By animeninjaNIPPON

"What is it, my Tallest servants?" Zim inquired.

"Why Zim," Purple replied, "We're going home."

"Going...home?" Zim could not remember the last time he had seen his precious planet Irk. "You hear that, TAK?" He turned to the purple-eyed alien.

"Wait a minute," Red cut in. "When we said 'we,' we didn't imply that YOU would be going back to Irk."

"Huh?" Zim's eyes widened.

"Oh, come on." Red narrowed his eyes. "Don't you think we've been acting a little out-of-character with all this 'serving you' nonsense?"

"I...I don't understand..." Zim took a few steps backward.

"It's quite simple," Purple explained. "This was all part of our plan to be rid of you once and for all. Your phony mission to invade Earth didn't get you to leave us alone. We even tried to do you in by sending you to Hobo 13. But then, we came up with this."

Red slowly pulled a laser gun out from behind his back. "And now...we have to kill you."

Tak jumped in front of Zim and sneered in his face, "HA! You've ruined my life for the LAST time, Zim!"

"Tak! You were in on this, too?" Zim cried.

She laughed maniacally and bitterly. "The Tallest sought my help in this scheme, and I was glad to assist them! And now I'll have my revenge on you!"

"Uh, we don't like you, either." Purple pulled out a laser gun of his own. Before Tak could utter another word, Purple shot her through her PAK. With one bloodcurdling, agonizing scream, she fell to the ground, dead.

"GAAH!" Zim knew he was next, so he dropped his boa and released his spider legs. He scrambled up the nearby light fixture, but Red's aim was sharper - with one shot into the PAK, Zim fell from the fixture six feet into an on-stage swimming pool, sizzling out of existence forever.

Gir watched as his Master fell, quite literally, from grace. His little silver hands started trembling. "M-M-Master?"

Dib and Gaz, as well as Red and Purple, turned to look at the newly articulate robot.

"Master?" Gir squeaked sadly. His eyes began to flicker violent shades of red. "NOOOOOOO!"

The little SIR unit turned feral. Angrily, he tore away a pillar and threw it into the light fixture. It short-circuited briefly before the whole stage came crashing down.

"AAAAH!" Dib and Gaz screamed, ducking out of the way just in time.

"NOOO!" Gir screamed one last time before being lost amongst the rapidly falling debris.

End of part sixteen