How do I delete my i-cloud account without deleting Pages documents?

Question

Hi!
I am currently in panic mode.  In a way, my problem is four or five-fold.  My I-pad is only charging now and then.  So it has suddenly become urgent for me to back-up all my stuff.  I don't sync with another computer.  I only have the i-pad. So I turned to i-cloud and began setting up my account.  Everything sets up just fine except Pages.  Pages merely remains in loading mode.  It won't go any further than a hundred and thirty-two megabytes.  . It just hangs there.  My wireless signal is a strong 3G.  So that is not the problem. The big problem right now is that I can't stop the process. Turning off the i-pad does nothing for it.  After I I restart it again it starts automatically loading.   I can't delete the i-cloud account now without losing the documents!  A pop-up comes up saying so.  Why would Apple do that?!  Someone should be able to back out of the process without losing all his or her documents.  I can turn everything else off just fine:  Calendar, Notes, Photo-streaming, etc.  Not Pages. 
But there is an additional complication.  The i-cloud account appears to be attempting to download document files from my old Pages app!  I had forgotten my passcode a while back, so the apple store somehow reconfigured my i-pad.  I lost all that other data some of which included Pages.    I was very angry.  They told me they could just set me up with a new passcode but that it was contrary to policy because someone there might abuse my privacy!  It was very frustrating.  They could have just let me sit there and watch them do it if they had been so worried about their own possible dishonesty!  Anyway, at the bottom of the loading screen there reads 3.8 gigabytes which is significantly more than I have in my current Pages file and  would throw me above the 5.0 gigabyte threshold.  That is another reason why I wanted to stop the process so that I could do it next month and pay for the extra storage.  I don't know if the firewall between my 'old i-pad-within- an-i-pad'  is causing the problem or something else.  I think though it may be trying to merge with the old data somehow but is unable to do so. 
So, the big question is how do I stop this process without losing all my documents?  I don't want to lose everything again.

Answer 1

Hi, Demo!
thanks for the reply.  I must say though that forgetting a password is nothing like following step-by-step instructions just as I am told and then having  two or three years of documents threatened.  i mean Apple Smapple.  They get things wrong all the time.  It is bad policy to lock out three years of data for a forgotten password  and, in fact, there is something wrong with the instruction system on creating an I-Cloud account when it comes to Pages.  So I blame Apple for both. 
Here is what happened.  I was given clear instructions to back out of I-Cloud for everything else on my I-pad (Photos etc.) but Not for Pages.   When I wanted to halt the pricess, the pop-up said very clearly that my files would be deleted from my Pad.   So,  I just held my breath and pushed the back-out for Pages anyway even though it said it would  delete all my files.  Suddenly, another pop-up surfaced allowing me to back out just like with the others.  My data was safe!  And I was returned to the original I-Cloud account page.  I ran over to Pages and, voila, it was all there. nothing gone.  But moments later I got another pop-up saying that Pages had been deleted from my I-Pad but was successfully transferred to I-Cloud.   Pages was not deleted from my Pad, nor was anything else!   The scare was not my fault.  The pop-ups were apparently backwards.
As a side-note.  There is nothing wrong with forgetting things.  That happens.  Our brains are made to do that sometimes.   Businesses are supposed to think ahead on that,  not dumbledy-pumbledy people like me.  Still partly  my bad.  This other thing was nothing like that.  I was merely setting up an I-Cloud account  In effect, 'I_Cloud'  was threatening to take my stuff for merely signing on and then deciding not to create an account.  Their bad completely.
Come on.  Even computer illiterates need to keep an eye on Apple now.  Have you read how Carlyle, the big sinister private equity outlet, is now making Apple buy stuff it wants it to at two hundred percent mark-up?  Carlyle bought some sleek something at five hundred million.  Apple buys it six months later for two billion.  Clearly, someone else is in charge now at Apple.  My guess is that there will be less creativity  but more reflexive self-defensiveness.  That began way back with Steve Jobs when he wouldn't let the on-off toggle remain for stabilising the I-pad screen even when there was overwhelming customer desire to keep it.