"Yes it can," says Doctor Mother. The suited man is showing another video feed, this one in Jakarta. Alexandria, Legend, Eidolon, and Hero are all gone from the room and present in the video, engaging the thing.

Further inspection of the forcefields' effects confirms the first impressions: when people are caught in them they suddenly accelerate a lot, moving very quickly and then dying, their bodies soon decomposing and eventually their skeletons turning to dust, all in the span of the few seconds the slow-moving fields spend around them.

"- I should go get inside one of those -"

"—that sounds like a remarkably bad choice," Doctor Mother comments.

"Depends if it's actual time dilation or accelerated decay, do you have a way to check-"

That question seems to be mostly answered by the poor sods who are caught by the field—their movements, helpfully slowed down on camera by the suited man, are exactly those you'd expect of accelerated time: trying to leave the field, hitting its edge and finding resistance like it's solid, screaming, raging, crying, slowly dying of thirst and hunger and exposure, slowly decomposing.

"Alright," he says to Epic, "let's go - anyone else want to come, we can make you immortal -"

"I do not have powers, Contessa apparently cannot see this creature any more than she could Behemoth, and Number Man's powers are best applied from a distance. Good luck."

Pop.

The heroes are having a hard time mobilizing. Eidolon and Legend are engaging, with the latter using numerous concussive blasts to keep the creature from advancing and the former using strong localized explosive lasers for heavy damage.

He can teleport civilians out of the way, that seems worth doing - in Brazil they'll be trying to wake the basement-dweller, he didn't think about that -

- what happens if he runs at the time-dilation forcefield thingy?

Eidolon creates a barrier in front of him is what.

He flies over. "I want to go inside the time dilation thing."

"Why?"

So I can make as many eidetic memory necklaces as we need and make a lot of space Elves to read about the entities and learn everything we need to know and come out when we're ready to win the war.

It might be several hundred years subjective in one of those fields.

Yeah, exactly. I might be able to teleport out, and even if I can't, that's enough time to make all the necklaces we'll need and then some.

He makes the barrier disappear and gets back to attacking the monster.

And he takes Maitimo's hand and runs at it.

The creature disappears just as he's about to enter the time field.

Bother. - conjuring, where is it -

Tokyo.

Both Eidolon and Legend are gone, too.

The two of them will go to Tokyo too.

The battle continues as before, but it's kinda desperate—very few other capes have the level of mobility Legend does and Eidolon can muster, and most of the world has not actually noticed the new monster yet.

And if he tries to get into a time-dilation field again -