(Another Chapter! This one will explain some about Evil Dib and why he's so…evil. Not everything will be explained though, you have to guess until that critical moment some time in further chapters. Welcome to my fic, Capra hircus! Nice to have some new blood. Tell you're friends! Spread the word! Review, dammit! I know there are a lot of you coming to my story and not reviewing, I know you are! I'll find you:Cough: Ahem…sorry about that outburst…anyway, this will be another…interesting chapter. Thank you Kokujo, I'm gonna steal you're idea!)
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Evil Dib opened his eyes to find himself in a ghost-like state, floating near the ceiling. He looked down at the scene before him to find himself and Zim there. They were arguing about something, as always. They were young, very young, back when Zim first came to Earth.
"Stoopid Human filth, I AM ZIM!" Zim yelled at the top of his lungs.
"I know your secret Zim, soon the entire world will see you for what you really are!"
"Oh, but you'll never remember, for I will wipe your brain clean!" some more arguing ensued and a small slap/nerd fight broke out. Zim was able to shove Dib out of the front door of his oddly colored house and the lawn gnomes attacked as soon as Dib hit the ground. Evil Dib smiled at this memory, only one of the many that he cherished in his minds eye.
The place quickly changed, almost like a blur, to a time when they were in junior high and they had met up in the hallways of the skool.
"Get out of my way, Dib stink." said Zim fiercely.
"Only when you're turned into the FBI." mocked Dib. Zim then hit Dib in the side of his huge head with a text book. (Dib shakes his fists at the author. 'My heads not big!' Author pokes Dibs large head with a pen. 'Yeah, it is…') Evil Dib then placed a hand on the cyber side of his head, right where Zim had hit him. Even with the advanced technology he had, he couldn't feel anything. Another fight started up below him, but it was slightly more dignified, if that can even be said, with scratching and punching. But it was soon broken up by a skool official.
Some more blurry affects, Woosh! This was now high skool, senior year. Dib had just left the building, walking home with purpose, Evil Dib lazily floated along behind him. He when to his house just long enough to throw his books and stuff inside the door. He then turned on his heel and went strait to Zim's house. He banged on the door a couple of times.
"Zim? Zim open up! Please!" Dib pleaded, but the door did open, and Dib almost smacked Zim in the face. "Zim…"
"Why are you here, Dib…" no insult was attached to his name, a first for the alien. Zim looked bruised and beaten.
"I…I'm sorry for what happened to you yesterday at skool…" he said, head down. Evil Dib remembered this incident very well. That was the day after a few bullies decided to use Zim as a punching bag because of his 'skin condition' and his shortness.
Zim looked at him with empty eyes. "Why are you apologizing? You had nothing to do with it."
"Yes I did, I just stood there like all those other herded sheep, and watched it happen to you…" tears started welling in Dib's eyes. "I just stood there and watched you get beat up." he became silent now, unable to speak because the tears were chocking his voice.
The alien looked at him as if he weren't there. "Don't blame yourself for things that happened to me…" said Zim, starting to close the door.
Evil Dib knew what was to come, he remembered his exact words and mouthed them as the dream world Dib said them.
"No! Zim, please wait! Don't close the door!" Dib pretty much threw himself at Zim, tears streaming down his face. Dib hugged Zim around the neck and caused both of them to fall back, Zim being knocked back onto his be-hind. The door had closed automatically when they both ended up in the house. Zim seemed very surprised at Dib's actions, for his eyes were wide open looking at the crying human clinging to him.
"Dib?" Zim asked softly, not knowing what else to say.
"Please, I don't want others to hurt you like that! It's cruel and unfair!" Dib said this like Zim had some control over the situation. "I know you hate me, and we're enemies and all, but…but…" Dib looked up at Zim with those lovely amber eyes of his, tears still evident in them. Zim could feel his heart pounding and his face flushing a little.
"But what?" he was able to cough out, feeling like his squeedly-spooch was turning in knots.
"But…I…" Dib burying his face into Zims chest, Zim blushing more at this action. "I can't really explain…it's just when I see you, or hear your voice…I feel…light…like I couldn't have a care in the world…" Dib whispered softly.
Zim didn't know what to do, he had never been exposed to a situation quite like this before, so he placed a clawed hand on Dib's back and rubbed his gently up and down his back, trying to calm him down the way he always saw in those awful earth soap opera things. "You're just confused…" said Zim, also trying to give himself a reason for the way he felt as well, "Soon, this will pass, and everything will be normal again…"
Soon, the scene melted into another, this time it was their sophomore year of kollage. Zim and Dib were in the middle of a fist fight somewhere on campus. IT was dark outside and Zim didn't have his stupid disguise on. Zim threw a punch that landed squarely on Dib's right cheek (face), knocking him onto the ground. Zim quickly pinned him, his right hind on Dib's left wrist, his left foot on Dib's right wrist, and left fist pulled back, ready to let loose on Dib's face. Both breathed heavily, trying to catch their breath. Dib could have kneed Zim squarely in the nutes, but he didn't.
"Why do you hesitate, space boy? Why don't you strike?" panted Dib, more or less letting himself be pinned by Zim.
"Because you're not a threat to me in this position." said Zim, failing to think about his nether region. He smirked at his captive, Zim seemed to like Dib like this. HE had always wondered why he got so much enjoyment from fighting with the Dib. Maybe because he posed a challenge.
"Wrong!" said Dib, raising his right leg and placed his right foot squarely on Zim's chest and kicked him back a suitable distance. Dib quickly got to his feet, as did Zim. Dib quickly grabbed Zim by the color of his shirt and slammed Zim against a nearby tree. Zim grunted as he was thrown into the trunk of the tree. He was still shorter than the human, who was holding him strait out at arms length. Zim's toes barely touched the ground. (Did I forget to mention that they had both grown a bit more every time the scene changed? Well I'm telling you now…) Zim's claws dug into Dib's arms, causing Dib to squint in pain.
"You can't beat me, human! You can't even kill me because of your worthless feelings!" shouted Zim, trying to figure out a plan of escape.
Dib looked strait into Zim's ruby eyes, "Is that why you can't kill me either?"
"Shut up! Worthless earth skum!" Zim said fiercely, kicking Dib in both shins. Dib cried out in pain and dropped Zim, dropping to his knees at the same time. Zim ruthlessly kicked Dib in the face, causing Dib to fly onto his back. Zim walked over and placed his foot on Dib's neck, slowly starting to choke him. "See? I could have killed you at any time, I just chose not to." Dib looked up at the alien that seemed to tower over him.
"Z-Zim…d-don't do…th-is…" choked Dib, feeling pain starting to wash over his entire body.
"And why not, earth stink? I'd be rid of you and better off to take over this mud ball." growled Zim in a low tone.
Dib was able to snag onto Zim's leg and lift it slightly off his bruised neck. "But you'd be miserable." Dib coughed out.
"What are you talking abou-oooooot!" Dib had kicked Zim's leg out from under him and also thrown his other leg back so Zim fell on top of him. Evil Dib just watched as he floated there, watching it all happen. "Wh-What is the meaning of this?" said Zim, now face to face with Dib.
"Just shut up and admit to yourself that you have feelings for me!" said Dib, holding Zim in place with his arms around Zim's waist.
"Never!" said Zim, trying to wriggle out of Dib's grasp. "I'd never allow myself to become with an enemy!"
"I don't believe that!" Dib removed his arms from Zim's waist to the sides of Zim's head. Zim, in fact, looked a little scared now, because he stopped trying to get out of Dib's grasp. "You're a horrible liar…" said Dib softly, before pulling Zim's head closer and kissing him deeply. Zim's eyes widened as far as they would go, he wasn't sure what he was feeling, but it was warm and tingly. It felt good, like he was finally appreciated and cared for. As quickly as it began, it ended. Zim blushing softly.
"…Dib…" said Zim finally.
"Well?" asked Dib, afraid of the answer. He had nothing to fear. To his surprise, Zim came back down and kissed him. Dib returned to kiss in full, after a brief moment of shock. Evil Dib closed his eyes and the scene before him changed one last time.
It was many years later, but not that many ago. This is the one thing he wished he'd never have to see again.
"Zim…" he whispered softly.
The scene before him started to play out, just like the day it was meant to replicate.
Zim feverishly typed on one of his computers down in his base. Screens came up and went in milliseconds. But he was thrown to the ground when the entire structure shook. Something or someone was attacking the base.
"Zim! Zim, where are you?" called Dib, panicking when he couldn't find Zim.
"Dib! Over here!" shouted Zim over the alarms. Dib rounded the corner and rushed over to Zim, then hugged him tightly.
"I'm so glad you're safe…" said Dib.
"Yes, but for how long…" said Zim, while in the embrace. Then another jolt threw them to the floor. Zim got up and started heading for the elevator, Dib following after him.
"What are you planning to do?" said Dib, just barely getting in the elevator before Zim closed it.
"Confronting this head on…" said Zim as they reached the main floor. When the door opened, Zim ran out of the elevator and strait out of the house.
"Zim!" shouted Dib running after him out of the house, to see Tak's voot firing at the house. "Tak?"
"No." came a monotone male voice. The hatch opened and the voice it belonged to stepped out and climbed to the top of the voot.
"Wh- what the hell is going on?" said Zim in bewilderment.
"Who the hell are you?" shouted Dib at the person on top of the voot. It was another Dib, and he looked just like (the younger version and non-evil version) of Evil Dib.
"I am you, and at the same time, I am me." He said in a chilling voice, pulling a gun from his trench coat.
Dib stepped in front of Zim to protect him. "Why are you here?" he called up to the other Dib.
The other Dib got an evil grin on his cold face. "To kill you…" he said right before he fired the gun. Zim shoved Dib down and immediately fell to the ground afterward. Red blood started to stain the already dieing grass. This other Dib started to cackle as a worm hole appeared behind him and soon disappeared, taking that Dib and the voot into its vast reaches.
"ZIM!" Dib cried as he went strait to Zim's side and held his trembling hand. Zim had been shot in the side and was now bleeding heavily. "You gotta hold on! You have to!"
Zim looked over at his lover's face, a weak smile crossing his own and his features softened. "You always were an optimist…" he coughed and blood filled his mouth. "I-it won't be long now…"
"Don't say that! You'll pull through! I know you will!" said Dib, starting to sob.
The alien reached up and rested a clawed hand against Dib's soft cheek. "You know as well as I do I won't survive this…" he said weakly. "Promise me you'll always stay strong…" It was getting harder and harder to breathe and stay conscious. Not long now…
"Zim…" said Dib worry, loss and grief spreading across his features, "You can't leave me…you promised…" a tear landed on Zim's cheek and rolled down the side.
"Some things can't be helped…" said Zim, cringing from the pain. "Please…kiss me…one last time…"
Dib bent over and kissed Zim just as passionately as he could. Dib broke the kiss and rested his forehead against Zim's, tears streaming from his eyes. "I love you…"
"I love you too…" said Zim weakly, his eyes closed and his grip on Dib's hand loosened, and eventually ceased to exist. Zim's face looked so serene, even though he was lifeless.
"Zim? Zim? ZIM!" Dib pulled the Irken close to him and just hugged his body, refusing to believe he was really dead. Dib was just beside himself, bawling at the loss of his lover.
Even Evil Dib was crying, "This didn't need to happen…he didn't need to die…" he came out of his floating position and walked over to his younger self. His younger self looked up at him and slowed his crying. "Don't worry, your suffering will soon be over. I'll fix everything."
His younger self quickly took on Evil Dib's appearance. "Oh, I know you will…" he then reached out and grabbed Evil Dib's throat, beginning to choke him. "I'll make sure of it…"
Evil Dib woke up out of his dream gasping. He had broken out in a cold sweat. He looked around at his surroundings, realizing he really was awake. HE gently touched his throat, which hurt slightly. Evil Dib stood and walked over to a full-length mirror to look at his neck where his dream self had taken hold. Oddly enough, there was a mark, bruising where the hand had been. He rubbed it, turning away from the mirror.
"What the hell is happening?" he silently asked himself, right before a guard knocked on his door.
"Sir?" asked the guard.
"What?" said Evil Dib angrily.
"The group is on the move, sir." replied the guard.
"Thank you, you're dismissed." said Evil Dib.
"Sir!" said the guard and his footsteps became softer and distant as he walked away.
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(End chapter 9. Now that I look back on this chapter, it's really sad and depressing. Almost enough to make you pity Evil Dib…almost. But yeah, I have no clue what to write so if you would like to suggest something, it would be welcomed. I have a few scenes planned out and the ending, and even a sequel, if I get around to it…but I just don't know how to get to those scenes…Help is greatly appreciated. Thank you, all my loyal readers and reviewers! I love you guys!)