Chappie Seven
Emily's POV
It was Wednesday. Two more days of skool until the weekend and I was looking forward to it! The others were too. In the past two days, a lot of interesting things had happened. But a weekend would be a nice break...although I was sure there would be more madness, even over those two days.
Zim's house was unusually quiet, not like it is in Zim's house. I'd enjoy the quietness, but it's too uninteresting if there's no noise.
We were all on the floor, sitting in a lousy circle, playing Truth or Dare.
"Sha, truth or dare?" I asked Sha.
"...Ummm, ummm," Sha said, in thought. " Truth."
I decided to ask her a question about Zim. Sha and her insane crush on him; it'd go well! "Do you love Zim so much, you need to marry him?"
Sha's cheeks became red and she looked down. "Yes..." Sha admitted, embarrassed.
All the girls smirked at each other. I knew she'd say yes...I just knew it. It's like me and Eric Cartman, the best couple ever.
Then we heard talking outside. A specific voice...it was Emmy. She was skipping up the pathway with GIR, both of them holding SuckMunkeys. As they skipped together, the lawn gnomes turned to "look" at them. SuckMunkeys were slushies and they tasted pretty good, as we'd all tried them before. The door burst open and Emmy held it open for GIR.
"After you," she kidded. GIR continued to skip through the pathway and Emmy followed suit...but they didn't close the door.
From looking at each other, I knew we girls were all thinking the same thing: Close the door and save Dib from taking those soon-to-be pictures of Zim.
But we didn't want to ruin the show...and so we decided to leave the door open.
Emmy and GIR sat down on the couch together, sucking hard on their straws of their Suck Munkeys. They both had chocolate flavored slushies. GIR sucked so hard, that his face was nearly sucked in.
"So this is their first date?" I asked, jokingly. Emmy and GIR sitting a tree! K-I-S-S-I-N-G! First comes-
The dresser in the room rose up and the floor opened. Out came Zim, without his human disguise. His big magenta eyes and black antenna were fully showing.
"HI ZIM!" Sha waved. "We were not just playing a game of Truth or Dare!"
Zim sighed, and ignored her. We all snickered.
"GIR! You left the door open again! Or was it the Emmy-human? Ugh, sometimes I wish you two had never met; It just causes twice the trouble!"
"We got chocolate bubblegum!" GIR said, not even hearing what Zim had said. He opened his mouth, which was full of the chocolate slushy.
"GIR, with an entire planet of enemies waiting for us to drop our guard, we have to be very careful not to have our guards get all... droppy. Understand?"
GIR and Emmy looked up at the ceiling. Emmy then looked at the door. Grace was there and she was motioning for us to look up at the ceiling. My head moved...slowly turning to the ceiling. And then I saw it. Dib.
Oh gawd.
GIR and Emmy's mouths dropped open.
"I'll take that as a yes. Now I'm going down below to check the laser weasel experiment." Zim shut the door quickly, not even noticing Grace. How un-observant. "I think they're ripe by now!"
I looked at Emmy. She looked back at me and continued sipping her slushy. GIR did the same. Sipping their slushies caused a very annoying sound.
"Computer! Take me to the WEA-sels!" Zim emphasized. Sha swooned.
Zim was about to go down to his base, when he heard a familiar voice. "Wow!"
We all looked up at the ceiling and saw Dib, acting as if we hadn't seen him that first time. A flash of the camera blinded my eyes. I hated when that happened.
"Hey!" Zim looked up at Dib.
"It wasn't me." Dib sounded so obvious.
"Yes it was! Computer! Intruder alert!"
A mechanical arm tried to chase Dib...but Dib had smoother moves than I thought and he made it out the window, which Emmy and GIR left open the whole time.
"Now I have proof, Zim! Photographic evidence!" Dib held up his camera. A lawn gnome started to approach him.
"Soon your Zim guts will be strewn all over an autopsy table." He laughed and jumped out of the way before the lawn gnome could grab him. Then he ran away.
I gave everyone the "O_O" look. Wow...was Dib really that smart?
"You idiots left the window open too!?" Zim said to GIR and Emmy. Emmy looked a bit dismayed but she said "Oh yeaaah!" with GIR.
This was going to be bad.
Emmy's POV
I wasn't really an idiot...was I? Or was I a nerd? I couldn't find a way to describe myself.
I was a generally smart girl. I was in Honor Society, and got very good grades...and awards sometimes. Plus, I'd always been on Honor Roll in middle school. I was acting insane and crazy with GIR, not to impress him, but because I felt comfortable with him and that I could let loose in front of him, that he wouldn't care. He liked me for me, even with the way I looked.
Yesterday morning I had looked in the mirror. My yellow tank top was as cute as ever, my hair looked great in cartoon, and my blue pupils were easily shown...but then there were my glasses that looked big and nerdy and my braces were as revealed as my pupils. I was an over-exaggerated geek!
GIR didn't even seem to care about that. He was perfect and we were already getting along so well.
"Emmy, you gonna finish your chocolate bubblegum?" GIR looked at me expectantly. He had already finished his.
"Actually, I'm full," I said to him, handing over my slushy. "You can have it!"
"YAY! THANKS EMMY!" He hugged me and sipped his SuckMunkey, making an annoying sound, but I didn't care because I was on the couch with Zim's cute little minion and everything was okay.
"I'm doing something about the Dib-human," Zim announced.
Grace glanced at Zim. "What would you be able to do?"
Zim was...a sort of stupid alien. But I knew he was gonna do something.
"Oh you'll see." He started to laugh evilly.
"I'll help!" Sha volunteered.
"Good," Zim said and dragged her down to his base with him.
We left a little later. Sha claimed she was "staying the night" with Zim. I knew they'd be getting in that nano-ship by now.
The next day, at Skool, I sat next to Alyssa and Emily. Sha wasn't here, like two days ago...Oh no, they were probably...I couldn't think about it.
I looked over at Dib's table. He and Gaz and Grace were talking. He took a spoonful of peas. AGAIN, OH NO.
I had to investigate. I tapped Alyssa on the shoulder.
"What's up Emmy?" Lyssa asked.
"We're going over to Dib's later," I said. It would be so interesting to see "NanoZIM" in action.
"NOOOOO!" I could hear some of the girls scream.
I just smiled.
Gina's POV
The doorbell rang as Mica pressed it lightly. Dib opened the door.
"What are you guys doing here?" Dib asked in suspicion. He probably thought that we were there to do something horrible.
"For years, the world has wondered, 'Are there aliens among us?'" I could hear the TV from inside.
"We just wanted to come and hang with ya." Grace emerged from our group of eleven and wrapped her arm around Dib. It seemed to make everything okay, because they walked in together and we followed them and Emmy actually closed the door behind her.
Some of us sat on the couch. Emmy sat next to Gaz. Some of us sat on the floor.
"But we here at Mysterious Mysteries of Strange Mystery have always known the answer to this question. And that answer is a resounding 'maybe.' Which is why, as always, we ask you, our viewers, to help us put an end to this question once and for all."
Janay looked bored out of her mind. "Aliens aren't real. So?"
"Aliens are too real! Zim is one!" Dib retorted.
"Not in real life, they aren't."
Dib looked very curious. He didn't know what Janay was talking about.
"Send us your proof of alien existence, and a sub-address stamped envelope."
We looked at Dib. He was holding an envelope. What was that for? I drank my DP. A nice cherry flavor.
Dib's arms then started wiggling.
"IT'S STARTING!" Emmy exclaimed.
"What? What is?" Dib frowned.
"The invasion of your body!"
"WHAT?!" His arm started bumping into Gaz's head.
"Remember earlier the whole 'bugging me' thing? You're doing it again." Gaz said, easily annoyed.
Grace shrugged. I figured she'd heard that because she sat with Gaz and Dib.
"I'm not doing this, Gaz! I don't have control of my arms!" Dib said back to her.
That's bad. He ended up ripping the envelope in half. Soon we were all fighting and tackling each other, to see who could get the disk off Dib's lap. Only Grace wasn't involved.
Mica got the disk eventually, but then Dani took it. The two started wrestling, but I looked away. I didn't want to see, in case it got bloody. But then I realized, I was Gina Everdeen and I could handle anything. So I looked again.
"I'm letting you live this time, Dib, but only because I'm still getting through this last level." Gaz stood up and walked out of the room, her eyes focused on the screen of her Game Slave. It seemed that the name stayed true to itself...it had turned Gaz into its slace.
"But Gaz!"
Gaz didn't pay attention.
Mica's POV
Dib's arms continued to wiggle on their own. I stood up, letting go of Dani. Then I reached out and grabbed one of Dib's arms. It continued to wiggle in my hand, like a fish that had just been thrown out of the water, without the...water.
We heard static...and turned around. On the TV were Zim and Sha. The lighting was different so Sha was sort of different colored...hard to explain, while Zim's skin was magenta and his eyes were green. Sha and Zim were so close their hips touched.
"Hello, Dib!" Zim grinned.
"What the? Zim! What are you and Sha doing in my TV!?"
"We're not in your TV. We're transmitting from... INSIDE YOUR BODY! Spooky, yes? At this very moment we are inside a microscopic submersible somewhere in your disgusting belly attached to your arm control nerve!"
"I love how you made that up." Sha took the levers and made Dib's arm wiggle so much, that one of them made a cracking sound.
Oooh, that's gotta hurt.
"...Arm control nerve?" Dib asked after the pain stopped.
"Yes, arm control nerve."
"In my... belly?"
"Yes!" Sha and Zim said to Dib.
"Humans don't have arm control nerves!" Dib pointed out.
"Do not question me! We control your arms!" Zim and Sha played with the levers. I bet Emmy wished she had GIR.
"I don't understand, how did you two get inside of me?"
"Are you a moron, Dib?" Sha asked, earning a slight pleased look from Zim.
"No..." Dib said.
"It's quite a funny story. It begins this afternoon in the cafeteria." Zim said. The flashback took place in my head; Zim and Sha in the nano-ship in Dib's food, Dib eating them.
"Now, down to business!" Zim awakened me from my thoughts. Thanks to Zim, Dib crushed his disk. "No!"
Zim just laughed. Then a smile started to form on the paranormal boy's face. "You didn't think I'd send the original disk, did you? That was a copy. Only I know where the original disk is."
Zim laughed again, along with Sha. "Idiotic human. I'll just go to your brain and delete the knowledge of where you hid the master disk. And, as an added bonus, I might as well make your entire brain... not smart...no more. And Sha-human can...do horrible things to you."
"Noooooooo!"
The nano-ship started towards the brain, but Sha continued messing with all parts of Dib's body as they did, like stopping Dib's heart for a second.
"Sha, just stop," Grace warned.
"Fine," Sha whined as Dib left the room.
What was that guy gonna do?
Dib came back with a laptop with a joystick and swallowed a mini nano-ship. "I'm coming, Zim!"
Grace and I moved closer to Dib as he flew his ship. At one point, he saw Irken flags on his body tissue.
"What the? Oh no you don't!"
Dib's nano-ship snuck up behind Zim.
"With Dib turned into a drooling moron, nothing will stand in my way, not even... drool!" Zim said, ecstatic.
Oh, man. Dib was using a sneak attack. Wonderful.
"Guess who's right behind you, Zim," Dib said in a transmission.
Gaz walked in the room, still holding her Game Slave. She saw Dib at the laptop. "Hey, what game is that?"
"This is no game, this is my life!" Dib argued.
"Yeah, it's cool looking, but it still just looks like a game."
Oh, the things she didn't know.
Janay's POV
"You can't beat me, Dib. My piloting skills are unmatched," Zim sneered from the TV.
The look on Sha's face said it all; Whatever Zim says, is always right.
Oh man, Sha is totally head over heels in LOVE.
"Is that Zim? Is this an online game?" Gaz moved closer to the laptop.
"Gaz, please. I need to concentrate." Dib maneuvered his nano-ship through an open section of his body. "Let's see." He pressed a button and an unfamiliar screen was opened.
Wait, were those weapons? Dib would use those?
I watched intently as he chose a grappling hook. "How 'bout this?" He targeted Zim's ship and I could see the grappling hook shoot out of the ship. It didn't cause Zim's ship any harm, like I thought it would. Instead, the thing just bounced off of it. It did make Zim lose control, but only for a second, maybe a milisecond, before Zim just regained control again. "I've been flying ships since before you were born, sad little Earth monkey!" He and Sha teared up Dib's spleen and Sha was laughing in delight the entire time.
"Agghhh, my spleeen!" Dib screamed.
"Now we're in your trachea, Dib. Your brain is so close I can smell it."
"I can't wait!" Sha agreed.
"Can I play?" Gaz asked. What would she do anyway? I wondered if she could play as well as Dib was...if Dib was even playing as well at all.
"Wait a minute. He's in my trachea. Get away from my brain, Zim!" Dib exclaimed to him, ignoring Gaz.
After more attempting from Dib, they both fell down into an open area. Now I started to think that they'd have a wrestling match.
"Enough already! Prepare for some doom!" said Zim. Sha pressed a button and Zim's nano-ship turned into a robot...Oh flip!
"Quarter circle back," Gaz advised.
"What?" Dib was confused as ever.
"The transformation move is always quarter circle back."
Wow, Gaz is a smartie.
Dib followed Gaz's instructions and Dib's nano-ship became a robot also. Sha glowered at Dib.
"When you die, can I play?" Gaz asked again. I realized since Gaz was on her Game Slave twenty-four/seven, she HAD to be good at video gaming. Of course, Gaz would win and Dib would die.
Dib panicked at Zim's nano-bot knocked Dib's into a wall.
"Come on, Dib! Let me play! You're doing it wrong! I could beat him!" Gaz urged and I knew she could.
"No way! He's in my organs! Not yours!"
How could Dib just not let her play? At this rate, Sha was making Zim's nano-bot punch Dib's.
"Quit it! I don't really know the controls yet!" Dib said to Zim and Sha as his armor meter decreased lower...and lower. "Oh no!"
We all rolled our eyes with Gaz. Zim flung Dib's nano-bot at Dib's arm control nerve.
"This is kind of sad, Dib. I will put an end to this now. Sha-human, would you do the honors please?" Zim turned to Sha.
"Of course, Zim." She squeezed a button at the tip of a lever and a spear was launched, right into Dib's arm control nerve. Dib's arms started spazzing again. "Arms... like... noooodlessss!"
And just like that, I saw, Dib had given up. COME ON GAZ! SAVE THE DAY!
Michelle's POV
"Move." Gaz shoved me, and then Dib out of the way. "It's my turn."
In Dib's body, Zim and Sha were making their way to the brain. "Now, let's see where you are keeping the location of the disk, Dib." Zim said. They found the location eventually. "There!"
And then, Dib's memory started to slowly diminish. "He's in my head... knowledge, losing... brain... poop."
Okay, that's just weird.
"I can't remember where the file is! Gaz, he did it! He made me forget!"
"Quiet, Dib!" Gaz continued playing her game.
Gina walked over to me. "Chelle, do you think Zim is being sort of freaky now?"
"Umm...yeah!" I said, obviously. I didn't know which side to choose honestly. Zim? Or Dib? I guess I'd never know.
"And now, to unleash stupidity on your entire brain." Zim chose the maxium "reduce brain power." "From this day forth you will not be a threat to me any-" He was cut off when he saw Dib's bot heading straight for Zim. "The human doesn't know when to quit. I'll finish with the rest of your brain after I deal with your junky... junk thing."
Now Janay and I really sensed a fight.
Gaz shocked Zim and kicked Zim's bot in the head. Twice. He hit the wall and Gaz just kicked him again.
All the while, Dib is screaming about his arms and he rolled off the couch.
I felt like a lucky person not to be him!
"He's not even trying!" Gaz pummeled Zim, while Sha stayed...absolutely calm.
She knocked the bot to the ground and spin-kicked him. The cockpit of the bot rrrriippped off and I knew, Gaz had won. "That game was stupid!" Gaz declared as she left the room.
I wanted to HUG Gaz so much right now.
Zim was badly beaten. Sha was staring at him with so much care.
"Now, for my finishing move!" Dib left the room as well. Emmy, Gina, Mica, Emily, and Annie looked away from the TV.
I heard the toilet flush and on the TV, Sha said, "If Zim goes down, I go down with him. See ya guys later," while smiling. Zim looked at Sha with some appreciation in his features.
They went down. Together.
And FOOTNOTE:
This chappie includes an excerpt from the Invader Zim episode, "NanoZIM."
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