Sorry... This really took too long x3 I like completely rewrote this entire chapter, because the old one was so... bleh. Again, thanks for the reviews! :) And this chapter has some Gir in it... yay x3 Oh, and school starts in like 2 weeks... I'll try to get the next chapter out by then (really, I'm starting it right now ^^") but no promises... ._." Oh well, enjoy!

"Hiiii, piggy!"

Slowly things came into focus. Gir, who had decided to act like a dog, licked my face.

"Gross. Stop it." I tried to push him away with my good arm, and the little robot dog took my hand and started dragging me into the house. I couldn't do anything but let myself be dragged. When he dropped me, I glared up at him. He squeezed a rubber piggy, and ran off somewhere. I sat up carefully, getting a good look at my arm for the first time. It was red and swollen. I picked at the dry blood on my wrist.

Zim… I'll punish you for this…

Squeaky feet came closer. Gir pulled me into the living room. He turned on the TV and ran into the kitchen, yelling "MONKEYS!" I watched some cartoon for a few minutes, before crashing sounds and loud footsteps made their way towards the living room.

"GIR! Let Minimoose go!"

Gir ran out of the kitchen, holding a small purple moose. He put it in my hand, and the moose nuzzled against me.

"Meep!" it said. Zim ran into the room.

"Human? Where? Why are you in my house! Leave, or I'll-" He saw me on the floor. "Oh. The Gaz-human. Minimoose, come here!" Minimoose floated over to him. Zim grinned triumphantly down at me.

"Well, well, so you decided to come. I'm glad you saw the light. And it's BRILLIANT!"

"It's stupid," I mumbled.

"No it's not. This is my best plan yet." He looked confused. "Oh well, no matter. Gir, take the human to the Voot hangar! I will check some things in the lab, and then we'll LEAVE!"

"H-hey!" Gir picked me up and put me on the couch. Then he jumped off and smiled at me.

"Meow," He said. The couch flew up (Nope. I totally didn't scream.) and suddenly I was in a room with sloping sides, like an attic. In the middle of the room was Zim's spaceship, which had a thin layer of dust on it. I sat there on the couch in that attic-like room.

We're really going to search for my brother? Or is this some sort of weird joyride?

"We?" There's no "we" in this! Zim kidnapped you! Kidnapped you!

That was like Dib's voice. Dib, who could never leave things alone. Dib, who was always reading weird old books, investigating crazy rumors, collecting funny-shaped rocks and stuff.

Leave me alone. Just, leave me alone.

I sat there on the couch silently, glaring at the hands resting in my lap, at the pod that used to be my GameSlave, my only escape. I didn't even look up as a whoosh came from across the room. Because those footsteps could only be one person's.

"Are you sleeping, human-girl? Hurry up! The Dib isn't getting any closer to- Uh… Something."

He grabbed my arm, pulled me towards the spaceship. I gritted my teeth but said nothing. I climbed over the seat, pulling myself as far away from him as I could. Gir scrambled over us both, slipping into the small space in the back.

"Piggies?" He asked.

"Yes, Gir, piggies," Zim muttered. Finally, with a shudder, the engines started. The roof slid open above us, and we flew into the sky.

I've never liked flying. I really haven't. When I was little, Dad took us in some experimental aircraft or something. I closed my eyes the whole trip.

I'm not letting myself freak out. I'm not going to let him see my fear. I won't I won't I won't…

But I couldn't stop shaking. The feeling of climbing, of this incredible speed, was too much. I felt my nails digging into my palms, but I couldn't let myself let go. There was nothing to hold on to, in the thin air…

With a jolt, everything stopped moving. I let out the breath I had been holding.

Breathe, breathe…

A hand nudged my shoulder. My head snapped up and I glared at Zim. I'm sure I had tears in my eyes.

"What?"

"Quit your shaking, worm-baby. Look." He had a smirk on his face, like this was all a joke.

I turned away, though that meant looking out the window. I gulped.

Outside was foggy blackness, stars twinkling softly. Almost behind us already was a blue and green planet, with fuzzy white clouds. We were passing the moon, cold and gray with hundreds of craters.

How fast are we going, anyways? I pulled my arms around my knees. And where are we going in the first place?

"Oh, but don't worry," He said softly. "We'll be back, oh we'll be back! Perhaps with your brother and his gargantuan head. We'll come back, and destroy it all! Enjoy it while it lasts, Gaz."

I closed my eyes.

"Zim… Shut up, or you'll meet your slow, painful doom…"

"Hmm?" That was Gir. Zim groaned.

"Does that mean we can sing the doom song? YAY! Doom-doom-doom, doom doom... doomy doom!..."