Zim wandered about in the forest. The website he had went to stated that there were height altering properties deep within these woods. He looked down at the map he had printed out as a reference. He seemed to be pretty deep in the forest already. When would he find-
Suddenly Zim found himself rolling down the hill. He had tripped over a stupid tree root.
"Ow ow ow ow ow ow!" He screamed as the world spun around him and his head hit the ground repeatedly. He fell with a thud at the bottom.
"Ow..." He groaned, clutching his head. "This had all better be worth it!"
As he began to sit up, he noticed that there was a tiny creature standing on his chest.
"Whoa." It appeared to be a tiny deer. It jumped off and trotted over to a mushroom, where several other deer were standing. A tiny eagle flew past where his nose would have been, had he had a nose.
Zim stood up and looked around him, noticing all sorts of oddities. A bear the size of his finger, and ant the size of his foot.
"No wonder Dib is interested in the paranormal. How the hell did these things get to these sizes without technology?" He mumbled. Just then he thought he saw something moving out of the corner of his eye.
"Hey, is that mountain lion small, or just faraway and in perspective?" He wondered aloud. The wild feline growled and then pounced.
"Perspective! Perspective!" He screamed before shielding his face with his hands. The lion passed through a beam of light, and mid pounce, became the length of Zim's finger. It landed on his stomach, and climbed up his torso and onto his now outstretched arm. It lets out a meow before sinking it's teeth into his thumb.
"It still hurts, but less" he remarked. The small feline leaps of of him and into a patch of grass. Seeing a giant crystal, Zim walks over. The light was hitting it, and it was refracting light in two different direction. The light closer to Zim shone a magenta, while the other shone a light blue.
"Whoa." He breathed. A butterfly flew lazily past him, and into the magenta light, causing it to shrink slightly, before flying into the blue light. The winged insect was now huge. It knocked over a tree on its way past.
"What the heck?" He smirked. Careful to avoid the beams of light, Zim walked up to the crystal. Hundreds of smaller crystals were embedded into the ground around it. Zim idly wondered how they were formed, or if someone put them there.
One of his PAK leg shot out and pulled out one of the smaller crystals. He studied it for a moment before pocketing it and walking back up the hill to where his Voot Cruiser waited.
Zim stood in his living room in front of the couch. He had tied to magic crystal to a flashlight. He aimed it at a pawn that he had accidentally took from the classroom.
"Smaller." He turned on the flashlight, the beam passing through the crystal. It hit the chess piece, and it shrunk. He turned the crystal so it was facing the other side.
"Bigger." This time when he turned it on, a blue beam of light came from it, causing the pawn to grow. But the switch got stuck for a few seconds, so that Zim couldn't turn off the light, and the pawn broke through the ceiling.
"Too big!"
"Uh, Keef, can you go walk on the other side of the street. You know... Away from me?" Dib asked the enthusiastic kid.
"Hey look, it's Zim!" Keef said, pointing down the street, comepletely ignoring him.
"Hello fellow humans." Zim greeted as he approached. "Notice anything... Different about me?"
"No, not really." Dib replied shrugging.
"You've grown another millimeter!" Keef pointed out excitedly.
"What?!" Dib exclaimed. He stood in front of Zim and noticed that once again, they were the exact same height.
"What can I say? Growth spurt." He said smugly, shrugging
"So you've grown an extra millimeter. Big deal! Mine happened first, and I'm gonna be taller in the end. It's science Zim." Dib said, putting his hands on his hips.
"But we're the same height now!"
"Not for long!"
Zim growled and clenched his fists at his sides. "Oh yeah? Well something tells me that I've got another growth spurt coming on right now!" he said, walking away. Dib watched him go suspiciously.
"Something isn't right here." He mumbled, following after the alien, leaving Keef behind.
Zim opens the door to his house a grabs the flashlight off the couch, and quickly grows himself. He puts it back down just before Dib knocks open the door.
"Give it up Zim!" Dib yells before gasping. "What happened?" Zimwas now an inch taller than him. The alien just shrugged.
"This doesn't make any sense. Just a second ago you were-" realization dawned on him.
"Wait a minute! Your an alien with alien technology! You just built something to make you taller! In fact..." Dib turned to look at the Robooarent closet. "I bet whatever you used is hidden in that closet right now!"
"No actually, there's nothing in there."
" You can't fool me Zim! There's a giant machine in there that altered height! Isn't there? ISNT THERE!"
"Fine! Open it!"
Dib opens the door and peers inside to see-
Nothing. Absolutely nothing, just as Zim said.
"...you made it invisible?"
There's nothing in there Dib. Look elsewhere.