Mwuahahahahaaa! I am torturing you with a flashback in the middle of this suspenseful part! HAAAA!
Hehe. Halloween sugar. People say I'm too old to trick-or-treat. I say, you're never too old for free food.
MEH: HORRIBLE! NOOOOO! T . T
Tacos: Aww, don't feel bad! She's gone and there ain't nuthin you could do about it! We're all happay!
sighs and blows up:... Yay!
Soulstealer: Lolz, I do dramatic pauses too! (Actually, I just say I do to cover up the fact that I completely forgot what word ta say...) XD
Soulstealer: You can steal my cousin's soul... I wouldn't mind... ;)
Soul stealer: Yes, I am replying to each of these individually! Cause I'm awesome like that! Anyway... YOU SHALL NOT KNOW FOR...A...WHILE! MWUAHAHAHAHAAA!
Update: Gasp! Must... kill...all...bananas... I SHALL DO IT, SO THAT NOBODY ELSE IS FORCED TO EAT THE BANANA OF EVIL! (I, er, have a history with bananas... XD)
*Later note*
Sorry, peoples, this would've been updated much sooner, but I had a medical emergency. You know how those go, you call 911, you spend all day in several different hospitals, and in the end you get a new mattress! So, here it is! A flashback to torture you further because it really doesn't help the story at all and you still don't know why Gaz's head seemed to explode in the last chapter!
Woo!
A lot can happen in a thousand years, and sometimes a flashback is a good way to go.
This is one of those times.
Dib sat in his room, elbows on his desk and his head in his hands.
Gaz had gone missing. That was clear. Everything else...
He stood up and paced the room. He wasn't just going to sit there and do nothing while his little sister was most likely in the hands of some kidnapping creep, who must have been pretty powerful if he could keep Gaz in check.
His sister had been gone for what, three weeks? Seemed about right.
Now, what happened the day she hadn't come home?
! ! !
Dib heard a door slam, and Gaz came downstairs, her angry squinted-eyed expression possibly angrier than usual.
"Where ya going?" he asked, sitting on the couch and watching TV.
"Shut up, Dib. Your voice is stupid." came the usual response.
Dib shrugged.
"Fine. But it's that time of the year, y'know."
"Yeah, whatever."
There was a pause as Gaz grabbed her jacket and started to open the door.
"Wait!"
"What?" she said sharply.
"What's got you so upset?"
Gaz sneered, and if her eyes weren't squinted shut, Dib was sure she would've rolled them.
"Zim," her voice dripped with loathing. She said it as if that should explain everything. She walked out the front door and slammed it behind her, leaving Dib behind, alone and wondering.
! ! !
Of course, he thought. I always knew it had something to do with him after all. But what?
He grabbed his cloak and slipped it on over his T-shirt. He walked out of his house and walked briskly over to Zim's "normal" house. It was small and green, with a purple roof, door, and windows. It leaned slightly and had way too many lawn gnomes and flamingo things.
Dib looked up at the men's room symbol on the door. He knocked loudly and Gir opened the door. He smiled, a strange gooey substance leaking out of his mouth.
"Err, hey Gir," Dib said. "Where's Zim?"
"He downstairs. He made me leave... said he had some thinkin' ta do." Gir shrugged.
"Wanna watch the Angry Monkey Show wit me?"
"No, I just want to talk to Zim..."
He tried getting past the little robot, but he suddenly revealed several weapons and explosives.
Gir held out his hand. "None may pass."
Dib stared at him for a second.
"Please?"
Gir retracted his weapons.
"Okay! Follow me." he turned around and walked to the 'kitchen,' if you could call it that, his little feet squeaking inexplicably.
He pointed to the toilet in the back of the kitchen, under the 'I Eat Food' poster. Dib felt himself twitch, then walked up to the toilet. He reluctantly stepped in it and started spinning around and around.
"What the craaaaaaaaaaaaaaaap!" he yelled as he spun downwards.
He steadied himself when he saw he was in some kind of purple elevator.
"What kind of..." he trailed off, not really worried enough about it to finish. What he was worried about was his sister, his main priority.
He walked around Zim's underground base until he found him, in front of a large screen. He was doubled over, struggling with something, clutching the controls in front of him for dear life.
"Zim!" Dib ran up to him and touched his arm, surprised when he didn't push him away.
"What's wrong?" he looked at his face. He was clenching his teeth, sweat clear on his forehead. He wrenched open his eyes to look at Dib.
"I...Don't..." suddenly, he relaxed and fell to the ground, breathing heavily. Dib knelt next to him.
"Don't... don't worry about me right now." he said quietly. "Just..." he pointed to the big screen.
"What?"
"I believe I may have found the Dib-sister..." Zim closed his eyes and his breathing slowed.
He was asleep.
Dib turned to the screen and cautiously pressed a button that was glowing red. The screen suddenly blinked on and showed a series of Irken symbols. Bigger symbols at the bottom flashed on and off, a sentence with a question mark at the end.
Dib blinked. He pressed the button again, and the symbols were replaced by a picture of a tall, purple-haired woman standing in front of the screen, a cruel expression on her face.
"Hey!" she barked. "The connection's broken. I can't see who's trying to contact me."
"Sorry, my lord. We'll see if we can fix it." said an off-screen voice.
Dib stepped back.
"G...Gaz? What...?"
The off-screen voice spoke again. "My lord, there is no way to repair the connection. The error is on their end, which we cannot hack into."
"Cut off the connection, then! I don't have time to-" then, the screen blanked out.
Dib turned to Zim, who had sat up carefully, watching.
"You..." Dib pointed to him. "You... you are going to train. You are going to do whatever it takes to bring her back."
"And why, Dib-stink, would I do that?"
"Because if you don't..." Dib's eyes were suddenly full of certainty. "If you don't, I'm going to kill you."
"And how do you suppose you'll do that?" Zim's voice wasn't taunting. It was calm and curious.
"I've studied you. I'll find your kryptonite. I'll destroy you, Zim."
Zim stood up.
"Can't argue with that. Usual time tomorrow. Be here. If you haven't noticed, I've fixed my base since it...blew up."
Dib walked away. Zim watched him leave.
If only Dib knew he would've done it without the threat anyway.
Oh, and thank you ThatCrazyGirl for reviewing on a different story that is finished 'n stuff!