Dib promptly awakens with a shudder. He wonders if he really went threw with it before he realizes he's in class and Mrs. Bitters is standing over him with a scowl on her face. He gulps before realizing if he was in mid-skool Mrs. Bitters wouldn't be his teacher anymore, which means it worked! She growls at him and when she turns her back to him he grins and mentally woops.

He looks over at Zim in time to see him sit up straight in his seat eyes widening in an instant. He shudders and glances over to Dib before turning away quickly. He turns a sickly gray-green, almost like before the surgery but Dib pushes that thought away quickly. Zim raises his hand and eagerly tells Mrs. Bitters he needs to go to the nurse. She glares but gives him one of the new and improved hall passes.

Huh…He didn't remember that happening last time. He shrugs it off as Zim being Zim before returning to his lesson.

~I~Z~

Zim is surprised when he sees a spider drone from his PAK appear on his desk. He gives the little thing permission to enter his PAK because although watching Mrs. Bitters scold the Dib is funny, only something important could possibly require this particular drone.

It was a memory chip. Which meant one of two things, either he had his memory erased (doubtful as he was the almighty ZIM!), or he needed to know something from the future. After the Temporal-displacement-pig-brain incident he created a new way for his future selves to send him information, the spider memory drones or SMD.

He sits up as he assesses the information in the chip in a moment. Four years worth of knowledge floods his brain and the last month freaks him out. His eyes widen as he shudders before glancing at Dib. He quickly looks away seeing the bigheaded boy looking at him. He can feel himself turning a sickly green and knows he needs to get out of there.

He raises his hand and tells Mrs. Bitters he needs to see the nurse. She scowls at his lack of question but hands him a new skool-board approved hall pass.

As soon as he leaves the classroom he bolts down the hall rushing to the bathroom where, much like Dib and Gaz did, he quickly looses what little he ate. He sits on the floor, holding his chest, shaking as he relives his last few moments. He gets up and makes his way down to the nurses office not even worrying about his organs.

He lets her take his temperature, knowing it'll be hotter then it should be and that his skin is cold and clammy (a strange combination for a human). She quickly sends him home, and once outside he calls Gir to come get him.

~I~Z~

When Zim doesn't return from the nurse Dib becomes suspicious. After recess when the nurse returns with the Hall pass Dib does become worried. Zim actually let the nurse examine him? Did he get sent home? What changed to make this happen? He hadn't done anything different then the first time had he? He knew Zim never became sick during the first timeline…would something change so drastically he couldn't rely on his knowledge of what was to come?

The day passes agonizingly slow, and it's a Friday so he'll have no excuse to see Zim…unless he tries an infiltration tactic again…yes, that's what he'll do.

On the way home he begins to plan how to infiltrate Zim's base. However, not showing how much he knows about the defenses was harder then he had originally thought.

~I~Z~

Gir sat in his masters' lap on the couch. His master was shivering and had a blanket wrapped around his body.

Gir wanted to question his master's strange behavior but he didn't really want to complain. Something told Gir he needed to stay focused and calm. His master never really just sat with Gir and he didn't want to ruin it. The Angry Monkey show was on but his master wasn't really watching it. He knew his master didn't really like the show at all but it wasn't really there for something to do. It was just like the background music in video games. His master was lost in his thoughts. Should he try and help him find his way back to Gir? But no, his master would want to have asked for his help. He'd just sit here comforting his master. Yes…comfort his…master… Gir thought as he fell asleep.

~I~Z~

Zim hugged Gir to his squeedlyspooch and cringed. The little robot had fallen asleep a short while ago and now instead of watching his pe—servant's thoughts play across his face he was stuck thinking about the future.

Obviously the Dib-monkey succeeded or else he wouldn't have gotten the memory chip. He didn't know that Zim knew what was going to happen, he hadn't noticed the chip at all even though it was in his pocket the whole time, humans. He thinks disgusted.

The first thing he had to do was better mask his base. Maybe even upgrade his disguise a little bit. He had to study the stupid stinking humans more. He needed to blend in especially since his tallest didn't want him at all… He frowned at the thought of his tallest but pushed it aside to get his thoughts in order.

So first he would redraw his base. Then he'd change his hair slightly and maybe wear stinking human clothes, which means he needed earth monies. He needed to keep the Dib mostly in the dark. And he needed to decide what to do about his tallest playing him for a fool…

'I'd better get started soon.' He thought as he started to get up. Gir shifted in his lap, and lightly wrapped his arms around his neck. He looks down at the robot before smiling slightly. He puts his arms under Gir, and cradles the hyperactive robot against his chest, as he walks to his room. There he lay down before deciding everything could wait for the morning.

~I~Z~

By the time Dib gets his plan straight it's already past five in the morning. He yawns and frowns before deciding that he couldn't do it in the daylight and the sun would rise soon. He stretches out across his floor tilting his head back to look out his window. He watches for a while as the sky starts to lighten before he crawls to his bed and falls asleep.

~I~Z~

When Zim wakes from his standby mode it is peaceful. He pauses a moment relishing in the peace before thoughts of the previous night fill his mind. 'Was Gir still asleep? Was that why it was so peaceful?' His brow furrows as he sends his thoughts out for his pet—servant's thoughts. His antennas wiggle as he searches for the loose tendrils. He feels them bouncing around in his gum wrapper and paperclip filled brain and frowns. 'If he's awake why isn't he being loud?' He thinks before opening his eyes to see a pair of blue one's staring at him. He raises what would be a brow if he had any and opens his mouth to ask a question before Gir beats him to the answer.

"Master sleeps so peacefully. I like seeing master peaceful." Gir says with a smile. Zim blushes and looks away before standing and picking up the little robot.

"Gir would you like to make pancakes with me?" He asks knowing what's coming but he can't help it. He didn't realize how great he had it until he was locked up and had no access to Gir. He didn't realize how much Gir was a constant in his life till it was taken away.

Gir squeals and jumps from his arms and runs to the kitchen yelling about making pancakes. Zim follows at a more sedated pace.

The whole morning Zim has a small smile on his face and Gir seems to be glowing.

~I~Z~

Gir is really happy when master asks to make pancakes. He wonders why his master is so different but he doesn't really mind at all. It is definitely a good change. Gir loves his master.

~I~Z~

After breakfast Zim heads down into the underground base with Gir and tells him to say there for a while. He tells Gir he has a surprise for him and if he comes up it'll be ruined. Gir shrieks and agrees immediately. Zim smiles and grabs his design pad which has his drawing of the house on it before going up to stand outside the house.

He looks at the two houses next to his and designs his with a little of both, using normal colors, shrinking the gnomes, using a plain door, and adding some normal fixtures like shutters and curtains in his windows. He adds some bushes and short trees along the edge of his fence. Then he plugs his idea into the cornerstone of his house and it blinks before becoming like how he designed. He looks over the normal looking house and makes sure it fits in with the neighborhood before nodding and moving to re-design the interior.

He keeps the first room the living room with most of the stuff the same only making it look more put together. He puts in a door on the far wall from the front door and makes the next room the kitchen. There he lines the upper walls with cabinets and lines one wall with a dishwasher, a stove, a sink, and a microwave. The next wall he leaves blank and he puts the refrigerator on the wall with the door lining the rest of that wall with low cabinets. He creates a hall between the living room and the kitchen. And he moves the toilet to a bathroom and includes a bath/shower and a sink with, he shudders, running water. Further along the hall he creates a walk in closet filled with his cleaning supplies and blankets and such. Next to the closet he adds a door that leads down to a 'basement' and in the basement he hides a door using Irken illusions. Back on the ground floor at the end of the hall on either side he creates a carpeted stairway.

The second floor has a hall splitting it down the middle. He creates four rooms. Two on one side are the same size, sparsely furnished, "guest" rooms. The other side one room is larger then the other with a door connecting the two. The larger room is, of course his. It's done in Irken purple and black with a large window showing the street. The smaller room is Gir's. It's done in light blue and red, and the walls are covered in Angry Monkey and Taco posters. He smiles and goes down to the lab to get Gir to show him the new house.

Gir, predictably screams and hugs Zim until his face turns a sickly purple-green before running off to explore the 'new' house. Zim goes down to the lab to upgrade the security around the house. He can tell when Gir finds his own room as the whole house shakes with a super-happy screech.

~I~Z~

Dib sneaks out of the house late that night. He had slept longer then he though he would have so he had to leave later then he planned. He just hoped nothing would go wrong.

He sneaks down the street done up in his skin-tight black stealth suit and his goggles. He quickens his pace as a dog barks at him.

When he reaches Zim's house he is surprised to see a whole different house there. Well, there were still lawn gnomes but other then that, it was like he had moved out and someone else moved in! What was going on? He stepped over the fence and quietly made his way up to the normal looking door. He scratched the back of his neck and went to try the handle when Zim answered the door.

"What do you want Hyuman?"