peterverse | brockton bay, meet glam

mxglam posting in

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.

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

From:

alicornucopia

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

From:

msglam

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

From:

alicornucopia

Shrug.

From:

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?"

Edited Date: 2016-02-19 09:21 pm (UTC)

From:

alicornucopia

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

From:

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."

From:

alicornucopia

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

From:

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.

From:

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.

From:

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.

From:

alicornucopia

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

From:

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.

From:

alicornucopia

"I THINK YOU FUCKING BROKE MY TOE GLAM."

From:

msglam

The three disappear, as well as the goo and other objects. "Oh fuck," she says, flying to him.

From:

alicornucopia

Boots wrestles his dented shoe off. "I can kick shit I shouldn't be able to kick but not like that!"

From:

msglam

"Sorry! I didn't expect it to be that bad! Is it broken? Should we go to the infirmary?"

From:

alicornucopia

"I don't know how to tell the difference but it's damn sure not in working order!" says Boots, ripping his sock off and looking at his purpling little toe. "Fuck, I dunno how I'm gonna explain that if I have a fucking limp!"