Miru flew over the city as fast as she could, admiring the lights flashing past, enjoying the feeling of the wind resisting her, trying to push her back when she increased her speed. However Dibs' weight made it harder to fly, even though she was alright with Earth's gravity now, thanks again to Zim. She wanted to just drop him, be done with it and go back to the base. She now wanted to work on a human disguise to blend in with the Skoolchildren when she eventually joined Zim in the class. She had heard a lot about the Skool, and she thought that the teacher sounded interesting, merciless towards children and unafraid to hand out cruel and unusual punishments. Apparently Dib had once been kept in there, unable to leave the Skool grounds until the entire classroom was spotless. The teacher, Miss Bitters she was called, was also somewhat keen to get rid of the children. Zim had seen her dropping students' desks through trapdoors in the floor, students along with them, for reasons like she was sick of them. She also terrified some of them with horrible stories from her youth...

In her thoughts she hadn't noticed she had arrived at Dib's house. She looked up at the last minute, too late, and slammed into the front of the house. She spiraled to the ground and Dib fell next to her. He was starting to wake so Miru whacked him on the head, and that knocked him out again. She had landed in front of the door, so she stood and picked Dib up by the neck, then banged her fist against the door, leaving a long scratch in the paint and an indent in the wood. She was dusting herself off when the door opened. There was a young-looking girl with light purple hair fashioned into spikes. The information in Miru's head from Zim's computer told her that this was Gaz, Dib's younger sister. She also knew that Gaz could be scary. But, Miru thought, so can I... she looked Gaz in the eye and shoved Dib's unconscious form at her.

"This your brother?" she said to her. Gaz raised an eyebrow at her, nodded, then took Dib and dragged him inside, reappearing in the doorway after a moment.

"What did you do to him?" Gaz asked Miru. She seemed unsurprised by the fact that a half-alien, half-robot had just crashed into her house and then thrust her brother's body at her. No, she sounded... slightly impressed. Miru enjoyed the fact that someone else approved of her violence. So she answered.

"Aw, you know, hit him in the head a couple of times. He's not a fighter, you know that? He was no fun to beat." Miru complained. Gaz nodded knowingly. She had beaten her brother numerous times at fighting, both with words and fists. He was nothing. Then she realized that she didn't know who she was talking to. She looked questioningly at this... she didn't know what to call her. Miru noticed this look and seemed to regain her minute sense of formality.

"Oh, my name's Miru, by the way. In case you were wondering. Which you totally were." she said, grinning. Gaz gave a tiny smile that Miru could guess was the Gaz equivalent of a big, beaming smile. She was very quiet, Miru thought.

"Hey, can I come in?" Miru said "It's not exactly inconspicuous me just standing here." Gaz nodded again and stepped aside, gesturing for her to come inside. They were standing in the living room, where there was barely any color. There was a large TV standing against the wall, and a grey couch in the middle of the room with Dib on it. He was pretty much awake now. He was sitting against the arm of the couch with his back facing Miru and Gaz. Miru wanted to get his attention and see how he reacted when he realized that she was in his house. So she spoke to Gaz.

"Nice place."

"Really?" Gaz sounded skeptical. And it might have been that Miru's home had been better than this, but of course, Miru remembered none of it.

"I don't know, maybe. I'm an amnesiac. It's... special." Miru laughed slightly, tapping the side of her head. Dib jumped and turned around, having only just figured out who the voice belonged to. He turned and saw Miru standing next to Gaz, his eyes widening when he saw Miru's SIR half. Oh, right, he hasn't actually seen me like this, Miru thought. Well, here we go...

"Hey, you're awake now. Good for you." Miru nodded at Dib. He nodded back, apparently too stunned to speak properly- or at all. Miru snickered at his state of surprise, then turned to Gaz, still laughing.

"Is he always like this, or- ugh!" Dib had sneaked up quietly and jumped onto her back, and she hadn't been listening so her SIR hearing didn't catch him. Miru smiled inwardly, recognizing the start of a fight, and she got up, then kicked back and hit Dib in the stomach. He didn't let go, but his grip loosened and Miru grabbed his wrist and tore him off her back, throwing him into the door, which hadn't been closed properly and flew open as Dib was rammed into it by Miru's powerful throw. Dib was sent yelling into the street, landing in the middle of the road. Fortunately, no cars were coming past. Dib's street wasn't very busy at this time of year. Also it was kinda late. Miru flew out and hovered over Dib, then used her SIR's communication device to contact Zim.

Zim was working on another containment unit with GIR. It was slow to build because Zim had to make better, thicker glass than the previous unit had used. He was just about to attach another hinge to the door when an alarm went off and Miru's name appeared in the corner of the computer screen. That meant that she'd contacted him. Zim walked over and tapped a button that allowed him to hear her, and her him. He was immediately aware of the sound of Dib yelling at Miru in the background, and then Miru called over the sound:

"Hey, Zim? Yeah, I'm gonna be back late. Dib's decided to fight instead of staying inside and letting me leave in peace- get away from me-," Zim heard more shouting as Miru kicked Dib away from her. "so I just thought I'd let you know. Don't start any stuff of major importance without me. Unless it's boring stuff of major importance." Zim groaned at her.

"Miru, forget Dib, I need you back here. GIR's refusing to help me and I need you to make him stop."

"No way, I'm winning! I like winning. It's more fun than losing, which I don't like, and neither do you. I don't think anyone actually does." I'm losing this conversation, thought Zim. He heard more fighting and Miru laughing.

"Miru, get back here now! I need you here more than you need to get into fights. GIR is still being stubborn and you aren't helping." he pulled out another tiny device like the one he had used to shock Miru only this one was directly connected to Miru's hearing. He had attached it while she was unconscious. It delivered a high-pitched shriek that only Miru would be able to hear. Zim had never used it before, but it had been developed as a last resort for times like this when Miru wouldn't listen to Zim, normally when she lost herself to fighting, and winning, a battle. Miru was, it seemed, unable to control herself in a fight and that was something Zim was going to have to deal with.

"I'm nearly done," Miru said, "And then- I swear, I'm gonna kill you, kid- I'll be back ."

"Miru, get here now."

"You're not the boss of me. Nobody is." Miru was clearly not going to come by herself. So Zim picked up the little machine and pressed the button.

Miru was having fun fighting with Dib, even if it did make Zim mad at her. There wasn't much he could do though, she though, with him being halfway across the city, so she focused on the task at hand; beating Dib and getting back to the base as fast as she could, but not too fast because this was a long fight and they were fun.

She had him on the ground, black-eyed and bleeding a little. She was about to kick him again, when her head seemed to explode in pain as a loud, high screech shot through her head and she fell to her knees, crying out as she clutched her aching head. Again, she thought, not again. Trying to ignore the burning in her head, she stood up shakily, staggering a little. Her vision was hazy. Fully aware of the stares she was getting, from both Dib and Gaz, she screamed in anger and pain and flew off with some difficulty. She couldn't go as fast as she could have before, but she still went as fast as she could, heading for the base with her head still burning. The sound had stopped now, but she knew who had caused it, who knew that she now had extremely sensitive hearing.

She had something to say to Zim.


Tada~! Expect more soon. Okay?