School was strange without Zim. There was no constant ranting about smelly humans or ridiculous plots to invade the Earth or complaining about the disgusting slop the school cafeteria deemed food. There were no strange experiments he had to stop or helpless kids he had to save from Zim.

Dib should have been happy, right? WRONG.

Dib was absolutely bored out of his fucking mind without Zim. Yeah, he could go trap Bigfoot or film vampires, but that would take days if not weeks of waiting for them to show up. Zim, on the other hand, was usually at school or at his base where Dib could easily find him and photograph him without his disguise. He could even rummage through his trash if Zim wasn't at home.

But now Zim was in a completely different part of the country.

Dib just sat there, at his desk, and stared up at the clock as if it would make time go faster. The teacher droned on and on about the doomed universe while Dib's classmates spit spitballs at each other or texted their friend sitting across from them.

"This wouldn't be so boring if Zim was here," Dib muttered to himself "I shouldn't have told on him for beating up those kids. They bully me yet I save them. How fucking ironic."

The clock struck 3:00 and the bell rang. Dib ran to the door and was the third one out of the classroom. As soon as he reached his locker a couple of tough looking boys who were oh so obviously stronger and older than him blocked his locker.

The red-head shoved Dib onto the ground and mockingly said, "Oh look, Vince, it's the big-headed freak who thinks he was abducted by aliens."

The platinum blonde, Vince, sneered and arrogantly flipped the patch of hair blocking his left eye. "Indeed it is, Garry. Shall we teach him a lesson for stalking Teresa?"

Dib glared up at Vince and growled, "Teresa is a Vampire! I saw her feeding off of some other girl behind the school."

Vince snarled, revealing his long fangs, and lunged toward Dib. Dib quickly stood up and dodged Vince's attack.

"I'll fucking KILL you, you little piece of shit!" Vince screamed.

Garry cracked his knuckles and chuckled. "Run little faggot, run."

Dib sighed, picked up his backpack, and ran. He went through the hallway, down to the door, opened it, and ran out of the school. The Sunlight temporarily blinded him, but he kept running toward his neighborhood.

He heard Vince and Garry behind him. He looked back and Garry was barely keeping up while Vince was getting closer each second.

"Damn Vampires," Dib barely whispered through his heavy breathing.

Dib grabbed his backpack and pulled out some garlic. He threw it at Vince and slowed down to a jogging pace.

Vince caught the garlic in his mouth then spit it out. A large burn began to appear around his mouth as he screamed and fell to his knees. Garry was nowhere to be seen.

Dib approached the wounded Vampire and said, "I always keep some garlic in my backpack, Vince. Don't ever forget that. I should have let Zim beat your sorry ass to a gooey pulp."

Vince slowly looked up at Dib and whimpered, "Asshole."

Dib rolled his eyes and smiled. He turned around and continued to his house.

He found Gaz making some coffee in the kitchen listening to some weird heavy metal band on the radio. Dib turned down the music then walked over to the refrigerator to get a snack.

Gaz stirred some sugar into her cup of coffee and took a small sip without even blowing on it. "Did you get chased again?"

Dib sighed and grabbed an apple. "Was it that obvious?"

"You're practically gasping for air."

He sat down and stared down at the small reddish apple. "Yeah, Vince thought I was stalking his Vampire girlfriend so he had Garry help him try to beat me up. I outran Garry and hit Vince with a piece of garlic. I always wonder what it's like to walk home without getting attacked."

Gaz chuckled and replied after sipping some more of her coffee, "It's not as fun."

Dib bit out a chunk out of the apple and reluctantly swallowed it. "This tastes like cardboard."

Gaz sat across from him and replied with, "Doesn't everything these days with all those chemicals and artificial flavors?"

Dib shrugged and threw the apple into the trash can. He grabbed a glass of orange juice and sat back down.

"Do you know where Zim was sent?"

Gaz finished off the last of her coffee then replied, "New York. Apparently he has to study Spider-man."

Dib's jaw dropped. "How do you know that?"

"Sometimes I hack the school records when I'm bored and I figured you'd ask sooner or later."

Dib smiled and drank his orange juice. "Otherwise I'd constantly annoy you, right?"

"Yeah, just go to New York so I don't have to hear your stupid voice anymore. Please stay there for a long time, maybe for a few weeks."

Dib stood up and put the glass in the dishwasher. "Sure, it'll probably take that long to convince him to come back anyways. He sounded really intent on staying there for a while."

"I would stay there if I were him. Anything to be away from you."

Dib sighed softly and walked up to his room. There was nothing better than being insulted by your own sister. He sat down at his desk and turned on his super expensive high-tech computer.

"Spider-man, huh? Our principal sure does like super-heroes. So Zim is all the way over in New York. Plane tickets won't be cheap this time of the year. Good thing my dad is an extremely successful and famous scientist."

Did purchased a plane ticket to New York that was scheduled to leave Saturday then printed it out.

"Perfect, I leave tomorrow. Now I just have to pack."

Harry closed his bedroom door and sighed. "Jeez, Venom, my dad almost saw me."

Venom snickered and replied, "Relax, Harry, he wouldn't think it wasss you. He'd probably think it wasss Ssspider-man."

Harry looked down at his watch. "5:01 p.m. His limo won't drop him off here for another fifteen minutes."

Harry walked over to his dresser with a picture of himself, Peter, and Mary Jane on it. He picked it up and looked at it, remembering all the great times he had with his two best friends. Harry growled after noticing Peter's arm around MJ. He almost threw the picture onto the floor, but stopped when he heard the front door open.

"Sssoundsss like your father isss home."

Harry set the picture back onto the dresser and opened his bedroom door quietly. Then he sat down at his desk, pretending to do his homework.

He heard his dad talking to someone on the phone downstairs. "No, no send it tonight. What? Okay. I understand. Thank you. Good bye." He hung up the phone then called for Harry. "Harry? I need you to come down here for a minute."

Harry blushed. "He better not have found out about you," he whispered to Venom.

"It'sss something elssse entirely, Harry. Trussst me."

"I'm coming, dad." Harry sighed and walked downstairs.