peterverse | endbringer, meet gun

peterxy posting in

...Very unseasonable rains can be seen in the distance from the shores of Acapulco.

The Brockton Bay Protectorate starts organizing volunteers to be transported or teletransported in batches to it. Heroes, rogues, villains, anyone's assistance is appreciated. A rendez-vous point is set for non-Protectorate capes wishing to volunteer, and Protectorate capes are informed of the situation via communication devices.

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From:

alicornucopia

"Hi. You can make the stuff I need to fix this?"

From:

mxglam

"Probably. What's wrong with it?"

From:

peterxy

Leviathan

moves.

Directly into the city, his afterimage aimed at a group of arriving capes.

At the same time, the water in the bay starts getting significantly more restless than it already was. Cities surrounded by water are very good for him, but cities surrounding water are a close second.

From:

alicornucopia

"Rated for rain not flood. I can't explain all the wiring to you, can you help me or not, she seemed to think you could."

From:

mxglam

Glam watches the Endbringer's movements and winces.

"Yes, I can. Gimmie."

From:

alicornucopia

Tinker hands over sparky basketball.

From:

mxglam

Non-tinker makes likely-looking tools appear and sits down to open sparky basketball and peer inside.

...they have absolutely no idea where to even begin, but they don't really need to. They just need to believe they can.

And feed off this tinker and Lorica's trust, that always helps.

They make pieces of stuff that's aesthetically similar to other stuff already inside the sparky basketball and start replacing this with that and that with that other thing.

From:

alicornucopia

"The fuck are you even doing," says the tinker dubiously.

From:

mxglam

They purse their lips - inside the mask, not outside. "I can make the stuff I want appear with various nice properties without having to actually build it," they say confidently and smoothly, without pausing their bullshit work. "Look." They stop for a second to make a tinker-looking gun appear in their hand and laser-shoot a small shallow hole on the roof. "Just trust me. I can fix this." Please trust me.

From:

alicornucopia

The tinker falls silent.

From:

mxglam

...good enough. The other gun disappears and Glam gets back to work.

Eventually they close the sparky ball and hand it back to the tinker. "Fixed."

From:

alicornucopia

The tinker prods some buttons. A forcefield flickers to life around the workspace on the roof.

From:

mxglam

"Drawback, the stuff I make disappears half an hour after I stop paying attention to it. The timer's reset whenever I do pay attention, though. And when you're telling other people who fixed your stuff, tell them it was Glam. They pronouns, please."

Edited Date: 2016-01-31 09:14 pm (UTC)

From:

alicornucopia

"That's not going to work in Spanish," says the tinker.

From:

mxglam

Pause. "Okay well avoid gendered pronouns in general and switch them up when you must. Now it's time to kick some lizard butt." They crack their knuckles for effect.

From:

peterxy

Lizard butt has been busy with destruction and general mayhem.

And the shoreline starts very quickly receding...

From:

thinkering

(Lorica's robots warn her, she grabs as many civilians as she can carry and gets airborne -)

From:

peterxy

A tidal wave hits.

...a hydrokinetically controlled tidal wave, coming into the bay and spreading out in all directions and into the city, toppling less stable buildings and absolutely destroying smaller ones.

From:

alicornucopia

The force field holds, but it's not that big. The building trembles; the base is chipped away.

From:

mxglam

"...fuck." You know Glam's pissed when they actually swear. "Okay, tinker person - what's your name anyway - new plan. I'm gonna need your help to finish this faster."

From:

alicornucopia

"Sanctuary," says the tinker person. "What do I do?"

From:

mxglam

"I'm gonna make various pieces of this appear, and tell you where you should put them, and you'll put them there. Don't look too hard at the pieces - my power doesn't like it when other people than me use its stuff, so better not remind it you're not me." Not quite true but good enough, and maiming an Endbringer is worth it.

From:

alicornucopia

"Okay."

Sanctuary proves biddable.

From:

mxglam

Good! It's good when people make it easy to do one's job.

Many of the pieces created at this stage are things other tinkers might readily recognise and understand like structural components for the base of a gun that can rotate around it.

Eventually, though, Glam starts creating pieces whose function is not readily apparent and asking Sanctuary to fix them onto each other instead of onto the carcass. Most of the smaller pieces they handle themself, their threshold of squinting before disbelief kicks in is higher.