Normalcy Is Overrated

A/N: Quick thanks to Darkinvader897, Shadow the Ranger, and Mrfluffehz for stalking my story! Also two updates in one day, don't get too used to it but I'll continue to do my best! :D

"Zim where are we going?"

Skittles was a little unnerved about Zim's kitchen. Other than the toilet sitting in the corner of the room, it was kind of normal. Zim gestured to the toilet before stepping in it and flushing himself. Skittles stood in front of the toilet with a look of disbelief on her features.

"Did he just?..."

This couldn't get any stranger, she thought as she too climbed into the toilet and flushed herself. She found that the toilet was an entry way to a very large high-speed tube. If she hadn't just flushed herself, she would have been excited and enjoyed the ride. Many colors flashed in front of her eyes as she descended, at least she felt like she was descending. She couldn't help but wonder if this is what Alice felt like going down the Rabbit hole. The ride was over as quickly as it started. At the bottom of the tube she felt as though she were suspended in the air before she fell in a tangled heap of lanky limbs on the floor.

Staring at her hands trying to find her ground, she noticed that her once darkly tanned skin was now a dark green and she had three long spinally fingers instead of the normal five.

"What the fuck?"

Skittles stood up, a little too quickly, and inspected the rest of her body. Her hair was gone and instead she had two very long antennae atop of her head. Looking down she realized her clothes fit rather loose and that she was much thinner than she had been, but still rather flat chested. She swerved around and quickly scanned the area for Zim. It seemed as if she were now in a ridiculously large laboratory.

"Zim! What the hell did you do to me?"

Zim, she saw, was sitting in front of a computer screen frantically typing on a large keyboard. He barely looked in her direction before tossing her the necklace he had been holding. Once She caught it, Skittle noticed that her hands went back to 'normal' as did her skin and hair.

"W-what's going on?"

"You are Irken, as is your 'father'."

Zim responded, still looking at the screen.

"You know my real father?"

Skittles was curious, scared but curious. How had she gone her whole life not realizing she wasn't even human? Who was her father? And why wasn't she more afraid than she felt? Sure she was alarmed that the human image she's held for almost eighteen years was faked by a pretty stone necklace, but for some reason it wasn't really all the strange. Even Zim, she noticed, looked a lot more 'natural' now that he was no longer wearing his wig and contacts.

"So we're aliens? Like in the movies; like how Dib's been ranting about for ages?"

Zim absentmindedly nodded his head to her questions. He wasn't really listening, too busy trying to get his machinery to work. It was imperative that he contact the Massive now, before Skittles thought to escape. Finally after much tinkering, and many questions from the, now human, female behind him, he was able to reach the Massive.

"Heh? ZIM? What do you want? Have you found our heir?"

Tallest Red was the only one sitting in the throne; Tallest Purple was nowhere to be seen.

"Heir?"

Skittles quipped from behind Zim. She studied the image on the screen carefully. The Alien, well Irken, man (this was guess) looked very familiar to her. Like she'd seen him somewhere like a dream or a distant memory. Zim stood smugly and proudly in front of the transmission screen. He took a deep bow and gestured to Skittles.

"I have found her My Tallest!"

Zim exclaimed rather loudly.

"That's not her! It's a hoo-man dirt child."

Red sneered. Skittles cringed, she didn't like the way this guy was looking at her. Zim perked up and raced to Skittles. He immediately snatched the necklace out of her hand to which gave way to her true form.

"CHEESE WIZ! You did find her!"

Tallest Red stood up, looking rather surprised. He hadn't thought that Zim would have been able to actually do something right. Maybe his increase in height had made him less moronic.

"I'll alert Tallest Purple immediately! We shall be to Earth in six earth months to make sure that she is heir we have been looking for. It is now your job, Zim, to teach her the ways of Irk and prepare her for her reign! Do NOT fail us Zim! Tallest Red out!"

With that, the transmission ended. Zim stood in front of the screen excited. Six months was just enough time to put his plan into action and have Earth conquered by the time the Tallest arrived. He turned quickly on his heel and headed towards Skittles, who looked quite dazed. Zim took the young Irken's hand and dragged her deeper into his base.

"Zim is deeply honored, your Tallest, to be in charge of you and your Irken education for these next earth months."

Zim paused he turned to Skittle's and bowed deeply. Skittles was slightly unnerved and immensely annoyed by the gesture. She shoved Zim and walked a head of him.

"I am not royalty or anything yet Zim. We're still friends okay? Don't treat me all weird."

Zim nodded and rushed in front of her.

"Then Zim is also deeply honored to be considered Her Tallest's friend."

"Just Skittles or Skit Zim. Okay?"

Zim nodded as he lead her into a room. The room, was vey drab with a bed, dresser, desk and chairs. Skittles looked around the room, noticing that there was a strange symbol on the bed sheets.

"What's that symbol mean?"

Skittles pointed at the meticulously made bed. Zim raised his brow in question before remembering that she most likely had no knowledge of Irk.

"That symbol is of the GREAT Irken Empire that rules over the entire UNIVERSE!"

With that Zim went into a lengthy lecture about Irk and their ways being sure to cover the basics of the great Empire for Skittles to understand, thus beginning day one of her Tallest training. Zim ranted nearly the entire night before Skittles got tired. She wondered, momentarily, if anyone noticed she was missing. Then she wondered if anyone actually cared. Aside from Ted, no one else really paid her much attention; and though Ted isthe kindest to her, he is hardly ever around. Besides, she's been gone days at a time before and no one even batted an eyelash in her direction when she returned home.

"Hey Zim, I'm still used to humany sleeping stuff. Can we talk about this after Skool tomorrow?"

Zim nodded and left the room with a huge grin on his face. Skittles had never seen anyone that happy in her entire life, but finding the long lost princess of your empire was something to be extremely happy about.

They had been found out. Ted wasn't sure if he was extremely happy or extremely scared. On the one hand having Skit found by the Tallest was a relief for she'd soon be on the Massive where she belong, however if the Tallest ever remembered that it was he who was suppose to watch the young Smeet he was sure to meet his doom. On the other hand, Blu would surely kill him if he didn't pretend to look for the girl. Either way it seemed that Ted would lose; there was no way He'd let Irk fall into the hands of that short monster.

Skittles and Zim arrived at skool late the next day. Skittle had lost her necklace and spent the better part of the morning looking for it. As it turned out Zim had taken it to duplicate to make his own. After being angry with Zim, Skittles calmed down when she realized Zim looked a lot more human and wondered why he never tried to make a jewel before.

"It's illegal to have or else I would have used it a long time ago."

Was his reply; but with all the advanced Irken technology you'd think that Zim would have make a hologram or something better than the awful disguise he had before. His human image wasn't much different from before; he still had that stupid hair style and blue eyes, but his skin lost that green tinge and he now had ears and a nose. All in all he looked completely human. Now how was he going to explain that if, anyone noticed the difference? Apparently the new appearance would aid him in world domination; however after hearing about his former plans she felt that nothing would help him rule the world except a better brain.

Dib twitched as he saw Skittle enter the class room with some random guy. He couldn't help but wonder who he was and where was Zim. Skittle and the guy sat next to each other in classes and were whispering furiously to each other throughtout the entire lecture. It was nearly time for the class to be over when Dib realized the guy was Zim, a human Zim.

"LOOK! ZIM'S COMPLETELY CHANGED OVER NIGHT! WHAT HAPPENED TO YOUR SKIN CONDITION!"

Dib yelled, once again disrupting class. Skittle rolled her eyes and jumped to Zim's defense.

"Zim's really sensitive about his Surgery Dib! He was sick of YOU calling him an alien and got the surgeries his doctor recommended so he could have a NORMAL life!"

The class booed Dib, calling him insensitive, and throwing things at his large head. Dib just stood there dumbfounded. Skittles yelled at him, not that she hadn't before, but she yelled at him to defend an Alien! Whatever they did yesterday must not have been eating pizza, Dib concluded. Dib was convinced that Zim had, indeed, brainwashed Skittles.

Skittles admits that her lie was horrible but it seemed like everyone in the class believed it. The rest of the day went by quietly, with little to no outbursts from Dib or Zim in any of the classes. Skittles recalled Zim telling her that she was to go home and pretend like she'd never met him. He wasn't quite sure that her adopted family was completely ignorant of her Irken heritage, and if that was the case they were traitors to the Irken Empire. Zim still wanted her to join him after school for her lessons in Irk. She still had an entire language to learn along with Tallest customs, that every Irk had to learn apparently, in case they would grown to be Tallest themselves. Skittles was impressed by Zim and his knowledge of his own culture. It almost made up for Zim's lack of knowledge on human things.

After skool Zim walked with Skittles back to her house, stopping far enough not to be seen by anyone in the house, but close enough to make sure Skittles got in her house okay. Skittles sulked up the pathway to her home, she wasn't thrilled to be back but she hoped that Ted was around and not Cree or Blu.

"I'm home~"

She called as she entered the house. She was greeted with Silence and realized that the house was now completely and totally empty. Panicked she ran outside and called to Zim.

"They're all gone! There's no one here!"

Zim raced to the door, and went in before Skit.

"Stay behind me, keep your eyes open. Alert me if you see anything strange."

Zim took out his phaser and creped around the first floor of the house with Skittles obediently behind him. After seeing nothing he made his way up the stairs and checked all the bedrooms. The final one he came to the door was ajar, unlike the others which were closed.

"This is my room."

Zim signaled for Skit to stay in the hall. He cautiously entered the room, and looked around. It seemed as though no one bothered to pack this room at all. It looked lived in, clothes were on the floor and the bed was unmade. On the desk was a thick envelope next to a sheet of paper. Zim inched towards the desk, weary of items that laid on it. The note, Zim noticed, was completely in Irk which made him think it was meant for himself or the Tallest. The Envelope had Skittle's name on it in English. After checking the entire room, Zim deemed it safe enough for Skit to enter.

"Grab a few clothes and anything else you need. I'll take this stuff here."

Skittles nodded and immediately followed Zim's command, his tone was very serious and demanded respect. It took the pair less than ten minutes to gather everything up and leave the house. Skittles stared glumly at the envelope; she was a little upset that her 'so-called family' had up and left her. When they arrived at Zim's home they were greeted by a very hyper, green 'dog'.

"MASTER!"

It screamed. By now Skittles thought she would be prepared for anything, but talking green dog she was not.

"GIR, go retrieve an, ugh, TACO! Yes, Taco!"

The dog, GIR, saluted Zim. His eyes narrowed and became red.

"Yes Master!"

And with that it giggled insanely and flew through the roof via jets in it's feet. Skittles blinked; yea, that was the strangest thing she'd seen all day.