Chapter 1

Fin and Asher were dead asleep when her PAK receved a message. It automatically receved and opened the screen. There were two shadows on the screen. The screen panned around the room. After a minunet of panning, it went back into her PAK.

The rest of Fin's short night was peaceful, that was till Asher started jumping up and down on her back.

"Fin, get up!"

"Asher, go back to sleep. I don't have a class for another couple hours," the nineteen year old rolled over, grabbing a pillow to cover her head.

Her ten year old brother didn't like this answer and grabbed the pillow and started to beat her head with it. Fin shot up and growled, "I'm going to kill you!"

Asher jumped off her and ran out of their room. Fin tried to go after him, but her legs where tangled in the sheets. After she untangled herself, she got up and ran out of the room too. "You little brat, I only got one hour of sleep and you deside to wake me up the one day I didn't have a morning class." Then she stepped on the pillow Asher had left behind and she went flying; face planting.

"Morning, Fin."

Fin looked up at the voice. "Morning, Dad. Do you know what time it is?"

Zim picked up the remote and clicked a button. "Five."

Fin grinded her teeth as she flinged her hair out of her face. She glanced her bug eyes around the room till she found her brother's antenas. "Asher, why do you keep waking up so damn early? I swear one of these days I'm going to smuther you with your own pillow," she said as picked herself up and just sat on the floor.

Asher peaked his head from the other side of the couch. "Are you going to murder me now?"

Fin sighed, "No. I'm not in the mood." She got up. "I'm going to try to get another hour of sleep."

The men of the family stairs followed her. When she was out of sight, Zim turned to his son. "Asher, why did you wake up your sister again. You know that she may not need that much sleep, but she does need it."

Asher looked up at his father. "But I woke up and I got board."

Zim faced palmed as Gaz emerage from the hall with a scoul on her face. "Asher, you woke up your sister again," she said through her teeth.

That's when Asher started to try to hide under the couch as Zim got up to greet his wife.

"Gaz, come on. Let me take you back to bed," he said as they stated to walk back down the hall.

"Zim, I'm not letting you let him get away with this again."

"And I'm not," he swayed. "I'm not letting you do it when you're more willing to kill him." He closed the door. Leading the both of them to the bed, he brought Gaz closer to him and she laied down with him.

"You got this afternoon off right?"

"For Fin's martial arts turnament? I did. Then I have to go to work right after to make up the time."

He didn't get a responce from Gaz, she had fallen back asleep.

Two hours later, the alarm sounded and Zim turned it off. The both of them got out off bed and began their day. Gaz ocuppied the closet while Zim went to go see where his childern were. Asher was still in the livingroom and had taken control of the TV. He then knocked on Fin's door when he heard that the alarm clock was still going. No response. Opening the door, he snuck in to hit the snooze. He looked down at his daughter. She was so peaceful in her sleep, it reminded Zim of when she was a smeet. He gave her a quick kiss on the forehead, then got up to let her sleep.

Closing the door behind him, Gaz passed by dressed in a pair of pink pants, trademark grey and black striped longsleeve, a turtelneck croptop, and her favorate skull necklack; ready for the day. They both headed for the kitchen after getting Asher to sit down with them.

"Asher, why did you deside to wake up your sister this morning?" Gaz asked her son.

"Like I told Dad earlier, I got board and Fin always plays with me."

"But you need to understand, Fin is in college now," Zim said. "She's more tierd than she use to be. She has more responsabilites now."

Asher scouled. "Then why is she always up late? I have to go to bed early every night."

Gaz pinched the brim of her nose. "We've been over this before. You need more sleep than she does. Speaking of which, you can't keep waking up at five every morning. You're going to be later tonight."

She got up from the table to get coffee as Asher tired to make sense of what his mother had said. "Later? I thought I was getting puniched, not rewarded."

Zim's anttenas perked. "You are going to get punished for this. But we need to think about what we're going to do."

"Zim!" Gaz called from the kitchen.

"Well then, what are we going to do, Gaz," Zim asked as his turned in his seat to look at her. "Just sending him to his room and no TV isn't working."

Gaz thought and gave a sigh when she know that he had a point. "Fine. Asher, we'll talk about this before your sister's tordement. Understand?"

Asher coward in his seat. "Yes, Mom."

Zim pointed to the hall. "Now go get ready."

Asher got up and slunched to his room.

Gaz came and stood behind her husband with a mug in her hand. "Remind me why we desided to have another one."

Zim gave a devilish smile "You couldn't keep your hands off me." He looked up and gave her a kiss.

"Yeah," she said, reminicing about how the condom broke. "Don't forget, my crew and I are going to be at the event today, so you'll have to watch Asher." She looked over to what was under the front window. "Are you accually going to fix GIR today or is he going to continue to be be Minimoose's stool."

Zim got up from the table and picked up the robot from the other side of the appartment. "I'm trying to, but all the files keep blocking his mainframe and if I delete the wrong files, he'll be a killing machine. I don't want to subject the childern to that. It doesn't help that almost none of the Irkin tec

I still have doesn't work for this." He sighed. "I''m sure Fin would have an easier time with his."

"But she's making herself too busy for that," she said as she took a drink.

Zim was silent as his PAK was scrolling throught the list of files that were on the units hard drive. "Maybe not as busy as we think." He pulled the dianostic tool back into his PAK as he attempted to turn GIR on.

The robot's eye's lite up and started to run around in circles; crazy as always.

"He's good as new," Zim yelled so that Gaz could hear him over the sound of GIR's yelling.

"Masta, I want waffles," GIR yelled as he ran into the kitchen. That was till Gaz stopped him in his tracks with her scoul.

That was when Fin walked into the room while brading her hair around her anntenas. "I see he works?"

Zim got up from the couch and walked up to his daughter with a curious look. "When did you have time to fix him?"

"Last night, before you came back from work." She poked her head into the fridge. "Are we having breakfast or not?"

Gaz and Zim looked at each other before Zim went into the back bedroom.