HOLY COW! I am so sorry for my laziness. D: I meant to finish this chappie a lot sooner…but laziness combined with writer's block is a horrible thing to suffer from. Anyhow, I hope you enjoy this chapter. :D
"COME, GIR! We must make preparations to protect the robot bee. THE ROBOT BEE!" The small irken continued to angrily mutter nonsense about the robot bee until his faithful robot servant came up from the toilet elevator.
"Yes, my lord!" It saluted as it temporarily went into duty mode, signified by its now blood-red eyes.
Zim didn't hesitate. "I want you to check the lawn gnomes for anything…not good. I need them to be in perfect shape incase Tak gets the nerve to come to Zim's base!" The small irken spat Tak's name with hatred.
The SIR unit nodded once before it reverted back to it's cyan coloring. "I LIKE PERFECT SHAPES!" Giggling insanely, it ran off towards the front lawn. Zim grumbled something along the lines of "Stupid robot…" before taking the infamous toilet elevator down to the storage room.
Once again, the computer tried to reason with the irken. "Zim, don't you remember when the bee flew awa-"
"I thought I told you to be quiet, computer!"
…and failed.
Zim started to grumble under his breath. "Great. I have an insane robot and a computer who can't stop talking!"
"I heard that." The computer said in a hurt voice.
The irken whipped around and dramatically pointed at the ceiling. "ZIM COMMANDS YOU TO BE QUIET!"
"…Meanie." Silence once again.
The small irken rubbed his three-fingered claws together in anticipation. "Now…to find the robot bee." He walked over to a nearby box; the first of many, many boxes Zim would search…
Meanwhile, on the front lawn…
It was very dark outside, what the humans called "night". Gir, who was currently its dog disguise, merrily giggled to no one in particular as he sipped a cup of tea. In front of him was one of the garden gnomes with an untouched cup of tea sitting atop the spherical hand.
Looking at the gnome, the robot decided it could not hold his excitement at the amazing sight any longer. With a psychotic-sounding laugh, Gir let the teacup drop into his mouth, laughing as it was swallowed whole. The deranged robot then took the other teacup and repeated this act.
Then, without warning, the robot's cyan-colored eyes filled with emotional tears.
"I…I love you…" It said in a choked voice as it hugged the unsuspecting gnome.
Boom!
A giant explosion somewhere nearby sent shockwaves towards Gir and its master's base. The impact sent the small robot flying into the wall of the base. Gir, completely unfazed, dropped to the ground and shouted, "LETS DO IT AGAIN!"
Suddenly, the robot spotted an orange light. Flames! Something in Gir's small mind clicked and, beneath the doggy suit, eyes turned crimson red. Master would want me to investigate!
Without warning, Gir ran off towards the source of the flames—there was a forest across the street and a little ways left of Zim's base.
Speaking of the devil, said irken emerged, wig, contacts and all, curious at the explosion a few moments before, from the base just as Gir was running off.
Catching a glimpse of the haste-making robot and become more curious as he saw the fires, Zim began to run after his robot assistant, unsure of what he would he would find.
Oh, little would he suspect…
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Furiously muttering curses under her breath, a familiar purple-eyed irken crawled out of the cockpit of her mangled ship with some difficulty. She looked down at her left arm, the source of her pain, cringing when she saw the blackened, damaged skin.
She looked back at the wreckage to see Mimi crawling out, unharmed, save for a few scratches on the metallic body. Tak nodded to herself, pleased. It faded however, when she recalled her mediocre mistake; she should have known that, with the small size of the ship and the speed she was going, that her ship would catch on fire and eventually crash, courtesy of Earth's atmosphere. Then, she shook her head. She needed to focus on other things right now.
Forgetting about the destroyed ship for a while, Tak surveyed her current surroundings—she seemed to be surrounded by large Earthen plants, ones with large green bushy things and hard, brown supports. The irken narrowed her eyes. She knew that she was somewhere near Zim's base; Tak vaguely remembered some of these earth-plants from around it when she followed Zim to his base that one time. Oh, how he will pay… She thought as she clenched her fists. She found out the hard way how stupid that was when a sudden jolt of pain seared Tak's injured arm. Muttering a long string of curses, she clutched the offending limb. Great. Could this get any worse?
Not even a second later, she knew she had just jinxed herself. Badly.
Purple eyes widened in shock as the irken spotted a familiar face—none other than Zim's idiotic SIR unit, Gir, dressed as a green dog. Green. Zim must be so proud of himself.
As Gir sighted the big explosion, the eyes of the insane robot slowly turned back to cyan. "MIMI!" No longer bothering to use its legs, Gir activated its jets and flew towards Tak's SIR unit, letting out an exited yell as GIR crashed into the ground a few feet away, taking Mimi with it.
Mimi, now angry and throwing caution to the wind, used its one hand to grab Gir and hurl it into a tree. With a truly livid look on its face, the sane SIR unit brought out all of its dangerous-looking weaponry out of its head cavity.
Tak, who was helplessly witnessing all of this from a distance, was about to yell to Mimi and remind it not to ruin her cover with more noise, when suddenly, the expression on her SIR unit changed from angry to thoughtful. The purple-eyed irken watched, truly befuddled, as her SIR unit walked right over to Gir and whispered something to the defective robot. With a loud "OKIE DOKIE!" the robot ran off without giving a second thought.
Mimi turned to her mistress and quickly became amused at the "what-the-bloody-hell-just-happened" look on her face.
Tak blinked as her SIR unit looked back at her, its eyes sparking with amusement. "…Well? What did you say?"
The amusement in the bloodred eyes deepened. "I told him to go back to Zim and tell him it was just a human-based fire." It paused to let out a faint giggle as her mistress's look of befuddlement deepened. "I also told him to take Zim to a taco place, to get both of their minds away from the subject of the fires."
After a moment of silence for Tak to take all of this in, the irken nodded approvingly at Mimi. "Good thinking, Mimi. I see your intelligence chip hasn't gotten rusty during the week we were stuck on that horrible rock." The SIR unit bowed its head gratefully as Tak simmered over painful memories for a minute or two.
Then, after a couple minutes of silence, a grin spread over Tak's face as she imagined, once again, how she would torture him once she got a hold of him.
Then, she blinked away the reverie. First things first, after all. "Mimi, help me bury this ship. I'm pretty sure I can find my old ship somewhere around here." The irken recalled seeing the maroon colored ship enter Earth's atmosphere right before she crashed into that rock. "After that…" She paused for dramatic effect, grinning. "Revenge."
Gah…I'm disappointed at the shortness of this chapter. Hopefully me next will be longer.