Chapter 6: Birthday Party
It was another day for the Membrane household, Dib was in his room at his computer looking at paranormal stuff lazily. When he was younger he would be focused on defeating Zim's plans for world domination, but now that wasn't a problem. He was more worried that the alien would kill himself in an experiment or something similar to that.
He was just wanting a peaceful day and maybe go out later to search for cryptids, that was always fun and the teen couldn't help but start smiling at the thought of catching a werewolf or something like that. His peace was quickly destroyed when Zim went through his window. "DIB-WORM! Zim requires your assistance!" Zim declared as Dib just groaned.
"Zim, can you not break my window every time you enter my room?" Dib just asked the alien.
"Don't question my ways, human!" Zim hissed. "Anyway, Gir wants a 'birthday party' and I told him he can since he kept crying about it longer than a day!" Zim exclaimed pacing Dib's room. "What even is a birthday party? Gir wasn't born and how am I, the almighty Zim! supposed to make something as stupid as this birthday party?" Zim ranted as Dib could see why Zim needed help.
"Let me guess, and that's when you thought of me for help, yes?" Dib asked as he laid his head on his hand as he watched the alien pace.
"Exactly! I knew your big head isn't just full of air." Zim said making Dib roll his eyes.
"Okay, one, my head's not big, and for birthday parties, it's basically just celebrating them so it doesn't matter if they were born or not. You just need, streamers, a cake saying 'Happy Birthday, Gir' on it, buy him presents, and invite people Gir is friends with for a party." Dib explained as the alien just gave him a blank stare.
"Zim's not stupid, I know what a party is! I just... Need it done in two hours today..." Zim muttered making Dib cough.
"Excuse me!? Why did you put it off for so long!?"
"Because Zim assumed Gir would have forgotten about it by now!"
"Fine, fine, I'll help. I can make the cake and help set up the decorations." Dib said standing up.
"Good, you had no other choice but to help Zim!" The alien said before climbing back out of his window and running back to his house as Dib shook his head.
"Dumb alien." The teen said with a small smile as he headed downstairs and into the kitchen.
After an hour of baking and cooling the cake in the fridge he started frosting the cake for Gir, he always wondered how and why Gir worked, anything he does is practically impossible. The little robot was still kinda cute though so he ignored what the robot does for his own sanity.
Soon enough the cake was done and the teen headed over to Zim's house to help the alien set up more. He knocked on the door of the weird-looking house, glancing at the gnomes that seemed to be watching him. He was glad that he and Zim were friends now, those lasers from the aliens' security system always stung.
The door slammed open and Dib didn't get a chance to say something before being dragged in. "About time you get here, stinky!" Zim shouted at him as Dib looked around. The living room was decorated, to say the least. It wasn't good.
"Well, I told you I was making the cake what happened here?" Dib asked heading to the kitchen, setting the cake down.
"What do you mean? Zim decoration skills are amazing!" Zim declared before a stream fell on the aliens' head.
"Yeah, very," Dib said sarcastically before already going to fix the decorations. "Where is Gir by the way?" He asked as the green male tore the streamer off of his head.
"Minimoose is distracting Gir, they should be back in a half-hour," Zim told him as he got a small box from within his pak and setting it on the table.
"So is it just going to be the four of you?" Dib asked as he fixed the aliens' mess.
"Of course not! You're staying as well, don't think you can get away so easily human!" Zim exclaimed pointing at the male, causing the teen to hide a smile.
"Oh man, there goes the rest of my day." The teen joked before sitting on the couch.
Soon enough the small party started once Gir started squealing loudly once he came in. "A BiRTHDaY! YAY!" Gir screamed running around the living room. Zim grimaced when Gir forced him into a hug.
Dib couldn't help but smile at the scene, grinning when Zim glared at him. "Hey, I made a cake for you, Gir. Let's have some." He said standing up as Gir screamed excitedly and ran into the kitchen after Dib and the teen managed to let the others have slices before Gir could get to the cake.
The rest of the time was just spent with Gir eating cake and watching tv as the party ended after Gir opened the present from Zim. It was just a pig mask which Gir loved.
"That was a waste of time." Zim said though Dib could tell the alien was happy to have made Gir happy.