"Hows go search? Find any diamonds?"
"No"
"Well keep digging! We sure to find something if we ke"*BANG*
"Whats that?"
"It looks like metal."
"That can't be, its hollow. Underground metal I know is not hollow."
"But it sounds just like metal."
*BANG BANG BOOM*
"AHH!!! My hands stuck."
"Told you. Metal solid, not hollow."
"Help me guys!"
"Okay, Okay, on three. One. Two."
Zim was within one of his labs working on an attempt to try and use magic, but it seemed like he was getting nowhere. With help from a book, he was trying to levitate an apple but it just wouldn't float; it really wasn't doing anything. "Abracadabra... Wingardium Leviosa... Walla Walla Washington... FLY YOU HORRIBLE FRUIT!!!"
[INTRUDER PRESENT!] Zim's computer announced.
Zim puts down the book with a sigh "I swear, if its that pink one again."
"Whoa, this place is huge!"
"Yeah, and metal everywhere."
"Okay, I admit its metal, but what place would have metal like this?"
"Don't know, but there plenty metal for everyone back home."
"We can make new armor for everyone too."
"Let start hording!"
"What should we do about these strings?"
"Strings? What strings?"
"Their connected to the metal and very colorful."
"We don't want strings! Rip them out, get only the metal."
"Hey whats that?"
Zim enters into his sixth lab to find the intruder. To his surprise he finds three intruders, all of them dogs. Each one of them had a vest and diamond collars on and held diamonds in their pockets as well. From the looks of things, they were dissembling Zim's lair for who knows what reason.
"What is this? Get out of my lab and leave my walls and wires alone" Zim said, taking a firm stance of warning.
"What is it?" the small dog said to the other two dogs.
"I think its a bug?" the biggest dog said in response.
"I'll deal with him, you two continue working" the middle sized dog said as he went up to Zim. "Hello bug, we find metal here. We take metal for ourselves. If bug try to stop us, bug will get squished."
"Bug? I AM ZIM, and what you're tearing apart is Irken property, you have no right taking it" Zim said in anger now rising higher using his spider legs.
"Bug want to get squished?" the dog asked resilient toned.
"I AM ZZZIIIMMM" the Irken yelled as he launched himself at the dense dog. The dog stopped Zim dead in his tracks by grabbing his face in the paw of his hand. The mutt then pinned Zim down into the floor. Zim retaliated by striking at the canine with his spider legs. The dog looked at the piercing legs and grabbed them before they could push him off.
Now looking at the unique creation the dog had in its paw, he took notice "Hey! It's metal!" With that, he pulled the legs out from their socket with a hard yank, leaving only wires that connected the now separate pieces together. "What? More strings?" the dog said looking at the new minerals he obtained. He threw Zim aside and pulled out the wires that were inside the legs.
Zim gets back up, now looking at the missing parts of his backpack. "GRRR, those stink-en dogs" Zim get out a mic from what little remains of his backpack "GIR! Vandalizers are within the base. Quickly, get down here and help me defend our base!"
Up on the main floor, Gir receives a vocal communication from Zim. With eyes turning red, Gir gives a "YES SIR!" ending the communication. "I'll get the appetizers" Gir said, heading towards the kitchen.
Zim puts away the walkie-talkie and looks at the dogs "Now, I just need to at least stall them until Gir gets here." Zim looks around his laboratory at what he could use against them. The lab he was in is meant as a testing facility, in this particular lab, he was studying the components of water. He started to form a plan "Well since there here, I could try a hypothesis on them." Zim pulls a hose from a wall in his base "COMPUTER, intake the closes source of water around here and direct it to this hose."
Outside, a sleeping Rainbow Dash can be found on a cloud not far from Zim's house. A pipe-like tube comes out of Zim's house and heads towards the cloud. When it made contact, it started to intake the cloud-water that it has. As it does, the cloud started to get smaller and smaller until it was gone. The pipe then reseeds back to the base, where upon a sound of crashing can be heard from below where the cloud once was.
Zim aims the hose at the dogs, awaiting for the water "Now, lets see if they have a problem with water as well." Suddenly, the hose starts spraying water on the dogs. They reply by covering themselves with their arms and start complaining about getting sprayed, but it doesn't seem like they're in pain. The water slowly dies down, leaving only wet angry dogs staring at Zim. It looked like Zim was going to get a pummeling until a spark of hope made itself known.
Literally.
Sparks of electricity started to form near the dogs. The wires that they were tearing out was carrying an electric current and the water the dogs were sprayed with is causing a strong current between the two. The dogs were then suddenly yelling in pain as electricity was flowing through them. "AAAAAAA this hurts, stop doing this bug!" the leader of the dogs said to Zim. Zim didn't really know what to do, only to watch how this would turn out "W-We promise to leave metal alone, so please stop this." The electricity suddenly died down after a few seconds, releasing them from their 'electrical chains' and the leader spoke up "Come on, lets get out of here."
"But our metal" one dog asked.
"Forget metal, just run!" the leader said as they hightailed it through the hole they came through.
Zim starts laughing as they ran "HA HA HA HA, VICTORY! Nothing can stop Zim. NOTHING!"
[SHORT CIRCUIT. POWERING DOWN] Zim's base announced moments before it did just that.
As the lights faded, Zim gave an annoyed expression at this incident.
Three hours later~
Electricity returns to the base and Zim returns to the hole that was left by the dogs. "Okay, now that the power is restored, I can now fix the gap."
"I got punch!" Gir suddenly enters the room with the beverage. It walks over and trips on the hose that was left by Zim earlier.
Zim looks behind him and sees the punch flying toward him "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!" he yells before he is burned, electrocuted and having his base shut down for another three hours, - that was one heck of a punch!