Ch 2: An Unexpected Visitor-

When Gaz and I had gotten home it seemed like Dib had already gone up to his room. Maybe it was better we did leave him alone for a while. Gir was sitting on the couch and watching some crazy human television show, laughing and squealing insanely. He jumped up and raced over to me and Gaz.

"HIIIIII MASTER!" he screams…waving his arms all over the place.

"GIR! Must you always do that every single time we come home!" I asked in an annoyed voice.

He grinned with such innocence only a child could have.

"Yes!" he replied, nodding his head rapidly.

Gaz shook her head a moved past me and patted Gir on the head.

"Don't be so hard on him, Zim… you know he can't help it," she told me.

I sighed a little and walked into the kitchen, looking around for something to eat when Gaz appeared behind me.

"What's eating you?" I asked.

"Zim…there's been something I've been meaning to ask you…"

I stood up from the fridge and closed it, looking at her with surprise in my eyes. More and more she's been opening up to me. Gaz, the eternal queen of darkness actually showing that she has a heart in the human shell oh hers. At first it scared me, and when I asked her why she rewarded me with a black eye. So…I stop questioning it.

It seemed good for my health at the time.

"Well this is a surprise…what's on your mind?" I asked again

"Shut it with the sarcasm or it's the pits of hell for you" she said to me….eyes glaring.

"It's been bugging me for years…and I never had the time to ask until today"

"Why, Zim…..Why did you take me and Dib in when our father died? Why did you take in your Mortal enemy and his demented sister after all we put you through?"

When I heard the word escape her lips I could believe it. Gaz asking me something like this was unheard of and unexpected. It had always known one of them would ask one day…I guess I have to tell her.

I told a deep breath and let it slide off my tongue.

"It was you Father's dying wish….."

I turned and walked off….immediately taking a service elevator down into the lab. Damn these emotions, I not even suppose to have them. At first I thought it was my pack malfunctioning on me when I started having feelings. But turns out it fine, as it always was. Why does she make me feel so….out of place. She makes me feel like…I'm…. No. No no no no. That's impossible. For it to be that is just plain insane-

"Master! Intruder! INTRUDER!" the computer blared out.

"Hmmm….scan this Intruder and identify," I commanded as I step back into the elevator to head upstairs.

"Scan complete……Sir….it's….Tak"

I feel my insides turn and twist as I heard those words. I stepped off the elevator and walk cautiously to the door….

"No…it can't be…..Computer….scan again….make sure"

"Sir…..scan complete….I'm sure….it's Tak"

I felt the very blood in my veins grow cold as I inched more to the door. I sent a mentally message to my Pak and it readied its lasers, expecting an attack. I gathered my strength and flung open the door and my Pak's laser aim directly at Tak. She looks almost exactly the same way she did as I last saw her but she looked a lot older. She didn't even try to dodge my attack; she just stood there as my lasers aim at her. Her eyes burned into me with sorrow and remorse. Something had to be wrong.

" Well this is a suprize. If your not hear to kill me then why are you here, Tak?" I asked demandingly.

She shook her head and Mimi rushed up to her shoulder and her Human hologram disappeared from her.

"Let me in, Zim…..this is a lot bigger than you and me and there some things you need to know," she said to me calmly.

A part of my mind was scream out to me, telling me this was a trap. But against my better judgment, I let her in. Gaz appeared silently behind me.

"Zim…who's..."

Gaz looked over my shoulder and saw Tak standing not too far behind me. She tried not to show it, but I could feel anger swell up inside her. I could tell by the way her eyes shown to me. Her face scowled at her and she turned away.

"What's "she" doing here?"Gaz said softly under her breath.

I shook my head gently and closed my eyes.

"I have no idea. I'm just as surprised as you are," I replied.

"But Tak wouldn't come all the way back to earth if it wasn't something really bad"

Gaz glared at Tak then turned around to head upstairs.

"I'm gunna see if Dib's feeling any better," she muttered out before storming up stairs.

I walked Tak over to the couch and she sat down as I stood in front of her, still not sure if I should trust her. I mentally set My Pak to Auto-Defense if she should try anything.

"You have 5 minutes…" I stated coldly.

"Zim….I've discovered something very disturbing on our home world. As you should already know I'm an outcast like you, Exiled from Irk. But I stayed underground, trying to find a way to overthrow the tallests and free Irk from there tyranny and ignorance," She began.

"I was searching in the Historical files in the hidden chamber of the Irken Temple, that's when I found the Hall of the former Emperor's and Empresses of our Race. You know, from a time when there was no Tallests."

"Yes….I remember well about them….I was born almost immediately after the fall of the Alterian Dynasty. I was the last Irken to be born naturally by reproduction instead of DNA cloning and alteration. That's why people used to tell me that I was a defect, that I was cursed," I added.

"Well….from what I discovered, your far from a defect. I went to Emperor Alteria's Tomb. I went there to maybe find a clue is to how the Tallests came to power and there was a data file there. The File was heavily guarded by a DNA scanner and I hacked as far as I can into it and I came across I hidden file….about you"

"About Me?" I asked puzzled.

"The DNA protected file can only be opened by you"

"By me? But why me? Why not one of the royal family? I'm just a failed Irken Invader. "

"That's just it, Zim…..you are the last of the Alterian Bloodline. You Emperor Alteria's Son.

I felt my blood run cold as ice and my body went into shock. Her words echoed over and over in my mind. I felt too over whelmed and my vision began to blur and fade out… going blacker by the second….

"His……son….."

Cold black Nothingness……