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Zim finally arrived in the parking lot of the amusement park, he yelled in anger as he realized the lot was jam- packed full of cars. There was no place for him to land his ship to park.
"This is ridiculous! Look at all these smelly Earth vehicles everywhere!" Zim yelled like a maniac, pounding his fist on the control panel.
Suddenly a parking spot was free after someone left with their minivan.
"There!" Skoodge yelled, pointing at the vacant spot.
As Zim quickly approached the empty spot, sure enough, some other idiot beat him to it and parked a short bus there.
"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! CUUUUUUUUUUURSE YOUUUUUUUUUUUUUU!" He screamed, now furious. "That's it!" He yelled, getting fed up with these filthy humans. He quickly piloted his ship over to the spot aside of it, hovering over a blue car that was there. He hit a button, and a giant laser emerged from the side of the ship, pointed at the car. The laser fired a magenta ray of light, melting the car into a blue puddle of metal. After a few moments, it dried over the pavement, and Zim could park his Voot Cruiser there.
"Cool." Gaz said to Zim.
"Oh, I have to do this all the time. Especially on that wretched Parking Lot planet. This will learn them not to mess with the Almighty Zim!" He bragged.
As the four of them got out of the ship and walked into the park, they could hear the sound of somebody screaming "My car! NOOOOOOOOOOO!" Zim and Gaz just looked at each other and laughed, enjoying the person's suffering. Gaz began to walk away from Zim as she looked for the new arcade.
"Wait! Where are you going?" Zim ran over to the girl, trying to catch up to her. He placed a hand on her shoulder, which caused her to stop dead in her tracks. Skoodge, seeing Zim's hand resting on the scary girl's shoulder, once again jumped into action.
"HU-AAH!" Skoodge yelled as he karate chopped Zim's wrist, causing it to crack.
"Ow! Why did you have to hit me so hard?!" Zim yelled in pain as he let go of Gaz's shoulder. Gaz just stared in question at the two morons.
"Sorry, sir!" Skoodge sheepishly chuckled.
"Anyways...I asked where you are going, Gaz human." Zim once again asked her.
"To the arcade. You can go do whatever it is you guys wanted to do. Take over the world or something, I don't care. I just want to play some video games. Just don't forget to give me a ride home when you're done, or I'll throw you into a nightmare world from which there is no waking." The scary girl told him as she walked up to an arcade game and started to play.
"Oh. Okay." Zim said. He was baffled. His jaw dropped and his shoulders drooped. There it was. He felt something strange again. He felt disappointed. He started to just walk away, but he glanced back at the scary girl. Skoodge was right, he thought to himself; she really is quite pretty, for an alien anyways. NO! NO! NO! Bad thoughts! Don't ever think she's pretty again! He proceeded to hit himself in the face to get a grip on reality. He then noticed the screen of the game she was playing. He quickly came back.
"What game is that?" Zim asked, his curiosity slightly peaked.
"Super Kicky Fighters 2." Gaz answered.
"It looks violent and destructive..." Zim told her.
Skoodge looked confused. "Sir, what are you doing? I thought-"
Zim shoved Skoodge out of the way to get a closer look at the game, and closer to Gaz as well.
"Do you want to play?" She asked Zim.
"I'll play!" Skoodge yelled, as he got up off the ground.
"Me too!" Gir yelled, running full speed ahead toward the arcade game.
"No, you fools! Gaz human has asked me to play!" Zim yelled.
"Here. Zim, you can have a turn on my game. Skoodge, you can play on the one aside of me." Gaz told them.
"Alright!" Skoodge shouted in excitement.
"What are you doing here?! Why are you here?! How?!" Dib couldn't stop asking questions. His jaw was practically hanging open in shock as he stared at the alien girl. The ship didn't even leave the garage yet.
"One question at a time, please." Tak calmly said. She was wearing her holographic human disguise. Mimi suddenly appeared at her side, analyzing Dib's every movement. Tak looked around at the inside of her ship. "I see you managed to find my ship... You've actually taken good care of her..."
"Wait. How are you still alive?!" Dib asked her.
"So glad you asked...After trying to take a mission that was rightfully mine from a blithering, incompetent fool, fighting Zim left my ship damaged, I had no choice but to escape. But before doing so, I vowed I would return...so I could get my REVENGE on the disgusting fool who RUINED my life!" Tak explained.
"But why now? It's been awhile. " Dib curiously asked.
"Well, after that little incident with Zim, I returned back to Irk and pleaded with the Control Brains, only to be reinstated as a janitor on Devastis yet again. As time passed, I was planning my escape, but I was caught by surprise when just last week, an urgent signal was sent to all Irkens, everywhere." She explained.
"What signal?" Dib asked.
"The Control Brains issued a message that Zim's Pak was dislodged, as they detected, for approximately ten minutes. We had all hoped that he finally died. A grand reward was issued by the Tallests themselves to whoever found and brought them his Pak. That's where I came in. I made my escape and traveled back to this nasty rock. I was going to bring Zim's Pak back to the Empire to be destroyed, never to be reactivated again. "
"There was a reward for his Pak?" Dib asked, with an eyebrow raised.
"Yes. Zim has caused so much destruction and ruin for the Irken Empire, even the galaxy, they issued a reward to anyone who was capable of finding his Pak, so it would ultimately be destroyed." She explained.
"But the Pak is back on Zim..." Dib told her.
"I know..." She said with much frustration as she narrowed her eyes. "Someone must have helped him..." She said, her teeth gritted together.
"It wasn't me. I was the one who got the Pak off of him! It was trying to take control of my mind and body!" Dib told her.
"I'm glad that it didn't..." She told him, relieved that another demented version of Zim wasn't running around. "but I am curious as to who helped him..." She looked at him suspiciously.
"I think it might have been, uh, Skoodge!" Dib tried to lie, covering for his sister.
"You see, I thought that as well. But I completed a scan and Skoodge was nowhere in the vicinity at the time. I know it wasn't you; you hate Zim almost as much as I do...and it surely wasn't that stupid piece of scrap metal that he calls his Sir unit...So I thought harder. It would have to be someone who knows about Irken technology. So I had to ask myself: who would be psychotic enough, evil enough, to help save someone like Zim?" Tak continued as she tapped her finger on her chin.
"Uh, um...that little floating moose?" Dib quickly said, hoping she'd buy it.
"Wrong again...I know who it was, Dib. You can stop lying...you're not very good at it."
Dib was sweating now. He was a nervous wreck. He didn't want her to know who it was. He didn't even want to know himself.
"It was your sister. Gaz." The Irken spat out.
"Okay, so it was my sister...but he tricked her into saving his life! He lied and-and stole a video game and-"
"No. He didn't trick her. He's too stupid to do something like that, and why on Irk would she ever believe something like him?" Tak's words made him re-evaluate that day.
Dib looked in confusion. His mind flashed back to something his sister had said to him. Something that made him rethink the situation.
(Horrible flashback to that day)
"He wants to destroy us all and you helped him?!" Dib yelled.
" eh... he's so bad at it though." She said as she shrugged it off.
"Ugh... I just want to know why you helped him. You never help anyone! You only help me once in a while." Dib pressed for more answers.
Gaz sighed. "I don't know. Zim is one of the very few people who I don't completely hate."
"Wait... So you like him?!" Dib shouted in accusation.
This caught Gaz off guard and made her blush slightly. " No! I just- He's going to make me a new game system now since he dropped and BROKE MINE!" She quickly answered.
(End of Dib's horrifying flashback)
Dib's eye was twitching in shock as all he could hear was his sister's voice echoing 'Zim is one of the very few people who I don't completely hate."
"But she hates everybody!" Dib yelled out loud. Tak looked at him with a nonexistent brow raised.
Dib thought about how she reacted when he asked her if she liked Zim- he realized the question caught her off guard. He could have sworn he saw her blush that day. Not that anybody would believe him if he had said anything. That would be the equivalent of telling everyone Bigfoot was riding a bicycle on a busy highway at rush hour. They all would just call him crazy, as usual.
"No way...then...it must be true!" Dib screamed. "N-no! No no no! It can't be true! It can't be! My little sister can't like Zim!" He felt shaky and nauseated as he thought back to the haunting words "Zim's going to be your brother-in-law!" that the other students had teased him about.
"The amusement park!" Dib screamed as his mind almost short circuited.
"Um, are you okay?" Tak asked the large headed boy.
He quickly tried to regain his composure by taking deep breaths. "I- I think, maybe- No! I'm not okay! Zim's at that new amusement park with my sister! "
"Then what are you waiting for? Let's go." Tak ordered.
"What? No, I'm going myself. I need to keep my sister safe and stop Zim!" Dib told her.
"Allow me to help you stop Zim." Tak told him, placing a hand over his arm.
"Look, I get that you're here for revenge and everything, but even with Zim gone, then you're just going to destroy the Earth anyways!" Dib shouted.
Tak began to cackle maniacally. "The Tallest have no real interest in Earth! They consider it a worthless rock, and as good a place as any to exile Zim, so he shuts up and stops causing the Empire destruction! I am just here strictly for revenge. I want Zim's Pak."
"Zim's...exiled...to Earth?" Dib asked in disbelief.
"Yes. He is quite a nuisance. All he does is cause a trail of destruction in his wake. The Irken Empire sees no value in Earth. Neither do I." She blatantly responded.
"Yeah right! Like you're not gonna just take over Earth instead of Zim?!" Dib asked, unsure of whether to believe her or not.
Tak sighed heavily. "Try proving yourself worthy as much as you possibly can to a society that doesn't care about you, that just thinks you're crazy, and that you should just be a janitor for the rest of your life. I was destined for something better, something GREATER! Not being assigned to clean up piles of dirt for eternity!"
"...I... actually understand." Dib told her.
"...Oh...that's right. All those paranormal discoveries you told me about... that your people don't believe you even when you have irrefutable evidence." Tak suddenly realized.
Dib looked stunned. He couldn't believe she actually remembered the paranormal discussions they've shared before. Nobody cared about his paranormal discussions. "You... remember?"
"Of course I do. Bigfoot, Loch Ness monster, vampires...How could I possibly forget?" She asked him, smiling at him. "Most importantly I remember our talks about torturing Zim..."
Dib simply smiled at her. "Yeah, I remembered when you hit him with slabs of meat and barbecue sauce...good times." He chuckled and sighed.
"So...then let's get the disgusting fool who keeps ruining both of our lives..." Tak said, offering him a handshake.
Dib looked at her outstretched hand in contemplation. "Only if my sister remains unharmed..."
"Of course. I won't hurt her. I'm only after Zim." She answered.
"Deal." Dib said, shaking her hand.
Tak simply smiled evilly. "Deal."
"This is going to be awesome!" Dib yelled in excitement, and his spaceship yet to leave the garage as he had been fascinated by his surprise visitor. Well, that came to an abrupt end when Dib heard the sound of his father's voice approaching.
"Son!" Membrane yelled for Dib as he was about to enter the garage.
"OH NO! My Dad's coming!" Dib yelled in fear.
"Then hurry up before he sees us leave." Tak whispered.
"No! I can't! It's too late! He already knows I'm in here!" Dib quietly yelled as he panicked and grabbed Tak's arm, pulling her out of the ship. He was closely followed by Mimi, who changed to her cat disguise. Dib panicked and threw a blue tarp over Tak's ship. And not a moment too soon...
Professor Membrane stormed in the door to the garage. "Son! You're supposed to be grounded and you're in here talking to yourself again- " The Professor couldn't even finish his sentence as he noticed that for once Dib was not actually talking to himself. It appears he had a friend, maybe. "Oh! I see you have a friend over!"
"Yeah, sorry Dad, but-"
"Don't be sorry son! Is this why you tried to sneak out of the house? I found the watermelon on the pillow and a piece of rope hanging out the window! Ho Ho!" The Professor laughed.
"Uh, yeah. Dad, this is my friend, Tak. Tak, meet my Dad, Professor Membrane." Dib quickly introduced the two.
"Hello! It's nice to meet you, Tak!" The Professor eagerly said.
"Hello. It's good to meet you as well. Dib has told me all about you." Tak said, not really paying attention as her main focus was finding and crushing Zim's Pak.
"So, your Dib's friend! Oh how wonderful! I never thought this day would come!" Professor Membrane said happily as he quickly snapped a photo of Dib and Tak together. Mimi hissed.
"What day? The day I have a friend over?" Dib asked.
"No! The day you weren't actually talking to yourself!" Membrane happily told him. "So what were you two talking about?" He then asked.
"Uh, inventions, and cats, and stuff...Dad, I really don't have a lot of time for this right now-"
"Oh! Inventions! Do you like science as well?" Membrane asked Tak.
"Yes, I have quite an interest in science. It's always been a hobby of mine." She answered, glancing over at her ship, which was barely hiding under the tarp.
"Wonderful! Oh! You must come in! I really want talk to my son's one and only friend!"
"Dad, can we talk later. We kinda wanted to hang out... at ...Bloaty's pizza." Dib pleaded, desperate to hunt down the vile alien who was with his little sister.
"In time, son. Now you, your friend and that scary cat can come in and we can all have ice cream and talk all about science!" Membrane said as he started to guide Dib and Tak into the kitchen. Dib simply groaned in annoyance while Tak was growing rather impatient, but she didn't want to blow her cover. Mimi quickly rushed inside, her eyes glowing dark red.
Meanwhile, Zim, Gaz, Skoodge and Gir continued to play some arcade games.
Skoodge kept looking over Gaz's shoulder at her game, and away from his, to her annoyance. "Wow! This level reminds me of Blorch! You can really hear the screams of all those tormented souls in that fiery pit!" He yelled.
"Yeah, yeah. Just try to keep up." Gaz coldly replied.
"You're really good with video games..." Skoodge complimented her, smiling brightly.
"Thanks." Gaz simply said. This alien didn't seem as bold or arrogant as Zim, which was surprising, considering he actually conquered a planet.
"I mean it. You know, we never really get to talk much. It's kinda nice talking to you." Skoodge told her.
Gaz just looked at him as if he was insane, while Zim was impatiently waiting for his turn, holding a basket of nachos. "Zim has brought you some nachos, Gaz human."
"Oh. Good. You're finally back." Gaz said to Zim with a half smile.
"I've been standing here for nearly five minutes holding your nachos! You didn't even acknowledge my amazing, glorious presence!" Zim yelled, growing angry.
Gaz scoffed at him. "I couldn't hear your loud voice because Skoodge keeps talking to me."
"Skoodge! Quit talking to her! Your awful voice muffles my amazing Zim voice! " Zim yelled as he was about to hand the basket of nachos to Gaz's left hand.
Skoodge gasped as Zim's hand was about to touch Gaz's. "NOOOOOOOO!" He slowly yelled. It was almost set in slow motion as Skoodge attempted to stop it. He brought his hand up to karate chop Zim's hand, knocking the nachos out of a surprised Zim's hand. Gaz looks in horror as her nachos hit the ground with a thud. Gir began to yell in delight as he began to eat the nachos off the ground.
"There ya go! I got your back, pal!" Skoodge said proudly as he patted Zim on the back.
"You FOOL! I had to wait in that smelly line of filthy, stinking humans for well over 15 minutes to get those just for Gaz human!" Zim screamed like a lunatic.
"Oh...whoops." Skoodge said as he chuckled. Gaz was getting angry.
"Oh, don't worry. I can buy you some more." He said as he pulled out a fistful of cash from his pocket, handing it to Zim.
"What?! You dare hand this to me?! As if I'm about to get back in that filthy line-"
"Thanks, Zim." The girl said before waving him off. Zim grumbled as he went back over to the nacho line, which was three times longer than it was before. Zim gasped. He was not waiting that long just to get some nachos..."Stupid Skoodge..." He grumbled to himself as he activated his spider legs and lasers, yelling a battle cry.
"Did you want any other food? I'm buying! I'll just send Zim or Gir to get it." Skoodge nicely offered the girl.
"eh...maybe a can of soda." She said to him.
"Here Gir. Take this money and buy us all some soda." He said as he gave Gir the wad of cash.
"I like sodas! CHOCOLATE BUBBLEGUM!" The little robot screamed as he ran off.
Skoodge just stared at Gaz for a few moments, mesmerized by her gaming skills. "So, I kinda wanted to tell you something..." Skoodge began to say, a blush of green growing on his face. He stepped closer to the scary girl.
"What? Make it quick. The next level's comin-"
"SKOODGE!" Zim angrily yelled over at his friend, which made him jump. He came running with another basket of nachos in his hands.
"Huh?!" Skoodge nervously said, not expecting Zim to be back so fast.
Zim couldn't help but notice how close he was to Gaz. For some reason, it angered him even further. "Did you send Gir with monies to get yourself some soda?" Zim asked suspiciously.
"Ummm...I might have, maybe..." Skoodge quietly answered, clearly guilty.
"Well, thanks to you, we have another popcorn incident again!" Zim yelled. Gaz raised an eyebrow.
"OOOOOH NOOOO!" Skoodge yelled in horror.
"Go clean it up before the filthy humans suspect anything!" Zim demanded, handing Skoodge a shovel.
Skoodge looked completely horrified. "Wait, but I promised Gaz I would get her a-" Skoodge couldn't even finish his sentence as Zim promptly kicked him, sending him flying into the air with the shovel. "-SOOOOOOODAAAAAAAA!" He yelled as he went sailing in mid air, thanks to Zim's boot.
Zim smiled, satisfied at what he had done. He then looked over at Gaz, who was just finishing the level she was on. "I have completed my nacho mission." He said, handing her the nachos.
"Thanks...that was quick. How did you beat the lines?" She asked, taking the basket and eating some.
"Let's just say...lasers. And I'm just that amazing." He bragged as he wrapped an arm around her shoulder and pointed her in the direction of a dark cloud of smoke.
Gaz just looked as she saw a firetruck, flames, and mass amounts of black smoke over by where the nacho stand used to be. She smiled. "Cool."
"Impressive, yes?" He asked her.
"Yeah, it's actually kinda funny." She admitted as she smiled.
Zim couldn't help but to smile at the evil human. Out of anybody, she at least has an appreciation for the art of destruction, much like himself. "Oh, hey! Can I continue from where you left off?" He asked her. He was actually kind of giddy.
She had realized she was ignoring her game somewhat since Zim came back. "Sure...I want to finish eating these anyways. Just don't mess anything up. I want as many tickets as possible. There's a certain prize I wanted..." She said as she moved out of the way and let Zim take control of her game.
"Me?! Mess something up? Never! You will surely get your tickets and prize thingy!" He insisted. He took control of the Super Kicky fighters 2 game, while Gaz stood to the right side of him eating her nachos, watching the game closely. "Yes! Victory! Victory for Zim! See! My gaming skills are truly AMAZING-"
"You mean truly LAME!" A very annoying voice sounded from the left of him, interrupting the conversation (AKA Zim's gloating). Zim, whose eye was twitching in sheer anger, slowly turned his head to see who would be stupid enough to insult someone elite like himself. Sure enough, he saw the very thing which emitted such a horrible sound from its noise tube. Gaz froze in pure anger, dropping the rest of her nachos on the ground. She clenched her fists as she recognized that horrible, irritating voice.
"What did you just say to ZIM, you disgusting stink beast?!" Zim angrily yelled, glaring at the kid.
"I said your gaming skills are LAME, you green weirdo!" The annoying kid laughed.
"And just who do you think you are you worm?!" Zim asked as he gritted his teeth.
"My name is Iggins, and I'm clearly the superior gamer!" Iggins arrogantly told Zim, who was fuming. But Iggins failed to notice a certain purple haired nemesis who had been standing at Zim's side, hidden from sight.
A very scary Gaz creepily walked out from Zim's shadow, scaring the living daylights out of the boy without even saying so much as a word.
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!" Iggins screeched in horror as he pointed at Gaz. "Y-You?!"
"Iggins...I see you're not in a full body cast anymore- I can arrange for that to happen again..." Gaz said creepily. It made Iggins shudder and have horrible flashbacks. Tears ran down from his face.
"You two know each other?!" Zim said in surprise.
"Unfortunately." Gaz told the Irken.
"You're insane! She's insane!" Iggins said to the scary girl, putting a good amount of distance between him and her.
"Thank you." She said with an evil smirk, taking it as a compliment.
"Hey! You dare to challenge Zim!?" Zim screamed at the idiot who was trembling in terror. "You question my amazing gaming skills, worm-baby?"
"Uuuuh...Yes! You're not nearly as good as I am! My gaming skills are so good they warp reality!" He foolishly bragged, trying to regain his composure and not pee his pants in terror.
"Zim is far more AMAZING than you ever will be, you dirty monkey!" The alien screamed in his face, losing his temper.
A crowd of people suddenly formed around them.
"OOOOOOOOOOH!" The crowd sounded as Zim continued to insult him.
"Yeah right! In your dreams!" The annoying kid scoffed.
Gaz wanted to wrap her hands around neck and end him. It was bad enough she had to deal with this annoyance before, but now he was trying to annoy Zim as well...on her day of fun. She ran towards the doofus, and threw him on the ground like he was nothing. Iggins started to whimper in fear. The crowd was egging her on by chanting "Beat him up! Beat him up!" Gaz was about to pummel him. However, Zim gently pulled the smaller girl off of the idiot.
"What are you doing?!" She asked him, a crazed look was on her face.
Zim released her from his grip. "This pathetic pile of stink meat has challenged ME. I shall be the one to prove my AMAZING ZIM skills by defeating him. Then afterwards I'll DESTROY him!"
Iggins got up off the ground and was dusting himself off. "It's pretty sad when your scary girlfriend has to save you... I don't know what she sees in you. Or anyone for that matter. You're green and ugly and are a bad gamer! I could beat you right here, right now!" He taunted Zim.
This sent the crowd into an uproar.
Zim became infuriated beyond belief. He was about to explode. "LIIIIIEEEEES- Girlfriend?! She is n-" Zim suddenly stopped mid-sentence as he felt a small hand embrace his own. He looked down and realized the scary girl was now holding his hand, grimacing at Iggins. And it wasn't to crush his fingers to death or cause him pain. It felt nice. He again felt a little strange, but decided to embrace her hand.
"You're going down, creep. Zim is a really good gamer. He's going to destroy you. And after he does, I get to plunge your pathetic soul into a nightmare world from which there is no waking, but not before I tear your limbs from your body." The girl creepily threatened. It made Zim smile arrogantly. It seems she was there to support him.
Iggins was torn by wanting to compete in a gaming challenge with this arrogant green kid, and running out of the arcade and as far away from Gaz as possible. His brain was about to explode from indecision.
"Well, stink beast? Any last words?" Zim arrogantly asked the shaky boy.
"I accept your challenge. Super kicky fighters 2." Iggins declared.
"Three rounds only...I'm not standing here all day." Gaz ordered.
"Deal. You're on, Zim." The annoying boy said.
"You're going down at the hands of Zim, you bloated Earth larvae!"
The crowd sounded a collective series of "WHOOAAs!"
Gaz looked behind her at the annoying crowd. "Oh, and by the way, Iggins doesn't like green people. Zim has a skin condition." She cleverly told the people, sending them into an even bigger uproar as they began to assume the annoying kid was also a racist.
They immediately started to boo him and throw garbage at him before he made his way over to the arcade game. They were now cheering for Zim. Zim simply smiled at how evil, cunning and cruel Gaz could be...but at the same time, she was kind of nice. To him anyways. Zim cracked his knuckles as he started another game of Super Kicky Fighters 2. Today couldn't possibly get any weirder. Or could it?
I couldn't wait to elaborate on Tak's appearance! I hope I kept her in character. As odd as it may seem, she and Dib do have something important in common (well, besides their mutual hatred for Zim) Their societies don't appreciate their skills or intelligence, and they both seem to get the crappy end of the stick because of it.
I couldn't wait to add some ZAGR moments! I love Zim and Gaz! I wanted to add Iggins to the story because I always imagined what a Zim vs Iggins battle would look like! Let's just say the next chapter is going to be a lot more interesting!