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With the trash cans the youma did pause to slurp up whatever liquid content it may have had, adding to it's sludgy gross 'body' before pursuing the much tastier starseed-bearing beings.

"We've got to find a knight or another senshi or something!" Pravoski yelled as they ran, darting off the sidewalk to run into the park that they soon came upon. The area was all grass and trees with a few picnic tables here and there and a concrete walkway that curved through it, a few benches scattered along said path. It was a quieter end of the park, far from the swings and other play equipment, pavilions, or oddly connected baseball fields. However, in Pravoski's experience, Senshi seemed to like to patrol the park when they weren't really looking for trouble.

Haldane followed after the cat, looking over his shoulder occasionally to, not see if the monster was still pursuing them, but to make sure Merrik was still back there. It was in doing this that he tripped over a root and went flying face first into the grass and dirt.

It was then the youma that was right on Merrik's tail and about to make a swipe for him noticed the other senshi's trouble and decided to take advantage of the much easier target, lunging past Merrik for Haldane.

That is when a bright light descended from the sky between the youma, and Haldane. The youma stopped in its tracks, shrunk back a bit and screeched. Haldane, still on the ground, turned to face that light, putting an arm up over his face to shield his eyes.

Bellatrix, now a transcendednt senshi, had made her return to Earth.



When the light cleared, a tall figure of a woman stood, long hair, dark skirt, fluffy white feathered bow in the shape of wings, and a steely expression on her face. Being behind her Haldane, thanks only to the asymmetric nature of the woman's skirt, did not get a nice up-skirt view from his place on the ground - a thought he'd later think back on with disappointment, no doubt. For now, he could only hope this was the rescue they had been hoping for.

Normally when returning from a visit to one's homeworld, you returned to the place you left, if it was safe to do so. That said, being deposited back in to almost the same place, but right in front of a youma was unexpected. Luckily Bellatrix was experienced, and the youma temporarily reeling from the prior light show. She had little time to take stock of the situation otherwise.

"Right back to business as usual I see. Starting with a bit of pest control~" came her very casual, not-at-all worried response, and if she had seen hundreds of these monsters already, and this were old hat. For her, it was. She had even experienced her fair share of sludge monsters. There was even a look of boredom in her eyes as she watched the youma as is seemed to decide whether or not it was smart to continue its pursuit, or flee.

Pravoski, who had hidden in a bush, peeked his head out and his expression turned joyful, "An eternal senshi! We're saved!"

Cornflower blue eyes looked at the brothers, cool and calm as if she weren't a few feet from a nasty sludge monster.

Haldane was pulled up by his brother and finally got a look at their would-be savior. Oh, so guardian angels do exist. Wow. And such confidence to boot! But maybe now was not the time to ooggle.

Bellatrix observed the not-twins and noted two looked a bit old for basic senshi. For newly awakened senshi, she assumed from the cat and their lack of knowledge. She sighed and closed her eyes mid eye-roll. These cats and their sense of timing for awakening other senshi was as poor as ever. Okay, okay.

"Yeah, I guess I don't have a choice. I mean, I'm not going to just stand by and let a youma eat you," Bellatrix said, looking back at the sludge monster that seemed to be preparing itself to attack.

It lunged for her, and Bellatrix quickly leapt high in to the air before the stinking gross, moist body splashed hard against the ground where she once stood. A golden circle of light then appeared before the eternal senshi's hand, then another in her other hand. She muttered something, presumable the name of her attack and one of the glowing light chakrams went flying at the youma.

The youma appeared to be paralyzed, frozen in place as the other came flying at it. It shrieked, then seemed to implode on itself. Sludge and dust then exploded everywhere and Bellatrix landed gracefully on the ground, it all happened so quick.

Haldane watched wide-eyed, not realizing he was clutching his brother's arm as he half-whispered, "Woah, bro...." Just two words, but there was a lot communicated there.

Oh great. They were gawking. One just starry-eyed, and the other finally finding his words.

"I'm Bellatrix. That was nothing. Given time and training, you'll be able to get rid of those monsters called 'youma' too. But they aren't the ones you really need to worry about...but I don't supposed the cat told you that yet."

Cornflower blue eyes looked over to the peach and white head that slowly sunk back into the bushes. Pravoski would just....um.....head on out. Yeah. Bellatrix had this! Nothing for him to do here his work was done!

"You really think so?" Haldane finally spoke up, rubbing the back of his neck, "I mean, our magic didn't even do anything..."

"Well," Bellatrix began, shifting her weight from one leg to the other and crossing her arms, "I've never seen a senshi get awakened that wasn't in their teens. It wouldn't surprise me if age had something to do with it."

If these senshi needed some help getting their powers under control, well, that would seem to be what her homeworld was meant for - training members of order. It was no wonder her homeworld sent her back to this spot then.

"I can help with that, but first, one question-" it was not lost on her that it wasn't the same season as when she first left, so she had to ask- "What is today's date?"

In normal circumstances, it would probably seem like an odd question, but these were no longer normal circumstances for any of them.

Bellatrix stood there for a moment - one of her eyes might have twitched - and then she took a deep breath before putting her hand son her hips.

"Okay, I'm going to need you to say psych right now, because yes. Yes I think five sounds about right."

She huffed a heavy sigh and the hands on her hips were flung exasperatedly at her sides and she started pacing back and forth, seeming to be thinking over the situation, muttering things to herself and making vague gestures.

Haldane looked from this display, to his brother, and back several times.

"Ummm..." Haldane seemed reluctant to interject in the gorgeous lady's uh....whatever it was she was doing, but decided to interject, "Is there something we can help you with?"

Haldane then lightly elbowed his brother, figuring he'd get the hint. A pretty lady in need? Time to be the hero.

Bellatrix stopped her pacing and turned again to face the two.

"Alright," She said with a resigned sigh, "Here's the offer - I will personally train you two, in exchange for a place to stay until I get my life back in order. It shouldn't be too long of an imposition, just gotta deal with a few banks, placate the press, find my own place, and then I'll be out of your hair, and you'll be better suited to 'save the world from the forces of Chaos,' she added the air quotes in emphasis to her casual yet sardonic tone before crossing her arms, "Sound like a plan?"

Haldane again elbowed his brother. A little harder this time. Was either of their apartments girl-ready? Well, not likely. Haldane was cleanly, but his apartment still very clearly said 'young bachelor,' and that's not even talking about the bathroom... He wasn't sure he had ever touched the stove. He was pretty sure his basket of laundry was still sitting on one end of the decrepit futon that served as a couch.... Still....

"Ummm," Haldane began, "My brother and I live right across from each other - it's pretty basic bachelor apartments - are you sure you want to be subjected to that?" He added to his brother's statement.

The little tight-lipped smile Bellatrix gave could have been apologetic, or nervous. Maybe both. After all, here she was asking for help from strangers who she was trusting purely because they were Order, and she was pretty sure if need be, she could kick their asses, but still...

"If you're worried about what I think, it's okay, I realize not everyone has the kind of accomodations I'm used to, I'll keep my judgements gentle," She tried to throw in a joke there at the end, "I understand it's a lot to ask, and I really do hate to impose like this but... It's only for a little bit I-"

What year?

"Oh uh.... 2017, actually..."

Haldane couldn't believe this, any of this, was real. But here they were. 2017 seemed like forever ago. he couldn't imagine trying to just bridge the technology gap in those years. This lady - gorgeous and so full of boss energy needed more than a place to stay, and while they certainly weren't monster-fighting-fit just yet, they could at least help with getting up to date with real life. ....Good lord even the internet was such a different beast back then.

"Huh... Ummm... Well, like I said - we live right across from each other - my bro and I could alternatively just shack up in either one of our places, and you can stay in the other apartment for a bit?" That way, no one was on the couch. Wouldn't be the first time they'd shared the bed with each other. "If Merrik isn't comfortable with you at his place, mine isn't too bad, just.... Yeah it's....not the greatest place, but I guess it is a place. And I guess we do need some kind of mentor..."

Bell had never been tech-savvy to begin with. Despite all her access to money, she hadn't seen the point of staying on top of the latest tech when she didn't understand how to utilize it to begin with. She didn't even have social media set up before her departure, beyond a basic, empty, profile. How did that work for an actress, where networking and presence were fundemental? Well, good agent had gone a long way. She had dismissed those when she came back to Destiny City all those years ago. She had told everyone that she was going on an extended holiday - although she hadn't intended it to last this long, for sure - and had set up auto-billing for the basic things, like phone and her storage unitS. It was enough to keep her bank accounts online, despite other use going dark. Maybe catching up wouldn't be that hard. Not as hard as getting reporters off her a** would be.

'Multi-millionarie Heiress Returns After 5-Year Disappearance,' she could see the headlines now. She needed to think of a good cover story. That took precedence over getting up to date on tech.

"Oh," Bell had forgotten just how basic the basics were. That even such a natural thing had to be taught hadn't crossed her mind, and the question caught her a little off-guard. "You just kind of...think of your normal self again."

And demonstrating like so, the magic glamor faded away and in its wake was woman with long - super long - dusty pink hair, wearing a shapely powder blue pencil skirt with a while blouse tucked in that had ruffles all along the neckline which did nothing to diminish the rather full appearance of her bosom. Long legs, and light pink kitten-heel shoes, a matching purse with gold chain slung over her shoulder. There was a professional yet princess-like high society look to her.

"Hello, boys. I'm Bell McMahon."


Haldane stared. Like, unapologetically. The Sailor Fuku, despite being pretty nice, did nothing to properly show off this woman. Oh to be a button on her blouse, valiantly holding back those- AHEM. Wait...

"McMahon..you don't mean, the Destiny City actress who went missing?" It lined up. Holy s**t it lined up.

Bell just nodded in confirmation.

Haldane stared at his brother, then back to Bell. He was only a little familiar with the story, given that he did some modeling and acting himself, and word about local celebrities in that sector always got around. He hadn't really looked in to the story - disappearances in DC were kind of a frequent thing - but he never would have thought that....

He was so caught up on this, he was forgetting the whole 'getting back to normal thing for a moment, then caught himself, "Oh right, normal, normal...." he closed his eyes and concentrated, which was hard because there was so much going on in his mind, but eventually Haldane was replaced with Ruvik once again...and after that chase earlier, he looked no where near as put-together as Bell. heck, he didn't even leave the house looking that put-together - and he was the more groomed and arguably stylish twin! If he had known he was going to be meeting a celebrity however..... Damn.

He had a lot to discuss with his brother later.

Okay, so she hadn't expected to be outed quite so quickly, but that was fine - it made a few things easier actually!

Bell sighed and gave a small tight-lipped smile, "One in the same, so... Things light get a bit crazy, but I promise to do my best to keep the press off your backs as much as possible, but gossip is going to happen because the media," heavy exasperation on media, "but we can plan a cover story over dinner."

With that, Bell reached in to her purse and lightly waved a wallet, "My bank card is probably out of date, but I've got cash -- dinner is on me, wherever you want, and will just be the first part of the reimbursement for all the trouble."

Money was truly no object for her.



If he didn't joke, he'd dissolve in to panic, and the last thing he wanted was to have a complete breakdown in front of this woman who seemed so cool and collected despite the crazy circumstances. Maybe she was used to crazy though? Or.... Well wait, she was an actress! She probably was on the verge of a breakdown and just was hiding it well! Yeah! Well....he could act too!

"Oh no, Ro, we're gonna get paparazzi-d," Ruvik said jokingly to his brother, lightly elbowing him.



"Oh!" Bell interjected, "That's right, I don't have your actual names~"

Look, as calm as she was trying to present herself to be, her priority list was not as ironed out as it could have been. Maybe it was the influence of being on her homeworld for so long that had her offering training in exchange for a place to stay, before asking names. Maybe it was because they were just so darn cute that she offered to pay for dinner before getting their names. But the more she thought about dinner the more 5 years of no food was catching up with her.


"Well," Roman gave a bit of a laugh, a friendly grin, and rubbed the back of his head, smoothing out his hair, "A lady such as yourself can call me whatever you want, but my name is Ruvik. Ruvik Coughfield and this ruggedly handsome guy over here~" he threw an arm over his brother's shoulders, prompting him to introduce himself.

Ah acting, an art, a veil for his nerves~ ...he'd breathe heavily into a bag later.