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Axton Finch - Donation gate - Talking to Aluminite

Kidnapped? Memories of a prison flooded into Axton's mind, and on their tail a chill that chased up his spine and made him shiver. He'd really hoped that that had been the only time he'd have to see or hear about senshi or knights taking people captive, torturing them, starving him. This sounded like that was happening all over again.

"s**t. Come on." He turned, falling into a jog so he could lead the captain around to the generators.

They were exactly where he'd thought he'd seen them, and as he slid to a stop he gestured to them, stepping aside for the captain to do whatever it was he intended to do.


Captain Xenotime - Leviathan stage - Looking for Jade

Why couldn't she feel the ******** senshi? Where the ******** could they have disappeared to? It wasn't like they could teleport, unless... "******** me, they better not have taken her to space." If they had, there was nothing Xenotime could have done.

They needed more feet on the ground, now. "Hurry up, Damnit!" What was Aluminite doing?

Axton Finch - Donation gate - Assisting Aluminite

"Yeah." Axton took a step back as the agent thanked him and drew his weapon. Maybe there was more going on than tat simple explanation offered, but maybe there wasn't. Regardless, someone had been taken against their will, and who knew what was happening to them? It was hard, given what he'd seen in the past, not to think the worst. He hadn't been able to do anything to help then, not really. This time he could.

The generator exploded as Aluminite thrust his blade into it, and Axton hit the ground, half thrown, half pure reaction, hands up to shield his head in case any debris came flying off the thing.

Then everything went black, and the shocked quiet that followed, before the renewed shouts of panic, had the blonde thinking he'd gone deaf from standing too damn close to exploding machinery.

Warily, he got back to his feet, as surprised as Aluminite when some of the lights flickered back into life. "That's unfortunate." He didn't know where a backup generator might be hiding.


General Xenotime - Leviathan stage - Heading to vendors alley

The lights went out, and then some of them flickered back to life. Xenotime frowned up at them, waiting a handful of seconds to see if they too would die, and then realized why they weren't.

"Son of a b***h, there's another generator!" And she'd seen it. It was back by vendor's alley, behind the row of food trucks. A mass of cords and wires that had traveled primarily to the trucks, but a few had gone outward, upward. A back up, for safety reasons. Which was, honestly, a good idea. Just not in this case.

Swearing soundly, the general took off at a sprint, unwilling to teleport in case she showed up right in front of the wrong set of eyes.

When she reached it, her side slamming into the side of a cotton candy stand to assist in an abrupt change in direction, she summoned her weapon without breaking stride. When her knuckles hit, there was a brief thrill of electricity through her arm, a numbing sting, and then sparks were shooting from the machine, and she found herself thrown back as the lights, once more, went dim.

Captain Aluminite - Donation Gate - Separating from Axton

In a moment of unrestrained anger, Aluminite kicked one of the now broken generators with his foot. It ended with him stubbing his toe and left him cursing in the end, with his hands balled into fists and his body shaking with the desire to put his fist through something.

Why couldn't anything go right?

He had to take several deep breaths to calm himself and he kept his gaze trained on the ground because he couldn't look at Axton while he was shamed of his behavior. "I'm sorry. It's been one hell of a day," he admitted, slowly looking up as he swallowed hard.

"I need to - I gotta find that other one." He shook his head, didn't wait for a response before he'd run off.

He had just made it to one of the medical tents when the rest of the lights flickered out. Someone must have found the other generators.

Probably Xenotime.

Thank heavens.

Unable to stop his trajection, Aluminite burst through the flaps of the medical tent.

Sailor Umbra - caught up in the crowds on his way to the stages - looking around for members of his team and trying to contact them through their walkies

Hurrying from the MMA League booth at the signs of something happening beyond the Vendor's Alley, Umbra was having difficulty pinpointing the source. His partner, Sylph, had informed him she had gone to one of the medical tents to try to get some more information, but now he found himself having wished he hadn't separated from her. According to one sign, it seemed there were two medical tents and he hadn't bothered to ask Sylph which one in particular she had been headed to.

Just as he was thinking this, though, his partner's voice came in over his walkie and he quickly put the receiver up to his mouth to speak back into it. It tricky to talk over the crowds and all the other sounds around, but he did his best while trying to keep his voice low enough so as not to arouse suspicion from the wrong people.

"Sylph, this is Umbra. I left the Vendor's Alley when I heard about something going on, but I can't find out where. People have been saying that a senshi took someone hostage, but that's about all I've been able to hear at this point. You said something's happening at the stage? Which one?" Recalling the map, he knew there were at least three. "Are you near one now? Where are the others?"

Axton Finch - Donation gate, headed towards the center of the festival grounds - Unsure what to do now

"Don't worry about it." Pale eyes had widened a touch at the apology, surprised. If Aluminite knew the one that'd been taken, then Ax definitely wasn't going to fault him for being a bit scattered. He imagined he'd probably feel pretty similar.

He watched at the captain took off again, on the search for the other generator, then made his way back to the Donation gate, unsure as to what he should be doing now. Maybe find his young volunteer partner, make sure she was alright. Maybe sneak off somewhere, power up, make a call to find out what the hell was going on...

Huffing a sigh, he headed in towards the interior of the festival grounds again at a jog. It felt wrong to just leave, even if a part of him was 100% on board with that idea.

"Rory!" He'd go with his first plan.




General Xenotime - Vendor alley - Zapped

Grunting, Xenotime pushed herself up on her elbows as Layne come jogging around the side of a booth to reach her side. "Yes, I know about electricity." It was indignant, defensive, as she sat up fully and pushed her hair out of her face, and her hood down around her shoulders. Then she was reaching up for his hand, using him to drag herself back to her feet, if he didn't draw her up first.

"Senshi took Jade." She looked tense, lip caught between her teeth as she strained her senses, looking for the senshi auras again, and not coming up with much. "Had to kill the power, make it safe for our agents to show themselves without risk of being discovered." There was one...maybe. Xenotime's head turned in that direction, and she tried to pinpoint exactly where it was headed, because it was definitely moving.

She started moving in that direction, then stopped, summoning her crystal and closing her fingers around it. "Let's go." She wanted to get back to the stage where Jade had been taken. It's where the most lights had been, the most cameras. She wanted to make sure it was safe before she called in reinforcements.

Sailor Fiera - Lost.... completely and totally LOST

The short senshi had gotten completely turned around in the crowds. First she lost Terre then when she went to find the other senshi Fiera herself got lost. How could something so simple turn out so badly. It also didn't help that she had to keep her tongue in check when she was called 'kid' for the hundredth time. She wasn't a damn kid! She was just short! She was just short for God's sake! Stop calling her short. The short senshi really wanted to punch someone but that would draw attention to her.

She nearly broke that rule when all hell let loose, Sparks must have started. That meant Fiera would be getting to hit someone after all. Apparently the best laid plans all ******** sucked though as the situation rapidly deteriorated and the crowd around her started to really freak out. In the process of trying to get to a safer spot she got shoved to the ground by a bunch of freaked out adults. How could grown people, men mostly it seemed like, shove a poor girl down?

Apparently not everyone was an a*****e since she was tugged to her feet by someone who told her to run. That good samaritan was soon lost in the flow of people but they did help her out quite a bit since she was finally able to duck into a isolated spot. The moment the din faded a bit Fiera could hear the crackle of her walkie, one of her teammates were broadcasting. The young senshi only caught the tail end of the message; 'back where we came in - I'm headed there now myself but maybe we can join up again if we come across each other'. Hopefully she didn't miss anything, "Got it. Just need to figure out where I am to start with." She broadcasted back, desperately trying to spot a landmark that would tell her where to go.

After a moment she once more talked into the radio, "Uh. I'm by one of the water thingies. Not sure which one. No clue where the eff I am. How the hell do I get out of here?"

Jack Burnett - at a bench near the Shark Stage area with Benji - trying to support Benji, noticing Fiera, and fending off a youma

When no one from the North Hydration Station seemed to respond to his calls for assistance, Jack did his best to stay calm and maintain a clear head and thought process. There was no guarantee Benji's condition was due to a lack of water even if water wouldn't have hurt. Since they didn't have immediate access to any, however, he tried to consider what he could do next. Leaving to get some still wasn't an option.

As he was absently looking around while pondering things over, though, the red-head noticed someone in a brightly colored sweater and ballcap who seemed strangely out of place among the crowd. The look on her face suggested she was lost. "Hey," he called out to her, trying to sound friendly. "Are you okay? Need some help?" As if he himself didn't need help right now. Maybe they could help each other, though.

Out the corner of his eye, a monster slowly pursued some screaming people and Jack suddenly felt like he and Benji were sitting ducks on the bench. "Benji...I'll be right back," he murmured to the boy next to him as he gently extricated himself from the other's hold. "There's something I need to take care of." He wasn't sure what he could do against a creature like that, but he had to try. Free of Benji's weight, he began running at it with a fist, aiming to knock it out with a punch to the throat if he could.

Kit Paine - Donation Gate - hanging around the donation gate tent, watching and listening to Axton and Aluminite, trying to understand what's going on, and going up to Axton later to make sure he's okay

Once Rory claimed she had needed to check on something and had left Axton to take care of the donations table on his own, Kit took that as his cue to leave. He didn't want to disturb them any more than he already had, particularly if the guy volunteer was going to be handling stuff alone for a while. He seemed like he would need all his focus, so Kit decided he would leave Axton to it for now.

Not that he planned to abandon him entirely. He excused himself from the tent and table, but didn't go very far. He still wanted to talk to Axton to see if he could find out why he was so familiar because it hadn't ceased bothering him, even when he'd heard his name. Kit planned to wait until Rory had returned before approaching them once more, but before that a great deal of other things happened.

There was the explosion and Axton being knocked from his chair. Kit had began to start back toward him to see if he was okay, but before he could reach him, someone else already had. To the teen's surprise, it appeared to be a Negaverse agent. What in the world was going on? He stood stock still, brows furrowing as he tried to assess the situation from afar. He'd had so little interaction with other Negaverse people before that he really didn't know what to make of it or how to react to them appearing or talking to Axton. Was Axton with him? Even if he was, what did that mean?

Kit came closer to try to catch what they were saying. He wanted to understand. So many powered beings of the order had told him how awful and horrible the Negaverse were, but as a Dark Mirror Senshi who was himself misunderstood as a chaos being, he wanted to know more about the other side. He had never been one to divide things into black and white or right and wrong, but Remarque himself, who had introduced Kit to the DMC, had said that the Negaverse were full of cruel, wicked, corrupted, and brainwashed individuals. Even if it wasn't their fault, Rem had seemed convinced that the Negaverse were the enemy.

Was that the real case, though? As he observed and listened, watching the pair go around to a corner of the tent, Kit noticed that despite his efforts to maintain a calm, business-like exterior, the Negaverse agent seemed highly distressed and nervous. With the way he seemed to be eyeing Axton as if he wasn't sure he could trust him, Kit guessed Axton must have not known the guy after all. Still, it was intriguing to see such a look of suspicion and anxiety on the face of someone from the Negaverse. For all he'd heard about them, they might as well have been mindless, apathetic soldiers of destruction. Was he really from the Negaverse after all?

Kit heard the uniformed man mention something about a performer getting kidnapped by sailor scouts. As if the teen hadn't been bewildered enough by the Negaverse agent's display of emotions, now there was talk of senshi abducting people. Surely they couldn't have been Dark Mirror senshi. If the person that had been abducted was someone the Negaverse agent was trying to save, though, it was likely the person taken was involved in their faction or at least an ally of theirs. Did White Moon senshi really kidnap people, or did it sound worse than it was? It was hard to make and judgements without knowing more sides of the story, so Kit tried to hold off on that for now.

Another explosion, smaller this time, jerked him out of his thoughts. There was a brief flash of lights as the power seemed to go off and then come back on. They must have been trying to kill the electricity for some reason, but it hadn't seemed to work. A few seconds later, the Negaverse agent came running out of the tent, but Kit didn't see where he'd gone. He began to worry about what had become of Axton before he saw the blonde emerge from the tent as well. The volunteer had just called for his missing partner when Kit finally reached him.

"Axton - are you alright? What was that all about?" he asked, nodding in the direction the captain had run off toward.

((Just back-tracking for what Kit's been doing since he was last at the Donation Table with Rory and Axton before Rory left. If any of this messes you guys up, just let me know and I'll change it!))