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Knight Nectaris
Location: E5 to Exit
Action: Not sure what to say to Chrys, leaving.

Oh. Someone was talking to her.

Under other circumstances, Nikki probably would've gotten all caught up on how pretty this someone was. Her hair was long and blue and would've been perfect for putting up into all kinds of fun styles. Her outfit had kinda a cool geometric thing going on, and yeah.

There was just something about her that screamed that she was the kind of person that Nectaris would've liked.

Maybe they'd been friends before. The senshi was acting like it, and usually Nikki would've been all over that, asking what stuff had been like, trying to figure out if they could keep going with the friends thing or if it was gonna turn into a trying to kill each other thing.

It had gone both ways, so far.

Right now though? Right now her thoughts were a million places. They were on Fulgurite, and the burning building, and the fact that Cybele was apparently, like, a princess?

"Sorry," she said, weakly. "I wasn't trying to leave my friends. There was a lot going on, and I forget a lot of it. Um."

The sirens in the distance gave her an excuse.

"We can talk later, okay? I think the cops are coming."

She took the opportunity to dash away through the curling smoke.

LIEUTENANT ANDESINE
Location: B1/B2 border.
Action: Getting punched. Getting teleported away.

—This ******** b***h.

Despite putting her best efforts into this—despite pushing herself so hard through the pain of the newly forged princess’s jerkass Chaos-targeting magic—Andesine was, indeed, outmatched here. The super senshi had been doing this longer than Andesine had, and the super senshi had more power than Andesine did. On top of that, Andesine had only taken a starseed once before, from someone she’d wailed on and knocked unconscious before stealing the stupid thing that he hadn’t been using very well in the first place.

Hitting the ground from the senshi’s shove, Andesine tried her best to bite back the pained sound that threatened to escape her. She felt it burning up her throat. Or maybe that was the shame and humiliation of having thrown herself so hard into trying to starseed this senshi and having so utterly failed in getting anything for it. ******** the White Moon. ******** this senshi in particular. ******** every ******** senshi Princess who ever had or ever would exist for making these arrogant, disorganized little assholes really think that they were doing anything of significance.

As General-King Faustite’s order to get out came through on the communicator, Andesine sighed. Briefly, she wished that she could teleport on her own. But soon enough, it didn’t matter. Someone, one of the General-Sovereigns, was calling her to Negaspace anyway.

Good. If General Ashanite was in his office when she got there, Andesine needed to see him. She always tried to show him her best, but sometimes, you just really needed to commiserate about how <******** terrible these godawful ******** princesses were.

EXIT~

Illyria - Mauvian ... c4 - to someplace else that is safer


The flaring of an order-aligned aura. The immense power associated with something new and wondrous. Illyria's gaze scanned the area around her for where the heightened aura was coming from before she shifted a little on her paws. Although it seemed that order had a new princess to celebrate, Illyria was more concerned about where her bonded had ended up. There was no one left of order in the bank, she was sure of that as when she had been scurrying out of the alley herself, there had been no presence of order aligned individuals.

So the most obvious thing to do now, with the sirens that she could hear heralding the approach of Destiny City's finest, was to probably clear the area and connect with Ida later on. Skirting a wide circuit around those that had yet to leave did Illyria take in the conflagration that had been just hours before a functioning bank/front for the Negaverse before sprinting away. She'd find a place to stash the money she'd scrounged and then figure out what to do next.

[[ Illyria exit ]]

Yvoire, Page of Ganymede
Location: Carried to E3
Action: Being carried.

Under different circumstances, Yvoire would be embarrassed. He wasn’t a baby. He shouldn’t need to be carried. He wasn’t even hurt. At most, he was numb — so overwhelmed he couldn’t really feel anything anymore.

He had just enough wherewithal to loop his arms around Amarynthos, to make it easier for Amarynthos to hold his weight, miniscule as it was. Beyond that, Yvoire could do nothing to assist any of them. Smoke rose thick in the air, hot and choking, stinging his eyes and irritating his lungs. Yvoire coughed and let his head drop, lolling around Amarynthos shoulder.

It was comforting, in a way, to be held, even if Yvoire would hate himself for it later.

Something was happening. Many somethings, probably. Yvoire heard voices. He felt the absence of many of the auras that had been there just seconds ago, so numerous it had been difficult for him, in his inexperience, to determine exactly how many there had been. The worst one, that suffocating darkness, melted away. In its absence, Yvoire seemed to rouse. The haze that had overcome him eased enough that he could pick out individual voices.

A boy snapping. A girl panicking. Someone was crying, begging, turning to Daddy.

Yvoire snapped back to awareness. His arms tightened around Amarynthos by a fraction, enough to support a little more of his own weight. Yvoire turned his head and looked for the others, saw Stirling on the ground.

His breath caught in his throat.

Dering, Page of Lysithea
Location: E3
Action: Stunned and terrified and ready to leave but worrying about Stirling

The General disappeared.

Dering stared at the empty space where he’d been, and he didn’t have to know what had happened to know that it was bad.

Cynthus was trying to help her but Dering found that he didn’t know what to do. He couldn’t fight, he couldn’t do first aid.

He was really, absolutely, useless. Would this have happened to her if he’d been here? Would she have been so distracted if she wasn’t trying to console him?

His blood felt icy, but the panic was very quickly settling in. Ephesus was crying–the Knight was crying, and somehow that compounded all of the worry and concern that was rapidly building.

Stirling was unconscious and the General was gone.

Amarynthos, Knight of the Moon
Location: E3
Action: Carrying Yvoire, ready to leave and regroup and figure out how to help Stirling

Amarynthos hadn’t seen what happened. One second there was an energy second there and the next it was gone, and just as he arrived, Stirling was collapsing.

He’d seen this before. He’d seen it with Ephesus.

He recognized it immediately and his heart felt like it had leapt out of his chest.

They’d been able to save Ephesus because his starseed was still there, He didn’t know what you were supposed to do when it was gone.

They couldn’t stay here, though. The firefighters, the policeman, the news–they’d be there soon. He held Yvoire closer. The bear was still next to them, bellowing and roaring at any Agent that was within its line of sight. Maybe it could see through the smoke, maybe it could sense them. Maybe it was just protective and making noise at everything it could.

“We have to get her out of here,” he said, that was the only thing he knew. Without her starseed, he didn’t know how long she’d last, but in these conditions? It wasn’t like they could leave her here and just hope for the best.

He wanted to tell Ephesus that it was going to be okay but he couldn’t. He wanted it to be okay but all of this was so much at once, and–they needed a plan, they needed information. They needed to get out of here.

“We can regroup after this, but she–we have to take her to a hospital.”

He saw the Corrupt Senshi that Reims had pushed, but he didn’t know if she’d helped the General take her starseed or what she was doing.

She was a threat, though. He didn’t have time to ask. “Effie, come on, you’ve gotta get up. We’re going to help her, but–”

Alastor, Eternal Senshi of Despair
Location: E3
Action: Giving Ephesus a piggyback ride and picking up Stirling; ready to exit

Alastor was there before Amarynthos finished speaking.

He’d seen even less than Amarynthos had but he understood the gravity of the situation just by the tone in their voices. Of course it broke his heart to hear Ephesus call him like that. Raw emotion and desperation.

Alastor couldn’t help.

Not right now.

Stirling wasn’t waking up and there wasn’t any way to attempt first aid. She wasn’t bleeding, there was no injury.

Just a General, gone.

“Ephesus.” His voice was calm and even, as reassuring as he could manage given the situation. He was a good liar. He almost didn’t even look worried. He’d been running and stopped quickly but it didn’t seem to have thrown him off balance. He knelt quickly. “Get on my back, we’re going to get out of here.”

He’d given Ephesus piggy-back rides before–he liked showing off how strong he was, and it wasn’t like Ephesus had gotten to experience a fun childhood. This was practical, though, and he ushered his son onto his back so they could get out of here.

If things had been different, if this hadn’t been such a rush, he would have taken a moment to hug him and tell him how proud he was of him. This was as close as he could get, given the circumstances.

He couldn’t just throw Stirling under one arm, so he scooped her up in both of his when Ephesus had a good grip on his back. He was strong enough that he could lift both of the teenagers without much issue, and he wasn’t afraid that their weight would affect his ability to move.

And yet, he still knew his limitations. “Which way do we have to go to get to the nearest hospital?”

Sunshine Alouette

Cynthus, Yvoire

Guine

Sessrumnir, Reims, Ephesus

Orangeish Sherbert

Stirling

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Fang (My characters got distracted by Stirling but he is surely still in their hearts)

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Mizuki

Princess Cybele
Location: B4 to Exit
Action: Taking a breath, heading out.


As Faustite's hand pulled from her chest, his massive aura vanished a few moments later. Many other agents followed, their dark auras flickering out one by one as they fled the fire, or the sirens, or perhaps whatever it was that Cybele had just been able to do.


As they left, Cybele took a gasping breath. The adrenaline faded a bit, and the desperation that had led to such a drastic change in her. What she noticed was that her chest hurt. She wasn't corrupted, but it still felt as if she'd received a flurry of punches directly to the soul.

Whatever magic she'd managed to cast had also taken something out of her. Her wings sagged a bit, although they remained solid. This wasn't some trick.

There was a tired smile on her face as she looked across the area, and then to the others.

"It seems we've pulled it off," she said.

Then softer, as she walked over to Siegfreid, and took the hand of the one who had been willing to punch a General King in the face for her, she said, "Come on, love. Let's find Albireo and go home."

DMS SUPER MURIKABUSHI
Location: D3.
Action: Ams and Encke, he’s glad to see you both and very grateful, but he needs to go save his alien puppy friend.

(will fill in with Muri’s exit later, but the point is, he’s ignoring his own pain to go rescue Fang heart )

Antares, Super Senshi of Scorpions
Location: B3 to B1

A quick glance around as many started to rapidly disperse, she detested that little magic trick of the negaverse. Teleportation was just plan cheating! Either way it didn’t matter to her, she wasn’t leaving until she could determine the status of her little group. A flash of red and green and purple had her spot on two of her team, Sig was waving like his little heart depended on it. It was kind of cute really. She returned the thumbs up and made a quick two finger hand gesture on her wrist, nodding when Tortuga responded in kind. He saw it and understood what she meant. Two hours, she had two hours to find chaldene and get to the meet up point or they would be coming after her. Technically they would be out looking for her but until you got scolded by several members of your family for missing time markers you don't really think of it that way. It was a safety precaution anyway. Two hours was hell of a long time.

And yet she still took off running back the way she came, no time to lose. Antares knew that she had detected Chaldene’s familiar aura before she ran into that rather sad officer so he had been around there. If he wasn’t on the ground that only left the rooftop, a rather easy thing to check too. Using more power than skill she made her way to the roof of the building and approached the small gathering that was still there. “Olly Olly Oxen Free,” She called out as she came closer. “Best scatter before you're the last ones here. I suspect the civies won't be happy with anyone in cosplay when they show up.”

Being snarky to two generals likely wasn’t the smartest move but they were running out of time considering how close those sierins were getting. Besides, they were now outnumbered and out-powered.







Page Sigiriya of Ida
Location: D4 to EXIT

One moment he had been surrounded by the bad guys and then they were gone and he was pretty much alone, other than Tortuga that is. “Is it always like this?” He muttered as he tried to spot the last two members of their little group, finally seeing the blonde that he had been looking for ever since the building started to go up in flames. She was further down the road but a wave got her attention, a thumbs up meant he was good. She did some strange arm signals that he didn’t get but apparently Tortuga did so when the older knight started to usher him away he didn’t really fight it, just asked what just happened.

Overall he was sore, like he had gotten some sunburn, but other than that he was fine. Wet but fine. He just wanted to go home and sleep at this point. He should have taken their advice to avoid this nonsense to heart, maybe he will next time.

But if Antares was involved that wasn’t very likely.



Squire Tortuga of Jupiter
Location: D4 to EXIT

“Pretty much,” Tortuga sighed and also spotted Antares. Like Sig he too tossed a thumbs up in her direction but unlike the purple page he understood the hand signs she used, he responded in kind then started to rush the young man out of the area. They couldn’t stay any further. “We will meet up in two hours, she is good so we won’t have to worry.” If she missed that two hour marker then they had to worry. That's when all hell would break loose. But she would show up, he just knew it.

He was getting too old for this s**t.

Never again! Never, never again!