Pirating is accepted but Ninjaing is disliked. . .
**DISCLAIMER: I OWN NO RIGHTS TO BLAZBLUE OR ITS CHARACTERS!**
Sounds like the terminology guy was a Pirate fan. Just sayin'.

***WARNING: Excessive Swearing and Cursing in this chapter! Sorry.**

Curiously Enough

CHAPTER FOUR: Scientists Make Sailors Sound like Saints. . .

"You are fucking kidding me right?" guffawed the pink haired scientist harshly, "Me be your Maid of Honor? What is this shit?" Tao's ears drooped as she tilted her head to the side, blinking profusely in confusion. Tao glanced over from Kokonoe, still cursing up a storm, to the platinum blonde robot lady in the corner of the laboratory crying loudly in the arms of a stiffly uncomfortable Tager. . . Did Tao do something wrong?

FIVE MINUTES EARLIER. . .

Taokaka searched for Tager only a few minutes before running into the Big Guy. Being as fast as she was helped, as did her amazing sense of smell. "Hey Big Guy! Tao needs to talk to Big sis," cried the kaka jovially upon running into the man, literally.

"Oh, Taokaka," breathed the large red man as he dropped his hands from his defensive stance, "why do you need to see the professor?"

"Tao needs to ask her something. It is important, but good," Tao mewed happily up at him as he adjusted his glasses back over his eyes. Glazing down at her, the giant red man grumbled realizing his mission would have to wait til Taokaka had seen his master. The tall blue hair man was a psychopath but a loud kaka would give away his position before he could even get close enough to recover Azrael.

Tager held back a growl of annoyance as he nodded and opened up a portal back to Kokonoe's liar. "Very well but we must hurry we have little time to spend on this visit miss Taokaka."

"Okay!"

Tager raised an eyebrow at the woman's new exuberance as he watched her almost dance past him into the portal. "What on earth has gotten into this girl. She has always been happy but this is far worse than usual. . ." Gazing back to the empty afternoon streets, Tager exhaled loudly and strolled through the portal before it closed with the soft hush of space folding back in on itself.

From behind a column of a store only thirty meters away from where the portal closed, a tall muscular tan man grinned as he kept his back to buildings support. "Good, More time to hunt down the reaper. . ."

The Laboratories of Sector Seven stood stagnant as Kokonoe sat looking over a blueprint for Lambda at her desk. It seemed rare for Kokonoe not to be working with something in her hand but this was one of those rare occasions. A special calm moment in her life. . . And Taokaka ruined it.

"BIG SIS," hollered a familiar but annoying voice and Kokonoe's head snapped up to find a beige hooded kaka strolling to her with large red eyes and a stupid sharp-toothed smile gleaming from under the black shadow of her hoodie. Oh shit, now what? Behind her stood Tager, posture stiff and glasses hiding his eyes. The daughter of Jubei hated most cats and that included her father and the kakas. Though kakas were lower on her shit list, she continued to find herself plagued by encounters with this kaka in particular.

"Tager," the scientists called angrily from behind her sharp slitted yellow eyes, "why did you bring her here? We don't have time for this crap. That crazy son of a bitch Azrael can't get away."

"Sorry Professor Kokonoe," apologized the giant man with his deep voice rolling out calmly, "I figured had I continued my search with this woman following me I would never be able to catch up to the target." Looking down at Tao then back to his superior, Tager fixed his glasses higher onto his nose and added, "She did say it was important."

Kokonoe's left eyebrow rose in slight curiosity at that last comment but before she could say anything Lambda flew into the room cooing happily. "Oh my gosh! Tao is here which means my Ragna must be close right?!"

"No La-" Tager started but Nu's near hyper-sonic chatter drowned him out.

"So Tao where is he, I know you two are like dating but where is he?" She chimed as she drew to a stop a mere meter away from her romantic rival. The two platinum blondes stood face to face and they smiled at each other, one's face hidden behind a hoodie and the other's guarded by a visor. "Like, Tell Ragna I want to see him, I wanna know what he is up to."

"Lambda shut up for a god damn second, shit," Kokonoe growled at her creation as a headache began pulsating at the back of her head. The cyborg woman did but only after she sighed and looked Taokaka over quickly.

"Rawgnya? Actually we're getting married, Ragna proposed to Tao just today!" The exclamation was happy and full of loving pride but as the echoing statement settled into silence Tao's face suddenly went blank, her confusion stemming from everyone's shocked face. Silence lingered as no congratulations were said. Three seconds later, still nothing was uttered but Kokonoe knew it was coming.

"MARRIED?! NOOOOOOOOO!" Screamed the murakumo unit, heartache and horror slipping out with her voice. Tao shivered at it's sound and Kokonoe rubbed at her temples as her headache grew more intense.

Tager took a step towards the grieving woman, awkwardly offering his arms up to her. Nu's tears burned sorrowfully into his chest through his shirt as she buried her head into him, her arms clutching at his sides as she bawled harder. "Um it will be okay Lambda," he offered weakly only to hear an unintelligible sobbing shout, muffled by his dense chest, squeak from the girl.

For Kokonoe this was the worst possible thing to happen to her. Lambda was crying like a infant, Tager was busy comforting her instead of going after Azrael who was doing god knows what and on top of that, Tao had only been here a minute and had already given her a headache only she, Jubei and Relius could conjure. "Shit, look what you did Tao. What the hell do you need?" she groaned up at the slightly taller woman, quickly adding, "how can I get you out of here fast?"

"Uhm, Tao is sorry, Tao didn't know she would upset flappy-flap," the kaka apologized softly, eyes looking back and forth between the crying woman behind her and the angry woman before her.

"Just spit it out damn it," huffed the pink haired scientists impatiently and Tao nodded, realizing once again why she came.

"Oh, Tao wanted to ask if Sis would be Tao's Maid of Honor, Tao still needs one."

"You are fucking kidding me right?" Kokonoe bitterly laughed with a sharp glare, "Me be your Maid of Honor? What is this shit?" This is about where we came in, Kokonoe mused to herself as she finished recapping how her day had went to hell.

"Uh, Boobie lady said you would say yes," Tao mewed in a soft unsure murmur and Kokonoe's headache pulsed painfully back to life.

"Litchi put you up to this. Fucking figures, she would pull this shit." Anger bubbled up hotter than before within Kokonoe and she gritted her teeth as she tried not to scream at Lambda to shut up.

"Um, Does that mean you won't be Tao's maid of honor?"

"Sure fine, whatever, just get the hell out of here! TAGER GET THEM OUT OF HERE, BOTH OF THEM BEFORE I KILL SOMEONE!"

Tager flinched at that and nodded, answering back, "Yes ma'am!" before scooping up both woman and rushing towards the transport hub.

Kokonoe groaned as she felt her headache ebb then grow once more. Silence refilled the laboratory but for her the peace and quiet felt ruined, tainted by the newest turn of events. "A wedding? Shit, I should have said no. . . What was I thinking?"

Ragna yawned as he followed Rachel through a portal back to the calm late afternoon streets of Kagutsuchi. How long he had been in her manor he wasn't sure, but Ragna was happy to be back in the world that he knew. "Hmmmmm I wonder where Tao is," the outlaw murmured tiredly as he felt his legs muscles pull and stretch with each step.

"I know she is in this area," Rachel offered in her smooth calm and sure monotone, "I could sense she was in this area but I have other matters to attend to. Take care Ragna. Try not to get yourself into idiotic situations that could result in your death before we meet again. I would hate to have gone through all of this just to end up cancelling your wedding."

"Grrrr- Shut up Rabbit."

"Always so quick to anger, you need to work on your social skills lest you lose my favor."

"Rachel. . . G," He started hotly but upon thinking what she'd done for him that day, he just sighed and shook his head. "Tch. . . Thanks Rachel, take care."

Raising her eyebrow in surprise, the vampiress gave a small smirk and nodded before disappearing with the sound of rushing wind and rustling flower peddles. Ragna grinned at the fact she let him get the last word for once and it would have stayed on his face if a scream from a familiar person hadn't rose through the cooler evening air. "RAGNA AND YOU ARE GETTING MARRIED! NO, IT CAN'T BE!" Noel? Oh shit. . .

Racing towards the cry of distress, Ragna knew he wasn't looking forward what was waiting for him around the corner. Not one bit. . .

AN: Hey guys! Eis here, feels good to get back into one chapter per night. Just like the good old days aye? I hope you guys are enjoying the pace. I feel really odd making these short of chapters since I am use to doing chapters two and three times their length. It is easier for me to get out there and makes it a little less of a grind to write but I hope you are all getting a kick out of it the new style.

I am happy to say I've gotten a few old buddies back into reading and following my story and I wanna give them a shout out both for following along and for helping me get back into writing again. Hey Mr. War and Abyss Kurokari, thanks for the continued support. It's good to have friends like you on this site.

Only Kokonoe can look cute while spewing that kinda filth. Hehe. . .
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