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So Glam tests their power some more, and then has a meeting with Piggot where they explain the Siberian. She listens carefully, then asks them not to demonstrate, and says she will communicate that to the appropriate people. That takes a while, and then Lorica is asked to confirm this, and then Glam is asked to demonstrate to very few people with very high clearance.
This should not get out, it would be a PR nightmare, but if the Sibarian copy does what it looks like it does, its help will be invaluable in the upcoming Endbringer fights. When Glam decides to use that power, the story will be that a power copier has grabbed the Siberian's and is using it against the Endbringer, that people should not panic, and that she is an ally. Glam mentions, since they're all being so cooperative about telling everyone on the comms, that the Siberian copy doesn't have to look like the original, so people can know whether to panic or not based on her shape.
That leaves, of course, Glam's own willingness to face the Slaughterhouse Nine. Even if they don't know that Siberian is them, they will likely cause problems, and this will need to be carefully planned.
Careful plans tend not to survive contact with reality, and that is doubly true when the next Endbringer attack happens only two months and nine days after the previous one.
Not that it would matter much: Glam is definitely not going to a Simurgh fight, not yet.
"What kind of disturbance?" asks Windflower, checking the nearest street sign to see which way to go.
"Do you at least know if there's capes?"
"Well, okay," sighs Windflower, and she heads in the direction.
They go, all sneaky, and upon approaching the address, the signs of disturbance become clear. Fighting noises, to be specific. Someone roars, and Rewind freezes. "That was Lung."
"...Uh, can we take Lung?"
"No we can't. Call it in," she says, and sneakily sneaks to the corner around which the fighting sounds are coming from. She quickly comes back. "Shit they've been at it for more than ten minutes."
"Hi Echo it's Lung we need help?" says Windflower into her comm.
"Fuck that," Rewind whispers, and sneaks back to the corner to watch the ongoing fight. "Stormtiger and Crusader are there, too. Lung's winning," she calls on the comm.
"Careful," Windflower says of the sneaking.
"Miss Militia, Dauntless, three Glam's, and Lorica's bots are en route," Echo informs them.
Rewind doesn't seem to hear that. She watches the ongoing fight, looking increasingly anxious, then repeats, "Fuck that, if he gets bigger we're screwed," and turns around the corner towards the fight.
"No, come back - Rewind!"
Oop, she's gone already.
"Rewind get back here!" They've still got Lorica's fancy comms, it should be getting through...
"They haven't seen me yet I'm gonna boop him."
"He's not the only cape there!"
She doesn't reply.
"Echo how long until reinforcements get here?" Windflower says. "Rewind ran in ahead she wouldn't stop -"
There is another roar, though this one sounds less monstrous than the previous one. "I got him, he's smaller," Rewind says in the comm.
"She backed Lung up ten minutes to shrink him," says Windflower. "Rewind, you have to get out!"
The fighting noises continue for a few seconds before she replies: "Don't wanna lead him to you."