endbringer, meet gun

[peterxy]

...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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[alicornucopia]

"Madre de Dios FIRE THE FUCKING GUN -"

[mxglam]

They do. It hasn't had time to fully charge - not even a half-charge - and Glam curses their power as they press the buttons to fire, spin around and grab Sanctuary to fly away from the Endbringer.

[peterxy]

Leviathan is hit in the face with the undercharged laser, and it burns some, but not enough for his plans of hitting the building with his afterimage to be significantly hindered.

[alicornucopia]

Sanctuary clutches the basketball. It shelters them from the worst of the wall of water.

[mxglam]

Glam for their part is hugging Sanctuary and flying away from the Endbringer as fast as they can. They don't even question if their suit's supposed antigrav would realistically carry them both, they just fly.

[thinkering]

"Can you put it together again somewhere? Now that you've done it once?" demands Lorica's robot, chasing after them.

[mxglam]

"If we can get lizard butt to not attack us as soon as we land somewhere, yeah!"

[peterxy]

Lizard butt seems to have lost interest in the two and has disappeared amidst the buildings.

[thinkering]

"Follow the bot!"

The robot leads them to a second-choice site across the bay.

[mxglam]

Glam follows.

"Where'd he go?"

[thinkering]

"Fucked if I know but I have a roof for you!"

[mxglam]

They land on the roof. "Tell as many people as you can that I'm building this here!"

[thinkering]

"What? Why? Do I need to evac the block?"

[mxglam]

"No, just do it! I'll explain later!" They might regret promising this, but to hell with it, they already made too many mistakes with this plan and it's an Endbringer.

They start making pieces appear again, much faster than before, some of them even already attached to other parts they had to attach manually the first time around.

[thinkering]

"I cannot waste people's time on keeping them apprised if they don't need to take cover, everyone has their own shit going on!"

[mxglam]

They groan but continue building, thinking fast and trying to decide. "Look, it's related to my power, I can't tell you right now but I swear it's important that as many people as possible know about this gun and what it's supposed to do!" Their eyes flicker to the tinker (the mask's drawing does not reflect this) when they say they can't tell Lorica at the moment.

[thinkering]

Lorica pauses, then she makes an exasperated noise and gets on the comm. "All capes be ready for another one of those lasers coming from west-northwest of bay, mark two upgrade, might boil the rain, might cause bits of Leviathan to enter orbit, twenty bucks says it gets rid of him no bet if it hits simultaneously with something -" That's as far as she gets before somebody kicks her off.

[mxglam]

Yes! Awesome! Okay maybe it won't work completely but they'll hit again and it'll hurt the Leviathan more!

Building proceeds at an accelerated pace.

[peterxy]

Leviathan is suspiciously silent and nondestructive.

...that is, with the exception of the hydrokinesis and torrential rain and non-tidal-waves.

[thinkering]

"I'm getting chewed out for that, make it fucking good," Lorica mutters.

[mxglam]

"I will," they promise.

Build build build!

[peterxy]

Leviathan:

appears.

And his nature is being pretty fucking fast and vicious, if they're favoring one leg it's not immediately obvious. Someone hits him with a laser - that was probably Legend - and he's pushed back, but he dodges from the laser and throws his afterimage at the hero, who has to quickly dodge.

Shoreline recedes-

[thinkering]

"This would be a good time."

[mxglam]

"Fuckin' A!"

[peterxy]

The FWOOM noise is noticeably louder and the laser noticeably brighter than before. Leviathan is hit on the upper-right part of his chest, and suffers significantly more damage than before, being thrown back a-ways. The shoreline stops receding and slowly returns to its normal (for the fight) position, no tidal wave.