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Athene watched in puzzlement as the familiar golden pen that he used to henshin up into his senshi form glowed under the grey furred cat’s paw, puzzlement turned to growing surprise as the pen started to change leaving behind a henshin pen much changed from its earlier look once the glow had faded away.

The youma was hissing as Athene reached for the henshin pen that while familiar was also not, with the garbage can caught up in its stinger clattering about as rubbish fell out all over the place. The dark-haired senshi gave the pen a curious glance, unable to help himself, before tightening his grip and calling out words that ********* had asked him to “Athene Asteroid Power, Make-up!”

Again came the lights that came with a transformation, lights that to Athene had always looked like beads, but the senshi left behind was like the henshin pen the same but different.

It was no longer Sailer Athene that stood in the alley, but rather Super Sailor Athene.

After making her drop, the feline backed up, eyes moving back to the youma. It wasn't as if it was truly trying to bother her. Not when there was an eternal senshi and a brand new super senshi exerting all the energy they were.

That was, until Grus had decided to make a pass near the feline. Which meant that now ominous tail was potentially going to strike. Rather than let the eternal senshi of feathers know her concern, she easily replied "Yes, nice to see you too... though not quite the circumstances to meet up and chat, yes?" She chuckled lightly before she answered Grus' question.

"Well... if anything, I think Athene needs to buy us some time with his 'Blue Beads of Nazar'... I do believe the youma has ill will towards all of us... which will work to our advantage! Otherwise, my only advice would be to smack it about until it is dust!" Sadly, that last suggestion was such an Iris tactic, it wasn't even funny!

The newly powered-up Super Sailor Athene didn’t like the way that the youma was waving its tail at them, that stinger was awfully long after all. Although at least the civilian was gone – after all surely the distraction had given them a chance to get away. At least the dark-haired senshi hoped the civilian had taken the chance to run.

He bit his lip at ********* suggestion that he use his senshi ability on the youma. “Okay I’ll do it.” The dark-haired senshi wasn’t sure that it was the best way to go – after all his senshi ability hadn’t exactly always worked the way it should in the past. Still maybe powering up counted for something, like making temperamental powers actually listen to you. His voice was more confident as he added. “I’ll give it my best shot.”

Clenching his right fist as he turned to face the snakepillary monster the dark-haired senshi raised his left hand as he called out the words of his senshi ability, although instead of the by now familiar ‘Blue beads of Nazar’ he found himself calling out “Blue beads of Nazar – intenstated!”

Time seemed to pass slowly, too slowly, the snake swinging to look at the new Super Senshi with a hiss as insubstantial-looking beads formed themselves into a large glowing ball floating above his upraised hand. Using his free hand Athene pointed at the youma with a called out “There!” Adding “Please stop it” as the ball of beads moved towards the snake-caterpillar youma. Maybe the words made little difference to whether his ability would work on the youma or not, but it didn’t stop Athene feeling like he had to say them.

"If everything works out right, it will restrict the movement of the youma."

The feline's eyes were still upon the monstrous creature, as if waiting for the beads to truly start to work. "It will still be able to attack, but it won't be able to move past a certain space... so take advantage of that while you are able..." She wouldn't truly be able to take advantage of such, since her only attack probably wouldn't even harm this sort of youma.

The attack collided with the youma, ghostly blue beads separating to form a ring of beads around the snakepillary monster.

There was an angry hiss from the youma and its tail lashed out, but despite being able to move around it seemed as if something was preventing the snakey-caterpillar hybrid from crossing the circle of the beads.

Giving a sigh of relief Athene, looked first at ********* then at Grus, who seemed to have had an upgrade herself since that unfortunate episode where they'd both been stuck as cats “It seems like my other senshi ability so I think the youma will be stuck like that for a little bit. Although I doubt that it will hold that thing forever.” The new super senshi wasn’t too sure what difference adding the word ‘intenstated’ on to the original four words had, but it had just seemed right at the time. If he was lucky then maybe it would make his senshi ability more reliable. Athene wouldn’t say no to that.

While waiting to see if his senshi ability would work, the dark-haired senshi had thought he’d seen a blur of movement towards the wall behind them although he hadn’t paif much attention. The majority, well pretty much all of his attention had been focused on Mr Snakepillar – the fact that it came equipped with that rather nasty-looking stinger helped focused the mind.

He glanced towards the trapped youma that was still hissing from within the beads, in between periodically lashing out with said stinger, before looking back at ********* and Grus. “Does anyone have any ideas on how to dust that thing?” Somehow the dark-haired senshi didn’t think his usual method of simply lobbing things at youma would work here.

********* took note of the quickly made plans. It was definitely a good set of plans, despite being so "spur of the moment."

"I leave it to your capable hands then!" With a firm nod of her head and a single jostle of her bell, the animal rushed to squeeze herself underneath the nearby dumpster. If she was a taller cat, she might not have fit as a combination of her width, but since she was on the shorter side, she was just able to fit. She squirmed underneath the dumpster so she could turn and watch from her new hidey-hole.

From Grus’ words it looked like his earlier assumption of the civilian long being gone had been incorrect, although it seemed whoever it was had taken the feather senshi’s words to heart as Athene hadn’t seen anyone when he’d had a quick glance around.

Taking the seeming absence of any civilians to heart, the dark-haired senshi decided to go up. Pausing long enough to call out to the eternal senshi “I’m not sure how long my senshi ability will hold that thing” Athene headed to the dumpster and managed to use it as a launchpad of sorts in order to awkwardly reach the emergency ladder running up the side of the nearby building.

On the roof he made a mental note to have a look for the civilian when this was over and check to see if they were okay as he looked over the edge of the building to see what Grus would do next.