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It had been strange that those Negaverse Agents had not been ripping out starseeds lately. The blonde only began to notice it when there were less reports on the evening news about people mysteriously collapsing into a comatose state (she watched the news every evening with at least one parent). It wasn't just one day that this had happened. She had noticed for at least two weeks there was a drastic lack of blatant starseed ripping incidents.

It made the Senshi part of her rather curious. Curious enough to seek a particular cat.

When she sun had gone down and the city was sleeping (as much as it would ever be possible that was, stupid night life!), the teen transformed into Sailor Iris. She still hated the feathers perched on her a**, but she was slowly getting more adjusted to their presence and didn't have to comment every time about how gay they were. Even in this eternal form, there was always one problem with trying to locate ********* ********* in the city was like finding a needle in a hay stack. She didn't have specific hang outs for specific days of the week. That cat did whatever the hell she wanted whenever she wanted. It was almost like letting a kid go free in a carnival. The tall blonde senshi sighed heavily as she began to run. She ran past the park area and headed into more of the downtown area. Each alleyway she passed, she called out "Hey, Cat... where ya at?" If she had paused for two seconds, she might have realized how gay it sounded to rhyme like that.

It had been tricky trying to keep her back to the Agent who had been following her for that relatively long while. It wasn't like she didn't know the Agent had been following her. No, she was able to tell by the negative energy this one was leaking. It wasn't powerful, but even a Lieutenant was still pretty hazardous to a regular civilian. Yet somehow, she suspected she had managed to do a decent job eluding the Lieutenant who had been tailing her tailless butt.

However, when she heard a familiar voice calling out rather stupidly in an attempt to get her attention, ********* couldn't help but allow her ears to perk up to their fullest height.

"Hey Cat... where ya at?!" The blonde's head peered into the alleyway and found something familiar and something not so familiar. The familiar was the pale puff of tailless fur further along the way. The other was a girl. She didn't look all that old in all honesty, probably just some kid. However, the outfit somehow gave her trouble. It looked like a retarded combination of a Negaverse uniform and a Senshi Fuku. With the variety of fuku seen on senshi, it was hard to tell at times who was on what side.

"Hey kid... what th'hell ya think yer doin'?" She leaned against the wall opposite of this girl, eyes dead upon her face as if trying to read her.

Oh please let Iris not be stupid, oh PLEASE let Iris not be stupid!

An eyebrow quirked up at the girl's words. If there was one thing that Sailor Iris hated being called was a terrorist. With the Negaverse out there killing people by stealing starseeds and actually causing real problems, it was just a bit infuriating to be labeled the bad guy. With a free hand, she ruffled her own messy hair, narrowing her eyes a bit.

"Look, shortie... yer not exactly doin' yerself any favors dressin' like that... ya look jus' as much like a 'terrorist' as me." Even in saying that, she sounded as if she wasn't certain what to label this girl.

The cat was easily able to catch on this. However, she still bit onto her tongue (which kinda hurt) so she couldn't shout out what was going through her mind.

It is SOOOO OBVIOUS she's from the Negaverse, come on! Just get her out of here before she attacks you!

Her next comment was straight to the point. "Sounds f**-tastic." The Senshi of Rainbows was blunt, that was easy enough to see with her description for the activity. It seemed odd coming from someone dressed in yellow and magenta with feathers all over her butt, yet here the senshi was, mouthing off in turn.

********* knew that Sailor Iris could be dense. Had she underestimated the Senshi by assuming she could tell a Negaverse Agent from another Senshi? Her head turned, glancing to catch sight of both the asteroid senshi and the Lieutenant when Iris laughed.

She laughed and laughed and laughed. "Alright, kid... let's jus' drop th'act! Ya obviously know more than yer lettin' on. What rank are ya?" It took her a while to piece everything together, but the blonde did eventually manage to come up with a decision. Several small things added up. The tone, the rough terminology for the senshi, the way the kid got defensive about the cat. The last puzzle piece fit into place. Under normal circumstances, ********* would have been up in front of any other person who was approaching her. That cat had a problem with cuddling and rubbing up against people. Yet, there the cat was, standing a distance away and not attempting to approach the gathering in the slightest.

The senshi clapped her hands together. The space between both hands began to leak some light between the cracks of her fingers. "Come on, fess up kid!"

A grin began to crack upon the senshi's features. "Yeah, f*ck yer life indeed." When her hands parted, they formed a small colorful arch.

Oh god, no... she's not ready for that yet...

The cat's head turned around even further, soon enough she was facing both Senshi and Lieutenant completely. It wasn't like it was even a secret anymore that the manx was definitely something more than she appeared to be. However, yet again, Sailor Iris was attempting to use her Revenge. It wasn't something that the senshi even seemed able to notice yet, but the cat could tell by looking at the small rainbow that it wasn't formed the right way.

"Hope ya like revenge, kid!" The blonde senshi's grin seemed to grow as three more words escaped her lips.

"Iris Rainbow Revenge!"

Without much of a warning, the feathered senshi pulled her arms back slightly and threw the colored light in the other girl's direction. Even though there wasn't much space between the two girls, the attack seemed to fall apart the moment it left Sailor Iris' hands. At first it just broke into two bands, one three colors wide and the other four. However, the thicker of the two bands fell apart shortly after, causing red, orange, yellow, and green colors to fly in four different directions. Four harmless bands of color and one vaguely thicker band of color that might have felt like a gentle shove at best.

Seeing this as an opportunity to slip past the Lieutenant, the small round cat scampered towards the yellow-suited senshi, a playful jingling sound accenting the movement.

For whatever reason, the senshi, even after throwing out such a failure of an attack, was still grinning. It wasn't like she really had much of a reason to. In fact, using that attack was such a drain on her energy that she was already seeming to droop slightly. With a laugh, Iris gave her honest opinion of the attack.

"It was gay!"

When the little girl began to move, the senshi tensed up, but that didn't seem to do her any good. The kid was actually quite quick. Though the foot was kinda small, when it lashed out at her leg, it actually hurt. The tall girl's knee buckled at the momentary flash of pain, bringing the senshi down to a more reasonable height.

"For goodness sakes!" Enough was enough (was enough). "Stop playing around and attack with your ribbon already!" Considering how much of a waste that previous attack was, she wasn't about to let Iris waste more energy by attempting to use the Slicer.

"...aww... but what's th'fun in that?" That grin seemed to disappear for a moment. Just long enough for a pout to form on the Senshi of Rainbow's face. She shook her head slightly before tightening a fist.

"Alright kid... let's see what yer really made of!" Her hand began to glow faintly as she used her other hand to signal for the girl to keep attacking.

The senshi hadn't had time to reply to the kid's attempt at insulting the tomboy. By the time she would have had a chance to comment that the kid was just a priss-a** if she thought the language was too rough, the kid was back to charging. Sailor Iris tightened her fist up a bit, and a ribbon of pale light escaped, fluttering back slightly. It at first just seemed as limp and lifeless as a normal ribbon, but the senshi's form tensed as she growled out "Iris Rainbow Ribbon!"

It was then that the attack almost seemed to come to life on its own. It was her weakest attack, but at this point, it was also the one she had the most control over. Rather than attempt to block the slush with her arm, the ribbon whipped right through it, breaking down the grimy slush so it spattered slightly rather than hitting its true target.

"What is this, grade school, kid?"

"I am quite certain I've been reported many times, Lieutenant... so sadly, I don't think my life will get much more difficult..." The cat didn't seem at all worried. In fact, she sat her haunches down and looked as if she was merely going to act as the spectator the rest of the time. Not very exciting, but in all honesty, the guardian was actually observing the Lieutenant more than the senshi. Unlike Iris, this girl seemed to actually use her head. Which could be potentially dangerous.

If Iris had a dime for every time she had been punched in the gut during her lifetime, she would have had a f*ck ton of dimes by now. Yet even as the assault made direct contact, the senshi still remained grinning, despite letting out a rather large grunt. You didn't rough house with the boys and remain ignorant on ways to defend yourself. Yes, the place where the kid hit was sore, but it didn't have nearly as much of a punch as it could have been. The grunt was enough to ease the blow just enough.

"Alright... my turn..."

The pale ribbon of colored light was still out and about. With a motion of a single finger (while the rest of her fingers remained in a tight fist), it once more was on the move. It approached low, almost as if it was a snake, and attempted to latch onto the girl wherever it could. The leg was most probably, but if a hand was foolish enough to touch the ground, the edges of the Rainbow Ribbon almost seemed to flick up in an effort to snatch it.

A pair of triangular ears twitched a bit along with a set of whiskers. The cat might not have let on that she was worried, but the words this young agent offered were a bit more worrisome. From the sound of it, perhaps the Negaverse was trying to crack down on the guardians now? It honestly wouldn't have been much of a change, since in the feline's mind, they had always been ready to snuff out any fuzzball with a star on its forehead.