The dragon that used to be Iggnis threw its tail making the gang disperse or duck to not get hit. Wendy jumped with her fang ready only to then be tossed away by the dragon's right hand causing her to also give wolf's yelp.
"WENDY!" Dipper and Mabel shouted her name.
"Bastard!" Tambry hissed and then tried to do ghost stuff by possessing the dragon, for a moment it actually worked as the dragon growled in confusion and kept punching itself as it and the Ghost fought over the body's control which was enough time for others to run toward the scaly creature.
While Dipper went to check on Wendy, Dib dashing toward the dragon with his spider legs activated a grappling gun that shot a fishnet which shot at the dragon, it wasn't big enough to take it wholly as it only took the dragon's right claw.
"Lee! Use the bandages!" Dib shouted to Lee who did as he said by taking one of his bandages and using it like a rope, circling around the dragon's left claw. The dragon finally got his control over his body and shoved Tambry out from its body with a roar, then Mabel shot her grappling hook which hit the dragon on its head making it shriek in pain and the hook reflected by the smack to jump up and then come down over the dragon's snout which the Pines girl took the advantage by swinging the rope and make the hook spin thus the dragon's mouth was shut before it had the chance to breathe fire.
The Dragon tried to move; nevertheless, the bandage and the net on its front limbs caused it to drop which was followed by Wendy with the help of Dipper got up both nodded to each other and they rush with Dipper using his head with his new antlers hit at the dragon's head, leading to a head lock between Dipper and Dragon, both grinding their teeth while Wendy with a wolf's growl hopped above its head and began punching it with an onslaught and thanks to being an orange werewolf no longer a human with only her red hair being the only thing that left her already lumberjack strength only got enhanced making each punch powerful enough to break concrete.
To add more pain to the dragon, Gaz lept and with a savage kick hit it on its left leg and his right leg was then bitten by Gir making the dragon growl in pain.
Robbie and Nate tried to join in after much reluctance in facing a dragon; however, they then fell apart with Nate losing his right leg detached from the rest of its skeleton body causing him to trip and hit Robbie which led to Robbie de-attaching his right foot as well and fall with Nate.
Having enough, the dragon shoved Dipper away with a push on its head, freed its front hands with from the net and bandage, next used its own hands to free its jaw while its tail swung around behind him, which hit Gaz away into a tree making her grunt and the foot that was still being bitten by Gir stomped the ground making Gir lose his grip and fall back.
The dragon now freed, roared and its two wings began to flap to take off.
"STOP HIM! He's getting away!" Zim ordered the gang to do so thinking himself as the one in authority, the rest were too busy to care about his delusion.
"Not on my Grappling hook." Mabel retracted her hook and then shot again, this time getting stuck on the dragon's dorsal plate from its tail.
Subsequently, as the dragon started flying she could hold the grappling hook as she began feeling like she was no longer on the ground as she was moving side by side.
"OOH! WOAH! SNAAAP!- !" she exclaimed loudly, seeing this Dipper rushed in and with the now re-assembled Robbie and Nate, Lee, Wendy and Gaz went helping her in keeping the dragon grounded.
Zim in the typical Zim fashion instead of helping was trying to encourage morale.
"PUSH! PUSH THOSE STRAWS! PUSH THOSE STRAWS! PUSH IT LIKE YOU WANTED NOTHING MORE IN YOUR MISERABLE LIVES UNTIL IT SQUEEEEEAK!" To top it off, he made weird gestures with his hands which only served to make things weirder.
"STOP MAKING IT WEIRD!!!" Robbie in dismay howled, everyone but Zim and the ever oblivious Gir was now feeling dirty.
Eventually the dragon overpowered the ground and it took off flying away by rocketing while the gang hung for their dear lives(In some cases unlives) on the grappling hook's rope still connected to the dragon.
Zim starred as the dragon and others flew away "Well, that happened, they didn't want it enough." He looked away and saw Gir on all four eating grass.
"GIR!"
The goblin got up, spat the grass in his mouth and cheerfully said "Yes masta!" he saluted as well.
"Follow the scaly beast and carry me! Human legs are too average for my superior being!" he gestured to his human legs with both hands to make a point.
Gir did as he was told and carried Zim on his shoulder while Zim locked his arms and looked dignified being carried on shoulders by Gir who didn't mind it at all, despite no longer being a robot Gir still was ridiculously strong despite his small size and he was fast too.
Back in the sky, the gang were shrieking.
"I DIDN'T THINK THIS THROUGHHHHHAAAAHH!" Mabel screamed when on the way the group passed a few tree branches, afterwards they now wooden with leaves and branches with Mabel screamed out. "WHOSE IDEA WAS THIS!?
"MAAAAABEL!" Everyone else shouted on who was the obvious perpetrator of this situation.
Meanwhile, they saw Tambry following them despite not holding on the rope, in fact she was floating.
"HOW ARE YOU FOLLOWING US?!" Thompson cried out.
"Duh, I'm a ghost." Tambry answered matter-of-factly, her matter-of-fact face changed when she saw what was on the way "WATCH OUT!"
They looked and saw that was, that being the dragon with a swing flow up higher and spinning around in its attempt to drop the unwanted passengers away.
Some yelled when they lost their grip including Dib who then activated his spider legs but couldn't reach and thought he was done for until his sister grabbed his right front spider limb while with the other hand with the help of Wendy holding on one of the dragon's dorsal plat.
"I'VE GOT YOU IDIOT!" Membrane girl shouted, Dib seeing others that being Lee, Thompson and Mabel were falling and screaming he used his other spider legs to grabbed them, though his spider limbs didn't have claws or hands but a sharp tip so instead he used them to slam them in uppy position for them to grab which they did.
"Where's Dipper!?" Mabel asked in immense worry and they comprehended that Dipper wasn't there and they thought he fell only to see him now on the dragon's snoot, likely during the swinging and flying and then dropping a few altitudes Dipper with a dumb luck managed to fall and grab right on the Dragon's snout. The said scaly beast was not happy glaring at Dipper who nervously waved at him thus the dragon opened its mouth spitting fire while shaking his head trying to get the pest off or burn him as the Pines boy held on to his dear life.
Dib, seeing his best friend threaten, roared "GET OFF MY PARTNER!" blasters came and he shot at the dragon burning holes at its wings making it unable to fly and howl in pain.
With the holes still burning on the dragon's wings it caused the fire breathing flying reptile to fall, no longer being able to fly and as it howled in pain everyone exclaimed at this development.
"PREPARE FOR A BAD LANDING!" Wendy shouted to everyone to get ready.
Indeed it was a bad landing as the dragon fell on the streets of Gravity Falls' town with the people around seeing a literal dragon was falling down, dispersed and running to not get squished.
Subsequently, the gang dropped as well with some rolling around on the ground making the group groan in pain as they tried to get up.
Valentino got up and blankly stated with an annoyed dead look.
"And just like that, I feel like whatever animosity I used to have on Dipper should have been put on a brat far more deserving." He scorned finding a new hatred for this 'Iggnis' guy. Just then, his right hand fell off "Oh not again!" The emo whined as he held his now disarmed hand.
Nate was even worse "Wish it was only dismemberment my problem is now, I'm split in a million pieces!" Nate groused and indeed being a skeleton he was now in pieces with all his bones separated from each other.
As the group struggled and got up with Thompson and Lee helping to re-assemble Nate back with a little help of himself, so did the dragon while roaring in hostility toward them.
"Ah this sucks." Lee in exhaustion sighed seeing the dragon now up and ready for another round.
Dipper who was helping Dib to get up looked and saw the amulet now around Iggnis' neck so they shared twin looks at each other knowing what to do.
"We have to…get the amulet off." Dipper noted.
"Iggnis used it to turn into a dragon by commanding it, I don't think that jerk's would deserve to be a dragon." Dib deducted.
Lee snorted in agreement "Yeah dude, otherwise emo dead inside over here would become a valiant emo griffin instead of a walking dead."
"Yeah, why not ridicule me while we are likely to be Dragon kebab food." Robbie was annoyed that even in this situation he was being shot at and sneered.
That was when Tambry reached "Oh thank digital heaven, I thought you guys were goners!" she sighed in relief despite being a ghost with no physical form.
"Yeah, we aren't doing hot here anyway, screen addicts." Gaz grumbled as she spinned her right arm a bit.
"Says the gamer who had to get a time limit by her daddy." Mabel jested which Gaz did not receive well.
"I swear, if we survive you blubbering pompous sweater manic, I will- !"
"Can we stop bickering while there is an elephantine problem in the room!?" Wendy ended the bickering with a wolf bark gesturing at the dragon who now got up and breathed fire to the sky in intimidation.
Afterwards, it with its fangs and claws ready dashed toward the group on all four prompting the group to yell and charge at him as well with Wendy with her ax, Robbie with his disarmed arm, Dipper with his deer horns, Dib on his Spider Legs, Mabel with her grappling hook and funny enough Nate though in his case it was his lower half while his head and upper bodies were still scattered on the street.
The two sides reached and it was a brawl, Iggnis with his tail turned the half down moving skeleton body of Nate into dispersed bones so as Robbie, though in his case into many body parts of his rotten corpse body.
"AW COME ON!" Robbie whined now sharing Nate's predicament now was a disembodied head.
"Welcome to the club dude." Nate grumbled.
Tambry went with a dash and was trying to try in possessing Iggnis again but the dragon had enough of her, she was a ghost and he couldn't physically hurt him yet when she tried to do so the amulet this time seem made an invincible barrier that turned green upon contact and pushed her away with a surge of green electricity as she fell and due to her intangible tossed deep in the ground, not to mention despite being a incorporeal being she felt pain and was knocked down for the moment.
Lee having bandages around was stuck with the bandages stuck on a bush on his way making him useless in this fight "Oh man…" He groaned, it wasn't even just one, a lot of his bandages were stuck at the bush and he now had to get them out, being a mummy is not as great as the ancient Egyptians thought.
Thompson being a Frankestein's monster was super strong and was actually able to hold Iggnis back only for the dragon to heat up his own scale making him cry out and leave the lock struggling as Thompson tried to keep his hands cool down.
Wendy managed to cause a slash on the dragon's right arm but not fatal so the dragon in response smacked her with the said arm away making Wendy let out a wolfish groan.
Gaz was caught by the dragon's left arm and the dragon looked at her particularly with malice, she struggled and even bite but it was no effect and the dragon was opening his mouth now smoking with fire ready to burn her to ashes.
Just then, Mabel shot her grappling hook which stuck on the amulet's chain, with the help of her brother they pushed and managed to rip the chain and take the amulet away. The fire breathing beast was caught off guard and Gaz used his surprise to snatch the amulet mid-air.
"CATCH!" the purple gremlin tossed it away making the dragon in response throw her away and jump to catch it; nevertheless, his hands were too big so it slipped away and as it fell to Thompson who caught it and then passed it by throwing it far to Dipper seeing the dragon literally was jumping at him making him cry out in surprise and at the same time duck to not get squashed, the flying amulet Mabel tried to get but it only hit her tank making it reflect back and thus get stuck on Dipper's right deer horn.
Dipper before even having the time to grab the amulet seeing the charging scaly beast his deer instinct kicked in and ran fast and in doing so he swung his horn and by doing so the amulet was once again thrown away at Dib's direction who was following. "CATCH IT!" Dipper shouted to Dib and he in response jumped his spider legs to catch the amulet, unfortunately the Dragon by one flap of his wings managed to dash fast and grabbed both Dib and the amulet from one hand to another.
Iggins, now tired of this fight, could have breathed fire and killed them all but nooo he wanted to personally break them and toy with them and for that they continue being pests. He decided that play time was over and thought killing Gaz's brother in front of her was a good way to take revenge so he opened his jaws of sharp teeth getting closer to the panicking and grunting Dib who was struggling desperately thinking he was doomed.
"HEY!"
Someone dared to interrupt making Iggnis to look at his right seeing Zim sat on a tired and panting Gir who then fell on the ground from front being a robot not familiar with the fatigues of an organic body; however, Zim still sitting on the exhausted threaten the scaly beast with his secret weapon pointed at him "HE IS MY ARCH ENEMY TO DESTROY! GET YOUR OWN REPTILIAN FIRE BAT!" Zim with a stick threatened and declared, the dragon looked and he was amused at the absurdity that he, a fire breathing mythical monster is being threatened with a stick by a mere human.
GREHEHAHAH!
He let out a growled that sounded like laughter, there was no way a mere human with a stick would threaten him, he was the greatest gamer in the world no way-
The stick Zim threw and it hit right on his right eye.
Growl!
Iggnis growled in pain and in doing so he unintentionally tossed the amulet which Zim saw and quickly jumped and rolled over in doing so to reach faster. Despite his inferior human body compare to his Irken form he was still an Invader trained in the academy to be Irken Empire's weapon trained in grueling simulations, hazardous environments and facing dangerous flora and fauna in Irken gladiator pitts so, despite his now human limitations, he managed to muster enough to reach and take the amulet before it was dropped to the ground.
"ZIM! Order the amulet to change Iggnis back!" Dipper shouted to him, Dragon seeing this, snarled and started heating its mouth to spat fire on Zim, but the almighty Zim reacted fast and as he held the amulet with his left hand he ordered it to work.
"BY THE POWER OF THE TALLESTS, I SPITE AT THEE!" Zim's command was done as the amulet charged with a green hue and shot a blast of green energy hitting the dragon.
" AAAAAAAAAH!" the scaly beast screeched with a deafening howl as the green energy enveloped him like electricity.
"HAHAHAHAHAHA!" Zim in contrast was laughing maniacally as he held the amulet like a mad scientist taking pleasure in his experiment victim's agony.
The scales changed mammalian, the size was shrinking, the wings were reverse growing and the reptilian eyes turned human-looking as the dragon shrunk and changed until the green glow finally gave way, leaving a disoriented Iggnis now back to his human form who then fell back knocked out by this sudden burst of energy.
Dib, now free of Iggnis' hold on the ground on four in bafflement, looked at Zim as Zim came closer to him.
"You…saved me… why?" utter disbelief came as he couldn't believe his mortal enemy was willing to save him.
Zim came down on his knee with an uncharacteristically serious and sagey expression and said the reason why "Mmm, Monke." that caused Dib's face to go down and stupefied, making Zim wheeze in laughter as he pointed a finger at his deadpan face.
"Bwahahaha! BRILLIANT! THAT WAS BRILLIANT!" He kept laughing with a finger pointed at Dib enjoying how he flat footed Dib making him sputter and then grumbled as he locked arms with a glare at Zim.
Mabel was coming with Dipper and others, she was the first one to congratulate him "You did it! I knew there was good in ya!" Zim hissed at that response which she paid no mind to.
Tambry who has returned to the depths of Earth complimented the Invader "Not bad, not bad at all."
Wendy shoveled Zim's hair playfully to his annoyance "You're not so bad after all Bug Boy."
"It's lord Zim, your future ruler Tall Orangutan!" Zim spat which the gang found adorable to his vexation.
Robbie, still trying to re-assemble himself, called the gang "A little help, please?"
Wendy, Thompson, Tambry and the now freed Lee came to help him, though they were not gonna enjoy touching dead tissue.
Dipper, along with Dib recalling Zim still holding the amulet looked at Zim a bit worried that he would do something, Dipper gradually came trying to keep his neutral expression and asked "Uh, Zim? Would you mind giving me the glowing hazardous artifact to me?"
Zim paid no mind and still stared at the green amulet still glowing as possibilities came around his mind on what he can do with it, he could turn the entire human race into pathetic worms in the truest sense, make a legion of monsters to do his bidding in his conquest of this mudball and even better! The Tallest would want this because with this they can turn every sentient race they come across into true Irkens! Oooh a universe where only Irkens exist as the only sentient race as they show other repulsive xenos the glorious chance of becoming Irkens themselves! Oooh the possibilities- !
Wait a moment…as long as the amulet exists and if its secrets are attained, there will always be a possibility of this knowledge to be used against his supreme race and turn the whole Irken Empire into disgusting lower life just like himself becoming a victim of this thing! And even if not, the Irkens as a race would no longer be unique and thus deprived of their right to gloat over the inferior races, what kind of Irken Zim would be if he did that!?!?
"Here, take it and get away with it!" Zim immediately reacted and threw the amulet to Dipper's hand who in surprise catched it while doing so, nearly dropping it.
Groan.
A groan was heard belonging to someone, that someone being Iggnis who no longer unconscious got up having the mother of all headaches, he as he got up met with the glares of the gang of monsters.
" Grrrrrr!" Gaz growled with narrowed murderous reptilian eyes glared at Iggnis.
Robbie now re-assembled fisted one hand.
Wendy was making noises with her knuckles as she growled wolfishly.
Tambry looked like an avenging ethereal banshee screeched and morphed demonically.
Thompson uncharacteristically looked serious with a deep frown.
Dipper made the sound of an angry elk.
The re-assembled Nate was holding his detached left arm with his right arm and was gonna use it like a bat.
Lee looked with menacingly dead eyes.
Mabel was shaking her head with a grim look that said 'You're goofed.'
'Oh dung.' Iggnis understood that he indeed was goofed as the shadow of the coming monsters came on him.
Moments later…
"Hurry up dude, I don't think I can't have bandages all round my body anymore!" Lee pleaded with Dipper who with little to no success kept trying to order the amulet to change everyone back with no success.
"THIS inglorious form is seething Zim maaaaaaad!" Zim was tearing his human hair as he hissed.
"WHY HUMANS HAVE SO MANY HAIR ON THE HEAD!?" Zim cried out in bruised Irken supremacy.
"I'm trying, but it doesn't seem to work." Dipper kept trying and ordering it so he decided to change strategy and focus on it, harder, harder and now harder as his face wrinkled and made grunting noises.
Gaz cringed at the face Dipper was making and ordered him "Stop it, you look like you're having a constipation." that made Mabel snicker while Dipper looked blankly.
"Maybe it needs an emotional discharge to do so?" Dib hypothesized.
Robbie scoffed "Well you better work fast, because I think I lost a couple of pounds during all this with parts I didn't know I had."
"Gir likes being a real boy!" Gir cheerfully added.
"No Gir! You're already a pain to my existence, Zim does not need an organic defected SIR unit to worry about!" Zim snapped at Gir.
"Aw."
Wendy was feeling weird as she struggled to articulate the words for it "I don't think I can hold much longer dude…I think…I'm having these predatory instincts demanding me to hunt and howl in the pale moonlight and…" She then sniffed at Dipper.
Sniff
"I feel hungry, and you smell appetizing…" Wendy said in tranced manner and alarmingly she look like she was drooling wolfish with predatory teeth visible while Dipper not only blushed but also his deer senses went on full alarm as he froze like a deer on headlight feeling the gaze of a hungry predator and taking him every self control not to run like a deer, it an experience of… conflicting emotions.
Gaz snapped her finger near Wendy's face getting her out of her animalistic trance.
The Corduroy as she blinked in confusion asked "Huh? What was I saying again?" Her question was not answered as everyone was looking at her in apprehension except for Gir who was oblivious to all of this and Gaz still having her straight face.
That was enough of an emotional discharge for Dipper as he panically ordered the amulet "Change back, NOW!"
A green wave came and reverted everyone back to their original form.
"YES!" Wendy cheered.
Dipper sighed in relief.
"I'M BACK BABY!" Mabel cried out in relief
"We're back!" Nate was glad to no longer being a skeleton
"Woohoo!" Lee cheered and high fived with Nate.
"I will never make fun of ghosts ever again." Tambry was happy she was back in flesh, not an incorporeal specter.
"OH thank God I didn't miss any pieces of myself!" Robbie sighed in relief as he checked around his body.
"Gir is a fake boy now!" Gir now a robot wearing his fake green dog clothes cheered with hands up.
As everyone cheered that they were back to normal, Zim in huge relief held around his original body as he checked and made sure he was indeed back as an Irken and then guffawed "OOH THANK THE CLOUD PIGS! ZIM MISSED YOU! ZIM WILL NEVER TAKE YOU FOR GRANTED!" He then began kissing his own fingers, arms, shoulders and continued kissing every part of his body which he could reach, finding a new appreciation for his Irken form.
The Membranes gagged at the sight of Zim's narcissism.
"Ah sick!" Dib expressed his disgust and reeled back his face wrinkled hard at that with his teeths visible.
"There's self love, and there's self love." Gaz, sharing her brother's disgust, started with grinded teeths and they were not the only ones as the others looked appalled and cringed hard.
Fortunately, Zim stopped doing that as a development came as clapping sounds came in, town residents came in near and they were clapping and cheering at them.
Wendy's gang predictably were enjoying this attention and exaggerating a few details so did Mabel, the town residents found Gir adorable and mistaken him as young kid cosplaying as a dog instead of a real dog or a robot wearing clothes and Gir indeed too was enjoying the attention, Dipper and Dib awkwardly shaking hands not expecting this and ZIm was the one who was confused by all this especially why he seemed to be at the center of the attraction.
"Eh? What's going on? Why am I being surrounded?" Zim was puzzled that humans seemed to form around him with cheers.
Mabel snorted "Isn't it obvious Zimmy? You're a hero now."
Those words rang inside Zim's mind like an echo in a deep cave as a horrible realization came to his mind.
Purple dramatically gasped with a hand up on his face while the other hand pointed accusingly.
"Oh what a tragedy! Such betrayal! Our greatest Irken has fallen so low in becoming the primitive's champion!
The crowd gives a collective gasp with Zim in the middle of the trial now looking very worried about his life.
Red angrily dripping with betrayal snarled "You broke your oath to us and the Empire, for that you are to be PUNISHED!"
"Nono my Tallest WAIT, THIS IS A MISUNDERSTAND- !" Too late, the machine plug plugged on his Pak and held him up and whatever technobabble de-programing it did caused Zim to become a drooling vegetable after a brief electrified tremble.
Red in a distasteful tone then ordered what Zim's punishment will be "Now, you gonna get back to your re-exile on Foodcourtia for the rest of your sad existence as a mindless delivery drone in the most greasiest and unhygienic allies- "
ROAR!
A giant worm came down from the pit and ate Zim wholly and went back to the abyss that it came from.
Neither Purple or Red reacted only with Purple saying "Oh wait, never mind that works too."
That imaginarily caused ZIm to get out of his trance and to his immense horror, he was currently being moved by Wendy's gang as they cheered for him along with the other residents of the town from his back like a rock star.
"UNHAND ME! STOP PRAISING ME! I'M YOUR DOOM NOT YOUR SAVIOR! NOOOOO!" Zim cried out loudly in dismay as he was being cheered and taken by the masses.
Dipper, seeing this commented "Welp…guess universe has an ironic sense of humor to make Zim the invader working for an evil galactic empire seen as hero, is that right Dib?" He glanced back and saw the Membrane boy not responding. "Dib? Dib??"
The big headed boy looked like he was on the verge of tears as if he just received a religious epiphany.
"This is the closest thing I ever had for a thank you." He sniffed and slightly hiccuped. And to make it even more awkward he then out of nowhere hugged the surprised Dipper and cried on his shoulder hard.
Dipper absolutely had no idea how to deal with this as he was completely stupefied by this, the only thing he could think of doing was patting Dib on his back.
'Ooooh man.' the Pines boy thought.
It did not help that everyone could see this, Wendy was smirking and with Mabel being amused and was whispering in a low tone teasing "broooomance!" and then taking a picture so did Tambry, Wendy gave an amused smirk with an eyebrow and Gaz looked like she expected this to happen with a expectled look betraying no emotions.
Gir came in and asked Dipper for the amulet "me, me, let me destroy it Harry!" He mistaken Dipper's name with Harry just as he does with Dib calling him Mary.
Dipper, still being used as an emotional hug by Dib, sighed and gave the amulet to Gir who then devoured it wholly.
Afterwards, Gir suddenly inflated with the sound of an explosive from his inside, but whatever oddity that was his robotic anatomy prevented that as he then reverted back normal with green smoke coming from his mouth and caressed his own stomach "Yummy!" The amulet was no more.
On the other side, Iggnis now wrapped in bandages naked with only his underwear was hanged from a light lamp street with a red glove on his head to make him resemble an ugly featherless rooster struggled and muffled unable to say anything with his mouth tied for the public to see and to make it even more humiliating there was sign on his back that said 'Kick Me!' which encouraged a bunch of Summerween kids to kick him with sticks like he was a human pinata to Iggnis' utter dismay.
Back in the motel….
"Tch, now that's just crazy talk." Dib tsked with a haughty tone and replied making his Skoolmates utterly flabbergasted when Dib supposedly came in and heard them talking about monsters coming from the woods and terrorizing them and not believing it.
"I mean, all types of paranormal creatures in the same place at the same time in a knock off Halloween? Forgive me but that sounds more like a fanfiction made by an overly imaginative dude." he shrugged nonchalantly adding more to the growing stupidification and soon immense frustration of his Skoolmates.
Zita's befuddlement soon turned into an annoyance as she looked at him with a defeated look and sighed "...you're enjoying this aren't you?"
"A bit presumptuous based on no evidence don't you say? And they call me crazy." Despite Dib's poker face, smugness was radiating from him enjoying the schadenfreude of no longer being the 'crazy paranormal conspiracy obsessed guy' of the Skool. Even Gaz was giving an amused smirk.
It was clear for the Skool students that this was payback from the Membranes for all the mockings they received from them to their immense exasperation and worse? No one else would believe them so unless they wanted to also be called crazy they couldn't do anything, they did tried to get help from the teachers but Mr Elliot was found fainted from seeing a leech feasting upon him so he didn't see all of that and Miss Bitters said something along the line of an indifferent grunt and "Everything is doomed, so why it even matters?" but more detailed and a lot more nihilistic.
Jessica twitching snarled and pointed at a very not so inconspicuous Zim "But what about him!? He just showed up after a WHOLE YEAR disappeared to who knows where in the middle of the monster attacks! He was there!"
Zim, less subtle in showing his smugness, denied that with a wave of his hand.
"Nope! Don't recall it! You probably mistaken me for my uglier hideous cousin Dimmy! Or Dim was it? Who by the way is an absolute freak!" He then half whispered to Jessica "He has stalking syndrome." Jessica growled in vexation and shoved the very satisfied Zim away as she moved away so as the rest of the defeated Skoolmates.
Dib knew Zim was doing a shot at him by using the first letter of his name instead of his own, while insulting him but he was enjoying the schadenfreude too much to care.
Any person who says Revenge doesn't feel great is a loser.
'Best. Halloween Knockoff. EVER!' He thought as he beamed, as traumatic as changing species and nearly getting killed by a dragon, those pale in comparison to finding real new friends, being finally appreciated and getting back at his Skoolmates.