brockton bay, meet glam

[mxglam]

It's the anniversary. Glam would very much not like to celebrate.

It’s their last day on Winslow High - they’re being transferred to Arcadia on Monday - and also their last day without a patrol schedule assigned.

And the PRT released a small announcement on its website about Glam joining the Wards. Now their wiki page doesn’t get erased, of course - they’re no longer speculative. They wonder what it’s got on them.

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[thinkering]

The one last fully functional robot follows him in the air to get an idea of where he's going -

[peterxy]

- and he jumps to the top of a building with a single leap, bounding from building to building. When he looks over his shoulder and notices the robot, he lunges after it and tries hitting it with a massive (though not as massive as his previous) fireball.

[thinkering]

It melts. Lorica has half a robot.

"And he's gone. Went north a block and then killed the bot."

[mxglam]

"Goddamnit," curses Armsmaster.

Purity is contained in foam (even if she is unconscious) and the other gang members have been apprehended, having mostly surrendered after noticing the presence of five different heroes and a PRT team.

The four vans were packed with contraband weapons and ammo, so that's what the E88 were after, probably.

"Well it could've been worse," says Glam.

[thinkering]

"Yeah, nobody's dead. You did the 'this is stun gun' thing twice, FYI."

[mxglam]

"What? No, I didn't!" Pause. "Uh. Unless it was after I got booped."

Armsmaster dusts himself and overviews the battlefield. "We ran past a press van on our way." He looks up and sure enough, there's a helicopter up there. "Capturing Purity, though, not bad at all."

[thinkering]

Lorica picks up the bot which can't fly but otherwise works, and the salvageable-looking parts of a couple others, and gets the downed one into flying shape with the emergency tools in their compartment on her armor so she won't be without a scout on their way home. Chevalier compliments everyone on their teamwork and ingenuity. The PRT hauls the foamed Purity away. Gang members are arrested. Contraband goes wherever seized contraband goes.

[mxglam]

Glam is actually quite happy with it all! That right there is what they signed up for when they decided to go out in costume.

[thinkering]

And they go back to HQ and Lorica starts making robots.

[mxglam]

At some point they debrief, explaining their findings to the rest of the team (adults and Wards) and speculating about the powers of the two new capes.

There's quite a lot of media surrounding the fact that Purity was captured for the first time, and helicopter footage of the end of the fight sparks wild speculation on the two new villains as well as the new Ward. The footage doesn't show much, and of course the Protectorate PR department had a hand in making the heroes look pretty good, editing out the parts where Chevalier and Armsmaster were about as useful as pins. Still, it's pretty clear that a lot of the job was done by Lorica and Glam.

Conclusion: Glam is really ducking happy when they decide to go visit Lorica in her workshop the following day.

[thinkering]

Lorica has made enough bots that two can shoo her away from her workbench and one can bump softly into her helmet holding a sandwich. She grumbles but takes the sandwich. "Hi, Glam."

[mxglam]

"Helloo," they-

[mrglam]

- he singsongs.

[thinkering]

"You're in a good mood."

[mrglam]

"Well, it's because all those times I talked about building a reputation by taking Purity down I'd been joking. Have you seen the news? And the PHO Forums?"

[thinkering]

"No, but I take it you like what they're saying." Sandwich. Munch munch.

[mrglam]

"I doooooo!" he singsongs as he floats about. "I mean, I didn't take her down by myself of course, but people watching the footage are all going 'the heroes don't look like they did much, they mostly fought dragon guy, Lorica and Glam did most of the work with Purity' and the tinfoil hats are going wild on what I can or cannot do." He is currently sitting cross-legged in the air, and hanging upside down.

[thinkering]

"I should've thought of decoy bots sooner."

[mrglam]

"They were a very good idea. You and I are the best paaaaair!" He's rotating this way and that as he says it.

[thinkering]

"Do you want to see bot footage of the seven minutes you missed?"

[mrglam]

Blink. "Oh, yes, definitely. Missing seven minutes of my life is annoying, next time I'll get her and lock her up, ugh."

[thinkering]

The display on the wall shows what he missed, shifting view as bots are disabled or lose a good angle on the action.

[mrglam]

He watches. He furrows his brows when he watches himself leave an obvious opening for Purity, but when a mirror appears there as she blasts him he grins. "Oh that was a good idea!"

He continues watching and providing similar commentary on the parts he missed, giggling when he makes the neon 'STUN GUN' sign appear for the first time. At some point the fight becomes what he's seen on the news footage, with more parts that were edited out, and then he remembers everything.

[thinkering]

"I'm a little worried about the stun gun thing having been loudly advertised twice. I don't know if anybody on the field was paying close enough attention or speculating very much, but..."

[mrglam]

"Well, the news footage only caught the second time, and I played it off on the forums as being because 'it sounded funny at the time and could distract or confuse the enemy.' And given that Rewind" to whom they'd given a name during debriefing "had booped me, I don't know if it's that relevant that it happened twice."