Chapter 1 Dib's Unlikely Ally

Dib slammed his door. He was tired of this. Every time he tried to stop Zim it was the same thing. Zim didn't destroy earth, but Dib was unable to expose him and Dib had to wait on Zim's next evil plan. While he was trying to discover it his dad was always lecturing him about "real science" and how he should give up the paranormal studies. And when his dad wasn't lecturing him about that, his sister, Gaz, was tormenting him. He found it kind of funny that even though she was the younger sibling, he was terrified of her. Usually it was the older sibling tormenting the younger sibling. Oh well, just more proof that his life was a weird, messed up place to live. He flopped on his bed and put the pillow over his head trying to block out his dad's latest lecture. He was trying to come up with a plan when he heard someone laughing. Strange, he thought he had locked his door before slamming it. He threw the pillow off his head and sat up. Sitting on the foot of his bed was a ghost, at least, he was pretty sure she was a ghost. She was staring at him.

"Why are you staring at me young lady and how did you get in?"

"I thought you were a paranormal expert. I walked through the wall stupid! I AM a ghost after all, YEESH!" While she was talking Dib slipped off his bed and started toward where he kept his equipment from when he hadn't had Zim to catch and had had time to catch anything paranormal. "I wouldn't do that if I were you! Before I sat down on your bed and started laughing I checked your room. I know you plan on catching me to prove you're not crazy. If you do you'll lose your last hope of catching Zim!" That stopped Dib in his tracks.

"You're here to help me catch Zim?"

"Well, originally I was going to cause problems, be a general nuiscance, but I saw the way you hid under the pillow and figured I should help you with your nemesis."

"Wait, how did you know that I'm trying to catch Zim?"

"I guess you're not very observant. I watched the fight. I like watching fights. Yours was just way too entertaining to pass up. I've watched a couple of your other fights with Zim. You're hopeless without someone to help you and who better to help you catch an alien than a ghost who can't be caught?"

"How do I know I can trust you?"

"I can't give you any way to prove you can trust me, but one thing is certain, without my help you might as well jump into an escape pod and go to Pluto and let Zim conquer Earth for all the proof you'll get if you don't trust me."

"Alright, deal. You'll help me capture Zim." Dib was pleased. He finally had an ally against Zim.

"Now that that's settled, let's go walk around and talk about ways to capture that Irken, Zim. Oh, by the way I have a name. It's Amy."

"That's a pretty name." This is when Dib started to notice Amy's appearence. She was semi-translucent like any normal ghost, but it was still easy to make out her features. Brown hair, brown eyes, some freckles. She seemed like the kind of girl who wasn't very trusting either. She seemed so innocent though. Dib wanted desperately to trust her. He had to keep focused though. For all he knew, she would help him capture Zim and then turn on him, but she seemed like someone he could trust and things like that reasoning slipped to the little corner of his mind that he ignored. That was where his doubts usually went when he was trying to catch Zim. He walked over to his door. Sure enough it was locked. More proof she was a ghost. He unlocked the door and opened it. He saw his dad.

"Where are you going Dib?"

"Just out and about, you know, walk around, get some fresh air."

"This doesn't have anything to do with aliens does it?"

"No, of course not." Dib opened his mouth to introduce Amy to his father but she pulled him out the door before he could say anything. "What was that for?" Dib was straitening his glasses which had gone askew when she had pulled him out the door.

"You were going to introduce me to your dad. Just how were you planning on him not going all sciency on me like he did with Gaz when you cursed her with, as he called it, pig mouth? You know how your dad is. And before you ask, yes, I was around then, but I was not in a helpful mood so I didn't do anything to help you."

"I guess you're right, but you're a ghost, you could just walk right out. How did you grab me to pull me out the door anyways?"

"Geez! I can grab stuff if I want to. Maybe you should brush up on your knowledge about ghosts, Mr. Paranormal expert!"

"My name is Dib."

"I know that! I've been hanging around you since before your sister was born!"

"Really? How come I never noticed you before?" People were passing by and staring at Dib, but he didn't notice. Just then Amy disappeared. "Where'd you go!" Amy reappeared.

"Shut up! I was right here the whole time. That's why you never noticed me before."

"Oh. Why are people staring at me?"

"Because you're the only human who can see me. Well, Gaz could see me if she would look away from her Game Slave."

"Why is that? I have memories of an alien space ship when I was a baby. Would that have something to do with it?"

"Yes. You weren't even a year old and you were taken by aliens. They made you quite a bit smarter than you should be and you've only gotten smarter as time has gone on. Gaz was taken before the age of one year too. She too has much knowledge. She is different than you though. I believe it has something to do with the fact that Gaz is a girl and you're a boy and the unaltered personalities that you had when you were born. The price of the knowledge was that it had an effect on your personalities."

"Oh. Well, let's get going. I'll show you where Zim's base is."

"I'LL lead the way, O.K. Dib? I've been around here longer than Zim has, remember?"

"Oh yeah. Sorry." Amy started towards Zim's house with Dib behind her. They didn't talk until they got to Zim's house. "O.k., so Amy, do you have a plan?"

"No, but you need to give me the briefing of the defenses."
"O.K., well, there's the lawn gnomes in the front yard. And Zim's got a little robot. He's a little weird though. One time he shot a sandwich at me from his head."

"O.k., well you go back to your house and come up with a plan. I have some,uh, errands to run."

"But you said no other humans can see you."

"Nothing that I need to be seen for." Dib walked off, but he kept glancing back over his shoulder. Something didn't seem right, but he trusted her too much to make too much of it. He got home and locked himself in his room. He got to work on a plan.