Turning to look at Kitty, Laura's smile was lopsided and fleeting. "You'd be amazed at what a short skirt and tight fitting leather can get you." She was only half kidding. Some of it had been through seduction, the rest had been found out by stealthy detective work. "I have another zip drive that's encrypted that maybe you or someone else can break into. I was able to clone a key card for one of the main computers for the cell in DC but there was no way anyone would let me in. Honestly, I didn't even try. Even if I managed to get past their hounds, there's nothing I would have been able to do on my own."
She understood Kitty's questioning, wanting to know if the information was legit. "I can tell when people are lying to me. Unless they're practiced, their pulses pick up pace, they sweat, their pupils dilate. Even their micro-expressions give them away. Everything I told you just now has come from a handful of legitimate and unwitting sources. Could they have been spoon feeding me?" She gave a small shrug. "I suppose it's possible, but I don't think it's likely. There people are proud of what they're doing and they want to recruit as many people to join their so called cause as possible."
Much as she already didn't like Warren without even knowing him, she had to nod at his words about the man behind the medical company. "No one is giving away information on them. I found out what I did because I can hear a lot better than most everyone knows. They don't think their whispers across a room will be picked up by anyone, least of all some little girl drinking coffee and reading a magazine. It takes three identification points to get into the DC office and I'm almost certain that's where the pill development has been taking place. Print matching, retinal scan, and voice recognition just to get through the doors. Then you have to have key cards to the computers. It's locked up tighter than anything I've ever seen before."
When the headmistress began firing off questions, Laura took a deep breath in and thought. "I know they're more offense than defense right now, but since the fire here that has been slowly shifting. They think a retaliation is coming and want to be prepared to stand against it. At the same time, they don't want to sit and take hits, they want to be fighting back as well. I think they're hoping this pill thing gets out before it comes to any real blows, though." She shook her head, scowling. "I don't know exact numbers of who is doing what and where, just what I have here." She didn't want to rain on the parade even more, but Ororo wasn't exactly right.
"As long as they disclaimer it with patent-pending and non-FDA-approval on their label, they can pretty much do anything they want. The article said they're waiting on word for the patent so as soon as they have that, they can sell it if they want to. Maybe not in regular pharmacies but as over the counter drugs, independent holistic retailers. As soon as they have the okay, we're in trouble."
She wasn't part of the X-Men, didn't even really have any loyalties to any of them except Logan, and that was in such an obscure way it shouldn't have mattered. But it was more than the X-Men versus the world this time. It was mutants fighting for survival and Laura knew she needed to be part of it. She'd been a perfect little soldier for Stryker and knew how to take orders. She didn't like it, especially after so many years of independence, but she'd do what she was told now. "I'll go wherever you want me," she offered. "If it's here, back on the streets, trying to get in some place. Just tell me where to go and what I'm allowed to do. I'll do it."