The Tallest Betrayal
By theusperdot
Chapter 6: Red 'n' Purple get Skooled
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The next day at skool, Ms. Bitters was in her usual mood, that being generally irritated. She was in dispute with the principal yet again for the addition of two new students. "Grrr, FINE, I'll take them in." She slammed the phone down and looked at the class evilly. "I am forced to tell you that two new student shall be joining us." Everyone in the class groaned, except for Zim, which Dib found odd. "Because we have no room left, I'm sending The Letter M and Old Kid to the underground classroom."
Like clockwork, before either could protest, the floor disappeared and they were never seen again. Second later, a knock came at the door. It opened and in walked Red and Purple looking thoroughly embarrassed.
Ms. Bitters scowled at them and Dib went out of his mind. "Well then, you useless freaks, what's you're name?"
"Eh, my, my name is, is Red." His look of misery didn't change as he gave a half hearted wave.
"I'm Purple." He too, gave a half-wave.
"There. Now sittdown."
"WAAAAAIIIIIIIITTTTT!" There it was, the familiar scream from Dib signifying another rant on Zim, the alien. Everybody, with the exception of Red and Purple, had the single unifying thought. 'Here we go, AGAIN.'
"Those two aren't human! They're alien!" Dib claimed.
"Dib! Stop acting crazy! There are no aliens!" Jessica said.
"Yeah, man, you keep talking, but show nothing! Show us proof."
Dib was furious at that. "PROOF! JUST LOOK AT THEM!" He pointed to Red and Purple to make his point. Just to be clear, they had disguises on, but you could clearly see their suits underneath it, they were also green.
"They look normal to me."
Red and Purple agreed with the kid. "Uh, YEAH! That's cause we're normal."
"Oh, okay."
Dib was going out of his mind. "What? You believe them? Alright, consider this, why are they so tall? They are taller than Ms. Bitters!"
Purple saved them on this one. "Err, early growth spurt?" He offered. Everyone agreed with it. Dib didn't.
"Grr, okay, he has a BEARD! Kids don't get beards!"
Red's turn. "I've always had facial hair." Once again, all but Dib agreed with it.
"They look like Zim! They have the same skin tone!"
Zim's turn. "SILENCE FILTHY HUMAN! They are my cousins. Do not insult my family."
Dib went silent and stared at the ground. He was beat and he knew it. Then something caught his eye at the base of the two new kids. His eyes went wide. "OKAY!" He screamed. "Take a look at this!"
He walked up to them, grabbed Ms. Bitters yard stick and waved it right underneath their feet. "SEE? They're FLOATING! Kid don't float!"
"Uh, telekinesis?"
Dib was crushed. Everyone agreed with Red. "Crazy!" "You lunatic!" "Always talking about Bigfoot and aliens."
Ms Bitters got up and yelled at the class, or more accurately, Dib. "Dib, your rant tires me, TAKE A SEAT!"
Taking a seat, Dib pondered what his next move would be.
Red wondered why Dib's head was so large.
Purple wondered if they served nachos.
Zim considered new ways of making Dib suffer.
Soon the bell rang for lunch.
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"Okay, don't eat the food here. I have discovered that it is very toxic to our bodies. Do not let any of the so called 'meat' touch you." Zim told Red and Purple.
"Ah huh." Purple said absentmindedly. Red said nothing; he was busy looking for a way to get away from Zim. He found the perfect place right out side of the door to the cafeteria, the restroom.
Zim, Red, and Purple approached the apparatus that dispensed the unidentifiable blob of meat on their tray. It was actually a hybrid of three types of steaks, some fat from pork, and some vegetable oil. It was also living, as a few unlucky kids found out. Their bodies were never found. Red made his move. "I'm not really hungry. I need to use the restroom."
"HM? Very well, Red. Go on." Zim grunted irritably.
"Okay, come on Purple."
"But I don't have to go…" Purple protested, but Red cut him off.
"YESYOUDO!" And half-dragged Purple to the restroom. Unbeknownst to either of them, Dib also needed to use the restroom. He, however, had no idea that Red and Purple were going there to talk in private.
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After throwing Purple into the nearest stall and following him into it, he began to twitch badly. "I CAN'T TAKE IT ANYMORE! Zim is driving me crazy!"
"You'll get no complaint from me. We got to get away SOON!"
Dib entered at this time. His ears picked up the conversation and he completely forgot about the call of nature. This was his best chance to get some intelligence on them. Stealthily he crept to the nearest stall, let him self in and began recording with his laptop.
"So what do we do? It's not as if he'd let us take his Voot cruiser." Purple said to Red.
"Good point. We can't. Not after what he knows. Not after what we did to him."
"We had no choice, you know that! He'd completely destroy the hopes of Operation Impending Doom II!" Dib got excited at that. They were actually gunning for galactic domination!
"Arrrgh! We had it all! We were worshipped! We were the freaking leaders! We had an immense amount of snacks! Now we can't even get our hands on a simple slurrpee." Red Lamented.
"How about Tak's ship?" Dib paid close attention to this. It was HIS ship now.
"That large-head crazy boy has it. We can't just ask him for it."
"We could help him."
Red was intrigued by this. "Oh? How?"
"Well, we help him get rid of Zim." Dib was ecstatic! Help get rid of Zim? Too good to be true.
"Ah, yes, we could. We then could come back and take the planet for ourselves afterward." Dib rolled his eyes. It WAS too good to be true. But they didn't like Zim, now, that was something.
"Well, we could just take it. That just leaves The Massive."
"And Tallest Green. Is it me, or does he seem REALLY familiar?"
"I know what you mean. I feel I know him from somewhere. But where?"
"Let think of that later. For now, how do we get to The Massive?"
"I don't know. But I do know this, when we get back, he will pay."
"Yes, yes, he shall."
"It will be US, not him, whom rules the universe!"
"Yeah! Red and Purple, supreme leaders of the galaxy!"
Dib began to laugh. He was beside himself with joy over what he learned that completely forgot about being silent. "YEEEESSS! After all this time! PROOF! PRRRRRROOOOOOFFFFF!"
Red's head snapped around to the source. "What the…?"
"AH ha ha! I gotta get this to the Swollen Eyeballs! Oh man…"
"It's coming from the stall next to us!" Purple said. Red looked over the metal panel.
"Aw, man, it's that crazy kid!"
"Eh?" Looking up he saw the face of Red. "Oh crap…"
Anybody who was there will tell you that sudden commotion that erupted from the restroom was very loud. First, Dib slammed open the door and skidded out and almost into the wall, he caught him self right in time as Red and Purple exploded from the same door. They weren't as lucky as Dib though, they both hit the wall.
Dib was a good 5 feet away from the once they resumed the chase, he hopping up on the tables to further evade them. He landed on the platform with the meat on it and realized he was trapped. Red and Purple converged on his location.
Dib looked around. How on earth was he going to get out of here? There had to be something…
He figured it out almost immediately. If they were anything like Zim, meat would cause them pain. He dispensed a huge heaping blob of meat on to a nearby tray. "Hey, aliens, you look hungry! Try the mystery meat! It's great!" And with that he kicked the tray with pinpoint accuracy at Red. Red ducked, and Purple, who was right behind him, was unable to move in time and caught it full face. A sickening burning sound and smell arose quickly from it. "GYYYYYYYYAAAAAAAAAAAAA!" Purple screamed running around in pure pain. Red was only angered further and lunged at Dib. But Dib was too quick; he jumped up, over Red, and onto a moving cart of dirty trays.
The cart slowly began to roll toward the kitchen. Red was on his feet and making haste in catching him. Dib resorted to tossing the trays at Red slowing him just enough to make it to the kitchen.
Dib used a mop to jam the door but it soon became apparent that it wouldn't hold. He needed a weapon…
Dib saw the water hose and made a grab for it just as Red burst through the door. Dib executed a dazzling turn, and, without dropping the laptop, swung the hose around gave Red a bath. Red felt it immediately and soon began to scream in pain.
Dib ran out of the kitchen and threw open a window. He looked at Zim, who was still confused as to what was going on. "AH HA! I've got you now, ZIM! I've finally got it! Proof of what you are!"
Zim looked at the two figures lying on the floor, what could he possibly mean?
Dib took his chance and, after catching hold of the back of a bus, began to laugh.
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Next chapter coming soon.