There was no sense of time in the cell. No one moved from the cold and talking only raised arguments and awkward topics. Dib and Tak pretty much stayed on opposite ends of the room while Gaz and Zim huddled in the middle. GIR was running from person to person, clearly bored out of his mind.
"You didn't think to bring your SIR unit long with you?" asked Zim, rubbing his temple in frustration.
Tak rolled her now human eyes, "Mimi is in my ship, waiting for me... Anyway, he's your robot, you control him!"
"Whiners..." Gaz muttered.
GIR looked at his master, then Tak, then Gaz, and finally at Dib. Each one of them looked so morbid and sad. He didn't like it. Them sad made him sad and sad wasn't good it was... sad! Hmmm, he had an idea! But since there weren't any bee's or piggy around, he had to improvise!
Everyone jumped as a melody started playing in the air. They groaned and glared at GIR who was bouncing along the beat.
(Get Back Up - TobyMac)
GIR:
You're looking sad and I wanna know why,
I know we're locked up but it's gonna be alright!
If I sing will it maybe make you smile? I'll try, I'll try!
Zim:
No GIR it's not working this time.
Gaz:
Let him try, there's no harm is there?
GIR:
YAY! Thank you Gaz!
Let's go and dance!
We're all locked up, but we'll get out again!
It's not too late, we'll all fly and then,
You are all in love yeah it's true and we'll all be
Together forever!
We're locked up, but never forever!
Smile now, Smile now!
We'll break free and then,
Masta will save us,
and we'll break free and then,
Mary's big head will kiss miss Takie!
GIR, seeing Dib rolling his eyes and the others smirking, thought that his job was done and curled up onto Dibs head, nuzzling. Dib gently lay hiM on the floor and walked away over to Tak.
Dib:
So your plan never went all to plan, in human form and I think you look okay,
Feels like I've known you all along but why, oh why?
So you, pull away from the love you said you felt there,
Tak:
You don't return it so what is the point there?
Dib:
Well you never know... you never asked!
Both:
We had some fun, then it all went wrong,
We're back here now, who knows why that is.
I wanna take a, little chance here but not ever without you now.
Both human now, didn't really care.
Really, I'll go, to give you a chance.
Irk or not, it didn't matter to me,
You never know what's there around the corner!
Gaz:
Now you know how I feel about him!
He's my alien, my alien.
It is a little strange,
but I just don't care...
Zim:
This was not meant to, ever happen,
but my little-Gaz I,
just don't care...
Dib and Tak:
If this is love calling, love calling,
I am so conflicted,
what should, what should I do, ...?
Zim and Gaz:
I hated you,
That seems so long ago,
It's never too late,
You may be surprised at what you find out!
All:
We're locked up, but we're here together,
It's not bad, just a little cold,
We'll give it a go weirder things have happened!
GIR:
This is love calling love calling! I told you all so! GIR was right this time! (x2)
This is love calling, love calling!
Mary and Tak, then Masta with Gazzie!
The music faded back into the dead silence of the cold. GIR, now happy with himself, curled up on Gaz' lap and went to sleep. The song had tired him out, so at least that meant some piece and quiet for the rest of them for a while.
Dib and Tak noticed that they had moved closer together. He looked down and saw that his coat was still draped around her. What was this, he was angry with her, wasn't he? He didn't think he was anymore. She hated the Tallest as much as him, she was never going to harm Gaz either. Something just clicked inside him.
Tak brushed past him and peered out through the bars of the cell. She could see the control panel just on the opposite wall. She had an idea. Not waiting to explain, she pulled the skull pendant from around Gaz' neck and stuck it through the bars. She started swinging it until it was just a white blur in the air.
"This is made of thick metal, right?" she asked.
Gaz nodded. Perfect. Tak flicked her wrist and released her grip. The pendant flew through the air and collided with the panel. Sparks flew and there was a muffled explosion. No one moved, waiting for the alarms to start screaming, but there was nothing.
"Give me a hand!" Tak demanded, trying to pull the bars upwards.
All four of them hoisted the metal barriers with all their might, they were starting to rise. It took almost all of their strength, but they managed to lift them high enough to crawl underneath. Luckily, the bars didn't fall once lifted, so they were able to move carefully. Zim managed to drag GIR out at the last minute before they started running.
They were free, now they just had to get to the landing bay and get back to Earth. Alive.