A/N: Gah, trying to set this up as a 'tv documentary' was painful. Hope I got the ideas across through.


Known as the 'peaceful Endbringer,' Tāwhirimātea, or Tāwhiri, flies across the world at fifteen thousand feet, a constant storm surrounding it.

The term tropical storm is often used in conjunction with Tāwhirimātea, for not only does the storm extend over fifty miles, a feat normally reserved for full force hurricanes, but winds speeds stay consistent within six to eight on the Beaufort scale at ground level, with numbers as high as nine occurring when the Endbringer crosses onto land, or intercepts another storm.

As such, Tāwhirimātea's storm has been classified as a tropical, or thunderstorm at minimum.

Compared to the Big Three of Endbringers however, Tāwhirimātea does not follow the standard pattern of destruction, instead seemingly content to fly through the atmosphere with no discernible pattern.

This does not mean that Tāwhiri is not considered a worldwide danger however, as the sheer volume of rainwater it's storm creates, and can create, places the third Endbringer on par with Leviathan in terms of output.

Unlike Leviathan however, Tāwhirimātea's water has proven beneficial effects on both the local environment and even on people that consume it, calling into question the motives of this Endbringer.

Plant growth can double seemly overnight in places that Tāwhiri had passed through; pollution levels drop to pre-industrialization levels as everything from radiation, to toxic spills are wiped clean by the downpour.

In fact, some believe that the water has mystical properties, as when Tāwhiri performed a single pass over the Great Plains, three weeks later whole herds of wild buffalo were spotted traveling the Plains; given the amount of buffalo that were spotted, the only conclusion that researchers could come to, was that Tāwhiri somehow managed to replicate the animals, then set them free in their natural habitat.

However, cities and whole regions can experience devastating effects from the downpour, as the water from Tāwhiri can cause floods in both rivers and on mountains, causing raging mudslides and submerging whole areas underwater in the few days that the Endbringer passes through.

This is further compounded by the fact that Tāwhirimātea's storm, while contained around itself, can both fuel and interact with other weather phenomenon; this can either strengthen, weaken, or even redirect storms further enhancing the Endbringers threat.

But strangely, Tāwhirimātea has never caused a hurricane or tornado to strike a major city, nor has it ever formed one (except for one extreme case).

In fact, more than once, Tāwhirimātea has seeming redirected major storms that it has formed away from populated areas, calling into question if this creature is truly an Endbringer.

Its size and appearance, however, does not help it in this case.

Given the fact that the Endbringer is in a constant tropical storm with wind speeds reaching ten, eleven and even twelve on the Beaufort scale (or higher, if the Endbringer was transitioning from a warm sea to land) within eight miles of the Endbringer, gathering information on it has proven difficult. However, with the use of Tinker-Tech, and several Alexandria package class capes, the governments of the world have managed to piece together a good idea of what Tāwhirimātea looks like.

The main length of Tāwhirimāteas' body is recorded at over one thousand five hundred feet long, with a wingspan of somewhere in the three thousand to four thousand feet range, making the Endbringer the largest non-natural object known to man.

The closest analog that can be given to the shape of Tāwhirimātea is a Manta Ray; a large, flattened body with triangular wings extending from it. When viewed from below or above however, the overall shape suggests more of an oval shape from wingtip to wingtip, at least when not counting the tails.

Said tails number in the dozens, several stretching out nearly just as far the Endbringers main body. This is not the only abnormally to the Manta Ray comparison.

All across its skin, lay both holes of many sizes, as well as craggily formations. The outcroppings all follow an aerodynamic pattern, no matter the size and shape, flowing backwards with the wind. Some of these formations are the size of cars and buses; others are far smaller and resemble more of a sharks dermal denticles.

As for the holes, they are protected by a type of shield; one that not even someone like Alexandria can bypass. Therefore, it is unknown what lies behind them.

A popular opinion, however, is that it uses these openings to form the creatures and animals that it releases into the world.

Many in the various governments and scientific institutes have expressed concern over these animals, as it is unknown if they are ticking time bombs, just waiting to go off.

Some have pointed out that several industries have been revived because of theses animals, and that several of them are still on the endangered species lists, protecting them from hunting and or/killing.

Entire legal teams, backed by scientists and researchers from across the world, have gathered to work on this issue. This project however, does not encompass what to do about the Endbringer itself.

But given that several of the world's most powerful Capes have engaged Tāwhirimātea, resulting in the deaths of Argonaut and Icarus, as well as other numerous heroes, and delivering an impact to Alexandria so powerful, that it launched her to the next state, as well as the mass ecological destruction of as a result of Tāwhirimātea letting lose, it was decided that the Endbringer would be left alone, as long it continued to not show direct aggression towards humans.

Still, one must wonder if Tāwhirimātea is simply biding its time to strike.


Shari-Hulud, also referred to as the Deathworm, wanders the area of what geologically referred to as Asia, as well as occasionally entering the Indian geographical regions; it has even made its way into European section of the continent several times.

Which was disastrous considering Shari-Huluds size.

At over three miles long, and with a diameter of over seventy-feet, Shari-Hulud is a beast of an Endbringer.

It is also one of two that could be fought with conventional means.

Though most would not consider bunker-buster missiles and bombs capable of flattening whole city blocks as 'conventional'.

Despite this, the capes and governments of the world have been forced to herd Shari-Hulud, rather than destroy it.

This bizarre feat stems from the fact that the Shari-Hulud not only has a mouth capable of eating anything that passes into it, limiting its potential damage, but actually ends up being more dangerous as it takes damage.

And at three miles long, Shari-Hulud takes a considerable time to move; which is further slowed by the fact it seems to prefer to travel the land by diving into the earth, then reemerging some distance away.

The final cause for the capes of the world to treat Shari-Hulud like a lost cow, is the fact that it is segmented into eighty-foot long sections down the length of its body. And if the Deathworm sustains enough damage to an area of its body, at every seventh segment, it splits, forming another Shari-Hulud.

Both the original section, and the new, are capable of the same actions; digging, moving, attacking. However, due to the decreased size of the Deathworm, its speed and turning ratios are improved.

If the attacks upon Shari-Hulud continued, the Shari-Hulud continues to split at every seventh segment, and it is theorized that it will continue to do so until its nearly thirty sections separate from one another.

Given the fact that each separation causes each instance of Shari-Hulud to move faster, things quickly tend to get out of hand.

For while the individual Shari-Hulud can be killed with ease due to the fact they are far easier to damage than the Big Three, they are capable of both running and reconnecting with one another after a fight.

While each section can receive enough damaged to be 'killed,' this will cause the other sections to turn on it, consuming it. And if the sections total number drop below ten, they scatter, disappearing into the earth like Behemoth; only to reemerge months later, fully reformed.

Despite being the only Endbringer able to be killed and studied, it is just as unknown as the rest of the Endbringers, as when a segment is killed, it rapidly begins to dissolve, or is turned upon by the rest of the body, being consumed in a display of cannibalism.

In terms of appearance, the Shari-Hulud is rather lackluster compared to all other Endbringers.

With molten brown skin, and raised areas where the segments lie, the only difference between the Shari-Hulud and a common earthworm, is the size, and the mouth, which is closed off but for three triangular flaps; each containing an inner flap, and an outer flap.

Within the mouth of Shari-Hulud lies rows and rows of teeth, capable of chewing through anything, with some kind of rolling energy field being spotted much further back in the 'throat'; not even the time-stopping power of the Ward Clockblocker can prevent the Shari-Hulud from devouring whatever lies in its path.

In the end, the capes of the world have been forced to serve as shepherds to the Deathworm, attacking it and distracting it by using themselves and large sonic vibrations, both of which are enough to usually cause the Shari-Hulud to change course.

But as places like Moscow and Turkey can attest, this plan is not always effective.


Of the six Endbringers that have appeared, none invokes more primal fear than Behemoth; except, perhaps, Eukaryote.

While the Herokiller is known as an unstoppable force, the Ziz as a doomsday planner, and Jormungand as the rage of the seas, it is Eukaryote that gained the most infamy. This is in large part due to what the Endbringer did, and the response given to it.

Nearly two thousand square miles of Korea was destroyed by nuclear weapons in a successful attempt to stop the Endbringers growth over the peninsula. A few weeks later, several more nuclear devices were used to eliminate reforming remnants of the Endbringer in the surrounding areas.

Unlike all other Endbringers, Eukaryote had no single body; instead, it operated like a virus, infecting and consuming everything it came across, from trees, to rocks, even metals were not immune to the creep of Eukaryote.

Many have asked why it was only this Endbringer that nuclear weapons were used against.

The answer? Location and practicality.

Given the strength of Endbringers, their durability, and the locations that they tend to appear, attacking most Endbringers with nuclear weapons was deemed not only quite possibly more devastating than the attacks themselves, but for more destructive in the long-term.

Radiation can travel on the winds, waters, and sink into the earth, making places completely unhabitable far beyond what most Endbringers are capable of. While Behemoth is capable of leaving behind swaths of radiation, the Simurgh can turn all that hear her scream into time bombs, and Leviathan can sink an island, none of these actions have the same devasting impacts as our own nuclear weapons.

Today's modern nuclear weapons have yields far beyond what was dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki; even a 'tactical' version can still have radioactive dust travel for miles, as the world has seen with Chernobyl.

Furthermore, given the fact that most places where Endbringers attack, using nuclear weapons would be as good and writing off those areas; Hawaii, which was all but destroyed by erupting volcanoes, gained a revival when Tāwhirimātea passed over the island a year later, as the island had doubled in size after Behemoth attacked and had plentiful farmland due to the enriched ground from Tāwhirimātea rainfalls.

Plus, given each of the skills possessed by the Endbringers, using nukes on them would simply be a bad idea.

But not for Eukaryote, for the simple reason that the Endbringer was not a massive 'being,' instead, it started as, what the governments have classified it as, a bacterium.

A kind of powers-based bacterium, one that was not only airborne, but could create creatures, amalgams of flesh and even metal, to attack and further spread itself.

Eukaryote was unable to be Precoged, and, most disturbingly, when it consumed Parahumans, all of its connected creatures could gain and use that Parahuman power.

When this fact was discovered, the PRT and other world-wide groups were contacted for a possible Endbringer situation; and after but six days of fighting, just a mere week and a half after Eukaryote was discovered consuming the forests of Korea, the capes fighting conceded defeat.

It took another three days for governments to arrange the nuclear weapons; notedly, leaked data suggests that two of these days were spent for those same governments fighting against using these weapons, with some even suggesting that the capes in question were not fighting hard enough.

But with the number of dead and turned rising rapidly due to the inconceivable infection rate, which caused a massive spike in the area that Eukaryote covered due to capes unknowingly spreading it, several nuclear missiles were launched.

Unfortunately, each of these were intercepted by Scion within a minute of launch, forcing the heroes, as any villains had either been long killed or left the area, into teleporting the bombs into place.

Questions were asked of why Scion would do this, of why he would stop us from destroying Eukaryote. For that matter, why did he never show up at Korea?

The last sighting of Scion before the nuclear launches, several days before in fact, was in Russia, where he was diverting flooding caused by Tāwhirimātea, having past through the area a week before. Following that however… he disappeared.

At least until after the teleporting capes deposited the nukes into the contaminated zone. After that, Scion was spotted traveling over Australia, locating a crashed private jet that had gone down in the area.

But in the end, as usual, Scion ignored any questions directed at him.

What followed after the nuclear detonations, was six months of terror, as heroes worked hard to track down anyone and anything that was in the infected zone. And eliminated it if it showed any signs of infection.

Most of the fallout drifted into the seas and largely unoccupied mountains due to prevailing winds, but the actual damage is hard to estimate.

For while the blasts were grouped together to do the most damage possible to the center of Eukaryote, which had begun to form a large mass from which creatures that could stand next to Behemoth emerged, it was only estimated that Eukaryote had spread to a two thousand square mile area, as taking an actuate measurement was… difficult.

The Eukaryote Exclusion Zone is reported to be over ten thousand square miles. This number was given due to the fallout and damage caused by the nuclear detonations, of which, no report was given for any many bombs were used, nor their yield.

Even the two thousand square mile number for the estimated area that Eukaryote consumed is just that, an estimate, one born by data pulled from what little information was leaked from the attack.

Due to the presence of so many foreign powers, even with the Endbringer Truce being only tentatively followed by the Koreas, caused North Korea to posture, making claims and moments that spoke of war.

The government there said, over international television no less, that there was no Eukaryote, that it was foreign powers seeking to overthrow the North Korean government, and that the use of nuclear weapons was an attempt to weaken them as a prelude to an attack.

Four months later, the Simurgh descended upon Pyongyang.

She stayed within the city for nearly three days. Following which, a North Korea opened fire on South Korean troops.

Even now, four years later, the war between the two nations continues to wage on; the North fueled by a seemingly endless tide of soldiers, while the South has gained the support of allies and capes, some even coming as far as Russia to help stop the madness.

The latest reports suggest that the fight will still continue for several more years before analysists believe that the North will hit the point that they will no longer be able to reliably sustain the fight.

Those same analysists, however, have warned for the possibility of the North resorting to a guerrilla war, which could prolong the war for another five years.

It goes to show, no matter which side wins an Endbringer fight, we still lose something.


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Watchdog has made several attempts in removing the file, none have succeeded. And given that the last time we stomped out the digital links of TheNexusofRails, we had to restore all our databanks from backups, I suggest that we leave them be for now.

We need to figure out how far this Tin_Mother reaches, as well as how The Nexus keeps getting their data from our databanks, before we can take them down. For that, however, we need better leads from the field.

I recommend increasing the PRT presence at all Nexus functions, they may be using those to send messages to each other's cells. And yes, I know, you want these leaks plugged, but even with Dragon helping us, we have gotten nothing outside electronic data. All of which was either scrubbed, or lead us to fried physical relay.

These guys are good, and have to have international backing for them to be able to pull this off. We need to coordinate with other agencies, domestic and not, to get these guys.

Watchdog can't do it alone, there, I said it. You don't like it? Tough. You want Tin_Mother found? Well.

It's kinda hard to find someone if the only leads you have are digital ghosts.

We'll keep on it, but at this point, don't expect anything.

Watchdog Director to,

Chief Director Costa-Brown


A/N: I might change the size of Tāwhiri back to its original values, I didn't feel like it was big enough so I upped it. Don't know if I'm happy with it yet though.