Neither actually! Nobody ever picks this option and I didn't know it was even in the game until recently, but you don't have to fight Dane. You can just wait for the rival to sod off and then take the probe and there's no fight at all. In fact, you don't even get to meet Dane at all if you do that. Which is why I had to make a branch in Edan's story intro to accommodate for that...
First I've heard of this.