[i]"Your room is close, right?" He asked the question loudly while they were still in earshot of the guard, giving Vanessa's hand a squeeze to tell her to play along. [/i]

"It is," Vanessa replied just as loudly, responding to Genesis's signal to keep up the act.

[i]Stepping around a corner and releasing her hand, Genesis tried to shake the redness from his face. "Sorry," he murmured, "We couldn't just stand and wait." [/i]

Vanessa chuckled softly. "It's fine, better than anything I could have thought up of anyway," she answered him.

After the guard left, Vanessa followed Genesis into the security office, where he concocted up a fabricated story of how she was his bodyguard and he was a maintenance guy or something along those lines. She took note of the multiple computer consoles, wires, and keyboards littered across the desks, as well as a few spare cables and chords. However, things escalated rapidly from there.

As Genesis drew his knife and pressed it against the first guard's throat, Vanessa reacted quickly, knowing that the element of surprise would be crucial at this stage of the operations. Genesis's blade was a more traditional type of weapon, made out of metals. The only sort of thing Vanessa had with her that even resembled a knife was a handy dandy little laser dagger she had stowed on the inside of her light jacket, which she drew a split second after Genesis had taken action. She pressed the tip of the laser weapon against the security guard's upper back, a little under the nape of his neck. There was a quiet hissing sound as the concentrated beam of light made contact with the cloth of the security guard's uniform.

The guard attempted to draw away from the weapon that Vanessa held against his back, but she grabbed his right arm-the one that had reached for his gun at his waist, and was now clasping it-and stopped him. "Let go of the gun," she said in a deathly calm tone, obscuring her palpitating heartbeat under a mask of coolness. She watched as Genesis successfully disarmed the first security guard, and the second one, seeing his friend's apparent failure, hesitated for a second. His slight pause allowed Vanessa to deftly reach for the gun and draw it out, slamming the butt of it against his temple. The guard fell unconscious, and Vanessa grabbed a roll of electrical tape that she spotted lying around next to one of the computer monitors, slicing off pieces to bind the guard's hands and feet. She added a piece of tape over his mouth for good measure, laughing quietly when she saw Genesis's unorthodox method of using his sock.

Acacia sauntered in, apparently having the same results as the duo in the security office. Now that all the guards were taken care of, it was time for Genesis to do some techie thing that Vanessa couldn't even pretend to understand. "So, what now?" she wondered aloud. 

[i]I guess Genesis will be doing something with the computers, [/i] Vanessa thought to herself. She plopped down into an empty chair and studied the displays on the computer screens, seeing for the first time the interior of the casino.