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Myrrha, Super Senshi of Scents
- Ignoring the cameras and Fiddling around more with the machine

Myrrha sighed before mumbling about how the idea of taking the money was more of a fever dream then anything before standing once more and examining the ATM she was standing in front of. Trying to pry the machine open didn't seem like it was achieving anything and she wondered if there was even something remotely feasible that could open the machines to at least expose wiring or anything that could be used as further clues before noticing something strange. The exact moment that she was about to comment on the new situation did another pipe up and she nodded in agreement.

But how was it possible? Hadn't she and that other senshi smashed them?

Myrrha brushed her fingers against the machine's side again before she frowned. The super senshi had just experienced a moment of something that she'd recently encountered with another agent. The feeling of having energy pulled from her was registering in the senshi's mind and she yanked her hands away from the machine before staring at the device suspiciously.

What was the further danger to the group, the fact that these new cameras were on or something else?

Taking out the cameras should have been the better option but now she wasn't sure. Myrrha approached the ATM she had been standing in front of before placing her hammer down on the ground beside her and began to fiddle around more. A little bit of energy loss was better than possibly being blown up. At least she fiddled until a voice stopped her.

Even as one of the others that had decided against violence to the machines (Rainier) moved to try something that involved using her magic on the machine cameras did Myrrha step back for about a minute as the older woman stabbed at the camera location with what appeared to be a corded weapon. She was inwardly tensing for backlash from the move but hoping that she'd be wrong.

Basic Kitty of Defiance
Action: Continue the destruction! It doesn’t look like anyone around sustained much damage (and he probably wouldn’t care much if they had…), so why should they stop? Destroy the Negaverse’s assets no matter what!

Oh, please. All he'd done was keep his new bestie from getting singed, and the Neptune boy was not even slightly grateful about it. Kitty's little smirk tugged down into something closer to a pout, as he peered up at the taller guy through large, golden eyes. What was he even pitching this whole fit about? Because they were being destructive? That was literally what they'd agreed to do! To come over and wreck things that the Negaverse had taken control of- and as far as Kitty understood it, they had control over a lot, so decimating anything they could should be worth it.

Even at the cost of a little damage to fukus or private property or whatever.

"Hun, you're getting all riled up over the wrong thing," Kitty scoffed. "Everyone here-" Presumably. "-knows that there are some risks, but fighting Chaos is always getting to come with risks of people getting hurt or things getting destroyed." He leaned sidelong, peering around the corner Kitty had dragged them both behind to see the status of the rest of their group.

Most of them looked uninjured, so all the bellyaching over someone getting hurt! seemed like a waste of breath. But he also noticed that the various fires and explosions had dimmed much of the others' enthusiasm for continuing. Kitty huffed. "What you should be doing is getting offended that the Negaverse set up bombs practically in the street! Any civilian could have accidentally set them off while just trying to use the ATMs. Plenty worse has unintentionally happened, and those agents are still human: they're prone to mistakes."

"This is basically just clean-up for a grimy part of the city." He gave a tiny, dismissive flick of his fingers. "If you can't handle it, go somewhere else." But Kitty wasn't going to. He sauntered his way from behind the building to where the static blasts were still going off. He still had a few more fires in him.

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Hyperborea, Transcended Knight of the Cosmos
Action: Slow down to check on any injured and offering healing

Hyperborea's sledge hammer cleaved through the machine like a hot knife through butter, she figured they would be done in no time at this rate. Then the explosion went off, she held her hands up to protect her face from the blast. "Merde." She cursed. Leave to the Negaverse to put a bomb in an ATM, they cared nothing for any collateral damage.

"Is anyone hurt?!" She yelled out. "Come to me if you are I can provide healing" She offered. She conjured an ornate war horn to her hand that she used to summon Cerynitis, the white doe with its golden antlers glimmering in the light stamped its bonze hoofs on the concrete. The doe dipped her head to the ground creating a heavenly nebula of stars around her. Hyperborea could feel her wounds healing.

Deep Space Sailor Daedalus
Choice: Sliding his explosives to Anser and Tanais and retreating!

Daedalus flashed the Jupiter page a smile--even if he wasn't sure he entirely got the contextual meaning of what was being said, he understood enough to know he was being complimented.

"Thank you," he said, to both him and the glowing Senshi (so fascinating! as far as Daedalus knew, Earth-humans weren't a bioluminescent species; he would have to ask about those another time).

And then he stepped inside the safe, still carrying that lovely bag of explosives, and his knees nearly buckled.

Oh.

Oh, the Chaos here was more than a feeling.

It was a tide, dark and cruel and overwhelming, and Daedalus doubled over, entire body shaking with heavy, racking coughs, as if the wasting that had settled into his lungs was reacting to the poison in the air. It was like being bakc on his own planet--but worse, far worse, because this was far more concentrated.

But this.

This could be destroyed.

He couldn't speak, his chest far too constricted by the sudden, sharp re-emergence of the breathless coughs that had plagued him for years. But he could slide his bag of explosives to Tanais and Anser, so they had more firepower to work with, and then stumble back out of the safe, getting further from the awful press of Chaos. He felt dizzy, drained--the way that he was far too used to after a bad coughing fit--and when he was back at the door,h e leaned against the frame in a desperate attempt to catch his breath--even though each breath seemed to only bring more coughing.

Safe:

Bilskirnir and Daedalus chose to get away from the Chaos quickly.

Physical distance helped, especially as they got out of the building. The pain in their chests lessened. Any spinning in their heads, or disruption in their thoughts, seemed to slow, if not stop entirely. It was unclear if the others had managed to destroy the crystal or not, but in any case, at least they were safe and able to breathe for a moment.

When Cybele’s voice came over the phone, and the Chaos auras started to pop up one by one around them, at least they would be in their right minds for what comes next.

Tanais, Enceladus, Anser, and Shedir chose to stay and destroy the crystal.

The sledgehammers seemed somewhat effective. They chipped at the crystal, and while every strike sent a palpable wave of Chaos off of the stone, it didn’t seem to be making things any worse. Nobody started to youmafy. It was still painful, and still in their heads, but there was nothing physical.

With the explosives set, the group eventually would have to clear out enough to let them go off.

Along with the concussive blast and beginnings of fire from the explosions, there was the largest pulse of Chaos of all.

Then, it faded away.

The Chaos poisoning would fade over the next few minutes, but they wouldn’t have the time to shake it off that the others did. There were already auras starting to come into being in the distance.



ATMs: Focus on getting them open

Rainier chose to destroy the camera.

It cracked easily enough, given the tools at their disposal. The rest of the ATM would follow afterwards, as the rest of the destruction group did its work.

She even managed to stop it before it could get proper pictures of the others.

Myrrha and Drombeg chose to keep trying to open the ATM.

It worked, eventually. With powers like theirs, rending through metal and popping hinges off was more of a matter of time and effort than anything else, and they were faster than they might have been otherwise.

The ATM snapped open without exploding, and the money spilled from it.

It was lucky that Rainier had managed to disable the cameras, because otherwise it would have sent pictures of them off before the ATM was fully destroyed.


ATMs: Smash, burn, destroy

Hati, Antares, Undine, Albireo, Hyberborea, and Siegfried chose to slow down and tend to any injuries.

It did slow down the damage to the area just a bit, but to keep going would have been reckless. The ones who stopped were able to catch their breath, to patch themselves up, and to steel themselves against the pulses of Chaos that seemed to be coming from inside the building.

When the Chaos auras begin to show themselves around the building, they are ready.

Onnie, Hestia, and Kitty chose to keep going.

The ATMs are reduced to splinters of metals and ripped, burning money. They were able to get a good amount of damage to some of the walls, too. Bricks cracked. Mortar flew out. They were beginning to get into structural damage to the building itself.

Unfortunately, the staticky blasts continue, especially when hitting the other ATMs.

They might not be able to dodge all of them.

Super Sailor Hati, Senshi of the Cú-Sithe

Hati moved close to Hyperborea, groaning as the healing effects rippled through him. That felt nice. The shrapnel fell from his back as his skin closed, which he thought was a nice touch. That would have been tough to explain, if he'd had to go to the hospital.

"Thank you," he said to her.

Antares, Super Senshi of Scorpions

Antares winced as she continued on her given task, she did her best to help those who were still working on the ATMs and getting the wicked surprise that had been put in them. They had to trash them though. They couldn't just leave the machines alone, not with what was hidden inside. Not the magic nor the hidden cameras. It all needed to go.

She breathed a sigh as her pain faded when a knight used their magic to cast some kind of healing spell. "Thanks," the senshi offered her gratitude before freezing as aura after aura started showing up. Their cover was blown. She had to go! She had to find Tortuga and Chaldene! She HAD to find Sig!