A chaos that is never to be disturbed, awakens.

"Oh no! We've been spotted!"

Those initial words were accompanied by a tinge of fear in her voice, yet Noel stayed steadfast as she slowly crept out of her hiding place with Bolverk drawn. It was useless to hide now that the girl knew that she was here anyway.

The words that really struck a chord in her, though, were the most recent ones she said.

"S-similar unit?" she thought as she strove to keep a steely gaze on Ragna's opponent "Does that mean she and I are...the same?"

"Okay, shit has officially hit the fan."

Kokonoe sighed as she revealed herself along with Noel and the bunch "If you must know, I'm here to make sure you all don't die. It'd kinda be a shame to waste talent like you lot."

She then turned her gaze towards where Ragna stood "Aaaand I kinda need his Azure Grimoire too."

While Nu had been planning ahead and had sent two more swords at his chest, she was prositively suprised when he was going over to her without much resistance. Was he planning to give into her?
...the precentage of that was unlikely, but it was still an exciting thought.
"Ahahaha, have you given up? You were a lot more lively earlier- maybe the Sankishin overdid it a teeny tiny bit~ Do you want to destroy, Ragna? Destroy that world that has been causing you pain?
All you need to do is to come into my arms~"
She spread out her arms and smiled brightly- although it looked like an embrace at first glance, her swords reacted to the movements of her fingers and had spread out for a pincer attack, surrounding Ragna from both sides and they were ready to turn him into mincemeat as soon as she´d close her arms.

That distant thought of a true union with him had been labled fiction in her mind at this point. This last time, like all others, she`d end up alone inside the belly of the beast. Only this time, she wouldn´t wake up with a new body again.

Mai twitched as Noel mentioned the obvious- Nu had been aware they were here. Although, considering that, the only one she seemed to take any kind of interest in was Noel... Mai, Lusec and Kokonoe were completely ignored by the iron maiden.
She turned to Lusec briefly to explain.
"If we don`t help Ragna, he will die. And taking in all that i´ve heard about the Librarium today, i think i´d like him to stay alive for a while longer... at least until i can find out more about his motives and the motives of Hazama." Saying that, the prospect of kissing Hazama was not her favorite thought in the world.
Then, she briefly moved her attention to the cat woman.
"Kokonoe, lets make sure he survives before we take any chances with the grimiore, okay? Somehow i don´t see how this could end well at all. What do we do? From the way this looks, even if we attack all at once from different sides, she´ll just kill us all with a swipe of those wings..."
The voice died in her throat as she saw Nu spread her wings for the pincer attack, clearly a move aimed to kill Ragna in one hit.

"Look out!"

Without even thinking or considering her actions, Noel rushed at Nu and opened fire. She was hoping to at least buy Ragna some time to recover, hence her reason for attacking.

...Well, there was more to that than even she knew, really. In actuality, she could've just left him to his fate, but she had more questions to ask him. Furthest point she could remember in her past was being adopted by the Vermillion family, it shouldn't have been more than that.

Yet, why is she seeing images of this man in her head?

"I have to find out! So...So...I'm not letting you die, Ragna the Bloodedge!"

"GET BACK HERE, YOU IDIOT!" Kokonoe angrily called at Noel, who had sprinted towards Nu with reckless abandon, but to no avail. "Tsk, NOW shit has hit the fan."

With a restless grunt, she turned her attention to Mai and Lusec as she pointed to Nu-13 "THAT, young ones, is a Prime Field Unit, a.k.a a Murakumo. Their abilities include travelling through the Boundary without the obvious consequences, floating in the air as well as f***ing shit up with blades. LOTS of blades."

After pausing to collect her thoughts, the beastkin scientist continued "As for beating her...way above your pay grade, so I suggest you two sit this one out."

Kokonoe cracked her fingers as she summoned a floating spherical generator with a gesture of her hand, conjuring it in front of Nu "Graviton!" she roared as she activated it, the generator sending out a repelling pulse that would at least force the Murakumo back a few steps.

As with Hakumen, she would not use magic unless she has absolutely no choice left.

(Enough like, dicking around, Nu`s going all out, matey! x3)

Mai was stumped- now everyone was charging at that woman, Noel included. The only one left that didn`t attack was Lusec and herself.  So what was she supposed to do? The answer came swiftly.

"Hostilities detected." Nu muttered, turning around as Ragna rejected her embrace. The shells Noel fired at her bounced off her armor, chipping some metal away and ripping a little bit of her bodysuit-the damage done however was regenerated in seconds. "Threat level F. Lethal force response."
Her thrusters engaged as the Gravitron tugged on her, and within the blink of an eye, a gravity pool was summoned underneath it, negating its effects through Nu´s own manipulation of gravity.
At each one of the new targets- Kokonoe and Noel- she let a wing of blades cut down upon in a half circle- a cut from the shoulder to the waist- before she spun around again and met Ragna`s sword with all eight blades and a sly grin. "Don`t worry, Ragna, i won`t forget about you~"
Two plasmatic swords errupted from the boundary, behind his neck, and aimed for his back as they shot at him.

Mai saw the swords coming for Noel`s neck and within a spit second, she held her breath and unsheathed her swords, holding both of them next to Noel`s face to parry the blades aiming to decaptiate her. The force the blades impacted with, beastkin strength from her part, brute unfiltered force from Nu`s part, was pushing her back and cracks appeared in one of her swords the second after, but as Nu had to focus on Ragna as well, she had a moment of relief.
"Noel... please be careful!"

Noel braced herself for the blows that were going to come, her legs bending to attempt leap. She was surprised, then, when Mai came to her defense and parried the blades that were meant for her, albeit with difficulty.

"I'm sorry, Mai." she sighed with a small smile before turning to Nu, who once again turned her focus to Ragna "I really have to remember that I'm not alone, huh?"

"Tch." Kokonoe clicked her tongue in annoyance as she teleported mere seconds before the sword sought to impale her. Something she noted that was too close for comfort.

"If this goes on like this, we're done." The beastkin scientist thought in dismay as she scanned her surroundings. It was then she saw a loose piece of scaffolding hanging above the preoccupied murakumo...

"Time to get creative." she smirked as she pulled a giant Gatling gun from her hyperspace arsenal. If they were to have any chance of winning, they'd have to end this now.

"EAT THIS!" She roared as she pulled the trigger and fired. However, she did not aim at Nu, but at the loose piece of scaffolding on top of her.

She aimed to bring the house down, so to speak.

Mai smiled at Noel and reacted to the moves of the Murakumo, but gasped as Kokonoe and Lusec attacked the scaffolding and cieling.
"Wait! Guys, don´t, its a d-"
Before she could warn them about the audio-seismic properties of a dome shaped room under a constant heat source, the inevitable had happened.

"Alert. Enviromental danger detected." Nu spouted, while her hand had been catching Ragna´s weakening attempt at punching her. She yanked her head upward, staring at the cieling- the scaffolding had been blown to pieces, which was holding part of the cieling, while the remaining minigun bullets and the shots Lusec had given off caused a cave in. Smaller and larger pieces broke off of the cieling, plumeting down towards the ground...
-Ragna!!-
She let go of the swordsman, and pummeled him instead, pushing him out of the way of a larger piece of debris, while her swords kept themselves busy slicing and hacking the other pieces.

Mai, in the meantime, was yanking on Noel´s arm and running back towards the exit.
"Oh god, oh god, oh god, why does this always happen when i´m in a low level?!" She complained, squeaking as a large rock seperated them from the exit. Grunting, she brought up her swords and, summoning her beastkin strength one more time, broke both her cracked sword and the boulder, at least enough to pass through.
"Guys! Get out of here!" She called toward the others, while more and more of the cieling was coming down.

Nu, in the meantime, was taking a few hits from minor rocks and debris, her combat routines busy trying to destroy every rock coming the way of Ragna and her. This was the last time. The last chance. She wouldn´t let Ragna get killed by a fricking rock! She was the one that was supposed to kill Ragna!!
"Medium damage detected. Continued function of unit questionable. Suggestion- Retreat. Suggestion rejected."

Noel felt herself get yanked by the bluenette as she watched the ceiling fall on them. She looked around with a dumbfounded expression as she watched Ragna tackled Nu. She immediately realized that he was using his body to shield her from the debris. What made it strange was that they were trying to kill each other seconds ago.

It was then she was sure that Ragna the Bloodedge was not a bad person.

"Everyone!" She called frantically as she rushed to where the two were, starting by tugging the red sleeve of the bleeding Grim Reaper "Give me a hand!"

She was not going to let anyone die. Not on her watch.

"Geez, Prof, what a good idea this was," Lusec sarcastically commented as he brought out his gunblade and started slashing the debris that headed for them. He then heeded Noel's call for help and went to help her.

"Yeah, I admit it; not one of my best ideas." Kokonoe shrugged as she kept her gattling gun. She really should've seen this coming.

She was about to teleport away when she heard Noel plead with everyone to help the two combatants out. "Naive little fool." she wanted to retort, but she knew that Ragna was simply too valuable to lose at this point of the game.

"Aw hell." She groaned as she joined Lusec in rushing to Noel's aid "Here, let us help..." she grunted as she joined the blonde in heaving the silver-haired warrior.

Nu`s sensors went haywire when metal pierced Ragna and herself, but she still continued to use her swords and cut down debris falling on them- the biggest pieces they had already recieved, and she could feel Ragna´s bones breaking under the force of the bigger rocks. This wasn`t how it was supposed to be... at this rate he would die without her influence.
"Ragna..." She muttered, a half broken visor looking at him, then jerking to the side, where her similar body, followed by a blue haired bimbo came to their aid. The blonde pulled on Ragna`s arm to get him out, the bluenette lifted the rocks off of them, as well as yanking the metal out.. they seemed in despair, one of them was crying, and soon enough, the other two annoyances came over to help.
As soon as she was free, Nu got up, bleeding from numberous wounds all over her body, her suit torn in various places and most of her swords were beat to crap, two were even broken in two.
"Damage beyond safe threshold. Termination protocol- deactivated. Enemy presence presists..."
She tried to reach out to Ragna, but her face twisted into a grimace and her arm sank down again.
"Mission abort. Emergancy teleport initiated."
Seconds later, the maiden of steel disappeared in a void of darkness.

Mai gasped as Nu vanished into thin air. She was gone, there was no better way to put it... and her grimiore lost the last bit of power she had stored. Still, something made her feel very uncomfortable.
Someone... evil was nearby... he was coming down the stairs.

"Come on...don't die on me now, you idiot..."

Noel silently pleaded as she and the others proceeded to drag Ragna to the entrance. As they struggled to escape the collapsing area, she wondered what caused her to refer to him as an idiot. She shrugged it off as she saw Nu vanish from the corner of her eye.

"That girl...and Ragna the Bloodedge...why are they all so familiar...?"

She didn't have time to attend to her new-found splitting migraine. She turned to see Mai's troubled expression as the bluenette stared at the entrance way, as if someone...or something was coming.

And like Mai, she inwardly dreaded what it was.

(I'll let Mai post first D:)
(Nvm)

Lusec helped pull Ragna's near-lifeless body towards the nearby exit. He felt that someone was coming down their way.

There was so much evil that, even without a Yukianesa or anything similar, he could sense it. He held his blade in one hand while pulling Ragna with the other.

Kokonoe also sensed the malevolent presence that was coming their way, her feline ears perking up as a sign of this occurrence. Unlike the others, she did not feel fear. No, what she felt was much more potent, a surging emotion which shook her body that caused her face to contort into a murderous scowl, her eyes narrowed dangerously and her teeth clenched in an iron-like grip.

Yes, what Kokonoe was feeling was pure, unadulterated rage, especially since she knew who this familiar entity was.

"I've been waiting a long time for this, you son of a bitch..."

"Oh boy. Didn´t expect -this- to happen... Ragna, the Bloodedge, beaten into the ground and yet- this world is still standing."
Down the stairs, a man clad in black came, his hair lime green and well taken care of under a small hat.
His expensive shoes made an echo that was heard even with crumbling walls and multiple voices to consider, and he seemed to ignore Kokonoe completely, merely glancing at Noel, who dragged Ragna toward the exit... toward him.
"Tis` strange, in any other possiblity half of you clowns don´t even play a sideshow, and now you´re all here on stage... won´t you agree, NOEL VERMILLION?!"
His voice suddenly boomed in a roar, and his eyes snapped open, yellow snake irises aiming to meet with Noel`s emeralds.

Mai gasped in terror, unable to speak as the man did, but as soon as she mentioned her loved ones name, she grit her teeth and threw her intact sword at his neck in a pure murder instinct. She had hoped what Kokonoe told them was a lie, that Sector Seven was the villian in this as they had all told her... but right now this man seemed like a devil incarnate.
In midair, her sword was intercepted by a needle-like dagger, pointed like a swordbreaker, and it pierced the side of her blade precisely to snap the blade in two, rendering the rest useless.