Chapter Four: The Nightmare Begins Again
It was a couple of weeks later when Zab finally returned to Earth. As she approached the planet an evil grin spread across her face.
"Pathetic little planet, soon I will bring about your downfall, Mwhahaha!" said Zab.
A tiny bit of what was Dib's desire to protect the Earth tried to rise into the front of Zab's mind, but it was quickly squashed by Zim and Gaz's more dominate and hateful personalities. So the Irken Invader picked up speed and quickly zoomed towards the planet.
The ship entered the atmosphere and make course towards the woods on the outskirts of the City. The ship landed in a clearing and Zab hopped out of it, she then pressed a button on the side and the large ship shrunk down to an easy to carry cube. She then took out the new hologram generator the Tallest gave her and picked disguised herself to look like the Gaz/Dib combination.
"Thus does my mission begin anew, now to get back to the base and get started on the conquest." said Zab.
Zab quickly and quietly made her way to the base, the few humans up this late not paying attention to her at all. Soon she had made it to the door and quickly got inside.
"Yes, that went well, now to make some improvements to the base
Zab looked around and saw Gir sitting on the couch watching TV, and then Gir noticed her.
"Hiya master! You back from talking to the tall people?" said Gir.
"Hmm, this might be a good place to start improving things." thought Zab.
"Yes Gir, yes I am, and they gave me lots of things to help in our mission. In fact Gir I have a little present for you, come here and open up the data port in your head." said Zab.
"Okie dokie master!" said Gir as he hopped over to Zab
Gir opened the data port in the top of his head and Zab installed the S.I.R. upgrade into it. suddenly Gir's eyes turned red and a surge of electricity went through him, then it stopped.
"Gir, report upgrade status." said Zab.
"Madam! Upgrade installed and working properly!" said Gir, now locked into duty mode.
"Excellent, now on to get on with the mission, the Tallest are counting on me to doom this world." said Zab as she went down into her lab followed by Gir.
After a few hours of unpacking the equipment that the Tallest gave her and installing it Zab was now ready to come up with a plan to conquer the Earth.
"Now, to figure out how to plunge the humans into a nightmare world from which there is no waking." said Zab.
Zab scanned the planets internet until she came to a news article about Professor Membrane and his desperate search for his missing children. A small part of Dib and Gaz's minds felt a twinge of emotion that their father was actually looking for them, but that was quickly pushed aside by a plan from Zim's mind.
"Hmm, so this human is looking for his children is he? Well why let him live in pain any longer?" said Zab as she activated her hologram disguise to turn her into Gaz.
"Gir! Transform into Dib using the new hologram device I gave you." said Zab.
"Yes Mistress I obey!" said Gir as he changed his appearance to that of Dib.
"Now Gir, let us go meet our father." said Zab as they left the base.
The two made their way to the Membrane home. Meanwhile at the house Professor Membrane was directing the search for his two kids, after about a week of not noticing they were gone. He had barely been to work at all during the whole time that Gaz and Dib had gone missing, and the world was suffering because of it.
"Sir, you haven't been to work in weeks, and the President Man is waiting for you to solve the energy crisis." said Simons.
"Not now, can't you see that I'm very busy looking for my children, the President Man will have to wait." said Prof. Membrane.
"But sir…" said Simons, but he was cut off.
After cutting off his assistant the professor turned to his computer, which controlled the search drones looking for Gaz and Dib
"Probe X342, have you found any sign of my children?" said Prof. Membrane.
"No sir, I regret to inform you that I have not." said the Computer Drone.
"Well keep looking, its not like they are going to just show up at the door." said Prof. Membrane.
It was then that the door bell rang, the professor turned his eye to it and glared.
"Now who would could that be?" said Prof. Membrane.
Membrane stomped over to the door ready to give who ever was there a piece of his mind. He threw open the door, but before he could say one word he was left speechless, because standing right in front of him was Gaz and Dib.
"Gaz? Dib? Is that you?" said Prof. Memebrane, thinking that his eyes were playing tricks on him.
"Yes Father, it is us, your children." said 'Gaz'.
"Oh this is wonderful! You have returned at long last!" said Memebrane as he swept them into a hug.
"Come in, come in! You have to tell me where you were, I was worried sick." said Prof. Membrane.
"In a little bit Father, but could you get us something to drink?" said 'Gaz'
"Why sure honey I'll…be…right…back…" said Prof. Membrane as he turned towards the kitchen, but fell to the ground with a tranquiller dart in the back of his neck.
"Good, phase one of the infiltration is complete, now on to phase two, Gir!" said Zab as she dropped the disguise.
"Yes my mistress?" said Gir as he also dropped his disguise.
"I want you to search the humans lab for any and all information on his affairs. I will search the rest of this house and lay out a plan to exploit it." said Zab.
"Yes Mistress I obey!" said Gir as he rocketed off.
While Gir was doing that Zab looked around the living room she was in. She saw that it had one TV, one couch, and other miscellaneous items including a lamp that looked like the unconscious professor. But something one the table caught her eye, it was a family picture of Dib, Gaz and the Professor. From the fact that it showed Dib and Gaz as kids it was taken a while ago. The one thing that was weird was that in the photo they looked…happy. This caused the parts of Zab that were Gaz and Dib to feel bad about what they were doing. Zab quickly shoke her head to get rid of the thoughts.
"No, I am a invader. I can not let the pathetic emotions of my predecessors get in the way of the mission." Thought Zab, dispelling the thoughts from her mind.
Zab decided to go look at the other rooms of the house. She decided to go upstairs first because she wanted to avoid the kitchen and its horrible human food. She walked up the stairs and saw two rooms, Dib's was on the right, Gaz's was on the left. She decided to check out Gaz's room first. She walked into the room but forgot about one thing, Gaz's robotic security system. The second she walked into the room a horde of horrible robotic stuffed animals rose up to confront her.
"Halt intruder, leave or prepare to be destroyed!" said the stuffed abominations.
Zab began to panic and was about to run for it, but then from the part of her that was Gaz a memory came.
"Override code: Dib will pay!" said Zab as she prepared for the worst.
"Override code accepted, welcome back mistress Gaz." said the robots, and then they shut down.
Zab opened one of her eyes to see what was happening, and saw that the robots had shut down. She then stood up and scratched her head.
"Hmm, I must sound enough like Gaz to fool her robots, which makes sense since I am part her." said Zab to herself.
The invader then walked over to one of the robots and began to inspect it.
"I'm impressed, this is a advanced piece of robotics, especially for this stupid planet. Maybe I can use this in my conquest of this puny world." thought Zab.
Zab then left the room and walked over to Dib's room. When she opened the door she was greeted by a shrine to all things paranormal. Dib's room was covered with every type of object you could stick a alien, Bigfoot, or Lock Ness Monster on.
"Wow, there is a lot of junk here." said Zab as she kicked some magazines out of the way.
As she entered the room she noticed a computer sitting on the desk with a ton of papers around it. She went over to look at it and was shocked to find that on the papers was Irken writing in varying stages of being translated. From what she saw Dib had gathered a large amount of data on the Irken Empire and Zim. Zab was shocked that Zim had never bothered to investigate this, but then she remembered that he was a moron.
"I wonder if I should worry about that?" said Zab to herself.
Pushing that little doubt on her mental state aside she decided to look at the computer. She used a cable from her Pak to hack into the primitive computer, and within seconds she had total access. She began to look through the computers files and found even more information. The most amazing thing out of all of them was a recently taped video of Zim taking off his human disguise. Knowing Dib he was probably a day or two away from going to the swollen eyeball or the FBI with this tape, and this time they may have believed him.
"Well, it seems that Zim's invention had one good side effect, at least for the Empire's sake." thought Zab.
It was then that she noticed her hand had started moving of its own accord, and had attached the file to an email. She caught it just before it hit the send button.
"No, bad hand! Mustn't expose us to the humans!" said Zab as she fought with her own hand.
After a minute or so she had managed to gain control of it again. She started at the hand wondering what had gotten into it.
"Wow that was weird, my hand moved on its own. What could have caused that? I better be more careful." thought Zab, meanwhile inside of her a part of her wept at its failure.
Zab decided to destroy the information she found and the computer. After burning it to a crisp and putting out the smoldering ashes she walked down stairs and found Gir waiting for her.
"Gir, I see that you have finished your information gathering, report!" said Zab.
"I have found out much about the Membrane human's activities." said Gir, then a print out of the information came out of his head.
Zab took the sheet of information from Gir and began to read it. As she read she was more and more intrigued by what she saw.
"My Tallest! This human virtually runs this entire planet. He has control over all planetary power, a huge sum of resources, and influence over most of the planets leaders. He's almost its ruler right now." said Zab.
Zab stood there for a moment and thought on this information. Then an evil idea entered her mind, she looked up towards the room where the killer stuffed animals were and a sinister smile crossed her face.
"Gir, I think I have a plan. Mwha… Mwhahahahaha!" said Zab, her terrible laugh echoing throughout the house.
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Sorry for taking so long to update, between school, work and the massive writers' block I've had I had trouble finishing this chapter. But it's done now and I hope that you enjoy it. Please read and review.