Author's notes: tenses are fixed, new scene is included.
let me know if you spot any tense related mistakes.
From the view of the parasites' elevator, the man in red and black can see a wide area of the shining city full of energy.
It is partly infected by the bright light that doesn't belong there, the light from the outside.
It may be terrifying to even think that out there, something manages to break through that thick and unbreakable wall. But to some people, it is a wonderful scenery to keep them curious, to keep them afraid, to keep them alive.
Ethan is one of these people. Curiosity and fear was the beauty he saw from the light of flames, from his spot in the elevator. He even pulled up the binoculars on a stick that hadn't been used in centuries.
He uses them to take a closer look on the gates of hell, the hole in the wall.
It appeared that whatever attacked the wall, it caused some of the wall's tough and thick steel to be melted off.
It doesn't seem big enough for any big creature to fit through it.
Ethan's eyes are stucked to the binoculars and those binoculars are aimed at the hole itself. However, nothing is coming out of the flames. The expectations of death seemingly fades away by the fog of doubt that slowly takes over Ethan's mind. The binoculars slowly face away from the hole.
It found nothing on the land of golden light that indicated that anything from the outside had physically invaded it; there were no klaxosaurs and there were no traces of one, just an empty city where every living being lied inside the towers that conquered the electrical land.
In his confusion, Ethan takes the binoculars off of his eyes. Before Ethan can even think about debating the scene, his eyes see something that is right in of him, a Franxx in the air that's coming into the hole of light, a path that leads to an early grave.
Ethan places the machinery back to his eye level and he immediately realizes something; the Franxx is too small to be a Franxx as its size is dwarfed by the buildings around it. Meaning, this machine isn't built to be controlled by two people, but one person.
The only mecha capable of being piloted alone is a simulator.
Back when the Franxx Program started. The lovely group of scientist in A.P.E. had designed simulators that were supposedly replications of the Franxx. The first Parasites were trained under this method.
However, the these trained Parasites were dead under about thirty seconds after they were sent outside. The causes of death were not releated to any fights or Klaxosaur encounters, it was caused by the Parasites' lack of confidence.
Apparently, when they had designed these simulators, they were nothing like the Franxxs at all: First, the simulators were very thick and hard machines while the Franxxs were slim and agile soft-bots. Second, the simulators didn't had the Franxxs' feminine body-type or the flexibility of that body type. Finally, the simulators were never designed for flight...
When the first Parasites rode actual Franxxs, they were ordered to fly around and inspect the area outside the plantations. The Parasites activated their thrusters, uncontrollably span into the air, and fallen from great heights.
All of the Parasites fallen to the ground, right in the head of the Franxx. As the head was crushed, the riders inside of the head were mashed into a pile of meat.
After that embarrassing mistake, the simulators were remade into smaller versions of Franxxs, which was the obvious direction that the scientist of A.P.E. should had taken from the start.
Because no one wanted to be blamed, everyone who participated in the prototypes blamed the guys who came up with the Franxx in the face first place, despite the two men being the ones that told them, "Just grab the Franxx blueprints and make smaller versions of that robot. Stop bothering us! All of you are scientist, have faith in yourselves, dammit!"
Today, the creators of the Franxx still find this story to be absolutely ridiculous, one of them finds it hilarious and the other is just disappointed.
The A.P.E. council now has a close eye on any Franxx-related project, just to ensure that this great stupidity from humanity never repeats.
Ethan knew that the simulators were just below him, on the bottom floor, and someone took one and flown it right under a distracted Ethan in an elevator. He known that there was only one possible person that could had been inside of that mecha.
He pulls up a rectangular white device and calls someone. He waits and listens to the ringing.
The call is picked up.
"CODE 016!" The man shouted. "What are you doing?"
A voice low of energy comes out of the device. "Waiting inside the building, under the orders of Nana."
The man smirks, he thinks to himself and digs into his vastly superior intelligence.
Hiro is sure to be an unexpected fellow.
Maybe the man should participate in Hiro's little game. He does want to see what interesting data he can get off from the boy. According to Ethan's mind, it'll be funny if that boy thinks he can outsmart anyone, especially Ethan. Hiro will be freaking out and attempt to keep the lie up as much he can.
"Ok, Hiro." The man holds in his laughter. "Wait in there."
Ethan ends the call. He chokes his attempts to contain his laughter, it is a form of energy that is too unstable to be in a human's throat. He coughes out, places his hands on the glass walls of the elevator, and giggles.
In 16's hands, there was Hiro's communicator, which was left in the bin at the test room. He was all by himself. He was silenced that anyone would mistook him for that thing, an abomination that didn't fulfilled his purpose nor obeyed the protocol.
It's a wonder to the little boy that the machine will keep a virus within its system.
In the humanoid mecha, Hiro is flying into the sun. He is prepared to be burned off by it. As the colors of gold is washed away by the light of life, Hiro can feel death from the shadow the light casted on him.
The walls of protection will abandon him when he reaches to the outside.
The female mecha is flying through the hole. It travels to the world of the sun, a desert absent of water but is filled with freedom.
From up in the light blue sky, Hiro can see a Klaxosaur on four legs circling around a large hole in the ground. It's white, it's robotic as any other klaxosaur, it resembles a big cat, it has blue liquid dripping from its mouth.
There is a trail of black robotic parts that leads into the giant hole. The black parts leaks out some blue liquid. Hiro soars above the battlefield and examines it.
In his mind, he envisions a future, a horrendous future. If he doesn't prevent that wild beast from getting into the hole, all of the Franxx inside of it will be rip apart into pieces.
Without the Franxx, there is no protection. Without that protection, there is no distractions against the klaxosaur. Without the distractions, the Klaxosaur can resume its objective and kill many civilian lives just from breaking into the plantation.
He has to do something or all of the blood that is spilled by that thing will be poured on his hands. It can stain him far more than his other failures.
He circles the distracted lioness from the sky.
He stares down at the beast, holds on to the handles with both hands, waiting. The headless humanoid mecha tightly holds on to the spear. The small, white hawk strikes down to the giant, white lioness. It allows gravity to pull on it, the wind can do so little to slow down the falling mecha. The ground and the big cat are growing in size. The dropping white soldier positions the spear. As it lands on the beast, the lance stabs through the monster's back.
There were small cracks around the spot the lance landed, it deeply dug into it. Blue blood leaked out.
The four-legged monster screams in pain and tilts its head to the skies, the roar echoes throughout the land and vibrates the terrified sand.
It's not dead…
It shakes its entire body. Hiro barley holds on to the spear that is attached to its back. The legs of his mecha is barely itself holding together from the recoil it receives.
Soon, the beast realizes that the insect is still in its back. It begins to roll on the ground, to crush the bug by smashing it into the ground. Hiro tries to take the spear out of the beast, but he lets go of it as soon the beast's back is about to land on the ground.
The lioness's back lies on the ground. Hiro's lance breaks and crumbles into pieces, but some of it is still in the big cat's back.
Hiro is back into the skies and his mecha's thrusters are still in a good condition. The big cat gets back on all four legs. Things are the same as before, but this time the predator is now aware. The big cat is staring directly at its prey in the skies.
Its tail moves and it aims at the flying simulator. A burst of energy is in the mechanical tail. The beast positions itself to hold on to the ground, preparing to withstand what it is about to unleash.
Hiro holds on to the handles, he is prepared to boost away at any moment.
Before the energy comes out, the earth under the white cat is ripped apart, a black prehistoric monster comes out of the cracked ground. The dinosaur slams its head directly to the belly of the kitty, tossing the white cat into the sky.
The air doesn't spare the white beast from the hard ground, it lifelessly lands on there.
The big-headed black dinosaur lands on the sand on both of its legs, but it also drops down to the ground. Hiro realizes it is missing half of its face. The black monster lays on the ground, it struggles to get up with its two hind-legs (as its forearms are just two small triangles).
The large T-rex is low in its energy, which is indicated from its mechanical blue strips of life fading in its color. It needs to recover from the overwhelming recoil.
The robotic lioness on the ground has its head unsealing.
Hiro flies to what his curiosity guides him to go.
His mecha reaches to the ground and it shakes a bit, Hiro is very close to the big cat as its head opens and steam comes out. A grey-haired man in prosthetics drops out of the opening head. Hiro gets out of his mecha seat, drops to the ground, and runs after the man on the ground. He checks the guy's pulse, it isn't a man anymore, it is just a man's corpse.
A familiar female voice has come out of the unsealed cockpit, "Don't bother with him. I warned him that his presence wasn't necessary." A feminine figure in red limps out from the rectangular hole.
Her eyes are lowered and a small smile is placed on her face, it expresses her fangs.
It was the pink-haired girl Hiro had seen earlier, except she was in a tight, red pistol suit. There was blood on her face, some of it stained her hair.
Hiro twitches his right eye. He realizes the situation.
He didn't saved any Franxxs from a Klaxosaur, he distracted their own protector and gotten it attacked by a Klaxosaur. He helped a Klaxosaur!
Her head lowers down and her eyes look into Hiro's eye.
"You had been a bit wild out there. Believe it or not, you had left a mark on me." Her voice was slow, but her smile widened. Her arm on the doorway supports her limping body. She places her right hand on her back.
Hiro is stained by the compliment, his face isn't filled with achievements or satisfaction, only guilt.
His face begs for a way out.
"You could pilot with me." The answer spoked to Hiro and it sounded like a limping girl.
Hiro was reluctant. If he couldn't pilot a Franxx back then, he couldn't pilot one now. "I can-can't… I never had."
The pinked-haired girl tightly crushes her lips. "You're looking at this wrongly, it's not about the robot, it's about your partner. You just to find her."
Hiro can't believe in any fantasies. All he does is screw up everything that shows up to be in his hands, what makes this different? No sound has come out of the boy.
"Hmmm..." The girl said it with less energy.
Her smile is erased. She turns her body to the area inside the metallic cave.
Hiro is confused.
"What are you doing?" He said.
Her face is still looking away from him. "The thing you do, doing it alone."
"But that's not it should be!"
The girl in red turns her head back to the boy, her smile returns. She gives him a hand to grab. "You could correct that."
Hiro is hesitant, he grabs her hand. Easily, she lifts him up from the ground and brings him inside the Franxx.
Before Hiro says anything, the girl places her right hand on his left check. She KISSES HIM right on the cheek. Hiro's breath is taken away.
"Take your seat, darling." The sound of care warms up Hiro.
The girl smirks at his face of exposed vulnerability.
Outside, the Klaxosaur is brought back to life. Although it struggles, it rises from the ground and stands up on its two legs.
It lets out a deep and quiet sound of despair from its demolished face. Slowly, it walks to the hole that it left on plantation.
Its sluggish steps becomes more confident, its speed increases.
The white Franxx on the ground starts to transform.
It sluggishly stood up on two legs, its front paws become hands with five fingers, its head resembles a serious female head in a helmet.
The mecha no longer looks like a wild animal, instead it is an intimidating feminine warrior in armor. The merciless Franxx flies to the roaming Klaxosaur, and it swings its lance directly to the Beast's missing face.
The black giant doesn't see it coming. It groans in pain.
Before the Franxx can touch the ground, the dinosaur whacks it with its large tail. The blow harshly places the Franxx far from the mauled black creature, but relatively close to the Plantation.
The Klaxosaur positions itself, it opens its jaws wide to reveal a cannon inside of it. Its tail splits wide open, it looks like the black dinosaur is absorbing a large amount of energy from it.
The armored knight attempts to throw its lance directly to the cannon that is about to fire, however the white Franxx's back pain causes the lance to miss its target. In punishment, a great deal of bright blue energy hits the mighty mecha. It causes the mecha to lose its balance and feel a great sense of pain throughout its entire body.
The white warrior kneels and places its left hand was on its shoulder.
The plantation's walls appears to not be damaged at all from the blast.
The machine's face expresses a dash of pain, a bit of irritation, and a great deal of determination. It stands back up. The black monster recharges its cannon, but this time for much longer, to build up enough energy to wipe out the Franxx. Franxx pulls the black cord that is attached from its body and to the lance that is thrown. The pull is so intense, the lance flies back into the Franxx's hands.
In a quick motion, The lance flies out of the mecha's hands. It flies through the charged cannon. The black terror is no more, it is just a black mass of parts that is covered in blue blood.
The Franxx walks to the corpse. It inspects the mess and it pulls out its lance from out of the creature's body.
It appeared that the Lance also broken through an orb, it used to be filled with the golden liquid of life.
Hiro did it.
He had killed a Klaxosaur.
Notes from the author:
What did you think of the Hiro and 02 scene? I hoped I did something good for them here.
I want just want their conversation way more memorable than what we get in the anime
Because a lot of the lines in episode 1 felt really awkward and forced.
What are your opinions on Ethan? Do you think his presence is a welcoming addition in this fanfic?
