🌸 Invader Zim 𝔁 Reader Oneshots 🌸

Friend Or Foe - Part One

(This oneshot was requested by FrostyMew)

Rain... Ugh, why did it have to rain?

Why, on all the nights during this week, why did it have to rain on the night I'm practically running for my life?

I'm not gonna get into details about how it all started, but I will just say that I've been running from my home for a good ten minutes trying to get away from them. I knew they weren't too far behind me as I could sometimes hear them shouting my name from the distance, but whenever I looked back they could barely be seen over in the horizon. However, that didn't stop me from feeling scared and paranoid for my own sake as I knew if I gave them the chance, they would catch up quickly. And boy, how I hated the thought of that happening.

Of course, after this amount of running, my legs started getting tired and sore as my breath felt like daggers to my chest every time I breathed in. My energy was slowly giving up, and I needed somewhere to rest and hide, fast! My body was saturated from the rain, though I was anything but cold as the amount of blood circulating through me kept my body temperature overly warm, as well as this constant panic that I had in me.

Naturally, I would have thought to run straight to Dib's house for protection, considering he's not to far away from where I live and he and I were close friends. The only hurdle in that idea was that because it is only the beginning of the skool holidays, the Membrane family have gone away for a couple of weeks, so that plan obviously wouldn't work. Still, I need to find somewhere, but where.

And just as I was about to run along another empty street, my head turned to the side as my eyes caught attention of an odd looking, bright glowing house at the very end of a culdesack. I paused for a moment, debating whether or not I should give it a try, really focusing hard to mentally try and weigh out the pros and cons. After all, I know exactly who this house belongs to; the notorious alien himself, Zim.

Being friends with Dib meant that he would always let me in on his secrets and I would almost always be the first one to know everything he's obsessed with, including that strange green kid from our skool. Ever since Zim came here, nobody (other than Dib) ever really had the need or desire to get to know Zim and hang out with him. He was always so stand-off and aggressive with everyone which had obviously driven people away, including me, but as mentioned before about the whole friendship thing I've got going on with Dib, I soon learned that he was, in fact, an alien. Honestly, I just couldn't care less, and neither could the rest of the class. He never really seemed like too much of a threat to anyone, he was always just that sort of classmate that you know of but never really bother to actually get to know them.

Regardless, I was being chased, and everyone else I knew around here lived way too far for me to run to. They were coming in fast, so I had to put all my natural reasoning aside for now and give this a shot. Who knows, maybe this particular alien is feeling friendly today? I highly doubt it considering it's Zim we're talking about, but hey, it's worth a shot.

Sprinting my legs as fast as I could with the last bit of energy I had left in me, I crossed the empty road and made my way over to the footpath right in front of the house. I have to admit, having never seen it in person before, the features and style of it didn't hold down it's promise of wonder and uniqueness from when Dib showed me the thousands of pictures before. Taking a deep breath, I continued making my way along the front porch, taking notice at how a couple of suspicious looking garden gnomes were watching my every move, but I decided not to avert my attention ahead as to not look too suspicious myself. Reaching the front door, I brought a shaky wet hand up to the doorbell to ring it, only now noticing just how saturated I really was, the cold wetness never ending as rain continued to pour on my freezing body, waiting for someone or something to open this door.