Chapter 11: Climax Approaching

This wasn't good; this wasn't good at all! Zim had lost track of Dib, there was no sign of Gaz anywhere though. Knowing her she would find a way in with out anyone noticing. Zim turned on a few more monitors that got showed different angles of the dining room. He turned on a different monitor and had it replay when Dib was running around the house. He saw Dib quickly put his hand on a wall and the wall opened as he quickly went in. This was new, very new. Zim's curiosity was killing him.

'Damn…what is in there? I must know…'

Zim stared carefully at the replay of when Dib slipped into his little secret hide away. He saw tubes and wires so his only guess that it was another entrance to his father's lab. The colors of the wiring were different though.

'What's down there…'? Zim's eyes narrowed and his antennae went down just staring at the screen wanting to see Dib again. Craving to go down there and see his precious human again.

'It's for the sake of the mission.' Zim told himself as he quickly got up from his chair and ran as fast as he could to the house part of his base. He had to be quick; who knows what could happen for the couple of seconds he isn't staring at that screen. He walked quickly to the couch to find Gir to be chewing on some toy U.F.O. that's now rusted because it is covered in drool.

"GIR!"

"Yes SIR!" The little robot said sternly as he jumped up and turned from blue to red.

"I'm going over to the human's house and I have no time for games so PAY ATTENTION GIR."

"Yes SIR!"

"I need you to go down stairs to the lab and keep a CLOSE eye on those monitors and notify me if anyone BESIDES ME enters the Dib human's home. Keep a close eye on the monitor Gir is that understood?"

"Yes SIR!"

"GO GIR NOW!"

"OKAY! WEEEEEEEEEEE!" The little happy robot went on his way to the lab.

"AND NO CARTOONS GIR I MEAN IT OR NO TACQUIDOES FOR A WEEK!" Zim yelled as he ran for his Cruiser.

"AWWW!"

Dib looked up at his monitors for a good twenty minutes. The computers buzzed loudly in the room. Dib got up and walked towards one of his computers and started to enter new data about his enemy. He started to punch in all these new feelings that Zim was experiencing. He typed on a keyboard that was half Irken and half human. According to his data a regular invader like him shouldn't even be doing all of this, let alone grow! Something had to be up, Zim never protected anyone but himself. He never even bothered to protect his own SIR unit.

"I know! His PAK! Every little shred of Irken info in downloaded to each PAK which means if I could get a hold of an Irken PAK then I could gather all the information about Zim's race…. yeah…. then maybe…just maybe I will know how to defeat him. All the planets information…it's history, it's victories, it's downfall, just about anything that I could never obtain or even have the slightest thought that it was actually there. But…I highly doubt that Zim is just going to hand me his PAK on a silver platter. In love with me or not that's not something that he would do…. wait…what did I just say? AND WHY AM I TALKING TO MYSELF AGAIN I THOUGHT I TOOK CARE OF THAT! Ughhhhhhhhhhh…."

Dib banged his head on his keyboard which doing so he randomly pressed a few buttons. Not that he cared. He then heard a small beep that never beeped before. He found some really old historical records on the Irken database that he never knew existed.

"What's this?"

Dib then started pressing more buttons on his keyboard trying to crack its code. Sadly he was only able to get the name of the file.

"That's not Irken…or is it? It's not on my keyboard... and I have every Irken letter on here all 26 of them! Huh…you'd think that a intelligent alien life force that lives millions and millions miles away would have something like a thousand letters or something...I gotta stop talking to myself…how long has this even been going on exactly?"

"For as long as I can remember Dib"

Dib turned around to a familiar voice.

"Z-Zim? H-How did you?"

"Your stunt was pretty good impressive DIB. Funny how you know I would be watching you and you wouldn't think I would catch you. Humph, almost as if you wanted me to catch you." Zim smiled and walked down the stairs as the door of the lab closed behind him.

"But how were you able to-"

"I can tell that your lab is a mix of earth and irken technology, a lot of Irken technology work off of bio signatures. You may have found a way to get your bio signature to work for that lock, but you forget, I am Irken and therefore my bio signature unlocks that lock. Just like that file you're looking at right there."

Zim walked right next to Dib and stared at the screen, reading the name of the file clearly.

"This file can only be opened by a SPECIFIC type of Irken Dib."

"And what type of Irken is that ZIM? Your tallest?"

"Oh Dib Dib Dib Dib…. Dib. Not even my tallest can open this file. They're not that type of Irken. Humph…no one is anymore. This file is encoded in every PAK and every piece of Irken technology but cannot be opened by any Irken."

"Why is that?"

"This is the history of the 'Old Era'."

"Old Era?"

"Yes…that is what it says. And I bet you're probably wondering why I am able to read this and you aren't even though you are fluent in Irken."

Dib nodded yes and Zim had gotten close to the humans face. His dark Maroon eyes were staring straight into golden ones. They had a white glow from the super computer next to him.

"That's because I am that type of Irken…Dib."

Dib licked his lips and his heart rate went up. Zim's mouth was just so close to his, and his breath was so…hot. He started to think of when Zim was licking him the other day and he couldn't help but blush at the thought.

"Dib…."

"Yes Z-Zim?"

"You're…. how do you say it? Blushing…again."

"Oh!" Dib quickly looked away and he knew he must have been blushing even more because Zim had pointed it out. He looked through the corner of his eye to find Zim observing him. Not as if he was studying but more as if he was witnessing something beautiful.

"So uhh…Zim…What kind of Irken are you then?"

Zim only smiled.

"A kind that was supposed to be extinct."

[MEANWHILE IN ZIM'S HOME BASE]

The doorbell rang loudly throughout the house. Gir quickly perked up from watching cartoons on the monitors that he's SUPPOSED to be using to check if Gaz was near Dib's house. But No. Gir's attention span lasted 5 seconds after his master left. Which just so happens to be a new record on his attention span for something important by the way. Gir ran screaming from the lab all the way to the front door.

"IM COMING! I'M COMING! I'M COMING I'M COMING I'M COMING I COMING! I'M HERE!"

As soon as the little robot touched the doorknob a very big combat boot kicked the door down.

"ZIM WHERE ARE YOU?"

A very angry Gaz stormed into the living room just about ready to let all hell loose on Zim's home base.

"STOP ENTRUDER!"

Gir's eyes turned from blue to red and over a thousand different deadly weapons had formed from his arms and legs.

"Get out of my way you pathetic excuse of a trash can!"

"NO!" Gir's eyes remained red (he's actually focusing…holy crap)

"Either get OUT of my way or be USEFUL and tell me where in here ZIM IS HIDING!"

"Oh he's not here!" Gir's eyes went back to blue and the weapons disappeared.

"OH? Then where is he?" Gaz's face was right in front of the little perky robot.

Gir shrugged and in a flash of rage Gaz had grabbed him by the head and threw him hard against a wall.

"I WILL TEAR THIS PLACE APART ZIM! I WILL WAIT FOR YOU TO RETURN AND WHEN YOU DO I WILL KILL YOU THEN I WILL KILL MY IDIOT PATHETIC EXCUSE FOR A HUMAN BROTHER!" Gaz then started tearing up everything she saw in a blind rage and was able to make a hole in the floor that lead to one of the floors of Zim's lab. She jumped into the hole and started destroying one of the floors of the lab. Gir fell from his head being stuck in the wall and started to cower in a corner over the sight of his home being in a wreck because of some scary lady.

"ummm…ummmm…oh no…oh no….ummm I'M GOING TO MAKE WAFFLES!"

Gir then got up and started to make waffles while Gaz kept destroying the house and screaming trying to look for Zim.

"I will find you Zim…and when I do your head will be on a mount above my fireplace and I will make Dib look at it while I am slowly killing the bastard. The two of you love birds are DEAD. YOU HEAR ME? DEAD!"