[B][U]"A Choice of Words"[/U][/B] Cypress listened to the trapped girl insult an boast all the while her smile remaining passive. She heard her intelligence called into question along with her honor, then there was the threat of crashing Aperture's entire system and erasing everything. "What would you rather? To trudge back to Aperture and explain to them why there systems have shut down or... or actually bring the perpetrator back to Aperture?" Said the criminal as she grasped at straws in an attempt to maintain some form of control. Cypress made a hand motion that she hoped the others would heed as she asked them to wait. "You take me to your boss, and I will hand over everything I have taken." She said and added "You know the deal. As soon as those cops get here, I destroy it all. Cypress looked up at the girl with the sweetest cat ate the canary smile then said [B]"Why I do so appreciate ya'll dumbin down all that fer lill ole me, landsakes I sure don't know anything about them there computer thingies. Well except that as a facility that is deep into defense contracts it backs up all data on a secure and shielded internal network. Also you've said enough about what you can do that even a little country girl like me can figure out that you're a technopath, a super hacker. Well I suppose that as there are much smarter people than me listening to all this on my comms unit that they've by now powered down and contained your access to our computer thingies.[/B] Friction's power flares as she makes every surface that Ruby touches frictionless making standing all but impossible and every little movement as trying to walk up a hill of ice on oiled wheels. [B]"Please be gentle with her gentlemen, she is a Lady after all.[/B] says Cypress to the others wait outside the ambulance