Chapter 4
A loud beeping sound made it's way to Jimmy's lab signaling that there was someone was on the top part of his lab. He growled lightly, and went over to the screen to see Cindy Vortex standing there, tapping her foot impatiently. Jimmy was surprised to see her, but also at the same time confused. Why would she come over on her own free will? He sighed, and pressed the button that drops the door matt where Cindy was standing, making her fall through and landing in a loud THUMP next to Jimmy. She scowled, then rubbed her sore back.
"Thanks, Neutron, for that lovely trip." Came the sarcastic remark. Jimmy frowned, and rolled his eyes.
"You better be glad I let you in, Vortex. By the way, what do you want?" Jimmy asked, then frowned when he noticed she was staring at the two already in the lab. Then, she pointed to them. Jimmy took the hint, and introduced them. "You remember Timmy, right? And this is Dib, he's a paranormal inves--" He was cut off by Cindy rudely pushing him out of the way and dashing over to Timmy with a love-struck gleam in her green eyes.
"Hi, Timmy.." Cindy said in a dazed, whispery voice. Timmy seemed to notice that she was talking to him, and he turned around to be met by a hug. A really tight hug, I might add.
"Choking.. not breathing.." Timmy managed to choke out, and Cindy refused to release him much to Timmy's discomfort. His face was turning a slight blue color, and all of a sudden, Cindy was pulled off of Timmy, and set down roughly. A surprised look came across her face when she saw the large-headed kid standing there. Cindy raised an eyebrow, and just stood there while Dib fidgeted with his trench coat. "Cindy? This is Dib. Dib, that's Cindy." Timmy finally managed to catch his breath. His voice came out hoarse.
"Uhm.. H-hey Cindy.." Dib managed to choke out, a faint blush working its way to his cheeks. Cindy didn't seem affected by his blushing face, and only sighed, rolled her eyes, and mumbled a "Hi," only then did she resume her admiration toward Timmy. All of a sudden, Gir came outta nowhere, and jumped on Dib's head, and annoyingly started to sing the doom song. Dib screamed while he lost his balance, and fell on the floor while the little android continued his song of annoyance. Cindy raised her eyebrow, then glanced at Jimmy.
"Another failed experiment, I suppose?" Jimmy shook his head.
"No, it's not even mine. His name is Gir, and he belongs to ZIM." Jimmy explained, walking over to Gir and picking him up while he continued singing. "Gir? Why're you singing?" Gir stopped long enough to give an answer.
"Master told me to annoy the big-headed kid, so I's am!" He continued his song, and it kept going on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on until everybody (cept Gir) screamed. Cindy growled, and walked over to Gir, picked him up, and threw him to the wall. She smirked when he left a dent.
"Well, that takes care of that." Cindy said, wiping her hands together to get rid of imaginary dust. Timmy shook his head.
"'Fraid not, Cindy. Takes more than that to shut him up. ZIM has to tell him too." Timmy said, walking toward Gir and pulling him off the wall. Immediately, the little robot started laughing, and ran off toward Dib and sung the doom song once again. Dib screamed, and ran around in circles to get away from Gir, but he only followed. Jimmy thought a minute.
"Gir, how did ZIM tell you to annoy Dib?" Gir stopped, and turned crimson.
"Master communicates with a transmiton microphone that can either use voice commands or action commands." Gir's seriousness turned off as soon as it had turned on, and he chased Dib again only to be picked up by Cindy.
"Robot, open a communication line with your master." Cindy said, watching Gir turn crimson once again. His head opened and out came a holographic screen. After a few minutes, ZIM appeared on the screen looking very agrivated.
Earlier In Professor Calamitus's Lab...
ZIM had just put away his communicating microphone, and glanced around the glass tube they were in. After the conversation with Gir, things have been kinda quiet. Danny had fallen asleep, snoring slightly with his head leaned against the tube, and ZIM had stood up. He glanced around, and saw a huge door and a smaller door underneath the larger door knob. ZIM smirked, and drew out his mechanical legs to laser cut a hold in the tube. (A/N: Like in "FBI Warning of Doom" when ZIM enters the mall.) He held the cut out glass before it fell, and gently set it down.
"Alright, let's see. Where do I find the doom machine that the human was blabbering about." ZIM muttered, and walked quickly over to the huge door without even making a sound. ZIM winced when his sensitive antennae picked up Danny's yawn. He was waking up, and would soon find out he was gone and go looking for him. He quickly ran silently back to the tube, extended his mechanical legs, and pulled the glass through the opening. He turned around right when Danny opened his eyes.
"Ugh.. where am I?" Danny asked, groggily. He looked around until his eyes landed on the Irken. He smiled when he saw ZIM's grin. "Where did you go?" ZIM seemed completely taken by surprise by the question. He hadn't expected the human to be awake when he left.
"I didn't go anywhere, but outside this containment tube!" ZIM pointed to his covered up hole. "But, what do you suppose we do now?" Danny put on a thoughtful expression, and raised a finger to his chin. ZIM waited impatiently, and glared at the human.
"Well, I guess we could just walk around to see if this Professor is planning anything else." ZIM smiled at that statement. He happily complied by bringing out his mechanical legs and pushing the already made hole filler upper.. thing to the floor gently, and ZIM jumped out while Danny just about fell out. The Irken sighed, turned around, and headed back to where he spotted the huge door. "What's behind this door?" He heard Danny ask. ZIM scowled, and turned to face the hybrid.
"I don't know.." ZIM seemed to be stressing his words, and Danny took the hint. He tried to turn the knob, but unfortunately the professor seemed to have remembered to lock it, or it just locks automatically. Danny shrugged, then looked at ZIM. The Irken seemed to be in thought. Danny almost laughed on the expression on his face. He shook his head as he felt the cold chilling sensation as he transformed into his ghost half. ZIM seemed to be shook out of his thoughts when the room temperature dropped. He slowly raised his head to Danny, and saw the hybrid had changed. ZIM sighed, and raised his arms out, knowing Danny was going to pick him up. Danny smiled softly before reaching down and picking up the extremely small and lightweight Irken. He turned them intangible, and flew them through the wall.
When they reached the other side, Danny turned them invisible so they wouldn't be seen. After that task was done, he took the chance to look around. What he saw astounded him. There was a giant machine in the middle of a small lab. A bunch of unattached parts were surrounding it, and so were a bunch of other machines that looked like they were forgotten. A huge screen was on the other side of the unfinished machine, and there was Professor Calamitus talking with... Dramatic Pause Vlad Masters/Plasmius! Danny gasped, and ZIM didn't really seem interested. He crossed his arms the best he could considering Danny's forearm was holding him to his chest.
"Plasimus? What's he doing talking to the professor?" Danny whispered to ZIM. He felt ZIM shrug, but something finally caught ZIM's attention. It was the pointy haired, red eyed, blue skinned guy on the screen. ZIM about screamed about demons, but Danny was quick to cover ZIM's mouth with his hand. "ZIM, shhh! Let's go see what they're talking about." Danny lowered his hand from ZIM's mouth, and floated closer to Calamitus. ZIM stared warily at Vlad, as if he was going to steal his soul or something. After making sure he was armed, he finally tuned into the conversation between the ugly human and the demon.
"Calamitus, you know that Daniel is strong, but not strong enough for the Doomsday device. Besides, when I'm through with him, he won't even be able to keep his ghost form for long." Vlad laughed evilly. Calamitus started laughing too, and then pressed a button ending the conversation. Danny stayed quiet, and ZIM was thinking about how Gir was torturing Dib. He'd lost interest in his situation after ZIM had listened to Vlad. Danny watched as Calamitus walked over to his doomsday machine, and started to tinker with it for a minute before walking off as if he'd gotten bored with it. ZIM, on the other hand, was about ready to burst into hysterics. Danny glanced down at him, and quickly turned intangible and flew them back into the prisoner containment room. Once he landed, ZIM burst out laughing, his antennae sticking straight up.
"What's so funny?" Danny asked, as he set the Irken down. Once on the floor, ZIM collasped and started to beat the floor with his fists. Finally, after about, oh I dunno, 5 minutes, ZIM finally calmed down. He collected himself, and pointed behind him with this thumb to where they'd last seen the bald man.
"That is about the stupidest thing I've seen since the Dib-human tried to get into my base dressed as a squirrel." Danny raised an eyebrow, and was about to transform back into Fenton when ZIM stopped him. "Don't change. It's not so hot in here." That seemed to make Danny smile, and he made the bright blue ring disappear.
"So, what's the story about you and Dib?" Danny asked, floating a few inches off the ground in a sittng position. ZIM's face expression changed to one of anger and disgust.
"The Dib-human has been trying to prove I'm an alien ever since I came to this miserable planet. That was about a year ago in your earth years. If you're also wondering about Gir, the Tallest gave him to me before I was sent here. They say he's advanced, but I'm not so sure anymore." ZIM sat down, and looked up at Danny. The ghost seemed to be thinking about something.
"ZIM, if you don't mind me asking something so personal, but do Irkens love?" ZIM seemed taken by surprise by this question. Hardly anyone asked him about love, and rarely it was uncommon on Irk. ZIM put his words carefully into something that wouldn't confuse the ghost.
"Well, our pak's," He turned and pointed, allowing Danny to see it, then continued, "is kind of like our brain. It blocks all of the useless emotions like love and sadness for example, so we are more able to adapt to the plant's cultures that we are sent to conquer. Some defective Irkens might feel some emotions that others can't because they're Pak isn't fully repaired from the last Irken to use it. Does that make sense?" ZIM asked, after making sure he'd covered everything.
"Well, I guess I understand. After 6 months with my ghost powers, nothing seems weird to me anymore, except some certain things." Danny seemed to be lost in thought, when all of a sudden, ZIM's pak lite up. The Irken growled, and a transmition screen extended out of his pak. Danny looked on in confusion. On the screen appeared a blonde girl with green eyes, and when she saw ZIM, her eyes widened. She raised a shaky finger toward him, and ZIM rolled his ruby eyes. He knew what was coming.
"You're.. you're.. you--" The girl never got to finsh for she was rudely pushed aside, and Jimmy stepped into view.
"ZIM, you have got to tell us what's happening there, and will you please tell Gir to stop singing! He says you told him to annoy Dib, but it's annoying all of us!" Jimmy almost screamed, frantically looking behind him where Dib's screams were heard. ZIM smirked, happy with himself that he made his enemy scream. Suddenly, the camera was moved, and Timmy's face appeared on it. He waved at both of them.
"Hi, Danny and ZIM! What's it like over there? Is there cool weapons? How'd he capture you?" Timmy's right eye twitched. Danny glanced at ZIM, and ZIM returned the favor.
The Irken smiled slightly, and said, "Tell Gir that ZIM demands he stands on Dib's head until I say otherwise." Timmy raised an eyebrow, and glanced offscreen at Gir. The robot started giggling insanely. Timmy nodded, and suddenly the blonde girl was heard in the background.
"Jimmy! Is that an alien? His eyes are so beautiful! I wanna touch his antennae! Why does he only have three fingers?" ZIM rolled his eyes, and sighed. He ended the transmition, but before the screen cut off, Dib could be heard smashing into walls. Gir had done just as told.
"Now what do we do?" ZIM turned to Danny, and shrugged. Suddenly, the doors opened and Danny quickly grabbed ZIM and turned them both intangible and flew at the containment tube at 50 mph. When he was fully inside of it, he changed back to a human, and set ZIM down quickly. Calamitus turned toward them and brought out a syringe.
"I'm going to need.." He trailed off when he saw ZIM without his disguise. The Irken snarled, and bared his teeth, making him look even more dangerous. Calamitus gulped and cleared his throat. "I'm going to need.. uhm.." Danny raised an eyebrow.
"A pillow?" Calamitus shook his head. "A cup of coffee?" Head shake. "Sushi?" Head shake. "Uhm.." Danny couldn't think of anymore. ZIM sighed.
"A blood sample?" He asked impatiently. Professor Calamitus snapped his fingers.
"That's it! A blood sample from the two of you! Now come out here." ZIM sat down, and glanced at Danny. The hybrid got the hint, and sat down also. Professor Calamitus glared at them. "I said come here! I'll come in there if I have to!" ZIM scoffed, and Danny rolled his eyes.
"Just because you captured us doesn't mean you have complete control over us." Danny said, glaring at the bald man. ZIM took notice that Danny's eyes had turned from their sky blue to a neon green. He then switched his attention from Danny to Calamitus who was now walking toward them. ZIM stood up, and clenched his fists, snarling. His antennae were pressed close to his head. Let's just say ZIM looked like a rabid animal that if you touched, it could bite you and give you rabies. Danny even backed up from the Irken. ZIM's eyes were what really threw Calamitus off. They were so big and red, they seemed to darken when he was angry.
"I just want some samples to study with." The professor said, still walking up toward the tube. Somehow, he never noticed the gigantic hole on the side of it. If possible, ZIM's eyes narrowed even more. "O-okay, perhaps the boy then.." Calamitus slowly walked away from the Irken and headed to the side Danny was pressed up against. ZIM followed his every move. Danny seemed to feel that the midget was behind him because he suddenly jumped, turned around, and moved behind ZIM. He hated needles. Calamitus looked to the hole, then back at the two in the tube. It never occured to him that they'd gotten out, he just used the hole to get to them. Once inside, ZIM snarled again.
"You need no samples to experiment with, ugly bald-human! Now leave before I make you!" Danny winced at the anger in ZIM's voice. Even though Calamitus didn't have an electrifying skin shocker thing that the people in the episode 'Lice' had, he still didn't like people to take anything that was attached to him. Danny then remembered that he was part ghost, and suddenly got his courage back, despite the needle gave him the hibbity bigibbities. The hybrid then moved from around ZIM, and stood.
"I don't think you want to leave flying out of here." Danny said in a menacing voice. ZIM raised a non-visible eyebrow, but still held his dangerous position. Calamitus suddenly started wondering if he'd captured the wrong people Vlad told him to. The man turned to Danny.
"Your name is Danny, isn't it?" The hybrid nodded, slightly surprised he knew his name. Calamitus smacked himself in the face, and mumbled something incoherant. "Well, I'm sorry for the confusion, but I was supposed to capture the ones named Dib and Timmy." Danny raised an eyebrow and dropped his guard a little. "But, I guess I'll have to make due with what I have." He started toward Danny again, the syringe held out. Danny quickly thought of a way to get out of this. He smirked. Three words ran through his mind: The ghostly wail. He turned to ZIM.
"ZIM, get behind me!" He whispered urgently. ZIM looked up at him confused.
"What do you mean? What are you going to do?" ZIM saw Danny give him a stern glare. The Irken sighed, and mumbled, "Right.." He quickly ran behind the teen, and watched from behind his legs. Danny quickly transformed into his ghost form and grinned when Calamitus' eyes widened. Danny quickly took a deep breath, and focused all his energy onto his voice, and screamed. Calamitus let out a cry of surprise and fear when he suddenly went flying through the tube, and he landed outside. He was knocked unconcious because his walls were made with 3 tons of steel. Hard to break through, so ya. ZIM reached up and grabbed his antennae, and stared up at Danny. Who knew he held that much power? Danny stopped, and started to sway. His power had drained him, and he was no longer in his ghost form. ZIM quickly extracted his spider legs and caught the ghost before he hit the ground.
"Wow, Danny-human. How did you obtain all that power when you've only had your powers for half of your earth years?" Danny glanced weakly up at ZIM, and shrugged.
"I don't know. I really don't, but I keep getting more, and each time, they're getting harder and harder to control." ZIM nodded at his answer, and gently but slowly, lowered Danny to the ground. The hybrid passed out from exhaustion even before he was laying fully on the ground. ZIM sighed. What was he going to do since the ghost was out? He smiled, and brought out a square device from his pak. He turned it on, and started to play with Gaz's GameSlave.
BACK AT JIMMY'S LAB...
Gir hadn't moved an inch off of Dib's head. It was like he was glued there, and probably was. Dib sighed, and sat down putting his cheek in his hand glancing up at Gir who was humming the doom song. At least he wasn't singing it, Dib thought. He looked around at everyone else. Cindy was sitting near Timmy and was talking to him about something, and Timmy was looking excited. He side-glanced at Jimmy who was working at something on his computer. He stood up, and walked over to Cindy and Timmy. When he got close enough, he heard ZIM's name come up more than a few times. He quickly entered the conversation.
"So, what are you talking about?" Dib asked, as he quickly sat down beside Timmy and across from Cindy. Timmy glanced at Dib, then at Cindy.
"We were talking about ZIM. I mean, isn't he just the cutest?" Cindy asked, suddenly staring off into space and sighing dreamily. Dib raised an eyebrow, and Timmy shrugged.
"I guess, but he's also sooo cool! I mean, he has extra legs coming out of his backpack!" Dib rolled his eyes. They were saying nice things about ZIM. He tuned back into the conversation when Cindy started talking again.
"I want to pet his antennae..." Cindy trailed off, and was about to say something else when Dib cut in.
"You can't be serious! ZIM is an alien! A blood thirsty space monster! Doesn't that bother you? He's not even our species!" Dib half screamed, standing up. Cindy glared at him, as did Timmy.
"Have you ever got the time to know him?" Timmy asked, and Dib was about to answer when Cindy spoke up.
"Don't you think he's cute? I mean, once you get past his small size and bad temper, he's really cute. Plus, I think he's even cuter when he's angry." Dib's mouth dropped. He'd never heard anybody talk about ZIM like that, and he thought about it before shouting,
"Are you crazy? He's an alien! An alien! And his eyes look like blood when he's angry!" Dib slapped his forehead and slowly dragged it down his face when Cindy nodded, and Timmy shrugged. "You are both hopeless." He growled when Timmy nodded at that, and walked away. "I've got to do something about that ghost and ZIM. They're up to something. I just know it!"
"Dib! Shut up!" He heard Jimmy cry from his chair. Dib quickly shut up. He then muttered, "
I will stop you ZIM and ghost! I will stop whatever evil you're planning! Then, maybe get some great digital pics!" He held up his camera that came outta nowhere, and hugged it close.
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Whoo! This was a pain in the butt to type! Well, I'm happy with it, and I hope yall will be too. Sorry this chapter came so late! I was being lazy! Anyway, I think ZIM is cute, so ZIM is cute to Cindy. XD R&R!