AUTHOR'S NOTE: Hey, sorry for the extremely late chapter. I'm not dead and neither is the fanfic (though I figure some of my readers might want me dead after the delays). I tend to write the chapters in batches so that each part is consistent with itself, but that still doesn't excuse the long wait between updates. I never expected that this final part would take so much writing (I thought this whole fic would have just been ~20 or so chapters, the final count easily more than doubles that). Hopefully I'll have the next chapter out before the weekend ends.

"HOOOO-HAAAAAAAA!" Skoodge roared his battle cry as he deactivated his PAK glider and fell on top of a moose, driving a laser-blade into the top of its skull. All around the midget Irken was carnage, a cornucopia of mostly moose bodies and the occasional alien from Dwicky's resistance. Skoodge had already informed Dwicky of his position as commander of the battlefield and handed him a communicator, he had no objection.

"Daj-lizard, launch!" The little Irken called out to his Darvon ally. The purple, lizard-like being nodded and grabbed Skoodge. He gave his body a full rotation before firing Skoodge straight up. At the peak of his height, Skoodge re-activated his glider, giving him a full view of the battle. This allowed Skoodge to find and analyze the opponent's movement while allowing himself to traverse the field with ease.

"Dwicky-human, five moose are flanking you and the plookesian." Skoodge spoke into his communicator. The human leader replied with confirmation before turning to face the moose firing at them. Skoodge was always ridiculed for his height, but he was smart enough to make use of his shape while most other Irkens only wallowed in self-pity. He would utilize his abilities and physique to faithfully serve his leader out of blind devotion.

Skoodge spotted his next target, an eight-foot tall moose with a limp in its left leg. He dropped down, firing his blaster to get its attention before activating his laser-blade to strike. Skoodge might have made a mistake, the moose blocked most of the laser shots by shielding himself with his arm before swatting the Irken as his came down. Skoodge fell face first and quickly rolled, barely dodging a stomp from the moose. He got up, the moose was much bigger on the ground.

Skoodge had trained in this situation before. He's fought many enemies that could eat him for a light snack, this moose was no different. Skoodge ran at the moose, ducking between its legs and getting behind the creature. He leaped at its back when the torso suddenly was blown from its body, colliding with Skoodge in midair and sending him into the arms of an even larger moose.

"Drone, I saved your life! You can thank me later!" Daj stood over the torso-less moose corpse, his G.F.B. still warm from firing. Daj turned to look for his Irken teammate, barely missing the hint of green skin in his peripheral vision. "Skoodge?"

"AAAAHHHHHHHHHH!" Skoodge yelled as his body was thrown into the air. The moose looked up and was ready to catch the Irken, between his jaws. The moose snapped, clenching his jaws but eating nothing but smoke. He was upset about the lack of Irken in his throat.

Skoodge was speeding through the air an immense velocity. It took him a few seconds to register what just happened. Out of nowhere, Gir had flown right into Skoodge. The Irken had instinctively grabbed the robot.

"SIR unit! You saved my life! I'm am grateful." Skoodge exclaimed to the robot.

"Hi piggy! I got a new friend!"

"What?" Skoodge suddenly noticed the red SIR unit Gir held in his arms. Despite being restrained, Mimi was still able to headbutt Skoodge, almost causing him to fall. He held on as the robot was constantly trying to bash their heads together but Skoodge would keep twisting away to avoid catching the full impact. He prepared to let go, not wanting to deal with either SIR units at the moment,

"Hey, a building!"

"Wha-" The second of stunned confusion from Gir's sudden statement prevented Skoodge from escaping the impact of crashing straight through the wall of a building, landing on the hard floor of the interior. The Irken had landed on top of Gir, it did not lessen the pain.

"ARRRGGGH...Sir unit...where are we?" Skoodge got up slowly.

"A building!" Gir replied enthusiastically.

"Yes, very astute. Now the question is what building is this." The only light was from the newly created hole, but by the way his voice echoed, Skoodge could tell that the room was big. The Irken could make out the faint silhouettes of large monitors behind him and cables with claws on the ends.

An assembly plant, Skoodge deduced, but of what?

The room lit up and Skoodge was faced with an endless sea of chrome and gray eyes, their small forms hanging from claws, this was the SIR Unit Manufacturing Plant.

"I found the light button!" Gir shouted behind Skoodge, his hand pressed against a green button on the wall. "And our new friend too!"

Gir held the arm of a red colored robot with a heavily disproportionate claw. Immediately recognizing Skoodge as a target, the red robot pushed Gir away and leaped toward the mini-Irken. Unable to dodge, Skoodge reeled back, causing him and the enemy robot to tumble upon collision. Using the momentum, Skoodge pushed his limbs against Mimi, launching her into her lifeless counterparts and causing them to fall around her.

Mimi recovered immediately, she jumped from the mound of SIR units and pounced. Skoodge sprouted four metal spikes, jointed in the middle, from his PAK on instinct. His spider legs were very small compared to Zim's, they only lifted him by about five inches, he preferred combat without them, but the extra lift allowed him to dodge Mimi's initial attack. Mimi began unleashing a flurry of swipes with her giant, clawed arm. Skoodge used the added dexterity from his spider legs to barely dodge but caught a few cuts on his body.

Skoodge had finally managed to get some distance between him and Mimi and drew his blaster to fire at her. Nothing fired. The blaster had broke upon his impact. Mimi launched at Skoodge, the Irken reacted by throwing the dead blaster in her face.

The impact was strong enough to slightly phase Mimi and Skoodge drew his laser and lunged at Mimi. The hilt was now pressed squarely against Mimi's chest as Skoodge yelled out a fierce cry. The Irken's roar caused even Mimi to pause in her attack and stare in terror at the hilt of a laser-blade just below her head, until she realized that the laser-blade didn't even activate. The realization also hit Skoodge as his cry waned in strength. His eyes turned wide as he rapidly pressed the button on the hilt to activate the blade to no avail and his fierce cry turned into a cry of despair.

Mimi smacked him squarely in the face, sending him flying into the wall. Skoodge's spider legs caught him and he began using them scale it. Mimi gave chase and used her clawed hands to follow the Irken. Skoodge was out of weapons and was being chased by a SIR unit with a hippo-sized arm. His only source of help was Gir. He did not like his situation.

"I'm just a cushion for everyone, aren't I?"

"Well, it is a pretty unique ability you have."

"Why don't you all start wearing parachutes or jet-packs or something!"

"Because...actually, you have a point, why don't we have jet-packs yet?"

"Our leader lacks foresight, at least when it comes to personal safety."

Dib and Kor sat at the bottom of the hole they had just fallen from. The Employer had ripped open the wall and, due to the ship's orientation, caused them to fall into a hallway. The slight tilt of the ship allowed them to slide down the side with Kor breaking Dib's impact with the ground. They looked upwards and could barely make out the hole, a tiny speck of light in the middle of shadows.

"Kor, do you think we could climb back up?" Dib asked, "We'd be able to get there with your boots, right?"

Kor checked her boots and grimaced, "We wouldn't make it. My boots are on low power, we'd make it halfway at most before they die."

"Great, we get taken to the final boss and end up getting trapped in a hole before the fight even starts."

"I know, for once we get the good luck." Dib shot a look of annoyance at Kor. She sighed, "Fine. We're not going to be able to do anything by just sitting here, guess we're exploring then."

"I hope we make it in time."

"Zim and Gaz will be fine." A bloodcurdling scream from a male Irken echoed through their hole. "For the most part. Maybe."

"Oh god, but Gaz-" Kor pressed her hand over Dib's mouth.

"I get it, you're worried about your sister, but you should realize by now that she's capable of handling herself. Aside from me, she's the one that's most likely to live through all this."

"...I-I know."

"Good, now let's get going."

Dib and Kor walked into an entrance that lead to another corridor. Dib used the glow from his laser-blade to light the way down the dark path. Every now and then they'd spot a faint glow from a light that still had current flowing through it, it gave Dib hope that they could find something to charge Kor's boots so they can return to the fight. Eventually the corridor led to a metal door with the words "Restricted Access". Both Kor and Dib knew that "Restricted Access" meant room with cool stuff. Dib cut a hole through the door with his laser-blade and the two made their way inside.

Surprisingly, the large room was dimly lit, meaning power was still flowing through this room. Near the end of the room glowed the monitor of a console stuck on the wall, it was the source of their salvation. They walked towards it as they observed the room.

"We're in a lab," Dib said.

"How can you tell?" Kor asked.

"The giant glass cases around us that holding a bunch of glowing liquid makes it a dead giveaway." Dib pointed to the floor and ceiling, both lined with clear prisms. "Glass tubes in labs means horrible, genetic mutation experiments, or cloning! Or they're healing pods."

"What are the chances of these things being healing pods?"

"Absolutely none."

"Right, so we just have to not do anything stupid," Kor turned to the monitor and hooked a cable from her boots into the console to charge her boots. "I'd say, with Zim gone, there's a 50% chance of us doing something stupid."

"50%? Why so high?" Kor turned and opened her mouth but paused. She closed it, deciding it was best not to say anything, Dib still got the message. "You're a jerk."

"Come on, Dib, you can't say every decision you've made has been reasonable or within the realms of logic." Kor remained focused on the console, using the screen to scroll through the sideways text.

"Sure, but fift-"

"Hold on, I'm reading."

"I get interrupted too muc-"

"What the Fef?!"

"*sigh* What?"

"These guys have been to Fefa!"

"What are you reading?"

"Research files, I noticed a couple documents on the console that caught my eye. There wasn't really much security on this thing. Apparently, the Employer went to the planet after we left."

"What was he doing."

"Abducting Fefians."

"I'm going to guess he was using them for sick, genetic experiments."

Kor scrolled down the document, "You're correct. Care to guess their genetic experiments?"

"Fusing your healing factor into moose? Like that giant, healing monstrosity we fought earlier?"

"Their most successful experiment. Fortunately they never perfected the healing, thus leading to several failed experiments. Welcome to their storage."

"Huh?"

"So these pods, they're healing pods...for horrible, genetic, mutated, cloned moose."

"Wow, we won the crap lottery, didn't we?"

"Well, they're failed experiments at least. What they didn't fail at, annoyingly, was the creation of the serum that can actually kill Fefians. I'm keeping those files."

"Before you continue, Kor, I have a very important question for you."

"What?"

"Why is the floor wet?" Kor looked down at the floor and noticed the liquid that had spread all over the room. They were from the pods.

"...What did you do?"

"Nothing, I've been here the entire time!"

"Well who else could have unloc-" Kor's eyes grew wide, she slapped her hand against her face in frustration, "I did something stupid."

"What? What did you do!" Dib went into panic mode and readied his laser-blade.

"So that weak security I mentioned? It was just a screen with the word 'unlock' on it."

"Dammit, Kor-AAAAHHHHHH!" A figure leaped out at them, barely revealed by the dim light. Instantly, Dib slashed his blade the moment it came within his line of sight. The remains of his attacker splashed in the liquid in front of him. It was a moose head, sliced down the middle thanks to Dib, but it didn't have a body. Attached to its neck was a sickly, green arm that ended with a normal moose hoof. Its blood was blue and could be seen through the slight transparency of the hairless skin. It began wiggling.

Dib immediately chopped the moose head to bits at the sight of movement. Not stopping until the corpse turned into a puddle.

"Please, Kor, please tell me there aren't a lot of these things." Dib asked frantically.

Kor scrolled through more documents, "Uh..."

"...Great."

The two readied their weapons, preparing for whatever monsters they would face. Dib felt himself shaking a bit as he saw the liquid at his feet ripple towards him in a rhythmic fashion, the source coming from something further down. The remaining lights slowly faded away, leaving Dib and Kor in the darkness.

Gaz hated moose. Finally, she got her opportunity to hurt Tak, someone who she NEEDED to hurt, and she has her back behind a door frame because her head was beginning to throb in pain, thanks to the stupid, giant moose that had chased her down earlier that day. She clutched her rifle against her chest and began to regain her composure.

Tak had tackled her down a hole that lead into the main hallway of the ship. Fortunately it was Tak who took the brunt of the fall as they fell into one of the side rooms. Kor's boots made her escape easier, too bad Tak's armor protected her from certain death. Gaz needed time to think, but the beeping in her ears made her loose her train of taunt.

Argh, what's with that beep-...god dammit. Gaz leaped forward, letting the force of the explosion push her across the room. Gaz got herself up and stared at the being that threw the explosive at her.

"Oh Gaz, did you really think you could hide from me?" Tak stood at the now destroyed door frame, a rifle in her hand and aimed at Gaz. She was in armor, the same one she wore when she had invaded all the other Irken colonies. It covered her from head to toe, the helmet, chest, forearms, and legs were purple with black lining her limbs and highlighting certain areas.

"Not really. Did you really think I wouldn't expect you to stand there?" Gaz answered back.

"What?" Tak just saw the item in Gaz's hand, it was a small cylinder with a button on top. A classic detonator sign. "You Earthen bi-"

Gaz pressed the detonator and Tak was engulfed in a cloud of smoke and debris, the disc shape explosive Gaz had placed. As it began to settle, Tak burst forward, streams of black smoke still clinging to her as she rushed at Gaz. The human girl fired her rifle but Tak easily dodged the shots with her sudden use of spider-legs. Gaz ran. She rushed through room after room, leaping over the door frames as Tak pursued her. Gaz tried to mitigate her pursuer with her rifle by randomly firing it backwards but the few shots that did hit Tak only grazed her. Tak would return fire when she could but Gaz made sure she was weaving in and out of cover, preventing the Irken from getting any clean shot on her.

"Come back, Gaz! I promise that your death won't hurt!"

"You're so full of crap, Tak!" Gaz continued to run, hoping something would happen to help her out. Something to turn the tide in her favor. Crap

Dead end. Nothing but a room filled with garbage and debris with nothing large enough to provide even the slightest bit of cover. Gaz had to think quickly.

"Well, this little chase has been fun," Tak appeared behind Gaz moments later, still with four spider-legs projecting from her PAK and rifle aimed at Gaz's back. "I kind of wish you'd put up more of a fight, but I guess I can't expect much from a primitive Earth-worm."

Gaz stood still, knowing that any sudden movement would cause Tak to pull the trigger. She faced the wall, she couldn't even see Tak directly, only her shadow, and judging by the size it was right where she wanted the Irken.

Gaz couldn't help but smirk a bit, "You always pick the best spots to stand."

"Wha-" Tak couldn't even finish the word. Gaz had placed half a dozen explosive beneath Tak, concealed by the debris and garbage, all of which activated once Gaz pressed the button on the detonator to release the right frequency. The explosion was so big that the floor beneath Tak gave way and caused the Irken to crash into the room below.

Tak rose from the debris, cursing and promising to herself to just shoot first next time. Her armor was now significantly damaged, with cracked and dents littering most of the interior. The broken glass of her visor forced her to completely remove her helmet, only to be met with Gaz's boot.

Gaz jumped down to follow Tak, landing on her before she could make a full recovery, and making sure she would lick her sole. Tak grabbed the human standing on her by her leg and pulled her downward, caused Gaz to fall face first into the floor. As both psychopaths laid on the floor, Gaz rolled, releasing herself from Tak's grip and used the momentum to get to her feet. Tak stood as well and tried desperately to find her rifle amidst the debris, barely noticing the one Gaz still held between her hands.

Gaz fired two shots. The first missing due to a timely dodge by Tak by the second one hitting her in the arm, however she was rushing towards Gaz and the second shot did nothing to stop her momentum. Tak quickly pushed the rifle away as Gaz fired the third shot, causing the next laser to completely miss. As Tak held on, Gaz never released her grip causing several shots to be fired away from the duo locked in combat. Both used their second hand to try to prevent the other from gaining the rifle. Tak was the first to use her legs.

The Irken brought one of her legs forward behind Gaz's and pulled it back to cause Gaz to fall backwards. Gaz held onto Tak, so as she fell so did the Irken, flipping Tak so she landed on her back as well but the fall had caused the rifle to be released from both grips. The two rushed towards the rifle while still on the ground, Gaz beat Tak by a second but the Irken pushed the rifle to give both of them time to reach their feet. Gaz quickly aimed the rifle, only for it to get sliced in half by Tak's laser-blade that sprouted from the forearm of her armor, but Tak was still close enough for Gaz to hit her with the remaining half of the rifle before both pieces exploded.

When Tak recovered from the explosion she found that Gaz had left the room, the shrinking figure of the human jumping over door frames was the focus of her attention. She was very annoyed. Tak activated her spider-legs and gave chase, gaining on Gaz until the only place left for her to go was the hallway. She was cornered.

"I'm getting sick of your futile resistance," Tak said, her laser-blade brought up towards her, "So do something smart for once and just let me mutilate you already!"

"Gee, that sounds so inviting," Gaz replied, her laser-blade also activated to defend herself.

"Why do you insist on delaying this? You and I both know that Zim stands no chance against the Employer! I mean, hah, I-I can't even help but, hahaha, laughing every time the thought even crosses my mind, hahahahaha!" Tak laughed for a few more seconds before forcing herself to stop, Gaz only maintained her glare at her, "Oh don't tell me you actually believe Zim has a chance? Though I guess some of his delusions must have leaked into your brain after all the time you've spent together."

The sound of a timely Irken scream echoed throughout the hallway.

Gaz remained in a defensive stance, seemingly unfazed by by Tak's words. "Ugh, you're never any fun to talk to. Always have to be miss serious don't you? It's no fun when you keep making the same stupid glare you've made since I met you."

Tak was getting overconfident, or stupid as Gaz would put it, just because she got her backed into a certain death fall. In truth, Gaz was seething with anger, she finally responded to Tak's taunt, "Tak, I've probably hated you the most I've hated someone my entire life, but I've learned to channel my anger."

"Really? And what do you plan on doing with that channeled anger?"

"I'm going to slice your limbs off." Gaz was calm in delivering her threat. In one swift moment she stepped backwards, over the door frame and into the vertical hallway. Tak quickly moved to peek over the door frame, hoping she could see the splat, instead Gaz rushed past her, leaping from door frame to door frame. The human stopped for a moment to look at Tak and use one hand to gesture an obscenity native to Earth, Tak got the message.

Tak jumped out to follow Gaz, using her spider-legs to scale the hallway. It didn't matter to Tak that Gaz was able to leap across the hallway using her boots, her mechanical legs were faster. Tak climbed closer and closer, activating her laser-blade, but the instant the sound of the weapon erupted, Gaz turned around.

Using her boots to boost her momentum, she shot forward at Tak with her laser-blade ready to strike. Tak was taken by surprise, while she was expecting another chase the human had fully intended to fight her like this. As Gaz slashed her blade at Tak, the Irken pressed herself against the wall. The blade cut through Tak's armor, leaving a big gash with sparks flying between the opening, but it only grazed Tak's skin. Gaz spun herself so that she was perpendicular to the hallway wall and activated her boots to push herself upwards again.

Tak jumped off the wall, falling towards Gaz, attempting to attack her just like she did, except Gaz was expecting the attack. The human ducked into a room just as Tak flew at her, forcing Tak to catch herself on the door frame, and in front of another explosive. It blew up as Tak's armor absorbed most of the blow. Gaz jumped back out and used Tak's head as a stepping stone to climb further up, the force from the boots causing Tak to momentarily lose her grip.

They climbed higher and higher, Gaz getting closer to her eventual goal of reaching Zim, but she had one task to finish first. She only had a couple more explosives left so she had to make sure each one counted. Gaz turned around, attempting another attack like before, but Tak deflected her this time with her own blade. Gaz was tossed to the side but used the momentum to speed herself up and launch continuous leaping strikes at Tak. The Irken kept wondering how a human was able to fight like this.

Gaz launched herself for another attack, except Tak mirrored her move. The two collided their blades in midair, falling as sparks from their solid, laser weapons rained around them. They released and began to clash their blades, blocking and parrying each others strikes and slashes, their empty fists were bashed into each other as it was their only weapon that could actually find an opening. As Tak prepared to strike with her blade, Gaz decided to take a risk. Instead of deflected with her blade she shot her unarmed hand out to catch Tak's hand, the laser-blade only a couple of centimeters from her skin. Gaz began to strike as well and Tak shot her hand out to imitate Gaz. However, Gaz wasn't aiming for one of Tak's vitals, causing the Irken's block to completely miss. Instead, Gaz cut straight through one of Tak's spider-legs. Tak let out a momentary shriek of pain and her body jerked in reaction, causing Gaz to lose grip of her blade, but it allowed her to step on Tak's body and continue climbing the walls as the Irken fell further down.

Gaz looked up and realized just how far they had fallen, and she needed to make up for lost time. She also realized that one missing, mechanical leg wouldn't stop Tak. The Irken chased after her on her three, spider-legs, her face clearly showing her expression of fury. Gaz didn't have the means to fight her directly without her blade, but she still had explosives. She grabbed the ledge of a door frame. She prepped herself and used her free hand to pull a disc-shaped explosive from her satchel and threw it behind her, detonating it once it neared Tak. Gaz watched as black smoke swallowed the infuriated Irken for one second before she burst forward.

That explosive was stupidly useless, Gaz thought. The explosion only served to make Tak angrier and made her seem even faster. As Gaz began to start leaping again, one of Tak's spider-legs caught her foot. It pulled back, having enough force to toss Gaz and have her back slam against wall. Before Gaz could even react, Tak had leaped towards her, landing right in front of her. Tak pressed the bottom two spider-legs against Gaz's legs and used her non-bladed hand to grab Gaz by the neck, choking her. Gaz couldn't breathe. She tried desperately to break Tak's grip but she was too exhausted.

"That's right, struggle. Try to break free knowing that I'm slowly squeezing the life out of your feeble, primitive head." After chasing the annoying human and gaining increasing fury, Tak couldn't help but let out a big smile at the sight of Gaz squirming right in front of her, her throat being crushed by her hand. Gaz had greatly damaged Tak, her face had a couple of cuts with blood leaking out, her armor was completely cracked and there were large chunks that were completely missing. However, all the cuts, blood, and breaks would be worth it for this moment. She brought her glowing, laser-blade to Gaz's face, the faint purple glow blanketing the human's skin. The perfect moment, it it wasn't for the beeping. "Oh, I hate you."

Gaz held up a round orb that was now beeping incessantly between the two. Tak knew Gaz wasn't bluffing, but she also knew that she was still quick enough to avoid most of the explosion while Gaz would face certain death. "You're really attempting to destroy both of us?"

"Just...you..."

Tak gave a quick laugh to Gaz's remark, "Ha, and what-is that an Ionic Pulse Cann-"

A burst of white energy erupted from Gaz's hand, sending Tak bouncing down the hallway. As her armor continued to break apart, she saw that Gaz had left her a present, much to her ire. The bomb exploded but instead of being hit with the force of metal and fire, it released a blue liquid that splashed all over her. She began to feel a burning sensation all over her body.

Gaz had fallen only a few feet before catching herself on a door frame. Seeing Tak fall down was a sense of relief for her. She started climbing up again, higher and higher until her strides grew shorter, Kor's boots were reaching their limits. Finally, she reached the end of the hallway and climbed up into a wide, spacious room. She could hear explosions and lasers above, she was nearing Zim.

Gaz laid herself on the floor. Now that nothing was trying to kill her, she was finally feeling the pain of her injuries. Her feet were burning thanks to the overheating from the boots and well as her left hand from the Ionic Pulse Cannon. She removed the glove-like weapon and wiped the sweat from her face, catching a lot of blood on the way. The gash on her head had reopened and blood was streaming down it. She felt bruises all over her body, she needed to reach Zim but she was too tired. She was motionless. Her senses dulled.

After some time Gaz dropped her bag and pulled out some bandages. She wrapped herself as best she could, and rested. She didn't know how much time was passing as she was trying to recover, but eventually she stood up. She approached the hole that would lead to Zim but froze. It was the last thing she wanted to see, a being crawled from the hole and slowly appeared in front of her.

"Tak."

The Irken had been stripped of her armor everywhere but from her limbs, revealing her usual clothing. One spider-leg was completely bent and permanently extended from her PAK. Her gauntlet that contained her laser-blade was still attached. She spoke, "Earth water, how cute."

Gaz turned to face her but fell to one knee. She could feel the blood leaking through her bandages and knew what happened next would not be pleasant. "Crap."

Minimoose climbed into the room Zim had fled into. In his mind, Zim was as foolish as ever, attempting to fight the bio-organic in his own ship, which he masterfully designed, exactly as he planned. Irkens were so easy to manipulate, they would do anything if they were poked in their pride, and Zim was no different. The room was dark, an attempt by Zim to be sneaky, but Minimoose knew he was in the second cafeteria, and baiting out Zim was easy.

"Why are you hiding, are you scared, Zim? Frightened like un perrito?" Minimoose waited for the sudden outburst of denial or confusion at his language. Nothing happened. The Irken had grown a bit. "Oh, so you've grown some brain cells en su cabeza. ¡Felicitaciones! You're now the second biggest idiota in the universe."

Still no response. Minimoose was sure the taunt would get him, he had even mixed in more moose in the sentence. He was starting to even question if Zim was still in the room.

In reality, it was taking a lot for Zim to not object to the heinous lies being spoken in front of him. Zim had made a lot of mistakes today, ones that had cost him time and almost even more. He hung onto the ceiling with his spider-legs, his Dimension Box holstered on his waist so he could easily pull out a weapon. He was tracking his traitorous sidekick by the glowing light of his cybernetics. This was a chance for Zim to get the first strike, he couldn't afford a mistake. Minimoose drew closer to Zim, continuously making false claims in his native moose tongue, the next comment about the pillow almost made Zim shout, but he held back and wondered why Minimoose kept comparing him to a pillow.

Finally, Minimoose was right under him. Zim held the blaster in his hand tightly, a point blank shoot into Minimoose's main body would greatly satisfy the Irken. He released the spider-legs, dropping right behind Minimoose. Zim aimed the barrel and as the light of the laser was about to leave the blaster, he saw it, Minimoose's horrible, goatee'd face staring at him.

A metal arm knocked Zim in mid-air, causing the laser from the Irken's blaster to completely miss and fall from Zim's grip. Minimoose enjoyed the sound of hearing Zim bouncing on the ground a couple of times. "Jajaja, sneak attacks don't work well on a being that can turn their head 180 degrees. You made a mistake."

Zim got up but held his left arm where Minimoose had struck. "Fool! Zim doesn't make mistakes!"

Minimoose smiled at the Irken's conceited statement, but he saw it. For a split second, a small red beep in the corner of his eye, then an explosion. Zim had tagged Minimoose with an explosive on his back, it was the back-up plan. After the explosion Zim could hear to sound of metal bits clinking on the floor, but Zim's hopes of actually doing significant damage to Minimoose diminished when he spoke.

"My turn!" Minimoose's arm began changing. The fingers reeled back as a gaping hole grew from the palm of his metal hand. There was a loud bang, like a cannon, except this was a missile, heading straight towards Zim. The resulting explosion was large enough to completely destroy the wall behind Zim, illuminating the room, but miraculously, Zim was unscathed. The Irken had his arms in the form of an X, as if he thought they would give him enough cover to block the blast, but yet, Zim took no damage. Once the room was lit Minimoose saw that there wasn't anything that Zim could've hidden behind, so what saved him?

"AAAARRRRGGGGHHHHH! My arm! It burns! It burns Zim!" The Irken was excessively waving his left arm once he realized he was still living and still felt pain. He pulled his sleeve and released a white brace that was on his arm and threw it away, upon which he felt a sense relief. It was an experimental shield that Crax made after stealing the designs. It would completely nullify any indirect force on the wearer, like the force from an explosion. Fortunately, the missile didn't hit Zim directly, unfortunately the thing overheats so much that it makes the item single use, and Zim only had two left.

With the light, Zim saw just how much damage he did to Minimoose. There was a noticeably missing chunk in the tyrant's body, half of his right shoulder was missing, but the bio-organic acted as if he was unharmed. He took a step forward to pick up Zim's fallen blaster. In front of Zim, it was broken down and disappeared into Minimoose's body. Then the empty hole in the shoulder began repairing itself using the parts from Zim's blaster. Once it was done, though the coloring was off, the hole was repaired and Minimoose's body looked as good as new.

"Being a bio-organic has its perks," Minimoose said as he rubbed his new shoulder.

"So that's the metal absorption the greasy, red-haired flesh-stick told me about," Zim said.

"Si, obviously anything you do is useless. So if you could just lie there and let me stomp you head in, I'd greatly appreciate it."

"Ha! The thought of you actually threatening Zim amuses me, Minimoose!"

"I knew you'd resist." A small hole appear in Minimoose's new shoulder and a laser suddenly shot towards Zim. The Irken's spider-legs allowed him to suddenly step away, but Zim was still shocked by it. The item he absorbed was still fully functional. "Don't worry, Zim, that's not all I can with your little toy!"

Zim watched as the robotic shoulder grew a bit in size, the barrel enlarged, and several wires were rerouted towards it. Minimoose fired a large, blue laser at Zim that was continuously streaming. Zim began running around the room, screaming as the laser trailed him. Minimoose laughed joyously as he rotated his body to allow the stream of deadly light to follow the Irken. Zim activated his spider-legs and climbed upwards escaping into the next room.

Minimoose stopped the laser and threw both arms straight up. The metal limbs extended and tore straight through the ceiling. He repelled himself up, breaking the metal when he collided. It was the training room, he could tell by the Irken shaped targets now hanging sideways on the wall and the scattered weapons on the floor. It was the biggest room on the ship, and took a lot of damage from the crash, the gaping holes large enough to completely light the place. When he turned to to seek Zim, he saw a laser heading straight for him.

Zim had pulled a rifle from his Dimension Box and waited to ambush Minimoose. It was a direct hit, but Zim wasn't happy with the result. Minimoose still stood, holding his non-cannon arm up, it had absorbed the laser. Two streams of steam jetted out from his back and dispersed into the air.

"Amazing, you can convert lasers into heat, I'll make sure to dissect your body when I obliterate you!" Zim shouted.

"You can't dissect what you obliterated, idiota!" Minimoose shot his arm forward, the limb stretched out and its fingers dug into the metal behind Zim.

"Ha! You mis-" Zim was blown away when Minimoose slammed into him, the metal being had used his arm as a grappling hook. Zim was knocked flat into a wall and barely dodged another arm aimed for his head. Minimoose retracted the arm, using it to fly towards Zim, his other arm morphed into a metal spike and pointed it towards the Irken's body. Zim fell to the floor, dodging the spike. He ran away, gaining distance while firing his laser in rapid bursts from another rifle he pulled from the Dimension Box. While hanging to the wall, Minimoose turn his cute, purple body in a 180 degrees motion and used the spike to catch all the lasers that would've hit him. He was engulfed in a cloud of steam that emitted from his body, but Zim kept up his assault, even resorting to bring out a second blaster to increase the number of lasers. Zim was cackling wildly and soon the entire wall was nothing but clouds of white, and then a large, blue, circular light appeared.

I giant blue laser decimated everything in its path. Fortunately the laser only decimated everything to the left of Zim, but the Irken found himself in a state of shock. The diameter of the blast was easily bigger than him and there was now a gaping hole in the ship. The half of the floor that the blast touched had completely melted, causing the remaining floor to slant.

"Heat dissipation is just one of the things I can do with lasers," Minimoose said as he appeared from the cloud of steam, revealing the conical barrel that was now attached to his arm.

Zim dropped the lasers and quickly dug through the Dimension box for non-laser based blasters. He kept pulling ineffective weapons, tossing them everywhere as he hoped for something better. Minimoose charged at him, his arm spike flattening itself until it became an edged blade, he wanted to maim the Irken, but Zim pulled out a laser-blade that deflected the strike. Both Zim and Minimoose drew back, prepping themselves for the next attack.

Minimoose moved first, but Zim dodged him and sliced off a chunk from Minimoose's back. He attempted to slice the arm with his next strike but the arm bent backwards and Minimoose caught the blade with his hand. Though the laser sliced through the hand, he had also crushed the hilt, causing Zim to let go and fall back.

"As if a blade would be enough to kill me," Minimoose taunted. Zim watched as the components of the crushed blade were absorbed into the mechanical monster, and then he picked up one of Zim's fallen rifles and repaired the chunk Zim had sliced off, making his attacks worthless.

"Fine, if lasers won't stop you then how about this!" Zim pulled out another rifle, but quickly tossed it after realizing he got the wrong gun. He pulled out a purple rifle with a large body and a big, red barrel. "I will make you ingest plasma!"

"A flamethrower? A technology so simple even the Earthlings figured it out? What effects do you think mere flames-" Minimoose didn't even hear it fire. He just suddenly felt a breeze through his stomach and only then did he realize there was a big gaping hole through it. "AAAARRRHGGG!"

"It shoots molten plasma!"

"Lava?! A gun that shoots lava!" Minimoose began grabbing Zim's fallen rifles to integrate himself with them. "How does that even work?!"

"With the combined intellect of superior Irken and Vortian-"

"Damn Vortians and their physics-defying science."

"And Irken physics-defying science!"

"Shut up!" The rifles had completely repaired the hole in Minimoose, the rifle barrels sticking out of his body like a tech mutant, and he used his new weapons to fire several beams of lasers at Zim. Zim rolled out of the way and activated his spider-legs to push himself backwards. He fired his magma gun, sending a blob of lava at Minimoose. It only grazed Minimoose's leg, leaving minimal wounds that he quickly repaired. Minimoose continued his barrage of lasers, he shifted the barrels on his body to aim in various directions.

Zim began scaling the walls, firing shots of lava when he could. Minimoose attempted to move but would get cut off but the metal in front of him melting. The poor trajectory of the molten balls actually didn't allow for many direct hits to land, but that wasn't his aim. Though the frequent splash on Minimoose was nice, confining him to a specific area was better. Minimoose was forced to rely on the lasers he absorbed to fight Zim. None of the shots landed as Zim was able to dodge most of them with constant movement.

Minimoose was running out of time. He could feel it, the heat growing hotter and hotter. The shots were getting closer and closer to hitting their mark. Minimoose pivoted to keep track of Zim, but the Irken quickly shifted in the opposite direction, faking the robotic tyrant out and allowing him to get a clean shot. The magma ball melted the heel of Minimoose's right leg, causing him to lose balance and forced him to a knee. Zim had him, unable to move he readied the next shot.

"NNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" Minimoose screamed as he threw his left arm backwards towards Zim.

Zim was surprised and fired in his in a panic. The lava ball hit the flying arm, and Zim felt a moment of relief, until the arm emerged from the ball, partially melted but that only served to make it seem even more terrifying. The arm flew straight into the magma gun's barrel, breaking straight through and exploding in front of Zim.

"AAARRRRRGH! IT BURNS ZIM!" For a moment, Minimoose felt joy in thinking that Zim was possibly covered in lava, but when he turned his head he found the Irken still hanging onto the wall, relatively intact. Zim had thrown the rifle away, far enough so the force of the blast only activated his deflection shield. He ripped his sleeve and removed the second white brace from his arm.

Minimoose just stared. Here he kneeling, looking like a metal atrocity with clear signs of damage, but Zim was still relatively fine. Minimoose squeaked, a squeak filled with the fury of a thousand moose. Completely weirded out, Zim decided to make his escape. He found the entrance to the room above and crawled through it as Minimoose stood still.

"NO! NO! NO! I won't let you escape!" Minimoose stretched out both of his arms, piercing through the ceiling. He yelled as he began pulling. The ceiling wasn't built to withstand that much constant pressure, and the signs of breaking were appearing. Tentacles formed from the excess mass of his body, they shot out and began pulling down the ceiling, as well as half of what remained of the ship.

The ceiling collapsed, causing a mass of metal to bury him alive. The entire ship shook from the impact of half the ship imploding. Minimoose punched through the rubble, his claw rising from the mess. He pulled himself to the surface. Support beams and entire walls had completely broken off and what remained of the upper levels were barely stable, some floors even tilted into the one below it. However, the extent of his damage mattered not to him. Minimoose hoped, and wished upon the great Biotech Moose of the fourth dimension that finally, after everything he had to suffer through, Zim was dead. His wishes never come true.

First an antennae poked out, followed by the second one, finally both of the Irken's scrawny arms pulled the rest of his body out. Not only was Zim not dead, aside from his spider-legs being jammed, bent, and unable to be used, he was relatively unharmed. When the rubble fell, the wreckage had actually collapsed around him and provided him shelter against the rest of the debris. Minimoose, despite being made of metal, had large dents and even a metal spike impaling him, but his bewilderment prevented him from even noticing the wound. He let out a freakish scream, a mixture of a screech, squeak, and cry that disturbed the Irken more than intimidate.

"...What was that disgusting noise?!" Zim yelled as his covered his ears.

"For some reason the universe favors you once again!" Minimoose shouted, paying no attention to Zim's inquiry, "Dumb luck favors the dumb!"

"Luck?! Zim needs no such thing!"

"I've watched you for years! Muchos años! And never have I seen a being stumble into success and away from death as many times as you have!"

"Foolish Minimoose, do you fail to see Zim's power-"

"I HAVE POWER! I WAS OVERLORD! Then you appeared, a defect in your race, USING THE SAME LUCK TO STOP ME! You are nothing but a bug! By all natural laws of the universe and dimensions, you shouldn't have lived past your first cycle! You are the illogical, the irrational! Unwittingly using your irrationality and stupidity to mentally destroy your adversaries! No, no, NO! I won't fall for it! I am stronger than you, smarter than you! Your words of incredulous stupidity will never affect me!"

"...What?"

"I'LL MURDER YOU!"

Minimoose quickly absorbed the fallen weapons to repair himself, sloppily filling the gaps as he didn't even bother breaking them down. He lunged towards Zim, his mind a frenzy of furious emotions. Zim ducked beneath the attack and drew a laser-blade from the Dimension Box. A quick swipe sliced into Minimoose, but the tyrant kept up his onslaught. The moment he landed, Minimoose twisted his body to lunge at Zim again, this time headbutting him and sending the Irken flying into the wall. Zim recognized this behavior, it was moose instinct, a charge after charge. This was a desperate attempt by Minimoose, a last ditch battle tactic to completely maul the Irken, but Zim had already won.

Zim weaved behind the rubble, obscuring Minimoose's vision. The reckless charges from him would just cause him to crash into debris Zim had just stepped in front of.

"Haha! What a stupid animal you are!" Zim taunted, fueling the inferno of rage Minimoose felt.

Minimoose spotted Zim, running away from the the dense debris and a prime target for Minimoose. He ran towards it, the focus of impaling Zim willed metal spikes to form on his shoulders as he prepared the tackle. He leaped towards the Irken, going straight through the Irken's body.

Minimoose landed but was confused by the lack of blood, guts, squeedly-spooch skewered on his spike. He turned and found Zim still running, except he wasn't gaining any distance, and on closer inspection he found Zim floating slightly above the ground, and beneath it an orb emitting a light.

"What kind of ruler of dimensions gets fooled by a simple hologram?" Zim asked as he stepped out from behind a broken wall. Minimoose turned around and saw the front of the hologram that he had just phased through, the fake Irken's face was completely blank with only the words "fool" written on it. Zim had done the impossible, he had made Minimoose even more furious than he was before. The real Zim was on the other side of the room, grinning with his usual overconfident smile, baring his teeth, and acting like he had actually won this battle.

Minimoose stepped forward, crushing the orb and destroying Zim's hologram. Zim's taunts had went too far and actually pushed Minimoose to a point of clarity. He stood upright again, and pulled the metal spike out from his body that had been there since he resurfaced. He melded his hand with it and reformed the other arm into another spike. He didn't just want to shoot Zim, all his lasers would magically miss given his luck. Minimoose was going to run right up to Zim, and stab him, over, and over, and over, and over.

"Ha...haha...hahahaHAHAHAHA!" Zim began maniacally laughing, just suddenly and without warning, as if to taunt Minimoose even more. The tyrant wouldn't fall for it this time, he refused to get tricked by a bug again, he rushed him.

Minimoose had his sight focused only on Zim, who still retained the taunting grin, but as he hit the maximum speed of his stride, his line of sight began falling. Soon he found himself lying on the floor, his overwhelming fury prevented him from feeling the cause of his fall. His entire right leg has blown off.

"What did you do to me?! WHAT DID YOU DO?!" Minimoose yelled at Zim, still crawling towards the Irken, but it was over, Zim had the distance he needed.

"Did you believe Zim wasn't told of your ability to absorb metal weaponry? It forced me to think of other ways to destroy you, like lasers, lava, or...explosions," Zim held up his wrist, revealing the screen of his datapad to Minimoose. It displayed a schematic of Minimoose's body, with hundreds of red dots littered throughout it. "To be more specific, remote-detonated bombs. The only problem was figuring how to explode as many in your moosey face, but, since Zim is a genius and you are an idiot, I was able to get you to absorb them."

"I never absorbed any of your bombs!"

"Hahahaha, must I tell you? I am Zim! I'm the genius that created gelatinous terrors, self-destructing joy goop, and the exploding rifle!"

It finally hit Minimoose, all those blasters Zim dropped and fired in rapid succession, the ones he absorbed. It wasn't complete incompetence. "Zim...YOU-"

Zim pressed another number, setting off a bomb within Minimoose's left leg.

"HahahahaHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!" Zim continued his gleeful laugh and he began mashing the entire screen of his datapad. Minimoose lit up, each part of his body exploding into plumes of fire and metal. Over and over, Zim pressed dot after dot, enjoying himself as he watched Minimoose blow up, bit by bit. The Employer could only watch as his limbs were blown to tiny pieces.

Minimoose was nothing but a torso and Zim ceased the explosions. Zim approached the fallen tyrant while pulling out a laser-blade from his Dimension Box. Rage, pain, fear, and shock swirled up within Minimoose, making him too unfocused to do anything as Zim stood tall above his body. The Irken stabbed the blade down into the Employer's chest, his face wearing a sinister smile as he carved a circle in the bio-organic. Once complete, Zim pulled on the circle, ripping the protective layer from the wires, revealing Minimoose's metallic innards.

"If I remember, it should be right here!" Zim said as he plunged his hand into the ruler's chest. Minimoose let out a scream as Zim ripped out a flat, rectangular object. It was the holofile that would repair his PAK. Zim had made sure to not target the chest of Minimoose in order to guarantee its safety. He placed the holofile into the Dimension Box, but then paused as a thought just came to him.

"Zim almost forgot. The stupid Employer is going to need a replacement organ." Zim pulled out a glowing red orb. He dropped it in Minimoose's chest and stepped back, still smiling with the same grin he's had since blowing the Employer's limbs off. A large red dot appeared on Zim's display, he hovered his finger over it.

"ZIM YOU LITTLE BUG! I WILL KILL YOU! YOU WILL-" Minimoose's threats ended with one press. There was nothing left. Several scorch marks had replaced the spot where Minimoose had fallen. It was over. Zim had won.

Zim walked and stood over the scorch marks, triumphantly stepping upon Minimoose's last location of existence. He switch his datapad to communications mode and broadcast to all his minions.

"It is done! Despite your claims of my failure, it is I, Zim, who stands victorious over the Employer!"

Daj had his back behind cover, the battle against wounded moose was suppose to be easy, but the whole cannibalism thing and their lack of numbers was taking its toll. Daj poked out and aimed his G.F.B. at a giant moose, fractioning its head when the blast hit. He dived back to avoid the blaster fire that followed after. That's when Zim called.

Zim had forcibly activated Daj's comm, disregarding any situation either he or anyone else was in, but he couldn't believe what Zim said.

The drone had defeated the Employer? By himself! Daj thought incredulously. Still, he was inclined to believe him since Zim had been rambling about the victory incredibly loud and obnoxiously. If the Employer was alive, he would've shut Zim up by now.

"That's great, drone! Too bad we still got freaking moose down here to deal with!" Daj yelled into his comm, cutting Zim off.

"Silence, lizard-stink! I will deal with your pitiful failure to lead the battle like I dealt with-"

"Hello, drone? Drone!" The transmission had cutoff. Zim wouldn't prematurely cut the communications right before he could fit another gloat in his sentence. Daj looked up towards the fallen Mothership. It wasn't over.