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Kitty, at least, could take care of herself -- this alleyway had been her choice because of the fire escapes, the piles of trash, the tall dumpsters. Dumb children had thought they could keep up with a proud amazonian hunter; well. Laoise had shown them. The youngsters had stepped into the alleyway and kitty had shot up out of reach, bouncing from one point to the next, trash can to dumpster to ledge until she was halfway up the fire escape.

There, she'd paused to smile smugly down at them, to lick one paw, and had frozen at the sight of the youma.

It was her job to protect, to some degree. Lee was aware of that. More importantly, though, she lacked the fundamental awareness that she was just a cat, that she couldn't take on monsters single-handedly. It meant that the beast appeared and she found herself bouncing her way back down, nimbly landing on top of the dumpster, her claws barely making a sound against it, and then to the floor, readying the one-shot laser she knew was her only weapon.

She drew in a deep breath, prepared to fire -- and drew up short.

A senshi. Yellow-green eyes narrowed and she slunk back a step, still prepared, but...well. She'd see what he could do, first.

As far as Laoise was concerned, this wasn't bad one bit. Or, well, wasn't terrible anyway. Okay, maybe it wasn't so great. Aegir over-extended a bit, focused too much on style, and the line was cringe worthy. But at least he was moving, and the fact that he'd leapt in instead of standing back meant that he was better than some other senshi she didn't really want to think about right now.

The Pollinator [what halfwitted officer came up with that one?] reeled from the kick to the head, and Laoise danced around the edges to get a better view, eyes narrowed and a rumble building in her throat, hopelessly amused.

As Aegir stood again, she'd open his mouth. "Why aren't you attacking it in earnest?"

The Pollinator laughed, a creepy, high-pitched sound that grated on Aegir's nerves like nails on a chalkboard. It was readying another set of tentacles, pulled from the masses that held up those weird spiked hammers, for the attack, to keep both Senshi and Mauvian on their respective toes. "In case you haven't noticed, fur-face, this isn't exactly a cake-walk!" The blond ducked the first of the new tentacles and threw himself into a forward roll, regaining his feet just in time to block the pair that had been snaking towards the cat. Thorny vines wound their way around one of the youth's fore-arms, digging through the glove materials and into the vulnerable flesh below; Sailor Aegir grit his teeth and narrowed his eyes, pulling back against the Pollinator's grasp for all he was worth.

"I'm more of a melee fighter, with back-up capabilities, y'know?" Without giving too much detail, he was trying to let Laoise know why he held back with his magic; at the right moment, it could snap a neck...but he'd have to figure out some way to neutralize some of it's tentacles first! To the giggling, wickedly undulating youma, the blond smirked, "You're gonna wish you stayed in whatever hole you crawled outta, when I'm through with you!"

Aegir suddenly changed tactics, instead running straight for the creature and it's petal-rimmed, ever-sucking mouth; the Pollinator - being a rather low-level sort of youma - was unprepared for this and took precious moments being confused. Moments that the curly-haired blond used to get in close, to twist his fingers into the base of one vine-laden arm and do a flip-and-twist over it's spiked head, ripping and tearing the limb off the creature even as it was still swinging the other hammer and several tentacles around to smash/maim where he had previously been. Not waiting for the youma to turn, he lept right back in with a kick to the side of it's ugly head, just skirting the spikes.

As the Pollenator went crashing into one of the bricked alley walls, it managed to swing the remaining spiked hammer so that it struck Sailor Aegir's left side and hip as he landed; the force sent him spinning him round like a shiny-pale top, costume and skin shredded, blood and fabric pieces dropping down around the temporarily prone senshi. "Ung...that...friggin'...hurt!" He tried pushing himself up from the filthy alleyway, but the pain from his torn flesh put stars and white spots in his field of vision; Colin could hear brick-bits and mortar-debris hitting the ground as the youma steadily extracted itself from the wall. It wouldn't take long before it was free - he had to get up!

Gritting his teeth once more, the long-legged Menshi pushed himself from the muck; long years of training, of dancing even when injured, helped him push past the pain that threatened to blacken his vision and ignore the distressing feel of blood running down half his body. "Guess it's that time..." he muttered almost under his breath, then straightened as much as he could while calling up his innate magic, the power and support of the Tranquil Seas. With moment stunted only slightly by wounds wrought, his body performed the 'dance' that brought the attack forth:

"Aegir Golden Hush!"

Bright light, blinding and golden, washed over the alley-way; strands of it attaching to the Pollenator, looping around it's throat tightly, pinning the remaining arm to the sharp planes of it's body temporarily. Aegir held a thick rope of golden energy after the light faded, his expression hard; the youma tried to shriek at him but no sound came forth. "Now be Silent, forever more, abomination!" He hauled back on the golden rope, pulling until the creature was scrabbling to pull it loose and a grey, wispy energy was leaking from the loop around it's throat.