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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[mxglam]

They were expecting that, apparently, because just after Boots did it the thrower used the same move they'd used before to launch the other one after him.

[alicornucopia]

Ah heck.

Boots grabs the rafter and kicks the approaching brute in the face as soon as their face is there. Both feet.

[mxglam]

Ow. That must've hurt.

Or, well, you know, the closest thing to that for a guided projection.

The first one Boots'd kicked is up again, and thrower uses their move a third time, sending them to try to grab Boots from the rafter, probably with some plan for what to do about a potential kick.

[alicornucopia]

Boots flips feet-to-ceiling and launches himself at the floor hands first, lands, and flips right at the thrower, shoulder to solar plexus with the force of a full jump behind him.

[mxglam]

They're thrown at the one who'd been trying to recover from the kick to the head. Two out of three.

The one who'd been launched is about to land, though, after pushing the rafters in such a way as to do it on Boots.

[alicornucopia]

Boots is at the wall, kicking off from it to flip midair, catch the copy's head between his calves, and twist.

[msglam]

Three down. Sadde whistles. "That was kind of really amazing to watch."

[alicornucopia]

Boots grins at her.

[msglam]

"I'm thinking of sending Mover-Strikers at you now, and then mixing it up in a less predictable way."

[alicornucopia]

"Man, I can't deal with Strikers, I got nothing at range."

[msglam]

"Then this is as good a time as any to train going against those! And we should figure something out at least to buy you time while you call for backup, or maybe only pair you with someone who can deal with them. What do you currently do when you face one?"

[alicornucopia]

"Throw shit at them until somebody else comes along to help."

[msglam]

"What if you don't have any shit to throw at them?"

[alicornucopia]

"Budget covers some property damage if I dent a dumpster or dig up a chunk of sidewalk."

[msglam]

"Hmm, that's pretty solid, actually. Not sure there's much to do there strategy-wise with you alone."

[alicornucopia]

Shrug.

[msglam]

"Okay, I'm gonna send a team at you, now. A Breaker who can take a hit, a Tinker-Shaker that can shoot goo that does stuff on the battlefield, and a Mover-Blaster that can shoot concussive blasts from their feet and use that both to boost their speed by jumping a lot and to shoot at you." Dumpsters, rocks, cans, and other stuff start appearing around. "You up for it?"

[alicornucopia]

"Guess so. How do you come up with this shit?"

[msglam]

Shrug. "Powers mostly don't repeat, so I try to think of something that will give me an effect I want in a novel way. It helps that I've spent a long time of my life reading and thinking about capes, so I kinda have an idea of stuff that can be combined."

[alicornucopia]

"Nerd," snorts Boots, but he drops into a ready stance.

[mxglam]

Three clones appear. One of them has boots and a lightning bolt on their chest, one has a techy-looking backpack and a bizarre gun connected to it by a couple of tubes, and one looks a bit blueish.

They don't wait. The Mover jumps with a beam of light coming out of their feet, hanging onto a rafter to point at Boots and shoot. The other two run toward him, the Tinker waiting until they're close enough to shoot orange goo that makes the floor very slippery and the Breaker covering for them.

[alicornucopia]

Boots gets moving. He jumps over the goo to leap on the Tinker, aiming for the backpack's hoses but perfectly willing to kick the breaker into a wall if necessary.

[mxglam]

The Breaker gets in the way, and becomes still as a statue a second before Boots lands. They're also much harder than a statue, as if they were made of diamond and stuck to the ground. Meanwhile, the Tinker drops more orange goo around the statue-Breaker and the Blaster, still hanging from the rafter, tries blasting Boots onto the goo.

[alicornucopia]

Boot's steel-toed boot is dented. "Ow, fuck, Glam -" The blast catches him and he lands on the goo and skids.

[mxglam]

"Roll with it, use your momentum and take the Blaster down, the other two can't hurt you! Use what the Tinker gives you!"

The three act as if they hadn't heard anything, which is only fair. The Breaker starts moving again, and the Tinker starts turning dials on their gun, while the Blaster lets go and uses their blast to soften their fall and start leaping towards Boots.