Chapter 3

Terror pure terror filled the trio's hearts as they saw the invader exit her ship and jump down to the street. She was a rather tall and thin Irkin nothing about her looked very dangerous but the look in her eyes said something very different. Strolling toward the trio she turned her head to Zim and gave him an almost deranged grin. Both Dib and Zita were paralyzed with fear they just kept staring at the invader like a deer in headlights. On the contrary Zim who was not afraid but furious he hated Tak with everything that he had in him, since the time she came to Earth and tried to take his job away from him.

"Well well it is so good to see you again former Invader Zim." She reached Zim standing no more than a foot away from him.

"Tak… what do I owe this flavorless visit and why the FUCK DID YOU DESTROY MY BASE!" Twitching with anger now Zim was ready to just rip her head off and put it on a stick.

Tak got right in Zim's face and looked down to him.

"I'm here to kill you Zim, I'm going to kill you then I'm going to kill your friend Dib here and don't think I don't know, I saw you two walking you must have really gone off the deep end when the Tallest informed you on our failure status. What is the matter Zim did you fall in love with these mud babies because they were the only ones that took you in?" She began to laugh very maniacally.

"KILL ME WHAT FOR, DON'T TELL ME YOU ARE STILL MAD ABOUT ME MESSING UP YOUR PLANS TO TAKE MY MISSION AND KILL ME!" Zim shoved her away from him and activated his P. defense systems; four large metal spider-like legs protruded out of the P.A.K and lifted him in attack position.

Just standing there with no fear on her face Tak just laughed at Zim. No attempts to defend herself she just stood there laughing.

"The Tallest want you dead Zim and they paid me very handsomely to make sure that not only are you dead but to finish what you couldn't even start…by destroying this miserable mud-ball of a planet." Tak reached into her pocket and pulled out a trigger and pressed it.

Suddenly the device that resided in the hole that was once Zim's house lit up and made a very haunting beeping sound. Tuning back to Zim and the rest of the trio she grinned.

"10 earth minutes that's all you got, the explosion will utterly obliterate this planet. In order to stop it you must manage to stop my heart for it is linked to me as long as I live the bomb keeps ticking. If I were you I would find a nice spot to just pray to whatever deities that you humans believe, for the likelihood of you defeating me is very unlikely." She continued to laugh as a cold sweat developed on both Zita and Dib.

Dib knew what he had to do knowing a lot about Tak from decoding her files from her ship. From the ship logs Tak was almost unbeatable in a single combat situation, her technology skills were twice as advanced as any Irkin, and she was basically death incarnate. Knowing that Zim didn't stand a chance he needed backup.

Turning to Zita he grabbed her and looked into her eyes with so many emotions flooding his mind.

"Zita I need you to get out of here, Zim and I can handle this I don't want anything to happen to you." Tears were now forming in his eyes but he held back the urge to cry.

"No I want to stay with you for better or worse." Dib shook his head and pushed her back.

"ZITA I LOVE YOU TOO MUCH TO SEE ANYTHING HAPPEN TO YOU NOW GET OUT OF HERE!" he grabbed her and gave her a long kiss.

Emotions of fear and love filled both Zita and Dib in the kiss but they both knew what needed to be done. Breaking the kiss Zita turned and ran away leaving only a disgraced invader a human and a half broken robot to dead with Tak.

"Just like old times eh Zim, like the last time we faced her." Getting in a battle ready pose himself he turned and nodded at Zim.

Standing there very amused Tak just shrugged and snapped her fingers.

"MAMIMI THEY HAVE OPTED FOR AN EARLY DEATH SHOW ABLIGE THEM." From behind Tak a S.I.R unit with a modified hand charged at the duo with almost blinding speed.

The last moment before it hit them they both jumped in opposite directions avoiding its fist smashing into the ground. In midair Zim fired a blast of energy from one of his robot legs. Mamimi advanced tech is full of invader Zim's combat styles therefore it knows his attacks before he does them.

BLAM

Landing on the ground Zim looked to see if he hit the S.I.R unit, when trough the dust came a hand on a chain which grabbed Zim's head lifted him up and slammed him on the ground before letting go. While Mamimi was distracted Dib ran up to it and gave it a sweep kick to a Muay Tai knee (kind of like Sagat's Tiger Knee). Not knowing anything about human fighting styles the robot accepted the brutal beating delivered by Dib.

Signaling to Gir Zim who just noticed was just sitting on a curb eating chips, to attack this new foe.

"GIR DESTROY MAMIMI WITH YOUR HEAD DOOM LASER." Gir immediately stood up his eyes flashed crimson and he bent over to have his rear face Mamimi.

"NO GIR YOUR DOOM LAZER IS IN YOUR HEAD." Gir squealed and gave his master thumbs up.

"I needed the room for the chips so I moved it to my butt so now it's a BUTT DOOM LASER!" Firing the laser the force of it shot Gir clear across the sky.

"YAY, I'M GOING TO DIE!" the little robot said as he flew out of sight.

The blast itself missed Mamimi but hit the floor beneath it knocking it in the air giving Zim the opportunity to strike. Jumping in the air Zim's robot legs swung around like a whip and hit Mamimi back to the ground. Landing next to Dib in unison they both began to attack Mamimi at the same time. Giving Mamimi a roundhouse kick but it was blocked by Mamimi's uber-arm Dib knew what just happened it began to record his moves in its memory banks. A head-butt hit Dib square in the face while punching Zim in the face with its uber-fist. Blood trickled down Dib's nose and his eyes began to water knowing that his nose was broken he grabbed his nose clenched his teeth and snapped it back in place. As Dib got his bearings Mamimi grabbed Dib and tossed him around like a ragdoll then throwing him threw a neighbor's kitchen window. Zim began to throw punches, kicks and tentacle strikes some of them connected but to no avail it just made the robot angry and smash him in the face with his uber-fist sending him into a telephone pole, splinters shot out of it as he hit it.

Gaining consciousness Dib found himself on a kitchen floor covered in broken glass. The residents of the house strangely absent from attending to the noises outside and to the crash in the kitchen. Not worrying about this Dib grabbed the nearest knife and ran out of the house to join back in. Glancing at his watch he looked to see how much time remained.

7 minutes left that was it he had to end this now. Throwing the knife at Mamimi it bounced off his head getting its attention. Quickly Dib pressed a series of buttons on his watch to activate his E.M.P dart a device he created as a last resort effort on Zim. With the dart Dib can shut down an enemy electronics without using larger equipment like a nuclear bomb for example. Dib fired the dart but at the last second before it hit Mamimi it grabbed the dart and tossed it to the ground.

"SHIT!" Dib screamed as Mamimi grabbed him and threw him to the ground.

Tightening its hand around Dib's throat Dib felt the vessels in his neck burst as he gasped for air that wasn't there. Just before it went all dark Mamimi let go and collapsed on Dib. Regaining his vision in its fullest Dib looked at what was left of Mamimi's head that had a large hole in it. Zim stood over him one of his metal tentacles was smoking clearly giving Dib the reason behind Mamimi's fate, the smoking gun so to speak. Handing Dib a hand Zim lifted Dib up off the ground but before they got their bearings a bolt of energy hit them freezing them in place.

"Wow I thought you two would have been killed 10 minutes ago, I'm very impressed but you guys got only 5 minutes left so I will give you a simple choice either you two can stay frozen in my zero point energy ray or let me kill you now before I take my leave." Tak stood a few feet away shooting her zero point energy ray at Zim and Dib freezing them in place.

Walking over to both of them and grabbing Dib's chin Tak leaned over and whispered in his ear.

"You know human when I was first here that while ago I kind of liked how you were different from the other meat bags, you can come with me and leave that female I saw you with your combat skills are very attractive to behold, I will make you experience pleasures that you have never felt before." Tak went to give Dib a kiss but only receiving a forceful head-butt right into her face knocking a tooth out.

Tak pulled her head back and let a trickle of purple blood roll down her chin. Smiling she punched Dib in the face and turned and walked back to her bomb as she contacted her ship.

"Sorry human I really would have hoped that you sided with me but you have opted for oblivion, normally I would just leave your ass here to die but being the fact that you have managed to damage me I will give you the quick release now." Her P.A.K ejected a gun grabbing it she raised it to fire.

Before she could pull the trigger a knife flew through the air and knocked the gun out of her hand. The knife itself had a sick looking smiley face on it. Suddenly a voice a very familiar voice ran thru Dib's ears which to him sounded like a battle cry.

"PURPLE BLOOD, NOW THAT WILL LOOK GREAT ON MY WALL!" Johnny ran into the battle wielding a set of custom Bowie knifes behind him was Devi, and Zita.

The energy field that held Zim and Dib failed and they fell to the ground. Johnny rushed to their side Dib was suddenly struck with horror the look in Johnny's eyes they were lifeless. Zim knew the look it was the look of madness.

Pulling another gun out from her P.A.K and duel wielded pointing them at everyone.

"Give it up TAK you are totally outnumbered and out classed my colleague here has a look like he is very skilled with those knifes." Zim stood in front of everyone, Tak stood there holding her guns and just grinned back at him.

"Hmm well enjoy your colleagues for the last 3 minutes you have left farewell." Tak evaporated her ship activated and flew away.

Zim ran over to the bomb and began to try to disarm it.

Dib ran over to Zita and embraced her kissing her and crying. Johnny came to his side and placed a hand on his shoulder. Still kind of frightened by the look he had to ask him.

"What the hell man what is up with your eyes?" Johnny just looked at him.

"Not now Dib I'll will tell you later if there is a later. Dying is a plane that we all will experience in due time but as you people are constructs that I depend on we will have to live for a bit longer." Dib just shuddered at the words but went over to Zim to see how much time they had left.

"Can you disarm it."

"No."

"How much time do we have?"

"1 minute."

Everyone gathered around and held one another to wait for the end but as the timer reached 10 seconds it ran back up.

"I can't disarm it for the trigger is linked to her as long as she lives it will continue to count down. So I maxed out the timer we have 1 year and 6 months to kill her.

"Why not just keep maxing out the timer?"

"If it was only that simple this seems to be her plan all along the device seems to have a failsafe in it the timer only allows a single max out."

"Fuck."

Devi walked up to them holding Gir in her hands he was sucking his thumb and pretending to sleep.

"I found him in our yard he was scooting over my black rose bed."

"Thank you human." Zim took Gir and placed him on the floor. Gir got up and held his masters hand.

Zita walked up behind her to join them.

"So are we ok?"

"Yes Z Zim just told Dib that we now have about 2 years left so we need to kill this bitch." A wave of relief washed over her but she also knew what needed to be done.

Everyone gathered it was time to make a huge move.

"So what do we do now Dib?" Zita and Devi asked in unison.

For what to do it was simple but to how to do it was the hard part.

"We take down Tak and the entire Irkin Empire, this was their mistake don't fuck with Earth." Dib looked back at Zim who looked like he wanted to kill himself.

"Zim, I know they are your leaders but you need to see this from our point of view I mean when someone pushes Earth we push back." Zim put his hand up to silence Dib.

"I know human this is my home now they want me dead now and they try to be cowards and destroy the only planet that accepted me. Now I agree with you Dib human we need to kill Tak but as for the rest of my species they can go too. During my time here I have learned many things I have never learned before this planet although it's distastefully ran it has very good qualities now if I can see that now. If every civilization can be just like that then our mission is an exercise in eradication."

Walking to the center of the cul-de-sac Zim had the attention of everyone.

"Unfortunately we have no way to get there."

A voice came from the sky.

"You need a ship we have one we need to modify it though." Gaz sat in Tak's old ship

Zim looked up at her and smiled at her.

"Let's get started we have a little over a year left." Dib also looked up at his sister and smiled but she just gave him the finger.