AN: Hi guys! Thanks for all the reviews! First, I'd like to give a special thanks to Lovegirl1. Thankies! :3 Second, I will be away on the 19th, 20th and 21st, so there will be no updates. To make up for it I will make this chapter extra-long! So without further ado, Chapter 8!

(DPOV)

I woke up the next morning to find my neck was killing me, and a tear-stained face leaning over me.

"D-d-dib?" Gaz whispered. I chocked. Shit, I was still in Gaz's room! I bolted upright, nearly knocking into her.

"I'm so so sorry! I'll get out right away Gaz! Please let me keep all my body parts!" I apoligized hurriedly. She held me back though, and sat on her bed. She dragged me on there too. She wiped her eyes hastily with her sleeve, but I could still tell she'd been crying.

"Dib... Zim's gone. Tak tranquilized me and him, then took him to her base... I just woke up a minute ago to find them gone." I froze. Zim... gone... No! NO!

"NO! NO FUCKING WAY!" I screamed. Gaz just nodded her head sadly.

"Gaz... Get in the ship. I'll meet you there in 5." I said determined. I'm getting him back. There is NO way I'm letting that bitch get her hands on him. He. Is. Mine.

(TPOV)

I walked aimlessly round my lab and stared through the clear container with Zim in it. He was standing in a special jelly that contained all the nutrients he needed to function properly, without damaging his PAK.

"MiMi?" I called.

"Yes mistress?" She answered, running over to me.

"What's Zim's current condition? And when will he awaken?" I asked. There had been a little problem with the tranquilizer dart... The liquid I had used had been contaminated without me knowing, and contained a small amount of Earth water and other toxins dangerous to Irkens. The toxins had gone through his bloodstream and burnt alot of his cells, rendering him critically ill.

"Condition: stable. Aprroximate awaking time: 2 hours. Subject is healing incredibly quickly." MiMi replied. I smiled happily. Thank God Irkens healed incredibly quickly, and with the nutrients in the jelly he would heal even faster. I was glad I hadn't done any serious damage to him. After all, violence is sexy, but killing your partner or giving them brain damage, not so much. I pondered over what to do for the next 3 hours, and had just come up with an idea when I heard a banging at the door.

"Who on Irk...?" I said aloud. "MiMi, answer the door!" I hovered near, just in the other room whilst MiMi attended to whoever was at the door. There stood... Dib? And Ga...z? I walked over do the door.

"Move aside MiMi." I ordered the robot. She obligingly did so. "Dib... Gaz..." I spat her name. "So nice to see you. Come in, come in." they eyed me suspiciously, but came in regardless. I motioned for them to sit down, and they did.

"So... What do you want?" I asked, signally for MiMi to close the door.

"I think you know, Tak." DIb said strongly. I laughed at his pathetic attempt to be strong.

"Well... maybe I do, maybe I don't. What exactly are you accusing me of this time?"

"Tak, you know all too fucking well why we're here. Give us Zim back." Gaz said, stone cold as usual. I flinched. We weren't playing anymore.

"You can have him back... for a price." Dib groaned loudly. Of course I wasn't really going to give Zim back, I just felt like toying with them.

"What do you want then?" Gaz asked me, arms folded over her chest.

"Nothing from you, little Gaz." she flinched. Ha, I thought. She hated being called little. "But Dib... if you want Zim back, hand over all your technology. Your notes, your gadgets, everything." I laughed silently, in my head. I didn't need any of his rubbish, but he did. He swallowed nervously.

"De-"

"No deal." Gaz interupted.

(GPOV)

Dib looked at me as if to say, What the fuck? I facepalmed. How dumb is he?

"Don't be stupid, Dib! She's not really going to give us him. I thought you're supposed to be smart?" I hissed at him. Idiot. I didn't know much about Irkens, but I knew enough to know they were arrogant, lying and often sadistic (especially in Tak's case.) Of course she wouldn't keep her promise.

She looked at me, shocked.

"No deal?"

"No deal." I confirmed. "Tak, I'm not stupid. I know you're not really going to hand him over." She laughed.

"True. Well done. Well, I'm glad thats been cleared up. Off you go then. Scram." We stayed where we were.

"Get out. Or maybe I'll use you as test subjects? I could always do with a few more test subjects." she pondered.

"No. We're not leaving without Zim." Dib said bravely. But this time he sounded serious.

"Why are you so bothered about Zim? I thought you two were deadly enemies." Tak questioned, a smirk on her face. Dib gulped uncomfortably.

"Because... I love him..." he whispered.

"What? I didn't quite hear that. Speak up."

"Because I. Fucking. Love. Him. I LOVE HIM MUCH MORE THAN YOU DO, YOU STUPID, ARROGANT BITCH!" he shouted. Tak was taken aback. Then she started laughing. I just stood there, frozen. Dib loved him too? Wow, I knew he was kinda screwy in the head but I never thought he was actually gay. Well, whatever. Each to their own. Tak's laughing suddenly stopped. I looked over to her and Dib was... on top of her? Hands around her throat? Fucking hell... He's serious. He started strangling her, veins throbbing in his forehead. I ran over to him and helped him out, pulling hard on the things that looked a bit like antenna sticking out of her head. She suddenly scream. Jackpot! I tugged for all I was worth, causing her to cry in pain. She struggled, but the combined pain of being strangled and me pulling on her antenna eventually made her pass out (Dib later told me they were called lekku, and were incredibly sensitive. Don't ask me how he knew this.) Dib turned her over and pulled her backpack thing off her back. There was a crackle of electricity, then it stopped. Dib just stood there breathing heavily.

"Dib... why take her backpack off?" I asked.

"It's not a backpack. It's a PAK. She needs it to live. She'll be dead within ten minutes." he informed me. I was shocked. I knew he was angry, but I never thought he'd have it in him to kill someone.

"O...K.." I said to myself.

"Let's go get Zim."

(ZPOV)

I stood there in some sort of goo-ey... thing. There was a door on the side of whatever I was in, so I got out and sat on a nearby chair, trying to figure out where I was and why. I was in a lab of somesort.. I suddenly remembered what had happened at my base. Tak! That psycho! She has serious issues. I heard footsteps running towards me, and expected to be greeted by Tak. Instead I saw Gaz and Dib running towards me, and Dib was holding some strange object in his hands.

"ZIM!" they shouted, hugging me hard.

"H-h-heya guys! Mind telling me what the hell happened?"

"Long story." they said in unision, then laughed.

"Let's go to my base then. I assume you took Tak's old ship?"
Dib nodded. As I got closer to him, I saw he was holding... A PAK? But it was purp- Tak's PAK!

"Uh... Dib... Why have you got Tak's PAK?" I asked cautiously. "Don't you know we'll die within ten minutes of being without our PAK's?" He nodded gravely. Gaz looked at her boots.

"You didn't..." Then I laughed. The two looked at me, confused.

"HAHAHAHAHA! Way to go!" I shouted, patting him on the back. "Good on you!"

Hi! Hope you like the story so far. If there's anything I should put in the next chapter, let me know, k? Baiiii :3