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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 -
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wormcan
Promise sleeps longer than they're willing to wait. They try Australia, and learn that Leviathan is in fact dead, Scion killed him (unless the cape world is using him as an excuse not to reveal the existence of a weapon that can kill Endbringers, of course), and the attack took place in Brockton Bay.
"We've got to get back. Now. Should have gone right away, anyone we know could be— hurt."
"We've got to get back. Now. Should have gone right away, anyone we know could be— hurt."
"Yeah. I guess we... fly into town borrow a phone call Mom get plane tickets? Sorry if you were hoping to fly over the Pacific Ocean."
wormcan
The call fails. Given that there was just an Endbringer attack, unreliable phone service isn't completely surprising. They try the PRT headquarters, where people were more likely to be prepared and can put them in touch with New Wave.
The good news is, they could get plane tickets to the nearest gate and be back in Brockton Bay within the day. But Carol insists that they shouldn't: the Slaughterhouse Nine are still after them, and an additional disaster didn't change that. The bad news is worse. They've lost a cousin and a father. Leviathan killed Mark and Crystal. Other teams had it even worse. It's a victory, but not the victory everyone was hoping for.
The good news is, they could get plane tickets to the nearest gate and be back in Brockton Bay within the day. But Carol insists that they shouldn't: the Slaughterhouse Nine are still after them, and an additional disaster didn't change that. The bad news is worse. They've lost a cousin and a father. Leviathan killed Mark and Crystal. Other teams had it even worse. It's a victory, but not the victory everyone was hoping for.
"Shit, Dad..."
Hug. Sniffle.
wormcan
Amy is much less broken up about losing the closest thing she's had to a dad than Victoria is about losing her actual dad. Even so, it's a blow.
Hug.
Hug.
Eventually Victoria stops weeping over her dad, weeps slightly less than that over her cousin, and then she's done.
"And we're not even supposed to go home? What are they gonna - gonna do, hold the funerals indefinitely until the Slaughterhouse Nine get bored and leave...?"
"And we're not even supposed to go home? What are they gonna - gonna do, hold the funerals indefinitely until the Slaughterhouse Nine get bored and leave...?"
"Yeah. We can always go back in the tree after - after."
wormcan
"Yeah. After."
Glory Girl doesn't have the speed to fly across Australia. (Laserdream - Crystal - might. Crystal isn't here.) The Dallons get to the city with the gate by using their other superpower, money.
Glory Girl doesn't have the speed to fly across Australia. (Laserdream - Crystal - might. Crystal isn't here.) The Dallons get to the city with the gate by using their other superpower, money.
wormcan
Back in Brockton Bay, their presence takes some explaining. But even if it was reckless, their family members are generally glad they're back.
Amy does, eventually, return to healing. Between Shatterbird and Leviathan, a lot of people need it. The team does insist that she not be unaccompanied, she is by far the squishiest known target of the Nine. As soon as she and Victoria walk into the place where the injured are, they're accosted by hospital staff. There's a particular patient, or at least someone who hopes to be, who no one else can help. A cape problem, not a medical one, but she seems to think Panacea can cure her.
The patient is alone in one of the less noisy rooms. She's alone because she's filling it. From the waist down she is a mass of flesh, all legs and heads and coiling tentacles. Her human body is perched on top, head slightly bowed to fit beneath the ceiling.
Any recoils in horror.
Amy does, eventually, return to healing. Between Shatterbird and Leviathan, a lot of people need it. The team does insist that she not be unaccompanied, she is by far the squishiest known target of the Nine. As soon as she and Victoria walk into the place where the injured are, they're accosted by hospital staff. There's a particular patient, or at least someone who hopes to be, who no one else can help. A cape problem, not a medical one, but she seems to think Panacea can cure her.
The patient is alone in one of the less noisy rooms. She's alone because she's filling it. From the waist down she is a mass of flesh, all legs and heads and coiling tentacles. Her human body is perched on top, head slightly bowed to fit beneath the ceiling.
Any recoils in horror.
"Oh my God aren't Case 53s usually smaller," breathes Victoria.
wormcan
"Stay away - don't touch me. It's dangerous. Is one of you Panacea?" Her voice sounds tense, as if she's forcing herself to speak.
"Yes, but I don't know if I can do anything. Definitely not without touching you."
"It might be safe for you. Or there's something you can do to stop my power. I was, um, told you could help me."
"Yes, but I don't know if I can do anything. Definitely not without touching you."
"It might be safe for you. Or there's something you can do to stop my power. I was, um, told you could help me."
"She didn't take out an ad, where'd you get that idea?"
wormcan
"I heard it from, um, Bonesaw. Before I escaped."
Amy is looking even more apprehensive than before, if that's possible.
Amy is looking even more apprehensive than before, if that's possible.
"Christ," murmurs Victoria. "How'd you escape?"
"What happens if somebody touches you? Are you contagious or something?"
wormcan
"Clones. Evil clones. And it gets harder for me to stay in control." Her voice is still strained, and some of the limbs and tentacles are lashing back and forth.
"And you want me to touch you."
"Bonesaw said you could! She said she was the only person who could do anything except you, and she wanted to make me worse."
"And you want me to touch you."
"Bonesaw said you could! She said she was the only person who could do anything except you, and she wanted to make me worse."
"Evil Amy clones sounds like such a bad idea," Victoria says. "...Promise can heal? I don't know if she can fix this but she wouldn't have to touch you to try? Evil Promise clones are also a really bad idea but there wouldn't have to be any."
wormcan
"Evil clones of me are a very bad idea. I could - no. Not even going there."
"Who's Promise?"
"Who's Promise?"
"You haven't heard of Promise? Do you live under a rock?"