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"All of them need to be ******** eradicated." He snarled, shaking his head once his mouth was free. He was going to have marks and it was going to be a b***h to cover them up. "You could have not messed up my face with a gag. I need this face to make a living." He wanted everything else free but doubted he was going to get that any time soon.

"Can one of you start making some sense? Stop with the 'unlimited cosmic power' bullshit."

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Smirking Uvarovite walked over and flicked one of the braids in the young man's hair out of his face. "Unfortunately we don't have the power to grant that but it is rather close. We're offering you the chance to be like us. You've already see what I can do and Tourmaline here is more powerful."

Once Courtland was free he stood up and stretched. God he was going to have to do so much exercise to get rid of the knots in his muscles. "He deserved it. ******** drugged me and tied me to a chair." He glared up at the other man who, ignoring personal space, hadn't stepped back when he'd stood up

Uvarovite shrugged slightly and ran his fingers along Courtland's jaw. "It wasn't a drug, just another gift being list this gives us." He hadn't needed to bother drugging anyone once he'd gotten a hang on draining energy. So much easier to just make them pass out.

"Besides. This will be a much nicer process than what I was going to do."

Courtland was in the process of asking why he needed to hold still when both of the two strangers hands sunk into his chest. His body went stock still and completely stiff at the action. The first nutjob had done the same thing earlier and that was the only reason he knew that holding still really would hurt less.

It felt like they were feeling around for something but it didn't quite feel like one of his organs. There were hands in his chest but not in his chest.

Uvarovite wasn't one to let someone else take control but he knew this wasn't something he'd be able to do on his own. It was easy enough to find the young man's starseed though. With as many as he'd taken it was becoming easier to find them now.

"I have it." His fingers curled around the crystal easily and he watched as the young an shivered.

Uvarovite almost said something about knowing what it would take to break one but kept that to himself for the moment. He did know what it took to youmaify a starseed so he knew how much was too much. Finding that balance couldn't be that hard and would be a bit easier knowing where the 'too much' threshold was.

With Tourmaline's energy funneling into him he let it transfer to the young man's starseed slowly. Much slower than he'd do it normally to create a youma so he could control where it went and how.

He ignored the young man's soft whimpers of pain. So long as he kept still he was, would be, fine.

Uvarovite dusted his hands off on his pants once they drew back, smirking and looking at the new Lieutenant that was standing in front of them. It was always interesting to see how different each of them were but at least this one would fit in with their little group nicely.

"Much better."

Courtland took a deep breath when the weird feeling of someone's hand in him disappeared. The first thing he noticed was that his feet were at a new angle and somewhere along the way he'd shifted his center of balance to accommodate heels.

Opening his eyes he looked down, raising a brow as he realized he was in a completely different outfit. Not to mention that he felt strange.

".... that's a new one."

"I think you could use that crystal more than I could darling. I'm sure tonight has taken a lot out of you." He also had plenty tucked away in his lab. Walking over to one of the storage cabinets he pulled out a smaller crystal and brought it over to the Lieutenant.

He held it out until the other man took it slowly. "Eat that. It will help with whatever injuries you feel your face suffered and the rope burn from where you struggled. Don't expect any more until you start getting them yourself. But, welcome Nitratine."

Courtland, Nitratine, raised a brow as he looked at the small glowing crystal in his hand. It did, sort of, look like candy an after pondering it for a bit he did pop it in his mouth. It didn't taste like candy but the crunch did at least feel like biting into one of the overly minty and overly caffeinated mints.

"Nitratine? Code names?"

"When you're in uniform you need to use that name. Your identity your other one, must be kept a secret. Only a few of us know who we are outside of this," He waved a hand to indicate himself. "And we only reveal that to those we can trust. So guard both identities as if your life depends on it as it may well."

There was no way of knowing who may or may not be either a Senshi or a Knight and they couldn't risk being found out.

"As we've said. I am Captain Uvarovite, who you'll be reporting to. And she is General Tourmaline. She'll make sure the two of you are well acquainted."

Courtland listened to both of the other's talk while prodding at his clothes. They looked like they should be stuff but were rather comfortable. Easy enough to move in though heels were something he wouldn't have expected on the uniform of someone expected to fight.

"Better than the thigh-highs I have at home."

Nitratine raised a brow as he watched the woman. "Better try in four days because I'll be in New York until then at two different product launches and sorry honey but I'm not missing either of those. They're way too big to just ignore." He had a job, and a life, and he wasn't letting whatever this was ******** up what he'd worked his a** off to achieve.

"After that I'll be happy to play ball until all the fall launches start. Luckily for those they don't tend to do a whole lot of launch events but you never know."

Uvarovite walked over and ran a hand up along Tourmaline's arm before it settled on her shoulder. He expected a bit of insubordination from the new recruit, after all he'd been stalking him long enough to know a bit of what he did, but didn't want Tourmaline overreacting to it.

"I'm sure something can be ranged. After all ... if he doesn't behave I can just send my Pet after him."