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"That's cool!" Nix said about Day & Night. He wanted to ask about homeworlds, but decided...other things first!

"You got it!" he said, and rather than charging forward right away, he lurched forward and...stuck out his tongue! A rather long tongue materialized and rocketed forward, obviously aiming to thump Minchir in the chest. Toby didn't want to hurt him, really, so made sure he wasn't slinging it forward as hard as he could, but it would still be startling if it hit.

Immediately after launching 'his tongue,' he then charged forward, intent on following up the tongue thump with a tackle or a swing of a fist. "Yah!"

Nix felt his hand connect with Minchir...and, perhaps unsurprisingly, he realized punching somebody really doesn't feel nice. He didn't have much time to reflect upon that, because he realized his opponent was mumbling something...and suddenly everything was bright!

SO BRIGHT.

"GEH!" he sputtered in surprise, though didn't actually stop his motion--he didn't change it, either, which means the kick that swung out in the blinding light hit him easily, knocking his legs out from under him, sending him tumbling forward.

He had enough grace (and perhaps a bit of practice with falling on his face) to actually land on his hands and roll forward, but he still only really ended up on his back. "So bright," he muttered, and from his spot on the ground, started to roll to the side in order to get out of the way and get back up.

As he had very little exposure to different senshis' powers, Nix had basically know idea when the brightness would end...but he at least had the sense that it was blinding to Minchir, too...which was good. It let him get back to his feet more carefully than he'd expected, though he kept his eyes squeezed shut. Getting back up caused a THUNK as he bumped something on the roof, and he scooted away from that carefully.

After what seemed like an eternity, but was definitely less than a minute, he felt like the light was fading, and so opened an eye cautiously...only to be met with the vision of a rapidly approaching fist! He yelped in surprise as his eyes shot open, and he jumped back, getting brushed by the swing.

He squinted and blinked, frowning some. "Guess that uh...makes sense from 'day', huh?" he said, rubbing an eye while watching carefully. He waited for what he estimated to be the next time Minchir was going to swing or kick at him, then bounced his froggy legs to try to jump right over his opponent, hoping that the move would make a good opening to kick.

Nix had nodded at the advice, but now he was sailing overhead, ready to spin and...URK! "Oh crap!" Hand on his ankle! His nice round trajectory suddenly had a corner to it, and he yelped again, dropping at the wrong angle. As he dropped, he tried to twist out of the grasp and swing with the other foot to kick...but he actually reacted somewhat too late, so was unlikely to do much beyond thumping into one of Minchir's legs.

Then he landed with a thud and an, "oof!" as the wind was knocked out of him. He coughed once and said with a laugh, "Nice catch...I kinda feel like a pancake after that landing!" He was alright, though. But thinking about pancakes. Oh, psychological warfare! he thought as he moved to roll away and get back up again.

"Yeah, heh," Nix agreed as he came back up. "Probably...best if I didn't try that much, huh?" He considered the question of how to decide the winner a moment and started, "Well, I--WAH!" He let his guard down as he thought, and that cost him, as he went down once again. "Ow!" he grunted as he landed on his butt..but then laughed.

"I'm definitely losing that one," he said cheerfully, while rubbing his butt. He didn't make any moves to get back up. In fact, he was actually breathing pretty hard...though definitely trying to disguise it. It had been a pretty exhausting afternoon, all told, even before getting into a race with Minchir.

"Yeah, guess I should have thought of getting grabbed," Nix said, and sat back up while Minchir sat next to him. "Honestly, I'm kind of, uh, super terrified of getting into a real fight. I met one of the uhm..." he paused, making sure he was remembering the right word, "Negaverse people once. Before I was Nix."

He breathed out. "It was, uhm. Scary." He rubbed the back of his neck. "I thought...maybe if I trained like I'm some anime hero, it would be less, you know, impossible to deal with?" He laughed then, an actually happy laugh in spite of what he was saying. "Worked better than I thought," he patted one of his legs, "Cuz I met a talking cat while doing that."

"A tie works for me! This was helpful!" he nodded, then went on, "But I think I need ta practice waaay more. Gotta learn to fight right...right?" He rubbed his chin. "Wouldn't mind doing this again some time. Maybe, uh...without having been running around like a crazy person for a couple hours first." A snort, then. "Might be able to do it more than 5 minutes, then."

He held out a hand to shake, grinning at Minchir. "Anyway, thanks! I hope everybody I meet like this is as fun as you!"

"Patrols," Nix said in a musing tone. "I haven't, uh, really done anything like that. Do you just...pick an area and look for trouble?" He idly twirled the green patch of his hair as he thought about what to say, exactly. "I really only just got powers and stuff, right before Thanksgiving, so I guess it's not weird I haven't. I, uh...power up every day, and try new things, see what I can pull off, but I haven't, you know, gone looking for trouble."

He shrugged, and bounced back up to his feet, taking a few steps toward the edge. "Anyway! This would be the best thing ever if you didn't have to worry about the Chaos people, wouldn't it? I mean, holy crap, we jumped up here." He threw his arms wide at that, then put them back down and looked back to Minchir, grinning. "If that's not the coolest thing ever, I really don't know what is."

"Yeah, he did," Nix replied with a nod. "It's a bit hard to sort out, and sometimes there's really...weird stuff around." He paused, and shrugged a little. "I've found a couple youma since powering up, so I know I can deal with them...uh, somewhat."

"Communi..." he started, then laughed. "Oh, right," he pulled out his, like a green iPhone. "I've used this some...but more contacts are good!" Nix was, of course, very happy to add more people to it. It seemed kind of... sad to him to have it so empty. And it's not like he could just ask any random person to add to it. That wouldn't do at all. He's never been very good at keeping secrets, but even he recognized he couldn't just freely mention senshi powers, after all.

"Maybe I can bother you later with it to have a rematch!" he suggested with a grin. "Or...what was it I was gonna ask about earlier...?" He scratched his head, and then shrugged. "Well, if I think of it, I'll bother you!"