What do you think of Human Kind?

The screen on the inside of Strelizia showed the situation below, Hiro felt a rush run through his veins and growled in pleasure. It was the most amazing thing he ever felt in his entire life, better than his first time, in every sense of the way.

Zerotwo groaned and her horns glowed red, Hiro's eyes glow slightly as he grinned, his canines were a bit sharper and gleamed as he said "Let's give them a show, Angel." Zerotwo purred "Yes, Darling~" they both sank into the feeling and Hiro gripped the handles tightly.

They both heard Hachi's voice "Relax! You're going too far!" he was ignored, as the duo were immersed in each other, not even hearing him,

Strelizia whipped it's right arm to the side and a spear appeared in it's hand. It spun in the air and thrusted downwards, piercing the giant Klaxosaur right through the core and blowing it up completely, splattering blue blood everywhere.

The other Franxx watched and Ichigo shouted frantically "Who's Piloting Strelizia!?!" Goro tried to calm her down but the Franxx shut down from a lack of a stable connection.

Strelizia landed on the ground and spun the spear/lance, throwing the core into a group of Klaxosaurs as Hiro roared from inside "LEAVE!" his voice was almost a growl, stunning the 6 others in the 3 Franxx.

Goro shouted "Retreat! Leave Strelizia to clean up!" the 3 Franxx got on an elevator and went up. Strelizia swung out the spear and sliced a bunch of Klaxosaurs in half, destroying their cores at the same time. It moved like lightning even using it's left hand and punching through a Ball-like Klaxosaur and ripping out it's core.

Strelizia crushed the core in it's hand as it continued it's slaughter, dying the underground mine in blue blood, splashing it everywhere and covering it in it at the same time. It was a brutal massacre. Not a single Klaxosaur survived.

Hachi shouted "Lock Strelizia immediately! Send in retrieval!" Nana said "Retrieval?! What's going on, Hachi?" Hachi said solemnly "Their connection is 100%, they can't hear us anymore." Nana gasped in shock and her eyes widened as she said "How is that possible?!"

Hachi said seriously "I don't know. In short, get Dr. Franxx." Nana nodded and took out her Comms before saying "Dr. You're gonna want to come take a look at this." Dr. Franxx replied "Oh? I'll be there."

Hiro and Zerotwo's eyes were completely blue and red respectively as they rampaged on the Klaxosaurs that were left. They killed the last one and Strelizia went to the elevator before it suddenly stopped moving. Hiro and Zerotwo's eyes went back to normal and he frowned shaking the handles saying "What happened?"

Zerotwo came out of her Pistil position and said "They locked us." Hiro sighed and let go of the handles saying "Things were just getting fun..." Zerotwo turned around and climbed up to him, pressing her hands by his head as she said "You were so good, Darling~"

Hiro's mouth twitched into a grin and he replied "It's it all because of you?" Zerotwo licked her lips and said "Yeah, I'm pretty amazing aren't I?" Hiro laughed and pulled her in, kissing her lips. She straddled him and wrapped her arms around his neck, prying his lips open and inserting her tongue inside his mouth.

As the two were exploring each other's mouths, Strelizia reached the surface. It was brought to the ground and the hatch opened. Zerotwo walked out and Hiro came out after her, he coughed into his hand and wiped his legs as if nothing happened, but Zerotwo saw the blood in his hands.

She felt a crisis and deep sadness, but she didn't know why. She didn't want him to die, absolutely not. Even thinking about it would make her fell terrible pain in her heart. Hiro rubbed his nose and grinned, thinking 'That was the most fun thing I've ever done in my life! Now, all I need to do is dance around some questions and we're good to go.'

He was really considering his neck move since he directly changed cannon. Mitsuru was supposed to Pilot and almost die, he can almost kill him himself so he didn't need to worry about that, but he piloted and was awake. This was the problem.

He cursed the old Hiro in his mind for being a pussy, how could he let someone else Pilot his woman!? Fuck! Now he had to deal with the aftermath, does he pretend to be fine, pretend to be sick? Ugh, as long as the VIRM don't catch on to his normal human behavior, he should be fine.

Dr. Franxx was addicted to Klaxosaurs and creating the Klaxosaur Queen, but could throw Ikuno under the bus and tell him she likes woman, maybe that will buy him some time? He narrowed his eyes and his grin was somewhat sinister.

Truthfully, he didn't care for the others. Goro was a friend, he would help him. But that's about it. Ichigo was a jealous mess and a handful, Ikuno was quiet but unsuitable to be a Parasite, he didn't really talk to Futoshi, Kokoro, or Miku so he couldn't care less about them, and he didn't like Zorome and Mitsuru.

Basically, the only person he would go out of his way for was Zerotwo. If something happened, he would help Goro, but the rest? As far as he was concerned, it wasn't his problem. What was he? A babysitter? They're old enough to take care of themselves and he was old enough to mind his own business.

Other than that, there's no relations.

Dust your hands off and forget about it. He wasn't going to stretch out his neck and play hero, teaching these kids how to love, hate, and feel emotions. First of all, he didn't quite know what Love was. Secondly, he wasn't a teacher. And finally, whether they live or die really was not a concern of his.

Maybe the subconscious Hiro would say otherwise.

Who cared what he thinks though? New Hiro is much better than the older model. He didn't really want to call himself a cuck, but considering he compared Piloting to sex... Offering Zerotwo to the kid with hair that was blasted by the wind for too long, was basically giving your wife away. What a fucking idiot.

Unacceptable.

It would never happen again, even if the world was to end.

The duo got off Strelizia and they smiled at each other before giggling and high fiving. Zerotwo and Hiro looked at each other, an inexplicable emotion appeared in their eyes. Zerotwo opened her mouth but she was interrupted "Zerotwo! Come along."

Zerotwo closed her mouth and clicked her tongue before caressing Hiro's cheek saying "See you, Darling." Hiro smiled and didn't say anything, memories of the anime flashed by his head and he muttered to himself "Dr. Franxx should be..."

He turned his head and looked in Zerotwo's direction. Sure enough, Dr. Franxx was there with Nana and Hachi. Hachi nodded to Hiro, who walked over.

He stood next to Zerotwo and said "Dr. Franxx." Dr. Franxx smiled and said "You know why I'm here?" Hiro said "I rode in Strelizia against orders." Dr. Franxx chuckled and said "That's not why I'm here. We can keep that under wraps, yeah?"

Nana and Hachi nodded, Hiro smiled and bowed saying "Thank you, Dr. Franxx!" Zerotwo pursed her lips, he was good at acting too~ She liked that. Dr. Franxx smiled saying "016, come with me, I'd like to ask you some questions. Ah, yes. We also have your new uniforms."

Hiro smiled and made a signal to Zerotwo behind his back as he left with Dr. Franxx. She looked at the signal and giggled before leaving with Hachi and Nana.

Hiro was brought into the Plantation, he said to Clank "Protect my memories." Clank just hummed coldly. Hiro didn't speak any further and followed Dr. Franxx to a room with high techy machinery and a screen showing a bunch of statistics.

Dr. Franxx sat down in a chair and sent the rest of the people out of the room. They all disappeared, leaving Hiro and Dr. Franxx alone. Hiro didn't say anything and Dr. Franxx took out a pair of glasses before looking at the statistics and saying "Tell me, 016. What do you think of Human kind?"

Hiro said with a smile "I love Human kind. I live to keep them safe." Dr. Franxx chuckled and said "You're smart. Dancing around my questions isn't going to get you anywhere because I like to think of myself as a smart person too. You can stop fooling around, nobody can see us here."

Hiro looked confused and said "What do you mean, Dr. Franxx?" Dr. Franxx typed on the keyboard attached to the table and replied "Playing the fool to the end, eh?" Hiro smiled and tensed his muscles, Dr. Franxx chuckled saying "You know, I've lived for a long time. We're quite alike, you and me. We both love Klaxosaurs."

He glanced at Hiro over his shoulder and added "So you can stop playing dumb in front of me, boy. The rest of APE doesn't need to know of our conversation." Hiro's eyes became bored and he said "What do you get from pushing me? As you may have seen, I don't mix well with the rest."

Dr. Franxx smiled and turned back to the screen and said "That's why I'm interested. You don't mix well with your fellow Parasites but your connection with 002 has reached 100%." Hiro walked to the desk and looked at the statistics, not understanding most of it, but still saying "Not a surprise."

Dr. Franxx said "Oh?" Hiro said in a bored tone "Considering none of the truly understand how to use a Franxx, it's not a surprise." Dr. Franxx said "And you do?" Hiro pursed his lips and said "You can say I have a basic understanding... I would like to know more though."

Dr. Franxx pushed up his glasses and said "Know more? You want me to teach you?" Hiro fired back "Would you? I don't think you're bored enough to teach a soldier unless information that will follow him into the ground when he dies in a Klaxosaur jaw."

Dr. Franxx clapped and said "Excellent! Maybe we're more alike than I thought! Haha!" Hiro smiled and said "Perhaps. So, the question is, are you going to give me all the documents on Franxx, the parts, the math, etc? Or am I going to have to try harder."

Dr. Franxx said "Let me put it this way. A day or so, the kissing will commence. Inevitably, there will be an attack. If you manage to Ride into battle with 002 again, I'll give you what you want. If you manage to kill the Klaxosaurs, I will agree to a single request. How's that?"

Hiro narrowed his eyes and said "Hopefully, I won't have to be under surveillance from now until that time." Dr. Franxx's eye flashed and he said "Very well." Hiro said "One more thing, I want more lee way if I complete the second task as well as the favor."

Dr. Franxx laughed and said "I say, boy. Do you want me to clean up your messes? Even I can't hide everything." Hiro said "Not too much, just small slip-ups. If I cause a scene and attract attention to myself en masse, then you don't have to stretch out your neck for me. I don't like owing others."

Dr. Franxx hummed and said "Alright. You have a deal. Your clothes are at the door." Hiro nodded and walked away, he picked up the sets of new uniforms and was about to leave when he stopped and said "You aske me what I thought of Human Kind?"

Dr. Franxx kept silent and Hiro said "I find it very ugly." before leaving the room, the door shutting behind him. Dr. Franxx laughed and said "Me too, kid. Me too..."