A/N; I'm SOOOOO sorry! I'm such an idiot! I should have updated this a long time ago! I've just become so busy what with school and life and Halloween coming up- it's just super hectic around here. I'll also admit, I had writers block. In other words... I'M BEING DIB FOR HALLOWEEN! YAY!

Disclaimer; I'm an idiot. I'm such a big headded, stupid idiot. I don't deserve to own IZ.

It all started a few days before the two of them confronted the thing. Before they even knew the thing existed! It had been just a normal fight between alien and human at the strange base of the Irken's. All was well...

"You stupid pig-smelly!" A voice came from down below. "I'm quite surprised that you haven't been able to stop me with you're giant head!"

"My head's not BIG!" Another rang out. If you fallowed the sounds, you'd find Zim and Dib both fighting each other. They were both pulling in huge breaths of air, having gotten lots of good hits on each other.

"Yes, it is you hyuman!"

"No it's NOT!"

"IS TOO!"

"IS NOT!"

"IS TOO!"

"IS NOT!"

"CUPITYCAKES!"

They both looked at the weird SIR unit, who just giggled and asked, "What? Why aren't master and Mary yelling random things any more?"

The Irken face palmed. "No GiR. Just...just go upstairs and watch the Angry Monkey show or something. Just don't interrupt us."

"Alright!" Then the defective robot raced up to the top of the base, yelling, "I'M GONNA MAKE WAFFLES!"

Then there was silence. "How long was he there?" Dib asked the owner, looking at the one he was speaking to and pointing where the machine just was.

"How should I know?" Zim responded, looking back at the human. "I didn't see him there before."

"Ah." There was more silence. However, it didn't last long.

Even though they were underground, Zim's sensitive lekku could pick up a sound. It was one he was familiar with. One he loved to hear. "Dib-worm!" The green skinned alien called. "Did you here that?"

"Hear what?"

"I heard a human up above scream."

"Zim," Dib spoke as if he was about to say something everyone should know. "It's getting close to Halloween. Ya godda expect people to play pranks and stuff. Lot's of people'll be screaming."

"Hallo-ween?" The Irken slowly asked. Suddenly, the speed of his talking got faster. "What is this Hallo-weeny? Zim demands you tell him this instant!"

Rolling his eyes, the human muttered, "I shouldn't have said anything." Then he walked closer and said his explanation in a way Zim would understand, "Halloween is something us humans do every year. It's when us humans dress up in costumes and go around looking for candy."

'Candy' must have been the trigger word, since the other gasped. "That dreaded day again?! NO!"

Dib's frown of annoyance turned into a grin. An evil grin at that. "Yes Zim. That day again."

However, the alien reacted completely different from what the boy hoped. "NO! I have to prepare!" Then he ran off, leaving the human alone.

The Earth boy just shrugged. "Oh well." Then looked around for a good place to position his cameras.

Back up top, Zim had started bordering up his windows and door. There was no way a child could enter his base. NEVER! The shocker to him, however, came when he was placing the boards on his side window.

He just needed to place a few more on the top when he heard the same scream again. It came from the building closest to the window he was at. Peeking through, he faintly heard the fallowing dialogue;

"Get back here you!" It sounded like an old hag trying to get a child off her lawn.

"No, please, don't." That one seemed like a small child, male more than likely baised on the pitch. Or so Zim assumed.

"Well too bad! I'll kill you anyway if it's the last thing I do!"

"No...No...NO-AHHHHHHHHH!"

Something told Zim not to look, but he couldn't help it. He looked. There was a faint outline of a small person- maybe a child-in the window. They had been backing up into the corner, but they hadn't escaped. Despite how controversial it was, at the speed of light, a shadow pounced on the figure. The result? The siihette looked like the shadow was stabbing the child to death. The childlike screams rang throughout Zim's lekku. He was unfamiliar with what was going on. Wanting more knowledge on the activity that was taking place, he-

"Zim?"

The alien in question jumped up and spun around to come face to face with none other than the human in the house.

Dib had just come up from placing his spy cameras all over the base when he found Zim just standing in one spot.

"Oh, Dib-worm! The almighty Zim demands your help!"

"And what makes you think I'll just willingly help you with-"

However, the Irken cut him off by beginning to explain what he heard and saw. At first, Dib listened reluctantly, but as he heard more of the story, he became more and more both intrigued and a bit worried. By the time he was finished, Dib was scared.

"Zim," The Scythe-haired one finally spoke, his voice betraying him and making him sound like a wimp. "I think we have a murder case on our hands."

A/N; Yea, I suck. This is more than likly dead to most of you. WAHHH...Ya, bot worth crying over.