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Tak began to cackle maniacally as she rained unholy terror down upon the amusement park. She used her ultra powered Splodium laser gun, (which was the latest and greatest model a vengeful Irken can get her hands on) to fire at her nemesis. Zim swiftly began to zig zag and dodge all of the deadly shots, which were wrecking the surrounding amusement park rides and stands. Gaz, who was growing furious that her brother's friend trying to kill her friend, decided to try to pounce on Tak. As Gaz was about to jump her, Tak suddenly turned and took notice to the scary girl, and quickly threw something small, round and purple in her direction.
"I DON'T THINK SO!" Tak shouted to her attacker.
A large purple tinted bubble suddenly formed around Gaz. The scary human looked at the bubble, surprised that this girl had the nerve to trap her. Zim now looked worried as he watched his friend get trapped. He started to panic, and this time it wasn't just for himself for a change.
"WHAT ARE YOU DOING?! RELEASE THE DIB-SISTER! SHE HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH MY ROBOT BEE!" Zim screamed at Tak while he fired lasers from his Pak.
"THIS ISN'T ABOUT YOUR STUPID ROBOT BEE! I trapped her because I can't have her trying to stop me from executing you, now can we?" Tak answered with a smirk. She accurately dodged all of his shots as she charged after Zim.
Dib stared in surprise by what Zim had just said. He could have sworn he just heard the most selfish alien he's ever known command for Gaz's release. He even thought he saw Zim help his sister dodge Tak's laser fire, but he must of been hallucinating. Then again, Gaz is strong, and he was probably planning on using her to battle Tak. Yeah, that must be it, knowing Zim. Dib then wore the most anxious look he's ever had in his life, as he turned around and cautiously approached his younger sister who was now trapped in the purple tinted alien bubble.
"LET ME OUT NOW!" Gaz demanded as she repeatedly slammed her fists against the containment bubble, but it would not break. Her dark aura started to grow, but whatever material the container was made out of just made her energy crackle and wither, and fail to cause any damage.
"Part one is complete. You're not going anywhere, Gaz. I specifically engineered that energy container to withstand your strength and psychokinetic abilities, so you can only watch as I destroy Zim." Tak calmly told Gaz as she rolled behind a food stand, blocking more of Zim's hellfire.
"Sorry, Gaz! We just didn't want you to interfere and get hurt!" Dib tried to reason, but his sister became even angrier.
" 'WE?!" YOU DID THIS?! ARE YOU BEGGING FOR ME TO REMOVE YOUR LIMBS TODAY, DIB?!" Gaz screamed in fury.
"You'll thank me for this later!" Dib shouted to his sister as he ran away from her and to help Tak defeat Zim. He would really need to ask Tak later for a lifetime supply of those containers if he was ever going to survive his sister's wrath. As Dib was running, he was suddenly tackled from behind by someone rather heavy.
"HU-AH!" Skoodge shouted as he landed on Dib's back.
"AAAAAAAH! MY BACK!" Dib yelled in pain as the alien sat on him. "CAN'T... BREATHE!"
"SKOODGE?! When did you get here?" Zim asked, actually glad to see his friend for once.
"I heard the horrible sounds of destruction and terror coming from the direction you ran off in, and I thought to myself, 'I should probably check to see if Zim's still alive!'" Skoodge said worriedly. He looked around and observed the destruction taking place, seeing Zim fighting back against a hidden attacker. He turned his head and seen Gaz, her arms folded and wearing a death stare on her face, locked in a containment unit.
"WHOA! ZIM! WHAT HAPPENED?! Did you actually kiss Gaz?! Is that what caused ALL of THIS?!" Skoodge ignorantly screamed as he was still sitting upon Dib's back.
"WHAAAAAAAAAAAT?!" A panicked Dib managed to choke out, slamming his fists on the ground. He nearly gagged. He was beginning to run out of air.
"NO, YOU FOOL! IT'S TAK! SHE'S TRYING TO KILL ME!" Zim answered as he ran by. "But good job capturing Dib monkey! Your tremendous weight will surely kill him!"
Skoodge turned to face the scary girl, who's face was turning completely red. "Oh...Hi, Gaz."
"Skoodge! GET ME OUT OF HERE!" The scary girl demanded.
"You're not gonna kill me, are you?!" He fearfully asked.
"NO! And as funny as it is to watch you slowly suffocate Dib, I want you to get me out!" She told him.
Skoodge immediately got up off of Dib and dusted himself off. Dib layed on the ground almost as flat as a pancake.
"Finally...AIR! SWEET AIR!" Dib yelled as he raised his hands in the air and head out of the soil.
But before he could get up, Skoodge placed a pair of handcuffs on his hands. "Sorry, but you're not going anywhere!" He told Dib.
"NOOOOOOOO!" Dib yelled as he struggled to squeeze out of the handcuffs. "OH COME ON!" It was just his luck. As he layed on the ground, he had only hoped that Tak was making more progress then he was.
Skoodge looked a bit worried as he observed the bubble that Gaz was trapped in.
"What is it? What are you waiting for?" She impatiently asked him.
"This is a Vortian capture bubble!" He pokes it with his finger, and a purple energy zaps him. "And it's been modified, too! Not good! I can try to get you out, but I can't promise anything!" Skoodge rolled down his glove to reveal a wrist watch, and proceeded to fire a high powered laser beam at the side of the bubble. The bubble reflected the beam, which ricocheted and nearly shot poor Skoodge. "AAAAAAAAAH! Well, I tried. If that didn't work, I don't know what will. We need something that excels in destroying to remove you from that thing."
"So in other words I'm stuck?" Gaz reluctantly asked as she smacked her head in disgust. A battle was taking place, and here she could only watch as Tak tried to destroy Zim and maybe even Skoodge, all while she was stuck in a giant hamster ball.
She looked at the container curiously and came up with a rather clever idea. "Hmmm...This thing can reflect shots, huh?" She asked herself out loud, forming an idea. "Skoodge, I need you to push me over to Zim..."
Tak began sprinting after the moron who ruined her life. As Zim ran, he took notice to all the destruction she was causing, and something bothered him about it; something didn't quite make any sense...
"I cannot believe you are working with Dib monkey! And yet here you are trying to destroy his filthy world instead!? IT DOESN"T MAKE ANY SENSE! Don't you think that destroying Earth will upset his ridiculously large 'I'm gonna save all the stupid humans!' head?!" Zim shouted to her as he ducked and avoided her shots.
"Take a look around, Zim! I'm NOT here to destroy the humans! As a matter of fact, besides Dib and his sister, there are no other humans in sight!" Tak pointed out.
Zim looked around and noticed the area was vacant, but he figured that two people trying to destroy each other will do that.
" I bet you're wondering why that is!" Tak told him.
Zim raised a nonexistent eyebrow. "Not really." He said as he shrugged his shoulders.
"WELL, I'M TELLING YOU ANYWAYS! This is all part of a plan that Dib and I have formed, so civilians aren't caught in the crossfire! Part one: capture and contain your precious little Gaz. Part two-
"Wait!... Precious?! " Zim shouted defensively.
"PART TWO: All humans were redirected towards the opposite side of this stupid park, where they are currently being held in a hypnotic state of mind! After I capture you, they will be released, and they won't remember a thing about today!" She shouted as she aimed the laser at Zim.
On the other side of the amusement park, near the popcorn stand, a large gathering of humans stood there brainlessly as Mimi controlled a huge holographic screen. Gir was tied up with a dog leash and thrown in with the crowd of humans, courtesy of the robotic cat. On the screen, a recording of Tak appeared. She used her psionic ability of purple energy movement from her eyes to hypnotize the audience. This shot out mind controlling energy from the screen and directly into the human's eyes, which kept them, and Gir, in a standstill. Needless to say, the humans looked like a drooling, brainwashed mess, even worse than they usually do.
"...PRECIOUS?! HOW DARE YOU SAY THAT TO ME! THE ALMIGHTY ZIM!" His mind was still stuck on that word like a horrible song sticks in one's head on repeat.
"Face it, you disgusting moron! I observed how you act around her! And I have seen enough! I could just VOMIT! You have gone SOFT!" Tak retorted.
Zim looked at her in shock for a brief moment, his left eye twitching wildly. It was bad enough he was called short today by a human, and now he was being called 'soft' by a member of his own race. Invader Zim is NOT soft. He suddenly exploded as he realized something. "...HEY! I HAVE NOT GONE SOFT! IF ANYONE HAS GONE SOFT AND GOOEY, IT IS YOU!"
Tak scoffed at him. "You do realize I'm trying to kill you right now, you fool?!"
"I MEAN IT! AT LEAST I'M TRYING TO DESTROY THE EARTH! I DON'T CARE IF I DESTROY ALMOST EVERY OTHER HUMAN ON THIS PLANET! NEITHER DOES GAZ! BUT YOU- YOU'RE TRYING NOT TO DESTROY THEM! YOU'RE TELLING ME THAT YOU'RE ACTUALLY TRYING TO SPARE ALL OF THEM!? YOU SOUND EXACTLY LIKE THE DIB MONKEY! PERHAPS IT IS BECAUSE YOU ADMIRE HIM!" Zim shouted accusingly in a rare moment of clarity. He then gagged at the horrible thought.
Tak stared at Zim in complete surprise, as she was caught off guard by what he had said. She certainly wasn't expecting the moron to say that. She is normally indifferent to civilians- and the idea of admiring Dib? She felt queasy because she realized that this whole time they made this plan that centered around not harming the humans, and even protecting them from Zim as an end result. Working with Dib Membrane actually wasn't so bad. He was certainly one of the most likable humans on the planet. And one of the smartest, not to mention one of the only people in the galaxy to go up against Zim continuously and survive. She had to give him a lot of credit for that alone. They could easily relate to each other about being outcasts in their own societies, as well as their mutual hatred of Zim. She realized that she liked talking to him, at least. He could be funny, and even kind of charming in his own eccentric way. Maybe she does feel something more for him than just an ally in a fight against the galaxy's biggest nuisance. She stopped analyzing her thoughts and just stood silent, glaring at him with a look of pure hatred.
"HA! That is the worst possible insult I could tell you! AND WORST OF ALL IT'S TRUE!" Zim mocked her as he fired laser shots from his Pak at her.
"HUMANS ARE NOT IMPORTANT TO ME, ZIM! SO WHY WOULD I WASTE MY RESOURCES ON THEM?! MY MISSION, IS FOR YOU!" She quickly told him as she dodged his shots, but unfortunately, one grazed her shoulder. She layed on the ground, slightly dazed as Zim drew closer firing more shots at her. Another one almost hit her in the stomach, that is, until someone heroically leaped in front of her, his hands raised in the air.
"DIB STINK!" Zim angrily shouted.
Tak gasped in disbelief, and her eyes grew big. He threw himself in front of her to protect her from Zim's laser fire.
"I KNEW I COULD STILL BE USEFUL!" Dib shouted as he looked at his hands, which were now free. Not only did he save Tak, but the shot also broke the handcuffs, setting him free. Things were starting to look up for Dib.
"You know you could have had your hands burned off?" Tak said to Dib as he helped her off of the ground.
"I know." Dib said with a smile.
"Why?" was all an astonished Tak could ask. The very human whose planet she once attempted to destroy, protected her. It was unbelievable to her highly analytical mind.
"I like saving people." Dib shrugged his shoulders and replied. He never thought he would even attempt to save the girl who tried to destroy Earth, but then again, stranger things have happened. She really didn't seem so bad anymore.
"...Even after I tried to sacrifice your planet with you on it?" She blatantly asked, as she felt bewildered. Maybe Dib really is crazy like everyone says.
"Well, there's that." He said flatly, an annoyed look crossed his face. He sighed. "...But you changed for the better. If it counts, I think that you were destined for something greater than blowing up Earth or being a janitor." He said as he smiled at her.
Tak stared at Dib curiously. She felt touched by what he had just said and done. In that moment, she realized that it took a lot of courage and forgiveness for someone like Dib to protect someone like her. It was unheard of. Tak smiled and handed him a small laser gun, which Dib took with delight. Both walked confidently side by side, lasers pointed and firing at Zim as they drew closer to him.
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!" Zim yelled as a shot grazed his hand, burning it. Another shot burned the top of his wig. "Hey! That was my wig! You're going to pay for that!" He was about to get pelted by the enemies' hell fire, when a round bubble suddenly rolled in front of him.
Gaz growled in determination as she rolled in the hamster ball. By rolling in front of Zim, she deflected Dib and Tak's shots right back upon them.
"GAZ!?" Both Zim and Dib yelled in surprise.
Skoodge suddenly came running along, out of breath.
"And Skoodge? You let Dib escape!?" Zim shouted.
"I didn't let him, Zim! I was helping Gaz! Geez..." Skoodge replied somewhat grumpily.
"Gaz! You're protecting him?!" Dib shouted as he had a surprised look on his face.
"Yeah, Dib. I am." She growled as she stood between her brother and Zim.
"Why?" A dumbfounded Dib asked. "If it's about Dad, I could just tell him that I was with you-"
"NO! You just don't get it!" She angrily yelled back.
"Dib, kindly remove her out of the way so I can kill Zim. I'll take care of Skoodge." Tak said with much frustration as she launched a capture bubble on Skoodge as well.
Gaz scoffed. "Oh...I see you're taking orders from Tak now."
"It's not like that! She's on my side. You're obviously on Zim's...I just don't understand why! WHY?! HUH?! HUH?!"
Getting annoyed with her brother, Gaz exploded. "Because I LIKE HIM, OKAY?!" She angrily confessed. A flock of crows suddenly departed from the nearby trees to escape her rather loud confession.
Everyone and everything grew dead silent, you could hear a pin drop. A cool breeze quietly passed through, taking along some rustling leaves. Zim looked rather content by what Gaz had just admitted to everyone. It's the moment he's been waiting for. To Zim, the look on Dib's face was especially priceless. He never saw Dib look like that before. Dib's brain nearly shut down. His glasses even spontaneously cracked and busted to pieces. To him, those five words sounded worse than screeching nails on a chalkboard. It sounded worse than a room full of howling monkeys, and somehow even worse than Gir's singing. Everything was deadly quiet. Dib thought for sure that Hell froze over. He couldn't believe what he was hearing. Maybe he actually was going crazy. For once he was actually hoping for it. Suddenly, to make matters even worse, he heard Skoodge slowly clapping from within his capture bubble. Zim began to chuckle arrogantly. Dib's eye began to twitch rapidly, and some drool spilled from his mouth, as he's had his craziest look yet. His hands were shaky. He couldn't contain himself anymore, and he suddenly burst into crazed, psychotic babbling, followed by loud screaming.
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! NO! NO! NO! THIS CAN'T BE HAPPENING!" He crazily screamed at the top of his lungs. He started to hyperventilate as his worst nightmare just became reality.
He tried to regain his usual calm composure as he pulled out another pair of glasses from his pocket and put them on. He looked through them. Nope. This situation was still happening. He began sputtering, and could only muster a few words to say.
"Tak, I need to talk to my sister. ALONE." He firmly told his ally.
"Go on. I'll be fine." She assured him, as she resumed pointing the laser directly at Zim.
"Hey!" Gaz shouted as Dib quickly rolled the capture bubble with his sister inside. Her arms were now crossed, and she had a crazed look on her face. He pushed her around the corner of a fried chicken stand, away from Zim and Tak.
"What are you doing, Dib?!" She shouted. "When I get out of this stupid bubble, I'm going to-"
"Oh, you're NOT getting out of that stupid bubble! Not as long as Zim's still alive!" Dib yelled, finally losing it. It was the first time he worked up the nerve to yell at his sister. But this time, she did more than just eat his haunted gummy bears or annoy him. She clearly sided with his worst enemy.
Gaz looked at her brother, shocked that he had yelled at her. "WHAT DID YOU JUST SAY TO ME?!" She angrily screamed at him.
"You h-heard me..." Dib nervously replied, still standing his ground. He was thankful for the bubble.
Gaz began to growl as her rage was reaching its peak. Her brother was really pressing his luck today.
When I was making this chapter, it was getting kind of long, so I broke it into two parts, especially so I had a little more time to work on the second half. This chapter got a little crazy, but the next chapter will be even crazier!