I just couldn't help myself! The drama!

OMGeezers: *Gasp* You're psychic!

Zim walked behind Gaz, not particularly comfortable with the angry silence emanating from her. He decided that no matter how mad she was over God knows what, he would get her to talk.

"So, what were you so mad about?"

"Did they tell you." It was more of an angry command than a question.

"What?" It caught Zim off guard.

"Did they tell you!"

"Tell me what?"

"How to get out of the forest!"

"Oh, uh, yeah."

Silence.

"Well?" She demanded, still not looking at him. "Fucking moron," she muttered.

"Oh, well, we keep going this way, then turn to the right at the next freshwater spring, I think. After that, we keep walking until we get to the edge."

She didn't reply. She just kept walking.

Zim grabbed her arm and she turned abruptly, rage burning in her eyes.

"What the hell is your problem?"

"Don't touch me!" She tried to shake him off, but his grip was too strong.

"Tell me!"

"Tell you what?"

"What I did wrong this time?"

She stopped struggling and glared at him. Zim knew she was hiding something under her anger, but he couldn't tell what it was.

"What did I do wrong?" he repeated, calmer this time.

Gaz cast her eyes down.

"You wouldn't understand, Zim." She gently pulled her arm out of his grasp and walked in her original direction.

"You just wouldn't," she repeated quietly.

He stared after her for a minute, then sat down on a big rock and shook his head.

Suddenly, his acute hearing picked something up, and it was getting louder. Soon, he recognized it.

"WOOOHOOHOOHEEEE!"

Gir, still in his little bubble, came crashing in through the trees. He crashed against the trunk of one and fell. His eyes momentarily blacked out as he sat up, cradling his head in his hand.

"Hey, Gir," Zim said. "Where have you been all this time?"

Gir shrugged.

"I dunno." He looked around. "Where Gazzy go?"

Zim sighed, stood up, and walked in Gaz's direction, followed by Gir.

They caught up with her soon. She was hanging upside down by her legs in a tree. She raised a brow when they came by.

"Hello," Zim said awkwardly.

"'Sup,"

"Look, whatever I did-"

"Dude...just...let it drop, okay?"

"Um...alright." He sat on the ground and rested his arms on his bent knees. Gir ran around, then started repeatedly hitting the tree to get up to Gaz. They sat like that for a while.

There wasn't much to think about. Zim's mind wandered to the fact that Gaz's skirt was so tight that it didn't fall down when she was upside down, but forced himself to change the subject.

"So..." he said.

"So..."

"SOURDOUGH!" Gir chimed in.

"We should probably get going, huh?" Gaz did a flip and landed on the ground in front of the tree. She walked off in the direction they were going before, Zim following closely behind. Gir rolled after them gleefully.

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"I think that's the edge of the forest over there." Gaz said an hour or two later, peering through the trees.

"Really?" Zim said. "Oh, yeah! It is!"

"Oh, thank-"

With no warning, Gaz was cut off with a huge explosion that blew her back. She hit her head and felt excruciating pain throughout her skull.