Amber woke up around 10 AM feeling something was wrong. She looked around, one of the boxes was on its side, its contents spilling out. She felt a shift by her feet, then something cold on her leg. She yelped, kicking the covers back. Cyan blue eyes stared up at her. "Have you seen master?" The robot asked in a high voice. Amber stared, somehow Gir had activated himself in the box. The robot held out the note he had from earlier. Amber looked at it. "Zim dropped you off a few years ago Gir..I already read the no-" Gir screamed at her, shoving the note in her face. "Der's somethin' on the back!" Amber flinched but took the note and read it.
Also, check on May, She might be in the base.
Amber remembered the base, green with purple accents. She dug around in her closet, finding Gir's dog costume and put it on him, then riding her bike towards the strange house. She dropped her bike off inside the fence, holding onto Gir to make sure he didn't run off she went inside. It was dark and dusty, she doubted anyone would still be here. "Hello? Anyone here?" She called out regardless, her voice echoing throughout the vast room. Yam was in the kitchen when she heard a voice call out. She jumped up and whirled around to face the voice in shock. Seeing this unfamiliar human in the house, she could only stand there, stunned. She hadn't seen a human face in three years. "W-Who are you?" she asked. Amber was equally shocked to see another robot. Either this was May or the robot was left here to accompany her. Gir looked over waving excitedly. "HI YAM! I WOKE UP IN A BOX IN THIS LADY'S HOUSE!" He stuck his tongue out after words. Amber rubbed her ear. "Ok..you're not May...but do you know her? Or where she is?" She sat down on the dusty floor so she was eye level with the small robot Gir referred to as Yam. "I got a note a few days ago that Zim wrote three years ago telling me to check on May.." After the past three days Amber was getting used to all this,she still had to get Dib out of the asylum and find Zim, but she could manage checking on this May person. Gir walked over to Yam "I dunno what's goin' on!" he looked around. "Where's Master? I want tacos!"
"Gir!" Yam said, ecstatic to see him, but composed herself, a little embarrassed. "Ahem, it's you..." she said, pretending to be annoyed. "Anyway, did you say you need to see May?" Yam asked Amber. "Yes, Yam knows May, Yam is her SIR unit. You can see her, she's down in Zim's lab. But if you know her, Yam must warn you...she's..." Yam lowered her head with a pained expression "...different..." with that, Yam led them to the trash can that led to the lab. Once down there, they walked up to the big central computer. May was there, sitting in a chair, antennae straight, and without her bows. She sat there with her head in her knees, with them tucked to her chest. "May?.." Yam asked softly "there's a friend here to see you." May lifted her head up a little. "...A friend?...Who?..." she said in a distant tone.
Amber inched closer to the obvious alien known as May. "Um..you may not know me..but a few days ago I found an note Zim wrote three years ago." She paused. "Wait..May..you...you're..the girl that would always follow Dib!" She walked around so she was facing May. "I...I know where Dib is.." May lifted her head more and looked at Amber like she didn't catch what she said. "W-What?..." her voice wavered and her dull eyes widened. She looked at the note Amber held with disbelief "This note...is from Zim?..." she looked up at Amber with the most emotion she's shown in years "And..you know where.." she felt an ache "...Dib is?..." her eyes began to fill with tears. Amber nodded "I visited him yesterday..." She pulled May into a standing position. "I can take you to him." Only after seeing her standing up she realized just how small May was. "If you don't mind me asking, how old are you? And how close to were you to Dib?" Reality slowly started to dawn on May when she realized that Dib wasn't as far gone as she thought. She started to express more and more emotion. "I-I'm 18...and I was more than close to Dib...I...I loved him...and Zim was my best friend!" Amber nodded. She knew she had to get May to Dib as soon as possible. "Come on then." Amber started to walk back to the elevator. Gir clinging to her leg like a two year old.
May hurried after Amber, still a little in shock, Yam following too. After all these years, May gets to see Dib again. Just as they were about to leave, May stopped. "Wait, let me grab something." She said as she hurried back to her chair. Picking up two pink ribbons she effortlessly tied them onto her antennae. Turning around to the group, for the first time in a while, she smiled. "Let's go!" Amber smiled, walking outside and over to her bike. "I think we should walk.." she figured there might be a problem trying to ride it with three others hanging on. She looked over at May "I think you should wear a disguise, just to be on the safe side." Gir clapped, happy to see May with her bows again. May pressed a button on her wrist activating her 18 year old human disguise. Finally eye level with Amber, she looked at her. "Alright, so where exactly is Dib?" she asked as they started walking. "And Zim?"
"Dib..is in the..Asylum..." She sighed. "And I don't know where Zim is.." She started walking toward the asylum. "I promised Dib I'd get him out, we shouldn't keep him waiting.." "The asylum?!" Asked May "Why? He's not crazy!" Amber looked back as she walked. "Remember 9th grade year, when he went off on me and nearly threw a desk at me? That's why.." The asylum building was coming into view. "Yes. I remember..." said May sadly "He was sent to the office...and that was the last time I saw him...I though he would return the next day...or the day after that...but he never came back...I waited for him everyday..but eventually I gave up...and stopped coming to school...I didn't even get to say goodbye..." At this Amber felt like this was all her fault. Maybe if she didn't go separate ways with the two it would be different and they would still be a group. "We'll be seeing him soon." she reassured May, walking into the building and up to the clerk she hated. "We're here to see Dib." The clerk directed them to the visiting area. Amber led May there and sat her in the chair, putting Yam and Gir onto the counter and standing next to May. Dib was walked in a moment later, again bound in a straightjacket. He was shoved into the chair, then the guard told them they had an hour, then left. Dib glared as the guard left, turning his attention back the the group on the outside of the fence, focusing mostly on May. He stared at her, wide eyed and confused. "M...May?..." he asked in disbelief.
May gasped with her hand over her mouth and her eyes filled with tears. "D-Dib..." she squeaked, and smiled that smile she always used to smile. "It's you..." she went right up to the fence. "I finally found you..." The only thing keeping her from embracing him was that stupid fence. Her overjoyed expression soon turned to horror when she noticed Dib's worn out appearance. "What have they done to you?" Dib tried his best to lean towards the fence. "three..years...s-so alone.." he mumbled softly, blinking back tears and looking at May as he spoke. "It's okay.." May smiled sweetly, reaching her tiny hand through a space in the fence to lay on Dib's shoulder. "I'm here now.." But the clerk was watching this scene. "Hey! Keep you hands outside the mesh!" Amber rolled her eyes, looking over her shoulder, glaring slightly. "Why don't you leave us alone?" She turned back around, mumbling an insult about the clerk. Dib flinched slightly at May's touch. The clerk pushed a button under the desk, informing some guards.
Guards came in on both sides. One walked up behind May, tapping her on the shoulder. "For your own safety, please keep all appendages on this side of the visiting area." he said sternly. May wasn't taking anything from these guards "No." she simply said, not even turning around. The guards on the other side lifted Dib out of the chair forcibly. "Alright buddy, don;t get any ideas." one of them said, dragging Dib from the room. May gasped and jumped up to the mesh, straining on it in vain "Don't you dare touch him!" she screamed. Dib started to freak out, kicking at the guard that had him. "No! No no no no!" He tried to squirm away, to get back to the mesh. Amber had jumped up beside May, helping her to break the mesh. Dib was screaming that he didn't want to be left alone in the cell, that he wanted to go with his friends. Guards pried May and Amber off the mesh. "That's it! You've got to leave!" One of them said. May managed to jerk away "I'm not going anywhere!" She shouted, and looked desperately back through the mesh. "Dib!" She shouted as she was restrained and dragged towards the door. "No! Let go of me!" She screamed as she kicked and struggled.
Amber gripped onto the mesh as best she could, yelling at them to let Dib go. Dib screamed like he was being murdered as he was dragged through the door. Amber watched, helpless, as Dib was dragged out of sight. Knowing she couldn't do much else at this point she sighed and let go, being pulled to the door. Another guard held Gir and Yam by the tails and brought them along with the two girls. Dib's protests slowly faded as he was pulled farther away. The guards forcibly shoved them out the door, locking it behind them. May jumped up to the door with a furious growl. "Open this door!" She shouted, pounding the metal door in vain. The more she hit the door, the hopeless she realized it was. She eventually sank to her knees as her blows slowed. "Open...this...door..." she mumbled hopelessly and began to sob on her knees. Amber sat down next to her. "May..we're not going to give up. We will get Dib out." Gir was pounding on the door as well, still not fully understanding the situation. He stopped, looking at May, then Amber, then over at Yam. "Why won't dey open the door?" he asked Yam, tears seeping through the cloth costume. Yam sat next to May with a sad expression. "I don't know, Gir.." she said. May slowly stood up, drying her eyes. "I know we'll get him out...it's just..." she started crying again. "...not fair...he doesn't deserve this...the way they're treating him...for all those years..." she sobbed. Amber sighed, standing up. She picked Gir up, petting his head trying to calm the little bot down. "We can try again.." She looked up, a smile forming. "There's a vent.."
Later that night they put their plan into action. They crept up to the asylum in the dark. May came, along with Yam, out of disguise. Using her pak legs, she quietly dislodged the vet cover. "Alright Amber" she said. "You wait here and keep watch with Gir. Me and Yam will crawl in though the vent and get Dib out." Amber nodded, she had Gir on a leash so he wouldn't run off. "Good luck, remember; get in, find Dib, get out. No distractions." Gir strained against the leash, wanting to follow May and Yam through the vents. Amber held onto the leash tightly. "And hurry, I don't know how long I can hold him." May nodded and crawled into the vent after Yam. Yam went first since she could see in the dark. They traveled through the vent as quietly as they could, looking down each of the shafts. Eventually they came out above a long hallway lined with tiny cells. After quietly dropping dropping down they checked each cell for Dib,this meant waking up the other prisoners, making their search very unnerving. May used her pak legs to lift herself up to peek into the window of one cell door in particular. "Dib, are you in there?.." she whispered. There was a whine from inside the cell and a tall figure moved in the center of the cell, lifting himself into a sitting position he looked at the door, seeing a pair of glowing magenta eyes he assumed it was May. "I...I'm here." He whispered back, standing up and moving to the door, his face appearing in the window. May's face lit up. "Yam! I found him!" She whispered loudly and smiled that old smile of hers. "Don't worry, Dib. We're going to get you out of there!" She whispered, reaching her tiny hand through the bars of the window and placing it on Dib's shoulder, her eyes sparkling. Dib reached a shaky hand to May's. "I missed you." he gave a trembling smile as he looked at her. After three years he would finally get to be with his friends, to be free. He was trying to keep his excitement contained. After all he wasn't out of the asylum yet and he knew this was a risky rescue, as he started to hear the hushed whispers of the other inmates around them. Yam paced back and forth behind May, contemplating a plan. "Alright. We need a plan to get this door open, grab Dib, and leave without drawing attention to ourselves." she said, but May had zoned out. Tears of joy filled her eyes when Dib admitted he missed her. "I missed you too.." She squeaked. "Listen up, May!" Yam said. "We have to do this quietly. As Subtle as possible." But May couldn't wait another second to save Dib." Save it Yam. I've got a better idea." She said, and pulled her Pak legs to the front of her. Dib instantly knew what was going to happen and jumped to the far side of the cell. May blasted a laser through the cell door and the opposite wall of the cell, creating a massive hole leading outside. May took Dib by the hand and ran with her Pak legs out the hole. "Let's go!" She yelled to the others as she passed them. "You call that subtle?!" yelled Yam as she ran after them and sirens blared.
Amber turned her attention to the sirens coming from inside the building. "What did they do?!" she asked to no one, jumping backwards as a laser blasted through the wall in front of her. May, holding Dib by the hand, ran out, Yam following after them scolding them for being reckless. "What di-" Amber tried to ask as they ran past. "Alright.." Amber shrugged, running with them, pulling a giggling Gir along with. Dib smiled at the warm air, knowing exactly where they're going. Mystical Mountain. In the past May would drag him there every summer to look out at the city lights. May stopped when they reached the edge. Dib looked at the city below, some things have changed since he was gone, but not much. He looked over, seeing how small May really was, still the same height. "You..haven't changed.." he mumbled, smiling at her. May looked over. "But you have..in the best ways." She smiled, giving Dib one of the biggest hugs she'd ever given him. Amber stopped, standing a few feet away from them, not wanting to ruin the moment between them. Gir giggled. "dey so cute!" Amber laughed a bit at Gir's comment. "Dib found and rescued, all we need to do now is find Zim.."