Chapter Notes
Disclaimers: I don't own Invader Zim
Author's Notes: Yes! A Fighting scene finally! Please enjoy!
BTW: This Chapter is based off of the Invader Zim comic: Playing with Fire! It was created by ReitannaSeishin. So full credit of this chapter goes to her.
[Still at School]
"So, I'm guessing you didn't study." Zim said with a sneer, as they walked into their class.
Dib clenches his fist, glaring at Zim, and for a moment everything is as it once was.
Zim smiles. "Now there's the Dib I know and hate. Where you been worm?"
"I haven't gone anywhere!" Dib growls. "And why are you so smug? Did you study?"
"Of course not!" Zim laughed, as if the human just told a funny joke. "I don't need to study Earth's baby science, or its math. And as for your history I had it downloaded into my memory banks years ago."
"I hate you!" Dib said.
Zim stuck his tongue out at him, teasingly. 'Now that's the Dib I'm used to, maybe this means he's finally over his shock, and things can go back to normal around here.' He thought.
Dib blushed at the sight of that tongue, and suddenly he kisses Zim out of nowhere. Zim looks shocked at first, but he soon melts into the kiss. Their classmates gasp around them.
"OMG Dib and Zim!" Zita screams, as thousands of reporters appear from the window snapping pictures as the two continued to make out. And then...
"Dib...Dib...DIB!"
"Uh?" Dib blinked away his current day dream, and noticed Zim was snapping his fingers in his face.
"Earth to Dib?" Zim snapped. "Is anyone home?"
Dib looked around, everyone one was staring at him. 'It was all a day dream?' The realization made him groan. 'Great now I'm day dreaming about it too.'
"You're acting really weird Dib." Zim went on.
"It's your fault!" Dib moaned as they sat down at their usual seats. Zim sat at the far right by the door as usual, with Dib right behind him. "Now I'm going to fail this test." He groaned once more.
"Me?" Zim asked. "You've been avoiding me for the past three weeks, that's plenty of time to study! Heck with your big head it should take you what 5 mins." Zim smiled, waiting for Dib to scream, 'my heads not big', like he always does.
However, Dib simply glares and says, "Fuck you Zim."
Zim has heard that line before, and though he's not sure what it means. He's heard others respond to the same phrase so he simply repeats what he's heard. "Name the time and place."
Dib's eyes widen, and his face turns red, He hides his face in his hands, as his pants begin to feel a little too tight. 'Man, it really doesn't help when he talks like that! Does he even know what he just said to me!?'
"Silence!" Their Teacher, Mrs. Moody said. Everyone went as silent as the dead, and for good reason. Legend had it that Mrs. Moody was the very spawn of Mrs. Bitters for she too was evil, and hated all the little children of the world. However, Mrs. Moody was much younger, and had short reddish orange hair. "We will start class today with the test, and for those of you who are unprepared." She paused, as if for dramatic effect. "This will be the worse test I have given so far!"
Dib gulped, he was doomed!
"Brace yourselves for failure!" Mrs. Moody declared, and began passing out the test. She stops once she gets to Zim, and Dib. "I know you two are still adapting from your ordeal." She said. "And even though I think three weeks is plenty of time, the principal does not agree. So unfortunately, I must allow you to use your text books to complete today's test."
Dib let out a sigh of relief, his GPA was saved. Mrs. Moody gave him his test, and he flipped open his text book, only to find that most of the questions were easy anyway. Well easy for him, since unlike most kids Dib read non-fiction books instead of those fantasy books most kids waste their time with.
Zim finishes his test in seconds, and goes to turn it in, and Dib is right behind him.
"This is sad." Mrs. Moody said to the rest of the class. "These two children were traumatized and they're done before you!"
Dib went back to his desk, and began to doodle, on his note pad, trying to get his mind off his dreams about a naked Zim. It doesn't work! 'Why can't I get it out of my head?!' he screams inwardly, only to actually scream out loud as he notices his note pad is covered in doodles of him, and Zim kissing!
"Dib I really don't care." Mrs. Moody snapped. "But I have to ask; it's the rules. Are you okay?"
"I'm fine." Dib said, ripping the doodle up and stuffing it in his book bag.
"Then shut up!" Mrs. Moody hissed.
Zim snickered. The Dib was still acting weird, but he did enjoy his enemy's suffering.
Dib slammed his head down on his desk. 'This is a nightmare.' He thought.
Suddenly the bell rings, and Zim gets up, he turns and looks at Dib. 'He's still red in the face.'
Dib was indeed red, and no matter how hard he tried the blush just wouldn't go away.
"Why do you keep staring at me?" Zim asked, as their classmates left the room.
"I'm not." Dib answered quickly, and raced out of the room.
Zim growled, this act of Dib's was starting to get really annoying.
[Later at Lunch...]
"Is school over yet?" Dib asked his sister as he sat down beside her at their usual table.
"Not even close!" Gaz said coldly, as she played her game. Suddenly she stops as she remembers her tone. "Why is everything okay?" She asked.
Dib winced, he knew it took a lot for his sister to be nice to him like this, but he really just wanted everything to go back to normal. He wanted to go back to the days where Gaz hated his guts, back to the days where the only thing he wanted to do to Zim was expose him as an alien to the world! However, he was beginning to think that would never happen.
"Dib, I can call our neighbor to come and drive you home if you're not feeling up to this." Gaz said.
"No, it's okay I'm fine, really." Dib lied, looking across the room towards Zim. The Alien menace use to eat alone, now his whole table was filled with wanna be friends.
Zim rolled his eyes, and noticed Dib was staring again.
Dib looks away quickly, blushing.
'What is up with him lately?!' Zim thought. 'He's acting so weird. And why does he keep staring!'
Dib glances his way again, and goes a darker shade of red when he notices Zim is still looking at him.
'That's it!' Zim gets up from his seat and marches over to him.
Dib wants to run, but his limbs go numb.
Zim climbs up onto the table, glaring down at the boy. "WHAT!"
"Nothing." Dib manages to say.
"You keep staring at me!" Zim yells. "If you have a problem with me just come out and say it!"
"It's really nothing." Dib squeaks.
"You're lying to me." Zim says, grabbing him by the shirt, their faces inches apart. "If you don't tell me Dib, I will break our treaty right now and punch you in the face!"
Dib gulps, but says nothing.
Zim growls, and throws the boy to the floor.
"Fight, fight, fight!" Their classmates scream around them.
Zim pounces on top of his enemy and starts punching him in the face. Two of the blows manage to make their mark before Dib starts fighting back, he grabs Zim's wrist, and head butts him. Zim grabs his forehead in pain, while Dib pushes him off. The Irken glares at him as the boy stands up. Dib offers him a hand, to his surprise Zim takes it. Only to punch the boy as he pulls him up to his feet. Blood trickles from Dib's lip.
"Seriously Zim? Really mature." He screams, kicking his enemy in the shins, and then goes for a punch. Zim grabs his hand, and pulls the boy towards him, kicking him in the stomach.
"Fight, fight, fight!" Their classmates continued to chant. Dib falls to the floor.
Zim stands over him, triumphantly; ready to deliver the final blow... When someone grabs him by the arm.
"I thought we told you two no more fighting!" Mrs. Moody said.
"He started it!" Zim exclaimed, pulling his hand away.
"You two come with me now!" Mrs. Moody yelled.
Zim growled, but obeyed, and with some effort Dib got to his feet and followed them down the hall. This is it... They were going to be expelled! The three stop in front of one of the many detention rooms. Mrs. Moody opens the door with a key. "You two will stay in here while I address the principal about your fighting!" she shoves the two boys into the empty room, and locks the door.
"This is all your fault!" Dib snapped as he sat down.
"Me? You started it!" Zim declared.
"You attacked me Zim, we had a treaty: No fighting means no fighting!" Dib argued.
"You were asking for it with all you're staring!" Zim hissed.
"What I can't look in your direction now?" Dib asked.
"You were staring at Zim! Why?" Zim screamed.
"Because I-" Dib stopped blushing once more.
Zim's eyes narrowed, and he kneels beside him. "Okay seriously what is wrong with you?" He asked Dib. "I mean don't get me wrong it was nice at first, but now it's just annoying!"
"I told you it's nothing." Dib mumbled.
"You are lying." Zim said, as he began to crawl closer to Dib. "Do not lie to Zim."
'Oh God.' Dib thought as Zim, got closer, and closer.
"Dib tell Zim..." Zim Whispered.
'Don't do it!' Dib's mind screamed at him. 'Don't do it!'
"Dib I'm growing impatient." Zim said, stopping in-between Dib's spread out legs.
"I...I" Dib began. 'Don't do it!' His mind was begging him now!
"Dib if you don't tell me right now I'll-" Zim froze as Dib's lips smacked into his.
The kiss lasted for a second, and then Dib pulled away, looking at Zim fearfully.
Zim's eyes were the size of saucers.
"Oh God I am so sorry!" Dib exclaimed, expecting to get a beating of a life time for putting his "inferior" lips on Zim's. "I have no idea what came over me! I shouldn't have done that! What is wrong with me?"
Zim is still just staring off into space.
"On no look at you!" Dib exclaimed. "You're freaking out! Oh, why did I do that?" he moaned. "I'm so stupid! I'll never live this down, you'll hold it against me for-"
Suddenly Zim lens in, and presses his lips to Dib's.
Dib stops, blushing harder.
"There now we're even!" Zim said pulling away.
The two pushed back and sat beside each other, leaning against the wall.
"So...Why?" Zim asked.
Dib sighed. "I don't know..."
"No shut up!" Zim exclaimed.
Dib obeyed.
"Now tell me: Why did you kiss me!?" Zim demanded.
"I..." Dib sighed again. "I had a weird dream where you and I kissed" he finally admitted.
"So, because you dreamed it, you had to do it?" Zim asked.
"No!" Dib exclaimed. "I mean, maybe…I don't know."
Zim smiled. "So, this is why you've been acting weird."
"It's your fault, you started this whole thing." Dib shouted.
"Did I?" Zim mused.
"You touched me there!" Dib exclaimed.
"I thought you said this wasn't about that." Zim said with a laugh. "Did you lie to Zim before?"
"You're enjoying this aren't you?!" Dib screamed.
"Of course, I am." Zim admitted. "My greatest foe is completely frazzled all because I touched his-"
"Don't say it!" Dib screamed.
Zim chuckled, but obeyed. "Fine I won't. But for the record if you hadn't been peeking none of this would be happening."
"Well it won't happen again!" Dib screamed. "Remember we're even now!"
Zim's grin grew wider.
"Oh, don't flatter yourself Zim!" Dib yelled. "It's not like I wanted to dream about kissing you!"
"So, why did you?" Zim asked smugly.
"I can't control what I dream!" Dib shouted defensively.
"So, all we did was kiss." Zim asked.
Dib went tomato red. "Yes..."
Zim smile grew impossibly wider. "Lier."
"Okay fine it got a little intense." Dib admitted.
"You need to be more specific." Zim jeered.
"Why!" Dib screamed.
"Well you couldn't control your urge to kiss me." Zim pointed out. "How do I know you'll be able to resist the other stuff?"
"Okay." Dib sighed, and with a gulp he said. "We kissed and, undressed each other..."
"And?" Zim said, pressing him to go on.
"Why are you so interested?!" Dib screamed.
"Because I've never seen you act this way before." Zim admitted. "And it's amusing, besides I'm in the dream so I have the right to know."
"Well it's too bad I woke up before we went further!" Dib snapped.
"Define Further?" Zim asked.
"Oh my god, Sex Zim!" Dib exclaimed.
Zim snickers, again he knew good, and well what Dib meant about further. He just enjoyed seeing the boy like this. Usually Dib was confident around him, declaring he would defeat him, and fought sometimes to near death to prove it. However, now something had grown amidst. Dib couldn't even look him in the eye, and Zim was beginning to realize that if he played his cards right, he could really make this work in his favor.
"You're never going to let me live this, down are you?" Did moaned.
Zim smiled wickedly, "I'm not sure yet." He admitted. Yes, he'd need to do some research on this sex thing. He knew a little from health class last year, at least enough to paint a sickening picture. Zim never understood why humans wanted to be so close to each other that they were actually inside their partners. Irkens never did that, at least not anymore. At first sex was a part of an Irken's natural life style, for they too; naturally reproduced.
However, they soon turn to cloning in hopes of lessening the number of birth defects, though some still participated in sex because they said it was enjoyable. Was it? Zim wasn't sure, sex soon became Taboo, because it was messy, and distracting. In fact, most Smeets now days were brain washed into never even considering sex! 'I need to know more about human affection.' He decided. He wasn't exactly thrilled in the idea of doing such things with the Dib, but it was having the desired effect. The Dib was out of his comfort zone, and it was obvious.
Suddenly the door opens breaking him from his thoughts. Mrs. Moody scowls at them.
"Today's your lucky day boys." She said. "The Principal is cutting you some slack cause of what happened on that trip. He also says it's been a long time since you fought."
Dib breathes a sigh of relief.
"Now get out, and get to class!" Mrs. Moody snapped.
The boys obeyed, and begin their journey together down the hall.
"So, I guess the treaty is null and void now?" Zim asked slyly.
"No Zim I can't get expelled, and we almost did!" Dib snapped.
"Okay fine, now that I know why you're staring it won't be a problem." Zim assured him.
"Really?" Dib asked.
"Well duh, I did tell you to tell me, or else I'd hit you." Zim said. "If you had just said you liked me I would have done nothing."
"I don't like you Zim! I hate you!" Dib said.
"Really? Then why willingly kiss me?" Zim asked.
"I...I don't know!" Dib shouted.
Zim smiled. "Now Dib it's completely natural to love something as Amazing as me."
"I knew it!" Dib yelled. "I knew you'd never let me live this down!"
"Can you blame me?" Zim asked slyly.
"No, not really." Dib admitted.
Zim chuckled, "You know Dib I think this is the start of a new strategy."
"New Strategy?" Dib asked. "For what?"
"Why for handling my biggest problem." Zim said. "You!"
Dib gulped. He didn't like the sound of that.
No, He didn't like it one bit!
Chapter End Notes
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