by Narrator » Tue Jun 01, 2021 7:50 pm
As Shane jumps Conduit flails her arms and legs in protest, although some of that flailing was apparently to pull a small welding torch from her pockets to burn through the vine holding her. Freed from the grip she slaps one palm against her chest (more performative than anything really, considering her abilities) and two small anti-grav pods unfold on her back. She hangs in the air, cackling, for about half a second before her fancy gun explodes.
Everyone in the immediate vicinity of the Arch, including Thresher, is knocked flat on their backs and every mutant around has their senses swim. For one brief moment they catch a glimpse of the plaza in a different light as a shockwave of iridescent energy expands across the scene. Where it passes everyone can see a gouge in the fabric of space-time where the gun's beam passed and the almost blinding light of the energy boiling behind it. The gap is already in the process of closing again, but what isn't are the points of light shining from every mutant and from that light, fractal shapes and patterns reaching out and re-arranging the world. One pattern is split into hundreds of little strands where the mutant Will talked down is still clinging to a lamp-post, the fractals overlaid on her tendrils. Another is like a fountain of almost billowing patterns that occasionally condense and flare as the ash-cloud they're suffusing catches fire or coalesces into walls. All around them energy is condensing in strange shapes but with very obvious purpose. Shaping, adjusting, manipulating the underlying forces of Physics to make the impossible happen. Wings that would never physically work. Clay that retains sensation and turns into materials no living thing could mimic. Three women thinking as one, flesh reshaping at will. Plant matter replacing, supporting and strengthening flesh and skin. Electronic signals and electromagnetic forces being interpreted into song and voice in a little girl's head. Reality being rewritten in real time according to rules none understand.
And then it's over, the brief vision fades leaving behind a throng of confused mutants, a scorched and cracked Marble Arch and a Technopath hurtling through the air and into the night-sky.