(A/N: Hey, hey, hey! Before I get on with it, just remember that reviews are VERY important to me as a beginner, so if you read this, please review, even if you just say "cool". They motivate me to write! Also, I obviously do NOT own Invader ZiM, unfortunately, Nickelodeon does...)

"AHHHHHHHH!" Zim screamed at the top of his lungs.

Tak struggled, but she found that she couldn't deploy her PAK legs. I may have forgotten to mention last chapter that she was horribly bruised and battered from the crash.

"Now...you...die..." she fell forward and landed on top of Zim.

"AHHHHHHHH!" Zim screamed again, the exact same way."GIR! Get her off of me!" he commanded his robot. GIR saluted quickly and lifted the female Irken off of his Master. Zim stood and looked inside the pod. Its contents were a broken SIR unit, a PAK, and a bunch of smashed parts from the pod's crash. Zim lifted the PAK and the SIR unit out of the wreckage with a suspicious look on his face.

"Inside, GIR! Then we will investigate the situation at hand."

"And eat doughnuts?" GIR asked with hopeful eyes.

"...yes, and eat doughnuts..."

"YAY!" They went into the base.

XXXXXXXFOURMINUTESLATERXXXXXXX

Zim and GIR sat in front of the TV eating doughnuts and enjoying the classic horror film, "Hannibal". Zim was starting to get ideas when Tak woke up.

"Huh?! Where am I? Why didn't my PAK reactivate me?" She felt her upper back and realized that her PAK was detached in the crash. THAT was why her accent was off!"Where's my PAK?!" Tak cried in a boring American accent.

"Looking for this?" taunted Zim, holding up the precious PAK. GIR paused the movie and took some of Zim's doughnuts off of his plate. Tak, slowly losing her "Takness" and therefore being TERRIBLY out of character, pleaded with Zim to return it to her.

"Zim! Please! I could die...any minute!" she used all of her strength, which wasn't much, to lunge at Zim and try to snatch the PAK from him. He smugly stepped out of the way."PLEASE, Zim! Give it back!"

"Oh, I will return it to you..." he nodded."When you tell me who you are and tell me what you're doing jeopardizing my mission!"

Tak stared at him in shock.

"ZIM! It's me, Tak! Valentine's Day! The hot dog place! SNACKS!" She felt tears forming."PLEASE, just give it back to me!" she begged. Zim looked at her her blankly for a bit, thinking.

"Oh. It's you," he spat, tossing the PAK to the relieved Irken. She put it on her back at once and her lifeclock turned off once more."That craaazy Irken female infatuated with me." At this, Tak froze.

"Cra...infatu..." she mumbled, her British accent returned. She rose upon her PAK legs and towered over Zim threateningly."Give me ONE REASON why I shouldn't kill you right now."

Zim did the same, but he lifted himself a bit higher than Tak. He sneered down at her condescendingly. She gritted her teeth in frustration.

"Because, TAK, you foolish love puppet," he threw off the pieces of his disguise into her face as he spoke and GIR caught them below the two Irkens."The vile weenie stand was destroyed after you were kicked to space, by none other than ZIM!" Tak didn't quite understand what he was implying, but she tried to ignore that as he kept talking."Look back at your PAK, would you?" She slowly did so and gasped.

There was a small hole drilled into the center of the top pink circle of the PAK. Tak turned back to Zim, horrified.

"Wh...what have you done to me, you lunatic?!" she blurted. Zim just kept smirking and turned around in response. His PAK had the same hole.

"I have inserted lifeclock bombs into our PAKs. If I die, you die. If you die, I die. IN AN EXPLOSION! DO YOU UNDERSTAND NOW?!"

"Okay, first of all, you don't have to yell," Tak said calmly. Zim uttered a tiny grunt.

"Second, I was never in love with you," she continued.

"Oh. Good, because I broke up with you anyway."

"..."

"..."

"...third...YOU ARE COMPLETELY INSANE!" Tak screamed. Zim began to laugh in that wonderfully evil, evilly wonderful way of his. Tak became discouraged and retracted her PAK legs.

Zim continued laughing maniacally, then he started coughing...a lot...Tak rolled her eyes as Zim finally lowered himself onto the floor. He was still smirking.

"Do you now realize my brilliance?"

"I can't believe you..."

Zim just turned toward the kitchen, leaving Tak and GIR alone. GIR just smiled and ate another one of Zim's doughnuts.

"HEY!" Tak shouted. Zim turned around."Where is MiMi?"

"By the door," he replied, pointing. Indeed, a deactivated MiMi was leaning on the wall beneath one of the windows.

"MIMI!" Tak rushed to her side and turned her over. Tak sighed with relief. Luckily, she wasn't completely broken. Tak opened up her back and deployed a small metal pin from her PAK. Zim was watching closely. A small jolt of electricity to the circuitry was able to awaken the SIR unit. MiMi sprang to life and, recognizing the environment, took on a battle stance.

"MiMi, no," Tak intervened. MiMi had slight hesitation, but she lowered her defense. Tak nodded and continued."Zim, what was that you were saying earlier about the weenie stand being destroyed?"

"That means you have nowhere to go..."

"Yeah? And?"

"AND I'M KICKING YOU OUT!"

With that, Tak and MiMi were out the door.

"Get your space pod off of my property and GET LOST!" Zim shouted after them. Then he shut the door as Tak sighed in frustration. MiMi looked to her with desperation.

"MiMi, I don't want to stay here any more than YOU do, but we really don't have any other options!" MiMi looked crestfallen. Tak considered going to Dib's house, but she thought he probably hated her since he found out that she was Irken. She also slightly considered killing herself so that Zim would die, but she decided that THAT wasn't happening. Right now, what Zim cared about most was his mission. Even if it wasn't real. Tak stood and bellowed,

"HEY! EVERYONE! HEY EVERYONE, LOOK! I'M AN ALIEN! HERE'S MY ALIEN POD AND MY ALIEN BASE! WHERE I LIVE! WITH ANOTHER ALI-"

She was pulled into the house. MiMi followed.

"Stop that! Stop...being out of character!" Zim scolded.

"...what?" queried Tak.

"Nevermind that! You're ruining my mission, you...filthy...THING...PERSON!"

"Now you're just out of insults...look, I won't expose you to the humans...on one condition."

"And what is that?"

"You let me stay here until I can find my ship! The homing sensors of the space pod said that it landed in THIS town!" she related. Zim looked angry, but also deep in thought.

"GIR!" he called out suddenly. GIR popped out of the refridgerator with a rubber chicken in his mouth.

"Yesh?" he answered, drooling. Zim smacked the chicken away.

"Tak is going to stay here..." he admitted hesitantly. He waited for GIR to respond in any way.

"...can I have my chick-chick now?" GIR finally said. Zim sighed.

"Go pick it up..." Zim declared, pointing to it. GIR rushed over and began chewing it voraciously.

"Computer! Are you UP with Tak staying here?!" Zim exclaimed to the ceiling.

"...don't you mean DOWN?" retorted Computer.

"Don't correct me! I know what I meant!"

"...sure, I'm cool with that." Computer didn't care either way.

"Minimoose?!" Zim asked for his consent and he appeared in front of the Irken.

"Nyah!"

"...roboparents?" Zim wasn't even sure why he asked for their opinion.

"Weee LOVE little girls! They make us feel so good!" the robots stated, opening their doors.

"Okay...it's unani-" Zim was cut off by the toilet clanging open.

"What about me?" Skoodge whined.

"What ABOUT you?!" Zim shrieked at him.

"I'm in favor of Tak staying here too! I think she's pretty!" Skoodge smiled at her. Tak shuddered.

"Nobody cares, Skoodge!" Zim was beginning to wonder why he hadn't kicked him out yet."As I was SAYING, it's unanimous!" He turned to Tak."Tak, you will be staying here now, as long as you keep us secret from the humans." Tak nodded and saluted. Zim did the same."At ease. Now unload your frilly female things. I'm going to have a doughnut." GIR's ears drooped.

"Actually, I'm going to have a tour of your lab, Zim," Tak told him, walking into the kitchen.

"My lab? Why?!"

"Ooh! Ooh! Can I give you the tour?!" interrupted Skoodge, half of him sticking out of the toilet.

"Whatever..." sighed Tak. Then she turned back to Zim."I'm definitely going to need your technology," she smirked."I'm still after this planet, you know."

Tak stomped the lovestruck Skoodge down the toilet and then flushed herself and MiMi together. Zim was about to yell after them, but he decided against it. He released a puff of hot air from his mouth as he turned back into the living room. There he saw an empty plate with some crumbs on it.

"HEY! Who ate my DOUGHNUTS?!"

GIR slipped down the trash can.

(A/N: Whew! Done! Hehe! Thanks for reading! Please review! The next chapter will have them at Skool and DIB will be there! Oooh...stay tuned!)