It had been a couple of hours since Skool let out, and Dib and Tak were now inside the garage working on the new ship Tak arrived in years ago. The old one that Dib got a hold of when he was a kid had been torn apart by Gaz after he denied her the time to buy a game she'd waited ages to come out.

"Let's see...cross this wire here..." Dib mused as they both lay under the ship.

"Do you even know what your doing?" Tak asked as she looked at where he was crossing the wires on her ship.

"Oh, now what am I doing wrong?" Dib asked while looking at her.

"Where do I begin?" she replied with a smirk, earning an annoyed glare from Dib. "Relax. I'm just messing with you. Though you may want to redo the wires right there."

"Why? I'm just connecting the command module to the ship's systems." Dib explained.

"You've connected the ejector seat to the thrusters, you idiot." she said. Dib raised an eyebrow as he checked the wires before he realized she was right.

"Oops." he said with a nervous laugh.

"Here. Let me do it." she said as she pushed him over a bit and began to rewire her ship. Dib watched her three fingers easily shift the circuitry around into their proper places. "There. That should do...wait a second. Why is that over there? And this? Dib, what are all these strange parts?"

"I don't exactly have access to alien technology, so I had to use whatever I could get my hands on." he explained.

"Tell me. What made you think that any part of a toaster would help an Irken ship fly?" she asked.

"I tried to get spare parts whenever I break into Zim's base, but his stupid robot keeps breaking into my house to steal them back." Dib grumbled. Tak only sighed as she focused on her ship.

"Hold this up." she quickly said. Dib held up a part of a large metal tube while she carefully tried to disconnect the useless parts from her ship. "Keep that up until I say so. Got it?"

"Got it." he replied before she focused on the ship. Dib keep the tube out of the way while his eye drifted to Tak, his head not moving an inch. His gaze slowly moved down her body longer, examining every bit of her form lying next to him. He couldn't help but watch as her breasts subtly raised and lowered with each breath she took before he blinked hard and looked away.

'Stop that! Don't forget that she's an alien! The same species as Zim in fact!' he thought as he berated himself for thinking of Tak that way.

"Dib," came Tak's voice, breaking him away from his thoughts. He turned to see her staring at him with half lidded eyes, a small smile on her lips. "I know my form is pleasant to human eyes, but do you mind not staring like that?"

"What?!" he yelled as he lifted his head, slamming it into the ship above them. "Ow." he groaned as he rubbed his head, his eyes still on her. "I-I wasn't looking!" he denied.

"The blush on your face tells a different story." she chuckled before her hologram disappeared, revealing her Irken form. "There. That should help remind you that I'm not a human."

"...Thanks." he mumbled as he looked at the ship, trying his best not to release a sad sigh. 'The only girl that'll talk to me, and she and alien. Life suck.' he thought before he heard the garage door opening. Both of their eyes widened before Tak's hologram came back up. "Dad? Gaz?" he called out from under the ship as he looked to see a pair of boots walk towards the ship. He didn't get a response as someone climbed into the ship. "Hey! Who's there?" Dib called again before the ship fell to the ground, pinning the two of them down. "Hey! What's going on?!"

"I can't move my legs!" said Tak as she tried to lift her ship up with her Pak's spider legs. Both of them were now trying with all their strength to get out from under the ship before a computerized voice began to speak.

"Self-Destruct Sequence Activated! Time of detonation: T-minus 2 minutes! Half a nice day!"

"What?!" Tak and Dib yelled as they tried harder to get out. "Shit! DAD! GAZ! ANYONE! HELP!"

"Mimi!" Tak yelled. A blue-ish appeared, revealing Tak's SIR unit in her cat hologram. Tak looked at her from under the ship as she cried out, "Quickly! Shut down the-" she didn't get to finish a pair of boots slammed down on Mimi, causing the poor SIR unit to spark and twitch, it's hologram disappearing.

"Sorry, but no one's coming to save you two freaks." came a voice as the boots backed off Mimi before kicking her across the room into the wall.

"MIMI!" Tak cried out in horror before growling. "When I get my claws on you, I'll rip your eyes off and feast upon them!"

"T-minus 1 minute, 30 seconds until detonation!"

"Well, my work here is done. Bye." said the intruder before walking out the garage and closing the door, leaving the two of them to struggle.

'This can't be how it ends! If I die, then Zim will be free to enslave all mankind!' Dib thought as he frantically tried to dislodge himself from under the ship. The two of them were soon clawing at the metal in a desperate attempt to get out as the computer occasionally told them how long they had left to live.

"T-minus 1 minute before detonation!" said the computer voice.

"GRAAAAAH! THIS CAN'T BE HAPPENING!" Tak roared as she tried to lift the ship off the both of them again.

"T-minus 45 seconds until detonation!"

"Tak, it's no use." Dib sighed in defeat.

"No! I'm not giving up!" she grunted.

"T-minus 30 seconds until detonation!" Dib closed his eyes as he waited for the explosion to come and end his life.

'Gaz. It's up to you now to stop Zim.' he thought. Just then, the sound of the garage door flying open came, followed by someone jumping into the spaceship.

"Wait! Who's there?!" Tak demanded.

"T-minus 10...9...8...Self-Destruct Sequence Deactivated!" Dib and Tak's eyes flew open as the computerized voice finished with, "Have a Nice Day!"

"We're...we're alive?" Dib asked himself in disbelief before the ship rose up a few inches, giving them just enough room to squeeze themselves out from under the ship. They carefully got out and examined themselves before sighing in relief.

"That...was close." Tak said before she hurriedly ran to Mimi. "Mimi! Respond!" she cried as she lifted her SIR unit in her arms. The little robot sparked as it's red eyes flashed on and off, it's entire frame twitching.

"Quick! We can use my dad's tools here and try to help her!" Dib told her as he opened the door that lead into his house. Tak quickly followed him to where his dad worked on his home projects and placed Mimi onto the table.

'Stay with me!' Tak thought as she began to work on Mimi while Dib ran to his room to get his laptop.

"She gonna be alright?" Dib asked as he opened it and began digging typing away.

"She's been badly damaged, but I can save her." Tak said, a smile on her lips. "Whoever that fool was that wrecked her and nearly killed us will pay for this!"

"Whoever they were didn't want to be found out." said Dib as he pulled up security footage of his home.

"Why do you have spy cameras in your own home?" Tak asked after a quick glance at the screen.

"In case Zim broke in here." Dib explained as rewound the footage, showing someone in a cloak and hockey mask entering the garage, climbing into the ship, dropping it on them, and smashing Mimi before leaving.

"I'm guessing it's not Zim." Tak surmised. "He's not intelligent enough to come here in a better disguise than his wig and contacts."

"Yeah, but who is this guy?" Dib asked as he watched the video.

"Better question. Who saved us?" Tak asked.

"I'm about to pull that up...there!" he said as he watched the camera feed. "Wait. Is that...a green monkey?"

"What?" Tak said in disbelief as she watched a green monkey jump into the cockpit of the ship, deactivate the Self-Destruct, and then have the ship lift off of them before leaving the area. Neither Dib nor Tak could understand what they just saw, leaving them both with just one thought.

'What's going on?'