A.N. First off, I want to apologize soooo badly for the long wait! I've been too busy to do anything, plus I've been working on original stuff, blah blah blah. . .

I'm not gonna lie; I was seriously planning to ditch this story. But then I was rereading some of your reviews, and guilt drove me to write chapter five, only guess what? I got into it. And now I know what exactly is going to happen, so trust me; chapter six'll be out soon. I promise.

Thanks to reviews on the last chapter:

Takker (I am honored to receive a review from you! XD Thanks for making it long)

Captain Blue-hat Jack

HOLYBALONEYidon'tknow

Rahh Gumba Foo

The Illustrious Crackpot (I love long reviews!)

Darkarise

DemonSurfer

Suicidal RuBBerDucky (I know, it's tragic XD)

Zantor7

TikTac

My writing style has altered slightly in the past two months, but it's not that noticeable. I actually had to re-read the first for chapters of this story. . .wasn't pretty. So many typos. . . so badly written. . . I was in such a rut when writing that. . . blah blah. . .

As a bonus, I'm bringing back two OCs that you guys already read about. . . in other stories. . .

Chapter Five- Zim is not never not smart

Dark and dusty; cold and smelly.

Certainly not in the condition Tak had left it years earlier. But the weenie stand's their home now, at least temporarily, so they all realize it'll have to do. JooJee, of course, finds the gloomy atmosphere to be rather inviting, so she skips happily into Deelishous Weenies, whereas her siblings merely drag their feet behind her. In the back of the group, are Zim and Tak. She's smirking.

With fists against her hips, she announces, "Over one hundred rooms are in this building; choose your personal quarters, but be quiet. We don't need Earth authorities discovering us."

"GOT IT!!" JooJee shouts.

Her voice echoes through out the room. Plix smacks her in the back of the head. She snarls and bites his antenna.

"Good girl, JooJee," Zim says with a proud smile.

"YOU FAVOR MY TWIN OVER ME!!" Plix exclaims with tears in his eyes.

"I do not. I just like her better." (A.N. Zim sucks. XD)

JooJee sticks her tongue out in triumph, and her twin sniffs sorrowfully, although no one but Pin really seems to care.

"Enough," Tak says, "go find your rooms."

The smeets, Gir and Mimi all scatter in opposite directions, kicking up dust in their parents' faces. Tak and Zim cough ferociously, eventually having to hold onto each other for support.

"Crap," Tak says, once they've stopped. Her eyes are watering.

"Crap for what?!"

"Nothing, nothing. . ."

The room's large; they're standing on a metal balcony, looming over the numerous floors. Tak stroke her finger across the railing.

Flicking dust to the side, she says, "Brings back good memories, this place."

"But," Zim says, "you haven't been here since I defeated you!"

His fists are raised high above his head.

Tak replies, "I know. Reminds me of when I hated you."

"And that's a good memory?!"

No answer.

Tak looks down; she can't even see the floor. With her spider legs attached to the railing, she cautiously lowers herself into the darkness.

"What in the name of Irk are you doing?!" Zim demands, rushing to the edge.

As nothing but silence follows, he has no choice but to go in after her. His eyes adjust to the darkness after some time, yet he can just barely make out Tak's figure beside him.

"You can use the stairs, you know," he says.

"Do I?"

"Do you?!"

She grabs his arm, and he's quiet.

"Look," she whispers, pointing to something glowing faintly on the wall below them. "I didn't expect that to still be here."

"What is it?"

"It's an indication chip, a small device that signals a predetermined source with a recorded message from the owner-"

"I knew that!" Zim snaps defensively.

"Then why'd you ask?!"

"You're lying!"

"Idiot. . ."

"Zim is not!"

"Zim is not never not smart."

". . .heh?"

"Oh, forget it. . ."

Silence, then, "So. . .why's there an indigestian-"

"Indication."

"-an indication chip on the wall, anyways?"

"Years ago, before you sabotaged my plan to steal your mission, the Tallest were supposed to receive a message from me, informing them of my victory; the success of the pump was supposed to activate it, only"

"I destroyed it!" Z's cackles horribly.

"No," Tak says, with traceable annoyance, "Dib just hit the stupid 'off' button." Then she smirks. "But you know. . .I could always press the 'on' button. . ."

". . .you wouldn't."

"I might. The second they tell us to come back home, I'd love to leave this place in ruins. . ."

"But you'd be killing your precious dirt monster, Keeshy. . ."

Tak's eyes widen.

"Kacer? She's around? Do humans live that long?" she asks.

"Dib's still alive," Zim reminds her, although his eyes twitches as he does so.

"Oh yeah. . ."

"MOMMY!!"

The sudden scream of Pin is so startling, Tak and Zim nearly fall; yet they catch themselves, and make their way to the top ledge as quickly as possible. Their daughter runs to them with tears in her eyes, her siblings trailing behind her frantically.

"What is it?!" Tak demands. "A human?!"

Pin buries her face into the hem of her mother's uniform and shakes her head.

"A scary lady. . ." she says.

"S-sh-she says. . . uh," Clox begins, "sh-she wants to see D-Dad. . ."

"She was ugly," JooJee says.

"I disagree, sister," Plix says, "I found her to be quite attractive."

"You would, you queer!"

"Hold it!" Tak shouts. ". . .who's attractive?"

From beside her, Zim suddenly finds himself frozen, his mouth gaping open in horror, the only audible sound being a shaky, "Bwaaah. . ."

"Zim, what the hell is wrong with you-?"

"Oh, Takky!"

'Takky' is suddenly tackled by an unseen force, without warning. She's in somewhat of a confused shock, however, once on the ground, she realizes. . .

"Pleecy?"

Her former roommate; Zim former romantic stalker. Pleecy, of all Irkens, wearing an Irken Police uniform of all things, is currently on top of Tak, who's surrounded by four concerned smeets and one petrified mate. And then Pleecy embraces Tak tightly -perhaps a little too tightly- and she just barely manages to ask, "What are you doing here?"

Pleecy giggles for a moment, almost as though she didn't hear the question, until JooJee jumps and smacks her upside the head.

"I'm here on official business," she says seriously. She stands, firm and tall, then turns.

The concerned smeets stop being so concerned, however; even when serious, they can gather that this Irken is simply a moron. Yet when she speaks to their father, their insides drop, suddenly viewing her as the most vile creature in the entire galaxy. She points to him, and he blinks once. Tensely, the rest wait for her to speak. . .

"Um, Zim. . .by order of the Tallest. . .you're like, under arrest."


"FIRE!! FIIIRE!!"

Zim and Tak jumped and looked to Gir, who was wearing an insane smile, so for a moment, neither reacted seriously. That is, until they smelled smoke. They sprung up and ran into the kitchen, where there was indeed a fire. And in the middle of it was JooJee and Pin; Pin sputtering nonsense in a panic, JooJee sputtering nonsense in amusement.

Behind their parents, Plix and Clox ran in, Clox looking ready to kill someone.

"JOOJEE, YOU STUPID!!" he shouted. "Y-YOU!! WHAT DID YOU DO T-TO MY KITCHEN?!!"

"What makes ya think it was my fault?!"
"Because it always is," Plix commented calmly.

"Quick Gir!!" Zim shouted to the small android. "Go retrieve the fire extinguisher goo!"

"Um," Gir replied, suddenly skittish, carefully avoiding his master's eye, "I can't. . ."

"Heh? Why Not?!"
". . .ate it. . ."

"WHAT?!"

"I ate the GOOOOOOO!!!" Gir's eyes welled up and he looked almost remorseful; but then in the next instant, he snorted, erupted into mad giggles, then promptly exploded.

"Great!" Zim spat. "Now I have to fix him again!"

"ZIM! GO ACTIVATE THE SPRINKLER SYSTEM!!" Tak ordered, bringing his attention back to the fire. As he rushed from the room, Tak turned to her daughters. "JooJee, Pin!! Get out of the freaking kitchen!!"

"Um, mom, there's kinda something in the way!" Pin retorted hysterically.

"SPRINKLER SYSTEM ACTIVATED," boomed the voice of the home computer overhead, and at that moment, sprinklers emerged from the ceiling, fully functional.

The fire was out.

And everyone and most of the rooms were covered in fire extinguisher goo, with the exception of Zim, who had activated the sprinklers in the safety of his underground lab. He had just entered the kitchen, took one look around and said, "Yikes."

"Yeah," Tak said with a grimace, wiping goo from her eyes, "yikes."

"Couldn't you have actuated the sprinklers in the kitchen only?" Plix asked his father.

"Oh. . . you can do that. . .?"


"It's all your fault, you realize."

Kacer sighs and says, "Yeah, I know."

Dib scowls and continues, "And now we don't even have a place to stay. Do you realize it'll take a week to reapair the stupid car? Do you realize how much it'll cost?"

"Well, your dad's rich-"

"That's not the point- hey!"

In the past hour since they've been sitting on the side of the road, Dib's been the target of various soda cans, bricks, and metal pans, all thrown by frustrated townspeople who were thoroughly convinced Dib was a-

"Rapist," a fat woman mutters contemptly. She picks up the soda can she has recently chucked at the boy's head, and chugs it down in nothing flat, then throws the empty can at him once more.

"Listen," Dib says, trying his best to ignore her, "I think we should- ow-" a shoe "-find a temporary- OW!-" a box of legos- "place to stay- NYA!! CUT IT OUT!!"

A group of people surround the couple, each bearing some sort of weapon. Yet Kacer stands her ground, and says, "Townspeople! Geez, um. . .Dib's not really a rapist. I, uh. . .lied."

Silence, until one man shrieks, "I BET HE FORCED YOU TO SAY THAT!! CAUSE THAT'S JUST WHAT RAPISTS DO!!"

Neither can fight it anymore; they just run down the street, with the mob close behind, and yet, Dib's mind is suddenly on something other than the crazed townspeople. Down the street, his eyes are fixed on one building alone.

The Deelishous Weenies stand has never looked more beautiful.


Treason against the empire.

Zim is to be trialed for treason against the empire.

He had deliberately activated the moose's doomsday at the Snacking Carnival. He's an enemy against the Irken empire.

By order of the Tallest. . .

By order, Zim is under arrest. . .

Arrested for treason. . .

"DAMMIT!!"

The most Tak can do is stare at the open roof where Pleecy just took her mate away, all she can do is shake her fist and swear. Her children crowd around her, unsure of what to do. Pin's crying. Clox is shivering.

Gir's behind them, dancing wildly, oblivious to the family's crisis. Mimi attempts to take him out with her built-in doomcanon, but just ends up dancing as well.

"Dammit, Zim didn't DO anything!"

Tak kicks the wall, fed up. She can't go after him. No matter what, she can't. . . unless. . . She whips around furiously, her eyes flashing. The children cower.

"Well?!" she shouts. ""What the bloody hell are you doing just standing there?! Get as many supplies as you can -Report to the voot cruiser- we're going to fix it, dammit!"
They have no choice but to listen; as they do so, Tak activates her wrist communicator, intending to call Zim, but then thinks better of it; he might get in trouble. So instead, she contacts an old friend. From the fuzzy screen, she can hardly see his face, but it's him.

She think he's smiling as her says, "Tak? Hey it's been awhile, hasn't it-"

"Joon." She's not in the mood to smile. "Joon, listen, you need to come to Earth now-"

"Tak, I'm kinda needed on the Massive-"

"NOW!!" She's shaking, fully aware she's about to get really emotional, but she doesn't care. She'd like nothing more than to tear Pleecy limb from limb. "I need someone to watch my kids, they've arrested Zim, I need to go after him-"

"Holy shit, Tak, calm down." He sounds utterly confused. "Listen, if he was arrested, there's not much you can do. If you interfere, you could get it worse than him-"

"You know what?! Screw you, Joon! I call to get some bloody help from a bloody friend, but if you're willing to act like a total jackass, then I'll just leave my kids to the Earth beats to die while I'm gone, is that good enough for you?!"

". . . you're psychotic."

"I know! SHUT UP!"

There's a short silence as Tak turns to her smeets, who appear traumatized.

"Get back to work!" she orders.

"Maybe you shouldn't yell," Joon says.

"Joon. . . I just. . . RAWR!"

"Why don't you explain you crisis to me. . .uh, sanely?"

"Nothing, I can't, Pleecy came and said-"

"Pleecy was there?" Joon's eyes bug out slightly.

"Yeah, why? She doesn't stalk you anymore, does she?"

"Actually, she's my-"

Whatever he says next can't be heard; a strange ringing echoes through the room loudly. It takes Tak a moment to realize it's some sort of. . .

"Doorbell!" Pin says cheerfully, skipping down the stairs.

Tak turns the communicator, and follows close behind.

"Pin," she says, "don't open the door without your disguise-"

Too late.

It's wide open for he world to lock inside, but only two people do. They're flushed and panting heavily, but the girl still smiles warmly, happy to see her old friend.

"Hey Tak," Kacer says, "can me and Dib crash here for a few days?"

end of chapter five. . .

So. . . um. . . next chapter. . .?

I can't tell you! Cause it's a surprise! But. . . there'll be. . . a surprise. . . yeah. . . um. . . Zim'll be in it!

That's all I can tell you. Mwahaha!!

Reviews please! They keep me writing. . . seriously, I'm that sad.