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"Thank you, sir," Genji said thankfully.

Genji went over to the work station that held the aluminum and crafting tools. He took the picture of the measurements in hand and looked intently at each number. He took the metal cutters and started very slowly and carefully to avoid error and, most importantly, injury. Genji whinced whenever a bladed tool came close. He was, to be quite honest, a little clumsy with tools. However, he did work well and thankfully eased into the motions so that chances of injury were minute.

Ringo stretched out her arms and yawned with a smile of satisfaction. It had been a while since she was able to relax after all the things she had been doing. For countless months Ringo cooped herself up in her lab, constantly tinkering on new things so that everyone's lives would get better. So far, she's only been able to make some relatively useful inventions in her time, like the automated file organizer system for squads 8 and 9 while she made modifications to existing ones, even going so far as installing a small air conditioning system throughout the whole squad area. Although without permission from her superiors, she had little to worry about captain Maxi or vice-captain Victoria asking for the air conditioning system to be removed any time soon.

Changing out from her work clothes, Ringo went to her room and hit the shower, taking her time to thoroughly clean her body and hair. Although a skilled mechanic, she was still a girl. As with all girls like her, she still needed to look pretty in front of the boys, although one boy in particular took her interest at the moment. It had been a long time since she'd seen him, but first she had to meet her vice-captain before anything else. Victoria was a woman whom she looked up to, especially in her squad and she had agreed to spar with Ringo. It was a chance she didn't want to lose because not only would she get stronger afterward, the meeting itself was already a blessing in itself.

A good hour or so passed and Ringo stepped out of her room, decked in her white dress, black socks with white frills, spartan sandals, and her big, red ribbon. "I'm ready for this!" she thought with a cheerful smile and rushed out of her lab, but not before locking it up for safety. She didn't want anyone to come in without her being there, but then again, who would be interested enough, besides her staff, to come to a machine laboratory anyway?

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(Timeline is after the spar with vice-captain Victoria.)

Ringo awoke to the annoying sound of knocking on her laboratory's front door. Although the laboratory was big and any normal person could not even hear the annoying knocks if they were in Ringo's room, Ringo's ears were fine-tuned and very sensitive to sound. She was the mistress of sound after all so it was only natural for her to have such sensitivity to sound, but sometimes that trait is a bit annoying, especially after you've just finished pulling two consecutive all-nighters to finish modifying a prototype H-Wave Exciter Amp.

Hesitantly, Ringo fixed herself up, tied her hair, washed her face, and went to answer the door, but not before stopping by the kitchen to get a cup of coffee. It was her only source of energy since she had been disturbed by the annoying knocks.

"Yes...what is it...?" she asked in a tired voice.

"Your tune up can wait till after you have a little dual with me, Sir Revil." Tadashi stood about 10 feet away from the shinigami. His sword was already in his right hand and rested on his right shoulder. Tadashi wasn't rude, but a bit playful. "Why doesn't anyone respect my job of security?" Tadashi sighed. "Its likes nobody can read signs that say 'Sign in with the security first!' Sheesh. Educations a piece of s**t." Tadashi took 2 steps closer to Revil. "I'll tell you what Revil. Usually my job is to kick any intruder out at all cost. But.... Give me a dual, and I'll give you a guest past that you are supposed to be wearing currently. It'll be fun!" Tadashi gave a short chuckle as he pointed his blade at Revil. "Remember, just doing my job."

With her safely alone and Revils outside, Ringo breathed out once again. Really, how could she even consider modifying this little terror for him when it was he who almost killed her brother, her best friend, and her the last time? It was ironic to think that she had been hurt by the weapon which she made to the person whom she once trusted. She was very hurt by that and started to get a little bit teary-eyed thinking about it. "Ah, stupid! Time to get to work!"

With the loud shout, she placed the DualHound gently onto her machine table and got some white working clothes from a nearby work closet. Immediately, using her dexterous hands and lightning-fast speed, she diligently disassembled the DualHound in less than a minute and was immediately working on checking each and every part for signs of deterioration or any sign of strain that resulted from not taking care of it or being used too much. She hissed at the amount of damage the parts and the machine had since it needed a complete overhaul. It was amazing that the thing didn't explode on Revils when he was using it during the tournament.

"As expected, no sign of even the least bit of maintenance. You sure have been through a lot, huh, little guy?" whispered Ringo to the machine as if it were alive. "Don't worry though, Big Sis is going to patch you right up and get you back into tip-top shape so even that reckless fox can't easily do this to you again!"

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-=Revlis no doubtly feel a rather odd comfort and excitement he had heard the challenge from Tadashi. Revlis of course absent minded to the fact of the changes made here since his last visit some 6 months ago, assumed things were the same as always. He was almost joyful for the idea of a dual, but the feeling faded, and faded fast when the doors opened and Amai snatched the DualHound right off his arm before he could even talk to her or anything. For the love of god in the tournement he was possessed, really! Revlis was left there with a missing piece of vital equipment and weaponry now, his right brow twitched.

"Ugh... of all times... I owe her dinner at the least later..."

Slowly he rotated around to Tadashi, feeling in his right arm was weird with the DualHound missing, his right arm extended behind his back underneath his tail, fingers coiling around the hilt of his Zapakuto, and his left hand drawing forth his 1.5 ft long giant black Kunai.

"Alright then... let see how well the rest of squad 12 are..."

-=Revlis's ears flickered, registering the airmovements and disturbances as beyond his belief Tadashi's zapakuto shifted forms, at first it was believe to be shikai but it turned out to be much more as the zapakuto grew longer, larger and ran at him like a sharpened battering ram. The corners of the corridor was rather small and tight, too tight for Rev's clausterphobic behavior, to small to do anything efficiently at all. His mind began to rapidly calculate or predict his best options. The wide large battering ram, provided extreme length but limited horizontal strikes or swings, suggesting thrusters were the only current methood of striking him. Blocking would have been extremely inefficient and cause unessessary recoil with no form of offensive action avaible. The corners were to small for Rev, too small for attack... but not too small for a certain companion. Considering the fact that the length of the battering ram could extend to Tadashi's desire, Rev would have to withdraw to much more open grounds outside such a narrow corridor.

Revlis's feet shuffled back a quick step before flash stepping back. On moment of the step, Revlis's bunny bounced forward in a near shunpo speed, hoppin towards the lower right corner of the corridor, the small pocket of space. The bunny moved at near shunpo speed with a single small lightly glowing yellowed kunai clamped between it's teeth. The precious bunny had never been used in any form of combat before, but should anything befall the critter, Rev's full bloodlust wrath would be invoked on such an individual.

Dropping the huge kunai back in its spot, Revlis's left hand flicked repeatively every hop he bounded back, hurling plenty of throwing needles at the ram, walls and ground hoping some would ricochete off the walls or grounds and strike Tadashi. Rev remained on the retreate, keeping just beyond the ram. =-

The real Tadashi walked through the hallway carrying a bundle of blades on his shoulder. He turned the corner seeing his clone from his zanpaktou and Revils fighting. Quickly, Tadashi hid behind the wall. "At least my clones doing its job. Would have been funny if he just saw me walking past him like nothings going on as he fight the other me." Tadashi chuckled. Tadashi went through a different route to get to another door that also led to Ringo's lab. Tadashi obtrusively opened the door without knocking. "Reeeennngoooo..." Tadashi echoed in the lab. "Maxi wants you to disassemble all of these blades. He wants you to see if you can find anything interesting." Tadashi yelled as he placed the bundle on the ground. "Ill leave you alone. He said it was urgent I think." With that, Tadashi shunpoed off.

(Exits)