A/N: I'm back from my vacation! Finally, chapter 8 is up… yay! I can finally assuage you poor fans thirst for more story! (that was a weird metaphor, I know) Anywho… yeah, yeah, yeah, I don't own Zim. If I did, there would be no plot, and it would be even more random than it is now. Be glad I don't own it. ONWARD

Chapter 8 – the Almighty Mib

Dib, Gaz, and Zim (not so much GIR), watched with horrified expressions as Mib fell into the fire. It seemed to them that she fell in slow motion; every detail of her fall stood out, her wide green eyes, the fire highlighting the pink streaks in her hair which streamed out in front of her. Mib toppled over backwards, her arms flailing. The last they saw of her was her trench coat flapping over the edge of the catwalk before she disappeared from sight completely.

'No!' thought Dib, horror-struck. 'Mib can't be dead, it's not possible!'

Gaz was shocked too. Her cousin had understood her like no one else had, always listening to her and playing video games with her, bringing her cheat codes.

Even Zim was feeling something, but he didn't understand it. 'Invaders are killed all the time in the line of duty' he thought. 'So why should I feel sorry for an enemy girl I barely knew?' As he was pondering this, GIR came up to him and said, "Mastah, what happened?"

"Mib's gone, GIR" said Zim flatly. "She's dead."

GIR's face went blank. "Mib's… dead?"

"Yes GIR, dead" said Zim bitterly. "She's not coming back."

Behind them, they heard laughter and turned around. The Tallest and the army were cackling. "See Zim" said Purple and Red, gasping for air. "You are defective and not even your human friend can save you now. Kill them all." The weapons were pointed against Gaz, Dib, Zim, and GIR. There was no way out of it. They were going to die. Then suddenly there was a shout of, "Hey, stupid loser idiot corn-headed numbskull green-skinned jerks! Leave them ALONE!" Something about that voice was very familiar, but it couldn't be…

It was definitely Mib, looking seriously annoyed that she had almost died. The Tallest, although visibly surprised that Mib was alive, snorted and said, "What can you do? You are no threat to us."

Mib grinned nastily. "Is that so?" she snarled, pulling two lasers out of her pockets.

Firing them like a gunslinger from a western movie, Mib fought her way through the crowd of Irkens to her open-mouthed friends. "Let's get out of here!" she yelled, grabbing as many of her friends' wrists as she could and dragging them out of the fire room. Dib and Gaz were slightly worried. They had only seen Mib like this when she played extreme sports.

Mib ran with Zim, Gaz, Dib, and GIR from room to room, searching frantically. Finally, she seemed to find what she was looking for, a storage room for Voot Cruisers. Dashing up to one, Mib opened it and growled, "Everyone, in. NOW!" She looked frantically at the door leading to the hallway, where the Tallest and some surviving soldiers were closing in on them. Mib fired a few more blasts from her laser gun before getting into the Cruiser.

"Whoever is close to the wheel, drive!" Mib shrieked, pointing to the opposite end of the room, where a huge wall was opening up into space. Gaz grabbed the wheel.

"Go, go!" yelled Zim. The Tallest were yelling at the guy who operated the wall and it was beginning to close.

"We're never gonna make it!" said Dib. "The wall is closing to fast!"

"Floor it, Gaz!" Mib yelled. Gaz pushed the pedal down all the way and they zoomed forward with a "Weeee!" from GIR. They were so close, the opening was getting smaller by the millisecond, but they were so close… they were going, going, going… Gaz grimaced and thrust a joystick forward, and… they were free.

A/N: YAY! Okay, you really didn't think that I would kill off Mib would you? I mean… come on!

I think that there will be only one more chapter before the end of the story… sniff, sniff. Thanks again to all you devoted readers!

~Gilly