CHAPTER THREE

The Date of Doom

(A/N This is the last chapter, God help me I hope it's good! Please enjoy! Sorry about the wait I hope it was worth it)

Zim examined himself in the full-length mirror. He looked straight forward at his reflection. The Irken was wearing a black tuxedo with a white shirt. In the collar of the shirt he wore a black bowtie, over the shirt he had a black vest and over the vest was a black jacket. He had on the formal black pants that came with it but kept his own boots. This earth suit felt odd on his skin. He had been wearing his uniform for many, many (A/N and when I say many I mean many) years. This felt strange and foreign to the Irken. Zim was tempted to simply change back and go like that.

"No! I am an Irken Invader! Zim will not be brought down by a human tux-ido! I will defeat you tux-ido!" he turned to walk away from the mirror when he noticed the two bulges under his jacket.

"Eh?" he knew one was his pack but not what the other one was. He stared a moment and the bulge moved. His eyes widened, it moved up his back and poked above his collar. His look of fear turned in to a glare.

"GIR! Get out of there!" he screamed. The small robot smiled blissfully.

"Ooh Master! You look pretty! I'LL GET THE CAMERA!" his smile was larger then his head then he just stopped and slid down Zim's back. The instant the little robot hit the floor he fell a sleep. Zim immediately lost interest in his legally insane henchman and focused on his pack. The lump it created looked weird. It would surely attract the attention of the enemy! Zim willed the spider legs out. They ripped through the back of the black jacket. Zim examined his back again this time with a hole that perfectly framed his gray and pink pack. He nodded at himself, just then the computer voice shouted, "Alert! It's 7:45! You need to pick up the human female to take her to the dance!" Zim grumbled something under his breath.

Zim reached the membrane house in about seven minutes. He had been there many times but never had he been there for Gaz. Maybe to destroy Dib or use their labs but never to make contact with the human girl! Zim stood there a moment. He'd almost rather have the population of earth know about him then go any where with the scary sister of his mortal enemy. Almost. Taking another moment to procrastinate Zim straightened his tux then he walked up the driveway. Pausing at the door he covered his eyes and pushed the doorbell. Zim could hear movement inside then the door swung open. Standing in front of him was Dib. The Irken's most hated enemy was also wearing a tuxedo but his shirt blue and he wore a tie. Dib narrowed his eyes at the alien.

"If you do anything to my sister…well you'll be sorry space boy!" Dib hissed at the alien. Zim simply rolled his eyes at the human.

"I have no intention of harming your pathetic sister. Zim is merely here because your earth school has forced me to-" he stopped abruptly. Gaz was walking down the stairs and he couldn't look away. She was wearing a flowing purple and black dress. The top half was a deep shade of purple it was low cut (but in a tasteful way) with thin-straps, at the waist it faded into black. She was wearing black high heeled Mary-Janes with tiny skulls on the outside and black gloves that went up to her elbows. She was wearing the same thick mascara as usual but she had on her lips dark purple lipstick. Her normally casual down hair had been pulled back into two high ponytails on the back of her head. She wore no skull necklace but instead small dangling skull earrings. Zim stood with mouth agape. There was no Irken word he could think to use to describe her so he had to use an earth one. She looked….beautiful. (He is soooooo out of character right now! slaps hand I'm bad!) Dib narrowed his eyes more and was about to say something when the phone rang. "Don't move Zim!" he commanded then rushed to get it. Gaz made it to the bottom of the stairs. She crossed her arms and the two looked at each other a moment from the hall they could hear Dib's voice.

"Yes. Of course I'm on my way Tenna!" silence, "Well I don't know how I can be at home and picking you up at the same time…" a long silence, "Okay! Okay! I'm coming!" silence, "but-wait how did you get this number?" Gaz rolled her eyes,

"Let's go before he gets back." Zim glared down the hall. He actually wanted to stay to find out how the human was planning on seeking revenge if anything should happen to his sister. Gaz saw him lingering and grabbed the alien by the collar and threw him forward. (Even in heels she can take anyone!) They walked in silence for a while. Zim felt compelled to tell Gaz something and he couldn't hold it in any longer!

"You know human… you're not quite as repulsive as the rest of your type tonight," there! He said it! Gaz continued looking forward but replied, "Yeah well, you don't look quite as freaky as normal." That was their version of compliments and it worked for them. They continued on for a while then Gaz asked, "So Zim, do they have dances on your planet?" he was taken aback. Zim was unsure as to how to answer that. It could be a trap set by the Dib! As if reading his mind Gaz said, "I'm not trying to help Dib. I don't even really care." More silence then,

"No. I had never even heard of a dance before coming here." What was he doing?

"Sounds nice, wish I was from a place like that." They had reached the school. At the front door Bitters was sitting at a table.

"You two write your names down! Or else be doomed to a doomed life with out the recognition that you ever existed!" She continued to drone on so Gaz and Zim quickly jotted down their names and rushed inside. The dance was just like most others. The lights were dimmed but still bright enough for the thirty-cent streamers to be visible. There were balloons tapped to the walls. In the corner there was a big boom box playing an eighty's CD. It was the classic twenty-dollar budget school dance. (A/N: My last dance actually looked like that! Thank you American public schools!) Gaz crossed her arms again longing for her game slave. A voice came over the sound system, "Students. The dance has officially begun. Dance or suffer!" Gaz pouted her lips, there was no way she would dance, especially not with Zim. She felt some one grip her wrist and pull her forward.

"Zim!" she hissed How stupid could he get? Actually grabbing her hand without her consent! He looked around watching the others move. The alien copied one boy's dance moves. Unfortunately the boy was jokingly doing the robot. Zim moved his arms jerkingly around his face and let one dangle like it was broken. Gaz grabbed his hands and thrust them down to his sides.

"What do you think you're doing human? I am dancing as a human larva should dance!"

"No!" she retorted, "Your dancing like a robot!"

"That's not how my robot dances." he answered thoughtfully. Gaz rolled her eyes,

"You're such a moron!"

"Well you're an inferior earth monkey!"

"I can make you suffer and feel pain as you've never known!"

"When I conquer your planet you will be one of the first enslaved!" he spat out. Before she could reply Bitters swept between them, "It's called a DANCE not a talk so dance!" she disappeared. Gaz and Zim glared at each other. Out of the corner of their vision they could both see Dib watching them. He was standing there as if waiting for Zim to pull something. It was clear he had been keeping an eye on them since he had arrived because the girl he was with was tapping her foot annoyed, glaring at him. She was wearing a forest green strapless dress that reached the floor. Her black strappy high-healed shoe was poking out from below the bottom of the dress. Her long blonde hair was piled up on top of her head with a green ribbon. A slow song started. Dib's eyes widened. It was clear he did not want his little sister to slow dance with the Invader. When she realized this Gaz immediately took Zim's hands and lead him further toward the center of the dance floor. She placed one of his hands in hers and the other at the small of her back. Both Dib and Zim's mouths were wide open with shock.

"What are you doing?" Zim demanded.

"Ya wanted to dance right?" she took a step and Zim fallowed her lead. They moved around the room around and through other couples. Dib could no longer see the activity of his enemy. So he clasped his hands around Tenna and swept her on to the dance floor. He spun her. They moved gracefully, their feet moving in perfect unity. Dib never removing his gaze from Zim and continued to dance with grace and poise he had never shown before going so far as to twirl Tenna away from him then pull her back and dip her just as the song ended. Dib glanced at Tenna, the ribbon she had used to tie her hair had long since been lost in the furry of movement. So her blonde hair was covering part of her face, but in no way covering her shock and pleasure.

"Oh Dib! I had no idea you were such a great dancer!"

"Uh-ha," he was still watching Zim

"You know you're way cooler then I had ever thought!"

"Uh-ha,"

"Dib, you're such an amazing dancer and I've never told anyone this but… I've always been fascinated with the paranormal and I've never had anyone to talk about it with! My friends just don't understand all that's out there! I think I am actually really happy that we got paired together. Oh think nothing! I am happy Dib! So very happy!." She stopped talking for a moment. "DIB ARE YOU LISTENING?"

"Uh-ha,"

"You jerk!" she shrieked and turned on her heel heading for the doors.

"Uh-" Dib's brain which had been focused on figuring out Zim finally finished processing the conversation he had just had with his date.

"Oh my God! Tenna wait!" he darted after her toward the doors.

Gaz and Zim stood near the punch bowl. Gaz stood there sipping the artificial drink while Zim just loitered near by. Gaz saw Dib dart for the exit.

"Hmm. Hey Zim you poison Dib or something?" the Irken snapped out of his daydream, "Uh, not tonight. But that's a good idea!" he laughed manically for a few minutes.

"Well then he must be going after big foot or something," she said more to herself then her near hysterical date. Some one had switched the radio on to the rock alternative station and Green Day's Boulevard of Broken Dreams was playing. It may have been a song from her grand mother's time but still it was pretty good. She bobbed her head a little then she heard Zim laughing. It was a new laughter not evil just mean. Gaz was prepared to punch him in the gut (or squigally sputch) when she realized has laughing at the song not her.

"What's so funny?"

"This sad singing earth pig is all alone and he's crying about it! your species and their need for companionship. What a weak creature, even a smeet could defeat him!" Zim continued to laugh loudly people were staring but he would never notice. Gaz raised an eyebrow.

"I never thought of Billie Joe as the whinny type…but you may have a point." She took a long drink from her punch glass. It tasted grossly sweet so she set it down.

(A/N PLEASE DON'T FLAME ME FOR THAT. That's just how I figure Zim would interpret human music! I love Green Day and Billy Joe, he's soooo hot! I'm listening to it right now, that's where I got the idea for mentioning it! Enraged Green day obsessers of the audience I beseech you, Calm down and enjoy the story!)

The song ended and Slipknot's Duality began to blare. Kids forgetting that they were wearing five hundred outfits began to jump around and hit each other. Gaz smiled evilly, "Hey, Zim. Ever been in a mosh pit?"

"Mosh pit?" her grin grew. She pulled him into the crowd.

Dib sat sulking on a bench in the park about three blocks away. He had lost Tenna, the girl who was in to the paranormal stuff and he had never known. There weren't that many out there let alone ones that when to his school he heard a distant scream, "IT HURTS! STOP HITTING THE GREAT ZI-OWW! STOP! YOU ALL SMELL LIKE HUMAN!" Dib raised his head. That was definitely Zim's voice. He stood up and stretched Gaz was probably taking care of him right then. That's want the scream must have been about. Dib decided to get home and maybe he could work on Tak's ship some more. He had crashed it into a tree again and it was in need of serious work. He walked in the opposite direction of the school toward home.

When the song ended Gaz pulled Zim out of the wreckage to his feet. Zim's wig was crooked and one of his contacts had fallen out. Gaz bent down and picked it up. She headed outside pulling the weary Zim after her. When they got outside she handed him the contact and told him to pull himself together. She was standing under a streetlight with a look of content at his expense on her face that the light made it clearly visible.

Zim was leaned against the building but when he saw that look the one that told him she thought he was weak the Irken went off. He was suddenly back at one hundred percent and jumped forward grabbing her shoulders, "WHAT FORM OF TRICKERY WAS THAT! You had the great Zim battling in your evil Mosh pit of death! You have made a big mistake human!" She glared at him.

"Let go of my arms Zim! You act like I tricked you in to hand to hand combat. It was just a little mosh! It's something teens do when they like a song you idiot!" the two glared at each other a long time. Then Zim cocked his head a little like a dog does when it's confused. Slowly he moved his face closer to Gaz's. Her eyes opened and she shoved Zim away using her full strength. The alien flew back landing flat on his back. He propped himself up with his elbows.

"Why did you do that!"

"You were in my face! What were you doing!" the alien got to his feet and brushed himself off.

"You're lips are purple." He informed her while he brushed himself off.

"Yeah so!" she screamed. She was ready to plunge him in to a world of pure pain.

"Well I was looking at them. I realized you painted them." Gaz sighed at him.

"It's called lip stick."

"Well I like how it looks. I mean the purple lips and your hair like that makes you look not completely as hideous as the rest of your kind." Gaz didn't know weather to hit him or smile at him so she just stood there. The two just looked at each other for a long time. The spring breeze was cool and nice. It blew Gaz's pigtails to the side and ruffled her dress.

"So…" Gaz mumbled.

Zim opened his mouth to say something when a screen came out of his pack and in front of his face. It was of Gir.

"HI MASTER!" He screamed at Zim

"What is it Gir!"

"Um…I can't remember……oh yeah! I fell asleep on the keyboard again and now there's going to be big explodey! Yeah!"

"Err! Gir! Okay I'll be right there!" the screen disappeared and he turned his back and began to run then stopped and faced Gaz, "Gaz I…uh…thought you needed to know this changed nothing! I will still destroy your planet and enslave your species. You need to remember that human!" he paused, "Good bye." Then he ran off. Gaz stood there a moment then turned and headed home.

The next day was a Sunday so she slept in. Then Gaz spent the afternoon making up for lost videogame time. At around six she came out of her room and plopped on the couch. The Mysterious Mysteries theme started and Dib rushed down the stairs.

"What time is it?" he asked hurriedly.

"You're just in time." She motioned toward the TV with her hand lazily.

"No you're going to have to tape it for me. I'm going out with Tenna tonight. She called and said she forgave me!" he smiled happily. "We're going to figure out how to expose Zim!…after the movie and dinner, that is." He began walking toward the door then stopped and looked at his sister. "Why do you have-?"

"'Cause I want to! That's why!" she barked at him before he could finish. Dib shrank back a little then realizing he just delayed himself further and ran out the door.

Gaz watched the television with little interest when the phone rang. She leaned over the side of the couch and answered it, "Hello?" there was short a pause, "Oh, hi Zim." as she listened she leaned back and began to play with one of her pigtails.

THE END,

I can't believe I actually wrote a Zim and Gaz romance! I feel unclean Just kidding I've grown to like this story, so…yea me! Though you may be saying "hey they never went out of their own free will. YOU CHEATED INVADING ANGEL! WE WILL FIND YOU AND DESTORY YOUR LIFE!" well if you're thinking that then you need to get extensive therapy and a life. But I will admit the last chapter was the only one that had any thing remotely resembled romance. So deal with it! 

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