Feeling a slight pressure inside of him, he knew what it was, but didn't want to address it until now. Staring at his caught present, he faded out in front of her. It was time to address this nonsense. Landing himself in a room that was flooded on purpose, he was able to levitate himself so as not to touch the liquid. Right now his quandary was beyond these walls. His enemies didn't know the lay of the land. Only himself. He knew one held a device to be able to detect him. Another annoying Irken. The other was Dib. He had no true issues with her brother, but this needed to be handled and handled now.

Materializing his hand through the wall, they wouldn't be able to see it with their eyes, but he heard the slight tremor of the instrument she was holding. Quickly grabbing her shoulder he latched on tight and quickly launched her against the wall. He would of placed her in the flooded room to hear her scream, but that was too quick for him. Perhaps there was another torture he can make her endure.

"Tak!" Dib screamed out.

Entering the room, he materialized in front of Dib, making him step back. "Tak! Gaz!" Pressner mocked him. "Those are obviously the screams from someone who cares too much for others." Peering at Tak over his shoulder and watching her give him a death stare, he went on. "Oh go on and keep staring at me. It never bothers me in the slightest."

"Where's my sister?" Dib demanded.

"For someone so smart, you ask the most stupidest questions. You think I honestly answer that? I'm not one of those villains in those movies you watch. What's next? You want me to explain my whole plot to you? Just guess it on your own." He sardonically answered. "I will answer this though. She is still fine. I won't harm her."

"But you do want to mate with her." Tak hissed out.

Smiling, he almost clapped. "See, she gets it Dib. No stupid questions of the obvious. She went right to it without a question. Quite excellent of you, Irken."

"I know my sister has powers. That is something that anyone would like to get a hold of. Exploit."

"Except you. I noticed that. You wanted to exploit Zim a million times, but not your own sister. You wanted to keep her safe. I know I'm correct there."

"Well of course. The government would run all sorts of tests on her. It would be horrible for her." Remembering what he did to her a long time ago and how her father tried to solve the problem on her pig problem. He felt nothing but guilt there. Still did.

"You had no problem with the pig curse thing. Awesome deal there." He said now clapping as he stepped forward. "What a great little brother you are to do that to her."

"Don't take another step forward or I'll..."

"You'll what? I don't doubt that maybe you can get a good few decent hits against me, but I do doubt if anyone is to give me the final blow it will be you."

Firing her gun at him, she narrowly missed him. "That's enough out of your idiot mouth. Give us what we came here for or you won't end up like your friends out there."

Hissing at her. "My dear, who do you think is responsible for all that?" Handing a flash to blind Dib, he quickly vanished and materialized behind her kicking her right in the back. "Don't think I don't know anything about you either. I think you will serve me best elsewhere before I decide to kill you off."

Dib blinded and him stupidly stumbling next to her, she tried to reach for him when Pressner gave him a not so gentle shove into the wall, but instead of hitting it, he just went right through it. Waiting for him to descend upon her she gave him a sideways kick into his abdomen making him stumble a little, but the idiot just smiled at her. She hated when they loved being hit.

"You and him make a very odd couple." He pointed out. "I'm still trying to figure out Gaz's fascination with Zim at times."

"Oh I've seen the pictures. I believe that fascination is very... Very apparent." Tak smirked.

Handing her a screwed up look, he had enough of her annoying voice. "That is enough of you." Quickly grabbing her he landed them both outside of the void and back onto Earth. Quickly grabbing her device, he held it away from her as she punched and kicked him. "The way you came in before is now closed off. Good luck coming back in." Vanishing he could still hear her cursing. Smiling he went into the area he dropped off Dib. He actually honestly wanted to see him fight, but he might wait on it. Making him a flame cage of his own, he transported them both back in the same room Gaz was kept in.

Gaz seeing her brother stood up quickly. "My brother... Wha?" Noticing how lifeless he seemed she fixed Pressner with a deadly look. "This doesn't make me want to fling off my clothes in your general direction."

"Does alcohol do it though?" He quickly bit back.

Smiling, she wasn't going to let him get to her with that question. "So you plan on giving my brother some jollies like you are trying to do with me with his cage?"

Twisting to look back at her, he actually choked at that. "That is reserved for you."

"You sure? The way you act I feel like you wouldn't mind exploring that."

"I can just kill your brother right now, you know. I already have you..."

"Heh if you already had me then I wouldn't still be in this cage dip tard." Turning her back to him. "If you kill him then there will be no way ever you will have me at all. Not even in the slightest." Sure, let me try a different playing angle. She thought.

For the past three hours the Resisty's ships went all lifeless the way they floated onto one another. Sizz-Lor clued Zim in and both of them watched as the ships were knocking into one another causing dents and scratches. But nothing that seemed too permanently damaged.

Making a questionable face, he glanced to Sizz-Lor and back at the screen. "What are the diagnostic readings?" Zim queried.

"There is life still on board and it does show them to be still living, but they just haven't moved at all." Came one of the bridge personal.

"Looks like a trick to me, but they are pretty dumb." He said to Sizz-Lor quietly. "Although, new members may mean new brains."

"We have to send a probe in there. We need all the soldiers we can get."

"I agree." Turning to the bridge crew, Zim ordered them to release a probe.

The probe went to the lead ship, which was Lard Nar's possibly. Safely entering the camera picked up several already passed out bodies which still showed signs of life. There were but a few already that weren't living any longer. The probe moving along in a swift manner showed the same story over and over again even when it reached the bridge. Zim instantly recognized Lard Nar, who was just passed out, but the thing next to him was clearly dead. Why spare some and kill the rest?

"Who could of done this? I am possibly sure it is them. They are pretty damn moronic." Sizz-Lor harrumphed.

Zim thought of what Tak was saying about dead bodies she and Dib found. He also thought of what he said to Purple. "No... I would of thought so before, but I have a strong feeling who caused this. That assassin Pressner."

"Why want them though? Why stray from his own path?"

"He wants something far more, that's why. As for them, he can exploit them to his advantage." Staring at the dead bodies, he thought to do a facial recognition on one. Due to what was brought up, that individual was never one to ever follow the rules. Needing to be sure, he did more until he finally spoke. "He killed the ones he can't easily manipulate. He needs ones that are easily controlled. In spite of what Lard Nar claims he is, he is quite frankly, what the humans say, a pussy."

Submitting a dark guffaw at that last remark, he said. "You have been on Earth a long time."

Hearing a chime on his portable communicator, Zim answered it. "Yes, Tak?"

"He has Dib. Pressner came at us and took me out of there. So I'm here outside the first place we spotted the vortex and he closed it up on me like he told me he would." Clearly disturbed, she let out a deep breath. "I failed."

"Tak, you didn't fail. What you did show is that you were most definitely in the right place. It isn't ideal that he now has Dib, but now we know you were getting closer to him." Zim hated that now he had Dib, but he had to think that he will keep him alive for Gaz's favor. Also that does mean they were getting closer to him so he had to react. Smiling wide all of a sudden, he took one glance at Sizz-Lor. "Please keep me appraised of this. I have an idea." Now addressing Tak, he said. "I'm coming down there now."

Blinking right in the location where Tak is, he quickly took her wrist and blinked her to his base. Tak was clearly unhappy she failed. "I can't believe I failed. I'm so horrible. What if something happens to Dib?"

Zim let her keep going, before he placed reassuring hands on her shoulders. "Man! And I thought I was hard on myself. Tak I know you did what you could do to stick around. You know Dib isn't exactly helpless, he can handle himself." Walking to the Computer's panel he started to type something in. "I can't believe I didn't think of this before. I've been so wrapped up being worried and stress that I didn't think about it."

"About what?" She asked clearly confused.

"We will be getting our mates back soon enough." Seeing her still confused state, he clarified. "There is a little pin on Dib's gun that acts as a tracking signal once activated."

"Oh how I wished you would of thought of that before. What the hell Zim? I wouldn't be this nuts right now."

"What? It isn't like I'm suffering from head pigeons. I was out of my mind worried and stressed. You aren't perfect." He replied focusing on the typing.

"Head pigeons? What does this have to do with head pigeons?"

Pressing the final button, he hit send. "Now let us unleash a world of hurt on his oh so perfect world."

Thinking of the place she just visited, she said disgustingly. "It certainly didn't smell perfect."

"Hey, can't be any worse then what you find cooking in Foodcourtia."