As soon as he and Kam were in the voot cruiser Zim shut the hatch and took off. GIR was too busy chasing a squirrel to even notice he had been left behind.

"Do you even know where he's at?" Kam asked leaning over Zim's shoulder.

"He's headed toward that conveniently located desert just west of the city. Dib has probably assumed the worst and is planning to crash land out there." Zim pressed an assortment of flashing buttons on the control panel looking to confirm the location.

"But if he crashes while half the systems are fried."

"Yes. He will probably explode in a HORIBLE mass of metal and fire. BUAHA… oh wait that's bad." Kam was giving him a look. "Well what do you expect when he and I were enemies for so long? Anyway we're almost there."

Sure enough after they flew around the last of the city's skyscrapers they could see a smoke trail headed off towards the desert.

"Oh no! Dib!" Kam yelled. "What do we do?"

Zim pressed a few buttons on the console activating the tractor beam. "Use this screen to target the ship while I pull us up next to it. It's too large and moving too fast for me to do anything but slow it with… Hey what're you!?"

Kam had yanked open the cover of the control panel and was messing with the wires inside.

"Stop that!" Zim yelled. He was trying to concentrait on steering. Besides a human messing with Irken tech was the whole reason they were in this situation.

"Just get up closer!"

"You dare to order ZIM in his own ship?"

"Quit arguing or this fan fiction is about to go horribly wrong!" Kam said yanking one of Zim's antennae.

"YEOOWW! Stop that! Fine! I suppose this could afford to get more dramatic."

Zim slowed the cruiser as they approached the smoking failure attempt at an Irken vessel. Flying just above and to the left, Zim could see that the Dib-monkey was unconscious. The panel for the tractor beam sparked as Kam messed with the wires.

"Got it. Can you see Dib?"

"Yes but what did you just do to my tractor beam?" Zim tried to avoid being squished against the glass as Kam looked out the window at Dib.

Before Zim could stop her she punched the release button for the window hatch and she jumped out of the ship.

"What? NO!" Zim turned to the tractor beam hoping he could catch her, and was relieved to find that she had landed right onto the top of Dib's ship. Turning on the tractor beam now could cause her to fall. Zim was forced to watch as Kam tried to free Dib from the ship.

Next to the conveniently located desert there were some peculiarly placed very pointy mountains. Dib's ship was headed straight for them, and was losing altitude. Zim turned on the speaker on the outside of the ship.

"Hurry! Find the emergency release! It's probably on the front left of the main hatch."

Zim watched as Kam moved up towards the front of the ship. The immense speed was causing her shiny light-brown hair to whip around her face. URGH! This was no time to be spacing out!

Finally Kam found the emergency release. She jumped into the cockpit, shifted the unconscious lump with the giant head over to the side, and began messing with the buttons.

"We don't have time for that! Just grab the useless meat and get out!" Zim yelled over the loud speakers. "I'll grab you two with the tractor beam." If she didn't damage it, that is… Zim looked back at the control panel. Everything seemed to be in order. He didn't have time to check though. The overly-pointy mountains were getting closer.

Kam just kept messing with buttons and wires.

"Stuborn-earth-meat." Now or never. Zim turned on the tractor beam.

Dib's ship was brought to a dead halt. Zim was barely able to react in time to stop his own ship and circle back to face the beam in the right direction.

How did she…?

"Zim can you hear me?" Kam had gotten the Com-systems working again.

"Kam? Are you alright?"

"Yeah. That sudden stop startled me a bit but other than that Dib and I are fine. He's still alive at least. I guess I must have powered up the tractor beam a little bit too much."

Too much? Zim was surprised she had been able to successfully do it At All. The drop in tension got to him and he couldn't stop laughing.

"Zim? What's so funny?"

Zim laughed and began lowering the two ships to the ground. "You. One minute you were terrified of an alien the next you're hotwiring his ship. You really are an amazing." Kam didn't respond. Zim really hadn't expected her to. He was just glad she was alive.