Chapter 1

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The Skool bell slashed through the air as the end of the day had approached. All of the children bursted out of the doors, screaming and shouting with glee as they ran in opposite directions. Zim hid behind the side of the Skool, hoping the Dib-stink wouldn't see him. Sure enough, he was at the top of the steps to the Skool doors, searching for him.

"Zim! Zim, you coward! Get out here!" he shouted as his eyes scanned the premises for his enemy. Stealthily, Zim snuck away to the back of the Skool, where Dib surprisingly stood nastily sneering at him with some sort of gun in his hand. Zim stopped dead.

"There you are! Prepare to meet your fate, space-boy!" Dib proudly declared, and fired the gun. Zim instinctively dodged as a giant glob of jelly squirted out right beside him. Giving Dib one last glance, he started to run as he shot another jelly glob. Quickly, he tried to get away by taking a shortcut to his base. Dib kept coming at him, shooting jelly everywhere trying to block his path. Zim twisted and turned through the jelly globs being shot at him, nimbly escaping the sticky substance.

Finally he could see the base up ahead. With all of his speed, Zim ran through the yard, flung the door open and slammed it shut, making Dib ram right into it. A small, muffled "oof" came from the other side and he peeked out of his window just in time to see his gnomes surround him.

"Yes," Zim mumbled to himself, evilly lathering his hands together. But to his surprise, Dib shot and trapped the gnomes in giant globs of jelly. Zim's eyes became wide as his enemy burst through the door.

"Thought you could get away that easily, alien scum?" He taunted.

"Of course I did," Zim said, and pushed a bright red button that had appeared on the wall behind him. Suddenly, a cage built up right from under Dib's feet. He panicked for a moment, then shot a nasty glare at his foe through the bars.

"Stupid Dib-creature!" Zim scowled, "You know not to underestimate that I have second plans." Dib opened his mouth to object, but the cage was sucked down below into the lab. Zim followed close behind, descending in his elevator. When he reached the lab, he marched out in front of the caged Dib, who was still startled from the sudden drop. He got up and rattled the bars in anger.

"Hey! Lemme out!" he shouted. Zim looked him in he eye but didn't say anything. He only looked toward GIR, who was rolling around on the floor like the idiot robot he was.

"GIR!" Zim barked. He stopped rolling around and stood up straight, his eyes glowing a bright crimson. "Yes, my master!"

"Keep an eye on the human while I set up the portal coordinates."

"Yes sir!" GIR rehearsed, and stared directly at Dib, not moving an inch. Zim walked up to his giant monitor and set up some sort of plan. Dib watched, a little afraid to find out what he was doing. Meanwhile, a portal to the left of him swirled around ominously, making a sort of low humming sound.

Zim turned around to face his enemy. "I bet you're wondering what my genius plan is this time?" he gloated.

"Not really..." Dib mumbled.

"Well that's too bad! I plan to throw you into that portal over there-" he gestured at the glowing, spiraling portal, "-which should send you to a horrifying dimension of my choice. The only hard part about it is seeing which one would be the most painful and agonizing for you." Dib's eye twitched a little bit, then he realized Zim had had a similar plan a while back.

"This sounds awfully familiar," he said in a suspicious manner.

"Yes! It is a remake of my moose plan!" Zim exclaimed proudly. "Now, I think I may have found the perfect dimension for you, Dib-beast." The Irken turned his back to his nemesis, setting the coordinates for the terrifying dimension he had in mind.

No sound came out of Zim for some time, so Dib looked around the cage for some sort of escape. Sure enough, he found door right behind him, but it had a small, black lock on it. Dib leaned toward Zim's robot and whispered, "Hey, you. Can you pick that lock for me?" Dib pointed to the lock on the cage door. The robots eyes reverted back to blue.

"Okie dokie!" he said in a shrill, robotic voice, and he did exactly as he was instructed. The lock dropped to the floor with a loud clang and Dib winced, hoping Zim hadn't noticed. Thankfully, the Irken was too dumb to turn around to see what was going on. The door creaked open as he slowly stepped out of the cage, careful not to make too much noise. Gradually, he snuck up behind Zim and wrestled him to the ground. The alien let out a gasping sound as if he were being choked when Dib brought him down.

"How dare you touch me with your grimy, human fingers!" he grunted under Dib's grip. Zim pushed him off and stood up, but his foe wasn't finished yet.

"I'm perfectly clean!" he protested, and leapt at him. They tumbled around for a while, throwing cheap fighting moves and insults at each other. Zim had called out GIR's name several times, but he just sat there, acting if absolutely nothing was going on around him. The two foes were starting to edge near the portal. Zim stood trying to shove Dib inside. His head was halfway inside as he fought to escape the vortex's tugging grip.

"Give it up, Dib!" Zim yelled, pushing more of Dib into the portal. Dib's feet finally gave way and he was sucked in.

Zim laughed, "Victory! Victory for Zi-" before he could finish his exulting cheer, Dib's hand pulled him in by the arm, and they were both sent spiraling into an unknown dimension.

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