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Somebody comes along to scoop it up and haul it elsewhere.

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It's hauled. By now it's pretty clear Behemoth's making his way towards the Carnegie Mellon University campus. It may be relevant that there's a shelter under it.

Real Glam has an idea, because fake Glam can't really have ideas. While copy keeps shooting, original asks the robot, "What if I said I was gonna charge up the gun for a continuous blast to hold his advance, so other capes could hit him while that happened? Probably need to fib about power and stuff but."
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"It's a new version. The charging up thing isn't getting that much attention even with the noise because everyone is too busy to pay attention to you. Skip straight to the continuous blast and don't bother with the technobabble."

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Sigh. "Alright." And copy acts as if they had heard this conversation, and starts charging up, then—

continuous blast. One huge blast, holding Behemoth at bay for several seconds as the gun keeps hitting him. Other capes get the hint and start hitting him in ways that won't move him from his spot, so he can stay trapped. Alexandria gets out of the way, and both Legend and Eidolon are shooting a barrage of lasers at the Endbringer.
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(And Lorica maneuvers Rewind and Transit around and flies students who didn't make it to the shelter out beyond city limits -)

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Behemoth escapes the blast, a few times, which causes it to hit whatever was behind him. That doesn't make things much worse, there's already a trail of destruction following him and the gun stops as soon as that happen, aims again, and continues. And while it doesn't do too much damage, combined with all the other capes shooting, blasting, cutting, burning, freezing, exploding, disintegrating, and distorting, it does quite a bit.

And then there's a flash of light in the sky, and he's here.

"Oh thank god."
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(Evac still needs to happen, Scion's good news but Behemoth may cause a quake on his way out, go go go -)

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Glam dismisses the copy and the gun, and then makes a bunch of copies—ten, a safe number, they should last the full half-hour—and starts helping with that. They follow the copies around with the binoculars, but the copies return to the building original's occupying every twenty or so minutes to make sure they won't blink out of existence.

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The robot can't follow them all and just picks one.

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Scion dishes out the hurt, grabbing Behemoth whenever he tries to escape and continuing to slap him down. He sends waves of stilling around the damaged parts of the city, causing fires to cease, radiation to decrease and then disappear, dust to settle. And eventually Behemoth escapes his grip and burrows back into the earth, too damaged to retaliate.

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And everyone who's still alive breathes a collective sigh of relief.

There's still ten minutes in which Rewind might be able to save more people. Could be any number of people trapped under rubble or burned and stranded. Lorica doesn't slow down.
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Neither does Glam, and Rewind is working like she never did before. But eventually the ten minutes are up, and a further ten minutes because who knows, and then they're boarding the plane back.

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All aboard that's going aboard.

Lorica's sitting with her dad, her helmet on his shoulder.
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Glam... decides they will talk to her once they arrive, or maybe later if she doesn't want to.

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They've still got a robot with them. It's a little too big for a shoulder and sits in their lap.

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Hm.

"...I'm sorry," they try whispering to the robot.
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The robot pats their knee.

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"I'm not sure what my copy told you. I have a theory but, you know. It was an idea Boots gave me before we came, like not ten minutes before the alarm sounded, and it was in my head, and I guess with all the stuff I forgot to warn you."

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"That's what the copy said," says the bot.

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"Mmhm." Pause. "Where's Boots, by the way? I didn't see him board." They look around, trying to spot him.

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"Boots died, Glam."
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"We lost Beneficence too."

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Glam hides their face in their hands, leaning forward, their elbows on their knees.

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"Do you need a hug?"
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