Is it possible to stop migration assistant midway? would it harm either of the machines?

I am migrating from macbook air to macbook pro, and migration assistant has been showing 9 hours!
unable to wait for so long, and I do not see any option to stop it. Is there any way I can stop it? Would it cause any damage to either of the macs?
Please help!

Just turn off both Macs. No damage will be caused, but you should remove the migrated user on the MacBook Pro in order to free up space.
If you have any performance problem, you can use Internet Recovery to format the hard drive and reinstall OS X.

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