Chapter 1: Into the Darkness

Dib's P.O.V

**Edit** Changed it from present to past tense

I bolted down the poorly lit street after my arch enemy, Zim. His slim, green body racing across the road. His stupid disguise hadn't really changed, it was still just a black wig and contact lenses. He also still wore his pinkish-red tunic, black tights, boots and gloves. Not to mention he had grown, something which he was very proud about. He was now about 5'2, of course it was nothing compared to my 6'4, and I constantly remind him of it.

I was still thin, not as thin as Zim but still thin. I still had the same thick glasses I'd worn since I was little and my black trench coat. My coat had been patched up a bit because of my height and fights with Zim, I still wore it every day though. My hair still had that annoying scythe-like thing in it, just like my father's, who still hadn't given up on trying to get me to study 'real science' by the way. Like that would ever happen, I'm always too busy saving the world to worry about science. Not that my father would know that, he still thinks I am insane.

The game of cat and mouse that Zim and I have played since 5th grade was getting pretty old. Zim would think up an idiotic plan, I'd stop him dead in his tracks, and he'd think up a new one, etc. It was all the same and seemingly never ending. And his poor attempts at world conquest were just getting more insane as time progressed, it had been 5 years and he still hadn't managed to take over so much as a building, let alone the whole planet.

I hadn't been following Zim around as much as I used to, but to be honest he wasn't as much of a threat anymore…well at all really. The worst thing he'd done this year was steal animals from the zoo and make them glow in the dark, claiming that the brightness would render Earth sleepless, therefore surrendering to him. But that plan back fired when the animals destroyed half of his base in a stampede.

That's why I wasn't expecting what happened that night. The stupid alien had broken into my room through my window and stolen my laptop that had all the videos and photos I'd ever taken of Zim. I just had to get it back or almost all of my years of research were down the drain, that and I only have one laptop.

Zim ran into his base and slammed the door behind him, I guess I had to admit that he is faster than me. I stopped before I reached his yard, picking up a rock and throwing it onto the dead grass near Zim's lawn gnomes. No reaction, brilliant. I don't really feel like having lasers shot at me. I quickly ran to the door and bashed it open.

"Give it back Zim!" I yelled. There was no answer. "I said give it back you stupid, green lizard!" Just silence.

"Strange…" I thought out loud. That wasn't like Zim. I mean I just insulted him and he didn't shout at me or beat me up. Nothing.

I cautiously took another step into the base, hearing a slight click behind me as the door swung shut.

"Zim? Where are you?" I called out, not really expecting an answer. "Maybe he's down in his lab." I thought out loud again.

I took a few more steps before I was attacked by a hard, silver thing.

"Ow! Argh! Get off me!" I squirmed, trying to get away. It kept hitting me with what appeared to be a waffle drenched in maple syrup.

"Big head boy! Watcha doin's here!" A robotic voice screeched.

Gir, Zim's defective robot servant, the only thing possibly dumber than Zim, and that was saying something.

"Hi Gir. Uhh…do you know where Zim is? He has something of mine and I want it back." I asked, picking him up and throwing him onto the couch.

"Wee!" It screamed as it flew through the air. It then sat there for a second, thinking.

I waited for an answer, but got nothing. The little robot pulled a scruffy looking rubber pig from its head and squeezed it until its eyes bulged, laughing hysterically.

"Thanks for your help, stupid, insane robot." I mumbled before getting to my feet and shaking crumbs and syrup out of my hair and off my clothes. Wiping the sticky mess off my hand, I walked over to the toilet in the kitchen and looked down into it. I shook my head at the stupidity of it, to be completely honest, who in their right mind would make a toilet an entrance to their lab? And why put it in the kitchen?

I stepped into it and took a deep breath, preparing to flush myself into Zim's lab. Just before I did, I heard a huge bang. I looked up, seeing bits of metal scattered everywhere, and a robot's head with large cyan eyes rolled into the kitchen.

"Are you gonna make biscuits!" it asked in a high pitched voice. Apparently Gir had exploded…again.

Sighing I turned and flushed. I wasn't expecting the sensation that engulfed my body. It was like I was getting stretched, shrunk, pulled apart and melted all at the same time. I was getting dizzy, and I screamed as I flew feet first down the long tube into what I knew to be Zim's base. I'd been in there plenty of times before, but this was my first time using one of the actual entrances. All the other times I'd just broken in.

I felt myself go a little faster and my head began to spin. Another three or four seconds and I shot out of the bottom, landing hard on my back. I groaned, clutching my stomach. I felt like I was going to be sick.

I shakily stood up, clutching a machine of some type for support. I just stood there for a while, waiting for my eyes to adjust to the darkness and my stomach to settle. When I could see properly I walked out of the corner I was in to look for Zim.

"Hey space boy! Come out and fight me! Or are you too chicken?" I demanded, trying to antagonise him into coming out. My efforts weren't needed though.

"Zim is not 'chicken' Dib-worm." A familiar voice whispered in my ear.

I froze at the sound of him so close to me. I tried to say something but my mouth was quickly covered and something sharp was jabbed into my neck. He let me go and I fell to the cold, metal floor. An evil laugh echoed around me as my vision went blurry. A black silhouette formed above me in the shape of a blurry alien. I tried to move my arms and legs but they weren't responding.

"Wha did you doo to mee Zim?" I mumbled drowsily. Zim just laughed at me.

I could feel myself drifting into a deep sleep. But I couldn't, not here. Not in my enemy's lab with him centimetres above me. Not unless I wanted to freaking die!

Stay awake, Dib! Don't give in! I mentally shook myself, trying not to succumb to the darkness surrounding me, but it was no use. I lost my sense of sight and could barely hear in a matter of seconds.

"Nighty night, Dib-stink." Zim said with an evil chuckle before I slipped into the darkness.

So, what do you think? Is it good? is it terrible? Should I bother to post chapter two? Review and tell me! All flames will be ignored though, so don't bother with that. Also, I would like to thank my amazing Beta, Princess-of-Your-Doom95, for making this chapter so much better!