A ball of fire blossoms on the ground near the rubble, growing until it's too bright to look at, cutting through the rain like the sun has landed on Brockton Bay. Lorica's armor registers the increase in temperature even from several blocks away.

What of the rubble can burn catches fire briefly and then withers as the oxygen is consumed by the miniature sun. What can melt melts, the rubble contracting into a solid superheated lump of concrete and metal. 

Even once the sun goes out most capes can't get close. The few that can are warned off by Armsmaster, walking forward to face down whatever's left of the Endbringer on his own, with a combat analysis program designed for absolute victory in single combat and a halberd surrounded by nano thorns that can tear through anything. 

...wow, okay, Lorica will fly around grabbing burned capes within her tolerable range.

The Endbringer's water echo bursts through the rubble first, blasting out mist that obscures all vision.

But not Armsmaster's analysis program, which has a lock on the Endbringer's tactics. It runs straights into his halberd, a deep gash in it's side from the attempt.

It's clear that Leviathan is hurt, hurt more than he's ever been before. His body is burned, bits of melted metal have crept into his wounds, slowing his regeneration. One of his feet is shorn nearly completely off, the remainder caught in a bubble of frozen time from one of Bakuda's bombs. Yet it doesn't seem to slow him down as he duels with Armsmaster, an opponent who seems capable for foreseeing his every move and countering with a weapon that can cut through everything. When Leviathan had seemed to outmaneuver Armsmaster and find a way to escape Armsmaster pulls out a second halberd, blocking that path with a blade just as potent. 

The fight continues on, the two of them locked in duel that Leviathan seems destined to loose.

In a desperate attempt to push his opponent away Leviathan kicks out with his one whole foot, balancing on the sticklike point of what's left of the other one.

Armsmaster's halberds come up, trapping the leg between them. He brings them like a gigantic scissor to prune the monster's remaining foot, sheering through much of the flesh. Until, impossibly, the blades that can cut through everything fail, both shorting out as they attempt to cut deep into Leviathan's leg.

There's a moment of stillness, as if the Endbringer wants Armsmaster to see that he's been beat, before Leviathan bats Armsmaster aside, sending his armored body flying several blocks away to land in one of Lucien's water clogged trenches. 

Armsmaster down, the communications network reports.

In goes Lorica to scoop him up and bring him in.

Leviathan does not have Behemoth's roar or the Simurgh's scream, so he is silent as Armsmaster's body flies away. 

His feet have been mangled, the great speedster hobbled, at least for a moment.

Until Leviathan steps into one of the trenches crisscrossing the city - too narrow for him to walk in earlier but with his legs sliced down until they are points he can run. Run through the trench system, so filled with water it resemble a network of canals. Run with his hydrokinesis aiding him, blurring to go far faster than he ever could walk while his feet touched the earth.

He runs towards the sea, retreating, but with his claws out to slice through any capes near a trench and his feet acting as blades to cut through anyone so unlucky as to be in one. 

Such as Lorica, who is in the middle of hauling Armsmaster out of the mud when Leviathan streaks past - his claws swiping her torso, cutting her in half.

Her bots go nuts. The radar screamer screams. Transit drops the person he's been transporting unceremoniously to blip into place beside her -

She is technically still alive when Transit gets there, her brain still functioning even with her body bisected by the strike.

His suit is pathing him quick as can be to Panacea.

She doesn't come first in the triage, Panacea can only stabilize one person at a time and dozens are in more plausibly survivable states than her. Still, it's only a few seconds before Panacea gets to her, placing her hand on Lorica.

Only to remove it a moment later - she can't revive the dead.