Xena sat across from the corpulent woman past her prime sipping at her own milk. Sherrel taking of Yuri's diligent attempt to keep said cup filled.

  "Mrs. Murphy, I will be frank with you. Both Ms. Myoshi and Ms. Bailey will be detained following this discussion for their many crimes, alongside you for aiding them."

  Xena fidgeted with her cup of milk. She knew that she had to keep her hand busy else they would make a mess, her smaller arms were already retracted and reformed into her ribcage so those weren't a worry. She stared at Ms. Piggot as she did it and quirked her brow.

  "Buuuut....?"

  "...But, if instead you were to join the PRT as a new cape and disclose how you healed Squealer, here..." She motioned to the stunned blonde who was in the motions of topping up Xena's paper cup before continuing. "Of her numerous signs of drug abuse, then maybe. Maybe we will instead of throwing the three of you in prison, we instead put the three of you in house arrest, and you and Ms. Bailey, become probational PRT capes."

  Xena was actually taken aback by the sheer balls on Emily Piggot. to just go straight for the Impressment of her and Sherrel.

  Oh, the whole her knowing Sherrel was Squealer? Yeah, she kind of figured that the PRT knew about the identity of the Merchant capes. OP-Sec becomes rather loose when all your members are high off their ass and screaming at each other. And while Sherrel wasn't a Merchant cape in name, she was one in all other aspects.

  "The fact that you, a case 53, has memory of her past life is already something the Protectorate would be willing to bend the rules for in regard to accepting you as a member. The possible benefits to other case 53s would be a huge boon to not only finding out why they lose their memories but also what caused them to become one in the first pce. "

  She took a pause to gather herself, a huff of air left her nose. "And while it bemoans me to say this, Ms. Bailey's abilities would ensure that she can tinker with a rather reasonable budget while being supervised by Armsmaster himself."

  At that, Sherrel actually started to squeal in joy. It was like a siren going off in Xena's ear before the excited blonde had managed to close her mouth with her hands. For a tinker like her, working personally with Armsmaster, the Tinker second only to Dragon in popurity on the eastern seaboard.

  Xena closed her eyes to preempt the pleading look that Sherrel gave her. She honestly didn't see her being roped into being a Hero anytime soon, especially when she pnned on being more of an outright vilin on the level of Lung, if not worse.

  After all she was ticking ALL the boxes for a cape to be put on Emily's shit-list. Biokinetic, Check. Master, check. Minion creator, check. IF the overweight woman ever found out she would be crying "Nilbog 2.0" to anyone who could hear and would try her damnedest to get a kill order signed for her.

  She inhaled sharply before letting out a long sigh. She opened her eyes to look at Emily Piggot directly, ignoring the puppy dog eyes from Sherrel and knowing damn well that she was going to regret it.

  "Alright, I'll join-" Sherrel shot her arms up in the air yelling excitedly before trying her hardest to squeeze Xena in a tight bearhug almost causing her to spill her cup. Xena firmly held the ecstatic woman away from her face so that she may still speak.

  "ON-On the conditions that as long as you can guarantee that the three of us; Sherrel, Yuri, and I, live in the same abode. Get me some government issued ID. Actually, pay us for our work. And, finally, give us some freedom to roam around and you know, Live. So long as those conditions can be fulfilled, I'm willing to join... Well actually one st condition: allow me to bring guests to the abode that may turn into permanent additions." She saw the eyes of Emily squint at that.

  "We can discuss the former conditions ter, but WHY exactly would you need more people to stay permanently at your presumably government subsidized housing?"

  "My world was rather accepting in polyamorous retions, and I require many women to sate my needs. While some pces didn't look fairly at harems or polygamy there were still countless others that condoned it if not made it norm."

  Xena was talking out of her ass, and she knew it. What she said wasn't exactly wrong, but it also wasn't the full truth. There were pces where polygamy was practiced as the norm... in the past. A certain cult off-shoot from the Latter-Day Saints being an infamous example.

  And sure, "open" retionships had started to rise quite a bit in the 20's but it was nowhere near as normalized as she was making it out to be. She was just gd that She made sure to focus on keeping her facial features from giving her away.

  Ms. Piggot kept her narrowed eyes as she regarded Xena.

  She then looked at how closely Sherrel clung to her and some of the suspicion left her.

  "Be that as it may, this all would require you to bring something to the table. Tell me, Xena Murphy, do you know what your powers are?"

  Xena took a moment to think about all that she could do and then had to shuffle which ones to demonstrate and which ones to keep in reserve. Stuff like her true form and her portal would have to be kept on the down-low, as it would no doubt cause more trouble than she wanted to deal with at the moment.

  "Well, I have a few powers. I have increased durability, speed, strength, and endurance at the cost of my weight though I can reduce its effect at cost. I can adapt, as far as I am aware, to anything given enough time. Any biological adaptations I gain can be kept no matter the form I take. which is another of my abilities. I can freely shift my form to any human so long as it isn't an exact duplicate of somebody else."

  At that she slowly shifted her form. Her wavy Brunette hair turned ashen as her skin darkened to a rich ebony. Her ears became as pointed as a human's could ever be while her round face took on sharper features. Her eyes turned lic. In less than a few minutes she went from a pale Caucasian woman to a proto-dark elf letting out a sensual moan from the backsh. Applying multiple natural genetic defects, Stahl's ear, Menism, albinism, and even Griscelli Syndrome, to achieve the effect.

  Of course she kept the rest of her body the same shape. Can't be messing with perfect things after all.

  "This is of course quite costly to do. The price of which is an increased need to engage in sexual activities, a need that is as necessary as breathing. The other is pleasure. with each use of my variety of powers it shortens the time between sexual activities, with a few notable exceptions"

  A disgusted cringe formed on Emily's face as Xena expined the costs of her abilities.

  "I am able to shoot out a beam that when making contact with a body part can either shrink or expand it... I can increase your breast size if you want, wouldn't be hard to do either ju-" Xena stopped talking when Emily held up her hand

  "Stop. We are here discussing what you can bring to the table and so far, you are sounding like a Brute with a great chance of sexual harassment case being filled. What powers of yours are the exception to the "cost" you have stated?"

  Xena could see the twitch in Ms. Piggot's eye as she tried to push past the btantly sexual nature of Xena's existence.

  "Well, Ms. Director, I can heal just about any injury, excluding death..."

  Ms. Piggot's eyes actually brightened at that before the glee quickly left when Xena went on to continue.

  "So long as I can engage in some form of sexual activity with the recipient and that the recipient is female and OF AGE, I am no monster you see. But again, I can bring someone back from the brink of death, just gotta give them some teasing or other sexual stimulus and BAM good as new. That's actually how I cured this cutie here of her severe narcotics addiction." Xena Pulled Sherrel in with a side hug and pyfully rocked them both from side to side giving the buxom blonde a heated look that caused her to flush.

  "She and Yuri both help curb the costs of my abilities quite nicely, but I know for a fact that my powers don't have an upper limit and having more hands can Lighten the load, so to speak."

  Emily Piggot was visibly disgusted with Xena's insinuation and went to speak up about said disgust before an arm started to bre. Quickly, Emily brought a hand to her ear and after nodding for a bit she gred at Xena and Sherrel.

  "Were either of you aware that Ms. Myoshi was harboring an unidentified species within her body?

  Xena schooled her expression as she looked at Sherrel, knowing full well what that species was but hoping she could plead dumb.

  Sherrel looked at Xena with wide eyes. "I didn't expect her to give birth so soon!"

  Xena facepalmed.