Zim came down from the landing platform under the roof with Tak. She looked less than thrilled to have been in need of help from Zim, but he, of course, didn't notice. GIR poked his head out of the kitchen, squealing.
"Master's home! With the scary lady!" Mimi and Minimoose also came out, all covered with some kind of batter.
"Yes, yes, nice to see you too, GIR." Zim said, putting the umbrella back into his pocket.
"Guess what I made!" The robot said, grinning.
Zim motioned to Tak to leave. "You really don't want to be here to find out." He whispered, but it was too late.
"PIE!" He cried, emerging with a huge stack of horribly disfigured pies. Well, he had been working all day on them. "With shampoo and tomatoes in 'em!"
"NO! Zim needs no pie!" Tak stared as the two began a typical banter. Were they always like this? No wonder Zim never got anything done! Suddenly, GIR let out a piercing wail of rejection.
"Just shut up! I'll have one, if you just SHUT UP." Tak cried, unable to bear that horrible wail. Zim appeared to be immune to it.
Both Irkens looked at the horrible manifestation of pastry that the robot had made. Not nearly as nervous as Zim, never having experienced GIR's cooking before, Tak took a big bite. Zim looked anxiously at her, preparing to run for the Jaws of Life.
"Huh, this isn't so bad." Tak said around the food in her mouth. "Tastes a little like deep-fried mooshminky."
"Eh?" "YAY!" Zim and GIR exclaimed at the same time. Tak continued to munch on the pie, wondering what the big deal was about.
"Give me on of those!" Zim said, swiping one of the pies from GIR's hands. Of course, this caused the rest to fall upon poor Mimi, but Zim didn't really care. Eyeing the pie suspiciously, he forked a large piece into his mouth. Waiting for horrible disgust to overwhelm him, he blinked as he found himself rather enjoying it. "Y-you're right. GIR, what is in this?"
"That's a secret!" The robot smiled. While Zim and GIR started fighting, Tak walked sloooowly away, to see what Zim had in his lab for her to sabotage. Of course, a pathetic invader such as him probably didn't even have a lab, other then a transmitter and maybe a ray or two.
She was very surprised to see all the things he had, especially the human with the Happiness Probe in his head. Zim must have made that himself, she mused, as she had never seen anything like it.
"Perhaps he's more of an Invader then I thought. He certainly has the whole 'experimenting on the filthy inhabitants' down." Though in all honesty, he should be spending less time experimenting and more time figuring out a way to destroy the planet.
"Meeh!" A squeaky voice said from behind her. She jumped slightly, turning around to face the odd floating robot moose she hadn't seen the first time that she came to Earth.
"Oh! Uh, Minimoose. I was just…uh-" Tak said, looking around for an explanation. Minimoose simply floated, looking very upset at Tak. With a sigh, the Irken said, "Look, don't tell Zim I was down here, alright?"
"Meeh…" The robot moose said doubtfully.
"Please? I wasn't going to do anything, but I don't think that Zim trusts me quite enough to take it well." Tak pleaded, knowing that if the moose let it out that she'd been down to the lab, her whole mission would be jeopardized.
After a few moments of silence, the robot nodded, agreeing with an understanding, "Meeh."
Holding back a sigh of relief, Tak followed the little robot back upstairs, where Zim and GIR were still arguing over what made the pie edible. Putting her head in her hands, Tak groaned. Praying that this didn't happen every day, she didn't even notice as Dib crept in, silently placing a miniature camera on the picture of the green monkey.
But if she had noticed, she would have told him that nothing worth recording was going to happen anytime soon.
A/N: I've been plotting out ways for Tak to realize just how much she and Zim have in common, but it'll probably be one of those things that just as she figures something out, Zim does something stupid that cancels out however if made her feel. Those things always make me so frustrated!