Before I fell asleep, I kept wondering how Keef had gotten back in after he left with Sizz-Lorr. Ah, well.

I woke up to the aroma of fresh hazelnut coffee.

"G'morning," I said to Dib and Zim as I sat up. I cracked my back. Sleeping slouched over a table really messed it up.

"Where's my coffee?" I asked.

"We're out," Zim said drinking his.

"Yoink," I said, taking his and drinking it.

"It's seven and we've got 'till nine thirty," Dib said, "What do you guys wanna do?"

"I don't know," I said, taking another sip of Zim's coffee.

"Why don't we just hang out? We haven't all been together in five years." Dib said.

"You're right," I said, "I want us to have fun like we used to!"

"Yeah," Zim said, looking down.

"W-what's wrong?" I asked.

"YOU TOOK MAH COFFEE!"

I took another sip of it.

"And it's yummy." I said, "But wait…Did Sizz-Lorr forget we could rappel from the balcony?"

"Um…I think there are guards there." Dib said.

"WHO GUARDS A RESTAURANT?" I shouted, standing up and spilling "My" coffee all over my lap, making me scream.

"That was Karma!" Zim sang.

"IT FEELS LIKE MY LEGS ARE ON FIRE!"

"Um…what do I do?" Dib asked.

"J-JUST USE FRIGGIN WATER OR SOMETHING!"

He grabbed a cup of water that was on the table and splashed it on me.

"THAT WAS HOT WATER YOU IDIOT!" I screamed, jumping out of my seat and getting water from the sink. I poured it where the coffee was.

"Hey," Dib said, "Wouldn't water just make it burn mor-"

"!"

"Are you okay?" Zim asked with a laugh.

"Meh," I said, sitting back down.

"That's what you get for taking my-"

"BLEH!" I screamed.

"That's the Candy I remember," Zim said.

"I missed you guys," I said, then paused, "I want my position back as the only girl in a group of two guys."

"Well…" Zim started.

"What?" I asked.

"That spot was sort of…filled." Dib said.

"WHAT? BY WHO?"

"A girl…" Zim said.

"So you REPLACED ME?" I screamed.

"Um, Candy, we thought we'd never see you again."

"Yeah but…WHAT'S HER NAME?" I screamed.

"K-Katie-Marie," Dib said in his shaky "Don't kill me, Candy" voice.

"That doesn't mean we can't be friends or that we like her more than you, human," Zim said, trying to calm me down.

"Do you…do you call her 'human' too, Zim?" I asked.

"I call every human that, Candy."

"THAT'S MY NICKNAME!" I screamed, "YOU CAN ONLY CALL DIB AND ME THAT!"

"Is that envy I smell?" Zim asked. I frowned.

"NO!" I screamed, "Is she loud like me? IS SHE CRAZY LIKE ME? DOES SHE HAVE PURPLE HAIR? HOW MANY PLANETS HAS SHE BEEN ON? DOES SHE EAT AS MUCH AS I DO? DOES SHE GET ANGRY EASILY? 'CAUSE I DON'T! I NEVER GET ANGRY!" I said as my face began to heat up.

"Well," Zim said, "She's not crazy and her hair is this beautiful shade of brown. She's just fun to be around."

"Who would you choose between her and me?" I asked.

"Well…I couldn't possibly choose between you two," Zim said.

"Dib?" I asked.

"Well," Dib said, "Katie-Marie is pretty cool but I'd have to say you because you were my first real friend."

"R-really?" I asked, "I was?"

"Yeah," he said, blushing a little. I smiled.

"Well," Zim said, "Where do we hang out? We're locked in here."

"Let's escape," I said, "It's seven thirty and I don't want to work. I want to go back to Earth. I want to go be with you guys- not in Mississippi."

"Let's think something up then," Zim said. We sat there for awhile.

"Let's go NOW!" I said, "Not by a plan! Let's just go!"

I walked over to the door and kicked the glass. It shattered into a million pieces.

"Hey!" said one of the guards. I kicked him to the face and we ran. We were running for quite awhile when…

We crashed into Sizz-Lorr.

"HEY!" he said, grabbing me by the collar of my shirt.

"That's it," he said, "I've had enough."

He grabbed all three of us at once and threw us into a ship. So much for my plan.

"NO!" I screamed as he tied us down.

"You three are to sit quiet," he said firmly.

"WHERE ARE YOU TAKING US?"

"Death," he said, "I'm done with your crap."

He started to drive the voot and I leaned on Dib's shoulder.

"Dib," I said, "I don't wanna die."

"Neither do I," Zim said, "But look where we are because of SOMEBODY'S bright ideas!"

"HEY!" I said, "You were the one who agreed with it!"

"SHUT UP!" Sizz-Lorr said.

Soon, he stopped at some place with a big tree and three ropes tied to it.

"You have GOT to be kidding me," I said. He forced us out and a few people began to crowd around us.

He shoved us by the tree and we stood under the ropes. Oh yeah, and he HANDCUFFED us together. I was in the middle, Zim was to my left, and Dib to my right.

Did I mention we were handcuffed together?

The few people became a crowd and some guy was by the ends of the ropes. He was about to pull them up and kill us all at once.

"Hey," I whispered quickly to Dib, "Let me get something out of my pocket."

He lowered his arm to let me do so and I pulled out a pocket knife.

I cut all three ropes and ran for my life.

"SEIZE THEM!" Sizz-Lorr commanded. The WHOLE crowd ran after us and we went into Sizz-Lorr's ship and locked it.

"I-I don't remember how to drive this!" I said. Zim stepped up and started the voot and took off.

"You carry around a pocket knife?" Dib asked.

"Just in case," I said. He smiled and hugged me which was pretty hard because of the handcuffs.

"That's my girl," he said, making me smile.

Zim started to drive faster. I could tell he wanted to get back as much as I did. The constricted handcuffs on my arms made my wrists as red as my face every time I glanced at Dib. I would have shown off how brazen I was and actually help but I wasn't really in the mood and actually quite timid at the time. It was sort of an on-off thing for me. However, I felt somewhat comfortable being accompanied by Dib and Zim. They made me blissful every time I saw them.

"Um, guys," Zim said fearfully, "We're sort of…running out of fuel…"

"WHAT?" I asked apprehensively. In a way, I saw it coming.

Earth became visible- just as our fuel meter hit empty (A/N: or "end" as Patrick Star would say.).

The engine coughed and died, leaving us devastated as the Earth's gravity got a hold of us and violently pulled us down. My adrenaline rush allowed me to demolish the handcuffs we were wearing. I repeatedly pressed the "Emergency stop" button which was pointless and stupid because it did nothing. Everything seemed to go in slow motion and my fear got the best of me, making me hyperventilate.

Well, what goes up must come down…literally.

The crash was just as slow motion as falling. I flew into the air and landed right on my butt and the ship became engulfed in flames.

That's when I blacked out.

I didn't think I'd wake up again but I did and I was covered in blood.

"Is it that time of month again?" I asked groggily, in pain yet unaware of what had happened. I opened my eyes a bit wider and saw Zim's house. Just the way I had remembered it. In front of me were Dib (Who, teary-eyed, sighed with relief to see me awake), Zim, and Gir. Gir looked the same as I had remembered but a little worn out. Not rusted but just a natural wear-and-tear.

"I got the bandages you needed, Zim," said a girl who walked into the room. Brown hair, sparkling eyes, this was none other than that Katie-Marie they had described.

"Oh, you're awake," she said with a smile, "I-I'm Katie-Marie but you can call me-"

"Kate. I'm going to call you Kate." I said.

"Um…okay," she said, sensing I was easily put in a bad mood. As much as I had already disliked her, I didn't want to be mean.

"I-I'm sorry," I said, wincing when a bandage was painfully wrapped around my arm, "It's just that I'm in a lot of pain."

"I remember you!" Gir screamed joyfully, his eyes changing from red to blue a few times and sparking before he hugged me, making me close my eyes hard in pain.

Now I knew what Zim meant when he said Gir was malfunctioning.

"I remember you too, Gir," I said excitedly, hiding my pain for the moment, "I missed you."

"Aww!" he said, "That makes me so happy!"

He ran off to make waffles to celebrate.

"How are you feeling?" Dib asked me.

"In pain," I said, staring into his eyes as if I were in a trance of some sort. I had always wanted brown or hazel eyes but mine were blue.

"Why didn't you guys get hurt in the crash?" I asked when I returned to reality.

"We were by the airbags," Zim said with a snicker.

"Lucky," I snarled. I looked at Kate with an apathetic, blank expression.

"Do you need anything else?" she asked, ignoring the fact that I would at that time enjoy witnessing her fall off a building while I sat in a chair holding a bucket of popcorn and repeatedly screaming, "JUMP! JUMP! JUMP!"

Right…

"No," I said politely, "I'm good."

"Okay," she said, knowing I DID probably need a painkiller and hidden under my politeness, I was grinding my teeth.

"It hurts, Dib," I said as he put a small (Hello Kitty) bandage on my index finger.

"I know. Just bear with me, okay Candy?"

I held his hand.

"Fine," I said. "But you better give me ice cream like you promised."

"I never promised any ice cream." Dib said.

"Well, I'm getting some," I said stubbornly. Kate gave me a strange look. I knew she didn't like me just as much as I didn't like her.

"Okay," Dib said. "Katie, get Candy some ice cream."

"What- you really let her push you over like that?" she asked, a little angry.

"No, it's just that some part of me isn't satisfied until she's happy." Dib said.

Kate sighed and went to the kitchen.

"Zim, you don't have any ice cream…"

"Oh, can you buy some from the store then?" Dib asked. Zim remained silent.

"Fine," she said, rolling her eyes.

"She's nice," I said. "I wouldn't have done that for me."

Dib laughed.

"Well, my mom's gonna go berserk," I said with a sigh. "But…I'm not leaving again. If I part with you guys again…I'll forget so much…"

"Well, you can stay at my place," Dib said. "That is, after you're better."

"I missed you guys," I said with a smile as I hugged Zim, Dib, and Gir at the same time.

REVIEW! I don't own Katie-Marie! She belongs to InvaderJazzyX33. I thought this chapter would never be done…ugh…:1