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Hit the base, eh? Bellatrix nodded and made her attempt at a physical attack on it. She had no weapon and she had exhausted her attacks. She didn't hold much confidence in her ability to deliver decent blows with her fists or kicks, but hopefully violent rage would work.

...

Not enough rage.

For a moment, she looked down at her toes, uncertain. It was true there was that thousand-year gap...

"The last time I was alive, she never came through." Absolute certainty. She had no true gaps in her memory, not that she knew of. "Not from the day I was born, to the day I died," she informed him. "She may have come here since, or before--much before. The Zodiacs protected this system. We would have made note of such a powerful enemy." After all, how many senshi were fighting now? And how many of the scum were getting in the way--and they'd only just started to make headway, too. How could the Zodiac have held her off if she'd come to this one system out of the hundreds inside just this galaxy? It rankled to wonder that, but as far as she knew the entire Zodiac had never been wiped out--and that's what would have happened, by her estimation.

Pessimistic, but... Virgo was feeling that that was the order of the day, anymore.

The tides of the battle seemed to be changing somewhat, or perhaps it was renewed hope that had Nemesis looking differently at the situation. Someone had figured out how to hurt the b***h, and while Nemesis would rather have figured it out on her own, she was more than ready to jump on this knowledge. "Alkaid!" she called out quickly, drawing her companion's attention to the turn of events. She was sure the girl was quick enough to catch on to what they needed to do without Nemesis walking her through it.

While Nemesis wasn't eager to get anywhere near Ice b***h, the woman seemed to be wearing down. Whatever was being done to her was working, and Nemesis was going to jump onto this train. Now still would have been the best time to have some sort of weapon, and silently she cursed Alkaid for throwing that manhole cover like a disc... and losing it. What a waste of a weapon! Nemesis hardly had the strength to launch another magical assault, she had never been capable of using her attack more than once in the span of a night. Perhaps she hadn't been pushing herself hard enough... But, that was for later.

She charged forward, lifting a large chunk of ice off the ground, and using the momentum of her body, hurled the large piece of ice at the base of Ice b***h's throne.

The world glittered, all ice and snow and glass as Tanzanite's body collided with Kaguya's icy pillar. The ringing filled her ears and shattered all focus, filling her mind with that dissonant sound. She struggled to her feet, the youma arm screeching an unholy noise as it struggled to push sharp spikes of ice out of it's thick, scaly skin. By the time the Captain was back on her feet, she somewhat resembled a porcupine, shards of ice sticking out here and there, dripping blood onto the pretty white snow.

She smiled, and each of her teeth was outlined with blood. Tanzanite spit off to the side, ignoring the howling monster that hung at her side as the bloody icicles dropped one by one to the ground. The monster seemed to recuperate slowly, the spines at her shoulder twisting in anger.

“Over?” They said together, and the voice was clearly just as much the monster's as it was Tanzanite's, “Oh, Castor. This will never be over.” While the spoke, the monster had been sucking up bits of shattered glass and ice, chewing up snow globes before Tanzanite leveled it at him the same way she had done to Kaguya in the beginning of the fight. This time, though, the artillery was not blunt chunks of brick. They were tiny, sharp spikes of glass and ice, and they flew towards Castor in a deadly barrage.

"Whoa there, Gunn. Don't knock yourself out of the ring yet." Seconds later, there was a blond male by her side. Judging by that purely idiotic grin he had on, it was clear that the gravity of the situation hadn't quite gotten to him. His eyes scanned around, hoping to see.. well, she wasn't here.

But Gunn was, at least.

He looked forward, green eyes focused on the ice queen in front of them. He was late for the party. He was driving home when shouts and the giant commotion drew his attention on the motorcycle, his entrance delayed by parking. (Who figured? In the middle of a world crisis, police never failed to hand out tickets.)

"Dissonant Resonance!"

It stunned her that someone could not know what a Zodiac was--especially someone who seemed to have an idea of how the past had worked, or something similar. The Zodiacs were really the only senshi, she thought, who could really have a handle on what was going on; they were used to being protectors, acclimated to sacrificing everything for their goals.

She just didn't even...

"Guardians," she said, aware of how lame that sounded. All senshi were really the guardians of something. So she clarified: "We were in the Surrounding, fending off Chaos from this system. We didn't serve the Moon Princess--"

Which, of course, reminded her of her own princess. Chronos! She had to get to Chronos... "Excuse me," she said, spinning to scan the crowd. Once she'd spotted the mint-green hair of her princess, she dashed off into the crowd.

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"Easy for you to say, cadet, where have you been," she demanded. In another situation she might have stomped on her foot. For now, though, Gunn would take this opportunity to recuperate as best she could; she ducked behind Euterpe and took a few deep breaths. "Give me a minute, okay?"

It had been a mistake to go directly at her. Her power was in her, but from a certainly point. The cracks on her throne had resulted in cracks in her body, and it wasn't hard to connect the dots after that. He should have known. Their snowglobes had brought her here, so why not just take the snowglobes away? The only problem was that he still was hard up on keeping one, but now that he knew there was no reason to – that the Ice Queen had been the only one to talk to him, there was no point in being hard up on saving any. Keeping the snowglobes would say he was a slave to her, and he was already furious enough to have been her toy to bring the snowglobes here. To have kept them in such precious condition.

Smiling, he aimed his weapon again, and THIS time, he went for the fountain, the chair, but most of all, the cracks that lead to the snowballs. He wanted her to go down, and he wanted to see her flinch and twitch under pangs of pain. If he could, he'd melt her under a heat lamp, but for now, he'd just break her into bits. At the same time, he noticed the fight between Tanzanite, Linarite, and Castor move about, but remain heated. Something was going on, and he wished he was closer to hear. The expression on their faces said pain and anger, but he did not know what. It was strange, but he wanted to eavesdrop as much as he wanted to fight alongside them.

Distractions. Distractions. They had already been yelled at by the General to keep at this false Queen (how many would they have this year?), and he pulled his weapon back and sent it out once more. Cooommmeee On. Crack. Break to bits. I have OTHER things to do right now. He thought, willing this enemy to shatter.

By now the metal from the chains had frozen his hands and it was harder and harder to throw as his fingers became numb and rigid. It was as if he wasn't even wearing gloves at this point.

It was only after her attack had landed that Pegasus let herself look away from the ice queen, landing in a crouch a fair distance away from everyone else - a good place to survey the area. Already she could see the remnants of previous attacks, icicles and droplets of blood littering the street. She was mildly surprised to see it was not the negaverse who was on the attack, tipped off by all the negaverse agents who were also trying to do some damage to the giant icicle-woman. After all that had happened, Pegasus was cynical about many things, and she wouldn't have been surprised if it had been a youma, but it didn't seem to be the case. Senshi and nega both seemed adamant to bring down the threat, although for the most part they seemed to ignore each other, with the exception of Castor. A few feet away, she could see the other eternal senshi was in some sort of conflict with Lina and another nega she didn't recognize, and for half a second she considered acting as his backup. She wasn't sure how much it'd be appreciated, and in the end contented herself to providing a watchful eye instead.

It made her uneasy, all the negaverse, but she put it in the back of her mind. There were quite a few senshi around, and this many wouldn't go down without a good fight.

A good few feet away, she could see Chibimoon surrounded by her usual entourage, as well as Flora with Chronos and Nemesis with another she didn't recognize, a mild relief in the sight. At least they seemed alright. Guilt ebbed just slightly, she turned her attention back on the snow queen, barely leaping out of the way as she sprayed icicles onto the scene. Spinning on her heel, the senshi of dreams focused as she powered her attack, noticing the weakness the senshi of sound had located and aiming for that spot.