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It wasn't that she'd been stalking the girl. Or that she'd been... okay, yes, she'd been stalking, but it was just to make sure Lianna Beauchamps really was a suitable fit for the Negaverse. She knew that she'd been speaking to some lower-ranking officers and that was great, but that didn't always guarantee that she'd be a good fit for the company... such as... the guerilla military order could be a company.

Okay, that metaphor had actually fallen apart long before it got anywhere near done, so, like, Avalon was going to drop it.

The point was, she'd decided Lianna was a spoiled little brat, but she had money and influence, which was more than Avalon could lay claim to as a civilian--well, the influence, anyway, Avalon had gotten downright criminally good at stealing from ATMs and, like, you mug enough people in the right part of town and ANYWAY. The point actually was that Lianna Beauchamps was a steal for the Negaverse, she already considered the Negaverse friendly (...sort of) and it was always useful to have horrendous wads of cash lying around for if you needed to put a bounty on the head of your ex-best friend.

That was an extremely specific situation and no Avalon was not sorry for bringing it up. It was an important situation. Babylon had influence with knights. Right? Right. She had good reasoning.

So she'd picked a night, and decided, hey, this was as good a time as any for a villainous ultimatum. Somehow she didn't think she'd have much trouble with convincing Lianna to join her side of the war.

"What's up," she said, stepping neatly into the blue-haired girl's path. "Let's have a little chat, shall we?"

"My name is General Avalon," she said, taking Lianna by the arm and guiding her out of the safety of the streetlights. "And I'm going to make you a very special offer. One could almost say it's… life-changing." As in, if she said no, Avalon was going to rip out her starseed and make a very pretty youma out of her.

To make sure it would happen, Avalon summoned Shay to her. The warped and twisted figure of the girl, a favorite youma of Avalon's, appeared in the mouth of the alleyway, effectively blocking all escape. "Tell me, Lianna Beauchamps. What do you know about sailor senshi?"

"They're monsters," said Avalon, letting go of Lianna's arm. A smart girl. Sensible. If Lianna had tried to run, Avalon definitely would've killed her, because there was really no need for another Lieutenant who required coddling to meet the Negaverse's standards. Not that Avalon knew of many, but it wasn't like it was hard to do as one was told. She did it, after all, whenever a General-King seemed inclined to pay attention to her. She met her quotas and she sought to strike down the senshi where-ever she could, and that was really all anyone could ask for. "Gangsters. The full story is ridiculous, so let's move on. What if I told you… that you had it in you to become someone who could do… whatever they wanted? Even turn people into that?" She pointed to Shay, lurking in the mouth of the alley. The youma's mouth hung open, exposing sharp teeth, and when it breathed it sounded like a sob.

"Have you ever wanted to be able to move faster than the human eye can follow? Be strong enough to lift a car?" Avalon smiled, and she traced a slow circle around Lianna. "I can do that for you, Lianna. I can make you strong, and proud, and beautiful. Or… you can die here, in this godforsaken alley. And then you will be just like Shay, a mindless monster fit only to follow my commands."

"Senshi are less than human, without conscience or soul," said Avalon. "They look human. They live in human bodies and believe they've lived human lives. But they've stolen their bodies… like pod people." She tapped her chin, slanted a glance over at Shay. "It's because of the senshi that poor dear Shay is the way she is. Her brother just… snapped. And there she is."

Corrupted. It would be almost poignant.

She gifted the girl before her with a smile: cold, sharp-edged, one that didn't reach Avalon's eyes. "This will hurt you," she warned, but by then she'd already slipped her hand through the immaterial blockade of Lianna's sternum and curled her gloved fingers around Lianna's starseed. All it needed was a little push of the Chaotic power that Avalon could wield and then, the delicious rush of corruption. But not for Lianna. Avalon could remember very well what it felt like to corrupt, how the blood froze in her veins and she was cold, so cold.

That was why doing this was so fun. She removed her hand from the new Lieutenant's chest, crossed her arms, and said, "So what's your new name, Lieutenant?"

"A pleasure to meet you, Empressite," said Avalon. God, corrupting someone did take it out of you, didn't it? She ran a hand down her face and then blinked back a yawn. "You've got all your memories? Good. My name's Avalon--I'm a General. With the Negaverse. And you are a Lieutenant. This means… I'm your boss." Well, that was what it meant. Basically. She was kind of simplifying it down, a bit.

What the hell did you even do with a new Lieutenant? Avalon had to smother another yawn, but when it passed, she had thought of something. "I can show you how to drain energy now," she said, "or, you can take a night to run around the city and learn about all the things you can do now. I recommend trying to jump up a building, personally, it's a lot of fun." It was more fun when you included teleportation.

Which reminded her. She dismissed her youma companion. "You've joined the front lines of the war against the senshi," she said. "There's a primer available through this." She pulled out a violet communications crystal, the twin of her own. "Any questions?"