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Anser blew on her finger as if blowing the smoke away.

Youma. Typical. The monsters always thought they could beat her. As it turned out, they were always wrong. She looked behind herself dismissively where the youma had been, rolled her eyes, and headed forward to seek out the next aura in her patrol.

It came to some surprise when it wasn't a chaotic aura she sensed, but an order one. Brought a bit of a smile to her face, too; Cybele was a super, after all, and perhaps she had somehow managed to cross Cybele's path by sheer luck. Seemed unlikely, but she had also learned over the years that an ally was something worth having, at least, so she pursued it, expecting someone she could team up with or speak with but perhaps hoping for a friend.

While the person she saw was not a prior friend, he did seem at least passingly familiar; she assumed he had been at some of the recent events she had been pulled into.

And by events she meant battles--

"Hey!" Anser called out, lifting an arm and waving. "Want someone to patrol with?"

Anser appreciated the enthusiastic response, nearly skipping over to break the distance.

In all honesty, over the years, she had grown to enjoy the team-ups. Sometimes, magic could combine in interesting ways. Sometimes, she made great new friends. And every ally against Chaos was another ally she was glad to have.

And another one she could keep an eye on.

Cybele's forced corruption still left her uneasy and bothered.

"Porcupines!" Another animal-based senshi, on top of that! Anser's eyes lit up. "Anser. Of Geese, actually." She held out her hand, hoping that she wasn't in the wrong for offering a handshake. (Those aliens, for one, didn't seem to like contact quite as much.) "I actually don't meet a whole lot of animal senshi. Most of us seem to be more abstract concepts. Like the Hunt?" Cybele. "Or Plasma?" Her brother.

Anser let out a little snicker at that. To be honest, she couldn't blame him. She could understand where some of the more abstract powers came from, could understand for example how speed and faster reflexes related to being able to Hunt better, but she liked her sphere of geese.

There wasn't really much questioning how geese worked.

"Oh, exploding sounds super useful!" Well, so long as it didn't hurt him. She remembered that Encke's magic used to hurt him. "As do the quills. I like those direct offensive abilities. Mine's kinda adjacent to that? It summons ethereal geese that honk in your face and then you're faster, have better reflexes, and can punch faster."

She smirked.

"Many a Nega was not expecting that."

"It is!" To be honest, the first time she realized what her power did and actually got to execute it in front of someone was amazing. At the time, the ethereal animals she produced were just goslings - now she had whole geese - but the geese honking always threw people off which gave her the perfect opportunity to swoop in and strike. "No one's ever really expecting it, which means that I can just come in and," Anser mimed the motion of a punch to the face.

The compliment to her outfit, especially considering recent glowing changes, brought an even bigger grin to her face.

"Thank you! Has all that grace of the goose, right?" She swirled around to display this in full, black and lavender pieces throughout. "I like your fit too! Can really see that porcupine influence in that puff you got there."

Honestly, they really didn't. There just seemed to be a general assumption that most senshi magic was non-offensive, and it only delighted her further when she was able to show that even though she had a buff, she was able to use it in ways that were extremely offensive. No one ever really expected her coming. She imagined that no one really ever expected a bunch of quills coming at them, either.

"I have to wonder too," Anser tapped her chin, "and I've been thinking about it. I mean, I think I have the goose chase down. Hope I get something good. Like maybe a more threatening goose chase." She shifted on her feet and moved to crack her knuckles.

Or, really, anything that let her kick their asses--

"It is cute! Soft-," he mentioned the poof, and he mentioned that he enjoyed petting it, and now she was curious, and now she was eyeballing it-, "do you mind? Can I poke it?"

She admittedly hadn't seen many outfits with those sorts of embellishments.

He made the joke.

Luckily for Monoceros, the person to who he said that to was also the type of person who made Me Gooseta jokes. She, In spite of how obvious the joke was, couldn't help her laughter.

"Yeah, exactly! I feel like that's a bit like my current attacks turn into."

Eagerly, she reached for the poff and ran her fingers over it. That was surprisingly soft. She might have pet it and luxuriated in the feel for a few moments before letting him have it back. "That's a good feel. I like that." Way better than like -- well, what she might have expected from a senshi who could eject quills. Those things were painful--

"Wanna get going on the patrol? Don't feel anything over here, but maybe we can keep walking..."

Anser let out a laugh of agreement.

"You know, when I was younger, used to stubbornly go out alone."

She spoke of that as if she had been in this war for an eon and a half.

"But I think it's nice to have friends while out! Maybe we can talk more battle strategy--"

Anser darted after him.