Until Death Do Us Part
Chapter Two:
What is this...Friendship?
Author's Note: I do not own Invader Zim, the twisted mind of Jhonen C. V. does. I hoped everyone liked the first chapter. Please bare with me if I am rusty, like I said it's been a long time since I've written fanfiction. Note: I also do updates on Twitter (AyumiEmdez) and Blogger Dashboard.
"Purple female...wake up!" Zim had reached over and started shaking Gaz.
Her reaction wasn't such a nice one. A right hook came up and on Zim's left side of his jaw. He falls back, almost out of the window, lucky his spider legs were still out and were still supporting him in the window. Gaz rubbed her eyes and opened them seeing Zim rubbing his jaw.
"Oh! Zim! I am sorry! I didn't mean too!"
"You human females...are dangerous...and to think you looked innocient when asleep..." He looked back at her then settled down beside her. "But no harm done."
Gaz sat up and reached for his face and turned it. There wasn't even a sore mark.
"Didn't it hurt?"
Zim nodded. "Just a bit, but irken skin is very hard to bruise or cut." Zim then reached forward at the end of the bed where he picked up a large pizza box and placed it on Gaz's lap.
Gaz looked down at the pizza box, on the top was a ugly drawing of a pig face.
"You went to Bloaty's Pizza Hog?"
"Zim had noticed from battling with the Dib-freak that you liked pizza, especially from the horrid Pig fiend so I had them make you one. I did not know what toppings so I got the simple pepperoini."
Gaz opened the box and there was a hot, geasy, calorie-filled pizza before her. She quickly pulled out a piece and started to eat. Zim watched in slight disgust as she ate.
"Oh...my..god...thank you Zim...you have no idea...how good this is..." Gaz said with a mouthful.
"Doesn't your Father and Dib-stink feed you?"
"They do. But when I am sick they make me eat healthy things." She motioned to the box to Zim. "Want some?"
Zim shook his head. "I cannot eat the meat."
"Oh yeah? Next time just get cheese, or veggies. Peppers are good. Normally I take my pizza with mushrooms, onions and green peppers." Gaz took another mouthful and she smiles with pleasure.
Zim smiled and nods.
"Zim will remember next time."
Gaz continued to eat her pizza, asking questions to Zim on how he healed so fast from the episode that happened a couple of a days ago. He described his healing chamber to her and how it works.
"The computer recongizes my DNA, so anything that is damaged it'll then repair."
"Neat." Gaz took her last bite of pizza, then moved the pizza box to her night stand. "I have another question."
Zim just rolled his eyes. "Your full of quesitons aren't you?"
Gaz ignored the comment but she pointed to his back.
"What's this for? I know I see the legs come out sometimes to help you climb, but what other uses is it for?"
"Ah." Zim reached back and pressed a button and the pak sticks out a bit and disconnects from his back.
He then takes it into his hands then hands it to Gaz.
"This is my pak. I have tons of range weapons to defend myself. It also stores my memory, if any chance my body is destroyed, every last memory will be stored. It will return to the closest irken computer to upload the data. It also helps me live."
"Live?" Gaz looks over the little medal pak then noticed a tiny screen, looking like a count down. "Is this a timer?"
Zim nodded. "I can only live so long without the pak. The maxium ever tried is about 20 minutes."
Gaz gasped and pushed it back in Zim's hands. "Put it back on! Please!"
Zim just laughed, then pressed the little screen. The pak then floated into the air, over Zim's head and then positioned itself behind him then reattached it's self.
"It's alright Little Gaz, I had trained myself to last without it. I shall be fine."
Gaz searched his face, making sure he was ok. Zim just continued to laught and he placed a hand on her head.
"I'm fine, really."
Gaz nodded but she looked upset. Zim just beamed at her.
"There is nothing that'll hurt me, trust me little female."
"ZIM!" A familar voice shouted, making the two turn to the bedroom door.
There was Dib, who was holding a plate with fruits and veggies, which ended up falling to the floor. He stood there in shock to see his enemy sitting so closer to his baby sister.
"Except maybe that..." Zim mumbled.
Zim quickly exspelled his spider legs, lifting himself off the bed, hanging just above Gaz, is a protective manner.
"What are YOU doing here?" Zim snapped angrily at him.
"I LIVE here! What are YOU doing here?" Dib growled.
"I come to see your sister." Zim returned his answer calmly.
"Well-huh? What?" Dib blinked and took a step back. "Why?"
"Because she hasn't shown up to school, so Zim was concern."
"What? Why would you be concern?"
"Enough talk pathetic worm baby! I will not discuss my matters, if I come to see Gaz, then I will do so!"
"So, we're friends?" Gaz interrupted both of them.
Both Dib and Zim stopped, blinked and turned to Gaz.
"Friends?" Zim repeated, he lowered himself back onto the bed, now kneeling before Gaz.
"Well yeah. Friends check up on each other and bring them things. We're friends." Gaz smiled then leaned forward and flicked his forehead again. "Duh."
Zim blinked then smiled.
"Ok. Friends."
"Over my dead body!" Dib then rushed at Zim and Gaz.
Zim uses his legs again to lift him in the air, Dib just landed on Gaz's bed and grabbed nothing but air.
"Fool! I will do what I wish! And I will remain, until she tells me otherwise, her friend. So stuff your big fat head with that knowledge!" Zim laughed then climbed out the window.
Dib crawled to the window and stuck his head out to continued to yell at him.
"Stay away from my sister, you alien! And my head is not BIG!"
"Yes it is."
Dib brought his head back in to glare at her.
"Don't encourage him."
Gaz glared at him. "Get out before I hurt you."
Dib moves away from the window, closing it, then locking it.
"Gaz stay away from Zim, he's dangerous."
"Your voice is stupid." Gaz glared at him evily. "Now get out before I set security on you."
Dib gets off her bed and walks over to the doorway, bends down and starts picking up the food he dropped earlier.
"I mean it Gaz, Zim is the enemy. You never know what his true agenda. All that we know he could be using you to get to me-"
"SECURITY!" Gaz screamed at the top of her lungs.
By the time Dib turned his head to look at Gaz, he was already surrounded by horrorifing stuffed animals.
"Ahhhhhh!" Dib ran out of Gaz's room as fast as he can, the stuff animals chasing him down the hall into his room.
After a few more days of bed rest, Gaz was allowed to go to school. Gaz started the day as she would normally. She hog the bathroom, making Dib wait and doing the pee-pee dance out the bathroom door. She had her breakfast, making sure she didn't leave Dib any milk for his cereal. She then proceded to leave the house, with Dib stumbling to catch up, as she glues herself into her GS-2.
"Now remember Gaz, stay away from Zim." Dib caught up with Gaz, as he looked over her shoulder, taking to take her attention away from her game.
She growls angrily and moves a bit to the left.
"Your in my light..."
Dib sighed and backed off a bit.
The two finally made it into the school yard. Gaz took her seat under one of the big trees, waiting for the bell to ring. Dib stood to watch, from a distance, but soon one of his classmates, started picking on him stole his attention.
Then a robotic arm reached down from above Gaz and grabbed her GS-2 away from her. It quickly disappeared within the tree branches. She looked up and growled.
"You better return that!"
"Or what Little Gaz?" A familar voice chuckled.
"I will beat you to the very inch of life."
"Ohh! I am so scared!" Using the same robotic arm, Zim lower himself to stand in front of Gaz.
Within his hands is her GS-2. He then sat next to her and started to continue the game. Gaz just smirked and shook her head, she moved closer to him and looked over his shoulder.
"Ugh! How can you PLAY this thing?" Zim attempted to maduver his character through the level, but couldn't make it over a pit and he falls in and dies.
"You have to learn to jump at the right time at the right spot." Gaz pointed to a spot on the screen.
"But there is fireballs raining down on that spot!"
"That's why I said the right time." Gaz giggled, she reached for the game and takes it from him.
She takes over the level, with Zim leaning over to her shoulder, their shoulders touching. Gaz looks at him for a second then blushes then quickly returns to her video game screen.
"Watch the fire balls, count the seconds inbetween each fireball. Then make a run for it, press X to jump on that spot then land on the other side, plus getting the extra coins along the jump."
Zim raises his eyebrows.
"It looks complicated."
"Oh, so the Great and Powerful Zim is admitting he can't do something as playing a simple video game?"
"What?" Zim blinks. "Of course I can! I didn't deny that Zim can't do it!"
"Then prove it."
"Eh?"
Gaz stood up and brushed the grass off her dress. She turns off the game system and sticks it into her bag. She then grins down at Zim.
"Come with me after school."
Zim stands up and crosses his arms.
"And what about your Big Headed brother?"
"Don't worry about him, just meet me here after school." And with that the bell rang.
Gaz waved goodbye and walked into the building. Zim watched after her for a moment and smiled, then continued on into the building with his fellow classmates.
Zim stared blankly at his test on the human body. He knew the answers, done enough human autopsies in the last two years, he could easily mention each part of the inner workings of the eyes, ears, skin, etc. But his mind wasn't on this test. Zim looked up at the clock.
15 minutes until three...stupid time! Zim growled to himself. He didn't want to be here. He wanted to meet up with Gaz to do what she's planned.
Wait a irken second! Her? Again! Argh! She won't get out of my mind! Zim goaned and laid his forehead onto his desk. If it was bad enough she had invaded his space when he was hurt and sometimes his thoughts...now it's worst. He was itching to get out of his seat, run out the door to see her. He liked being around her.
She is the only human that Zim could stand to be around. Besides...she can help me fit in more. Yeah, even at lunch the stinking human worm babies nodded to me, they haven't picked on me once today... Zim looked up and turned to see Dib on the other side of the classroom, sitting uncomfortably as he tried taking his test. Zim couldn't help up grin. As he was in the front yard this morning with Gaz, poor Dib got picked on by the other students and was pinned on the flag pole by his underwear. It wasn't until just before lunch that their teacher noticed he wasn't there and ended up finding him on the flag pole. Since then he was been walking around painfully.
Zim chuckled to himself. If Zim had stood around in the school yard, he would of be on the one on the flag pole.
There some benefits of hanging around Little Gaz. I'll go with it for awhile.
Then the bell rang, Zim jumped out of his seat, grabbing his test, chucking it at the teacher then bolting out the door. He ran down the now crowding hallway, moving effortlessly between his fellow students, finally getting out the front door. He got to the tree where he met Gaz that morning. But his squeedly spooch twitched slightly when he found the spot empty.
Zim tightens his claws into fists. I cannot believe I let myself-
"Hey."
Zim turned around quickly at the sound, to see Gaz smiling as she walks up to him. Zim loosen up, his squeedly spooch pounding a bit faster than usual. He returns the smile.
"Hey..." Zim said back breathlessly.
Gaz then just motioned with her head to follow, and the irken did without hesitation.
