Hey guys, sorry it took a while to get the next chapter underway. I spent the last couple of weeks packing/moving/unpacking for school so I was kind of busy. Anyways, enjoy Chapter 6 of this story!

Double Dee spent the next couple of days helping Kokonoe and Tager out in the lab while at the same time learning about seither, ars magus technology, Nox Nyctores, etc. There was one particular invention that Kokonoe was working on that Double Dee was really intrigued about though. That project happened to be a blonde girl in her late teens dressed in a black and silver bodysuit floating in a tank that Kokonoe called Lambda-11.

"Professor, what seems to be on our agenda today?" Double Dee asked, looking at the tank.

Kokonoe scanned the lab and thought for a moment. "Well Double Dee, you've given Tager his weekly maintenance routine and made the entire lab cleaner than I've seen it in my life, while labeling the place for some reason," she said, saying the last part with annoyance at all of the labels placed all over the lab. "I guess the only thing I can think of right now would be to help me out with Lambda."

Double Dee could hardly contain his excitement at the idea of not only working with a robot, but with a Murakumo Unit, which is more advanced technology than he's ever seen, much less heard of. "Splendid idea! What would you have me do first on her?"

"I'll need you to drain the tank so I can take her out for a test drive and see if she's operating properly. She's been in there for quite a while now, so it's about time."

Double Dee nodded and walked over to Lambda's tank to drain the contents. After draining it, he pressed a few buttons on the control panel of the tank to release her. Lambda dropped to her knees after the walls of the tanks were raised. Kokonoe pressed a few buttons on her computer to activate her.

Lambda stood up and opened her eyes. "Loading... loading….. loading….. loading….. loading complete." She scanned the lab. "Location identified as Sector Seven Laboratory. Two subjects identified. One of the subjects identified as Professor Kokonoe. Other subject is unknown." She turned to Double Dee. "Subject identity unknown. Requesting identity. What is your name?"

"Hello Lambda, nice to meet you. My name is Eddward, but you may call me Double Dee." Double Dee said, excited to be talking to the blonde cyborg.

"Understood. Subject now known as Double Dee." Lambda said in her robotic voice. "Professor, requesting reason for release from tank."

Kokonoe looked at her clipboard. "Well Lambda, we need to do some final adjustments on you and then we can take you out for a test-run. I'm going to need you to load your maintenance program for us to work."

"Understood. Loading maintenance routine program." Lambda shut her eyes and stayed standing for Kokonoe and Double Dee to work on her.

"Double Dee, I need you to grab some tools from the other room. We need to work on Lambda's Idea Engine," Kokonoe instructed.

"Um Professor," Double Dee said. "May I inquire about this 'Idea Engine' you speak of? I do not remember you anything about it when you explained what Murakumo Units were."

Kokonoe pinched the bridge of her nose. "Yeah, I probably should have filled you in on that little detail. The Idea Engine is sort of like a substitute for seithr, what the Units normally run on," she began to explain. "Since we use science and not ars magus or seithr here at Sector Seven, we needed some other way to make the Units work. And that's where the Idea Engine comes in. Tager and I managed to rebuild Lambda after her first little fiasco in Ibukido, where she was a normal-operating Unit. Now that we have the Idea Engine, Lambda can operate like any other Murakumo Unit, however I can control her using it. However, in her first fight with Terumi, she was killed and her first Idea Engine was absorbed by a guy named Ragna. I managed to rebuild her again after that all happened, but now her Idea Engine is more reinforced. Does that make sense?"

"Intriguing. So the Idea Engine is like a controllable form of artificial intelligence," Double Dee observed.

"Exactly. Now hurry up with the tools kid. We have a lotta work to do."

The two geniuses worked tirelessly for hours on the operations for Lambda's Idea Engine. After about 8 hours of work, they powered up Lambda one more time.

Lambda stood upright. "Loading…..loading…..loading…..loading…..loading complete. Idea Engine maintenance successful. Awaiting further orders."

"Okay Lambda, we need to test your skills out to see if we need to adjust anything," Kokonoe began. "Now where would be a good place to practice?" She started to search up areas of Kagutsuchi on her computer and then came across a trio of travelers, one with white hair and a red coat, one that looked like a humanoid cat, and a dopey-looking boy in a green jacket. "Wait, is that…. Ragna the Bloodedge?"

"Who would that be Professor?" Double Dee asked, overhearing Kokonoe's outburst. "He sounds like quite a dangerous fellow."

"Dangerous would be putting it lightly. He's single-handedly destroyed NOL branches and their cauldrons and has the world's largest bounty on his head, a grand total of 90 million Platinum Dollars. But I know about his abilities and what his true goal is. Him and I have a common enemy, but he's strong enough where I think it would be a good test run for Lambda," Kokonoe said as she put some coordinates in her computer. "Lambda, I'm sending you downtown to face off against Ragna the Bloodedge for a workout."

"Understood. Beginning transfer sequence." Lambda obeyed as she started to fuzz out into thin air.

Double Dee could do nothing at that point except stare with his mouth open at how teleportation was actually possible in this dimension. "Is there a way that we can keep an eye on Lambda in case anything happens? After all, you said this man is quite dangerous to be around."

"Oh please, do you think I would let Lambda out of my sight? She's my only chance against taking down Terumi; no WAY am I letting her get hurt, Kokonoe began as she continued rambling on about how she was going to beat Terumi senseless, how Lambda was like a child to her, etc. Double Dee made a mental note to ask her about who Terumi was later, but that was for a later time. Right now, he just needed to watch kokonoe's security monitors and see what Lambda's doing at the moment.