Zim watched his screens closely deciding which seat of earthling power would be first to fall to his mighty Irken hand.
"Hmm, should I start my evil take over in Washington or just blow up a bunch of world capitals all at once?" He asked himself aloud. "GIR, what do you think?"
Silence.
"GIR? GIR where are you? GIR!"
Zim's voice echoed around the empty room. GIR was never this quiet in the lab, which meant he was long longer in the lab. The alien growled with frustration. "Computer, where is GIR?"
"GIR is leaving the house." A droning mechanical voice responded from the walls.
"What?!" Zim gasped. He looked up at a monitor. GIR was indeed walking out the front door. Zim jumped from his chair and headed to the elevator.
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GIT let the door close behind him as he walked out into the open air. Dib was balanced on his head holding his antenna to hang on.
"We're here!" The robot squealed.
"Perfect." Dib smiled "All I have to do now is wait for Gaz."
"So what game are we gonna play?" GIR asked.
"Game?" Dib almost forgot, GIR thought they came out here to play a game. He quickly thought of an answer. "We're going to play the... statue game."
"How do we play that?"
"Well, uh, we stand perfectly still until a pigeon lands on us. First person to move looses."
"That sounds like fun!"
GIR froze still, surprising Dib. He thought the robot didn't know the meaning of staying still.
He couldn't see much from his perch atop GIR's head, but he knew Gaz had to be near. She had to be rushing to save him, that's what sisters do. But he hoped she'd hurry. He really couldn't stand getting any smaller.
The front door slammed open with loud impact. Zim stood in the doorway adjusting his wig and scowling at GIR with angry lavender-gray eyes. He seethed seeing his robot standing there with Dib. Not only was GIR aiding Dib's possible escape, but he had once again left the house without his disguise on.
"GIR! What do you think you're doing with Dib?" Zim asked loudly. "Don't you realize by taking him outside he could escape?" He walked in front of GIR who had failed to turn around at the sound of his master's voice. "GIR are you listening?"
"Shhh... I'm waiting for pigeons." GIR hushed trying his best to talk without moving himself.
Zim grunted,
"GIR, I trusted you to make sure that Dib wouldn't escape the lab." He pointed at the human now cowering fearfully behind the robot's thin antenna, "And here you are bringing him outside."
"We're playing a game." GIR answered still not moving.
"This is not a game GIR," Zim corrected him, "This is our mission. You have to be more careful with your decisions."
An unexpected chill filled the air. The clear sky suddenly grew cloudy and dark like a blanket of impending doom had just blocked out the sun. A small shadow stood behind Zim, her face sour, her eyes shooting flaming daggers.
"Where's Dib?" Gaz asked, her voice heavy with anger.
"Gaz!" Dib shouted happily "You came for me!"
She glared at his shrunken but still too big for his body head. Even at the size of a pen cap he was annoying her.
"What is the meaning of this?" Zim snarled, outraged by her presents.
"I'm here for Dib." She stated "He has to come home and fix the TV so I can watch my shows!"
"I care not for your little amusements." Zim huffed, "But if you are here for Dib you can't have him. He's my prisoner now."
Gaz simply glared at him.
"I'm missing my shows as we speak. If you could just let me have Dib and go home now it can save you from my wrath."
"Your wrath?" Zim laughed "Ha! What kind of wrath can you have pitiful Dib-sister?"
She clenched her fist sneering as if to open the gates of hell. The she spoke rather calmly.
"You don't want to know."
"Well if you want to rescue your brother so badly you will have to get through me first." The alien defined.
"I don't have time to play with you." Gaz grumbled.
"SILENCE!" he demanded ignoring her. "No one rescues a prisoner of Zim without facing ZIM!"
She rolled her eyes as he took a fighting stance.
"I am the master of many forms of hand to hand combat." He smiled confidently "You have been warned."
With a furious cry he tossed a punch at her head. His fist stopped as it landed in her open palm. A look of surprise overcame him as her hand closed over his tightly until it hurt. He grunted forcefully trying to resist her pushing his arm away, his fingers numbing with pain. With her free hand she pushed into his shoulder and knocked him to the ground. His back hit the walk way hard. The crack heard could have either been the sidewalk or his spine but she didn't care. She had already turned around preparing to leave.
Zim would not give up so easily; never to a human. He climbed back to his feet and took a running leap onto her back trying to haul her down.
Gaz was not happy about the sudden presents of an alien on her back.
"What are you doing?" she asked sighing.
"No one dispatches ZIM!" He shouted "fight me so I can defeat you!"
She raised her fist and smacked him in the face causing him to fall off. He ran into her legs trying to knock her down. She kicked him between the eyes. He pulled on her arm trying to flip her over. She grabbed his wrist and promptly tossed him over her shoulder. He nearly landed on Dib who had climbed off GIR to be a better spectator to the fight.
"Hey watch it!" the boy shouted. "I'm still down here!"
Zim got back up to his knees and dove again. Gaz took a step to the side allowing him to fall flat on his face.
"Enough games" Zim growled getting back up. "You won't make a fool of this invader."
He firmly grasped her shoulders in another attempt to attack. Gaz tightened her fingers into a ball.
"I'm through wasting my time." She said.
Zim squeaked letting some spittle fly past his lips. His squeedily- spootch throbbed with incredible pain. Gaz smirked removing her fist from his abdomen and watched him collapse to the ground wheezing heavily.
Dib danced about happily at the alien's defeat.
"You did it Gaz, you beat up Zim!"
She stood over her brother casting a large shadow over him.
"We're going home now." She stated leaning over to get a better look at him. He had wasted quiet a bit of her time, which tempted her to consider crushing his shrunken head between her thumb and forefinger, a notion that must have passed through Zim's mind as well. She gently pinched his hair and lifted him off the ground. She ignored his obvious discomfort as she hoisted him by his locks and dropped him abruptly into her pocket.
With all the minor priorities taken care of she decided now was time to go home and take care of the important business... getting the TV fixed.
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Zim laid curled up on the sidewalk clutching his belly, whimpering in pain and defeat. Before him GIR remained standing still, statuesque, frozen. A shadow fluttered down from above as Zim uncurled himself and sprawled out on the pavement moaning. A pigeon landed on his chest and pecked about cooing. So consumed with pain was he that he couldn't even lift his arms to shoo it away. GIR turned to him eyeing the bird then smiled exclaiming,
"You win!"
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Their father's lab was off limits when he wasn't home but the siblings believed they could make an exception to the rules considering it was an emergency. For Dib, he was shrinking into nothing. For Gaz, she was missing "Zombie fest."
"Are we there yet Gaz?" said Dib's tiny voice from her pocket. "Are we? Huh? Huh? Huh? Huh? Huh?"
Gaz gritted her teeth, although his voice was small she could still hear it faintly and faintly was still too loud. She dug into her pocket and let him crawl onto her fingers. She lifted her hand up to see him closer. Now the size of a large bug and just as annoying, he sat in her palm as she slowly lowered it down on the lab table. He hopped off landing among the beakers and test tubes.
"So now what?" She asked looking at his funny head through a magnifying glass.
"You know dad's organic macro ray? The one he made to use on plants to end world hunger?"
"Yeah." She said apathetically.
"I think it might work on me."
Gaz snarled; all the time wasted running around with Zim when the solution to Dib's problem was right here.
"Why didn't you think of that before?" She grunted.
"You know, the thought never even crossed my mind." He smiled meekly.
She frowned holding the magnifying glass closer to the light causing a hot beam to shoot down at him. He leapt out of the way quickly and recovered from the shock.
"Hey watch it Gaz, you nearly fried me!"
"Whatever." She walked over to a table where a laser like device was perched. She positioned the ray pointing it at her brother. After pushing a few buttons the machine began to drone, a bulb at it's end glowing brightly. "You might want to cover your eyes."
The blinding light halted his vision momentarily as a strong tingling sensation filled his body. He began growing at an incredible rate pushing some equipment off the table in the process until he was his perfect original height once again.
"It worked!" he shouted elated "I'm my normal size again! I don't have to worry about getting stepped on anymore! I'm normal again! OW!" Gaz had grabbed his now normal sized ear and began pulling him out of the lab.
"You have to fix the TV now!" she demanded hauling him up the stairs and into the living room.
"OK, ok, cut that out. I'll fix the TV." Dib complied.
Gaz released his ear, shoved a toolbox into his arms, and left to get a soda from the kitchen.
He looked the television over. It looked like an internal problem, most likely with the satellite connection. He opened the toolbox and fumbled with a few of the tools. They seemed rather small for the job. In fact the box itself seemed small. He still felt tingly from the growth ray. Shouldn't that feeling have passed by now? He filled with dread realizing what was happening.
"Uh, Gaz...!"
Before he could react the room had closed in on him.
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A man walking his dog across the street was the only witness when the house collapsed. Dib sat amongst the rubble; a couch and coffee table crushed under his leg, his foot through a wall, some bits of ceiling stuck in his hair. Gaz glared up at him from a spot between his legs where the kitchen had just been. He smiled nervously down at her.
"Uh, heh heh, I think we have a little problem." He said.
THE END
"Hmm, should I start my evil take over in Washington or just blow up a bunch of world capitals all at once?" He asked himself aloud. "GIR, what do you think?"
Silence.
"GIR? GIR where are you? GIR!"
Zim's voice echoed around the empty room. GIR was never this quiet in the lab, which meant he was long longer in the lab. The alien growled with frustration. "Computer, where is GIR?"
"GIR is leaving the house." A droning mechanical voice responded from the walls.
"What?!" Zim gasped. He looked up at a monitor. GIR was indeed walking out the front door. Zim jumped from his chair and headed to the elevator.
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GIT let the door close behind him as he walked out into the open air. Dib was balanced on his head holding his antenna to hang on.
"We're here!" The robot squealed.
"Perfect." Dib smiled "All I have to do now is wait for Gaz."
"So what game are we gonna play?" GIR asked.
"Game?" Dib almost forgot, GIR thought they came out here to play a game. He quickly thought of an answer. "We're going to play the... statue game."
"How do we play that?"
"Well, uh, we stand perfectly still until a pigeon lands on us. First person to move looses."
"That sounds like fun!"
GIR froze still, surprising Dib. He thought the robot didn't know the meaning of staying still.
He couldn't see much from his perch atop GIR's head, but he knew Gaz had to be near. She had to be rushing to save him, that's what sisters do. But he hoped she'd hurry. He really couldn't stand getting any smaller.
The front door slammed open with loud impact. Zim stood in the doorway adjusting his wig and scowling at GIR with angry lavender-gray eyes. He seethed seeing his robot standing there with Dib. Not only was GIR aiding Dib's possible escape, but he had once again left the house without his disguise on.
"GIR! What do you think you're doing with Dib?" Zim asked loudly. "Don't you realize by taking him outside he could escape?" He walked in front of GIR who had failed to turn around at the sound of his master's voice. "GIR are you listening?"
"Shhh... I'm waiting for pigeons." GIR hushed trying his best to talk without moving himself.
Zim grunted,
"GIR, I trusted you to make sure that Dib wouldn't escape the lab." He pointed at the human now cowering fearfully behind the robot's thin antenna, "And here you are bringing him outside."
"We're playing a game." GIR answered still not moving.
"This is not a game GIR," Zim corrected him, "This is our mission. You have to be more careful with your decisions."
An unexpected chill filled the air. The clear sky suddenly grew cloudy and dark like a blanket of impending doom had just blocked out the sun. A small shadow stood behind Zim, her face sour, her eyes shooting flaming daggers.
"Where's Dib?" Gaz asked, her voice heavy with anger.
"Gaz!" Dib shouted happily "You came for me!"
She glared at his shrunken but still too big for his body head. Even at the size of a pen cap he was annoying her.
"What is the meaning of this?" Zim snarled, outraged by her presents.
"I'm here for Dib." She stated "He has to come home and fix the TV so I can watch my shows!"
"I care not for your little amusements." Zim huffed, "But if you are here for Dib you can't have him. He's my prisoner now."
Gaz simply glared at him.
"I'm missing my shows as we speak. If you could just let me have Dib and go home now it can save you from my wrath."
"Your wrath?" Zim laughed "Ha! What kind of wrath can you have pitiful Dib-sister?"
She clenched her fist sneering as if to open the gates of hell. The she spoke rather calmly.
"You don't want to know."
"Well if you want to rescue your brother so badly you will have to get through me first." The alien defined.
"I don't have time to play with you." Gaz grumbled.
"SILENCE!" he demanded ignoring her. "No one rescues a prisoner of Zim without facing ZIM!"
She rolled her eyes as he took a fighting stance.
"I am the master of many forms of hand to hand combat." He smiled confidently "You have been warned."
With a furious cry he tossed a punch at her head. His fist stopped as it landed in her open palm. A look of surprise overcame him as her hand closed over his tightly until it hurt. He grunted forcefully trying to resist her pushing his arm away, his fingers numbing with pain. With her free hand she pushed into his shoulder and knocked him to the ground. His back hit the walk way hard. The crack heard could have either been the sidewalk or his spine but she didn't care. She had already turned around preparing to leave.
Zim would not give up so easily; never to a human. He climbed back to his feet and took a running leap onto her back trying to haul her down.
Gaz was not happy about the sudden presents of an alien on her back.
"What are you doing?" she asked sighing.
"No one dispatches ZIM!" He shouted "fight me so I can defeat you!"
She raised her fist and smacked him in the face causing him to fall off. He ran into her legs trying to knock her down. She kicked him between the eyes. He pulled on her arm trying to flip her over. She grabbed his wrist and promptly tossed him over her shoulder. He nearly landed on Dib who had climbed off GIR to be a better spectator to the fight.
"Hey watch it!" the boy shouted. "I'm still down here!"
Zim got back up to his knees and dove again. Gaz took a step to the side allowing him to fall flat on his face.
"Enough games" Zim growled getting back up. "You won't make a fool of this invader."
He firmly grasped her shoulders in another attempt to attack. Gaz tightened her fingers into a ball.
"I'm through wasting my time." She said.
Zim squeaked letting some spittle fly past his lips. His squeedily- spootch throbbed with incredible pain. Gaz smirked removing her fist from his abdomen and watched him collapse to the ground wheezing heavily.
Dib danced about happily at the alien's defeat.
"You did it Gaz, you beat up Zim!"
She stood over her brother casting a large shadow over him.
"We're going home now." She stated leaning over to get a better look at him. He had wasted quiet a bit of her time, which tempted her to consider crushing his shrunken head between her thumb and forefinger, a notion that must have passed through Zim's mind as well. She gently pinched his hair and lifted him off the ground. She ignored his obvious discomfort as she hoisted him by his locks and dropped him abruptly into her pocket.
With all the minor priorities taken care of she decided now was time to go home and take care of the important business... getting the TV fixed.
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Zim laid curled up on the sidewalk clutching his belly, whimpering in pain and defeat. Before him GIR remained standing still, statuesque, frozen. A shadow fluttered down from above as Zim uncurled himself and sprawled out on the pavement moaning. A pigeon landed on his chest and pecked about cooing. So consumed with pain was he that he couldn't even lift his arms to shoo it away. GIR turned to him eyeing the bird then smiled exclaiming,
"You win!"
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Their father's lab was off limits when he wasn't home but the siblings believed they could make an exception to the rules considering it was an emergency. For Dib, he was shrinking into nothing. For Gaz, she was missing "Zombie fest."
"Are we there yet Gaz?" said Dib's tiny voice from her pocket. "Are we? Huh? Huh? Huh? Huh? Huh?"
Gaz gritted her teeth, although his voice was small she could still hear it faintly and faintly was still too loud. She dug into her pocket and let him crawl onto her fingers. She lifted her hand up to see him closer. Now the size of a large bug and just as annoying, he sat in her palm as she slowly lowered it down on the lab table. He hopped off landing among the beakers and test tubes.
"So now what?" She asked looking at his funny head through a magnifying glass.
"You know dad's organic macro ray? The one he made to use on plants to end world hunger?"
"Yeah." She said apathetically.
"I think it might work on me."
Gaz snarled; all the time wasted running around with Zim when the solution to Dib's problem was right here.
"Why didn't you think of that before?" She grunted.
"You know, the thought never even crossed my mind." He smiled meekly.
She frowned holding the magnifying glass closer to the light causing a hot beam to shoot down at him. He leapt out of the way quickly and recovered from the shock.
"Hey watch it Gaz, you nearly fried me!"
"Whatever." She walked over to a table where a laser like device was perched. She positioned the ray pointing it at her brother. After pushing a few buttons the machine began to drone, a bulb at it's end glowing brightly. "You might want to cover your eyes."
The blinding light halted his vision momentarily as a strong tingling sensation filled his body. He began growing at an incredible rate pushing some equipment off the table in the process until he was his perfect original height once again.
"It worked!" he shouted elated "I'm my normal size again! I don't have to worry about getting stepped on anymore! I'm normal again! OW!" Gaz had grabbed his now normal sized ear and began pulling him out of the lab.
"You have to fix the TV now!" she demanded hauling him up the stairs and into the living room.
"OK, ok, cut that out. I'll fix the TV." Dib complied.
Gaz released his ear, shoved a toolbox into his arms, and left to get a soda from the kitchen.
He looked the television over. It looked like an internal problem, most likely with the satellite connection. He opened the toolbox and fumbled with a few of the tools. They seemed rather small for the job. In fact the box itself seemed small. He still felt tingly from the growth ray. Shouldn't that feeling have passed by now? He filled with dread realizing what was happening.
"Uh, Gaz...!"
Before he could react the room had closed in on him.
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A man walking his dog across the street was the only witness when the house collapsed. Dib sat amongst the rubble; a couch and coffee table crushed under his leg, his foot through a wall, some bits of ceiling stuck in his hair. Gaz glared up at him from a spot between his legs where the kitchen had just been. He smiled nervously down at her.
"Uh, heh heh, I think we have a little problem." He said.
THE END