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.

Comments

[thinkering]

"Rewind's touch-range and Dad's not. And Lung has complete control of where he spends the prior ten minutes."

[mxglam]

"She just needs to make him confused enough that she has time to heal them and Transit can get them. But what do you mean, he's not touch range?"

[thinkering]

"Dad has to be theoretically able to pick up whatever he's taking. He doesn't have to actually pick it up or actually touch it - he has to be very close, to the point where he often touches passengers just to make sure he's closed the distance, but technically he has a couple inches or I'd have had to make his armor thinner."

[mxglam]

"Oh. I didn't know that. That's really cool."

[msrewind]

"But anyway, with my new armor I can do it remotely. Thanks for that, by the way."

[thinkering]

"You're welcome."

[mxglam]

"Okay so, back up, what's the plan if Lung brings her parents in person, then? Just how fast is Transit?"

[thinkering]

"Pretty fast when he's got a path and doesn't have to calculate on the fly. But certain possible room features could make it hard or impossible for him to appear near her parents on the first try - and I suppose nothing says they have to be near each other."

[mxglam]

"Okay, so, in the scenario where the parents are present and separated, what do we do? Presumably we won't send Transit in until we know the situation exactly."

[thinkering]

"Good question. Can you copy him? He's got a set of my armor too, bot could run it. Actually, can you copy him without his target choice limitation, better yet."

[mxglam]

"Uh, I can't copy his actual power."

[thinkering]

"Inconvenient. Work on that. Hmm."

[mxglam]

They giggle.

"Hmm... It's kinda annoying that Velocity can't carry people while superfast."

[msrewind]

"Can't your dad just rescue one and then the other?"

[thinkering]

"Only if the pathing works out right, and we can't count on that. Can you do a speedster without that problem, Glam? Seems less complicated than doing a teleporter, I know you can do Brutes..."

[mxglam]

"I can't do Velocity-level speedsters but might be able to do someone fast enough to surprise Lung if need be."

[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?"