Sadde doesn't seem quite able to focus on homework at the moment. He's fidgeting, and sometimes stares off into space for long periods of time before James has to snap him out of 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."
"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."
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.
(And Lorica maneuvers Rewind and Transit around and flies students who didn't make it to the shelter out beyond city limits -)
And then there's a flash of light in the sky, and he's here.
"Oh thank god."
(Evac still needs to happen, Scion's good news but Behemoth may cause a quake on his way out, go go go -)
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.
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.
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.
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.
Lorica's sitting with her dad, her helmet on his shoulder.
Glam... decides they will talk to her once they arrive, or maybe later if she doesn't want to.
They've still got a robot with them. It's a little too big for a shoulder and sits in their lap.
"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."
"Mmhm." Pause. "Where's Boots, by the way? I didn't see him board." They look around, trying to spot him.