Family

Chapter 498 Z End

By: Major144

Disclaimer: I don't own anything. This is just a story for fun.

Zim, was accompanied by Gir, Minimoose, and Schmoz as he lead Red Knight, Green Knight, Sir Slicer, Bandit Queen, and Mochio down to the dungeon to see Simon and the other recently captured prisoners. All the prisoners in the dungeon were repeatedly hit with time stasis beams keeping them in a frozen state of time and a energy shield kept other beings from entering the cells. The group passed several cells with various aliens and other beings in them, until they came across the cells that held the most recent captives. Sir Slicer and the representatives from Gumbaldia were very impressed to actually see that Zim and his forces had actually captured Simon, Marceline, Henry, Lance, Lucinda, X, and Eria. They also recognized the frozen forms of the Eggspendables and other hunters nearby.

"I must admit this is very impressive. You done very well Zim." Said Sir Slicer.

"Yes I have. I'm the first person to successfully capture some of the most dangerous rebels on the planet." Said Zim with a grin.

"So what exactly do you want for them?" Asked Bandit Queen.

"I want a huge amount of your finest territory as well as access to your greatest cooks and food." Said Zim.

"When you capture Bubblegum, our master will consider giving you that." Said Red Knight.

"Really? That'll be easy. I took down most of her best defenders. It's only a matter of time before Bubblegum is located and captured. Heck she might even come here to try and rescue her allies making it much easier for me." Said Zim.

"Don't underestimate Bubblegum or any of her allies." Warned Red Knight.

"Please I have everything under control." Said Zim.

At about that same moment, Malruant was leading his forces and Bubblegum's team to what appeared to be some kind of control room. They encountered a few robot guards, but they were quickly taken out before entering the room. Malruant looked around the room and located an oval shaped black device with dozens of digital clock displays on it with a few cables and wires sticking in at the bottom. He put his hands on it and sent a surge of energy through it. The digital clock displays went dark.

"That'll unfreeze all the prisoners in the dungeon." Said Malruant.

In the dungeon Zim and his gusts looked on with surprise as all the prisoners became unfrozen and began to move.

"So it begins." Said Red Knight.

"No! No! No! Don't panic they're still my captives and none of them are getting out of their cells!" Said Zim.

In the control area Bubblegum and Peridot were typing away on some keyboards that deactivated the energy shields on the cells releasing the prisoners. Soon all out chaos broke out in the dungeon as the freed prisoners began to fight the guards and a few prisoners began to fight each other. Schmoz being Zim's bodyguard quickly picked Zim, Gir, and Minimoose up and flew them to safety.

"You want to use a wish to stop all this or capture the ones responsible?" Asked Schmoz.

"No. I'm not going to waste a wish on this. I can fix this." Said Zim as he worked furiously on a device on his wrist to summon more guards to the dungeon and to send a team to the dungeon control area.

"What's your plan?" Asked Red Knight as she held a blaster and fired a few blasts at some prisoners.

"I'm going to fetch some special tools to help deal with this problem and then I'm going to deal with the ones responsible for this." Said Zim before he had Schmoz carry him away.

"What should we do?" Asked Mochio.

"Me and Bandit Queen will help deal with the mess here, while the rest of you locate the control room. Bubblegum might still be there so there's a chance we can kill or capture her." Said Sir Slicer.

"Sounds good to me." Said Red Knight.

"Wait! We wish to accompany and aid you." Said Head Egg as he and the rest of the hunting team fought their way forward.

"Alright you can come." Said Red Knight.

Red Knight, Green Knight, Mochio, and the hunters headed out to locate the control room. Sir Slicer and Bandit Queen charged into battle going after Simon and his allies as Shnooky and his squad to help put a stop to the rioting prisoners.

Outside the base the League of Super Evil was approaching one of the entrances with their stink bomb. Voltar walked up to a intercom and pressed it.

"Who is this." Asked a robot guard inside the base next to some controls.

"Hey this is...um super party deliver here to deliver a special party ballon to Zim." Said Voltar.

"I see no report of a delivery like that." Said the robot.

"Of course you don't! It's a special surprise! Now let us in!" Said Voltar.

The robot was going to respond no and tell the League to leave, but one of the escaped prisoners came into the area and hurled a knife at the robot stabbing it in the back of the head and causing the robot to fall onto the controls opening the door.

"Well that worked." Said Red Menace.

"Lady Luck is on our side! Onward!" Said Voltar.

The League entered the base with their stink bomb.

Back in the base Thromnambular was hopping around taking in all the battle and chaos that was spreading like wildfire through the place. Thromnambular would normally be enjoying the chaos, but there were very few opportunities to find someone who he could use to make wishes with all the craziness going on. He bounced around taking everything in, when he happened to spot Schmoz flying by carrying Zim, Gir, and Minimoose. Thromnambular recognized Schmoz as a genie and he got a brilliant idea for a wish. The wishing skull hopped after the genie doing his best to avoid being kicked, stomped on, or blasted.

In the dungeon Bandit Queen faced off against X and Django with her Sword of Dark Fire. She fired off a blast of black flames at the duo. X fired a blast of regular flames at the wave of black flames, but they were quickly devoured by the black flames. The flame knight and Django dove out of the way of the black flames to avoid getting burned. Django quickly got up and began to fire blasts from his guitar at Bandit Queen, who deflected them with a swing of her sword. Bandit Queen then fired a blast of fire from her sword that struck Django in the chest and he exploded into a cloud of smoke!

"What the?!" Yelled Bandit Queen in confusion.

"Like my death illusion." Said Django appearing a few yards away from he had originally been standing.

X suddenly appeared next to Bandit Queen and punched her in the face sending her reeling back. He then rushed at Bandit Queen with a flaming sword and struck Bandit Queen's sword and sent it flying from her hands. Bandit Queen watched her sword land several yards away before she faced her opponents and used her amulet to change herself into a massive blue dragon that let out a roar.

"Two can play at that game." Said X before he changed into his flaming dragon form and let out a great roar of his own.

The two dragons leaped at each other and began to bite and claw at each other as they smashed through some walls together with Django chasing after them.

Sire Slicer faced off against Simon. He swung his Sword of Swanstantine at Simon, who blocked his attacks with a white staff he had created from ice. Sir Slicer shoved Simon back and fired a blast of red energy at Simon only to have the wizard deflect it with his staff. The knight gripped his sword tightly and glared at Simon.

"Impressive, you still as dangerous as you were back in the height of the war. You are worthy of the title of Grand Master Wizard. I guess I have no choice, but to go all out if I wish to beat you." Said Sir Slicer as he used his amulet to transform into a large black dragon.

"I will only give you this one chance to step aside and leave Sir Slicer." Said Simon scowling up at the dragon.

"As if I would backdown! Allow me to show you what else my sword can do. It has the ability to bring out the inner strength and potential of it's user and that even works on this dragon form you see before you!" Said Sir Slicer as dark metal armor began to sprout and spread along his body and the sword grew in size to fit his dragon size.

"Nice makeover, but you're still the same evil lowlife villain. Finn and any of his reincarnations could beat you." Said Simon.

"Don't say that wretch's name in my presence! He only bested me by pure luck! With this power I'm unstoppable! I will crush you then kill the rest your friends and your family!" Declared Sir Slicer.

"You made a very critical mistake just now." Said Simon.

The room suddenly got colder as Simon tightly gripped his staff and glared up at Sir Slicer with a fierce look on his face.

A warning went off in Sir Slicer's head a few seconds before he was blasted with a great burst of mystical lightning that sent him flying and smashing through several walls. Simon floated off the ground and flew after Sir Slicer. The dragon groaned as he got to his feet to face the wizard. Sir Slicer unleashed a blast of fire breath at Simon who parted the attack with a blast of freezing wind. The dragon swung his sword down at Simon, only to have the wizard conjure up a enormous ice sword that floated above him and block the attack. The ice sword shoved Sir Slicer back and Simon used his powers to create multiple ice blades of various sizes and pointed them at Sir Slicer. The blades hurled themselves at the dragon, who quickly blasted them with his fire or shattered them to bits with his sword. Sir Slicer managed to destroy most of the blades, but a few dozen made their way through his defenses and managed to pierce through the armor on his chest, arms, and shoulders doing some damage to him.

"Aaaaaaa!" Snarled Sir Slicer as he staggered back a little with blood dripping from his wounds.

Sir Slicer then noticed that Simon was floating right in front of him. Before the dragon could attack or anything Simon struck him with his staff and sent a explosion of freezing and electrical energy that sent Sir Slicer flying and crashing through some more walls. Sir Slicer gasped in pain as he laid on his back. Simon floated above him with a stern look on his face.

"How...are you so strong?" Gasped Sir Slicer as he pushed himself to his feet.

"I have many years of fighting strong and powerful beings. I've fought against the Lich, Hunson Abadeer, Crimson, Gentleman Wizard, Cloud Wizard, and many more. My powers have grown with all those experiences, and I trained myself to be strong enough to protect and defend the ones I care about." Said Simon.

"What...was the mistake you said I made earlier?" Asked Sir Slicer.

"You not only threatened my friends, but my family. Whenever someone threatens another person's family they best be prepared to deal with the powerful force of a loved one who will do everything in their power to protect those they care about. Especially if that person is a father." Said Simon.

Sir Slicer felt his blood boil in rage, before he let out a mighty yell and swung his sword at Simon. The wizard dodged the swing and dodged about as Sir Slicer flew about trying to crush him.

Marceline, Lucinda, Lance, and Henry took down several guard robots and criminals before they found themselves facing off against Shnooky and his squad. The Nhar-Gh'ok made hissing noises before they all spat globs of green liquid at the heroes forcing them all to dodge back. The liquid hit the floor and began to hiss and sizzle. It was acid! The Nhar-Gh'ok then let out battle crisis as they all leaped to attack. Marceline and Lucinda each faced off against five Nhar-Gh'ok, while the remaining seven went after Lance and Henry.

The Nhar-Gh'ok surrounded and pounded on Marceline and Lucinda and despite looking like human babies they were far stronger then they looked and actually managed to bruise and bloodied the vampire and werewolf a little before the heroes used their own great strength to toss them all to the side. Lance and Henry managed to avoid their opponents attacks and knocked them all back with a burst of lightning and water.

Shnooky and his squad quickly recovered and regrouped.

"Not bad. I can see why you're all wanted and feared criminals by Gumbaldia. Guess its time to pull out the big guns. Form Giganto-Baby!" Said Shnooky.

The heroes watched with a mix of horror and disgust as the aliens began to melt and merge with one another to form a new horrible creature. Six of the Nhar-Gh'oks formed two large fleshy legs with their heads and arms visible in the wads of flesh. The legs were connected to a thin torso that wore a diaper. Above that there was a large misshapen chest with no head, but the heads and arms of the Nhar-Gh'oks forming it were visible. Two Nhar-Gh'oks formed the shoulders with their mouths wide open with the arms sticking out of them and six Nhar-Gh'oks formed the large fleshy hands of the monstrosity. Things got weirder as a floating holographic blue square formed in the center of the chest with two slanted eyes and a mouth. The mouth on the screen opened and let out a roar.

"That is seriously messed up on so many levels!" Said Marceline.

"That's one big ass baby!" Said Lance.

Giganto-Baby sprung forward with a great amount of space and swatted the four heroes sending them all flying and crashing into a wall. The monster pointed it's hands at the heroes and the Nhar-Gh'ok heads spat acid at them. Marceline and the others quickly jumped out of the way as the acid missed them and struck the wall and melted it. Lance blasted Giganto-Baby making the monster reel back in pain, before Marceline and Lucinda flew forward and delivered a few powerful punches knocking it back. Giganto-Baby recovered and swatted Lucinda out of the air and tried to attack Marceline, but Henry blasted him with water sending the monster reeling back. Lucinda got up and delivered a dropkick to Giganto-Baby's chest knocking him to the ground. Giganto-Baby got up and let out a roar as the heroes rushed to fight him.

Elsewhere Bubblegum and her group were leaving the dungeon control room, when they encountered a squad of robot guards who began to fire at them forcing them back a bit. Things soon got worse, when Red Knight, Green Knight, Mochio, Arnold, Head Egg, Egg Head, E2, E4, Hooded Heifer, Chickenstein, Kask, Khamal, and Sauro arrived on the scene and joined in on the fight.

"Surrender yourself Bubblegum there is no escape for you or your allies!" Declared Red Knight.

"Step aside you fools and I shall allow you to live!" Said Malruant.

"No chance! We're here to kill Bubblegum and anyone who dares get in our way!" Yelled Hooded Heifer before he began charging forward with his horns pointed down.

Malruant fired a beam of energy at the charging Minotaur and instead of vaporizing it began to rapidly age him, until he was nothing, but bones and some worn out clothes that collapsed to the ground a couple of feet from Malruant. Everyone stared at the Hooded Heifer's remains in shock. Malruant picked up the Minotaur's skull and held it up.

"Alas poor Minotaur we hardly knew you. Another victim of the ravages of time." Said Malruant before crushing the skull to dust.

Bubblegum was stunned by such a brutal death and disrespect to the dead. Malruant truly was a evil being who was up to no good. Bubblegum could not allow him to regain whatever items Zim had stolen from him.

The enemy quickly recovered from their shock and began to fire their weapons at Bubblegum, Malruant, and the others. The Carton Cartel members fired their own weapons back at the enemy. June Way used her magic to rip off some sheets of metal and sent them flying at the enemy. A few dozen robots were smashed to bits and E2 was crushed to bits killing him. Green Knight rushed forward dodging the thrown metal as he turned his righthand into a axe and killed a few Carton Cartel members before he rushed at Bubblegum. Bubblegum quickly fired a laser that knocked the Green Knight out of the air knocking him to the ground. O and Serenity blasted the down knight with slime and ice burying him beneath a mound of slime and ice.

"Come we must reach Zim's base and get my property." Said Malruant as he vaporized some robots and began to make his way to a nearby hallway.

Bubblegum, Chicle, Mara, O, Serenity, Neddy, Peridot, Lapis, June Way, Citrus Twisty, Walter, Messy, and a few Carton Cartel members chased after him. The rest of the Carton Cartel stood behind to fight the enemy.

"After them!" Yelled Red Knight.

Green Knight escaped from the slime and ice that held him and killed a dozen more Carton Cartel members before chasing after Bubblegum and the others. Red Knight went after him, with Mochio, and the remaining hunters.

On the upper levels, Zim had reached his private lab along with Gir, Minimoose, and Schmoz. Zim headed over to the Megadoomer armed with The Maid and got inside of it.

"Computer locate the one called Bubblegum and her allies at once." Ordered Zim.

"Intruders located." Said Computer as a screen showed Bubblegum and her allies running down a hallway together.

"So Bubblegum is here and she has apparently sided with my old teacher Malruant. Figures he would come out of hiding and come back for the Time Beasts and his other items. Well if he thinks he can just waltz in here and destroy everything I built, he has another thing coming! I'll make them all pay!" Said Zim.

The Megadoomer stomped towards the elevator. Zim ordered Gir and Minimoose to find a safe place to lie low. Schmoz followed Zim onto the lift, when he heard a voice.

"Pssst! Hey you, down here."

Schmoz looked to the side and saw Thromnambular on the ground nearby. The genie became curious and glanced over at Zim to make sure he wasn't paying attention to him. Zim was glaring forward muttering curses and threats under his breath. Schmoz used his magic to levitate Thromnambular over to him.

"Who are you?" Asked Schmoz.

"I am Thromnambular and like you I am a wish granting slave. I think you and I can help each other." Said Thromnambular.

"Help how?" Asked Schmoz.

"Just make a wish." Said Thromnambular.

A evil grin broke out across Schmoz's face before he spoke.

"I wish for you and me to be free from our wish granting bonds."

"Wish granted." Said Thromnambular before the number on his forehead vanished.

Schmoz's armbands fell to the ground with a clank before vanishing. The genie looked at his freed wrist with awe. Thromnambular grew a skeletal body for himself and sprouted a black cloak.

"Ah it feels so good to have a body again." Said Thromnambular.

"Huh? What's all this? Who are you?" Demanded Zim finally taking notice of Thromnambular.

"The names Thromnambular and I'm a powerful magic being that just got freed. I think I might begin my new freedom by conquering your little kingdom." Said Thromnambular.

"As if I'll let you! Schmoz do your duty and protect me." Said Zim.

"No can do Z. You see I'm free now, so I don't take orders from you anymore. I'm a freed genie and I can do whatever I want." Said Schmoz with a grin.

"You traitor! Fine! I'll just erase the two of you!" Said Zim as he spun the Megadoomer around and pointed The Maid at Schmoz and Thromnambular.

"Yeah no." Said Thromnambular as he snapped his fingers and Zim was no longer in the Megadoomer.

Before Zim could do anything Schmoz grabbed him and lifted him off the ground. Zim eyed the genie nervously.

"You're no longer in charge anymore little man. Now what shall we do with you?" Said Schmoz.

"I think we should let him go and deal with those intruders. This is his lair after all. I'm going to go off and find a wizard I owe some payback on. You can do whatever you want. You can even help destroy the intruders and anyone else you like since, you're free to do whatever you want.." Said Thromnambular.

"I'm down for that." Said Schmoz.

"Just got to make our little friend forget what he just saw and forget you've been freed." Said Thromnambular reaching out to Zim.

Wait! Stay away from me!" Said Zim as he tried to pull away.

Thromnambular put a finger to Zim's forehead and he used his magic to mess with Zim's mind. Zim forgot what he had just witnessed and he forgot that Schmoz was free from serving him. Schmoz put Zim back in the Megadoomer. Zim had a dazed look in his eyes as he stared forward. Thromnambular teleported out of the lift Zim and Schmoz. Zim shook his head and came back to his senses.

"I'm going to destroy Bubblegum, Malruant, and everyone who dares to try to mess with me!" Declared Zim.

"Sure you are." Chuckled Schmoz.

Outside the base Scarab was walking around in the disguised form, when his crystal sounded a alert and he reached for it.

"Two powerful wish granting beings have just freed from their bonds. According to their records they're both troublemakers and most likely cause some serious trouble. Another couple of items to add to the list." Said Scarab glancing at the crystal.

Scarab then glanced at the base and noticed their seem to be a commotion going on.. He had a feeling that Malruant and June Way were there and were causing trouble. Scarab began to make his way to the base.

In another part of the city Skalgar was searching for Bubblegum to learn her ways of being a dangerous wanted criminal. He had asked around about her to some of the other aliens and locals of Ooo and quickly learned that the recent arrival of the Prize Ball Guardian and the Safety Bots were here to see Zim and were searching for Bubblegum who was said to be somewhere in Zimtopia. Skalgar saw this as a opportunity to prove himself as a dangerous criminal and maybe get the attention of Bubblegum. He headed back to his ship and got into it. The ship turned into a large orange and purple mech with a horned head with a red visor. The robot was a bit taller then the Safety Bots, but smaller then the Prize Ball Guardian. Skalgar's mech stomped it's way to the nearest Safety Bot and punched it in the face sending it crashing to the ground. The other Safety Bots saw this and they all charged at Skalgar to attack him.

Back in the base the League of Super Evil had made their way deeper into the facility without encountering anyone, but a few escaping prisoners who just ran past them. The League managed to make it to the center and left their stink bomb there on a timer. The group wanted to leave, but Voltar wasn't fully satisfied with what they were doing. Voltar wanted to really stick it to Zim by stealing something valuable from him. The League located a lift and took it up to Zim's lab, which was unguarded. The villains looked around at all the weird stuff in the lab. They thought about freeing the Time Beasts, but didn't know how to take the shield down and they didn't like the way the creatures looked at them. They also couldn't break into the vault that contained the Annihilarrgh. The League were about to give up and leave, when they came across the container that held Tashy 497 and decided they would take the little creature. They managed to find some tools and smashed the tank open and Red Menace picked Tashy 497 up.

"Ah what a cute little guy, you're coming home with us!" Said Red Menace.

The League headed back to the lift, failing to see the warning sign flashing across the screens that said 'Danger! Danger! Tashy 497 out of containment unit! Planet explosive on the lose!'. The Leage went down in the lift with the doomsday weapon they had unknowingly stolen.

To be continued.