Ragna, Tao, and Ed were walking in a town for what seemed like forever. "For Christ's Sake, couldn't the rabbit just teleport us to Kokonoe's lab instead? We've been walking for two days in the same direction she told us to go. First the forest and now this town? Where the hell is the lab!?" Ragna muttered.
"C'mon Good Guy! Tao believes it should be around here somewhere! The bunny lady seemed pretty sure she knew where it was!" Tao reassured. "But I'm hungry, could we stop somewhere to eat? Tao can't operate under an empty stomach."
Ragna raised an eyebrow in frustration. "Well furball, part of why it's taken us two days to get to Kokonoe's lab is because YOU keep wanting to stop somewhere to eat every half an hour! We could've probably been there by now!"
While Ragna kept scolding Tao on her constant hunger issues, Ed noticed something across the town square fuzzing and taking a form. "Uh guys? There's something going on over here!" Ed pointed out to them.
Ragna and Tao turned their heads to where Ed was pointing. "Ed, if this is another ad for gravy, I'm gon- wait, what the hell?" Ragna stopped when he noticed that the form turned into a robotic, blonde teenage girl dressed in metallic armor and had 8 thin blades around her. The blades of a Murakumo Unit.
"Shit, get back guys! This isn't good!" Ragna shouted to Tao and Ed as he drew his sword. The two ran for cover, knowing that the situation was going to get really ugly really fast.
"Transfer complete." Lambda turned her head towards Ragna. "Target in possession of the Azure Grimoire. Switching to battle mode," she said as she readied her swords.
Ed looked at Tao. "Hey Tao, what's the Azure Grimoire? Sounds like a character in one of my monster movies."
"It's Good Guy's power-up thingy! He uses it to be stronger in fights," Tao explained, sort of.
"The hell? Lambda!? I thought Terumi killed you!" Ragna shouted, remembering that she had been killed off by Terumi when she took a deadly blow for him. "How are you still here?"
Lambda shot a few swords at Ragna while he blocked them with the blade of his sword. Her swords retreated to her and she slashed at him with all 8 swords at once, him parrying all of them. "Shit, looks like I'm going to have to use it." Ragna said as he readied his Grimoire. "Hell's Fang!" he shouted as he shot a seither-infused uppercut at Lambda. She grabbed the arm that shot at her and threw him right into a building by Tao and Ed.
Tao's fur bristled. "Hey! No one beats on Good Guy for no reason except for Tao and Eyebrow Guy!" she shouted at Lambda as she drew her claws.
"Yeah, that's ri-Hey what the hell Tao?" Ragna yelled, getting up from the crash.
Lambda turned towards the other two. "New targets identified. One target identified as Kaka Clan member. Unable to identify other target. Target levels are A and D. Preparing for attack."
Meanwhile in the lab, Kokonoe and Double Dee were watching the fight from hacked security cameras in the area on Kokonoe's computer. Kokonoe wrote some things down on her clipboard. "I see, her attacks are weaker and more close-ranged than Nu-13's are. But's she's still pretty fast and can chain attacks better. I better adjust the sword range when she gets back here."
Double Dee was still watching the computer. "Hmm…. I wonder who those other two are with Ragna the Bloodedge." He switched cameras to get a better look at where Lambda was now. What he saw next shocked him to his core.
"A humanoid cat-like creature, and ED!?" Double Dee exclaimed loudly. "New targets identified. One target identified as Kaka Clan member. Unable to identify other target. Target levels are A and D. Preparing for attack," he heard Lambda say. "Professor! We need to withdraw Lambda! One of my friends is down there and she's going to obliterate him!" Double Dee shouted frantically.
"Shit. Lambda! Cancel that command! They are not threats!" Kokonoe shouted in her microphone.
"Negative. Continuing to commence attack," Lambda responded.
Double Dee took the microphone from Kokonoe. "Lambda, the boy in the green jacket is in no way a threat! He's one of my best friends and in no way can initiate any kind of opposition to you! I highly doubt the cat girl will either! Withdraw!" He shouted in the microphone, desperate to save his friend from getting impaled by the cyborg.
Lambda got out of her fighting stance. "Command acknowledged. Targets no longer seen as threats. Battle mode is off."
Ed's ears perked up at the voice coming from Lambda's receiver. "Double Dee? IS THAT YOU!?" he shouted with a smile on his face. He ran up to Lambda and gave her a big hug. "Double Dee! Did this dimension turn you into a girl-robot?"
"Annoyance level rising. Desire to repel subject becoming favorable," Lambda said while being hugged by Ed.
Tao scratched her head in confusion. "Eyebrow Guy's friend is Flappy-Flap? But Flappy-Flap tried to kill us a little bit ago. Tao is confused now."
"Lambda, relax," Double Dee said. "Ed, I'm not the robot, this is Lambda. She is an experiment me and Professor Kokonoe are working on. I am speaking through a microphone installed in her."
Kokonoe took the microphone from Double Dee. "Hey Ragna! Ragna the Bloodedge, can you hear me?"
Ragna walked over to Lambda, still pissed about getting launched into that building. "Who is that? Kokonoe?" He shouted. "What the hell were you thinking, siccing Lambda on me like that!?"
"It was to test out her abilities. I fixed her up so we can take down Terumi, but also I needed to get some data on her so I know what to do for next time. I will NOT have her get killed again by that bastard!"
Ragna cocked an eyebrow. "So you have her nearly kill ME in order to test her out? You really are a mad scientist, aren't you?"
Kokonoe sighed into the microphone. "Well it's not like anyone else would survive against a Murakumo Unit, dumbass! But more importantly, it sounds like Double Dee here and this boy who I have to assume is Ed know each other. We need to get Ed to the lab as soon as we can so we can get them sent to their own dimension."
"Yay! But what about Eddy?" Ed asked. "If Double Dee and I are here, what about him?"
"I have to assume that since you two got teleported here together, it would make sense that Eddy would be somewhere in Kagutsuchi." She turned to Double Dee. "Hey kid, does your friend Eddy have any kind of distinguishing features that could help us out in finding him?"
Double Dee thought for a moment. "I have an idea. Eddy absolutely HATES being outshined by a boy in our dimension named Kevin, especially when money is on the line. What we need to do is lure out Eddy with some kind of advertisement that would be related to Kevin. If Eddy is convinced that Kevin is going after Ragna too, he'll do whatever it takes to stop Kevin first."
"And you're sure this will work, HOW exactly?" Ragna protested. "I mean, as far as I know, only you three showed up in our dimension, no one else. How do we know that he'll buy it?"
"I understand your concern, however me and Ed know how easy it is to fool Eddy with money and competition, so I don't think we will face much difficulty in getting this to work. We just need to make the said advertisement convincing enough that he'll think he has to compete against Kevin," Double Dee explained.
"Lambda, take these three to the lab. We're going to create a plan here," Kokonoe commanded.
"Understood. Now en route to Sector Seven Laboratory," Lambda acknowledged. She looked to the trio. "Follow me."
The four of them ventured off for the laboratory to formulate a plan to find Eddy.
