Cam is watching a new recording of Atriama, tail swishing in the gap in his couch, and doesn't stop to pause the show when he feels a summons go by.
Cam can provide handholds faster than everyone else; now fliers get to stop rescuing people who shouldn't need it. Behemoth leaps before the effect fades, and some of the people against the wall end up too close. The armbands reel off the names of casualties.
Cam gives chase when he moves and places more lightning rods and tries to get everyone ground-bound a ladder away from the gravity well.
Behemoth rises into the air and gets held there. There are Alexandria packages in contact with him, but they're pursuing more than they're supporting.
Eidolon casually warps the ground to bind Behemoth's limbs, and other capes imitate him while he switches to another power and blasts at Behemoth directly.
As long as Behemoth's immobile he can try setting up magnetic radiation shields like what he's got around his black hole. They might not work here but it's worth a try.
Behemoth is still stuck in midair. Thirty feet around him, a translucent sphere appears and starts expanding. The armbands all warn that the kill radius is increasing, but capes are already staying away. The silvery border increases up to several times the normal safe distance, then retracts when Behemoth gets lowered to the ground. He starts trading blows with the people who can trade blows with him.
Yup, shields were worthless, fuck. Cam goes back to applying inadequate damage to surface layers and keeping an eye out for other terrain additions that would help.
Behemoth is focusing on the heavy hitters. Alexandria, Eidolon, Rukavitsa, Athrwys. It's not great for morale when the leaders get repeatedly struck down, but at least they're relatively capable of getting back up. Behemoth is more harried than usual. If he has a goal he's not making much progress toward it.
Come on think of something think of something -
Behemoth objects to this, and blasts Alexandria out of the sky. By the time she's back he has thrown aside some more of the ones who had been slowing him down and started advancing on the squishier capes. There's still the occasional fireball, but if he closes the distance that won't be anyone's largest problem.
"What do you have in mind?"
"I'm indestructible, but even, say, my hair, won't get anywhere. If somebody could shrink it down and it stayed indestructible -"
"Sending a drone now. Have it ready."
"Oh. Okay."
Cam grows a hair from his head and forms it into a looped skein around his wrist. He hands it to the drone, and anchors himself to the ground as soon as his armband says to.
Behemoth gets decapitated. Then more pieces start getting sliced off, and he explodes. Or at least, there's an explosion and it's centered on him. It launches stone splinters in every direction, fast enough that between the sound and the sharp obsidian fragments making contact there isn't enough time to blink.
While the armbands list off names of people who got hit by the shrapnel without being as indestructible as Cam is, Behemoth's next retaliatory strike gets interrupted. By Scion. The golden man is the next best thing to omnipotent, and if he isn't damaging Behemoth as much as he could he at least keeps him occupied while other heroes focus on the open wound. This continues for a while while more slivers and chunks fall off the Endbringer.
Scion's priority is to stop it. The other heavy hitters keep concentrating their fire on the decreasingly armored Behemoth and trying to hold him in place. If this is a difference in priorities, it's at least a more understandable one.
...Behemoth's already escalating beyond normal parameters. Cam stretches out a hand and wraps him in fingernail, with plenty of gaps so people can keep hitting.
Quite a few of the world's most powerful heroes pour in everything they've got. The next time Behemoth detonates, there's nothing visible left.
Splendid. Cam trims the nail. The hair can stay until he's surer whoever's got it is done with it.
After thirty seconds of Behemoth looking really most sincerely dead and the Simurgh not descending from the heavens to kill them all, everyone resumes breathing and cheers.
Cam whoops too, and then goes and medical demons for a bit, and then rounds up his surviving volunteers to bring them back to the greater Angola/Namibia Region. All of them are alive! Must have been that cape who can do resurrections. Good of her to show up.
A purple-costumed cape steps through. "Hi Cam. I'm Tattletale. Have you heard of Kithabel?"