In the Zim's new beautiful base, screams could be heard of a female human upon encountering three goat-looking Gremlins reverberating across the hallway.
Inside, a very scared Melody who was breathing shaken was running from the said goat gremlins, on her way she jumped inside a half closed container. She as he was inside from the half closed door looked and saw the three little monsters stopped looking around, one of them the one with the Sheriff hat got dangerously closed only for the sound of something clunking distracted all three.
Clank!
They upon hearing that thinking that was their newest prey rushed in to see where that was as they giggled maliciously. That made Melody exhale loudly in relief, her relief was short when someone behind her came, held her and her mouth making her struggle and tried to cry out especially considering what grabbed her behind was some human mannequin with a disturbing smile.
"Calm down, female human! you'll alert them to our presence!" the mannequin said in a rather robotic voice that didn't seem to belong to it, Melody did as she was told by shutting down and stopped struggling, the mannequin then gently removed its hand from her mouth and its hold on her and then moved back. Now that Melody had a better look she could confidently say the mannequin robot humanoid was even more disturbing than she thought, it was some sort of robot supposedly made to look like a male human adult with a pipe on his mouth and from the looks of it, it suffered decay with its fake skin some parts wearing off like damaged paper and had clanking robot hands.
"I have managed to distract them, hopefully their timer will be done and revert back to their natural form."
"Who..who are you?" she carefully asked
"I'm this bases' computer, the Vortian offsprings damaged parts of my interconnected circuitry so I had to use one of Zim's roboparents in order to communicate with you."
"Vortian offsprings… those are the kids!?!" Melody nearly shouted in exclaim at the revelation.
"Yeah, they got bored so they changed to their feral form. And don't worry, your other human companions along with the arbiter forces are fine…ish, though likely traumatized."
"You telling me… all of these were because they were…BORED!?" Melody choked at what she just heard, unable to believe the absurdity of what she was hearing.
"Yeeeeep." the Computer rather blankly told her.
"But- what- how- WHY!?'' She desperately tried to comprehend all of this.
"Vortian ancestors used to have a predator that specifically feed on their youngs, thus they developed this self-defense mechanism as a deterrent for whenever one of their offsprings were kidnapped, so imagine how my Irken masters found it the hard way when they tried separating their youngs from their biological parents, a whole concentration camp revolt happened because of that with zero Irkens survive the onslaught!"
Melody felt almost hysterical and was gonna press further only for the Computer to stop her as he looked to the other side to its right.
"Ah, they seem finally tired."
The robo then moved and got out which Melody wanted to object but the Computer simply gestured her to follow it.
They got out and as she followed the robo they reached a room where they saw what the Computer talked about. Inside the room was the three goat gremlins; however, they were different, their horns got smaller so as their size and their intimidating visage was no more looking cute as they slept on each other, Melody would have found it adorable if she wasn't so baffled by such an anticlimactic end.
MMMPH! MUUF!
That draw her attention and she looked and gasped at what she saw; a table having pots kettles and cups around on the said table like it was a tea party except for some reason having bananas, fruits and veggies inside the pots with toys around on the seats from plushi to teddy bear and a car toy and there were lo behold the Stans and the sheriff as well tied and their mouths closed by a fabric mumbling unintelligently to Melody to free them and they looked utterly ridiculous; Stanley had a head dress with makeup on his face looking like a maiden, Stanford was dressed as a blue princess with a tiara even and Durland and Blubs looked like a British cops with even their long hats.
As Melody looked and tried to absorb the hilarity and insanity of all of this asked rather reluctantly "This…happened before?"
"The offsprings going rabid part or the part they kidnap humans to play with them?" the Computer asked for clarification. "On second thought, I don't even wanna know." Melody groaned in exhaustion and sat back on the ground, she was not made for crazy adventures.
Mmmfffpf!
"Yes…yes, I will untie you." Melody still on the ground feeling drained, stated.
The gang were now behind a bush observing the motel place where the Skool mates reside which was now decorated with Summerween jack o' melons and decorations with the Skool kids themselves outside to celebrate.
Dib was grinning almost deranged, no longer having any doubt in this plan and Zim was barely containing his evil giggling as he held his hands like a cartoon villain with hands rubbing.
"Ohohoho I can't wait to take my revenge for all the humiliations and suffering I had to get just to infiltrate this cesspool of a rock, Zim will enjoy this!" He tried to get out before he was stopped by Mabel.
"Love the enthusiasm but you can't go there to scare them."
"Eh? Why so Dib Clone Girl?"
Instead of the Pines girl it was Gaz who answered him with a snort "In case you forgot Space boy, you're a human now, nothing scary about ya anymore.
"My condition IS scary!" the Irken stated in outrage.
"Yeah, scary for you." Dipper commented.
"Sorry green man, but you're no longer scary material." Wendy intervened. "That also reminds me, Dip and Mabel are still half human so you can't come in too."
"Why not!?" Mabel whined.
Her brother was the one who elaborated to her "Because Mabel, in case you forgot we are the most human looking with only our lower half changed."
Mabel with a pout resigned and locked her arms, not liking that she is not gonna be a part of the fun.
Zim, ever the thick skulled egomaniac he was, was not having it "I show YOU scary! I show you all scary!" He then marched away from the bush to the open environment with determination for a futile effort.
"Zim wait, don't be stupid." Dib and Zim to stop.
Gaz told her brother to not bother "Let him go, he's just gonna embarrass himself."
"I know that feeling." Thompson sighed as he too was subjected to embarrassing situations making his friends wince a bit.
Zim jumped on a table taking the people around it by surprise as he then did an over exaggeration of a human how "RAAAH! AAAH!" He made sure to show his now real human teeths hearing once that mammals considering showing teeths as a sign of aggression from a documentary "BEHOLD THE HORRORS OF HUMANITY!" the used to be Irken then opened his mouth by using his hands hold it gape to show all of his teeths and then start moving his jaw as in he was trying to bite something.
To ZIm's surprise and to the gang's unsurprised look none of the Skoolmates were scared of him, some either ignored him while others looked at him oddly.
"Are you even trying dude?" Brian with his perpetual Bored face said.
"Eh?" The Invader stopped and puzzled by this lackluster reaction.
"That's the best you can come up with to scare us? Doing nothing in your get up after disappearing for a year?" Jessica sneered.
"What are you even supposed to be? You look like a mis-gendered femboy with a school girl uniform out of an anime." Poonchy wondered with an odd look.
"IT'S NOT A SKIRT! Why does everyone keep saying that!?!?!" Zim was beginning to be irritated that everyone kept saying his uniform is a skirt.
"Is okay, we accept you the way you are." Zita said, the fact that she seemed genuine only made Zim more baffled and angrier.
"You do look less ugly with cosmetics now that you changed your look." Gretchen in genuine support told him, making him foam at this point.
"ZIM'S PREVIOUS FORM WAS BEAUTIFUL!" He snapped in indignation.
What followed was Zim screeching at the apathetic and clueless Skool mates as the gang saw, it did not help that he then attempted to scare them again by making faces and monkey moves with his 'horrible human form' as if it was a chimpanzee trying to intimidate a bunch of his own kind, Zim should have learned that for how closely related chimps and humans are they are not the same thing.
Gaz, unimpressed, said "This is just sad."
"Tell me about it." Tambry agreed.
"Well, can't say he isn't anything but determined." Dipper noted blankly.
"What was the definition of insanity again?" Dib sarcastically added.
Wendy sighed "Oh for Lumberjack god's sake- " She then jumped out of the bush and roared.
ROAR!
The Skool mates upon seeing a werewolf suddenly came and gave a mighty roar causing them to cry out in shock and terror and ran away.
And that was the clue to start the terrorizing as the gang came from their hiding place to do with the first that came after Wendy being Gaz who was purple gremlin managed to scare the Skoolmates further with a low growl and her mere reptilian appearance.
Zim willfully ignoring that Skool mated were scared of others, not him gloating "Who's the scared worm now!?"
Dib awkwardly worked his Irken legs to walk to follow others and asked Zim.
"Zim! How do I do the thing?"
"The thing?"
"How do I activate the spider legs?"
The Invader scoffed "How do you activate your biological legs and arms? That way Dib Worm!"
Taking his advice, Dib frowned and concentrated and then 4 robot spider legs came from his Pak which caused him to go up and make him startled and walk awkwardly, not used to having his body above the ground and having 4 extra limbs to stand on.
Finally getting the balance, Dib then announced himself loudly.
"I AM uh…DIZ!" Zim's expression went blank at that "I CAME TO CONQUER AND MAKE A COUCH MADE OF FROZEN AGONIZING HUMANS!" Dib then moved with his mechanically limbs and scared a bunch including Peyoopi, Spoo and Carl who were now running away from the spider mantis alien.
"I WILL HARVEST ALL YOUR ORGANS AND REPLACE THEM WITH BALONEYS!"
Zim glared knowing his arch enemy was mocking him, seeing this as a shot at him he decided to periodically move his limbs and return the favor.
"Ooooh look! I'm a big headed stupid human larva who likes ghosties and has an unhealthy stalking obsession with an absolutely fabulous and mighty alien invader!"
Predictably, Dib was more enraged by the assumption that he had a big head than all the other things.
"MY HEAD IS NOT BIIIIIIIIIIIG!" and when enraged, two blasters came in from his Pak and shot blasts, one causing a series of jack o' lantern melons to explode while the other set Melvin's witch hunting hat on fire making him exclaim.
"NOOO MY HEAD SMELLS DELICIOUS!" Melvin runs and jumps inside a pond to not get burned.
Dib stood awkwardly understanding what he unintentionally did in his outrage "...Oops." he simply said, funny enough, that made the Skoolmates more terrorized than his Invader Zim act.
Inside one of the rooms, Mr Elliot rushed to Miss Bitters' room and uninvited he rushed and opened the room.
"MISS BITTER!" he cried out.
" Yes?" a venomous female voice answered and Mr Elliot screamed at what he saw.
"AAAH!" He screamed and tried hiding his face as he saw the most horrible thing possible, Miss Bitters in a towel with a green wax on her face and there were leeches around her face as she was sitting on a couch reading a book titled 'Spoil the Child, Spare the rod.'.
"This better be good." she hissed back.
Mr Elliot managed to regain his composure then said what he had come to say "M-miss Bitters! Something terrible is happening to the children!"
Miss Bitter briefly hummed and listened with her ears and indeed she heard children screaming "Hmm, music to my ears." Miss Bitter went back to read her book, apathetic to what was happening outside.
Mr Elliot gasped at her lackluster reaction then began to speak "Miss Bitters, as a teacher like me you- " before he could finish Miss Bitters took one of the leeches on her face and throw it at him which it then began to suck on Mr Elliot's neck making him scream in panic and run away as he tried to get the blood sucker out until he hit the wall and fell unconscious.
"Thought he would never shut up." Miss Bitters turned the next page as he stated apathetically.
Back outside, somehow, Torque Smackey and Wendy Corduroy were now on a table doing a 'who is the strongest' match by matching their strength with hands holding each other trying to put each other 's hands down. After much grunting, Wendy became victorious as the winner by putting her opponent's hand down being the stronger, making Torque cry out in dismay.
"NOOOOO!"
Gir who was now a goblin with his teeths laughed like a lunatic following a very scared Tae as he was running away with his dear life. "AM GONNA EAT YA! AM GONNA EAT YA!"
Thompson kept apologizing as he unintentionally was wrecking stuff thanks to his size and strength though unheard from the screaming and running Alex and Blobby.
Zim desperately made crazed looks with his eyes and mouths to get anyone scared "Fear me! Fear the hideousness of my eyes!" He then had his pupils up to make it look like his eyes went pupil-less with hands up moving slowly like a zombie.
One of the running Skoolmates stopped midway and immediately changed 180 from scared to unimpressed and said to Zim "You're just embarrassing yourself."
The Letter M deadpane stated after which he then reverted back to a scared mood and screamed as he ran away.
Zim's shoulder slouched down as he looked defeated, looking around as others had far more success in terrorization than him, making him grumble. Zim might find his position scary, but other kids would look at him like he's an idiot for trying to scare them as he is.
Robbie and Nate the ghoul and the skeleton step up behind him and pat him on the back, causing Robbie's arm to fall off
"Ah damn, my arm!" Valentino groaned at his right hand that fell again.
Penny upon seeing this screamed at seeing this gory detail.
"I got it dude." Nate announces and pulls his own skeleton arm off and uses it as a reacher to pick it up for him.
Penny screamed again and this time she fainted.
Seeing that Robbie and Nate managed to scare someone to the point of fainting without trying only made Zim sour, further making him hate his human form, as if he needed more reason to hate his repulsive mammalian body.
A couple of girls including Alex, Jessica and Sara shaken and panic-stricken they hide in a corner looked around and just when they thought they managed to make the monsters ignore them-
"Hey," -They looked and saw a ghost passing through the wall which then quickly changed its face into a demonic form with mouth overextended and eyes as black as the void and then screeched with a howl.
"HEEEEEREEEEE!"
The girls screamed and ran away thus Tambry reverting back giggled holding her noncorporeal stomach as she wheezed at their reaction.
Just then Chunk got out of the bathroom seemingly oblivious to the whole thing, the moment he saw the ghost "Auuh!" Chunk immediately faints and drops into unconsciousness from just seeing the ghost making Tambry confused and surprised.
Dipper and Mabel who were watching the mayhem unfolding with Dipper commenting "Looks like they are having too much fun."
Mabel uttered "Now I wished I was changed to something scary like the lagoon monster or something."
Dib was having the time of his life, who knew chaos and being feared can be so liberating? And the fact that he was doing it on his Skoolmates who he received constant scorn was the cherry on top. He on his rampage turned a table upside down with his spider legs and to his surprise Francine, a shy girl who he rarely heard ever speak instead of running and screaming like a normal person jumped into his arms and declared with a flustered face.
"Please take me to your planet and make me your slave!"
Dib immediately yelped, weirded out and dropped her to the ground, his mood now ruined.
"I no longer want to be an alien anymore." he muttered with a killed mood.
As he thought sourly, he noticed someone who was sneaking out toward the woods and that none other than Iggnis who then noticed the look he was getting from Dib and ran.
"HEY!" Dib shouted and raced toward him, others seeing Dib racing and the one who he followed was Iggnis; they stopped terrorizing the Skoolmates and followed him and followed them as well with Tambry looking in disgust of Dirge's webbed toes which she had the displeasure of seeing thanks to weaning sandals moved upon seeing the chase, Zim gave an eyebrow at the chase then moved wishing he still had his Pak to use its jetpack or spider legs finding his human legs weak and Gir with his mouth wide open on Keef's head trying to devourer him fully which, disturbingly, Keef seem not minding that and still being jovial like always removed his mouth from his head and joined the chase while shouting with glee "I GOT DIBS ON HIS EYES!"
Iggnis panted as he ran and seeing the mantis green alien with menacing blue eyes following him with stretched spider bot legs and the legions of a diverse cast of monsters behind tried to run further. The chase ended in the woods, Iggnis could no longer see Dib, thinking he managed to out run him, stood with hands on his knees as he inhaled deeply, but then he met with the snarling face of the werewolf making him jump back with a yelp and from behind he saw the ghoul with his swollen eyes and then tried the other way only to meet with the glinting blue bug eyes of the aliens and soon he was surrounded from all sides by monsters including what looked like a centaur but with a deer half instead of a horse half with antlers on his head and a mermaid with a tank filled with water.
"Iggins." Gaz greeted him with a cold growl.
Iggnis noticed the purple gremlin's tone was familiar "Do I…know you?"
"It's me, Gaz the 'inferior' gamer."
Iggnis looked surprised to find out the gremlin was Gaz only to then laugh "Ha! How fitting a sore petty loser dame has matched with what she truly looks like inside!"
"Hey! That's my sister you're talking about." Dib objected angrily.
"And we have a frenemy thing going on between us, so only I get to insult her!" Mabel gave her absurd statement proudly which momentarily baffled everyone.
Zim came near with a venomous look at the one responsible for his current predicament and threatened him colorfully "YOU will reverse Zim back to his glorious form or my servant will have your oversized eyes gouged and then put on an ice cream for feasting!"
"Ooh! Good idea masta! Good use for the eyes!" Gir adored his master.
Iggnis now was feeling even more unsafe with the crazed goblin wanting to eat his eyes.
"His eyes indeed are hideous." Zim commented about Iggins's bulging eyes.
Dipper showed the amulet as he held it "Do you know how to change us back?"
Iggnis looked and recognized it and in recognition said "Aaaaw! I remember this one, don't worry it is just a special incantation doing- AHA!" He snatched the amulet from Dipper and before anyone could stop him he wore the amulet which caused a green glow making Iggnis grow bigger which caused the gang to back off. Horns came, dorsal plates grew, eyes became reptilian, canine teeth were replaced by daggered teeth, wings came from his back, his skin became scaly and soon the transformation completed, he was now a red dragon the size of an elephant with yellow reptilian eyes. "Just like that!" the dragon roared and spat fire to the sky as everyone gazed.
"Nice job dumbass." Gaz told Dipper, this was not gonna be as easy as the gang thought.