Title: GIR, I Know What We're Gonna Do Today! (GIKWWGDT)
Chapter 7: The Escape and the Rescue Mission
Characters: Perry, GIR, Doofenshmirtz, Zim, Phineas, Ferb, Dib, Candace, Isabella, Gaz, Fireside Girls, Mrs. Flynn-Fletcher
Word count: 1499

Author's Note: The only thing I changed about this chapter was the Perry dialogue- or rather, I got rid of it. This marks the last of the changes, but I'm sorry for the updates you're getting even though I haven't posted chapter 9 yet (the site was being complicated, and long story short, I accidentally deleted these chapters). I do have it written, but I haven't sent it to be Beta'd yet. Thanks for being patient! In the meantime, you could always review...

Perry's eyes anxiously flickered from GIR to Doofenshmirtz — who began to ramble about ice cream — and back. The secret agent hissed.

"Look what I got!" GIR loudly squealed. The platypus was grateful Doofenshmirtz didn't hear him, but nearly cried out himself when he saw what the green dog held in his stubby little paws. The robot aimed Perry's own ray gun at him, and the secret agent broke into a nervous sweat. "Pew pew!" GIR giggled and looked around for something else to aim at. "Does it has taquitos?" Perry started to relax, thinking GIR couldn't figure out how to work the ray gun.

He was proved wrong a second later when it started to go off, nearly missing Perry and effectively hitting Doofenshmirtz's Drop-Your-Ice-Cream-Inator. It became engulfed in a shower of sparks; Doofenshmirtz whirled around just in time to avoid getting hit in the face. He cried out and hid behind a conveniently overturned chair. "That's not fair; my plans can't be foiled already! This fan fiction is barely half over!"

GIR continued to giggle and shot at some more random things, including Perry's pickle trap. It resembled a charred sausage when he finally got out and kicked open GIR's cage. "Yay, DOOM!" the insane green dog shouted. He threw the ray gun in the air, where Agent P easily caught it.

The Inator began to smoke and caught on fire. Doofenshmirtz yelled, "It's going to explode!"

Suddenly, getting himself and GIR out of there as soon as possible became an immediate priority for the platypus. He ran to the edge of the odd-shaped building, motioning for GIR to follow. Surprisingly, he obeyed without question, leaving Doofenshmirtz to freak out about the smoking Inator. The mad scientist rushed around looking for an escape, but tripped over the cord of his own Drop-Your-Ice-Cream-Inator.

Meanwhile, Perry hurried over to his hover-car… to find it smoking and covered in scorch marks. A wing fell off. "I make-ed it all purdy! DO YA LIKE IT?" GIR squealed.

Perry winced. They needed to get off that building immediately. Obviously the secret agent car was out of question. That just left… "Grrr." Perry pointed at GIR, then at his back.

"Are we goin' for a piggyback ride?" GIR cried. He eagerly clung to the platypus.

Perry smiled nervously, making a "kind of" motion with his hand, then jumped over the side of the building. GIR screamed very loudly, right in the platypus's ear, he might add. The secret agent pulled a cord and a parachute popped open at the same time that Doofenshmirtz's Inator blew up.

"Curse you, Perry the Platypus! And your little, green dog friend as well!" the mad scientist's cries could be heard behind them among the explosions.

GIR shivered and clung to the platypus; he only opened his eyes when the duo landed safely on the ground. The little green dog released his grip on the secret agent; he fell to the sidewalk and held onto it for dear life. "Dat… was so much FUN!" GIR shouted, erasing Perry's earlier impression that he was scared out of his wits.

Perry smiled in response. Now just to get them home… Perry's thoughts trailed off, realizing exactly where they stood — which was miles away from Phineas and Ferb's house with no way to travel, now that the secret agent hover-car was a pile of rubbish. Walking was out of the question; it was too far. To make matters worse, they were all alone, a secret agent platypus and a robot/dog from another universe, with no idea how to get back.

Perry sighed. This was just not his day. First, the pickle trap incident (He was embarrassed to admit he almost didn't make it out of that one.), and now this. Just how much worse could this day get?

His thoughts were interrupted by an earsplitting screeching noise that rattled his bones. Simultaneously, GIR and Perry looked up to see a massive, metal machine come to a stop in front of them. The two exchanged a knowing glance; when the door creaked open and a crowd of people filed out, the duo weaved their way through legs and onto the city bus.

Under normal circumstances, if somebody had vanished into thin air, most people would have freaked out. These people, however, were not like most people, nor was this a normal circumstance. This group of people had associated themselves with Phineas and Ferb. Stuff like this wasn't out of the ordinary for them.

So instead of screaming or freaking out, Phineas, Ferb, and the Fireside Girls got right to work preparing for someone to go after Gaz when, or if, the UTP reappeared into their backyard.

"The electromagnetic adapter in Gaz's Game Slave probably activated the UTP when it passed through it. When Gaz jumped in after it, she most likely ended up in the game's universe," Phineas explained. "If someone was willing to go after her, with this hard hat that also functions as a camera for safety, of course—"

"I'll go," Isabella offered. "As a Fireside Girl, I made a promise to help a friend in need, and right now, Gaz is that friend in need." Adyson, Holly, and Gretchen nodded in agreement.

Phineas began to argue, but was interrupted by Dib bursting in the fence and shouting, "THERE'S THE ALIEN!" He dramatically pointed a finger at Zim, whose eyes flickered nervously and made a "Who, me?" gesture. Dib's eyes wandered to the rest of the backyard and the scene in front of him, before crying out, "Hey, where's Gaz?!"

"I think we've been over this," Isabella commented.

Before Dib could have a full-blown panic attack ("Zim, what did you do to her?! I'll get you, filthy alien scum! Just you watch!"), Candace pushed past them with her mom in tow. "See, Mom? See?! They have an alien in the backyard! And a UNIVERSAL TRANSPORTER!"

Mrs. Flynn-Fletcher looked around at the backyard. "Candace, I'm seeing a distinct lack of aliens and/or universal transporters." Their mother smiled at Phineas, Ferb, and Zim. "I'm glad to see you two making new friends," she said. She smiled at Zim. "What's your name?"

The alien dramatically cleared his throat. "My name? My name is THE ALMIGHTY INVADER ZIM! And I am no friend of theirs. I am using the triangle-head kid and the green-haired kid to get home to my own universe! I HATE this one! It smells like dookie!"

"What an active imagination!"

"MOM!" Candace groaned. "He's not imagining it. He's telling the truth! Just ask Dib!"

Dib nodded, eager to share his knowledge. "Yeah, Mrs. Flynn-Fletcher! He really is an alien! And there really is a Universal Transporter! He's trying to use it to get back to the universe I also came from! Zim, what did you do with it?!"

"You can't prove anything, Dib-stink!"

Mrs. Flynn-Fletcher observed all this with a faint hint of amusement in her smile. "Candace, I'm glad to see you making friends, but I have to go. I have a doctor's appointment today. There's leftover spaghetti in the—"

"Okay, okay, Mom. I get it. You don't believe me, 'cause they magically made the stuff disappear." Candace sighed. With that, Mrs. Flynn-Fletcher said good-bye and rushed off to her car before her daughter could try to convince her that Phineas and Ferb modified the spaghetti to attack intruders.

"Actually, Candace," Phineas started explaining as their mother walked out of earshot, "we didn't do anything to the UTP. Ferb thinks it's an automatic response system that temporarily transported it to the universe in the game where Gaz is. Judging by the —"

"Yeah, yeah, that's great. Ugh, come on, Dib." Candace glowered at the group in the backyard and stormed angrily back inside.

Dib hesitated, then turned and pointed an accusatory finger at his proclaimed nemesis. "I'll get you, Zim! Candace and I will bust you and prove to the world that you're a filthy alien! We will! Mark my words!"

"'Mark my words'?" Zim smirked.

Dib's eye started to twitch. "Agh! You sent my sister into another universe! That's the last straw, Zim! We'll get you!"

"Hey, Dib!" Candace's voice floated out the window of her bedroom. "Are you coming up or not?"

"Yeah!" Dib answered. With one last glare at Zim and an "I've got my eyes on you" gesture, he made his way back upstairs to Candace's room.

Candace started talking as soon as Dib opened the door, "Remember how you were talking about evidence earlier today...?"

Dib nodded. "Yeah. I got at least 20 pictures of Zim... oh, and the UTP. And I left this camera running this whole time. Why?"

"Well, that gave me an idea..."