Later that night Zim returned to his base to be greeted by Skoodge and Minimoose both with sympathetic looks wile Gir sat in his usual spot on the couch watching The Scary Monkey Show and said in a creepy slow but happy voice "I love this show"

Zim turned to the TV to see what show Gir was talking about only to glare at it and hiss "That monkey"

Minimoose hovered over to Zim and gave him a sympathetic "Squeak"

Zim turned from the TV and with his antenna rising in confusion "Sad? Zim is not sad about the monkey he just hates him"

This caused a wave of confusion to befall Minimoose but fortunately Skoodge understood the misunderstanding and joined the conversation "I think Minimoose means 'do you want to talk about your last plan'?"

Of course Zim would never turn down a chance to gloat about a victory "I would be happy to reveal the the tale. Well you already know that my plan was to test my newest invention, The Gravity Tow, by raining destruction upon the human worms"

Skoodge hung his head down "Yes and we already know that Dib managed to hack into your remote control access to overload its engines making it blow up"

Zim nodded his head oblivious to what that they thought he lost "Yes the Dib-worm is a fly among maggots, but no match for the genius of Zim as I knew he would attempt to interfere so I subtlety gave him the idea to blow it up so the meteors would continue on there own momentum making the test a success as two thirds of the city was destroyed after Dib-stink thought he already won! Any who I would love to talk about my genius but I must report my victory to The Tallests"

Zim proudly marched out of the room leaving behind a stunned Skoodge and Minimoose as Gir was finally able to gather what happened at screamed joyously "Masta Won! Lets go see him talk to the leader-guys"

Gir grabbed the back of Skoodge's uniform and jumped on Minimooses' back and rode him like a rodeo

A distance so large that the human mind has trouble truly comprehending it away on The Massive a restless atmosphere surrounded The Tallests because they knew it was about time for Zim to report in.

Purple began to twitch from the mere thought of talking to Zim "You know Zim isn't a real invader we don't have to pick up his call"

Red glanced over to his co-tallest "We have to make Zim think he is a real invader to keep him outside the empire's territory until we find a way to kill him"

Purple still wanted an excuse to not have to talk to Zim "But why can't we just send a few guards to kill him?"

Red deeply sighed "Every time we do something against Zim it always comes back to haunt us"

A thought popped into the purple tallest's head "Hey what if Zim actually conquers Earth?"

Red's only answer was a 'are you crazy' look

Purple tried to defend his position "You know if like if the humans cause their own extinction or something"

Looking like he just saw the date and time of his death Red replied "Then we would be forced to let him be an invader again, but don't worry if anything goes into Zim's favor on Earth we risk telling him the truth and exile him from the empire"

As if on cue one of the technicians announces a message from Earth. Red just motions them to play it.

Zim appears on screen and wiggles his antenna in salute "Greetings my Tallests Zim has great news my Gravity Tow was a success and proved able to destroy two-thirds of this city of filth"

Everyone who heard this just stopped too shocked to move by either that Zim did something right or at the odds of this happening just after what Red said.

Purple was the first to recover, after all he can tell him now "That's great Zim but I need your full attention we're about to say something important"

Zim could sense this had to be big news so once again salutes "Of course my Tallest"

Red at first hesitated considering the risks but than thought it had to be done and said "Zim until you found it we didn't the Earth existed, when we gave you your mission it was with the hope that you would die in space and that isn't the only time we've tried to kill you, we do this because you have caused the empire more destruction and death than any enemy in our entire history so do not take this personally but from this day forward you are hereby exiled from all Irkin territory"

Purple than decided to hammer another detail in "Oh and tell Skoodge he's banished too"

Red glanced over to Purple with a questioning stare "Don't you mean exiled?"

Purple quickly glared at him and snapped "What's the difference!"

Red know this was a rhetorical question but replied "Banishment is when you are supposed to stay in a predescribed place like how we banished Zim to Foodcortia, he was supposed to stay there"

The purple Tallest grew curios why he was explaining this "Go on"

Red nodded and continued "Exile is when someone is not allowed in a governing territory, in this case The Irkin Empire"

Purple just drawled an okay

Zim then got enough out of his stupor thanks to Skoodge, who was now in a fetal position crying uncontrollably in the background, and asked "B-b-but-but WHY?!"

The Tallests gazed back at him with a 'you don't know' look until Purple spoke "We just told you, because you've caused more destruction to the Empire than any of its enemy's and yet act like its something to be proud of, I mean really you would think your our enemy"

Red then shrugged his shoulders and added "Well what do you expect from a defective?"

Zim became enraged at this statement and with his grief and shock momentarily forgotten yelled "I AM NOT A DEFECTIVE!!!"

The Tallests and technicians were somewhat shocked as Zim had never yelled like that at the Tallests before but than again they never told Zim they thought he was a defective without him just shrugging it off as a joke"

Zim though still clearly angry controlled himself for now and turned the broadcast off and snapped his attention around. He saw that Skoodge was now looking at him like he was going to attack with Minimoose using him as a living shield and Gir was oblivious to the whole thing and watching a fly

Zim advanced a few steps closer and spoke as restrained as he could "Skoodge bring me the content chips for my PAK"

Skoodge visibly relaxed at this thinking the danger was gone and asked "Why?"

Knowing there was nothing he could do at the moment about his betrayal Zim's anger quickly evaporated leaving behind hyper-salute vengeance

Zim then replied "I need to think, I think best when inventing, and I invent best with my I.N.V.T. Chip"

Skoodge quickly ran to get the chips wile Zim's head began buzzing with thoughts regarding his possible inventions and more dominantly what was the best coarse for power and revenge

As Zim labored in his Dib was just waking up, his epic defeat still fresh in his mind, and got ready to go to his dad's medical lab outside of town for his and Gaz's yearly check up

The morning went by in silence which felt unnatural in Dib's presence but last night's defeat sent shock waves though his confidence about how he was going to stop the alien menace. All he could do was curse himself and try to find a way to at least get back to the statuesque of Zim failing. And at some point in his medical exams he got the idea to use Tak's ship as a way to get information about his species

Unfortunately today was going to be as bad for Gaz as yesterday was for Dib. Because when her exams were over she was asked to speak with the doctor which wasn't unusual as her dad wasn't with them and Dib was considered insane

Gaz lifted one eye out of its usual squint and asked "What's this about?"

The doctor hung his head gravely to think how to tell a child "You see my dear we ran into something unusual in your exam, and well.............your..............heart.......................is starting to fail"

Gaz snapped both eyes open in surprise . The doctor cleared his thought and continued "We have no idea why this is happening or how to stop it"

Gaz now returned to her regular poise and asked "So I'm going to die?" in a calm monotone

The doctor was unnerved by this response but answered "In about three weeks, yes"