Lucien and Bell in Worm canon
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The rubble is silent for precious seconds, allowing capes a chance to regroup. As it begins to move towards the end of the countdown half a dozen capes rain down onto the rubble attempting to seal him in. 

His upper body is just barely visible before the bombs go off. Only a handful of bombs were kept at this particular location but the effects are still spectacular, a sphere of yellowish gas blooming from the spot only to be overshadowed a second later as a pillar of fire rises up into the sky, melting through much of the rubble. The pillar lances through Leviathan, burning layers of his flesh away and boiling the black ichor that is his blood. He attempts to free himself but stops, his foot caught in some other effect even as the firey pillar continues to burn.

Capes leap to take advantage.

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As the fighting starts in earnest against the pinned down Leviathan a message goes out to the Search and Rescue team: capes who breathed in the yellow gas are being compelled to run towards the site of the bombing, they are teleporting the affected away from the immediate action but search and rescue needs to prevent them from returning.

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Yup, Lorica can go do that.

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This cape with a bright blue and black suit was effected by the gas and is pelting back towards the fight in a mad dash, despite being several blocks away.

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Well she's going to go pick him up by the scruff of his suit - what's his deal, maybe she shouldn't do that if he's a striker -

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PRT files identify him as an electricity blaster cape with additional mover powers he is evidently not using.

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Okay, she can reconfigure the suit to be better about electricity stuff just in case and scoop him.

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He doesn't zap her.

This next cape is wearing an incredibly bulky power suit that could be a thousand pounds by the look of it.

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Well, her antigrav is good but it's not that good and he's going to be over Transit's weight limit too. She calls that in (or, lets the bot do it) and goes to the next.

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Shortly after Lorica has relocated the fourth effected cape she gets a call from Tattletale.

"Pretty sure Leviathan's target is Coil's former lair at 450 60th street. It'd be a cluster fuck if he gets there and I've got a precog telling me there's a 84% chance that if I ask the heroes for help the city is destroyed within a month after the Endbringer leaves, at least a million dead." 

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"- what the fuck is that supposed to mean!" says Lorica, heading distractedly for the next person she needs to pick up and fly away with.

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"Got Coil's worst fucking idea cooped up in the lair. Other capes trying to get involved could very easily go side ways fast - trying to minimize the amount of attention this gets until I can figure out some fucking way to deal with this."

Tattletale is having such a migraine and the pain is very much audible in her voice.

"I've got a precog here telling me that if I ask the heroes for help keeping Leviathan from reaching us things go sideways sometime after the fight even if we succeed. You're my hail mary for precogs telling me we're fucked."

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"Ugh. What happens if Leviathan reaches you?"

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"Precog can't see Leviathan. I'm guessing whatever fucking disaster she was seeing within the next month happens now instead but I'm not sure at all. My power is pretty sure he's heading here."

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"Well, I can't move him... what is the worst fucking idea."

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"Cape with a really nasty master power. Do you need to know more now?" she says

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"I cannot prevent Leviathan from going in any direction he pleases, I'm in search and rescue. With more information I could maybe come up with some idea to move the cape but no promises."

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"I do not think moving the cape is remotely feasible - they're a bunch of other kinds of nasty on top of the master power including being quite the brute and striker. I have the Undersiders and Travellers already read in on the situation and can tell them to listen to you on this."

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"I don't think that helps either! You have a thing that can't move and a thing we can't stop heading towards it, there's not a lot to be done there! I'll see what I can do."

"Lucien, can you and Dad pull the collapsing building trick again, pin him somewhere? Maybe around fifth street, bots think he's heading that way? I think the massed fire worked really well."

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"Uh, you're bots sure of that? I don't really want to collapse a building that wouldn't otherwise be collapsed."

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"Well, I guess specifically targeting the place that's secretly run by Empire 88 would be a bad look, but it did cross my mind. Bots think the east apartment tower at the intersection with Washington isn't holding up well to the water, though."

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That sounds like a fair target for collapse!

Lucien and Transit head out to topple a second building.

 

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Come on, come on, come on, you stupid lizard.

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Leviathan is in fact heading in that direction as the building falls, halting his advance once again, however briefly.

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And then people can gang up on him and maybe he'll go home.

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