And he's famously hard to track. She could get kittens stuck in trees until he saves the day?

That's probably the least troublesome approach to implement. She can go imitate a natural disaster somewhere outside of Protectorate jurisdiction. Where did Cauldron drop her?

Roughly the analogous position to where she came from.

To South America, then.

No one stops her, or tries to.

And once there she can proceed to inflict upon the local citizenry at least a moderate amount of woe and misery. Forest fires, mudslides, floods.

Scion doesn't show up very quickly. There is still only one of him.

The local capes are mostly helping evacuate, since Ellie isn't making it obvious there's a cape behind this. Just your ordinary everyday apocalypse. So no one tries to kill her, unfortunately.

A shame, but she has a larger goal. And that's a complication that will not necessarily serve it.

It's not as if she gets tired.

Eventually Scion does arrive, raising his hand and stilling a flood to a soundtrack of very loud cheers.

She has Jack's shade out in case anyone tries to make trouble.

She flies over to the golden man. "There you are. I've been waiting."

He turns and looks at her. He looks sad, just like normal, with no change based on what's happening around him. She has his attention but he doesn't break his decades-long silence.

"I know what you are. I know your partner died and your plan for this world was derailed. And I think I know how I can help you fix it."

He still doesn't say anything. But his eyes go almost imperceptibly wider.

"I've seen the body. It still exists. I can collect the pieces that have been stolen, and then with your help, I can assume control of the rest of it. I can take its place."

Scion continues staring. Thinking.

"You need my help. You've been trapped in a rut for thirty years, stopping floods, saving kittens, driving off Endbringers. That's not your purpose. You and I together, we could be so much more than that."

The cycle is doomed. He already knew that, and flying around helping people has done nothing at all to stave off the fact that he knew that. If he's not getting his partner back—

He reaches out a hand and removes a limit. The host probably didn't feel any different.

"Did you do something?"

Scion nods.

"Does that mean you assent to the plan?"

He nods sadly again.

"Good. Will you help me find the pieces?"

His expression changes, finally. Disgust.

But he starts flying northward.

Whatever.

She flies after him.

He flies fast. So does she, of course. In almost no time they're up to the U.S. border, and shortly after that—

Scion stops in front of Eidolon. Eidolon manages to look confused through the green hood. And then Scion blasts him.