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For every minute, every hour, every day delayed, more people will suffer. Lives ended, souls eaten, blood spilled- the power of the Negaverse that edged across the city and perhaps further. And there was less and less comfort in rest, for he knew other had none. Less desire for food, because the dead could not eat.

So Thraen was out, the hour foolish and dim. It was mostly lonely, the amount of cars on the streets was dwindled to only the nightcrews that worked graveyard since most of the bars had or were closing about then. He paused having heard, not far maybe, echoes of running, and he listened. And he felt out, scanning in case there was trouble from chaos nearby and someone in desperation for help. And it was true partly, clear in a moment like a bullet- a chaos signature.

The Super Senshi turned his direction, following the oil-slick feel until he was at the juncture of buildings down to the alleys below. There was someone down there, and he had a feeling it must be the agent. He didn't hesitate, and leapt down to just out of arms reach distance.

"Lieutenant of the Negaverse. "

"This is your one chance, so don't waste it. Turn out any energy or starseeds and surrender- renounce the negaverse. "

"Penitence willing, or castigation unwilling- your choice."

"You stand by the rape of lives, the ending of souls, the destruction of reason, an organization and place who's very name speaks of the final end it seeks for me, for other senshi, for the people it preys on, for the world it consumes, and for all things that move, breath or exist outside itself, and claim it just."

The chill or her words wilted him not at all. His own expression was neutral- not cold but impassive. "So be it."

"Dura lex sed lex.*" He shifted forward, no hesitation now- Zircon's teeth around a starseed as he'd done this before playing through memory like over exposed, burning film- the same of the memory of Buddingtonite's bones breaking. It was terrible. Thraen threw out his arm to try to throw her hard into the wall. Disorient first, then break.

Her weapon-
A squeaky bear. Her hands are no less deadly than any other agents, but they seriously put a girl on the field with a squeaky toy as a weapon of war. Why even carry it?

Instinct was to do right back and slap the ever loving snot out of her head, but he wasn't going to make an elementary school recess game out of this. She mocked reason and stood by the destruction of everything. His needs, then, were two-fold in ensuring she was removed from being able to carry out orders for a while and in checking if she was a confirmable murderer and had any starseeds on her. If she did, it wasn't less disabling and completely decommissioning her. Proximity as it was, he tried to plant his wooden boot into her.

Thraen's jaw set against making any noises of any kind as the girl shifted to beat a retreat. It was, perhaps, the smartest thing for her to be trying strategically- a lieutenant randomly faced with a super senshi. The odds, surface wise, were about as good as his own facing a captain or lieutenant.

But he wasn't going to just let an agent get away without knowing if they did or did not carry any starseeds, and therefore were or were not very likely a murderer. She is slower than I, little bear of the enemy

He didn't just break into a chase behind her- it left too much in her power. The key was to get in front of her and try to herd her. Trajectories was easier in this alley and she sprung into a sprint and leap from dumpster to fire escape and then a swing down to land in front of her, whether she ran in to him or not, and stop her.

He'd considered the possibility of her choosing to just bull-rush. It was a good choice, with the shortness of reaction space. He open his arms for it, taking the hit to the in his stomach, and wrapped them round her in a debatabley companionable embrace.

They all gather energy, conscripted to such service for whatever dark purposes. They all break faith by their hands. I have to get to her hands.

Momentum still carried them both back, and he swung his weight to keep them rolling until he had the top position and threw her bodily down to pin her against the concrete. "You. Will. Yield."

I have you now. Getting an arm sacrifices completely having her pinned, but its worth it. He took the kick to the thigh, knowing it was going to bruise later. It wasn't precise enough to trigger a charlie horse, which was as much as he could ask for.

"Lex talionis, " Thraen grabbed her wrist with one of his hands and wrenched the arm up, with his other he struck right at the forearm, a breaking blow for the radius or ulna, whichever bone took the brunt of the force. He tried, wished, willed that his own nerves and ears would neither feel the give of bones and muscle, nor the sound of the breaking. He wanted to remain white, not red, but there wasn't much choice left. No, no if I do it, I must see it, hear it, feel it. I will not pretend ignorance or superiority- if I do it, and willingly, I must atone for it myself one day. It is too easy to brush under a rug. I will know all that I do.

She refused to surrender, refused to stop, so he would save what innocents he could how he could- pull the teeth from the wolves and they would starve, or they would be tame.

She screamed, and Thraen didn't flinch. Of course, its a broken bone. But we're not done yet. Her other arm? Two are given to us, for good or ill.

It was becoming easier, the bile didn't come to the back of his throat this time. Her other arm was clawing at him, lacerations now painting his brow, cheek and neck. He let go the broken limb and grabbed that second arm, standing to wrench it up as well and pull her onto her haunch, twisting shoulder in joint to hold it still of her thrashing.

His own shoulder blade had been broken once, a matter that had taken some weeks to be serviceable. He aimed a hard, wood-covered knee at that last good shoulder, sure to hit upper ribs as well given the length of his long legs. He let her go with the blow, to tumble as she would as he brought up a hand to wipe blood out of blurring his vision.

Starseeds. I need to check if she has any on her. He shifted and started after her again.