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Ugh, powers are weird. Well, Glam can outfly Mountain herself but there's enough concrete flying around that at least one chunk gets through the barrage and dodging and wraps around Glam like containment foam.

Mountain simply ignores the turret blasts. She's getting knocked around some, but rocks are heavy so not all that much. Investigating the robot popped it for some reason. Let's do the same to the turret and the gun.

"I don't think they can hurt me but I don't think I can catch them by myself either. Those guns will wear away anything I try to trap them in sooner or later."
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"We are sending someone."

Glam's guns disappear, naturally, to their annoyance, so they decide to try something: new turret gun, this one with a visible energy shield around it, crackling. They expect Mountain won't be able to feel it, because something something psychic barrier something. Does that work?
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She looks at it, then starts trying to smash it with more concrete, so apparently yes.

Mountain grows the little piece of concrete that managed to wrap around around Glam until it starts weighing them down, all while continuing to chase.
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Oh but that was all that Glam needed. Another such turret appears, directly below Glam, and fires a myriad tiny kinetic lasers at the concrete, attempting to break it down without blasting Glam themself into the sky.

A third turret appears and starts shooting Mountain with actual thick blasts that are meant to blast her into the sky.
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She updates the heroes on their position as the fight moves.

She throws her big sledgehammer at the third turret at a fairly alarming speed, expecting it to smash straight through the shield and break the thing. (And starts making a new hammer.)
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Glam glares at the hammer on the ground and makes six turrets appear pointing at it. They all shoot it simultaneously. They might also make a crater on the ground. Then Glam looks up at Mountain again and twirls the fingers of both hands together, their arms extended out ahead of them as if they were holding an invisible two-handed gun pointing at her. Except instead of a gun, a curious form of metal armor (covered by the psychicbabble field) starts appearing around both arms, joining at the hands and ending in something like a cannon.

It makes a loud noise as it charges up—purely for the effect, of course, a gun that has to charge is clearly better than one that doesn't—then shoots a thin concentrated blast that makes a 'fweem' noise as it travels the air at Mountain.
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These things look like light. Crystals refract light. The head of her new hammer is various gemstones, she angles it to catch the incoming blast and point it up. If it doesn't work as well as she hopes, well gemstones are tough.

Meanwhile, the first hammer and the crater starts fixing itself. Mountain stops throwing more pieces of concrete at Glam, though.

"Don't you think this is getting out of hand? I don't want anybody to get hurt."
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It doesn't work exactly as well as she hopes, but it does work some, greatly reducing the efficacy of their blast.

"I kinda need a pretty definitive win, here. I'm sure you can fix the sidewalk and road after we're done, and I won't let anyone get hurt." They point at a device that appeared on the ground, which starts making a whirring noise before a forcefield appears around them and starts looking progressively more solid.
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Mountain makes a few shiny mirror disks since the first thing worked more or less. And a dozen or so stone hammers. They should be getting tired by now, right? That's a lot of stuff they've been appearing.

"There's no reason for me to let you win. All I know about you is you said you were going to steal stuff and the Protectorate thinks you're annoying. Fighting Leviathan got you points in my book, but you're being needlessly antagonistic and I can't stand that!"

Hammer time. She can't actually fly them all individually, but she can fake like that's what she's doing when they all fly in unpredictable patterns at Glam, joined by more stone fragments. She's not being as careful about damage, now, and Glam has proved to be tough so far, so she hits hard with whatever doesn't get blasted away or dodged.
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They purse their lips. "It's not needless, I promise. And yeah they think I'm annoying, 'cause I annoy them a lot. It's on purpose."

Glam makes another little forcefield around themself and flies around really fast, dodging the fragments. They make a new turret appear and shoot multiple times at Mountain.

Someone arrives, running really fast. He has a blue skintight suit covering a bodybuilder's physique with a red fist on his chest, long red boots and gloves, and a mask shaped like a frown, with red details on black.

"Hiya, Clobber!"

"Hey, Glam. She said you were gonna steal something?"

"Yeah, was gonna rob a bank."

He whistles. "Nice. I do have to stop you, though."

Glam shrugs. "Yeah, I know."
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"Clobber - I can pop her, their stuff if they forget to shield it. And I think the shields slow the making down. You got a plan?"

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Clobber's name becomes obvious when his fists suddenly become about as large as his torso. "Hit them until they drop? My hands are invulnerable so I use them as weapon and shield."

And to prove the former, Clobber starts punching the forcefield to try to join the battle, and even though the field looks pretty solid it still rocks and suffers under the onslaught.

Glam is getting frustrated by Mountain shrugging off their hits. Doesn't she know Tinkers? Tinker blasts aren't supposed to be reflected by mirrors, that's not how they work!
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Well, the only tinker Mountain has ever directly interacted with was Jetpack, so her own intuition about how laser guns are supposed to work is sticking for now.

She grows a huge sheet of rock and tries to box Glam in with it, reshaping on the fly. It's harder to dodge with something so big blocking one avenue of motion.
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Glam really doesn't want to break character, here, but if Mountain has literally no intuitions about Tinkers this fight starts becoming untenable. Glam decides they don't care anymore, and is covered by armor made of diamond surrounded by the bullshit energy field. They fly headfirst into the sheet of rock.

In the meantime, Clobber hits, hits, hits, hits, and the forcefield breaks. He's in. Now it's about time he start punching those turret guns.
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Glam can get through the rock just fine, but there's more behind it.

However, Mountain decides that, "You are annoying and I'm not getting paid for this. I'm going back to the Behemoth aftermath. Sorry, Clobber." She flies off.
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"Oi, come back! I'm not done!"

Except oop, Clobber's just thrown a piece of concrete at them and a diamond armor is not enough to actually absorb the hit, so they're sent flying.
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To Clobber, "Call me when it's over, I can come and clean up!"

To Glam, "You want to beat me in a fight? Give me a more compelling reason to fight."
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"I will, thanks," Clobber says before throwing more rubble at Glam, who shoots it to pieces with a gun.

"I'll tell you when I think of one," they say.
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And she goes back to unBehemothing New York.
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After a while, she gets a call saying that there's a certain street that could really use some fixing.

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She flies over and clears the not-glass-or-wood parts of the mess up in less than ten minutes.

Actually, she can't fix those streetlights either, she doesn't know wiring. But it's better than it was before.

She'll just finish this block of Behemoth aftermath and then be done for the day. She'd rather be fresh and alert when she fixes that bridge just beyond it.
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When she's done for the day, there's someone lurking there, watching.

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"Hello, Glam. You can talk to me, I'm not doing anything that particularly needs concentration right now."

Rubble continues to rearrange and twist around and separate into types.
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"Hiya. Sorry for the thing earlier. I didn't end up stealing anything."

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"Thank you for apologizing I suppose. Are you going to steal things and pick fights tomorrow?"

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