How fast do they move?

Terrifyingly fast for something that big, but even when breaching (which is as fast as they go, really) they max out at like 120 kmph. 

"Yeah that's doable."

That earns him a very warm smile from behind her tired eyes. "Excellent. I believe you should both be patched into our network via your commscreens - you'll be alerted as soon as we spot one incoming." 

"Cool. And I got good reaction times, even if one showed up unannounced I'd be able to stop it. 

"Whereabouts in the worms do victims usually get stored?"

"About a third of the way back, in a special sack for it." It's the only non-duplicated part of the creatures, besides the ends. 

"Then I'll try to focus on that part to keep the victims safe."

Brisk nod. "They're somewhat protected from the normal motion of the worms in there, so consider that lower priority than stopping one, especially in the portal, but - if you can, please do." 

"I think I should probably try to focus on stopping individual segments rather than the whole worm and let physics do its job to the rest of its body, for backlash efficiency, so having that as my point of focus is probably good anyway."

She stops to think that through, and then nods. It should work, and with a little luck, it might even do more to the worm than stopping it all at once. (Luck is not a plan; she's not counting on it.)

"Alright. Do either of you have any more questions at this time?" 

"So the plan is to park here at the entrance and wait? Imagine it's tomorrow and you're told this plan went wrong. What do you think the reason it went wrong was?"

"Ah, apologies if that sounds condescending, I just want to make sure I understand the tactical situation well enough."

(Woo-young is really happy when Tae-hwan gets to be professional and competent. He's in his element, it's so nice to watch.)

"No, it's a good question." She pauses to think. "Your power can't affect worm segments individually. The worms move in such a way that stopping a segment doesn't meaningfully impair their ability to get back into the portal without requiring unsustainable power usage from you. Infested Wasteland decides to become S-rank at noon and" another momentary pause as she tries to come up with Some Dungeon Bullshit "breaches with one of its lung-shredding sandstorms in addition to the worms."

"My power can affect individual limbs in a person, it should probably affect the worm. That not stopping the worm meaningfully... maybe, yeah, won't know until we try. If it tries to dump a sandstorm on us I can actually force it to settle, it's not the most elegant or efficient but I can."

"If there's a sandstorms breach I strongly advise you two to evacuate the area until we teleport Skybreaker in to contain it," Novak says, tiredly. "And - good to know, about the limbs."

"...you don't suppose I could get an autograph if that happens?"

...heh. "I'll see what I can do."

"Awesome."

She smiles at them. "Alright. I need to..." she looks around for the -

car that they did not take. Right. "...request a teleport back to HQ, but if you need anything, please reach out via comms, I'm doing very little that can't be interrupted if it's high priority - and by default several other people will see, there should be someone available to help if you need it."

"Roger that."

"And I'll be on snuggling duty."

"Alright. Good luck out here. And thank you both, again." 

She teleports out.

Someone has been analysing the pattern of worm attacks. That someone has been getting more and more disturbed by them. She's thinking this isn't adding up. And she doesn't know what it means and needs someone else to look at it because she's going insane.

That somebody is going to be Novak, who has "get a status update from Pearce re: worm movements" as the next thing on her to-do list and therefore appears with a flash of blue light in the analyst area and makes a beeline for the woman.