Ch 2: The Keef pursues!
Nearly three days had passed since Xela's arrival to Earth. Once again, Dib tried all throughout 1st period to convince the unconcerned class that Xela was an alien, but to no avail. Dib tried interrogating the visitor from the stars on the reason to why she was here, which was just as effective, if not less. "Look, I already told you, I'm not wasting my time trying to take over a planet that isn't any of use for me except-" As if catching herself from revealing a scandalous secret, Xela clasped her hand over her mouth. "Except what?" Questioned the paranormal investigator. "It's none of your business why I'm here, so just drop it and leave me alone!" The entire cafeteria went silent at the argument between the two( It was lunch time when Dib confronted Xela). The alien grabbed Dib by the shoulder and dragged him out into the courtyard, which apparently was located next to the cafeteria. Pinning the helpless human to the wall with her right hand, Xela brandished her claws with her left hand. "How many times do I have to tell you this to get it through your gigantic head? Leave. me. alone. Bother me one more time and I'll call your Earth authorities on you."
"But, you're an alien. You can't-"
"Guess what, Dib? No one believes you. I pass off as human so perfectly that they'll just send you to The Crazy House For Boys- like always." Dib, being stripped of his only strength, which might've worked on Zim, stammered. "Just you wait, alien scum! Someday I'll expose you for what you really are-" The cat-like alien dug her claws into Dib's shoulder. "And what makes you think that you'll live to see that day?" just then, an annoying riiinggg sounded through the skool signaling the end of lunch. But to Dib, that annoying ring was music to his ears, for Xela had left him to head off to English.
After that little incident, Dib decided that it would be wiser to just observe Xela to find the answers he sought. For the next month, by observing her he found out many things. First of all, the planet Xela came from was artistically inclined, for she excelled in her extracurricular classes such as art and ceramics. But, while observing her in web design, he found out that she wasn't exactly skilled in computers. In fact, the first computer she touched blew up. So Mr. Jones, the web design teacher, decided that she was too doomed to learn how to use a computer so he sent her to the library to pick up some books to bring back for reading while the rest of the class were assigned a computer.
But how was Zim doing during all of Dib's observing? Clearly, Zim wasn't used to being ignored by Dib, so he came up with as many 'schemes' to take over the world as he could, no matter how silly it was(even for Zim) "Dib-beast! Witness my long-awaited triumph over the human race. My plan is simple yet deadly: launch an army of cat-nip starved kittens upon city hall! Bwahahahaha! Wait. That didn't hail the Dib's attention. Uh, how 'bout this: evil mutant couches will be hypnotized to—ahh! Get away!" Gaz hit Zim upside the head with her lunch box. "Dib left the cafeteria an hour ago, you moron."
After skool, Zim was walking home to check on the zombie turkey experiment when- "Heya Buddy!" An unfortunately familiar voice filled the fall air. Zim turned about to face--- "KEEF!" instincts taking over, Zim ran as far as he could from the red-headed stalker. "Where are you going Zim? Wait up!" And so Keef pursued the Irken as the Irken in turn tried to put as much distance in between himself and Keef. Finally he stopped at a house that by now you dear readers are familiar with: The house of Doxy, the Kidney-eating old Lady! And, by a bad stroke of luck for both fleer and pursuer, they had no idea who lived in that creepy old house.
Back to Web Design, Xela came back to the computer lab with a quite content look on her face. "Why are you smiling, alien?" Dib asked the space castaway, who sighed. "Fine, if you have to know." Xela then proceeded to hand Dib the book she checked out on astronomy. "Trying to see if we know the location of your home planet?" The alien shot Dib a dark, yet hurt, look. She snatched back the book. "No." Xela's words were as cold and cruel asanicy winter. While the rest of the class studied computers, Dib studied the look in Xela's eyes as she gradually flipped through the book. It was a distant look, the look of a traveler too far from home... and for a moment, Dib felt a ping of sympathy for the feline-like alien.
Zim leaped into the open window of the creepy house. Keef followed not too far behind. "Wait up, buddy! I haven't seen you in so long- it's almost as if you're avoiding me." Luckily for Zim, Keef didn't see the Irken dash into the kitchen and instead headed towards that dreaded closet. Slowly, and suspensefuly, Keef turned the knob. Just then, there was a ring. It was the door bell! Creepily, the front door swung ajar, and there in the doorway stood- a pizza delivery boy, straight from Bloaty's Pizza Hog.( you were expecting Doxy, yes?) "Hello? Is anyone here?(the pizza delivery boy can't see over the mountain of pizzas he was holding) Your pizzas are here. I was told to come to the 'creepy house where weird things happen' at first I thought it was this house, but now I'm thinking it's that creepy green house." Zim, heard the entire thing. "Gir!" The Invader slapped his gloved hand to his forehead. "Hello? Is anyone- AHH! Some one get it off me!" Fluffy, who completely ignored Keef, immediently pounced on the defenseless pizza delivery boy. Doxy could be heard upstairs. "Did you get that pizza boy Fluffy? It's about time; I knew that whippersnapper who egged my house worked for Bloaty's! Hold im' down Fluffy; I'm commin' with the kidney harvester!" Zim, too scared of both Keef and Doxy to stick around, left the vicinity the way he came(you remember that window?) And Keef, wanting to spend time with Zim, followed him just before Doxy came into view.
What was Dib doing during all of this excitement? Yes! He was following Xela to find out where she lived. Despite it being over a month since Xela landed on Earth, Dib still hasn't found out where she lived (pretty pathetic huh?) No matter how hard he tried, he couldn't keep up with that scooter she always drove. It seemed to go too fast to be a normal scooter, so Dib concocted a theory that, given that Xela's people's ships can transform, that scooter was her ship in disguise. Suddenly, Dib came up with an idea: If he can't get to Xela's house, then why not lure her into his house?
Alien and stalker both fled the house as a blood curdling scream along with the sickening sound of ripping flesh echoed around the neighborhood. Doxy's triumphant yet withered laughter followed like Keef followed Zim. "Must get away...from...Keef!" Zim panted as his pursuer kept up the chase. Suddenly, out of the clear blue sky, Gir (in his canine disguise) flew down and collided with the red-head named Keef. "Dancing Chickens!" the metallic sidekick shouted to no one in particular. "Gir! Get me outta here! Now!" Gir treaded off the now unconscious Keef. "Okey- dokey, lord of the zombie turkeys!" And with that, Gir and Zim rode off to their secret base. "Gir, remind me to let you play with Nick when we get home." Zim said to his minion in midair, who squealed with joy. Suddenly, a streak of silver flew past, almost knocking Zim off the robot. "Hey, watch where you're going, stink-beast!" the streak stopped. It was actually Xela piloting her scooter-disguised spaceship(props to Dib for guessing correctly). She had her hair tucked into a helmet and was wearing goggles, so Zim, who knew of her existence, did not see her more individual features. She zoomed closer to the irken. "Hey! You're the jackass that shot me down! I'd recognize that voice anywhere." Zim, who had forgotten the whole episode, went "huh?"
'Mother was right; Irkens are idiots.' She shook her head at the forgetful alien. "Wait! You're the one who wanted to take my mission!"
"What mission?"
"My mission for world conquest!"
"Oh, so now your people are at it- again! When will you disgusting Irkens learn?"
"Learn what?"
"That the universe wasn't meant to be yours! Your race failed fifty years ago to take over the universe- it will fail again!"
"Wait! Your talking about the war are you? Then that must mean you're a-" Zim uttered the name of Xela's species as if it was a parasite. "-Nalian." And with that, Zim took a ray gun from his PAK. "Prepare to be destroyed, filthy Nalian!" and fired at his sworn enemy.
Meanwhile, Dib was executing Phase 1 of his amazing plan. He went to the nearest grocery store and went to the pet section. There he grabbed every bag of catnip he could carry. He figured that, since Xela had claws and displayed similar qualities as a cat, she might have the same reaction to catnip as, well, a cat. Ignoring the cashier's weird look, he bolted out of the grocery store and headed home to execute Phase 2 of his amazing plan.
"Take that!" Zim shot at Xela again, but she dodged it. "Destroying you will be one of my greatest victory ever!" Zim took another shot at the alien, but, with her cat-like(pardon the pun) reflexes, Xela easily dodged the next shot. Suddenly an intoxicating aroma met her sensitive nose. It was something she never encountered before. The smell was sort of sweet, with a hint of bitterness to it. It dulled the rest of her senses, for Zim shot at her. But, being the poor marksman that he is, Zim missed his target and instead of hitting her heart, the fiery laser shot just grazed her shoulder. That was what brought her back to her present situation. She gripped her left shoulder in pain. "I would love to stay and dodge your cheap shots some more, but certain events have come into play. Therefore, I must finish this if I am to get anything done." Xela then proceeded to push buttons that shouldn't even exist on a normal scooter. The headlight flipped back to reveal a small laser cannon. Xela, known for being compassionate even to her enemies, set the laser's power from "fry to a crisp" two notches down to "seriously hospitalize".
"Eat this." She then pressed a small green button. With incredible accuracy, she shot Gir in his right eye. Soon Zim and his defective robot companion were plummeting to their doom. That taken care of, Xela then proceeded on her newfound quest to discover the source of that as mysterious as it was intoxicating smell.
Not too far away, Dib was boiling the catnip over a hotplate and fanning the aroma out the open window, which was covered with reinforced steel bars to discourage any unexpected visitors, which were coming by the dozen. Gaz and Professor Membrane then walked into the kitchen ( that was where Dib was boiling the catnip.) "Son, why are you drawing in every cat in town here?" Dib immediently responded. "Dad, do you remember when that spaceship crashed here over a month ago?"
"I remember a lot of things, son. Just not that."
"Well I'm trying to capture the alien that was inside that spaceship using catnip." Gaz scoffed. "You're plan's stupid, Dib. No one's gonna fall for that." Leaving a dispirited Dib to his thoughts, Gaz departed to her room in search of her Game Slave 2, which, surprisingly enough, she left at home today. The paranormal investigator shook his head. "No! This plan will work! It will..." Just then, he heard a resounding hiss, and all of the cats scattered. Knowing who it was, Dib grabbed the nearest skillet and hid behind the door, which, as always, he left unlocked. The door opened, and in walked the alien. Then, in an unexpected moment, Xela collapsed, rendering the skillet in Dib's hand unnecessary. Flabbergasted, Dib emerged from his hiding spot. "What the?...Why did she?..." He found his answer instantly, for he saw the blood from Xela's shoulder wound.
(A/N: To those who are wondering, what took place between Zim and Xela wasn't the fight I promised. In the original story( yes, this is a rewrite of one of the fanfictions taken from my notebooks) Zim and Xela's first fight took place in the cafeteria, and by then Dib and Xela had already become friends. In this story I'm kind of prolonging that because I wanted Xela to have this 'trust no one' loner's attitude. But I promise, in chapter 3, Xela will reveal why she is here. Well, from the summary, we all know that she ran away. But from who? Stay tunned for chapter 3! If you're wondering about the whole notebook comment, before I got an account on this sight, I was a 'busy little writer' (I'm quoting SaiyanKing Vegeta here) making up stories to publish on this site. Among these stories a crossover of 'Invader Zim' and 'Phantom of the opera' which, due to bad writing, (and the fact that another, more skilled writer, has already done that) I have decided not to publish it. I kinda wanted that to be my first story, but, by a pure whim, wrote and published 'The Stranded' instead. )