#09- Telephone

"What's the matter with you, Zim?" Dib asked, sitting down with the green alien at lunch. "You've been acting more... weird then usual."

"I don't know what you're talking about, Dib-stink," Zim said huffily. He poked at his food and glared at the human out of the corner of his eye. "I am acting just the same as I always act. You're just STUPID with a HORRibly huge head."

"My head's not..." Dib was cut off as his cellphone started ringing in his jacket pocket. "Hold that thought."

Zim twitched as the cellphone continued to ring, Dib fumbling in his trench coat to pull the annoying item out. Finally, he could take it no more. Screaming, he snatched the phone out of the offending pocket, threw it on the table and began beating it with his skool lunch tray until it's ceaseless annoying ring was no more.

Breathing heavily, Zim removed the tray from the top of the cell phone. It was smashed flat, an occasional spark emitting from it. He sighed in relief. Safe. He was safe from the ringing...

The cell phone gave one last gurgling ring. Screaming again, Zim's spider legs emerged from his pak and blasted the cell phone (and more of the table) into oblivion.

Dib stared at the green alien, one eyebrow raised. "Hey," he said half-heartedly. "That was mine."

"THE RINGING!" Zim wailed, grabbing onto the front of Dib's trench coat and shaking the human. "CEASELESS! ALWAYS RINGING. ALWAYS ALWAYS RINGING! WHY? SELLING LONG DISTANCE PHONE SERVICE! WHY MUST MY PHONE WORK FROM FAR AWAY? AND POLLS! I DON'T WANT TO TAKE PART IN YOUR STUPID EARTH POLITICS! BUT THEY'RE ALWAYS CALLING ALWAYS WANTING TO KNOOOWWW! AND THE RINGING! THE RINGING! WHHHHYYY MUST IT ALWAYS RINNNNNNNGGGGGGGG?"

Dib's other eyebrow raised as Zim suddenly started sobbing, burying his face in Dib's shirt and curling up into a fetal position on what remained of the table bench. Awkwardly, Dib patted the alien on the back,. "Dude," he said, attempting to train his voice into something that might possibly be soothing. "It's called the 'Do-Not-Call-List.'"

This one isn't very good. glares at screen However, it's as good as this theme is going to get...

The original Chocolate has been re-done and pushed off to theme #20- Freedom as it makes more sense that way. The main problem with it had always been that adding in chocolate into the story made it make no sense. However, because of this, the new version of Chocolate is only about half way done.

Next up: Either Chocolate or Happiness. Whichever one gets done first