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Professor Membrane: avatarjk137 owns Kloof, Reapir, and the Gamethrall. However, he does not own Invader ZIM... or Super Toast! I INVENTED Super Toast!

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Chapter 9

Gamethrall: Hell's Handheld!

"Gaz!" Dib rushed into the kitchen, putting on his shoes. "Where's dad?" He grabbed a cereal bar from the pantry.

"I think he left early. Go away." Gaz was eating some waffles at the table.

"We have to go warn him! Reapir just came back!"

"So?"

"I sent him to spy on Zim. He recorded Zim's plan, and Zim's going to attack dad's lab! We have to go right now."

"We can go at noon."

"Why should we wait until noon? Zim's attacking RIGHT NOW!"

"Dad's expecting us at noon. It's his birthday, and we're going to his lab at lunch for a pizza party. Remember?" Gaz got up to wash her plate. "Now, leave me alone or I'll flay you to the bone again."

"Right, right… Gaz, are you… FLOATING?!"

"Maybe." Gaz's feet touched the ground for the first time since Dib had rushed in. That'll keep him busy until noon, Gaz thought to herself as her brother began Dibbing about her levitation.

"How did you survive? I DEMAND TO KNOW!" Tak screamed.

"Isn't it obvious? My cybernetic parts allow me to survive indefinitely in the vacuum of space. If you haven't figured that out by now, you're slow." Kloof was casually spinning his sword.

"Figure this out. MIMI, ATTACK!"

"What are you talking about? Mimi's head is in the fridge… uh, never mind." Mimi's head floated out of the fridge. Its body hopped out of the trash can, reuniting with the head, then immediately began clawing at Kloof. Kloof hastily chopped Mimi in half. Mimi instantly popped back in one piece, and attacked again. "I get it," Kloof laughed. "You engineered Mimi for spontaneous reassembly. THAT'S CLEVER! I could slash Mimi for hours and make no headway."

"Did you get a 'perfect' in puzzle solving, too?" Tak tried to exit, but Kloof blocked her way, as he fought off Mimi's big, destructive claw with one sword. "Get out of my way, or I'm sending the Planet Jackers after you, too."

"Bad idea," Kloof replied. "If I kill the Jackers, their EMPORER will want to know why an Irken kidnapped them and allowed them to DIE. You'll be in trouble, and the Planet Jacker and Irken Empires could go to WARRR! Good for The Resisty, bad for all of you."

Tak sighed. "You're right. MIMI! Hold him off, while I destroy the Earth."

"NO!" Kloof took off after Tak, but Mimi tackled him and she turned a corner, heading deeper into her moon base. Kloof severed one of Mimi's legs and took it with him, preventing Tak's custom SIR Unit from following, but he had lost sight of her. He tapped his robotic eyepiece, and saw her energy signature. "Got her!" He ran in, and found Tak furiously tapping on a console.

"You're too late, betrayer. I'm already firing the LASERS!" She pounded her fist on a large red button.

"Good luck with that." Kloof created a vertical shockwave, slicing the control panel. It began to spark, and the computers around the room began to explode. "Ooohh, I SMASHED something important. How do you feel about that?"

"RAAUUGGHH I'll kill you, TRAITOR!"

"You have issues."

"Gaz! I think we're too late!" Dib cried. He had good reason, too: the Membrane Labs security guards were strewn all over the main hallway, unconscious. It was pretty clear Zim had done this, judging by the electrical burns across the chest of one that spelled, "ZIM SHALL RULE!" Zim had even taken the time to do it in English. One security guard had been halfway shoved into another's mouth. Another person's head had been shoved through a window. Oddly, the window wasn't broken.

"No, maybe?" Gaz asked sarcastically. She seemed even scarier than usual. Maybe it was the black aura surrounding her Gamethrall and coursing up and down her arm. Or it could just be that there was reasonable doubt she would get pizza.

They came to the double doors into their father's break room, where the party was supposed to be. As Gaz walked forward, the doors swung open for her. "HEY!" Dib yelled, "These doors weren't automatic before! I would've remembered that!"

"You're memory is lame," Gaz responded. They walked in, and found all of Professor Membrane's scientists unconscious with various weird injuries, just like the guards. Their father himself, however, was still awake. He was fighting Zim with some type of tazer-sword, but Zim was getting the better of him.

"My son was right! Aliens are attacking!" He swung for Zim's head, but Zim blocked with a tentacle from his Pak and shoulder-tackled Membrane, knocking him down.

"WRONG, Professor-human! For now, it's only one alien: ZIIIMMM! I AM ZIIIMMM! Besides, you won't remember me attacking in a few seconds!" Zim produced his new weapon. "BEHOLD! THE RATIONAL CANNON! Be shot with THIS, and come up with a 'rational' explanation for the obvious damage I've INFLICTED!"

Zim turned the beam on Membrane full-blast, who slumped to the floor muttering. "Must've been…. My assistant's new… robot… on… rampage…"

"NOOOOOO!" Dib screamed loudly. "For a second, Dad actually found out everything I've been saying was true! Now he won't remember any of it!"

Zim looked up, and saw Dib and Gaz. "Right, DIB! But you should worry about what I'll do to you! BEGIN WORRYING!" Zim's body began to crackle with electricity, and he shot a bolt at Dib. However, Gaz stepped in front of the bolt, and it dissipated harmlessly around her. She began playing her Gamethrall, and a solid darkness began flowing outward from the mysterious game system.

"Zim, I'm going to kill you dead," she said simply, as the darkness began to flow around her. "You beat up my family. Besides, you bore me."

End of Chapter

Next chapter, Gaz and Tak both act crazy and blow up some stuff. They're kind of scary.