Author's Note: Alrighty ladies and gentle life forms, put your hands together for the almighty Dib! He has returned. I told you all I was going to cycle through perspectives, but I never promised it would be in a certain order. ' Just warning you for later on if that was what you were expecting. Anyhow. On with the FanFiction!

Disclaimer: Quit making me say it! I refuse to say it again! I refuse. It just isn't fair that I can't own Invader Zim. It's not… but I don't. So reality sucks. I'm moving to a different district.

Dib was indignant. His sister had dragged him quite a ways before he had managed to stand up and walk with her. She refused to relinquish her grip on his collar, and in order for Dib to walk without strangling himself he had to move in a kind of sideways back wards way to keep up with Gaz. It was better than dragging on the ground.

"Gaz, I can walk you know. Please let me go."

"Shut. Up. Dib. I'm in the zone."

Her grip tightened on his collar and it became harder to breathe somewhat. In stead of struggling with her, he just let her yank him in the direction of home. The disappointment from today's loss still stung. He had gotten the better of Zim for once, and then Gaz had to go and ruin it. He had been a little worried about that penguin thing, but not much. Once Zim had been subdued, Dib could have finally proved he was an alien. No such luck it seemed.

There was something else bothering him too. It was the new girl, he had seen her walk up to Zim after Gaz had grabbed Dib's collar and before he was dragged around the corner. He had wanted to shout out to be careful, and that Zim was an alien, but his momentary asphyxiation had prevented him from doing so. He hoped that Zim hadn't tried to steal her organs or something. She was the only one in school Dib hadn't warned yet.

Kin was her name, wasn't it? Dib had meant to tell her about Zim but had held back. She would just laugh at him like everyone else did, and besides, the other kids amused themselves with Dib's social misery enough behind his back that she was sure to hear about it sooner or later. They did it in front of him too, now that he thought of it.

Pizza night went as usual. Dad feigned attention to his two children and Gaz got her pizza. After they had returned home, Dib trudged upstairs and pulled his coat off tossing it on his bed. He went over to his computer and typed up an account of the day's proceedings in Zim's annihilation before taking a shower and getting ready for bed. What a wasted day.

Dib was thinking along the same lines the next morning as he dressed for Skool. He didn't want to look at Zim today in class. He didn't want anything to do with Gaz. He just wanted to be left alone. It was his sense of duty to save the planet Earth that motivated him barely enough to drag him self downstairs and out the door.

Strangely enough, Gaz had left ahead of him that day, and when he arrived at school, Zim was absent as well. His desk strangely empty. That meant he was plotting something for sure. But what? Gah. It was so frustrating being the savior of a planet that probably deserved to be thrown into the abyss.

At lunch Gaz showed up as expected and took her seat next to Dib. She ignored the magenta chunks of turkey paste and orange slime that sat quivering on her tray and took out her Game Slave. Dib didn't acknowledge her and she didn't look at him. He stared at his own tray of slop and pushed it away from him self. He wasn't hungry.

There was movement in his peripheral vision and Dib turned his head to see Kin standing a few yards away. She glanced around looking for a seat. Before he could stop himself, Dib opened his mouth.

"You want to sit with us?"

Kin rotated her head in the direction of Dib's voice and peered at him suspiciously. Yesterday she had sat alone on one of the corner tables, but it was now taken by somebody else. Without acknowledging him verbally, she walked over and sat down across from him and Gaz. Gaz didn't look up from her video game at all.

Kin did not bother to try and eat the food in front of her, if it could be called food. She just sat and stared at Dib. It wasn't a wide eyed stare. It was more a calm, analyzing stare.

"What? What are you looking at?"

Kin blinked at him. "You."

"I can see that."

"Then why ask?"

"Because… never mind. It doesn't matter I guess."

Silence seemed to fall on them both. Gaz grumbled and cursed at her Game Slave, the kids around them laughed and conversed with each other, and everything went on as normal as Skool gets during lunch time. Dib was about to try again, this time to initiate civil conversation, but Kin spoke first.

"Why were you trying to cover the green student Zim with 'water' yesterday?"

" I …er Zim is an alien."

"Oh really."

"Um, yeah. Water hurts him, I think it has a weird chemical reaction with his skin or something."

"So it would seem. And how did youidentify him as an alien? It appears everyone else does not consider him the threat that you do."

They all think I'm crazy, Dib thought to himself. They are all doomed. I should leave them to it. Every last one of them. I should go play video games and eat sugar coated food until all hell is unleashed and our planet is blown to smoking cinders.

Mimmicking his monologue on a less sarcastic level,Dib stated aloud, "They don't want to believe me. They'd rather sit around and do nothing rather than save their planet. I dunno…" Dib sighed. "You haven't seen Zim today have you?"

"I have not."

"You talk kind of strange. Where are you from?"

"I'm foreign."

"Like from Europe?"

"If that is the explanation you prefer."

"…right."

For the rest of the day Dib pondered the new student's strange behavior. After an intense scrutiny of his new classmate, Dib finally came to the conclusion that Kin was either actually from Europe, or she was an alien. There simply were no more plausible explanations that fit.

Author's note: Don't worry Dib dearest. I shall clarify for you soon. In fact. The nest few chapters should be fun to write. I have to get back to my 20 hours of artwork due tomorrow. . ' I am leaving for break either tomorrow or the day after and won't be back in the vicinity of an internet connection until Jan.2nd. I will write up more over break however so that's when I will post next. I am then leaving on the 5th to go to Japan. "squee!" I am so excited. But that also means no posts between the 5th and the 19th. Forgive me minions, I'm a busy person. ;)

Edit Originally at the end of this chapter, Dib was clueless about the fact that Kin was an alien. It was brought to my attention in one of my reviews that this was out of character for him. I concurred and changed it. Anyhow. Enjoy, enjoy. Enjoy the fruit of the floating guava juice tree.