The Irken Assassin - Ch. 7, Another day of skool.
Within the end of two hours, the Membrane household had picked up in activity, completely unaware of the nights activities. Within another hour, Professor Membrane sits at the kitchen table, sipping at a mug full of black coffee, it likely being some brand of his own creation in follow-up to super toast. The mug itself was labeled with the words 'World's greatest scientist'. A few crumbs from a slice of super toast remain on his used plate. Gaz browses the refrigerator for milk for her cereal, but not finding any, she pulls out a liter of poop soda, and pours that into her cereal instead, splashing some onto the kitchen table. Sitting down, Gaz looks over at her father. "Late night?" she asks casually, then taking a few bites of the strange combination of cereal and soda. Membrane nodded once. "Where's your brother?" he asks after a minute. Gaz shrugs. "I'm not his baby sitter." she comments, then thinking. "He's probably off with that girl who came here yesterday… or at skool." she figures. Membrane seems to smile. "Ah good, the boy finally got a girlfriend then." he laughs. Gaz shrugs again, finishing her bowl and throwing it into the sink, a random ghost floating out of the sink and dissolving in the air as the bowl cracks. One of Zelda's dogs pads threw the room, followed by the other, Venom momentarily glancing at the spirit of the bowl before the two headed outside. Membrane notices the dogs as they head out. "I don't remember buying you or your brother another puppy..." he comments. Gaz stands up and starts to walk out of the room. "Not mine." she comments back after a minute. She picks her backpack off the floor, mumbling a goodbye to her father, then walking out to head to school for herself.
Dib had left home early that morning for school, not wanting to be late yet again. Over the years he had developed a habit of not making it to first period on time, usually winding up with him in detention with Ms. Bitters. On his walk to school, Zelda had walked with him only part of the way. She wasn't enrolled in Dib's school, so she instead parted ways for the time to take care of her own business. Reaching class, Dib took his usual seat next to the window of the otherwise depressing and spooky classroom, along with a few other random classmates including Iggins, Zita, Old Kid, The Letter M, Mary, and other familiars, Iggins only being among them since he joined the class a few years ago, similar to Gaz. The bell rang for class to begin within the first few minutes that Dib had sat in, a flood of students and a certain short irken in disguise hurrying in to avoid being considered late by their notoriously evil teacher. Among the last to filter in was Gaz, who threw her backpack onto the ground and took a seat, pulling out her game slave in one fluid motion. The second bell soon rings , proclaiming that class had started. Ms. Bitters appears from the shadows before the class, soon taking a seat at her own desk. "Take your seats class." she hisses, the class falling silent and numerous students dropping into their desks, one or two incidentally lands upside down, one knocking his desk over in the process. Bitters raised a brow slightly at the sloppiness of the classroom, then pulling a broken wedge of chalk out of her desk and standing once more, heading to the board to begin her lesson.
Meanwhile, Jadoku and Tsume duck behind the fence of Zim's base, their disguises as dogs disappearing into a flash of red light. A remaining lawn gnome turns to look at the two sir units, remaining still unsure of this situation. The remains of some of its companions still were littered on the ground, mostly on the sidewalk. Jadoku takes a quick look around the area, soon determining it to be safe. Tsume had become distracted looking at the blades of grass on the ground. "Pretty!" he chimes in a null witted manner. Jadoku glances at him, then picking his companion off the ground and throwing him into the purple men's door leading into Zim's house, soon walking in after him. Inside, Gir sits on the green sofa in the front room, sucking intently on a monkey cup, watching the scary monkey show. He quickly notices the other two SIR units, then waving ecstatically. "Hiiiiiiiii!" he calls out, hopping off the couch, some slurpy dripping out of his mouth. Sitting up off the ground, Tsume waves back, though winds up hit with the monkey cup. Jadoku looks dully at the two, grimacing. "Another one..." he growls, referring to the defective SIRs overall, that the Tallests had tried to pass out to defective Irkens, many of which unfortunately also coming under control of perfectly good invaders. "Want some?" Tsume chimes, picking the cup up and putting it to Jadoku's metallic face. Extracting information from this SIR unit or this base about their master may take a while longer than thought, Jadoku realizes.