[Ohhh no, don't you try and pin this on him. The accusation hits kind of close to home, and Qubit goes from smug to defensive in half a second flat. A lot of things are his fault, true, but this is not one of them.]

They're not operating on my technology, just using the same principles. If it were one of mine, believe me, I'd have already shut it down.

[He can get to the powers thing in a second, once they're perfectly clear on that point.]