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May God bless you all.


"Good to see you're okay Zim." Said Skoodge.

"Zim is more than okay!" He yelled.

"Well, that's good." Said Skoodge slightly off.

"Wait a second." Said Gaz. "How did you know something was wrong in the first place?"

"Well… I…"

"It doesn't matter Gazlene. Do you not realize what had just happened to Zim!" Said the alien.

"Of course I do, you told me everything in annoyingly precise detail." She replied.

"Why, what happened?" Asked Skoodge.

"No…" Said Gaz. "…I'm leaving before I have to hear that all again."

"See you later." Said Zim.

"You're in a good mood." Said Skoodge.

"Yes, I the mighty Zim!"

"Um, Zim…" Said Gaz.

"I thought you were leaving?" Asked Zim as he turned to face her. However, he noticed that she was not alone.

"Zim…" Said Tenn from the door.

"Ah, Tenn how goes your continued spying of the mighty Zim!?" He asked.

"Wait how di… eh never mind." She said as Gaz stepped out and she came in.

"Okay, Zim I give." She said finally.

"What are you giving Zim?" He asked.

"No, I…"

Tenn sighed. "Listen I know you were told something from the box. I was going to have Skoodge bring it back so we could analyze it, but I realize that I'm done wasting time. Tell me, what did you see?"

"Well as I was about to inform Skoodge…" Zim began to say before…

"Warning… power… security…" The A.I. began to say.

"What's going on?" Asked Tenn.

"A…Intru…" The A.I. struggled to say. "Neutralizing… Threat."

"What Comp…" Zim began before he, Tenn, and Skoodge were all shocked. Zim staggered, then fell to the floor. He heard the front door open but that was all… before his body gave in…

…and he passed out.


"So, this is the main lab." Said the person as Dib was practically given a tour of Spork's base.

"Wow, this is way better than Zim's." Said Dib.

"Well he was a Tallest, so I would expect he got the cu de la creme." Said his tour guide.

"Definitely…" Said Dib

"Now come on kid…"

"What?" Asked Dib.

"I know you're dying to ask it, so just go ahead, it's fine."

Dib looked down at the metallic floor. He had been dying to ask, but butterflies were still flying rampant in his chest. He just, didn't know exactly how…

"Aw screw it…" He thought.

"Why did you and dad break up?" He just blurted out.

Esmerelda sighed.

"I'm not sure if you want to know." She told him.

"I do…" He replied. "…I really do."

"Okay, but it's a bit of a story, so let's walk and talk. Still got a bit of this place to show you." She told him.

She and Dib walked all over the lab as she explained several things to him. How she and his father had met in college, how they had hit it off over love for God and Science! And how they had gone steady as they used to call it for about 2 years. She even explained how her papa had told her about this lab back when she was in high school, and she had been tasked with keeping the place secret.

"You see near the end of college I decided to write my thesis on the possibility of extraterrestrial life." She told him.

"Aliens!?" He asked excitingly. "You wrote it on Aliens?"

"Yes…" She replied. "…But I may have gone overboard just a bit and sort of been laughed at while I was presenting."

"Overboard?" Asked Dib.

"See I may have put some things in there that I only knew because I've been researching in this place and couldn't present the actual evidence to back it up and…"

"I get it. Trust me I get it." Said Dib. "…But what does that have to do with you and dad?"

"Well, when I got back to my dorm room I was… less than pleased and your father came and I guess he did his best to try and comfort me… but he was so… he just couldn't wrap his head around my thesis."

"Oh, I understand, I mean I have a garage full of alien stuff and he still doesn't believe me." Said Dib.

"Well, I overreacted to his criticism and sort of kicked him out. Then I stopped answering his calls for a while and by the time I got over it… he was already with your mother so…"

"Wow… so it was all over aliens huh?" Dib said probably more pleased about it than he should be.

"Yup… but it was for the best anyway." She told him.

"Yeah, I guess… so your papa was able to get Spork's ship and base from the base in New Mexico?" Asked Dib.

"Not, exactly." She said. "See shortly after Spork landed, he exited his ship, but activated it's evasion mode, which caused the ship to fly off somewhere. Eventually, papa found it and set up his base here shortly after marrying my abuela."

"Oh…"

"….wait a second." Said Dib. "How did he know where to find the ship?"

"I'm sorry this completes our tour for the day." Said Esmerelda in a kind of mocking a real tour guide voice.

"Wait wha…" Dib began to say before she waved goodbye and a tube similar to the one's at Zim's base sucked him up and gently shot him out into their backyard.

"OH, you done with your tour?" Asked the abuela.

"Yeah… wait you know?" Asked Dib.

"Of course I know… a little tip son…" Said the older lady. "…don't keep secrets from your future esposa, can really hurt the marriage."

"Thanks for the advice." Said Dib. "Where's Chewy and Mr. Rodriguez?"

"Oh, they left…" She said.

"What where?"

"Come on…" She told him as she lead him inside the house.

"I packed some leftovers…" She said.

"…Leftovers? Oh yeah, dinner…" Said Dib as they entered the house.

"My son's coming to take you home." She told him.

"However, before he does…"

"…We have a few things we need to discuss."


Gaz put down her controller. Zim's simulations had spoiled her. These regular video games just didn't seem as fun anymore.

She sighed and got up to get a soda.

*Wham*

"What the?" Asked Gaz as she turned to the door.

"Where's Dib!?" Yelled a disguised Skoodge.

"I don't know." Gaz replied. "Why what happened?"

"Zim… he was taken." Said Tenn. "…Which usually I wouldn't complain about but… anyway where's Dib?"

"I just said, I don't know." Gaz replied.

"Did you see Tak? We can track Dib if we find her." Tenn said.

"Wait she has a tracker on my brother?" Asked Gaz.

"Less talk, more finding." Said Tenn.

"I could just call him." Said Gaz.

"Wait you could have… and you let… Well, do it!" Tenn demanded.

Gaz sighed, but began to call her brother.

"Hey…" Answered Dib.

"Hey…"

"Dib!" Yelled Skoodge. "Zim was kidnapped!"

"Yeah, I know." Said Dib.

"So we… wait you know?" Asked Skoodge.

Gaz sighed again.

"What did you do?"


Tak watched the tracker. Dib looked like he was heading home, so she figured she would just wait there for him.

"So, Zim was shocked huh?" Asked The ship.

"Yup." Replied Tak.

"Too bad I missed that." Said the ship.

"Yeah…" Replied Tak. She checked her tracker again. He'd be there probably in about 3-4 minutes.

"Oh, look someone's coming." Said The ship.

Tak looked up and saw.

"Why hello there." Said the Professor.

"Oh, hello professor. I'm um Tak Dib's friend." She said.

"Dib has… oh okay there." Said The professor as the two shook hands.

"I'm just waiting for him." She said.

"Well, why don't you wait inside with the other kids?" He asked.

"Other kids?" Asked Tak.

"Yes, my daughter and two friends, passed them on the way out here." He told her.

"Okay, thanks." She said.

The two walked inside the house. "It appeared a friend of Dib's was waiting by the garage." Said the Professor.

"Tak?" Asked Gaz.

"Oh good, you know my daughter as well. I'll be down in the lab should anyone need me."

With that, the professor left.

"Are we all waiting for Dib?" Asked Tak after the Professor left.

"Thanks for the ride." She heard someone outside say.

"Not anymore." Said Tenn.

Within a few moments, the glasses-wearing boy came through the front door. He was carrying a few containers of Tupperware in his hands.

"So you said you knew Zim was kidnapped?" Asked Skoodge.

"One sec, let me put this stuff in the fridge." Said Dib.

"Is that Mexican?" Asked Gaz.

"Pretty much, there's a Dominican dish in here somewhere as well." Said Dib as he went to the fridge and placed the containers inside.

"Wait, Zim was kidnapped!?" Asked Tak "When did this happen?"

"Everyone please." Said Dib causing all eyes to turn to him.

"I think I can pretty much explain everything."


"Oh… my antenna." Said Zim as he awoke.

He looked around. Trying to move, he realized his hands and feet were bound to the chair he currently sat on.

"Tenn? Skoodge?" He called.

"Oh, you're awake." An unknown voice said. "Was wondering."

"Who are you? What is this?" Zim asked. "Release the mighty Zim!" He demanded.

"In due time." Said the man as he got closer.

"Who are you? Tell me!" Said Zim.

"Name's Chewy. You know, I've been wanting to talk to you for a good while." He said as he grabbed a nearby chair and sat across from Dib.

"I feel like were practically family." He said.

"If this is an interrogation then I warn you I will say nothing!" He assured him.

"Relax." Said Chewy. "I already know all I need to about you."

"Then release Zim!" He demanded.

Chewy laughed slightly.

"You were right." He said.

"Yup he wasn't always like this you know."

"Who is that!? Tell Zim!" Said the little green alien.

A much older man walked into the light next to Chewy.

"Oh, so you must be the interrogator. Well I tell you that I the mighty Zim! Shall not yield." Zim shouted.

"I didn't expect you to. In fact that's a feature I really admired about you."

"Who are you and how do you know Zim!?" He asked.

It was an appropriate question…

…But the answer was… anything but.


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