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Somehow, Lieutenant Tetrahedrite had found himself out on the town again, following the directions of a tiny kitten holding onto his shoulder with tiny claws. The Mauvian had some kind of machine he wanted to test, and Chara, the Eternal he somehow found himself having to listen to, had said something to the effect of, "I don't want whatever it is exploding in my face, you watch him."


"Over there looks good!" Chip chirped right in Tetra's ear. lifting a paw, to indicate what appeared to be a fenced vacant lot. Not exactly subtle.

"Alright," Tetra replied, and made his way there. Chip hopped down immediately, and started laying out bits of...truthfully, Tetra had no idea what they were... but they were getting arranged in a rough circle.

He considered asking what it was, but decided it was probably better not to.



Chip busied himself for a while with assembling his Senshi Fascinator. He'd had an idea for how to trap people for...questioning or whatever... a couple days ago, and spent a while making plans. It came together as a somewhat ridiculous looking 3' pillar of pipes and gears, with a little dish at the top. Some glowing bits here and there pulsed slowly, until he planted his paws on a switch, and they all glowed solidly magenta.

At the same time, his mau-aura-stealth stopped working, and the machine made a strange pulse, like a powered person's energy signature. With luck, it would draw someone strong over!

Though, most of what it did was to cause the lieutenant with him to declare, "What the hell was that?" It was an odd sensation, like cold water poured over the aura-sense.

"Science!" Chip declared happily, and went back to Tetra. "Now pick me up, and let's see Science in action!"

Tetra picked up the kitten with a sour look, and let the little fuzzball occupy his shoulder again.

It didn't actually spread very far, but it might accomplish attracting someone.

"Ooh~" Chip intoned cheerfully, as he adopted a thoughtful expression. "It knocked him over? Guess that explains why it popped the capacitors...isn't that cool?"

"Yes, very," Tetra replied flatly as he squinted up at the boy on the roof. Definitely sounded like a kid. "Why don't you come down here, and I can show you what it was?"

It wasn't the objective, but bagging a senshi would be very useful... Shame his 'weapon' was so worthless. He didn't even bother pulling it out, though he did take a few steps toward the building with a senshi on top.

"You came to me," Tetra replied, slapping a shingle out of the air before it hit him. At the same time, Chip used a mauvian laser to blast one away from him.

"Rude!" the little cat declared, and scooted around behind his machine.

After a brief look back to make sure his little charge would be alright, Tetra took one mighty leap up the building directly at the senshi. "So let's do this!" he declared, a fist raised.

"Not specifically," Tetra allowed. "It would be much better for everyone if you just came along quietly." He smacked another shingle out of the air, and one also winged him though he didn't react to it, instead continued to go after the Senshi.

He couldn't stray too far from Chip, especially after that little "show" he put on a couple minutes ago, but maybe he'd get lucky. Either way, he kept pace and tried to snag the boy's weird wing bow.

The senshis always seemed to have such conveniently grabbable things here and there, no reason to not take advantage.


Meanwhile, Chip was happily pulling apart pieces and inspecting what had shorted out and gone off too strongly. That there was danger nearby meant little to him. So what if he'd already had something thrown at him? He'd be fiiine~

It came off! Inconvenient, but sensible. Tetra discarded the thing without a second thought, and turned to follow his quarry...who was heading back. Not ideal.


"No you don't," he breathed, and charged once more. This was proving mildly annoying to the lieutenant.


The sounds of someone approaching broke his concentration, and he turned to see a senshi--not one of his!-- bounding right toward him. "Oh, want to play~?" He cooed...and then made a metal wingnut pop out of his magic pocket, followed immediately by him batting it with his paw, slinging at the boy.

That was his distraction to duck way...hopefully he aimed well.

Not good Tetra thought, as the tiny cat dangled from the senshi's grasp.

"Unhand me, you fiend!" Chip declared, flailing his paws uselessly. "Look me in the eye and we'll see how you like it then!"

Tetra landed on the ground again nearby, and held a hand up placatingly. "Alright, fine, kid. You win," he said, and sighed. "Put down the cat, and I'll let you go on your way.


Chip's flailing paused a moment. "Yeah! Put me down!"

Chip flailed around again. "It was supposed to be a light tickle! I'm still working out the kinks!" Which was true, although it was also true that he was thinking this wasn't the best route. Just something to keep in mind for future.

Tetra sighed. "Sorry, kid, that's not gonna work. Look, I'll stand right here," he took a step back, and crossed his arms. "And wait. You set the cat down, and you can go your merry way." He shrugged. "You've got no reason to trust me. I get that. I've no reason to trust you, either, remember."

Reluctantly, Tetra took a few more steps back. Ten. "Now put him down," the lieutenant commanded. "And go away."

Chip, for his part, decided that in his position, clawing wasn't the best plan, although he was tensed up and ready to bite, slash, or tail-distract if the need arouse. And he was glaring. "I am not a liar!" he declared, "You're a mean senshi!"

True, it wasn't the kid's fault this was going on, but that didn't stop Chip from declaring that.