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Falias hadn't been sure that he'd be able to trip up the Eternal senshi and part of him had half-prepared to fall back on his back up plan to try and kick the thing.

It had worked like a charm though, perhaps because the fake's murderous attention had been mostly focused on its double and the Shade had gone crashing to the ground.

It had seemed that that was all that was needed to give the real senshi the upper hand, but an angry voice had cut in before she could strike any finishing blows, the moment's distraction enough to allow for the fake to send the real Tsui flying before suddenly fleeing.

Falias had let the thing go, instead heading over in the real senshi's direction, his plan having been to give the other a hand up - but she was already on her feet and there were sirens, distant for now but obvious heading in their direction.

He was nodding at her suggestion that they needed to vacate the scene knowing that the last thing that either of them needed was to be tangled up with the police, a concerned look in his green eyes as he glanced at her as he hoped that she was okay to run - after all those had been some pretty nasty hits that she'd taken but also knowing that they were both out of time - he'd just have to give her a hand if she needed one.

For all that Falias tended to make his way around the city via the ground, he had been a Page long enough to learn the mechanics of roof top jumping, there was also the fact that the eternal senshi had a point in them likely being in the clear if they had enough buildings between them and the angry 'police-calling' shopkeeper.

He'd thought that maybe the eternal had managed to fare better than he'd initially thought as she'd managed jump first one and then another building and it was only as they landed in the rooftop garden on the top of the second building that Falias realised that actually the other was in just as bad a condition as he'd initially assumed.

"I'm fine" he said in answer to her question of how he was, not sure he agreed with her assessment of back there being a fun excursion - after all their respective clones had just tried to kill them and for all that he wasn't a doctor, he didn't like the way she was coughing either. "That double thing of yours wasn't really that interested in me" and she'd interfered before his could get too violent with him. "How about you? Are you sure you're okay?" Because from where he was standing she really didn't look like she was doing too good.

Although Falias had been part of the strange war happening secretly in Destiny City for over half a year, it was still somewhat strange to hear the eternal senshi talk so matter-of-factly about receiving worse injuries - especially since if he was to hazard a guess then he'd say that the other looked to probably still be in High School and he'd just seen her fake dish out some punishing-looking hits on her.

He held his tongue though having also been around long enough to realise that people involved in the war - on both sides - seemed to vary in age, although Camelot was probably the oldest one that he'd come across.

At the eternal's suggestion that they both power down, a thoughtful expression crossed his face for a moment and he gave their surroundings a careful glance of his own before nodding. "Makes sense" he agreed, after ascertaining that apart for the two of them that they really were alone in the rooftop garden - or at least appeared to be alone.

"And I'd rather not have that psycho double thing of mine manage to hunt me down again today" he continued, adding "Although we don't appear to be overlooked by any buildings so I doubt it makes any difference whether we use the shed to power down or not." As he spoke he let go off the magic that made him Falias, the gold trimmed greens and the brown making up his outfit fading away to reveal him a young man dressed in a sweater and a pair of jeans. The sweater with the image of a smiling cup of hot chocolate. "I'm Marlin like this, Marlin Joanson" he managed a cheerful enough smile, despite the fact that his green eyes still looked concerned as he glanced at the eternal senshi, as he finished "Also known as Falias - Falias, Page of Earth."

It hadn't taken long for Tsui to follow him in powering down, the broken glamour revealing a teen that Marlin was even more certain was still in High School.

She introduched herself first by her civilian name and then by how she had been as a senshi and whilst he had known that the other was called Tsui by her introduction as she had tackled his fake and whilst he had guessed that she was an eternal by the strength of her aura and the wings, Marlin hadn't known what she was the senshi of, tucking the tidbit of information away. That she was the senshi of tigers made sense however, judging by the fierceness of that attack he'd seen.

"You did introduce yourself" he said - well she'd gotten as far as her name before her Shade had interfered. "It's nice to meet you though Gwen," he continued cheerfully as he noted to himself, that Gwen seemed to be looking a bit better than when she (as Tsui) had first landed on the roof. Which is why instead of suggesting that she might want to get herself checked out at the hospital, Marlin instead nodded at her suggestion of looking for a place that did cocoa.

"That works for me" he agreed, "I could do with a hot drink myself" and he liked cocoa. "Got anywhere in mind?" Not that it mattered if she didn't - Marlin was pretty sure that they could find somewhere that was still open.

Marlin nodded at Gwen's comment about them not meeting on friendly terms "I've kind of got used to it" he admitted wryly.

Since powering up for the first time back in April he had experienced being chased by youma, and then later on had ended up getting caught up the craziness that had gone down at first the circus he'd gone to visit and then later on in the year at a convention - and that was without counting that senshi who had identifying himself as a Dark Mirror senshi attempting to kill him in between those two happenings - so yes Marlin got Gwen's 'crazy city' comment, although he was pretty sure that it hadn't been crazy like this when he'd been growing up here prior to going off to college.

"Starbucks sounds good to me" he said, deciding there and then that he was going to treat himself to a cup of cocoa with all the trimmings - whereas he didn't mind coffee he liked cocoa better and after what had gone down Marlin felt he was entitled. So it was that as Gwen started to head off, he followed after with a cheerful "Lead on" already anticipating the warmth of the cocoa - one of Starbucks finest.