"Frrr... free... No will hurt me... I am free... and I can't go home..."
"You... can't go home?" Lloyd asks, having keener ears than his appearance would suggest. "Why?"
"Shush, Lloyd. Let's just take some deep breaths here and relax. Get your bearings, Selina."
Throwing his arms up slightly with a quite celebratory cheer Steven marvels at his accomplishment for a quick moment and then wisely flees from the scene.
Once safely away from prying eyes he pauses and contemplates the viability of simply sending out a shockwave to lure a police officer into an ambush and then raiding their cruiser for the gear he desired to form his costume and less destructive arsenal.
Fortunately for you, police response times are nowhere near as fast as you are.
Anyway, you're pretty sure that if a police officer hears an explosion, they wouldn't just walk right into it without at least calling it in. Especially when one considers the fact that there probably have been reports of random explosions in town and that you did hint rather overtly that this may be the work of a murderous cape to the police, which may lead to them calling up a good deal of reinforcements.
"Put me down or I don't tell you." Her voice becoming harder.
"Tell me or I don't put you down," Birdbrain says without feeling.