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Yvette scrambled forward, wobbling helplessly as she pressed forward. Had she been in her right mind, she might have noticed the slight slip of tongue from the red caped stranger in front of her. However, she was far from level at the moment. She might have even missed the mark if there had been any pats on the head.

However, there was no "staying there" as the caped boy requested. The earth shook beneath her, and the small girl tumbled down to the ground weakly. She crumbled off of instinct, remembering all of those earthquake drills from her elementary school years. At least something from elementary school stuck. By the time the world stopped shaking, there was a large shadow looming over her. It had already been a cold day, but the temperature almost seemed to drop another few degrees. Blinking uncertainly, she found that a wall stretched across her yard in a place which would have been rather impractical (if it was always there).

Her eyes didn't linger too long upon the new structure in the yard. When she felt it was safe enough, she began to wobble towards her Daddy at that strange crawl. As she got close, she saw the strange caped boy there. There was a level of uncertainty in her, and she wasn't about to stifle this. Without hesitation, she pushed past the boy. There were dirt stained trails running down her cheeks that the senshi would be able to see. Yvette had obviously been crying. Her hands reached over to her Daddy's head, and she attempted to move him, wanting to cradle him.

"Don't touch him!" she warned the boy Senshi in a hoarse, obviously strained voice. "L-leave him alone, he didn't do anything to you!!" The girl's purple eyes were fixed on the boy, fear seeming to touch upon every feature in her expression. The girl was even trembling as she huddled closer to her father.

She didn't know who any of these people were, but she felt the need to protect her Daddy. In that strained voice of hers, she cried out again "Leave Daddy alone!!!"

He still couldn't see what was going on besides dirt flinging and the sounds of the ensuing fight. Taurus wanted to help them. He wanted to be able to get out there and do something but that was impossible at the moment. Having no fighting ability to speak of, it was better for him to sit on the sidelines. Besides, there were more pressing matters at hand.

The shuffling purple blur that seemed to sneak by him needed to be protected as well as the man who he yet to check on. Blue eyes finally surveyed the scene in it's entirety. Yvette was huddled over her unconscious father, an already wounded animal protecting one of it's own.

"Well then don't move him!" He shot out a hand towards her as if to stop her even though he was still paces away. "He hit his head hard. Something could have broken. Any movement could break his spine or something." It was pretty obvious that he had absolutely no medical history beyond a required CPR class in school and a quick run down that one time he'd gone camping. Actually being able to help beyond protecting her was way too far fetched even for Taurus. Maybe when the youma were dead. Then Mr. Weaver could get some proper help from certified individuals.

Upon seeing the poor girl crying, he wanted to comfort her. He'd done it before even when she was a vicious monster. It hurt that she couldn't crawl up to him, bury her head in his chest and ask for help. He was her friend after all, still Topher under all the frills. "I don't want to hurt him. I just want to make sure you two are safe until we can get him some type of help. Just...stay still and keep quiet. Okay?"

"Yeah, what're you waiting for, you overgrown go-kart? Come and get us!" By 'us,' Aquarius meant herself, and only herself. Putting the Princess into danger wasn't what she had in mind. If she so much as considered it, she knew every other Zodiac would lock her in a closet, and if it was Aries, she might throw away the key.

Continuing her survey of the yard, Aquarius finally spotted the abandoned crowbar. Her eyes lit up like a child's on Christmas morning, and she punched the air eagerly. "Not titanium, but you'll do nicely!" she cried, running full-tilt at the monster at the monster after Chronos executed her second attack.

Just before she came into range, she stopped in front of the youma, looking over her shoulder at the crowbar. "Energy Equivalence!" Aquarius was still for a moment as her matter adjusted itself, and tested her movement quickly. Slow, but not too bad. She could make this work.

"Eat crowbar," she muttered, throwing a punch at the front of the youma. If it still worked like the car that it appeared to be, maybe hitting the engine would stop it for good.

The overgrown go-kart, so Aquarius dubbed it, was still aimed for the Fortification. Its figurative eyes were on the prize.

Equinox Tiara Magic done a pretty good job of ripping the youma's 'back' open, exposing the 'electrical' cords within and taking the fishing pole itself off the top, which flew behind it.

As for Aquarius' crowbar-weighted punch? Let's just say the youma literally got one of its headlights knocked out of it. The force seemed to have broke something within, since the cords in the back split apart, exposing a few dim sparks before a sudden flash in the remaining headlight and exposed wires. Silence ensued.

The youma parts, strewn about the yard, would quickly shrink down to normal size within a minute or two, though they'd be as broken as they were as a youma.

...well, if the RC truck had any warranty, it was definitely void.

Chronos watched grimly as both her and Aquarius' attacks dealt significant damage to the youma, and it eventually crumbled to its defeat, literally. The girl heaved a sigh of relief as the youma, now ripped to pieces, moved no more and leaped down, running to Taurus' side, placing a hand on him with a nod. While they had been triumphant, it wasn't something to celebrate, what with the injured man before them.

"He needs to get to the hospital." She murmured, eyes darting between Taurus and the civilian girl. They probably hadn't been able to call an ambulance during the chaos, but Chronos knew that they had to go before the police got here.

As the boy got down to his knees, her instincts told her she should flee. Her instincts told her many things, and she usually was wrong. Yvette was almost never right about anything. At least, that's the way she saw it.

Maybe, just maybe, she was wrong about this senshi? Maybe the news was wrong? She began to crumple down as her head began to spin with all of the emotions washing over her. She wasn't a mean person and wanted to trust him. Maybe she did trust him and it hurt her head so much that she was being told everywhere to not trust someone who had just saved her and protected her unconscious Daddy.

She wanted to apologize. She wanted to thank the senshi. Yet the only thing she could do was now look to her Daddy again. Her eyes couldn't cry anymore, but her heart was weeping something fierce. "D-d-daddy...."

She missed anymore reassurances. She missed any warnings or helpful advice. All she wanted was for Daddy to wake up. With as much care as she could possibly muster with her trembling fingers, she lifted the large man's head up and settled it in her lap. "Daddy... wake up... p-please... please wake up..."

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