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Asuka wanted to interrupt sooner, but these people.....they were all potentially hostile in nature, and just crazy to boot. Finally though, she'd reached the end of her rope. SOMEONE had to know!

Taking a breath, Asuka walked over to where Jenny was docked and yelled up at the two lovebirds who were busy talking about....lovebird things.

"If you two are done, can I ask you something? That guy who was here before, Konner...did he say he was leaving? His KLF and him both just vanished..."

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Meanwhile upstairs, a certain purple-haired psycho had been quite busy hogging one of the shower rooms right after she'd scampered away from Gray. Sure, there were different rooms inside the room to use....but being annoying Kayako had decided just to lock the whole thing from the inside! She needed her solitude, you know.

In all actuality, she felt kind of icky since being stuck inside that coral formation. No real reason for it, she was just the kind of girl that didn't like getting 'gunk' on her, though she could care less about blood.....She now was resting on one of the benches with a towel around herself, drying off her hair while she watched herself in the body-length mirror on the opposite wall. Inwardly she was grateful no one could see her....she didn't do things so 'girly' very often and she wasn't too keen on letting anyone know she did them at all.

"Hm. Do ships work like houses? If they do, I bet Gray must be real mad trying to wash his clothes...."

At the moment Daisuke still hadn't put on his headphones so the music was not empedding his hearing. He could hear the distinct sound of other's voices so he then decided to put his headphones back on. With the music flowing once again, he continued his OS reprogramming. To him this ship had way to much going on but he had also been traveling alone for a long time.

"MEDRI!!!!! YOUR DEAD WHEN I FIND YOU!!!!"

Somewhere upstairs, a loud crash sounded and the bathroom door flew open to reveal Kayako in a loose t-shirt and shorts, sporting a rather dangerous-looking metal pipe in her hand that she'd found in the corner. Luckily, the boy had missed one when they'd cleaned out the place earlier.

"....why that little...."

(((Sho begged me....the skip will happen once he does what he's gonna do.)))

(((It was on top the door.....)))

"You.....BRAT!!! YOUR DEAD!!! EVERYONE ON THIS SHIP I DEEEAD!!!"

Somewhere, Asuka took that cue to run away as fast as she could. The screamer known as Kayako however, still armed with the metal pipe ran straight after the would-be-philosopher and swung it at his head.

"I AM GETTING SICK OF YOUR STUPID MANNERISMS, YOU-MOOSE TWIT!!"

((( xd "moose twit"....)))

((more complex than that...))
Gray Acted as if he didn't care, still walking as kayako ran towards him; her footsteps where really loud because she was practicaly stomping....
Making it very easy to predict where she was, thanks to her screams and wild attack pattern.
"..As the Sun falls; the moon rises....over and over-Always in the same place!"
As Gray finished, he let his legs go limp and dropped to the floor as Kayako clobbered empty air.
Landing in a crouch, Gray stuck out his leg and twirled around a circular sweep; knocking into Kayako's legs in a disabling manuver.
Gray plucked the Pipe from Kayako's flailing hands as she fell over.
"Tsk...You can't break a rock with a metal pipe-so how can you break the sun with it?"
Gray asked retoricaly and camly, holding the Pipe back from Kayako lest she grab it agian and not miss.

(((And now with this, we have officially SKIPPED A MONTH!!)))

"You ARE the sun Gray....just one big ball of HOT AIR!!"

WHACK!

As soon as Gray was distracted by Medri's yapping, the pipe was yanked out of his hands and brought down on his over-inflated ego.....and also his head. And most likely he would be feeling that for quite awhile.

Somewhere on the ship, Asuka slinked away for the three-hundredth time, hearing more screaming as the blue-haired boy protested this injustice to his person, and Kayako attacked him with whatever other object she could find including a flowerpot, a bottle of shampoo, and Medri's shoe. And as for Medri himself, he was busy trying to both get the two of them apart and making sure the loud and somewhat insane teenagers didn't destroy the ship with their bickering.

An hour passed, then two.....nobody was going anywhere near that ship, so Asuka, Dai, Reiku, Kana and Nic went out behind the buildings and had a bonfire while the workers all conveniently worked on the opposite side of the ship that the crazy people were fighting in. Quinn stayed hidden, convinced he was being stalked by a certain chef that had a vendetta against him. The day ended with Kanashisa finally getting pissed and picking Kayako and Gray up by the collars of their shirts and sending them to their rooms......and suddenly, it wasn't much of a surprise that she was going to be a mother. She had the authority thing down......And suddenly, Kayako had Medri on her 'list' for laughing when this happened.

Everyone remembered to lock their doors that night.

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Of course, it didn't stop there. The 'sun and the moon' as it were continued this annoying pranking throughout what remained of the group's first week at Triga, not that anyone knew quite why or cared what they did as long as nothing was broken. Medri however gave up on them when Thursday and Friday arrived, opting instead to hide the valuables and programmed the somewhat sarcastic AI unit of Ragnarok to keep the pranksters away from anything they could possibly do harm to. This worked to an extent, however it didn't stop Kayako from flooding the bathroom early Saturday morning. Oddly, this had nothing to do with a prank.....she simply had dropped a towel into the bathtub and it had clogged the drain and caused it to flood.

The unfortunate thing about it was that this happened so early that Kayako had fallen asleep waiting for the bath to fill, and by the time everyone else woke up the entire floor of the level was soaked. Not only that, but the bathroom, which incidentally had steps from the door as it was set lower, was completely flooded. Medri almost killed them all for this.....luckily Reiku remembered that they had coated the metal structure of the ship with a special polyurethane so the water wouldn't damage it. They were just fortunate the workers knew enough about the destructive nature of certain people that they made Ragnarok virtually indestructible......Not that it helped with the water on the floor and the LAKE in the bathroom.........

Quinn was the only one smart or weird enough to wear galoshes when he walked on that part of this ship. Everyone else had to go somewhere else until the hallways dried so their shoes wouldn't become soggy. Not that anyone else HAD galoshes. This raised many questions about their pilot's fashion sense.

Due to a lost wrench that they needed to loosen the pipe, the 2nd floor bathroom couldn't be fixed, and thus the group entered the second week at the facility with an off-limits sign in front of the bathroom door. This tool mishap in turn caused something rather....strange to occur. The pranks forgotten with the presence of Kanashisa's baking and yummy cakes, Kayako and Gray came across Asuka on Sunday afternoon...floating on a piece of wood on the four feet of water in the forbidden bathroom.
"But it's FUN!" was the only comment she had about this, and everyone decided to just let the redhead be and try not to question why exactly she'd decided to do something like that.......

Finally on that Wednesday, Medri, Reiku, Daisuke and the still-there Tolly together managed to drain all the water out of the room and the place was once again safe for use, on the grounds that showers and baths were to be done when one WASN'T sleepy. The damage wasn't bad so all and all it was only a minor incident, however many people were sort of confused over how Medri's wrench ended up underneath Nic's bed. When asked, she stated she had no idea how it had gotten there, however Asuka mentioned that it was a very shiny wrench and everyone had an afternoon of annoyed glaring at Kayako. Everyone knew she liked shiny things......

By the end of the second week, the men were relieved to be getting back to work on a regular, non-waterlogged schedule. Reiku continued to torment the workers by insisting on helping with installing the various weapons, often tripping over shoes, tools and things that were laid out around the shipyard area in a most odd, almost on-purpose manner....

Daisuke and Gray were no help really; the two edgy males were more interested in fixing, polishing, and in Gray's case talking to the LFOs inside Ragnarok's bay. The one LFO that seemed to be ignoring the blue-haired menace was the black and violet Senturi, which only responded when Kayako made trips in there. The girl had asked what was wrong, but it would seem her mech was still somewhat annoyed at Mercury for the recent transformation. The sliver one on the other hand started to creep people and random workers out when they would wander into the area and find it staring at the dark one, while said dark LFO would be facing the other direction. Asuka begged them to put their machines in vehicle mode, but they didn't listen.

When the workers started to attach the launch catapult to the hangar, they would often look over their shoulders at the mechs and mumble to one another.

Sunday came again, and as the third week of working at Triga came Nic was finally forced out of her room for more than the normal five minutes a day, on the notion that as the unofficial medic and healer of their ship of misfits, she needed to be on call at all times. Tolly also mentioned that it wasn't good for a young lady like her to be cooped up in one space with that book of hers all day, and she needed some fresh air and open space. The others agreed, though Kayako, as their unofficial 'Leader' insisted she help out as well. They needed all they could get, after all!

And this began the saga known as Daisuke and the Mop.

As part of the daily tasks, Nic was ordered to mop up the kitchen since there were crumbs everywhere from much cooking and messy teenagers trying to steal cake from each other. She did this quite well and without any sort of comical mishap as the others did, and Kanashisa was happy. Lately the green-haired mother-to-be had taken up making the meals for them all every night. Unfortunately this gave certain food-preparing officials time off, and a certain pilot became more elusive than ever. But as for Nic, she just did her job of keeping the yummy-place clean.

The first day she mopped, she was confused at where to put the mop and bucket and ended up leaving it on the catwalk above the hangar after Asuka called her away to look at some random cut Reiku had gotten. Dai, who worked or lounged upon his LFO during the day was the unfortunate victim when this mop was knocked asunder by a clumsy Kayako, where it fell and landed with a PLOP! upon his head, dirty water and all. Notably the not-really-but-kinda-a-hostage was quite enraged and ended up throwing the evil watery cleaning device out the window, where Quinn found it later and took it.

However, by Tuesday it was apparent his defeat was not a one-time thing. Everywhere he went, MOPS! Where on earth they had all come from, no one knew, but they seemed to dislike Dai with a passion. While he was asleep, a mop flew through the door and smacked him in the face. Then when he went to the bridge to ask who had done it, a mop fell from the supply closet and soaked his clothes in a most hilarious of manners. Then, on Wednesday, the man found a scratch on his LFO, and when he bent down to examine it he was bombarded with both a mop and a bucket of what appeared to be soda.

Of course, by the time Friday came Dai had successfully decided he's had enough, and tried to convince Kayako to let him do the cleaning in Nic's place so he would know where all mops were at all times. Of course, this proposal was shot down in the fiery flames of purple-haired death. And yes, she hit him with....you guessed it, a mop. Wasn't that a surprise? Oddly, after this incident the moppings stopped suddenly, mostly because certain people had become bored with it. And, also surprisingly, everyone secretly knew who was behind it all, though they would never say anything lest risk invoking the wrath of the demon on their ship.....

Sunday morning on the final week of the month, and most everyone was doing their usual routine of being very happy and glad they would be moving soon, just as they had during the construction process at Tolly's place. The weapons systems were mostly online already, though Medri was possessed to fix any and all glitches he encountered, even those in the AI unit's extremely sarcastic voice. As far as he was concerned, the Ragnarok was to be his greatest work to date, a flying fortress of death....and cookies. As for Kanashisa, she continued to rule the kitchen, and a certain pilot was known to loath her for giving the kitchen staff time off. Unfortunately he never made much progress with his poorly-written threats on toilet paper, as the green-haired woman found Quinn more funny than creepy.

This final week, though full of tension, also reflected just how mismatched this group was. On Tuesday, Kayako suddenly decided that while Kana was busy doing quote 'couple things' with Medri, she would take Nic and try to bake some cake and sweets for them all to share as a celebration for completing their flying death-trap. An entire report could be written on why exactly it is NOT a good idea to let a genetic experiment that doesn't know how to use ANY kind of machine that doesn't lift near a stove or the groceries.....but by now this fact was overly apparent to anyone that had been anywhere near the group of vigilantes this last month or longer.

Luckily, there was NOT a rampaging fire that destroyed everyone and everything within a twenty-mile radius. Unluckily, there WAS an abundance of smoke and alarms ringing through the Triga facility when certain females started chatting and forgot they'd left the cake in too long. Through four attempts at making their sweets and three chewing-outs by Reiku (who was slapped for 'correcting his superiors...') and Tolly, the purple-one and the healer DID manage to make one vaguely edible food item. Unfortunately, it was a lone cookie and Kayako called 'leader's dibs'. Somehow, Asuka felt cheated by this.

After that, things, for some reason, were relatively quiet until Friday came. Maybe it was the fact that Kayako hated the smell of all that icky smoke from the baking incident, which therefore kept her away from anything she felt might catch fire. Or, far more likely, it was the fact that Kanashisa had completely barred off the kitchen following her return from her bonding session. Nobody asked her what this entailed and honestly didn't want to know in the least. Medri was impressed by her authority. Gray was indifferent and when asked what he felt answered in a riddle and was pummeled with a shoe. The others really didn't care, except Kayako because she could no longer steal things from the fridge.

Quinn, being obsessive and possibly a schizophrenic, saw this as the ultimate threat. And, for once in his pathetic existence...he was right! No sooner had the kitchen staff been given temporary leave than the man found himself tied up and shoved into a hallway closet, the only image engraved into his mind being the kitchen-girl he was always hitting on (and possibly doing more to if one believed rumors..) laughing at her timely revenge. Not even pausing to think of how he would get out or whether or not he could die in there, she locked him in and walked off in a strutting, happy way. The poor pilot was stuck there all night, into Saturday morning.

And then, silence. Well, not really silence, as Kayako was busy chasing Gray and Asuka(?!) through the halls and was making much noise. But nonetheless, HE thought that this was definitely the end of him, and so with a heavy heart, Quinn wrote a heartfelt poem filled with sadness, regret and pain down on a piece of random paper he'd found. Although, the irony would be that his hands had come loose hours ago and he probably could've picked the lock......But still! He felt inspired, and so he wrote!

O, but for sweet, summertime dreams I have but none,
Broken all on the rocky shores of a mistake
And a woman, whose pills forgot to take.

Alas! How my stomach does groan!
Take me now from confinement and free me from cares!
And females who would many things asunder tear!

Farewell, sweet Quinn, prince of the sky,
The man whose greatest mistake was unzipping his fly.

And after he spilled these words, the great waves of expression that overtake one in a hopeless situation took hold! Anger, sadness, depression, those other ones no one remembers.....And finally, acceptance.

"Ah, it's not so bad to die. I've lived a full life, and now I will finally see what the great beyond holds! Yes, sweet DELIVERANCE-!!"

CREAK

"Uh, Quinn? What are you doing in the closet.....?"

And thus, the final day did dawn.

(((The immortal words of Svener: "Too lazy to check for errors.")))

Kayako, oblivious to what ever everyone else was doing, yawned and lazily started walking down the halls of Ragnarok towards the hangar. She felt, though it was probably unfounded, that she hadn't been annoying Gray quite enough recently and he needed to be reawakened to the insanity before they left.

Stopping when she saw the intercom, the purple-haired girl pushed the button and decided to take care of a few things first.

"Tolly, Reiku or Medri, preferably Tolly....One of you needs to meet me in the hangar and tell me when we'll be able to take off. Everyone please move your LFO's to the appropriate spaces in said hangar, because if we take off with Twilight so close to the doors it's gonna get dented. Also, Gray.....as I am sure you are aware, if you reverse the two middle letters in your name, it spells 'Gary'. I find this funny. Over."

She then clicked off the intercom and continued walking, pleased that everyone got to hear that little announcement.

And somewhere.....

"Um, Quinn? Are you gonna stop crying and come outta there? I'm pretty sure Kayako just said we'd be leaving soon. Among other things...."

Daisuke was in his room sleeping but was trying to wake himself up, but he was too lazy to do it himself. Although it wasn't helping much that he expected to be attacked with a mop, even though the attacks seemed to have stopped. Kayako's announcement on the ship's intercom gave him a reason to get up.

Daisuke walked down the hallways with a slow pace, his head lowered as if he was looking at the floor, and his hands in his pants pockets. "Stupid mops." He let out a slight sigh. It was evident that the mop week was still bothering him.

Eventually Daisuke made his way to the hangar. He looked around for a moment with an arched eyebrow. "Now where did I put my 505?" He looked around for a moment before he saw caught a glimpse of it with the corner of his eye. "There it is." Now that he found his 505 he began to walk over to it, with moderate pace as he moved his lips to form a smirk.

Upon reaching the 505 he climbed into the cockpit. Dai had no intention on moving it because it was already in an secured spot in the hangar. His plan was to work on the targeting system to compensate for the FCS which had apparently fired. "Man, I need to find some place to get parts or something." During the month he had managed to scour the abandoned base in search for replacement parts but he didn't find anything of to much value, which left Daisuke wondering where he could get some new parts and weapons for the 505.