I'm not a native english-speaker, so I'm not garanteeing for correct grammar or phrase (but I hope it's mostly correct^^)

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The morning after

The bright rays of the morning sun found their way into the rather dark bedroom. Kokonoe opened her eyes and sunshine pierced in a painful way through her eyes directly into her brain.

Damn, her head hurt.

Carefully the scientist stretched her extremities. That was, when she realised something. Kokonoe wore her everyday clothes. Why did she sleep with them? The woman couldn't remember that she went to bed without changing. In fact, she couldn't remember going to bed at all.

What happened last night? A question, no one would have been able to answer her right now. At least, till somebody came in.

„Damn it, Tager, can't you knock?", Kokonoe shouted at the tall red man, who was now standing in the doorstep of the chamber. In surprise Kokonoe sat up rapidly, but that this wasn't such a good idea, proved the sudden pain, which shot through her head immediately.

Rash movements bad, she thought to herself in order to remember it for the next time. While Kokonoe held her head, as if she wanted to prevent it from exploding, she heard the deep voice of Tager saying: "I'm sorry, Kokonoe, I though you would be awake already."

"Goddammit, my head's gonna kill me!", Kokonoe answered without paying attention to the answer of her subordinate.

"Here!" From the brink of her eyes Kokonoe saw a huge mechanical hand holding a glass of sparkling water. The leftovers of a headache tablet were still vanishing in it. "I figured you would need this." Kokonoe couldn't resist the little grin, which arrived on her face.

"Well, aren't you a gentleman?", she stated while grasping the glass of water, which was offered to her.

"And I would be very pleased, if you won't forget it the next time you get any funny idea.", Tager replied with a slightly upset undertone, which his boss was quite surprised about. Kokonoe had the feeling, that it had something to do with last evenings events. She had had a bad feeling about it, when Makoto had mentioned the glorious idea to throw a party at Sector Seven. But working all day isn't really fun, so the half-cat had said nothing against it.

"Say, Tager, what actually happened yesterday?", Kokonoe asked after finishing her drink.

"You...don't remember?", Tager questioned unbelievingly.

"No.", the pink-haired woman answered.

"You sure?"

"I just told you, meat head, so stop asking me!" Shouting also bad, Kokonoe said to herself as she held her head once again.

"Good!", Tager said in a somewhat relieved tone of voice. "If you do, then please keep in mind, that I didn't do, what you asked of me!"

"Wait, what?" But the Red Devil of Sector Seven had already made his way to the door to leave the bedroom of the head scientist. Kokonoe jumped out of her bed and pursued the cyborg in order to get her answers.

"Hey, you pile of metal, stop right there!", she called after him. "What did I ask of...huh?" As soon as Kokonoe stepped out of her room, she nearly fell over a couple of persons lying on the floor of the hallway.

"Okay, really now, what the freaking hell happened here?" Although the scientist was shouting once more, she really couldn't care less about her headache now seeing Ragna and Rachel knocked out on the ground.

Well, to be exact, Ragna was laying on the ground while Rachel herself was lying on Ragna. And if that wasn't strange enough, the little vampire was also dressed in a maid costume. A. Maid. Costume! A short maid dress with suspenders and black leather shoes.

Did the cat-girl accidentally get into a weird continuum shift? Or maybe this bunch of empty sake cups lying around them would rather explain the situation. Kokonoe tried to avoid stepping on neither the cups nor the leftovers of liquid, which has flowed out of them. She hoped it was all just sake.

"And who's gonna be the one tidying up this crap afterward?", Kokonoe ranted while folding her arms.

"Well, I bet you will get Tager to do it, Professor Koko.", a familiar female voice answered. As Kokonoe turned herself around, she saw Makoto just leaving the bath. The squirrel-girl wore only a gray T-shirt that barely reached her thighs. Apparently she just woke up, too. While yawning, Makoto stretched herself, so that her chest protruded. Somehow the sight of this reminded Kokonoe of something that might have been related to yesterdays events, but she couldn't recall, what it was.

"Last evening was truly something, wasn't it?", Makoto said seemingly much more refreshed than Kokonoe.

"Err, seems like I have a blackout.", Kokonoe replied. At the same time she noticed that Litchi and Taokaka were laying on a couch sleeping. The member of the Kaka-clan used the distinctive breasts of the doctor as a pillow to rest her head on. A huge amount of clothes was outspread all over the place and familiar looking sake cups were piled up on the table in front of the couch with the two resting females.

"So, Makoto...", Kokonoe began. "And now in detail: What kind of shit happened here last night?"