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What Lies Beneath

by

~Miriah~of~the~Wind~

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Chapter 21: Whiskey

In a flash Cam used some of her remaining power to change Tak, Mali, and herself into Irkens and M.I.M.I. into a robot.

"Ah, one of my own kind." The ghost said.

"Not really. You're a Cosovian and we are Irkens. Are you really Rhea?" Tak asked.

"Yes, and it's Queen Rhea. I can already sense that much time has passed. Has Creon been stopped? Is Atlantis okay? Who now rules it?" Rhea asked curiously. Cam, Mali, and Tak looked at each other nervously. Which one of them should tell her? Finally Mali stepped forward.

"Hey! You're suppose to help US! The crystals of the Sun have been stolen and we need to find out what's going on. You give us help and we give you information."

"Very well then." the ghost agreed, "So you have come to me in search of the truth?"

"No in search of three valuable stones belonging to the Irken empire and the Triskel that belongs to the Queen of Cosovia."

"1. Four rebels have created a dark and sinister plot that for others there may be no future. Two are here in this savage tribe. One, I can sense, is back in time. The other, I can also sense, is in a place that is called 'Cosovia' solving an important matter. 2. Cosovia doesn't exist. I think you mean 'Queen of Atlantis' since there she does reign over both races. 3. What do you mean Irken Empire. I gave you all that I know for now, now you must tell me what's going on." Rhea stated.

Cam replied, "Well, for starters. The people who now live here aren't savages. They're humans."

"What do you mean 'the people who live here'? What about our race?" Rhea asked a little worried.

"We'll tell you when you can give us more hints." Mali said. The ghost queen sighed and replied, "I do have one more thing. Beware of women and of whiskey." and with that she vanished.

"What do you think she meant by that?" Tak asked looking at Cam the psychic Irken.

"I don't know Tak. I just don't know." They stood there for a couple of seconds and then Cam transformed them back into there human appearances. They transported back to the stairs that led to the front door of the house. The walked up the steps and back into there rooms and went back to bed. After a restless night of sleeping or trying to go back to sleep after cleaning all those late hours, Mali got up and locked the door. If someone bugged her one more time she was gonna take out her laser and eradicate someone, even if that would be declaring and jeopardizing the mission. This wasn't fair. Regular invaders got to have underground bases so they could just be truly Irken and not be woke up at all hours of the night. There was a sudden tap on the window. Mali went to the window pulled back the shade and opened it. Cam and Tak got up too since the tapping noise was driving them crazy.

"M.I.M.I. you can come out now." Tak said as she peered over the bed. M.I.M.I. was there in robot form with a long cable coming out of her chest and plugging into the wall. M.I.M.I. looked down and saw that she was done absorbing energy for the tiring day ahead un-plugged herself. The cable went whooshing up back into her chest. Mali went up and rolled up the shade her fake Earthling hair whooshing everywhere since the window was open.

"G.I.R.!" she gasped out seeing the floating green dog. G.I.R. came through the open window and closed it.

"Mali who is it?" Tak asked.

"It's Zim's unit, G.I.R." Cam answered once again using her telepathic powers.

"G.I.R.!!!!" yelled someone outside. Mali's heart leaped but only her partner Cam could sense it. Tak went over to the little window and saw a green boy with contacts and a wig pound on the windows. She opened the window and Zim fell in.

"Um, thanks Tak." Zim said.

He addressed the Irken females, "The Tallest had me bring some supplies since they saw that you might be semi-homesick..."

"WE BROUGHT SNACKS!!!!!!!" G.I.R. yelled.

"Thank the Tallest, I getting sick of this Earth crap." Mali said out loud. Cam change themselves back into Irkens and Zim took off his wig and contacts.

"So, how are ya girls doing?" Zim asked.

"Not good. We're still where we started...M.I.M.I.! What are you doing?" Tak asked. M.I.M.I. pricked up as though she was hearing something. Zim took out the little remote that turned improved G.I.R.'s duty skills. He turned it up to dangerously high knowing the G.I.R. wouldn't remember any of the past events that occurred the last time he tried this. The trick to G.I.R. was not to leave it dangerously high for more than an hour. Zim had a little timer on the remote that went off when he had five more minutes.

"G.I.R.! What can you hear?"

"There is human murmuring! M.I.M.I. can hear it too! The conversation is concerning one of the stolen crystals of Irk." G.I.R. responded. Zim turned the setting down to the regular G.I.R. who yelled, "Hello floor! Make me a sandwich!" which is what G.I.R. always yelled after being turned down.

"G.I.R.! M.I.M.I.! Change back into your disguises and follow the murmuring!" Tak commanded in which M.I.M.I. obeyed buy G.I.R. looked to his master to see if it was okay.

"Go on G.I.R.! Show Tak what your made of!" Zim said. G.I.R. put on his dog camouflage and followed the cat that was M.I.M.I. Zim, Tak, Cam, and Mali followed the "advanced" S.I.R. units to the library. There they lost the signal because an annoying record player was on with nobody in the room. The follow the signal up the stairs.

"It's coming from the ceiling!" Zim exclaimed.

"There's a trap door leading to Moira's room." Cam said calmly as she lifted it. The aliens listen to the conversation.

"I'm telling you I have no idea where my father hid the Energy Crystal!" yelled a young girl with short red hair.

"Your father and I kept no secrets from each other and the crystal would without a doubt help me find him. I need to look in his office."

"I never trusted you. You are the last person I would confide in if I knew the slightest detail about the Energy Crystal! And if my father hid the way to his office it's obvious that he didn't want people snooping and sticking their noses where they don't belong, but go try anyway if you want!"

"You suspicious."

"I always wondered what obscured reasons my parents had for putting up with you. When you handed your old distillery to old Ipswich I hoped that you honor us with your visits a little less often. Pity how disappointing things can turn out. I really wonder what you could be concocting in that distillery of yours."

"Whiskey! Fine Whiskey!"

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