A/N: A third Blazblue fanfiction started all in the span of a few months? Certainly things have been slow, nothing that I think can come from simple words. But this one here will probably being my most ambitious of its kind. A strange but impacting look at Professor Kokonoe in all of her glory, an attempt to capture her eccentric nature and what's more...a mental delving into her mind. Through the eyes of Kageo-kaka, one of her latest creations (in a manner, Chronologically speaking) and one who autonomously voices his free thoughts to her. Unlike the respectful and considerate Tager who implicitly trusts Kokonoe or the silent and enigmatic Lambda-11, Kageo harbors a crush and wants to see the best of the Professor, choosing to believe in her good nature; or rather what little she has. In a world that carries sins, she is not innocent herself and he knows it as well as she does. Professor Kokonoe doesn't apologize for who she is or what she becomes in order to reach her goal, therein lies the conflicting focus. So stay with me, as this venture from one little Kaka's eyes do rest with the Professor Kokonoe on her string of choices. What may happen? Only time will be the teller as this story unfolds. Let's begin.

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Prologue: Merely a Kaka, onlooking eyes

Where to begin from a simple observation? This is exactly what someone who over-analyzes the small things might consider. At least that's what a lot of people would have you believe. But in the case of analyzing those like the most brilliant scientist at Sector Seven, you can only try to peel back the layers as best one can. There's a near impossible array of defenses one has to past to get close enough to get even a hint of truth from her presence.

Either being an aid or assistant to Professor Kokonoe would get you close enough, though spending so much time getting coffee or pushing papers for her will keep you too far to hear a peep of importance. But being a special case like myself, it gives one the opportunity to hear her thoughts and listen to rants or complaints from her as she spends all day focused on computer work. Rarely leaving the lab and constantly exploring the many theoretical points of her studies, when not focused on revenge. It might bring a question to mind as to our purpose in life or what has brings us use. The answers aren't that hard to grasp, each one of us may have been designed for something and then given a task or two.

Each one of her creations were made to either enforced an aspect of her studies or were focused on the tasks given them. For TR-0009, otherwise known as 'The Red Devil of Sector Seven', Iron Tager was built to carry out the heavy duty missions or retrieving articles of importance or anything the Professor sees in her designs. No less than her most ambitious conception known as Lambda-11, empowered by a top secret device she's murmured about called the "IDEA Engine", certainly this young woman is the strongest of us all theoretically speaking. Where does this leave me? That's the general question most ask, though its pretty simple: being a Kaka modified from birth, designed to be a multi-use weapon capable of carrying out missions under any scenario. With a variable system known as the Artifice Core System, it makes the job given by the Professor extra easy.

Though designed as a weapon, espionage and information gathering missions are my specialty. It comes with the territory of being a relatively ignored and unnoticed breed, most folks don't care to check if a Kaka has half a wit in their head. Most people assume that its the age old sleep'n'eat mentality. That kind of thinking let's almost everyone underestimate whose listening and it makes this job worlds easier. Then again, not everyone is that stupid, but even if they aren't, the bio-mechanical enhancements make discerning coded language or information in a computer easy to take and store. That's just to give an idea about what it is that my uses are.

Still whenever not on mission, I'm either free to do as I wish or the more likely choice: act as an in lab assistant. It's easier to trust what you've created with secrets above even the most trusted lab assistants. At least that's the feeling I get from the Professor, she doesn't talk much about it really, more just tells me grab the next box and move it. There are only guesses in this line of work, that's learned from the espionage detail or from just listening to the verbal games played by the Professor. It's easier to tell she does this, since its easy to smell a change in a person if they lie, pheromones and body language play a huge role in that, so its easier to use a half-truth or deflect it all together.

Then again that was only when she felt like it, if she was willing to explain anything at all. Such as it is, things are never dull around here in the lab. Whenever not on mission, it's trying to clean the lab under her instruction. There was always a box to move or information to type into a holo computer, nothing but the usual data entry kind of work. Still it was oddly amusing to find an enhanced Kaka to be used for mundane chores. Then again it was vintage Professor Kokonoe, whatever she decided you'd be doing, was exactly what would be done.

"Kageo! Get it together, get me coffee and my silvervine pops, now." Kokonoe's annoyed voice broke the Kaka from his thoughts.

"Right away, Professor!" Kageo said this while he blushed and then he left quickly down the hall.

He had been thinking a little too hard and forgot to get the Professor what he'd promised to less than a minute ago. Within less than 2 minutes, he returned with her silvervine pops and had her coffee supported on a small dish, balanced on his tail. The coffee was viennese cinnamon, lightly sugared, as he knew that she liked it in such a mood as this one. He could tell that she was just slightly annoyed, which was nothing new at all. As he saw her take the coffee and the lollipops without so much as a thanks, he gave off a light smile and went back to work.

Kokonoe was still busy at work, figuring out some variables in what she read off of the boot up test for Lambda-11. Still it was eluding her what caused the anomaly, there was little in way of words to describe her frustration. They were just the oddest little variables keeping her back and leaving her with no ways to adjust on account of the oddities she read. Still wasn't going to stop her from making use of Lambda in the field. She wasted no time once she found a hole in the variable, the thing that was causing her the errors.

"Ah ha! There you are, you little bugger, time to get you the hell out of my way." she'd say this while inputting the correct data.

She was wasting no time inputting the new data, and while she did so, she made sure to call Kageo again to put him to work. He had been off mission for a few days, and she bet that he had been lax in his training. It was time to put him back into action and to give Lambda a bit of exercise. Since it was just going to be a low range test, she'd make sure that Lambda used no more than 40% of her strength for it.

"Get your spear, Kageo, you're going to help me test Lambda's capacity for combat." even though she said it rather deviously, it hadn't concerned him too much.

"Roger, Professor." the kaka responded without a question to the word.

Even if she was acting as if she didn't know that he trained twice a day normally, that had not changed today. It just meant that he was already warmed up and it would let him find his groove quicker. With that same thing in mind he knew that he would need all of his wits to deal with Lambda-11, she was after all the latest of the Professor's projects. Once Kageo grabbed his spear, he'd come back to training room one and was practicing by spinning the spear he wielded carefully. The kaka was concerned only with his performance, he'd have to be at peak focus even though it was a basic test.

It was no less than 10 minutes later that Lambda was warped into the room, her visor clear momentarily as she finished materializing. The Kaka couldn't help but feel a little bit of intimidation as he looked on the slightly taller blond's menacing blades. It was something that the two were comparable on: having blades at their disposal. Even though his blades were not so numerous...he was definitely outgunned here or perhaps out knifed. As soon as the red orb lit up and focused on him, his body tensed and the grip on his spear's shaft with a nervous grip.

"Alright, Kageo. Engage Lambda as she will, but remember this is a spar so she won't hurt you too badly." Kokonoe said this with a grin as she then gave Lambda the go ahead. "Simple orders, Battle Test Lambda, output 40%."

"Battle Test, Combat output 40%, acknowledged. Subject is Kageo-kaka." Lambda-11 spoke her orders and the target of her attack.

With no less than a split second in between the acknowledgment of the parameters and the start, Lambda was first to strike with a simple wave of her right hand, three spatial blades materialized from glyph patterns along the air, just before firing at Kageo. With each blade on their path, the modified kaka was quick to respond and managed to knock the blades away from him with a rapid spin of his spear, favoring the shaft of the weapon for defense. Even though he succeeded, he ended up forced into a backwards step, while Lambda moved in on him. With her left arm thrusting forward, along with her speed had brought her wrist sword closest to the center of his chest. Fortunately, he'd blocked it with his left claw, that which he extended the moment he sensed her approach to him. With the muscles in his left arm flexing, he managed to shove her back and thrust the diamond-shaped head of his spear at Lambda's center.

The attempt to push her back had not worked, since she parried the attack with her right wrist sword, before again thrusting towards Kageo's chest. This time, the Kaka used his right foot claw to counter her sword aimed for him. He'd used the leverage that his foot hand in order to push off into a quick backflip to put some distance between them. As he pushed back from Lambda, she thrust her left bladed leg towards his chest just as he was landing. Something that Kageo saw while in the process of landing, that he managed to narrowly avoid by dropping into a side split.

While Kokonoe watched the battle unfolding so far, it was surprising to see that Kageo didn't awaken the A.C.S. From the beginning and he was working with his own merit. His natural levels were decent for a Kaka of his age, but Kokonoe knew it wasn't going to be enough to face down Lambda. Gritting her teeth in her annoyance and impatience welling up, she called her agent out on his attempt to 'grow' as he would always tell her. While it was an admirable attempt at growth, but this was a TEST not training for him. She grumbled and shouted over the communication line at him to get busy.

"Hey, Kageo! Stop screwing around and release the Core System now! Train later, give me some test data, damn it!" overall, though annoyed, the feline scientist had enjoyed his series of dodging, as it was what she expected of her espionage agent.

But there was a time and place to see how good he was at evasion, and as she indicated this was hardly the time for it. As Kageo flinched visibly on the holo-screen, she grinned as it was a sign that he heard her loud and clear. As she waited for him to get started, she watched with a discerning eye: it was something that Kageo avoided at most turns. It was not something that caused him pain, so she wasn't sure why he did this unless it was the typical masculine focus: looking for a challenge. She'd probe into that later and see what his reason was.

"Set with the waning moon, Kagennotsuki!" Kageo hopped into action and made use of the faster version of the mechanical spear's activation phrase.

Immediately the kaka began to bleed with a cerulean blue aura, something that burned around the edge of his body and the spear with a visible illumination. Certainly this was Kageo at one of his finest times, it wasn't a doubt as to whether he was more powerful, but now it would be a matter of how Lambda grew accustomed to his improvements and power output increasing. As Lambda's response was briefly to pause while assessed him, the moment was over quite quickly. With a wave of her hand she unleashed another spatial blade which launched from its glyph and straight towards his upper left shoulder. The kaka responded by raising his claw and batting the blade away from him with relative ease.

"Enemy output has increased, within parameters, proceeding with attack." Lambda's response had been swift, as was her next attack.

As she moved in for a close range attack, her left wrist sword thrust at his chest, something that he evaded by pulling back to her left. Switching to the attack, Kageo had slashed his right claw, though Lambda easily parried him using her wrist sword, before using her right knee to hit him in the stomach. The blow staggered Kageo somewhat and forced him to stumble backwards, something that Lambda used to attack again. Her right left now extending from the knee attack she'd used before, now sent her armored, blade-like leg towards his stomach/chest region. Kageo's eyes flashed blue as he met her kick with his antler-like spear head.

He'd managed the quick block by holding the spear by its neck and as the two pressed into the attack, the sparks of both heat and energy began to spatter around them. Kageo struggled to try and overpower her, which he found was not working as well as he hoped. Using something of his most serious fighting capabilities, Kageo sent a surge of caeroule energy from the tip of his spear. Lambda was pushed off by visually unique energy source, the potent shock had forced the pair to part. Rushing towards her for once, Kageo thrust the spear head towards Lambda's waist.

Though he found a blade wing halted him with ease; and as he jumped to the right and thrust the spear again he was halted by a pair of the same petal blades that danced in the air under Lambda's control. Kageo's speed picked up throughout the spar/test battle, still he wasn't having much luck hitting her. The pair continued to clash over the next 10 minutes, which had the result of Kageo being slashed up throughout the following clashes. Lambda met each and every one of his attacks, taking no more than one or two hits from his agile attacks. The damage had been within her tolerances and she persisted, this forcing Kageo on the defensive once again.

"Alright, that's enough! Lambda stand down, test battle over. Good job out there, both of you." Professor Kokonoe had let off a small laugh, it was as she'd hoped.

Kageo was swift and yet he'd been outpowered by Lambda, he was using about the same output as Lambda and he couldn't keep pace. The whole point for the test was to be sure that Lambda could handle a swift opponent with some fast moves. It wasn't as fast as Terumi, but it was a good means of testing something through an enhanced Kaka. This was test one and it had been a success, she knew Kageo would recover from the damage taken, after all she had created him. As Kokonoe ordered Lambda to return to the Lab and had called Kageo in as well.

"On the table, Kageo. It's time to extract the battle data, I'll need all the information to make proper adjustments." the matter-of-fact statement made the Kaka cringe physically.

"Roger, Professor." Kageo said without hesitation, though he did not want to get this done, the procedure was always so troublesome.

Kokonoe looked at the kaka and had to shake her head a little bit, as the ever obvious sign of his fear of the needles didn't stop his dedication. It was something that she didn't frankly understand about the Kaka. She had overseen his development and watched him grow up quickly, training and taking on missions. For the reason that very reason of seeing him born, she also saved him from becoming fodder for Sector Seven's battle division. She knew of his uses and had been seeing them to their fullest, and yet he was still so devoted that it led to her not fully understanding it.

Not that it mattered really, he was willing to do his job and that was all that really mattered. In the end she'd be taking down Terumi and that was her end game, as it didn't matter about anything in the crossfire of it. Her revenge meant enough that whatever might happen would have been worth the effort, all she needed to count on were her subordinates doing as she told them. Such as it was, little mattered to the Professor as she planned to destroy the man who had taken everything in her life that was good. Her family was destroyed, her parents gone in one form or another, happiness was gone amd just a bitter woman remained.

This was only the beginning of trying to understand the Professor, we as her creations could see the wisps of a good person hidden beneath all of that pain. It was hard to speak for Lambda, but Tager knew and that had been one thing that bound myself and the Red Devil. Being a Kaka gave a small bit of insight towards understanding hidden emotions and the ability to ignore them so easily. Yet this is what was given a purpose, a chance to see through the layers of the Professor's shell and her defenses. Her would-be cold and guarded heart still beat, no matter how much she denied it herself and just maybe it was waiting to beat with purpose.

(End Chapter)

Here we have the first of this mental introspection of Professor Kokonoe's psyche, here this adventure has found a platform at which to boost off of. It is but the beginning of this journey and one definitely worth while, as the hypothetical has never been quite clear. Any fans of Blazblue that have followed the game to Chronophantasma have seen how far she is willing to go. What would she do is not in question, but what this legacy of the Six Heroes does with her emotions is just conjecture. It's what inspired this little tale that has been started.

Looking forward to writing the first chapter, here we go with yet another marvelous tale brought to life!

Until the next chapter I bid you adieu.

-Quentix