Starburst ran out of the building with the rest of the volunteers and hastily put up her Fortress Shield power around the hill. The visibility was severely cut short, due to the torrential rains coming down. Even with the shield dome was keeping the rain out, the sheer amount of water coming down was obscuring vision beyond the boundary. Starburst mentally winces as the rain itself seems to be hammering down onto the shield with brutal constant force, further weakening it by nearly saturating the damage threshold it can withstand.
"Starburst. Get to the air!" Alexandria said as she hurried by her. Nodding, Starburst activated her Flight and took to the skies. With a thought, her Radar somehow synchronized with the mapping system on Dragon's armband and coordinate grid lines and building outlines appear in her vision. Another thought and markers showing the status and positions of the volunteers, both capes and non-capes alike appeared as well.
As Starburst fought for attitude alongside the other flyers, with the built-in anti-wind shear barrier of her Flight power keeping the worst of the rain away from her, others went into action. Below her, she could see several layers of barriers sprang up around the dome perimeter to better defend the still emerging crowd from the onslaught of water. She saw the tonnes of water slammed into the shields, shattering the shield dome and barriers and sweeping away the other defenders. A part of her winced as detritus like the shipwrecks from the Boat Graveyard crashed into the docks area and tore open offices and warehouses. The outline showing the Broadwalk flickered and disappeared from her Radar view as the first Tidal Wave ripped it apart.
"Bastian down, A34. Trickshot deceased, A34. Granite-"
Starburst blinked as Dragon's infamous audio tracking of the status of the defenders suddenly cut out from her ears. A glance down at the armband shows that it's still working. Why...?
The armband was suddenly outlined in her vision, complete with a tag, declaring that "Audio source detrimental to combat morale muted." Her Radar can censor things based on the situation? A glance towards a cluster of defenders still shows several 'allies' tags rapidly going from 'All good' green to 'incapacitated but alive' yellow and 'in distress' red, before a few of them winked out.
She shook her head out of her thoughts as to what the flags going dark means as the alert of a second Tidal Wave pinged. Leviathan haven't actually reached the bay yet. It looks like it's using the Tidal Waves to soften up the defenses and throw things into disarray. Starburst took the opportunity of a lull and open her mouth. "I want-" she started.
Starburst blinked and paused, mental images of a pair of kindly cyan blue eyes and a snaggle toothed grin flashed through her mind. Wait. What if she changed the request a bit...? Not necessarily eliminate...
"I want a power that will neutralize entities like the Endbringers or anything else more powerful as a threat to people everywhere!" she declared with conviction into the rain-laden air. Thanks to the torrential rain and her current attitude, no one else had heard-
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-her but her Trump power.
As Starburst felt the familiar rummaging, the second Tidal Wave hit Brockton Bay. Swimming within it, was Leviathan.
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Leviathan was a monster.
As Leviathan landed within Brockton Bay, Starburst had a good look at it, her vision enhanced by her Radar. The Endbringer was roughly 3 story tall, and has large, hunched over but muscular upper torso that narrows down, sort of like an upside down triangle. The entire body was covered in sickly green scales, and seems to be 'sweating' water (whether Leviathan was creating new water, or drawing it from the surroundings, she didn't know.). What would be the calves and upper arms were bulky in contrast to the forearms and thighs of its limbs. The tail was a whip thin limb that was perhaps longer than the rest of the body. The head was a vaguely reptilian, with a central ridge in the middle of the 'face', but it has no orifices and its four glowing blue eyes were asymmetrically arranged on either side of the ridge.
When the Endbringer landed in the street, water had suddenly up and formed near it into its infamous 'water echo', a flowing water construct that resembles Leviathan and usually follows its movements.
Already Leviathan had started to lash out with its limbs, sending deadly streams of cutting water everywhere. Within Starburst's vision, the streamers were outlined along with their projected paths. Her Radar also started pointing out several clusters of allies yellow and red tags appearing.
Steeling her nerves, Starburst dove towards the nearest tag, down the street from where Leviathan was rampaging in place. As she touched down next to the downed capes pinned under some rubble and started to use her telekinesis to help them, she heard Alexandria's voice barked out through the armband. "All Emitters. Full power, now!"
New tags appeared, labelled 'thaumaturgic sources' appeared in Starburst's map as the mobile anti-hydrokinesis emitters came online. The effect was dramatic.
The rain abruptly eased up from the earlier torrential rain into a light mist, and Leviathans cutting streamers and water echo collapsed into harmless pools and splashes of water. Leviathan itself, judging from the body language, seems to be surprised by the sudden turn of events. The defenders took advantage of the pause by immediately launching an assault on the Endbringer. Brutes and Strikers closed in and started whaling on any exposed surface of the Endbringer. Blasters and Shakers started shooting and layering their powers onto the monster.
Leviathan was knocked around a bit, before it suddenly steadied itself and burst into motion, using its claws, tail and body to attack. The Endbringer weaved itself through the defenders and buildings and ran through the streets.
"Spread out!" Alexandria barked through the armband. "Leviathan is counterattacking, and he's moving much faster than before!"
"Leviathan is heading to B-6!" a female voice joined in on the communication band.
"Bloody Wanker has been holding back! He's really opening up on his running speed!" someone cursed.
Starburst kept an ear to the armband communications, while flying to each red and yellow tags to help however way she can. After prying a concrete slab off a cape in a silver armor suit and helping him up, she checked on her Radar map. Her blood went cold as the Endbringer flag was practically overlapping the flag of one of the mobile emitters.
Suddenly, there was a wave of energy that washed over her, like when Armsmaster did the test with the thaumaturgic energy discharge into the air. The emitters tag vanished, and Starburst could see twisters of water lancing down from the sky and lancing up from the ground in the distance over the buildings. Masses of something raced out from the EndBringers position and arched over the buildings. Two more emitters became yellow, while one was wildly moving through the streets.
"Leviathan is targeting the emitters!" Legend's voice came through the armband. The sky suddenly lit up with numerous beams of energy striking out against the flying objects. "He's bombarding the rest of them with ice spears!"
Starburst was kept busy, flying to each marked red and yellow tags. Digging out anyone buried under the rubble;
"The Rig and PRT HQ is hit! Leviathan is targeting anything with a similar energy signature!" Eidolon spoke harshly. "All emitters, close in and box in the Endbringer. It's lashing out fiercer now with the water strikes."
Performing limited first aid on any injured capes and calling in Mover capes to get them to the triage centre;
"One more emitter is destroyed!" a female voice chimed in.
Steadfastly putting the images of bodies out of her mind. There's no time to mourn or freeze up in horror now;
"The fucker is pulling out new tricks with the water!" someone cried out in frustration and fear.
Ferrying injured people alongside the other Movers;
"Trooper Lands here in Emitter 06. Emitter still at full power, but the vehicle is disabled. We're evacuating." a gruff male voice called in.
Helping others to dig out and stabilize anyone who got buried under the battlefield debris;
"Leviathan is moving through zone C-3. It's within the anti-hydro-kinesis field." Dragon intoned.
Flying from each marked location to marked locations, helping whenever and however she can;
"It's moving faster again!" a woman's voice entered the band.
Got to help, got to help, got to keep helping;
"Leviathan is just smashing through some of the buildings!" some else continued. "Like they're made of paper!"
No time to mourn, no time to gape in horror at the sheer number of losses, just got to help whoever was still alive-
"Starburst! Get out of there!" A panicked female voice came through. Was that Tattletale? "Leviathan is heading your way!"
Starburst looked up as she gingerly carried and sets down an injured cape on a convenient makeshift bench. On the far end of the street, the streamlined and yet muscular form of the Endbringer turned the corner and locks its gaze on the terrified Ward in the distance.