peterverse | brockton bay heroes, meet plant tinker

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Time elapses. Rewind is allowed to leave her prison- er, hospital room. She needs to go around on a wheelchair, and it'll still take at least a month for her bones to mend completely, and she needs help to move around and do stuff. But she definitely won't complain about being able to eat real food more often (she is very thankful for the bot bringing her takeout), and she can keep riding along with paramedics even when she can't really move around a lot.

And one of these days, while she's in an ambulance, something lands on it, rocking the vehicle and startling her from her thoughts. The ambulance stops, and whatever it is makes noises as if it's moving and then jumps off it. Rewind twists to see through the window, and-

"Console, a really weird leafy monkey just jumped on the ambulance and then off it," she says into her comm.

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From:

mxglam

Unless you count a guy whose jewelry store was completely ransacked while he slept soundly on the counter, his last memory being of a bizarre plant creature dropping in front of him and squirting something on his face. Somehow his alarms weren't activated, and his vaults were apparently melted by acid.

From:

thinkering

...Yep, that sounds like the thing this was a distraction from.

From:

acanofworms

Armsmaster says they still did the best they could, curtly saying that dealing with self-replicators definitely takes precedence over securing material goods. He even sounds like he believes it.

From:

thinkering

Ah-huh.

Lorica inquires if she has permission to have bots patrolling the city twenty-four-seven looking for anything suspiciously Blasto-y, so they can try to nip him in the bud before Brockton Bay looks like Ellisburg.

From:

peterxy

Does she have a way to do it without civilians seeing the bots?

From:

thinkering

She has a prototype cloaking device that sort of works... at night...

From:

peterxy

Then after the prototype passes review she may, at night.

From:

thinkering

She does another round of tinkering on the cloaking device and submits it for review.

From:

peterxy

It takes a few days, but eventually they let her use them, with the understanding that they are too avoid causing panic and needlessly spooking the civilians at most costs.

From:

thinkering

The bots will be so discreet! They will fly high and avoid light.

From:

peterxy

That's what they hope. Still, it's not twenty four/seven, and no signs of Blasto are immediately obvious.

From:

thinkering

Well, the bots are tireless. And they can plot Transit paths through the city while they go.

From:

mxglam

Speaking of Transit, is he around today...? Glam might want to ask him something.

From:

alicornucopia

Yep. He's hanging out, probably doing something in his helmet but to outward appearances just kinda sitting there.

From:

mxglam

"Hi!"

From:

alicornucopia

"'Lo, Glam."

From:

mxglam

"So, um, Lorica's birthday's soon."

From:

alicornucopia

"So it is. You have something planned?"

From:

mxglam

"I was gonna ask you the same! 'Cause I don't feel like a party's a great idea, she's not terribly close to the Wards and technically we don't know each other in Arcadia."