And so the trio walked down the street, Tak walking purposefully down the street in a quick stride, Dib close behind, and Gaz lagging somewhere in the back. Dib was attempting to stay rather close to Tak, because he was currently quite afraid of Gaz, who had vowed revenge for him accidentally stepping on her heel when he'd ran to catch up to them.  He cast a glance over his shoulder, and saw his scary sibling quirk a brow threateningly. He gulped, and attempted to stir up a conversation. An alien after world conquest and vengeance, the local socially unacceptable freak and a video game junkie didn't have a whole lot in common to talk about. 

"So how are Gaz and I supposed to distract him, exactly?"
Tak shrugged, not bothering to slow her pace nor look back at him. 

"I don't know. It should be quite simple. For all I care, make an honest effort to sneak into his base. He'll only catch you, and it'll have the desired affect anyway."
Dib stared. Was that an insult? He wasn't sure, but decided to take it as one. 

"I could get in, if I wanted to."
Tak snorted, and actually turned around.                                                                                                                         
"Do you really think so? You've tried how many times?"
Dib decided not to answer that. With a flick of her hand she signaled the two siblings to follow her down an alley.     

"Where're we going?" Dib's voice queried. Tak's eye twitched. She disliked having to explain everything. No matter, once she got Zim out of the way and moved on to the rest of the planet… she stopped walking and broke into evil giggles, causing Dib to squint one eye at her and Gaz to open one.   

"Uh.. Tak?"
Tak coughed once. 

"Er…yes," she said, quickly avoiding the direction the conversation was headed in, "this way. It'll take us behind Zim's house, which'll be useful because he can't see me." Heh, well, that is to say, not yet.

Dib looked at his sister, who stared unresponsively, and shrugged.
                After a few minutes of trudging, they arrived in what must be Zim's backyard. A few garden gnomes were placed aimlessly there, but in a flash Tak had them disabled. Dib blinked. He decided that he never, ever, wanted Tak to have resources necessary to take over the Earth. Because she most likely would. Kicking the garden gnome corpses over into a corner, she brushed her hands off. 

"Alright, we'll go in through Zim's back door." 

"Zim has a back door?"
In answer to his question, four metallic spider legs extended from Tak's pack (AN: I dunno what to call it o_0), which looked quite odd seeing as she was still in her holographic disguise. They attached themselves to a section of the wall, and pulled. A large rectangle of wall broke off, and her arachnid legs tossed it aside with the gnomes.

"He does now."
Dib blinked and stared, jaw dropping. He'd seen Zim do things like that before, but it still was awesomely cool. Gaz opened one eye.  Gaz spoke for the first time in a while.                         

"Cool," she said, honest interest in her voice.
Tak shrugged. Easily impressed, she noted. After all, the Empire has had this technology for what, a few centuries now? She ignored it. 

"Go in first, get him and his legions distracted. I'll get into his lab and get the antidote."
Dib sighed. He'd really hoped he'd get to see Zim's lab and all it's fascinating foreign equipment. Alas, t'was not to be.  

"Okay. C'mon, Ga—"
He stopped short, seeing that his sister was already stepping through the smoking hole in Zim's wall and into the house. He followed. 

"This is pretty boring, Dib," she hissed as he joined her, "so Zim better have a lot of slinkies left or I'll be  forced to hate you."
                Dib was apparently feeling blatant, because he responded with 'don't you already?', to which Gaz froze and raised a fist threateningly. Her brother gulped and decided that further sibling 'love' wasn't top in his list of priorities, and so stepped further into the house. Gaz followed suite, glaring daggers at her brother's turned back. From outside on the lawn, Tak lowered an eyebrow.

Siblings. Who needs them? Certainly, there's enough rivalry in the universe already.

AN: Yay! TWO CHAPTERS IN A DAY! *bow* Anyways, I should finish this pretty quick now. I know mostly how it's gonna go down. Sorry I've had virtually no Zim in here since the first two chapters. He's my favorite, two, I just haven't been able to tie him in. There's only so much you can write about some one selling diet formulas to hundreds of pitiful stink-beasts. XD R/R!