Disclaimer: I don't own Victorious or Invader Zim, they belong to their respective creators and Nickelodeon.
Author Notes: I think this is the fastest I ever updated this story, not bad huh?
Anyway, we all know that Jade is a big fan of "The scissoring" movie and it got me thinking, what if she was also into IZ? This idea is my take on how that could play out.
Ok first things first, this takes place on March 30th, 2021 to commemorate the 20th anniversary of Invader Zim, this is also why I wanted to post this idea as the 20th chapter of these Jori Holidays as both a fun little tidbit and a callback to how long my favourite Nicktoon has been around for old and new fans alike.
That being said, my dear readers, you all know I'm a big fan of invader Zim, so how could I not do a slight crossover with Victorious? Plus, I couldn't resist this idea seeing as Jhonen Vasquez (the creator of IZ) jokingly called the premiere date "NATIONAL ZIM DAY!"
So do read and enjoy as I made several references to the series, lets see how many you guys can notice, XD.
"I'm going to sing the Doom Song now!" Cat said cheerfully as she helped Tori decorate the living room. "Doom, doom, doom, doo doom, doomy Doo, doom."
Tori shakes her head in amusement at her friend's antics.
"Cat may be married and an international pop star, but she's still a big kid at heart." Tori thought. "Not to mention that song is pretty catchy, and as long as she's helping me with Jade's surprise, what harm could it do?"
Those were words that the Latina would soon live to regret as three hours later a weak-looking Tori was lying back on the love couch with her mouth hanging wide open, her tongue hanging out and to make it clear she had enough, her left eye was twitching uncontrollably and there was a massive amount of drool was dripping from her mouth as the former redhead obliviously kept singing that wretched Doom Song.
"Cat... Would you please stop singing?"
Cat gave her friend a hand motion indicating that she is not done singing just yet as she was still doing her final task for the decorations.
Tori narrowed her eyes "Oh Hell no... This madness must stop." The Latina was just about to pounce on the songstress with the possible intent of strangling her or at the very least give her a sore throat to stop her from driving her insane.
"Doom, doom, doom, the end!" Cat sung the last part before also doing a mini dance "And we're done! You think Jadey is going to like the surprise?"
"She better love it." Tori said evenly "I did not spent the last THREE hours listening to the doom song for nothing! Seriously Cat?! I was curious to see how long you could sing that, but come on! THREE HOURS?! Why? Where you trying to drive me crazy?!"
"That's how long Zim once annoyed the Tallest with a call." Cat replied innocently. "I thought it would be fun to try and see if I could sing the Doom song for that long, and YAY! I could!"
"Let me guess... Jade put you up for it didn't she?" The Latina asked rhetorically, she didn't have to wait long for an answer as her friend nodded enthusiastically.
"Jade... You Jerk." Tori said under her breath. "I'll get you for this."
It was moments like these that Tori did question her sanity when she wondered why she married a woman who very clearly had a sadistic sense of humor if she loved getting under her spouse's skin in such a way and with Cat none the wiser that she was playing a part in Jade's plan.
"Ok, now that the decorations are up, it's time for phase two!"
"That's my favorite phase!" Cat said while clapping excitedly. "I got the contact lenses, clothes and body paint ready to go."
"Good... Wait.. What was the last part?"
"Hold still Tori!" Her friend instructed. "I'm going to make you into the best alien you can be!"
"AH! Cat! Why does it hurt?!"
Meanwhile as the crazy shenanigans were happening at the West household, Jade was in a graveyard, standing nonchalantly by a tree. Hardly interested by what was happening right in front of her, after all she has seen people rise from the grave, so why should this be any different?"
"I miss you Mom."
The dark clouds dissipated as some shadows on the graves came to life, turning into shadowy demons that slithered into the center of a circle of tombstones. The shadows form a giant pair of scissors on the ground which disappeared as quickly as they appeared as the ground began to collapse.
"Damn it!" Jade cursed. "I should have taken a picture of that."
The Thespian wasn't impressed by the paranormal event that was she was experiencing, if anything she was annoyed that the entity that was coming to the living world was making an over the top entrance.
As the ground finally collapsed, a green-glowing pit of swirling vortex appeared; soon enough souls and nightmare bats emerge from within the super natural energy.
"I've seen scarier effects in Japanese horror movies."
As soon as everything came to life, it stopped as the bats and souls unceremoniously flew away and something no, someone drops from the sky, Jade swore she heard bones cracking; it was the first time during the night that she winced at what she just saw.
A man stood up, gets up. Jade knew who he was only by reputation and it wasn't a good one.
"God this guy is ugly." She thought in disgust. "Hey dumbass, are you Mortos Der Soulstealer?"
"Huh? YES I AM MORTOS DER SOULSTEALER!" The demonic entity shouted at the top of his lungs "Every thousand years Taoola aligns with Charcunga, I escape from the place beneath the Over world to walk among mortals for one day!"
"Uh... I don't care; I only came for my free wish... See... I..."
"Wait... I'm not done!" The demon interrupted "Important plot point, this is... Men hide behind furniture! Women spit loogies of terror! Animals void their bowels at the sight of Mortos Der Soulstealer!"
Mortos grins wickedly and then laughs maniacally, which ends abruptly as he holds his nuts in pain "Ow! Mortos didn't like that!"
"Next time, learn to listen!" Jade said darkly "I don't care about the story of your life! I came here because you grant a wish before returning to your spooky ream, right?"
The demon groaned a pained "Yes."
"Good, now stop being a baby and grant me my wish!"
"What... Is it you want?"
Jade help out a photo of Tori and showed it to the inter-dimensional being "See this womanl?... My wish is to know how to get her heart."
"Do you want a stake to rip it out?" Mortos asked as he took the picture from her hand. "I can grant that."
"What? NO!" Jade snarled "I want to know what I could do to make her love me!"
"Oh" He said then eyed the picture some more to the point Jade was beginning to think he was some sort of weirdo, Mortos' simply gave the photo back "Sorry, scary human... I can't grant you this wish."
"Why the fuck not?!"
"Because I can't give you what you already have."
"Huh?" Jade was perplexed "What in the hell does that even mean?!"
"This… Brunette whose love you seek? I sense she already likes you." Mortos grunted as he gets up from the floor, still in some pain. " You don't need my powers to give you her love."
"Great, so I waited for a demon for nothing..." Jade groaned in annoyance "Then again... You can still grant me a wish right?"
"As long as I recharge... I have been away for far too long."
"Yeah, sure whatever, recharge or do what you like but you better grant me my wish or else I'll kick whatever balls you got inside out!"
"You frightened me!"
"I don't give a rat's sorry ass!" Jade shot back "Now remember, once you have your full powers, I want a million dollars!... I plan on giving Tori a night she won't soon forget."
A screech came out of Mortos' rotting mouth, if the former Goth could describe it, it would be as if a set of tires went against the road.
Jade woke up from her seat, she groaned in anger "Just when the dream was getting good, I was about to get both money and my girl." She yawned, she hadn't planned to take a quick nap on the bus but she came to the conclusion she was more tired than she originally realized. "Of all the Invader Zim characters I could have met in a dream, why did it had to be Mortos, I hated his debut episode!"
The thespian was riding the bus home after a long day at the studio, she normally would drive her car but because it was currently at the shop, she was forced to travel by other means, the quick power nap only served to make her crankier, which of course led to the former Goth to be in a worse mood than she was when she first set foot on the bus and as a result she was scaring an unsuspecting passenger with the events of her day.
"And then... Then... Ugh... In front of the entire fucking meeting, that stupid Ginger Fox just had the nerve to call me unprofessional!" Jade ranted like a madwoman. "ME?! UNPROFESSIONAL!? I'm the only one in the whole damn production who is her fucking job! That has been only has to show up and sing for the damn music video and even then, she comes hours late and drunk!"
The passenger looks at Jade, his eyes jiggle in apprehension as he listen to this woman who no doubt needs to be in committed into a looney bin.
"What are you talking about?!" He asked, freaking out. "Who are you?!"
"I mean, the only reason why I'm even directing one of her stupid attempts at making a comeback, it's because it's in my fucking contract with the studio!" Jade continued with her rant, not caring that she was pretty much scaring everyone in the bus, but the poor guy sitting next to her was the one who was getting the earful of her bad day.
"Why are you telling me this?!" He asked "I don't even know you!"
"Oh and fucking cherry on top is that this bitch can't get fired because her uncle is the damn owner of the studio!" Jade snarled. "I always knew that family sucked and these sleazy idiots just confirmed it! This makes me so mad! I seriously just want to grab the sharpest pair of scissors that I own and doom them with them!"
It was at this moment that the guy sitting next to Jade opened the window and jumped out of the bus in fear, he hit the pavement hard and rolls until finally he stopped once he nearly squashed a chihuahua, who eerily stared back at him.
"MADNESS!" The guy yelled out of the blue before laughing uncontrollably. "I feel sorry for whoever married that crazy gank."
He then fainted in the middle of the street, the chihuahua smelled him and grabbed him by the ear with his mouth, before he began dragging him to an unknown destination.
It was no surprise that as a result of Jade scaring the passengers of the bus, she was asked to leave, that however didn't work out so well for the driver who was shut down with a very scary glare from the former Goth.
Needless to say during the rest of the ride, the passengers crowned in fear at the corner of the bus while Jade waited for her stop, silently chopping a rubber piggy that she found on the floor in half as a way to get rid of some of her anger and stress.
All the while she was smiling, picturing that the toy pig was the pain in the ass untalented woman that should remain nameless otherwise her anger (and blood pressure) would rise again, so as a means to calm down and relax because she really didn't want to arrive home full of aggression that could be unintentionally directed towards her wife.
"Unless that aggression is used constructively." Jade mused. "I could really go for some Tori loving care right about now."
However before she could start any daydreams, Jade noticed that the driver had made it to her stop, so she silently got off the bus, much to the relief of the passengers.
One Clown in particular stared at Jade from the window with disdain.
"Freeeeeak."
Eventually Jade made it home, taking a mental note to never ride the bus again, the experience reminded her too much of that stupid cupcake parade float she took part in years ago and that was an unpleasant memory she didn't want to remember.
"I need a long hot shower after the Crap time that was work and maybe some... What the Hell?!"
Jade's train of thoughts were cut short as she noticed that her front door that been painted purple and for some reason someone had put the men bathroom sign on it.
"Vega." The Thespian said with realisation. "I don't know why, but I know this is your doing... What are you planning?"
Jade knew she wasn't going to find out just standing there, so she swung open the door, giving anyone who might be on the other side the evil eye, only to be greeted with an empty hallway.
"Vega!" She shouted "I'm home!"
Jade didn't receive a reply from her wife but what she did receive was the sound of a childishly insane giggling echoing throughout the house.
"The fuck was that?"
"Where's my moose?"
"Cat?!" Jade bellowed, recognising that voice anywhere "Cat! Is that you?!"
"I... Don't... Know."
"What you mean by you don't know?!" Jade parroted, already losing her patience. "Then who the Hell knows?!"
"I want to be a mongoose!" Cat said out of nowhere. "And I made waffles!"
"Cat! CAT! You're killing me here!" Jade shouted. "Did you forget to take your special vitamins?"
"Say moosy fate!" The former redhead giggles. "Say moosy fate!"
"I'll take that as a yes." Jade groaned tiredly. "Ok Cat, fun's over! I'm not in the mood for whatever game this is, I don't even care to know why you're in my house to begin with... So do yourself a favor and leave before I doom you!"
Just as Jade entered the living room, the lights turned on, the Thespian temporarily went blind with how bright it was.
"Ah!"
"Surprise Jade!" Tori said' hiding from her wife's eyes as she didn't want to be seen just yet. "Hope you like this little celebration."
"Merry Platypus!" Cat said afterwards. "To one and all!"
After Jade regained her eyesight, she noticed how her best friend was dressed "Cat... Why are you wearing green footy pajamas?"
The former redhead giggles happily. "Because, I'm not Cat today, I'm GIR!"
To make her point, the songstress lifted the back of the upper part of her nightwear to reveal the iconic green head of the character that was used as a hood.
"I'm going to sing the doom song now!" She proclaimed. "Doom... "
"NO!" Tori shouted from the kitchen "Mark my word Cat, if I hear so much as one word that sounds like doom, you're not getting any cake!"
"Aww." Cat complained. "But I like the doom song."
"Well I happen to like my sanity!" Tori snapped. "And I swear that if I hear the D-word one more time, I'm going to scream!"
Hearing that, Jade couldn't resist. "Doom."
True to her word, the Half-Latina screams, it was such a powerful loud screech that it was able to inexplicably travel to the void of space and finally reaching another galaxy, where the echo of the scream finally stops, much to the confusion of a young alien couple who heard it.
Back on Earth, Jade snickered. "My, my Vega, I think you might have raised the dead with that sexy, painful scream."
"This is what I get for marrying someone I know is going to get under my skin." Tori groaned. "Seriously Jade! I'm trying to do a nice thing for you here! Could you for once, NOT gimme any grief?"
"Just get out here, Vega." The Thespian ordered. "Why are you hiding from me?"
"Chiz... I don't know." Tori said pretending to think. "Maybe because I know my wife is going to laugh at me the moment I enter the living room?"
"Oh, now I have to know what hiding behind door number one." Jade said with an evil smirk. "And seeing as Cat here is dressed as GIR, I can only guess you're wearing a costume meant to amuse little Ol' me!"
"I DON'T TALK LIKE THAT!"
"Sure you don't, Vega." Her wife teased. "But come on, we both know that if you don't come out, I'm coming in there!"
"Fine! I'm coming out. "The Latina relented. "But promise me you won't laugh at me, Jade."
"I promise that I'll try not to laugh."
Seeing as that was likely the most she was going to get from her spouse, Tori reluctantly entered the living room and to Jade's delight, she saw a once in a lifetime surprise, because right in front of her, Tori was wearing a purple outfit, modelled after the Standard Irken uniform with exception that it had a tailcoat and heavier boots but what Jade loved the most and tried to keep herself from laughing by biting on her lower lip was the fact that her wife's skin was now green, she also noticed that Tori had to be wearing contacts as her eyes went from the chocolate brown to dark purple and finally she was wearing a pair of fake antennae on her head.
"Oh this is too good!" Jade thought. "If only I had a camera... Oh wait... I DO!"
Without a further ado, she got her phone out of her back pocket and took a quick pic of her wife, who really didn't look happy.
"Well Vega, at least you got the character right." Jade commented. "I can almost sense the hatred in your eyes, kind of like Tak."
"The things I do for love." Tori thought with an eye roll. "Yeah, yeah laugh it up baby, just wait till you have to try on the costume Cat made for you."
This caught Jade off guard.
"Say what now?"
"You didn't think we were about to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the show with only Cat and I making fools of ourselves while cosplaying did you? Tori asked rhetorically, in an almost too sweet of a tone that was meant to taunt her wife. "After all, you're the biggest Invader Zim fan I know, so I doubt you would want to miss out on the fun."
Excitedly, Cat got a wrapped box that had been concealed behind a huge tower of waffles.
"Try it out Jadey!" The former redhead said "I know your size, so the costume should fit you just fine!"
Seeing as there was no way out of it since Jade knew Tori was only doing this for her benefit, the Thespian grumbled a "Be right back."
"What costume did you made for her, Cat?
Her friend only smiled and giggles happily.
"Looks like somebody needs a hug!" She said before opening her arms widely. "GIMME!"
The former redhead simply jumped, giving Tori one of her famous hugs.
"I think Cat is getting a little too deep into the whole being GIR thing for the day."
Several minutes later, Jade came down the stairs wearing a short black dress with striped gray sleeves, striped reddish leggings, black shoes, and a necklace in the shape of a skull and since Tori knew it was impossible for Jade to have cut and dyed her hair purple in such a short time, she assumed Cat simply provided her with a wig.
And to make the costume complete, Jade was holding a replica of the Game Slave 2 in her hands.
"GAZZY!" Cat cheered. "I smell pudding!"
The two women watched as their friend ran towards the kitchen, both of them having already decided to go along with whatever she did and said since Cat was clearly having a blast acting like GIR for the day.
The married couple stared at each other, while Tori felt a bit awkwardly, Jade couldn't help but smirk. "Too bad we didn't have these costumes when we went to Invader Con."
"How did you manage to drag me there, I'll never know." Tori said, shaking her head. "I swear, you were like a little kid during Christmas morning, baby."
"How could I not Vega?" Jade asked with a wide grin. "Imagine being inches away from the crew who gave the characters life! I swear hearing them read the script for the Trial was awesome! Someone should really animate that episode because those network idiots sure won't!"
"Ok... Ok, I don't need you going on another rant on how someone should burn down the studio that cancelled the show." Tori said seriously. "That is both wrong and very illegal you know."
"You make a pretty good Tak, Tor." The Thespian complimented. "Except for you know, Tak doesn't have any hair.
"Well I wasn't about to shave my head, Jade!" The Latina snapped. "And Cat didn't bring a bald cap to complete the costume!"
"Speaking of Cat, what do you think she's doing in the kitchen?"
Oink!
They gazed worriedly at each other.
"Vega... Please tell me you didn't hear what I think I just heard."
Oink!
"The squealing of a pig?" Tori groaned. "Yeah, I heard it."
"I was afraid of that."
They ran towards the kitchen where they saw Cat having a tea party with some stuffed animals and a cute little piglet, all of them sitting under the table.
"CAT!" Jade shouted "WHAT THE HELL?! Where did the pig came from?!"
"Piggy followed me home!" Cat said happily as if that was the most normal thing in the world. "And we're having a tea party!"
"This has got to be the weirdest day of my life." Tori said. "What else could happen now?"
"Don't jinx us Vega!"
"Oh look who came to see us now!" Cat said, pointing at the window. "Mary came for a visit!"
"Who the fuck is...?"
Jade and Tori screamed once they turned to the kitchen window, staring back at them was Rex, who apparently Cat dressed up as Dib, with glasses, trench coat and everything.
"Oh Hell no!" Jade snarled. "That puppet wasn't invited to the ZIM DAY!"
She opened the window, roughly grabbed Rex and punched it several times before angrily walking out to the backyard, Tori not far behind.
Once they made it to the shed, Jade opened the door and after some searching an "ah ha!" Was heard.
"Say goodbye you big headed pain in the ass!"
Tori's eyes widened in shock at the sight of her wife getting a wood chipper out of the shed, what wasn't a shock was when Jade turned it on and with an almost sadistic glee, threw Rex inside the machine.
"JADE!" Tori bellowed "You killed Rex!"
"Yeah... So?"
"I wanted to do that!" She pouted. "I'm the one dressed as the Irken Invader here after all."
"Technically Tak was never an Invader, Vega." Jade pointed out. "She was a janitor on planet Dirt."
"And I'm suppose to remember that?" Tori asked incredulously. "It's been a while since we seen the series."
"Which is why, we're going to watch it again!" Jade proclaimed before grabbing her spouse by the wrist and towards their living room.
"Couldn't we just have sex instead?" The Latina asked tiredly, she really needed to get rid of some of her frustration.
"Irkens don't have sex, Vega." Jade said. "They reproduce by cloning since they don't have the organs for fun in the sack."
"ARE YOU FREAKING KIDDING ME?!"
"However, they could have fun with a human." Jade snickered. "If one was around to teach them... If you catch my drift."
The Thespian wiggled her eyebrows suggestively.
"Let me just wash this green body paint first." Tori said. "After that I'll get into something more comfortable, why don't you watch your favorite Invader Zim episode while I get ready?"
Sounds like a plan, Vega." Jade said before giving her wife a kiss. "Don't be long."
As Tori was showering, Jade put the DVD and started watching Backseat Drivers From Beyond the Stars, as that was her favorite episode of the series and never got bored with watching it.
"I can't wait to see the Tallest's faces when they get here!" Zim said with glee "They'll be so happy!"
Just as he started controlling the Massive and unintentionally saving the Resisty from their certain doom, Cat sat next to her best friend on the couch, giving her a serious look, which was a complete 180 of how she had been acting for the entire day.
"Cat... What is it?"
"You know Jade, not many people would do what Tori did for you today." Cat said almost wisely. "You really hit the jackpot with her, she really must love you, so don't ever let her go."
"Cat... Where is this coming from?"
"I'm just looking out for you Jadey." The former redhead said. "Tori has made you the happiest I ever seen you and I don't want that to end for you, so as your best friend, I don't like it when you guys fight, so please remember what Tori did for you today and that she loves you even if she gets mad or annoyed with you."
"I'll be sure to remember that, Cat." Jade said. "And you're right, not even Beck did this kind of thing when I dated him and I have no doubt after today that Vega really loves me and I love her just as much."
"YAY!" She cheered. "I'm happy to hear that Jadey!"
"Don't even think about hugging me Cat!"
"Aww" she pouted before looking at the TV. "Whatcha watchin'?"
"Invader Zim."
"I never liked that series." Cat said. "Too scary."
"Say what now?" Jade gave her best friend an incredulous look. "CAT! You are literally dressed up as GIR!"
"Oh, I didn't know he was part of that cartoon."
At that moment, Jade's left eye began twitching uncontrollably and before she could give the oblivious woman sitting next to her an earful, someone beat her to it.
"CAT! I HAVE A BONE TO PICK WITH YOU!"
Both women turned around to the sight of a still green Tori West, it was clear that she had taken a shower due to her wet hair, but the body pain had not come off.
"Care to explain to me why I'm still green?! Huh?! HUH?!"
"Oh, I got the good stuff!" Cat replied proudly. "I didn't want the body pain to come off if it rained or something, so I bought a can that's meant to last about a week."
"A WEEK!" Jade and Tori bellowed at the same time.
Finally sensing the danger, the former redhead got up from the couch, slowly walking backwards towards the front door.
"It was a nice ZIM DAY!" Cat said slowly. "We should do it again sometime."
"Oh no you don't!" Tori said ominously. "Get back here so I can destroy you!"
Cat squealed with fear as she ran away from the house with an angry Latina hot in pursuit.
Jade stayed behind.
"I should probably try to calm Vega and save Cat." The Thespian Thought. "Or I can watch Enter The Florpus."
She didn't have to think too long for the answer.
"Yeah... Definitely Enter The Florpus."
And that's a wrap! Phew! This took longer than I expected and truth be told, I had a lot of fun with this because as a huge IZ fan I enjoyed writing random scenes that normally I couldn't write for Victorious and I had a blast putting Jade and Tori in them.
Looks like Tori hasn't learned her lesson that letting Cat in charge of make-up is a no go, heh since she'll be green for a while.
Jade saying she hated the episode "Mortos Der Soulstealer" is my personal opinion as I'm not a fan of that plot, as it felt like a filler episode and a very poor one at that, even Jhonen Vasquez once called it "worst episode ever" and I have to agree but I suppose there is some irony here since I took the time to write a dream sequence with Jade trying to get a wish out of the soulstealer.
I want to give a shout out to my friends Azkadellio and Zim's Most Loyal Servant for their assistance for this chapter as the idea of adding Cat to the plot was given to me by Azkadellio and the wood chipper scene was suggested by ZMLS.
Fun fact: there is an Invader Zim reference in an episode of Victorious, during the second half of "Driving Tori Crazy", Tori said that Jade was driving her "to my doom" and if you haven't noticed, the word "doom " is frequently used in IZ.
Thanks for reading and see you all for the final chapter of this saga which will be October 21, better known as Back to the Future Day!
What did you guys thought of this chapter? As always, constructive criticism is greatly appreciated.
Invader Johnny Signing Off.
