Barda was going to kill him. There was no escaping it. No way around it. Big Barda was going to kill Scott Free for daring to attempt what no one ever had. Public humiliation. No one picked her up. No one attempted to haul her around. Especially not in the middle of a fight, even if it were more of a scuffle on her side of things and not an actual challenge.
"You will put me down." Her voice was very displeased with him. Very. Very. Displeased. "Or you will not like the consequences."
It was the only warning he would get before Barda twisted in the haphazard grip he'd caught her in and jabbed her Mega-Rod against his side - firing it point blank at him the second they hit the Boom Tube. She had no interest in being moved from their current location. She at least had coordinates for that place - going into the Tube blind was not at all where she wanted to be. Unfortunately, she'd been just a second too late to stop their entry - wherever Scott was taking them.
But she'd warned him. Sort of. Really, he shouldn't have tried to pick her up. He knew better.