Tapan: I'm in MAINE as I write this. Whoo/dances/
Torna: would you stop, you ninny!
Tapan: NEVER!
Jhkitty: what is wrong with you?
Tapan: would you like the list my therepist gave me?
Jhkitty/sighs/ no.
Tapan: okay then!
Disclaimer: I don't own Invader Zim or anything else that is used in this fic, unless it's the plot and Red and Purple's disguises. So no suing!
Warning: RAPR, hints of ZADR and even a little RADR (Red/ Dib for anyone that didn't know) flame if you wish!
Morning, and after a long, hard night of figuring out people are trying to kill you, the tallest fell asleep. Red laid in the bed, slightly uncomfortable, but had been able to fall asleep finally.
Then he was hit with a pillow.
He jumped up to see Purple, already in his disguise, holding the fluffy object.
He glared. "What?"
Purple was unfazed by the tone. "It's time to get up, we have a school to sign up for."
Red groaned and fell back down. "I don't wanna gooooo!" he then buried his head under the pillow.
It was Purple's turn to glare. "We have to, in order to blend in."
"This plan is stupid!"
Purple opened his mouth to retort, but stopped when he heard some commotion from next door.
"IT WASN'T ME I SWEAR! COULD YOU PUT THE KNIFE DOWN PLEASE!"
"NO! I'LL KILL YOU, DIB! AND I'M NOT KIDDING THIS TIME, I WILL ACTUALLY STOP YOUR HEART!"
There was a blood-chilling scream.
Red sat up and turned his disguise on. "Well, I guess I'm not getting back to sleep now!" s/he pushed off the bed, stretched and walked down the hallway, looking out the window just in time to see a black-haired boy run out of the house next door, screaming. Behind him, was a magenta haired girl with a very sharp looking dagger.
The crimson leader blinked and turned around to face Purple. "So are we going?"
Purple's face lit up and started toward the door, Red following closely behind
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"Your names?" the man sat behind a large desk, writing information on a stack of papers. On the other side, the disguise Tallests sat, Purple watched intently, Red played with her hair.
The violet world leader hesitated. "P- phoebe."
The man wrote it down then turned his attention to the other girl. "And yours."
"Red." She spoke without faltering, then put her feet up on the desk, ignoring her companion's death glare.
"'Red'?" he glanced down at the boots. "Eh, could you please take your boots off my desk."
Red rolled her eyes and pulled her feet off the desk as the man continued with the questioning.
"I can't believe you!" the leader re-dubbed "Phoebe" stormed ahead of her partner, angry.
Red tuned out Purple's ranting as they walked down the sidewalk on their way back home.
The angry girl realized this and turned. "You're not even listening, are you?"
The red head smiled and shoved her hands into her jean pockets. "I stopped listening somewhere around the first 'Dammit, Red!'" she chuckled as "Phoebe's" face heated in anger.
"Be serious! People are going to end up seeing right through your disguise!" she walked up to swat the other upside the head but missed. Groaning in frustration, she stormed back ahead until a strong gust of wind blew past, causing Purple's skirt and Red's trench coat to lift.
The amethyst girl squealed and pushed the front of the material down in a vain attempt to keep the cold air out.
Red snickered, unfazed by the wind. "At least my disguise keeps out the draft!"
"Phoebe" growled and continued to walk on.
"Ugh! Thank whatever God this planet prays to that we don't have to go to that skool thing today." As soon as the door was shut, Red turned off his disguise and fell down on the couch face first.
Phoebe walked into the living room and threw the keys on an end table before also turning off her disguise. Purple adjusted his robe, relieved. He looked over at the couch to see the crimson leader stretched out on it comfortably.
Red glanced at the coffee table to see the remote lying there. Without moving, he reached for it, to find it just out of his reach. He growled and tried to reach further, before giving up and whining, "Pur!"
Purple rolled his eyes and crossed his arms, but otherwise didn't move. "So lazy."
Red pouted then stretched out toward it, claws hardly brushing the plastic.
The violet leader simply walked away.
The rest of the time at their new house went by quickly, which is surprising since they were probably bored out of their royal alien minds. But the time did go by and sooner than Red would've liked, Phoebe was dragging her down the sidewalk in order to go to skool.
As they got closer and closer to the skool, Red spotted some commotion outside the doors, containing the girl's new neighbor and a certain alien.
Red growled at the sight of Zim before whispering to Phoebe. "I thought you promised me that I wouldn't have to see that little headache."
The violet girl smiled sheepishly. "Just don't look at him." She paused and looked over at them. "Besides, he's not too 'little' anymore."
Red looked over at Zim to see his co-leader was right. Zim had grown, not much but enough where he didn't look awkward in the crowd. She growled. "That doesn't stop him from being an idiot."
Phoebe shrugged and watched as the pale boy ranted about something.
"Hey! We live next door to him!" Red shouted and pointed at the boy.
Everyone turned to face the two, confused and suspicious. Even the two fighting boys turned to look at them.
Phoebe chuckled nervously at the people before pulling Red into the building.
"So, you're the new girl?" Phoebe turned at her table to the girl that spoke to see three of them standing before her.
The middle girl had long, blond hair with earrings following around the lobe. Behind her stood the two girls on either side. Both of them looked almost exactly the same; dyed black hair, thick make up and very pale skin.
The violet haired girl hesitated before smiling politely. "Yeah I am. My name's phoebe. And you are?"
The blond snorted. " I didn't ask your name." She paused to turn her nose up. "I'm Jessica and this is Taylor and Tyler."
Phoebe cocked an eyebrow. /ooookay. / "Nice to meet you." She turned away.
Jessica scoffed and walked away, the two girls following, nearly knocking over the boy walking in. the girls glared at him as well, muttering something about freaks taking over.
The boy was clearly used to it as he glanced around the room. Right behind him, Red put a hand on his shoulder in a friendly manner and walked over to Phoebe. The boy seemed slightly nervous, but followed anyway.
"Phoebe!" Red smiled at the girl. "I'd like you to meet my new friend." She sat down, pulling the boy with her. The amethyst girl sucked at a juice box as the other did introductions. "Phoebe, this is Dib. Dib, Phoebe."
Phoebe spit out the mouth full of juice. "Dib!"
Dib flinched and wiped the juice off his face. "Uh, yeah."
Red was unfazed. "Dib is looking for help in defeating the evil alien trying to take over this planet. I told him we could help."
Phoebe glared at Red before smiling at Dib. "Oh, I see. But I'm sorry, Dib, I won't be much help. You'll need to depend mostly on Red. Speaking of which, would you excuse us for a minute." As she was speaking, she walked around the table, grabbed the red head by the arm and dragged her away from the boy and to the doors of the lunchroom.
Once they were out the doors, Phoebe smiled at her companion. "Red, buddy of mine." She pulled on a handful of the red hair, forcing Red's head lower than her own. "What are you DOING?"
Red pulled her hair out of Phoebe's hand. "Don't ya see, Pur? This is the perfect opportunity to rid us of Zim! Forever!"
Phoebe cocked an eyebrow and put her hands on her hips.
"Look." Red put her hands on the other girl's shoulders. "We tell Dib all of Zim's weaknesses, he confronts Zim, destroys the psycho, and we live the rest of our days ZIM-FREE. It's fool proof!"
"Except for when you slip up on your own disguise and he figures out you're the one Zim gets the orders from."
"That a risk we'll just need to take." Red turned away. "And he won't figure it out. My disguise is too good to see through!" she walked back in.
Phoebe rolled her eyes. "Whatever you say, Red." She followed the other girl in.
Hours after skool let out, Purple watched out the window as Red and Dib sat on the roof, speaking about Zim and observing the stars. He glared at them, a little suspicious of Red's motives. Yes, the idea of getting rid of Zim was a relief but why use Dib?
He turned around and walked away from the window before Red saw him staring and Dib saw him out of his disguise.
Meanwhile, on the roof: "you seem to know a lot about these irkens already." Red looked impressed and slightly surprised.
Dib smiled and nodded. "Yeah, I've been watching him for years. You know, studying his moves and stuff." He leaned back slightly and stared at the stars. "I also have an irken alien ship in the garage. I got it fixed, but it ended up breaking again about a year later."
"And you haven't been able to fix it again." The red head smiled at the paranormalist knowingly.
He spoke flatly. "Yeah."
"You think I could take a look at it? Maybe I could help."
He looked skeptically. "Sure, if you want. I'll show you." He stood up and offered his hand to Red, who accepted it and was pulled to her feet.
She followed Dib to the garage, smiling at Gaz as they past her. The younger girl opened her eye slightly before continuing on her way, muttering something about aliens and her idiot brother.
The light turned on as they walked in the garage. The ship sat in the middle of the floor, cold. Opening it, Dib pressed a few buttons and the ship came to life.
Red observed it, pretending to never see such technology. "So, what's wrong with it?"
"It stopped flying. It must've been put together wrong when it was last fixed."
The glass to the cockpit opened, allowing Red to look in. she leaned in and pressed a few buttons, causing the panel to open. Dib's eyes widened as she looked in curiously. "What if you attach the white wires together and the red ones to the inside of the ship?"
Hesitantly, Dib reached in at attached the wires to their respective places. The machine hummed louder and began to hover. He gasped and backed away before turning to Red. "H-how did you know?"
Her red eyes widened and chuckled nervously. "Uuuh, lucky guess." The nervous chuckles died and the two just stared at each other before turning their attention back on the ship.
An hour later, Red walked back into the house she shared. Shutting the door, she walked into the dark living room to see a pair of glowing purple eyes. They glared at her. It would almost be spooky, if she didn't know the owner personally. "How's your little pet?"
She sighed. "He's not my pet, Purple. Let's just say it's my form of entertainment."
He snorted. "So, that's what they call it here?"
She turned off the disguise. "What's that I sense in your voice? Resentment? Doubt? Jealousy?"
Purple eyes widened. "O-of course not!"
The crimson alien snorted before walking upstairs. "Whatever." he flipped the light switch on his way up, causing Purple to come in view. "You shouldn't sit in the dark, it's bad for your eyes." With that, he closed the door to some room upstairs.
Tapan/squeals/ this couple ROCKS! I should write them more often.
Torna/shrugs/ I like the way you did Red.
Jhkitty/eye twitches/
Tapan/starry eyes/ oooh, Torna. You actually complemented my work/hugs Torna/ I love you!
Torna/rolls eyes/
Tapan: well, that's all for now. See ye later!