"Does it only respond to things in Irken?" Dib asked before turning back to the closet and attempting to imitate the clicks and hissing noises that made up the alien language.

"No! It's not a shrinking machine!" Zim shouted. He was getting extremely annoyed at Dib pestering him, and his Irken was terrible. Being the perfectionist that he was, hearing him do it completely wrong was grating on his nerves.

"I grew myself using this magic flashlight!" he revealed, picking it up from the coach. Dib stopped and turned to look at him.

"Magic flashlight?" he asked, his interest piqued. "Let me see that thing!" Zim let out a small squeak as the boy leapt at him. The alien ran out of the base, holding the flashlight out in front of him. After looking at the mysterious closet one more time, Dib gave chase.

Before he could reach the end of the front walk, Zim was tackled from behind. The two boys fell onto the ground, knocking the flashlight away.. It rolled over a rock, which flicked the switch . The two watched as the beam of blue light that shone out of the crystal tied to the end hit a caterpillar. It grew to an enormous size. It was bigger than Dib's head! It was huge! It then proceeded to crush several cars.

Dib got up and picked the device up up carefully and began to examine it, only to accidentally shrink his own hand. The boy began to panic.

"Oh my gosh, my hand is tiny! Microscopic! It's atomic! Diminutive! Petite!"

"Dib-"

"Minute! Infinitesimal! Miniature!"

"Dib-" Zim said a little more forcefully.

"Minuscule! Gnomish! Puny!"

At this point, Zim was sure that Dib was just trying to show off how many synonyms for 'small' he knew.

"Alright! I get it. Your hand is small!" Zim finally shouted before snatching the flashlight back and switching the the setting to 'grow'. He returned Dib's hand back to normal. "Now just shut up!"

Dib was silent for a moment before shouting "Normal hand karate chop!" and hitting Zim's wrist, causing him to drop the flashlight.

"Ow!" While the alien was rubbing his sore arm, Dib grabbed the flashlight off the ground and ran. He turned around only to shoot a beam of light at his foe. Zim's head grew to be three times larger in the beam.

"Ha! Who's head is big now?" Dib taunted.

Zim let out a battle cry and charged. Taking back the flashlight, he switched it to 'shrink' and shrunk his head to the right size. He then aimed it at Dib's head. In the magenta beam, his head shrunk to the size of an apple. The boy screamed.

"AAAAAAH- well, at least my head isn't so big any more." he then made a move for the flashlight. Zim frantically tried to avoid him, and turned the beam back on, this time causing Dib's head to return to normal. Knocking the alien to the ground, the two continued to fight over the magic flashlight. Dib kicked him in the stomach and grabbed it.

"Give it back!" he cried.

"Never!" Zim tried to reach for it, but the human held him back an arm length away. Suddenly, Dib didn't feel the weight of the flashlight in his hand.

"Huh?" the two turned around to see a familiar female, who now had possession of the flashlight. She examined the device closely.

"Well well well, what do we have here?"

"Tak!" they said in unison. This was bad. Tak was crazy and evil. Something like that in her hands was really really bad.

"Maybe she didn't see us use it and doesn't know it's a magic flashlight that can grow and shrink things." Zim whispered.

"I'm right here you know, I can hear you." she pointed out. She turned her attention to the red flashlight in her hand. She flipped the switch on and off testingly before grinning.

"Nonononono, wait-!" she aimed the light directly at them. The two shrunk until they were the size of voodoo dolls. Hopefully the female Irken wouldn't use them as such.

Tak cackled victoriously before taking out an advanced looking jar from her disguised PAK. The two tried to run, but she was able to catch them easily, and deposited them in the jar. She secured the lid on tightly before locking it.

Wow, that was an extremely short chapter. Too short for my liking. Guess I just didn't feel like writing any more today. Oh well, next chapter will be better, I promise