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A/N: This chapter seems a bit short, but it felt like the most natural place to divide between this one and the next. Chapter 5 will be along quite soon.
Disclaimer: Invader Zim and its characters are, of course, property of Jhonen Vasquez and his fantastic production team. Any resemblance my original characters might bear to real individuals is purely coincidental.

Chapter 4
Zim was leading the way, striding quickly through the subway without a second thought about the carnage left in his wake. Once again he wore his hoodie and sunglasses, although the makeup covering his skin wasn't as flawless as before. There was a large green patch of exposed skin on his left cheek.
Holding Jex by the wrist, he dragged her along with him as he made his way to the surface street. The Voot Cruiser would meet him soon and he wanted to be there the moment it arrived. He was tired of wasting time running around the city and wanted to get back to his lair and move it to a secure location.
Just as they approached a stairwell leading to the street level, Zim yanked Jex with him behind a nearby pillar and activated his communication device. "GIR!"
The video display appeared in front of him and the little robot appeared again. "Yes, my lord!"
Jex ogled the technology and found it curious that Zim would be working with a robot that was so oddly... cute.
"Status update on the Voot!" Zim demanded.
"We had to stop for taquitos!" GIR giggled. "Mmmm!"
"GIR! You left the house unmanned at a time like this?!"
GIR shook his head happily, a small pink tongue sticking out of his metallic mouth. "Minimoose is watchin' TV! I like him."
Zim clenched his teeth in frustration. "Just get here, GIR."
GIR grabbed his feet and rocked back in the chair of the Voot. "Okay!"
Just as the video display disappeared, there was a loud boom and the ground shook around them. Zim pulled Jex along as he urgently ran up the stairs, absolutely certain that GIR had wreaked havoc on the street above.
"You can let go of me now!" Jex shouted over the noise.
Zim ignored her, continuing to pull her along. As they ascended the last few stairs, Zim was assaulted with the sight of the Voot Cruiser. It had violently crash landed into the side of the subway building, causing several cars to pile up in an accident at the nearby intersection. People were crowding around the ship while GIR sat on the front of it, shield lowered, munching on a couple of taquitos. People were pointing, staring, murmuring, shocked and bewildered. Most of them were using their cell phones to take pictures.
"Hi, Zim!" he waved cheerfully, mouth full of food.
"Damn it, GIR!" Zim was now running full speed to the Voot, pushing confused people out of the way. With no warning, he shoved both Jex and GIR over the edge and into the cockpit, jumping in after them and hitting several controls. Immediately the canopy shield closed over the cockpit and the cruiser powered to life.

The astonished crowd started drawing in on them now that they were preparing to leave. Just as one of the more fearless bystanders tried to climb on top of the front of the Voot, Zim shot the ship up into the air, knocking the man back a good fifty feet. Zim laughed again. "Stupid humans!"
Jex crouched next to Zim's chair and steadied herself. It was an extremely tight squeeze in this little spaceship that clearly wasn't meant to house two adult sized humanoids, even if they were both rathershort.
Spaceship. She was in a spaceship. With an alien. A green alien who had just murdered several people in cold blood... or was it self-defense? Either way, even she survived this adventure no one would ever believe her.
Out of nowhere, GIR plopped himself on her lap and kicked his legs. "HI!! Whatchoo doin'?" he smiled broadly.
Admittedly, the little guy really is cute, Jex thought. What an odd pair he and Zim made. "You're GIR?" she asked.
GIR waved his arms and shouted, "Heyyy. That's ME!! Eeeeheeheehee!!" He continued his hyper laugh as he bounced off of her toward Zim, latching onto his head comfortably. "I missed you, master. Where you been?"
"Once again, get off of my head, GIR," Zim ordered. He didn't bother enforcing the order when GIR decided he was content to stay where he was.
To Jex it felt as though they had been in flight for no more than a couple of minutes, but they were soon at their destination: Zim's house. She marveled that the oddity that was his house was... painfully conspicuous. Then again, most people she knew lumbered through life without much awareness of what was going on around them, so the success of Zim's masquerade even while living in this eyesore of a house wasn’t entirely surprising.
As for Zim, he was glad to see that there were no humans milling around his lair, although he couldn't be certain they weren't staking him out nearby. He would have to be quick.
Zim punched a couple of buttons on the Voot's communication console. "Computer!"
"Yes, Zim."
"Collapse headquarters immediately!" Zim ordered.
Jex gawked at the rapid transformation that took place before her eyes. The roof of Zim's house opened to reveal an empty platform. The walls receded and unveiled a support structure of cables and an interior filled with human furniture among various odds and ends. As the cables retracted, the ground shook and vast amounts of underground equipment, cables and unidentifiable materials retracted and collapsed along with the furniture. More cables withdrew from the two neighboring houses.
How did he get away with that? Jex marveled.
Within a span of no more than sixty seconds or so, the entire house had collapsed into what looked like a miniature drill or screw, which now sat innocently on the ground next to the massive hole left by Zim's underground headquarters.
"Stay here," Zim commanded as he opened the shield. He hopped out, grabbed the little thing that was once his house and was quickly on his way back to the Voot Cruiser when he heard a distant pop followed by a faint whizzing sound.
"Fuck!" Jex shouted, grabbing her arm. There was a needle sticking out of her bicep. "What the hell is this?!"
They looked around and saw a man, an agent no doubt, hurrying across the street toward them. It was obvious that he had been firing at Zim, but his shot wasn't clear and he hit Jex instead.
A floating round-shaped purple moose that came out of nowhere followed Zim as he jumped in and closed the shield, powering up the ship and taking off. Everything was changing so quickly and Jex found herself struggling to stay abreast of what was happening. Several bullets ricocheted off of the ship as the agent fired in frustration, shouting something unintelligable all the while.
Jex seized the needle and pulled it out of her arm with a wince, clutching at the spot where she had been hit. She felt nauseous and lightheaded and assumed it was some kind of tranquilizer or other sedative. Someone obviously wanted to take Zim alive if they were using this, even in the wake of his murderous subway rampage.
As the Voot careened in the air, GIR jumped onto Jex’s lap and shoved a stuffed animal pig in her face, shouting something, and that was the last thing she saw before she blacked out.
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Jex awoke with a heavy head. She felt like her consciousness was struggling to swim to the top of a thick peat bog and her slow movements were uncoordinated, laborious. Her whole body felt like it was filled with lead. It took her a few moments to realize that her head was resting on a pillow and she was covered by a blanket. Had the whole thing been a fitful dream? Did she have too much to drink at a friend's house? Why was she on her couch instead of in bed? What the hell happened? She didn't feel like she had been dreaming last night, but this was definitely the worst hangover she had ever experienced.Coffee or tea was definitely in order. And water; she was dehydrated.
She slowly shifted her weight and sat up, holding her head with one hand while her temples throbbed. "Jesus," she muttered, rubbing her face. "Was there a roofie in my drink or what?" Steadying herself, she stood up and began a zombie march toward the kitchen.
Wait-- the kitchen. It's the other way, she thought. Isn't it?
Trying to pull herself out of the mental haze, she forced herself to focus her eyes instead of operating on auto pilot. She was obviously in a bad way if she couldn't figure out how to get to her own damn kitchen.
As Jex looked around, she realized this wasn't her apartment. It was someone's house, maybe, but not her apartment. There was something different about it. Something not quite right, actually. The lighting is weird...
Looking up, Jex was shocked into further confusion. At first she wasn't quite sure of what she was looking at, in that same way that an object on the side of the road, whether a shoe or a dead animal, looks like an unintelligible blob until you're close enough to put what you're seeing into context. What she saw was so out of the ordinary that it took her a moment to process it. In lieu of a ceiling or walls, this place was surrounded by a glass enclosure. This alone was enough to shake the rest of her grogginess away, but there was more. Not only did she appear to be inside a glass dome, but the whole place was completely surrounded by steam. Great billowing clouds of steam.
Zim. Where had he taken her?
"Ah, you're awake."
Jex was startled out of her reverie and turned around to see Zim rising up out of a chute in the floor of the rather sparse living room. He had dropped the disguise and was wearing the same maroon colored clothes, black boots and gloves she recalled from when he first assaulted her.
"Where the hell are we?!" Jex demanded in a slight panic, gesturing toward the scene outside. "Just how far from home did you take me?"
"Oh, it's brilliant," Zim claimed as he walked from the transport to the wall of the dome, surveying their surroundings. He was clearly convinced of his own genius. "I thought about hiding this place underwater, you know, since there's so much of it on your planet," he shuddered in revulsion. "...but I'm not really inclined to subject myself to that kind of anxiety."
Jex just stared at him in disbelief.
"Anyway, I wanted to find a secure location that wasn't too far from the mainland of your country," he continued. "This was my favorite option. The poetic genius of hiding in a volcano, one of your planet's most powerful natural features--"
"WHAT?!" Jex stepped toward Zim and fiercely grabbed his shirt in a bold display of anger, pulling him close to her face. She shook him as hard as she could. "I'm in a fucking VOLCANO?"
Zim grabbed her wrist and forcefully removed her hand from his shirt, shoving her back out of his face. She certainly was feisty. Dusting himself off casually he said, "Yes. We are. It's perfectly safe. Irken technology--"
"I don't give a damn about Irken technology," she interrupted her voice becoming increasingly panicked as she spoke. "What I want is to be at home, in my tiny little apartment, worrying about whether or not I'm going to be able to afford rent next month instead of worrying about oh, I don’t know... ALIENS and being shot at and seeing people ripped apart at the seams and being cooked to death in the belly of a volcano!!"
...Was that really true? Would she honestly rather worry herself with the mundane aspects of her life? Part of her believed she was actually kind of enjoying the excitement, but she wasn't ready to admit that to herself.
"Computer," Zim said.
"Yes, Zim."
"Show our captive where we are."
A small video screen dropped down from a hole in the ceiling and hung in front of them. The computer's voice narrated while the display showed an aerial satellite video feed of the volcano along with a small map in the corner of the screen, pinpointing their location. "Augustine Volcano is located on Augustine Island, roughly one-hundred and eighty miles southwest of the nearest human city, known as Anchorage, Alaska. Status: active."
Jex gawked at the image on the screen, the computer's words repeating in her mind. Alaska. Volcano. Active. She looked up at the ceiling of the glass dome enclosure, taking in the view of those constant clouds of billowing steam. Little black spots danced around the corners of her vision, threatening to sink her back into unconsciousness.
Zim’s voice was filled with pride as he said. "That is all, computer."
The video display folded and retracted back into the ceiling.
"It was time for me to move my mission out of the reconnaissance phase anyway," Zim grinned, pacing around the room and gesturing in excitement as he spoke. "This was just the push I needed. I've already begun drawing up plans for invasion. Once I'm finished I will call upon the Irken Armada to seize this planet and we will eradicate the entire biosphere, paving the way for imperial expansion. You should be honored that your filthy planet is going to be wiped clean for the purposes of the great Irken Empire."
"Why the hell am I here? If you're ‘done with reconnaissance', why do you need my help?" Jex demanded, her voice shaking with a combination of anger and fear.
For a moment, Zim looked a little flustered. "I need help from no human!" he bellowed. "You're... collateral damage. Or collateral... captive. Something. Whatever." He waved his hand flippantly. "And anyway, your knowledge of human culture may still prove itself useful. This far removed from human society, I won't have as many opportunities to gather intelligence from your species should I find a need to do My computer can only help me so much in that regard.”
From within the walls the computer coughed and muttered, “Thanks.”
"And what am I supposed to do? Just sit around here and wait? Hope I might not die in the meantime?" Jex demanded. "Hope I get out of this alive until your armada comes to destroy my home?"
"Not my problem," he shrugged and started to walk back toward the transport tube. "I was generous enough to provide you with food and a source of water in the kitchen and in the bathrooms when I drew up the plans for this unit," he said. "GIR can show you around if you run into him."
With that, Zim disappeared into the floor.
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