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]

Lorica's bots are on the case for Transit's pathing; Lorica herself keeps an eye on everything and does strategic advice.

[acanofworms]

"Windflower, fill him with darts before he gets bigger!" Armsmaster says, arriving on his bike. "Glam, contain the unpowered, everyone else focus on Lung- does anyone have eyes on Oni Lee?"

He's nowhere to be seen.

[thinkering]

"He seemed to need line of sight, I'll have a little warning before he can land on anybody -"

[mxglam]

Glam's copies start dealing with unpowered thugs, there and where Rewind's parents are. "Silica, need a hand," they say, because they have a finite amount of attention and her golems are more effective versus unpowered people than versus Lung himself.

[acanofworms]

Glimmer slides and slams bodily onto Lung, who's still not large enough to shrug that off and is thrown onto a wall. "Windflower, now!"

[thinkering]

Windflower darts him.

Bots help; a cocktail of tranquilizers and poisons probably won't kill him but it's not going to do him any favors.

[acanofworms]

It is indeed not! But he's growing bigger, so it's unclear whether they're having any effect when he roars and generates enough fire to scorch the wall he's been thrown at, as he jumps to his feet and kicks the wall to throw himself forward.

"Continue trying to poison him when you can, use your strongest shots," Armsmaster says, and turns his halberd into a long, electrified morningstar which he hits Lung with. "Miss Militia!"

[msrewind]

"Are we there yet?"

[sundayfish]

"Just about."

It takes a couple false starts, but eventually he makes the last hop in.

[mxglam]

Glam has pretty thoroughly neutralized the few thugs in the place (a small apartment in a small, old, dingy apartment building somewhere), and when Rewind and Transit arrive, Glam dismisses the armor encasing Rewind's mother. They keep the one holding her father, though.

[msrewind]

And she proceeds to boop him back to life, which causes the armor to disappear and the bullet itself to return to where it'd been inside the thug's gun, from which position it falls onto the floor. She hugs him gingerly (still in her armor), and her mother hugs them both.

When they disentangle, Rewind says, "I'm going to make him pay for that."

[sundayfish]

"Get yourself back to the last hop point," Transit tells Rewind, "can't likely carry all three of you."

[msrewind]

"I'm gonna go kick Lung's ass is what I'll do," she growls. "My parents are safe, he won't be. I'll fly there."

[sundayfish]

...Transit doesn't argue; he just gets her parents out the way he came, hop hop hop.

[thinkering]

"Rewind, it's you he wants in the first place, don't walk into his lair -"

[msrewind]

"I got my armor, I can use it on him from afar, and besides, if he suddenly becomes singleminded at me that's not likely to make him tacticaly smarter." She flies in the direction of Lung's lair, but that'll still take a while. Flying's faster than running, but it's not very close.

[mxglam]

And meanwhile, the fight continues to happen. Lung is large and scaley enough that Windflower's darts aren't very useful anymore. And although he's only one, he's still giving the heroes a run for their money. Until Glam gets sick of it and says, "I'm gonna try an experimental measure."

[thinkering]

"Armsmaster, if you want me to ground her now's the time to say so, but it'll fuck with morale if I fuck with her suit - Experimental measure?"

[acanofworms]

Armsmaster is swatted aside and uses his halberd to help him roll to his feet. "Don't, we can use all help we can get. Miss Militia!" While no heroes are on the way to Lung she can use her heavier-duty weapons on him. "And I want to know what measure."

[mxglam]

"Siberian-grade restraints."

[acanofworms]

"You can do that? Why am I only being told this now?"

[thinkering]

"PR problems," says Lorica. "Siberian-themed stuff is, uh, stripey."

"What?" asks Miss Militia, able to hear when there's in a break in gunfire.

[mxglam]

"Besides, it's hard to conjure and I've needed practice."

[acanofworms]

"Do it!" Armsmaster growls.

[mxglam]

So Glam does, a striped restraint around Lung's body that starts squeezing.

And Oni Lee chooses this moment to make an appearance - or rather, several consecutive ones, culminating in teleporting his boss elsewhere.