I don't own "Finally" xD.
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Chappie Eight
Sha's POV
Ever since the "NanoZIM" incident, Zim had started being a bit more respectful towards me...not too much, but it was an improvement and an improvement was a good way to start. Maybe the improvement wouldn't be so small as the series progressed. We are only on the fourth episode anyway.
The date for today is Friday. I haven't kept track of what month. I don't care. Only the days matter. Because I don't want to go to Skool on a day in the weekend! That'd humiliate me.
Also, we're in Skool. It's absolutely boring. Ms. Bitters is killing me! She was talking about "The Big Bang". Apparently, it was some expansion of the universe and it was how it came to be. It was still expanding now. To think our universe was expanding in size still, today even, just surprises me. But when it comes to Ms. Bitters, her strong suit is boring people to death...which explains the fact that she kept us interested lasted less than five minutes.
The sharp tone of the bell blared in my eardrums. I clamped my hands right over them, but they didn't block out the sound one bit. My hands were not soundproof.
The bell ringing ceased. I uncovered my ears.
Ms. Bitters' eyes searched the room. "Huh, it stopped. Back to the lesson." Her pupils stopped on Mary. "And you, Mary. Right where your head is, before the Big Bang, there was nothing!"
Mary didn't speak a single word. That quiet Mary.
"And outside, where that squirrel is, there was nothing!" Ms. Bitters' craggily fingers pointed to the window. Outside, a squirrel was munching on a nut.
"Sha-human, I'm bored," Zim said to me.
"Well, I guess we'll have to get used to it." I whispered to him.
"And under your chairs, nothing!" I caught a glimpse of Emmy looking under her seat. So her.
Then I spotted Zim, seeming to use every ounce of his mind to order the clock to move faster. Unless Zim has telekinesis, I didn't think that would be possible.
"And by that tree, where that dog is, nothing."
Zim concentrated on the clock, willing it to go faster. I did the same. Maybe if Zim could do it, so could I!
Instead, something slowed it down. I had no idea what it was, but finally the hand reached twelve. The bell rang...deafening again.
"Ah, phew." Zim said. Everyone in the room stood up. Some jumped through the windows, like Emmy had, and some were simply walking out the door. Emmy didn't take a flying leap out the window. She motioned for everyone to stay.
"Don't forget that tonight is parent-teacher night. Everyone is required to bring their parents to the cafeteria." Ms. Bitters reminded us all.
Suddenly, I stiffened. Oh no. We all had parents, but who knows where they were? We were in Invader Zim and they were still in the real world. We had no parents. We were alone.
Zim and the rest of us whirled around and neared Ms. Bitters.
"I never agreed to attend this parent-teacher night!" Zim protested.
"AND WE DON'T HAVE PARENTS!" Emmy shouted.
"Yes you did. And how do you guys not have parents?"
"We're ummm, ummm," Mica seemed to be searching through her mind for an idea. "OUR PARENTS ALL DIED IN A BOMBING!"
I looked at her like That's the best you can do? Mica shrugged.
Well, it was a pretty good excuse.
"Awww, that's sad," Ms. Bitters said. "But not good enough to make me CRY."
We all exchanged weirded out glances. "Um, we weren't trying to." Emily spoke up.
"Fine!! Go to Parent Teacher Night without your parents! I don't care!!"
"That was easy," Emmy laughed with Emily.
"YOU LIE TEACHER!!! YOU LIE!!" Zim hollered, cutting in.
"Heh." Was the one word Ms. Bitters said. In a creepy-like way, she swept over to her desk, dug through the drawer, and pulled out a disk. Almost immediately, she slipped it into the computer and started up a very familiar video. Oh yeah, I remembered this! This was one of the best parts of the video, which appeared on a secret TV behind a blackboard.
I started to ponder whether the classroom was a headquarters for the FBI.
"Zim, are you going to bring your parents to parent-teacher night?" Ms. Bitters asked in the recording. I spottted myself sitting next to Zim, scrutinizing his every move.
Zim, who had been fiddling around with a pencil, looked up at the teacher. "Yeah, sure, whatever." He said absent-mindly, not having a single care at all.
"Why would you tape that?" Zim inquired.
We all said nothing. Then I glimpsed at Dib. He was still shoving things into his backpack, not even inspecting them.
"Putting up a lot of fight for something as simple as parent-teacher night, Zim. I bet he doesn't even know what parents are!" Dib turned his head towards the thirteen of us.
"Of course I do..." His eyes got a faraway look. I knew another flashback had come. He was thinking about how he had arrived into the Universe-by an incubation on Irk. And he had hugged a cold unfeeling robot arm.
So unlike Zim.
While Zim was "hugging" the robot arm, he was actually hugging Ms. Bitters.
While I would be enjoying every second of it, Ms. Bitters would be regretting every second of it and the teacher slithered out of Zim's grip. Since Zim was so short, and I love that about him, he was the one who fell to the floor, prompting some of the others to laugh.
They were the nutjobs of the group anyway.
"You will be here tonight, Zim! You and your parents!"
Wow, Ms. Bitters had been a lot harder on Zim than us.
As Zim started to walk towards the open door, I joined him, matching my pace with his. He didn't seem to mind...much anyway.
"Yeah! See you and your parents tonight, Zim!" Dib smirked evilly at Zim. I knew he was thinking he'd see Zim didn't have any parents.
Just as Zim and I made it to the doorway, Zim turned to Dib. "Yes. Oh, I will bring my pa-rents. And they shall be the greatest, most parental parents ever!"
And I believed every word he said.
Grace's POV
I didn't even go to Dib's house that day. I was too interested in the action that would happen before it. Which is why I told Dib, I'd see him later.
As I walked with my friends, I realized how bored I actually was. I think I'd have a much better time hanging out with Dib then simply walking home. But I told myself it'd be worth the wait.
I noticed Zim was deep in thought. Looking down at my shirt, which said "Derp" on it, I almost wanted to be that random to Zim and torture him. But Sha was here. I had to be on my best behavior, even if Sha wouldn't do the same!
"Huh?" Zim seemed to have awaken from Thoughtland and then tripped over a puppy into his front yard.
Oh man. That sounded like a sentence right out of Mad Libs.
We all rushed over to Zim and leaned over the fence. RoboMom (we like to call her that) was brushing the teeth of some makeup lady (the company was called Avon) and she was screaming.
"Ah!" Zim watched as the Avon lady hit the RoboMom with her makeup bag, full of plenty of samples I'd rather not use and ran away.
GIR ran out of the house, grabbing Emmy's hand. "No, wait! Come back! I need stuff!" They ran away.
Zim was now angry. I wouldn't blame him. It was why I was so glad I had real parents.
"Welcome home, son!" RoboDad (another nickname) we had for him.
"Shut up," I said, shoving him very hard, causing him to ram right into the wall.
"You want some dinner, sweetheart?" RoboMom offered Zim a bag of flour. She poured the entire thing on Zim's head.
Poor Zim. I stifled a giggle.
"What am I going to do? I only have a few hours before this...parent teacher thing." Zim placed himself on the couch, thanks to his legs from his Pak.
"The parent decoys aren't ready for that kind of service. Their interactive skills are too limited. Unless... GIR!"
As if on cue, GIR rushed in front of Zim, Emmy by his side. GIR was wearing makeup that he'd taken from that lady. Emmy was putting a little bit of lipstick on him.
I gave her a stern look.
"What? He said I could!" Emmy protested.
"Yes, sir!" I could tell GIR's eyes and every body part of his had turned red.
Emmy's face which had been happy a few seconds ago, drooped.
And then I remembered how she didn't like when GIR was like that.
FLASHBACK
We were still sitting in the escape pod. Most of us were leading conversations or watching TV or reading. Emmy was one of the few that read. Her book was one called "Finally". Seated on her lap was a familiar plushie of GIR. Her backpack plush.
"Emmy, I have a question." I sat cross-legged on the ground and began to float. Sighing, I pressed the red button on the floor and I was now stuck on the ground with Emmy.
"Shoot," Emmy looked up at me.
"Why do you like GIR so much?"
Emmy looked surprised, as if what I had asked was something nobody would dare ask. "Grace, it's pretty simple," She started to smile. "Have you ever seen any other SIR units?"
"Sure, I have. What's that got to do with anything?"
"Haven't you seen what they're like?"
I thought for a moment. Body parts always red; monotone voices; always obeying their owners' orders; refusing to talk to someone other than their beloved master; always...boring.
"And you know GIR...right? Well, of course you do, but you know."
GIR was actually pretty different from a regular SIR unit. Light cyan colored body parts; high, insane voice; going against whatever Zim said; talking to everyone he met whether they liked it or not; always fun.
"GIR isn't just a plain old SIR unit," Emmy said, snapping me out of my mind. "He's crazy, hilarious, and doesn't care what anyone thinks of him. And he's definitely the kindest robot I ever saw."
Ah, that Emmy.
END FLASHBACK
"GIR, we have to program the parents to learn human social behavior if they are to join me for parent teacher night." I heard Zim's voice. Talking to GIR. My thoughts didn't matter now.
"Yes sir, right away!" GIR saluted.
And then, I suddenly didn't like GIR in duty mode either.
Later we were in the base. Emmy and GIR were playing around with the TVs, commenting about how some shows were their favorites and how much the loved it.
You'd think it was their baby or something.
Later, I spotted GIR hugging Emmy. "I'll miss yoooooooou!"
She hugged him back as much as she could. "I'll miss you too!"
She seemed sort of disappointed as we left the house.
Emily and I glanced at each other.
"Em is insane," I mouthed to her.
Emily understood. "I know," She mouthed back to me.
"Are you ready?" Sha joked to Zim.
"Suuure." Zim grumbled.
"He's excited," Sha said to Michelle and Janay.
Aren't we all....
Rosa's POV
"I'm gonna go catch up to Dib," Grace informed us, breaking into a run. Dib's family wasn't too far ahead of us. When Dib saw her, he wrapped his arms around her. Grace was smiling.
When we walked into the Skool, Zim ahead of us, I saw Grace chatting with Dib and Gaz, along with Professor Membrane, and Mr. Elliot. Mr. Elliot was Gaz's teacher. He was so happy, it was scary. You would never see him without a big smile plastered onto his face.
It was really freaky if you asked me.
Zim led his parents to Ms. Bitters. She was talking to a group of parents. I could smell trouble from the moment I saw it.
I turned away from everything. At the same time, Alyssa strutted over to me, like a superstar. She laughed.
"Heyy, Rosa!" She grinned.
"Hi Lyssa. What's up?"
"Preparing for all the drama that's going to happen in a little bit."
"How could you tell?"
"EVERYONE told me!"
The others in our group joined Grace, Dib, Gaz, and Dib and Gaz's father at the punch table.
I scooped some punch into one cup for me, and one for Lyssa.
"Thank woo, Rosie!" Lyssa accepted her cup and took a sip. I did the same-and then did a spittake. UGH! It was disgusting. It tasted like contaminated water.
Just as Janay was about to raise the glass to her mouth, with one giant swipe, Alyssa knocked it right out of her hands, and it spilled all over the floor.
"Alyssa Elm-" Janay started, but was cut off by Lyssa throwing her arms around her. "MY JANAY!!!"
Janay looked dazed, but returned the hug, while Old Kid suddenly appeared before the group.
"What is that?" He pointed to the red puddle of punch.
"Oh, it's p-" Annie started, but Michelle clamped her hand over her mouth.
"It's blood. A person just died, and we had to drag him out." Michelle said, instead.
Old Kid's reaction was running around the room in circles, screaming his head off.
"Let's take him to the insane asylum." An adult said, dragging him away.
"What was that?" Zim approached us.
"Nothing," Sha and I said together.
"Nothing at all." Sha added.
"A person died," Dani said. "And we miss them...so very dearly..." She seemed to not have any idea of what to say next.
"You don't even know their name?" Zim looked at us strangely. "How could you miss someone like that? It's stupid!!"
"You passed the test Zim! Congratulations!" Sha exclaimed to him.
"What test-"
"Hello, Zim." We all turned around. It was Dib, and Grace was standing next to him. Dib reached for a glass of punch, but Grace touched his hand, stopping him.
"Oh, the punch doesn't taste all that good. I'd say it's horrible," Grace said when Dib looked at her, probably wondering why she had done that.
"Oh, okay. Thanks Grace." Dib's smile returned to his face.
"Dib." Zim sneered when he got a good look at Dib.
"This can't be good," I said to Alyssa, who nodded her head in total agreement.
"Dad, there's somebody I want you to meet. This is Zim. You know, the alien." Dib introduced Zim to the monitor.
"Oh, shut up, Dib. Zim isn't an alien," Zita said, as she walked by.
"Yes he is!" Dib retorted.
Sometimes, Dib being right can be soo annoying.
"And what country is the little green boy from?" Professor Membrane followed Zim around, inspecting him.
"Yes, yes, that's fascinating! Come on Sha!" He grabbed the blonde and ran off with her. But then he and Sha suddenly returned and Sha took the liberty of pouring punch all over Dib.
The rest of us, except for Grace, and Gaz snickered.
Grace looked at Dib. "We should get a towel for you." Looking ahead, she and Dib walked away from us.
Who do we have left? I didn't bother to list them all.
"Oh no. Honey, is it-" A lady's voice began.
"Yup! Diarrhea!" A man answered.
Oh no.
Dani's POV
Oh man! It was who I thought it was! It was who everyone thought it was!
We all turned to the direction of Zim's RoboParents. When Zim noticed everyone staring at his own parents, his eyes bulged.
"I have just the thing for that!" RoboMom threw some punch into RoboDad's face
This wasn't good at all. Zim had made these parents to blend in with other humans, to be a normal person and it had failed, badly.
"Who does your hair?" RoboMom poked Mrs. Slunchy hard.
Emmy, Mica, Alyssa, and Janay snuck up behind the robot decoy, and started punching it in every place they could. But the RoboMom didn't even seem to feel it, being made of metal.
"Mom, I think we should go home now!" Zim tried to sound like a normal human being again.
"Yeah Mrs.....umm, what's your last name?" I watched Sha shift her weight from her left leg to her right one, trying to look as innocent as possible.
"Don't tell me what do young man! You go to your room! As for your girlfriend, you two can't see each other anymore!" The RoboMom faced Zim and Sha.
Dumbfounded, Sha looked away. I was just as surprised. Had GIR changed the channel to Romeo and Juliet? I hadn't been there, so I hadn't seen.
RoboMom dumped Zim into the bowl of punch and when he got out, Dib, now dry thanks to Grace, poured his cup of punch on Zim's head. This caused both Grace and Gaz to snicker, along with me and Annie, but no one else did, because of all the chaos going on.
Mr. Elliot, the hyper teacher waved to me as he made his way towards Zim. I just stuck his tongue out at him. He deserved it, with the way he was. Mr. Elliot was not affected in a single way and just continued smiling. Was he faking that smile?
"Hey, is your dad feeling well?" He still smiled.
"Yes, he's perfectly fine." Zim lied.
And then, RoboDad's left arm shot off his body and flew through the air. Michelle jumped up and caught it. Mr. Elliot screamed in horror, one of the first times I'd ever seen him in a mood other than his usual happy-go-lucky one.
Dib and Grace were sitting in chairs, next to each other, laughing hysterically. But it took Grace a second to realize it wasn't all that funny.
"Nothing to worry about! My dad lost his arm in the, uh, the war!" Zim was as worried as ever.
Poor Zim, having to lie so much. But he did accuse other people of lying too, so I shouldn't feel so sorry.
"That was my squeezin' arm. They took my squeezing arm! Why my squeezing arm!" RoboDad got down on his knees as though a person he loved had just left him, and all he could do was scream "WHY?!"
Fortunately, RoboDad was so weak, that Zim snapped his fingers at Janay and Alyssa, prompting them to drag him to Zim's "mom".
When the two suceeded, they dropped him, nearly collapsing on the floor, and the RoboDad was surprisingly able to stand up.
"Look, mom, we really have to go! Please. Now, please!" Zim pleaded.
"Honey, you're upset!" RoboMom turned towards her "son".
"Thank you, Catherine Obvious!" Emily said to her.
Emmy laughed, remarking that it was a "Victorious" joke.
"Yes!" Zim said as if he hadn't heard what Emily had just said. "And I want to go home!"
"I know what'll cheer you up." And Zim's parents started river dancing.
Grace and Dib were now really laughing as they ate their donuts and sipped their punch.
But Dib snapped out of laughing and pointed towards Zim's parents. "Look everyone, look!"
The girls in our group, looked at them, but everyone else was focusing on the RoboMom.
"Uck, mom, dad. I think I've broken my spine! My spine!" Zim yelled overdramatically.
"Awe, honey. I think it's time we took you home." RoboMom FINALLY paid attention!
She picked him up, like he was a baby. And then she shot out of the window. Like a jetpack. With her "husband". Zim's smile was wiped off his face.
Oh, crud.
Alyssa's POV
Sha was alarmed. "No, Zim!!"
Meanwhile, Dib looked at Grace. "Lemme guess. Nobody saw that, right?"
Grace, dismayed, saw the group of people crowded around Mrs. Slunchy. Poor Dib!!!
"Does that answer your question?" Grace asked, but not in a smart-aleck way.
"Hey!" A man by the name of Hugh Monstro called out. This got everyone's attention.
"That kid's throwing punch!" He pointed to Dib. Just as Ms. Bitters had to show up.
"He's screwed," Sha smirked.
"No he's not," Who said that?! Oh wait, Grace did. She ran towards Dib and pushed him out of the circle that slowly started to surround him.
"Let's go!" Grace slipped her hand into Dib's and ran out of the Skool.
"I'm gonna go over to Dib's house, 'kay?" She shouted as they ran out the doors.
Awww, how romantic! I formed a heart with my hands. Grace and Dib made a great couple.
"I guess we should get going." Emily said. She looked a little down and Emmy ran over to her, and began talking to her. Well, they were practically...twins...maybe sisters, I'm better with Jay!
As the two girls started talking, I ran up to Michelle and poked her. "Hi Chelle!!"
"Lyssa, hi!" Michelle said to me. "What's up?"
Honestly, I didn't know what to say.
"I really don't know."
It was then quiet between all of us.
It stayed that way, even when we arrived at Zim's house!
I have nothing else to say! BYE!!!
Annie's POV
It was all too quiet when I closed the door of Zim's house behind the rest of us.
"INTRUDERS! GET OUT OF MY HOUSE!" Forget what I just thought.
"It's just us, Zim." Sha said. She sounded very calm.
"Oh, ok." Zim sounded the same as Sha did. "WAIT WHO IS US?!"
"You can't recognize my own voice?!" Sha playfully smiled.
"Ohhh...Sha-human." Zim had entered the living room.
"EMMEH?!" It was GIR!
"GIR!" Emmy yelled. She ran over to him and hugged him tight.
I didn't know where Grace and Dib were, but I was sure they were having a great time together.
"Sha-human, join me in the lair. You, my SLAVE!, are helping me build something to control that HORRIBLE ROBOT!!!!" When Zim actually took HER hand, Sha was officially daydreaming.
"Just let her enjoy it," Emily said.
Mica looked at me. "Care to help me draw, Annie?"
I didn't think I could be as good as Mica, or Micky as some of us liked to call her, but she was so sweet, I took up on her offer.
And the other girls crowded around her.
Except for Emmy. I think she was giving GIR a piggyback ride, but I can't be sure.
I shall never doubt a Parent Teacher Night ever again!
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Soooo sorry it took so long to update! I've been busy! Hope you guys liked the chappie!
Footnote!:
This chappie includes an excerpt from the IZ episode "Parent Teacher Night". So don't sue me!
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Chappie Eight
Sha's POV
Ever since the "NanoZIM" incident, Zim had started being a bit more respectful towards me...not too much, but it was an improvement and an improvement was a good way to start. Maybe the improvement wouldn't be so small as the series progressed. We are only on the fourth episode anyway.
The date for today is Friday. I haven't kept track of what month. I don't care. Only the days matter. Because I don't want to go to Skool on a day in the weekend! That'd humiliate me.
Also, we're in Skool. It's absolutely boring. Ms. Bitters is killing me! She was talking about "The Big Bang". Apparently, it was some expansion of the universe and it was how it came to be. It was still expanding now. To think our universe was expanding in size still, today even, just surprises me. But when it comes to Ms. Bitters, her strong suit is boring people to death...which explains the fact that she kept us interested lasted less than five minutes.
The sharp tone of the bell blared in my eardrums. I clamped my hands right over them, but they didn't block out the sound one bit. My hands were not soundproof.
The bell ringing ceased. I uncovered my ears.
Ms. Bitters' eyes searched the room. "Huh, it stopped. Back to the lesson." Her pupils stopped on Mary. "And you, Mary. Right where your head is, before the Big Bang, there was nothing!"
Mary didn't speak a single word. That quiet Mary.
"And outside, where that squirrel is, there was nothing!" Ms. Bitters' craggily fingers pointed to the window. Outside, a squirrel was munching on a nut.
"Sha-human, I'm bored," Zim said to me.
"Well, I guess we'll have to get used to it." I whispered to him.
"And under your chairs, nothing!" I caught a glimpse of Emmy looking under her seat. So her.
Then I spotted Zim, seeming to use every ounce of his mind to order the clock to move faster. Unless Zim has telekinesis, I didn't think that would be possible.
"And by that tree, where that dog is, nothing."
Zim concentrated on the clock, willing it to go faster. I did the same. Maybe if Zim could do it, so could I!
Instead, something slowed it down. I had no idea what it was, but finally the hand reached twelve. The bell rang...deafening again.
"Ah, phew." Zim said. Everyone in the room stood up. Some jumped through the windows, like Emmy had, and some were simply walking out the door. Emmy didn't take a flying leap out the window. She motioned for everyone to stay.
"Don't forget that tonight is parent-teacher night. Everyone is required to bring their parents to the cafeteria." Ms. Bitters reminded us all.
Suddenly, I stiffened. Oh no. We all had parents, but who knows where they were? We were in Invader Zim and they were still in the real world. We had no parents. We were alone.
Zim and the rest of us whirled around and neared Ms. Bitters.
"I never agreed to attend this parent-teacher night!" Zim protested.
"AND WE DON'T HAVE PARENTS!" Emmy shouted.
"Yes you did. And how do you guys not have parents?"
"We're ummm, ummm," Mica seemed to be searching through her mind for an idea. "OUR PARENTS ALL DIED IN A BOMBING!"
I looked at her like That's the best you can do? Mica shrugged.
Well, it was a pretty good excuse.
"Awww, that's sad," Ms. Bitters said. "But not good enough to make me CRY."
We all exchanged weirded out glances. "Um, we weren't trying to." Emily spoke up.
"Fine!! Go to Parent Teacher Night without your parents! I don't care!!"
"That was easy," Emmy laughed with Emily.
"YOU LIE TEACHER!!! YOU LIE!!" Zim hollered, cutting in.
"Heh." Was the one word Ms. Bitters said. In a creepy-like way, she swept over to her desk, dug through the drawer, and pulled out a disk. Almost immediately, she slipped it into the computer and started up a very familiar video. Oh yeah, I remembered this! This was one of the best parts of the video, which appeared on a secret TV behind a blackboard.
I started to ponder whether the classroom was a headquarters for the FBI.
"Zim, are you going to bring your parents to parent-teacher night?" Ms. Bitters asked in the recording. I spottted myself sitting next to Zim, scrutinizing his every move.
Zim, who had been fiddling around with a pencil, looked up at the teacher. "Yeah, sure, whatever." He said absent-mindly, not having a single care at all.
"Why would you tape that?" Zim inquired.
We all said nothing. Then I glimpsed at Dib. He was still shoving things into his backpack, not even inspecting them.
"Putting up a lot of fight for something as simple as parent-teacher night, Zim. I bet he doesn't even know what parents are!" Dib turned his head towards the thirteen of us.
"Of course I do..." His eyes got a faraway look. I knew another flashback had come. He was thinking about how he had arrived into the Universe-by an incubation on Irk. And he had hugged a cold unfeeling robot arm.
So unlike Zim.
While Zim was "hugging" the robot arm, he was actually hugging Ms. Bitters.
While I would be enjoying every second of it, Ms. Bitters would be regretting every second of it and the teacher slithered out of Zim's grip. Since Zim was so short, and I love that about him, he was the one who fell to the floor, prompting some of the others to laugh.
They were the nutjobs of the group anyway.
"You will be here tonight, Zim! You and your parents!"
Wow, Ms. Bitters had been a lot harder on Zim than us.
As Zim started to walk towards the open door, I joined him, matching my pace with his. He didn't seem to mind...much anyway.
"Yeah! See you and your parents tonight, Zim!" Dib smirked evilly at Zim. I knew he was thinking he'd see Zim didn't have any parents.
Just as Zim and I made it to the doorway, Zim turned to Dib. "Yes. Oh, I will bring my pa-rents. And they shall be the greatest, most parental parents ever!"
And I believed every word he said.
Grace's POV
I didn't even go to Dib's house that day. I was too interested in the action that would happen before it. Which is why I told Dib, I'd see him later.
As I walked with my friends, I realized how bored I actually was. I think I'd have a much better time hanging out with Dib then simply walking home. But I told myself it'd be worth the wait.
I noticed Zim was deep in thought. Looking down at my shirt, which said "Derp" on it, I almost wanted to be that random to Zim and torture him. But Sha was here. I had to be on my best behavior, even if Sha wouldn't do the same!
"Huh?" Zim seemed to have awaken from Thoughtland and then tripped over a puppy into his front yard.
Oh man. That sounded like a sentence right out of Mad Libs.
We all rushed over to Zim and leaned over the fence. RoboMom (we like to call her that) was brushing the teeth of some makeup lady (the company was called Avon) and she was screaming.
"Ah!" Zim watched as the Avon lady hit the RoboMom with her makeup bag, full of plenty of samples I'd rather not use and ran away.
GIR ran out of the house, grabbing Emmy's hand. "No, wait! Come back! I need stuff!" They ran away.
Zim was now angry. I wouldn't blame him. It was why I was so glad I had real parents.
"Welcome home, son!" RoboDad (another nickname) we had for him.
"Shut up," I said, shoving him very hard, causing him to ram right into the wall.
"You want some dinner, sweetheart?" RoboMom offered Zim a bag of flour. She poured the entire thing on Zim's head.
Poor Zim. I stifled a giggle.
"What am I going to do? I only have a few hours before this...parent teacher thing." Zim placed himself on the couch, thanks to his legs from his Pak.
"The parent decoys aren't ready for that kind of service. Their interactive skills are too limited. Unless... GIR!"
As if on cue, GIR rushed in front of Zim, Emmy by his side. GIR was wearing makeup that he'd taken from that lady. Emmy was putting a little bit of lipstick on him.
I gave her a stern look.
"What? He said I could!" Emmy protested.
"Yes, sir!" I could tell GIR's eyes and every body part of his had turned red.
Emmy's face which had been happy a few seconds ago, drooped.
And then I remembered how she didn't like when GIR was like that.
FLASHBACK
We were still sitting in the escape pod. Most of us were leading conversations or watching TV or reading. Emmy was one of the few that read. Her book was one called "Finally". Seated on her lap was a familiar plushie of GIR. Her backpack plush.
"Emmy, I have a question." I sat cross-legged on the ground and began to float. Sighing, I pressed the red button on the floor and I was now stuck on the ground with Emmy.
"Shoot," Emmy looked up at me.
"Why do you like GIR so much?"
Emmy looked surprised, as if what I had asked was something nobody would dare ask. "Grace, it's pretty simple," She started to smile. "Have you ever seen any other SIR units?"
"Sure, I have. What's that got to do with anything?"
"Haven't you seen what they're like?"
I thought for a moment. Body parts always red; monotone voices; always obeying their owners' orders; refusing to talk to someone other than their beloved master; always...boring.
"And you know GIR...right? Well, of course you do, but you know."
GIR was actually pretty different from a regular SIR unit. Light cyan colored body parts; high, insane voice; going against whatever Zim said; talking to everyone he met whether they liked it or not; always fun.
"GIR isn't just a plain old SIR unit," Emmy said, snapping me out of my mind. "He's crazy, hilarious, and doesn't care what anyone thinks of him. And he's definitely the kindest robot I ever saw."
Ah, that Emmy.
END FLASHBACK
"GIR, we have to program the parents to learn human social behavior if they are to join me for parent teacher night." I heard Zim's voice. Talking to GIR. My thoughts didn't matter now.
"Yes sir, right away!" GIR saluted.
And then, I suddenly didn't like GIR in duty mode either.
Later we were in the base. Emmy and GIR were playing around with the TVs, commenting about how some shows were their favorites and how much the loved it.
You'd think it was their baby or something.
Later, I spotted GIR hugging Emmy. "I'll miss yoooooooou!"
She hugged him back as much as she could. "I'll miss you too!"
She seemed sort of disappointed as we left the house.
Emily and I glanced at each other.
"Em is insane," I mouthed to her.
Emily understood. "I know," She mouthed back to me.
"Are you ready?" Sha joked to Zim.
"Suuure." Zim grumbled.
"He's excited," Sha said to Michelle and Janay.
Aren't we all....
Rosa's POV
"I'm gonna go catch up to Dib," Grace informed us, breaking into a run. Dib's family wasn't too far ahead of us. When Dib saw her, he wrapped his arms around her. Grace was smiling.
When we walked into the Skool, Zim ahead of us, I saw Grace chatting with Dib and Gaz, along with Professor Membrane, and Mr. Elliot. Mr. Elliot was Gaz's teacher. He was so happy, it was scary. You would never see him without a big smile plastered onto his face.
It was really freaky if you asked me.
Zim led his parents to Ms. Bitters. She was talking to a group of parents. I could smell trouble from the moment I saw it.
I turned away from everything. At the same time, Alyssa strutted over to me, like a superstar. She laughed.
"Heyy, Rosa!" She grinned.
"Hi Lyssa. What's up?"
"Preparing for all the drama that's going to happen in a little bit."
"How could you tell?"
"EVERYONE told me!"
The others in our group joined Grace, Dib, Gaz, and Dib and Gaz's father at the punch table.
I scooped some punch into one cup for me, and one for Lyssa.
"Thank woo, Rosie!" Lyssa accepted her cup and took a sip. I did the same-and then did a spittake. UGH! It was disgusting. It tasted like contaminated water.
Just as Janay was about to raise the glass to her mouth, with one giant swipe, Alyssa knocked it right out of her hands, and it spilled all over the floor.
"Alyssa Elm-" Janay started, but was cut off by Lyssa throwing her arms around her. "MY JANAY!!!"
Janay looked dazed, but returned the hug, while Old Kid suddenly appeared before the group.
"What is that?" He pointed to the red puddle of punch.
"Oh, it's p-" Annie started, but Michelle clamped her hand over her mouth.
"It's blood. A person just died, and we had to drag him out." Michelle said, instead.
Old Kid's reaction was running around the room in circles, screaming his head off.
"Let's take him to the insane asylum." An adult said, dragging him away.
"What was that?" Zim approached us.
"Nothing," Sha and I said together.
"Nothing at all." Sha added.
"A person died," Dani said. "And we miss them...so very dearly..." She seemed to not have any idea of what to say next.
"You don't even know their name?" Zim looked at us strangely. "How could you miss someone like that? It's stupid!!"
"You passed the test Zim! Congratulations!" Sha exclaimed to him.
"What test-"
"Hello, Zim." We all turned around. It was Dib, and Grace was standing next to him. Dib reached for a glass of punch, but Grace touched his hand, stopping him.
"Oh, the punch doesn't taste all that good. I'd say it's horrible," Grace said when Dib looked at her, probably wondering why she had done that.
"Oh, okay. Thanks Grace." Dib's smile returned to his face.
"Dib." Zim sneered when he got a good look at Dib.
"This can't be good," I said to Alyssa, who nodded her head in total agreement.
"Dad, there's somebody I want you to meet. This is Zim. You know, the alien." Dib introduced Zim to the monitor.
"Oh, shut up, Dib. Zim isn't an alien," Zita said, as she walked by.
"Yes he is!" Dib retorted.
Sometimes, Dib being right can be soo annoying.
"And what country is the little green boy from?" Professor Membrane followed Zim around, inspecting him.
"Yes, yes, that's fascinating! Come on Sha!" He grabbed the blonde and ran off with her. But then he and Sha suddenly returned and Sha took the liberty of pouring punch all over Dib.
The rest of us, except for Grace, and Gaz snickered.
Grace looked at Dib. "We should get a towel for you." Looking ahead, she and Dib walked away from us.
Who do we have left? I didn't bother to list them all.
"Oh no. Honey, is it-" A lady's voice began.
"Yup! Diarrhea!" A man answered.
Oh no.
Dani's POV
Oh man! It was who I thought it was! It was who everyone thought it was!
We all turned to the direction of Zim's RoboParents. When Zim noticed everyone staring at his own parents, his eyes bulged.
"I have just the thing for that!" RoboMom threw some punch into RoboDad's face
This wasn't good at all. Zim had made these parents to blend in with other humans, to be a normal person and it had failed, badly.
"Who does your hair?" RoboMom poked Mrs. Slunchy hard.
Emmy, Mica, Alyssa, and Janay snuck up behind the robot decoy, and started punching it in every place they could. But the RoboMom didn't even seem to feel it, being made of metal.
"Mom, I think we should go home now!" Zim tried to sound like a normal human being again.
"Yeah Mrs.....umm, what's your last name?" I watched Sha shift her weight from her left leg to her right one, trying to look as innocent as possible.
"Don't tell me what do young man! You go to your room! As for your girlfriend, you two can't see each other anymore!" The RoboMom faced Zim and Sha.
Dumbfounded, Sha looked away. I was just as surprised. Had GIR changed the channel to Romeo and Juliet? I hadn't been there, so I hadn't seen.
RoboMom dumped Zim into the bowl of punch and when he got out, Dib, now dry thanks to Grace, poured his cup of punch on Zim's head. This caused both Grace and Gaz to snicker, along with me and Annie, but no one else did, because of all the chaos going on.
Mr. Elliot, the hyper teacher waved to me as he made his way towards Zim. I just stuck his tongue out at him. He deserved it, with the way he was. Mr. Elliot was not affected in a single way and just continued smiling. Was he faking that smile?
"Hey, is your dad feeling well?" He still smiled.
"Yes, he's perfectly fine." Zim lied.
And then, RoboDad's left arm shot off his body and flew through the air. Michelle jumped up and caught it. Mr. Elliot screamed in horror, one of the first times I'd ever seen him in a mood other than his usual happy-go-lucky one.
Dib and Grace were sitting in chairs, next to each other, laughing hysterically. But it took Grace a second to realize it wasn't all that funny.
"Nothing to worry about! My dad lost his arm in the, uh, the war!" Zim was as worried as ever.
Poor Zim, having to lie so much. But he did accuse other people of lying too, so I shouldn't feel so sorry.
"That was my squeezin' arm. They took my squeezing arm! Why my squeezing arm!" RoboDad got down on his knees as though a person he loved had just left him, and all he could do was scream "WHY?!"
Fortunately, RoboDad was so weak, that Zim snapped his fingers at Janay and Alyssa, prompting them to drag him to Zim's "mom".
When the two suceeded, they dropped him, nearly collapsing on the floor, and the RoboDad was surprisingly able to stand up.
"Look, mom, we really have to go! Please. Now, please!" Zim pleaded.
"Honey, you're upset!" RoboMom turned towards her "son".
"Thank you, Catherine Obvious!" Emily said to her.
Emmy laughed, remarking that it was a "Victorious" joke.
"Yes!" Zim said as if he hadn't heard what Emily had just said. "And I want to go home!"
"I know what'll cheer you up." And Zim's parents started river dancing.
Grace and Dib were now really laughing as they ate their donuts and sipped their punch.
But Dib snapped out of laughing and pointed towards Zim's parents. "Look everyone, look!"
The girls in our group, looked at them, but everyone else was focusing on the RoboMom.
"Uck, mom, dad. I think I've broken my spine! My spine!" Zim yelled overdramatically.
"Awe, honey. I think it's time we took you home." RoboMom FINALLY paid attention!
She picked him up, like he was a baby. And then she shot out of the window. Like a jetpack. With her "husband". Zim's smile was wiped off his face.
Oh, crud.
Alyssa's POV
Sha was alarmed. "No, Zim!!"
Meanwhile, Dib looked at Grace. "Lemme guess. Nobody saw that, right?"
Grace, dismayed, saw the group of people crowded around Mrs. Slunchy. Poor Dib!!!
"Does that answer your question?" Grace asked, but not in a smart-aleck way.
"Hey!" A man by the name of Hugh Monstro called out. This got everyone's attention.
"That kid's throwing punch!" He pointed to Dib. Just as Ms. Bitters had to show up.
"He's screwed," Sha smirked.
"No he's not," Who said that?! Oh wait, Grace did. She ran towards Dib and pushed him out of the circle that slowly started to surround him.
"Let's go!" Grace slipped her hand into Dib's and ran out of the Skool.
"I'm gonna go over to Dib's house, 'kay?" She shouted as they ran out the doors.
Awww, how romantic! I formed a heart with my hands. Grace and Dib made a great couple.
"I guess we should get going." Emily said. She looked a little down and Emmy ran over to her, and began talking to her. Well, they were practically...twins...maybe sisters, I'm better with Jay!
As the two girls started talking, I ran up to Michelle and poked her. "Hi Chelle!!"
"Lyssa, hi!" Michelle said to me. "What's up?"
Honestly, I didn't know what to say.
"I really don't know."
It was then quiet between all of us.
It stayed that way, even when we arrived at Zim's house!
I have nothing else to say! BYE!!!
Annie's POV
It was all too quiet when I closed the door of Zim's house behind the rest of us.
"INTRUDERS! GET OUT OF MY HOUSE!" Forget what I just thought.
"It's just us, Zim." Sha said. She sounded very calm.
"Oh, ok." Zim sounded the same as Sha did. "WAIT WHO IS US?!"
"You can't recognize my own voice?!" Sha playfully smiled.
"Ohhh...Sha-human." Zim had entered the living room.
"EMMEH?!" It was GIR!
"GIR!" Emmy yelled. She ran over to him and hugged him tight.
I didn't know where Grace and Dib were, but I was sure they were having a great time together.
"Sha-human, join me in the lair. You, my SLAVE!, are helping me build something to control that HORRIBLE ROBOT!!!!" When Zim actually took HER hand, Sha was officially daydreaming.
"Just let her enjoy it," Emily said.
Mica looked at me. "Care to help me draw, Annie?"
I didn't think I could be as good as Mica, or Micky as some of us liked to call her, but she was so sweet, I took up on her offer.
And the other girls crowded around her.
Except for Emmy. I think she was giving GIR a piggyback ride, but I can't be sure.
I shall never doubt a Parent Teacher Night ever again!
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Soooo sorry it took so long to update! I've been busy! Hope you guys liked the chappie!
Footnote!:
This chappie includes an excerpt from the IZ episode "Parent Teacher Night". So don't sue me!