"We'll probably fade soon."

"Yeah."

The two now-Klaxo Sapiens were bathed in light, and both could feel their consciousness fading. They were at peace with that, though. They had done what they needed to.

The two nuzzled their horns against each other, waiting for the inevitable fade in consciousness.

"Hey, darling?"

"Yeah, Zero Two?"

"Who are all those people?"

Hiro looked at Zero Two's face, whose expression was one of confusion. He turned his head to face in the opposite direction to find a large crowd of humanoid beings in the void with them. In the front of the crowd, however, was a familiar face.

"I didn't think you would give up your lives so easily, Ningen." The Klaxosaur Princess walked (as well as one could in the void between life and death) towards the duo, stopping about an arms length from them. She glanced back at what now appeared to be hundreds of Klaxo Sapiens, then returned her gaze onto the heroes.

"How are you here? How are we here, for that matter?" Hiro questioned. He had fully expected to be dead, by this point, but now he was speaking with a dead princess.

"Darling has a point," Zero Two glared at the princess. They hadn't exactly left off on the best of departures. Being thrown out of her FranXX didn't really help.

"I am here," the princess stated, "because my soul was tied to both of yours. I did give up my life for you two. I'm glad you did not disappoint." The princess moved forward again, grabbed the two of them by the shoulders, and began pushing them towards a gate of light that had appeared in their peripheral vision. "Of course, we can't have you two die."

"Why not?" Zero two asked.

"Because you are our final hope." The voice was a new one, and the trio turned to find what appeared to be an elderly Klaxo Sapien approaching them. The man, whose facial features were being blocked by the heavenly light, appeared to grin at them. "We can't have our species die, after all."

The two lovers found that they had reached the gate of light, and before they could respond, found they were entangled by the princess' tail. The princess stared at them for a while, as if memorizing them. Then, finally, she sighed. "Live on, Ningen-" she nodded at Hiro- "Fa-sister." she gazed at Zero Two, who seemed surprised to be called sister.

"Wait-" she began, but before she finish, the princess flicked her tail towards the light, and flung them into the realm of the living. The two disappeared with a flash.

The princess did the mental equivalent of a sigh when she saw her fellow Klaxo Sapien turn to gaze at her.

"Sixty million years spent alone must have been horrible." the man spoke.

"Most of it was spent in hibernation." She really didn't want to talk about it. She had been reminded far to often of her own failures while watching those two have something she could never-

"I'm sorry we places that burden on you." The man's voice was filled with regret. "Allow us to give you one last apology."

"What-?"

In just a few moments, the congregation of her brethren had picked her up, and, despite her struggles, bega moving her to the gate of light.

"Wait! Let-me-go!" She snarled as the light began to blind her from her fellow Klaxo Sapiens.

The congregation seemed to speak as one. "Live on, Princess. You have always been our hope. As we fade into nothingness, you have a chance to revive our people, and protect Home."

The princess stopped struggling enough to see two familiar Sapiens in the crowd, and they gazed into her soul with their unseen eyes. The princess stretched out her hand, reaching for them like she had on that day sixty million years ago…

"You are our greatest hope. You always have been. Don't forget that."

...

She saw nothing but gold.

Zero Two woke up in the arms of her darling, who slumbered beside her. She stood and stretched and took in her surroundings. They were in...Strelieza?

Hiro shifted in his sleep. "Zero...Two…" he murmured. He reached out sleepely with arms, as if hoping to find her.

She wasted no time returning into his embrace. The two returned to their peaceful sleep.