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Loafed with his massive fluffy self parked on the sun-warmed bricks that made up some fancy person's privacy wall, Tiberius was - at a glance - just another one of your every-day, garden variety felines that roamed Destiny City. Like any place, there were owned cats roaming outside, as well as strays, and he looked to be one of the former thanks to the meticulous grooming he received - and the odd collar he wore around his neck that generally brought Tron: Legacy to people's minds.

The star shaped marking on his forehead, his ability to talk (among other things), and the bracers he often wore (but were currently out of sight) marked him as something other. As a Mauvian - an alien - rather than your typical Felis catus. Not that anyone but a senshi, knight, or negaverse officer would have known these things.

As was his job, Tibs was out and about to hunt baby senshis - any senshi, really - to get whatever he could from them. His ears swiveled about as he felt the various auras present; Generally,Order was bright and tasted like spoiled milk, Chaos was more of a warm pressure and tasted smokey, and those DMC folks...well, he wasn't sure yet! He'd not met any.

But nearby, there was an order aura - weak, so low in rank but bright and biting - was it going to come his way? Would the person fall for his act? Could he get anything out of the senshi? Time will tell, now won't it? Let's go see... With a huff, the massive Mauvian de-loafed, stretched, and then slowly jogged towards the aura, his body shape such that each 'step' taken set his middle to swaying left and right far more than one might have expected. Kind of like a basketball covered in fur that rolled around between hip and shoulders.

"Heeere, senshi senshi senshi~" Tiberius quietly sing-songed, not nearly close enough that anyone would hear him.

It wasn't a maniac with a crowbar or gun that jumped out to mug Alya, but a big fluffy cat with a friendly look to it. And he didn't jump out so much as perch near a wall that Alya was walking by so that he could reach out a paw.

Tiberius's ears flicked back and forth as he called to the blond, "Psst. Hey! Senshi -- yeah, you. C'mere!"

He was taking a bit of a risk, he didn't know if this senshi knew much about Mauvians at all - obviously he'd been awakened by one, but what more did he know? Did he know there were Nega-Mauvians? How experienced was he? And more importantly, would Tibs be able to get something out of the blond before abandoning him?

"I'm--" Don't give your actual name, that's stupid-- "--Captain. My person's really into Science Fiction, before you ask."

"Yeah, it's not the greatest, but whatcha gonna do?" Tiberius' tail swished in a pleased manner; the senshi had come over nice and you please...not only that, but the kid had crouched - which said he was inexperienced as hell and didn't know better than to trust strange talking cats.

Granted, Tiberius didn't exactly scream 'I WORK FOR THE NEGAVERSE!!!' or 'IM GOING TO FLEECE YOU GOOD' in appearance, so Alya would get a few small points credited him due to that.

"Well, you see...I'm a Mauvian, obviously. And I felt your aura when you walked by...feels like you might be ready for an upgrade." Tiberius licked his chops a bit, mentally calculating just how far he could take this before the kid wised up. "I mean, that's what we do. Awaken and upgrade senshi."

"By the way kid, what's your name?"

Alya, okay. kinda like that Cave Bear chick from the book...blond too. I can remember that. Tiberius was quite pleased as it seemed that the blond senshi was going along with his plan...at least, until the little s**t tried to tell him that he didn't need an upgrade because he was 'perfect the way I am'.

"Alya, I don't make the rules, y'know? I just feel it, you're due an upgrade. I mean, if you don't want to be better able to fight the good fight, that's up to you." Tiberius stretched out his forepaws, showing off the ridiculous amount of floof between the digits like nothing doing. His previous thought of using an upgrade to get goods in exchange had to be changed on the fly - Alya didn't want an upgrade - granted, he couldn't really have given him one, but still - so that wasn't gonna work.

"Say, would you mind doing me a favor anyway? I kinda need to ping a senshi friend of mine...can I borrow your phone?"

Are you shitting me!? Is this guy simple? Damn, senshi magic standards have dropped like the opponent in a Tyson fight. Trying his level best to not sweep his ears back or lash his tail with irritation at how utterly obtuse the blond senshi before him was, Tiberius gently corrected Alya.

"Your senshi phone, you know...the one a Mauvian gave you?" Change placed at his feet was mostly ignored, though the finger that came close and touched his toefluffs was not ignored. Tiberius turned his paw so that he could - very gently - close his paw some as though welcoming Alya's attentions.

And really, as obnoxious as the oblivious senshi might be, he was a person and Negaverse or not, Tiberius loved people. It wasn't an act to interact that way. So even though Tibs was planning to screw Alya over, they were having a nice little moment together.

Tiberius' quick wit was working over time - this encounter had not gone the way he'd planned at all - and he didn't know precisely what he'd do when the senshi coughed up his phone. Do I actually know any white moon idiots? Damn, this has not worked well for me...

And yet, he wasn't trying to get away because Alya was petting him.

Producing the phone caused Tiberius to close his eyes momentarily to buy time, a rumbling purr starting up because the pets were quite nice and also because folks tended to get stupider around purring cats.

"Good point, uh..could you send a message for me? Just tell uh..." Wait, hadn't Bob mentioned lemons? What the hell was his name? "Aue his cat's lookin' for him, would you?" It was so nice being petted, but since he wasn't going to get what he wanted from this boy, it was time to think up another ending to this story.

He should have just said so, really. Tiberius could have walked him through the process since, like all Mauvians, he was well attuned to technology of any sort. More so than most, actually, as the massively fluffy alien feline actually loved working with tech and did his best to inundate himself with such things the way regular, garden variety cats did sleeping and sunning.

Alya fiddled with his senshi phone for some time, clearly uncertain what he was doing, and Tiberius felt a stab of pity for the kid. Alya was treating his phone as though it were some sort of incendiary device, ready to explode at any moment in his hands. "You're really not used to your phone, are you kid? It's A-U-E, I think." As the petting was extremely pleasant, he decided to push his luck further - if he could get some time with the phone while Alya was distracted, maybe he could get some juicy info? Or put a virus in the works?

"Okay, this isn't working. How about you sit down and I'll sit in your lap and you can hold your phone while I fiddle with it?" To prove that he was innocent and sweet and just wanted some cuddle time while the senshi was helping him out, Tiberius rubbed his head against Alya's hands and did a full-body slide after, so the kid would get to feel allllll the thick, wonderful fluff.

Considering how little the guy knew about being a senshi, Mauvians, and the like...it wasn't really that far fetched that he'd not have many senshi friends. When Alya took the bait and pulled Tiberius into his lap, the cat looked smug, if the senshi hadn't been so distracted with petting him, he might have seen the reflection of the smug Mauvian on the phone's screen.

He's a nice kid, good at giving pets. Too trusting. And what would I say to Aue anyway? He's Bob's mark, not mine. The plans that Tiberius had intended putting into action were swiftly melting aside as he was curled in the senshi's lap. "My person's very fastidious. I get daily grooming and the best food." How did he know so much about senshi phones? Good question.

"Mauvian's are technophiles, usually. We made your phones in the first place." Distracted, Tibierus used one fluffy paw to poke at the phone. "Primer, database, empty contacts...you really don't have many senshi friends, do you?" There was a lot he wanted to do with the phone, like take it back to the Negaverse and study it - but that wasn't possible. He knew that while he could have run off with the phone it likely would disappear back to the senshi after he went far enough with it. That's how this magical s**t worked, after all.

"So this Aue guy isn't friendly but he's uh, good in a fight. Smart, too." At least, Tiberius assumed he was, since Bob spoke decently of him. Tiberius was slowly poking a message to said senshi of lemons, enjoying being coddled the whole while. "It's dangerous to be on your own, Alya. You never know who or what you might run into..." Like a Negacat, or a General. You'd get eaten alive kid. Damn. I almost feel bad for you.