[Zim, wearing his fiendishly clever human larva disguise, sits in his
 desk at skool. All students appear to be present. Zim's eyes dart
 around the room. He twitches repeatedly.]

ZIM: [to himself, spastically] The dreams. The dreams keep coming.
     Nightmares! The screaming. I can still hear the screaming. NO!
     These dreams won't beat *me*. If they won't stop coming, I'll
     play their game. I'll beat them! I'll show you!
MS. BITTERS: Doomed, doomed, doomed. Your assignment today is on --
ZIM: I CAN'T TAKE IT ANY MORE!!

[Zim leaps from his seat to stand atop his desk. He tears off his wig
 and his contacts, tossing them to the floor. A collective gasp.]

ZIM: You see?! I am an alien! An invader!! I will RULE your filthy
     planet!! How do you like THAT?!

[A long pause.]

ZIM: No, seriously.

[Everyone freaks out. Screaming, running in circles, thrown desks, the
 works. Zim stands outside the chaos, laughing maniacally as only Zim
 can.]

CHUNK: Oh my god!
ZIM: You are intimidated by my spectacular true form, are you not?!
CHUNK: Oh my god! Dib was actually *right*!!
DIB: Hey!

[Ms. Bitters reaches underneath her desk. Her hand hovers over buttons
 marked "Insane Student," "Lice," "Death," "Blue Alien Invader," and
 "Red Alien Invader" before finally pressing a button marked "Green
 Alien Invader." Immediately a squad of trained alien-tracking ninja
 crash through the windows. One of them lands on Spoo's head.]

ZIM: Bwahahahahaha!! I fear no ninjas! Bring yourselves to my
     presence! You shall be annihilated in a very squishy fashion!

[Cue the flashy action sequence! Zim's spider legs extend from his
 pak, and he leaps from his desk, smacking two of the ninja together
 with his forelegs. A ninja slashes one of his legs off at the first
 joint; he retaliates with a laser blast. Three ninja leap at Zim, who
 picks up Dib and knocks the ninja away with him as if he were a
 baseball bat. Finally the ninja work together, slashing Zim's legs to
 pieces and grabbing him by his arms and legs.]

ZIM: Hah! Do you believe that I am fooled? This is another nightmare,
     nothing more! I will wake up safe in my pathetic little Earth
     bed! Nothing you can do to me will --

[A ninja smacks Zim upside the head. He immediately loses
 consciousness.]

NINJA: Shaddup.

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[Close-up on Zim's face.]

ZIM: [wakes up, screaming] AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!
     [pant, pant] Yes, just as I suspected. It was all just another...
     stupid... night... mare...

[Zoom out, to show that Zim is strapped to an autopsy table in a dark,
 scary laboratory.]

SCIENTIST: We are preparing for the initial dissection...
ZIM: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!

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Named After Black Horses, chapter 6
http://www.forresterlabs.com/fanfiction/InvaderZIM/NamedAfterBlackHorses/
2003-03-22 -- Completed

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