAITASECOND!! ICAN-"
*BLAM*
Dib left the girl's room with a hurt belly, and a black eye.
~ Recess came. Ms. Bitters' class came charging out to the skool playground, except Zim and Dib. They came walking out about fifteen minutes after recess started. Both got in trouble for starting up the food fight at lunch earlier, plus, Dib now had to stay after skool later for going in the girl's restroom. The WHOLE skool knew about that...
Zim and Dib gave thier glares to each other before parting they ways on the playground. The Irkin headed to where the kids were playing kickball, and the Earth boy went and sat next to his sister, Gaz, who was playing her GameSlave2.
"...What did you do THIS time?" Gaz asked coldly, not taking her eyes off her game.
"I'd rather not talk about it, alright?" Dib answered bluntly.
"I don't mean THAT..." Gaz said, "Why were you late for recess?"
Dib hung his head. She knew about the girl's restroom too. He didn't answer her real question, so she then switched to another one:
"Who gave you the black eye?" She smriked.
"Oh, SHUT UP!" Dib snapped.
Suddenly feeling down right STUPID for what he did, Dib got up and walked away. 'I'll NEVER hear the end of this now!' He thought. 'Maybe I should of just waited for her to come out before-'
Dib then noticed Zim standing about ten feet away from him. He was watching the other kids play thier kickball game. Looking down, Dib saw some extra kickballs next to his feet. After a quick thought, he smiled and picked one up. 'This should cheer me right up!'
As Dib was gearing up to bean Zim in the head, far off in a shadowed corner of the skool building, Rogue was also watching Zim. Her sharp blackish-blue eyes were perfectly focused on the undercover alien. Then, she rosed her left arm straight forward, fist clenched and face solid as stone. A small red glimmer flashed of a second on her wrist...
But just then, Dib chucked the kickball at Zim, hitting him right in the back of the head and knocking him down. Rogue's eyes flicker in confusion, and she let her arm down to see what just happened. She saw it was Dib who threw the ball, and she suddenly grew hot with anger.
The girl walked out from her shadowed place and right towards Dib, who was laughing for what he did. Zim was still on the ground, KOed from the rear attack, and Dib was too busy to notice the new girl coming up behind him...
In a flash, Dib felt somebody grab his arms, swung him around, and SLAMED him against the brick wall. He looked in horror to see the same girl who drove him the gut eariler, the same one who he KNEW couldn't be human.
"LISTEN you..." Rogue started in a cold, hot tempered tone. "I don't know where you think you can ruin my job and get away with it, but I SUGGEST you STOP, if you value your life..." She gripped tighter to the boy's arms.
Dib never thought in a million years that he would be scared out of his mind right now, but he wasn't showing it. He KNEW something wasn't right with this kid. NO girl could have that much grip power.
"...Y-your JOB?" He said, trying to keep from showing his fear. "...I don't know what your-"
"SHUT UP!" Rogue shouted in his face. "What I'm here for is NONE of you busy, so I would like it if you just stay...out...of...MY WAY!!"
She then lifted Dib up over her head and THREW him to the side. He landed on his side, which felt worse then the stomach punch. Rogue coldly stared down at him before turning and walking away.
Just as she did that, a gust of cool wind came through the playground. It breezed through Rogue hair as she walked off. Dib saw something that send chills up and down his spine.
Rogue had no ears.
TBC........