Hello! This is my first darling in the franxx fanfic, I had many ideas to write some like these before but I never had the time (because of my job). Now I am writing one, but when the series just ended. I do warn you, the reader, that if you haven't seen all 24 episodes, this fanfic will be filled with many, many spoilers. If you wish to not be spoiled, don't read this.

This will also be posted in tumblr ,archiveofourown and wattpad(here).Well here we go! Here is the prologue to my first fanfic for darling in the franxx! It's set during the space battle and goes into how they get to earth.

It hurt.

It hurt.

It hurt.

Cables piercing through his skin some piercing at his jaw line some at his neck. Hiro breathed in and concentrated on the battle and not his pain. How long had is it been now? He doesn't know. He and Zero two have been fighting off VIRM for a while now.

-timeskip-

"Please...help my darling!!"

"zero two...?"" Hiro opened his eyes and regained his consciousness. He gripped the controls. "let's end this zero two!"

"Yeah! No matter what happens, we will win darling! When you are by my side, I'm not afraid! I love you!"

"yeah same here! I love you too, Zero Two!"

Both scream, charging towards VIRM soldiers obliterating them from their path. Zero two takes the bomb and crams it into VIRM's home planet and punches it.

"implanting complete!"

"Agh!!" VIRM spears impale Zero Two's chest."NO!"

"NO! NOT YET!" Hiro screams and Zero Two's Apus form disintegrates and a golden strelitzia appears her arms crossed as she pulls out their spear both pilots scream and dive into the bomb and it explodes.

Hiro gently opens his eyes.

"huh?"

"Darling...we did it..."Zero Two's voice can be heard through the radio

"Zero Two?" Hiro looks around " I thought we..."

"

No Darling, we did it. We made it out alive. Before it could explode we got out in time."

"oh....I thought we were goners for sure...."Hiro closes his eyes a bit.

"darling.... let's go home..."

"sure. Can't wait to see everyone..."

"make sure to get some sleep okay? You need it"

Hiro yawns and leans back a little."alright. Can you promise me something? Wake me up when we get home."

"sure thing. Oh and darling?"

"yes?"

"I love you"

"..i love you too Zero two"

"sweet dreams...Darling"

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Back on earth the parasites, adults and squad thirteen watch as there is a huge explosion in the sky. Kokoro holds Ai close to her and they thought the worst. Ichigo shed a few tears.

"they did it..."

"They defeated VIRM?" Ikuno asks.

"I hope they come back...i... want to see Hiro again" Naomi says holding Ikuno's hand.They were about to turn and go back to their jobs. Ai comforted her mother when she noticed that Zero Two's statue began to glow gold.

"papa! Mama! Look!" Ai points while pulling on her mother's hair gently. Mitsuru follows the direction Ai is pointing at and sees Zero Two's statue glowing.

"Guys wait!" Mitsuru calls out and they started coming back. "Look!"

"whoa you think..."Miku said

"They are still alive?!" Zorome finished.

"when will they be coming back?"Goro says.

"Don't worry they will come back...it may take a while...but they will come back to us" Ichigo shed happy tears and Goro placed his arm around her. She looked up at the sky.

They will come back...we already have a home ready for you...Hiro...Zero Two

"Guys! Something's coming this way!"

"is it one of the VIRM?!" A parasite asked afraid.

"no... they have a purple color scheme...this looks golden..."

In the sky a golden light headed towards earth, it was coming closer. After what seemed like forever, the object landed.

"S... STRELITZIA?!" All of squad 13 said in unison. Strelitzia was glowing gold then it faded back to her original colors. The cockpit opened and a figure was shown coming out with long blue horns.

"...is that...?" Goro asked

"Hiro?" Ichigo said in a whisper.

Hiro looked down and saw the statue of Zero two stop glowing. A red orb came out of Strelitzia and floated towards Hiro he held it in his hands.

"we did it...now go back to your body.I love you" He kisses it and lets it float to Zero two's body and the grey color fades off as Zero Two comes back to life her horns grow back but are it's original smaller size.

Hiro jumps off Strelitzia and floats down landing gracefully on his two feet. Zero two walks towards him and wraps her arm around his.

"...we're back" Zero two said."I kept our promise"

"Hiro...Zero Two!!"

Hiro smiles.

"you have horns! They look so cool!" Zorome says as squad 13, nana, Hachi and the rest surround them.

Hiro smiles."I'm glad we are back. We missed you. To tell the truth I was a bit afraid of how you guys will react to my horns..."

Goro steps forward. "Hiro...no matter what you become you and Zero Two are still our team mates."

"Goro..."

Gor hugs his friend tight. "I'm so glad you're back bro... we thought you guys died!"

Hiro hugs him back resting his chin on Goro's shoulder. Zero two smiles at them when Ichigo and kokoro Hug her.She was surprised at first but then hugs them back.

Hiro then pulls away as he sees Mitsuru and his daughter.AI looks at him curiously.

Zero Two takes Hiro's hand and both walk towards the little girl Mitsuru gently taps her shoulder. "go on they want to thank you"

Hiro crouches down to the little girl's level

"thank you. If it weren't for you, we both would have died." He gently places a hand on her cheek. The little girl places her hand over his and smiles

"darling! Darling!"

Zero Two smiles "when did she learn that word?"

"she said it when she saw you in your frozen state"

"I see I see"Zero two pats her head "It's a very special word, say it to the ones you hold close"

Ai smiles and then walks up to her father asking to be held holding her arms up, Mitsuru picks her up.

Naomi walks up to Hiro looking at him. Hiro looks at her his eyes widen a bit.

"N... Naomi...?"

"yes, it's me. I'm glad...I'm glad you found a new partner." She smiles. Hiro smiles back, as Naomi hugs him and rubs his back.

"come on...tells us about everything. We have some food left over for you and we can get a bath ready." Ichigo said.

Zero Two takes Hiro's hand. "let's go Darling"

Hiro smiles at her and both walk behind Goro and Ichigo.

"we are finally...home..."

There you have it! I'm currently in the process of writing out chapter one, keep your eyes out for when it comes out! I will use a few headcanons by godzillanon(on tumblr) in the next chapters (with their permission of course) and a few of my own. Thank you so much for reading! Currently I don't know how many chapters there will be but I hope you guys like this story and I'm sorry if there are writing mistakes, it's been a while since I last wrote out a fanfic.