Deep within MiMi's fortified laboratory, her grand device had at long last been completed. It had taken her almost two whole months to collect the parts, but it had been worth it. She idly toyed with her mistress' Pak, which had been fully charged since two days ago. It had taken a long time to rewire parts of the Pak, but it was integral to her master plan. Standing before the control console, she prepared to install the Pak as the central part of the massive device whose cables snaked their way throughout the entire lab. MiMi stared at the Pak, then at the perfectly sized interface plug embedded in the console. She placed the Pak into the plug, where it fitted snugly. Waving her hand over and on a series of buttons, the Pak transmitted its power through the machine, breathing life into the grand matrix of MiMi's ultimate creation.
"Yes! Yes! Live, my creation! Live to serve the Irken Empire, my child! Live, CRANIAC!" The monitor above the control console blinked to life, and the face of a SIR Unit appeared, blurred and unsteady. As the machine gained power and awareness, the image solidified until the SIR Unit stared down at its creator.
The image of the machine, CRANIAC, blinked its photoreceptors once, twice, three times. It took a breath, then spoke its first words.
"I am CRANIAC. How may I serve you, my mistress?"
MiMi looked up. "Excellent. You are every bit the grand creation I aimed to complete! With you, I shall achieve dominance over the humans, and Earth shall be the conquest of the Irken Empire! Now, I command you to seek out the creature known as GIR and take control of his mind."
CRANIAC nodded. "Your will is my command, mistress."
Thousands of volts raced into a massive transmitter, made all the more powerful by a great matrix of coprocessors, amplifiers and control cores. A beacon spread out across the Earth's ionosphere, seeking the dysfunctional SIR Unit's memory disk. Within seconds, the beacon found its target. Locking on, the transmitter then sent an override to make GIR the unknowing slave of MiMi's.
One moment found the tiny robot watching the Scary Monkey Show, and in the next his eyes had flashed from cyan to cobalt. He heard MiMi's voice in his head. His dual nature tried to resist, but her hold on his mind was far too strong.
"You will bring Zim to my lair, GIR. You will bring Zim..."
As Zim entered the house from another horrible day at skool, he was accosted by his own slave. GIR slammed the Irken's head into the wall with enough force to punch a hole in it. He heaved the now unconscious Alien into his arms and set out for the source of the transmission...