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Cuddle Clouds Factory had been closed for nearly 14 years and barely remembered by most children. For adults, the factory had been a headliner for a brief amount of time for it's popular series of toys, the Bumble Buddies, a series of cute animal-ish creatures of various colors and scents from a planet that prided itself on various safety rules. When it came out that it's hot selling Shim-bim, the Cross Walk Buddy and his friend Dom-jom, the Wash Hands Buddy had both been made poorly and from unsafe material that caused several children to go to the hospital, the entire stock for the company had plummeted and closed shortly after. Now it was nothing more than one of the many run-down buildings that Destiny City had tucked, surrounded by weed-destroyed parking lots. It was here, past the smiling, rusted picture of grinning animalish creatures that once welcomed visitors, that the flea had entered. Slipping past the wire mesh fencing and between the once-padlocked doors.

The energy signature upon approaching was one that both confirmed suspicion and was familiar to any chibi who went on patrols and encountered such an aura. Three blips on the radar and a whole lot of pressure of Negaverse energy, not to mention something otherwise unsettling, all pulsed from the factory that loomed over the chibis and guardian cats as they approached.

Hug-bell's eyes were wide as she slowed when they came to a creepy factory being stopped by a fence. There was a frown, as she looked around, she could feel the negaverse agents and it was rather unsettling around here.

Hug-bell looked at ********* as she asked Hygiea or Egeria to call for backup. The child frowned for a second before nodding when ********* said they needed to get around or over the fence. She started looking, "There has to be a way..."

She glanced around, looking curiously. Before looking up at how high the fence was, and looking around. "I wonder if we can jump it or if they have a door..."

Hygiea was honestly rather ignorant when it came to registering or even sometimes sensing power signatures - both good or bad - but when it came to this abandoned factory, it was really hard to miss the evil aura it gave off. Hygiea made a face at it. "Uck..." It at least was waking her up more than sitting and staring at a bug, that and a good run aided in rubbing the sleep from her eyes.

The orange clad senshi rested a hand on her hip as she finally pulled out her phone. She was in the same mindset as HugBell on this, not really thinking it needed to be done when there were plenty of kids here already - granted, yes they were kids but why did that matter? They were awesome and could totally do this. But, she sent a message to a few of the Asteroids, expecting Egeria to alert the rest. "I told them to be on alert if we really need them, I think we can totally take this on." Hygiea grinned.

And that grin widened with Ixion's challenge. "Pfft, heights smeights ~" Hygiea childishly stook her tongue out at the boy as she made her way towards the fence, gripping the criss-crossing wires with her gloved fingers. She could totally make it over this fence, totally!

Her climb wasn't as fluid and quick as the senshi of coal's but in the least, it wasn't troublesome. Nor was her descent back to the ground. She had let her feet find a few of the holes in the fence before she hopped herself down - jumping from the top was probably not the best of ideas to the girl at the moment, but she did what she could. "Aa!" She exclaimed, her arms in the air at her dismount even though there was a little stumble. "Not too bad."

Hug-bell watched the other two as they crossed, climbing over, before glancing towards Hypnos. "I don't think we do, though there might be a hole to crawl through?" She suggested as she looked at ********* do you want a ride?" She looked at Zirconia, as she pulled her hood down, "I think I might can carry you over, if you want as well." She frowned though Zirconia might be a big harder to move along if she was going to try to jump over the fence.

"I might have to try to carry one of you over at a time though." The butter yellow eyes were judging her target. She looked at *********, "I should be able to jump over correct?"

The tailless feline of the pair glanced to Hugbell as she politely offered to supply the felines a ride. "I would not mind that at all... though maybe we should try to find another way in. We don't know what we are going up against, so using up the energy to jump a fence... might not be the best idea."

The moment that Ixion even moved the mesh slightly, a pair of triangular ears perked up. "Oh... looks like someone solved our..."

And then Zirconia unleashed her hissy-display. ********* couldn't help but shake her head slightly. Now wasn't the time to be acting like this. The smaller of the cats approached the girl who had more or less been attacked.

"Hypnos... it is probably better to ask next time rather than try moving a cat." There was a pause before the feline then offered "Come now, sweetie! Do you think you can spare a cat a ride?"

The double doors were used as a shipping entrance to allow mid-sized trucks and forklifts a path inside and out. The doors had long since had their padlock broken, the chains kicked to the side, and no doubt had been a favorite spot for curious teenagers with nothing better to do than to go urban exploring. Of course once they entered inside, they lost interest and went away, curiosity fed but not very satisfied. The inside was like any forgotten factory that, left alone for years due to high price costs yet far too expensive to demolish, was left rotting with it's collection of discarded boxes, wooden palette, and broken glass bottles. Among this, that filled this empty space, selected just for this reason, was that the windows were mainly all intact and kept the place dry and dark. The smell of rust and metal, of dust and all things industrial lingered in the air, but more thick than all of this was the the pressure of presence.

A dark presence.

And then, upon their arrival, was the noise. At first the scampering and skittering of small limbs, and the the faint glow of one of the fleas darting this way. And then, the dark shapes moving. A dot of blue here. A dot of blue here. More and more of these little bugs that Hugbell presented to them before.

But just as the more experienced Chibis noticed the presence of the Negaverse, the Negaverse noticed the chibis.

Wolframite had chose this place for the solid scaffolding, closed off and forgotten location, and the relative condition and darkness of the place. He did not, however, like factories. It rubbed against some sensitive nerves, but he had an important mission here and knew that his job, the necessity of this place, was above his own comfort. That did not mean he wanted to entertain. The pricks of energy he felt made him think of a low-grade senshi. Starter. Rookies. Something to easily bash against the wall and maybe give this place a nice paint job of red, but when he walked down the scaffolding to the other room, heels clacking on the metal, he saw the collection of small children by the open entrance.

"Who let kindergarten out early?" He called out, voice echoing down to them. He automatically caught Hugbell in hsi line of sight with her un-mistakeable yellow, bear hoodie. However, he did not think there were this many children senshi about and his narrow gaze to all of them showed he wasn't pleased about it either. "And here I thought I was going to face a real threat. I think digging your graves will take more effort than wiping you out." Kids. He couldn't believe that the senshi had this many little kids fighting for them. It was sad, but it also pissed him off.