Welcome back! Here's the next chapter, unlucky 13. And just to give you a small bit of Drama, since this is unlucky 13, Caline's gonna have an unlucky evening. But there shall be SOME romance, and mind you I take it a little seriously. Not far, but seriously.

Chapter 13: Unlucky

Caline stepped through the doorway into the living room of Dib's house. Everything was shadowed, faded, and creepy looking. Caline slowly walked in, Salem behind her. They looked as if they were walking into a haunted house. "Dib?" she called, hoping to find him somewhere in the house. "Hello.. Caline." Dib snarled as the door slammed shut from the inside. Dib was standing behind it. Caline jolted back, scared for a moment.

"What's with the creepy house theme? It's scary!" she shuddered and looked back at Dib.

"Caline, I'm tired of waiting for the Irkin societies' death and decided that I'm going to get to the chase.

Your job, is to go to Zim's house tomorrow and find a way to get him to take you to the massive. Once then, you kill, ABSOLUTELY destroy the Tallest! You fail me and I'll let Renlia take care of you. Your not going to linger with the enemy alright?"

"But..."

"NO BUTS, CALINE! You've done enough 'Hanging out' for a lifetime."

"IT WAS ONLY ONE DAY!" she screamed.

"You'll have to wait for three days then, I'll be nice and let you hang out while you can. But either way, he's dying, and so is your species!"

Caline couldn't believe it. Three more days to see Zim's face alive... how will she handle it? Her eyes filling up with tears, she ran out the door, Dib screaming after her, "YOU ARE NOT TO GO TO ZIM'S HOUSE!" he commanded and went upstairs. Where was she to go now? Dib didn't know, and didn't care. He got on his computer and began looking around the Swollen Eyeball news to see what was going on in the world.

Caline sulked as she sat on a swing at the park. Slowly rocking her back and forth, she was repelled from Zim's house and didn't know who to turn to. Her eyes gleaming in the setting sun's light, the darkness pouring over the city, blackening the sky almost as dark as her heart at the moment. Caline's pupils turned green, the long command had taken her over. She looked up, still the same girl, but not the same soul. Her hands clenched the chains on the swing as Salem sensed the dark aura of madness and broken heart grew around her. This wasn't going to turn out well at all. Caline looked up at the stars in the sky, their patterns turning clearer to her, their meanings. She began to laugh as her calm voice became soft and different, evil like Tak's, yet soothing like silk.

"We have a biiig chore to do, Salem..."

"Master?" Salem asked, you could tell there was a small tint of fear in his voice.

"Poor Zim. Me having to kill him..." Caline's voice was losing it's tone.

"Master, you're going nuts..."

"And I'll have to kick his sorry little green-"

Salem had thunked Caline hard in the back of the head with a stick. She fell forward onto her side, knocked out. Salem curled up next to her, whimpering, hoping he didn't damage her.

"CALINE!" screamed a voice in her head. Caline was running, those stupid creatures again. Her chest heaving for breath, she thought she actually lost them this time. Turning around she thought she was going to vomit, a blueish green figure stood behind her, red eyes that were swollen with blood, cracked and smashed antennas, the skin was ripped revealing the flesh within. Blood was blotched everywhere and the bottom jaw was missing. Caline cried realizing who it was. Gagging and crying at the same time she screamed, taking steps back as the figure stood there. "Caline.." it somehow managed to hum out with a missing jaw. Caline screamed at the top of her squeedly spooch and awoke from her nightmare, clunking heads with a familiar friend.

"OW! What the- Caline what the heck happened?" Zim yelped as he fell back holding his head with pain.

"Zim!" Caline screeched with tears streaming down her face. "Wha? Y-your jaw! It's back! And your skin is still green and not slit or blueish at all! And your not battered or bloody!"

Her face fell into her hands as she was confused and scared. Zim cocked his head, "What?! Caline..." Caline's heart beat fast. She felt Zim's claws grip on her rist, "Caline, what happened? You were out cold on the ground..." he said. Caline shook her head. She doesn't know what happened. Looking from the ground up to face Zim, she slowly stopped the tears bit by bit.

"I- I dunno..." she said and cried a little bit more. She was scared to death.

Zim tightened his grip, Caline looking up to face him and look at his hand on her rist. Leaping forward and wrapping her arms around him, Caline remembered, Dib's orders. The lies, the betrayal that will soon take place, and his death. Caline tightened her grip as Zim returned the hug, knowing she was scared. He would be too if he didn't remember what the heck he did the night before. His eyes locked on the swing, slowly swung to and fro with the soft breeze of the wind. Salem sat not too far away, unnoticed and glad for it. This was like a whole movie scene to him. His tail softly swishing, making not a sound as the two had their moment. Zim's eyes closing, he began to think to himself...

Why am I doing this? I mean, the only reason I hang out with her is to find out whether she's a threat or not. Silly thing, I get this stupid feeling, what the heck is it?! I don't know... I wonder what Gir is doing... messing up the house as usual? Hmm... maybe he's making waffles... they aren't that bad... I can sure go for a few of them right now. He smiled to himself.

"WHERE IS SHE?!" Dib screamed, stomping around the house. She hadn't come back since last night. "SHUT UP ALREADY, DIB! YOU DON'T OWN HER OR ANYTHING!" Gaz yelled from the kitchen.

"Yeah I do!"

"...You scare me..."

Dib growled and walked out slamming the door. Maybe he'd find her at school.

Nope, she wasn't there. Class was about to start and there was no sign of Caline OR Zim. What were they doing? Dib didn't know... taking out the homework that was due that day, Dib began to wonder. Suddenly the door opened, Zim walked in, and a pale faced Caline walked in emotionless, not too far behind.

Didn't her eyes use to be violet? They're green now... Dib thought to himself as he watched Caline take her seat as Zim made an excuse for why they're late. A poor one at that...

"These filthy dog monsters chased us..." he said and took his seat. The class laughed, they knew that something else happened. But what was funny to them was the fact that his excuse was so poor that it's funny. Caline just sat there like a rock staring up at the board, not bothering to take out her homework, she actually didn't remember having it assigned. But when they were done grading it... Ms. Bitters just gave another lecture on DOOM again...

Zim turned around and threw a paper ball, it landed on the center of her desk. Caline picked it up and read it.

You better be feeling better by now. For I, the ALMIGHTY ZIM, will shoot you with a lazer if you're not!

Caline laughed at the poor smiley face that was suppose to look like it was sticking out it's tongue near the signature. Throwing back the paper ball, the reply was nothing. A small prank, Zim realized. To give back the note but not write anything. It usually isn't a funny joke, but Caline decided to act like it was.

Looking back down at her desk, the small reflection she saw within her shadow, her pupils green. Looking up, breathing hard as if she had another nightmare, not daring to look down Caline sat like that for the rest of the day.

When ordered to go home, the kids went crazy as they usually did. Caline's expression was deathlike. Zim walked up to her, asking her if she'd like to walk home with him.

"I can't, not tonight. Salem's got a date with the Vet." she said. Although Zim didn't understand, he walked home alone anyway. Then, with Dib, Caline kicked a can the whole way home.

"Caline... are you mad from-"

"No..."

"Are you sur-"

"No..."

"You are aren't y-"

"NO..."

Caline was being ignorant and liked it. Her gaze kept forward, ignoring Dib in every way she could. Dib finally gave up on trying to tell her he was sorry. And he sort of was. He was being mean and that wasn't like him, usually.

Zim walked through the door and on his way to the toilet, Gir popped out of lord knows where, "I'M ON TEEVEEE!" he yelled. Zim winced at the loud sound and looked at the T.V. It was a news report of this lady standing in front of a gas station and there it was, Gir in the background sucking his face through a straw so he could eat chocolate bubble gum. Zim shook his head, glad that noone really followed Gir here, "...Remind me to take a look at your brains-" Zim was cut off by Gir.

"You should take a look at my brains!" he said

"NOT NOW!" Zim yelled, all of a sudden full of rage, he didn't know why. Throwing his wig and eye contacts off he stomped to the toilet and flushed himself down to the lab.

Sitting in his chair, Zim went through the security cameras as he usually did when he was bored. Running them back and rewinding them in the past few months, something caught his eye, he stopped it. The scene in the exact room he was in, Caline, standing there in front of Zim. He stopped the scene and played it, the voices entering his antennas.

"She's not my girlfriend! She's just some crazy girl who won't leave ZIM alone!" Zim heard his voice say.

"ZIM, HOW MUCH OF A THICK HEAD ARE YOU GONNA HAVE?! I'm not dumb! I know a couple when I see them, Zim! I've been on this planet before, and don't you forget it! I'm mostly human and know everything there is to know about being normal, and having a boyfriend or girlfriend for sure!" came in Caline's voice.

"Caline... Caline-"

"Go..."

"But-"

"Just go Zim. I don't care, I don't care at all, just go!"

"Maybe I will!"

"GOOD!"

"IT'S FINE WITH ME! I'M GOING AND YOU CAN'T STOP ME!"

"FINE THEN! GO! SEE IF I CARE!"

The scene froze, Zim had his finger pressed firmly on a button that had caused it to pause. His eyes trembling with fear and confusion at the site that the girl whom he had just now met was in his own home a few months ago and he knew it... but how?! He played the scene's over and over again. One of Caline busting through the roof in a cruiser he'd never seen before, and some girl sitting on the couch in the living room. Zim decided to play that one.

In the scene, a girl sat on the couch and pulled out a monitor from her pocket as it expanded in size and floated in front of her.

"I have Zim, he still doesn't know what's coming for him. Now all you have to do is get the girl and we'll have to wipe Zim's mind and we're out of here."

"What about Caline? Won't we have to wipe her mind too?" a voice came from the screen.

"No! Renlia only wants us to wipe Zim's mind, apparently Caline's mind will eventually be done for what Renlia has in store for her."

The sound of an elevator rising filled the air for a brief moment.

"Gotta go! Gain Caline's trust to capture her while I have Zim occupied at the circus." and the screen faded away. Zim walked into the scene, towards the door. The girl following him like Gir did.

"So are you coming to the circus or what?" the girl asked.

"I sure am!"

The girl smiled and grabbed his arm, then ran out the door, their voices fading off.

"Well the circus is this way! Now hurry, we don't wanna be late!"

Zim pushed pause again. This was too much to drink in. So many strangers in his house! What was going on?!

Standing up, Zim ran out of the lab and into the living room. Gir was nowhere to be found. Probably getting tacos...

Running out the door, Zim ran down the street, trying to find Caline's house. But then again he didn't know where that was. She could be in downtown! He kept running and turned at a few streets. Stopping immediately at the sound of crashing, Zim looked to his right. Dib's house! Creeping up to a window, Dib stood there yelling and talking to an emotionless looking Caline.

"Caline! You're moving yourself around the main plan! NOT where you need to be going with this!"

"I don't want to see him die, Dib. You may, but I don't!"

"And I've already given you the order! You have two more days, Caline. Either way, Zim's gonna die!"

Zim couldn't believe what he was hearing. Taking a few steps back he turned around and saw the little dog (That's for some weird reason in almost every dang episode) and screamed. Caline and Dib turned their attention towards the window.

"ZIM!" Caline screamed and ran to the door. Running out to help Zim up, Zim didn't take her offer of help.

"Caline.. Who are you and why were you in my base?!"

"Huh?"

"I looked at the security cameras, Caline. Don't play dumb! Did you give ZIM a brain wipe or something?!"

"I- I don't know what you're talking about.."

"I said don't play dumb!"

Dib cut in, "Caline what is going on?!"

"I- I really don't know! I don't remember a thing, I swear!"

"And you're Irkin! You son of a-"

"Caline, answer my question!"

Both guys were talking to Caline at once. Orders, and more orders. They were so demanding of her at the moment, her head began to ache. Tearing up she turned and ran. Running as fast as she could, the last light of the sun disappearing and darkness swarmed the town again. Caline became lost, within herself, her fear, and this planet.

Yeah, yeah, kinda long. But I had to fit everything in here to make her unlucky. Anyway, next chappie might have a song. Til' next time!