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Kayla Lee had heard news of strange goings-on at a fancy hotel where a fancy party had taken place a few days ago. Supposedly, there was a terrorist attack on the hotel or something, and at least one person had died? It was all rumors and whispers to her, and even if it was the talk of the town, she didn't see what it had to do with her. The Lee family was not especially rich, especially not after the holidays, so she didn't have money to spare for a nice dress. Admission was cheap enough, sure, but she didn't feel she had anything to wear. Regardless of all that, it was a good thing she hadn't gone, since there had been an attack and all. One less thing to worry about.

Today she had gone out for a quick grocery shop to put some food in the house after her family's traditional New Year's mini-feast. It was a nice little thing they did, making delicious food for the holidays, and she looked forward to it every year. Carrying four grocery bags (two in each hand), she walked down the sidewalk towards the middling-but-somewhat-poor part of town she lived in. As she passed by a certain alleyway, she thought she saw something move out of the corner of her eye, and she stopped walking. It was probably just a stray animal or something, but it still made her feel a little suspicious.

Adding to the oddness of the situation, Kayla thought she heard a voice coming out of the alleyway, and a female voice at that. Something about more....? Morsels? Although every signal in her mind told her to just walk on by, she stayed where she was. At first she thought the voice might have just been a homeless woman who might try to take her groceries, but when she peered into the alleyway, there were no people to be found. So where could the voice have come from? "Hello?" she called into the alleyway, hoping the source of the voice would reply. If not, she would be convinced she was hearing things.

A cat? That would explain what Kayla saw. "Hey there," she said gently, putting her grocery bags down for a moment and stooping down to the cat's level. This was a strange cat for certain. Where did it get that visor from? It looked too fancy for a purely stray cat, and to put such a sci-fi-looking visor on a cat, the supposed owner must have been a bit odd at the very least. Ah, but the owner might explain the woman's voice coming from the alley. Maybe it was an eccentric homeless person with a cat? Kayla had no cash to spare, sadly, so any encounter would be awkward at best. Nonetheless, she reached forward to touch the visor and maybe take it off and check it for any identifying marks. "Who gave you this? Is your owner around?" The cat couldn't respond, of course, but sometimes animals were good at leading people to their owners.

"Wh-huh?" There was the woman's voice again, but it seemed to be coming from... the cat? Either the owner was very good at throwing their voice, there was a recording being played somewhere, or there was a bona-fide talking cat in front of Kayla. Cautiously, she placed the visor back on the cat and looked around again. "Hello?" It was partly directed at whoever was speaking in the distance and partly at the cat. There was some weird business going on, to be sure.

"Um." The cat was talking, the cat had confirmed that her voice was indeed coming from her, and now was talking about Kayla being "special." At this point, Kayla figured she had no choice but to hear the cat out. "Okay... I mean, you're a talking cat. How could this get any weirder?" Of course, she had no idea that it had the potential to get quite a bit weirder.

"Sada-what?" Kayla caught what the cat had said, but the name certainly was a mouthful. "Um... okay. Here goes nothing." She gripped the pen tightly, then repeated the words: "Sadachbia Power, Make-Up!"

A brilliant glow encompassed her, followed by flashes of gold and blue and ribbon-like bandages. When the light dispersed, a newly-awakened senshi was standing there, holding her henshin pen. "Uh." The new senshi pulled on her skirt with one hand and nudged her chest bow with the other. "I... have a costume now? Where did my clothes go?" Her outward reaction may have been mellow, but she was plenty befuddled on the inside. Magic pens that created costumes? How did that work?

"Uh, how do I power down? My mom's going to want me back with the groceries soon, and I can't give them to her if they're in subspace." The newly-christened Sadachbia listened attentively to Ash's explanation and wasn't quite sure how much of it to accept. "So I've been recruited?" she asked. "But I've never been one to sit and let injustice happen. If this Negaverse is hurting innocent people, I'll gladly join the fight." This fight didn't seem too different from her usual routine of clobbering bullies; it just seemed that the bullies had magic or something now. "What do I need to do? Just find people being attacked by the Negaverse and protect them?"

"Hmm, okay," Sadachbia said, accepting Ash's explanation of how to power down, though she didn't revert to civilian just yet. "It sounds like there's lots of ways to go about this. I would appreciate the names of those senshi, if you can give them." She bent down to pick up the new senshi phone, picked it up, and stared at it. "Oh, this is cool. What exactly does it do? I'd guess it makes calls and texts and all that, but what else?"