Title: GIR, I Know What We're Gonna Do Today! (GIKWWGDT)
Chapter 3: The Plan, The Plan!
Characters: Candace, ~Stacy, ~Phineas, ~Ferb, Zim, Mrs. Flynn-Fletcher, German librarian, ~Gaz, Dib
Word count: 834

Author's Note: Rewritten from the original chapter. Don't ask about the librarian. I only own the story.

Candace Flynn peeked out the window of her second story bedroom overlooking the backyard. "Hang on, Stacy. My busting senses are tingling," she said to her best friend via phone. The other girl scoffed loudly and Candace dropped the phone and her jaw in response to the sight in the backyard. Five minutes prior, when the teenage girl had routinely checked on her two brothers, they'd been the only two under the tree Now there were, she counted, four other kids — well, three and a robot. One of them was green.

She opened the window. "Phineas! Ferb! What are you doing and why is that kid green?" She also observed he didn't have ears.

"It's a skin condition!" he yelled, shaking his tiny gloved fist at the orange-headed girl.

"I am so telling Mom!" She picked up the discarded phone. "Huh, Stacy? I thought you'd hung up. Well, I have to go bust Phineas and Ferb! Talk to you later!" She punched the end call button and speed dialed her mom. Her long legs expertly carried her down the stairs and she burst out the screen door leading to the backyard just as Mrs. Flynn-Fletcher answered the phone. "Candace, what is it? I'm—"

"Mom, Mom! You have to come home and see this right away." Candace circled the group and added, "They have a robot with them."

"Candace, I'm very busy. I'll be home in 3 or 4 chapters." The sound of a ruler smacking a desk and a sharp tongue barking, "Zhis iz un livrary! Put zhat avay!" was heard, and Mrs. Flynn-Fletcher hissed, "I have to go, Candace. Bye."

Everyone's attention was focused on Candace (except Gaz, who was back to playing her Game Slave as usual), having overheard the entire conversation (Candace had speaker phone on from her earlier conversation with Stacy since she was putting most of her focus into spying on Phineas and Ferb).

Zim was the first to speak. "First of all, pathetic human worm baby, this is a skin condition. I am NORMAL, just like the Dib-thing, the Dib-sister, you, and the rest of our miserable family units."

"No he's not! He's an alien! Don't let his elaborate scheme fool you!" "the Dib-thing" interrupted, stepping in front of the green kid. "He's an alien trying to take over Earth!"

Zim stepped in front of Dib, blocking most of his head. "Don't listen to him. He's crazy. That's typical Dib, just your average, insane, big-headed human. More importantly, I am THE ALMIGHTY INVADER ZIM! And who are you, human worm baby?" he asked, raising an eyebrow at her.

"My name is Candace, buster of my brothers—"

"Yes, yes, that's nice, 'Can-tiss'. I require your brothers' assistance to rebuild my universal transporter so I can get back to my base! I must be going now." With a dramatic turn on his heels, Zim walked away to inspect the damage inflicted on his precious machine; Phineas and Ferb followed, chatting about portals and other universes. Candace raised an eyebrow and turned to a red-faced Dib.

"So is all that he said really true? Is that a... universal transporter?"

Dib nodded. "And we're stuck here now, thanks to it." He turned to the alien and yelled, "You're not going to get away with this, Zim! I'm going to get proof and expose you to the whole world!"

Candace raised her other eyebrow. "So you're trying to get proof that the green kid's an alien so you can bust him?"

"It's a skin condition!" Zim's voice floated across the yard.

"I know he is, but nobody believes me. Just once, I'd like to prove them all wrong. Aliens exist and Zim's one of them." Dib sighed. "But they all think I'm crazy. Not even my own dad believes me. Do you believe me?"

Candace shrugged. "So green kid's an alien. I've seen weirder. Seriously, you should see the things Phineas and Ferb build. But somehow my mom never sees them, because they always magically disappear at the end of each day."

"What disappears?" Dib asked in awe.

"It's different every day. One time, it was a beach in the backyard, but it disappeared somehow. Another time they built a skyscraper that reached the moon, but she didn't see it. And one time Phineas and Ferb built a big and obvious thing in the backyard that I watched the whole time, but Mom still didn't see it!"

Dib tapped his chin thoughtfully. "Candace, don't you see? If we work together and combine our strengths and resources, we can finally get the proof we need! Then the world will know Zim's an alien!"

Candace's eyes lit up in excitement. "And I can finally bust Phineas and Ferb!" They both chuckled as they imagined their long overdue moments of triumph. "So what's the plan?"