Author's Notes: Sorry this is late guys, having some trouble balancing work and school lately. But here we are finally, thanks for reading and please review.

Yours Truly, RoxieDivine :)

Episode 1 - The Madness (Part 1)

(3 Months after Gaz's Betrayal…)

[Somewhere in the underground…]

She hated the smell of human waste…

But to be fair she was sure the humans hated it too, besides the Sewards were the only way she could get around during the day time hours.

Mia's eyes narrowed as she did her best to stay focused, and in high spirits.

It wasn't easy.

Why?

Because Zim hadn't made this easy, then again what had she been expecting? Did she honestly thought the Great Zim would be waving a neon sign with flashing letters that read: I Am Here! Or that some location would have a similar sign saying: Rebel Hideout This Way!

Of course not!

Still, it would be nice if he tried to give them some kind of sign that he had been getting there messages. Mia sighed the moment she arrived to Earth she had started sending out a secret SOS calling sign on any frequency she could think of, calling out to the Human Rebel Resistant Front. However, so far she had received no response.

'We have to find him.' She thought. 'If the rumors are true, than we must tell Zim the truth before he makes a terrible mistake.'

Yes, they had heard the rumors.

The Tallest had tried to cover it up, but one way or the other the story of Zim being an Amon had spread throughout the Irken Empire like a wild fire. And if it was true, if he really was an Amon then Mia had to tell him the truth.

The truth about the Defectives…

She couldn't help but wonder how it would make him feel?

Would he be angry?

It was likely, after all she was still angry and she had known the truth for five years now!

She also wondered what he would do when he found out.

And as dark as it must sound she was hoping she'd make the Tallest suffer a long and painful death. It was what they deserved after all the pain she, and her fellow Defectives had to endure. Still, she had to remember that this was his choice, yes it was possible that Zim would want nothing to do with any of them, and she didn't blame him.

The Irkens were a cruel and savage race of backstabbing cowards, no wondered Zim preferred the company of humans over his own race. Mia had only been here for 3 months and she could already tell that compared to the Irkens, the humans were a peaceful race. Sure they fought with each other in the past, but the arrival of the Irkens had forced them to see each other as one in order to race towards a common goal.

An Irken free world.

Mia had never seen a race quiet like that of the humans. When she had arrived the humans seemed to have been almost content with the ways of the Irken Empire. Yes, before her arrival they had seemed to be a willing part of the Irken Machine with only one small group of rebels standing in their way.

This was no longer the case.

Ever since she and the Irken Rebels attacked one of water harvesting factories they seemed to have awoken a sleeping giant. Now the humans were rioting in the streets, picking fights with armed Irkens, sometimes with nothing but their bare fist.

Mia wasn't sure why this was but she had heard that recently the Tallest had publicly killed over 20 Human scientist in cold blood, and since then the human Rebels had gone quiet. Was it possible that the humans thought their own rebels were responsible for the water factory?

Most likely, and attacking the most valued string of Irken factories on the planet was defiantly away of sending a clear message.

A Message that the Humans would not be silenced!

And Mia believed in this message, because hers was very similar.

The Irken Empire hated imperfection, and that's what they all were: The Defectives, The Humans, and all the other races that had fallen to the Empire had that in common. They were not perfect, therefore they were not worthy enough to share the same space as the Irken Race.

And for so long they had all bowed their heads and obeyed, but now thanks to her the humans had started a chain reaction that would soon ripple throughout the entire galaxy. For today Mia would report in to her friends in The Resisty, an organization of mixed races that fell victim to the Irken race in Operation Impending Doom 1.

Once she reported to them that the time had come for them to take Arms it would launch an attack on a galactic scale. Yes, the days of the old Irken Empire was coming to an end, and hopefully with Zim's help, they could make it great again.

Which brought her to why she was in the tunnels, in order to get in contact with Lar Nar, the leader of The Resisty, she needed a very tall building to place her long range space transmitter. Once completed she would be able to speak Lar Nar, and give him the go ahead, and with any luck he would know a way to contact Zim.

Mia sighed, it had been a long time since she had seen her old friend Lar Nar, he had once asked her if the Irken Rebels wanted to join him, and his crew. But back then the Defectives were still scared to come out of hiding, they were finally free, and they didn't want to jeopardize that so quickly.

However things had changed now.

After the Irken Rebels found out the Truth they had leaked that truth out to the masses, and now more Defectives had come out of hiding, leaving the Empire and joining Mia, publicly announcing that they were not perfect! Now their numbers were in the hundreds, and there was safety in numbers.

Yes, now they were ready, and they had showed their strength when they made that Water factory fall. There was now nothing left of it, but a large crater in the ground. And with any luck the same would soon happen to the empire. Then from out of the ashes a newer, nobler Irken Race will emerge.

At least that was the fantasy she kept playing inside her head, a fantasy that she believed in so deeply that she had contacted Lar Nar and told him that the Irken Rebels were finally ready to join him.

That had been a week ago, and it was a message that Lar Nar was happy to hear. He informed her that the Irken Ancients had already began training an Army made up of the refuges who managed to escape the purge of the Empire. Of course, Mia was relieved to her that her peoples Ancestors were finally willing to set things right, it was like fate was helping things fall back into place.

The only thing that was missing was Zim…She could only hope Lar Nar would be able to help her find him.

Mia stopped running as she reached her desired location, just above her an old abandon sky scrapper stood, and with any luck it would be just tall enough to allow her transmitter to patch through. She found an opening, and crawled out of the Sewards, rushing into the sky scrapper through a broken window on the bottom floor.

Once inside she squeezes into an open elevator shaft, and uses her PAK legs to climb straight up, only stopping to catch her breath once she is safely on the top floor. She checked her gauntlet, and was relieved to see that they were just high enough for this to work. She wastes no time getting out her equipment from the PAK, assembling the Transmitter in minutes, once done she puts it in position, and flips the machine on.

She is relieved to hear static, it means its functioning properly. She punches in the secret frequency code and waits to be patched through.

Moments later Lar Nar's face appears on the transmission screen.

"Lar Nar?" She asked. "It's Mia can you see me well?"

"Aw Yes, Mia I can, how are you?" Lar Nar asked.

"It's chaos over here." Mia answered keeping a look out for any sign of the enemy ease dropping. "You were right, I think it's safe to say the humans have gotten the Tallest quite distracted." She reported.

"Excellent." Lar Nar said, looking pleased. "I will inform Miz and the others that our time to move is now."

"Perfect, there's just one more thing." Mia said, sounding unsure.

"Go on?" Lar Nar assured her.

"I was hoping to see The Taller Zim, I have some important information that he needs to know." Mia urged.

"My contact with in the Renegades tells me that recent events had forced them to lay low." Lar Nar informed her. "It may be some time before they chance it again."

"Please it's important." Mia assured him.

"Very well I will let my contact know your location, perhaps he will have better luck in getting them to come out of hiding." Lar Nar said.

"Is it really that bad?" Mia asked.

"Well don't tell anyone but someone close to Zim betrayed them shortly before your attack on the water harvest factory." Lar Nar informed her.

Mia was stunned. "One of the humans?" She asked.

"Yes, it cut them all pretty deep; as you can imagine." Lar Nar whispered.

Mia couldn't believe it, she thought the humans were different, but apparently every race had its share of backstabbing scum. "Very well I will patiently await his arrival." Mai informed him.

"Very good." Lar Nar said.

"Right, well I should go before I am compromised." Mia said.

"Of course." Lar Nar said. "Peace be with you Mia."

"And to you as well Lar Nar." She said.

The transmission ended.

Mia wasted no time disassembling the transmitter and retreating back into the Seward, she had been gone long enough. The others would soon grow warry of her absence; "I must not worry them." She whispered to herself.

It was hard always being the strong one, the crazy thing was that Mai never planned to be the leader, she didn't even see herself as leadership material, but everyone looked to her because without her they would all still be in that lab. She was the one who escaped and freed everyone, and to this day they looked to her to lead the way.

It was a heavy burden, but it was one she bared with pride because at least it meant she was doing something.

At least it meant she had a purpose, and she would gladly relive it all over, and over again if it meant that this wasn't all in vain.

'It's not.' She told herself. 'we will win…we have too!'

[Back with the Tallest in their Place on Zec…]

It was quiet…

No correction it was too quiet!

Tallest Red hissed as he paced the throne room, he was on edge. Then again he had been on edge ever since this whole Earth mess begun. So long in fact that he was beginning to think that he would be doomed to be stuck in a constant state of bitter rage.

They should have made their next move by now.

Red was sure that Zim and his human rebels would have made another attempt by now, but to his wonder the enemy seemed to have gone silent.

Had they given up?

Or were they simply laying low?

He wasn't sure, but he had a sickening feeling that the latter was probably the most likely outcome.

Did they know?

Was it possible that Zim somehow knew that there were other defective rebels besides him?

It was possible, and even if he didn't he was sure the defectives would try to reach him, and if they told him the truth…well Red could only imagine the fury that would come from it.

Red shook his head, for five years he and Purple had tried to keep it a secret that a group of rebel defectives even existed, and to his relief the Irken and human populist seemed to be none the wiser. Of course this was good, but it was also very bad.

Why?

Because since no one knew about the rouge defectives everyone assumed the attack on the water Harvest factories had been the work of the Renegades. An attack to retaliate against the Tallest for ordering the deaths of those scientist from the Science Camp.

Now the humans were rioting in the streets, feeling empowered that their fellow humans were not going down without a fight, no matter what the Tallest through at them.

"Red could you please stop pacing?" Purple asked from his throne. "You're making me dizzy." He complained.

"How can you just sit there all calm and what not, while another Amon plots our down fall?" Red snapped. "Look at this!" He pointed to several security feeds of the streets of the earth below. "Chaos everywhere if this gets out, all of the enslaved races of the empire will do the same!"

"Easy." Purple stated. "I don't let it get to me." He answered. "You on the other hand have to stress over every detail."

"Well one of us has to." Red argued, "And obviously that isn't going to be you."

"Fine, perhaps you should ask Tak if she had as plan." Purple suggested. "The sooner we bring Zim and his forces in, the sooner this will all die down.

Red froze, he hadn't thought of that. Perhaps Tak would have the answer, after all her new minion Gaz did know how to get inside of each of their enemies heads. Red smiled, and pulled up his transmitter. "Computer call Tak."

"Calling Cadet Tak" The computer said, and soon Tak appears on the screen.

"Yes my Tallest." Tak asked.

"It's time we use your minion's expertise to our advantage." Red told her.

"Yes my Tallest." Tak agreed. "She is certain that she will be able to identify Zim, and her brother even if they are in disguise." She told them.

"Really?" Purple asked. "How so?"

"She knows them well." Tak answered. "Better than anyone, and while you can fake an appearance and a personality, your true self has a way of rearing its ugly head."

"So why haven't we noticed anything?" Red asked.

"Gaz believes this slip ups would be small, and hardly noticeable to just anyone." Tak explained. "Besides your spy drones are too busy watching everyone, children and adults alike. She however is already in the school and seeking them out as we speak. If Zim, or Dib make the slightest slip up she will pick up on it."

"Well if either of you knows what's good for you than she will." Red hissed.

Tak bowed. "Yes my Tallest."

And with that the Transmission ended.

Tak took a deep breath as it did, and chanced a glance over at Gaz.

Gaz was in her school uniform, leaning against the door frame of Tak's room. How the Empire expected the kids to still attend school during all this chaos was beyond her.

"I just don't get it." Tak finally said. "How could Zim and the others have pulled off that attack? We left them totally poled!"

Gaz was thinking the same thing, her betrayal had paralyzed them, so much so they had to be rescued by Gir, and Keef for crying out loud. "They couldn't of."

"That's because they didn't." General Kazar said, slipping in past her.

"What do you mean?" Tak asked.

"There is a secret that I have been entrusted in keeping for the Tallest." General Kazar said. "One that I believe you are ready to hear."

"Go on." Gaz said.

"Several years ago the science division started performing painful experiments on the defectives to try and figure out why they were defective. In hopes of lessening their numbers." General Kazar revealed. "A group of these test subjects escaped the lab that the experience were being held in, and formed a resistance, and ever since then they have tried to make their existence known to the Empire." General Kazar told them.

"So they're the ones that attacked the factory!" Tak realized out loud. "Not Zim."

"Exactly." General Kazar admitted. "However, I had to make sure the public believed it to be the Renegades. The Tallest have entrusted me to keep their existence a secret."

"Why?" Gaz asked. "What difference does it make? Zim's Defective, why would it matter that there's more than one?"

"Because five years ago the Rebel Defectives hacked into the main three Control Brains and discovered the Tallests' most well-kept secret. " General Kazar told them. "A secret that had been passed down from one Tallest to another for centuries."

"And that secret would be?" Tak asked.

"There is no such thing." General Kazar said.

"No such thing as what?" Gaz asked.

"As a defective." General Kazar said. "Tallest Myuki made it up to weed out the weak soldiers from the strong ones."

Gaz's eyes widen. "You mean there's nothing wrong with them?" She asked.

"Precisely." General Kazar confirmed.

A large smile slowly formed onto Tak's face. "Gaz I think we finally found our Army." She said.

"The defectives?" Gaz asked.

"Yes there is bound to be more hiding in the Empire, and once they find out about the experiments awaiting them if they are ever caught they'll do anything to stay under the radar." Tak said.

"It just might work." Gaz agreed. "But what about this Rebel group what if they rather join them?"

"They might, and in the end that is their choice." Tak assured her. "But most will let fear decide that decision for them."

Gaz nodded knowing that she was probably right, fear had a way of controlling its victims every movement. It was how the Tallest had stayed in control for so long. Unfortunately they did not realize that there was one emotion far more powerful then fear.

Rage!

And soon the Tallest would feel the rage of the entire Irken Empire, and then they would be no more…

It was only a matter of time!

Episode 1 - The Madness (Part 1) END!

Author's Notes: Tune in next week to find out what happens next! Thanks again for reading and please review!

Yours Truly, RoxieDivine ;)