The only reason why the police were searching the Membrane household for clues was that this time it was Professor Membrane's daughter that was missing. They knew that they would find nothing.
Dib couldn't believe what had happened. He clung to his sister's necklace as though it would bring her back.
"I can't stand it anymore!" Dib shouted. "I have to do …something!"
He stuffed Gaz's necklace into his trench coat pocket. His feet pulled him out the door and toward Zim's old base, yet he knew that he had picked it clean of anything useful. Dib let his feet guide him.
He stopped outside what remained of the fence. The ground was littered in holes to the inner sanctum of the base. Calmly, Dib slid down the nearest one.
Crashing at the bottom, he arrived in a large, dark cavern which dripped broken wires like water. Dib lay down and tried to l the silence calm him, ignoring the glass jabbing him in the back. Suddenly he leapt to his feet, holding his arms in front of his face to shield it. Dib thought he heard movement behind him.
"I know your there," Dib tried to sound brave yet inside he was about to puke from fear. "Come out and face me, coward!"
Red eyes flickered from the darkness. "In…truder!..None…may…pass!..Ma…ster!…Where…are..you!"
A small, beat up robot appeared from the shadows, dragging itself on its one arm and trying to lift its head up. Its legs were missing and wires spilled from its torso. One eye was clinging to its head by a few wires and the other was cracked. With one last heave toward the stunned boy, its surge of power gave out and its eyes went dark once more.
"GIR?"