Later that evening Lucien is being driven to a meeting forlornly staring at the trench he carved on the side of the road during the attack, rendering the sidewalk unusable, when he slowly puts together that in fact everything that is wrong with this city is his fault. He toppled buildings and carved the land and killed all the best capes and it's all on him. He doesn't know what he's been doing, pretending at reform.

"Can you stop the car?" Lucien asks his Undersider provided chauffer. 

The driver pulls over, "Sir?"

"I actually need to go to the PRT headquarters I've made a terrible mistake and need to turn myself in."

"Sir????"

"I know it's so late to realize but I understand now." It's really ridiculous that Lucien didn't realize this before! "Just, please -"

Capes have very strong opinions and there emotions can change on a dime in intense circumstances. This makes it difficult to provide any useful advice to them as to how to notice that something is awry in their thinking - for everything a sane person might flag there's a dozen capes who think it ten times a day. But! Even capes, however volatile, don't miss extremely obvious conclusions they could have made months ago! Well, that's not strictly true, a few capes will not notice for months that they can simply not make a terrible decision - but the same advice works in either case. And so, if you happen to be one of the few Wards to have actually memorized the important parts of the PRT handbook you were supposed to memorize - than when you realize that something is blindingly obvious and you missed it for months with no possible excuse, your first response will be -

"-Master/Stranger." Rules say to check as soon as possible, specific wording: "Do I seem mentally disturbed in an unexpected way?"

"Yes, sir." Which doesn't actually change Lucien's next step but is supposed to make him more confident in it.

Contact operational command - Tattletale was out of commission last he was aware, handbook instructions are to go up if necessary, whether or not it's intimidating.

"Call Skitter." 

And then, until communication is established or he can count to 50, or fail at counting to ten, he is supposed to look around for immediate threats and respond non-aggressively, without moving fast or using powers or tools.

She picks up when he's at 8.

"Tunnel Teen, what's going on?" He really needs to pick a new name.

Next: "Master/Stranger alert." 

"Details?"

She can make this a conference call and add Tattletale, who has had the chance to mostly recover from her migraine by now.

That's not in the handbook, the next response is supposed ask about his immediate physical safety, which means: "Confirm your response isn't according to protocol?"

"I don't know this protocol, I assume it's PRT."

Her territory is half an hour from Lucien's if she is comfortable speeding, which she absolutely is.

That makes se-next instruction from the handbook. Verbal engaging okay, he isn't supposed to reveal tactically relevant secrets. Otherwise he is supposed to analyze the situation and select from the available options...

Non-Protectorate and non-PRT command is one of the options. 

"It is PRT. I believe myself to have realized that I am at fault for everything wrong with the city despite not realizing this for months. I believe that this means I should turn myself in to the PRT." Believe statements allowed, reporting on previous thoughts allowed, so long as no operational secrets are relevant. Given that this isn't Protectorate or PRT command he needs to add: "Regulations say I shouldn't take actions on these beliefs at this time."

She needs to get a copy of these regulations, fix what ever is broken, and then have the Undersiders read them.

"Do you have any indication of what caused this?"

"I believe myself not to know. Regulations say I can list Master/Stranger risks in the area I am aware of."

"First tell me your location, than that."

Can she not have a single break.

"Call May, it has to do with her" Tattletale says once Lucien lists her as an option.

"I believe I heard Tattletale - confirm?"

"Confirmed."

She has Rete's number...

"Rete here, may I ask the purpose of your call?"

"Lucien's brain has decided to do its own take on whatever nonsense is going on with May."

Oh May's backlash is his fault, that makes sense.

(He is not going to say anything about this since the flowchart doesn't have an option for this at this time, which really seems like an oversight. It does have an option for if the flowchart has an oversight but it's to do nothing and return to the previous step.)

"If that's the case they should check if they're compatible." And Rete should alert the Protectorate, but it's not going to announce that to Tattletale.

Of course not, why would Rete need to announce this to Tattletale.

"How do we do that?"

"I can ask Transit to bring her back to Lucien's apartment when he's ready."

She is not going to hand over her people without any precautions.

"He's not there right now - can Transit be at 41st and Platt in 10 minutes?"