Zim's Base.
It was currently five o'clock in the morning, as zim did not require sleep, and as such, has spent all night focusing on his research of these strange energy readings he obtained during last night reconnaissance mission of the rainbooms at their slumber party, as he sat within his laboratory, all alone. Although he was barely scratching the surface in terms of the energy and power of these readings, he was still satisfied with the results, easily seeing several uses for this energy.
Of course, he still required a true sample to have something he could work with, and would require one from each of the seven girls, which could prove difficult, as he doubted he simply pull a piece of their hair out without them noticing. That's when an idea struck him, as he smiled and snapped his fingers. "Bingo."
He had designed a device specifically for this purpose of gathering samples, as he quickly made his way to the robotics bay, running through the long winding and dark corridors his base, the walls lined with wires, lights, metal plating, and small screens displaying random info, as well as cameras dotted around the place. It was kinda lonely down here... But he didn't care, as he reached the brightly lit robotics bay, seeing all his greatest robotic creations yet.
The hunter destroyer, his planetary scout drones, the Megadoomer X-3 Combat Stealth Mech MK2, a rebuilt and upgraded version of the original megadoomer gifted to Zim by the tallest, the maim bot, and finally, as he reached a specific platform of the room, a tiny pedestal, with around 8 small red specks on it. However, Zim picked one of them up, this speck turned out to be his next gen in miniaturized sample recovery drones, as Zim smiled, placing the speck down and walking over to his computer terminal, slowly typing away at it as he inputted data on the targets of the drones, showing images of all seven members of the rainbooms band.
"It should be simple to acquire a tiny sample from each of these humans..." And with the data uploaded, all of the drones entered a small red ball as it closed, zim grabbing it and sliding it into the storage compartment of his PAK as he smiled and walked out of the robotics bay, heading for the preparation room.
At this point, it was now six o'clock, meaning it was time to prepare for school, as he entered the room and did his routine work out while disguising himself, and in a few short moments, he was ready for deployment, as he quickly made his way to the garage. "Time for another day of wretched human education."
Meanwhile, GIR was upstairs watching TV and eating nachos, when suddenly, there was a knock at the door, as GIR slowly walked over as he put on his dog disguise, and opened the door, to see a pink haired girl standing right over as she spoke.
"Ummmm hello, is anyone there-" As Fluttershy slowly looked down, her face turned to that of joy and amazement, as without warning, she grabbed GIR and hugged him tightly in her arms. "Oh your so adorable! Whats your name little guy?"
"My name is tacos." The green dog speaking confused and startled fluttershy, but she excepted it, holding him closer.
"And you can speak!?! Oh, don't worry, tacos, I'll take good care of you-" She then suddenly remembered why she was here, as she slowly let the dog down. "Oh, oh dear, im sorry, I... I forgot you had an owner!"
She then nervously chuckled before straightening up. "Now, where is Zim?" GIR proceeded to point right behind her, as when she turned, she saw a hatch in the sidewalk open up to reveal a red and black motorcycle leaping out onto the pavement as it swerved and did a donut in the street, the hatch closing as the bike slowly pulled up in front of the house. Fluttershy was on the verge of a heart attack as she was surprised by the bike's sudden appearance, as she looked at its driver, as they removed their helmet, and spoke in the usual tone you expect them to speak in.
"WHO DARES DISTURB THE LAWN OF MY PERFECTLY NORMAL HUMAN HOUSE?!?" As Zim said this, fluttershy was taken aback, as she didn't know what to say, before she finally mustered up some courage to speak.
"Ummmm-ummmmm, me, sir... My name is Fluttershy, I saw you yesterday during school, and I... Wanted to introduce myself, yes!" As she said this and nodded, smiling happily, zim narrowed his eyes in suspicion at her.
"I see... Then explain to me why you touch Zim's totally normal pet canine at once!" Fluttershy was slightly intimidated by Zim's strange way of speaking, as she finally explained herself.
"Well, hes such a good boy, and he can talk! Hes a great pet, im proud of you for taking care of him! In fact, you could take him to school, id be happy to take care of him for you!" Zim was surprised by the girl's offer, and seeing how it might be handy to have GIR close by should dookie hit the proverbial fan, so he could GTFO.
"Very well, I allow you to take my canine companion to the institute of education that we totally normal humans attend. Oh, and his name is GIR, if your wondering." He said as he placed his helmet back on and sped off back towards the school. Fluttershy smiled, as she set her backpack down on the ground and opened it, while also wondering what kind of dog name GIR was, but she giggled a bit, thinking it was meant to be like the sound a dog makes when its growling.
"Hop in, little fella!" GIR made noises of joy as he smiled and hopped inside the backpack, as Fluttershy picked it up and quickly ran off to canterlot high.
Meanwhile, at Dib Membranes house...
Dib was in the living room, slipping on his jacket, gripping his suitcase, and looking to gaz, who was on her game slave 2, her backpack with her, as they both walked out the door to see their dad, professor membrane, chatting in front of the family car with what appeared to be one of the teenagers he had seen yesterday...
"And that is why quantum tunneling is both possible, and impossible, all at the same time!" The girl he was talking to nodded in agreement with a smile on her face. Dib then recognized her as Twilight sparkle, as she had introduced herself to him yesterday.
"Now it all makes sense! Thanks Mr membrane, I'll ace that test for sure now!"
"Don't mention it, anything for a friend of my son, speaking of which, I see you are ready children!" He said as both the proffesor and twilight turned to look at Dib and gaz, as Dib nodded, and gaz simply grunted in response. As the proffessor gestured for them to enter the car, as they both slowly climbed in, but not before twilight waved at Dib.
"I'll see you at school, dib!"
Dib nodded as he closed the door, with the car backing out of the driveway, and heading off to school. As twilight looked on, she suddenly got a text from fluttershy.
OMG! Zim has such a cute little dog, and hes letting me bring it to school!
That's good Fluttershy, but did you find anything suspicious?
Not besides the strange hatch in his sidewalk, no.
Weird... Alright then, see you and the girls at school.
A few minutes later, at Canterlot Highschool's front courtyard
As Dib and Gaz hopped out of professor membranes car, Zim was already dis-mounting from his bike, as he set his helmet down, and glared daggers at the human, who in turn, glared right back with flames in his eyes, as they growled at each other while Gaz walked by.
"You two seethe at each other all you want, just leave me out of it." As she said this, both boys nodded, knowing it was best not to incur the wrath of the small girl, knowing the full extent of her fury and rage. When Gaz was sufficiently a fair distance away, Dib suddenly surprise tackled Zim, as he attempted to remove the hair on the green boy's head, with Zim kicking Dib in the face, and him retaliating with a punch to Zim's gut, as he grasped his stomach and writhed in pain on the ground. "Oh, my squeedly spooch!" As Zim got back up, he was about to lunge at Dib, before he heard a familiar feminine voice behind him.
"Zim, Dib, calm down, you two!" As he turned around, he saw Fluttershy quickly running up to Zim, as she knelt down and started inspecting his face. "Are you hurt? Why are you fighting? Are you gonna be ok?" Zim quickly swatted Fluttershy away out of fear she would mess up his disguise, as he replied.
"Zim is fine, Dib punches like a moonquak in winter on schlorpin day!" Fluttershy had no idea what zim was even talking about, her confusion and suspicion of the boy rising, as Dib was about to call Zim out for his strange metaphor, but suddenly, he heard Twilight sparkle running behind him, with a not so friendly look on her face.
"Yeah you two, calm down for pete sake, what did Zim ever do to you, Dib?" Cue Dib's jaw dropping as he pointed right at him.
"Do you not hear what he said? Whats a moonquak? Whats schlorpin day? These aren't normal creatures or days, hes an alien, I told you before!" Twilight simply shook her head, before remembering what she and her friends discussed last night, about actually trusting Dib, and not to mention, he did have several valid points, as she proceeded to give him a wink, with Dib smiling, seeing it as a sign someone believes him.
Zim also saw this, as his eyes glared at twilight, now confirming she was now an enemy and a threat to his mission. He then looked to GIR, who had leaped out of Fluttershys backpack and right on top of him, as he did a little funny dance on zim's stomach, as the rest of the rainbooms arrived and giggled at the sight.
"Oh my... What a... Strange canine companion, Zim..." Rarity said with clear disdain in her voice, while Applejack was slightly put off by the robots disguise.
"That don't look any dog ive ever seen..." Pinkie pie was of course laughing like a lunatic at the dog's funny little dance.
"LOOK AT IT! ITS DANCIN!" GIR began to giggle like a maniac, as twilight also giggled to herself.
"Kinda reminds me of my dog, spike! Except, he doesn't stand on two legs, and well, isn't green..." As essentially everyone except Fluttershy and Pinkie Pie were put off by the dog, sunset just narrowed her brow at Zim with suspicion, as GIR got off of him and he stood up, looking at the girls with suspicion in his eyes, then turning back to twilight, his gaze towards her filled with daggers, as twilight was slightly disturbed by the small boy's behavior, as he looked forward, and began marching forward, GIR following close behind. Dib then let Twilight in on how Zim behaves.
"Hes probably going to think your a threat to his plan now, so be careful." Twilight nodded, as she and the girls followed Zim inside, Dib close behind.
As they made their way to class, Zim continued to eye the girls as they walked behind him, glaring back every few seconds, clearly on edge as he whispered to GIR. "GIR, these girls are a potential threat to the mission, not only do they possess some sort of strange power, they are suspicious of me, and could potentially compromise us!" GIR simply pretended to know what he was talking about, as Fluttershy then spoke up.
"Errrr... Zim, if you don't mind, I can take your dog to the kennel where he will be with his fellow pets!" Zim simply looked behind him, narrowed his brow, and answered.
"Yeah, sure, whatever, go ahead. Errrrrr, I mean, it would please me to know my canine companion in the presence of his fellow pets..." Zim spoke with a tiny tinge of venom in his voice, as usual, as he turned and walked into math class, with Fluttershy lifting up GIR into her arms.
"Cmon, were off to see your new dog friends!" GIR then raised his arm nubs and celebrated.
"YAY!"
A few minutes later, as the bell rings...
Everyone had already filed into class and into their seats, as Zim and Dib sat at opposite ends of the room as usual, both occasionally eyeing one another, as Mrs Cheerilee stepped into the class, greeting her students. "Good morning class, how is everyone today?" Everyone gave the usual responses, some excited, some bored, but Zim, zim gave an un-usual response.
"My day has been totally normal and in no way eventful, but very good, miss cheerilee." The teacher gave Zim an awkward glance before she went back to writing a few equations on the board. As she wrote the equations, the rainbooms began texting each other on their phones.
Okay, so we all saw Zim and Dib going at each other earlier right?
Indeed, it was most uncivil!
I reckon Dib may be right bout zim...
Well, if he is, we need to confirm our suspicions.
Yeah, can't just go throwing out accusations of being an alien all willy nilly, or else when we actually find proof, itll be a boy who cried wolf scenario.
Yeah, we gotta be careful.
Ohhh, this is so exciting, were going on a stakeout!
Little did the girls know, Zim had actually hacked their phones as they were coming to class, using his PAK to bypass their firewalls as he viewed their messages on the virtual display built into his eye lenses, another perk of being cybernetically enhanced.
As Zim had feared, these girls were onto him, but right now, he had to focus on his mission, as he pulled out the small red orb he retrieved from the robotics bay, and popped it open, as several tiny drones quickly flew out and towards their targets, as all they landed on the skin of the girls, their needles penetrating their skin like mosquito's, gathering blood samples, and once filled, returned back to the orb, as Zim closed it and put it back into his PAK, as he scanned the readings and uploaded the data back to his base for him to analyze later.
As class dragged on, eventually the bell rang, signifying it was time for lunch, as everyone crowded in and retrieved there food. What was for lunch? Taco tuesday... With extra meat... As everyone lined up to get their food from granny smith, Zim was shaking like crazy, petrified of the extra meat within the tacos, fearing a single stray piece of the stuff could scorch him and blow his cover, as Dib and the rainbooms were lined up behind her.
"See how hes shaking? Its because meat is like a poison to his people, scorches his skin, makes him writhe in pain..." The girls gasped in surprise, as Zim turned and narrowed his brow, glaring daggers at them, with Dib and Twilight glaring right back.
"Alright, how do we test to see if what you say is true?"
"A good ol food flick should do the trick, I'll take the fall, just watch as I fire it off." As they all got their lunches, Dib and the girls sat at the same table as Zim, on the opposite side, as Zim and Dib stared at each other, Zim then nervously staring down at the taco, his eyes shaking, watering from the simple fumes of the meat in the taco. Dib looked to twilight, as she nodded, and Dib grabbed a piece of meat from his taco, and threw it right into Zim's face.
His skin began to sizzle, smoke began coming off of him as his skin scorched, as he emitted out a pretty loud shriek and quickly began wiping off his face, as he glared at Dib, who was loudly snickering, while the girls simply stared in horror at Zim, as he looked toward them as his gaze narrowed. Great, now he was truly exposed to these girls... He decided to retaliate by grabbing his whole taco, and throwing it right at Dib's face, who was knocked out of his seat.
Wanting to get in on the action, Rainbow dash grabbed her taco and threw it towards Zim, who managed to dodge it, as it flew over his head and hit a random kid, who retaliated with their own taco, and then another was thrown, and then another, and eventually it all devolved into a full blown...
"FOOD FIGHT!" Rainbow yelled out as the cafeteria devolved into chaos, Granny smith going to put on her RIOT gear as the doors to the cafeteria burst open to reveal GIR.
"DID SOMEONE SAY FOOD FIGHT?" He said as he jumped up on a random table, inhaled all the tacos on it, and spat them all out at a rapid pace, like a machine gun. As food was hurled around, a taco hit Zim square in the eye, as he fell to the ground, the girls looking on as he slowly stood back up, to see his right eye slightly cracked, as a tiny bit chipped off to reveal red behind it, with Zim noticing this, and quickly obscuring it with his hand as he ran out of the cafeteria to escape the food fighting and prying eyes of the students.
"Did anybody else see that?" The girls all nodded towards each other, as Twilight turned to Dib, and the next words she spoke were pure bliss to him. "I believe the evidence is substantial enough, we believe you, Dib!"
"YES, FINALLY, I'M NOT ALONE!" He said before being impacted directly in the gut with a taco.
Meanwhile, as Zim ran down the halls, he quickly ducked into a boys bathroom, as he looked in a mirror and revealed his damaged eye. Luckily, he had an emergency replacement in his PAK, retrieving it as he removed the damaged lens, revealing his Ikren red eye before he covered it with the new lens, discarding the old one in the toilet and flushing it before leaving the bathroom. As the bell rang, everybody filed into science class, covered in food, as Zim sat across from Dib, as both him and the girls glared at him, as Zim glared back, and whispered to himself.
"This means war, humans..."
Soon, after the final bell rang and everybody went home, we return to zims base.
Deep below in his laboratory, he was slowly placing the blood samples gathered by the drones into an analysis machine, as he began running tests and experiments on the blood, taking readings of the energy within. Soon, he synthesized a sample of pure energy, one from each girl, as he lined them up and put them all together into the energy analysis machine, as it slowly beeped and whirred, the readings displayed to Zim as he smiled.
"Yes... Yes!" But then, the machine started to violently shake as its beeping intensified. "Eh?" Then, it exploded, creating a burst of energy unlike which Zim had never seen, and as he took a look at the readings display, it showed one sentence...
UNLIMITED ENERGY.
Zim saw this, as he slowly rubbed his hands together and smiled deviously, as a new plan formed in his head... A plan that would allow him to take over the entire planet!
"MWAHAHAHAHA, AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA, I AM ZIM!"
