A/N Edit: I should mention that this story is the sequel to my previous story, To Love-Ru: I Struggle, and it's recommended to read that first, to understand where this story begins. Thanks, and sorry for those who thought I was posting a new chapter!

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To Love-Ru: The Fight for Love
Chapter 1.0
The Prologue

Earth,
Some Years from Now

"Mama!" the young, Pink-haired girl sitting in her mother's lap shouts in disbelief as her mother stops her story, "It can't end there, what happened to Daddy next?" The older woman laughs, a sound like chiming bells, before tickling her squirming child who laid tucked under her covers. The eight year old child laughed as she was attacked by her mother, wriggling out of her reach until she broke out of her bedding, her tail whipping around in spasms with her laughter. The girl jumps out of her bed to escape her tormentor, with her mother running after her to get her to stop.

"Ichigo, get back here!" Lala Satalin Deviluke-Yuuki states, her ethereal beauty having matured as she grew into her figure, now a thirty year-old woman who looked like she was still in her early twenties, "Stop, before you hurt yourself!" It took a moment for the young woman, with her hair flowing down in waves to reach her lower back, to chase after her daughter once she ditched her heels to chase after her energetic youngster. 'Was I this much trouble for Zastin at this age?' she asks herself, as she sees her giggling daughter duck into the only other room on the ship she knew she could easily find, "Ichigo, don't bug your cousin; what happened to you being tired~!" An exasperated Lala sighs as she knocks on her niece's door. "Uwe, it's me, your favorite~ Aunt in the whole, wide galaxy~!" she calls cheerily yet her tiredness and exasperation leaks into it, whistling innocently as she waits for her pre-teen niece's permission to enter her room, "A fugitive from bedtime seems to have taken refuge in your room; may I please be allowed inside to carry out the hit on my target?" Hearing giggling from inside the room, Lala patiently waited outside the door until it opened up to reveal an eleven year old with long, lime-green hair, an innocent smile on her face, and a twirling spade tail that curled innocently in shapes like a pretzel.

"Why, Aunt Lala, what brings you to the humble dormitory of the fifth royal Princess of Deviluke, me, Uwe?" Uwe states semi-cheekily to her aunt, the queen, "I didn't know you were a part-time bounty hunter, I thought you left that to auntie Eve?" Lala put a hand to her cheek, mimic deep thought, before returning her view to her niece with a smile.

"I promise to let you spend time with your aunt Celine and Mikan in the Junior Justice Division, maybe even give you your own personalized All~Mighty Tool," she offers to her niece like a carrot on a string, "I'll even make it ~sparkle~" At that, it was as if a gleam of light was reflected from Uwe's eyes, a sharp smirk now gracing the young girl's face.

"Why didn't you say so sooner Aunt Yuuki, I would have let you in ~ages~ ago," she states excitedly, as she makes a grand sweeping gesture to invite her in, "I won't stop you, though I believe I should make you aware that Ichigo had made a convincing counter-offer about a sleep-over that almost swayed me to her side; don't tell her you bribed me with my own A.T., okay?" Lala smiles as the semi-transparent train of her nightgown trails in behind her like a glittering night sky.

"Noooooo~ Uwe, I thought you were on my side!" Ichigo playfully whines, as she peeks out from under her older cousin's covers, knowing Lala was not fooled a bit, "I even promised you to get you into Mama's lab if you let me stay for a sleep over!" Lala raises an eyebrow at that, while Uwe merely chuckles and shrugs her shoulders. Lala merely shakes her head and sighs, before grabbing her daughter from under the covers and moving so she was able to sit on the bed next to her.

"Fine, I won't stop a sleep over, but you better get some pillows if you want to get comfortable," Lala informs her niece and daughter, "I wasn't done with my story before this little delinquent ran off, so I expect you both to stay and listen to me finish my story!" Both girls' eyes widened, before they ran off to grab whatever pillows and blankets they could get to snuggle up and make themselves cozy. By the time they had gotten comfy, Uwe had set up a makeshift bed of pillows and blankets on the floor, while Lala and Ichigo had selfishly taken up her own bed, sprawled across the mattress, with Lala stroking her daughters short, pink hair in her lap. "Now, let's see, where was I..." she stated teasingly, with a confused look as if she had truly forgotten, "Oh, yes, that's right; my beloved husband had just gotten a message from my Papa..."

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Earth,
Now

Rito stared at the floating crystal which held vital information sent by King Gid himself, sensitive information he was told to view alone. "So let me tell you about what's going on, and why Earth is in the cross hairs to play center stage for an all new Galactic War..." the message had just relayed to him in the King's voice, "A new power play has been happening under my nose while I was busy with the wedding; though its steady growth has been occurring for a little more than a year now, it spilled over into becoming an immediate problem for me, for you, and for the entire universe." He could tell by the King's tone that this was a serious matter. "A dangerous man I had locked away within the Castle's dungeons; a scientist that had been hired over thirty years ago by a volatile terrorist group that favored anarchy and chaos, Eden, has been forcibly released by one of the surviving splinter cells," Gid states over the prerecorded message, purple crystal floating just over the ornate bottle, "You have run into their goons before in the form of an organization named Solgam, which had started off as a simple black market group, it has now grown into a thorn in my side when a man who has come to be known only by his title as 'Boss' began to organize them into something more." Rito gulped as the recording continues.

"The GPD and my sources in the black market now both corroborate Solgam's current goal when the Doctor is involved," Gid continues, "The Doctor, as his moniker suggests, had experimented on people in the past: enhancements, upgrades, you name it; having came into Eden's employ as a young student with low morals, you've since become familiar with one of the final projects he worked on before the end of the last great galactic war and the scattering of Eden's might into, what I had assumed was, oblivion." Rito doesn't know what Gid was talking about, until his mind flashed with the thought of Golden Darkness and the day she had explained her origins to him. "Golden Darkness, along with Professor Tearju Lunatique, and the ones you know as Mea, and Nemesis, were all a part of Project:EDEN, an unknown goal held by the organization of its namesake, which we had assumed had been stymied upon its destruction," King Deviluke continues to report, "Unfortunately it seems that before his capture, the Doctor had an unknown last resort hidden away: The Anarchists Beryl, an attempt by the reckless scientist utilizing his knowledge of nanotechnology to replicate the abilities of the Taoist Pearls."

Rito took note that someone had attempted to copy the pearls, knowing full well that the way they were formed was lost millennium ago. "While it was assumed he had failed in properly replicating the technology, the GPD and chatter in the underworld has stated that Solgam has been combing the burnt out husks of former Eden bases, and a few secret bases we hadn't been aware of, in hopes of gaining access to data regarding the supposed gem's whereabouts," Gid speaks, as Rito nods along, "This has forced me to turn to you and your friends in a hopes of getting someone to it before Solgam gets its hands on it, and as we have Golden Darkness and the infamous Black on retainer now, I've managed to get them both to get a group together in hopes of tracking down this imitation fabrication in hopes of smoking out the Doctor in the process."

Rito waits for the King to continue, but he seems to switch gears. "Unfortunately it has also come to my attention that Solgam has spread out across the universe while planting sleeper cells of itself within a numerable amount of less traveled, or recognized, planets that Deviluke as a whole has ignored; now I realize, to our detriment," Gid makes clear, "Among them appears Earth, as an unaffiliated planet with a large extraterrestrial population of refugees and glorified tourists." The King pauses in the recording, before resuming with gravitas. "An unfortunate realization, as your own marriage to my Daughter has brought Earth into the GPD's eye as potential problem," Gid states, his tone becoming something that nearly bordered on 'caring', "If things do not happen quickly to end Solgam's threat, your planet along with a list of others will be quarantined and forcibly isolated to prevent another Great Galactic War." Rito freezes thinking the worst at that, of his friends and family both aliens and not, that call Earth home. If it was isolated from the galactic community, either the aliens would be forced to evacuate, or face being stuck on a rock for the rest of their foreseeable lives. Ren, Run, Kyouko, Mikado, Lala, Nana, Momo, Peke, and even Celine, would either have to uproot their lives and return to wherever they came from, or stay and become exiles with the rest of the planet.

"I know this is not an easy decision to make Rito, nor should it be taken lightly, but there is one way to surely prevent the forced isolation," Gid states, surprising Rito, who perks up expectantly, "The GPD will not be forced to do anything until your official marriage to my daughter, Lala, and as you have stated not wanting to make it official until you complete your schooling, I have managed to make a bargain with the head of the GPD." Rito swallows as he listens to Gid expectantly, hoping the King had somethng in the works to save them from this fate. "The GPD will not make a move for exactly nine months, as I managed to convince them to give you a little bit of extra time if you manage to isolate the Solgam cell on your planet, while we deal with the Doctor and the 'Boss', by then you will be allowed to continue living on Earth," Gid announces, "Or upon your failure, you will be forcibly relocated to Deviluke with Lala; your family would be welcomed of course, but little else could be done for your human friends, with GPD forcing restrictions." He grows crestfallen at that, but also understands that the continuation of the Deviluke line was more important than one planet. "So I give you one of two choices Rito Yuuki," Gid states, "Expose the Solgam cell on Earth, reveal their existence to the humans living on your planet, or do the one thing that no one would expect: conquer Earth with Lala's help, crush the Solgam cell, and reveal your position as prince-consort to the Devil Star Princess, my daughter, Lala." Rito blinks at Gid's enthusiasm, as the message ends with the crystal returning to its base, dropping the ornate bottle to the ground like the dead stone it was.

Rito had been given all of his options. The question now would be, which one would he choose?

A/N: The beginning of a brand new story by me! Check out my other story, 'To Love-Ru: The Stories of our Lives', every so often for an exciting story collection that will showcase the stories I wanted to tell, but felt didn't belong here. Don't forget to favorite, follow, and leave a review!

For the readers who viewed this yesterday, you'll notice Chapter One is radically different. It's also easier to read, so what can I say except, You're welcome!