After Skool was out, Zara puzzled over the smeet. Zim was lost in thought about his base. Victoria skipped ahead, as if she didn't have a care in the world. Soon Zim and Zara were in the base. Victoria had skipped somewhere else.


Upon entry of the base, Zim looked around. Everything was as it should be. Gir got up from his spot, circled Zim, and sat back down. That was weird. Zara sat on the couch. She placed the smeet next to her. It was waking up.

"What's your name, little smeet?" she asked.

"Jau." Said the smeet, as a hand broke through the bundle.


Meanwhile, Victoria rang the doorbell. Dib answered the door.

"What do you want?" he asked.

"T-to make a c-call." Dib seemed confused. So he let her in. she saw Gaz playing video games. Victoria headed to the stairs.

"The phone's in the kitchen." Dib said. She looked at him. Then went up the stairs. He followed. "Who are you calling?" Victoria stopped.

"My father." She replied. Then she continued, walking down the hall, and entered Dib's room. She sat at the computer. Dib took a sleeping smeet out of the room. He sat outside the door. This would be interesting.


The silhouetted form of Darkbooty appeared on the screen. He seemed surprised to find Victoria was the caller.

"We n-need to talk." She said.

"What about?"

"I k-know your tracking me d-down to take me back to a t-testing facility."

"The reason for this call would be..."

"A deal. You d-don't force me b-back to the facility, I dos-some sort of check-in thing every s-so often." He seemed to ponder about it.

"And if I don't agree?"

"I c-can live constantly on t-the run." He seemed to be calculating. It was a bit difficult to tell. "Agreed?"

"Agreed."


Victoria left the room to find that Dib had been listening in. She went into the living room to find a smeet was sitting next to Gaz, watching intently at the screen of the hand-held device. Victoria exited the building.

"Can I try?" the smeet asked Gaz, who just noticed the smeet was there. She let the smeet try. Three levels later, Gaz took back the game.

"What's your name, kid?"

"Sai."


Victoria entered Zim's base to find a smeet hanging from the cords on the ceiling. She stared. He stared back. The smeet fell, and was caught by Zara. Victoria lay down. There were a few things she needed to check.