Chapter 11-Jukebox Selections 1
Okay, yeah, I can hear you all complaining-"The new chapter's a videoclip?!? How lame!" Well, just to make things all happy and fun its gonna be TWO videoclips. So HAH! The first one's from Zim's point of view, the second is fro Gaz's. (Idecided there wasnt enough Gaz in this thing.) Although the lyrics work pretty well on their own, it does help to have the songs playing, so you might want to hit Audiogalaxy and donwload...Anyway, bear with me as the experiment begins...
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Song:Tomorrow Comes Today
Band:Gorillaz
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/Everybody's here with me
(we) Got no camera to see
Don't think I'm not all in this world
The camera won't let me go
And the verdict doesn't love our soul
The digital won't let me go/
Zim stood with Dib on the edge of the schoolyard, looking over the children. They were all staring at them like they were completely insane. this could have had something to do with e fact they were holding hands.
Finally, a voice broke out from the crowd. It was the purple haired one, Zita, who had grown into a most unpleasant child. She tossed ehr hair and sneered, "Oh my GOD! Theyre, like, in love or something!"
The laughter of the group washed over them. Dib squeezed Zim's hand. He looked over and...those eyes...so full of longing...
Shocked by the emotion, he dropped Dib's hand and backed up. "Dib!" he hissed. "Everyone's watching!"
"So?" Dib's voice raised, a tinge of irritation evident. "Why? Are you scared?"
"I...of course not!" Zim blustered. "Im not afraid of anything! Im an Irken-"
"Ahhh!" The crowd of children blurred and faded. Their features streched and warped until they were a group od scietists and reporters. "An Irken! An Alien! We have one at last!" They advanced torward him, slowly at first, butbefore he realized what was happening the were on top of him...
"Dib!" Zim reached out to his boyfriend, who stood watchng with a shadowover his eyes. "Help me! Tell them Im a human!"
The shadowed Dib merely shook his head.
Suddenly, the cameras began to grow arms, long metallic claws not unlike his spider legs. The fingers were shining scalpels, penetrating his flesh. His blood dripped to the ground as tey hoisted him into the air, black in the suddenly dim light.
"ZIM!" The cameras screamed. "Zim! An alien! A homosexual alien! We have you at last!"
"No! No!" He thrashed madly, gritting his teeth. "Dib! Help me! Let me go-"
"NO! NO! WE FOUND YOU AT LAST-"
/Yeah yeah yeah
I'll pay (yeah yeah yeah)
When tomorrow
Tomorrow comes today/
"Gyah!" Zim shot bolt upright in bed, sweat pouring down his forehead. He shivered. What a vision...what a horrific thing to consider. He had never imagined...his relation ship with Dib could have such dire consequences.
He thought back to his past on Irk. He remembered, back in his Invader training camp, when one of the demitallests was walking back in forth in front of the ranks and lecturing them. His name had been Green, and he was only perhaps half an inch shorter then Red. This had given him he job of watching over the younger recruits and training them p to be the Ivaders of tomorow.
"As you know..." he had drawled, giving each of them a nasty look in turn, "Only thirty of you will be chosen to carry the glories of the Irken empire to the farthest reaces of the universe. For some of you, the descision to not be used as an invader will be an easy one. others, perhaps, a little harder. Little things, little things are the things that will hold you back in the end. Things such as a cerain preference, a certain attachment, a certain emotion-" and here his voice had hardened considerably, become bitter and pained. "Theese you will have to pa for, and pay for dearly, when the time comes."
/Stereo I want it on
It's taken me far too long
Don't think I'm not all in this world
I don't think I'll be here too long
I don't think I'll be here too long
I don't think I'll be here too long/
Zim shook his head. This was madness, pure and simple. He hopped out of bed and walked over to his interstellar tuner. He tried to tune in Irken frequencies but only recived static.
He snorted at that. "Well. They could have changed them by now,for all I would know...Ive been gone for far to long."
And he had been, too...three years, was it, on this ball of filth? All of this time, all of this effort...he was a embarrassment to his Tallest, to his proud Irken ancestors. All of this because of one boy. Dib.
At this, Zim smiled. Not the kind smile he had shown a few hours ago, but a cruel one. A happily malicious one. "No, Dib..." He cackled to himslef. "I dont think Ill be here too long, after all."
He snapped the radio off.
/Yeah yeah yeah
I'll pay
When tomorrow
Tomorrow comes today/
Maybe the little attachments were the pricey ones...but that didnt mean that he had to be the one to pay it.
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So...the tender feelings in Zim's heart are giving way to cruelty once more. Poor, poor Dib...or Zim, dependng on your point of view. However, this series has dwelled quite a bit on their entanglements...what of our oher couple, Fin and Gaz? We know tat Fin is pleased about the curret situation, but poor Gaz...this is so new to her. IS she happy? Is she sad? Is anything happening under those purple bangs? Lets find out...
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Song: Swallowtail Butterfly~Ai no Uta~
Singer:Chara
A/N:Okay, just so you all know, Chara is a Japanese idol singer who I happen to enjoy. I like Jpop. So sue me.
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/On my still palm it trembles and hesitates
In the blue of this blue sky, my heart grows lonely
After I stuffed into my pocket all the things I believe in
I walked a long way along the railroad tracks swaying with summer grass /
Step, step, step. Step after step, think of nothing, feeling nothing, ust staring up at the clear blue sky and tring not to think.
Gaz did this alot, nowadays. Whenever she was confused or sad, she would simply pack her pockets with candy and her trusty Gameslave and take off. She generally walked away from the suburbs, following the railroad tracks behind her house into the tall grass where she was obscured from everything. Even now, the grass was still taller then her.
On days like this, when she was lonely, she wished the sky would swallow her up whole. She'd even leave her games behind if that was what it took...
/In my heart, in my heart there is hurt
Far away, a mirage is wavering
In the shadows of the clouds you were chasing a dream of tomorrow
Distantly I thought of parting/
She stared up ay the sky, silently willing it to absorb her. After a few seconds, she sighed and gave up. It never worked before,why would it work now?
Her attention was drawn awayby soemthing shimmering o nthe edge of the tracks. What was it?An approaching train? But there was no sound...
She shook her head and looked away. If she was Dib, maybe, she would have chased it. Of course if she was Dib, she also would have decided it was a chupacabra or a UFO and chased it across the city, causing much property damage in the meanwhile. He was always chasing things, her brother...
And he had finnaly caught soemthig. The blush he had been sporting was unmistakeable, as was the grin on Fin's face. He had finnally trapped Zim, for beter or worse...
But she wasnt alone eitehr, not anymore. She had Fin now.
She treid to be detahed as she thought of the relationship. So se had Fin. perhaps it wouldnt go well.It would end akwardly, of course, and someone would invariably get hurt. The pain would be worse the longer it went on...maybe she should just pack it all in now?
/In this soiled world there's no echo of sadness
Somewhere you pass by, carrying only that
My body becomes honest in itself
And I can't stop my tears, but/
She sighed. She knew it was impossible to avoid pain in this stupid world.Everywhere she looked, people were hurting and sad and ripped off and just plain miserable...the only difference beween her and oehrs was she didnt botehr to hide it. She left her sadness on the surfce for everyoneto admire.
Fin had admired it, and wanted to embrace it...even echo it back in some ways. But not in a way that would hurt her. She imagined Fin, her long hair flowing out of its braids, walkign along the sreets and searching for her. Poor sweet Fin...
Astonished, she raised her fingertips to her face and felt tears. She was crying. Gaz was crying.
/No matter where I go from here
The world will continue to overcome the night
And a song of love begins to echo in my heart /
She laughed a the novelty of it. Gaz crying...it wasnt supposed to happen.And yet it was, becase of one girl who had embraced her so fully tat even entertaining the thought of losing her, or seeign her sad, made her cry.
There were alot of places she could have gone from there. Back home, maybe. To the mall to cruise the new games. Even the park, or farter down the tracks for a little more solitude. But t tat point, her feet left the metal rails. She was going to Fin's house.
/I couldn't run freely in my mother's shoes
I didn't cry, even on the day I first went barefoot
Even the map I was looking at upside-down--I threw it away already /
She stumbled a bit as she stepped down-her shoes were too big for her as always. Large black oafers...all she had eft of a mother that had dissapeared long ago, She rememebred the day her motehr had left-she had left a note on the coffeee table for their edifiation. Dib had bawled. Professor Membrane had simply ran ack to hisstudy and shut the door.Gaz had stood, staring for a long tie at the note. The she had goneback to her pafrents bedroom and searched for her mother's belongings. Finding only a pair of black loafers, she had decided to wear them. Her feet were too small then...so she had gone barefoot untill she had finally been able to wear them everywhere.
Even then, she hadn't cried...merely accepted.
She thought, ruefully, of ow jealous she had been of the otehr girls in her class back then...they didnt even realize tat they had it so EASY. Two parents, a lovignhome, a family...their liveswere finely plotted like a route on a map. All they had to do was follow it.
Her map was gone.
/In my heart, in my heart there is magic
Wings, open in the storm--you'll fly
Distantly I remembered you
And a song of love began to echo in my heart
By this song of love, I begin to search for you /
The pain she had felt from that, after all theese years, had finnaly begun to fade. It was being replaced, slowly, by love...love for her brother, love for her GameSlave, love for...Fin, she guessed. She still wasnt sure, but she was willing to find out...
She pawed the moisture off her cheeks, walked through the tall grass, and stepped onto Fin's porch.
-finis-
Okay, yeah, I can hear you all complaining-"The new chapter's a videoclip?!? How lame!" Well, just to make things all happy and fun its gonna be TWO videoclips. So HAH! The first one's from Zim's point of view, the second is fro Gaz's. (Idecided there wasnt enough Gaz in this thing.) Although the lyrics work pretty well on their own, it does help to have the songs playing, so you might want to hit Audiogalaxy and donwload...Anyway, bear with me as the experiment begins...
-
Song:Tomorrow Comes Today
Band:Gorillaz
-
/Everybody's here with me
(we) Got no camera to see
Don't think I'm not all in this world
The camera won't let me go
And the verdict doesn't love our soul
The digital won't let me go/
Zim stood with Dib on the edge of the schoolyard, looking over the children. They were all staring at them like they were completely insane. this could have had something to do with e fact they were holding hands.
Finally, a voice broke out from the crowd. It was the purple haired one, Zita, who had grown into a most unpleasant child. She tossed ehr hair and sneered, "Oh my GOD! Theyre, like, in love or something!"
The laughter of the group washed over them. Dib squeezed Zim's hand. He looked over and...those eyes...so full of longing...
Shocked by the emotion, he dropped Dib's hand and backed up. "Dib!" he hissed. "Everyone's watching!"
"So?" Dib's voice raised, a tinge of irritation evident. "Why? Are you scared?"
"I...of course not!" Zim blustered. "Im not afraid of anything! Im an Irken-"
"Ahhh!" The crowd of children blurred and faded. Their features streched and warped until they were a group od scietists and reporters. "An Irken! An Alien! We have one at last!" They advanced torward him, slowly at first, butbefore he realized what was happening the were on top of him...
"Dib!" Zim reached out to his boyfriend, who stood watchng with a shadowover his eyes. "Help me! Tell them Im a human!"
The shadowed Dib merely shook his head.
Suddenly, the cameras began to grow arms, long metallic claws not unlike his spider legs. The fingers were shining scalpels, penetrating his flesh. His blood dripped to the ground as tey hoisted him into the air, black in the suddenly dim light.
"ZIM!" The cameras screamed. "Zim! An alien! A homosexual alien! We have you at last!"
"No! No!" He thrashed madly, gritting his teeth. "Dib! Help me! Let me go-"
"NO! NO! WE FOUND YOU AT LAST-"
/Yeah yeah yeah
I'll pay (yeah yeah yeah)
When tomorrow
Tomorrow comes today/
"Gyah!" Zim shot bolt upright in bed, sweat pouring down his forehead. He shivered. What a vision...what a horrific thing to consider. He had never imagined...his relation ship with Dib could have such dire consequences.
He thought back to his past on Irk. He remembered, back in his Invader training camp, when one of the demitallests was walking back in forth in front of the ranks and lecturing them. His name had been Green, and he was only perhaps half an inch shorter then Red. This had given him he job of watching over the younger recruits and training them p to be the Ivaders of tomorow.
"As you know..." he had drawled, giving each of them a nasty look in turn, "Only thirty of you will be chosen to carry the glories of the Irken empire to the farthest reaces of the universe. For some of you, the descision to not be used as an invader will be an easy one. others, perhaps, a little harder. Little things, little things are the things that will hold you back in the end. Things such as a cerain preference, a certain attachment, a certain emotion-" and here his voice had hardened considerably, become bitter and pained. "Theese you will have to pa for, and pay for dearly, when the time comes."
/Stereo I want it on
It's taken me far too long
Don't think I'm not all in this world
I don't think I'll be here too long
I don't think I'll be here too long
I don't think I'll be here too long/
Zim shook his head. This was madness, pure and simple. He hopped out of bed and walked over to his interstellar tuner. He tried to tune in Irken frequencies but only recived static.
He snorted at that. "Well. They could have changed them by now,for all I would know...Ive been gone for far to long."
And he had been, too...three years, was it, on this ball of filth? All of this time, all of this effort...he was a embarrassment to his Tallest, to his proud Irken ancestors. All of this because of one boy. Dib.
At this, Zim smiled. Not the kind smile he had shown a few hours ago, but a cruel one. A happily malicious one. "No, Dib..." He cackled to himslef. "I dont think Ill be here too long, after all."
He snapped the radio off.
/Yeah yeah yeah
I'll pay
When tomorrow
Tomorrow comes today/
Maybe the little attachments were the pricey ones...but that didnt mean that he had to be the one to pay it.
-
So...the tender feelings in Zim's heart are giving way to cruelty once more. Poor, poor Dib...or Zim, dependng on your point of view. However, this series has dwelled quite a bit on their entanglements...what of our oher couple, Fin and Gaz? We know tat Fin is pleased about the curret situation, but poor Gaz...this is so new to her. IS she happy? Is she sad? Is anything happening under those purple bangs? Lets find out...
-
Song: Swallowtail Butterfly~Ai no Uta~
Singer:Chara
A/N:Okay, just so you all know, Chara is a Japanese idol singer who I happen to enjoy. I like Jpop. So sue me.
-
/On my still palm it trembles and hesitates
In the blue of this blue sky, my heart grows lonely
After I stuffed into my pocket all the things I believe in
I walked a long way along the railroad tracks swaying with summer grass /
Step, step, step. Step after step, think of nothing, feeling nothing, ust staring up at the clear blue sky and tring not to think.
Gaz did this alot, nowadays. Whenever she was confused or sad, she would simply pack her pockets with candy and her trusty Gameslave and take off. She generally walked away from the suburbs, following the railroad tracks behind her house into the tall grass where she was obscured from everything. Even now, the grass was still taller then her.
On days like this, when she was lonely, she wished the sky would swallow her up whole. She'd even leave her games behind if that was what it took...
/In my heart, in my heart there is hurt
Far away, a mirage is wavering
In the shadows of the clouds you were chasing a dream of tomorrow
Distantly I thought of parting/
She stared up ay the sky, silently willing it to absorb her. After a few seconds, she sighed and gave up. It never worked before,why would it work now?
Her attention was drawn awayby soemthing shimmering o nthe edge of the tracks. What was it?An approaching train? But there was no sound...
She shook her head and looked away. If she was Dib, maybe, she would have chased it. Of course if she was Dib, she also would have decided it was a chupacabra or a UFO and chased it across the city, causing much property damage in the meanwhile. He was always chasing things, her brother...
And he had finnaly caught soemthig. The blush he had been sporting was unmistakeable, as was the grin on Fin's face. He had finnally trapped Zim, for beter or worse...
But she wasnt alone eitehr, not anymore. She had Fin now.
She treid to be detahed as she thought of the relationship. So se had Fin. perhaps it wouldnt go well.It would end akwardly, of course, and someone would invariably get hurt. The pain would be worse the longer it went on...maybe she should just pack it all in now?
/In this soiled world there's no echo of sadness
Somewhere you pass by, carrying only that
My body becomes honest in itself
And I can't stop my tears, but/
She sighed. She knew it was impossible to avoid pain in this stupid world.Everywhere she looked, people were hurting and sad and ripped off and just plain miserable...the only difference beween her and oehrs was she didnt botehr to hide it. She left her sadness on the surfce for everyoneto admire.
Fin had admired it, and wanted to embrace it...even echo it back in some ways. But not in a way that would hurt her. She imagined Fin, her long hair flowing out of its braids, walkign along the sreets and searching for her. Poor sweet Fin...
Astonished, she raised her fingertips to her face and felt tears. She was crying. Gaz was crying.
/No matter where I go from here
The world will continue to overcome the night
And a song of love begins to echo in my heart /
She laughed a the novelty of it. Gaz crying...it wasnt supposed to happen.And yet it was, becase of one girl who had embraced her so fully tat even entertaining the thought of losing her, or seeign her sad, made her cry.
There were alot of places she could have gone from there. Back home, maybe. To the mall to cruise the new games. Even the park, or farter down the tracks for a little more solitude. But t tat point, her feet left the metal rails. She was going to Fin's house.
/I couldn't run freely in my mother's shoes
I didn't cry, even on the day I first went barefoot
Even the map I was looking at upside-down--I threw it away already /
She stumbled a bit as she stepped down-her shoes were too big for her as always. Large black oafers...all she had eft of a mother that had dissapeared long ago, She rememebred the day her motehr had left-she had left a note on the coffeee table for their edifiation. Dib had bawled. Professor Membrane had simply ran ack to hisstudy and shut the door.Gaz had stood, staring for a long tie at the note. The she had goneback to her pafrents bedroom and searched for her mother's belongings. Finding only a pair of black loafers, she had decided to wear them. Her feet were too small then...so she had gone barefoot untill she had finally been able to wear them everywhere.
Even then, she hadn't cried...merely accepted.
She thought, ruefully, of ow jealous she had been of the otehr girls in her class back then...they didnt even realize tat they had it so EASY. Two parents, a lovignhome, a family...their liveswere finely plotted like a route on a map. All they had to do was follow it.
Her map was gone.
/In my heart, in my heart there is magic
Wings, open in the storm--you'll fly
Distantly I remembered you
And a song of love began to echo in my heart
By this song of love, I begin to search for you /
The pain she had felt from that, after all theese years, had finnaly begun to fade. It was being replaced, slowly, by love...love for her brother, love for her GameSlave, love for...Fin, she guessed. She still wasnt sure, but she was willing to find out...
She pawed the moisture off her cheeks, walked through the tall grass, and stepped onto Fin's porch.
-finis-