Chapter 29 Zim's Latest Scheme

*Screw it I finished it today I'm posting it today

Tak seemed surprised by Dib and Zim's fighting skills, the last time she had seen them they would just roll around kicking and hitting. She understood why Dib had fought that way because he was a child, but Zim was technically a young adult in the terms of Irkens but they had fought immaturely, now it seemed they both knew what they were doing and they were more observant while fighting.

She wasn't surprised, however, by the two girls with wings. She could tell that they both were tough and had a history of hardships and fighting for survival when she first saw the two up close only a few hours ago. Their way of fighting was odd as well. Tak had seen various ways if fighting in humans, just by looking at Dib's way of fighting. Their way of fighting seemed to have something older in it mixed with street fighting. The two girls fought dirty. They fought to win just like any other teenage female but they seemed use to it. Fighting Tak and her companions seemed fairly normal to them.

Sally decided to use a little of her power, especially when the Irkens started shooting at them. She used shields that absorbed the lasers and threw it back at them in a ball of energy.

"Whoa, how long have you been able to do that?" Dib asked her.

"Eh he, forever. Sorry I never told you but I don't use that stuff unless I have to." She said quickly and shielded the two from lasers.

"Why?" He asked kicking one of the Irken's away.

"Hard to control." She answered.

"We need to find a way to move this outside before the building is destroyed." Alex said to Sally.

"Not a problem." Sally said and grabbed Dib and took off out the door behind the Irkens and landed on the ground neatly.

Alex took Zim's hand and pulled him out the door with her and her wings snapped out. She wrapped her arms around Zim as she flew down to the ground and landed next to Sally and Dib and let go of Zim.

As expected the five Irken's followed on the spidery legs from their PAKs.

Zan jumped from the building and landed right over Alex and towered over her with the extra height bade by the legs.

"Playing hard to get hu?" He asked her. Her anger fueled a strong storm that had blown in. It hadn't actually started yet but it was close. Another flash of lighting string right next to Zan and he jumped away. Lighting affected Irkens more simple because they had the PAKs that helped them survive.

"Why do I get the feeling that you have something to do with the weather changes?" He asked her while the two threw punches and dodged each other's swings.

"Maybe because I do have something to do with it." She countered, her violet eyes glowing and changing color to a fiery red in response to her anger towards the ass she was fighting. She had never felt such anger towards someone when first meeting them but this Irken really pissed her off and all she wanted was for him to burst into flames.

She would have likely hated Tak as well for trying, and wanting, to kill Zim, but she couldn't help but have a grudging respect for the violet-eyed Irken. The other three Irkens she felt nothing towards, if they weren't trying to hurt her friends, they would be a fly on the wall to Alex, simply nothing.

Alex directed her anger and changed it into lighting striking at an Irken that was too close to stabbing Sally in the back, but that had distracted Alex and she was knocked back and slammed into the side of a boulder in the forest.

She was dizzy and was coughing and choking to get air back into her lungs. She lay on her side too dizzy to get up just yet.

Zim and Tak seemed to be fairly equally matched. Zim let his anger fuel him while fighting her.

"I told you six years ago but you didn't believe me. Maybe you should have; your anger now is proving to be a great strength for you. Not that it would still help you, you will still always be a defect and a screw up. Everyone would be better off without you around, especially Irk." Tak said to bait him. Zim growled in anger and continued to fight her. He wanted to kill her but that was only the start. When Tak was gone Zim planned to take over the Earth himself and challenge the Tallest and kill anyone in his way.

Dib and Sally worked well together when fighting. They had no problems with communication when they needed the other for assistance.

"Duck!" Sally called to Dib who immediately ducked as she threw a ball of energy that crackled, absorbing the energy from the lighting that flashed around them and hit the Irken he was fighting as well as the one that was right behind him.

"Where's Alex?" Sally asked after Dib had hit the third Irken so hard across the head that they fell to the ground knocked out.

"I don't know." He answered as they looked around. The fourth Irken she had been fighting was nowhere to be seen either.

Tak took a quick look around to see that Zan was nowhere to be seen, neither was Alex and her other three were both defeated. She weighed the options and decided that it was best to retreat for now. She jumped away from Zim and disappeared to find Zan. She found him a little deeper in the forest taunting and just playing with Alex who had been struggling to breathe and the back of her head was bleeding. Tak had to give it to Alex; she would not give up even if her body was not responding well to the little bit of oxygen it was taking in. She continued to try and fight Zan even if she was worn.

Zan may have been annoying but he was a very strong fighter and was good to have him on her side.

"Zan, leave her you can have your fun later, it's time to retreat and come up with another plan." Tak said to him and the two disappeared with the other three Irkens.

Alex wandered out of the forest to see that the other three looked about the same as she did, cuts and bruises and few burns on Sally's part from blocking lasers with a shield. Whatever damage Sally's shield took, Sally herself took it as well; though it didn't kill her it was certainly a downfall to using the shield when she needed to.

"Where did you go?" Sally demanded.

"That one Irken, Zan I think is his name, had knocked me into a boulder back in the forest. I'd like to smash his head with a boulder." Alex said. She was glad that, for once, the weather responded to her will so that rain did not dump on them. She had no idea if Zim had the coating of paste on him or not and she did not want to take a risk of hurting him so she had pleaded that it would not rain with the storm.

"For once it seems the weather obliged to your will. I'm assuming you fought to hold off the rain for Zim's sake?" Sally asked her, practically reading her mind.

"Yes." Alex answered. The four went back into the building to survey the damage of the apartment. Besides a few burns on the walls there wasn't much. They could fix the burnt wall themselves. Gir was asleep on the futon; he didn't seem bothered by the fighting.

"Good thing we took that outside, or the apartment would have been destroyed." Dib said.

"Yeah. Well I think it is time for bed. Anyone who wants to stay the night are free to do so but we need to know now." Sally said.

"I don't want to go anywhere else for now." Dib said.

"I'll stay as well." Zim said.

"Okay then who is willing to sleep on the futon and who is willing to sleep in Alex's room?" Sally asked.

"If we can move Gir then I'll sleep on the futon." Dib said. Alex picked Gir up and he wrapped his little robotic arms around her neck like a child with its mother.

Sally got pillows and blankets for Dib.

"You can use my bathroom if you need to." Alex said to Zim and Dib and showed where in her room her bathroom was.

Alex and Sally shared Sally's bed and everyone went to sleep. Gir slept at their feet and was up very early jumping on Alex until she woke up. One thing Gir learned quickly was to not wake Alex up. Sally was more a morning person and you didn't mess with her if she was trying to go to sleep and was tired. Alex you just don't wake her up unless it is important or you have a death wish.

When she noticed who it was that had woken her up she decided to leave him be and went ahead and got out what was needed for breakfast. She wasn't going to start on it until later since it was about five a.m.

She went on the back porch with her guitar and sat on the rail and strummed a song and sang along to it.

Zim woke up, his antenna picking up movement and sound in the apartment. He heard the back door open and close and stepped out into the kitchen from Alex's room to investigate. He saw a silhouette sitting on the rail outside and stood at the door to look out and see whom it was. It was Alex. He could hear the guitar and her singing. He listened to the lyrics and recognized it from one that he had read in her notebook, one that was in the back of the notebook so it was a more personal song.

He leaned against the door and listened.

"What are you doing?" A voice asked causing Zim to jump a little. It was Dib.

"What?" Zim asked quietly.

"What are you doing?" Dib repeated.

"Listening Dib-stink." Zim snapped at him.

"Why?" Dib asked.

"None of your business worm-monkey; leave me alone." Zim answered. Dib just rolled his eyes and walked away.

The rest of the week they also had off and Sally and Alex were grateful of it. It gave them more time to work on flying through forest and trees.

"Wonder when we will learn to stop flying into each other head on." Sally said sourly as she rubbed her head to try and get it to stop hurting.

"Who knows but this is getting annoying." Alex said getting up as they two walked out of the forest into the park.

"What the heck?" Sally asked. The two looked around to see all of the people in sight walking in the same direction. Everyone had blank looks on their faces and walked as if they were robots.

Alex and Sally both looked at each other and said, "Zim."

"Wonder how he did this." Alex commented.

"Who cares how, we need to focus on what he's doing with this." Sally said.

"Well I wonder how he managed to do something like this to almost everybody at once." Alex commented.

"Let's find Dib and find out if he knows." Sally said.

"Assuming he isn't a robotic zombie." Alex answered.

"I'd rather not see Dib under Zim's control, that would be bad." Sally said and the two took off and flew to Dib's house. No one was paying any attention; they were all walking to the center of town. They landed at the front door and rang the doorbell. The door opened and Gaz walked out like a robotic zombie the way everyone else was and walked right by them leaving the door open.

They went inside and looked around. Dib was nowhere to be found so they headed to his room to find a note on his bed.

Sally and Alex. I expected you two to come find out if the Dib-human would be affected the way everyone else is. I was sure to make sure he would not be just as I did not allow you two to be affected. It would take the fun out of the plan. Dib has just stupidly walked into a trap. Good luck.

Zim

"Well damn this should be interesting." Alex said.

"We need to get Dib." Sally said.

"Then we would be walking right into Zim's trap. I know you wanna free your boyfriend but that is exactly what he wants us to do so there will be no one to stand in his way." Alex said.

"Then what are we supposed to do?" Sally asked.

"I'm not really sure." Alex answered.

"Then let's split up, I'll carefully go and try to free Dib and you go find out what is Zim's exact plan." Sally said.

"I don't know. Splitting up is never a good idea and I know we can't just leave Dib but we also need to find out Zim's plan." Alex said.

"You are a very indecisive person." Sally commented.

"I know. I guess splitting up is the best thing to do for now even if it's probably a very stupid mistake." Alex answered.

"Then see you later." Sally said.

"You too." Alex responded and the two took off in separate directions. Sally headed for Zim's house and Alex followed the people below to the mall. They filed inside and Alex landed on the roof and looked through a skylight to survey exits, how many people and other various important things to keep in mind and then went to the stairwell and silently went down the stairs knowing she was probably being watched.