The Almighty Error.

Sector Five.

Zims' Perspective.

School ends, and it's snowing again. Of course, I was foolish and forgot to bathe in paste to protect myself before leaving my base. So, I'm left to stand under the small awning outside of the high school and glare at the weather.

"Argh—How could I be so stupid?!" Being so wrapped up in my mental cocoon state of misery, I've become an absolute airhead.

I see the Dib approach, leaving me to look away with my arms crossing.

"Seriously, Zim? Again? You're lucky I'm feeling nice." He opens his umbrella thing, starting to walk away from the awning. I quickly follow him before the opportunity to get home safely is gone.

"Shut up. Don't speak to me." I hiss, keeping my arms crossed and looking down, avoiding piles of snow in the walkway. "Egh.."

I can feel his hideous eyes watching me. So I glare up at the human and point a finger at him. "Quit staring at the amazing Zim!"

"I'm just doing what you've been doing to me! I'm watching you!" He peers down at me in amusement, which I hate.

It's annoying that the Dib-Thing has grown even taller than Zim. It forces me to look up at him, and him look down upon me. It's humiliating.

"Shut up." Was all I could mutter, looking ahead in hopes to see my base so I could make a sprint for it.

We walk in silence for most of the way which leaves me relieved. I was in no mood to speak much further. Getting back to my old ways of maintaining the upmost energy had proven to be more difficult right now, leaving me drained of filthy energy.

We finally get to my base and I sprint to my front door before Dib could walk into the yard. "Stay!" I hiss at him, not wanting the human any closer since the insides of my place were still a wreck.

"Geez.. you're welcome, Zim." He turns around to leave.

"Grr... thank you." I spat rather forcefully before hurrying inside, pulling off the wig and taking out the contacts, rubbing my eyes. "Ergh—so itchy! I never get used to it.."

Now that I was in the comforts of my base, I grab the ceramic puppy that I had previously left by the front door.

"Gir! Make sure the human Dib doesn't get any closer to my property! And don't let him inside! I don't care if he asks you nicely or not! He cannot see the mess this place has turned into!" I order my robot servant, looking around with a rough sigh. "Eh.. I have no energy to clean.."

"Yes, Sir!" Gir very briefly got serious, his eyes red for only a few meek seconds before returning to normal and him presuming to eat waffles and watch tv.

I go past Gir and down the trash shoot into my lab, gripping the object in my hand. "The Dib wants a phase three? I'll come up with one."

After reaching the bottom, I notice that I still had the Tallests' coordinates on the screen.

It gives me an idea.

"I'll prove I'm not a defect.. I have to prove I'm not one." I mutter. Part of me was already accepting of what the Tallest said about me. But another part of me refused to believe it. "I'll earn their respect back.. I have to earn it.."

I feel pathetic tears form in my eyes, and it disgusts me. Gripping on the ceramic puppy, I look down at it.

"Maybe.." I have a thought.

When I'm around the Dib, I have a spark of motivation. When I'm not, I'm left to my horrendously wimpy thoughts about giving up on everything. Perhaps if I kept the human close, I could keep up with the energy and get things accomplished.

'Do I trap the Dib in my lab? No, surely his putrid family would notice him missing after awhile..' I begin to pace around, glancing every so often at the Tallests' coordinates.

"But if I trick the Dib into thinking I'm an ally... this could work." A brilliant idea forms within me, and I run over to grab a tablet and begin to jot down my plans.

•••

After some time, I finally came up with the perfect way to maintain my motivation long enough to come up with a real phase three to conquer Earth and show the Tallest that I'm worthy of their admiration. My plan was simple: Trick the Dib-Human into thinking my Tallest have abandoned me, and that I wished to team up with him to.. take them down and prevent the destruction of Earth at the hands of my ex-leaders.

My own plan made me shutter. Even though I would never actually betray my Tallest, it still was uncomfortable to even imagine.

Could I fool the Dib long enough to pull this off? He and I would have to work together on a fake plan, while I would secretly be scheming of another. Would I successfully be able to do this without the human suspecting anything?

It was hard to guess but the only way to find out was to get that Dib-Brain to fall right for my trap.