<em>(Mildly explicit content ahead)</em><br/><strong><br/>Location: Outer atmosphere of Earth, Inside Escape Pod<br/>Character: Starfire<br/>Emotional Status: Distressed, Disheartened</strong><br/><br/><div class="floatright">(http://oi48.tinypic.com/2rz8jo5.jpg)<br/></div><br/>Princess Koriand'r struggled to catch her breath as the escape pod rocketed through the darkness of space.  The young woman had just had the fight of her life battling the Psions, their crazed creations, and her own power-hungry sister.  Somehow she had managed to escape, but only just barely thanks to her warrior training.  Now, in the safety and isolation of the small craft, Koriand'r nude form was covered in sweat and the blood of countless foes she had sliced through.  Already she felt her firm backside sticking to the plastic of the cramped seat of the vessel as the liquids froze into a sticky paste.  The red haired warrior shivered due to the cold and because of her own lack of energy...most of which had been drained in the fight.  Weeks (by Human standards) had passed since the princess had last been exposed a constant healthy dose to the energizing rays of sunlight and her body barely had the strength even now to remain awake.  The rays of a nearby sun barely entering through the metal of the escape pod did little to make her feel any better...it was just too little.<br/><br/>As she sat there, cold and alone, her mind returned the previous few years.   She still remembered her captivity to the Citadel as a war prize and the years she had gone through with limited exposure to sunlight.  The girl shivered once more in remembrance of the pain, torture, and rapes she had been victim to at their hands.  After years of this, she was sold at a record price of a billion Yurs (a generic huge sum of money) to the Psions.  The Psions, notorious aliens in relation to just about any other race, had been delighted to have royal Tamaranean flesh to work with.  While in their possession, the Psions had ...experimented on her in an attempt to discover just how Tamaraneans reacted to ultraviolet radiation.  Kept starved of her need of the sun's energy, Koriand'r had barely been conscious during most of the trials.  It had only been with the most recent experiment that things had changed.<br/><br/>The girl remembered little of the start of the experiment, only the sticky hands of the Psions on her bare flesh and the bright lights shined over her exposed form.  She had at first been elated for this rare chance to re-energize her body - it had been many (Earth) years since she had last had the chance to absorb this much radiation.  However, as the Psions increased the radiation through experimental needles, drugs, and lights Koriand'r arched her back in pain...there was just too much energy entering her at too fast a pace!  Screaming out in agony as her orange flesh cooked and power levels spiked, it was only then that something happened.  Her entire body shone in a green flash of energy and her usually pale green eyes lit up in a burst of light.  What happened next surprised even Koriand'r as all of a sudden her restraints burned away and the examination room she was in exploded.  Panting to regain her breath and smoking with heat after the surprising explosion of energy, Koriand'r glanced down at her hands which still glowed green with the same light as moments before.  She found, quite quickly, that by focusing on the power she could now emit fast projectiles from her hands that exploded upon contact.  With this new found power in hand the warrior princess had little trouble in escaping from the star-ship.<br/><br/>It was only as she was running towards the escape pods, her quick bare feet on the cold steel, did she stumble across her elder sister.  It had been Komand'r who had caused all of this suffering to her in the first place!  As she soon found though, the same Psion experiment had been conducted on Komand'r as well and she was just as capable as Koriand'r in this new found ability to create starbolts.  Battle erupted between the two sisters before Komand'r managed to gain the upper hand.  After minutes of fighting both girls were too exhausted to continue.  Koriand'r took the opportunity to somehow escape into the pod she now found herself in.  She knew not what had happened to her sister or where she was.<br/><br/>Shaking her head to bring her mind out of her thoughts, the girl came to realize that the pod was starting to warm up.  Glancing out of the pod's window as flames licked along the glass it became obvious that the small cramped vessel was entering orbit of some planet.  At first glance it appeared green and blue..the same lovely colors as her own home of Tamaran before the wars.  She had little time to study the sight in front of her though before she blacked out due to exhaustion and collapsed back into her seat.<br/><br/><hr/><br/><strong>Location: Lexcorpe Labs, Sub-basement, Metropolis, weeks after crash landing<br/>Character: Starfire<br/>Emotional Status: Confused, Angered, Mentally Exhausted<br/>TAG: Lex Luther</strong><br/><br/>Koriand'r's green eyes slowly parted as she awoke again.  It had been days since she had been once more imprisoned by an alien race...a race that called themselves humans.  She knew not how she had come to come into their captivity or quite what they had been doing to her.  The cold, sunless interior that she was housed in did little to improve her mood or her energy.  As she once more awoke she shivered in place.  The humans had not yet exposed her to any amounts of radiation..at least nothing useful enough for her to take advantage of.  Their technology appeared archaic and alien, their pale pasty faces emotionless, and their boring colorless clothing overly concealing.  Regardless, at least they had not started the torturing...at least not yet.<br/><br/>She had been laying on the examination table for hours now with a sore back and cold body.  Her tall form was still nude in order to allow study of her orange skin and slightly alien features.  Her spread ankles and wrists at her sides were still clasped firmly to the examination table with strong metal straps.  Her medium sized though perfectly sculpted breasts heaved up and down slowly as she breathed and her long red hair dangled over the side of the table.  Despite the cool aseptic air blowing into her cell, the orange flesh of the imprisoned girl was slick with sweat.<br/><br/>Hearing the hiss of the sealed doors as someone entered, the red haired girl glanced up to see who had entered...not like she could tell much of a difference in the faces of her 'owners' yet.  As the sounds known as music started to begin, she realized who it was of course.  Her worried eyes narrowed into angry slits as she stared at the man in front of her and she grit her teeth angrily.  Had she had the energy within herself she would have destroyed the man on the spot. Lacking any collected power though, Koriand'r was helpless.  She struggled against her restraints the best she could as her firm abs flexed and long legs struggled.  This expression of anger was much the same as she had shown on most other days that he man visited..though the outcome never changed.<br/><br/><strong>"I am known as Koriand'r and you will address me as such!"</strong>Her angered stare continued to focus on the man as he glanced over her warrior body lean yet strong due to years of training.<strong>"And I am not to be glanced at as some type of food!"</strong>His use of the word 'sweet' had certainly confused her a little, but she understood the general idea behind the words.<strong>"If you wish for this day to be fair then you will release me at once!"</strong>She shivered on the table as she summoned up the last of her power to look as threatening as possible.