*(Y/N) POV*

After returning from the visit with Gaia and some sleep I went to check on our prisoners. Epsilon was unfortunately still out cold. By the cast on his arm and leg I could assume he broke it during our last clash. Leaving him to rest I walked out and continued towards my next destination, Delta. Before her room stood Gamagori and Sanageyama, guarding it.

(Y/N): "Hey Ira, Hey Uzu. How is she?"

Gamagori: "Good afternoon (L/N)"

Sanageyama: "She is awfully quiet. We checked on her but all she was doing is lying in the bed"

(Y/N): "She ate anything?"

Gamagori: "No. Both Mrs.Mankanshoku and Futoshi brought her food but she doesn't touched it yet"

(Y/N): "May I come in?"

Sanageyama: "Go ahead (L/N). If something happens we are here"

(Y/N): "I can take care of her, don't worry" with that I entered the room. It was dark, the only source of light was a lamp nearby bed. I closed the door behind me and walked to bed

(Y/N): "Delta... Are you awake?" I was met with silence "Delta...." then she turned to face me

Delta: "What do you want?! Did you and your team decided to finally execute me?!" she snapped at me

(Y/N): "No. I'm not here to kill you. I'm here to check up how are you holding"

Delta: "And what's to you?! Last time I saw you, you killed Zeta!"

(Y/N): "Hey, I warned you. Not my fault Alpha doesn't care about any of you. Or more specific Papa doesn't care"

Delta: "You are lying!"

(Y/N): "Am I now? So why didn't Papa decided to rescue you and Eps?"

Delta: "I..."

(Y/N): "Delta, listen. I really didn't wanted to kill Zeta. But it was either us or you and the rest of Nines. We started the rebellion to overthrow Papa because we were sick of him treating us like tools to discard"

Delta: "He will never discard us! We're Papa's favorite!"

(Y/N): "Alpha thought that too. And again, are you really? So why didn't he allowed the rest of Nines to rescue you? Why after you escaped from the airship he already had a replacement for Zeta?"

Delta: "..."

(Y/N): "I knew it. Delta, you must have questions and I will answer them. All I need in exchange is for you to eat. You will die and what we will do with Epsilon after that?"

Delta: "Eps?! Is he alive?! Where is he?!"

(Y/N): "bah bah bah. A bite of food for one answer" she took the bite of Mrs. Mankanshoku's croquettes and her eyes sparkled

Delta: "What is this? It's taste very good"

(Y/N): "It's Mrs. Mankanshoku cooking. She is our cook here together with Futoshi, or you know him as code 214" she proceed to eat "As for Epsilon, he is here. We treated his wounds and he is recovering. He had a broken arm and leg but he will get out of this in no time"

Delta: "Omega..."

(Y/N): "Delta, we did what we thought was right. If Papa got Zero Two back then we all would have been doomed. You know what's Papa planning?" she shake her head "You must've know that they are gathering every adult in one place, called Bird Cage. Then he want to transfer their consciousnesses to one server and leave our planet without any trace of Magma Energy, leaving it inhabitable. He wanted to leave every parasite here. Us, kids from the Garden, even Nines, leaving us to deal with dead planet, mostly to die from starvation or dehydration"

Delta: "What are you talking about Omega? Papa would never do this"

(Y/N): "It's true. We questioned Lemur about it and he spilled some information to us. Klaxosaur Princess got to him before us and got everything about Project Elysium and Hringhorni"

Delta: "Nines were ordered to gather Klaxosaur's cores for Hringhorni"

(Y/N): "And now a surprise to you. Nines are clones of Zero Two" she dropped one croquet

Delta: "What?!"

(Y/N): "You all are clones of Zero Two. Given that she is partially Klaxosaur, you and the rest of Nines are too. And Hringhorni is designed to evaporate anything Klaxsosaur related, that means you, Epsilon, the rest of Nines, Zero Two and her partner Hiro and each and every FranXX to be destroyed"

Delta: "FranXX?"

(Y/N): "Klaxosaurs and FranXXs are the same thing. And FranXX were build from the corpses of Klaxosaurs"

Delta: "..."

(Y/N): "Delta, I'm giving you a choice. You can go back to Nines and later die like other thousands of parasites for Papa's selfish goal, or you can join us and together we will fight against him"

Delta: "Omega... give me some time okay? I need to think about it"

(Y/N): "Oka..." I was cut of by Miku entering the room

Miku: "(Y/N), Epsilon has woken up!" at this Delta shot up

(Y/N): "Finally" I turned back to Delta "You want to see him?"

Delta: "Yes"

(Y/N): "Okay. Miku, how is he taking it?"

Miku: "He is surprisingly calm. We changed his bandages and gave him some painkillers. Dr. Mankanshoku is currently checking up on him"

(Y/N): "Good to hear that" We walked the rest of the way in silence. Miku opened the door to Epsilon's room

Delta: "Epsilon!" she rushed to his bed

Epsilon: "Delta... you are alright..." he answered weakly

(Y/N): "How are you holding Eps?" he looked at me

Epsilon: "Omega... where are we?"

(Y/N): "Medical wing of New Honno. Capital of soon to be New Parasite Republic. Squad 13 brought you and Delta here"

Epsilon: "But why?"

(Y/N): "Our plan is to defeat APE, not to kill their puppets. You only followed Papa's orders because you never knew anything beside it. He's been lying to you all your life"

Epsilon: "I don't understand..."

(Y/N): "Let me tell you what I told Delta before" I proceed to repeat everything I said to her.

Epsilon: "We are clones of Iota?"

Delta: "I couldn't believe it too. Back in our M9 your blood was blue, just like Klaxosaur's"

Epsilon: "So we are really her clones..."

(Y/N): "Yes. And I'm giving you a choice like I did to Delta"

Epsilon: "And what if we refuse?"

(Y/N): "Then you are free to go back to Nines, but remember that Papa will leave us here to die if he succeed " he thinks for a while and turn to Delta

Epsilon: "Delta, if I'm staying, will you stay with me?"

Delta: "Of course. We are partners"

(Y/N): "I will give you some time to think about it. Barazo, how are his wounds?"

Mr. Mankanshkou: "Thankfully nothing is broken, but I'd need to set his shoulder on before he can go back to piloting"

(Y/N): "Okay. I shall be going. We still need to snitch one of the transport shuffle and pay a visit to Kosmos" I went to exit the room

Delta: "Wait, Omega!" I turned back to her "How is our FranXX?"

(Y/N): "Hiro, code 016 and Mitsuru, code 326 are working on it. From what I saw they already got it's arm attached back where it should be. If you decide to join us ask anyone here, they should report it to Dr.Franxx"

Delta and Epsilon: "Doctor?!" Epsilon shoot up from his bed, but lied down after he felt pain

Mr.Mankanshoku: "Lie down boy, you need to rest"

(Y/N): "What? Doctor is all behind this rebellion. Anyway, decide what you want to do and give us your answer. Delta, you can stay with Epsilon here. Mako will bring you food soon" with that I walked out of the medical wing into the briefing room. Inside sat Ryuko, Ichigo, Satsuki and Koruno

Ryuko: "(Y/N), where have you been?"

(Y/N): "Visiting Delta and Epsilon. They may join our forces"

Satsuki: "(L/N), are you sure they won't stab us in the back?"

Ichigo: "It could be a trap planned by Papa"

(Y/N): "I don't think he care about them. He just discarded them like the rest"

Koruno: "If they decide to join us we can use them as propaganda for other Parasites to join us too"

(Y/N): "Bingo!"

Ichigo: "Anyway, first things first. We need to destroy Hringhorni. If what Gaia told us is true then it could destroy our FranXXs, with us inside"

Ryuko: "We need to check where is the closest Plantation now and steal one ship. Then Arion will get his bodies inside it and we will send him to Kosmos" Then Arion face appeared on one of the monitors

Arion: "There is one thing. After our little stunt one week ago they tightened security systems around Kosmos. Now they scan every shuttle before it can board. Our virus also started to get blocked by their firewalls so we can't disable it remotely"

(Y/N): "Ichigo, call a meeting. We will need to discuss this with everyone"

*five minutes later*

Ichigo: "Everyone is here. (Y/N), Arion, we can start"

(Y/N): "As you knew, our next mission is to steel a shuttle from one of the plantations and send Arion's bodies to destroy Hringhorni. However after our last failed attempt at assassinating Papa they took another step in security. Given that someone needs to go with Arion to eventually deactivate and activate back his bodies"

Ryuko: "Me and (Y/N) planned to go..." Zero two got her hand up

Zero Two: "It's not fair only you and (Y/N) got to have fun. I'm going too"

(Y/N): "No way Zero Two, something could happen to you"

Zero Two: "You forgot that I beat both you and Ryuko in your uniforms transformed. I'm going brother and that's final"

(Y/N): "What a stubborn girl... Okay, fine you can go" Hiro then shoot up from his chair

Hiro: "I'm going too"

Ryuko: "Hiro, you sure?"

Hiro: "If Zero Two is going so am I. I left her once and let it be my death I will never do this again"

Miku: "Oh my... so that's what a true love looks like. (Y/N), Ryuko, let him go with you"

(Y/N): "Okay, but first. Hiro, can you show us your forehead?" he proceed to do so and we see a pair of blue horns, nearly the same length as Zero's "You nearly finished your transformation. It should give you the same powers like Zero have"

Hiro: "Powers...?"

Zero Two: "Super strength and regeneration. You could probably fight Ryuko and (Y/N) Darling, and win" she said with proud face

(Y/N): "And who is too full of themselves now, Zero? Anyway, so me, Ryuko, Zero Two and Hiro will go to Kosmos. If we could we should try to kill Papa then"

Ichigo: "Meanwhile we will prepare to attack Plantation 1. Gaia will mostly know when Hringhorni will be destroyed"

Satsuki: "After we regroup with Klaxosaurs we will start our attack"

Koruno: "We expect about 30-40 standard FranXX in their defense forces plus the rest of Nines"

(Y/N): "We will try to get as many Parasites to our side as we can. Our goal is to destroy Elysium and take control of APE council"

Ichigo: "After that we will disband it and create a new world and a place where everyone can live their life without APE called New Parasite Republic"

Ryuko: "Any questions?" Ikuno got her hand up

Ikuno: "Who will be the leader of it?"

Ryuko: "I thought it would be clear. Ichigo will be"

Ichigo: "Wait, what?!"

(Y/N): "You led Squad 13 and later led rebellion together with Satsuki and Doctor. It's only natural assumption you will be the president"

Ichigo: "Shouldn't we vote?"

Ryuko: "Anyone for Ichigo being a president?" Everyone got their hand up "Those who opposed?"Nothing "Who abstained?" Nothing "Therefore Ichigo, you will be president. We will get the other places on after we defeat APE"

(Y/N): "Right now we need to steel this shuttle and go to Kosmos. Ikuno, Inumuta, do we have something?"

Ikuno: "Nearest plantation is about 40 miles from New Honno to the north west"

Inumuta: "Plantation 86, squad active since fall of Plantation 13"

(Y/N): "So, fresh batch. Hmmm. Arion, can we somehow go there unnoticed?"

Arion: "We can use the same ship we used to kidnap Lemur"

(Y/N): "Great. When we enter the hangar I'll do the usual, cut their comms off, and let our virus spread. Sooner or later I will have their whole network under our control"

Hiro: "Meanwhile me and Zero Two will search for the ship"

(Y/N): "Ryuko, you will go with them. I can take care of myself"

Zero Two: "Brother, why are you treating me like a child?!"

(Y/N): "Because a, if something happens to you then both uncle Werner and Gaia will skin me alive, and b, because if they get you they would open the vault with Apus. Ryuko is coming with you and Hiro"

Zero Two: "Fine..." she pouted

Ichigo: "Anymore questions?" Nothing "Then let's move, Squad 13" everyone started to walk out "(Y/N), Ryuko, Hiro, Zero Two..." we turned to Ichigo "Be safe, okay? We still have to rebuild the world and you won't get out of your part in it that easily" she joked

Hiro: "Hehe. We will Ichigo"

(Y/N): "And let you took all the honors? No way"

Ryuko: "We will be back"

Zero Two: "We always come back to our family"

Arion: "Don't worry Miss Ichigo. I will not let them get hurt"

Us four: "Arion! We can take care of ourselves!" at this Ichigo started giggling

Ichigo: "Okay. Go you five" we nodded and went on our way"

*timeskip, nearby Plantation 86*

(Y/N): "Okay, remember the plan. I will go and send my virus. It should cause panic among the APE officials. Meanwhile you will go search for ship. Arion will schedule a transport to Kosmos from here and give the clearance code from Alpha"

Hiro: "and after that we need to pick you up. Later when we get in their radar range, we need to deactivate Arion's bodies in order to enter unnoticed"

Ryuko: "(Y/N) will take control of the ship"

Zero Two: "You can fly a shuttle brother?"

(Y/N): "Back when I was Nudist Beach operative I used to drive various vehicles, from motorbikes to boats and trucks, so it shouldn't be any different"

Ryuko: "Putting aside that you drive like a maniac honey..."

(Y/N): "Hey! Everybody got to stay alive during No Late Day"

Ryuko: "Alive? Alive?! I nearly got a heart attack when we went flying!"

(Y/N): "That granny hit us with RPG! What am I supposed to do?!"

Ryuko: "Dodge it maybe?!"

(Y/N): "Try that driving well over 120 km/h with an armored bus"

Ryuko: "So maybe you should have drove slower?!"

(Y/N): "We could've been late and then expelled. Time was not on our side, especially with Maiko sabotaging"

Ryuko: "She got what she deserved"

Arion: "You can reminisce later. We are here"

Soon the ship landed and I got my head out. I look around to see no one is here

(Y/N): "All clear" We exited the aircraft

Hiro: "Where is this plantation squad? Shouldn't there be at least one standard FranXX here?" I looked at the docks to see Hiro is indeed right. There is no FranXX in sight

Ryuko: "Did they abandoned it?"

Zero Two: "Seems like it sister"

(Y/N): "They must've moved them to Plantation 1. Papa knows we are coming after him, and wanted Elysium under high security"

Hiro: "He thought that we will want to destroy it before Hringhorni"

Ryuko: "He is panicking. Ground is slipping from under his feet"

(Y/N): "Heh, he is helping us now. With no one here we are free to do what we want. Let's go"

Hiro: "Girls, go search for the ship. I will stay with (Y/N)"

Zero Two: "Are you sure Darling?"

Hiro: "I'm Zero Two. Beside I need to talk with him"

Zero Two: "Okay. Let's go Ryuko"

Ryuko: "Have fun guys" with that she, Zero Two and army of Arion's bodies went on a search. Me and Hiro meanwhile get to the office maintaining the hangar

(Y/N): "Okay, we are here, now to schedule our flight" I started the console and started typing "By the way Hiro, what did you wanted to talk about?"

Hiro: "I though about what you told me back before our escape. You know, about becoming official with Zero Two"

(Y/N): "Let me guess. You asked Doctor for the blessing?"

Hiro: "Yeah"

(Y/N): "And?"

Hiro: "Well..." he scratched his head

(Y/N): "Spit it out man"

Hiro: "He told me to take care of her. And that he is happy she finally found a partner" I got of the console and faced him

(Y/N): "Hiro... Welcome to our crazy little family. You got the ring?"

Hiro: "That's what I wanted to talk about. Mitsuru told me that you made those rings for him and Kokoro"

(Y/N): "Sure, just give me some scrap metal and I can melt it into a ring"

Hiro: "I also want to add something into it. Ryuko have this red gem in her ring. What do you think about this?" he showed me a piece of blue and red stone

(Y/N): "Hiro, from where did you get this?"

Hiro: "I was walking with Zero Two on the shore. I thought it was looking nice so I took it"

(Y/N): "It will be perfect. Given your horns are blue and hers are red" Then I let my inner teasing demon to get better of me "I wonder if your child will have purple horns?" He blushed but after a while got his composure back while I get back to the console

Hiro: "Me and Zero Two thought about it too"

(Y/N): "By the way, what are you planning to do after all this is done?"

Hiro: "I thought I can still work with you and Mitsuru in engineering. And Zero Two wants to become an artist and writer"

(Y/N): "How is her book? 'The Beast and the Prince' was it?"

Hiro: "She didn't liked the ending in the original"

(Y/N): "So a happy ending where Prince come for the main heroine and they both defeat the witch?"

Hiro: "How do you know?"

(Y/N): "You came back for her during the first attack on Gran Crevasse, and now we are in the process of defeating the witch. She lived her life like it was that book. That's until me and Ryuko met her and later she found you back"

Hiro: "Things are already different than in the book"

(Y/N): "You bet" I finally got the acceptance with code Alpha gave me "We are done here Hiro. Now we need to wait for Arion and the girls to pick us up" Me and Hiro got back to the bridge, awaiting for our transport. Soon enough it get near us and Ryuko opened the doors

Ryuko: "All aboard. Next station, Kosmos!" Me and Hiro entered and closed the doors behind

(Y/N): "You seems pretty excited about going to space Blueberry. We've been there once, remember?"

Ryuko: "Yeah, but this time we don't have to worry about Senketsu and Neko burning alive"

Neko: "(Y/N), don't you dare!"

(Y/N): "I promised I will never try that again, didn't I? Besides we are on a ship designated for reentry, nothing will happen" Then one of Arion's bodies get out of the cabin

Arion: "(Y/N), those bodies have a remote on/off switch. All you need to do is to enter a command" I looked behind to see a heap of various robots, from bulky and heavy Hulkbuster like config to a skinny skeletal and even a rat sized one

(Y/N): "Em, rat?"

Arion: "It's anti EMP unit. It should cancel any EMP they call"

(Y/N): "Right, everything is ready?"

Ryuko: "Yeah"

(Y/N): "Then let's do this"

Ryuko: "I call shotgun!"

Hiro and Zero Two: "What?"

(Y/N): "She wants to sit with me in the front. A thing from old world"

Hiro and Zero Two: "Ohhh"

Me and Ryuko get in front and I started to check instruments

(Y/N): "Okay everyone, buckle up. We are going up!"

I get the ship out of the Plantation and with one motion set it off for lift off. G force instantly throw us into our chairs, and while I was enjoying the speed I was never able to get with either camaro or Heliconia, Ryuko was screaming

Ryuko: "(Y/N)!"

(Y/N): "Hahahaha" and I entered my little world just like when I was driving the bus during No