Hi readers! This one is a little summer chapter to celebrate SUMMER! Anyway, please enjoy, review, and favorite!
"Dib! Go and fetch two more floaties for your sister!" Professor Membrane ordered his son, Dib, who eagerly nodded and went inside to get the gear.
Dib was so excited he could barely contain it: His family is going to an island to spend a few days relaxing, just Dib, Gaz, and even their Dad, who was usually very busy.
They went to the island annually, and Dib was going to spend his third time on the island looking for the infamous, MonkeySnake, head of a monkey, body of a snake.
If he could catch the supernatural creature, he would finally be respected by the Swollen Eyeball!
And the best part is…Dib thought to himself as he rummaged through the kitchen drawers, I don't have to keep chasing Zim for a whole two weeks! He said in relaxation, and grabbed Gaz's floaties and started walking out the door, but stopped abruptly when a second thought came to mind.
WAIT! But what if Zim plans to destroy the Earth while I'm gone?! This can't happen! Dib thought franticly, and ran out the door to warn his Dad.
"DAD! WAIT! WE CAN'T GO-" But stopped in his tracks when he saw two figures standing next to Gaz.
It was Zim and Vin.
Vin was hopping in place, excited because she'd never heard of an 'Island' before, but from all the Earth magazine articles she'd been reading, it was the perfect place for romance.
She saw amazing pictures, some of men and women holding hands while walking along the beach, which sparked her own interest, and was determined to do those things with Zim.
"Why are THEY here?!" Dib shouted, and Gaz looked up from her Gameslave.
"I invited Vin." She answered, and returned to her game.
"And naturally, there's a plus one!" Vin added, and mockingly stuck her tongue out at Dib.
Dib groaned in frustration and turned to his dad.
"Dad! Are you going to allow an alien and a possible alien come with us?!" Dib asked him, and the professor patted his large head.
"NONSENSE, son! Of course they can come! Now quit claiming everything is a supernatural occurrence and make a friend your own age!" Professor Membrane ordered, and Dib and Zim shivered at the thought of them being 'friends'.
Then Membrane started their car, and Vin, Zim, and Gaz climbed in, and they were waiting for Dib to make his decision.
"Hmm…I guess it's not SO bad." Dib mumbled to himself, and climbed in.
At least I can keep an eye on him.
oOo
Vin was sitting on the soft, sandy beach, gazing at the shimmering sunset, glistening the light blue sea as it was coming to a rest.
She closed her eyes, and listened to the relaxing tone of the ocean, and heard footsteps walking towards her.
She opened her eyes to see Zim, in his swim trunks, shaking off the leftover water from his swim, and sat down next to Vin.
"Hey," He greeted with a small smile, and Vin blushed.
"Hi." She greeted back, and a small pause came between them.
"…Beautiful sunset, isn't it?" Vin asked Zim, and he nodded.
"It is beautiful, but I can think of something more beautiful." Zim claimed, and Vin turned her head to the boy.
"What?" She asked, cocking her head, and Zim grinned.
"…You." And Vin blushed and hid her face in her knees.
"Oh, you're lying." Vin said, her face as red as a tomato, but then Zim leaned closer.
"I can prove it." He said, and they both leaned in for a-
"VIN!"
Vin shot her head up, she was awakened from the best dream of her life, to find she was on a plane, with Gaz shaking her.
"Mmm… Gaz, why couldn't you have waked me up later?" Vin asked, and gave a loud yawn.
"I wanna switch seats. The sun's too bright." Gaz said, shielding her eyes from the sun, for she had the window seat.
Vin slowly agreed, and the two switched their positions, and then a chat occurred.
"So where's the green dog?" Gaz asked, and Vin thought for a second.
"Oh, you mean Gir? He's back at our house, watching it for us." Vin answered and Gaz nodded.
Three quiet minutes later, Vin turned her head, trying to find Zim through the rows of people, and found him two seats in back of her, sitting between Dib and professor membrane, where Zim was exchanging threatening glances with Dib.
She then remembered the romantic dream, and swooned at the memory.
"…oh and also, why were you blushing and kissing your hand while you were asleep?" Gaz asked, and Vin gave a lovesick smile.
"A wonderful think called 'love'."
oOo
When the plane landed, the group left the airport, and Professor Membrane called a taxi.
A large taxi pulled up, and the family and friends got in, and it drove off to the hotel.
"So what's this island called again?" Vin asked Gaz, who shrugged.
"I think it's called 'Malui' or 'Maui' or something." Gaz answered pulling out her infamous Gameslave.
Gaz , Vin, Zim and Dib sat in the back, while the taxi driver and Professor Membrane sat up front.
Vin grinned and scooted next to Zim, and gave him a hug.
"I can't believe we're on an island! THIS IS SO ROMANTIC!" She cried, and her grip grew strong once again, suffocating Zim, until Professor Membrane intruded.
"Excuse me, kids! But no roughhousing in the taxi!" He said strictly, and Vin reluctantly let go, freeing a poor irken from certain death.
"Yeah, I don't want a dead alien dying on my shoulder!" Dib said, and Zim growled.
"Shut up, Dib-stink!"
"No, you shut up, Zim!"
Then it turned into a heated argument, but Vin was too mesmerized by the breathtaking views that Maui had.
The ocean looked even better than her dream depiction, and the sand was bright and heated, with beachgoers playing by the ocean.
When the taxi pulled up the the hotel, the professor gave the taxi driver a twenty dollar bill, and he drove off, leaving the four kids and one adult with their luggage.
The group hauled their luggage into the hotel, where the bellman immediately grabbed them and carried the baggage into their room.
"How come the man took our stuff when we didn't even sign in yet?" Vin asked Professor Membrane, and he laughed.
"Well, you see, we are a very familiar face around here! We come here every year for vacation, and I even bought a room in this very hotel!" Professor Membrane explained proudly, and Vin wowed in amazement.
After Professor Membrane signed in, the group got in the elevator and went up to the room, which is revealed to be quite big.
"Wow, Gaz! Your family is rich!" Vin cried, envious, and Gaz shrugged, and plopped her luggage on one of the two beds in the room.
The room was quite beautiful, with large windows revealing a big beach, and the mahogany walls shined, and the whitish-brown carpet was vacuumed and cleaned, and beds looked quite comfy.
Once everyone was settled in, Vin was eager to visit the beach, so everyone had to wait their turn to change.
Dib was up first, and walked into the bathroom and changed into his swimsuit.
When he came out, he was in blue and white swim trunks without his glasses.
"Five" Vin judged,
"One." Gaz deadpanned.
"Zero." Zim announced.
"Wait, you're rating my swimsuit?" Dib cried, and Professor Membrane patted his back.
"Don't worry, son! Their only doing it out of boredom! I'd give you a ten, you look just like me when I was your age!" Membrane said and Gaz was next.
Gaz reluctantly walked in and walked out, with a black one-piece swimsuit with her signature skull in the middle, and the ratings began.
"9! You look so adorable!" Vin shouted, which earned her a knuckle sandwich from Gaz.
"5." Dib said, hoping to get her back from her previous rating.
"Zim does not care." Zim announced, slumping on a bed to get this over with.
The second to last was Vin, who skipped into the bathroom and changed, and got out.
She was in a multi-colored frilly two-piece swimsuit with a skirt, and had pink sandals, and her usual messy brown pigtails were in one large ponytail.
"7." Gaz said.
"10." Dib drooled (Just for chuckles), which earned him a punch from both Vin and Gaz.
"Zim does not care." Zim said, and kept his suitcase close to his chest.
Then a long pause came, and everyone was staring at Zim.
"What?" Zim asked, and Vin looked at him.
"Aren't you going to change?" Vin asked, and Zim shook his head.
"No. Zim does not want to swim." Zim announced, earning a little disappointment from Vin, whose dream vacation was crumbling at the minute.
"But you can't go to the beach in THAT!" Professor Membrane said, talking about his invader outfit.
Zim shrugged, "I didn't bring a swimsuit!" He claimed, hoping to get out of his predicament.
Then Vin's long face brightened, and ran over to her suitcase.
"Good thing I went shopping!" She chimed, and pulled out a pair of swimtrunks, and tossed them to Zim, who grumpily walked into the bathroom with his suitcase in his hand.
He mumbled angrily to himself, for he didn't come to the beach to have fun.
The whole reason he accepted Vin's invitation, was that he could have another way of taking over the world.
In his suitcase, lies a tiny mutant squid, but when it touched water, it grows to gigantic proportions, and could easily terrorize a large underwater town.
He planned to drop it in the ocean, where it would terrorize Maui, and hopefully the rest of the world.
He chuckled, when he thought of his plan, but his evil thoughts were disrupted when he heard Vin's voice and a knock on his door.
"Zim? Are you done yet? I wanna see!" She said, and Zim grumpily changed out of his invader uniform, and walked out.
He wore red swimtrunks which covered his knees, and his wig was still intact.
"10!" Vin cried.
"Zero." Dib said.
"One." Gaz mumbled.
When Professor Membrane got changed, everyone went to the beach, where the sun stood up high.
When Vin's sandals touched the sand, she smiled happily, feeling the warm heat of the sand throughout her legs, and they trotted to an empty spot, and set up the chairs for each person.
While Professor Membrane relaxed, Vin was determined to put her vacation romance into action.
She removed her sandals and ran to the ocean, where the warm water greeted her as she playfully swam around.
(Vin Disguise Fact #1: Her disguise's skin can repel the harmful effects on water, because she has fake skin over her real skin, unlike Zim.)
"Come in the ocean, Zim! The water's fine!" Vin said, trying to convince Zim to play in the water with her.
Vin's Island Romance Plot:
Vin and Zim playfully chased each other in the ocean, where they splashed each other, laughing.
"Ha ha! You can't catch me, Zim!" Vin shouted, running deeper into the ocean.
Zim smiled, "Just watch!" He said, and tried to chase her, but stopped in his tracks.
Vin noticed that he stopped, and turned around to see he was dipping his hand in water, to reveal a beautiful pink shell in his three-fingered hand.
"Look, Vin! A shell!" Zim cried, and Vin ran over to him.
"How pretty!" Vin acknowledged, eyes widening in amazement.
Zim grinned, and gently grabbed her hand, and placed the shell in her palm.
"You keep it. As a memory of our love." Zim said, and Vin couldn't be more happier.
Vin's Island Romance Plot 1 End.
"NO! Zim does not want to touch the water!" Zim said, sitting in his chair next to Gaz, who was busy playing her Gameslave.
"Oh COME ON, Zim the water's fine!" She said, demonstrating by dipping her body in, and pulling herself out.
"NO!"
"Hm…fine, have it your way." Vin sighed, and marched towards him and grabbed his arm and pulled him to the ocean, in which he desperately tried to free himself from her grasp, but it was too late.
When his foot touched the water, Vin and Zim heard a sssss noise, like fire being drenched by water, to find it was Zim's foot.
"GAAAAAH!" Zim screamed, and fell over into the sand.
Vin sighed, This is not working out as planned… she sadly thought to herself, watching Zim roll around the beach in pain.
..BUT I WON'T GIVE UP! She thought, and went to the beach shop to purchase thirty bottles of sunscreen.
When Vin finally applied all thirty bottles of sunscreen to Zim, it was physically impossible for him to be harmed by the water.
She then dragged him to a distant part of the water, where he could still stand, but didn't have to swim (because he can't).
Alright, now all we have to do is find a pretty shell and-
"Ow!"
Zim turned his head to find Vin holding her foot, hopping.
"What happened?"
"I think I stepped on something!" Vin answered, and dipped her hand into the water, to find a pretty pink shell, just like in her plot.
Her face brightened like a sun, "Look, Zim! How pretty! Do you want to have it, or me?" Vin asked hopefully.
Zim squinted at the shell, and turned his head away from her.
"You keep it. Zim doesn't care for plain stupid shells." Zim said harshly, and Vin's fantasy finally broke.
My whole plan is ruined! She thought to herself, and swam to the shore and ran out of the ocean, where she started crying, and hid behind a big rock, where no one could find her.
She wanted to be alone, but unfortunately for her, a couple holding hands walked by and sat on the rock.
"Andrew, why are we sitting on a rock?" A young adult female voice asked, and Vin quietly groaned.
Great. I guess I'm the only person here who doesn't have romance, Vin thought grumpily, but continued eavesdropping.
"It's because I wanted to give you this." A male voice answered, and Vin heard the sound of him grabbing something from his pocket.
She then heard the girl gasp, "Oh my God, Andrew! Is that the shell from earlier?!" The female voice asked, and Vin raised her brow, still in hiding.
"Yes, it is. I know you said you didn't want any souvenirs from Maui, but I thought this one was special, it symbolizes our love!" Andrew said, and the girl answered.
"Oh Andrew, you say the cheesiest things sometimes! I love how you turned it into a necklace!" The girl cried, and Vin's interest peaked.
Necklace? She thought, and then another idea hatched in her head.
She eagerly got up, and sneaked away from the rock undetected, and got to work.
oOo
The sun was starting to set, and the crowd on the beach started to shrink, and then it was time for Zim's plan to be put into action.
He got out the tiny squid, which was currently harmless, but when he throws it into a good spot in the ocean, it will be a bloodthirsty machine.
So he swam through the water, until he was a little distant form the shore, and threw the small mutant squid 34 feet away from him, and it was only a matter of time before the mutant squid unlocked its true form.
Zim started to swim to shore, when he heard a familiar voice.
"Ziiim! I have something for you!" He heard Vin's voice as she swam up to him.
"Not now, Vin! We have to get out of here!" Zim said, trying to swim further to shore, but Vin grabbed his shoulder.
She forced him to turn around, in which he saw the pink shell from earlier, but instead it was a necklace, where the string was made of sturdy palm leafs.
"…a necklace?" He asked, amazed that Vin would give him something like that.
She smiled and nodded, "Yep! I sort of thought you'd like a souvenir!" She said and blushed slightly.
Zim completely forgot about the squid for a moment, for all he could do was stare at the necklace, which was in Vin's hands, and she put it around his neck.
"Uh, thank you." Zim said, awkwardly, and Vin's face turned entirely red, as her dream was finally coming true.
However, a gigantic rumbling came, and Zim and Vin stumbled, as they heard shouts coming from the shore screaming "Tsunami!" or "Earthquake!" , but then a gigantic creature sprung from the water, revealing to be Zim's giant squid, only 15 feet away from Zim.
"What is that?!" Vin asked, and the squid eyed the two irkens, and shot two of its tentacles at them.
Vin dodged the attack, but Zim wasn't so lucky.
He was in the crushing grasp of the squid's tentacles, so strong it beat Vin's by two miles, and he passed out from lack of breath.
"ZIM!" Vin cried, as she saw him faint, and this was her turning point.
She charged at the squid, and jumped up high in the air, landing on its forehead, and started to punch the metal sea creature, but had no effect.
The squid just grabbed Vin and threw her far away, into the deep part of the ocean, where she fell unconscious.
oOo
"What the heck is that?" Gaz asked while she was lounging around the beach, while Dib was taking pictures of the giant squid.
"This beats the MonkeySnake by a mile!" Dib cheered as he snapped pictures.
Professor Membrane was fast asleep, falling into a slumber thirty minutes before, and he was very sunburned.
Through the lens of the camera, Dib could see that the squid had Zim in its fist, and Dib was astonished.
"Is that Zim?!" Dib asked to himself, but was even more suprising was what came afterwards.
He saw a figure spring from the water, which looked to be Vin, except her usually soft and cute face was a little more sharp and on edge, and she had two electric eels in her hands.
"How is she not getting electrocuted?!" Dib asked, and Gaz spoke up.
"Shut up and watch. This looks cool." Gaz said, and continued to watch the fight.
Vin landed on squid's head, and sprung into the water, and from that point, Dib had no idea what she was doing.
BZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZT!
Dib and Gaz gazed in amazement as the robot squid short-circuited, and let go of Zim and fell into the ocean, demolished.
The metal squid then sunk in the water, as dead as a fish, and Vin grabbed Zim and carried him to the shore, where Gaz and Dib waited eagerly.
"What happened, Vin?! That was amazing!" He cried, and Vin glared at him, with red eyes.
"My name is not Vin, fool."
She said in a mature and serious tone, so different from Vin's regular voice that Dib wasn't even certain it was her.
However, before Dib could ask any more, Vin collapsed onto the sand, resting peacefully.
oOo
"Mmm…" Vin mumbled as she lifted one eye, to find she was on a chair on the beach, with Professor Membran, Gaz, and Dib waiting near her chair.
When Membrane looked up to find Vin was awake, he stretched out his arms.
"It seems like you and me both took a long nap!" He said, and winced at stretching his arms while sunburned.
Vin looked around, "Where's Zim?" She asked, and Gaz stood up.
"He went back to the hotel room." She answered, and put her Gameslave in her bag.
"I think we should go back as well." Membrane said, and wobbled towards the boardwalk.
"But what about the chairs and umbrella?" Dib asked, and Professor Membrane waved his hand.
"We'll leave it here for today. I can't pick up anything in my sunburned condition." The professor said, and Dib put his camera away in his bag.
"I can put the stuff away." Dib volunteered, and Professor Membrane nodded.
"Thank you, Dib. No matter how insane you are, you are always helpful." Professor Membrane thanked, then walked to the hotel with Gaz, while Vin decided to help out.
When every chair was folded, Dib and Vin started to walk back to the hotel.
"Hey, Vin, I have a question." Dib asked, and Vin looked at him.
"What is it?" She asked, and Dib remembered her red eyes.
"What's your name?" He asked, and Vin smiled with her blue eyes.
"It's Vin, silly! What else?" She asked, and they continued walking back to the hotel.
oOo
It was nine o'clock, and everyone was preparing for bed, with Vin and Gaz sleeping in one bed, while Zim, Dib and Membrane slept in the other.
"Alright everybody. We had a great first day here, don't you agree?" Professor Membrane asked the kids, which earned him a few mumbles.
"I also have some bad news. I have to be back at the lab in two days, which means that tomorrow is our last day." The scientist said, and Vin became sad.
When everyone fell asleep, Vin didn't have the island romance dream anymore, for some reason, and everyone else slept peacefully.
Even Zim, who doesn't sleep very often, was sound asleep, holding Vin's seashell necklace around his neck.
AWWWWWWWWWWW! What a cute way to end a chapter! I've noticed this one was longer than the others, so I'm pretty proud! And also, I just want to say: THERE SHALL BE NO VIN x DIB IN THIS STORY, THEY ARE ONLY FRIENDS (I guess). Anyway, hugs to you all and see you all next chapter!