lung, meet rewind

[msrewind]

She gets the note just before lunch. She's in the PHQ in less than twenty minutes, then she knocks on Piggot's door politely.

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[thinkering]

"Invisible speedster, maybe."

[mxglam]

"I haven't yet figured out how to make something invisible. I managed to get the next best thing, though, like the camouflage of those hybrid monkeys."

[thinkering]

"Probably won't cut it, he may have multiple sets of eyes on the place, this is a gang leader we're talking about..."

[msrewind]

"He's not a leader yet, kind of a lieutenant really."

[mxglam]

"...how do you know that?"

[msrewind]

"I've been kinda keeping track of the maniac who knows my face and has a grudge."

[thinkering]

"Well, anyway, he's a cape in a gang and may be presumed to have mook privileges."

[mxglam]

"Right. Hmm, well, suppose I do an almost-invisible speedster and Transit arrives. Do I bring the two to him? What goes wrong in that scenario?"

[thinkering]

"They're rigged to explode?"

[mxglam]

"...uh."

[msrewind]

"I don't think Lung would do that..."

[thinkering]

"Maybe he has smart mook privileges. Anyway, explosions in particular aren't the only nasty thing that could be set up to happen should they be moved."

[mxglam]

"Uh, yeah, I don't really have an obvious idea of how to deal with that."

[msrewind]

"Well, if he explodes them, I tie their pieces together and boop them back to health, minus bomb."

[thinkering]

"You don't fix blood loss," Lorica reminds her.

[msrewind]

"Yeah, but if I get to somehow... like... gather all the blood in a bag and then tie the bag to the pieces... I can boop the whole thing together?"

[mxglam]

"...we might need a more airtight idea than that."

[thinkering]

"Especially since you'd have to do this blood collection in hostile territory with an angry Lung breathing down your neck."

[mxglam]

"If he has them rigged to explode or something, is there anything we can do? We'd need to get some tinker or something who could fix them to them instead of moving them."

[thinkering]

"You could contain the explosive in something," Lorica says.

[mxglam]

"I'd need to know where it is. If it were really obvious and there was time enough, yeah."

[thinkering]

"Or contain her parents in something."

[mxglam]

"Yes but that assumes the thing that's rigged to explode isn't, like, on, or in them." They look at Rewind. "Uh, sorry."

[msrewind]

"I'm not about to sabotage the plan because of squeamishness," she waves her hand. "What's important is that my parents be safe."

[thinkering]

"If you contain them in something sturdy enough then even in that case it does at least as good a job as the bagging-gore-from-around-the-room idea," Lorica says, "for letting Rewind bounce them back."