In Game Central Station...
The group made their way out of the game and climbed out of their vehicles. "Which way is the BlazBlue game?" Jojo asked, feeling better now.
Paolo and Barry looked around until they saw a girl with blonde hair wearing a white and blue dress with a red tie with blue detached sleeves and blue boots. She also wore a blue beret and carried two large pistols linked together. "There!" he said, running toward the girl. The others followed him.
"Hey! Noel!" Paolo yelled, getting the girl's attention.
"Uh, yes?" said Noel.
"Yes, hi. Noel, I was wondering if you know where Ragna is?" asked Paolo hurriedly.
"Um, I think he's still back in our game. Why do you ask?"
"I'm sorry to tell you this, but Hazama has escaped and is messing around the Internet. We need to stop him before anything else gets worse."
"That's terrible. Come with me, I'll take you to Ragna," said Noel as she took off for her game with the group right behind her.
In BlazBlue: Continuum Shift...
The group entered the game and arrived at The 13th Hierarchical City of Kagutsuchi, the main starting point of the game. "Woah! Cool!" the racers said in amazement.
"Yeah, it is pretty cool, right? Come on! We have to find Ragna," said Noel.
As she and the group turned the corner, they crashed into a girl wearing a cat hoodie with long, paw shaped hands, a tail, and high, cat-like boots. "Ow! Watch where you're going. Meow.", the girl in the hoodie said as she stood up. When she did, however, what the group saw surprised them. The girl had no visible face in her hood other than a pair of glowing red eyes and sharp teeth.
"Ouch! I'm sorry. I should have been looking where I was- Taokaka?" said Noel.
"Wow! Lacking Lady! You're back. Meow. Good guy and Tao were looking for ya. Meow.", said Taokaka.
"Wait, Good guy? You mean Ragna? He's here?", asked Noel.
As she said that, a young man with white spikey hair came out of the corner. He had one red eye and one green eye and wore a long red jacket with a black vest underneath it. He also wore black hakama pants and red boots with steel toes and had black gloves on his hands with a red orb on the back of it. On his back was what appeared to be a very large sword. "Hey Tao, where are you? I don't want to play one of your games right now! We have to find-"
"Hi Ragna.", said Noel.
"Noel.", Ragna said, smiling at seeing the girl, but frowned when he saw who she was with. "Uh, who are these guys?"
"They're from Sugar Rush. They told me they need your help," answered Noel.
Ragna scoffed. "You mean that candy racing game? Sorry kids but I don't have time for this. Go find someone else," Ragna said, starting to walk away.
"Please, you have to help us! It isn't just our game in danger, it's all the games around the world, including yours!" pleaded Lanie.
"I don't give a crap," said Ragna.
Paolo was getting frustrated now. He decided to pull out his trump card...
"No, not that Trump," said Barry.
"Ragna, the one we're after is... Hazama." Ragna immediately stopped in his tracks. "Terumi?" he thought as he clenched his fist. "So if you don't want to help us take him down, then fine. You're probably just as scared of him as you were when he cut off your arm and took your family." Paolo then started walking back to the game's entrance. "Come on guys, he's not gonna help us."
Ragna gritted his teeth at the thought of his archenemy messing with other people's lives again. The thought of Hazama interfering, and possibly, killing multiple games and worlds other than his blood boil. "Wait!" The racers, and Paolo, looked at him. "What?" asked Paolo.
"Fine, I'll join you," sighed Ragna.
Noel and Taokaka cheered at this. "Yay! Tao knew Good guy was good."
"Yeah! Thank you Ragna," Noel said, smiling as she hugged the game's hero.
"Don't get too ahead of yourselves. I'm only in it to kill that bastard," Ragna said firmly.
"Yay! Go get Snake guy, Good guy," Tao said excitedly as she did random karate moves. "Give him a kick, and a punch, cut him up with your sword, give him some of this, and that...(grumble~)" As Tao was doing this, her stomach grumbled. "Aw, Tao is hungry!" she whined as she collapsed on the floor. She suddenly sniffed something delicious smelling in the air. Following the scent, she looked at the racers. "Wait, you guys said you're from a candy game, right?" Barry nodded. "Good..." Taokaka bared her teeth and started drooling. "Come here. Tao wants to play with you!"
The racers backed up and Noel grew concerned. "Tao, what are you doing?"
"I just wanna play with them. Meow. They're so cute!" Tao said as she got closer to the racers with her paws raised and claws out. She managed to back the racers into a corner, leaving them no room to escape. "Tao's got you! MEOWRRR!" The cat girl lunged at the racers, who were barely able to escape being bitten. "AAAHHH!" Tao got up and lunged again, only for her to hit a wall.
"Noel! Ragna! Stop her!" Paolo said worriedly.
"I-I can't. I don't want to hurt my friends," said Noel, "What about you Ragna?"
"Hmph... Not my problem," retorted Ragna.
"HELP!" the racers yelled.
"Noel, can't you do something?" Paolo asked.
"I really don't want to hurt Tao..." the heroine answered, "But I do know what her weakness is."
"Well, don't keep us in suspense, what is it?"
"Okay, she loves food and catnip."
Paolo was surprised by this. "Really? Catnip? That's all?" Noel nodded. "Why didn't I think of that." He turned to face the racers. "Do any of you have any catnip?"
"What kind of question is that? Why would any of us have any-" Jojo said before being interrupted by Lanie.
"I have some," said Lanie.
"What? How?" asked Alden.
"Felicity and I take care of animals, remember? She always makes me carry some."
"Alright fine. Just toss it already," said Alden. Lanie tossed a small ball of catnip towards Taokaka just as she got up.
"Here's Tao!" She said menacingly. That was until she noticed the catnip. "OOOHHH, Catnip! Meow!" Distracted, she started playing with the ball like a little kitten.
"That won't hold her for long. We have to get Hazama. We've wasted too much time already," said Jojo.
"Alright, let's go," said Ragna.
"Hold on. Hey Jojo, Barry, can you help me out a bit here?" said Alden.
"Why?" asked Barry. Alden produced a tray from his hat.
"Just spawn some candy here. I don't like hearing anyone being hungry."
"That's pretty sappy. You know that, right?"
"I know," Alden admitted as he pulled out multiple boxes of chocolates from his hat. "It's my flaw."
"Fine." Barry and Jojo generated numerous other treats and gave them to the hungry cat girl. "Here Tao."
Tao got up and saw how much treats lay before her. "Thank you! MEOW!" she said happily as she dug into the food.
"You'd better run. She can finish twenty bowls of ramen before you can even finish one," commented Ragna.
"I don't think that will be a problem," Jojo said, pointing to Tao, whose mouth was stuck shut due to a roll of Froot Roll-Ups she just ate. "That'll melt away soon."
"Okay, thanks!" said Noel as she took a piece of chocolate and popped it into her mouth.
"You're welcome," said the racers. They waved the BlazBlue girls goodbye as Ragna accompanied them through the cord. "BYE!" "BYE!" Noel waved back. "And be careful!" Ragna just smirked.
In Game Central Station...
The group exited the BlazBlue cord and entered the station. "Alright, tell me which game Terumi is in," said Ragna.
"Hold your horses Bloodedge. He's not in the arcade. He's in the Internet," said Paolo.
Ragna huffed. "Whatever. How do we get there?"
Paolo pointed to the cord at the end of the station. "Through there. The power cord connects the arcade not just to the electrical grid, but also the Internet. Many characters come through there to visit the games, FYI."
"Well, what are we waiting for? Let's go!" Ragna ran for the cord but was stopped by a barrier before he could enter. "What the hell is going on?!" he yelled angrily as he pounded on the barrier.
"You need a code for your destination or else you'll get lost among the millions of terminals and servers around the world," Paolo explained as he calmly walked to Ragna's side. "Like this." He typed in a code on a panel next to the entrance. A bullet train sped into the station. "All aboard."