Hiro remembered how this battle had gone last time, the memory felt like a dream, so far ago yet, in reality, it had only been a couple of months before he had been thrown back in time. His head hurt trying to think about how that worked, time felt so wrong when one could just mess with it like that.

Hiro heard the familiar sounds of the Franxx powering up, and watched the synch ratios appear upon the briefing screen. Something wasn't right, somehow Chlorophytum was in synch, unlike before when it had failed to connect. 'Odd' Hiro thought, making a mental note of that before looking over at 02 who had a similar look on her face. 'Perhaps our intervention at certain events has already changed things up' He thought.

"Para-capacities are clear, all Franxx is a go," Said one of the operators. The screens whirring to life as information streamed past the eyes of Nana and Hachi. Nana breathed a sigh of relief at the sight of all the successfully connected Franxx. She commanded the brand new parasites forward to the drill site, with each of the parasites making a comment on the size of the hole, and it's depth.

Nana turned to Hiro and Zero-Two, "You two are still a no-go, due to… the unusual circumstances revolving around your Franxx and your pairing. While you two may be officially paired, I am not allowed to authorize the two of you into combat, but we do need you two on standby in case the mission goes awry."

Hiro gave Zero Two a look and they both grinned happily, soon they would get to be back in the thick of it fighting the Klaxosaurs.

Hachi then took command of the parasites, "Head down into level eight, as you're well aware by now in order to completely neutralize a Klaxosaur, you need to extract its core, which is essentially it's heart, and then shatter it with your customized magma energy weapons if the core is destroyed, so is the klaxosaur, got that?"

"Roger!" Echoed the voice of the parasites in confirmation.

"Proceeding to objective," Came Ichigo's voice through comms. "Both of you, fall in behind Delphinium," ordered Ichigo. "Got it," affirmed the voice of Kokoro.

"Miku?" Questioned Ichigo, waiting for a reply.

"Yeah, yeah, I got it." She groaned out. Hiro smirked to himself, he used to wonder why she got paired with Zorome, but now it was confirmed in his mind why. They were both so sassy and weren't as uniform and standard as the other parasites. He chuckled internally, trying to imagine any other person who could possibly be paired with either of those two.

The Franxx made their way through the drill hole, pushing past complex mining machinery. The sounds of mechanical clanking eerily made their way to the ears of the parasites, psyching them out even further.

Eventually, the new pilots made their way to a room that appeared to be a large vat bay, filled with magma energy. A singular blue and black orb lay attached to one of the vats, trying in vain to suck the magma out of the tube. A small tail hung off it's back.

"Target sighted," Reported Ichigo, as Delphinium raised it's swords to attack. Quickly bolting forwards, the blue and white mech struck hard into the little ball, sword diving deep into the klaxosaur. With a yank, Delphinium pulled its sword out of the klaxosaur. The creature was launched upwards with the force and small spindly legs emerge from its body to commence battle.

The sounds of combat began to radiate from the comms, with everything going seemingly the same as Hiro remembered, although this time around Chlorophytum was there to provide covering fire for the rest of the Franxx. The engagement moved exactly as before, although the Franxx weren't beat up nearly as much, and their kill counts were ever so slightly higher. Ultimately, the Franxx fell just has they had before, with unstoppable tides of klaxosaurs rushing over the fallen Franxx.

Nana turned to Hiro and Zero-Two, her face icy and her stare hardened "Alright pilots, finish their failed mission."