Chapter 14

A week had gone by since the Tallest had had their smeet and Dib was doing his best taking care of Zen. But things had gotten so hard that he had to start letting Gir watch him.

"I'm off to skool, Gir!" Dib said as he opened his front door. "Ms. Sweeters is out today so you got Zen, Okay?"

Gir saluted in duty mode with little Zen resting on a pillow in his head."YES, SIR! ONE BOTTLE OF FORMULA EVERY TWO HOURS AND...yeah..."

His eyes went blue. "I LOVE BABIES!"

"GIR!" Dib snapped. "I need your help! Be serious! I can't bring Zen to Skool anymore unless Ms. Sweeters is there, so you gotta watch him! Please keep him safe... If anything were to happen to him I...wouldn't be able to take it..."

Gir sniffled and wiped an oil tear from his eye. "Okay...Hey, big head, why don't you just drop this year of skool?"

"Because I already failed LAST year for staying home when I was pregnant! Dad won't let me drop another year...I wish I could, but...well, I gotta go...bye..."

Gir and Zen watched Dib walk out sadly and then heard him curse a few times as he ran after the bus as it tried to ditch him again.

Gir plucked Zen out of his head and plopped him on the floor in front of him.

"C'MON, MINI-MASTA!" he said as he pulled a mustache out of his chest and slapped it on his face. "LET'S GO SCARE SOME PEOPLE!"

Zen laughed. "BWAHAHAHEEHERARAAHAHAHAHAAAAA! (SOMEBODY SAVE ME FROM THIS PSYCHO! AAAAA-oh well...DOOOOOM!)"

Gir twitched. "Uh...Let's go!"

They zoomed off.

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A few hours later, Gir and Zen sat bored in the living room.

Gir tilted his head like he was thinking. "Waaaaait...weren't we gonna go scare people?"

"Uuuoohhh..." said Zen as he chewed on his antennae. "WEEEEEHHH! (It rox not having teeth yet!) "

"HUH?" said Gir, alarmed at the sudden shriek.

He went into red-eyed duty mode and held Zen at arms length. "WHAT IS WRONG, MINI-MASTER? IS THERE AN INTRUDER?"

Then he went back to dummy mode. "OR DO JOO JUST GOT GAAAS?"

Gir started making an array of hideously distorted faces. "PLOOPY BLOOPY BLOOOO! NYA NYA NYA! HEEEHEEE! IEEEEE!"

Zen started getting annoyed and frowned.

"YEW YEW YEW--YAWWW!" Gir cried as Zen kicked him in his face.

Zen laughed. "BWAHAHAHAHARARAAARARAAR! (BURP!)"

Gir lay unconscious on the ground while Zen continued celebrating his ingenious victory!

(Seven hours later)

Dib opened the door to his house and fell forward exhaustedly onto the carpet. "I'm home!"

Gir was still out-cold with a big dent in his face and Zen was siting on the couch, taking little a nap with his teddy bear.

Dib sighed in defeat and dragged his back-pack and himself the rest of the way into the house.

(Up in Zims' space base, the little ex-invader was trying to sing himself to sleep)

"1 little, 2 little, 3 little shee-eeps...bee-eing maa-ade into lamb chops..."

(On the Massive)

"I love our smeet..." said Red as little Magenta wrapped her little claws around his.

"So do I..." said Purple. "Say, Red...Why doesn't she move as much as she did a few says ago?"

Red shrugged. "I don't know... and she's so skinny... almost like she's starved..."

"Pff!" said Purple. "Yeah, right! Heh-heh...her PAK would prevent that..."

The two Tallest spun towards each other. "SHE HAS NO PAK!"

"OH NO!" cried Red. "SHE IS STARVING! WHAT DO WE DO? HOW DO WE FEED A SMEET WITH NO PACK?"

"TACOS!" answered Purple, as he pulled one out of his pants and tried to feed it to Magenta.

Magenta shoved it away. "Bleah! (DUMMIES! I'm only a week old!)"

"SHE'S NOT EATING IT!" Purple panicked.

"QUICK!" Red pulled him and Magenta into the hall. "LET'S TAKE HER TO THE SNACK ROOM AND TRY TO FEED HER SOMETHING ELSE!"

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Having given up on sleep, Zim went back to pondering what he did to screw up his life.

"...Geez...I stink. Hmm...maybe I should just kill myself...I mean...what am I doing here? I screw up too much to even deserve to live!"

Zims' morbid thoughts were interruped by the image of Red popping on the view screen, yelling in a hysteric frenzy.

"ZIIIIIM!"

"HUH?" Zim jumped up. "MY TALLEST! WHAT'S WRONG?"

"OUR SMEET!"

"THE SMEET!" Zim repeated. "WHAT HAPPEND? DID PURPLE SIT ON IT AGAIN?"

"...Well, yeah...BUT THAT'S NOT THE PROBLEM THIS TIME!" Red held Magenta up close to the screen. "SHE'S M-M-MALNOURISHED!"

"MALNOURISHED? OH NO! WHY?"

Purple squeezed himself in next to Red. "SHE WON'T EAT ANYTHING! NOT CHURROS, SODAS, SUCKERS, OR EVEN HOT-DOGS!"

He illustrated his point by continuously stabbing Magentas' mouth with a hot-dog until she kicked it away angrily and started crying. "SEE?"

"WHAT DO SMEETS EAT?" asked Red.

"EH?" said Zim. "You don't know?"

"DO YOU?"

"No..." Zim scratched his head. "But... Dib might..."

"THEN GO ASK HIM!" Red hollered. "RIGHT NOW!"

The transmission ended.

Zim swallowed thickly, already feeling his legs turn to jelly. "I have to... ask Dib?"

(End Chapter 14)

Princess of Despair: And Yay for another!

Ryu Forte: Yes...everyone is angsty for some reason. Must be something contagious!

animeninjaNIPPON: Zim would make a cute nurse! As for whether the two former rivals get back together...we'll see

Ri2: I think the whole GAGR concept sprouted from the scene in "Tak: The Hideous New Girl" Where Gir and Gaz had some alone time and danced together, I think...meh

TezzWoods: GAGR's not really my thing...NOT ALL THE VIEWS EXPRESSED BY THE AUTHOR REFLECT THE OPINIONS OF THE PUBLISHER! I just help her out...

Circus freak92-I AM GIR: DOUGHNUTS! I picked up a couple bag of doughnut holes trick or treating at doughnut shops! My favorite? DEFINITELY Krispy Kreme's original glazed...(drooool)

Techno Doofus: We're all lazy, so I don't mind. And I agree that Dib's taking this a bit too far. But maybe he'll see that too...you'll see!