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Halo nodded before stepping out of the car. "Don't forget to get us a warrant." She reminded Cyrus, before heading towards the building. She still preferred to do things the legal way when possible, but she had soften to Cyrus's bending of the rules. In this case, coercing a judge to pre-date a warrant was over the line of things she was normally okay with, but after what she had seen inside there wasn't a question. This couldn't be allowed to continue. Not even for the few hours it would take for Cyrus to falsify evidence for them to track down a judge and get a proper warrant. Later, when she re-associated with her emotions she would question the ever darker path Cyrus, and The Collective, were leading her down. For now there was only one focus. Stop what was happening in that lab and catch the people inside. "Are there schematics of the building? Can you find out how many entrances there are?" She had a pretty good idea after her little venture, but that didn't mean she hadn't failed to notice one.

“What’s that?” Halo asked after Cyrus stated he had an idea. She paused on her way to the lab, having originally expected him to follow her, then walked the few steps back to the hood of the car. Normally she would have been amused with Cyrus’s solution, offering an easy smile and maybe even a joke of some kind. Likely mock horror with a comment that he’d better fix her car when they were done. Certainly there would have been appreciation for Cyrus going out of his to lessen the obvious law breaking they were about to engage in. Wrapped in the false armour of the emotionless void she felt neither amusement or appreciation as Cyrus explained his idea. Still she nodded in a way that one might perceive as appreciation in part because she knew she was supposed to and in part because she knew she would feel it later even if she didn’t feel it now. Passive green eyes turned towards the lab in question as she gave voice to her only critique of the plan. “It may be hard to explain accidentally looking through the second floor window on the South side.”

That excuse wouldn't stand up for more than about five seconds with any respectable officer, or anyone with half a brain. It wouldn't work with a human officer, never mind a SIA agent with her abilities. It was a problem she would need to find a solution to another time. When Halo made it around to the south side of the building she created a little platform her to stand on and lifted herself up to the second story window. What she was meant to do was obvious and so Halo did it without hesitation, though she would come to regret it once she left the tranquil state. She used a second construct to unlock the window and push it open from the inside, then climbed through. She paused just inside the door, reaching out with her aura to feel if anyone was near by. If it was clear, she would cautiously push the door open in search of evidence.

Halo didn't verbally respond to Cyrus's warning. She was still on the second floor, so the kitchen wasn't a concern yet outside of avoiding her footsteps being heard below. While she picked up a single presence near her, it didn't tell her who it was or what they were capable of. Merely that someone was blocking her path. She could astral project to find out more, but it would be too time consuming. Cyrus could only keep the doctor busy for so long. She briefly thought about her options. Finding another entry point, or taking a detour into the attic. Cyrus had specifically wanted her to come through this window however. She slowly eased the door open, willing that the doctor kept the hinges in good repair. She opened it just enough to see the individual on the other side and recognized the Pyro. Fortunately her abilities were particularly useful against them if things went south. Halo pulled her tranquilizer gun, standard issue for SIA to deal with unruly deviants without straight up shooting and killing them. His back was turned to her, so she took aim and fired.

Halo formed a construct and carefully lowered Gabriel to the floor. It wasn't out of concern for his face, but rather the noise it would make if she let him simply fall to the floor. After all, she wanted to catch their enemy off guard to stop them from running. Halo floated him into the room she had entered from and handcuffed the Pyro. The tranquilizer was strong stuff, meant to knock out most supers, so one without an accelerated metabolism would be out for a long while. Still she cuffed him, though it might seem redundant with him passed out, it would be neglectful not to. Unfortunately there wasn't anything to handcuff him to. The door knob wouldn't hold a pyro long since he could just burn down the door. Not wanting to waste anymore time, Halo settled for simply handcuffing his hands behind his back. “One down.” She informed Cyrus over the comms. One last scan of the floor didn't reveal any other signatures, so she headed down the stairs with as much stealth as she was capable of.

The main floor was completely empty, and Halo didn't waste much time there other than to locate the stairs. She could see Cyrus underneath her feet, and another who she assumed to be the doctor running this place. If only the doctor knew the fatal mistake they made by bring Cyrus to the basement. It would give the agents everything they needed. Halo made her way to the basement, careful to make sure Holloway was deep enough into the lap to give the pair the probable cause they needed before making their presence known. Then she stepped into view and raised her gun. Once she had a direct line of sight, she recognized the doctor immediately from the case file. “Freeze Holloway, and let him go.”

“I was starting to wonder how long you were going to lay there for.” Halo commented as she pulled out her phone. Technically Cyrus could automagically call the SIA, but she did it anyway. She reported in that they had the two suspects, and would require a medical and forensics team. After answering a few more questions and giving the address, Halo hung up the phone. “So, what's our story?” She was getting far too used to this, Lexi reflected as the question came out casually. “I went around back while you knocked on the front door after the car broke down. Broke in after you disappeared and found you and Holloway in the basement? Maybe you should give yourself some bruises for when they show up.”

“Probable enough.” Halo agreed. It was strange watching Cyrus’s face transform before her eyes. Though she knew it was all a superficial trick with the nanites which made up his body, it was still sort of hard to look at in a strange way. Though things had been a bit tense between since finding out he wasn’t human, he was still her long-time partner at the SIA, and she didn’t enjoy seeing him injured, fake or not. “I’ll wait upstairs with the other one. Make sure he doesn’t wake up before they get here.” She told him before turning to head back up to the third floor.

Cyrus was putting a lot of effort into making her more comfortable with his way of doing things. Halo wasn’t ignorant to that fact, or that his way resulted in arrests happening much earlier in the investigation than they would normally, saving an unknown number of lives. Still she was uncomfortable as she was pulled ever deeper into his world. How long until she agreed to let him simply fabricate evidence? How long until they screwed up and put someone innocent away? How long until they were caught, and all of their cases were reopened, instantly undoing all of the things they had accomplished? How many more people would have Holloway dissected if they had followed the law? Questions that left Halo trapped in a moral grey zone, uncertain of where she stood, and isolated from everyone else. It wasn’t exactly a topic she could get a second opinion about.

The police arrived first, followed shortly by a pair of ambulances. Cyrus and Holloway were looked at first, as the two with physical injuries, while Halo reiterated the story to an officer. The forensic team came last. What was in the basement would be more than enough to put the pair away for the rest of their lives. The hardest part would be telling the families what had become of their loves ones. A task Halo would later decide to take upon herself.