A.n. Thanks to my reviewers:

greenjellohead

Captain Blue-hat Jack

TikTac (lol, what are you talking about? XD Morphine. Whoo!)

Suicidal RuBBerDucky

Zantor7

TripleS-18 (X3)

and dear Missy Lynne (that reminds me of some country folk song for whatever reason. . . )

The part I hate is in here... just cause I hate writing Dib in any romantic situation, so I really have no idea why I paired him up with Kacer. . . In lighter news, Zim acts very cute in this chapter. . . cause he gets all whiny. . .er, just in one scene. And there's some Pin an' Clox, brother-sister fluff in the flashback. . . enjoy. . .

Chapter four- Return of the Dooky Brains

"It's been three hours," Dib says, burying his face in his hands, "can we please go now?"

"No, the guest are coming," Kacer protests, although she sounds very unconvincing, "just wait a little longer."

She pacing in front of the front door anxiously, biting her lower lip Dib rests his head on ther cushion and closes his eyes.

"Have you seen Gaz at all?" he asks.

"Hm, not in the past hour. . ."

Kacer walks to the hallway and calls, "Gaz?" but there's no answer. Dib opens one eye and watches her dissappear for a few moments; she returns, holding a small piece of paper in her hands. She offers it to Dib and says, "This was taped to her door..."

He observes the note and his eyebrows shoot up at its contents.

To the two most annoying people on the planet:

I'm going clubbing. If you two insist on being disgusting with each other, stay away from my bedroom.

Or I'll hurt you.

Badly.

-Gaz

"Why couldn't she just tell us this in person?" Dib asks.

Kacer shrugs, and they both fall silent for a moment. But then Kacer smiles slyly.

"Ya know," she says, "she said to stay away from the bedroom. . . she never mentiones the living room. . ."

Dib gets the message. (A.n. I hate this part) He motions for her to come to couch, and she does so, but before anything can happen (thank God) , they both hear something.

Screaming. Really familiar screaming.

And although it's faint, they can both make out the exact words, "GIR!! FOR THE FINAL TIME, YOU ARE NOT TO SUCK OUT THE CONTENTS OF THE SHIP'S FUEL TANK WITH A BENDY STRAW AND REPLACE IT WITH YOUR LARVA MONKEYS!!"
"No way," Dib says softly, more to himself then to Kacer, "there is no way. . ."

He trails off, grabs her hand, and swings the door open.

Surprisingly enough, a small crowd of people are standing before them, and in unison they call out, "HAPPY BIRTHDAY, DIB!!" but Dib and Kacer push past them and run down the street, as if they didn't even notice them.

The crowd looks to one another in confusion, but then one person announces that they brought the beer, and they all go inside and have a party.


"Zim, calm down," Tak says.

He doesn't.

"NEVER!!" he declares, then points ferociously towards Gir, who's sucking on his foot. "This. . . this THING! HE DRANK ALL THE VOOT CRUISER'S FUEL AND CAUSED THE WHOLE THING TO CRASH!! DO YOU KNOW WHAT THIS MEANS, TAK?!"

She just shrugs.

"IT MEANS WE WILL BE STRANDED HERE EVEN LONGER THEN NECESSARY!!"

"Feh," she says, waving it off.

"FEH?! You dare 'feh' me?!"

"Oh, I dare."

Zim clenches his fists ragefully, and looks as though he's about to retaliate, but then his shoulders slump and he drops to his knees in defeat.

"Taaak," he whines, clinging to the hem of her uniform, "life hates me!"

"It does not," she says, rubbing his antenna back comfortingly, "it's just. . .really mad at us right now. . ." she stops, and for the first time since the voot crashed, looks around. "God, I forgot how ugly this place was. . ."

"I find it intruiging," Plix says, stepping away from his siblings who are closely inspecting the voot cruiser. He stands beside Zim and pats his arm. "But you needn't be anxious concerning your ship; I and my siblings have agreed to collaborate in order to restore it to its normal state."

"Hey stupid!" JooJee calls over her shoulder. "It's not 'I and my siblings'! It's 'my siblings and I'!"

Plix's eyes widen in horror, and he steps back.

"Oh my Irk," he says, "she's. . .she's right. . .which means. . .I'm WRONG. . ."

"Here we go," Tak mutters.

"EVERYTHING I KNOW IS A LIE!!"

Plix dashes away, screaming hysterically, flailing his arms around like a lunatic.

"JooJee," Tak says flatly, "go get your brother. Make sure he doesn't cause anything to catch fire like last time."

"Fine," JooJee grudgingly agress, and follows her currently insane twin.

Tak helps Zim off the ground and leads him to the voot cruiser by the hand, then leans towards the engine.

"See?" she says. "This'll be easy to repair. It might take a week at the most."

"Maybe even less," Pin says, emerging from the wreckage with Clox. She wipes some soot from her forehead. "If we can get Gir to clear his larva monkeys out, and if Plix can gather enough scratch materials in time, I'm guessing three days is all we'll need."

She dissappears beneath the ruins.

Clox stares at his parents for a second, then says, "Y-ya know. . .uh, I can-I can use the larva monkeys in one of my r-recipes-"

"No," Tak says, "absolutely not."

Clox whimpers, then lowers into the shipwreck after his sister.

It's quiet.

Zim's looking at the ground, and Tak's looking at him.

"I know you're not okay," she says.

"I know too."

". . .I miss Minimoose."

"He was a good sidekick," Zim says, casting a sideways glance to Gir, who's gone from sucking his foot to sucking Mimi's head. She's not happy about that.

"Good lethal weapon too," Tak agrees, nodding her head.

"The best! Only fitting for Zim. . ."

"You didn;t say that like you usually do. . ."

"Eh?"

"You're usually all like. . ." Tak shifts her eyes unsurely, then awkwardly raises her fists, "'I am ZIM'!"

"Hey, that was pretty good."

"Thank you."

Another silence.

"Where are we going to stay?" Tak wonders aloud. Zim shrugs and she continues, "Too bad you insisted on uprooting the old base. . ."

Zim waves his hand dismissively.

"I had my reasons," he says.

"CREEPY BIG HEAD!!"

Out of nowhere, JooJee comes flying through the air, slamming into Zim's head.

"It ate Plix!" she screams, latching onto his face. "It freaking ate him! I killed its ugly mate, but then it ATE MY BROTHER!!"
"JooJee!" Tak says, both concerned and weirded out. "What the hell are you talking about?"

"There was this. . this thing! It had. . . big hair. . .and a big head. . .and it was ugly!"

"Dib." This comes from Zim, who's staring ahead in disbelief.

"Geez Zim, Dib's not the only ugly creature on the planet-" Tak says, not paying much attention, but then she freezes.

Several yards away from them, with Plix hanging from his hair, is Dib.

There's a long, stunned silence.

". . .do you really think I'm ugly?" Dib asks.

"WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE, STINK?!" Zim demands, jumping forward.

"What am I doing here?! This is my planet! And this little thing-" he points to JooJee, "just kicked my girlfriend in the kneecaps, and she ran off and now I can't even find her!"

"THAT'S NO EXCUSE TO BE INTRUDING ON MY. . . ZIM-NESS!!"

"Gimme back my brother, you dirt hog!" JooJee shrieks, jumping from Zim's head to Dib's in rage.

"Get off of me!" As he struggles to detach the wrestling smeet, he turns to Zim with widened eyes, "How many more kids did you have?!. . .OH MY GOSH!!" With a free finger, he points to Zim accusingly, "YOU'RE BUILDING AN ARMY, AREN'T YOU?! I BET THAT'S WHY YOU'VE RETURNED, RIGHT?! Now that you have reinforcements, you're actually ready to take over Earth-"

"Actually-" Tak begins, but is cut off when Zim covers her mouth and shouts, "NO!! DON'T TELL HIM ANYTHING!!. . .JOOJEE! PLIX! Get off the filth human at once! You'll get his germs!"

At that moment however, Pin and Clox suddenly reappear from what's left of the voot cruiser, exclaim, "DIB!!" in unison, then both run towards him. Before he can protest, Pin latches onto his left leg, whereas Clox bites his right.

"HOLY CRAP!!" Dib hollers, attempting to shake them off.

"Good boy Clox. . ." Zim says darkly.

"Hey Daddy!" JooJee shouts with a psychotic grin. "I can bite him too!"

She proves it, and Dib screams. Zim, JooJee and Clox all cackle at his expense, while Pin's yelling at them for doing so, Plix is still in the middle of a breakdown, Gir is. . . Gir, and now Tak has a headache.

"Everyone. . .SHUT-UP!!"

The scene freezes.

They all look to Tak.

She's not happy.

"Clox, Pin, JooJee and Plix," she hisses, "get off of Dib this instant. Clox and JooJee, apologize to him at once, Plix, you are to get a grip, and Dib, we're not here to invade Earth, we won't be here long, so go home."

"But-"

"NO BUTS!!"

The second her family begins to snicker, she shoots them all an icy glare and they are silenced at once.

"Zim, I want you to gather any supplies left from the voot cruiser, and GIR, YOU ARE TO QUIT SUCKING ON MIMI'S HEAD. Have I made myself clear tp everyone?"

They all nod their heads meekly, except for Gir, whose head falls off.

"Good," Tak says coolly. "One more thing. . ." she crosses her arms, "Dib, is the Dee-lishous weenies stand still around?"

"You are after the Earth, aren't you?! I knew it!"

"DO NOT QUESTION ME, just answer me."

". . .it's no longer in business, but it's still standing. . . why. . .?"

"No reason," she responds. She turns to Zim with a triumphant smirk. "We just have a place to stay now, is all."


He heard pounding at the door, but just buried his face in his pillow.

"Clox! Open up. . .c'mon. . ."

"G-go away!"

"No. . .listen, I'm opening the door, 'kay?"

"I said-"

Too late.

The door was open and Pin walked in the room, then plopped on the bed beside her brother.

"Why're you so sad about this?" she asked.

"C-cause!" Clox said. "I-I dun want a stu-stupid smeet in the-in the house! I l-like it j-just being us. . ."

"Are you 'fraid of being a big brother?"

"No!"

"Cause having a little brother isn't bad," Pin said, "in fact, it's the best thing I could ask for, 'cept for having super powers, but Mom says that can't happen. . ."

"R-really?"

"Yeah, she said somethin' 'bout it being all 'mpossible. . ."

"No! About the. . .uh. . .little brother thing. . ."

"Oh!. . .yeah, really!" Pin smiled. "Cause my brother is you, after all."


Kacer cowers in fear as Gaz casts her a deadly glower.

"I let you have a party for my brother in my house because I was in a good mood," she growls, clenching her fists at her sides. Sinister shadows loom over her. "And yet you let your guests trash the place and Dib is nowhere to be seen. . ."

"No, uh-! I wasn't here until halfway through the party, and I told them to clear out-"

"Where's Dib?"

"Er, he thinks ZIM came back, so he-"

"Out."

"Wha-?"

Gaz swings her door open and points outside.

"Get out."

Kacer doesn't hesitate; she runs outside as fast as she can, although her knee's in pain due to a certain psychotic smeet, and Gaz slams the door behind her.

"Guess I better start the car. . ." Kacer mutters to herself, but then pauses and groans.

Dib's car's been mutilated- the windows broken, the roof dented, etc. On the front of it, spray-painted in bright red, are the words: Get lost TOWN RAPIST!!

"I really should've seen this coming. . ."

end of chapter four. . .

Well, I wanna get chapter five up by next week, but that is just not going to happen. I've had chapters one to four done since October, then took a break. So I gotta write chapter five. Hopefully in two weeks, maybe three. So hang in there, and thanks so much for reviewing guys. It really gets me motivated.

The next chapter will, however, have. . . an appearance of a character I'm sure many of you have either come to love or hate. An OC. Can you guess who? X3

My finger has, for the most part, healed. The stitches are out anyway.