Important Note: This, lovely and constant reader, is a story I volunteered to finish for The-Death-Bringer-of-Hell. She allowed me to and here I am. Credit for this chapter goes to her, because this is her work. I just fixed it up a little. Now, enjoy!

Persona Reversed

Chapter Four: SWITCHED!

Zim quickly checked his computer for any viruses and as of yet, hadn't found a trace of one. He looked again at Dib, and was still absolutely shocked. Not only were they still in each other's bodies, but now they were girls! Female! NO LONGER BOYS! Even their outfits had changed.

Zim's body now had a strip of armor lost from around his waist. His black pants now a pink skirt, and his shirt bore no sleeves. His gray Pak turned black and the pink circles on it turned into pink hearts. His once dull teeth were now her sharp fangs.

Dib's body looked very odd indeed. His blue shirt with a gray indifferent smiley was now a red shirt with a pink indifferent smiley. His scythe-like hair was longer and had two more spikes going down her neck with two in front of her eyes with the tips dyed red. His honey-golden eyes were now her vibrant red ones. From his right ear dangled an earring shaped as Saturn. His black coat now her maroon one, and his pants now a black skirt with a red stripe down the side and black tights.

"Zim!" Dib yelled in a higher-pitched version of Zim's own voice. "What did you do? I didn't want this!" Without realizing, Dib struck a feminine pose. After noticing what she was doing, Dib quickly shoved her hands into her pockets and leaned against the wall of the Hidden Base.

"I did nothing, Earth-Boy… uh… Girl, now, I suppose…" Zim was actually telling the truth this time. She didn't do this. And G.I.R. wasn't smart enough to create a virus like the one Zim had just found in her Super Computer. She wasn't paying much attention to anything as she was searching her computer for the source, so, of course, she didn't notice Dib coming over to her until she grabbed the lapels of Zim's maroon jacket and pulled Zim close to her until their faces almost touched. Zim could feel Dib's hot breath on her face as Dib asked the question she had been dreading.

"Can you fix it?"

Zim didn't know what to say. She couldn't say no because she wanted out of this body as much as Dib wanted to be out of hers and of the male species again… but she couldn't exactly say yes either because she didn't know what the virus was. She thought it seemed familiar but she couldn't quite put her finger on it. Where had she seen it before? Dib saw the look of self-argument and confusion in her own eyes as she looked at Zim, at the female version of himself, and she decided to do the one thing she'd only done once before.

"OK, Zim. I'm going to help you." She saw a glee on "Zim's" face and concluded hastily, "Uh, but only because I… uh…" She let go of Zim's lapels and cast her gaze down-ward. "I want to get out of your body… As much as you want to… uh get out of mine…" She rubbed the back of her head.

"Alright, Dib-human. We'll call a truce until this is over. You can… stay with me so your family does not go insane with envy and throw you out the window of hurt or something." Dib looked up and nodded a little, slight confusion etched on her face. Zim continued. "We will find out what's going on and destroy whoever has done this and get back to our selves." She concluded, with a monotonous voice. "After that, I don't know what will happen between us." Dib looked at Zim with curious eyes but ignored it. Did Zim mean something when she said "between us"? Or did it just mean the fighting would continue. Dib was unsure. She decided to shrug it off as coincidence, hoping Zim meant the something else.

"Ok. But… We should probably call my house to tell them… Or at least tell Gaz…" Dib's words were hesitant but grew stronger as she went along.

"Good idea, Human stink-beast. You don't need another black eye." Zim took Dib's glasses off her face and looked at the cracked lens. She put them in one of her machines and after a few minutes of annoying beeping, there were all fixed.

"Um… Ok… We should probably lay off the insults for now then. So if there's anything you want to call me, you better do it now." Dib said, staring at the glasses.

Zim and Dib tried everything they could think of. They worked diligently for weeks on end, but to no avail. During the night, Zim would usually go to sleep and Dib would stay up all night, but nothing became of that as Zim was the only one who really knew how to use the Super Computer. One night, while Dib was just sitting in the swivel chair, staring at the screen, she had a thought.

She knew a girl, who was as bright as a 100-watt light-bulb. His father's assistant's daughter, Rina. Zim woke up a while later. She stretched, yawned, and walked over to Dib, who was thinking too deeply to notice anything. Zim squatted down in front of Dib, making her jump clear out of the chair.

"What were you thinking about?" She asked Dib.

"Oh… There's this girl I know… She is extremely smart and I think she could help us." Dib said, still thinking on this.

"Very well. We will visit this human, though I don't think she will be much help. But OK. We'll go. Just to make you happy and to show you how much the human race still needs to learn." Dib stood up from the floor and patted herself off.

"Ok, let's go going!" The girlyness dripped off her voice like venom. The longer they stayed like this, the harder it would be to return to normal. They left the lair and made their way down the street. They walked up to the door once they made it the house after a few moments of silence. It took them two hours to get there, so it was about noon when they rang the bell.

It was a young girl who answered the door, no older than 15. She looked at them quizzically. "Can I help you?" She inquired.

"Please, we need to speak with Miss Rina in private… Can we come in…?" Dib said, motioning to the inside.

"Do forgive my rudeness, of course you may." Rina said as she stepped aside and bowed to let Dib and Zim in. Rina watched them carefully and followed them in, locking the door.

Dib looked around, making sure they were completely alone, before she blurted out, "Rina! It's me! Dib!" Rina stared at her.

"I do not know of who you speak. I know of a boy named Dib, but he is not a girl nor is his skin… green…" She said calmly, looking at the green skin in slight curiosity.

"Rina! I'm telling the truth!" Dib screamed, and she told Rina what happened. "And that's what happened." Dib concluded after about an hour of explanation. Rina nodded as a small dog trotted into the room.

"Ah, Akina. Just the dog I wanted to see." Rina glanced at the dog, then nodded over towards her newly screwed up friends. Akina trotted over to the two girls and started sniffing them up and down. When she was finished, she trotted back over to Rina happily, and let out a very loud bark, followed by a barrage of tail wags. "Well, according to Akina, you have the same scents of the boys called Zim and Dib. I guess I could trust you… I'll just need a blood sample from each of you to figure out an anti-virus for this virus. That will not be a problem, yes?"

Zim had had enough of listening to this bull shit. "ENOUGH, TINY HUMAN WORM-BABY! YOU WILL FIX US WITHOUT THE BLOOD SAMPLES OF THE INVADER BLOOD THAT RUNS THROUGH MY BLOOD! I JUST WANT BACK INTO MY PROUD BODY WITH MY BOYISH PERFECTION BEFORE I GO INSANE, STINK-BEAST!" She blurted, not realizing what she said until Dib jabbed her arm with her elbow. Rina stared, then smiled. This was going to be fun.

AN: Hope you enjoyed! Credit goes to the above mentioned. Please review! Well, bye!