By animeninjaNIPPON
Well, this is my first (and probably last) horror fic. It gets more intense in future chapters. As I've often come to realize, I don't own Invader Zim, and I can't make the characters 100 percent IC, as I'm not Jhonen Vasquez. I wish I was though – Jhonen is, like, the coolest name in the world… Oh, by the way, chartreuse is a type of light green.
The skool science fair was in two weeks. Dib borrowed a couple of things from his father for his science project, but he wasn't sure exactly what he was going to create. "I'll just blow their minds with some lysergic-looking liquid in a test tube," he figured, pouring random chemicals into a beaker.
An hour later, he took a break to watch "Mysterious Mysteries." He left his room, but he didn't bother to put his equipment away. It wasn't five minutes before Zim popped up through Dib's open window, followed by Gir.
"Stay down, Gir!" Zim ordered. "Remember, we're only here to steal back that data disk that stinkbeast stole from ZIM!"
Gir spied the beaker, which was filled with a chartreuse substance. "Oooo, lookit that!"
"Don't TOUCH anything!" Zim whispered angrily. "The Dib-human is still here. We have to do this QUICKLY and QUIETLY!" He examined some shelves for the missing disk.
Gir opened up his head and pulled out an Irken burrito. Zim caught a glimpse of it as the robot was about to take a bite. "GIR, NO!"
Gir ignored his master, but Zim ripped the burrito out of his metallic hands just in time. "That is for my LUNCH tomorrow!"
"But I'm hungry…" Gir whined.
"Not now, Gir! We've got WORK to do!"
Gir was silent for a moment, but his attention was redirected at the chartreuse concoction. "Looks like SODA!" He made a grab for it, and Zim tried to stop him.
"Don't TOUCH it, you foolish ROBOT!" He leaned in to smack Gir's hand away, but he accidentally dropped the burrito into the beaker.
The liquid in the beaker began to boil and bubble, then change colors rapidly – red, yellow, orange, blue, lime, magenta – until it became a swirling rainbow.
"NOW look what you've done!" Zim yelled, no longer caring who heard him. "You've created a STUPIDITY potion!" He heard Dib yell, "Zim, are you in my room?" and took off through the window with Gir.
"We'll have to come back later." He stormed off angrily.
Dib raced back to his bedroom. Immediately, his eyes fell on the psychedelic potion. "It wasn't like that when I left… Oh well, it'll do." He poured the mixture into three separate test tubes and corked each one. There were a few drops left in the beaker.
"Hmm, I wonder…" Dib took the beaker and placed the remains on a slide, which he then viewed under a microscope. "Interesting…" When viewed under 100 x magnifications, it looked like an acid trip. He moved the slide and the contents leaked out onto a nearby dried flower he had been observing a week earlier for signs of paranormal DNA. The flower suddenly began regaining its original color, healing holes and tears, and blooming back to its original fullness.
"Whoa," Dib exclaimed. "That flower just came back to life!"
End of part one