Disclaimer: I do not own Megami Kouhosei nor any of the characters featured there. I just borrow them for my personal recreation and, hopefully, yours.

Notes: This is a series of short/long drabbles and not an ongoing fanfiction per se. There will be 6 or 8 of them, all featuring one or more familiar characters. Mainly, they're a possible take on the future of the series and not necessarily what I really believe that will happen. Read with an open mind and I hope you enjoy it!

I will post warnings on the pairings -or hinted pairings- as I update. Suffice to say, I lean towards all the major and most common pairings.

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Zero and Kizna

"Zero?" she asked, breaking the easy silence.

"Yes?" he returned. She could never startle him.

"Are you truly happy? With Eeva Leena, I mean," she said, hoping her meaning would be plain.

Zero shifted slightly, stretching his legs, and for a moment he hovered next to her. "I am, Ki," he said, truthfully. He settled down again, wrenching his eyes from the attractive azure sight of the planet before them and focusing solely on the girl next to him. "She's what I wanted most, why shouldn't I be happy?"

Kizna's ears flickered inside the synthetic sphere of her space suit, as she looked at Zero in the eye. "She isn't Ernn Laties," she said simply.

Zero smiled or, actually, he grinned. Kizna had come to the conclusion that there were no 'half-ways' for Zero Enna: he went all the way, even when he smiled. "That's why I haven't changed Eeva Leena's name."

"I thought you hadn't because of Gareas-kun," Kizna frowned, narrowing her eyes.

Zero's smile toned down. "Partly because of Gareas's request and partly because she isn't my Ingrid."

Kizna was totally bewildered now. Whenever she thought she had figured Zero out, he came up with something new and unexpected. Way to keep life interesting, she thought as she slid her weightless body around, to face him completely.

"What do you mean 'she isn't your Ingrid'?" she asked at last, failing to keep indignation from her voice. "Who's Ingrid is it?"

"I don't know yet," he replied with complete calm, the dazzling grin resurfacing. "All I know is that I will be Pilot to Ernn Laties someday and we will name her together, Kizna."

"Have you been drinking something weird, Zero Enna? Or has the lack of gravity finally messed up your brain?" The pink haired girl huffed and stood up, hands on her hips, as she glared down at her partner. "You can't change Goddesses like you change underwear!"

Zero pushed himself off the metallic body that was G.I.S. with enough force to rocket up several feet into space. He floated there, completely at ease and turned to look at his Repairer.

"No and no," he said shortly. "But if you ask me, I think Hiead will get Eeva Leena."

Kizna gaped at him. "He— but he has the Black Goddess!"

Zero just looked at her with the same expression as before. Kizna bit her bottom lip in frustration. What the heck was Zero thinking?

"And you're okay with that?" she asked, not knowing what else to say.

Zero's chin bobbed up and down inside his transparent globe.

"Alright, who are you and what have you done with Pilot 02, Zero Enna?"

Zero's laughter came as a trickle of running water. "Don't freak out, Kizna! It's just that now I know we'll work together one day, so I've been trying to accept it."

Kizna gave a sharp pull to the cable linking them together and Zero came spiralling down and landed, head first, on the smooth hull of the space station. "You 'know'? How?" she asked, curiously, when Zero stopped scowling at her.

"Teela said so."

"Oooh, of course! 'Teela said so'! Indeed, every word from her mouth is to be written down and taken as holy!"

This time Zero tried to stifle the giggle urging to leave his throat. Kizna's tone dripped jealousy, but Zero knew she had actually idolized Teela before he had even know the female Pilot's name. Of course, he wasn't about to tell Kizna that: he rather enjoyed more the time they spent at evens than the one spent at odds.

"Really," he said, trying to sound serious. "Hiead and I are equal in most things, so she said that if we work together –and we will learn how to, eventually- we'll be successful."

Kizna wanted to ask what he meant exactly with 'successful', but she had a good idea about that, anyway. And some things could not even be whispered aloud, lest they be lost, so she nodded and left it at that.

"So, what makes you think he'll work quietly under your command –even in the unlikely case you do get to pilot the White Goddess?" she asked, instead. "I know he's a great Pilot and all that, but you must think highly of him, if you believe that he'll ever agree to be second to you. He's already raging that he only got the third Goddess and you the second... "

Zero shook his head. "I'm just repeating what Teela told me. Personally," he said, as he turned his eyes to Zion once again, "I think he's an ass."

Kizna laughed merrily at that, reassured that Zero was in fact Zero and not a brainwashed version of himself.

"But," Zero remarked, winking cheekily at the girl, "I won't be telling that to Teela."

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