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The child was almost ready to roll her eyes when Zia said she knew she was a good senshi. There was a confused look and suddenly, the child's eyes grew wide. "Zirconia!? You're my babysitter?" There was an even more confused look than the first.

The child was trying to put this together when Zirconia ran ahead, "HEY you dont' know where we're going!!!!" She paused to shove her hoodie down and put the jar in it. Making sure it was safe and not going to fall out while running. She then took off after Zirconia towards the playground. Zia was Zirconia? How in the world.... and her cousin. Man this world was getting weirder by the day.

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When they arrived at the playground the child was looking around, hoping that Hygiea could find *********, though if she couldn't she'd told the girl not to take too much time looking for the feline. She waited for the others while sitting on a bouncy duck. "How long have you been a cat?" She asked looking at Zirconia wondering what the answer was while they were killing time waiting on the others.

Egeria had been having so much fun with this whole not sleeping well thing. In fact it had annoyed her so much that pacing around her room trying to work out how to escape her now locked window had also got rather boring. At least until she heard from Hugbell then it was easy to find an escape room - the bathroom window (obviously!) and so she was off.

As for where they were meeting, well Egeria was never great with directions on a good day but she knew roughly where she was heading, she just took a few detours to get there. This was all rather new to her still and without ********* by her side she was still generally lost when it came to anything odd or weird.

Finding Hugbell she smiled and waved before rushing over and spotting the little cat.

"Hey Hugbell and kitty!" She smiled and looked at the senshi then the cat,
"So whats up?"

Hug-bell eyed Zirconia, "You can't have been a cat forever..." Not realizing there was basically a split personality conundrum.

The first to arrive was Egeria, "Hi Egeria!" She called and smiled as the chibi senshi of Mischief rushed over, next was Sam, well Ixion, "No it's much more important than a tea party. I wouldn't throw those in the middle of the night." she paused to stick her tongue out at the silly boy.

Then Hypnos showed up, she grinned towards the chibi senshi of sleep, waving, "Sal.... salu.... errr Hi!" She couldn't get Salutations off her tired tongue right now. Then ********* and Hygiea showed up, nodding her head at *********. "Yes now everyone's here."

The child slid off the bouncy toy and pulled from her hoodie a jar that had an odd blue glow, "Before I start, that kitty there is Zirconia. She's my... uh... babysitter for the night."

She smiled before getting back to the jar, "I found this in my room tonight." She held up the flea and frowned, "I'm pretty sure it's a youma, and from what I could tell he's been hiding in my toys. He was making a weird clicking noise when I found him." She paused and moved so everyone could see it, basically like this was show and tell. "I think the negaverse is up to something, since a lot of us have been tired and they've closed a lot of day cares 'cause of some weird flu. We need to figure out what the negaverse is up to."

She looked at the flea thing and then to the others, "Do you think we should let it go and see where it goes? Because I know he was trying to leave my room by going out the window."

The lone boy watched the other chibi girls show up, one after another. He gave Hypnos a light wave, and silently wondered if she ever found her cat (damn that Painite). Looking around, Ixion vaguely recognized the other chibis, all the ones that he had met so far were present.

Patiently, he listened to Hug-Bell, nodding along to what she had to say and taking it very seriously. She had listened to him before, it was the least he could do to return the favor.

"Yeah, everyone." Ixion rolled his eyes at Zirconia, his arms folded against his chest. He had never really met her before, but he found her tone insulting. As far as he was concerned, he was just as capable as any other senshi. Ixion was just a little shorter... and maybe not as strong, but he could still fight.

The boy inched his way closer to Hug-Bell's jar, bending down to inspect it. There a mild look of disgust mixed with curiosity, "Cool."

Ixion tapped the jar lightly, then backed off. "If we let it go... it might get away, it's small enough we might lose the thing." Ixion paused, considering the situation Destiny City had been in. "Think these things might be all over town? Could be a swarm of 'em somewhere."

It seemed as if Zirconia was more focused on the current people at the meeting than the subject that Hug-bell presented. Before the child had even pulled the jar from her hoodie, ********* had already sensed something small, but something like a youma. She hadn't been sure until the child pulled that jar out.

Hygiea had taken a seat, so the manx found herself able to hop off of her perch with relatively little problem (aside from the child making a pouty face due to a lack of cat). "It is definitely something the Negaverse created. Its energy signal is weak, but the alignment is definitely not to the side of good."

Casually, ********* made her way to where Zirconia had settled in and rubbed herself up against the much fluffier cat. It was just a subtle way of hinting that the cat should be paying attention at the moment rather than focusing in on whatever was bothering her.

"Usually youma that are lacking in one aspect usually make up in other areas. A youma that might be physically weak may make up for such lack in strength by being fast. I will try my best to follow this signal if you release it, however... do not underestimate your opponent. It can lead to one's downfall." ********* was not about to speak for Zirconia, but she suspected the other feline felt the same.

Green eyes shot over to Hygiea, then to Egeria. "Both of you, please have your cell phones at the ready. If we come across any troubles, I would like you to be able to call up some back up." The underlying meaning seemed to reek of calling the team captain for the Asteroids.

There wasn't much time to debate on the subject. Small as it was, the little youma had considered it's options, investigated the glass prison it was in, and it's small, black-armored legs tapped on the glass, turning about before it settled in pointing in one specific direction. Once done, it tapped on the glass. When Hypos tapped back, it jumped, it's hard body smacking like a gem against the top of the lid, nearly cracking it, and then falling on it's back where it stayed for some time, it's many legs jerking and moving to right itself. After it fell to it's side, it righted itself up once more and tapped on the glass again.

Then it tapped harder.

And HARDER! Long cracks started to crawl up the side where the bug tapped against the glass, digging it's sharp claws like a pick at one point. It wanted out. NOW!

She looked at *********, "Do the best you can? It glows so it shouldn't be too hard to at least see." She pointed out the fact it seemed to give off a blue pulse, "But if we lose it we'll need to know where it goes."

She paused, "They're probably only follow the same thing all the other youma." Though she wasn't quite sure what that was, perhaps energy? She shook her head. "We have to find the source of the problem and dust it. Show the older senshi we can handle it just as well as they could."

She frowned when ********* suggested to the other two to have their phones ready. That wouldn't help them prove anything... She paused when she felt the jar start to crack. "Ohh..... not good." She sat it down quickly as possible, she didn't want the thing to break in her hands.

"We have to try to keep up with it the best we can even if the cats can tail it, we don't want to be too far behind it'll take forever to find where we're going if we don't try." She reiterated as she opened the jar. Figuring that probably was going to be the last time her firefly jar was seen...