Defects and Traitors. Pt 3
Posted through your door by Invader Sideos. Wow, it feels like I haven't written anything in ages but I know that if I don't write soon the ideas for this chapter will fade away and be lost forever. Today (Boxing Day) was my 8 year old sister's b-day and she got one of those neo pet 'Scorpios' that talk to other neo pet things 'n' such. Now I know it seems weird but I am really, really scared of it. I mean she just took it out the box and I literally walked back away from it. I can't even be near it and when she puts it down somewhere I can feel it looking at me...I just can't even stand it. She walked over to me when I was in my kitchen with it to show it too me and I grabbed a fish knife and threatened to stab it if she didn't take it away. Even thinking about it makes me feel sick. I need to face it and stop myself from being scared of it, it's only a teddy after all...even if it does flash red and have spooky eyes. Do you guys think I'm going crazy?
I don't own Zim. But that don't stop me from writing Fics about him.
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Dib lay on his bed with his eyes shut tight. Last night he had had a horrible dream that an Irkin ship had landed in his back garden, and that a psychotic Invader called Sideos had come out of it saying he would kill Zim. Then, after they had shaken on it he had tried to eat Dib's food and almost killed himself. He had tried to drink water and almost killed himself. He had annoyed Gaz and almost killed himself. By the time Dib went to bed he was saying how he was going out for a bit because Irkins don't sleep. The dream had ended with him going to sleep and Sideos going outside, still hungry.
Outside he could here the birds singing and he felt the sunlight warm his face. He smiled and snuggled in tighter to the comfort of the bed. He didn't want to wake get up. He knew it was a school day, but the morning was just so wonderful after last night's scary dream. He lay there for a few moments longer relaxing in the peacefulness of it all, when finally it was broken by an angry shout from Gaz.
"DIB! Get your lazy ass down here NOW!" The shout came from the kitchen, which meant that Gaz had probably found out that the last of the Count Coco Fang cereal had gone. She would most definitely blame Dib. He frowned, still curled up in his tight bliss ball. He stayed like that a moment longer, before he uncurled and flopped wearily off his bed. He quickly got dressed and, with his eyes still half shut he wandered down the stairs. He slowly turned the corner into the kitchen.
"Yea, Gaz what is it AGHH!" Dib jumped to his feet, wide awake, as he saw the peculiar sight. Gaz was standing with a look of pure fury on her face, she was holding onto a hand crushing it with her sisterly wrath. The hand was connected to a very thin, kneeling Irkin with strange combination of pain and surprised respect on his face. Suddenly the entire night rushed back to Dib and he realised that his dream was reality. Sideos glanced at him with those spooky eyes and smiled slightly.
"I love your sister. She knows how to torture someone good." Gaz crushed the hand even harder causing Sideos to cry out in pain.
"What is this still doing in our house?" Dib stood too shocked for a moment to even respond before the look on Gaz's face brought him round.
"Err...well...he arrived last night...you know...with the bang and such...I kinda forgot he was here" Gaz would have strangled Dib for an answer like that, but since her good strangling hand was busy she let it fly.
"Look, I don't care about it, just don't let it go near me, or my things, or my life. UNDERSTAND?" Dib nodded quickly. Gaz turned an evil glair to the squirming Sideos. "What about you? Understand? Do not come near me." Sideos turned to look directly into her eyes, and Dib saw something cross Gaz's face for a moment. Something he had never seen her do before, she flinched. Sideos grinned that crazy little grin and answered in his most charming, and sinister, way.
"Of course, torture human Gaz, stay away from your things. Got it." Gaz looked into those weird, mad eyes for a moment longer, before letting go and stamping out of the room. Sideos rubbed his hand slightly, before standing up and stretching his arms out like he wanted to give Dib a hug.
"So, what's on the menu for today Dibtify? We gonna kill Zim nice and slow like?" He wiggled his blade claw and closed an eye as he said this, his voice filling with mischievous joy, making Dib wonder if he really wanted to drag out Zim's death. Dib tried not to look into those eyes as he spoke.
"Well, no." Sideos looked like Christmas had been cancelled. His face turned to a terrible anger. Dib stepped back a few paces as Sideos's eyes filled with a psychotic hate.
"What? WHY NOT?" He began advancing on Dib, his claws held close to his chest and his back hunching over like a predator about to pounce. Dib tried to stand his ground.
"We have to go to skool. You can...dispose of him later. I want to at least get some evidence off his existence before...you know." Sideos filled him in.
"We kill him."
"Err yes." Dib was slightly disturbed. Even for an assassin Sideos was very blunt in the way he spoke about killing. He knew that this Irkin was insane, but if he seemed well enough to be an assassin and not be locked up then he must be ok. Maybe it was just his job getting to him, like a soldier becomes desensitized about war. That must be it, he hoped. Dib didn't care about Zim actullay Dying, he was more concerned about weater Sideos could actually be trusted. How far can you trust a madman? He changed the subject quickly.
"Look, if you're coming into skool with me, you better get a disguise or the other kids and Zim will recognise you." The prospect of this 'skool' seemed to vastly improve the thin Irkins mood.
"Really? I can go to your skool? We can have lunch together and eat sandwiches and be best buddies right Dib-wrinkle? He clicked his fingers and in a flash had one arm round Dibs shoulder squeezing him tight, with a big, almost wicked, grin on his face. Dib felt nervous to be near those strangely stained zipper teeth and the blade fingers were cutting into his shoulder slightly.
"Sure, sure whatever, lets make you a disguise."
Later on, Dib was walking rather reluctantly alongside a human looking Sideos. Dib had used a hologram-projection over him; he now had pale white skin with rather messy shoulder-length black hair. Dib had also tried to hide the strangeness in the eyes but had failed, making them dark purple, but human, pupils. Sideos, however, was having a whale of a time. He had his eyes closed and was humming what Dib assumed to be an Irkin marching tune to himself, while smiling like a happy dog. Dib had never seen someone so looking forward to going to skool. He sighed and decided to, once again, go over the facts of his skool arrival.
"Ok so just once more, you're my cousin from England, right? You're here as part of an exchange student program, right?" Sideos stopped humming to answer the little boy beside him but kept his happy face. Dib was thankful that the clear 'assassin' Sideos wasn't present in his eyes right now; it made them easier to look at.
"Sure, sure exchange humans mission got it. YOU just make sure to point out Zim for me okay doky, cousin Dib?"
"Please don't call me that." The slight insult went straight over the mad Irkins head.
"Okay doky cousin Dib." Dib shuddered, slightly out of fear, slightly out of annoyance. Sideos was a killer, and a mad one at that. He might as well let him get away with it. Gaz had walked ahead. Dib assumed that she may have taken the 'I love your sister' comment to heart. He sighed again, the things he does for earth. Because of Sideos's height Dib had been force to place him in the 8th grade. This worried him, as it meant he couldn't monitor and/or defend his actions during class. He just hoped that he wouldn't do anything crazy in the meantime.
Soon they were walking into the skool yard and Dib quickly scanned it, out of reflex, to find Zim. Strangely though he wasn't there. Usually Zim would have shouted something, or gone off on a loud rant about how amazing he was, but the yard was normal without him. Maybe even slightly quiet. Dib walked over to a nearby bench and sat down, Sideos copied the action watching Dib intently. Dib soon noticed.
"Can I ask what you are looking at?" the answer came in an unusually calm voice.
"Why does no other human sub-monkey sit next to you?" Dib rested his head in his hands and explained wearily.
"Because I'm crazy, that's why. Or at least they all think I am," and he gestured across the now busy yard. "Amazing how I'm sitting next to the very proof I need to disprove them all." Sideos faked hurt and went back into his usual, unusual, tone.
"Awww, poor cousin Dibby-Libby. Don't worry, I'll make sure that they never call you crazy again." He suddenly developed that sinister, evil, grin that Dib had seen in the lab and he flexed his blade-claws. Dib noticed that the 'assassin' had re-appeared in his eyes. He quickly leaped in front of him holding out his arms.
"No! You can't kill them! I mean, they're idiots, but you still can't kill them." Sideos looked confused, like not killing idiots was a foreign concept.
"Why?" Dib spoke, panicking at the quickly disintegrating patience in Sideos's face.
"Because they're just kids?"
"And..."
"They don't know any better!"
"So?"
'You'll be spotted by the police and you'll fail the mission..." Sideos looked annoyed but reluctant.
"Really...What if I just take out one or two of em?" His eyes jumped with glee at the prospect of killing children. Dib took a mental note never to anger the Irkin assassin.
"NO" Sideos looked like he was considering killing Dib right there but then he relaxed and sat back down, like nothing had happened.
"Fine, then. So where is the Zim defective unit?" That was something Dib was wondering himself. Surly Zim had also spotted the ship last night, why did he not come to rescue Sideos? Maybe he knew that he was being hunted. Maybe the reason he wasn't here was because he had already got off of the planet. Dib sat back down deep in thought. Sideos began humming the marching tune again, this time swaying and bobbing slightly to himself. A few minutes later, the skool bell signalled the beginning of the classes. Dib turned sharply to Sideos and with all the command he could muster in front of the maniac's eyes he told him.
"Now, please don't do anything...suspicious. Zim isn't here yet but he will be soon, ok?" Sideos eyed Dib suspiciously for a second before shrugging and walking towards the skool.
"Okay doky, cousin Dib."
Dib sat fidgeting in his seat. His mind was racing with worries. Where's Zim? What's he planning? What's Sideos doing now? Please don't let him do anything stupid. Miss Bitters had been droning on about the digestive systems of slugs in her twisted attempt to gross out the kids for about an hour. She was about to move on to the final stage of the process when a young female teacher stuck her head round the door. She had long brown hair and small glasses on.
"Err Miss Bitters? Could we just have Dib for a moment?" She sharply turned her head clearly annoyed at the intrusion.
"Why?"
"It's a family matter, I'm afraid." Dib thoughts turned, Family matter? What's happened to Gaz? He hopped off his chair and began walking towards the door, slightly glad to be away for the final bit of Mrs Bitters' lecture.
"It's ok, Miss Bitters." She grunted reluctantly as she let Dib follow the other teacher out of the class. Once the door was shut the teacher began walking towards the stairs, but instead of going down like Dib expected, she walked up. As she did this she introduced herself.
"Dib? I'm Mrs Sovetsky. I teach music here." Dib just nodded and followed along.
"Well, today was the day I was teaching the 8th graders, and I'm afraid we have a problem with your cousin." Dib froze, literally, with one foot hanging in the air. Sideos. What had he done? He forced himself to speak.
"You mean Sideos?" The teacher turned around, raising an eyebrow to Dibs reaction.
"Yes, the one from England. Well, the problem is that he seems to have got a bit carried away with the listing part of the lesson." Dib unfroze and turned the corridor corner to hear a stream of loud crashes and the faint sound of classical music. Standing in a huddle outside the class was a scared looking bunch of pupils who, upon noticing the teacher, relaxed slightly. Dib walked, trembling at what he might see, to the classroom door and looked through. The room was a complete mess, guitars and drums and all sorts of instruments were strewn around. The desks also looked to have been smashed against the walls, and some of the posters had been torn down. Dib could see no one in the class and was about to turn away, when suddenly Sideos came flying at the desk with a chair in his hands. He smashed it down onto the desk breaking it apart. All this strangely happened in time to the music which, although familiar sounding, Dib couldn't name. As if she was reading his mind Mrs Sovetsky leaned down to his ear.
"It's Ludwig van Beethoven's 5th symphony. The moment he heard it he just started smashing everything up. He likes his classics, I assume?" Dib just nodded in disbelief. He slowly began opening the door. Sideos was now standing in the centre of the room. The music had quieted down slightly and Dib took the opportunity to approach him.
"Sideos? Err I think you should calm down and come out the class." Sideos snapped his head up and his eyes open. He had that crazy assassin look again. Dib knew that he had to handle this very, very carefully. Sideos spoke fast and slightly out of breath.
"That music! It was incredible! the power, the tones, the rise and falls. Amazing!" Dib nodded and held out his hands slightly, as if calming down a scared child.
"Yea, sure it was, Beethoven is the best. Now the song's ended, let's go outside, shall we?" He braved a smile to those psychotic dark eyes. Sideos, as always, grinned back.
"Oh no, Dib listen, it's not ended yet." Dib realised that the Irkin was right and the music climbed higher and higher into the final hit. Sideos slowly stood up. The music, combined with his dark look, made him look like something out of a nightmare. He slowly raised a clawed hand to Dib, and as the final crescendo came crashing repeatedly in, he launched forward with a chair leg clutched in one hand, the other free to swing to the music.
He began smashing the room apart and Dib dived behind the desk searching for cover. Suddenly it seemingly launched from the floor, and Sideos stood over him raising the chair leg above his head. Dib closed his eyes waiting for the blow. He heard it sail through the air, and for a moment his life flashed before him. But then the music ended. Slowly opening one nervous eye, he saw that the leg had stopped, literally inches in front of him. Sideos stood over him, shoulders rising up and down as he panted. The bell went signalling the start of lunch. He casually chucked the leg away and grabbed Dib by the wrist.
Smiling as if nothing had happened he said, "Lunch time, cousin Dib. Come on, get off the floor will you? You'll embarrass me on my first day." Dib, totally bewildered, allowed himself to be dragged off away from the wrecked music room and away from the terrified teacher and pupils.
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Ended at 2:39 am on New Year's Day! I've been out partying and boogying to ska music, yea go specials! I have a terrible cough and probably a throat and/or lung infection, boo. Zim will be here next chapter I promise, and Sideos gets a reminder of why he's here in the first place...from the person who freed him...its all going on in the next chapter I tell thee! Update: My fear of the Scorpio has gone, I strangled it.