Tinker!Walta and Glam in Worm
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And switch modes for a second... Yep, there he is on her scanner. "Dauntless! I think a cape called Glam is nearby! White costume! They helped me before!"

She's out of nets. She deploys that thin electrified pole.

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He doesn't respond, either because he didn't hear her or because he's too focused.

Or because he's dodging this person in a smiling demon mask carrying knives that appears in front of him all of a sudden, possibly that.

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She doesn't have anything specifically designed to fight teleporters but maybe... 

No. Field modifications are a bad idea. And- Dauntless has armor, he can stand up to that for a few seconds. She glances around. Are all the thugs down or scattered? Any of them seem badly hurt?

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They're none of them badly hurt, mostly just disa—

Oh, no, a clone of masked guy shows up behind a Korean gangbanger and stabs him. About a second after that, the original masked guy dissolves into white powder, and about a second after that this new clone does too, after dodging a Tinker-like blast from a retreating Glam.

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What. Teleporter? Clones? ...Out comes the scanner. But a moment later she hesitates and runs toward the guy who got stabbed. Then she hesitates again and looks at the scanner. Can't do two things at once- Can't- Stopping this guy from stabbing more people is more important.

She's close enough to toss the first-aid kit at one of the other non-immobilized gangers and shout "Help him!" before looking at the scanner and trying to figure out the villain's pattern.

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...well, the villain sure has an interesting power. It appears that he can teleport, except what that actually does is create a copy of himself somewhere else while his "original" continues to act independently (and strategically) for a few seconds before dissolving into white ash.

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That's pretty powerful. Ugh, new capes.

Dauntless doesn't have comms with her. Glam probably isn't listening but she tries, "Glam, if you can hear me, we got to attack the newest one, I'll light him up fast as I can."

She proceeds to try this strategy - turning tinker-bright lights at the newest one as fast as they appear. If he gets close enough, she might try a swipe with her stun rod.

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Dauntless takes this in and decides that his priority is protecting the lives of the gangsters being attacked by the mysterious new cape while they run for it.

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Glam continues engaging the mover, trying to hit him with the laser gun thing and failing. They keep failing to hit for a while—not only is the Mover a teleporter, apparently he is also pretty agile—before deciding to change tacks. The gun disappears and is replaced by another gun that looks slightly more advanced. When they shoot with that gun, the bolt actually curves some to follow its target.

And this time the mover is hit! ...and dissolves into a cloud of dust. He reappears on a rooftop and then teleports right behind Glam.

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"GLAM, DODGE!"

This heavy suit is pretty mobile - for something the size of a small car. She can't actually keep up with the teleporter. A laser would do some serious damage fast enough to catch the 'newest' one, but she can't use that because it could kill him.

Maybe Dauntless has the right idea - defend and evade. She moves towards the remaining gangers, the ones who can't run away either because they're hurt or because she sticky-netted them.

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Glam dodges and twists away, trying and failing to hit Demon Mask with a blast.

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And this is when Velocity arrives and runs up to Dauntless right on time to pull him out of the way of a knife. They exchange a couple of words and he runs off to try to preempt the mover's attacks at other targets.

He doesn't sit still for more than a second, zipping from point to point and trying to hurt as many of the members of one of the gangs as possible. The members of the other gang, although taken by surprise—apparently they weren't expecting Demon Mask—are rolling with it and pressing their advantage.

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Walta again puts herself right in between the two gangs, stunning away at the side this teleporter seems to support, trying to provoke him into going for her.

Because if the villain attacks the suit he'll get a nasty electrical surprise.

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He does attack the suit!

...or, well, he teleports behind the suit and just stands there, holding a metallic thing that beeps.

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As soon as he appears near her, she pushes the area-knockout field button! Blue crackling wisps, much gentler and smaller than the last time she tried this, arc over the nearby area.

Her suit goes slightly limper as it starts to rebuild charge, but everything human within five feet of her should be badly affected. And nearby cars hopefully not on fire this time. Is the beeping thing a grenade? She bets it's a grenade. One of the suit arms tries to grab it as she turns around.

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Nothing is on fire! Gangsters and the teleporter are knocked unconscious! Unfortunately he'd already copied himself elsewhere—behind Dauntless and then Glam, actually.

Oh and yes that's a grenade. It is attached to the fabric of his suit.

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Really? I was fast! Need to automatically trigger that.

She grabs the grenade inside the armored claw-hand, ripping the clone's shirt, whatever, and locks the claw closed. Then she extends the arm away from her, into an empty patch of street. Relatively harmless way for it to explode, hopefully. 

"Guys, he's using grenades! What the fuck!"

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Glam notices the copy of the grenade that got stuck to their suit and the bit of suit it got stuck to gets detached as they fly away from it.

And it goes off, before hitting the ground. While the explosion isn't that big, it'd still be enough to hurt and/or knock out someone not built to withstand that, as well as possibly damage certain pieces of armor. Probably not Vertigo's, though.

Glam examines the battlefield, where most of the gangbangers are unconscious and the remaining are either fleeing (in the case of the Koreans) or trying to take Dauntless out (in the case of the Japanese). Glam decides to go help the Ward, zigzagging in flight to evade Demon Mask and shooting the remaining bangers with the stun gun.

As for Demon Mask, he is now five Demon Masks, one trying to stab Dauntless, one trying to stab Velocity, two to trying to stab (the first) and explode (the second) Vertigo, and the last one on a rooftop pausing for a second to look at the battlefield.

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"Aren't you getting tired?"

She grabs at the bomb and holds it in the tough claw again, ignores the stabs.

...There's usually one of demon guy who's not in combat. The scanner's handy for learning things like that. Pausing to look over the fight? Something else? She shoves one of the clones stabbing her suit to the ground and watches her scanner for a few seconds. He's popping out and in and out and in.

Cutting line of sight is worth a shot. She launches out all her smoke grenades from their slots on the suit's back in high arcs, covering most of the area. Bright colors of thick smoke start billowing out. Mostly grey, some blue, red, sparkly(?).

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Most of the gangsters have been dealt with by now, but the ones who haven't can't do much about the smoke. None of the capes can do much about the smoke, in fact.

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Vertigo's scanner can see through her own smoke. Except for the sparkly one, launching her chaff may have been a mistake. She watches the new villain on the scanner while slowly going to the downed gangsters from earlier. "Glam, if you're hearing this I think the teleporter needs line of sight."

Where did the first aid kit she tossed out end up anyway, she put an RFID tag on it... Ah, there it is. That guy didn't actually stop to help, of course not. Well, out come the shortest robot arms on her overly-limbed armor, the most dexterous. She starts bandaging the guy she knows got stabbed. Carefully. Shit, that's a lot of blood.

She's shaking. Feels like throwing up. But it's not time to relax quite yet. The teleporter might come back

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The teleporter is a ways that-a-way, watching the scene on a rooftop and not otherwise moving or teleporting.

And Glam floats over to her. "I can't see anything, can you direct me to anyone who needs first aid?"

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Meanwhile both Dauntless and Velocity have stopped moving and are apparently talking to each other in their comms.

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"The teleporter needs line of sight. He's still sitting there, watching. There's about- About a dozen injured." She indicates the next one.

And then Walta has bandaged this guy up about as well as her very limited first-aid studying told her... She goes over to the nearest of the official heroes and tells them the same thing.

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"The PRT vans are almost here—is the teleporter still there—?"

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