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She was doing it!

Or at least, she knew she was supposed to be doing it.

After the run-in with the giant monster bird and meeting her new "group" of friends, Elara felt the weight of guilt hanging on her shoulders that she'd been the newbie of the group, the girl who hadn't been able to hold her ground like the older, more experienced senshi had.

So, determined to prove she too could be a useful member of their band of lost boys, Sophie set aside her studies for the evening and took to the rooftops as Elara, making her way around the downtown area....


.... and praying, ever so quietly, that she wouldn't run into any big monsters.

One could only handle so much on their own.

Elara's boots paused as she heard some chattering in the distance. The voices drew her a few blocks down as an odd, uncomfortable feeling came over her like an ugly, suffocating shroud for a moment and the senshi frowned and she worked to collect herself.

Something.... something wasn't quite right.

As she drew close to the ledge to stare down at the voices, both hands went flying up to her mouth as she held back a curt, sharp gasp. Amethyst eyes widened as she watched some sort of... sort of ghost just pass through the larger man of the group, swooping through as if he was trying to possess him.

The group didn't seem to notice the sudden attack (was it an attack? What the heck was it?) and the spook fled, ascending upwards, upwards, up... and right towards a shadowy figure atop a nearby building.

Her stomach began to churn as the ominous feeling grew. This wasn't good. This looked like one of those Nega baddies and one of their pet monsters that some of her new companions had told her about.

She couldn't let them get away!

Taking a deep breath, shoes clicked against the concrete of the rooftop as she jumped her way towards the enemy.

"Stop right there! I'm not going to let you get away with this!!!!"

The cursing had Elara flinching for a moment, the senshi quickly trying to recover herself against the harsh words of the obvious bad guy standing out in front of her.

Without hesitating (because she couldn't let this baddie get away with... with whatever they were doing!!!), her hands shot up at the same time and she hollered out, "Slime Squirt!"

Green slime appeared out of nowhere and shot forward, Elara silently praying that her aim would stay true. With her lack of practice out in the field (testing her attacks on immobile objects was a lot easier than on people), she could only hope that at least some of the goo would latch on to the wicked woman.

She was so caught up in the excitement of actually hitting another human being with her attack, Elara hadn't calculated that the opposing senshi would be attacking her back quite so soon.

Before she could defend herself, the angry cussing girl went right for her, elbow extended out to make contact with Elara's soft, squishy frame. Hands splayed themselves out to try to push back the other woman but the point of her elbow made a direct hit and the senshi of slime let out a soft oofth! as the wind was knocked from her lungs.

Stumbling backwards, she barely managed to keep herself from tripping over her own heels as she buckled forward. Outstretched hands moved in to protect her torso as she wheezed in pain.

That...that was definitely going to leave a bruise of some kind.

"I didn't even hurt you, you know!!"

A weak defense, but the best one she could think up on the fly.

Cradling her stomach, she scowled at the other woman, eyes narrowed and lip curled. Elara wasn't born with a very intimidating appearance but she sure as heck did her darndest to make it work. (It didn't).

At the initial question, she found herself growing huffy. Wasn't it obvious what she was doing? She was stopping evil from doing... evil things!!!!

"What would happen? Maybe that you would... that you would stop sending scary spooky things after people and messing with them! I saw what you did to that guy down there!!"

One hand gestured down towards the area where she'd seen the creepy spook swoop down and through the man. While she didn't know exactly what the dark senshi had done, she knew it couldn't have been good.

Ears burned at the implication that she wasn't going to keep people safe. Well... she might have stunk at that but at least she distracted the girl from messing with more of those guys! In the end... what else could she do?

"Just... Just go away and this can all end here!!"

The other senshi was clearly not going anywhere, leaving Elara practically shaking in her cute little purple boots as she watched the girl get more aggressive as she argued back at her.

As her hands rose and her body seemed to transition into a fighting pose, Elara's fight or flight instinct kicked in and she realized one thing: she had to get the hell out of there and fast.

Feet had her skittering backwards but the enemy was closing in. One fatal slip up and she was stumbling backwards, falling to the ground just as the senshi's arm pulled back for a punch - directly at her! With a squeak, she was rolling away, just in time to hear the thundering crunch as the fist hit the concrete, leaving horrifying cracks in its wake.

And that had almost been her under that fist!!!!

Elara didn't need to see anything else to know she was up against someone way out of her league. With a panicked cry, she scrambled up to her feet and immediately began to take off in the other direction, running as fast as her skinny legs could take her as amethyst eyes refused to glance back and see if she was being followed.

This had been a horrible, horrible mistake!