I hope you guys are enjoying this because I am! Invader Zim belonged to Jhonen Vasquez and Richard Steven, but all of the OCs involved belongs to me.

Speaking
Thoughts
Shouting
Importance

"Mmm..." Zim groaned as he slowly wakes up and shakes his head. "What... what happened...?"

"You got knocked out by Sebastian." Rosa told him.

Zim looks around his surroundings; seeing he is in the medical room and with Rosa sitting on a chair while he's laying on the bed.

"Ugh... not again..." Zim groaned.

"Ahem... again?" Rosa asked him.

"... This is honestly the third time he beat my ass..." Zim complained.

"What are the other times?" Rosa asked him.

"The first time was a couple of years ago on my second day of being here..." Zim explained, "He beat my ass for being a 'disrespectful bitch' as he would call me. The second time was a few years back when that Dragos-bastard taken my blood after I got kicked in the ass."

"Who's... Dragos...?" Rosa asked him.

"A psychopathic lovesick moron who ended up becoming a even more psychopathic, but a cannibal." Zim told her.

"... Dragos... mmm..." Rosa muttered. "Why does that name... sound similar..."

"Rosa-human?" Zim asked.

"Oh! Sorry, just thinking." Rosa said. "Just... trying to remember my past... it's so difficult to get any sort of answer here..."

"Ugh... I know the feeling all to well..." Zim replied back, "Aezira and Mikala-human are both hiding something from me... but what!?"

"Yeah. They're clearly hiding from us..." Rosa replied, "Especially Aezira. Despite her laid back nature.... she also look like someone who holds a ton of secrets... concerning others."

"Exactly!" Zim shouted. "Damn it!"

Zim punches a wall in frustration, leaving a mark on the wall. Suddenly, Cube appears in the room and says, "Master. Don't break the wall."

"Ugh... sorry... I'm just so... UGH!" Zim groaned in frustration and anger, "Aezira is clearly hiding from me and I don't know what!"

"Sadly, I could not find any file about you." Cube told him.

"What...?"

"Not even Rosa, Leo and Harumi." Cube told them.

"N... Not even me...?" Rosa stuttered, "They must be... so desperate to keep things from us."

"Yes. Though, there is one video I found..." Cube said, "But it's covered up in ton of firewalls that it would take forever to unlock them."

"Damn it!" Zim groaned. "What about Lily and Min-Jung?!"

"They have the files on them. Along with everyone else except the four I mentioned," Cube explained.

Rosa and Zim look at each other, and then look back at Cube.

"Why... is there no files about us?" Rosa asked in shock. "Are they that desperate to hide information from us? Information about our pasts..."

"Seem so..." Cube told them. "I should get going before Tori gets suspicious."

"I understand... thank you Cube..." Rosa thanked him before he disappears.

Zim growls as he clutches his fists. Cube takes a deep sighs as he disappears, and Rosa looks at Zim worryingly.

"... Zim... I know we just met..." Rosa understood, "But... as your ally... I want to help you whatever I can!"

"... I... Zim... Zim..."

"Hey!"

Zim and Rosa turns to the door, where Tori throws them some passports and just says, "Get your shit packing! We're going to England!"

"Wait, what?!" Zim shouted.

"N-Now wait a moment!" Rosa gasped.

"Long story short; I managed to find a small piece that says Ate is going to England for business reasons!" Tori explained to them.

Zim energetically hops out of his bed and says, "Then what the Irk are we waiting for!? Let's go now!"

"B-But Zim! W-"

But it was too late, as Zim rushes out of the medical room without a care in the world and went straight to his room. Tori chuckles and turns to Rosa.

"Don't worry, he's always like this..." Tori told her.

"That's not the... never mind," Rosa shrugged off and asks, "What's really important is that... what do you know about my past?"

"... That's classified, Rosa." Tori told her. "Some things aren't worth remembering about."

"My past IS worth remembering about!?" Rosa shouted at her, "Who was I? How did I die?! Do I have a family?! Do I have a husband?! Please just tell me!"

"SHUT UP!!!" Tori shouted at her angrily.

Rosa steps back a bit while Tori takes a deep breath and says, "Just... look... right now isn't a good time. Right now... we need to focus on hunting down Ate. Understand?"

"... I... I understand..." Rosa muttered a bit.
"Good," Tori replied, "Now. Get ready cuz it's going to be a long trip."

Rosa nods as Tori walks out of the room. Rosa stares at the fake passport and look through it. It has her real name, which makes sense considering she's only a new recruit and thus, completely unknown to the public, so there's no point. She reads through the fake information, hoping that it is real... but most likely isn't.

Lily and Min-Jung sees Zim rushing out of the medical room in a pounding manner. The two women watches him pass through them while Min-Jung sees Tori following him in pursuit.

"Yo Tori!" Min-Jung called out to her.

"Not now!" Tori replied.

"Okay then..."

Min-Jung sighs while Lily continues to look at Tori with a farrowed brow. She looks back to the werewolf and asks, "I wonder what happened with those two?"

"Don't ask me!" Min-Jung complained. "I have no idea!"

"..." Lily stayed quiet. "Good point. Must be with the whole private thing I did..."

"Oh... good point..." Min-Jung replied, "We should check on them."

"Good idea." Lily agreed with her.

The two women quietly follows Tori, who is heading to Zim's room. As the scientist arrives and opens the door, a sudden luggage were thrown very close to her face and thankfully, hits the wall. Naturally, this angers her greatly as she grits her teeth and her eyes closes as she yells, "What the hell was that for?!"

"Oh... I didn't see you there..." Zim replied coldly. 

Tori notices the tone of Zim's voice while he's packing his stuff into a different luggage. She takes a deep sigh and asks, "So... you got nothing."

"Yep..." Zim replied, "And there's another thing...?"

"What is it?" Tori asked.

"What are you hiding from Leo, Rosa and Harumi?" Zim asked her harshly.

Tori takes a deep breath and replies, "... That's classified..."

"Classified my ass!!!" Zim screamed at her as he suddenly grabs her by the collar, "Just fucking tell me damn it!"

"H-Hey!" Min-Jung screamed as she rushes to Tori's side.

"M-Min-Jung?!" Tori muttered.

The young werewolf grabs Zim by the antenna, causing intense pain since the antennas were always the most sensitive part of a irken's body; Zim is no exception. He quickly let's go of Tori as Lily enters in.

"I'll handle Zim!" Lily told her old friend, "You take Tori out of this!"

"Are you-?"

"Just go!" Lily commanded her with clear confidence in her tone.

Min-Jung didn't bother to argue back. Instead, she picks Tori up with ease thanks to her peak-level strength and rushes out. Zim growls as his eyes turns purple and black aura appears.

"Hey! I'm not done with-"

Suddenly, Lily slaps Zim across the face with her right hand. His eyes turns back to normal and the aura vanishes as he just become speechless and looks down at the purple-haired woman, who is glaring at him with no fear in her eyes; just filled with confidence and anger.

"Zim... sit down!" Lily ordered him, which angers him.

"Wha-"

"Sit. Down." Lily commanded him with one of her infamous glares.

Zim growls as he sits down and Lily takes a deep breath as she sits down next to him.

"Now... tell me what happened?" Lily asked him.

"I... Zim is... mad!" Zim replied, "Yes! Mad cuz nobody is explaining the great Zim ANYTHING!!! Not even Aezira who normally spoils the almighty Zim like I'm some mere human child!"

"... That... is quite odd..." Lily admitted.

"Exactly!" Zim shouted at the top of his lungs. "I was asking Tori questions surrounding all of this secrecy bullshit!"

"I see... I see..." Lily replied back. "I understand that feeling all too well..."

"You? Angry?" Zim asked in shock, "That's surprising considering how emotionless you are."

"... Please do not push your luck," Lily told him off, "When secrets of my last workplace starts to reveal... all I felt was confusion, anger and frustration as nobody is willing to give me any answers till it's too late... I nearly died because of all this mess... and I will admit... I did harboured some resentment towards you..."

"Why me?!" Zim asked in anger and annoyance.

"Cuz of you, all of this chaos... Min-Jung being a spy, me nearly getting killed by Hana, getting injured by a succubus and all of the other mess happened. I want to blame it onto someone and that was you as I was... so... so confused."

"..." Zim kept quiet and continues listening.

"But now... once I finally grasp the situation deeply and analysis it in a deeper manner, I realise who's really the blame..." Lily admitted.

"Ate..." Zim muttered.

"Exactly," Lily confirmed it, "So... trust me, I deeply understand what you're going through. But... no matter what the truth holds about you and your past... you're Zim. Only Zim. No one else... isn't that what you said to me once?"

Zim looks down on the ground, pondering on what she meant... then.

(Flashback)

"Le-Let go of me at once!!!" Artemis screamed at him, "Humanity must be destroyed! They caused nothing, but despair to the world!"

"Shut up!" Zim told her off, "... Lily... I know we have our differences in the past... but... despite how shitty the Earth is, there are good humans... you said despair, right? Well... you're the biggest idiot I have met!"

"... Wha-I... I do not understand..."

"See?! If you saw the evil side of mankind, then you must have seen the good in them!" Zim shouted at her, then calms down, "... I looked down on humanity as stupid and useless beings that should be enslaved... but now... after being saved and raised by a human mother as well as traveling many places... I learnt... humanity isn't as stupid as I thought..."

"Y-you're lying!" Artemis shouted at him.

"Shut up!" Zim shouted at her again, "Have you forgotten about your loved ones? Have you forgotten who you really are?! You're not a weapon of destruction... you're Lily Abernathy... a human girl... even if you're actually not... I know, deep down... you are..."

(Flashback ends)

"Oh yeah... I honestly forgot about that..." Zim admitted, where Lily glares at him.

"How on... on second thought, never mind," Lily shrugged off. "The point is... I still remember everything while I was corrupted... at first, I didn't cuz I was too overwhelmed, but now... I wasn't sure what to think."

"Yeah. You lost your sanity quite a bit," Zim said.

Lily chuckles and replies, "Yeah... while I'm not as strong as I was as Dark Artemis since I lost half of my soul to Ate... if I can use that power again. I'll use it against Ate. I'm not gonna run away from it, I'm gonna use it to stop her and protect humanity."

"... Damn." Zim muttered, "You're more heroic then me. That's all I can say."

"Hehe," Lily chuckled as she gets up and says, "Still though... thank you for saving me. I'm grateful for that and I promise I'll repay the favour. Okay?"

"Bah!" Zim shouted, "The mighty Zim doesn't need anything!"

"What about the time I saved you from falling into the pitfall?"

"LIES!" Zim screamed.

Lily rolls her eyes and walks up to the door. However, before she leaves, she says, "Remember. I will no longer fight for SEG and the Imperatriz. Instead, I will fight for myself and no one, but myself. Everyone else against SEG fights for their own goals and I know for a fact you have your own goals as well. Just... don't die on me, okay?"

Lily leaves his room as Zim stares at the door. He sighs and continues packing as he thought, "Ugh... back to packing my shit, I guess..."

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A/N - I hope you guys look forward to it and if you do, leave a comment and have a good day, my guild. Aqua out!