Episode 16: Gir Goes Psycho(Part 2)

(One Hour Later...)

[Location: The Science Camp]

He was nervous...

But then again he had every right to be, his human scientist friends had only known him for a month, and now he was about to lay this bomb shell on them. Would they agree? Or would they think he was testing them?

He wasn't sure he could do this, Goalit groaned, he felt sick, could he do this?

Could he really rebel against everything he had known?

Yes, it was for the best of his people, besides Zim, had given him his blessings. He approved of this plan. For some reason that didn't help him feel better.

He exited the elevator, and walked calmly over to his unit, no doubt everyone would be waiting for him; wondering why he was late. He entered the room, and imminently stepped into the meeting room.

"Goalit we were beginning to worry." Professor Membrane said.

Goalit smiled. It had taken forever to get them to stop saying Sir, but they did. They were all fully relaxed with each other now. So much so that they could cut up and make joke about the other with no fear of offending. However, his news now could change all of that.

"Is something wrong?" Kornelius asked.

"No, I have someone who wishes to speak to you Professor." Goalit said, and pulled up a communications screen.

The scientist sit down and watch the screen, at first there is nothing but static, and then it clears, and a familiar face appears.

"Dad, dad it's me." Dib sees his father come into view on his own screen, his heart is thumping like a loud hammer in his chest. "Dad can you see me?"

It takes Membrane a moment to answer. "Dib, you're ok."

"Yeah I'm okay." Tears spilled down his face. "I thought you-" he couldn't finish.

Membrane understood. "I thought so too, but enough about me, how are you? How is Gaz?"

"Uh she's doing well from what I hear." Dib answered.

"Wait, you're not together?" Membrane sound worried.

"She's fine, the Tallest are trying to use her against me though." Dib bowed his head. "I'm sorry dad."

"No, I'm sorry I should have believed you; I fought that day, to make it up to you." Membrane explained. "But I was not strong enough."

"We can be." Dib said. "Dad we have a plan, and we need your help."

"Dib I-" Membrane looked to Goalit as if expecting him to say something, but he nodded his agreement. Membrane was taken aback, he thought Goalit wanted him to convince his son to turn himself in however, it would appear that was not the case.

"He's with me, dad." Dib said. "Goalit is one of us."

"One of us?" Kornelius asked.

"Hi uncle Kornelius." Shyann appears on the screen beside Dib.

"Shyann!" Kornelius is shocked to see her. "Who else is there? Are your brothers involved?"

"No Tommy, and Jim still live out of town." Shyann explained. "It's okay I doubt they even know we're related. You're my mother's Ex-brother in-law, you guys separated before the war. You're not even on my papers."

Kornelius breathed a sigh of relief, it is short lived. "This is a war we cannot win!" He whispered harshly.

"But we have been winning." Another voice said, the screen turns to reveal-

"Zim you are looking well" Membrane said. "And are you taller?!"

Zim smiles, somewhat shocked. "I thought you'd hate me for all this."

"I did, but my son doesn't seem to, and I vowed to never doubt him again." Membrane reasoned.

"He's cool Dad, Zim is helping us, and he's going to over throw the Tallest." Dib explained.

"Over throw them?" Kornelius asked. "You can do that?"

Zim nodded, however his attention was elsewhere. "What about you girl, you've said nothing."

Everyone turned to Elma, it was true she had said nothing. "Are you really with them?" She asked Goalit.

He nodded. "Yes."

"This isn't some test to see if we're loyal to the empire?" Elma asked.

"Believe it or not, not all Irkens are happy with our way of life." Goalit told her. "Zim plans to change everything, and I don't know…change sounds good right now."

"I knew you were different, but this..." Elma was trying hard to find the words. "This is a lot to take in."

"Do you trust me?" Goalit asked her.

"More than anyone." She admitted.

"Then come with us." Goalit said.

"Come?" Membrane asked

"Dad we're busting you out of there." Dib declared.

"Along with some weapons too of course." Zim added lightly.

"You're mad!" Kornelius pointed out.

"Yes." Zim admitted. "But in my defense you've got to be a little insane to take down the Tallest."

"Please come with us." Shyann begged.

Kornelius looks unsure, but then nods shakenly. "Of course, I will, after all these three won't last a second without me." He joked, or at least tried to.

"It's okay, I was scared my first day too." Shyann assured him.

"So, we're doing this?" Elma asked.

They all looked at each other, and nodded.

"Okay then it's settled, this weekend, Saturday! Goalit will explain everything." Dib said.

"We must end the transmission." Zim advised. "We've been on too long."

Goalit nodded and said. "We'll see you soon."

"Bye Dad!" Dib yells.

Zim ends the transmission.

The meeting room is quiet for a long time.

"Are we really helping them?" Elma asked.

"Yes, and we're leaving with them." Goalit assured her.

"We're not stabbing them in the back?" Kornelius asked.

"No, my leaders have lost their right to lead, they have committed terrible crimes against our people. They must be eliminated, it is the Irken way." Goalit explained.

"Why wait until now?" Membrane asked.

"Well if you can imagen it; we're afraid." Goalit explained. "Afraid to oppose them, afraid of change. You know how that feels yes?"

The three scientist nodded, they did know how that felt, for they had felt that fear for over a year now. But no more, they would stand and fight for those who could not. And more importantly, thy would fight for their children, their nieces and nephews, their peers.

Children, should not be fighting this war, and yet they were. However, they would no longer be fighting alone.

"We're in." Membrane was the first to speak. "Just tell us what we need to do."

Goalit nodded, they were in business.

(Back with Zim...)

[Location: The Dome]

Zim sighed in relief as the transmission ended, and tried his best to walk away unnoticed.

He failed miserably.

"Zim..."

He turned to see Dib.

"Your sneaking out again aren't you?" Dib asked.

'Again? So, he has noticed my absence.' Zim sighed. "I just need some air."

"Okay..." Dib looked nervous. "Just be careful, okay?"

Zim walked away, the computer brain floated beside him.

"You should stay gone until you're done." It advised.

"Computer the humans need me for this mission." Zim argued.

"You need space, you're going off the handle randomly." The computer advised.

"I am fine." Zim hissed.

"But Sir." The computer tried to reason, but Zim would have none of it.

"This conversation is over!" Zim snapped before stomping away, further down the hall 'He doesn't understand!' Zim fumed. 'No one understands!' he stops as he comes face to face with…"Gir? What are you doing?"

Gir doesn't answer; he just stands there in the middle of the hall, red eyes blaring.

"Gir I asked you a question!" Zim yelled.

"I am watching" Gir answered bluntly.

"Watching what Gir?" Zim looked puzzled.

"The enemy!" Gir whispered as his vision zoomed in on the humans one level below them. "They are everywhere."

"What enemy? Gir there's only us and-"

"And the humans…" Gir growled.

"Gir the humans are not the enemy!" Zim scowled.

"But Master the humans are at fault-" Gir began. "They are making your emotions go haywire. That boy got hurt cause-"

"No Gir, that boy got hurt because you allowed it. What was so important that you were not there?" Zim asked his minion coldly.

If Gir was in his right mind he'd explain, the OTHER, but he has forgotten the real threat. His wires are so cross that everything is a threat!

But Zim is too caught up in himself to see the danger.

"My lord!-" Gir tries to explain.

"NO Gir! Just get out of my face! I can't deal with you and your antics right now!" Zim yelled before pushing pasted Gir and towards his bunker.

Gir frowned as he watched him leave. "The Master doesn't realize what these humans are doing to him. He has placed his trust in the wrong hands. I will show my…M-aster the error of his ways!" Gir began to scan the dome for the enemy; his sights soon fell on Mark.

Gir smiled "Target acquired!"

(Back with Mark…)

[Location: his bunker]

He wanted to believe him, he wanted to believe they could trust Zim, but the guy had lied to them before. What if he was lying again?

'What if he saved me to win my trust?'

"Stupid Zim." Mark growled as he kicked his shoe across his room. "This is his fault! We'd all still be going about our normal lives if he hadn't-"

Suddenly the sound of his door creaking open fills the room.

"Who's there?" Mark turned towards the door, but no one was there! "Hello?"

Silence…!

"Okay guys this isn't funny!" Mark said his voice slightly edgy. "Zim if that's you I swear-"

"Sorry human, but my master is not here to save you now!"

Mark turned to see "Gir? What are you-"

Gir raised his weapon and fired smiling as it found his target.

Mark fell to the ground, his leg bleeding from a freshly made wound. "Zim that coward he sent you to do this!" he yelled.

"No human you are wrong!" Gir yelled back.

"What?" Mark looked stunned.

"My Master has bent head over heels trying to prove his loyalty to you humans." Gir yelled. "He's given you the secrets of his people and you repay him with your lies!" Gir raised the weapon once more.

"Gir please no…" Mark whispered.

"It's too late." Gir said coldly "You should have been nicer to my Master!"

"Gir please!" Mark begged once more, but it was too late!

Gir shot Mark again this time in the shoulder and the boy pasted out from the pain, his blood pool on his bunker floor.

"Now the Master will be free from your tyranny forever!" Gir turned then and walked away leaving the human where he lied!

(Back with Rachel, and James...)

[Location: Rachel's Bunker]

It wasn't really a date, well it was, but it had to be the cheesiest one they had ever been on, and honestly the saddest, and most pathetic.

"James we need to talk." Rachel said, putting down her three day old pizza, it was hard from being in the fridge too long.

"About what?" James asked, trying to eat his rock of a slice.

"Do you think we should break up?" She asked bluntly.

"Rachel don't talk like that." James said.

"I'm serious James." Rachel said. "Ever since the war we hardly have any time for us. Its school, and Missions, and rushed dates after war planning, I mean look at this pizza!"

James sighed and put down his own slice, "It is pretty pathetic isn't it? Look I promise I'll take you out on a real date tomorrow after school, okay?"

Rachel was about to answer when a scream filled the hall way. "What was that?!" Rachel ran out to the hall with James hot on her tail.

"Somebody please help!" It was Gretchen she was sitting in Mark's room with someone bleeding in her arms.

That someone was Mark!

"Mark!" James ran to his cousin's side. "What Happened? Who did this?!" James screamed.

"I don't know…" Gretchen cried "I thought I heard him yell something from next door and when I came in he was like this!"

"Guys what's going on-?" Dib stopped in the doorway his mouth wide open in shock. "Oh my God what happened to him?"

Mark groaned as his eyes opened.

"He's alive!" Gretchen yelled.

"Mark listen to me! We're going to get you fixed up okay" James assured him. "But we need to know what happened!" he urged.

'Z...i...m" Mark groaned.

Everyone froze neither of them believing what they just heard.

"'Zim" Mark groaned once more "Tell…must… stop…he's out of…control!" Mark's eyes rolled back into his head as he tried to continue.

"He needs to get those wounds fix now!" Rachel exclaimed. "Help me get him to the ICU now!"

Dib watched helplessly as the others raced Mark down the hall and into the ICU. He felt as if his brain was no longer connected to the rest of his body. 'The Zim I know would never do this! Maybe the old Zim, but-' Dib stopped was it possible that Zim had changed? Did he transform and hurt Mark in his confusion like he had done to Dib a week before.

But that didn't make since, Zim would have used his claws, not some weapon. And Dib could tell those where wounds from a lazar of some kind. Mark wouldn't hurt himself like this on purpose just to get rid of Zim, he'd want real proof.

Dib forced his brain to work as Rachel came running back to him ."How is he?"

"He's fine he'll be healed within a couple of hours. It's Zim that I'm worried about." Rachel said coldly.

"Come on Raych you know he'd never-"

"James doesn't think so, he's angry Dib. I suggest you get to Zim before he does." Rachel warned.

Dib moved to do so but he was too late…

"Get your filthy hands off of me!" That was Zim's voice! "What the hell are you doing? Unhand me this instant!"

Dib watched helplessly as James and three others carried Zim into the hall.

Zim was obviously furious, his hand were tied behind his back as he tried to fight of his handlers without trying to hurt them. Shouting at them to let him go, James wasn't listening instead he forced Zim to his knees before Dib.

"Admit it Zim, you tried to have him killed!" James screamed.

"Dib please tell them that whatever this is about I had nothing to do with it!" Zim yelled his eyes blazing dangerously red.

"You know what this is about!" James yelled kicking Zim's side. "You tried to have Mark killed! Don't deny it, we found him in a pool of blood!"

"Mark is dead!" There was no mistaking the look of shock in Zim's face, his eyes instantly went back to normal; his mouth agape in disbelief.

"No, he isn't you sick monster, and to think I trusted you!" James kicked him again.

"James listen to me I did not hurt Mark I would never-" Zim tried to reason.

"Lier everyone here knows you hate him!" James said through tears.

"Dib please you know I wouldn't do this…" Zim looked up at Dib with pleading eyes "You know I'm innocent!"

Dib couldn't bare the sight of him, he turned away. "I'm sorry Zim, but until we can prove that..." he couldn't finish.

"Dib…" Zim felt like he had been stabbed in the back. "Dib please…look at me!"

"Lock him up in a cell and have a guard on him until I figure this out!" Dib yelled and then walked away.

"Dib no wait!" Zim yelled as James and the rest began to pull him towards the prisoner cells that were several feet below them.

Rachel watched helplessly as several other members of the Resistance screamed for justice.

"Rachel please you know I would never-" Zim pleaded with her, but Rachel turned away.

Zim bowed his head and stopped fighting them, thankful that the shock was keeping him from losing control and tearing every single one of them apart.

'Had I lost control?' he asked himself. 'It's happened before!' Zim knew it was true and Mark had been pushing his buttons. 'Can I honestly say without a doubt that I didn't do this?'

"Get in there!" James yelled as he pushed Zim into his cell and slammed the door shut.

Zim's eyes met with James and the hatred that he saw was so immense that the Irken could not bear to hold his gaze.

"I hope you rot here forever!" James spat at him then he and the others turned and walked away.

Zim fell to his knees "I'm so sorry…" he whispered. "I'm so sorry!" he looked at his reflection in the bars of his cell and then turned away in discuss. 'I'm a monster; I disserve to rot in this cell'

Gir growled as he watched the events unfold from the lab's surveillance screens with a look of anger written across his rusty metal face. "The humans have betrayed the master!" his left eye began to twitch uncontrollably. "It's time that I reminded these humans of their place!" Gir's eyes fell on the screen that his Master was on. "I am sorry Master, but you will not like this, you will not like this one bit." He turned from the screens and set off to finish what he had started.

"For the good of the Mission, the Humans must be eliminated!"

Episode 16: Gir Goes Psycho(Part 2) END