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Red heels clicked mercilessly against the pavement, a lone figure darting in and out of parked cars as she chased a Youma that resembled a scorpion. It had cornered a small family with two young children back in the parking garage a few minutes ago, and thanks to Sailor Europa, Kallichore now had a better means of tracking what happened around her - her senshi cell phone. The device warned her of the youma attack just as it was about to take place, and Kallichore careened around the corner to slam into the thing as it was bringing a claw down on the smallest child. Shrieks and screams echoed through the concrete structure as the senshi put some distance between it and the family. She heard the young woman's sobbing, and the man was too terrified to move, so she would have to take this battle outside. Barking an order for them to run and hide, Kallichore planted a few kicks into the youma's low-hanging skull and drove it out to the uncovered section of the parking lots.

It dove at her then with a hissing tail, knocking the senshi up and over one sports car's hood. Landing on the opposite side, she had to catch her breath before diving back over and at the youma again. The family was watching with horror in their eyes, but Kallichore wasn't making much progress against the thing. A thick, shadowy carapace kept her kicks and punches from doing any real damage.

A blip on her phone in a very specific sound meant someone else was nearby... someone who was a senshi. Good. The senshi in red backflipped over another hood and looked out to the horizon of the buildings, scanning for where this new senshi might be. She called out to them, hoping they were close enough to hear her. "If you're out there, I could really use your assistance about now! We have some civilians in danger!" A quick mental scan of the area revealed no Negaverse officers, meaning she was free to disclose the information without fear of attack.

Good. I knew somebody else was out there.

The youma shrieked and writhed with the new senshi on top of it, and Kallichore used this opportunity to continue to kick and punch at the youma's head. It seemed to be the softest spot on the entire body, but everything she tried simply bounced off. The youma swiped wildly in random directions, scraping car bodies, the pavement and the nearby light post. Kallichore backed up and into the side of a large truck, trying to steer clear of the massive claws the youma called hands. Its stinger was plunged into the hood of a shiny new Corvette. If Kallichore cared at all about cars, then she might have wept for the car's owner. More important things were at hand.

With the new senshi on the youma's back, the stinger could pose a real danger to her. Kallichore had to get the other senshi out of danger too. Before she could, however, the youma's claw hit her on a backswing and she flew into the hood of another car, setting off its wailing alarm. The high-pitched screeching seemed to terrify the youma, causing it to recoil as if struck. Maybe high-pitched noises really hurt it? Was that its weakness?

"Looks like noise is what this thing is afraid of!" Kallichore tried to yell over the car alarm, holding her hands to her ears. The youma's struggling subsided and the stinger came free of the car frame it was embedded in, but it did not strike at Nunki.

Nunki had the right idea - as more and more car alarms were set off, the youma ceased its flailing and shrieking and tried to back up away from the cars. The noise was so intense that it couldn't even think to scale the concrete wall that separated it from freedom. Kallichore ran about with the other senshi, tugging on car door handles and tapping on glass. She even kicked a motorcycle just to see if it had an alarm too. Soon, the parking lot was nothing but a screaming din.

With the youma successfully subdued for now, Kallichore had an idea. Surely the other senshi had an offensive attack? The struggling black scorpion seemed pacified, pain must have been radiating from its body. The senshi in crimson cautiously approached one side of the beast, in the arc away from its front claws. Its tail was wrapped around the other side, resting on the pavement. No doubt it could rise up at any time, but Kallichore needed to provide an opening for the other senshi to get a good hit in on this thing, or even kill it.

Squatting down, Kallichore waited for a break in the creature's legs and slid her shoulder and arms underneath the carapace, attempting to lift the creature and flip it over. Its muscles were tense and shifting, but it seemed oddly light for its size. With a wail, the creature flipped over onto its back and Kallichore ducked out the way of the flailing tail. She turned to Nunki.

"There! ...You have an attack that can do damage, right?"

"What do you mean, you don't know? Have you fired off your attack before?"

Oh please tell me she's just nervous and has used her attack before. Please please please... mine won't do much to this thing. The blaring car alarms were keeping the youma stunned, thankfully, and all it was currently doing was flailing around and making a horrid croaking noise (if it could even be heard at that point!) Kallichore wasn't sure what to do. Sure, she could probably bring her boot heel down on it a bunch of times, hoping it might pierce the exterior of the underbelly, but who was to say it would work? Kallichore turned to Nunki again. They had to do something.

"Listen, if you haven't fired off your attack before, please try. My attack won't do anything to the youma. Mine makes people hear things, and the youma won't be able to hear much else over these car alarms!" The senshi found she nearly had to yell to be heard over all the noise, but the alarms were bringing the owners of the cars out to watch what was going on. Many saw the youma and stayed back with worried looks on their faces. Kallichore waved at them to keep at their safe distance while the senshi deal with the thing.

The youma didn't know what hit it. Nunki's sharp heel easily pierced its armored underbelly and the youma let loose a heinous shriek. Flailing about with the last of its energy, the youma couldn't even bring itself to flip over before its body deteriorated and disappeared in a cloud of dust. The car alarms were beginning to die down as more and more of the car owners came outside to see what the ruckus was about. Civilians slowly approached the two senshi and Kallichore placed a hand on Nunki's shoulder.

"Now that is what I was talking about. Very useful. Good job." she said with a small smile. Everyone was nervous their first time, but Kallichore was very pleased to find that this girl had a useful attack. Direct damage was always welcome. "You dusted the youma with your first shot! That's impressive. I'm Sailor Kallichore by the way. Introductions are harder when you've got civilians to worry about."

The senshi nodded to the civilians who came out to inspect their cars, explaining any damage done by the senshi themselves was unintentional - the youma caused the most of it. Most civilians were simply happy the monster wasn't running around anymore. One man in particular was a nuisance, deciding his truck's door was more important than his own safety. Kallichore went to remind him of the service the senshi had done. "Keep this in mind," she said, "you could be that car door with the hole in it instead. Car doors are replaceable. You are not." And that shut him up.

Kallichore nodded to the senshi who now had a name. With the youma gone, Kalli could actually get a good look at her. Cute boots. Nice color combination. Her own fuku was shredded and torn in places, but it worked with her sphere. Magic was apt to do things that didn't make sense. "You did great. We got rid of the youma, saved these people... a little property damage is going to happen no matter what. The important thing is... these civilians are safe. You can replace a car, you can't replace a life."

The civilians who looked at the senshi with suspicion didn't escape her, though the senshi in red thought it best to act the part of the hero instead of trying to explain what happened. Actions spoke louder than words. She assisted some of them with their cars or their belongings if they happened to spill out the car through a gaping hole. Most people were thankful of the senshi's presence, though the news always found a way to bend everything against them. Kallichore sighed when most of the people shuffled off to go back to bed. She saw how some of them looked over their shoulders to glare at the senshi.

"It's a thankless job sometimes but... I'd rather go to bed at night knowing I did something to help." She turned to Nunki and saw the exhaustion in her eyes. Adrenaline did wonders, but after its effects were gone, you really wished you had a bed right then and there. She placed a hand on Nunki's shoulder. "You did very well. I'm assuming you're new? If you're not too tired, maybe I could tell you a few things to help?"