Nothing to say this time but you can already see something's starting to develop for our alien residents.

Chapter 4 (Tak's POV)

We finally made it to the school. I don't know, really, what to make of human architecture but from the Irken stand point it was a dump. We all knew enough human writing to know that the name of the school was just school spelled with a K "Skool" and the most upsetting part and probably the dumbest was the fact they spelled school wrong!

Moving on from the spelling error the building was tall but crumbly looking but that's what happens when you make buildings out of stone. The building appeared to have five levels. Hoards of other teenagers got off long, yellow, four wheeled vehicles and went inside the school. Others drove smaller personalized vehicles. A quick study of their facial features showed that the overall majority of them were not happy to be here. However they also seemed to be the type for sociability even the less colorful ones that preferred the style of clothing Mimi and I took to. Though they seemed to socialize with their own kind.

"I don't want to sound like Zim but," Skoodge started "What a dump!"

I crossed my arms and walked towards the "Skool" Skoodge didn't know about dumps I could assure him of that. The school hallways were, in my opinion, were over decorated with school propaganda. I wasn't exactly fluent just yet in reading "English" but every now and then I would take time to read a few of the millions of papers lining the walls. "Welcome to school!" one stated simply. I spotted a large poster with students clustered together with big bold words stating "Class of 2013" I don't know what that was supposed to mean.

This school wasn't big enough to make it to have 2013 class rooms and nothing else… unless these humans are too stupid to think of something like space. "Tak? I asked you a question." Tenn pierced my thoughts.

"Huh? What?" I asked looking around stupidly.

"Didn't you say there was a place we had to go to get schedules?"

I small light bulb went off in my head "Oh! Oh, yeah the Main office of the school." I looked around for some kind of clue on how to get there. I spotted a sign taped to the corner wall pointing in the direction of said office. We went in to see piles of papers on the counter labeled from one letter to the other I overheard one student saying that they were organized by last name. So we had to look under K.

I made up our last name when I was enrolling us our last name was Kri. As we made our way there I ran into two people again. The big headed human with the odd glass things on his face and his purple haired sibling. We never did learn their names. They were looking in the pile labeled K-M "Oh hey Tak. Didn't think we'd meet again so fast."

"Hi… um…"

"Dib"

"Oh, right, Dib." Interesting name. I thought I heard Mimi snickering about something and I thought I heard Dib's name being used. It didn't matter really. The knowledge we could gain from earth education might help in some way. At the very least help us blend in. I noted a wave of curiosity being emitted from Dib's brain. I could tell he and his sister were very smart, could they have somehow figured out our secret? His sister seemed neutral maybe even indifferent but there was something working around in his brain. Maybe I could push it out of him "Is something bothering you? You seem to be thinking about something."

"Have you noticed anything odd happening last night?" maybe he did figure it out, I have to play cool "No, should I have?"

He looked away almost embarrassed to say it. It peaked my curiosity "What happened?" He told me everything he saw last night but he didn't have any solid evidence pointing to us, which was good. He also mentioned seeing an alien running past them in the direction of the school. Me and the rest of my "family" turned our full attention to him. 'No… he didn't.' I thought grimly and at that very moment he came in.

"Tak-beast!" that moron! I turned to the entrance of the office to see that the idiot didn't listen to a thing I said. He had a horrible disguise and still wore Irken clothing. "You dare invoke my wrath!" he stomped closer "You locked me away and then you all left Zim to rot!"

"I locked you away because you would ruin everything!" I countered taking a few steps to him. Our heads were inches from each other as we glared into each others eyes. That moron wouldn't leave me alone!

"Hey you two stop arguing right now!" one of the office ladies called to us "You don't want detention on the first day." We decided it would be best to kill each other after school. Don't want to attract unwanted attention on the first day we make an appearance. Without warning Zim was tackled to the ground by Dib. "This is no kid! He's an alien!"

"Get off me you smell like human!" Skoodge slapped his face in embarrassment. Gir and Mimi laughed at the huge scene that was being caused I tried to shrink back from all the eyes watching us. While it was funny to see Zim get beaten by someone other than me this was a little too compromising to the rest of us.

"Get off him! That's my brother!" I screamed pretending to actually care about his well-being.

"He must have brainwashed you all! That's an alien just look at his green skin!" This I could tell was meant for anyone listening not just us. Brainwashed he said he still believed we were humans. I guess he is smarter than other humans but he still isn't that smart.

"Insolent fool boy!" Zim seethed still under Dib then he spoke more calmly "It's a skin condition."

"That's right now get off him before I decided to tear off your head." I informed quickly pulling him off and leaving with my schedule. The only thing I heard was Mimi's odd laughter "Nya-ha-ha-ha-ha-han!"

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Now that moment of headaches is over I can get to homeroom. I checked the schedule with my name reading Tak Kri. The name of the homeroom teacher was Mr. Stan, room 515. A map I managed to steal off a wall (they won't miss it) the rooms starting with six were at the sixth floor. A deep sigh left my mouth my first class… all the way at the top. Who makes a place like this? The only thing we can use is stairs and the teachers get to use elevators. That's not fair. Stupid humans.

I pushed my way past people trying to find the stairs. I over heard speak of Dib and his sister whom I found out was named Gaz. "The Membranes siblings are here. You know what that means…" I left not caring too much about rumors or stories of a couple of humans but the talk seemed to follow me. Different things kept being mentioned… why were they so famous in this school? Things like "Crazy Dib is here." And "That evil chick Gaz just started school here, don't go near her." Even about things that recently happened "Another group of freaks came to the school I think they're called the Creed family." Kri not Creed! I thought angrily to myself. "Dib is even claiming that one of them is an alien." I don't have to stand this. The talk in the school seemed to shift suddenly from the Membranes to my family.

How they mentioned that Gir and Mimi seemed too small to be in highschool. The mention "two hot chicks" don't really know what that means but I'm certain that if I did know I would hate it. One person argued on the subject that "they weren't too well endowed" I looked at other females and then down at myself and felt strangely ashamed. I had a normal body for an Irken female and yet (I'm ashamed of myself to admit) I felt slight envy for them. Human females aren't they only ones with those… certain proportions there were many other females from different races (and in one odd case males from a race… very confusing that race.) so the fact that human females had, as the humans call them, jugs wasn't to odd. However the Irken females weren't the kind to have such things.

It wasn't out of place for my kind so I should not feel any kind of envy, it was illogical. It must be my need to blend in that causes the perverted need for such a thing. Not a moment of jealousy or envy.

We are trained to care about our outer appearance to the point of hygiene not to the point of worrying about our bodies in such a way. The thought of my body somehow got me to thinking about Dib, smart yet somehow still stupid… I think I should watch him a little closer- just to make sure he doesn't cause problems of course!

I made it to the room of the one they call Mr. Stan. The children seemed dreary and bored and maybe even a little tired. I'm not used to sleeping but they don't seem used to staying awake. This was a physiology class; I thought it would help in some way if I took a class like this. There was a neatly dressed man that seemed to be looking at the students with disinterest "Glad to see you've made it." He said smoothly and without ever looking in my direction. Now pick a place to sit, and keep in mind that it will be your seat each time you come here for the rest of school. I kept that in mind as I picked a seat in the front near the windows. Things looked a little better looking outside than being in this crumbling stone fortress.

The class was very slow and not much learning actually happened all he mostly did was go over rules and the way he would personally run this class. It was like being back on Irk, if you talked back or disobeyed him you would be punished. You showed up late even once you would get something he called detention. I whispered to a girl next to me "What's a detention?" but the answer she gave had nothing to do with my question.

"Are you from Britain or something?"

"Huh?" I asked dumbly

"You have an accent your not from here are you?"

I stammered for a little bit dumbfounded. How did she know! "I-I-I um, of course not. I'm from here I just talk differently is all." I defended. I did a quick scan to see what I was dealing with but she had intelligence lower than the Dib. What was this place called Britain anyways? Is it actually another planet? Maybe it was one of those planets we passed on our way here. The red one looked like it might have something on it.

"Oh, you're from this country huh? Funny, you don't sound like it." Why was she interrogating me? Did she suspect something? I played dumb with her and tried to throw off any suspicion she had.

"Actually I'm not exactly from here but I was raised by someone that talked the same so I just picked it up." It actually wasn't a lie I just left out a few major details. She introduced herself as Kim and I told her my name. I realized that this was more of a conversation than an interrogation like I originally thought. It seemed like she believed we were friends though in my preference we were far from such a thing. Humans are social creatures and Irkens are too… to a certain degree. It took Tenn and me years before we had an actual friendship of any kind. Speaking of which I wonder how she is doing?

(Tenn's POV)

My first class of the day posing as a human. It was interesting just walking around. For some reason I noticed many males looking at me from the corner of their eyes. Was I not nice looking or did I somehow do something wrong? I had a biology class and it wasn't too far from the office so I took some time to do some exploring. I heard some panicked screams further down the hall and out of instinct ran to it. Years of being with Tak always got you ready for the worst, seeing how Zim is I bet Skoodge is worse than I am. When I made it I didn't see Zim, Tak or even Skoodge. It was the SIR's Mimi and Gir. Gir to be more specific since he was causing the trouble. A tall boy was yelling at Gir and Mimi but it seemed mostly directed at Gir. Mimi seemed to be simply defending him "The man offered him a knuckle sandwich and then showed a fist to him. What do you think he was supposed to believe?" She demanded angrily. "You don't say things like that he takes it literally! It's his fault for being unclear." She crossed her arms. "Besides, at least he still has both hands."

Did Gir really try to eat a person's hand? Mimi smiled like she got an idea. She bent down slightly and pinched his cheeks "He's just so innocent is all." She cooed "How could you punish this cute little face?" The person, who I determined to be a teacher, seemed to sway with this question. Mimi did a few more forced cute acts on Gir and he just let them go with a warning. I heard a few girls in the crowed make "aww" sounds. Everyone slowly started to leave but Mimi and Gir stayed in that spot. I started to walk up to them. Mimi hugged Gir and continued to speak in a cooing tone "He's just so cute aren't you?"

"I am." Gir smiled happily.

"Those pretty blue eyes and that goofy white hair, you're just-"

"Ahem! They're gone." I tried to get their attention. Mimi's eyes shot open and she quickly released Gir as fast as possible clearing her throat.

"Right, right… I was just making sure." I found out they had the same class as me. It worked out because I could make sure they don't cause problems. We headed back the way I came and went to the class. The class hadn't started but it was better than Gir running loose and Mimi was bored without something happening. I took the time to see what the other students looked like and what they were doing. I noticed That Gaz was in this class she sat in the back of the class playing with a device that clearly read Game slave 2. I took a seat in front of her and quickly realized those two robots were gone.

I specifically gave them an order to stay here. Where are they? "Gir stop you are not to play with those!" I heard Mimi urge. I saw Gir picking through the teacher's cabinets and Mimi trying to convince him to stop. Apparently he didn't find anything he wanted because he stopped pick through things. Just then a large metal looking objet jumped out of the open cabinet and latched on to Gir. Gir stumbled a bit in surprise and looked behind him. A closer look revealed that it was a magnet. If people see that they'll ask questions about why a magnet is attached to him. Humans aren't magnetic!

Mimi acted quicker than I did she tried to pull off the magnet but was having difficulty. Maybe it was a super magnet? Gir simply smiled "Aw, it likes me."

"Gir," Mimi grunted as she continued pulling "Your lucky it didn't attach to your head. Who know what kind of damage it could cause to your brain?" She pulled harder and it quickly snapped off his back sending Mimi tumbling backwards. She pulled herself off the ground with a deep sigh of relief. Her hand held the magnet and tried to put it down on the teacher's desk but as she took her hand off the desk the magnet stuck to the palm of her hand. She frantically shook her hand trying to get it off but nothing happened. I looked around to hope no one was seeing this. Gaz was looking with one eye the other still squinted. "Gir help!" Mimi pleaded

"Okey-dokie!" he ran over to her but his hand just flew up, obviously pulled by the magnet, and stuck to Mimi's hand. Mimi ordered him to pull it off "Okay, okay… sheesh…" Gir said and started to pull with loud grunts "Arrgh… Agh… ARRRGH- I can't." those were apparently ominous words to Mimi. Her horror stricken face made me want to laugh. I can't blame her… being stuck with Gir is the worst punishment imaginable. I quickly ran to them and decided to stop this problem before things got too out of hand. It was a little hard to separate the two. That magnet was strong but it was especially hard with two giant pieces of metal on either side. When I pulled Gir's hand off it was pulled back on and the same was for Mimi. I managed it keep Mimi's hands down when I pulled it off but the magnet was still attracted to Mimi and attached to her upper torso and Gir was still attached to the other end of the magnet. Mimi's embarrassment was translated through her disguise as blushing as she looked down at her chest to see the magnet and Gir attached.

It wasn't exactly a violating gesture for her like it would be for other females considering she was a robot it was more of the fact that people would get weird ideas if they see them in the compromising position. I'm not sure how I did it but I managed to separate them from each other and keep them that way. The rest of the class after that little ordeal was perfectly peaceful. After this we would have separate classes though so I just hope those two don't cause any more problems. Also hopefully Gaz wouldn't assume too much of what she saw