It wasn’t really flying so much as it was gliding. It seemed heavier than might have been necessary, and only the gliding aspect of it really kept it aloft.

I stayed flying with Foil, making sure this was okay. Skadi teleported, appearing on Fume Hood’s opposite side, and was blocked by a wall that formed while she was mid-swing.

“She’s out of supplies!” Foil called out.

I thought she meant a Titan at first. “Parian?”

“Yeah! If she’s using leather—leather’s her best material, but it’s hard to get! We’ve done this before, trick is that she needs to keep an eye on me! She can’t see out of her creation’s eyes!”

“I can keep doing what I’m doing if that’s easier!”

“Others need your help! I trust her! She probably has a reason!”

The others. I pulled away a bit, still close enough I could fly in to catch Foil if she fell or if a shockwave rippled past us.

Gundeck had a mover to mobilize him, but sometimes needed proper, outright protection. Solarstare was in Sveta’s company. A cape I didn’t know was flying close to them, playing defense.

Teem was the fifth of our six ‘annihilators’, though I was more of the opinion that Solarstare and Teem weren’t quite in that bracket. He was more independent, circling around looking for opportunities. Teem had flirted with joining heroes and villains at different points, with the closest call to actual commitment being when he’d stuck with the Crowley Fallen for a bit. That he gravitated toward the ‘jackass’ type cape and seemed so reluctant to actually commit to anything, including a serious attack against a Titan left me with a less than stellar view of the guy. When he did act, he produced a tide of what looked like all the master minions that had gone from the drawing board to the trash bin. Too small, too weak, missing essential parts… Most were so dumb they fell or wandered into the cracks in reality.

Still, I’d keep him alive.

Number six was the leader of the Girls at Bat. The gas from Titan Eve’s attacks against Skadi was getting uncomfortably close to her. Sveta was closer to her, one of three capes fielding the far side of this particular clearing, where a half-dozen stomps had leveled buildings and gas had leveled more. There were capes handling the defense and mobility there, but I had a bad feeling.

“Don’t do anything for a minute!” I told Foil. “Heading over there!”

Foil used a hand gesture, the Syndicate connection letting Parian know what she meant. The headless bird lifted her further up and away.

It took me a minute to get to our sixth ‘annihilator’. I had a second to hold my eye closed, bringing up camera feeds.