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Aletheia

Aletheia couldn't help but cross her arms and arch a brow as the soccer field went dark. Really? Did they think they could use that as a way to hide? It was almost as smart as a toddler hiding behind a curtain during a game of hide and seek. They'd probably have had a better chance if they'd just turned tail and ran.

Still, it was an effective way to make it hard for her to pick out her target. She found herself squinting and leaning slightly forward, but the faces she could see so clearly moments before were well obscured in the dark. Fricker-frackers. Maybe shutting the lights wasn't such a stupid idea after all?

She crinkled her nose in frustration, before noticing someone hurrying towards the field. Well, well, did someone misplace their invitation to the party? She chuckled to herself and leaped quickly off the roof. Theoretically speaking, it shouldn't be too hard to use the cloak of darkness to her advantage and take this tardy senshi by surprise. If she moved fast and kept her eyes on the prize, maybe no one else would even notice her.

Liryn

His communicator pinged with an incoming message as a feminine voice mentioned that she was going to get the lights and that people should stay calm and try to get away.

Not that Liryn had any intention of leaving - not whilst those of the group that had come out to train remained.

The message turned out to be Athene's response. The dark-haired eternal was on his way–

And then lights on the field went dark shortly after, Liryn's pupils shifting to accommodate the change.

His attention turned back to the Jupiter Knight as the other addressed him, purplish eyes serious as he picked up on more Negaverse auras "I messaged him" he said as he padded towards the Knight, deliberately but gently trying to brush against the red and black shoes of a nearby brown-haired Super senshi (Nephthys) in an attempt to comfort as he passed.

"He was already en route" he continued as he reached the Knight jumped up onto the offered shoulder with the ease that came from jumping up onto various shoulders. "He said he's coming."

He tensed on the Jupiter Knight's shoulder as the eternal - Metis - suddenly called out for a Pendour to dodge to the side, but the other, much larger, mauvian was already moving and he eventually relaxed.

His place was here, doing his best to help, for now.

Cybele

With how long she’d been at this, there was a part of Cybele that was never truly surprised by the Negaverse, but that didn’t mean her heart didn’t drop when the auras started popping up, or that her hands didn’t curl into even tighter fists than usual.

This wasn’t just any event that they were crashing. It was hers. It had been going so well. She’d been so careful.

Although, as two lights flickered on on top of a nearby building, her heart sank even deeper. She’d been careful about aura dampening, but not about loudly announcing the details of time and place to anyone who would listen, without thinking about what walls and trees might have ears.

This was her fault, wasn’t it?

Things didn’t get any better when she saw just who the lights were illuminating. A cream-colored cat, with her name announced. Cora.

Oh. Oh.

Cybele had seen her starseed skittering across the floor of a burning building. She’d assumed no one could survive that. She hadn’t accounted for how easy it would be to scoop a soul up and to fill it with Chaos.

A knight’s voice calling her name brought her a bit more back into the present moment, as did the lights flicking off behind her, although she didn’t make any move to join him or the group he was gathering. He could get people out, that was fine, but she was supposed to be the leader here and that meant the Negaverse was going to have to go through her first.

“Get behind me,” she called out, and then added, with a strained smile, to Miyamoto who was already next to her, “You’ll be all right. Use your magic if they get too close.” It wasn’t about being useful right now. It was about staying safe.




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Sylvite

A few of Sylvite’s most jittery nerves went away when she felt the other auras pop up around her, one at a time. Some of them were even Generals, and even though she knew they were partly there to keep an eye on her, they were still really strong, and that was gonna help a lot.

Once she knew she had backup, she didn’t waste any time making her way over to Cybele. Turquoise and Cora’s concert plan seemed to be working. The Eternal looked pretty distracted. By the time the lights went out, she already knew where she was going. She had to blink to adjust to the sudden dimness, but she didn’t stop.

What gave her more of a double take was the guy who was standing behind Cybele. Miyamoto. Her future friend. Unless he’d ended up just being a liar, instead.

Still, she half-nodded towards the trees at the other edge of the field, trying to signal to him to get out without being too obvious about it.

That was all the opening Cybele needed to run to run forward and punch her in the face, sending the smaller girl flying back.



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Pendour

Pendour would have been nearly blind from the sudden dimness even if he hadn’t appeared on her bad side. As it was, she had no idea who was coming at her, but she heard the boots hitting the ground. She heard Metis calling to dodge.

She twisted instinctively when she saw movement, and she threw herself hard to the side, which was probably what kept her alive, but the blade still hit. It bit deepest on the back of her arm, just under the armor, but the arc kept it cutting across her back.

Pendour couldn’t help it. She screamed.

Then she ran. She ran as fast as her feet could carry her, back towards the others. Her thumb found her signet ring, somehow, and her Aspect rippled over her. It was a soft blue dappling to what light was left hitting her, and a little extra protection if she was hit again.

“I’m sorry,” she murmured, half to herself, as she got closer. “I’m sorry.” A whole training event and she still wasn’t any good at dodging. “I don’t know if we can just run,” she said, a little louder, glancing from senshi to knight with knitted brows. “They’re so fast.”

She sucked in a heavy breath of air against the pain.



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Jadarite

It took Jada a moment to adjust to the light, but she had to have better visibility from down here than those on the rooftop did.

One of the Generals seemed to have the same idea. She watched as he targeted a knight who was separated from the group. Also a smart move.

When one of those cats, those Mauvians, as they liked to call themselves, came after him with some kind of beam attack, Jadarite decided that he might need some backup. She didn’t know if her abilities and her stapler would be able to do much against any enemy stronger than a basic senshi, but this was a cat.

Anyway, there had always been a part of Jadarite that had wanted to wipe the grins off of their smug little cat faces.

She moved in from where she’d been standing at the edge of the field, and as soon as she was close enough she aimed a kick at the cat.

Sailor Meissa

It was the flaring of chaos auras that kept guiding Meissa in the right direction towards the soccer field. The one downside to being further away was that there were more chances to attract the wrong sort of attention as she hurried on the way to provide much needed backup. As she paused for a moment the senshi of bobcats could hear a strange noise. Pursing her lips together in consternation the bluenette could hear the noise was coming from the phone that she never used. Fishing out the device she glanced at the screen and the distress signal that was emanating before silencing the phone and stuffing it back into her subspace pocket. "Kinda late on the warning there. Already know there's a situation arising."

Another chaos aura flared up and Meissa stiffened in response. This one seemed much closer than the others. Was she about to be paid a visit? Shifting into a crouch the bobcat senshi scanned the area before ducking into a nearby alley. She couldn't hide her aura but she could draw the one following her away from the view of the public eye. Although as she took in her new surrounding she sighed, "dead end alley ... just great. Guess it'll have to do."

She could have tried to continue onwards but dispatching this one lone interested target seemed to be of more importance.

Nephthys

Bending, for a moment, to pet the cat at her feet the senshi of vampires looked up at the Jupiter knight and nodded. "Will do. I can hope it'll give us time enough to escape or take someone out so we can get out of here." Between energy draining and a distraction her magic would lend itself to taking someone out so they could escape very well. She just didn't think she could do all of that on her own - someone else would need to attack whoever she turned her magic on.

Standing, slowly, she wasn't too shocked by what was going on around them. It wasn't good though, she didn't like this. "Theirs too many of them...three Generals....the odds." She whispered, trailing off. "I don't like them." She added then. She didn't like the odds with General's on the field. Depending on who they were...they had a lot of time - more time than most here. They were killers and even she knew that. Generals were Generals for a reason.

For a moment she wished she were eternal...that would mean more power for her and more magic, though she didn't know if it would be the same energy draining magic. It would help out now more than ever if she were eternal. Shaking her head, to clear it from such thoughts, the senshi of vampires tried to focus on what was going on and watch everyone. She needed to be on her feet and catch anyone heading for their group, even as the Jupiter knight went to grab someone and bring them back to the little group they were.

"We'll need to move soon." Whether to fight or escape they wouldn't have a choice. They needed to do something.

General Aquamarine

Jet might have hit the dirt, but Aquamarine saw no reason to interfere yet. A cat was no cause for concern. They were small and almost harmless, easy to kick to the side when they were dumb enough to draw close, useless creatures with few redeeming qualities. Aquamarine released an amused snort and considered mocking Jet for the encounter, but the middle of a battle probably wasn’t the best place to distract him with pointless snark. If Jet was already getting the wind knocked out of him, he’d need his wits about him for the rest of it.

There were plenty of other things to take note of anyway. The Lieutenant who came in to assist against the cat, for one. Aquamarine couldn’t quite make out her weapon, but he expected it was as ineffective as his own had been. Better that she handle the troublesome feline, then; the higher ranking officers could see to the bigger threats.

Like the Knight Jet warned them about.

“Why aren’t we recruiting him then?” Aquamarine muttered.

Better a Knight than a Senshi, in his opinion.

But it wasn’t like his opinion counted for much.

It was a little difficult for Aquamarine to see through the dark at the edge of the field, but the surrounding area seemed to be residential, so they weren’t completely without sources of light. He could catch a glimpse of figures. There was a group of them huddled together, easy to surround if the attacking agents were organized enough. Their magic would likely pose an issue, but magic was also finite. Let them waste it first. They’d be no good against legitimate weapons without it.

As one figure broke off from the group and ran into the trees, Aquamarine laughed lightly to himself and folded his arms over his chest.

“Pathetic,” he said. “Look at the little Senshi, betraying his friends.”

And some people want me to believe they won’t betray us, he thought to himself.

Page Sumner

Suddenly it was chaos. There was fighting, There were agents and other Senshi who clearly belonged on the other side. And he really had no idea what to do or even how to start addressing the situation. It seemed that either people were targeting others specifically, or everyone else was just trying to find a fighting "partner" to concentrate on.

Before he could even decide whether or not to fight someone else or just try to flee entirely like a coward, probably not what he would have done, he saw a familiar figure running. Pendour looked different at this point, but at least it was someone that he could get to at least and then figure out what to do next.

He rushed over to her, dodging some punches, people flying around after being knocked around, magic and whatever else. Not much, but enough to make it so that it took a bit to finally get over to her, but when he did she appeared to be with others. Still, he would join her if he could. "Pendour!" He called when he was finally within the right distance. And he ran the rest of the way to catch up to her. "You need help?" Something was wrong. It looked like she had been hurt. And he was angry that she had been. A friend of his had been attacked and he couldn't even help her at this point. It was so frustrating!