Tapan: it's too HOOOOOT! I wish it was still winter. /whimpers/
Torna: oh stop complaining! Maybe if you room weren't such a mess, it would seem a lot cooler.
Tapan: I doubt it. Anyway, this chapter took me a bit longer. I donno why, I just lost my train of thought.
Torna: you say that as if it's rare.
Tapan: shut up!
Disclaimer: I don't own. Maybe I'll find Jhonen and ask him for it, but I doubt he'll give me his share. (maybe Nickelodeon would be more willing to hand it over…)
Warning: SLASH! Once again, I'll have no problems with flames. So give me the best ya got!
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The two humans stared at the sobbing robot; panic ensued in their eyes. "WHAT!"
GIR pulled the puppy hood down, his antennae whipped in the air before collapsing against his metal head. "Master and Zimmy came upstairs for a snack. Then the ninjas flew in through the wind with these big ray guns. Then they told master that she was fat, and then she screamed like a poodle. A POODLE! And jumped at them with flying fists of fury. Zim fought off the Men in Black until they shoved him in a bag." The robot broke down and cried. "WHY, WILL SMITH, WHY?"
Dib blinked at GIR, then at Deb.
Deb, who had years of practice in GIRnese, sighed at the boy's confused expression. "Men broke in to the house, started talking about what they thought of the irken form. Tam fought and then was captured, and they shoved Zim in a bag."
Dib's face lit up. "Oooh."
All three stood silently, staring at each other.
Then they all started screaming.
"Wait…wait…. guys?" The computer sighed. "SHUT UP!" it's roar silenced the two humans. GIR continued to scream until a lollipop fell from the ceiling, the little robot took it without hesitation. "Running around screaming is not gonna find your mates. Now, be smart about it, damn it! This isn't like you, Deb."
The girl smiled sheepishly at the house. "I guess I just lost my head."
"Wait." Dib piped up. "If they tore through all those wires, how are you still talking?"
The computer paused for a second. "Well, I guess that's one wire that they missed." Silence swept through the house. "Err, anyway, back to my point. I say you go out and find these men, by any means possible." A few wires started to spark, as if trying to load something. "The kidnapping happened almost 3 hours ago. I'm sure if you look around, you'll find some sort of clue to who they are."
"Is there anything you can tell us?"
"Yes, they were definitely human."
Dib slouched slightly. "Well, that narrows it down to the entire planet."
"Well, I'm so-rry!" the house sighed. "Just go, and take GIR with you. I need to repair and I can't have him running around, making things worse." A half broken claw came out from the wall, picked the little robot up and dropped him in Dib's arms. GIR looked up at him, smiled then nuzzled his chest, humming a happy tune.
Right after that, the claw pushed them out the door.
((Membrane house))
As soon as the two stepped foot in the house, an envelope came out of no where and hit Deb between the eyes, landing on the floor at her feet.
Gim popped his head out from the kitchen, grumbling. "You got a letter."
She picked up the white paper, observing it carefully. Her eyes narrowed thoughtfully at the return address. "I don't remember sending anything to this place." With that, she ripped open the envelope and pulled out the official looking letter.
Ms. Deb (blurred for reasons you need not know)
We are proud to inform you that you're proof of alien existence is valid. Within the next month, we will be sending some of our finest officers over to the base to investigate. Any information discovered, you will be informed.
Thank you for the information.
It wasn't signed with a name; instead it was signed "American institute of the paranormal."
"SHIT!" Deb covered her mouth after the word slipped out.
Behind her, she could hear GIR's giggle. "Debby's got a dirty mouth. We have ta clean it out! With ONIONS!" The little robot then slipped from Dib's grip, ran over to Gim, and sat down on the couch.
"What's wrong?" the boy looked over Deb's shoulder and at the letter.
"We found out who took Tam and Zim."
((In some lab))
There was silence.
The humming of machines was the first thing to wake Tam up. They were way too loud to be her own, and if GIR broke something, she'd have to go rescue the poor instrument from the little psycho.
Opening her eyes, she found her sight to be blurred, as if she was in some liquid. She moved slightly to find that to be true. The odd thing was, she could breath. And she was no longer wearing any clothes.
"Swimming" to her side, she found herself ram into a surface of some sort. Putting her hand up to it she found it to be glass. The glass surrounded her completely in a perfect cylinder. Looking passed the glass, she saw a few people in white lab coats pressing buttons below, studying her.
She followed around when another tank caught her eye. It sat right next to hers. Inside she could see her male counterpart positioned in a tight ball, unconscious. His pack was gone and in it's place were wires in order to keep him alive.
Panicked, she reached around to check her own. Hers was still attached, and didn't seem to be tampered with. Relieved, she allowed herself to relax slightly. Until she heard a few shouts.
"The pack has leached on to silver!"
"Get him down and take it off!"
"LET GO OF ME YOU FILTHY HUMANS!" five men jumped on one of the men in order to get the pack off. "I will rule you ALL!"
Once the pack was pulled off, it scurried around the floor. When it realized it didn't have a body to help it walk, the spider legs sprouted from it and it climbed around, desperate for a host. As the pack circled the room, the scientists pushed their backs up against the walls. Turning, the pack suddenly jumped into the air and landed on Zim's tank.
Lightly, it scratched at the tank as if trying to get to the irken. One of the braver men pulled out a sheet and threw it at the pack knocking it down and successfully capturing it. When they got it, they put the little machine in a small, glass container to be analyzed.
If Tam didn't know any better, she thought she heard the pack whimper for its host.
((Membrane house))
"Okay, so hears the plan." Deb laid a map of the building down on the coffee table. "We take the spoons from the kitchen and dig a tunnel under the building. We use mom's laser gun in order to get into the foundation and then once up, we stab everybody in the eyes with these toothpicks I just found in the couch." She pointed to a room, were two green stick figures where tied up to a chair. "Then we rescue Tam and Zim and run for it. Any questions?"
"Where'd the map come from?"
"I donno. I found it in my bag. Maybe it came with the letter."
The two sat, pondering the mysteries of the sudden appearing map.
Suddenly, Deb was hit upside the head with a bat. After a moment, she fell off the couch and to the floor, where GIR began to poke her with a stick. She shook it off and looked up to see Gim standing near the two, bat in hand.
He leaned the bat on his shoulder and snorted. "You've got to be kidding with such a stupid plan. You'll get yourselves killed, along with Tam and Zim." His eyes went into their usual squint as he studied the map. After a few seconds, he spoke again. "Why not, go through the air vents, drop GIR in a room to distract them and then go get Tam and Zim. It'll be a loot easier and you can damage their labs so they won't try something like this again."
Silence filled the room. The only sound was GIR's puppy suit squeaking as he ran around the couch.
After a minute or so, Deb sighed. "How would we get to an air vent?"
"There's one in the bathroom above the toilet." He pokes the room with the toilet in it. "You should pay attention to these things, you idiot."
"And how do you get there?"
Gim cocked an eyebrow. "Just walk in through the front door." He pointed to the giant room attached to the front door. "They have a lobby."
Everyone paused, until Dib said what they were all thinking. "Why would they even bother with a lobby?"
Gim shrugged.
Blinking, Dib smiled slightly. "Well, I gotta say, I like the sound of that plan."
Deb sighed. "Well, I guess that'll have to do. So, what will we need?"
They all stood in silence once again. I like silence. It's very nice sometimes. But not this time.
Gim sighed and finally spoke, as if it were obvious. "A screwdriver and a crowbar." He then walked away, and upstairs into his room. Muffled speech could be heard from upstairs. The paranormalists ignored it and continued to figure out exactly what to do.
GIR, however, followed the boy upstairs, climbing them carefully. He stood in front of his door and scratched at it lightly.
The whispers began to silence, and then Gim spoke. "Go away."
"But I love you!"
"I don't care."
"But I don't wanna be downstairs with them. They are no fun, and they're always talking to themselves, and their giant heads get in the way of the TV! Yous is good fun! I like yous a lot!"
A couple of more whispers. He let out an angry sigh before opening the door to let the robot in. the door shut behind GIR and locked.
((Outside the lab: the next night))
Deb, Dib and GIR stood in front of the building; somewhat unimpressed by the size and the shape it was in. it was clearly old, at least ten years, and that's giving it credit. It looked a lot like a warehouse, except with a giant satellite on the top.
Sighing, Dib turned to his counterpart. "Well, it's now or never." Taking a deep breath, they walked into the building.
Inside it looked a little more modernize. In fact, it was almost as if this was a decent place. A woman sat behind a giant oak desk, filing her nails.
She looked over at them, and then looked down at GIR with a sneer. "No dogs are allowed on the grounds."
"Oh, we need him though." Deb shoved a leash in Dib's hand. "He's blind."
The woman glared. "Do you think I'm an idiot? He's wearing glasses!"
Deb thought about it for a minute before Dib spoke up. "That's to keep me from becoming blinder!"
The woman watched Dib suspiciously. "Alright then. May I help you?"
The female paranormalist walked up to the table. "Yeah, can we use you restroom?"
"Yeah it's down the hall and to your left."
"Thank you. Come on, Dib!" taking the boy's coat sleeve, she pulled him down the hall, with GIR skipping merrily by their side.
Tapan: All right! Here we are/pulls out the list of reviews/ I will now respond to each and every one of you to the best of my ability!
Torna/sarcastic/ oh yay, I'm about to keel over with excitement…
Tapan: it's in the order I got them, so yeah. (Unless you posted more than one review. If that's the case, you'll have one big paragraph. Depending on what you said of course!)
Pinky-pseudonym: I hope I met your demands:) I think GIR-o-vision might've been my proudest moment, thank you for the compliment. I didn't even realize that I had the anonymous review doohickey off, silly me! Thank you for telling me, and I'm glad you're happy! And as a side note, I love your DA, your stuff is great. :D
Chickens: I'm glad you're enjoying the fic, thank your for your reviews!
Lurkindarkness: yeah I know! I didn't know what to do with Dark Bootie, so I kept him a guy…he he. And yes, GIR is adorable; they should make real GIRs and sell them. Yeah! They'll be more popular than Furby by a long shot! Thank you!
Moonglo: thank you! I try to keep them IC (sometime it gets hard to do!) it makes me happy that people like that :).
Slashluver88: YAY! Thanky for your reviews and ideas (both on and off line) love ya, buddy!
Azura Bushroot: I'm sorry I made your heart explode! I didn't mean it…this time ;)
Akuweaselgirl: I donno where ta came from. Hm. Something to ponder. Thank you for favoritizing me :D I love you too.
Andalitebandit-6: Yes. Dib's a pansy, but we love him anyways. FLUFF IS GOOD FOR YOOU! It makes me happy that people find my stuff funny n.n and actually, to be honest, I didn't have any intention of anyone messing with Dib's waffles, but then I saw your review and got an idea! I love how that works! I think I had a doll like that too, was it those strawberry shortcake dolls? Hmmmm, oh and I love your fics! I've been meaning to review for them but haven't. Procrastination screwed me over .
Capra Hircus: thank you, Tam's mind was hard to figure out, but Deb was pretty easy to get across (maybe I can relate to Deb more.) Dib's paranoid mind is EXTREMELY fun to toy with; I don't think I've ever had so much fun playing with someone's mind as much as I do him! And I thought so, Dib can be somewhat feminine at times, and I find that very cute. Always remember, Patience is a virtue that no one I know has!
Delphinbella: Hehehe, I'm glad you enjoy my story!
Aqwidicate: thanks again for agreeing to draw them for me!
BrokenxStars: YAY! I turn someone! And yay for school girl giggles! They rock hard!
Fallendragon424: do not worry! More is here! And, it'll keep coming, it's not like Jhonen's gonna hunt me down and kill me.
/outside of the room, something explodes, followed by the sound of bees./
Tapan: what was that?
Torna/opens door a crack, then slams it shut and leans up against it/ that would be Jhonen!
Jhonen/banging on other side of the door/ I'm gonna get me some slash fans!
Tapan: O.O! Well, R&R people, hopefully I'll still be here to continue this. /door explodes. / RUUUUN!