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.

Warning - Child abuse and Child neglect will be in this part. If you're uncomfortable with that, please wait for next week for another update or read another one of my books in the meantime.

Speaking
Thoughts
Shouting
Importants

Fiona walks in front of the large big, light green and elegant castle with dull eyes with tears.

"... You can't cry Fiona..." She thought to herself as she quickly wipes her tears, "If mother sees you crying... she'll hurt you... like she always does every time I cry..."

Fiona managed to calm herself down as she walks into the castle with a fake stoic expression on her.

"Good afternoon, princess Fiona Nova Misty Petal Ashworth the eleventh," The guards greeted her formally.

"Good afternoon, guards," Fiona replied in the same formal tone in her as she walks past them.

She walks up a very large, dark green door, takes a deep breath and knocks on the door. Then, a elf butler opens the door.

"I'm sorry, milady, but king Lark is very busy at the moment..." He apologised to her, which only made her annoyed.

"... Like he always is!" Fiona thought, then says, "Please... I never spend time with him! Ever! He's always too busy for me!"

"..." Guilt starts to crawl up to the butler's expression, but says, "Please milady... I'm just doing what milord orders..."

"...Grrr... it's urgent! It's about Jasper!"

"Oh! In that case, I will tell him," The butler finally agreed as he closes the door.

The butler sighs and turns to the king.

"... Milord..." The butler nervously called out.

"... Yes?" Lark asked nonchalantly while using his laptop. His former handsome looks start to vanished due to his older age, his hair becomes whiter and his former muscular figure is starting to become more skinny.

"... Your daughter wants to tell you about your son...?"

"... Who?"

"... Fiona... your daughter..."

"Oh... right, let her in." Lark replied, only caring about his business.

"... Yes milord," The butler replied as he let's Fiona in, "Come in, milady."

Fiona enters her father's office while the butler leaves the room. She takes a deep breath and says, "... Good afternoon King Lark Ashworth,"

"... Good afternoon, Princess Fiona..." Lark replied in a bored tone. "Now, hurry up and tell what's so important that you need to discuss with me. I'm quite busy with preparing my meeting on Friday.

"... It's Jasper..." Fiona told him, "... He will die next week..."

"... I see... you are dismissed," Lark responded coldly, which caught her off guard.

"... You... you're not upset he's going to die?!" Fiona asked harshly.

"... As long as I have a healthy heir, I don't care." Lark told her.

"...." Fiona is clearly upsets, but keeps her head down and leaves.

"Good girl." Lark said before she leaves as he continues his computer.

As soon as Fiona left, she saw a woman who looks a lot like Lark, except she has a feminine and slim body, her hair is tied in a bun and her eyes are very cold with no kindness is seen in her eyes.

"... I hope you're not bothering my brother with nonsense... are you?" The woman asked.

"... No Queen Clover..." Fiona answered her, "I'm just reporting to king Lark about Prince Jasper's condition, Queen Clover."

"... Good," The woman named Clover replied coldly, "And why... is your eyes red...? Were you crying?!"

"... No Queen Clover..." Fiona lied to her, which only angers her.

"Liar!" Clover yelled at her as she grabs Fiona by her ponytail.

"OWW!!! M-Mother" Fiona begged, "I-I wasn't crying!!! I swear!!!"

But, Clover ignored her 'daughter's' pleas and dragged her into a dark while Fiona starts to cry wildly.

Clover throws her into a dungeon behind bars and she grabs a whip.

"M-Mother! I-I'm sorry!"

"It's Queen Clover, you half-breed!" Clover yelled at her as she whips her back.

"Ahh!" Fiona screamed in pain and cries more.
"And stop crying, you weakling!" Clover told her off, "A princess has no excuse to cry like a pathetic loser!"

"... I... I'm sorry..."

"Sorry isn't good enough!" Clover told her off as she whips her again.

"Ahh!" Fiona screamed in pain and agony as Clover continuously tortured her.

(An hour later)

Clover throws Fiona into her room by the hair.
"... I don't want to see another sign of weakness ever again, understand?" Clover taunted her.

"... Y...yes Q...Queen... Clover..." Fiona obeyed weakly while barely standing up with a lot of scars, bruises and more all over her bare skin.

"... Good..." Clover said before leaving and locking her in her own room.

Fiona weakly crawls up to next to her teal-coloured bed. Her bedroom is filled with destroyed toys, books on the floor and a brown piano.

"..." Fiona crawls up into a ball and starts crying uncontrollably, "... Why me...? What did I do to deserve it?"

While still crying, a mysterious feminine figure wearing a black cloak comes into her room.

"... Hello there..." The figure greeted.

Fiona continued to cry and ignored her. The figure sighed in pity and takes off her hood, revealing to be Ate herself.

"... I really don't want to do this to her to just get her to do our dirty work..." Ate thought in guilt, "... But... what's done must be done... even if it means lying to her,"  "Fiona... it's me... Rebecca..."

"..." Fiona looks up a bit and gasps, "R-Rebecca!?"

"... Don't worry, I'm here," Ate comfort her as she hugs the crying princess, which the princess quickly hugs back cries more, "Calm down... I don't want you to get in trouble again, okay?"

Fiona nods and very slowly manages to stop crying.

"... Good girl," Ate praised her as she softly wipes her tears with her finger. "You okay?"

"... No..." Fiona answered honestly, "... I... I'm so fed up... fed up of being ignored by my father... abused by my aunt... abandoned by my own real mother and being bullied by my... my own fellow royals... for being labelled as a half-breed... since the media doesn't know the truth... and only fellow royals and the government knows..."

"... I understand that feeling too well..." Ate told her.

"... Y-you do?!"

"..." Ate nodded, "Yes... my father abandoned me for making a mistake that greatly angers him to the point he throws me away and left me to survive in the wilderness..."

"... Oh..." Fiona said in shock, "... How did you survive?"

"Resourcefulness," Ate answered her, "But we're not talking about me, we're talking about you."

"... I... I just wish I can escape this torment..." Fiona told her, "... The only ones who give a damn about me is Dib, Lily and Min-Jung!"

"... About that..." Ate bites her lips nervously, "Now... it's time to bring in the lie..."

"... Huh?"

"... You see... we... well... how do I tell you this...?" Ate asked hesitantly.

"... What do you mean...?"

"... I mean... this," Ate said as she gives a picture to Fiona, who takes it and immediately grabs it as she starts to cry more.

"... No... it... it can't be..." Fiona denied in pure shock.

"... I'm sorry Fiona, but it's true," Ate lied to her, "... Dib is cheating on you with Lily..."

The forged picture showed Dib and Lily... both half naked and in bed together. Fiona's face starts to become boiling red, but quickly calms down and starts crying again, even more so then before. She continues sobbing, weeping and more while Ate's hand starts to glow pinkish-purple.

"... Sorry Fiona... but I have to do this..." Ate muttered as she puts her hand on Fiona's head and suddenly... she stops crying and her eyes turns glowing red without any sense of life in them. "Now... I ordered you to hunt down Lily, Min-Jung and Dib for me... do you understand?"

"... Hunt them down..." Fiona said coldly.

"... But first... I want you to do something for me..." Ate said, "Think of it as a reward..."

A/N - Yep! Fiona ended up brainwashed and even more mentally unstable then before thanks to Ate's lie about Dib cheating on her! Oh boy... I wondered how our heroes are going to do about this and what is this reward Ate mentioned. Find out next Thursday, so don't forget to comment and have a nice day, my ninja clan. Kuno out.

PS - Sorry for the long delayed. I got distracted by watching Harry Potter Philosopher's Stone 😅 I hope that you didn't wait too long.