A/N: I'm posting it today (Wednesday) instead of this weekend this week. Woot A longer chapter, finally! Hope you like it.

Disclaimer: I'm still in high school, I don't even own my own house, so obviously I don't own Zim.

Ch21: Ship and Ham!

At Dib's house…

"I just don't understand, how can you be ok with Zim capturing you? I mean, If he's your so called friend then he shouldn't have done that. I don't understand you at all. He's an alien! An alien! Bent on world domination! And you sit there and smile knowing this, and now I find out you skipped school because you two were playing a strange game involving potato sacks and…are you even listening to me"

"Huh?" Now Maz was not being rude. She was just deep in thought. It was strange. One minute you're just a girl with family problems and a green brother, and the next you're half alien. Not to mention your new best friends. One kidnapped you in a potato sack and the other…well…how are you supposed to tell him you're half something that he hates. So, she was trying to process everything that was happening.

"Are you ok Maz? You seem spaced out. You sure Zim didn't do anything?"

"Yeah…" She looked at him for a second. "Dib, I'm an alien."

He looked at her, blinked twice and burst into laughter. "HAHAHAHA!…THAT… HEHE…THAT WAS A GOOD ONE…HAHAHAHA…I almost believed you!"

"Hehe…yeah. I was just joking. Pretty funny huh?" Maz played along.

"Good thing you're not really an alien or else I'd have you on a autopsy table before you can say 'take over the world'! Haha!" This comment Wasn't funny to Maz at all. In fact this comment made her feel very uneasy.

"Oh" was her response.

"Yeah. Do you want something to eat?"

"What do you got?"

"Crap Pockets?"

"Ew! I hate those. It's made of baby vomit and acid I tell you!"

"You forgot to say bug poison! Hehe." Gaz walked in.

"Shut up Dib! If you and your little girlfriend don't like Hot pockets don't eat them! And don't you dare touch my poop tarts!"

"I'm not his girlfriend!" Gaz gave her an evil stare that said 'Shut up or I'll eat your spleen' or something along those lines.

"uh…how about some popcorn?" Dib offered placing the pop tarts back on the shelf.

"Ok." When the popcorn was done they went into the garage to check up on Tak's ship.

"Finally you come to check up on me!" The ship complained. "It's been so long since I've seen the outside! It's so dark and cold here….Why! Why do you treat me this way!"

"Why is the ship talking?" asked Maz.

"Well see awhile ago I downloaded my personality into the ship…and yeah. It was in sleep mode last time you saw it" he turned around "…I like it better that way…" he mumbled to Maz.

"Well aren't you gonna introduce me!" The ship complained.

"Introduce yourself ship."

"Ahem! This ship has a name! Hi! I'm Dib, I'm a paranormal investigator. I look for things like aliens, Bigfoot, ect."

"Wait, haven't I had this conversation before?…dejavu."

"The ship thinks he's me."

"I am you"

"Haha! You're fighting with yourself!" Mused Maz.

Back at Zim's base

"Victory for Zim! I finally discovered her secret! Now I will…uh…what is Zim gonna do now?"

"YOU CAN BE THE HAM!" Gir screamed.

"Yes that's exactly…what?" Zim looked at Gir who was dressed up as a cumquat. He had peanut butter all over his face as well. "For the last time Gir, I won't be in your retarded show thingy!"

"But…but…WHO WILL BE THE HAM!" Gir wailed as he waved a ham costume in Zim's face.

"No Ham Gir!"

"But!"

"NoooooO!" He took the ham costume and threw it in the trash.

"squeak" Mini moose pleaded. He was dressed up as a block of cheese.

"No mini moose! Zim is busy! I have to try to figure out what I'm gonna do with the Jelly Girl…hmmm…"

"squeak"

"You're right mini moose, until I can figure out what to do with her I need to make sure the humans don't find out about her." He ran out the room planning…uh…plans.

Gir retrieved the Ham costume from the trash can. "HAM! Don't worry ham, Master will be in the show!" Gir ran after his master with the ham costume in hand.

That's it for now! I'm posting this today because tomorrow I'm leaving for my field trip to Washington D.C. and won't have a computer there. I might not post a chapter next week but I'll try. Thank you all for reviewing! You rock!