Editing Endbringers (section)

===Gold Morning===
{{spoilers|events in Arc 28}}
Following the death of [[Eidolon]], the Endbringers began behaving strangely. The Simurgh and Bohu appeared at the same time on [[Earths#Earth Bet|Earth Bet]], something never before seen, but both remained motionless.<ref name="28.2 eStrangeBehavior1">Defiant scrolled through the images of the Simurgh, floating in the air above the ocean in the middle of the day.  The last one was from just an hour ago, showing her in early evening, utterly still. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/09/03/cockroaches-28-2/ Excerpt] from [[Cockroaches 28.2]]</ref><ref name="28.2 eStrangeBehavior2">It was hard to think of the terms that applied to Bohu alone.  Tohu and Bohu were usually referred to as the Twins.<br><br>But Tohu was nowhere to be seen.<br><br>And Bohu had situated herself in the middle of a field.  The ground was only beginning to reshape beneath her, twisting into structures, walls, a maze of stone, soil and grass, of arches and pillars without anything to support.<br><br>She simply loomed, her impossibly long arms hanging at her side, head slightly bowed, her eyes shut.<br><br>The other images showed the same thing from different angles.  One from the other side, then another from directly above, showing the alterations to her surroundings as concentric circles.<br><br>It was daylight.  Going by the times of the photos, she was on the opposite side of the planet, roughly, from the Simurgh.<br><br>“Holy fuck,” Canary murmured.  “Two at once?” - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/09/03/cockroaches-28-2/ Excerpt] from [[Cockroaches 28.2]]</ref> Reviewing footage from Eidolon's last minutes before death, [[Tattletale]] concluded that Eidolon's death had caused their unusual behavior and  attempted to communicate with the Simurgh, asking her to organize the Endbringers against Scion.<ref name="28.4 e2" /><ref name="28.4 e4">Tattletale continued without pause, not responding or reacting to this information.  “All I’m saying, all I’m ''proposing'', is that Scion’s a better bet than we are.  You want to give someone a fucking hard time?  Make that someone ''Scion''.  You want to terrorize people?  Terrorize Scion.  Bigger challenge, and you’ll probably have the rest of us fucking scared out of our minds if you pull it off.  You want to fucking end the world?  Get in line, chickadee, because Scion’s going to beat you to the punch if you don’t stop him.” - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/09/07/cockroaches-28-4/ Excerpt] from [[Cockroaches 28.4]]</ref> After several attempts, Tattletale appeared to have successfully convinced the Endbringer, managing to get the Simurgh, as well as Leviathan, to follow the group and attack on command; in addition to having the Simurgh 'imprint' on Tattletale, soon later Khonsu imprinted on an individual in [[Teacher|Teacher's]] group, whose services were sold to Cauldron.<ref>Well, we knew who she was following.<br><br>“Fuck me,” I could hear Tattletale muttering with the bugs I’d planted on her.  The Simurgh came to a stop directly above her.  She repeated herself, as if for emphasis.  “''Fuck me''. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/09/14/cockroaches-28-6/ Excerpt] from [[Cockroaches 28.6]]”</ref><ref name="28.5 e3">“The place Khonsu or Tohu were supposed to appear,” Tattletale said.<br><br>“Quite.  It was Khonsu.  The Endbringer has imprinted on Teacher’s group, and he has offered to sell that squad, along with the Endbringer, to a sufficiently wealthy buyer.  We agreed, if only to keep this from becoming a ''monopoly'' on Endbringers.” - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/09/10/cockroaches-28-5/ Excerpt] from [[Cockroaches 28.5]]</ref> The Simurgh modified Leviathan, incorporating [[Nano-thorn|nano-thorn technology]] into his body.<ref name="28.5 e2">Fins.  Leviathan had fins.<br><br>They were like blades, points sweeping backwards.  A fin rooted in the side of his arm, from wrist to elbow, the point scything back.  Had it not been limp enough to trail on the ground, it might have reached his shoulder.  More at the sides of his neck and along the length of his spine, forming an almost serrated pattern where multiple fins overlapped.  Perhaps some at his legs.  The fins ran down the length of his tail, and ended in a cluster at the end, like the tuft of fur at the end of a lion’s tail, exaggerated many times over in size.<br><br>He flexed a claw, and I could see webbing between each finger, mottled in black and an iridescent green that matched his eyes.  It made me think of the bioluminescence of a jellyfish in the deep ocean.<br><br>In synchronous motions, the Simurgh unfurled her wings, stretching them to their full length, and Leviathan flexed his fins, letting them unfold in kind.  Each fin was the same as the webbing, mottled black and a eerie green, and the echo-image of water that accompanied his movement produced mist as it washed over the fins.  It obscured him almost completely, and as much as the pouring rain served to drive it away, the rainwater produced more mist as it touched the fins. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/09/10/cockroaches-28-5/ Excerpt] from [[Cockroaches 28.5]]</ref>

The Endbringers, sans Khonsu, later held off Scion during the rise of [[Khepri]].<ref>Which was the moment the Endbringers made their move.<br><br>The Simurgh plunged from the clouds, hitting Scion.<br><br>Leviathan, healed a touch, emerged from the water.<br><br>Bohu rose from the earth, going from a human sized head and shoulders at eye level to a tower.<br><br>Tohu, for her part, had Glaistig Uaine, Eidolon and Myrddin’s faces.<br><br>The Endbringers, come to the rescue.  I wished I could have felt relieved.  It was a reprieve, a chance to get our footing.  But there was an ominousness to it. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/10/24/speck-30-5/ Excerpt] from [[Speck 30.5]]</ref> The four Endbringers were able to distract Scion as Khepri made her moves, but eventually were incapacitated, with Leviathan killed and the others severely damaged.<ref name="30.6 e2">The Endbringer fell.  The color went out of Leviathan, his flesh breaking up, like clay overbaked in a kiln.  The fins were the first thing to crumble, the rest of his body following suit.<br><br>We’d taunted him.  Teased him with the one thing he wanted most in the world, then we’d taken it away.<br><br>He turned his attention to the winged Endbringer and her smaller companion.  The towering Endbringer was already so damaged that she could only pull herself together.  The fat Endbringer was gone.<br><br>No, he was alive.  He’d created a time field around himself, and was healing in a more distant location. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/10/26/speck-30-6/ Excerpt] from [[Speck 30.6]]</ref> Following Scion's defeat, the remaining four Endbringers were largely dormant.<ref>“I’ve never been one to couch my words.  I’m direct, like my lasers,” Legend said.  “It’s beautiful and it’s frankly terrifying.  The Endbringers are, we’re praying, dormant.  The major players are busy recovering and rebuilding, giving us six straight months of peace for the first time in twenty years.  If you count non-parahuman conflict on a global scale, well, I don’t know how long it’s been.  It’s been a hell of a while, if ever.” - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/11/02/teneral-e-1/ Excerpt] from [[Teneral e.1]]</ref><ref name="E.end eDormantEB">Video footage showed a replay of Lung’s fighting retreat from an area in downtown New York B.  There was footage of the PRT base, Valkyrie standing off to the side, trying to look far less interested than she was as a young man tried on a white bodysuit.  One window showed the various Endbringers, all of them motionless, but for the Simurgh, who was airborne.  The last of the original three. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/11/19/interlude-end/ Excerpt] from [[Interlude: End]]</ref> The Simurgh appeared to be active, however, apparently having used Tinker technology to grow a baby with an unusual resemblance to Eidolon.<ref name="E.5 eDestroyClone" /><ref name="E.5 eProtectProject">Over and over, the Simurgh had protected the weapon.  He’d seen it, had checked the footage, had seen her go out of her way to shield it with her wings.  She’d done it subtly, most of the time, events contriving to make it look more accidental than anything.<br>[...]<br>One or two years old?  Accelerated aging?  Where had the Simurgh been in contact with a tinker with that particular knowledge?  Bonesaw? - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/11/16/teneral-e-5/ Excerpt] from [[Teneral e.5]]</ref>