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
Importants

Lily managed to calm down while Drei is carrying her through the sky, which stops raining.

"... Drei... do you know... what's going on?"

Drei stayed silent with a strange, sorrowful look in her eyes, which Lily noticed.

"So, you do know what's going on...?" Lily realised, which Drei just shrugs, "So... do you know about the Vessel EX?"

Drei's eyes widen a bit in shock, which Lily caught on.

"So you do know about her..." Lily said, which Drei decides to fly to the nearest building and landed there.

Suddenly, Drei heard her earpiece ringing, so she picks it up, which shows a hologram of Tori.

"Oi! Why did you stop!?" Tori asked harshly, "You know if you stop, Ate and her stupid allies might have found you, right?"

"..." Drei didn't say anything and takes a notebook, which she writes down and shows it to Tori, which says, 'She wants to know about my big sister AKA the Vessel EX.'

"... And how comes I'm just finding out now...?" Tori asked with her hands on her hips, which Drei writes again.

'Too many things happening, so I couldn't find the right time.' Drei wrote.

"... I see... well, tell her when you bring her back to our base, okay?" Tori told her, "It's not safe here!"

Drei nods, which Tori smiled.

"Good, now, I'll be going now, bye," Tori said before the hologram disappears.

"I guess we should keep moving, then," Lily said, which Drei nods as she walks towards her... until Drei rushes to push Lily out of the way as a purple energy ball was blasted to the ground as the two fell off the building.

Drei quickly gains her composure and rushes to save Lily from falling. Drei lands safely as she slowly puts Lily on the ground as she notices Ate floating down to the ground.

"..." Drei glares at Ate.

"...Aww, is that the look you should be giving to your own mother?" Ate asked coldly.

"M-mother?" Lily asked in confusion.

"Technically... as she is one of the many clones of the original template, who is sort of my clone as well as a certain someone else," Ate explained. "Now... Drei... I do not want to hurt you, so I will give you two choices."

"Grr..." Drei growled at her.

"You can go back to EKO alive while I take Lily... or you can die protecting her... pick wisely?" Ate told her, which Drei stays put and takes out her Alter arrows, making Ate sighs of disappointment, "I see... so you choose the hard way... I was honestly hoping I wouldn't have to kill you as you are technically one of my children, but... I guess it can't be helped I guess..."

Ate summons her two whips, which she shapeshifted the tip to a blade, and charges at Drei, who has her arrows shield her, until a dark energy strikes at Ate, who deflects the ball to a nearby building.

"Welcome to the fight... Zim..." Ate said as Zim walks up to the woman with his shadow claw out and then, rushes to her as he prepares to kill her.

"Ate!!!" Zim screamed with rage as he slashes down, but the goddess quickly uses a magic shield to deflect his attack, which works as he fell to the ground and she uses another whip to impale Zim right on the stomach, causing Lily to take out her bow and starts shooting her arrows at her, which Ate blocks out very easily as if it's nothing to her.

"Zim!" Drei screamed, catching everyone off guard and shock except Ate.

"...No..." Zim muttered as he remembers something...

(Flashback)

"In that case, if Drei's first word happens to be 'Zim' as well, then it proves my theory," Tori said, "It would prove that the Alter units...are all strongly connected to Gaz Membrane, Dib's long-lost younger sister."

(Flashback ends)

"That would mean..." Zim thought in shock until... he sees something he wishes he never see, "Drei!!!"

"Huh?" Drei asked as she suddenly felt a sharp pain on her stomach, which she slowly looks down... and sees she was pierced through the stomach by Ate's Nightmare bringer, whip of pain, "N...No..."

"Drei!" Lily screamed in shock as she quickly puts away her weapon while rushing to Drei while Ate, with a frown and a face that looks as if she deeply regrets it, pulls out the whip as Drei collapsed to the floor.

(Meanwhile)

"No!" Tori screamed at the screen in panic and tearing up, "N... I have to save her... I... I have to! I can't let her die!"

She quickly grabs her radio and screamed, "Drei! D-Don't worry! I'll repair you as quickly as possible, okay?! Everything will be okay!"

(Back with the others)

"N...No... wait..." Drei begged her as she was held by Lily, "I... I...I need to... tell Zim.."

"...I...I... you can tell him after I save you!" Tori said.

"...N... ahh... sorry... big sis... and Zim" Drei apologised to the duo, which caught Lily off-guard and speechless as Drei was quickly teleported out of the battlefield.

"...B...Big... sis...?" Lily muttered as she quickly connects the dots... and her eyes become dulled out in horror, "N...No..."

"So, big sis, huh?... that would only mean one thing..." Ate realised as she glares at her and slowly walks to her, "I'm glad you actually survived that bombing during the Kasai war... Artemis..."

"..." Lily becomes even speechless, realising the hard truth as she slowly looks at Ate, "T...that would mean...I..."

"That you're my daughter, in a way, yes," Ate answered her, "As well as a prototype and the very first clone of Gazlene Membrane... Dib's younger sister..."

"What?!" Zim screamed in shock, "N... you used Gaz as your fucking template!?"

"...And here I thought you don't care about humans much," Ate pointed out as she twists the blade a bit, causing him a bit more pain.

"Ahhh!" Zim screamed a bit.

"Zim!" Lily screamed, but she was suddenly wrapped around with the whip, which started to glow, "Ah-Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!"

Lily screamed in agony as her eyes glow purple and her duel blades starting to let out purple smoke.

"...Looks like the Empyrean bow is reaching its limit," Ate said, "If you don't know, the deadly weapon's function is to keep the owner's emotions and, in your case, true powers at bay, same goes for Dib's Deadly weapon, Salvation armour, but... in a different way. After all, you contain the soul of Artemis AND a half of Gaz's soul, thus we have to give you that weapon to keep your souls under control."

"Ah-Ahhhhhhhh!" Lily cried in pain as she starts crying as the physical and mental pain starts to become too unbearable for her to handle to the point her eyes are starting to go reddish due to the amount of crying she's doing.

"Y...You bitch!" Zim shouted at her.

"...Yea... I'm... a bitch... whatever," Ate muttered and shrugged as she starts laughing at him, "How does it feel, Zimmy? Seeing your little girlfriend like this?"

"I...I fucking hate you!" Zim screamed at her.

"If you truly want to 'save' her, which is impossible at this point," Ate told him, "Meet me at the roof of SEG HQ... we'll be waiting,"

Ate teleports herself and Lily as soon as she takes out the blade off of Zim, which he sits up and punches the ground.

"Damn it!" Zim shouted, "I'm really... really... going to fucking kill you, Ate! You'll see!"

A/N - I hope you guys enjoyed this very important part where it will forever impact Zim and Lily. If you do enjoy it, leave a comment and have a good day, my ninja clan. See you next Thursday. Kuno out!