CASE FILE : MAYA
Interview : SUBJECT AEGIS

What happened out there was a cluster... fish situation, sorry if I censor my language a bit there. I mean, the Endbringer siren went off.

That wasn't too bad, everyone knows about those. The civies got to the shelters, those who could left the city, and the capes that wanted to fight went to the Protectorate building.

Perfectly normal. Heroes and villains doing the whole truce while we fight for the city.

Normal, my... err behind, ma'am.

*distraught laughter from subject*

It was the briefing. Yes, the briefing that we found out just how bad things were. According to Dragon, we had an incoming Leviathan. Only thing was, he stayed outside of the bay, itself and refused to enter. We thought that this would give us time.

And that was when she updated the briefing with reports of seismic activity beneath the city that indicated Behemoth. But the effing Herokiller didn't come out. It just stayed underground. Waiting.

Which made the next update not that much of a surprise. I mean, two for three had already shown up... why not three for three, right? Yeah, we nearly crapped our pants, but it wasn't unexpected. Fucking Simurgh was orbiting the city, but not coming down.

I think it was at the point that one of the Thinkers said it looked like they were waiting. Can't remember her name. I think she was one of the independents or villains. Doesn't matter now.

So, someone else asked, "Waiting for what?"

She said... yes, she said this. "Something new. But they've never done this before, but it feels right."

As she said this, it was as if that thing was waiting for those very words. Dragon's cameras saw it first.

From the west, it came. Storm clouds, swirling from nowhere. Thick and dark, promising rain and despair. The city's edges consumed by a wave of ever growing fog.

*See attached videos: MAYA 0001, 0002, 0003, 0005, 0010, 0025*

This was when we realized what they were waiting for. A new one. A new Endbringer. We had no idea of what to expect, so we kept watching the monitors.

A city rendered grey and dark, covered in fog. That was what the world came down to, monochrome, all the colors leached out of it.

That was when we saw evidence of the Endbringer. A girl running. Or rather, something running in the fog. It parted around her. Shaped like a girl. That thinker pointed out the reflections and shadows that it cast. That empty nothingness shaped like a girl cast reflections and shadows with color.

*See attached videos: MAYA 0030, 0032, 0033, 0040, 0075, 0080*

Reversed.

Everything was backwards.

The body that moved in the world was an empty nothing, a hole in the world. Its reflection showed a girl, dazzling bright in a white sun dress, smiling and laughing as she ran barefooted.

Her motions didn't properly sync up with the motions of running, but it did with the nothingness projecting it.

We had a target, Dragon tentatively codenamed it Ghost.

Hunting that Endbringer wasn't hard. Not with Dragon giving us a play by play of where it was, its heading and more... it's speeds.

We caught up to it, cornered it and threw everything we had. And it was futile, like fighting the Siberian. Nothing we did, had any effect on her. Nothing. Not even those lasers by that guy. You know, that flying guy with lasers and stuff.

Oh, his name is Legend? Right, not even Legend's lasers did anything, and they could do just about anything and everything.

*See attached videos: MAYA 0100, 0102, 0103, 0104, 0110, 0112, 0115, 0116, 0117, 0120*

So, we retreated, the thinkers suggested going after the shadows and reflections. We went after that. Also nothing. Not even hitting the reflection and shadows did anything.

*See attached videos: MAYA 0122 to 0200*

As it moved, things slowly changed around us, but at that time we didn't question the whys, the differences. All that mattered was that we chased it. Yeah, it's obvious now that the damn thing is a stranger type, but at that time? All we could think about was chasing it, to keep running, to keep moving, faster and faster and faster.

*Brief pause as subject stopped talking to drink some water*

Not even the Thinkers found anything wrong, only that we chase it down, stop it.

It stopped when it reached... the beach. There was a throne formed from stones and boulders piled together. It ran through the throne, leaving only its shadow behind seated upon the throne.

But we could see it, that hole in the world continuing on, running on water.

And she just looked at us on the beach before her. And then she flickered and was gone. But she took something from all of us. I... I know it. It sounds stupid, but I don't know who I am.

I know I belong to the Wards, I'm a hero and my code name, but I can't remember my name.

Could... could you tell me who I am?

Please?

*Interview Ends*

Subject is unable to retain his name, despite being told it, despite reading it off his paperwork. Subject has shown no difficulty retaining information or any other abnormality with his mind or memory. Subject AEGIS is not unique, all the capes who encountered ENDBRINGER MAYA have had their memory affected in some way.

Interviews with civilians in the shelters in Brockton Bay show similar signs in that their memories too were affected to some level, but not to the absolute degree that the capes suffered.

Investigation of PRT and Protectorate computers, as well as historical archives indicate that they too were affected with information and files simply redacted or deleted.

Communication has been lost with tinker known as DRAGON. Recommend opening up lines of communication with her as soon as possible, it is quite possible that she has been affected in some way and may require aid.

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Maya : Memories

Worm AU