I don't own Invader Zim okay? I've got a lot more time on my hands lately so I am trying to get better with my updates. Other than that I don't have much else to say here so enough of this A/N, on with the fic!
Tak lay back on the couch in Dib's arms as another episode came on and she ate a piece of the pizza. I could get used to this. She thought as she looked up at Dib, seeing that this episode was filled with less crackpots in his mind, the discussion that came from this was less of a rant and actually more intellectually stimulating. They had discussed what the show talked about until Tak looked over and saw the clock. "Oh god, it's 10 at night!" She jumped.
"I can take you home." Dib offered.
"I'll be fine. I don't want to disturb you and I can handle myself if someone wanted to hurt me." Tak said. She wasn't about to let Dib drive her to the base which was the "home" she would be staying at as he would put a lot of things together at that point and she wasn't going to tell him her true identity just yet. It had seemed that he didn't care on if she was an alien but what she was going to do. And with what the planned mission was, that would count as 'bringing harm to the planet' in Dib's eyes and she did not want to have him feel betrayed and hurt by her. He was just too relatable and likeable. "My dad is quite protective and will shoot anyone on sight."
"Oh. Yet he doesn't mind you coming home late?" Dib asked.
"No." Tak said. "It's weird but he's very stranger danger." She said taking a catch phrase she had heard around.
"Oh. Well, I had a lovely time with you. Sorry for showing up late." Dib blushed.
"It wasn't that late, and you said it was traffic. Not like you can control that." Tak said as she left. "I'll call you tomorrow. I am not waiting until Monday to see you again." She smiled as she waved.
"I can't wait." Dib smiled as he waved her off. "You sure now?"
"I can handle myself." She smiled and headed back to the base. "I don't need you getting worried and getting yourself hurt by my crazy family."
"You've seen mine or at least how it is. I doubt yours is crazier." Dib laughed. "Talk to you later."
"You'd be surprised." Tak said as she headed down the road and began to walk back to the hideout.
Walking through the city, she stared up at the sky and sighed. Can't see the stars too well she thought as she sighed. It was a conflict that kept nagging at her as she finally headed back to the base and went inside. It looked obvious that it was a spaceship that had a poor house facade placed on it, "Let me guess, Zim and Skoodge were in charge of this. Humans will find it." but from what she could tell from the humans she had run into, there were very few people who would think anything of it. "Who am I kidding. Only Dib and Gaz, possibly, would see that this isn't what it is supposed to be." Tak had placed her hand on the scanner and it let her in.
"Tak!" Tenn said running up and hugging her. "You must tell it all to me! How was he?"
"Dib?" Tak asked.
"Duh." Tenn said.
"Well I told him you were my older sister who is taking a break between high school and college who spends all her time at the library." Tak informed Tenn.
"Okay, I can keep up with that story." Tenn said. "But how did the date go? Find out anything?"
"Well actually I did." Tak said.
"Oh Tak, I didn't think you would do that on a first date!" Tenn laughed as they headed into their cabin.
"What?" Tak asked. "Just what in Miyuki's name are you talking about?"
Tenn bent down and pulled out a romance novel from the bag she had her library books. "It's like these books."
"Wolfman Bare Chest?" Tak said as she looked at it. "Is this what humans use for a guide for mating courtship?"
"Some do, I guess..."Tenn said.
"Well as far as I know Dib is not a wolfman so I don't think anything you would be able to obtain from that book would be useless." She quickly leafed through passages of the book and reading the graphic prose of mating in some chapters and the flowery writing she shuddered and threw it at Tenn. "You cannot seriously be interested in these? If they are a guide they are highly inaccurate from what I can tell."
"So what did you do with Dib?" Tenn teased.
"Had some pizza he had brought home, watched Mysterious Mysteries with him and discussed what they may be. Miyuki help you if they were featuring something that he thought was full of crap. I had never seen someone rant and take such offense at a suggestion of something being fake."
"Like you." Tenn said.
"Excuse me?" Tak said jumping up.
"I have seen how you got with the Tallest when any one of them even slightly implied you are of a lower posisition than you really should be and that you deserved to be stuck on Dirt." Tenn said.
"I will have you know that it is the fact they are here I just don't kill Zim for doing that to me. This whole planet, Irk I mean, is full of nothing but idiotic fools who do not know greatness when they see it and will blame you for whatever they want be it your fault or not. It's all about their convince and if that gets in the way tough shit. I deserve better than being used on a second tier mission the Tallest are using to get away from Irk while the planet back there goes to shit." Tak yelled as Tenn smiled. She then remembered some of the rants Dib had given like during the Stonehenge episode. "Oh shit, you're right."
"Nothing wrong with that." Tenn said. "The Empire wants those who will do whatever they say not get the job done. Like when I got the mixed up package that ruined me and they wouldn't help me even though I WAS SO FUCKING CLOSE TO HAVING MEEKROB!" If I could just retreat and regroup I would have HAD THOSE ENGERY ASIAN FOOD SHOE ALIENS!"
"And Dib and I am the one with ranting problems..." Tak rolled her eyes. "I did get a valuable piece of information that we could use."
"And that is?" Tenn said. "What's his horoscope sign?"
"Scorpio, birthday November 18." Tak said as she saw Tenn looking at a magazine called 'Gregarious',
"So according to this article, 'What sign is your man' it says that 'Being ruled by Mars, named after the god of war, he'll protect his loved ones with everything he's got if he has to. It's rare to find someone as dedicated, fierce, passionate, and loyal as a Scorpio in love! He's a very indulgent sign when it comes to food, drinking, and sex—any kind of pleasure, really.' Ooooooooh they make that stuff sound like fun in here Tak." Tenn smiled as Tak grabbed the magazine and hit Tenn with it.
"Are you the second best Invader in the academy after me or just a teenage human girl getting into her sexually starved mother's romantic fantasy novels?" Tak said seriously.
"Sorry..." Tenn said looking at Tak. "I'll get serious. So what did you find?"
"Well his father is Professor Membrane. I am sure you've seen something of him." Tak said.
"I actually checked out his autobiography I, Membrane. So Dib is related to him huh?" Tenn said opening the chapter he was on. Maybe I just haven't gotten to the chapter he talks about his family. He did mention that he had gotten socks instead of uranium 238, a radioactive element, for Christmas as a child, he graduated top of his class, has his own lab and how he got his show in the 1990s after a more edgy version of Bill Nye the Science Guy was demanded, how he doesn't believe in mere mortal laws on things regarding research as science does not know man's morality going into a huge rant about how important beneficial discoveries have been made by evil people's research but his son and daughter aren't mentioned here."
"You have got to be kidding me." Tak said as she took the book "He says his first thought was 'I will poop now' but he doesn't mention his children? I think he'd be proud of that, a lot human parents are. But looking at that rant, I see where Dib gets it from." She sighed. "No, I got this information by accident. His father has some top secret contacts for the military of this planet, or at least nation and Dib had cracked into his father's files. I could log into it and see what he is working on if I wanted to."
"Well, let's try it." Tenn said as she pulled out a laptop. "Snuck this off a human. Wiped it clean, you wouldn't believe the amount of garbage was on this thing, and I use it when I need to use human technology to get into human technology."
"See, that is the Tenn I like hanging around, the smart sneaky soldier, not the romance obessesed annoying human girl." Tak laughed.
"How do you know I am not faking it?" Tenn said.
"Being smart or being annoying?" Tak said as Tenn smacked her. "If you were faking the romance obsession you wouldn't bring it up to me in private."
"Point taken." Tenn said. "So this is Membrane Labs employee log in, you said you have Dib's father's credentials?"
"Yep. Username IAMMEMBRANE all caps, password BETHEBRAIN all caps." Tak said as she hit the enter key and opened was indeed what Dib said. Contracts, plans, emails that were checked and left unread. She looked at the trash emails and smiled. "Oh I see what you did there"
"Huh?" Tenn asked.
"He deleted some emails the school sent to his father." Tak explained. "Although I did hear about this. She saw the school's email address and went to the spam folder. "Add address to spam filter..." and she typed in the school's email address. "There now it will filter school emails as spam and they will never be seen and it is just such an easy accident from what some people say."
"Naughty Tak!" Tenn said playfully smacking her. "How dare you prevent your boyfriend from getting into the trouble he rightfully earned!" She added with a wink to show that she wasn't being serious. "But messing with his email aside, just what is he working on?" Tenn took the laptop and clicked on the "projects" "You have got to see this!"
" Hmmmmm..." Tak said looking over the project list "'Perpetual energy rifle, never needs reloading', 'Mechwarrior suits', 'AI strategic systems with blocks from becoming self aware or have access to nukes without two-step authentication...' This isn't that impressive. We have had stuff like this on Irk for awhile. I mean you were supposed to get a Mechadoomer which seems a lot like what Membrane has here."
"Maybe not for us to commit technological espionage and theft on, but to let us know what we'd face from humans." Tenn said. "This is very important information. What are you going to do with it?"
Tak took the laptop, scrolled to the log out button, clicked it and handed it back to Tenn. "That. I showed you what I know. And I trust you will do with it, what I will."
"Which is?" Tenn asked.
"Nothing. Yet at least. Most I am willing to do in that man's account is what I did which is nothing more than what Dib did." Tak explained.
Tenn nodded. "I see. More loyal to yourself." She smiled. "I won't say a thing either. Unless I have to."
"Deal." Tak smiled.
So how was that? Good? Bad? Short? Long? Let me know in a review. "Gregarious" is just a synonym for "Cosmopolitan" a trashy magazine that I think Tenn in romance novel fangirl mode would get wrapped up in. Dib's birthday is something I made up after seeing an AMV a LONG time ago (2007) and having his image used for Scorpio on "Your Horoscope for Today". No real meaning there and if you are a Gravity Falls fan, you'll see the reference I made. Anyway besides that, remember to read (well you just did) and to review. Ciao for now,
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