If you still haven't gotten the hint about disclaimers, see the previous other chapters. This is chapter 25 for God's sake! But the action is building up and I really wanted to get going on this next part of the story. So enough of this A/N, on with the fic!

Gaz looked on in shock at the "Connection Terminated" on the screen. I did not just see what I thought I saw... did I? She thought. Gaz was not about to let panic take over, but the fact still remained that she saw her father gun down her human cameras. Called them 'failed experiments.' He just said that so he could do it. Gaz thought to herself. It would be much easier of him to dispose of them if he saw them in that way as to be able to live with himself. That doesn't mean that anyone on the Rendell homestead knows about the retina cameras we have. It was hard to determine what shook Gaz worse, the idea that someone figured out what her plans were or the fact she stared into her father's goggled eyes as he murdered the prisoners in cold blood. "Computer!" Gaz bellowed.

"What?" Zim's computer moaned. "I thought I was done working."

"Well, I need you to search for any Resisty or Vortian presence on this planet recently. That retina camera idea was one that I was assured that Tak did not know about." Gaz said.

"I know you are in love with him, really in love with him but do remember who told you that." Zim's computer moaned. "Zim. Tak would not tell him everything. I do think she knew about the theory the Vortians had." Gaz scowled at the computer as if it could see what she was doing. "You do know I can see that look on your face. Don't be as bratty as Zim. I can help you or just mess everything up. I am not just a computer, I am an AI."

Gaz sighed, she was had on that point. "Okay. You any good at strategizing?"

"Yes. AI does mean Artifical Intelligence." Zim's computer said.

"Good. Because I will need a plan of attack. I am heading to that damned farm. You have the prisoner's last known GPS coordinates?" Gaz said as she picked up a staff with scythe blades on each end.

"Yes." Zim's computer said.

"Good. We need to plan this out." Gaz said as she placed the staff beside her.

Professor Membrane walked onto the porch and placed Frank's shotgun at his feet. "It's done."

"But the damage isn't." Tak said. "I am sure that Gaz would have the GPS coordinates on them as well. Once she sees that they are dead, which I am certain she would have as soon as you killed them, she is going to be here soon. And we won't be taken easily." She said as she pulled out her laser gun and aimed it at the door. "Dib, how is Gaz usually when it comes to things like this?"

"What?" Dib said looking over at Tak.

"You were the one who knows her the best out of all of us." Tak said simply. "Your father sure as hell wouldn't know much and I only knew her since she took over with Zim."

Dib looked down and sighed. There was a point. But there was also the fact that Gaz was his sister. It was the question that was haunting him from the very beginning. What to do with Gaz. He thought at first Zim forced her into being with him. Somehow, as much as he hated to admit it, he had hoped that was the case so that Gaz wouldn't willingly be a part of this and all she was just forced to do horrible things. Even though she did beat him up a lot and was quite insulting to him, he just never could accept that his sister hated him. It just never seemed like it could be possible. But he had to admit it in this point it was going to be different. When this started, he thought he was going to have to fear Tak and Gaz would maybe save him. Now, Tak is trying to save him and Gaz wants to rule the world.

Dib looked at Frank, then Kathy and Tak. He then looked at his father, almost pleading to him as he was one of the few who would care about Gaz like he did. But at the same time, this man killed three of her human cameras as if he was to atone for the years of neglect he had done to them. Dib just grabbed his Resisty book and stood up. All four sets of eyes met his and he simply got up, blinked and headed outside. The first place he wanted to go was the barn loft, but there were the three dead bodies that were reminders of what things had become. He just wondered around until he found himself in the chicken coop, hens walking around his feet, pecking at his trench coat. He looked at the barn and sighed. A third party, someone who had nothing against Gaz... who never knew her...He thought as he opened the book, ready to page Lord Nar.

At the farmhouse, Professor Membrane and Tak both got up and followed Dib out of the room. They looked around until they saw him pawing through the book the Resisty gave him but not speaking to it. He pulled out a pen and wrote on a page. Then he turned another and another writing the same message, hoping the members of the Earth Resisty would be of some help. Tak grabbed Professor Membrane's coat and pulled him towards the chicken coop. Tak banged on the door of the coop and looked at Dib, "What do you think you are doing being cooped up here with the chickens?" Tak asked.

"Thinking. How I ended up in the chicken coop I do not know, but it was the only place I could think to go." Dib sighed. "Maybe some other members of the Resisty will know what to do about Gaz. Because I don't."

"You have to stop seeing her as your sister but as an enemy. She's just as Irken as Zim is. And I mean by actions not my race!" Tak pleaded.

"Tak, let me try because I have had to face the same feelings he is. You have to remember that Gaz is MY daughter after all." Professor Membrane said as he opened the coop. This was never how he wanted to have this talk with his son about why he worked so hard, why he could never bear to be in the same house as them for long periods of time and why Gaz rejecting him would be as hard on him as it was Dib even though he wasn't as prone to showing how he felt like Dib did.

"What do you want Dad?" Dib asked as he flipped the pages of the book, hoping someone would reply back to him, even though Dib knew these people were all around the globe and having their own lives to live and battles to fight, and they were not very likely to respond to his pleas right away. He just could not look at his father.

"To tell you why I neglected you two all these years. I guess I should just man up and tell you the story." Professor Membrane said as Dib looked over. "It will not justify what I did and after all this I am ashamed of what happened because of this but I must tell you so you will at least understand me."

"About what?" Dib asked.

"Your mother." Professor Membrane said simply. "And this will explain why I wanted you to follow in my footsteps in real science. Well, I guess extra-terrestrials would fit in as real science now." He added looking at Tak's glance.

"Idiotic stink monkey." Tak said to Professor Membrane.

"So?" Dib asked as he kept leafing through the pages of the Earth Resisty book.

"Your mother was just as into the paranormal as you are." Professor Membrane said, causing Dib to look up. "And she was almost as skilled a scientist as I am."

"And your ego never takes a hit." Tak said.

Professor Membrane continued as if he never heard Tak. "She had a theory about people's encounters with ghosts being an electrical replay on the person's mind and psyche. Her own father had died not too long before that and she decided to charge up a Tesla coil in a thunderstorm while it was hooked up to an EEG and a machine based off Edison's phone to talk to the dead. Needless to say, the experiment was a failure. A spectacular failure. If there is one thing I could tell from your notes that made me doubt it son, is that the paranormal is unpredictable and hard to replicate. She was devastated as she thought she could prove it then and there. This was also soon after Gaz was born so she was suffering with postpartum depression at the time. Once it failed all she did was walk out of the lab, shut the door and electrocuted herself."

"So, Mom killed herself out of grief she failed?" Dib asked.

"Yes. She wanted to prove herself so bad and wanted to be more than just a mother. She loved you kids a lot but she was also not in a right mental state. I do not mean to insult your paranormal ideas son, but grief and depression can do that to you. From then on, I couldn't look you kids in the face. Be it you both have her eyes and Gaz looks a lot her, or I was just never fit to be a father, I don't know. But one thing I did know was that when you wanted to study the paranormal I could see you walking down the same path that lead to your mother's demise. My reaction to that is what caused damage to you kids." Professor Membrane explained.

"So what does that have to do with Gaz?" Dib asked.

"You know what I never did to Gaz that I did to you, even if it was a misguided attempt that failed miserably?" Professor Membrane asked.

"What?" Dib asked looking at his father confused.

"Discipline. I never really stopped her the times I saw you two fighting. I just let it pass, maybe because I thought it would set up a complex in her like your mother had. Trust me, if anything else can be said I am a better scientist than father. But stopping Gaz from stopping us is me disciplining her letting her know the world is not hers and Zim's for the taking. And if you think like that, then you will want to stop her. Because you love her. If someone you love is hurting others, you can't let them go on. And as for killing her spies, they were dead anyway. Once she got the proof she needed she was going to destroy us all before we could stop her. And those spies would be killed first thing. We are doing this to stop more victims like that." Professor Membrane said.

"Wow." Tak said taken aback. "That is the most rational thought I have heard out of you."

"I am brilliant after all." Professor Membrane said. "I just never used it for things like this until now. Being locked in a cage and hunted as Undesirable Number 2 does tend to make you think."

"I still think you are an idiot." Tak said.

"Shut up Miss Ant Queen." Professor Membrane said.

Meanwhile Gaz was putting together her arsenal for her fight on the Rendell Homestead. Zim was standing in the corner of the room tapping his foot. "You can't stop me. Besides, I have all the proper armor against anything that they may have, Tak or that damned farmer." Gaz said not looking at Zim.

"But my Queen isn't to fight." Zim said.

"I won't be going alone." Gaz said. "I have a full regiment of soldiers for the battle as well. And you. If you would so want to. All I ask is that Tak is brought to me alive. And don't worry, the smeet is well protected, in fact it is the part of me that is protected the best. We cannot have our little princess living a world where Tak is trying to undermine us." She moved closer to Zim and kissed him on the cheek.

"I will come with you Gaz-flower. I want to be the one who finally finishes Dib off. It has been far too long coming for me to do this." Zim said as he smiled and wrapped his hands around Gaz's waist pulling her closer to him.

"He's all yours. Him being my brother means nothing." Gaz said as she got in the Voot Cruiser. "I'm packed and ready with some of your favorite weapons. Wanna come?" She asked Zim.

"You know the answer to that." Zim said as he got in and pushed Gaz into the passenger seat.

She cast an angered glare at him and pushed the auto pilot button. "The coordinates are already plugged in and I have the platoon awaiting MY orders." She then picked up the microphone. "Squad Terminal Consumers, follow me!"

"Aye aye Lady Gaz!" The commander said as they took off and headed for the Rendell Homestead.

Within an hour, they arrived at the hill outside the farm's valley. This was the perfect place to land as Gaz wanted them to make an was only five people on that farm and Tak may be the most formidable but the numbers would wear her down to a point she would have to give in. She stepped out of the Voot Cruiser and overlooked the farm. "Be ready. Be very ready." She whispered to herself as she watched the farm.

Dib walked out of the chicken coop after his father and sighed. He did have a point. Once he was outside, he noticed Tak's look of sudden horror. "What's wrong Tak?" He asked.

"We may be in for some serious shit." Tak said looking at the hill, at Gaz and Zim overlooking the farm and the soldiers behind them.

"Fuck." Dib said.

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