Chapter 4: the mission that changed everything

A/n: okay, Last chapter with the child arc. I apologize for not answering any of your questions, As I am trying to pump out more and longer chapters for all of you.

Answering questions:

To guest: I will do my best to update more than just a week. And I'll get to updating Keijo once I get this story rolling a bit. That story seriously needs updates in chapters.

To Cobalt gundam: can't spoil that part just yet. Sorry buddy.

Okay, Once again I am sorry about the last chapter not making sense, But hopefully this one will. Please enjoy.

-10 years later-

Ever since they had received their franxx now known as the name nightshade by Code 225. They had been training and mastering their franxx combat skills ever since for 10 long grueling years. They were punished from time to time for their failures, But since Code 225 liked to pick on Okami the most, He would personally punish him with more darker methods.

Over the course of those 10 years, Okami had began to become more like his brothers and sisters of his plantation...

In battle that is.

In battle he was wild, Ruthless, Cold, Unflinching, And burning with both rage and excitement when he tore into the Klaxosaurs. He always smiled wide when he got into fights recklessly, But his reckless actions were what killed his prey faster, Albeit with him receiving huge heavy backlash shocks from him losing his franxx parts in the process each time until nothing but a heavily damaged torso and head remained.

When outside of battle he was in fact very cold to his own comrades, Not responding to them at all. He just kept to himself, And stayed in his cell, Always curing up into a ball in his home that was the corner. Okami's visions of his friends over the years was also starting to get hazy, And only images of Klaxosaur dead bodies, Blue blood, And visions of punishment for his actions were all that showed in his broken mind. Even his comforting visions of Ichigo were beginning to slowly break apart, Piece by piece.

Okami never once spoke or interacted with his so called "Comrades". They were far too feral to have a conversation with. All they did was follow orders from their leader, And ate their very flesh as their only food source. Okami still couldn't get used to consuming his own body, And was always forced to eat his own flesh by Code 225 from time to time. However behind his back, He always threw it back up whenever he left him alone.

Okami was leery of trusting people now, He wasn't like that before he came to plantation 78. But then again, He wasn't subjected to this kind of hell either. There was no freedom in plantation 78. You couldn't walk around, You couldn't visit your comrades in their cells, You couldn't do a damn thing but stay in your cell and be ordered to the hanger to get into your franxx. Everything was extremely limited in the place, And that's what Okami hated the most. He wanted something, Anything to break him out of this dead end.

As Okami was in his own personal space, Trying to envision something other than the horrors that he done, The door had opened as two guards came to get him.

"Code 300, Come. You are to be deployed for a mission" one of the guards told him.

Okami then lifted his head at them and slowly began to get up and follow them without question. He quietly followed them to the hanger and got into his franxx, As he then took off his upper clothing and linked up to the robot. The painful shock was something that, Even now he couldn't get used to. He always still grunted or yelped in pain whenever he linked up with his franxx. Okami then looked at his surroundings through his franxx visors, He was that his comrades were already gone.

He didn't question it at all, He just wanted the mission to be done and go back to his peace and quiet corner of solitude. However he then heard the sound of another franxx coming over to his.

Unfortunately it was Code 225.

'Shit...not this son of a bitch...!' Okami thought with bitterness and anger. During the time of his 10 years as a Belladonna unit soldier, Okami had only been showing a single emotion that stayed with him ever since they were given their franxx: Anger. This single minded emotion was what drove him to kill the Klaxosaurs without hesitation. But this anger also was birthed from both the Seven Sages and especially Code 225. The mere mention of Papa would cause Okami to go into an absolute rage, And that anger for him only grew and grew as the years went on. But during the years, He never did understand what the doctor had told him when he told him that now was the "Time to act".

"Hey! How's my Belladonna today?" Code 225 asked Okami with a slap to the back. This only made Okami grit his teeth and walk away from him as he then headed out of the base as Code 225 followed him. "Hey now, Where do you think you're going?" Code 225 asked him.

"Doing my job..." Okami responded in a bitter tone.

"Is that any way to speak to your leader?" Code 225 asked him in a bit of a demanding tone of voice.

Okami didn't respond to his question and that quickly made Code 225 upset. Code 225 then grabbed Okami's franxx and punched his franxx in the chest, Okami quickly felt the painful backlash shock in his chest, Getting a hard grunt to escape his mouth. That's when an image of Code 225 appeared on Okami's cockpit visor. "Listen you dog! You will answer me when I ask you a question! Understand?! You WILL obey me when I am giving orders! And I will not be ignored! Or spoken back to! You have been within my plantation for the past 10 years! And even now you still don't respect me! No matter how much I punish you!".

Code 225 then held Okami's nightshade franxx by the neck, Okami could feel his own air support starting to leave his own body. Code 225 then pulled his franxxs face close to his robots face. "Do...you...understand now?" Code 225 spoke to him in a much darker tone. Okami couldn't respond to him, On a account of two reasons:

One: he was being strangled.

Two: he refused to give him an answer.

Code 225 didn't get an answer from him, This made him even madder, As he then threw Okami to the ground and actually walked onto his franxx body, Almost crushing the chest and left arm. The backlash came back even harder with the amount of pressure that Code 225 put into his hard steps onto Okami's franxx. And as a result, This caused Okami to become even angrier than before because of this. The two very rarely worked together because of how much they clashed with each other on occasions. Okami refusing to follow Code 225's orders, And Code 225 always making sure to punish him for it.

However they had to work together today because of a mission that a few of the Belladonnas that were tasked with taking care of the mission hadn't returned. And so they were tasked to investigate and kill the target if it was still alive.

-the old city-

The two had made their way to an old city, A relic of the old world that was abandoned by humans long ago. The information that was given to them was that their comrades and the target were last seen here. Okami had a standard issue javelin bolt gun and a longsword with him, While Code 225 had his personal club and a .950 JDJ Caliber Rifle. The two used their thrusters to carefully search the place for clues, Okami was mostly fascinated by the old city. It's large towers, And small shops that were scattered.

Code 225 then called him via video chat.

"Be on guard" he told him "We have to find our comrades and whatever Klaxosaur that they had to go after". Okami nodded at him, But in reality, He could have cared less about his comrades. They were basically wild monsters anyway in his eyes, So why care? Plus they were all expendable, So why even bother trying to look for them? But he kept these questions to himself and just followed his bastered leaders orders. The two kept carefully going into the old city further and further, Until they then heard a noise.

"What was that?" Okami asked Code 225.

"Probably the Klaxosaur that the original team didn't take care off" he responded back "Let's find it and then look for our comrades".

The two then kept going deeper into the city, They heard the sound again, Only this time it sounded closer to them. This made them stop in their tracks. Code 225 got his club ready, As Okami had his bolt gun aimed. "That sounded close" Okami muttered as he looked at his surroundings "You think this Klaxosaur might be underground?".

"Perhaps...Let's split up and find it!" Code 225 ordered. Okami quickly went off as soon as he had told him to do so, Mainly to get away from him and be at peace in solitude once more. Okami dashed to the east, Checking his blind spots for any Klaxosaurs. He didn't find anything however. Okami then began to ponder a bit. "Nothing so far...hmm, Maybe we're just here to see if our comrades are dead or alive? Heh, Not that it really matters!" Okami pondered about their mission. However as he kept going he then saw what appeared to be a bookstore. This instantly caught his attention as he made his franxx stop as he then unlinked himself from it and opened the hatch.

"A place for books out here?" Okami pondered out-loud as he climbed down his franxx and landed on the ground and walked over to the ancient small building. He made his way inside the large open hole and looked around, He saw thousands of books, All either burned, Torn up, Or completely destroyed by years of being unkept in good condition. Okami had read some books while at the garden with his friends, And that made him remember them for only a brief moment in his head. However as he kept exploring, He then saw a small rack of books with the word above the shop labeled "Mangas".

"Man..gas...? What kind of books are these?".

He walked into the open book rack, He saw many manga books with pictures of colored characters on the front covers. He had never seen these in the garden before when he was in their library of books, And these strange books were already catching his interest. He then picked one of the manga books up and opened it...

To his surprise, It was a picture book. It had images of different characters, Strange oval circles that had a weird language in them, If it would even be called a language to begin with. Seeing this absolutely blew Okami away. He then skimmed it, Unfortunately it was also messed up. He frowned at this discovery.

"Oh come on! Even this picture book is ruined!" He expressed with disappointment as he then placed it back onto it's shelf. He glanced at some of the other manga books, Until he saw one in a glass case, That was surprisingly untouched by dirt, Dust, Nor did it look worn out or ruined. And the glass case that covered it was still in tact. Okami smiled as he went over to it, He looked at the manga book to see what it's title had said:

"Iron blooded orphans: Mobile Suit Gundam Gekko. English translation".

Reading the name of the book out-loud to himself made him question some things about it: what was a gundam? What was an orphan? What was a mobile suit? All of this new information made him want to read this book now. Okami then looked around the glass case, Only to see that it was locked.

"Locked huh? Heh, Not for long" Okami stated as he then smashed the glass with his Klaxosaur arm, It hurt obviously, But he didn't care now that he had the manga book in his possession. He cleaned off the shards of glass that was on the top of the cover and picked it up and looked at it carefully. This manga book was in great condition, And it was surprisingly a very large manga book too! Weighing about the size of a small dictionary. Okami then opened it and like the front of the book said, The words were in english. He skimmed through it to read each word and he understood it well. He then glanced at the end of the book to see colorful pictures of different machines that had that word gundam at the end of them.

"Interesting, So the people of the old world had these franxx? But I wonder why the doctor renamed them to this term back then?" Okami questioned. Unfortunately his questions were going to have to wait when he heard what sounded like yelling coming from his franxx. Okami took his newfound book and rushed to his franxx and climbed in and got strapped. Only to then notice that the audio chat was on the whole time he had been gone.

"YOU DAMN FAILURE! WHERE THE HELL ARE YOU!? IF I FIND YOU WHEN I KILL THIS KLAXOSAUR! I SHALL DESTROY YOU MYSELF!".

Code 225 was yelling on the audio while he sounds of a struggle could also be heard. Okami rolled his eyes, As he then rushed over to his leader in a hurry.

Okami quickly contacted him:

"Hey!".

"Code 300! Where were you when I ordered you to get back to my location!? I have been calling you for 23 minuets! You're so going to be punished for this disobedience!".

"Yeah yeah, Whatever. Look, Let's just-".

"WHAT DID YOU JUST SAY TO ME!?".

Okami was really starting to get annoyed by Code 225 and his damn ungodly attitude, So he completely turned off both his audio and video chat communication systems and just headed over to his location. It didn't take him long to find his leader and his comrades, All of which were killed. Their franxx heads were crushed and torn off. And from the looks of it, It looked like 5 of them.

But right now, Killing this Klaxosaur was what mattered right now, And as soon as he he saw it, The Klaxosaur in question was none other than a Katze-Chimare. This type wasn't anything new to the Belladonna unit because they had been hunting them since they had started piloting their franxx, To the point of extinction. This katze was slightly bigger, And was heavily wounded, But still able to fight.

Code 225 was trying to hold it off alone with his franxxs chainsaw, But it proved much more formidable than he had expected. He then saw Okami come over to him and grunted.

"About time your worthless ass got here!" Code 225 spat as he was now trying to push the Klaxosaur back, Okami then began to smirk as he then had that look of excitement in his eyes and face, Smiling like some sort of lunatic.

"Let's see what you've got!" Okami roared as he then purposely got angry, Starting up his franxxs stampede mode. As soon as his franxx jumped into the air, It transformed into it's animal form and landed onto the Klaxosaurs back. The katze then thrashed around to get the franxx off of it, Using it's only remaining tendril tail left as a whip. It was able to hit the mecha a few times, But it then resorted to running into the buildings to knock the franxx off of it. It did this at least four times, But Okami remained his grip on it. He was digging his franxxs claws into the beast, Hearing it sharp howls and growls of anger. Okami then jumped off of the monsters back landing next to Code 225.

"You done messing around?" Code 225 asked him.

"Just shut up and let's kill this thing!" Okami responded as both he and Code 225 then rushed at the katze Klaxosaur, The Klaxosaur then rushed at them as well, Causing all three of them to slam into each other with a heavy impact. Code 225 and Okami got the backlash from it, While Code 225's chainsaw had actually imbedded itself into the Klaxosaurs skull. Okami noticed his and took the weapon into his animal mouth and pulled it down to it's side. The beast was in far too much pain to fight back, Giving Okami much ample time to then run forward with the chainsaw in it's mouth and gut open the beasts skull all the way to it's tail. It's upper body was now opened, And Code 225 took that opportunity to grab both slightly open ends, And then proceeded to rip the monster in half, As it's yellow and blue core fell out of it's body. Code 225 then stomped on the core, As he then dropped the two ripped half's of the Klaxosaur to the ground. Okami walked over to him, Dropping his leaders weapon from his mouth.

"Jobs done" Okami said "Now-agh!".

Okami's sentence was cut short by the swift swipe of Code 225's club weapon. He then transformed it into it's chainsaw form as he used his mechas foot to then stomp on Okami's stampede form.

"Let's get one thing straight, Code 300!" Code 225 informer him "Don't you ever ignore me! Don't give me orders! And especially don't wield my own weapon! GOT IT!?". And with that Code 225 left Okami once again to pick himself up. Okami sighed, He knew that he would be punished for this, But he didn't care at that moment. Because all that mattered now, Was reading that book he had found. He smiled to himself.

"Tch! Stupid jerk...but at least I'll get my peace and quiet back home. Especially when I look over this book" he told himself.

A/n: long but yeah. Guess I cannot go five minutes without putting gundam in something. Sorry, But I just really love mecha crossovers. And yes, He'll get a custom franxx based on a gundam. But that's for latter.