As the VIRM use their powers to upload the consciousness of the humans from the Plantation into their system, Hiro uses his connection with the Klaxosaur Princess to delay the explosion of the Star Entity, while the rest of Squad 13 rushes back to the Grand Crevasse to help their friends. Two members of the Nines are killed by VIRM, sending Alpha into a rage. Meanwhile a wounded Zero Two meets with Dr. Franxx, who explains that she and the rest of the Nines were created by cloning the Princess' cells, but she was the only of them who inherited her powers...