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The Fate who calls herself Mountain tried to convince some of her neighbors to allow the occasional mountain in their lands, for stability purposes.
"I meant no insult!" Dodge ball of lava. "I don't intend to interfere, you said no!" Dodge house-sized spear of ice. "I'm leaving peacefully, okay, so stop tearing up the tile!"
"You'll respawn at home. No permanent damage. You interrupted an important meeting, you need to learn a lesson about territory, mountain bitch." Dodge- no, fail to dodge a thrown tree, and then another ice ball. The next sphere of magma is what destroyed that form.
She wakes up, stripped of all her tools and enchantments and even clothes, and groans in pain.
Steel in Wormverse
sturdycoldsteel
"I can take you to him, though Mr. Norton," he gestures at Harry, "will not be able to come with you on patrol and your translator will still take a while to be done."
"You're welcome!" Harry looks very pleased about the whole thing.
"If you'll follow me?" And Legend leads her to an elevator that takes her down a couple of levels to a room where a man with a red-and-yellow helmet, red-yellow-white bodysuit with flame-like patterns, and donning on thematically appropriate armor is. "Jetpack, this is Mountain. Would you mind overmuch if she accompanied you in your patrol."
Jetpack looks at her and nods. "Sure, no problem."
"If you'll follow me?" And Legend leads her to an elevator that takes her down a couple of levels to a room where a man with a red-and-yellow helmet, red-yellow-white bodysuit with flame-like patterns, and donning on thematically appropriate armor is. "Jetpack, this is Mountain. Would you mind overmuch if she accompanied you in your patrol."
Jetpack looks at her and nods. "Sure, no problem."
Legend bids his farewells and departs.
"That's fine," Jetpack reassures her as he puts on his namesake. "I'll be going out in about fifteen minutes."
"That's fine," Jetpack reassures her as he puts on his namesake. "I'll be going out in about fifteen minutes."
"I am, and we were all given a very vague rundown of what you can do. Flying, resistance, and control over rocks, yes?"
sturdycoldsteel
"Yes, but hard. Better with actual rocks, like diamond." She taps her visor. "Or on large scale."
sturdycoldsteel
Shrug. "I am Mountain. I will always be Mountain. I see no reason to be someone else."
"Not now, but I might accept later! And we should probably get going, Fantastic will be here from her patrol soon."
Out they go! Jetpack's thing is not, as it happens, propulsion, it is gravity manipulation.
They fly around on a few predefined routes, deviating from those more-or-less at random to look for trouble.
They fly around on a few predefined routes, deviating from those more-or-less at random to look for trouble.
sturdycoldsteel
She follows his lead, goggling at all the shiny buildings so on in a slightly detached sort of way.
Jetpack starts leading them to some less... reputable... parts of the city. Sticking to the shiny isn't likely to find a whole lot, now, is it?
sturdycoldsteel
She wouldn't know where to find trouble.
She comments offhand that the networks of tunnels below could use some shoring up in a few places.
She comments offhand that the networks of tunnels below could use some shoring up in a few places.
sturdycoldsteel
Nothing urgent. Accumulated wear, soil shift, weaknesses in the stone that could never have been noticed. Nothing's about to collapse but some of it is probably leaking and some of it might collapse in 10 years.
...or earlier if the wrong Endbringer attacks a city nearby.
(Of course if they attack New York itself then it's not a question, really.)
(Of course if they attack New York itself then it's not a question, really.)