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"No, please wait!" Dib pleaded.

"I'm going to rip out your petty human organs and play jump rope with your small intestine." Replied his attacker.

"It was an honest mistake. I just forgot all my drives are encrypted. Let me just remove the encryption…

"Dib? Are you alright in there?" Asked the professor from outside.

"Oh, no it's…"

Suddenly the door swung open. "What's going on in…" The professor's words were cut short as he was obviously shocked at what was before him.

"Hello, sir." Said the girl next to Dib. "Sorry, are we being too loud?"

"Um… I don't think we've met and Dib, no girls in your room." The professor said.

"Uh… yeah… dad… I wait you never told me that?"

"Well, you never had… a girl in the house before." Replied the professor.

"Of course." Said Tenn as she walked by the professor with Dib close behind.

"I didn't catch your name." Said the Professor as the three walked down the stairs.

"It's Tenn." She said.

"So, you in Dib's class?" Asked the Professor as the three arrived to the couch.

"No, I… attended a different academy."

"Attended? Oh, are you like me? Graduating at such a young age?" The professor inquired.

"Something like that." Replied Tenn.

"Oh, a little genius. What do you plan on majoring in?"

Tenn looked to Dib, but he didn't really have anything to help her.

"Um… Space." Said Tenn.

"Oh… well that explains… Um never mind, well I better go down to the lab."

Dib watched as his father… gave him some kind of signal, which in truth Dib had no clue in regards to its meaning. The tall man then went down to the lab, leaving Dib and Tenn alone.

"Hurry up and decrypt the drive." Tenn said as her façade dropped and her anger towards Dib returned.

"Yeah, sure." Dib replied quickly as he took the drive from her and ran upstairs, where he quickly removed any form of security and running back downstairs returned it to Tenn.

"This better work this time." She warned.

"It will." He assured her.

With that Tenn left through the front door. Still in the disguise that she had quickly dawned before the professor came bursting into Dib's room.

Dib breathed a deep sigh of relief. In truth, he just forgot that the drive would basically lock up unless he used his computer to access it.

As he headed back up to his room to finish going over the information Tenn had given him he realized something. He had always seen Zim as a threat and an enemy…

…but he was a joke compared to Tenn.


*bang* *bang* *bang*

"Ok… really!" She shouted. "I'm dead already!"

"Level won, simulation ending." Said Zim's Computer.

"What, ending? But I was just getting the hang of it." She told it.

"Sorry, but after your last… er… incident, Zim has limited your playthroughs to 3 hours at a time. The simulation cannot be played by you again for at least 1 hour."

"Grrr…" Gaz grunted. "…Stupid Zim." She said as she headed to the elevator.

Upon arriving to the main floor, she realized the alien was just where she had left him. The tv was on but he clearly wasn't watching anything.

"Ok, now you definitely… grrr…" She grunted as frustration hit her. Instead of lashing out at him like she had planned, she simply went to the couch, and sat next to him.

She sighed.

"So, you just going to sit here and ponder Spork and everything else?" She asked rather calmly.

Zim was silent for a moment, almost making Gaz think he just was paying her no mind. When he did speak however, it was to ask something that she neither expected, nor really wanted.

"Remember how hard you said it was to hear yourself calling someone mom?" He asked her.

"What?" She asked back.

"Remember when you told Zim…"

"No, I remember that." Gaz interrupted. "But, why are you asking me this?"

"Because Zim is in a similar predicament." He replied.

"No," Gaz snapped. "Nothing about our circumstances is similar."

"Oh no?" Zim questioned. "Your father takes upon himself a new mate and you refer to her as your female parenting figure, and Zim's actual Male Parent has returned and…

…Oh, I see your point." He said finally.

"Yeah, two very different situations." She told him.

The two were silent for a moment. Then Gaz sighed again.

"But I understand what you mean. Yes, I imagine it would be hard to just up and call him dad again, like he didn't abandon you for… how long was it?"

"No, need to bother yourself with dates and times." Zim told her. "But that is not actually all that Zim was thinking about."

Zim paused again before going on.

"You see, Spork did something to Zim."

"I know." Gaz replied. "He erased your memor…"

"No," Zim said causing Gaz to stop early and turn to him.

He two turned to face her.

"He did something… something… far… far… worse."


Tenn looked over the data. It wasn't much… well it actually had a lot of information, but most of it she didn't care about. She had to hand it to him though. The boy kept very detailed notes. However, almost none were relevant to what she wanted to know.

"There!" She said as the computer glossed over some of Dib's notes.

"Highlight and zoom in." She said.

The computer did so, and Tenn went over the material.

"Hmmm…" She said. "Computer compare the data with the data we already had on him."

"Comparing… data found only 10% similarities." The A.I. told her.

"How is that possible?" She asked.

"Scanning…" The computer replied. "…Analyzing… reanalyzing… Sorry… there seem to be no plausible reasons why the two differ so greatly."

"Rescan…" Tenn ordered.

"Rescanning… rescanning… Results the same." The computer told her.

"Rescan again!" She shouted.

"Rescanning… re… rescanning… results the same." The A.I. replied.

Tenn grunted. That shouldn't have been possible. How could a mere human find results when even Tenn's advanced computer couldn't… However, as she left the lab she realized she wasn't just frustrated that her A.I. couldn't figure it out…

…But by the fact that the most likely person who could…

…She just really didn't feel like seeing right now.


"Ha, ha, ha…" Gaz laughed.

"It's not funny, Gaz-human." Zim insisted.

"Oh, yes it is… ha,ha,hahahahaha…" She replied. "That's what you're freaking out about… like really?"

"You wouldn't understand!" Zim shouted as he jumped down off the couch.

"What? It's a natural feeling to have…"

"Maybe for you soft humans! But Not for Irkens… at least not to have for other species!" He shouted.

"It also makes it so much more difficult to be an invader!" He yelled.

"Well good thing, you weren't really good at it." She told him as she got off the couch and headed for Zim's kitchen.

"And now we know why!" He shouted at her. "It's all Spork's fault!"

"Yeah, keep telling yourself that." She said sarcastically.

"Yes, Zim will! It's all Spork's fault!" He replied clearly not hearing her tone.

Gaz sighed. Sometimes she forgot how clueless… wait no she never forgot that.

"You don't think that maybe part of you… maybe just a little part is… I don't know, actually happy."

"No! No part of Zim is happy with this!" He yelled at her.

Gaz grabbed herself a drink and one for Zim as well.

"Whatever you say." She said as she handed it to him.

"Yes, it is whatever I say!" Zim shouted at her before chugging the soda and throwing the can onto the floor.

Gaz laughed slightly. It was funny just how oblivious Zim could be. However, now wasn't the time to point that out.

In all honesty, she wasn't even sure if the message would get through that thick irken skull of his.


"Ah!" Dib screamed as something or someone tackled him.

"Wait, no if it didn't work…"

"Shut up." Tenn ordered. "I'm not going to hurt you."

"Oh… then why tackle me?"

"Hmm… for the fun of it?" She replied. "Now, I need you to come with me."

"Oh… where?" He asked.

"To my lab." She replied. "Going to need you to review some of your notes with me."

"Oh, really? I thought I was pretty clear…"

"Just come with me!" Tenn snapped.

"Dib? Are you okay?" Asked the Professor from downstairs.

"Crap!" Dib exclaimed. "He can't find you in here again."

"Oh don't worry." She said. "I'm leaving."

However, Dib shortly once again found himself in the arms of the female irken.

"And you're coming with me."

"What's the emergency?" Asked Tak as she arrived at Dib's Garage.

"Well…" Replied her ship. "…It would appear that your human boy has found himself… someone else."

"What are you talking about?" She asked. "Where is he anyway?"

"Oh, he was carried off in the arms of a particular pink-eyed irken." Replied the ship.

"Carried off?" Tak asked.

"Yup, right in her arms." The ship said.

"Are you making this up?" Tak asked despite knowing it was actually not possible for her ship to lie. Let alone to her.

"Now, why would I do that?" Asked her ship. "More importantly how could I do that?"

Tak ignored her ship's smugness. She thought to herself. Perhaps Tenn had kidnapped Dib again? But why? She and Tenn had a somewhat shaky alliance. Why would Tenn…

"Oh, forget it…" Said Tak as she walked away from Dib's garage.

"I'll just ask her myself."


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