Holy forking shirtballs! Suni found herself diving behind a tree and slamming a hand over her mouth as she fumbled with her other to dig her phone out of her pocket. She’d only just powered down after a mostly successful night of draining bits of energy here and there and had thought that a stroll through the park would be a fantastic way to wrap up her day. She’d been clinging to the shadows out of habit and caution when she’d seen it. An actual, ******** alien!

The tall, pale figure had been slipping from tree to tree about ten feet ahead and, in Suni’s estimation, was doing a terrible job of being sneaky. Moving carefully, she finally got her phone free and thumbed it on, pulling up the camera. Taking care to make sure the flash wouldn’t go off and betray her, Suni peeked around the tree and saw the alien paused, back to her and face in profile looking up. Hitting the zoom, Suni snatched as many pictures as she could before ducking back. Another peek showed her that the alien was moving again and Suni followed behind. She wanted to get a picture from the front if at all possible. Partly for… research. Partly so she had something viable to report the next time she powered up. And fortunately for her citybred, clumsy a**, the alien was even worse about moving quietly than she was.

And, unless she missed her guess, Suni had an idea of where the alien was heading. There was a little grove that was mostly hidden and, if Suni was an alien looking to find a safe hiding place, she’d go there. Creeping after, she thought that the alien was, at least, somewhat familiar with the park. Just a little.

Well, at least it managed to avoid walking through a patch of poison ivy that the rangers hadn’t had a chance to clear out yet. That counted for something.

As she followed, she got as much video and static pictures as she could. This person was clearly a senshi of some sort. But why it was out playing Cryptid in the Park was beyond her. Weren’t senshi supposed to, like, be out making trouble for cute li’l Negaverserers like herself?

Throwing herself to the ground as the alien turned, Suni angled her phone up as best she could without giving away her location and blindly snapped pictures. Hopefully at least one would be usable. She heard the soft, brushing sound of plants moving and when she peeked up, the alien had vanished from sight. Well, piss.

With a sigh, she got to her knees and then slowly to her feet. A moment of being still and holding her breath to listen revealed nothing. Still, she had pictures and some video. She wasn’t exactly going home empty handed. Retracing her steps, Suni got back onto the path that would take her out of the park. Right now, she needed to get home and go through what she had…

Though, it wouldn’t hurt to take a little peek now. Pausing to open her gallery, Suni scanned through what she had and grinned. Precisely one of her little OMG QUICK photos had gotten a reasonably clear image of the alien’s full face and torso. One was better than zero, after all. And with all the other pictures, she had more than enough to start building a file.

Resuming her pace, Suni glanced down at the picture again, really looking at it. And felt a tiny, teensy, far off sensation of Oh no. She’s hot.

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