Mountain, meet Endbringer | Glowfic Constellation

Thieves can be frustrated all they like.

She loses her hold on each individual piece as it gets rewound, and simply doesn't grab them again if it'd cause damage. She does trip the villain again, snickering.

The villain throws her hands up in the air, leaves the store, flips Mountain the bird, and disappears.

She stops flying and waits for someone Official to arrive so she can explain what exactly happened.

A heroine with a shield, a sword, and a helmet adorned with mouse ears appears!

"Hello! I'm Mountain. I am not the one who was robbing the store, she ran away."

"Yes! I know! I've heard of you. I am the Mouse Protector!" She unsheathes her sword and points it to the air. She looks into the store. "What happened here?"

The shopkeeper starts explaining the part where the villain calmly walked into the store and touched the people there, making them disappear, before pointing a gun at him and lazily grabbing jewelry and putting it inside a black bag.

When he's done with that, Mountain continues, "I fused the gun then tried to immobilize her, but she just flickered around it. Did not know her power then but she ran at me so I assumed she thought it could hurt me - I flew up. Then I stopped her from taking anything by moving the jewelry around and hit her with rocks not too hard until she gave up. Those people okay?"

"I have not found any people on my way here! That is very worrying. What were the horrible villain's powers?"

"Seemed like reversing time or something? She put things to where they were when she touched them. I'm not sure on the details." She draws the rewind symbol. "This was on her costume."

"That is very suggestive! That symbol is used on media-playing devices to indicate a command that will return the media being played to a previous point. Hmm, if she just turned those people back to wherever they had been earlier then that is not as worrying, they are probably fine, but the Protectorate should be informed at once."

"Hm, she'll be hard to catch if she can just go back to where she woke up or something. I have a phone, should I call them or will you?"

"Worry not, I have relayed this conversation to them already! We thank you for your help with this."

"I probably won't do this kind of thing very much, I am just so bored since I am still not allowed to sell things. So much paperwork."

She nods gravely. "Yes, bureaucracy can take a while, but it is for the greater good, and to guarantee the safety and well-being of the people."

"Well I think I will go home now. Have a nice day, Mouse Protector."

"You, too, honorable Mountain!"

Why 'honorable'? Well, it's not like she'll reject the title.

Off she flies, restlessness satisfied.

She arrives precisely on schedule for the second round of power testing.

The second round of power testing is, as announced, more thorough. They test her precision and fine control, then go outside to test her range and large-scale ability, first with crumbling abandoned buildings and then an isolated field in the middle of nowhere.

Her fine control is not quite down to the width of a human hair, but she can do all the tricks she listed, from merging gemstones together to pulling most kinds of metal from most kinds of ore to mixing and separating alloys.

She can totally repair crumbling abandoned buildings. Or are they asking her to topple them? Either way.

Repair one, topple another, there's a whole day's worth of testing to go about.

She's very patient about it since it's actually making progress.

Indeed! They ask a few more questions and eventually are done, informing her she will be contacted again soon.

Is soon measured in hours, days, or weeks?

A week, two at the very most.