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"I was kidding, you know that ri...." He trailed off at the sounds below, eyes widening. It was the first actual Youma he'd seen. "Holy crap." The last thing he'd seen had been the girl with the blue hair. This was a totally different animal. ((Literally.))
"...Wow... I wouldn't want to explain THAT to my insurance..." He joked. "How did you and Iris fare against the last one? And uh... any idea how they deal with fire?"

"Well... I guess we can find out? All else fails I bet it really wouldn't like it if we found a way to knock open a fire hydrant." Granted neither would the city... but beggars couldn't be choosers, and this thing looked even less friendly than that giant hammer.
"Claws of the Lion!" He called out, flinging his 'blades' at the blob, thinking that on the up side, it probably was kind of hard to miss, although it might have been argued a bit more tactical debate couldn't have hurt either.

"Well, I'll give it bonus points for being clearly a monster." he admitted. And he'd give -her- brownie points for having a pretty cool looking attack, as he scanned the area for the hydrant. There was no way he wanted to go down there and try and pry it open with his hands... but if he was incredibly, insanely lucky, maybe he could punch it open. Or if all else failed, back the sludge monster on it and hope to use it's own corrosive tendencies against it.
"Claws of the Lion!" he did his best to aim the blades for the hydrant, praying not to screw up, or worse... hit anything the car might be leaking after being chewed on. The poor owner was going to have enough problems without wondering if they'd been hit by an arsonist.
"If we can't pop the end, lets try and back it onto it. it's eating through the car, it should also eat through the hydrant!" He called over, as it occured to him that it might not be a bad idea to share what he was thinking.
...And if they couldn't do THAT, he'd hotwire another damn car... or uh. Try. He'd seen it in enough movies... how hard could it be?

"Well either that or I can try and get a car running." He offered, with an grin that was somewhere between impish and guilty. "Run over the hydrant... go from there... Lets see if we can get him moving first though. The insurance around this town has already gotta be through the roof by now."

The fact she'd seen something like this particular youma before was interesting, and curious.

"Hey... maybe we should start taking notes on how to take these things down? Especially if this one's really like the last one you ran into."

"Maybe we should go toss some cans of Red Bull at it." Jaimie suggested, grimacing, and debating sending more blades at the hydrant itself. "Damn, I wish I had a better idea how long it's going to take for it to eat through... and we should be so lucky that someone actually had a regular hose..."
Damn... this was like a really really frustrating and SLOW boss battle in a game.
"...Want me to go see if I can find something to ram the Hydrant with? We can't just stand here waiting until the cops show up."
That would be about the worst thing that could happen. Cops probably wouldn't know what to shoot at first, though at least it was as slow as it was ugly.

"If it doesn't start munching faster, I may just do so. I gotta admit though, this is making the idea of being able to contact other Senshi sound even better. Especially if we could share information on these things."
He was still fairly sure that water might do something to it, but neither of them had that power. Damn....

********. This girl might just well be an goddamn genius... or at least slightly more observant than he was.
"...You know I feel really bad for this persons car... but at least "Someone blew it up" is going to sound more reasonable on an insurance claim than "Big honking monster ate most of the front end. Great idea though."
That would certainly be one nasty way to maximize the damage the 'claws' did... although they would almost equally certainly have to beat a hasty retreat if it worked, partially because he wasn't sure how 'Hollywood' the resultant burst of flame would be, partially because the fire department was almost sure to show up.
"I'll give it a shot, better get some distance, since I dunno how this is going to go." He warned, reminding himself that if it worked, he was really going to have to congratulate her on the idea. If he didn't blow himself up in the process.
He gave her a moment to make up her mind and do whatever she was going to do, before sending another volley of small flames toward the gas stream. A taxing affair, using it so many times consecutively, he hoped he wouldn't have to do it too many more times.

It wasn't quite Hollywood, or at least not a Bruce Willis film. The small fiery blades cut straight, undramatic paths through the air, like a handful of tossed matches, and hit a mix of pavement, gasoline, and Blob.
For an half a heartbeat, which seemed far longer to Regulus' eyes, it didn't look like anything was going to happen.
Then with an surprisingly subtle WHOOMPH, the gasoline went up, and fire shot along the gasoline trail in both directions, and Regulus swiftly made to follow Bellatrix in her retreat.
This was probably for the best.

The Car did not explode, though it did burst into an impressive and frightening roil of black and red flame.

The monster on the other hand...
Perhaps it was something about having -consumed- part of the gasoline, leaving the burst of energy from the rapidly spreading heat and fire no place to go.
Or maybe it was just the cosmos having a good laugh at the idea that trying to explain youma-goo to a dry cleaner was probably at least as difficult as trying to explain something had devoured a good portion of your car.
Anyway, the Youma gave an impressive -screeeech-roar-, and then exploded, sending all sized chunks of charred, smoking, really -smelly- goo sailing everywhere, including on Regulus, who grunted and cursed when pelted with smelly goop that made his senshi uniform notably less spiffy and white.