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"Chari? Do you mean Chariklo?" It would make sense that Mintaka would know of Chariklo if she had drifted into the Dark Mirror Court; the Seagull Dark Mirror had certainly gained notoriety. Megrez set her face grimly and nodded. "You can explain things to me later. Tell me what's going on with Chariklo and I'll help. After what happened in... somewhere, I owe her a favor." Already, she had pulled out her senshi phone and was sending texts to her usual backups. To Sadachbia, she wrote, Need assistance on another possible rescue mission. It'll be good training. To Glitnir, she wrote, Assistance needed on possible rescue mission. Come if you can.



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Dingleite was terrified and absolutely hating his life right now.

Clutching his silly plastic tambourine close, he hid behind an obstacle, shuddering and waiting for an opportunity to bolt and just get the hell out. There was a Dark Mirror Royal here, for Pete's sake! She could tear them all to shreds with just her pinky finger! The aura was massive, almost crushing, and it definitely struck fear into his heart.

He wasn't feeling confident about being able to sneak out of this operation, though. Someone was surely going to tell him to get his a** up and do something. Orders would actually be kind of reassuring, as long as they weren't "grab a bunch of other Lieutenants and zerg rush the Royal, kekeke."

God dammit, they were gonna make him zerg rush, weren't they.

Athene may not have caught the compact call, however he did catch the unusually large amount of chaos auras that seemed to be out and about that night.

He frowned, looking down at his companion - one small tabby bobtail cat as he said quietly "I don't like this" because large amounts of chaos auras in one place never tended to bode well.

Summoning his phone at Liryn's voiced agreement, he opened up the messaging app and tapped out a quick message:



He hit send just as the large flare of what appeared to be a Dark Eternal Royal's signal flared, liking things less and less...

And then he realised that his erstwhile partner was in the process of trotting on ahead and called out "Hey Liryn! Liryn wait up!" as he headed after the tabby bobtail, satchel banging about his waist.

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Liryn had nodded at Athene's comment about the auras, after all the number of chaos auras he was picking up on all appeared to be of the Negaverse variety and there were far too many of them clustered together to be attributed to random youma.

"Something's up" he said to Athene, noticing that there appeared to be some strong auras mixed in with the auras he was picking up. Lieutenants yes, but also a Captain - mayhaps two - along with the dark strong flare of a Nega-General.

"We should go check it out"

Then as Athene pulled out his phone and started tapping out a message he added "I'll go on ahead."

An even stronger aura flared - this one similar to that strong one he had once picked up on in a warehouse on the night that the Negaverse had decided to attack the Dark Mirror Court.

It was a Royal aura - a Dark Mirror Royal aura to be specific.

He trotted faster, even more certain something was up.

The phone had been a rather easy compromise. A way that would allow them to contact each other without giving themselves away. Setting up the systems to redirect calls, adding a few blocks- easy. So when it rang Castor hesitated. Leto didn't call to chat. She would have called with a purpose, and to what purpose, he could never be sure.

No joking hellos or jabs at each other, just a simple, fast message.

It gained a simple and fast response. Pollux was out for the night, his duties as a civilian keeping him locked in meetings else the brothers wished to see significant losses in their games of politics and the power of money. Castor was confident Leto would be fine with just one of the brothers of ice. Besides- as he let himself take the formal regalia, he was bettered dressed to greet anyone who had harmed one he'd allied with.

It wouldn't suit to arrive at a hostage situation in anything less than his best.

By the time Castor neared the speculated location doubted he was wrong. Leto's signature was as vibrant as ever, and the slight differences of the others were enough for a final confirmation.
"Well, I'll be damned." The flickering blips of order as well- it seemed that he wasn't the only one who had a slight alliance with the mirrors. "And here I thought I was you one and only Leto. Now I find you're cheating on me by inviting others. Tsk tsk." He went to the chaos royal, a sort of half amused grin on his face.

"So whom do I have the pleasure of ripping apart this fine evening in the name of our shared interests?"

(Castor has arrived, also in royal form)

The blond DMC's ability to take a blow was impressive, but Moonstone had felt her ribs crack and moved in for the kill...only to find that she had miscalculated by getting too hot with the pure joy of battle. Cinnabar had shown her better than that...and before her, Linarite and Zinkenite. Some lessons just didn't stick so well anymore, not since she'd been zapped by that stupid senshi.

Sparks flew as her bat connected with the silent animatronic instead of her target's head and by the time she'd wrenched it free the stupid b***h had a club of her own to swing. Moonstone snarled and blocked with her weapon, reduced to defense briefly as Chariklo got a second - or third?- wind at seeing the bait being moved.

And then all ******** hell seemed to break loose, auratically speaking. <******** Royals...this is bad. Moonstone took a few precious moments to summon her personal Youma to her side, the beast appearing and immediately taking a very large amount of offense to Chariklo's swinging at it's master.

The pair thrust forward at the same time, Wasgo's impressive teeth going for the DMC senshi on one side while Moonstone went in for an aerial attack. "You're all going to die!"

"Sounds like you've got a plan," Megrez said, texting an addendum with the location of the rescue mission to her "squad." "I've got two friends that should be coming soon- a basic senshi and a Squire. Let's get moving."


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Ever since the shenanigans on Hugbell, Sadachbia had been trying to patrol more often. It didn't matter that getting whisked off to fight a giant youma wasn't literally a punishment for not patrolling; it sure felt like it was. It was a call to shape up and quit sleeping so much, in essence. So when she heard the ding of a senshi text in her head, she was actually ready to check her messages this time. Her eyes went wide; there was big trouble all over again. Then again, she had already dived headfirst into one rescue mission. How bad could a second one be? Ready to fight, she bounded off in the direction of the amusement park.

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Silas was hoping to recover from the wounds he sustained in the Luna Bay fiasco, he really was. Unfortunately, a surprise letter poofing down and floating onto his bed wrecked those plans. Megrez was calling for assistance. He could very easily have sent an "I'm wounded, sorry, no" back to her, but he figured he should at least investigate to stay abreast of all the weirdness going on. Saying that a friend needed help, he scurried out of the house despite his parents' protests. He transformed into Glitnir and carefully made his way towards the amusement park.
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Dingleite heard Cinnabar's message over the communication crystal, and it effectively told him what he already knew. He felt the massive, blinding brightness of a Senshi Royal, and he was feeling intensely sure that this was the end of the road for him, if not the entire squad stationed at the amusement park. Panicking, he yelped into his communication crystal. "I-I know that! I can feel them! There's no way I can come out from where I am without getting obliterated! Whaddo I do?!"

"Tell them to move towards the park and...." Mintaka stopped in her heels as she felt the daunting Order royal senshi. She had in all her time, NEVER felt such an aura from Order. It terrified her. Made her nervous. What if whoever it was found about her switch?

She closed her eyes, this wasn't about her and her enstranged problems. This was about Chariklo and Amytis and making sure her loves returned to her save and sound.

"Make sure they keep close, but if they sense someone stronger..." Mintaka's ruby red eyes bore into Megrez, "You and they run."

She could hear Chari's voice.

And then she saw her. Half youma Cinnabar surrounded by fresh looking lieutenants.

"Stay a little further back Megrez, do you remember how my attack works?" Mintaka looked at her friend. "Use it for cover and see if you can get inside...." She could at least....attempt Cinnabar.

She pushed off with her feet, running until she was in front of the woman and her little friends. A captain, A lieutenant, a Corrupt senshi. She could do this.

"Hey!" She opened her arms wide, "You have people I care about in there. Move Please." She let the threat hang a little before offering a apologetic look, "Origami Blizzard*"

We have incoming forces. One Dark Mirror Royal, One Senshi Royal, One DMC Eternal, One Senshi Eternal, and probably more on the way.

The message came in on Cyllene's communicator crystal loud and clear. She was fully aware of the operation against the Dark Mirror Senshi and had every intention of participating. However she knew that she would be useless in the beginning- they did not need some Super Senshi to get in the way as they baited one with the other. So she would wait... And now that the message was received, she stood outside of the amusement park trying to psyche herself up.

"Okay. Time to go. You've gotta prove yourself, just do it."

Yep, she was definitely talking to herself.

With a steadying breath, Cyllene teleported into the Geyser ride and into the the area where she felt the most power signatures grouped together.

"Nope. Sorry," Chariklo heard herself wheezing in response to the captain's words. "Got too much s**t to do."

But even as she parried and watched the very large, dog-like youma carefully, she could real her energies falling. Her chest and back were a mass of roiling pain and it was getting harder to hold on to her makeshift club. And in bringing what was left of Space Bunny-Ho up to defend her head, she inadvertantly left herself wide open to attack from the youma.

Screeching in pain and shock as the youma surged forward and sank it's teeth into her side, Chariklo let go of the battered animatronic to pound her fists uselessly against whatever portion of the youma she could find. And then, to make matters worse, the youma shook her hard before releasing it's jaws just enough for the laws of physics to take over and send her flying with a torn side to land a few feet away. Moaning softly and hissing under her breath, she carefully tested these news wounds to find, to her very vast relief that while deep, long and ragged, they weren't disemboweling. Her guts were still where nature intended.

So I get to bleed to death slowly instead of quickly, she thought, wishing that the whole damned Negaverse could be s**t out into the vacuum of space to freeze and implode simultaneously. Doing her best to pull herself to her feet, not wanting to be caught laying down by any of the officers, Chariklo choked down a sob and leaned heavily agaisnt a ridge of 'rock'.

But Leto and the others time to save Amytis. Just, try to buy them more time. Closing her eyes, she did her best to focus on that thought rather than the searing pain, on the blood seeping from the slashing tears to her flesh.

Just... buy them time.