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Training sucked SO HARD.

It was necessary, but the whole ordeal was starting to feel like a huge burden. Parthenope had been ruthless and every night they trained, always ending with her attempting to pull off her attack. She always felt completely drained before heading home. She'd get home and head to bed right away. It was getting tiresome to remember to set an alarm so she could wake up in the morning by a decent time so she could get ready for work. On a regular day, she'd be awake by 6 am easily without the prompting of an alarm. These days, she'd need an alarm and be awake by 7:30 am. It was also getting quite tiresome to be scolded in monotone by her boss about looking exhausted. Hank always meant well, but when he kept blaming the slight droop to her eyes upon "those teenage hijinks," Ellie couldn't help but want to duct tape his mouth shut for the day.

She'd have to endure this, for it was all necessary. They started with a bit of sparring, went into some patience exercises, more sparring, some practice with the yellow boomerang that ********* gave her, then finally the daily dump off of her energy in the form of a rainbow that was formed incorrectly for the Rainbow Revenge attack.

Usually, training went on uninterrupted. There were so many senshi in the city these days that youma did not seem to last to long once they popped up.

However, today was different. They had started with the training, finished up their first bout of sparring and had moved onto the patience exercises. It was then that Iris commented "...dude... Parth-Vader... there's a youma nearby..."



"....naw... I don't think anybody's done a thing 'bout it..."

The blonde stood herself up from where she had been sitting. She was going to start running towards the direction she sensed the youma, but then Parthenope pretty much said what had been on her mind.

"Yeah... whatever... let's jus' get goin'!" With a wide gesture of the arm, she signaled for her teammate to follow along with her. The duo took to the streets, remaining grounded rather than to the rooftops. As the pair drew closer, something became pretty obvious.

The youma's aura had a Negaverse Captain's aura close to it.

The pair eventually made it down to what seemed like a relatively open street that seemed to be getting stalked by what looked like some sort of fan-furry cosplayer. If it weren't for the energy escaping the creature, she would not have known it was a youma. She was much more adjusted to the monsters being less humanoid and much more like animals.

The youma wasn't the only thing at the scene though. There were plenty of looky-loos just hanging around, begging to become victims of the Negaverse. "My f*ckin' god... how stupid are those dipsh*ts?!" she muttered under her breath in a voice only loud enough for Parthenope to hear. Shaking her head, she eventually decided the first thing that needed to be tended to was ridding the area of the pedestrians. It honestly was times like this that made her wonder why the senshi were the ones with the bum rap when it was the opposing side that relied on monsters and stealing energy and starseeds that should have been feared.

"Parth-vader... distract the youma... I'm gonna clear th'area of th'looky-loos." She tightened a fist and summoned up just enough energy for a weak Rainbow Ribbon (muttering the attack name under her breath).



One thing that Sailor Iris was not was conventional. It was just easier to go about this in the less conventional manner than running up to each person and asking them super nicely to take cover. They had been so stupid to remain around outside in the first place with the youma lurking about.

So now was time to just scare them.

Rushing towards the first group, the blonde whipped her practically harmless lasso of colored light near a group. She was just planning to make them flinch, with the added intimidation of a less than gentle "Get yer asses outta'ere!"

The first batch of civilians seemed to react perfectly, however, before she could truly get to the second grouping, a head of familiar red hair caught her attention. All plans to get the rest of the civilians out of the area seemed to be tossed out the window as she shouted out a near-war-cry of "SASSOLIIIIIIIITE!!!!!!" Where as Parthenope attended to the youma, the blonde senshi was now about to do the same with the Captain.

It was easy enough to predict that Sassolite would start things off by shooting an arrow at the eternal senshi. However, this time the blonde wasn't caught off guard. With her rainbow still lighting up a trail from her hand, she whipped it slightly at the arrow, just narrowly knocking the arrow off its path. Rather than planting itself into her torso, the arrow shot past her body, crashing into a nearby wall instead.

Fool Iris once, shame on you. Fool Iris twice, shame on Iris.

However, with the redhead turning away in a disinterested fashion, Iris could feel quite a bit of rage rushing through her veins. It was a moment for her to ideally rush up as fast as her legs would allow and punch that girl in her smug little face. So far the footwork part was working fine for her. Sassolite's advantage in battle was being able to cause damage from a distance, but at the same time, this was also Iris' advantage too.

With her ribbon already out, she then lashed out towards the redhead, in hopes of snagging her with what was essentially a lasso made out of colored light.

Seeing the Captain even move to put another arrow to the string of her bow was enough to get the senshi moving even faster, pushing herself to get to the redhead faster.

"Oh no ya don't!" she shouted as she then swung her non-glowing fist towards Sassolite. The one thing that was a bit convenient about her attack was it stayed as long as she kept the fist tightened up. So it wasn't long before Iris added a secondary punch towards the redhead, this one glowing of the light forming the Rainbow Ribbon, the attack itself seeming to follow her swinging motion.

Despite how many encounters the eternal senshi had with Sassolite, that b*tch was always tossing new tactics at her. Normally she didn't just jump out of the way, so eagerly, Sailor Iris chased after her. However, she stopped as the captain loaded an arrow upon the string of her bow. It was level with what seemed like her own height, but pointed away from herself.

Wait a minute...

And then Sailor Iris remembered that Parth-Vader had been with her.

"Oh. Sh*t." There was one problem that the tomboy had. Most times she didn't think about what she did, acting on instinct. However, a delicate situation like this that OBVIOUSLY required brain power left her absolutely stumped.

Considering where Sassolite was aiming her arrow, it was obvious who was in front of her. "...yer a f*ckin' coward, ya f*ckin' b*tch..." she snarled out, remaining in her place. In her mind, the blonde was running through as many scenarios as she could in her head on how she could go about this situation, yet nothing seemed to be working. Sassolite would easily let go of that string and send that arrow flying if Iris used any attacks that could do anything.

However, a stray thought came to mind. Revenge.

At first, it didn't seem like a good idea, since it wouldn't do anything. Sassolite had seen the eternal senshi use this attack, and it hadn't done anything. ...but maybe that can work to your advantage?

Taking a deep breath and swallowing that slight fluttery feeling in her stomach, the senshi then called out "Let's make this a bit more colorful!" Hoping to have maybe caught the redhead's attention, she closed her eyes and clapped her hands together. Maybe the captain would remember the start of this attack. One question seemed to be echoing in the back of her mind.

WHAT THE F*CK DO I DO NOW?!!!

Oh god! was echoing in her mind as she heard Sassolite seemingly toying with her teammate. It didn't seem like her own taunt had worked. Then again, it seemed as if the Captain had managed to catch onto the fact that Iris' attack wasn't something to worry about. How in the world was she going to be able to pull this off?! She hadn't been able to figure out her Rainbow Revenge attack before, so what would make this time around anything different? This required concentration, and her mind was now flitting everywhere in panic.

Amidst her panic, a familiar furry face seemed to show up behind her closed eyes. "Oh, and about your Rainbow Revenge... you should probably try to simplify what you are thinking about when forming the rainbow itself. Where is the energy coming from?"

Of course, remembering such advice was only leading to one question in her mind. Where was the energy coming from?! Was it supposed to be something that was "right in front of her face" obvious?

Her own mental voice attempted to strictly scold her current worries away. Stop that! Settle down... you can't save Parthenope like this! Concentrate! Though it didn't ease her anxieties, it did seem to silence her thoughts. The voices of Sassolite and Parthenope dulled to almost nothing, almost as if they were some sort of hum.

And then she heard it. That gentle laughter she heard every time she went to the asteroid Iris The voice of her world that she needed to hear every time she went to visit the sandy rock. ...the energy... it comes from Iris... It felt as if she had just finished a 1000 piece puzzle, setting the very final piece in its proper place.

Focusing in on the voice of her home world, the girl opened her eyes and began to part her hands to form an arch of bright colored light. Her voice called out strongly the name of her attack. "Iris Rainbow Revenge!!" Her fingers almost seemed to tingle as she held onto the arch. If she had time to sit and admire her handiwork, she might have done such. However, with an arrow pointing at the Senshi of Tar's head, that wasn't a good option for now.

So with that, she flung the rainbow away. It honestly seemed as if the senshi completely missed the mark, probably adding a boost of confidence to Sassolite if she even bothered to notice. The makeshift boomerang whipped past Parthenope and even the youma, skewing towards the side. However, it then turned itself around, making its way back. To the side slightly, but still within view for the senshi, allowing him time to react accordingly.

There had been a bit of grunting the moment the youma had pretty much decided to pounce on him. Yet the moment that furry body had attacked him, it seemed to grow limp quite quickly as it received the brunt end of the attack that had truly been meant for the Captain. He wasn't about to complain (well, about anything other than how heavy the youma now was). He quickly shoved the rather limp creature off of himself while still using it like a shield. Now that he was safe, Parthenope needed to get his bearings.

The rainbow senshi watched as the Captain jumped, which was not a good sign. Considering how much energy she had just dropped with her attack, she wasn't up for getting shot up full of arrows today. Based off of which building she saw the redhead jump too, the blonde ran to essentially the same building in an effort to make her more difficult to shoot. The moment she managed to catch a glimpse of a pair of yellow eyes, she waved her arms in an effort to signal her teammate over.

Nodding his head, he sped over, leaning in slightly as he approached so he could hear her plan.

"...let's blow this popsicle stand..."

"...who the hell says that?"

She snapped at him slightly. "I do! Now let's go!" With that, the two senshi fled the scene, hugging to the buildings until they were a safe enough distance to change back to their regular selves. By then, Ellie was laughing tiredly.

She had done it. She had finally done it! After over a year, she had finally figured out her Eternal attack.