Tinker!Walta and Glam in Worm
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She follows. "And only search and rescue stuff. I have an upgunned version of my scanner, more like a RADAR really, should be good for finding people. I can probably do some obstacle and rubble clearing. But... Not fighting. I'm not bringing any weapons."

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"Yeah, that's smart. I don't think you have anything right now that could even scratch one of them. I'm gonna try the new idea for a gun I had."

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"Good luck." New ideas don't seem to work for Glam until he's had practice, he'll need it. "I don't have great, uh, endurance, but if the power lines are still running or I can get electricity from something - who do I tell about that?"

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"There'll probably be someone on the other end organizing stuff like that."

And there's the teleporter, waiting for this batch to complete.

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She asks the teleporter, "My rig being kind of big isn't a problem, is it?"

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"Nah, I'm limited by number not mass. Kinda. It's cool."

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"Great. Okay. Thanks."

Deep breaths. Her rig settles into a resting posture - though who can tell with this almost-spiderlike thing with weird angles and random limbs - and the puttering engine cuts out a moment later.

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It takes only a couple of minutes for the teleporter to say, "Alright, this one's full, leaving in one minute! If you're having second thoughts now's the time to run!"

That causes a reaction but no one actually leaves.

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Search and rescue has to be safer than directly fighting the Leviathan.

Vertigo stays after a glance around at who else showed up.

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Pretty much the whole Protectorate's there, as well as New Wave—recognizable by the white costumes and the lack of masks—and a few other independents and villains.

The teleporter she fought isn't there.

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She recognizes most of them, and has a general idea of the powers around. Maybe she should have made introductions. Something something truce, nobody fights or spies on other capes until the Endbringer battle is well and done. Oh well.

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"Going in ten!"

The area where the capes are gathered is suddenly surrounded by a fence made of purple light, and the ground starts to glow.

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Walta starts her engine back up. The mech-box-thing rises into a more ready pose. "Good luck, Glam."

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In exactly ten seconds there's a flash, a sudden lurch in a direction that doesn't exist, vertigo—

—and rain, enough rain it's almost like the sky is pouring a waterfall.

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She is, at least, equipped for rain. Visual enhancers: On! Scanner: Active!

"Anybody know if someone's coordinating or something?"

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Her question is lost in the noise of the rain, but there's a cape pointing the way to a building.

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In they go. She manages to get through the normal sized door.

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"Just why didn't he teleport us into the building?" a villain asks, trying to dry her hair.

Glam flies purposefully over to an official-looking cape who's pointing people this way and that. They beckon Vertigo.

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Vertigo rolls her eyes at the villain. Then again, she's in a nice heated cabin...

She goes where Glam beckons.

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Glam flies off, following another flying cape.

"How heavy is that?" the organizer asks.

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"Uh, about three quarters of a ton. I could drop some things. I'm rigged for search and rescue and, like, rubble clearing."

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"How do you clear rubble? What-all are your capabilities?"

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"Grabby claws for rubble. Could throw trucks. Can maybe get to someone in a collapsed building without collapsing it more. I have a couple very good sensors, can find people and other life through walls and water and rubble. Dunno if they can see Leviathan. Launch pods that can deliver things, I have colored smoke and first aid stuff in 'em. I can deploy a temporary ladder or bridge in five seconds flat. I'm - highway speed, can leap roofs and stuff. I can move okay underwater. Two armored padded safety pods to evacuate people in. I need a recharge with lightning or electricity after a while."

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"'Kay, I'll pair you with a flier, they'll direct you towards high-leverage areas every now and then and you use your sensors to find whatever they must've pointed at, sound good?"

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"I don't- Okay. I can give the flyer a radio linked to me. Other than that, sounds good."

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