Hi guys recently I've been watching Darling in the franxx for some time now and I have to admit I'm speechless but not enough love is given to this show! so with a creative mind at play I'm going to try and write a story :D
this story will be about a survivor of the initial invasions of the klaxosaur and how he must adapt to living in the future with no memories and no objectives although he himself is a very big mystery as secrets from the past should stay in the past.
**THIS CHAPTER HAS BEEN RE-DONE FROM ITS ORIGINAL BECAUSE I FELT IT COULD BE BETTER**
The city looked just like it did before this all happened, just devoid of the warmth that made it worthy of that term. It was now a collection of mouly buildings which served as tombstones for countless of lifes that were desperate for salvation, roads shockingly laid like a carpet for a queen that will never come. Ruined and torn banners hang with slogans to be read only by the dust-laden wind. The shops, markets, stalls is all set up like it awaits the holders any moment. The only sound is the black bird that cries as if it can bring back the people who used to leave tasty scraps if only it calls loud enough. Against the wall of the old court house is a rusted bicyle, the chain dangling on the sidewalk. Ahead is a crumbling watch tower, forever stuck at half past noon. Time was frozen for everything that the city had domain over. Guarded by countless of military foundations although they suffered the same.
Inside a facility, hidden away from the sunlight laid a series of pods stacked together like a can of sardines. A thin layer of ice had made the room into a ice rink but there was only 1 pod that was lit up as much as the ice.
Suddenly a steady stream of smoke began to leak from one of the only pods that still had lighting before violently erupting from it with the door being tore off its hinges and slung through the rusted walls and out in the day light, exposing the pods to sunlight. Everything went silent for the next couple of minutes until a figure fell from the pod and onto the ground with wires attached to his limbs wearing a torn camouflaged outfit with a thin sheet of armour protecting his vitals. Beside him a customized AUG rifle dropped beside him landing on his back.
**warning specimen; 7540, life-pod error. Released subject and beginning wake up procedure**
All of the tubes that was connected to the boys back started to glow a bright green resulting in the boy starting to gag and squirm around, rising to his feet and catching his breath while the tube disconnected itself and leaked a little of the green substance. The gun fell down into his lap where he fell back onto his knees and hands gasping for air and coughing like he just smoked a packet of cigarettes the ice on his body began to melt off him causing a small pool of water to form around him. Using all his strength he forced himself back onto his feet and dared to open his eyes to a new world.
"W-where am I.." He wobbled left to right as he tried to make it outside but it was taking everything it had just to stand.
Finally making it to the breach in the wall his pod door made he looked over and noticed a container holding 2 pills inside with the name "Post-freeze tablets and without a second consideration he grabbed them and forced the pills down his throat, gagging a little from how dry his mouth was. Almost instantly he felt a sudden surge of power and was able to stand perfectly fine and felt good.
"What is this place? last thing I remember is...what was it?." He tried to think of what he was doing before hand but looked back at his pod, noticing a name on top of it.
"Joseph. That must be me, no there's no mistake it has to be." He mumbled to himself as he pulled up his AUG which was dangling off his leg. Turned out it was connected to his armour via a cord.
As he stood idle he heard a familiar sound coming from outside on the streets outside causing him to rush outside and be temporally blinded by the sun but then noticed 2 human sized Klaxosaurs feasting in leaking magma from a crack in the ground, this sight seemed to cause Joseph a relapse of what these things were and what they did.
"Klaxosaurs!" Joseph yelled as he instantly started to fire apon the 2 beasts while advancing on top of a ruined car.
However the bullets didn't seem to affect the klaxosaurs but only just bounce straight off its metallic skin to where one was sent straight through his legs, distracting him for a split second. When Joseph looked back 1 of them was already at his face and charged into him sending the boy flying into a traffic pole and coughing up some blood. It then released a deafening screech forcing him to drop his weapon and cover his ears while regaining his footing.
"W-what the!?" The second he re-opened his eyes once again the Klaxosaur was at his face but this time he managed to parry left and roll into a ditch. For some reason the screech felt familiar to him like he had encountered it before. "Bullets do nothing it seems but for whatever reason this Klaxosaur is here its weak point should still be the ball inside it all I need to do is get it to expose it and blast it." He schemed as he readied his weapon.
The creature stood on top of the dune and let out another scream. Joseph noticed how the black surface dispersed leaving a soft blue opening in the creature's front. It charged once again and was met with a volley of bullets although no damage was done.
"D-dammit!" He shouted as he had no way of avoiding this attack but suddenly it opened its mouth, Joseph's eyes lit up as that glorious core he needed was finally exposed. Without a second to pass he used his grenade launcher to devastate the core resulting in blood being ejected everywhere unluckily it went all of his gun, jamming it and making it useless to him now but it also did damage to the street.
"F-finally I did it!" He silently praised however he made 1 mistake; there was 2 klaxosaurs.
Suddenly the other one appeared from a dark alley way and went straight for Joseph who was now defenceless but a piece of the mouldy building couldn't handle the explosion of the grenade and broke off the building beside it, crushing the klaxosaur while it was in mid-air. Joseph stood there breathing heavily, speechless and glued to the crushed corpse, for a second he thought his life had just flashed before his eyes but since he didn't have any...it was confusing.
*Breathes in* - Joseph
*Breathes out* - Joseph.
"Now. Lets go check the facility to see where everyone is." He mumbled to himself as he went back inside the hole in the wall to go and check for anyone who could help him.
However he would spend the next hour checking all the pods and collecting data however all he found was deceased files and KIA filling him up with grief and horror. Finally there was 1 small laptop sitting in a general office he found and went to look at it with his calm expression failing him.
"Come on, come on, come on please!" He silently cried out in fear. "Anyone!? I cant be!" His fears were confirmed as once again it said that everyone who was registered had been killed or was missing.
"What happened! Where is everyone? Why can't I remember anything darn it!" Joseph clenched his head trying to think of any possible memories but all he got was blank.
Apart from what's on the data sources he collected he didn't know anything. Tears began to build up in his eyes and his teeth grinding each other and the fact that there is no other sign of human life. Thoughts that the Klaxosaurs had killed them all which would explain how easily he found them.
"Dammit! why was I spared!" He began to punch the walls as tears dripped off his face. "Is this hell? am I doomed to wander the lands by myself?!" Irrational thoughts prodded his mind making him overthink about the smallest things.
"Mother...father who were you?." Something shinny caught his eye. It was a shard of glass big enough for him to end it. Slowly he took a grip of the shard and began to raise it to his throat. "Ill end it, ill come back. Back to you all." He dug it lightly into his neck but enough to make him bleed. He took 1 final deep breath.
Stop this!
He felt something grip his hand and yank it forward before twisting the wrist, making Joseph drop the shard. He opened his eyes to see another male wearing the same outfit Joseph was wearing but it was pristine with a bandana wrapped around his head. Before he could say anything the figure threw Joseph backwards causing him to fall.
Pathetic you were really going to end it huh? who are you! because you most certainty not the Jo-Jo I know!
"Jo-Jo?" Joseph mumbled. "Who are you?"
Your memories are gone that is true but they will return one day although for the meanwhile call me a friend. Listen to me carefully now you need to live on, you were the one who was guided by fate to survive although it also seems you still need to serve a purpose...i've spoken to him, he wont accept you until you yourself have done all you can to savage what we lost.
"W-what are you talking about?" Joseph started to nervously and confusing asked, thinking he was seeing things.
You are not whole. You have not found yourself yet nor do you accept yourself I must go now but...believe in your powers and continue the fight!
The figure then began to fade away however Joseph jumped onto his feet and reached out to him although his hand went straight through him and just like that the ghostly man vanished. Joseph stared at the wall he disappeared into and began to think to himself about what just happened. Was he really going crazy?
"Im...alive." He silently said to himself before rising up to his feet and gazing at his hands. "I don't know the details of this but I just cant think of that encounter as nothing. Ill belief him and I might be the last one alive but." He took a hold of a new weapon hanging on the wall.
"Ill kill them all for everyone." Were his final words before he walked outside.
By this point the sun was beginning to descend past the horizon marking the end of the day but more personal issues like food and water although he was near the ocean meaning he could filter out the salt and form drinkable water which was a first step. Little did he know in the distance far away a plantation was approaching the destroyed town with a massive mecha standing guard "I guess we can return, command can't detect any Klaxosaurs in the surrounding area and we got a exploration mission for tomorrow as well." A male's voice echoed.
"Fine by me you look like you need sleep anyways….darling."