Chapter 4: Part 3

Episode 19- The Evil Girlfriend of Doom (Part 3)

(Back with Josh…)

[Time: 8:30PM]

{Location: The New House!}

Josh sighed as he looked at the pile of homework that towered over him, it covered most of the kitchen table. Which was pretty impressive since their new table could fit 12 people comfortably. "Why do they give us so much homework?" He cried helplessly.

"Cause they are all still convinced the rebels are teens." Joseph answered from the living room. For you see his homework covered the whole couch, the coffee table, and most of the living room floors. "They are trying to keep us all too busy to cause trouble knowing good and well that only the Rebels won't have it all done."

"Kind of makes you regret taking such advance classes hu bro?" Josh teased.

"Nope!" Joseph laughed. "I'm still three weeks ahead of all my classes."

"So that homework is from three weeks from now?" Josh asked.

"Yep." Joseph said proudly.

"You're such a nerd!" Josh teased.

"And you're just jelly!" Joseph pointed out the obvious.

The twins laughed.

"Well I'm taking a break!" Josh declared as his brother finished his last sentence on his research paper.

"Well I'm done!" Joseph said proudly, practically rubbing it in his brother's face.

"No fair you're ahead." He pointed out. "So, you can be done whenever you want."

"Well do the extra work and you can do the same." Joseph advised.

"Nah too much work." Josh scoffed.

"You are so lazy!' Joseph teased.

"Yep that's me the lazy bum who fails in comparison to your amazement." Josh agreed.

"Why thank you." Joseph sneered. "I am pretty amazing aren't I?"

The twins erupt into laughter once more.

Suddenly a beeping sound comes from Josh's watch.

The two freeze, it's a call from Tak on the communicator, they look around for any spy drones.

"See any?" Josh whispered.

"No, I think we're good." Joseph answered. "But make it quick!"

Josh nodded and answered the communicator.

"Dib?" Tak's voice was but a whisper.

"This better be good!" Joseph warned was he grabbed his brother's wrist and talked into the device.

"I wish it was." Tak said, her voice sounding grave.

"Tak what is it?" Josh asked desperately.

"It's Gaz." Tak said. "The Tallest are tired of your antics, and now she's going to pay for it!"

"Tak what are you talking about!" Joseph hissed.

"They are gong kill her tomorrow!" Tak exclaimed, "In the town square at dawn!"

"They can't!" Josh shouted.

"They won't!" Joseph growled his eyes glowing red. "Where are they holding her?"

"In some warehouse off Pier 49." Tak informed him.

"That's just across from town square." Josh explained to his brother.

"We're on our way to get her right now!" Joseph assured Tak.

"Please hurry!" She insisted.

Josh hung up and both boy's rushed to their new secret tunnel located behind the bathroom wall, their robot doubles took their place unnoticed, and by the time a spy drone did finally come to check on the boys…

Zim and Dib were already gone!

(Back With Tak…)

[Time: Moments Later]

{Location: Throne Room}

"It's done." She said to Gaz and the Tallest who stood before her.

"Excellent!" Red mused pointing to Gaz "Take her to the Warehouse, We'll have an army waiting for them!"

"Yes, my Tallest!" Tak bowed before her leaders before leading Gaz out the door.

"Do you think we'll catch him this time?" Purple asked hopefully.

"No, your soldiers are no match for a fully realized Amon." General Kazar said as he let himself into the throne room.

"You don't know for sure he is fully realized." Red corrected him.

"He snapped the neck of a berserk Amon with his bare hands." General Kazar pointed out. "Only a fully realized Amon could even get close to succeeding such a feet."

"What are you getting at?" Red asked.

"If you keep avoiding a confutation with him everyone will start thinking you're scared of him." General Kazar dared to say.

"Scared?" Purple hissed, eyes glowing with rage. "He is a defective and hardly worth our time!"

"Besides, I'd like to see the fool who thinks he can call us scared." Red mused, his eyes also glowing. "I'd rip him to pieces and gorge on his inners."

"How about you Kazar?" Purple asked. "Do you think us weak?"

"Of course, not you miss understood." General Kazar assured them.

"Thought so." Red snapped. "Now leave us!"

General Kazar did as he was told.

"Hey, you don't think he'll start backing up Zim now that Koi is no longer our successor do you?" Purple asked his partner.

"What? General Kazar back up a defective?" Red laughed.

"I'm serious Red." Purple said looking worried. "General Kazar is older than we are, he knows the truth about the defectives! Besides even if he didn't that didn't stop Goalit!" Purple began to pace back and forth in front of Red, worry showing in his eyes. "What if there are more of them? What if more shrews are secretly betraying us, giving secrets to the enemy? What if the top twelve are involved too?!"

"An enemy army hiding among our subordinates?" Red laughed. "That's absurd."

"Is it?" Purple growled.

"We can't start thinking like that Purple." Red warned. "This is what Zim wants, for us to question who to trust!"

"Or he wants us to do the opposite and trust everyone until it back fires on us!" Purple countered.

"I suppose it's never a bad thing to be too careful." Red agreed. "But General Kazar is right about one thing."

"Yeah?" Purple asked.

"You brought up a good point." Red whispered. "You both did. Soon we will have to deal with Zim."

"Why?" Purple asked. "The soldiers can handle them."

"And if they can't?" Red asked. "Say Zim is fully realized, and they are no longer enough."

"What are you getting at Red?" Purple asked.

"If Zim is fully realized he'll leave to find the Ancients." Red told him. "If he really is trying to change our race for the better then he'll want to follow tradition and will seek their blessing."

"He'll never find them." Purple assured him. "No one has."

"And if he does they'll tell him the truth!" Red snapped. "Zim will learned our greatest secret! One that Tallest Myuki entrusted with us before she died, one that would surely win over every Shrew to his side in an instant!"

"He won't find out!" Purple hissed. "Because he is not fully realized and he will never get that far!" he snarled, saliva dripping from his fangs.

But for the first time Red did not challenge his dominance over him instead he looked up at his partner with true worry in his eyes and said. "I hope you're right."

(Back with Zim…)

[Time: Midnight]

{Location: Warehouse 13 just off Pier 49}

Something just didn't feel right…

Zim bit his lip as he, Dib, Mark, Rachel, and James stared down the building before them. Of course, they had informed their fellow leaders of the resistance the moment they entered the tunnel, and everyone instantly agreed to meet here at Pier 49, Warehouse 13.

The Warehouse was dark, and looked abandon, but it was the closest one to the pier so the group could ally assume that this was the one. However, there was no guards, no detail formation, heck there was even a look out.

No, not a single Irken Soldier was in sight!

"Somethings not right here." Mark whispered expressing the fears that Zim was too afraid to admit himself.

"No, it's not." Dib said. "You're just feeling paranoid." He assured his friend before moving to take point.

"Dib wait!" Zim said stopping him. "Zinger is right something feels off."

"Zim we finally have Gaz in reach, and you want to call this mission off?" Dib was surprised. All his ex-foe ever talked about was getting her back, and now when their chance had finally came he wanted to leave empty handed.

"It's not just this place." Zim stressed looking around unsure. He couldn't explain it, but he could feel the danger. He could fell the enemy slowly closing in, even though there was no sight of the enemy around them; and the feeling suddenly made him want to run for the hills.

"Then what is it?" Dib asked.

"It's Tak! The way she sounded on the communicator." Zim said. "Her tone was desperate! When have you ever known Tak to be desperate?"

"It's a trap Dib." Rachel whispered, confirming their fears.

"No, it's not!" Dib argued. "Tak would never-"

"Look Dib we know you trust her." James said. "But this just feels all wrong."

"No, you all just don't trust her cause she's Irken!" Dib argued, his face red with anger! He couldn't explain why he felt the sudden need to defend her, but he did. He remembered the way her hand felt in his, the glow-ish feeling that her smile gave him. He had felt it, and it had felt real to him.

And he knew she had felt it too.

"That's not true!" Mark yelled. "We trust Zim and he's Irken!"

Zim couldn't help but feel the warmth of belonging that accompanied those words, after so long waiting to be accepted by these humans.

He was finally was one of them!

"I believed in you." Dib snapped at him. "I gave you the benefit of the doubt. When you were in your darkest hour who saved you!"

It wasn't a hard question, yet Zim could not find his words.

"WHO SAVED YOU?" Dib yelled louder

"You Did." Zim answered.

"I was right about you Zim." Dib said. "And I am right about her. You changed so why can't she!"

"Dib…" Zim whispered.

"No, you promised to save her." Dib cried. "And I am not leaving without her!" and with those final word he ran towards the warehouse.

"Dib wait!" Rachel exclaimed a bit too loud.

But it was too late, instinct had already kicked in, Zim was running after him without a single second of hesitation, and Mark and James soon followed.

And even though she knew it was a trap, even though she knew this could get her killed, Rachel found herself running after them.

Why?

Because she couldn't see herself without them, they were a team, and she had forgotten how to live as a separate individual.

And she wasn't the only one.

"You should be more protective of those things closest to you, If you don't, you may turn around one day to find them gone, and once that happens you may never get them back."

Zim shivered at those words, for they had been his words, he had said those words, and now he had a sick feeling that they were about to haunt him in the worse way possible.

Dib was the first one to enter the Warehouse, then Zim, James Mark, and finally Rachel followed closely behind.

"GAZ!" Dib exclaimed as his sister came into few.

Zim pushed ahead of him, too shocked to believe his eyes at first. She was actually here, she was standing there in a single spotlight within the dark room, and she was just as beautiful as he remembered.

Zim's breath caught in his throat and suddenly all his fears and paranoia were gone, and were replace with utter relief. "Gaz!" We're here for you." He grabbed her shoulders and shook her gently. "Gaz we're here you can come home now."

Rachel felt like she had just swallowed a bolder, Gaz was looking down at the ground in a daze. 'Like we're not even here.'

"Gaz love." Zim forced her to look at him. "We're here to save you."

"You should have never come here." Gaz whispered and made her move.

It happened in slow motion…

Soldiers started raining down around them from the rafters above as Gaz pushed him way from her, a knife slashed out from her other hand and nicked him on the check, pink blood began dripping down his face.

Zim was stunned. "Gaz why?"

"Did you honestly think I would want to go with you?!" She cried. "I can't believe I actually fell for your lies!"

"Gaz I'm sorry." Zim yelled pleading with her with his eyes as the soldiers started closing in around them. "I know I used you, but that was in the beginning, I love you, I changed for you!"

"It's too late for that!" Gaz yelled. "Far too late."

"Gaz this isn't you!" Rachel pleaded. "They've brained wash you or something."

"Yeah we're not the enemy here!" Mark stressed. "They are."

"Gaz please!" James stressed as the soldiers continued to slowly close in. "We can still make it."

"Why should I care if you make it out of here alive?" Gaz spat. "The only one I care about is Dib." She suddenly extended a hand out to her brother. "Come on Dib we can still be a family."

Dib was lost for words. She was doing this because of him?

"Dad can get his job back as a scientist, we can live together, all your crimes forgotten." Gaz cried; she was literally crying with tears down her face. "That's what I want Dib, I don't care who runs the world I just want my family back!"

Oh, how he wanted to give into those tears…

Yes, if Dib was being honest with himself then he would admit that he did miss those day. The days when life was simply, and the Earth only had one Irken to worry about. But those days felt like an eternity away now.

Did she honestly believe that it could go back to that?

Was it that simple?

Could he turn his back on the Earth and mankind just to have this one part of his old life back?

"NO." Dib whispered.

"Dib…" Gaz looks hurt, he can see the pain in her eyes. "I need you."

"I'm sorry Gaz, but right now the Earth needs me more!" he told her.

Suddenly a can rolled into the center of the four rebels, and Zim only had seconds to process what it was. "Smoke bomb!"

The bomb exploded into a thick blanket of smoke.

"Dib please don't leave me." Gaz cried as the smoke surrounded them, cutting them off from the soldiers who were desperately trying to find them in the void.

"I'm sorry." Dib whispered and fled into the smoke, running pass the confused soldiers with Mark, James, and Rachel hot on his heels.

Zim paused to give Gaz one last hopeful look. "Gaz please…"

"This is all your fault." She cried. "I hate you, you ruined everything!"

Tears welled up in Zim's eyes, how could she say that?

After everything they had been through?

Someone grabbed his hand and forced him to run, it was Gir! How did he knew his master was here?

Zim didn't know and he didn't care…

No, there was only one thing on this Earth that had kept him going, and now he was being pulled away from her.

"I HATE YOU!"

Her words echoed in his mind and cut him deep.

Gir forced him to move forward and soon they had joined the rest of the team outside. "Master I have the water scooter in the water just off the edge of the dock." He reported, his eyes blood red. "We can make it there if we just keep running." He took off in the direction of Pier 49.

The rest of the group followed him, each silent on the outside, but on the inside they were screaming!

How?

How could she have betrayed them?

What had made everything go so terribly wrong?

Episode 19- The Evil Girlfriend of Doom (Part 3) END!

Author's Notes: Oh No! Gaz has just betrayed the very people that were trying to help her! How will her friends cope with this horrible turn of events?

Tune in Next week to find out!

Yours Truly, RoxieDivine ;)

Shout-out(s): Again, I give this shout out to all my loyal readers, I'm looking at you invader Johnny!