This fanfic is settled after the core was opened and enemies like tinkinzar and the swarm were defeated. I planned this to be longer, but i think it will be fairly better if it was shorter. I might make a sequel (or a prequel) if this fanfic becomes somewhat popular, its my first attempt at making a fanfic...
The main character is.. well, my main character in spiral knights, zinco. I hope you guys like it:

" Journal number 264.

Zinco here. This is my first week after we escaped from cradle. It was one hell of a battle, tinkinzar, the "swarm"... But thankfully we managed to get out of there. I feel good that the order managed to settle down those problems between emberlight and the great colony, but i can't shake off the weird feeling of being called a "hero" by the gremilins themselves, even after i (and all other knights) slaughered various gremilin soldiers mercilessly. Anyway, they seem to have a bright future, the war is over, the swarm is gone (or at least is what we hope...), and haven is populated again by their original owners.
I feel rather weird by saying this, but i'm going to miss the cradle. Haven, the strangers, the snipes.... hell, even the clockworks. The last week we spent there was incredible, we celebrated our victory for an entire week, and for some reason, deeply inside me, i wanted it to last forever. I accomplished so many things there.. i got stronger, i faced enemies that i would never imagine that exsisted, i made new friends, i even got a girlfriend there! (her name is banoll, in case i never mentioned her here.). I kind of liked the whole day-to-day danger we had to face there, the feeling that death is hiding in every corner, and especially the one of beating the odds, and surviving.
Its nice to be back home, to see my family again, my old home and the rest.. But i feel like i haven't been here for years! (well, litteraly, in this case). And again, i am going to miss the danger. It's like i completed the largest achievment of my life! I feel both great and terrible, great for accomplishing this, but terrible since i might not have an adventure like that for the rest of my life. I'm in a "what happens now? what will i do?" situation... if this was a video game i would simply go play another one... but this is real life. I don't know if there is really going to happen anything exciting after this.
This makes us think: "do we really have an objective in this life?" or "are we just trying to fill ourselves with useless battles and objects in an emtpy society?", either i am somewhat depressed, or i the multiple concussions of gremilin hammers, office equipments, and of course, a gigant mace have caused several brain damage to me, and i am having hallucinations due to that. Thinking better, i have a good life... good friends, a loving girlfriend, and, there is the whole universe left to explore out there! The clockworks are probaly just an itty bitty grain of sand when compared to the thousands of galaxies out there. Truly, all i need now is some rest (and a LOT of it). And after that, off to explore again!
The next years are going to be quite calm... so i hope i have anything interesting to write here.
Zinco out."

Trivia:
-banoll is my secondary character, she is a gunner, and i created her after the new intro missions were launched.
-This fanfic was originally intended to have six chapters, and they would happen during the voyage from cradle to the knight's home planet.
-The original fanfic would have player-made characters (character apps), so i might add this in the prequel or sequel.