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Tree branch: check. Assorted lightweight seed-bearing fruits and nuts: check. Other seeds: check. Water bottle, for when she has to veer away from the river: check.
Better not linger in her starting place too much longer. Yellow's faster than her and may have already come home to a wreck. Thorn might have a habit of checking up on the place, even, just in case. She's invisible, inaudible, unsmellable - that won't help if he sends someone thorough. Or comes in person.
She sets out.
She's been flying for about thirty minutes after her shopping trip when she falls through a tear and squeaks inaudibly and lands in the middle of -
imeanforever
wormcan
"PROMISE! The city is in peril! You must—
This is no time for that. You've got to get back to the Leviathan fight."
This is no time for that. You've got to get back to the Leviathan fight."
imeanforever
"I, uh, oh. What - what happened?" She rubs her eyes, looks around. Grabs something, puts on one of her trademark dresses made of leaves. "Do you have a, um, I can't instant settle a gate if it's not flat..."
wormcan
"One of these?" She holds up a device. Could be anything, but Eidolon said it was important.
wormcan
"Nowhere, but where you were last time will probably have line of sight to trap him again. Hopefully."
wormcan
"Again. Some attack or other broke a gate. What matters is we need to get you back there now."
imeanforever
"Okay, okay." Promise steps out of the tree and it closes behind her. "If I gate high can you teleport down okay?"
wormcan
"Yes." Unless Leviathan has killed everyone she has tagged at the moment, but how likely can that be.
imeanforever
"Okay. Follow me."
Gate. Step. Wait for Mouse Protector. Close.
Scope out the battlefield.
Gate. Step. Wait for Mouse Protector. Close.
Scope out the battlefield.
wormcan
It's a mess. There's a trail of destruction leading south and west, toward...most of the city. Could be anything, or nothing. A majority of the capes are working to rescue other capes, the only ones fighting Leviathan right this moment are the ones who could find him and also hit hard enough to matter. Alexandria is trading blows while the Siberian gouges out pieces of the other monster. The flying artillery capes blast down on the target while the grounded fighters converge. He moves fast enough that few can keep up, leaving a wake that is then itself used as a weapon in his wake.
Capes nowhere near the monster are also being targeted. There's enough water everywhere that nowhere is safe, now that his hydrokinesis is being used as a direct weapon.
Capes nowhere near the monster are also being targeted. There's enough water everywhere that nowhere is safe, now that his hydrokinesis is being used as a direct weapon.
imeanforever
Well, shit.
Promise drops. Without Velocity and Allegro - and while Leviathan's moving that fast - there's no way she can catch him again; if someone could throw him through the already-open gates they would presumably have done it already, but she leaves them open just in case. Closes her little hand-sized one. Is there anybody alive to whom she can report on the situation who isn't currently harrying the monster?
Promise drops. Without Velocity and Allegro - and while Leviathan's moving that fast - there's no way she can catch him again; if someone could throw him through the already-open gates they would presumably have done it already, but she leaves them open just in case. Closes her little hand-sized one. Is there anybody alive to whom she can report on the situation who isn't currently harrying the monster?
wormcan
The field commanders do also tend to be among the most powerful individuals. This is probably what the armbands were for, but hers got pulverized along with her last body.
There aren't many easily visible capes that she recognizes as authorities from any team, unless of course she wants to talk to Jack.
There aren't many easily visible capes that she recognizes as authorities from any team, unless of course she wants to talk to Jack.
imeanforever
Damn it. At this point her most useful idea might be "see if Leviathan can be convinced to eat her". And she's pretty sure he doesn't have a mouth.
...He does have open wounds. Where's Nilbog?
...He does have open wounds. Where's Nilbog?
wormcan
Nilbog is closer to where Leviathan first made landfall. He's teamed up with someone with a complementary power, who is doing her best to ignore him. Some of his creations are given ice powers and sent to help the cape in a green cloak to freeze the incoming waves, while most head off to fight Leviathan directly.
imeanforever
Promise lands nearby. "Your majesty. I've been to Fairyland and fetched magic leaves. Can your subjects deliver them into the beast's wounds?"
imeanforever
"It may help. If you please." She plucks some "magic leaves" off the hem of her dress and offers them to Nilbog. Should have grabbed berries. If the delivery succeeds and the vassalization doesn't she can grab some berries.
wormcan
Nilbog creates more beasts. They take the leaves in their jaws or talons and rush off to join the fight.
wormcan
Most of the beasts get swatted. Many get up again. Of course, Leviathan is being swarmed by other creatures, as well as capes. He continues fighting his way downtown, getting hit occasionally, and eventually one of the leaves gets deposited in a wound just as it closes.
imeanforever
Does he even have ears? He must have some senses to have noticed the gates when water ignores them - "STOP," she yells regardless.
wormcan
Leviathan turns to look at her. The nearest flying cape to her left explodes in a shower of gore. And the one in front of her. Then the Endbringer submerges, slithers out of view, and resumes fighting whoever is closest.
imeanforever
Fuck, fuck, fuck -
The water's dark and filthy but the harmonics are flat. She could write in fairy lights. But to make it sufficiently clear that it was her that she would need to at least partly trace the words as they appeared and she can't get ahead of him anyway - has he built up enough momentum that she can hope to catch him with a gate -?
The water's dark and filthy but the harmonics are flat. She could write in fairy lights. But to make it sufficiently clear that it was her that she would need to at least partly trace the words as they appeared and she can't get ahead of him anyway - has he built up enough momentum that she can hope to catch him with a gate -?
wormcan
She could hope.
A golden man drops from the sky. Golden skin, hair a differently colored gold, dressed in a white suit that makes his color scheme oddly indistinguishable from blue and black.
He raises a hand, and a flash of golden light briefly blinds everyone watching. When it fades, Leviathan is attacking him. Ineffectually.
A golden man drops from the sky. Golden skin, hair a differently colored gold, dressed in a white suit that makes his color scheme oddly indistinguishable from blue and black.
He raises a hand, and a flash of golden light briefly blinds everyone watching. When it fades, Leviathan is attacking him. Ineffectually.