behemoth, meet the opposition

[mrglam]

Sadde doesn't seem quite able to focus on homework at the moment. He's fidgeting, and sometimes stares off into space for long periods of time before James has to snap him out of it.

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[thinkering]

"Pushing a hotfix software update!" Lorica says. The little robot leeches itself to the base of the gun.

[mxglam]

Behemoth looks at the point the lasers are coming from - Glam - and roars. Capes who didn't leave the blast perimeter in time get liquefied, and immediately following that he claps, dropping several others who'd survived the roar.

Glam's knees turn to jelly, and it's not because of the actual effects of Behemoth's powers.

"Hotfix installed in t minus eighteen, firing upgraded laser after five seconds!" Glam calls. Non-round numbers, for some realism.

[thinkering]

(Meanwhile, Lorica's coordinating another force and Transit's got his radiation shield up and he's hauling dead capes one by one out of the radius so Rewind can try -)

[mxglam]

(What a glorious time to test the limits of Rewind's powers! One of them seems to be that she can't use it on fluids unless they were encased by solids, so the liquefied capes will unfortunately remain so. Another is that she can only affect one target at a time, and severed limbs count as "multiple targets," so she can't help recent amputees no matter how recently they've gotten amputated. Other than that, though, yep, she can resurrect the dead.)

Loud noise for five seconds, then-

"That's a bit more like it," Glam says to themself as the laser hits him on the chest and burns him (if that verb can even be used to describe damage to Behemoth of all creatures) badly.

[thinkering]

"Good, just keep it up," says Lorica's voice in their ear.

[mxglam]

Glam starts charging again, and in the five seconds that takes, Behemoth reaches down to tear a large piece of the road he's in, and when the gun shoots the Endbringer uses that as a shield.

The blast goes through, significantly weakened, and as the gun begins charging once more Behemoth superheats the debris in his hand, turning it into a ball of magma. He holds it as he takes another hit from the gun, and then-

flings it at Glam, with exactly the right amount of kinetic energy and direction of momentum to guarantee that the ball won't miss its target.

[thinkering]

"GLAM -"

[mxglam]

The last thing the shoulderbot sees is the ball of magma.

[thinkering]

Lorica goes back to her evac work.

[mxglam]

She has brought enough robots that they're not too hard to find.

"I'm not dead!" Glam tells the first robot they run into.

[thinkering]

"Jesus fuck, you asshole!" the robot says to Glam.

[mxglam]

"I'm sorry! Chew me out later, do we make another gun? Real me's hiding elsewhere."

[thinkering]

"Yeah, fine, get a casing and all my parts set up and I'll be there in a sec."

[mxglam]

They do that, picking a spot farther away from the Endbringer, who's currently being slowed down by a cape with ice powers - or rather, entropy-lowering powers, as it turns out.

[thinkering]

Lorica flies in presently and starts assembling things and having robots assemble things.

[mxglam]

Things are assembled!

"So, uh, I'm not the real one, either, if Behemoth kills me I'm alright."

[thinkering]

"Good to know."

[mxglam]

"I'm sorry. This was- Boots gave me this idea, actually, we were talking about it just before the alarm, then there was the alarm, and I guess I didn't catch up with my brain and just started implementing ideas."

[thinkering]

"Mmhm. So I guess when you picked up the bot once you were in costume that was already a dupe."

[mxglam]

"Yeah."

[thinkering]

Assemble assemble assemble.

[mxglam]

Assemble.

"...I kinda lost my comm in the magma, too."

[thinkering]

"You can keep a nonspecialist bot after I split off again."

[mxglam]

"Alright. And by the way, real me is..." They turn around, then point at a building a ways off. "Over there." Lorica's suit's zoom will be able to see real Glam waving and holding binoculars from the top of another building.

[thinkering]

"They want a bot too?"