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Sailor Libra finished "...Said the British while Washington crossed the Delaware," landing with a 'clack' of her high-heeled shoes. Libra was always edgy on patrol. After an ordeal like Barren Pines, she had to be. However, Europa seemed tolerable, and there was strength in numbers. She gave Libra an advantage, and someone to talk to.

Swinging her scales back and forth, she narrowed her blue eyes and scanned around the café for youma as if her gaze would make them more likely to reveal themselves. "A quiet night doesn't necessarily mean an easy one."

Presently though, as youma failed to appear, she relaxed and leaned against the café wall, scales slung over her arm. There were things about patrolling that she enjoyed. For instance, she had just jumped off a roof like it was nothing. Past life attached or not, Libra definitely had benefits that she could use. Power, and not just power, but more than the average senshi, if Libra's memories were anything to go by. Plus it was sort of invigorating having an alterego. There was a strange sort of freedom that came with not having to be Giselle Petrova, Perfect Student.

If only her father could see her like this. This was a lot more impressive than an 'A' in history.

Pulling herself back into the present, she examined Europa. This was a lull in the patrol, and they should use it. "What's your strong point?" she queried. "If we want to work effectively as a team, we should know how the other attacks."

After the curious case of the blue elephant and the collapsed trash youma, Europa had taken to paying more attention to what her attack actually did. (Of course, with a name like "Deep Ocean Pressure," it wasn't so hard to figure out.)

"I create atmospheric pressure," she explained, using technical jargon since Libra seemed at least as smart as she was. She bet they'd be good friends if they met as civilians and even went as far as to wonder who Libra really was, but she wouldn't ask, because that was rude.

"It makes youma unable to move, or sometimes just... collapses them, I guess. I've never tried it on a person but it doesn't work on other senshi. "

She peered under a park bench where suspect shadows lurked, but nothing jumped out at her. Huh.

"What's yours?" she asked Libra. She liked the idea of coming up with a strategy a lot.

Further down the alley came the crunch of gravel as someone approached, but with each step, the alley remained vacant. Coming closer and closer, it continued, until a dark shape traveled on the top of one of the roofs. Rubbing his back, the Lieutenant might have been mistaken for a sailor with all the bows, but even in the low light of a nearby billboard, his black military showed the military design that was famous for the Negaverse.

The number one lesson he learned was to be discreet, but heading home, he felt he had a degree of freedom considering how high up he was and the time of night. In his mind, he already clocked out for the night and was thinking of heading home and maybe sneaking into the kitchen to raid the fridge. Wondering if they still had Grape Juice in the fridge, he turned to the ledge to hop down before pausing.

Two girls together. Two girls who were dressed in what Serandite would call “gorgeous outfits”. Two senshi.

“Oh.” From what he knew of senshi encounters, this was the part where he was suppose to start fighting. Rising up, he slowly held out his hand as a jump rope appeared. Armed - sorta.

Libra's voice dropped to a barely audible whisper. "Immobilize anything that jumps out at me. Stay with your back against the wall."

Picking up her scales with a jingle of golden chain, Libra walked farther out until she was plainly visible to anyone watching. Quietly, she stretched out to yawn. Despite the fact that Europa could attack anything that came at her, she was still tense. Whatever had made that noise might have been nothing, but she had known Europa for all of a few hours. She didn't know if she could trust her or if something would go wrong with the attack, but if it did, Libra would just have to make things work somehow. She had survived before, after all, and years of studying conquerors had made her fairly confident about combat, even if it was perhaps misplaced. In the end, no matter how many times one read about Agincourt, it wasn't the same as actually planning it.

Either way, this was no Agincourt. This was just a gamble to see if there was actually danger waiting for the improvised Senshi team on this chilly night.

Europa nodded and trailed Libra, thankful that her companion knew more about strategy than she did. Youma were one thing, but they hadn't even figured out what this was yet, and it meant she was navigating blind - once they identified the target, then she'd be able to pick up one of her typical battle plans.

She kept her eyes focused on the dim area ahead of them, a knot growing in her throat. There was definitely something here, or maybe she'd watched too many detective shows; either they were about to find the body, or the killer.

Something flashed out of the darkness. Europa, already on alert, called out, "Europa deep ocean pressure!" and prayed that it worked. If whatever this thing was was malicious (and not a malicious senshi) then it should have, but it was already falling on Libra, and if it came down on her with all that pressure-

"Libra, look out!" shrieked Europa, diving to push the other Senshi out of the thing's path. She looked back over her shoulder at the thing. "If it worked we should have about twenty seconds," she said quickly. "Move!"

Swinging her head to look, Libra gasped as Europa pushed her away in the nick of time. Brushing herself off where Europa had come in contact with her (even in battle, she really hated being touched), she picked up her scales and swung them at a target that was now barely mobile, lashing against him with the heavy improvised weapon.

This was probably not how Libra had fought in her past life. It was embarrassing, awkward, but more effective than kicking or punching. It would do until current Libra learned to fight well. She counted in her head as she sent the scale arcing towards the Negaverse agent (who was actually tiny, and it would have given her pause, had he not jumped down to attack her first), backing away as slowly as he pushed himself up.

The twenty seconds were almost over.

They didn't have much more time, and Europa knew it. Either they finished him while he was slowed down or they had to fight him on his terms. Was this what Libra had meant by a Negaverse agent? He was awfully small, but then again, if kids Pavel's size could be senshi, then who was to say they couldn't be their equal and opposite as well?

She needed to score a hit on him before it wore off, and she needed to do it fast.

Europa dropped her center of gravity and aimed with her shoulders. She charged forward, meaning to catch him in the stomach with a shoulder or an elbow, but only time would tell if she beat the clock to her opponent.