Kovu was struck with a sense of severe disorientation as the dusks whisked him off to the laboratory. Although he had been on the verge of attacking one of the nobodies back in the cell, it managed to slip away from him as he fought to recover from the momentary shock of transit. He recovered quickly, but the dusks were already clamping heavy chains to his legs and neck. The lion snapped at one of the offending creatures, but was roughly jerked back by one of the chains as his jaws closed. To his dismay, he didn't even manage to cause a minor injury to his tormentor.

He tried to claw at them, but the chains held him back there as well. All he could really do was snarl and roar, and none of the creatures seemed to take any notice. It was humiliating.

It actually took him a few moments to realize there was someone else in the room. As the dusks finished their tasks and vanished, Kovu ceased his display of anger and fixed this new adversary with a furious glare. "Who are you?" he demanded, pointedly ignoring the fact that he was the prisoner and not really in any position to make have his demands answered.