Director Becker released a morbid chuckle, as he held eye contact with the mutant. [color=silver]"Your friend will be alright. We have very capable facilities. We're prepared. Now- As for this young lady. I'm afraid I can't discuss her case at length without her presence. We try to respect the privacy of our residents."[/color] He said the word "Residents" as if it was a casual thing, like they would live their whole lives perhaps? [color=silver]"What I [i]can[/i] tell you is that she has a history of unconstructive actions. The hand a mutant is dealt is often a difficult one, as I'm sure you understand, Mr. Xavier."[/color] He looked to Jean for a second with a knowing look as she walked away. [color=silver]"Her situation is a special one, and I'm proud to say that I have the best people I know working with her to make affirming changes in the scope of her case. Sometimes, a person stumbles."[/color] He didn't elaborate as to what he meant by affirming changes, or unconstructive actions. 

[color=silver]"But there's nothing to worry about. Our security team is trained to handle this type of incident peacefully. The nature of a security system meant to stand forever is that it will fail eventually. We're prepared to resolve the fallout, and you can rest assured that while your friend is given the utmost care, she will be brought back with no harm done."[/color]

As he said this, Director Becker's radio perked up with a message for him. But it didn't finish.

[hr]

"No harm done" was a bold-faced lie.

Ryder was running through the trees, it was smarter to have cover than run across the two-lane road that was only a hundred feet from her. Umbra's security team were armed with stun guns and hollow point pistols. They were trained to bring her down as wounded as was necessary, so long as they brought her back [i]alive.[/i] Ryder could sense their proximity, they were scattering to pinch her off. Their radios gave their presences away. By the psychic impression she got, one was at the 5 to her 12, and so Ryder pointed the gun behind her to blindly shoot two bullets in that direction. Neither of them stopped the agent, but the second one seemed to slow him down at least. That left her with seven bullets. The sound caused three of the five agents to move fast. Ryder was about 50 feet from crossing paths with two of them. She felt out for their stun guns, their voltages were modified electronically with an interface, and all of them were set to maximum output- Enough to knock out a grown man twice her size. 

Suddenly and silently, though, the wattages programmed in began to spike downwards rapidly. 30 feet, 20, 10...

[color=green]"Stop!"[/color] The first guard she ran into shouted. He and his buddy pointed their now-empty stun guns at the girl. One of them radioed for the entire squad to fall in and surround her.

[color=green]"Drop the gun! [i]Now!"[/i][/color] He shouted.

Ryder, however, didn't do that. She put on an impression that she was scared, both physically on her face and as a slight psychic pressure, such that they all believed she wasn't faking. Her hands quickly went into the air, and the gun was pointed to the sky in an indication of a surrender. The guard barked at her to drop it again.

Instead, she slowly bent down to lay it on the ground. Just as she did, one guard behind her made a fatal mistake. He raised a radio to his face. Director Becker's radio crackled to life as everyone around him heard an incomplete message.

[color=cornflowerblue]"Beta to Alpha, we have apprehe-"[/color]

The radio crackled, and exploded against the man's face and nose. He'd live, but sparks and wires sprayed out and burnt him. It was the equivalent of a flashbang. This spooked the others, who instantly turned their attention to their comrade now screaming in pain on the ground behind Ryder. 

Ryder quickly sprung back up and performed that same trick on the remaining guards. All of their radios blew apart at their waists, only one suffered a laceration. The rest were temporarily incapacitated. To Xavier and Becker, the guard was updating him when the sounded of high pitched interference practically [i]screamed[/i] the message into silence.

All of the guards suddenly started floating above the ground, writhing in the pain from their skin being burnt and flayed. Ryder telekinetically flung them off into the distance behind her, in the direction of Umbra. Two of them collided with the trunk of a tree. 

And she continued running.