Wrap Artists.

Writer: Invader Johnny.

Plot: Tori has a Christmas present for Jade, the Goth is not surprised however that her girlfriend pulls a dorky move when it comes to gift giving, meanwhile above Earth, Zim has his own way to "celebrate" the holidays.

Author Notes: Well my dear readers this is my second crossover between Invader Zim and Victorious, no surprise there seeing as I'm a fan of both shows, now what can I say about this fic? Nothing other than this idea is a result of a moment of nostalgic remembrance of a X-Mas from way back… So yeah… With that being said, this story is partly based on true events, heh.

Also, this fic takes place in the same universe as my other crossover "Eye of the Beholder", it's not a sequel per se but I just want to point out that Zim has met Tori before, which subtly will be pointed out as you all read bellow.

Disclaimer: I don't own Invader Zim nor Victorious, they are both Nick properties being used simply for some Christmas fun and no profit being made here.

"Christmas Morning." Tori thought eagerly. "The one day of the year where everyone can't seem to wait for to get up extra early for some holiday joy."

A loud snore ended up interrupting her train of thoughts.

"That is of course your name is Jade West." The Latina grumbled under her breath, giving her girlfriend an annoyed look, the pale woman simply kept snoring, unaware of the world around her as she snuggles into Tori's chest as if she was using it as a pillow, this of course made the Latina blush.

"Damn it Jade… Why must you get under my skin in so many ways without even trying?"

Almost as if being aware of the situation, the Thespian smiled tauntingly in her sleep as if replying with a "Because I can, Vega."

There were days when Tori really hated seeing Jade smile.

The Latina was about to get up from their bed only to be pulled back in, she soon realized that Jade had an inhuman grip on her torso.

"Oh come on!" Tori whispered. "Every other night of the year, I can get out of bed without a hitch, you had to pick tonight to have me under your iron grip, Jade?!"

Jade's only response was to drool on the Latina's nightwear.

"Oh this is just lovely." Tori said sarcastically. "I swear, this is almost too… Coincidental" She said the last word with growing suspicion. "Ok, I know this is a long shot but… Jade… Are you awake?"

"Vega… Doom me." Jade muttered in her sleep. "Doom me good."

"Nope… She's asleep." Tori said. "She wouldn't be asking me to cause her harm in her dreams; usually she's the one causing the harm."

Almost as if agreeing in her sleep, Jade snorted a "yup."

"Now, how do I break free from her?" Tori wondered, rubbing her chin. "I need to get ready for Christmas morning and I can't exactly go ahead with my plan if Jade doesn't let me go."

"Santa you fat judgmental bastard… You suck." Jade muttered in her sleep. "Krampus… Cook him in my chimney."

"Seriously Jade?" Tori asked perplexed. "Even your Christmas dreams are messed up! Only you would have a nightmare of a goat demon roasting Jolly Old Saint Nick while alive and think of it as a pleasant dream."

"That's for not giving my Tori what she asked for."

"Ok, that makes the dream a bit sweet." Tori thought. "But it's still messed up… Wait… Are you dreaming I'm on the naughty list?!"

Jade smiled again.

"You may be asleep Jade, but I'm guessing your subconscious is not." Tori snapped. "There's no way you aren't messing with me right now."

This time the Thespian kept quiet which only added more to the Latina's suspicions.

"I hate you."

Jade only snorted as if to say "No you don't."

"How is it that I can communicate better with you while you're asleep than when you're awake?"

A snore that sounded a lot like "I dunno" was her only reply.

"Ok two can play at this game." Tori thought evilly. "You have given me a lot of nightmares over the years; I think it's only fair you have one of your own."

The Latina got closer to her girlfriend's ear. "Oh Jade… Look over there." She said sweetly. "It's your lovely girlfriend under the Christmas tree and look, she's eagerly waiting for you to unwrap her and play with her."

Jade's smile grew.

"You're just moments away from the best present under the tree." Tori said devilishly. "But wait what's this? You unwrapped the paper and you're no longer seeing your girlfriend, you have Trina in front of you and she's not wearing anything!"

"YYAAAAAAAAAAH!"

Tori jumped from their bed in surprise.

"Ok in retrospect, not the best revenge plan." She groaned. "I should have seen this one coming."

"Vega? VEGA?!" Jade's eyes were wide with terror. "Where are you?"

"I'm right here, baby." Tori replied from the floor in pain.

"What are you doing down there, Vega?"

"Uhhh… Your scream woke me up?" Tori lied, she sure wasn't about to admit she was the reason for the nightmare. "You seemed to have had a bad dream baby, what happened?"

"I don't want to talk about it." Jade snarled. "Just get in here and make love to me to make the nightmare go away!"

"Uh… If I say yes, will I be on the naughty list?" Tori thought. "Wait… Now that I think about it, did Jade's dream just predict me getting into the naughty list?"

"Stop daydreaming and get under the covers Vega!" Jade ordered angrily. "I got a horrible mental scar that needs to be killed!"

"Then again, I would be helping Jade getting rid of some trauma, so that still gets me a spot on the nice side of the list, right?"

"VEGA!"

"I can think of this later, right now my girlfriend needs me." Tori thought. "Feliz Navidad para mi."

Meanwhile inside a massive Irken space station, high above the planet, Zim is sitting on a hovering chair, watching on a monitor as something huge is entering the solar system.

"I hate this time of the Earth year." Zim snarled. "Why must this be?!"

The monitor then changed from the radar meant to monitor the surrounding worlds to a reminder as Irken letters appeared on the screen, the Invader signed in annoyance.

"COMPUTER!"

"WHAT?!"

"Some smelly humans are asking stuff from ZIM!" The Irken bellowed. "Get the job done!"

"I don't want to!"

"I don't care if you don't want to!" Zim snarled. "I am your master and you will obey me! OBEY ME!"

A holographic hand suddenly appeared in front of Zim, only to be given the finger.

"WHO TAUGHT YOU THAT?!"

"That's a stupid question." The Computer replied. "Gaz, you should know, your scary girlfriend has given you the finger more than any other human… Speaking of which, shouldn't you call her?"

"Why?"

"To wish her a Merry X-Mas?"

"She hates this holiday more than ZIM does!" He shouted back. "And claims to be torturing the Dib-stink because of some vampire doll he destroyed in an experiment ten years ago or something, I dunno, I didn't care enough to ask."

"Some boyfriend you are."

"ZIM is an amazing boyfriend!" The Irken snarled. "And… Hey don't you try to fool me, send the package now!"

"Bite me."

"AHHHHH! GIR!" Zim bellowed angrily "Sent the stupid delivery to the Earth before doom comes crashing!"

The S.I.R Unit waddles into the bridge, dressed like a turkey and grabs a communicator.

"Merry jingly all the way!" GIR sang before letting go of the device and waddled away to the big screen in the middle of the bridge which was showing the Floopsy Bloops Shmoopsy X-Mas special.

"Look away Zim!" The Invader told himself. "Don't get drawn into watching that horrible, repetitive cartoon!"

Meanwhile as Zim resisted the urge to get sucked in to the TV Show, deep into the bowls of the space station A mechanical extending prod thing comes out of an oven looking thing with a product attached to it and loads it into a tube, outside the station a cannon extends, pointing at the planet and shots out the delivery out into space, heading towards Earth and more specifically, L.A.

A meteorite enters the atmosphere of the planet, falling towards the West-Vega apartment and breaking a window in the process, once it was under the Christmas tree; the rock cracks open and reveals a package inside with the name TORI VEGA written in big bold Irken letters.

Meanwhile in the bedroom, Tori woke up startled.

"What was that?!" She asked before looking at Jade who kept on sleeping with a care in the world. "Of course, she was able to sleep in the middle of a war; she would also sleep during a break in."

The Latina grabbed her robe and the first thing she had within reach to defend herself which ended up being her girlfriend's rusty pair of scissors, she got out of the bedroom and slowly made her way towards the living room, only to be greeted by the sight of the broken window, much to her chagrin.

"This really isn't the best way to wake up during Christmas morning!" Tori said tiredly before looking down in surprise, noticing a box that wasn't there before and began to move.

"What the….?!"

The box opened from the inside, and a set of ruby eyes were seen, watching her with curiosity, whatever was inside begun chuckling evilly, those chuckles solely turned to laughs which grew louder by the minute and eventually without a warning stopped only to go back inside the box but not before using his finger to use the universal sign of "come here."

"This is way too weird for Christmas morning." Tori said as she walked towards the box, holding onto the scissors for dear life, hoping they wouldn't be covered in blood. "I don't remember ordering a freaking gremlin."

Just as Tori was about to open the box and stab whatever was inside, the creature within open the box once more with an evil smirk, only for it to stop moving, the Latina tentatively grabbed the green… Thing as she didn't know what else to call it, she noticed how soft it was, only to start laughing again.

Tori jumped in surprise and was about to throw it out the window in hopes of killing it had she not noticed a switch on the back of this green creature, incredulously the Latina noticed it was set to "Evil".

"What the chiz?" She asked exasperatedly. "Who the Hell goes around selling toys that can turn evil?"

She then set the toy to "Good."

"I don't hate humans." The toy said eerily. "Humans aren't stinky."

"I don't even know if that's better." Tori said as she inspected the toy, slowly recognizing who it was. "I know you… But I don't remember ordering you."

She then looks at what was inside the box.

"Luckily, there wasn't a mix-up." She said in relief before looking at the menace in her hand. "I'm still going to leave a review on that online store that you don't scare potential customers."

A few hours later Jade yawned as she finally got up, the first thing she noticed was that her dory girlfriend wasn't on her side of the bed, any other day the Thespian would have been curious as she knew Tori wasn't an early riser when they had a day off but seeing as today was Christmas, Jade groaned exasperatedly, already dreading whatever cheerful shenanigans her lover had planned for them.

"Might as well get up." She muttered as she stretched her body. "I just hope I can get a cup of Joe before Vega decides to celebrate Christmas morning."

However, her desire for coffee was not to be because as soon as she entered the living room, she rubber her eyes to make sure that the sight in front of her wasn't a hallucination that would make her question her sanity.

"Merry Christmas Jade!"

"Vega… One question." The Thespian said. "What the Hell?!"

"What? You complained every year that you don't like those ugly sweaters I wear for the holidays." Tori replied innocently. "So I thought you would like it a lot more if I wore something more Christmassy."

"You're wearing a freaking pine tree costume Vega!" Jade shouted. "How is that better than those ugly sweaters?!"

"Well for starters, I needed to tree myself better." Tori snickered at her own wordplay. "See what I did there, baby?"

"Ugh… This is what I get for dating a dork." Jade complained as she puts her hand over her eyes in exasperation. "It's my fault, I knew this was going to come back and bite me."

"Don't be such a Grinch, baby." Tori teased. "Look, I even got presents for shoes!"

The Latina wiggled her legs to make her point, much to her girlfriend's annoyance.

"Great, Vega." Jade growled sarcastically. "After this, why do you go into the bathtub and take an ornament bath?"

"You had that dream too?" Tori asked playfully.

"Take off that ridiculous costume or I'll do it for you Vega!"

"Ohh, getting kinky!"

"I walked right into that one didn't I?"

"You did, baby." Tori giggled "Tell you what, if you play along, you can help be take off this costume… All of it."

Jade smiled goofily at the implication, so she nodded in agreement.

"Great!" Tori cheered while chapping her hands excitedly. "I want you to open my gift first; I know you're going to love it!"

"We'll see Vega, we'll see."

Tori grabbed a wrapped box that was under the actual Christmas tree and hid it behind her back.

"Close your eyes, Jade."

"Vega, I just saw you grab the present with my name on it." The Thespian said with an eye roll, so clearly the element of surprise is gone."

"Play along!"

"Ok fine." Jade relented. "Oh my, Vega, you have something for me? I know you are hiding it behind your back, but how do I know the present wasn't being kept in your big ass for safe keeping?"

"JADE!"

"You're making it too easy for me Tori." She snickered.

"Do you want your gift or not?!"

"Sorry, sorry." The brunette said with a chuckle. "Give it here Vega, whatever it is; I'm sure I'll like it."

Tori gave Jade her X-Mas present who sat down on the love couch and immediately began to tear apart the wrapping paper.

"This box is kind of big, Vega." Jade noticed. "What did you get me?"

"Open it up and see baby." Tori said eagerly with a smile.

The pale woman raised an eyebrow but complied, once she saw what was inside, she gasped, a wide smile slowly formed on her face. "Vega… You didn't!"

"Merry Christmas Jade!"

The Thespian gleefully jumped from her seat and gave her girlfriend a bunch of kisses "Thank you! Thank you! Thank you Tori!"

The Latina who enjoyed the affection she was receiving, only reciprocated the love and spontaneously grabbed her girlfriend by the waist and twirled her around the room, which was quite a sight had anyone else had been around to see since she was wearing a tree costume holding the usually dark woman, laughing happily like a child.

"So, did you like your present?" Tori asked teasingly.

"No, I didn't like it Vega." Jade replied. "I love it! How did you get the money to buy me the whole Invader Zim Comic Book Collection?!"

"I got a big residual check from my last album." Tori said. "Treat Myself is very popular these days."

"And that just became my new favorite song, Vega." Jade said lovingly as she looked at all the comics her girlfriend has gotten for her. "You really did your research baby! You got every issue from the monthly ones to the quarterly ones! Even Issue 20 which I really, hate!"

"Why do you hate that one so much?"

"If you read it then you would know Vega, that this Issue only has Zim, GIR, and Minimoose do absolutely nothing whatsoever except watch Floopsy Bloops Shmoopsy for cheap laughs." Jade explained "If you ask me, that is not the best plot for an issue, when instead we could have seen all the destruction caused by the Conquer Blob."

"If you want to, I can give it back."

"Don't even think about it!"

"But you said you hated it!"

"I do!" Jade sneered. "I hate it more than your sister's singing but it's still part of the collection, it's like you with your shoes, you only wear them once but you don't want to get rid of the pair."

"Ah." Tori said, nodding in understanding. "Gotcha."

"You even got me The Dookie Loop Horror issue!" Jade said excitedly. "It's like a twisted, dark version of the movie Groundhog Day!"

Tori only blinked in confusion.

"Seriously Vega?" Jade asked annoyed. "You're in the entertainment industry and you haven't seen one of Bill Murray's best movies?"

"Who is Bill Murray?"

"You're kidding me right?"

"Isn't he one of the Ghostbusters?"

"Well at least you aren't completely in the dark, Vega." Jade hissed. "But we're still going to watch Groundhog Day."

"Whatever you say, baby." Tori said. "After you gimme my Christmas present."

"Let me help you remove that stupid tree costume first."

"Nope, it's still Christmas and I want to feel like I'm part of the holiday." The Latina shot back. "So gimme the present first and then you can help me take it off."

"Oh no." Jade chortled. "I'm not about to give you your Christmas preset with you like that!"

"Why not?!"

"Because you look ridiculous!" Jade retorted. "And I'm not about to propose to you while your dressed like that!"

The former Goth quickly put both her hands over her mouth, but the damage had been done as Tori stared back speechless.

"Say what now?"

"Damn it!" Jade cursed. "Me and my big mouth."

She then went under the tree and grabbed a big box, silently giving it to Tori who began to destroy the wrapping paper and opened the box with such ferocity that it surprised Jade by how fast her girlfriend could be.

Tori opened the box and inside, she saw a smaller box, she grabbed it but then Jade took it from her.

"What the…? JADE!"

Her complain was short lived as she soon saw the woman she loved going down on one knew.

"Vega, this isn't how I wanted to pop the question." Jade said a bit irritated as she opened the small ring box. "But go figure things wouldn't go as I had hoped, nevertheless… Tori… I know we haven't had an easy relationship but through it all, you and I had each other's back… So I done some thinking and I came to the conclusion that I only want to grow old with you… So… Vega… Will you make me the happiest woman alive and marry me?"

Tori had both her hands over her hands.

"Oh my… Gosh… YES!" Tori shouted ecstatically "YES! YES! A MILLION TIMES YES I'LL MARRY YOU!"

"I can't believe I just popped the question to a Christmas tree." Jade thought with an eye roll, nevertheless she smiled as she was about to put the ring on her fiancé's finger.

That is had the Zim toy not jumped from his hiding place and grabbed the ring in mid jump.

"DOOM FOR THE HOLIDAYS!" The Irken toy crackled evilly as it ran using his robotic spider legs, much to the confusion of both women.

"What the hell just happened?!"

"The Zim toy that came with the comics just came to life and stole my wedding ring!" Tori snarled. "GRAB IT! DON'T LET IT GET AWAY!"

"I'm going to stab it when I get my hands on it!" Jade bellowed angrily.

The rest of the day the engaged couple tried (and failed) to get a hold of their little menace, all the while the Zim toy kept taunting them until a rat appeared out of nowhere and began to chew away at the inner cables of the toy and slowly shut down.

Jade eventually grabbed the ring and after cleaning a few times (just to be safe) she was finally able to put the ring on Tori's finger.

"Safe to say, we are never going to say how this proposal went." Jade sneered.

"No one would believe us anyway." Tori said afterwards. "So how about we say you proposed to me in a different way?"

"How about I popped the question in the middle of an Airport Food court?"

"Ah come on Jade, we can come up with something better than that!" The Latina said. "We just need to keep brainstorming."

"We can do that later." Jade said. "Right now I need a shower and I believe I was promised I could un-wrap you from that tree?"

"Come and get your second present baby!"

Meanwhile in the cold void of space, Zim was counting the Earth monies he was receiving from the humans worldwide as the popularity of his comics soared through the roof.

"Who would have thought that all I needed to do to get monies was to tell my own story to the humans?" Zim asked to an empty room. "Ingenious! And the best part is that they don't even know of my Irken might WUAHAHAHAHAHA!"

Just as Zim was celebrating his own greatness, red lights began flashing and alarms rand all over his space station.

"Oh crap!" He cursed. "Here comes the worst time of this Earth season! COMPUTER! RAISE THE SHIELDS ON THAT HORRIBLE PLANET EARTH!"

"Would it kill you to say please?"

"Just do it!"

"FINE!"

Suddenly, the Space Station began to glow and unleashed a beam all over the Earth as a shield appeared to cover the planet.

And just in time too as the Santa Suit appeared with its spider legs covering the planet, it roared angrily as it began to gnaw onto the shield.

"That should keep it busy!" Zim said. "But just in case! COMPUTER ATTACK!"

"Are you serious?!" The Computer asked exasperatedly "You just said the shield could keep it busy!"

"I don't pay you to contradict me!" Zim complained "Just follow orders!"

"You don't pay me at all!" The Computer said. "And seeing as you have a lot of monies right in front of me, that's just being an asshole."

"I know I'm amazing!"

"I didn't… UGH… Forget it… By the way, the Gaz-Beast is calling you."

"And you are just telling me this now?!" Zim snarled "Let the transmission through!"

A huge screen materialized out of nowhere, to show the angry face of his girlfriend who had Dib strapped to a chair and an elderly dog growling at him.

"ZIM!" Gaz snarled "Where the Hell have you been?! Do you know what today is?"

"Just X-Mas." The Irken replied uncaring. "Another Earth holiday which is meaningless to an Irken Invader such as myself…!"

"Cut the bullcrap!" She ordered. "When I told you I was torturing Dib for what he did to Bitey the Vampire when we were kids, it was an open invitation for you to come and join me!"

"How was I supposed to know that?!" Zim snapped. "You hate this holiday more than I do!"

"True but that doesn't excuse you not being here!" She snarled. "We're dating, so when I say something you have to know what I'm saying between the words, it's like me saying you're so bad at your job when I'm actually calling you a dumbass! See? I'm not saying you're a terrible Invader, you're just an idiot!"

"Can we talk about this later?!" Zim said as he kept shooting at Santa. "I'm right in the middle of something!"

The Santa Suit roared as he was getting angry with each attack.

"NO! We are going to talk about this now!" Gaz ordered. "Now get your sorry green ass to Earth or else!"

The transmission then turned to static.

"Great…" Zim sneered sarcastically. "If that horrible Santa doesn't kill me, the Gaz-Beast will… Human females are not only the most mysterious beings in the universe but the most dangerous as well!"

Somehow Gaz heard that and her voice then echoed all the way from Earth.

"WHINER!"

Uh… Merry Platypus?"

Tori wearing a Pine tree costume was based on Victoria Justice's most recent Instagram pics and I thought that's something Tori would do and Jade's comment on Tori taking an "ornament bath" was also inspired by Vic's pics.

How Jade reacted is based on my own reaction when I got the full series of Invader Zim DVD's years ago, except in this case, Tori gave her the whole Invader Zim comic book collection, because, what IZ fan wouldn't want that?

Also, I am aware that technically there was no interaction between the IZ and Vic characters but I just couldn't resist the idea that in the Victorious world, Zim technically exists as both a cartoon and in "real life".

I know that two million years from now humans build domes to protect themselves against Santa but Zim is protecting the planet with a sphere similar to the Planet Jackers so no one on the planet is aware of the yearly Santa visit… For now.

Jade's comment on the "Issue 20" of the IZ Comic Books is actually my own opinion on the comics as it's the only issue of the whole collection I don't like, similarly to "Walk for your Lives" which is the only IZ episode I despise.

Anyway, how Jade and Tori spent their day based on the whole "family togetherness" of X-Mas while Zim who is NOT known for being a greedy character, he ended up representing how commercialized the holiday season has become, especially with him profiting of his own existence with humans being none the wiser and not even pain his "minions."

Anyway, what did you guys thought of this story? Good? Bad? Or in Between? Constructive criticism is always appreciated.

Invader Johnny Signing Off.