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Disclaimers: I do not own Invader Zim Author's Note's: chapter 18 here we go!

BTW: For those of you who miss the crazy, not so smart Gir, he's back in this chapter just like I promised.

PS: I got permission from Roxie Divine to use this parts of her story for this chapter, she will leave a confirmation review.

[Later that day...]

Seventh Period...

It was the only class besides first period that Zim, and Dib had together. Dib's eyes narrowed on Zim, ever since Lunch he had been plotting his scheme. Once school let out, he'd get off the bus at his house, get ready. Then he would go to Zim's with a camera, and expose him! It was the perfect plan! Dib's eye brow rose, class was almost over, but Zim had done nothing to pester him throughout the entire science lesson.

Zim smiled as Dib gave him another cautious look, ignoring the boy now, would most defiantly leave the dirt child scratching his head in confusion! Yes, that was the plan here, to keep the Dib-thing guessing.

"Now class before the bell rings." Mrs. Wade said, drawling Dib's attention away from Zim in an instant. "I would like to remind you that this weekend is our Annual masquerade ball, and all of you have agreed to attend."

"I never agreed to this!" Zim exclaimed.

"Yes you did Zim!" Mrs. Wade screamed.

"YOU'RE LYING!" Zim shouted.

Mrs. Wade pushed a red button on her desk, and suddenly the chalk board turns into one big TV screen, the screen pulls up a video from last Tuesday.

"Zim? Will you be joining us for the dance next weekend?" Mrs. Wade's voice asked from the TV Footage.

"Yeah sure, whatever." Zim responded, not really paying attention!

Mrs. Wade turned off the TV.

"Why would you record that?" Zim said. "Seriously what is with teachers and recording everything we say!"

"Ha you have to go to the stupid dance!" Dib laughed out loud.

"If I have to go then you are too worm!" Zim hissed.

"Nope I'd never go in a million years!" Dib laughed.

"You are going!" Mrs. Wade snapped.

"What I didn't agree to this!" Dib exclaimed.

"Yes you did!" Mrs. Wade turned the TV back on, and continued playing the footage.

It shows Dib staring at Zim, awkwardly.

"How about you Dib?" Mrs. Wade voice said on the screen.

"What?" Dib asked looking away from Zim, and towards the camera.

"Are you going to the dance next weekend?" Mrs. Wade asked, still off screen.

"Uh yeah sure I guess so." Dib said, his eyes wondering back to Zim.

Mrs. Wade turns off the TV yet again.

"HA!" Zim exclaimed.

"I only agreed because someone has to keep you in check!" Dib shouted, that was of course the real reason why Dib had agreed, but with all the current chaos he had honestly forgotten the dance entirely.

"Silence!" Mrs. Wade snapped. "You will all go, and that is final, and you will wear costumes, it is a masquerade ball after all!"

The bell rings.

Dib's eyes narrow at his enemy once more, it was time to put his plan into motion.

"See you tomorrow Dib." Zim said as they left the school.

"You're not ridding the bus?" Dib asked.

"Nope, I think I'll walk today." Zim said. "In less you want me to ride home with you."

Dib blushed. "Nope I'm fine!" He exclaimed, running onto the bus before the lizard could change his mind.

Zim chuckled, he almost regret deciding to walk, but he honestly wanted Dib to try and stop him, he needed to see how much his previous actions would hinder the boy's efforts; or if it actually would at all! Yes, this was his chance to put his plan to the test, for if it proved to fell, than Zim might have to add some more sexual tension to the situation. He knew sooner or later he'd have to go further, than just groping, and kissing, but the thought of having full blown sex with the boy sickened him greatly. After all sex couldn't really feel as good as everyone said it does.

Could it?

(Dib's House...)

Dib jumped out of the bus doors, and raced for his room, he had to get ready! "Dib..."

Dib stops at the bottom of the stairs, his father is home, and sitting on the couch. "Not now dad, I have to go." Dib said.

"Dib please." Membrane says, "I know you're still angry with me, but my friends from the university are coming this weekend and I am hoping you will consider going there after you graduate."

Dib groaned, he had decided long ago that he wasn't going to college, after all there were no classes that studied the Paranormal.

Of course, he hadn't got around to telling his father this news. "I just want to review what to say around them." Membrane went on.

"Sorry dad, I have to run, well go over it tonight okay?" Dib said grabbing his camera, and racing back out the door.

Membrane sighed, "Where did I go wrong?" he wondered.

[Moments later...]

(Zim's House...)

Dib had crept off to Zim's house as quiet as a mouse with his camera in hand.

He was going to get him this time; he had to! It was the only way he could stop the madness! He knew Zim was working on a new scheme, he had said so himself. So all he had to do was catch him in the act. It shouldn't be too hard… after all, Zim was always up to something, and with this new disguise Zim would never notice him.

Zim looked out his window and froze. "That's odd; I don't remember having a bush in my yard." Zim watched in shock as the bush began to move slowly towards his window. Zim smiled as he began to realize what was going on. The Dib-Worm was here to spy on him! He laughed. "Well then, let's give him something to spy on, shall we?"

Dib crept slowly past the window and towards Zim's back door; he could hear Zim's evil laughter. "Now, Gir, with this weapon of destruction I will destroy them all!"

Dib suddenly jumped out of his bush. This was it this was the moment of truth! He pressed the record button on his camera and burst through the door and yelled. "Ha, Zim! I caught you now! I've caught you red-handed doing... Laundry?" Dib froze to see Zim throwing his clothes into the washing machine. "But you… you said… I heard you… you-" Dib stammered.

Zim smiled as he turned on the wash. "Seriously Dib; you are making this way too easy! I mean, a bush mysteriously appears in my own yard and you think I wouldn't notice?!"

"You won't win this. Zim! I will expose you!" Dib declared.

"Yeah, because you've been so good at proving to the world of my evil before, haven't you?" Zim laughed, crossing his arms. "Face it, Dib; you've got nothing. You never do."

Dib growled in frustration. Zim's smile widens as he approaches his enemy. Dib takes a cautious step back, but Zim pursues him, still, and before he knows it Dib is trapped, against another wall with Zim only inches away from his face.

"You know you could just surrender." Zim mused.

"So you can what? Denigrate me, and get it over with?" Dib screamed.

"No..." Zim whispered into his ear. "I told you Dib, you will live to see me take over this stupid mud ball."

"You'll never win!" Dib vowed.

"Yes I will." Zim said, pressing his lips to his.

Dib froze, but this time the kiss doesn't stun him as much as the last time. He manages to push Zim away. "See Zim I told you this plan wouldn't work!"

Zim smiled, holding Dib's camera triumphantly. "Oh but it has!" he said with a dark chuckle; lifting it up over his head.

"Don't you dare!" Dib warned.

Zim throws it on the ground, and stomps on it. The camera shatters.

"That was my only camera!" Dib exclaimed.

"Good" Zim said with a smile. "Now I think you should be punished for breaking and entering into my home again. Gir, do it now!" Zim ordered.

"Do what?" Dib asked. He froze as Gir pointed a laser at him. Time seemed to slow down as the laser was fired.

Zim laughed as it hit its target.

Dib screamed, expecting to feel pain, but he felt nothing. What was going on? Zim looked at Dib; nothing happened. "Gir, you broke the laser!" He yelled.

"What was it supposed to do?" Dib asked, but… he didn't say it. He SUNG it.

Zim stared at Dib in shock.

"What the... Zim what did you do to meeee?!" Dib put his hand over his mouth in pure horror.

Zim fell on the floor, rolling around in laughter.

"This isn't funny, Ziiiiim!" Dib sang with rage. "What did you dooo?!"

"It was supposed to shrink your head to the size of a pea for a couple of hours," Zim said through laughs as he got to his knees, trying to get up. "But if you ask me, this is a much more amusing fate!" He burst out into more laughter as he got to his feet.

"Change me back now; make this stop!" Dib sung.

"It will wear off soon, Dib-Worm, which is more mercy then you ever deserved."

"You won't get away with this Ziiiim!"

"Uh, yeah, I think I already have." Zim moved to push the boy out the door, but Dib blocked his path.

"I can see the things you're doing, and you may think that I'm naive, but when I get the goods on you they'll finally believe!" Dib sang with confidence.

Zim just rolled his eyes. "Please tell me this isn't going to turn into some musical!"

"They say it's all just drama," Dib sung, "but every bubble's got to pop! They're gonna see just what you're doing, and then you're finally gonna have to stop!"

"It is! NOOOOOO!" Zim put his hand to his head in embarrassment as Gir began to dance and sing with Dib. That's it! This was the last time he let Gir hold on to any of the weapons!

"Don't think you're gonna win this time cause you better believe I'm gonna drop a dime on you!" Dib kept on singing, suddenly caught in the moment. If he had to be tortured by this then by God he was going to torture Zim with him! "I'll get ya! Yeah! I'll get ya!" He and Gir sang together, "and when I do you're gonna be BUSTED!"

"Busted!" Gir echoed.

"I'm gonna put the hurt on you! Ya you better believe me when I say that I'm finally gonna get the dirt on you!"

Zim crossed his arms suddenly, amused by Dib's words. "Oh really? You think you can finally catch me in the act? As if, pathetic Huuooman!"

"You're busted!" Dib went on as he circled around him.

"Busted!" Gir echoed as he followed Dib around the room.

"Hey, whose side are you on?!" Zim yelled at Gir.

"Yeah, They're finally gonna see the light, this is how it's gonna be when they find out that I was always right you're busted!"

"Busted!"

Zim pushed past them and headed out the front door, he didn't care where he was going, he was just trying to get away from them both, but Dib was determined to make Zim pay.

And, well… Gir was just having too much fun to stop so he followed Dib as he continued to sing.

"There's a new cop on the beat, and I'm bringing down the heat! My eyes are wise to all your lies, because you're not that discreet."

"Oh, but I can fool your entire planet!" Zim bragged. He wasn't about to let the Dib-Monkey see him sweat under his little song, with its rhyming words… that's all it was; just words.

"I don't care what you've heard, because there's one six letter word and it's gonna set me free!" Dib kept on singing.

"Gonna set me free!" Gir laughed; this was fun! "It starts with a 'B'!"

"Starts with a 'B'!"

"It goes B-U-S-T-E-D, you are BUSTED!" Dib suddenly blocked his path. "I'm gonna put the hurt on yoooouuu! Ya you better believe me when I say that I'm finally gonna get the dirt on you! You're BUSTED! Yeah don't you think you're gonna win this time!"

"You're busted!" Gir screamed with joy. "Seriously Gir! Stop singing!" Zim demanded.

"Yeah, They're finally gonna see your lies!" Dib couldn't stop himself as he and Gir began to dance around him. "Oh I'm gonna drop a dime on you!"

"I'll get ya! Yeah! I'll get ya!" Gir chanted.

Zim felt like he was going to explode; he suddenly saw a Taxi come into view. It was his only chance! If he could just get to it he'd be free of this extremely un-cool, ridiculous madness! He began to run, but Dib and Gir ran after him, still singing. "And when I do you're gonna be busted!"

"Busted!"

"Yeah they're finally gonna see the light! This is how it's gonna be when they find out that I was always right!"

Zim didn't even slow down as the Taxi came to a halt in front of them and opened the door. He got in, slammed the door, and gave the driver a wad of money. "Take me as far away from that child as possible!" Zim exclaimed.

The Driver nodded, and zoomed off.

Zim, relaxes breathing heavily. Thank the Tallest! The madness was over! He looked out his window as the taxi began to pull away.

Dib stood there on the street and as he watched the Taxi drive off, as he and Gir exclaimed one final line. "You are BUSTED!" Dib suddenly clears his throat. "Hey my voice is back to normal." He said.

"Let's sing it again!" Gir exclaimed.

Dib suddenly looked at him with a look of disbelief, and then his look suddenly turned to horror as Gir took out the laser again. Dib ran as fast as he could, trying to get away from the crazy robot that was about to shoot him yet again.

Gir watched him go, then shrugged his shoulders. "Oh well; more for me!" He said as he pointed the laser at himself it fired. Suddenly, Gir's head shrunk to the size of a pea. "Ooooohhh… so that's what it's supposed to do!" Gir said, then he ran off screaming. "Look at my head! My head! MY HEAD!"

(Following Dib...)

Dib continued running for his life, for all he knew, the monster could be right behind him, thankfully he made it home without insistent.

"So how'd you're date with Zim go?" Gaz asked, from the couch.

"It wasn't a date!" Dib snapped. "We're not dating Gaz!"

"Then why did you kiss him?" Gaz asked. "You did kiss him right?"

"Um..." Dib bit his lip.

"That's why you've been acting weird around him isn't it?" Gaz pressed on.

"Okay fine yes I kissed him!" Dib admitted. "And before you ask, No I don't know why it just happened!"

"What are you going to do about it?" Gaz asked.

"I don't know." Dib admitted. "Zim keeps using it against me, and it's really hindering my efforts." he admitted. "Anyway I think I'll go hide in my room before dad finds out I'm back."

"You haven't told him yet?" Gaz asked.

Dib shook his head.

"Dib dad has been trying to get this interview for you all year, and you didn't have the common courtesy to tell him you're not even planning to go to college!"

"Gaz I can't talk right now." Dib said. "If dad asks I'm still at Zim's."

"Fine but you owe me for covering for you." Gaz warned.

Dib nodded before retreating up the stairs, he goes to his room, and locks his door before face planting into his bed. "I hate my life." He whispered.

Unfortunately for him however, his life was about to get a lot worse!

Chapter End Notes

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