"We did, we were just wrong about your powers—you can swap—"

"What did you think my powers were?"

"Making stuff!"

"That's most of it. And just from that I could have made sleep drugs in your bloodstream and escaped, or made lava on the windshield or something."

"Oh I'm a cape too, I'm immune to most of those things, it's why they picked me. Also if you tried that I'd knock you out."

"Encase you in stone, then. How would you knock me out."

"It's a mystery. Are you gonna encase me in stone?"

"No but I'll need to explain to them later why I didn't. If you knocked me out that'd be a good enough reason I guess."

"Should I knock you out?"

"I don't think you can but I bet they wouldn't know that and I really did want to get a little bit of work done. As long as that's a thing you could've done it's probably good enough - unless they have that lie detector around again - let me ask my precog." He checks for notes from Contessa.

They will not think to question that.

"Your precog?"

"Nah it's fine apparently they'll believe I was knocked out. You can assume I have lots of stuff up my sleeve which is why kidnapping me would be a bad idea if I cared to not be kidnapped."

"...okay..."

He starts working on his artifact.

There is in fact a lot of traffic.

Then maybe he'll finish his artifact block before he gets to the head kidnappers.

He in fact will! But only very shortly so, a few minutes after he's done they'll arrive at a very ordinary-looking building.

He's reading his textbook. "Okay."

"...what's okay?"

"I assume we are here now?"

"Oh, yeah." He drives into the garage and opens the door for Epic. "Please don't make me regret not knocking you out?"

"I don't really know what actions would make you regret that!" He gets out of the car.

"Running away, wrecking the place, hurting anyone..."

It's an ordinary garage and he leads Epic to an ordinary elevator and presses its ordinary button.

"I won't hurt people."

"I said three things."