Gaz walked past the boy into the base and turned around. The boy then dropped the holographic disguise reveling an upgraded Gir. He had three lines on each foot that gave the appearance of having claws that matched the color altering nature parts of his body contain, his body was an inch wider on both sides with a symbol resembling a basic jack-o-lantern design with two angry eyes and an open mouth of fangs painted in black where his hatch had been, his shoulder joints now had three spikes pointing upwards with the middle one longer than the other two, his head, with the exception of his antenna which was now based at the front of his head and styled back like a shark's fin but with the ball still on the it's end, had not changed.

Gir had his eyes closed smiling happily with his tongue hanging out but suddenly his eyes and corresponding parts turned from blue to a light green wile Gir's face lost all emotion.

Gir put his hands behind his back and spoke in a monotone "The Master in in his main lab, I will escort you there."

Gir's eyes changed again, this time to blood red and his hands tightened into fists "But if you harm the Master in any way I will kill you without any mercy or hesitation."

Gir then returned to blue and happily shrieked "We're gonna get flushed down the toilet." then picked Gaz up and ran to the toilet in the kitchen to slam dunk Gaz into it before he flushed her and himself into Zim's lab.

Tak can be seen with her advanced blowtorch fixing the top of her ship. She turns the blowtorch off lifting her welding mask and threw her head back in a maniacal laugh "Finally I've finished! Now I can have my revenge."

Tak began to move but shortly after fell to her knees breathing heavily and turned pale green. "I have to get to Earth soon, before I die of starvation...MII prepare the ship for launch and help me in."

Mimi's replacement gave a yellow flash and proceeded to carry Tak to a life supporting chamber in the ship before stepping to the controls. Within minuets the ship was blasted off the ground and into the air. The ship's haul was dented with hundreds of small meteors as it started, but once it rose above the field of rings it steadied. About four seconds later the thruster that had been on the bottom flipped around and a metal arch unfolded to position the thruster at an angle with the haul so as the ship flew forward the main body looked down.

Tak grinned from her wired cocoon "I'm coming."

Zim sat in his chair watching the monitor, wear Tak's ship can be seen, with his claws intertwined. Gir then bursts into the room carrying Gaz above his head. She was dropped on the the floor and the schizophrenic SIR turned to his master "Masta scary-lady is here to see you."

Zim jumped out of his chair and walked like the overlord he saw himself as toward the two "Why have you come Dib-sister?"

Gaz was still glaring at an oblivious Gir but shifted her attention "You are going to use your stupid alien technology to cure a medical problem of mine or I will doom you to an eternity of pain."

Zim didn't even flinch like anyone with common sense would and instead raised a hand to his chin in consideration but soon burst out laughing "Foolish human you gave Zim enough information to turn against you, for example you said 'medical' which means 'fatal' if a creature of APATHY like yourself would bother to come to me at all!"

Gaz was a bit taken aback at this but she quickly thought an alternate route "Then I'll just kill you and take what I need."

At this Zim's laughter softened to a chuckle "If you kill me the base will self-destruct and you will be left to die."

Gaz hadn't thought of that and she now realized she was completely at Zim's nonexistent mercy... unless she bribed him "Then how about I kill Dib for you?"

Zim's crimson eyes slowly turned to the floor in consideration "Hmm as tempting as that is I have something else in mind. I want you to put a hyper computer of mine in your house so I can hack into Tak's ship and eventually blow up the house and your worm of a brother."

Gaz had to admit that was a good deal for her, all she would have to do is move her stuff out of the house and stay in a hotel for awhile, her dad wouldn't care and she didn't care if Dib died. "Alright deal"

Zim just gave a quick nod "Computer run a scan on the earth-heathen"

Three tentacled wires wiggled down the ceiling over to Gaz, and bathed her in a purple light from there tips as they twisted around "Sir the subjects heart is failing with what seems to be Template Syndrome"

Zim's eyes went wider than normal as he screamed "Impossible, that only effects clones, and even then only primitive attempts"

Gaz's mind easily accepted this as possible, considering her dad's work. But to put the vary nature of your life is still a shocking experience, even to one as cold as she. "Will it make that big a difference?"

Zim turned to her like she was an idiot "Of course it makes a difference! It means your very DNA is suicidal, even if I save your heart or replace it something else will just shut down sometime later."

When that comment sank in Gaz became enraged and usual released it as violence. In a second Gaz had launched herself at Zim with every intent to kill and in another was being pushed against the wall by Zim's spider like Pak legs. "Foolish human Zim said your DNA is suicidal that just means curing you will be …...well along the lines of transferring you to a new body."

Gaz quieted down but her anger at dieing just changed to anger at being beaten in a fight even if it was only for about three seconds "Go on I'm listening"

Zim retracted his secondary legs and began to pace the floor "The first option is simple we just make a new clone of you and download your mind, of course you would be back in an infants body"

That would be true hell, at least in to Gaz "And the second option?"

At this Zim turned away in what looked liked reluctance, though unknown to Gaz he whore a satisfied grin "To download your brain into a PAK and attach it to an Irkin shell...in other words become an Irkin like myself"

This option didn't appeal to Gaz either but if Zim was telling the truth, and loath she was to admit it she had to assume he was, it was option number one, two, or die. "I'll need time to think this over."

Zim cocked an antenna in confusion at this, he expected her to just renounce both potions and die. "Oooookay but Zim is relocating his base in one week and two days by your filthy Earth temporal standards."

Gaz nodded to this condition and left without saying another word. After Zim was satisfied she really left he picked up Gir, who was playing with a marble in the corner after losing interest in the life or death of another, and went down to supervise the packing.

In the sewers under the city Necrose was simply walking at a casual pace, even with his legs covered half way to his knees in sludge, unfortunately for him as he came to an intersection in the pipes caught his attention to his left, what could only be described as a metal bubble sticking half way into the pipe.

When he got a close up look the same symbol right in the middle as if it were a crest on a shield. Suddenly steam blasted from the bubble where it touched the pipe, as this happened an X formed on the surface with each section swinging open like a hatch.

When all four sections moved out they perfectly fit with the curve of the pipe, with the bottom becoming a crude ramp. Skoodge stood in the center, revealing the bubble was actually the end of a round tunnel, looking pleased with himself "Zim is going to be so happy, his demon weasels can into the city with no problem"

In shock Necrose fell back into the dirty water with a splash, alerting Skoodge to his presence. For about a quarter hour they just stood there like deer caught in headlights.

But Skoodge eventually snapped out of it and extended his secondary legs witch launched him into Necrose, Knocking him out. Skoodge then dragged him into the tunnel and closed it's door.