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Babylon shook his head. "The senshi you spoke to before were wrong," he said, insistently. "They're not knights and most of them don't know the first thing about how knights work. You can't sense someone who's unawakened, same as you can't sense someone when they're in their civilian form. We're different from the senshi and we're outside the cats' realm of responsibility."

Again he paused, trying to collect his thoughts and speak carefully. It was rare to find someone so willing to listen, and he didn't want to be the one solely responsible for destroying Titan's tenuous trust in knights. "I call it corrupted, because as knights, we can awaken on our own. When the time is right, our weapons and uniforms come to us, out of the ether or whatever. The Negaverse disrupts that process. They make you awaken prematurely. They taint you with chaos. They change your weapon, they seal away your magic. It's not the natural way things are meant to happen."

But hey. Space Trek. Babylon laughed a little. "I don't think the infrastructure's there yet," he said. "And if it were really possible, to just re-settle all the old worlds, don't you think someone would have done it by now instead of making a bunch of teenaged superheroes duke it out for supremacy? There's something bigger and more cosmically significant going on here than anyone can really understand, I think."

And then, the million dollar question: purification and corruption. "Corruption, you have experience with," he said, because he didn't really know how it worked, having never experienced it for himself and having no plans to. "It's how you got your powers. Purification takes a tremendous amount of power, because it's going in the other direction, taking something broken and making it whole again. You find a Princess, she purges the chaos out of you, and then you're a knight. And you would be a knight. Your power wasn't given to you. It comes from you."

"You're a bit intimidating looking," said Babylon mildly, "But you're a pretty good guy." Well, as good as someone could be while still working for the Negaverse. There were limits.

The final question made him hesitate. "I don't know," he admitted. "But if I find anything out, I'll come find you and let you know." Titan couldn't be that hard to find, right? After all, how many two-meter-tall vikings could there possibly be working for the Negaverse.

"So, um, good night?" he suggested meekly, glancing up towards the rooftops. "It was great to meet you? I'll see you around?"