Sabine knew she should have phoned up Phact, or one of the other senshi she had met in her patrols, but in a way, this patrol was to prove that she COULD do it alone. Phact wouldn’t always be able to help her. Others would not always be able to help her. She had to learn how to do things on her own or she would end up in a situation where she would be on her own and unable to defend herself. She debated whether she could convince her father to enroll her in some sort of self defense class now that she was rooming at Crystal. He might…
But this was something to worry about another time. Right now her focus needed to be on the area around her. It was not the best part of town, she’d come here on purpose. If no youma abounded, then maybe she could find some crime and stop it. Something for the greater good.
She kept her mind open for chaos signatures though. The last one she had encountered had not been… nice.
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“Little girls shouldn’t be out here alone.” Stibnite’s voice came from above. She was on the roof of one of the darker, seen better days buildings and was gazing down at the senshi in red. In her hand, the body of a drug lord she had just...handled...dropped limp as she released him. On the roof, it would be awhile before anyone found him.
Blame her ‘teacher’.
“Otherwise the bogeyman might get you.” Stepping off the roof, Stibnite landed in front of her and rose up to gaze down with a dark, twisted smile on her face. “Or woman.”
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Sabine looked up at the roof, staring at the woman and the… body… that had dropped limp when she let it go. Sabine had never actually seen a dead body before, or at least, not one that she could recall seeing. She took a step back, unsure where to place her hands, she brought them up in front of her, looking at the woman who just landed in front of her.
“I’m not afraid of you,” Sabine said, blatantly lying through her teeth. Still she wasn’t going to back down.
At least this one was fully human as far as she could tell - and not some youma.
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The little girl’s reaction was...priceless.
As her hands came up, Stibnite couldn’t help but laugh. “Oh little girl, that is your first mistake…” She spoke, eyes playfully looking at her.
Stibnite did not lunge out in attack. Instead, she walked forward, closing the distance between the two of them before she reached out a hand and pushed on the child’s arm so show her just how unbalanced she was. “You should be…”
Her hand quickly switched. Grabbing hold of Sabine’s arm below the wrist, she yanked it back, side stepping behind the girl. “Because you walked into my land now…”
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Oh Sabine was afraid, she knew she was in over her head, but her pride would not allow her to back down. As Stibnite had walked over, pushing on her arm and causing her to give ground in an unsteady stumble, she simply stared. The fact she should have already disengaged from the fight was not fully aware to her predicament until Stibnite had a firm grip on her arm and was pulling it back. So the girl did what anyone would do in the situation.
She curled her hands into a claw like shape, turning to lash out at her attacker with it, going right for the face. It was a purely panic driven movement, the force behind it that of a girl who understood that she was in danger and just wanted to get away from her attacker. It did not have the same force the someone lashing out of malice, or with actual intent would have.
As it was, Sabine operated only on instinct and instinct alone. She knew she had to get away.
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Stibnite’s reaction showed how used to reactions she was. Jerking back, the ‘claw’ missed her face but dragged down the front of her clothes. Years of growing up with brothers had given her fast reflexes. Years of not having sisters had made the very act of a cat fight confused her.
The move had Stibnite release the girl’s arm that she held. Moving around the claws, Stibnite stepped back. A smile on her face. “So, you are a cat are you? Well then…”
Stibnite’s stepped to the side and towards her back again, her hand coming up to to punch at her neck. “Down kitty.”
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Nope, Sabine was not about to let Stibnite get around her back again. She pivoted on her foot as Stibnite stepped back and then to the side. Then she did something no trained fighter would probably do, but a young girl who was fighting another woman would.
She charged right at Stibnite.
The punch hit her square in the shoulder instead of the neck, but Sabine’s hand was already moving up to grab at the other woman’s shorter hair, pulling hard with a scream of pain and anger as she brought the other arm to bear and rammed the majority of her forearm into the other woman’s chest.
This was not the first time Sabine had gotten into a cat fight with a Negaverse agent… But at least this one wouldn’t try to shock her with electricity… Or so she hoped.
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“YEOW!” Stibnite called out as the hand of the girl came up and yanked on her short hair. “You little…” The agent hissed out, bringing her knee up to push back on the little witch’s body. It was caught between their bodies but it didn’t stop her from moving her hand back out and going to push back on the senshi’s face.
“What are you...six?” She snapped, trying to shove the girl off her. The actions of this senshi were...weird.
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Sabine hissed at the knee as it dug into her body and her fingers tightened more in Stibnite’s hair, pulling harder… trying to pull the hair OUT of the other woman’s head even as the arm that had tried to go to her opponent's chest lashed out a slap toward the other woman’s face. Glove and all.
Sabine had seen girls get into fights like this at school… Rarely, but it happened. Now she was using every dirty trick she could to do some damage before she was forced to disengage.
She didn’t speak, if anything, she just made high pitched screaming noises with each tug and slap she tried to land on Stibnite.
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“Ow Ow OW!” Stibnite hissed out, the small senshi refusing to let go of her hair. Her hand was was coming up, aiming for the girl’s neck to push her away when the back hand of the senshi’s slap smacked her across the face.
There are few moments of surprise when Stibnite engages in a fight. Leucite had taught her that. Being slapped across the cheek...that was new.
Red eyes wide as Stibnite pulled back her head as much as she could, the agent let out a growl. “Why you little c**t.” She hissed out. This time, she stopped pulling back. Instead, she used the force of the hair pulling to her side allowing it to give her more speed as she went for a headbutt to the senshi’s face.
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Sabine had not expected the headbutt or the other woman’s language. Though it was more the shock of the first that caused her to let go and stumble back in pain as her head felt like it had just been bounced off a brick wall. It was not her first head injury, but it hurt more than any of her previous.
She slowed to a stop with a small whimper, slowly trying to raise her head to look at Stibnite and wincing from her newly spawned headache. Still she was able to focus on Stibs for now.
Which meant a controlled retreat as she quickly started to backpedal for room.
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With one of her eyes closed, and a clear red spot from where her forehead had smacked into the other females, Stibnite hissed slightly as she tried to shake off the pain.
“Oh you don’t get that luxury.” Stibnite snapped out, her hands reaching out again for the girl. “I might have been nice and let you go before. But now…”
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As the hands reached out for her, Sabine slapped at them, clawing with her gloved hands and lashing out at her attacker. She had managed some space, but it was obviously not enough. Her head was pounding from the headache from what no doubt was her brain having rattled around in her skull.
She could feel the creeping panic she had felt before with the other female agent she had faced… What she now had come to learn was a half-youma. This agent, at least from as best she could tell, was human.
Well… she wasn’t a youma, anyway.
Still, she fought like a cornered cat, lashing out with curled fingers and batting hard at her opponent. She kept trying to retreat, trying to keep just out of reach.
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“Hold still you mangy…” Stibnite snapped, her mouth coming up in an almost growl. What was this girl thinking? Her actions were...basically flailing at its worst.
But Stibnite was quick to realize one thing: she was not going to be able to get her hands on the senshi if the girl kept moving.
If not her hands, well then…
With another groan, Stibnite pulled back her arms. Just as quickly, she began to spin to one side, her leg coming up, swinging behind her towards the senshi’s body.
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Sabine was basically thrashing and flailing. It was all she had left to defend herself, so when the kick came barreling in from the side she winced as she felt it strike her hard in the ribs, causing her to stumble sideways and spin slightly. Her hand moved to her side with a hiss.
That was definitely going to bruise.
She tried to stumble backward, but found herself without anywhere to go, her back pressing against the wall of a nearby building as she hissed at the pain in her side.
She was stuck between a crazy woman… and a hard place.
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A flash of a dark, twisted smile came across Stibnite’s face as she watched the woman push against the cold wall. Rebalancing herself from the blow, the agent drew back her fist once more.
“Say Good Night little rat.” The agent hissed and launched forward with a heavy blow aimed directly at Sabine’s head.
The blow never came.
Stibnite’s fist met stone instead of flesh and the look on her face was one of pain. Something hard had hit her in the back of the head causing her to lean forward before dropping to her hands and knees.
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The drop let the second senshi see the first. Behind the hooded agent, Super Sailor Phact stood, holding what appeared to be a PVC pipe she had just used as a bat. She was gazing down with red eyes at the groaning agent before they picked back up and caught sight of her fledgling.
“Sabine!” Phact called out, the pipe falling from her hands as she stepped over the agent and put herself in the space between the two women. One hand coming to rest on each of Sabine’s shoulder’s, she gazed into the girl’s eyes. “Let’s get you out of here…”
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Phact did not need to tell Sabine twice. Tears were already starting to fill Sabine’s eyes and she quickly… well as quickly as she could between the headache and the bruised ribs, placed her hands on each of Phact’s.
“I’m sorry…” She managed to sniffle. She didn’t say more than that however, as she tried to find better footing and move away from the wall toward the nearest escape route.
She did her best to dance around Stibnite, not wanting to be anywhere near the woman if she tried to get up and attack them again.
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“Don’t be…” Phact’s words were like the sound of a cooing dove: soft and warming. Shifting around her little fledgling, the super senshi of doves gazed down at the agent that was clearly doubled over in pain. She was still awake which told the senshi either she didn’t hit the woman hard enough or the woman was stronger than she looked.
It was an answer she didn’t want to find out.
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“Weak…” Stibnite hissed out through the pain. She was gazing out the ground but her eyes were closed as she tried to subdue the feeling of her head splitting open.
The appearance of the second senshi...a super no less….meant this was over. She could possibly take on two basic levels but the super…
“Having to be recused. Unable to stand on your own two feet...pathetic. None of you deserve the power you have…”
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“Don’t listen to her Sabine…” Phact cooed again, guiding the young girl out. “We are getting out of here.”
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She’s right though… Were the words that Sabine wanted to say, but did not have the heart to. Instead, she turned her gaze from the down woman in her shame, and she moved quickly away from the scene, moving with Phact. She knew the woman had faith in her, and that alone was somewhat a consolation but…
She was weak. Unable to hold her own…
This… would need to be remedied.
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Torvil
