A/N: And here's the next one. Again, sorry for the wait, but these last few entries are being a pain to write.

This one is a collection meant to fill in a few holes that were deliberately left in canon for comedic purposes. You'll see what I mean, if you just read on.

Disclaimer: I do not own Invader Zim or any related characters. I own only the computer I wrote this own.

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Entry 8: Some Missing Scenes

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Scene: Galactic Space Battle on the way to the Beach (GIR Goes Crazy And Stuff)

Zim watched as GIR ran in circles around the Data Canister, giggling happily to himself. While he'd never admit it aloud, because it would make him seem less than the always composed Invader he was, but he felt a serious sense of relief that the little robot was back to what passed for "normal" for him. While it had been nice having a competent minion around for once, it wasn't worth the threat of said competent minion trying to kill him. He'd prefer safety and incompetence any day.

And speaking of incompetence…

"Ink, ink, ink, ink, ink!" Squidman chanted as he shot the black substance again and again all over the room, glad to have his "natural" ability restored to him. Zim didn't know where he was shooting the ink from, and was pretty sure he didn't want to know either.

Shaking his head in disgust, Zim turned his attention towards the larger situation at hand. They were still in the library that Duty Mode GIR had trashed in his search for information (and subsequent attempt to kill Zim), and while no one had shown up yet to investigate yet, Zim remembered that he had only found out about this attack because the police had reported it. Which meant more would be coming soon, which meant he had to get out of here.

"Enough!" he commanded, getting the attention of both GIR and Squidman, "We must leave this place at once before the human law enforcement drones arrive. GIR, grab that Data Canister. We might as well salvage something worthwhile from this mess."

"Yes sir!" GIR said with a salute, eyes flashing red for a moment. Zim flinched instinctively at that, though quickly calmed himself down as GIR returned to blue. He then hefted the canister over his head and started skipping towards the police cruiser that Zim had driven to the library. Zim, meanwhile, turned to Squidman.

"You come along as well, Squidman," he ordered, "Zim shall return you to the sea, so that you won't be able to tell anyone what you've seen today."

"Yes!" Squidman exclaimed, running after Zim as he followed GIR to the car, "I'm going home!"

"Yes, yes, whatever," Zim said flippantly. As they reached the car, he had GIR stuff the Data Canister into the back, before tossing him into the front and climbing behind the wheel as Squidman sat shotgun. Then he gunned the engine and sped away from the library just as sirens from more cruisers filled the air.

"Phew, got out of there just in time," Zim mused as they sped down the road, "Now there's nothing to do but get rid of you, Squidman, and then Zim can get back to his amazing mission of dooming the pitiful humans. No problem!"

And that was when a beam of light suddenly engulfed the car, and began lifting it up into the air.

"Eh?" Zim blinked in confusion. Poking his head out the window and looking up, the Invader saw that a saucer-shaped ship was hovering above the city, and was projecting a tractor beam that was drawing the car towards it.

"Are you kidding me?! Now what?" the irate Irken exclaimed.

A few minutes later, the car was fully engulfed by the ship, and found itself in a massive hanger. Looking out the windows, Zim saw himself surrounded by a crowd of blob-like aliens, who were all staring at him intently with far too many eyes. Most people would have been off-put by this, but Zim being Zim, he immediately got out of the car and started screaming at people.

"Who are you?! How dare you capture Zim?! Release me at once or I'll turn you all into jelly!"

The blobs stared at him, unimpressed, until a particularly large one slithered forward to address him.

"We are the Qumqars of Ligmiar, and we have come to conquer this world," he proclaimed, "We detected your presence, Irken, and we shall not allow you to-"

"WHAT?!" Zim yelled, everyone flinching back at the volume, "No one conquers Earth except for Zim! You dare defy my mighty boots of doom?!"

"What do your boots have to do with anything?" the lead Qumgar asked, blinking its many eyes in confusion.

"They're what's going to be stomping you into dust, blob-thing!"

"You seem to fail to understand the situation," the Qumgar sniffed disdainfully, "Do you have any idea who you're dealing with? We are-"

"Yes, yes, you're the Kumquats of Litmus, or whatever," Zim cut him off, waving a hand dismissively, "Zim does not care! Return me to the surface and leave the planet now, or face your doom!"

"You dare to mock and threaten the mighty Qumgars of Ligmiar?!" the leader demanded, outraged, "We are feared throughout the star cluster! All will fall before-"

ZAP

This time, when Zim interrupted, it was with a laser blast from his PAK legs, which threw the Qumgar leader across the room to knock over a group of his soldiers like a bowling ball landing a 7-10 split. He then began firing wildly at the rest of the blobs, laughing maniacally as they scattered out of the way of his attacks.

"That's right! Flee, pitiful hunks of goo! This is the price for defying the almighty-AH!" Now it was Zim's turn to have his gloating cut off, as the Qumgars hefted their own weapons and returned fire. Dodging the various energy blasts sent his way and ducking behind the police cruiser for cover, the Invader looked up to glare inside the car, where his passengers were still sitting.

"GIR! Squidman! Assist me!" Zim commanded.

"Okey-dokie!" GIR said, before disappearing into the back of the car, while Squidman squealed and cowered in fear, ink spraying around the car's interior on instinct. Zim groaned in annoyance, and jumped back in front of the car, prepared to fire again-

CRASH

Only for the Data Canister to suddenly smash through the cruiser's windshield, flying through the air towards the Qumgars. The blob aliens screamed in surprise, not having a chance to dodge before the canister slammed into them, flattening several to the floor, and knocking others aside.

Then, for some reason, it exploded.

Zim blinked, looking from the smashed windshield, where GIR smiled and waved at him, to the flaming remains of the Data Canister.

"Why did it blow up?" he muttered in confusion. He didn't mind, of course, since even though he just lost all the information stored on that canister, it had just gotten rid of all the people shooting at him. But if things were going to blow up around, he'd like to know about it ahead of time!

"Eh, never mind," Zim said, shrugging it off, "Let's just get out of here."

With that, he turned on his heel and walked back to the car. Looking it over for a moment, he removed a small pink square from his PAK and attached it to the shattered windshield. The square quickly expanded, pushing shards of glass aside, until the semi-transparent material completely covered the windshield, sealing the potential air leak. Then, Zim pulled out two metal orbs, which flew from his hands and attached to the sides of the car, quickly generating more metal from themselves, which formed into jet engines.

Looking the car over again, Zim nodded in affirmation, and climbed into the driver's seat, attaching a remote control panel for the new engines onto the steering wheel. Tapping a few buttons, Zim activated the engines, and the cruiser floated into the air. It then turned and zoomed off, bursting through the hanger's floor and finding itself in open space.

Glancing around, Zim saw that he was in orbit above Earth, the saucer having apparently left the atmosphere while he was confronting the Qumgars. Grumbling in annoyance at this waste of his time, Zim began piloting the car back towards the planet's surface… only to barely avoid being hit by a blast of energy.

"What the-?!" Zim exclaimed, jerking the car to the side. Looking around frantically, he soon realized that dozens of wedge-shaped fighter craft were emerging from the Qumgar ship, and were all flying after him, opening fire as they went.

Yelping, Zim began zigging and zagging the car to try and evade the attacks. The fighters chased him like an angry swarm of bees, refusing to give up the pursuit. And the situation this was creating inside the flying police cruiser wasn't helping matters any.

"AHHH! We're going to die, I don't want to die, I just want to go back to the ocean, AHHH!" Squidman screamed, arms flailing around and ink shooting everywhere.

"Stop that, you fool! Zim is trying to concentrate!" Zim ordered, to no avail, as more ink continued to fly, until it finally ended up completely coating the new windshield.

"Fool! What have you done? I can't see!" Zim yelled, while Squidman continued to scream in panic and GIR cheered happily in excitement. Effectively blinded, Zim jerked the controls, sending the car flying around in random directions, hoping to stay ahead of the incoming attacks.

Surprisingly, it worked, as several minutes later, the car hadn't been blown up yet. But Zim was completely turned around by this point, and had no idea where he was, let alone where the Qumgar ships were. His luck would only hold up for so long under such circumstances.

"Enough of this!" Zim snarled. Grabbing Squidman by the shirt, he slammed the squid-brained police officer against the windshield and quickly rubbed him across it like a rag. Once enough of the ink had been cleared away, Zim tossed Squidman aside, and was able to properly look through the cleared windshield.

And saw he was about to collide with the Qumgar's mothership.

"AHHH!" Zim screamed, yanking back at the controls and peeling away from the ship at the last minute. The fighters, which had been chasing him so determinedly that they hadn't actually noticed where he was heading, were less lucky. They tried to peel off as well, but instead they all slammed right into the larger ship, all of them exploding on impact.

Zim watched, in stunned bemusement, as every Qumgar fighter slammed into their mothership. By the time half of them were destroyed, secondary explosions were blossoming across the width of the mothership, and as the last of the fighters were destroyed, the entire ship was being ripped apart.

"Uh, okay," Zim said after a moment, watching the remnants of the Qumgar mothership break apart and burn up in the atmosphere, "So, I guess I win? Stupid blob-monkeys, wasting my time."

With some grumbled insults aimed at the Qumgars, Zim turned the car back toward the Earth. Soon after, they landed on a beach and got out, prepared to send Squidman on his way.

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Scene: Zim vs the Ham Demon (Tak, the Hideous New Girl)

Tak chuckled to herself as she entered her base, MIMI zooming in after her. She could practically still hear Zim yelling in fear and outrage as his base was destroyed, leaving him powerless to stop her plans for Earth.

Speaking of which, Tak walked over to the main computer console and brought up the schematics for the Magma Pump. According to the readout, preparation was at 90 percent, which meant within another day she'd be ready to empty this planet's core and deliver it to the Tallest, finally earning the status she was always meant to have. And with Zim neutralized, there was nothing that could possibly stand in her way.

"Hmm, though, speaking of that annoying idiot," she muttered, "Just because he has nothing to fight me with doesn't mean he'll be smart enough to realize it. He might still try something, and even a minor irritant can disrupt an entire system. Perhaps I should consider keeping him distracted for a while. But how?"

She tapped her fingers against the console in thought for several minutes before a proverbial lightbulb went off. Smirking, she brought up another screen, depicting the information on one of her side projects. A little experiment she'd put together when she'd learned of what Earth meat did to Irkens, and decided to make it as dangerous to humans, in its own way.

This danger took the form of the creature held within the containment tube now emerging from the floor in the middle of the room. It looked like a giant ham with limbs and a face, with red eyes and fangs, cow-heads for shoulders, gloves on its three-fingered hands that had pictures of pigs on them… and for some reason she didn't remember, two red flags sticking out of its head with the word "HAM" on them in gold. She might have been sleep deprived when she added that bit.

With a press of a button, Tak drained the tube of its suspension fluid and opened it, the Ham Demon coming to life with a roar. Tak snapped her fingers to get its attention, and its programming kicked in, making it face her and kneel.

"This is your target," Tak said, bringing up a picture of Zim, and then a map pointing towards his base, "And this is likely where he is now. Go and make him hurt. Now!"

The Ham Demon roared and ran off, punching a hole right through the wall and falling towards the ground as it emerged out into the open air. Tak blinked as she watched this, tilting her head in confusion.

"Huh, it didn't even slow down to consider it exit options. Probably should have given it a more evolved cognitive center. Oh well, a note for future testing. For now, I'll just let it do its job… and fix that wall."

Meanwhile, at the base of the Deelishus Weenie building, a random tourist was taking pictures of it with an old fashioned polaroid camera, for some reason. He stopped to look over a few, and was about to pocket them, when a shadow fell over him. Looking up in confusion, he shouted in surprise at the sight of the Ham Demon falling from the sky straight at him. The tourist screamed and ran off, photos scattering and fluttering in the air as he did so. As such, those photos just randomly happened to be in the right place at the right time to be sucked into the Ham Demon's mouth just before it hit the ground.

The ground shook and cracked from the impact, but the demon didn't appear fazed. It got back to its feet, coughing a bit as it swallowed the photos, then shook its head and started running off towards Zim's base.

Meanwhile, at said base, Zim was moping on his couch, surrounded by the ruins of his base. While it was slowly repairing itself from the damage Tak had inflicted on it, he knew that it wasn't going to be back up to full operational status for some time yet. Which left him at a severe disadvantage against Tak.

"Curse that female!" he growled at GIR, whose head he'd at least managed to reattach. The pair were both in their disguises, in case anyone came by to investigate why his house suddenly had a giant hole in its side — for which he'd ingeniously put in place a cover story that it was a plumbing problem.

"My beautiful base, ruined!" Zim continued to rant at his inattentive robot, "All because some wannabe Invader blames my amazingness for her being too pathetic to pass the tests! Well, I'll show her! I'll figure out whatever she's planning, stop it, and then destroy her! I'll rain doom down on her, like… uh, like-"

"A big ol' ham demon!" GIR said cheerfully.

"Yes, like a… ham demon?" Zim trailed off as he processed GIR's statement, staring at him with a squinted eye, "That doesn't make any sense, GIR. Where'd you get such a stupid idea from?"

"From dat giant monster man over there!" GIR said, pointing past Zim and into the street. Zim followed the pointing finger, and his eyes widened in shock as his gaze fell on the Ham Demon, running down the street straight towards the base. Zim could only scream and jump out of the way as it smashed through the wrecked front of the house came to a stop in the middle of the room.

"You smell like my friend Pig," GIR commented, looking up at the Ham Demon. In response, it roared, picked him up, and stuffed him in its mouth, swallowing him whole.

"GIR!" Zim cried out in shock. As the Ham Demon turned to face him with a growl, he growled back and deployed his PAK legs, blasting it right in the face and knocking it flat on its back to bounce across the floor and slump against the opposite wall.

"Ha! That's what you get! Now hold still while I cut my robot out of you," Zim said with a smug grin. Which slid off his face seconds later, as the Ham Demon got back to its meaty feet and towered over him again. Zim could only gape in shock for the moment it took before the Ham Demon backhanded him hard enough to send him flying out of the house and through the air to land several yards down the street. The Irken's vision swam for a minute from the impact, before he managed to reorient himself. Looking up, he panicked as he saw the Ham Demon running back out of his house and down the street right towards him. Jumping to his feet, Zim turned and ran, heading towards the city, Ham Demon right behind him.

Zim didn't know how long he ran, but before he knew it, he was right in the middle of the city, dodging cars and pedestrians alike as he managed to stay just a step ahead of the porcine abomination behind him. Looking around desperately for anything he could use as a weapon or means of defense, he finally spotted something that might work. Namely a truck full of propane tanks that was pulled over, making a delivery to a building.

Sprinting ahead to put more distance between himself and the Ham Demon, Zim threw himself behind the racks of tanks and turned them to face it. Watching the demon stomp towards him, the Invader smirked and carefully lined up his shot.

"Eat compressed gas, pork beast!" Zim yelled, lashing out with his PAK legs to swipe the lids of all of the tanks, the sudden release of the gasses launching them all forward like missiles. While Zim coughed and gagged from the propane left around him, the tanks shot on through the air, zigging and zagging erratically. Most of them completely missed the Ham Demon, veering off radically to crash into the street, sides of buildings, parked cars, and one unfortunate mime.

But one hit its target head on, slamming into the Ham Demon's stomach and carrying it back the way it came. As it flew backwards, snarling in pain and surprise, there was also a rumbling sound, and it suddenly belched, the photographs it had swallowed by accident bursting out of its mouth to flutter in the air for a moment before falling to the ground.

"Eh?" Zim asked, blinking in confusion. Cautiously checking to see that the Ham Demon was still out of commission, he quickly ran over to the dropped photos and picked them up, noting that they were all of a Deelishus Weenie building. Wait, wasn't that the company Tak claimed her "father" owned?

"Hey, you! Green kid!" a voice called out. Zim looked up to see a very musclebound man in overalls with the same logo as the propane truck glaring down at him.

"Did you just screw around with my propane?" the man demanded with a tone of barely contained rage.

"Er…" Zim started to say, only to hear a roar coming from behind him. Spinning around, he saw the Ham Demon, back on its feet and charging at him again.

"No, gas-drone! Zim didn't do that, it was the meat monster over there! Go complain to him! Bye!" Zim said quickly, before dashing away. As the sounds of the the Ham Demon mauling the propane delivery man echoed after him, Zim absently stuffed the photos into his pocket and pondered his next move.

He didn't get far, as just as he rounded a corner, the Ham Demon suddenly burst through a building right next to him.

"AHH-GAH!" Zim started to scream in surprise, only for it to be cut off along with his air as the Ham Demon grabbed him, and started bashing him repeatedly against the pavement. Zim yelped in pain with each blow, but as he was being swung around, he noticed how close each swing brought him to the flagpoles sticking out of the Ham Demon's head.

Seizing on the sudden idea, Zim reached out and grabbed one of the flags, ripping it out of the Ham Demon. He then swung out with it, smacking the Ham Demon in the face. This caused it to suddenly cough up an undamaged GIR, who landed on his head next to Zim, before it stumbled back and fell over. The impact with the ground drove the remaining flag further into the Ham Demon's head, penetrating the skull and hitting the brain. This just so happened to trigger the self-destruct mechanism Tak had installed just in case it ever turned on her, causing the Ham Demon to explode.

Thus, Zim's fight with the Ham Demon came to an end.

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Scene: How Dib and Gaz got to Mystical Hill (Gaz, Taster of Pork)

Dib and Gaz stood on the ledge surrounding the outer wall of the Membrane Labs building. Behind them, their way was blocked by mechanical buzzsaws that had emerged from the vent shaft they'd just exited the building from. Ahead, they were facing several security guards armed with taser guns, while security drones equipped with missile launchers covered them from overhead, and the only way down was a straight drop towards a sea coast lined with jagged rocks. Most people would have taken one look at this scene and realized how utterly screwed they were.

Gaz, naturally enough, didn't care.

"Move it, I have places to be," she growled at the lead guard, "Only warning. Get out of my way."

"Sorry, Pig Girl," the guard said, condescendingly, "This is for your own good. Now be a good little piggy and head back to your pen."

One of Gaz's eyes twitched, then they both cracked open to glare straight at the guard. He froze in primal fear as the intensity of that glare seemed to burrow right into his soul. As such, he wasn't able to react as she suddenly dashed forward, grabbing ahold of his gun by the barrel.

"What the-AAAAHHHH!" the guard screamed as Gaz swung the gun with enough force to lift the guard off his feet and send him flying through the air. The screaming continued right until the guard slammed into one of the drones, which promptly exploded. The debris spread outwards, slamming into the other drones, which exploded as well. Within seconds, they were all destroyed, their remains — and the charred and bleeding guard — falling down to the water below.

Meanwhile, Gaz was still holding the taser gun, which the guard had let go of as he was tossed away. Turning away from the explosions she'd just caused, the cursed Goth flipped the gun around in her hands, so that she was holding it properly. She then aimed it at the stunned guards and opened fire, zapping each of them into unconsciousness in quick succession.

"Well, that was easy," she said, tossing away the gun as the last of the guards fell twitching to the ledge, "Okay, let's go."

Dib, who had been staring at the display of his sister's prowess in wide-eyed surprise, shook it off as he registered her words, and started following after her as she literally walked over the unconscious guards without a care (he, at least, tried not to step on them too hard). The two of them soon reached the corner, where a rain gutter pipe ran down the side of the building all the way towards the ground. They grabbed ahold of it and quickly shimmied down.

Upon reaching the ground, the siblings started making their way towards the security gate outside the front of the building. As they approached, the guard sitting half-asleep in his chair within the the booth next to the gate happened to look up and spot them, eyes widening in surprise.

"Whoa, whoa, whoa!" he said, jumping to his feet and walking over to them, "Hold it right there! Unless the Professor says otherwise, the Pig Girl doesn't leave-"

Gaz didn't give him a chance to finish, instead punching him in the stomach. As he doubled over in pain, she grabbed him by the shirt and tossed him away. However, as she and Dib continued to walk away, the guard recovered enough from his crumpled state on the ground to press an emergency button on his belt. In response to that, alarms started blaring.

"ALERT! ALERT!" an automated voiced blared, "PIG GIRL HAS ESCAPED! REPEAT, PIG GIRL HAS ESCAPED! ALL UNITS, MOBILIZE!"

As security guards came pouring out of the building, Dib and Gaz started running, quickly heading down the street in the general direction of their destination at Mystical Hill.

"There they go!" they heard someone shout behind them, "They're getting away! Release the security squid!"

"Security squid!" Dib echoed in confusion. A roar answered him, causing him and Gaz to look back behind them, where they were greeted by the sight of a massive hanger door in the side of the building opening, unleashing a massive squid, which had various mechanical parts attached to it.

"Oh, come on!" Dib shouted, as Gaz arched an eyebrow in mild disbelief, "That looks like something Zim would make! Why does Dad have it?"

"Who cares? Run, you idiot," Gaz snapped, following her own advice. With that, the pair started running again, the squid following close behind.

"Quick, in here!" Dib pointed at a costume store, "We can get disguises. Maybe that'll confuse it!"

"Whatever," a completely nonplussed Gaz responded. Ducking inside the store, they were both (to different extents) surprised to see that the store only had beaver costumes. Lots and lots of beaver costumes.

"…This is a weirdly specific store," Dib commented after a moment. Then the squid roared again from right outside, where it was looking for them.

"Okay, never mind, grab something quick!" he said, grabbing a costume and stumbling as he tried to get it on. Gaz rolled her eyes at her brother's actions, grabbing her own costume and putting it on much more calmly. Minutes later, they exited the store, while the squid continued to circle up and down the street.

"Stay calm, stay calm," Dib muttered.

"I am calm," Gaz spat at him.

"I was talking to myself!"

"Pft. Whiner!"

The squid suddenly looked over, and apparently noticed them, because it reared back and roared.

"Ah! It recognized us! Run!" Dib shouted, starting to run, only to pause as he saw a car idling nearby, the owner apparently having left it running while they stepped out for something.

"Quick, get in that car!" he said. The two got into the car, Dib trying to get behind the wheel, only for Gaz to shove him aside.

"I'm driving," she said bluntly, "I'm played enough racing games to run circles around anyone."

Before Dib could protest, Gaz revved the engine, and car took off, just narrowly avoiding a strike from one of the squid's tentacles. It roared in anger, before rearing back, mouth opening wide, and a string of missiles shooting out, aimed right at the fleeing car.

"Seriously?! Why does it shoot missiles out of its mouth?!" Dib screamed in exasperation. Gaz didn't verbally respond, instead zigging and zagging the car to avoid the missiles with casual ease.

Suddenly, several cars with flashing sirens and Membrane security guards appeared to block the road in front of the siblings' car.

"Hold it right there!" the apparent leader of the group demanded. Gaz didn't respond to him, either. Instead, she spun the car around, leaving deep tread marks on the road as she started heading back towards the squid.

"Are we heading for the giant squid? Why are we heading for the giant squid?!" Dib demanded.

"Wait for it," Gaz said calmly, while the squid roared again. Slamming its tentacles into the ground once more, it reared back and prepared to launch more missiles.

But it never got the chance, as just before it could fire, Gaz swerved the car to the side, hitting one of the tentacles and using it as a ramp. The car was launched into the air, over the squid's head, rear wheels clipping its forehead. The impact disoriented it, and the massive, augmented sea creature collapsed, landing right in front of the pursuing cars. It's prepped but unfired missiles exploded, the blast destroying it and several of the cars, and blocking the rest.

Meanwhile, Gaz kept driving hers and Dib's car, soon arriving at Mystical Hill.

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The End

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A/N: There you go. Hope you all enjoyed the effort on these.