Alright, I'm back! And uh... with another chappie... ... ...

Zim:...

Gir: ... WAFFLES!

Me: Stares at Gir strangely, then back at the crowd Enjoy!

Chapter 4: Beyond the Broken Glass...

Salem sat at the controls of Tak's ship which was still for some strange reason in Dib's garage. He figured out the technology quick and turned it on. Dib had finally fixed it and was happy that it worked. Now all he needed to worry about was it's flying. Sitting near the back he looked over to Salem, "Okay, so you can drive it and it flies... but do you know where to go?" he asked. Salem nodded. "We need to find Master..." he said, pushing a button and raising his finger up the screen to make the ship gain speed. His red eyes narrowing. "This trip would take a while... so I hope to god that you went before we left..."

Dib kept silent, letting his eyes lower to the metal floor being guilty that he hadn't done anything to relieve himself for future's sake. Salem turned around with narrowed eyes, "Do you at least have an empty bottle in here somewhere?" Dib slowly shook his head. Salem smacked his metal forehead with his eyes closed, "What a trip we're gonna have..." he said.

"No way am I going there!" refused a stubborn Zim, who clung to a pole by a trashcan with Gir's hind quarters hanging out of it a few blocks down from the Shloogorgh fast food restaurant. Tak pulled on Zim, but slipped on a bit of slime on the ground from a blob that had just passed not too long ago and slammed into the trashcan Gir was in. Gir fell out with a squeaky toy from a restaurant that a child obviously didn't want... Tak sat up and rubbed her head. Zim jumped from the pole and ran to Tak. "Oh crap, you okay?" he asked, helping her up. Tak nodded, her eyes dug into hers, reminding Zim of Caline, weakening him, "Please?" she begged.

Zim sighed and looked down, just to avoid the pain in the memories, "Fine... I'll go..."

Caline exited Meekrob's atmosphere. "Alright Caline, here's the-" Renlia was cut off. Caline had cut the transmission before she could give an order. The only reason she was going was because she wanted to see Zim. That emotionless look was knocked off her face by a smile at the thought of their reunion. About twenty minutes passed, before she caught sight of foodquortia. Some how, she sensed him. Renlia's power.. Brought out a power in Caline. The small gift of knowing. The meekrobian cruiser she now possessed lowered to the planet's snacky cab's area. Parking there would be easily remembered to her. Caline jumped out and made her way down the walkways.

Tak hungrily munched on a large jumbo bag of Vort Dogs behind wide metal bars. Zim stared at her with that look of, 'Told ya we'd get caught' on his face. But he erased that look. Seeing how Tak was almost nothing but Skin and Bone, to her it was worth it. They'd get out of there... he hoped. Tak finished her bag and sat over by Zim, who was staring at Mimi and Gir who were stuck in a tank. Zim slightly blushed when he felt Tak leaning on him. His arm trembled at first, but he slid it around her neck and on her shoulders. They rested there for a few moments before the door bursted open. Sizz-Lorr walked in, looking at the two which held their spot. "Well, well Zim. I knew you'd be back here again but I didn't know with a friend. I didn't know anyone liked you..."

"Shut your noise-tube! There's more who like me more than you'd ever know!" Zim said, tightening his arm around Tak as if to embrace her.

"Like who?" Sizz-Lorr asked, lowering his face near the cage to look at Zim meanly. "I wanna know it's name..."

"She's not an IT!" he said. Tak's antenna's lowered. She knew who he meant, but he didn't love her anymore, and Tak knew this.

"Oh.. A she? Who is SHE?"

Zim couldn't say her name. He couldn't even choke it out. Tak shifted her sight to Zim who was frozen in thought. Drowning in the memories. His eyes half closing in a dreamy state. He didn't love her. He couldn't love her. Zim didn't want to love her. He loved Tak, not HER.

"Apparently this SHE is the cause of you're great ego change..." Sizz-Lorr mumbled. How could she have done such a task? Not even the cold hard truth could have done that... Zim's eyes lowered, with a small nod.

Something caught his eye. A small string perhaps? No.. What was it? It was a dark rust color. A barbed wire! Zim lunged forward to the side of the cage, letting go of Tak. He wanted to see. He wanted to know. What was that? The barbed wire slithered, the small hiss of it's own fading as it went back to the back closet. Was he seeing things? Zim didn't know, his eyes scanning from the floor up, til' he caught a white shape. Those violet eyes. Her giggle, like children's laugh when they play in the park echoed through is antennas. She giggled slightly, a large amount of her black hair hung to her side out the doorway, her blue bangs slanting to the side. She smiled greatly at him.

"Zim... never forget... what are friends for, right?" she said. But that was a memory sentence. She had said that before.. Zim sighed. No.. NO! Why must this be?! Why couldn't that really be her?! Zim blinked, the figure was gone. He wanted to see her so badly yet he didn't want to love her. What was wrong with him?

Irkens shouldn't love... something was wrong... They didn't know the meaning of love! Tak however had found it some how. Zim... Zim learned it... he learned it through Caline... Sizz-Lorr heard the bell ring of another customer walk in, but it fizzed up and died before the final bell could chime. He looked in the restaurant area, growling he walked out there. Zim didn't feel too good about that. How the bell just died as someone walked through it.

"What are you?" They heard Sizz-Lorr ask.

"What is your name? Answer my questions you blob-like creature!"

Salem jerked at the steering wheel, pulling and trying to turn the ship to the side at full speed. "Dib, we're losing control! Quit doing that potty dance or whatever you call it!" he yelled back. Dib was holding his crouch and jumping up and down, his face twisted to an unimaginable sate. "DIB!"

"I gotta go! I gotta go so bad!"

"Go out the-" he looked to the side to see clumps of metal water floating through space in front of them. "Why couldn't you do that earlier?" Salem asked, turning around to see Dib's back turned towards Salem, using the small window in the back. Once Dib was done he walked over to Salem and took the controls. "We're in a worm hole..." he said, pushing buttons for the future routs. On the left, there was an earth. "Okay we go left to avoid..." he looked to his right, there was another earth. "Oh gees..."

"Just go right..." Salem said. The earth seemed different, but it was too late. The ship was jerked violently to the right and sucked into the wormhole. Screaming as loud as they could like Zim and Gir did, except this time the robot was actually scared, they winced as the ship appeared in the garage. "Great! Now we're back where we started!" Salem moaned. Dib shook his head, "Wait... you hear that?" he asked. Salem shook his head. Dib walked into his yard, then faced towards the side looking at the city which was covered in flames. "Oh no..." Dib said as he ran to the front yard.

"What?" Salem asked as he fallowed.

Dib stopped completely, "Salem... turn dog..." Salem nodded and was once again a canine but a cop car just zoomed passed them like there's no speed limit. The front door opened as Gaz, about Dib's age now, walked out. "DIB GET IN HERE!" she yelled to the neighborhoods. Her hair was a bit longer now. She growled with anger and slammed the door shut, walking back in. Dib who stood in the driveway, noticed himself coming down the street. About in his teens now. "We're in the future..." Dib said with a bit of shake in his voice. Salem whimpered. Dib noticed Dib and widened his eyes. "Salem? Shouldn't you be with Caline? And... me?! What?!"

"What are you talking about?" Salem asked.

"Whoa... I'm a teen?!" The child Dib shouted. (I'll call the teen Dib big D and the Kid one Lil D.)

Big D cocked his head, "You're from the past aren't you...?"

Lil D took a step back, "How'd you know?"

"Hah! I still might not be in the Swollen Eyeball but I will understand a few things if it includes a childish me... I know Zim couldn't have done it. By now, he's dead."

"Zim is dead?! But.. But how?"

Big D looked down. Caline loved Zim. Zim loved Tak. Tak hated Caline. And Tak loved Zim. "Tak came back..." he said.

"Tak came.. Where's she?"

"Caline killed her..."

"Caline killed them both?"

"No... Caline killed Tak. Because Tak, killed Zim..."

Sizz-Lorr walked in, holding a struggling Caline by a clump of her hair. "LET ME GO I SAY! I COMMAND YOU TO LET ME GO!" Zim lunged forward to the bars, "Put her down Sizz-Lorr, she's harmless."

"Something's wrong with her... the bell fuzzed as she walked through the door- that's not normal!" he said, throwing her in a separate cage. Caline kicked out a foot as he lammed it shut, not letting it close the whole way but it still hurt. She growled with pain and kicked it back open, tackling Sizz-Lorr to the ground. "Why is Zim in a cage?" she growled, a barbed wire slithered out and peered threateningly to his neck. Sizz-Lorr threw her off him, hitting her against a wall, "He was banished here... he's mine to control."

"PLEASE SIZZ-LORR LET HER GO!" Zim shouted out of the blue. Sizz-Lorr looked shocked at Zim, thinking he would never put so much anger in protecting someone, anyone. He picked Caline up by the scruff of her shirt, she just hung her head. Caline was almost knocked out. She raised her head and looked at Zim, the pain in her eyes, it made him want to look away ever so badly. In fact, he did look away. He looked back behind him to Tak's eyes, gripping one hand with hers and keeping the other hand on the bar. Caline had a faint smile, seeing how the long distance changed him. She was somewhat glad he found someone but what caught her attention was the purple eyes of Tak's. Tak stared wide eyed at Caline, how she didn't age a bit from when she first caught the pathetic earthling. Caline lost count of what was going on and found herself laying on her side in the middle of the cage. Tak's eyes... so familiar... Tak dared not to speak. Dared not to move. If Caline heard Tak's voice Tak new that she'd be remembered. Zim stared at Tak's eyes as they quivered at the sight of Caline. Remembering when she said that Caline was her doing...

"Zim... tell me..."

Zim's antenna's perked up to the sound of her voice as his head turned to face Caline, who was lifting half her body off the ground with her arms. "Tell you what?"

"Tell me... are... are you alright?" she asked with a weak smile. Yeah. So. He found someone, didn't mean she couldn't make sure he wasn't hurt. Zim nodded as he winced in his mind at her weak smile she flashed him... Sizz-Lorr looked in the cage at Caline, wondering why she wasn't using her barbed wires again when she could just break out right there. He walked back to take some orders from customers with a bit of confusion stuck in his mind. What to do with her... what she would be good for. Then it hit him. She wasn't good at all for food services. Her posture, her sneering look when she first glanced at him. Caline was owned by a meekrobian. And this could hurt the Irken society if Zim talks to her.

Sorry this chappy took a while, I got grounded for a while... Hope you liked it. .