"I took my love down to Violet Hill

There we sat in snow

All that time she was silent still,

If you love me won't you let me know

If you love me won't you let me go."

-Violet Hill, Coldplay

Part Four:

Rehabilitation Part I

It was cold where Dib was, as snug as a mother's womb or a lover's embrace, though he wouldn't rightly know either. In Dib's head he saw a cityscape with an orange apocalyptic sky streaked with blood. The city had many tall building and appeared very prosperous. But everyday that the sun rose and set the buildings would deteriorate. As if watching a time lapsed photo Dib saw the buildings rapidly falling away. In less then a few seconds the buildings decomposed from their peak to their utter removal. And the sun just kept rising, everyday on a little more chaos, until everything was gone. He witnessed the sun as it rose once more on the expanse of nothingness below it as if to mock its loneliness. It was cold where Dib was and the sun wasn't shining, it hadn't even bothered to ridicule him, he was that pathetic.

Dib twitched his fingers, he was numb to sensation but in control of movement and for now that was all he could ask. He lifted himself off the powdery ground and immediately sank through it. He fell down a rabbit hole no larger then his body and flipped twice through dead air before his face connected with solid ground. Blood expelled itself onto the floor when Dib opened his mouth to scream. He gushed torrents from what felt like a broken jaw and a broken psyche. He was a casualty without the goddamned body bag to keep him warm. Dib let his mouth hang open like a panting dogs as he lied catatonic on the floor until the blood and spittle and vomit stop flowing so profusely.

He wiped his outer edges of his lips, he couldn't see, he couldn't remember how he had gotten there and he had a splitting headache. He rubbed his temples languidly, and remained curled in a tight ball as he tried to recall the how and why.

He had been on the massive, Tak had captured him. He had been interrogated. Well, tortured really, by a few sick scientist and then darkness, and someone had been touching him. It had been Tak, and she had been wonderful. Acting solely on her good morals and virtues no doubt, she had mounted him. Now with awesome clarity he could taste her again, as if she was rising up in the pit of his stomach. Oh god that taste. Dib knew that if he could harness that flavor and concentrate it that it would perfume out a thousand four leaf clovers.

Dib choked on his exhale. Breathing in a rust smell that was nothing like his estranged lovers. Where was he? In front of him was a long hallway dark and uninviting. Behind him was the same emptiness. Dib didn't know what to do. Thinking of Tak made him want to die, but he couldn't hang himself with the noose in his stomach and couldn't swallow the poison of his thoughts.

She left you, again. Really by now you should be use to it.

"Shut up," Dib tried to fight the rising maliciousness that was growing with every tear he refused to shed.

You trusted her, loved her, and she betrayed you. For what? To get in good with the people who ridiculed her? Isn't there something a little backwards about all this?

"Yes," Dib gripped his stomach as he walked his insides were burning icy hot.

Are you going to continue to act the good guy? Look at what she did to you. Took your virginity and then dropped you here to die. It's only by luck that you found this place. Use this opportunity to find her, catch her, and kill her.

"Ugh…"Dib had never had such dark thoughts. He clutched his temples. When he hit his head it must have shattered his sanity and left him split. This defense mechanism, this other voice was horrifying but right. She did deserve to die.

And she will.

He walked down the corridor in front of him. There was nothing for a long time, just darkness and steel, and then he saw the light.

In front of him was a massive room with wires, tubes, and a gigantic computer. It was white and blue, glowing with a delicate hum that meant something somewhere was operating. It was the cleanest and most elaborate lab he had ever seen. The technology was almost as advanced as the Irkens, but much more precise looking. As if it where easier to use, but capable of much more power. Was this system man made? Dib moved closer and spoke out in awe, "wow."

"Intruder detected!" A long wire jutted from the wall. "State your name!"

"Dib." he said this shortly and without fear.

"What is your relation to the late and AMAZING Professor Membrane?"

"No," Dib mumbled in disbelief.

Dib's wide smile split his face in half. He had found it and now Tak would pay.

She was flying back to the massive. She had to get there and explain to the Tallest that the human had done it. That he had even tried to explode the ship before she neutralized him. They would believe the story, they would definitely still be pissed, but as least she wouldn't be executed. Hell, if she was able to get the mainframe up and working again they would probably be so grateful, that they'd promote her back to Invader status, anyway. Especially if the snack machines were unharmed in the process. She was nearly there, she could see the Massive hanging stationary only a few yards ahead. She hastened her speed, she was seconds away from the main gates when something awful happened. The fleet surrounding the Massive, protecting it, fired at her, perhaps mistaking her for an enemy ship.

"NOOOOOOO!" she screamed as her Voot cruiser went up in flames. She spiraled out of control as she plummeted back towards Earth, and before she knew it she was sliding through the snow she had abandoned Dib in only minutes before. When she finally came to a stop she was so discombobulated, that she just lay on the floor of her ruined ship somewhere between life and as close to unconsciousness as an Irken can get.

At that exact moment Dib was learning to use his father's laboratory particularly the security system. This he needed up and running, first and foremost, just in case someone tried to come for him. Just in case Tak was anywhere on the planet.

"Computer activate security Cameras."

It's compliance was instantaneous. The giant screens that covered every inch of the wall in front of Dib flashed to life. He now had a complete layout of the entire country in front of him. it was desperately barren, white and unrelenting.

"Computer scan for life."

There was a flurry of motion as the cameras all zoomed in at once, turned sharply to the left and then came to rest on a small spacecraft.

Oh my god. She is on the planet, and she's all alone. Dib felt such a devious tingle run down his spine, shocking his stomach setting his insides on fire. Yes, it was then Dib felt the numbness sneaking in. The pain of his soul dying, shattering inside him like glass splinters and then pushing out his epidermis. His skin burned, and his brain turned with a whirlwind of excitement and vindication. He would have her soon so very soon, all to himself, alone in this lab with all these terrible machines. The idea made Dib's stomach leap and he puked again. God his head hurt.

He needed to find something to get her in. something mobile and fast, he needed to get at her before she regained full consciousness. This might not have seen fair but she hadn't exactly been merciful.

He scanned the room, "computer where are the vehicles?"

He heard a loud metal door peel open and next to him was a room housing at least ten top of the line cars, snowmobile, helicopters anything you could possibly need for transportation. He walked up and down the line of transports slowly and considerately. Which one, which one?

He found it. It was small, sleek, subtle and from the looks of it, speedy. He opened the door with the push of a button and stared in awe of the exterior. This was definitely his get the damsel in distress and put her in more distress, steed. He sat in the front seat noted with curiosity that there was no steering wheel, so putting two and two together order it, "go."

The car sprung to life with a blinding blue light, which consumed Dib's vision momentarily. When he could see again, he found himself surrounded by metal inputs. Each one shot into a different orifice, one in his arm the other his stomach, a few in his legs and one large one to the back of his neck. Dib screamed as it tried to shove and drill its way into his body, there was no way it was going to fit. His dad had had the outlets too, that's the only thing Dib could think of. But they had been bigger then his, much bigger. Dib's scream finally tapered off as the inputs came to rest, poorly, inside him putting him into a coma like state. Dib was reduced to a drooling moron for no more then five minutes, lying still and wide eyed as if dead, before an electric current pulsed through his brain, sending him reeling into the network of the car. He was now one with it.

Dib cut through the snow like a razor blade, leaving a whirlwind of flakes caught in the powerful suction behind him that trailed for several seconds before landing back to the planet in an upset flurry. His mind was working at similar breakneck speed, the same deranged thought running through his head, find her and take her. Find her and take her.

When he did find her small cruiser Tak had already crawled nearly fifty yards from the wreck. His arrival was herald by the screeching of tires as he abruptly hit the breaks, which failed briefly due to the slick snow and finally came to a spinning stop feet from where Tak was currently standing. She looked at the tinted windows in knowing horror. She walked around to its front, tracing her reflection in the windows with a certain morbid curiosity. When she was situated before its headlights, Dib flicked them on, temporarily blinding the girl in front of him.

"Dib?" she cried out into the storm. Her voice didn't carry and was thrust back where it came.

"Dib please…." Her words died on her tongue as a machine gun popped from the side of the vehicle.

"Di-?" he fired a few rounds into the ice around her. Tak curled up into a powerless ball and waited for the dust to settle

"Get in the car."

Tak stood up against the car, "no."

More rounds and shells littered the air, the flying bullets where closer this time. The snow they kicked up splattered against her shoes; the danger was real and imminent.

"NOW!" the voiced boomed over the speaker system so loudly that is momentarily disrupted the flurry of snow in front of it. Tak had no choice.

She hopped in the car, clumsily avoiding Dib's dead eyes as she tried to settle into her seat.

He didn't look at her either, he was eerily quiet instead. Tak almost wished he would yell at her, scold and reprimand her in a loud and rough voice that would have been more bearable to the silence, broken only by the haunting howl of the wind and snow.

She opened her mouth to speak , but was interrupted by the firing of his engine, rumbling to life. He did a complete 180 in the snow at a dangerous speed and then travelled as quickly as circumstance would allow him back to the lab that Tak didn't yet know existed.

Dib smirked though Tak couldn't see it, and thought of all the god awful things he was going to do to her. Things that would make even this cold hearted bitch feel. By the end of the night Dib would be dead and so would she.

And then, he thought, I might just die with a smile of my face after all.