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In the next room, there were still, much to the dismay of the chibis, more youma from the swarm. however, they were not the problem. No. The problem was was the little youma were moving around, skittering about the massive, sharp legs of their overseer. It was one tiny youma magnified to a hundred, towering roughly two stories and nestled in the middle of what used to be the production room before all the machinery was packed up and carted elsewhere to be sold. It was now hollowed out aside from some broken crates, pipes, and torn up plushies that had been left behind since they were unsafe for sale. It seemed they found the mother of them all - well, if youma had mothers. In this case, no, but it was the supreme authority for the little critters and was humming with dark energy familiar with all youma - but also the energy of something more pure. Like the others, it held a massive bulb at it's back that made the end of it's last abdomen and it hummed with the collected energy stolen from their young victims. As if to demonstrate, a few tinier youma went to the larger's mouth and two long whiplike mouth parts went down and sucked the energy from the smaller gatherers. This was the storage youma of all the energy collected from the smaller.

"You think they would have died by now." The voice echoed, and above them all on a line over scaffolding running across the room and directly over the massive youma were the Negaversers. Wolframite was directly above the largest youma, rolling up his sleeves. Wolframite was not pleased at all. He would have thought the children would be exhausted and have died to the youma swarm, but it seemed they managed something along the line of luck to get to the other room. This meant trouble, not to mention he didn't want to think about the mess what was probably in the other room. The idea of fallen youma bothered him more greatly now than ever before.

In a whisper, he spoke to the general and corrupted senshi. "I have to hurry and collect the last batch of energy from Siphonata before they cause trouble. We might need backup if this gets messy." With energy gathering, there was no way he could fight. It required all his concentration and even small senshi could cause a lot of trouble - and if they got backup - well, everything would hit the fan.

His green eyes flashed back to the invading Chibi as he called down. "Getting rather late. Tired yet?" He called back. "I'll be kind and let you all go back to your warm, toasty beds. I bet your parents are worried about you. No doubt they are checking your beds right now to kiss your brow and see you aren't home. Tsk. tsk." He hoped to worry them, but really, he was trying to rush. He had to get started.

He had to get this done, and he looked at the pair he had trusted to help him with this mission. "I'm going to start." He said, feeling more nervous than before. He had been collecting energy over and over in intervals due to the amount he could collect at one time, and he knew there was one good batch left. What with the small senshi here, it was clear that progressing further would be foolish. Right now, he had to get what he could and hopefully he could summon the youma away when he was finished. He hoped.

Moving over directly above the massive youma, it's bright blue energy stored in it's body glowing up and casting him in a light blue that would have made Scheelite grin, he rose his hands and concentrated. Slowly, the energy started to seep out from the youma like ghost tendrils and started to swirl into a ball before him.

Hug-bell as she appeared in the doorway, placed her hands on her hips when she heard Wolframite calling down to them. "Perhaps you should go to bed too. You can't be that much older than us." She used his size against him.

She was more tired after the battle with the first youma swarm but that was easy compared to what they were standing in front of now. The Huge Youma was one of the biggest she'd ever seen and her eyes grew wide the more she looked at it. In one passing moment she wondered if Scheelite had seen this monstrous bug.

The child was looking back up at the Negaverse now, "I think we proved we're more than able to handle these youma ourselves! Perhaps you're the ones that should stop before we show you what we're really made of." Such big talk coming from such a little girl, however the more people seemed to doubt the chibis the more Hug-bell got frustrated with them.

Following HugBell's cue, and not far behind, was Sailor Hygiea who nearly came stumbling on the scene with steel rod still in hand. There really were a lot of them here, almost a bottle neck situation, and only so much of a doorway. And what struck her was both awe and also sheer happiness.

First off, yeah, that bug was massive and huge and - holy s**t, did it just EAT the other small bug. The hell was wrong with that? Hygiea made a face, mixed with befuddlement and almost amusement really. "That's just weird," she shouted, pointing her hand obviously to the direction of the mother Youma. Who did something like that?

Well, apparently those guys near it and above them. The guys that HugBell said some pretty kick a** words to, which made the orange haired senshi grin from ear to ear. There was a reason Hygiea liked to stick with HugBell sometimes, stole the words right out of her mouth. "Yeah!" Was all she could affirm to, still pointing.. this time at Wolframite.

The sound of foul language filled her ears suddenly, and really who else could that voice really belong to?

"Hi Iris!" Hygiea turned her head to the direction that the blonde eternal had entered, hand no longer pointing but waving in the air enthusiastically - obviously, she still had energy to spare - the other one still holding a steel rod. Awesome, one of her team mates got her message - or Egeria's message... someone's message, she couldn't remember who she had specifically sent out messages to right now.

Egeria's actions when she noticed Iris arrive was clearly just because she felt the team needed to be close together, it had nothing to do what so ever with the fact that she was tired and felt more secure and safe by the eternal senshi. Egeria was really new to this and though she listened to ********* more then Iris she wasn't stupid, Iris had the experience she didn't have.

"The youmas cling to you and suck the energy... then looks like the big one eats the little ones." Egeria thought she might as well answer Iris's question. Though of course she was still tired and the words came out a little slurred. Had the youngster been on alcohol? It may have seemed a little like it.

Thank goodness for their phones! Somewhat like Hygiea the events that had just happened kind of blurred all into one and so she couldn't remember who text who but at least one of the team was here. Maybe some of the others were coming to? That would be handy! She saw another eternal senshi turn up but had no idea who she was so just ignored her and wondered how they were going to go and attack the giant youma...

Prior to the message he got from Polaris, Niflhel had been in the gym working out. He had made a habit of keeping his phone with him when he stayed late. The second he got the message of chibis in trouble he made like a tree and left to assist.

It took him a bit to have Polaris' back in his sights and had paused to look around the area. He remembered these toys, there might've still been one in his attic somewhere if it hadn't gotten thrown out.

Of course the squire had to pull himself from his thoughts when he felt the dark energy of Negaverse agents. It didn't take long for him to find where they were located. "Holy sweet mother of mercy that's a giant bug." He muttered in aw. He thought the Beiber monster was huge, this one was just as bad.

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Hug-bell watched as others joined them, there was a small smile at Iris and then Polaris and Niflhel. "Hello," She said before looking back at the Negaverse, "Like Egeria said, we found a bunch of little bugs and followed them to this big one." It was more of a condensed version of what was going on but... "We managed to beat a lot of the little ones."

The child stopped hearing something come from Hypnos. "What's wrong?" She asked curiously, having a feeling something was bothering the other chibi since she was lagging behind and had just stopped fighting in the last room...

Foramen prided himself on working alone - or with those rare few who'd proven they weren't as idiotic as most of the senshi out there. He especially prided himself on having nothing to do with the baby senshi that popped up every so often, causing him to make @_@ in group meetings at whoever thought it was a good idea to bring little kids into this war.

It was around midnight, which meant Foramen was only beginning to think about finishing up patrol and heading home to sleep. One of the many perks of finally graduating (not that he'd slept before midnight most school nights, anyway). But a beeping from his senshi phone caught his attention and then he was reading an SOS from an unknown senshi with the dreaded 'Chibi' in front of their name.

"Who the hell is passing out my number?" he demanded. Finishing the message revealed that he was simply close enough 'in range' for the phones to pick him up automatically. He groaned. "Goddamn cats and their goddamn interfering tech..."

Foramen was conveniently forgetting that he loved working with the tech when it came to maintaining the Negaverse database.

Despite not approving of the chibis, Foramen wasn't about to leave them to die, either. Complaining all the way, he ran to the location indicated and entered the building. Several other senshi were already gathering. He wondered if they'd also been in the area, or if they were actually on the kids' speedials.

"What the hell is going on?" he demanded. He followed the gaze of a senshi in pale and khaki green to see a guy in an eyepatch who didn't look much taller than the chibis who called for help. Not that height reflected on age at all, Foramen hastily reminded himself (being somewhat lacking in that department himself). "Who's he?"

Kid in an eyepatch sounded familiar. Foramen had probably entered him into the Nega database. But it had been many hours since Foramen's last coffee, so his give-a-s**t meter was running low.

It wasn't too often a text popped up on her phone, but when this one did, Sailor Metis didn't hesitate for a moment to turn heel and head off in the direction where her young teammate's dot blipped away on her cell. The question of why anyone so young would be up at this hour came and went by the time she arrived at the abandoned factory. Her nerves were already in a bunch, the dark auras bouncing around the building seeming to be barely contained by the structure in her mind's eye.

Never mind the sounds of something squishing under her boots as she followed the copper-silver and yellow waves further in, something she couldn't tell the detail of. Oh the variety of unsettling things that popping into her mind at each sound...

She moved quickly to stand beside Iris once she'd spotted the eternal, looking quickly to Hygiea and Egeria to check for any obvious injuries, before moving to *********, then the youma skuttling around the room. Bugs. Why did it have to be bugs? If the massive one didn't make her squeamish of the creatures, nothing would. Metis shuttered at what she could make out of the situation. "I certainly.... wasn't expecting this when I got the text." She glanced to the copper figures in the room, recognizing Polaris and Hugbell, but no others. The Negaversers didn't ring any bells in her quick flick to them, though she suddenly wasn't sure who was the bigger threat - them, or the youma?