(Edit Note: ok, apparently it really hates how I want my side notes to look, so I'm sorry if you're getting confusled about where my side notes begin and where they end. So, please bear with me until I figure out how to fix it…)
(Yay chapter 4! Woo hoo, go me! Ok, little disclaimer time. Any monsters that I put in my stories are mine, or as close to mine as they get, and Kumi is mine to. I find out that you stole her, I will come back to haunt you until the day you die! KNOW THIS! Also, I torment Dib some more…go me and my evil plans…Evil evil laugh.)
(Ok, on with the story…)
"This is all YOU'RE fault!" shouted Zim.
"MY fault? YOU built the thing!" shouted Dib back.
"Yay! Were screaming!" chanted gir.
"Idiot!"
"Stink Beast!"
"Space Boy!"
"Dirt Pig!"
"Shorty!"
"I'm not short!" shouted Zim, "I'm very tall among my people!"
"You're still short!" screamed Dib.
"I'M NOT SHORT!" screeched Zim.
"Grrrrrrrrrrrr…." There was a giant grumble behind both of them, but they didn't even notice. They continued to argue and the thing growled louder. They looked over at it, not really looking at, you know?
"WHAT?" they shouted in unison and actually looked at the thing making the growling sound. What they saw was a giant centaur like thing, with large curled horns on each side of its head and a beastly face about it. Its hoofed feet looked as if there was dried blood on them. The entire beast was covered in brown-red fur, and its claws looked as if it could just rip them apart without any effort.
"AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" they both screamed in unison again. At this point, gir was sitting on his master's shoulder. Zim and Dib both ran in different directions, screaming and flailing their arms about wildly like there was no tomorrow.
"IT'S THE HALLOWEENIES AGAIN!" screamed Zim, just running, not really lookin' were he was going.
"Trick or Treat!" shouted Gir happily, "I gets candy now! Weeeee! SUGAR!"
Running in the opposite direction was Dib, poor, poor screaming Dib. "WHAT THE HELL IS A CENTAUR DOING IN ANOTHER UNIVERSE?" When they had split up, the centaur thing didn't know which one to follow after, so he went after Dib. This just scared Dib shitless. 'Why me? Why ME? Why does shit like this always HAPPEN TO ME?' he thought.
Elsewhere…
Zim was cautiously walking through some rubble, making sure not to arouse the sleeping beasts not 35 feet away from him. SNAP!
'Shit…' thought Zim, with a face that looked like someone about to go over the first very large drop of their first rollercoaster. He looked down at the ground with this face and slowly panned over to the beasts, who were now awake and growling hungrily.
"AAAAAAHHHHHHH!" he screamed, running for his life. Wow, look at him go! Runnin' just like an Olympian! Guess he got that way from runnin' a lot…When he ran, the beasts followed. These beasts looked more like evil demon dogs, only with really big teeth, claws and blood red eyes. There might have been only 5 of them, but nonetheless, really scary…So Zim just ran like a bat outta' hell and started to pull away (very quickly I might add) from the dog things.
While he was running from the demon dogs, he wasn't really paying attention to where he was running. BAM! He smacked right into another being…Zim had run into Zim. (Yes, there are TWO Zims, now just shut up and read!)
"Hey! Watch where you're going, filthy earth monkey!" said Zim as he rubbed his head, his eyes closed.
"Who you callin' an earth monkey, stink pig!" retorted the other Zim, also rubbing his head, his eyes closed. He opened his large, red eyes and stood up, brushing off his clothes. His clothes were much different than the first Zim's, it was more…earthling-like. He had a red shirt with a black jacket, black pants, and black boots. (Shit Kicker Style!)
The other Zim also got up and brushed the dirt off his uniform, you know, the one with the pink shirt and little wing thingies on the shoulders? He was the first one to look at who he hit. He was so startled, he almost fell back down.
"WHAT THE HELL?" he shouted, pointing a claw at the other Zim. "WHO ARE YOU? How DARE you impersonate ZIM!"
"Huh?" said the other Zim, looking up. He seemed just as startled. "You look just like ME! 'Cept for the pink…" He looked over his double with inquisitive eyes. Gir was still sitting on the first Zim's shoulder, and the first Zim noticed this.
"GIR! Destroy this imposter!" shouted the first Zim. Gir jumped down and faced the other Zim. The other Zim wasn't completely sure of what was going on, but he decided to go out on a limb and try something.
"No, gir! Destroy him!" shouted the other Zim. Poor gir…he just looked from one to the other and back, making frustrated noises.
"Eh…em…neh…I…I don't know wich won to obey!" cried gir, his poor little circuits starting to overload. Too much information he didn't understand at one time. His little metal lint brains couldn't comprehend it all…
Then the first Zim looked beyond the other to see the demon dogs. His face twitched and his jaw dropped, as he pointed a clawed finger in the general direction. The second Zim looked back to see what he was pointing at and he got the same look as before. He quickly grabbed a mentally malfunctioning gir by the head and threw him at the other Zim, who caught gir.
"RUN! RUN LIKE THE WIND!" shouted the second Zim who had thrown gir.
"WHY THE HALLOWEENIES?" shouted the first Zim, now clutching gir and running alongside the other Zim.
"Just shut up and Run!" shouted the other Zim back. And so they did, like the wind they ran. And again, just ran, ran for their lives in the direction that was right in front of them.
While this was going on…
Dib was getting himself more and more lost in the ruined buildings and rubble. The centaur was still hot on his tail and Dib was started to tire from all the running. He turned a corner and found a dead end. He ran a little farther towards the block, searching for a way out. But before he could think of anything, his jacket was tugged on with such a force it pulled him down. Someone had pulled him into a small alley way. He sat there on the ground, panting heavily, still not sure of what was going on.
"Shh…" whispered the person who had pulled him aside. It was very dark in the alley, and he could only make out an outline at best. The person was peeking out of the alley way, making sure the centaur thing gave up the search for Dib before returning. "You ok?" he asked, helping Dib up.
"Yeah, I think I'm fine…" he said, still a little shaky. "Thanks, if you hadn't helped me I'd be…" he let his voice trail off, thinking about what he was really saying.
"You'd be nothing more than a pile of dead meat and bones." Finished the man who saved Dib, "It's gone now, so its safe for you to leave." He walked out into the light, what there was of it anyway. Dib followed behind and almost died from shock, when he saw who it was that had saved him. It was himself? (Yup, there's another Dib to, hope I didn't confuse you all too terribly much…and another quick note, all the other duplicate people in the alternative world will now be referred to as Alter so and so…)
Yes, indeed it was another Dib, but like the other Zim, he was dressed differently. Yes, he still sported that lovely black trench coat of his, along with the black pants and black boots. (More shit kickers! Yay!) But instead of his black shirt with the blue indifferent face on the middle, he wore more of a body armor, bullet-proof vest kind of thing, black of course, with some sort of dark colored design. His hair was just a little longer, and the scythe on top of his head was considerably longer than that of the first Dib's, like, almost halfway down his back long. (Ok, give me a break here, I am completely obsessed with long hair, whomever it may be sporting it…) Alter Dib turned around to look at his other self. He was surprised and amazed by this situation, although he was a great actor by not showing it.
"So, how is it that you got here, Dib…" asked Alter Dib.
"Huh? Oh…yeah, that…" said Dib, stumbling over his words. "ItwasallZimsfault!" he said very accusingly. Alter Dib just chuckled a little.
"Yeah, I wouldn't put it past him. This is definitely something he would do…" said Alter Dib, motioning Dib to walk with him. With them right next to each other, there was a definite height difference. Dib stood about 5.10 ½ , while Alter Dib stood maybe 6.4 ¼ . (Hee Hee, wonder how Dib feels to be the shorter one now…of course this is counting that scythe like hair on the top of their heads…) Alter Dib walked a little farther, then stopped and looked at the sky. "TACOES!" he yelled up at the sky, causing Dib to jump a little.
"Tacoes?" asked Dib, "What was the point of that?"
"You'll see…" said Alter Dib. And sure enough, Dib saw. He saw a little speck coming towards them at a very high speed. It sounded almost like a high pitched, metallic scream. Dib squinted to try and see what was hurdling towards them. "You might want to duck…" commented Alter Dib. Dib just looked at him all confused like.
"Huh?" said Dib, but it was too late. He figured out fast why Alter Dib had told him to duck. The high pitched screaming was from Alter gir, and he ended up crashing into Dibs rather large head.
"TACOES!" cheered Alter gir happily, sitting atop a now very much in pain Dib.
"I TOLD you!" said Alter Dib, laughing hysterically at the sight before him. Hey, even he could laugh at himself sometimes…Dib just mumbled as he sat up. Gir looked at Dib with those goggle-like eyes and smiled stupidly.
"Hi!" chirped gir, waving his little robot arm. Dib just stared at him.
"Aren't you supposed to be smarter in this world?" he asked. Alter Dib just shrugged and Dib just sighed. "So now what?"
"We find my partner in crime…" said Alter Dib, jokingly. "He should be running for his life right about now…" and speak of the devil, here he comes, right on cure. Both Alter Dib and Dib could hear the screams of Zim and Alter Zim as they ran from the small pack of rabid demon dogs.
"Oh, that's not good…" said Dib.
"Nope, most likely not…" replied Alter Dib. When they saw the pack of dogs after Zim and Alter Zim, they started screaming and running to! It must be contagious…Gir just squealed happily in Zim's grasp.
"Can't you act scared for a moment?" shouted Zim at the rust bucket of spare parts.
"But I likes those puppies!" said gir.
"Isn't that piece of junk supposed to be intelligent in your world?" shouted Alter Zim, Zim just gave him an evil glare, oh how cute Zim looked when he was trying to be evil.
Then they noticed both Alter Dib and Dib, so they ran a little faster to catch up. They all ran until they found a place to hide, another dark alley way. They also climbed up so that the dogs would loose their scent. Both Zims deactivated their respected girs so they wouldn't make any noise whatsoever. All four of them caught their breath before addressing the matter at hand…The doubles of Dib, Zim and gir.
"Ok, so, you're us…" said Alter Zim, "And we're you?"
"I think so…" said Dib.
"It doesn't matter who you are how you got here or even why. All that matters is getting you back to where ever you came from." said Alter Dib, pulling a small book out of one of his coat pockets. The book was called "A Paranormal Investigator's Guide to the Galaxy." He flipped through the book until he got to the page he was looking for. "IT says here there are several different types of inner-planar movement in the universe. One of which is if we ever met up with our doubles, the universe would be thrown into turmoil and would destroy the world itself we were on and everything around it, plus we would all die a horrible death." Look at them all cringe. "That hasn't happened yet, so I don't think it will…Another is you could have been split up into different planes during the crossover. Again, that didn't happen…that leaves two…"
"And those would be…" said Zim and Alter Zim in unison.
"And the other two would be that you only have a limited time to get back, and if you don't, the balance of the universe would be thrown out of alignment, and we would all cease to exist…" replied Alter Dib.
"So, what's the last one?" asked Dib.
"Says here that at different time at different places, worm holes could appear to take you back, but it also says that it could take hours, days, weeks, months, even years for it to re-open again…" said Alter Dib.
"Well, that's not too reassuring…" said Dib, "What would be our best plan of action?"
"We go back to base and try to figure this all out…" said Alter Zim.
"Agreed." said Alter Dib, standing up, "We'll go back to base and check all the worm hole maps and diagrams, while also figuring how we might get you three back if all other options are obsolete."
Alter Zim also stood up and entered a few things into a watch-type devise on his wrist. "It will only be a matter of time before the voot comes." he said. Zim stood up and looked at his Alter. You could just see the jealousy building inside of him. Alter Zim was also a little taller than Zim, but by only a few inches. Zim stood maybe 5.7 ¼ at most while Alter Zim was like 5.10 even. (Like I said, taller, but not by much…) And true to what Alter Zim said, the voot got there only in a matter of time. The Alter voot was larger, made for much more people space. "Ok, everybody in." once everyone was settled, the voot took off for the base. Form up in the air, you could see the destruction for miles.
"What happened?" questioned Dib.
"A long story for another time…" said Alter Dib.
"Ok, then, can I ask how old you both are?" replied Dib, trying to get a little information out of them.
"25…" said Alter Dib. (Wow! Dib must do some maturing in the future.)
"I do not keep track of how many years I've been alive…" said Alter Zim, Alter Dib just laughed at him.
"You just don't want to say because you're old!" laughed Alter Dib.
"Shut up! I am NOT old!" retorted Alter Zim, "I'm fairly young in my life cycle, why do you care for my human year age?"
"I was just wondering is all…" said Dib, looking over at Zim who was giving him a 'don't even think about it' face. Dib just shrugged and waited for them to arrive at the base, looking at all the destruction as they went.
Soon after, the voot landed in a fairly cleared away, still rubbly sight. They all got out, both girs still deactivated, and followed Alter Zim to a clearing with nothing but a large slaw of concrete on the ground. He lifted it up and reviled a secret stairwell and all went down it.
At the bottom of the stairs it looked just like Zim's base back home. They followed Alter Zim into a red-lit room with a bunch of maps and diagrams. The diagrams were of worm holes and last locations, and times of. Alter Zim searched through several diagrams and maps before letting out a sigh of annoyance.
"It seems as though the wormhole going back to your world came and went a few hours before we found you, and won't be coming back for 108 years…" said Alter Zim.
"Well, that won't do…" said Alter Dib, turning his attention to Zim. "How did you get here in the first place?"
"Eh…hmm…Oh, yeah!" said Zim, remembering why they were here in the first place. "I built a machine to send that big-headed pig monkey into another plane, but he dragged me here to! Its HIS fault!" shouted Zim.
"MY FAULT? YOU BUILT IT!" shouted Dib back, and with that they started bickering again. Alter Dib and Alter Zim just watched the scene in front of them unfold, amazed at how badly they seemed to act around one another. Alter Dib just rubbed his temple, it had been a long, long time since he and Alter Zim had acted this way. He found the noise annoying and irritating. Alter Zim was also getting annoyed and was about to just smack the both of them until they stopped, but there was an interruption…
"At it again I see…oh…" A young woman had walked into the room, noticed the two bickering and the other two not knowing how to solve the situation. Her walking in was enough to make the two look up and stop fighting. The young woman was defiantly not in a comfortable spot. She had long, blue-purple hair that dropped over her facial features. She had a nose, but it was small, and almost cat-like. She had tear-like tattoos that traveled from her cat-like eyes to the bottom of her cheeks. Two pointed elf ears pointed out from her hair. Her dress was similar to that of Alter Dib's, minus the trench coat, and had a skirt type thing over her pants. She also wore gloves that covered her clawed fingers. "Uh…I can come back later if this is a bad time…" she said sheepishly.
"No, no…" said Alter Dib, "Please, come in, Kumi."
(Another chapter has ended. And if your confused about how everyone looks, I'll have pictures up on DA. I'll also put up some of the monsters just for the hell of it as well. Oh, and Kumi's name is pronounced Koo-Mee, just so you're not wondering.)
(Mwahahahaha! The actual plot has started! And I warn you, this is my first plot story, so if some things don't make sense, or people end up out of character, please tell me so I can fix it…)
(And sorry it took me so long to post this, I've been really busy doing…stuff…If you want to know, tell me in a review and I'll put it up on the next chapter. And to those of you who have reviewed, thank you so much! It's very much appreciated.)