Why Can't You Two Just Work Together
By: Archangel Amy
Disclaimer: I do not own Zim or any other characters from the series. If I did, Zim would still be on air.
Summery: When the tallest are getting sick of Tak and Zim's bickering over one dumb planet, the tallest order them to work together. They don't like that plan very much, or do they. ZATR. They are probably going to be OOC.
A/N: Hello and welcome to Why Can't You Two Just Work Together. Yes, I know, I have two fics going on at once, but, I just got this idea from watching Tak: The Hideous New Girl, and I just had to type it. For those of you who read InuYasha, My WHAT is still being worked on. I did not abandon it. I just have horrible writers block, (I just blanked so I hope that's the right word) and I need a break from InuYasha. Thank you for your patience, and onto the fic.
"My tallest, I am almost complete with my latest doomsday plan. All I need is that annoying excuse for an Invader out of my way. I will present you with the destroyed planet soon. Thank you for taking your time on listening me. Thank you," Tak said over the screen.
"Ok, she left a message. Why didn't she just call us," asked the red tallest.
"I don't know but-, oh look, Zim is calling us. Get the puppets ready," the purple tallest said, snickering while getting his puppet in place.
"My tallest, I have recently discovered that the Tak-beast, is planning to take my mission away, well she can't have it. Tell that non-invader to stay away from my planet," Zim half asked, half ordered.
"Sigh, You know what Zim, we'll call you back in an hour," the red tallest said, signaling to the crew to cut communications.
"What did you do that for? I wanted to see how long he would think the puppets are us," the purple tallest said.
"One, he wouldn't of figured it out, and two, I'm getting sick of Tak and Zim fighting over one, stupid planet," the red tallest answered. The purple tallest had to agree, it was rather tiring.
"What do you think we should do about it," asked the purple tallest.
"Well, we could make them work together," he suggested.
"They'd hate that," the purple replied, and evil smirk playing across his face. It's not like he wanted to torture Tak. No, he just wanted to see how stupid Zim is. They both agreed to this plan, and called Zim and Tak at the same time.
"My tallest," both Zim and Tak said at the same time. When they realized who was on the other line, they flared up in anger, throwing insult after insult, after insult. It was hard to keep a strait face for the tallest. They almost chuckled a bit, but made sure they didn't.
"Be quit you two," said the red tallest. They immediately obeyed.
"Now, it has come to our attention that you two have been bickering like this for about two months. You've been ruining each other's plans, for this long, and it's time you stopped," the red tallest said.
"Yeah, you two need to stop fighting so much," the purple tallest added.
"So your going to strip him of his rank and let me destroy earth," asked Tak.
"No we-," the red began before he was cut off by Zim.
"So that means you're going to send her off of my planet," asked Zim.
"Oh yeah. Your planet huh. I don't see your name on it," Tak argued, and they began to argue all over again.
"Shut up," yelled the two tallest at the same time. They obeyed.
"Thank you," the red tallest said.
"No, we're going to have you two work together," the purple tallest said. Again, it was hard to keep a strait face looking at Zim. He was so mad and shocked, he just hated working with others, especially Tak. It showed weakness.
"WHAT," they both yelled at the same time.
"There is no way I'm working with that scum," they said at the same time again. After much arguing of Tak and Zim, and a quick snack break for the tallest later, which neither of the two fighting Irkens noticed, Tak and Zim finally calmed down enough to listen to the tallest, but not without sending a few glares to the other Irken.
"Now, Tak, you will go to Zim's base, and work with him there. And before you say anything, it's because he's an Invader, and he got to earth first," the red tallest began. Zim looked somewhat triumphant for being an invader still.
"Yes, and if you don't do as your told, then you'll both be stripped of your rank," the purple tallest said.
"I feel like we're fathers trying to get their kids to calm down," whispered the red tallest to the purple.
"I know, they act like brother and sister," the purple replied. After some more arguing, and another snack break later, Tak left the giant weenie corporation, and headed to Zim's, with Mimi in tow. She didn't like this one bit.
Once the communication was off, the tallest let out a laugh at Zim. It was so funny seeing his reaction. They laughed for a long time, until they realized that they were with Tak and Zim for twelve hours. Most of it was their arguing, but they still had many, many messages. They sighed and listened to them all.
Ding Dong went Zim's doorbell. He shuddered when he heard it. He really didn't want to work with Tak, but what the tallest says, goes. He walked over to the door, not bothering to put on his disguise. He opened it, and allowed Tak in. She immediately took her disguise off. She never liked it much. Gir ran right next to Zim, and saw Mimi.
"Hi Mimi, Hi scary lady. My master said yous was coming. Wanta meet my pig," yelled Gir, grabbing Mimi's arm, dragging her to the kitchen where Gir was having a tea party with his pig. Zim and Tak were just staring at each other, hate in their eyes.
"I have to go to skool in five minutes, I want you to stay here until I return," Zim ordered.
"One, you don't boss me around, and two, I'm going to skool too," Tak said.
"But you haven't been to skool in weeks," Zim argued.
"That's because I as too busy spying on you. Now that we have to work together, I have no need for that, and I have to make it look like I'm human too," Tak said. Zim didn't argue any further. He was sick of arguing with her. That's all they did last night.
Once the two were ready to go, they left, walking together. Half way through the walk, they passed Dib's house. A few seconds after they passed his house, they were turning the corner, and Zim wasn't in Dib's line of view, so he ran up to Tak.
"What are you doing here Tak? I thought you left months ago," Dib asked.
Before Tak could answer, Zim stepped up and said, "She's with me, you pig monkey. Go back to your sister or someone else." Zim didn't know why, but he felt protective over Tak. She was, after all, his partner.
Dib was shocked by this, and went on accusing the two of many horrible things, half of which were true. Dib was somewhat jealous. He probably wouldn't of been if Tak wasn't in here disguise, but she was, and that made him think about when they hung out together. He remembered how Tak became popular fast among the kids.
The two Irkens just kept on walking, ignoring Dib the whole way to skool. Once there, Zim, Dib, and Gaz walked to their desks, while Tak stood in front of the class, waiting for Mrs. Bitters to tell her where to sit.
"Tak, your back, go sit behind Dib," Mrs. Bitters ordered. Before she could press the button to send the kid sitting there to the underground classroom, Tak asked a question instead.
"Do I have to sit behind him, he's weird," Tak said, convincing Mrs. Bitters to let her sit on the other side of the room. She sat right behind Zim, which was very convenient for them both. Dib kept an eye on them the whole day. Tak and Zim were always together. They sat together at lunch, they were by the gates at recess, and in gym they were partners. Dib tried to figure out what they were up to, but he just couldn't. They didn't talk about Irken stuff at all. In fact they barely talked at all. It looked like they hated each other, but there eyes betrayed that, it just looked like they disliked each other, but not hated. And, because Zim was hanging around with Tak, he became popular because she was seemingly rich, and owned a giant wiener factory, so the kids wanted to be around her. Dib was mad about that.
The bell rang loudly, and the kids were clawing at each other, and jumping out of windows to get outside. Zim and Tak took the easy way, or the doors. Once outside, they were stopped by Dib, who was accusing them of more horrible stuff.
When Tak and Zim were about to leave, thunder was heard in the back round. Zim immediately ran for shelter under the skool, trying to get the umbrella out of his pack and open it. Tak just kept walking and walking, ignoring Zim's attempts at getting her to stop and come back.
"As I told you earlier Zim, you don't boss me around," Tak yelled behind her back. Then, the rain poured down. You could hear children yelling 'We love rain' in the back round. When Tak saw the stuff falling, she put a hand out, trying to figure out what it was. Then it happened. She felt her whole self burning. It stung very bad. She tried to get to the nearest shelter, but she couldn't make it. She fell to the ground, huddling in pain. Then, all of a sudden, the pain stopped. She looked up, only to find Zim standing over here, holding out his hand, and a weird contraption over his head.
"C'mon, get up. We have to get back to the base," Zim said not as rude as Tak thought he would. Tak grabbed his hand, and they walked back to the base. They had to walk close together since the umbrella wasn't that big, but Zim didn't seem to mind at all. They just walked in silence, as they did the whole day. They didn't have anything to talk about, so they didn't talk at all.
They finally reached the base, but Gir wasn't there to greet Zim like he usually was. In fact, the TV was also off, which scared Zim a little. Usually Gir was watching TV, but there was no Gir. Tak could sense Zim's uneasiness, which made her a little uneasy too. This was, after all, Zim's base, and if Zim was nervous just being here, then that meant something was wrong.
"What's wrong," she asked, letting a little bit of concern enter her voice. Zim recognized it, but put that thought away for later.
"It's Gir. He's usually here watching TV, but the TV is off. It's weird," Zim said. Tak understood.
"Maybe he is in the lab," Tak said. Zim just nodded and went to the toilet, flushing himself down, but not before telling Tak that the trashcan is an elevator too. Once they reached the lab, Zim went running off to find Gir. Zim looked everywhere, but Gir wasn't there. He then went down to the experiment rooms, and found Gir there, with Mimi, watching the angry monkey show.
"Gir," yelled Zim. Gir looked over and brightened up, not that he was sad, but now he's even more happy.
"Yay the masters back, the masters back," yelled Gir, running around Zim. Zim didn't realize this, but Tak did. Gir and Zim had this weird relationship. It was like Gir was a child or something. Tak shook her head and put shoved it to the back of her thoughts. Mimi, was watching Gir and Zim, and envied the little robot. She wished that Tak would be like Zim. From all of the wonderful stuff Gir says about Zim, she wished her mistress could be a bit more like him. Tak caught the expression, and went to go hug Mimi. Mimi was so happy when she did that, if she could of smiled, then she would of. Zim was busy with Gir, but Gir saw how happy Mimi was that the scary lady hugged her, and briefly wondered how his master would react if the scary lady hugged him.
"Gir, me and Tak have very important plans to make. Why don't you go cook some more, since that's what you like to do," Zim ordered.
"Okee dokie," Gir said, grabbing Mimi by the arm and dragging her to the kitchen.
Tak watched them leave, almost sad, but was fixed out of her trance when Zim called her name. From then on, they worked on the plan. Since they liked Tak's first plan. So they decided to do that one. A few problems came up with Tak's plan, but they were going to make a few adjustments. But in order for this plan to succeed, they needed Tak's ship back. That was their first order of business. They would've gone that night, but it was too early in the morning, so they just went upstairs and sat on the couch. There was nothing on, so they decided to play a game. It was a fact game. One person said something about themselves, and the other does the same, no questions asked.
"Ok Zim, you first," Tak said.
"Ok, I was almost killed by Dib because Gir and I hurt him in the past," Zim answered. Tak was a little surprised about that, but didn't press further.
"Let's see, I was almost killed by a virus until I got this implant in my head," Tak said, surprising Zim.
"Ok, I was stuck in a space ship with Gir for four months while he sang the doom song." Tak almost laughed at that.
"I was stuck in an escape pod for two weeks, trying to fix Mimi from Gir's attack, which by the way, he still has a major impact on her and her personality has changed because of that." Tak was a little annoyed about that, but didn't want to make things worse.
"Um let's see. I was stuck on Foodcourtia as a fry cook, and I still can't figure out why Sizz-lor wants me so bad."
"I was stuck as a janitor on planet dirt."
"I am the smallest adult Irken," Zim said sadly.
"I'm the third smallest adult Irken." Tak was also sad about that.
"Gir was made specifically from the almighty tallest for me." Zim was proud about that.
"I made Mimi out of an old Sir, and some spare parts." Tak was proud about that.
"I hate Dib."
"I figured that out. And I hate Dib too."
"Gir kissed his sister once."
"Mimi kissed me once. That was when Gir was in control of her."
"I specialize in research and technology."
"I specialize in field tactics and military skills."
They played this game until dawn, and they found out that they have a lot in common. Gir and Mimi came running up to them at dawn, with a wagon full of cupcakes being dragged behind them. Minimoose also had a tray full of them on his head.
"EAT EM'," Gir yelled as he shoved one in his master's face.
"Not now Gir. I'm busy," Zim said, shoving the cupcake away.
"Doing what? All we did was play a game," Tak said. Once she said that, a smirk was plastered on Mimi's face.
"Not like that you sicko," Tak said, catching the smirk. Gir wasn't as confused as Zim thought he would have been. Because of that time when Gir took over Mimi, Gir and Mimi had a special link.
Then Gir shoved another cupcake in Zim's face. Zim shoved it away and Gir started to cry. Just to shut him up, Tak ate one. She said they tasted like Mongrarien Soup. (A/N: That's my own thing. You can use it if you want.) Zim had some and liked it. Their night ended with Gir and Zim arguing over what is in it.
A/N: Ok. First one done. Hope you like it. If you don't oh well. I know I'm rushing the feelings a little, but I'm not a very good writer. I had to force myself from writing, just because I didn't want to make too long of a chapter. I hope you all review. Also, I except flames just to laugh at you. Please R+R. Thanks for reading.
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