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It'd occurred to Vanadis sometime after the third lap around the park that she actually had a scanner for this kind of work and she didn't actually have to rely on her own eye-sight for picking out baddies. She felt a bit foolish. Truthfully she didn't go looking for Chaos agents very often; in her experience, Chaos encounters just sort of... happened.

But branching out was a good thing, right? And it was about time she started to take a more active role in this senshi thing! Instead of just letting the baddies ambush her, why not take the fight to them for once? Which was exactly why the red-head had been scouring the city in a random pattern, trying to pick up any power signatures she could on her cellphone scanner.

Two hours later, she'd pretty much given up hope. Did every Negaverser just decide to have a movie marathon tonight or something? There were absolutely no-one about; well, that wasn't entirely true - she had picked up a few Chaos signatures, but each one had been significantly larger than what she felt she could take on by herself. She wanted to be pro-active, not land in the hospital.

And then, luck struck. The scanner finally picked up a signature that seemed, well, fairly innocuous compared to the other ones she'd seen tonight. Definitely less likely to kick her a**, she figured.

So really, what else was there to do but go for it? That in mind, Vanadis tracked the signature to its source and, hoping for the element of surprise, jumped out from behind the corner separating herself and the Negaverser.

And then promptly floundered. She ought to attack now, right? But it seemed kind of wrong to just jump on someone like that, when the other person probably hadn't even seen her coming. And who knew, maybe this person wasn't actually aggressive! They could be a prime candidate for purification, and if she smashed a fist into their face they might change their mind entirely and stay on the side of Chaos!

Horrid scenarios of how she could botch this running through her mind, Vanadis stopped biting her lip long enough to actually speak to the Negaverser: "Um, hello! You, er, you w-wouldn't happen to want to change side or anything? Or be a pacifist?" Her voice was a bit hopeful. Just in case!

Oh great, she'd finally managed to find an energy signature she thought she could take on by herself, and what did she get? The one with freakish strength, that was what. Vanadis had been in a fair few battles by this point, but she'd yet to actually be thrown anywhere - generally, being as tall as she was, it was a bit hard to accomplish. Really, being 6 feet 3 inches tall stopped most people from even trying.

But this Negaverser had definitely managed it, the redhead thought (slightly woozily) where she was sprawled against the tree roots. And boy, had it ever hurt - although she was new to this whole 'colliding with trees'-business, Vanadis now had a very good grasp on the pain it brought. With her luck, the left side of her body would be black and blue by the time tomorrow rolled around. At least it wasn't summer anymore, and she could probably get away with a longsleeved blouse for tomorrow's classes. Less questions about hypothetical, abusive boyfriends that way.

Getting to her feet with a slight groan, she glared at the Negaverser as best she could. "I didn't exactly pick to m-mess with you, you know." Okay, fine, so she'd thought of ambushing the girl, but only for a few seconds! She'd never actually have gone through with it, because hitting someone first for no good reason just wasn't a very nice thing to do, in Vanadis' mind.

Stepping away from the tree roots (they were practically death traps, jutting out of the ground as they were) and sliding into her best defensive stance, the redhead waited for what the baddie would do next. Her reflexes had gotten a lot better since she started capoeira classes, and she was pretty confident she would at least be able to see the next attack coming in time to be able to react to it, if nothing else.