Realizing the camera was compromised in his quarters, then receiving a private message from Zim that Gaz was kidnapped by an assassin by the name of Pressner. Zim told him to proceed to the next step. Smiling sideways, Sizz-Lor got up from his seat on the bridge and went to the helm and waited until Lard Nar arrived. Leaning back, he got comfortable as he looked ahead. The others on the bridge seemed to take notice in the change of atmosphere here, and ignored him until the drama ensued. Sizz-Lor had to commend them for not being too noisy and mostly obedient. Hearing the familiar stomping in the corridor leading up to the bridge, he took out his cigar and started chomping on it. He knew it often made him look like an arrogant asshole to others or to some a reason for them to turn and run for cover.

"Get off my chair now, Sizz-Lor, that is an order." Lard Nar demanded as he stormed in.

Nonchalantly fussing around with his cigar with his mouth and hand, he stared ahead. "Your orders don't mean anything to me anymore."

"Get off my chair or I will report you."

Going on as if he didn't hear him. "I only listen to the Tallest now and not to traitors."

Walking around to face him, Lard Nar acted as innocent as possible while still being honestly pissed. "Traitor? Did you say traitor? Are you accusing me of being one?"

"Didn't accuse you. In fact, don't need to accuse you of being one when it has been very well documented that you have been."

"Excuse me?"

Leveling his gaze at him, he took his cigar out of his mouth, and spoke loud enough for the crew to hear. "Oh I'm sorry, can't you hear me, or are you just stupid? The footage you sent our Tallest has been faked by you. Also we have documented proof, from you saying that you killed the last Elder Dai. Of course you really didn't kill her so you sweared you will along with her daughter. Also you freed murderers from our most heavily guarded prison. I bet they are on the Resisty right now, am I correct there? But wait, before you speak... Your assassin has just kidnapped Dai's daughter Gaz, who is also a rightful born Elder." Standing up to his full height he stomped down towards him. "This is just a few tidbits for you. Want to try to fake your innocence now?"

"Um."

"Where is he located?" Sizz-Lor demanded.

"Who cares? If he has her, he has her." Lard Nar spoke bitingly. He didn't give a crap about this cover anymore, this was his excuse to go back to where he belonged. Pretending to be one of them was driving him crazy. "If he kills her. He kills her." Laughing regarding that he soon yelped when he felt himself flung against the furthest window. Staring back he assumed it was big fat Sizz-Lor, but it was Zim looking at him in the tone of murder. Really he has been around hardened prisoners and the look that Zim was aiming towards him was akin to making them look like little lambs. Hearing the worse gutteral sound that was coming from him, Lard Nar started fumbling for his hidden mini transporter remote as Zim quickly came at him. Scampering and fumbling he managed to grab the remote and poofed out of there.

Missing his chance to throttle him, Zim made an incredible screaming sound, before stopping and staring out the window in front of him. He could see in the reflection of the window that all eyes were on him and they were all startled except for Sizz-Lor's. He was always the relaxed one taking things as they come. Walking back to him, he smiled at him weakly. "Thanks for all you have done here."

Not one for emotions, he placed his hands on both of Zim's shoulders and made him face him. "You'll get her back. She is a strong one. That I can see. Stronger then you. That I can tell."

"Yes, yes that is true." He loved to admit about her. "Sizz-Lor you are the captain here, but then again, you always were. I will talk to you soon."

"Zim."

"Yes?"

"This is war and you are the Tallest now." Leaning so he can only hear. "Your emotions for her can make you weak just like they can make you strong. Lean into the strong."

Nodding his head, he headed back to Irk. Going into the room, Dib shook his head at his unanswered question. Since he has been gone, Dib's clothing and hair became more astray. Zim decided to do one thing that Gaz once had him do. Stand in one place in the room in a relaxed manner, breath, and don't concentrate on anything and soon either your problems will disappear or the answer to your problems will appear. He had to try.

Alone, possibly, in this area, in this flamed cage Gaz felt something move deep inside her mind. She also felt desperation. Anger. Clouded judgement. It felt like Zim. She always could read his mind, but she felt it was from years of spending time with him. Could this possibly be? Could she read his mind? Closing her eyes, she concentrated fully onto him. She had to make sure her flame nor her hands didn't touch her cage. She didn't want to feel him once again. The only one she wanted to feel was, Zim. Pushing her own anger away was the only way to try to bond with him. Feeling his mind, she moved hers as if tendrils were reaching out touching him. Inside her mind she concentrated.

"Zim, please if you can hear me say something." Gaz spoke through the bond. Darkness surrounded her with little flashes of light. It felt like an eternity until she heard from him.

"Gaz? Gaz is that really you?" He called out to her desperate.

It felt like he was trying to grab her with his hands, but that was impossible. She felt so sad that they couldn't do that. "Yes it's me. I don't know where I am. I'm just in this flamed cell. He is gone. I suppose. I tried to leave this cell, but there is a problem."

"What's the problem?"

"When I tried it something happened." Feeling very uncomfortable, she honestly didn't wish to say it, but decided to blurt it out. "It is loaded with his energy naturally and when I tried to touch it with mines it is almost similar to how you make me feel when we are making out and feeling one another up. You know all those sounds you love hearing me do and the heaving panting? Well the sick bastard booby trapped it in that way. I can't do anything without getting very aroused."

Growling, Zim uttered a string of curses in Irken. "Dib is here trying to help locate your whereabouts. Lard Nar is back in the Resisty. Purple is here on Irk in my quarters pretty controlled right now." Zim rushed out quickly.

"Glad Dib is there with you." Taking a chance, she raised the flame just to see if at least it was a one time thing.

"Gaz, what are you doing?"

Figured he would know she was up to something, she thought, as she brought up a small ball of flame and touched the bars where once again she was wrapped up in the same way as before. Cutting it off quickly, she didn't want to severe her connection to, Zim.

Hearing her heavy panting, Zim internally growled. "I'm going to kill him if you don't."

"Fucking Bret. I'm so stupid, Zim, that I didn't know. Pressner being Bret. Wait Bret is Pressner. He's sick, Zim." Gaz breathed out.

"Ever been to his house on Earth? It might just be a fake house or something, but we need to look elsewhere."

"Uh yeah yeah uh 10043 Rosewood Blvd. It was a few blocks down the opposite direction from school. Hang right from the main entrance basically." She answered.

"Gaz save your energy and we will try to get to you. Just in case he tries to do something more with you..." Zim took the longest deepest breath before finishing what he had to say. "I won't like it and I know you won't, but it might be the only way to get out of there." Hearing her groan, he added. "I know, my love, but if anyone can manage a block there finally it is you. I believe in you."

Smiling at his encouragement, she didn't want to say good bye to him. "I love you, Zim. I know I will see you soon."

"I love you too, my Gaz, and yes we will see one another soon." Zim said.

Feeling her gone, Zim opened his eyes, and spoke. "We need to go to that house Bret used."

"Why?" Dib asked.

"Pressner was using that as a disguise to get close to her. Hand me your remote, Dib. I have to stay here and man everything. I will still look and also ask him some questions while I'm at it." Taking the remote he added a wider range for him, just in case. "In case of emergency from any prisoners or Pressner. Get your dad to safety. I have a strong feeling he has been inside my base. This will put you in your fathers labs. Who knows? Maybe it will be enough to deter him following there." Giving him his remote back, he walked over to the arsenal closet and grabbed a gun small enough for him to hide. "This, I had to do some work on for you really. Gaz can operate any gun with no problem since she has Irken DNA, this will work for you regardless. Take it. It is more powerful then what you have."

Examining the gun, it looked pretty cut and dry, so he slipped it into his pocket. "You wouldn't of done this before."

"It is important to Gaz and I don't like making her unhappy. As for you... I hated you at first. Then I hated you a little less as time wore on. Then a little more. Yeah you are annoying, but really I did get bored when you weren't around." Scratching an imaginary itch, he added. "I grown to like you. You do have a brain in that head of yours."

Smiling a little. "Yeah, same here." Fiddling with his remote, he did a quick wave before blinking away. Turning up in his living room, Tak was there. Smiling at her, he had to quickly relay all the information before he went to Pressner's fake house here.

"I'm coming with you. You might need me." Tak said.

"Where is my dad?"

"Lucky for you, he went back to his labs." Tak smiled.

Praising that bit of luck, they both decided to take Tak's cruiser. Course she disguised it as an ordinary Earth vehicle. Even though there was an alliance now, they weren't going to take a chance already. Parking in front of the house, they exited the cruiser to approach the ordinary looking house. It was a nice two story blue house with shutters, but really nothing way too exciting. The yard was trampled but that was alright since the planet just got finished with an invasion. Walking to the front door, Dib knocked on it.

"Just go in." Tak said impatiently where she got an immediate look from him. "What?"

"We need to make sure before we do that."

"Did you make sure each and every time you broke into Zim's house?" Tak pointed out.

"Actually yes." Dib replied. After waiting five minutes, he broke out his lock pick and opened the door. Making sure his gun was handy, they both walked in cautiously.

"That ancient stuff you just did was actually a turn on." Tak whispered before she reverted to her normal self. "It may look normal, but that is what he needed her to think."

"Yeah." Moving cautiously from room to room, he didn't notice Mimi actually tagged along until he saw her move around stealthily from room to room.

"Any signatures, Mimi?" Receiving a shake from her, they followed Mimi upstairs where they stopped when Tak raised her arm up. "I don't have powers or anything on me, but doesn't it feel strange up here?"

Taking a step up to where Tak was, Dib felt an odd pressure on him. "It actually does."

"Has Gaz been up here?"

Shaking his head. "Doubtful. If she did, she would be the first to notice it. My sister has powers of her own."

"Mimi find the source." Tak ordered softly.

Waiting a few seconds, Mimi made her way to the left with them following. The pressure started to increase for Dib, mostly in his shoulder area. As for Tak, it felt like her antenna's were being pulled back more. Mimi stopped in front of the door at the end of the hallway. Arm raised to halt them, she opened the door, peering inside at first, she then jumped back kicking the door open wide revealing a black mass in front of them with a faint red swirl at the furthest depth of that mass in the center.

Mouth opened up wide, he gave Tak an accurrsary glance before staring back at the room. "What the hell is that?"

"This is the first I've seen of this for this species. Mimi, what is your diagnosis of this?" Tak questioned. Watching Dib seemingly walking towards it in a hypnotized state, she gently took his hand and shook her head. There was no telling where it may take him if he went in there.

"It appears to be a worm hole of some kind. Or a place this species dwell." Mimi replied.

"It may be a way of getting to my sister though."

Turning to address him, Mimi spoke. "Possibly, but unable to ascertain that information correctly. If able to get in, how would one get out unless you are this species?"

"Tak, we gotta try."

"Negative, Dib, it is too untrustworthy." Tak said.

Facing her, he looked unhappy, he looked almost defeated since she seemed to be taking his one chance away simply because she didn't want to lose him. "Tak, she's my sister. If you had a sister or brother, you'd understand."

Sighing, she honestly couldn't deny him this, having Mimi produce a mini device so she can navigate her way as best in possible in the mystery mass, she informed her to protect Professor Membrane. Bringing him closer to her, she kissed him. "Make sure not to let go of my hand, Dib."

In spite of her gruff nature he admired that she did have a soft side in spite of everything. "I won't. Promise."

Nodding her head, they both stepped into the mass to meet up with the swirling red. They didn't know where they would end up, but Dib prayed inside his head it would be to Gaz.

Purple watched Zim work for some time after the human left. It actually was interesting to him as he tried everything he could to not only locate Gaz, but do readings on the Resisty ships, and now he was monitoring Earth since there is now an alliance there. Zim did regard him a few times mostly to sneer at him, but gave it up to mostly find her.

"I wish I knew where he has her." Purple started off. Zim paused long enough to straighten his posture, but then turned his attention back to the controls. "I don't want her to be hurt. But it is obvious that if you try to get her mom killed and she ends up seeing this whole thing and getting hurt in the process. Well I'm an idiot, because she got hurt anyhow."

"Seven years I was perfectly great with the plan, but things started to quickly wear thin so for 25 years... Too many doubts, but then again, I still did it so I guess I wasn't completely tired of it." He droned on. "Red can influence me a lot. Sure I had a choice, but I stupidly chose to do all this."

Staring down at the ground, it seemed he was being ignored by Zim, but he continued on talking. "You get power hungry. I had my choice of whomever I wished to exploit. I lost Dai. Might as well play with others. No, I didn't. So I picked on others along with Red."

"I didn't care about that one day that big headed human asked Red and I so many questions. Although I did look at him strangely." He said trying not to laugh at that. "Gaz though. Yes she was human, but what she did just gave us countless entertainment. We admired her ruthlessness most of the time. We admired how intelligent she was. So apt. Then one day as we are talking to you, we didn't think she would say anything, but she did. With big headed boy, we looked at him strangely. With her in awe and pride. Pride for a human. I also felt warmth go through me. She excited me in so many ways."

"I fell for someone from afar. Someone whom I can tell wouldn't care one iota about me. You are lucky to have her."

All this time Purple was looking at the ground. When he finally raised his head, Zim was leaning against the control board with his arms crossed just studying him. "So you are a power hungry asshole who loves a girl from afar who won't give you the time of day and yet you are no use to me at the moment in finding her." Silence descended on both of them, as Zim coldly stared at him a few moments longer before turning back to the control board.