Lainy awoke in darkness, sitting upright, her head throbbing. Expertly honed senses warned her of an immediate danger so she kept her eyes closed for the moment, and listened. Somewhere in the back of her head, pushed back by her pinging "Spider-Sense", she noticed her hands and feet restrained in some way. It was hard to hear over the pounding in her head but she tried to focus. She could vaguely make out voices. Two male, separate and distinctly different, one female, stoic and authoritative. One of the male voices was familiar to her but it was still too hard to make sense of anything.

Then it hit her like a ton of bricks, it was Ryder.
"....but she's here isn't she?" He said. " I distracted her..."
"You Fucked her..." The female voice cut in. The other male voice chuckled.
"That's beside the point, Sophie. What's the difference, you jealous 'er something?" Ryder chided.

Lainy bowed her head, anger hotly crawling under her skin. She tried to struggle against the restraints, bionic limbs straining. The futile attempt severely hampered by some sort of biomech dampening device.

Lainy tuned back into the conversation, her attention and cognition returning with the anger.

She heard the second male voice mumble something incoherently. The female voice, Sophie, broke in with authority, "Well Mr. Jepson, you have some work to do and so do we, let's go Cleavis." Lainy heard the hatch open with a hiss and 2 sets of footsteps fading into the distance.

Then she hears a set of footfalls coming toward her. She could smell the cologne and hair products, now familiar to her, of Ryder as he approached.

"Lane..." He said, hesitantly and almost imperceptibly. She lifted her head and spat venomously at his face. The wad hit just below his left eye, and slid down.

"Fuck you Ryder, if I could reach you right now, I would rip your dick off and shove it so far up your ass it would stick out your mouth like a fucked up little tongue!" She exclaimed, "I fucking trusted you. What, let me guess you're working for Klaskin, gonna make me find this mysterious fuckin weapon? Fuck you!" She felt like crying or screaming or both.

"Lainy," He said softly, he tapped his left temple and scanned the room with a yellow beam that emitted from his eye." That should do it..." He said under his breath. Lainy struggled and rocked about in her chair, trying with everything she had to break free and kill this cocky fucker.

"Lainy." He said again. "Calm down, I am working for Klaskin, but I'm undercover, you could say. I began working for him, as soon as your father disappeared, to try to get close enough to see if I could get anything from the tight knit people in his security army." He looked at her pleadingly. Pacing back and forth in front of her, he continued. "I knew he had something to do wit what happened. I got in good wit the head of security, Sophie Rathguard, and she put me on guard duty for your father...."

"Fuck you! How am I supposed to believe you. If you were right there why not just save him right then?" Lainy cut in, venom dripping from her words. Her cognitive faculties returning in full now. "Why not save him right then and there." Lainey's voice trailing off with defeat and betrayal.

"I was never able to get close enough and I knew I couldn't do it on my own. You might as well try to get someone out of a u.s army barracks, his security is literally an army, Klascorp provides security for the entire Mars program. That's why I came to find you." He spoke calmly and confidently, not wanting to trigger Lainy any more then she already was. "You have to trust me Lainy. You were like a sister to me, it turned into more." His voice soft and sincere.

Lainy felt herself soften. Immediately regretting the lapse and cursing her once again agonizingly sappy behavior, she suddenly realized what to do. Instead of using the strength and brute abilities of her prosthetic limbs, which were obviously being dampened, she just slid open the forearm compartment containing a maintenance panel. The action of the panel opening sliced the restraint on her left arm. She reached out and grabbed Ryder by the balls and applied just enough pressure as to not rupture them.

"I will let go and You will remove these restraints and whatever shit that you have making my bio-limbs weak and if you so much as breath in my direction, I will rip them off and wear them as a necklace. Do you understand me?!"

"Yes! Yes. Just please let go!" Ryder exclaimed his face red and the veins in his forehead bulging in pain. She did. Ryder made a hand gesture that reminded Lainy of a duck quacking and a screen illuminated inside the now open "beak". He punched his opposite finger at it a bit and Lainy felt the restriction on her biolimbs release. She jumped up and grabbed Ryder by his annoyingly crisp shirt collar and spat, "Now quit crying and let's get moving!"