Life of hate and happiness
"Today class, we have a new student joining. Please make her very welcome." Mr Elliot said as he opened the door.
Eliz'kovt entered, pressing her papers from the office against him and stood there, waiting for permission to sit.
"Well Elizabeth, why how don't you introduce yourself to your classmates and we can begin the today lessons?" Mr Elliot said happily.
"Yes sir, my name's Elizabeth but you can call me Liz or Eliz; I hope we can all get along and maybe even become friends." Her smile was strange.
"Very good Liz; just take your place in one of the spare seats in the middle there," He said pointing to a place.
So this was what a human school was like...she thought and so far she was not at all impressed at all; yet the school almost reminded her of the old military academy she had studied at on her home world.
It was safe to acknowledge that they were similar in ways like bullying and the popularity class system.
It made her think back to her time at the military academy. Not all of was bad, mind you; it was just that her classmates were pure idiot, lacked initiative and intelligence, except a few others like Victor. He was her equal.
"Liz, as you're new, I was wondering if you could get the level two history text books from the supplies office?" He asked, handing her a hall pass and a note. "Don't be long."
Eliz stepped into the austere blue hallway and realized she had no idea where the supply office was. Luckily for her, a stocky boy with a bright orange banner across his chest that announced that he was a hall monitor walked toward her. Before he could get her in trouble, she asked for the directions to the supply room. After that, the boy was completely cooperative, even helpful.
"It's just down the hall and clearly labelled." He said with a nasally voice. He looked down cautiously at the pass Eliz handed him, a keen eye scanning for signs of a counterfeit. He handed it back to her with a, "Please don't be long, you need to be in class."
Yes it just down the hall and looked at the hall press as Eliz handed it to him, very good don't be long replied the Hall monitor keenly.
She soon followed the boy's directions and handed the note to the teacher. She handed her the books without even looking at her and signed her hall pass to confirm when she had completed her assignment. Taking the books, Eliz could not believe the sheer weight of the volumes as she walked back to class. She was too distracted to manoeuvre out of the way when she ran into a girl with dark green eyes.
Textbooks astray, Eliz carefully picked them up with the help of the girl.
"I am really sorry!" The girl exclaimed, "I wasn't looking where I was going." she handed Eliz the last textbook.
"My name is Catillion Moonstone." She offered, "You can call me Cat; who are you?"
Eliz shook her hand as best she could with the books in the way. Something wasn't right about this human. Her scent reminded her of something but she could not remember what.
"Elizabeth Kent." Eliz said more ominously then she intended, "I'm new here; Mr. Elliot's class. Please, call me Eliz."
"Oh, I know him! My friend's sisters in that class!" She beamed, making Eliz uneasy. Cat became glum, "I'm stuck in Miss Bitters's class." She said dully, "Hey! If you want, you can come eat with me and Dib during lunch."
Dib?" Yes, I just may do that." She said, "If you don't mind, I need to get back. I don't want detention, you know. It was nice meeting you."
Eliz could not place that scent, she swore she knew all about it, but from where it came confused her.
The rest of the day was uneventful; it was horrible luck for Eliz to be working with Dib's sister, a mental detestability known as Gaz. They took a disliking for each other immediately, Gaz's sarcastic chatter, biting comments, and refusal to do her share of work made Eliz long to snap right back at her.
To her joy, the bell for recess rang, causing all of the children to rush out of the classroom.
Eliz quickly joined the lunchtime and wondered if there was going to be food even remotely edible. To her surprise, there was very little choice. The cafeteria staff dropped sloppy looking food onto her try and she paid for it using phoney money from her computer.
Now, all she needed was to find a place to sit. She noticed an empty spot by Dib and Cat, but that also meant sitting next to Gaz and she'd had enough of her for today.
The next option was to sit at the reject table. Her self-respect refused such an offer so she sucked it up and sat next to Dib and Cat, trying to stay as far as possible from Gaz.
Cat smiled at her amicably enough, but that scent returned, making Eliz wonder if it was some sort of human perfume.
Cat snapped her out of her train of thought by saying happily, "Glad to see you, Eliz. Let me introduce everybody. This is Dib and his sister, Gaz."
"I have already bumped into Dib yesterday when walking home and Gaz is in my class." She said, picking at her...food and wondering how humans could eat this stuff.
"Tried the pork casserole?" Liz asked Cat, "I normally pack my lunch."
"Have we met before?" Dib asked, "I know I've seen you before."
"We met yesterday when you were walking home. You asked if I had seen any alien spaceships or something. I hadn't seen anything." smiled Eliz. She smirked to herself when she relied that Dib's mental block was holding up just fine.
Eliz looked at where Dib had his amber eyes trained and she saw Zim. Just from superficial appearance she could tell that he was an alien.
"Liz...Don't you think that Zim's an alien?" asked Cat.
"Definitely." she replied, her ocular implants fizzing her vision back to normal.
Dib balled his hands in triumph. It was indeed a beautiful day for Earth, "We have a new member to stop Zim's evil!" He exclaimed, hardly able to contain himself.
"Yes, yes you do."
Eliz gladly returned to base after school, glad to see that the house looked almost normal with the furniture. She had herself beamed back aboard her ship out in the backyard and peeled off her skin suit and felt the cool air on her true tarlerion self, she send a com-link to the High command, code red.
She nervously checked her bearing for any human remains before the holographic image of the Exploration Minister Rozz appeared before her. She bowed her head respectfully.
"Greetings, Sub-Commander Eliz'kovt." he seemed bored.
She quickly explained her situation and of the nature of the planet of which she landed before adding, "I have reason to believe that an Irken known as Zim has plans to conquer the planet that I am stationed at." She said smugly.
Minister Rozz studies the information sent closely, "You will gather as much information as possible from this Irken and tell me more about this planet, "He scratched his scaly chin carefully, ebony claws glittering in the light, "Do you think this planet is worthy of conquest?"
"No." She answered, "Its location is remote. Unusually so. Its dominant species are neither a liability nor an asset and would be best left alone. They're just starting to enter a space age."
"Then remain undetected by the inhabitants until information on this Irken is gathered. Keep me posted, Minister Rozz over and out."
Off with it.
Eliz turned the screen off; she would do as ordered, planning on using Dib. She was also itching to discover what Cat reminded her of.