Editing Alexandria (section)

===Flight===
Alexandria can fly at incredible speeds, fast enough to appear as a blur to viewers.<ref name="19.5 e2">Alexandria flew low to the ground, striking and catching hold of a traffic light.  In one second she was a blur, the next she appeared to be moving as fast as a person did when they ran.  Charging into the effect’s area, Alexandria made a beeline for Echidna.<br><br>The swing was slow motion, but Echidna was too.  Alexandria struck her with the metal pole, and Echidna moved like she’d been hit full strength. - [[Scourge 19.5]]</ref> She can fly so fast when zig-zagging between buildings that people couldn't follow her with their eyes, though [[Skitter]] could still sense her movements with her bugs.<ref name="22.4 e1">Alexandria had found an alley and promptly took to the air, zig-zagging between buildings and flying with enough speed that people couldn’t follow her with their eyes. - [[Cell 22.4]]</ref> Even in [[Eidolon]]'s time-distortion bubble that slows objects to a tenth of their speed,<ref name="19.5 e1">Eidolon was making his move before Alexandria was even free.  He cast out a bubble that swelled as it moved through the air.  By the time it reached Echidna, it was twice as big around as she was, enough to reach from one sidewalk to the other.  The colors around her became muted, and her movements slowed to a tenth of the speed.<br><br>It was a time-distortion effect. - [[Scourge 19.5]]</ref> Alexandria could still fly as fast as a running person, though her arms moved in slow motion.<ref name="19.5 e2" />

<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" style="width:100%">While being choked by bugs, she broke through a barrier in the roof of the [[PRT ENE Headquarters]]  and then left Skitter's range by flying roughly 1100 feet in moments.<ref name="22.4 eMoments">Alexandria, in the basement, still choking, drowning on dry land with lungs full of dragonflies, spiders and cockroaches, soared.  She flew through the closed barrier in the roof, and debris showered down on the Wards who’d approached her, wanting to help but finding themselves unable.<br><br>In moments, she was out of my range, too high in the air.  I wasn’t sure it mattered. - [[Cell 22.4]]</ref><div class="mw-collapsible-content"><small>(Skitter's range is about 1500 feet at the time;<ref>My power’s range was about five blocks.  It should have been larger, going by the running theory that feeling ‘trapped’ extended my reach, but I was in here by my own device.  I couldn’t necessarily force it. - [[Cell 22.1]]</ref><ref>I was in the PRT offices.  I was back in my cell.<br><br>As far as I could tell, the building was empty.  My power reached five blocks, and… nothing.  There were no people. Computers were active, television screens were glowing with shifting images, and cars sat in the middle of the road outside, but the people were gone.<br><br>Evacuation?  When my power hadn’t stopped, the PRT would have ordered people to clear out of the area.<br><br>Maybe they weren’t sure if my power would keep going if they shot me. - [[Cell 22.5]]</ref><ref>She’s described her range as [...] city blocks. A city block is about 300 feet long. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/03/21/chrysalis-20-1/#comment-13946 Comment by] Wildbow on [[Chrysalis 20.1]]</ref> Skitter is on the second basement floor<ref>“It’s time,” I said.  “I’m at the PRT headquarters, second basement floor.” - [[Cell 22.2]]</ref> of an office building<ref>The main floors had open areas with desks and areas with blocks of cubicles, packed with officers working elbow to elbow.<br>[...]<br>The area was some kind of office, filled with desks, chairs, cubicles and computers.  More like an office building than I’d expected from a law enforcement facility. - [[Monarch 16.2]]</ref> with a helipad on the roof.<ref>It wasn’t halfway up when the heroes arrived to collect their prisoner.  A vibration through the building as a heavy vehicle landed on the helicopter pad on the roof.  Four legged, with turbines in the place of wings, and a neckless head.  A man stepped out.  Defiant. - [[Cell 22.5]]</ref> This building is almost indistinguishable from other [[downtown]] buildings<ref>The building housing the local Parahuman Response Team division didn’t really stand out. The exterior was all windows, reflective enough to mirror the mottled dark gray of the sky overhead.  Only a shield logo bearing the letters ‘P.R.T.’ marked it apart from the other buildings of downtown Brockton Bay. - [[Interlude 3]]</ref><ref>She returned Downtown.  It was hard to navigate the streets from so high up, even if they were roads she traveled on a daily basis as her uncostumed self.  From here, the buildings all looked the same, with mirrored outsides and gravel rooftops.  Twice, she circled around the top floors of the wrong buildings, looking for the logo set on the side of the building would mark Max’s building apart from the others. - [[Interlude 3.5 (Bonus)]]</ref> that are roughly 30 stories tall.<ref>Thirty two stories down, the cars on the street were visible only by the yellow and red points of their headlights and taillights.  I felt Tattletale clutch me tighter, from where she sat behind me.  Judas’ front paw rested on the stone railing of the rooftop, clutched it hard enough that the points of his nails bit into the concrete.<br><br>Getting up here had been easy enough – Tattletale had cracked the employee access door and we’d taken the supply elevator to the roof.<br>[...]<br>Three stories down from the roof, there was a patio.  As Bitch whistled and pointed from her position below us, Judas kicked against the wall just behind us, pushing out and away from the building.<br>[...]<br>The Forsberg Gallery was twenty six stories tall and was one of the more recognizable buildings you could find downtown. - [[Tangle 6.5]]</ref> The calculation of 1100 feet assumes the distance from the containment cell to the hole in the roof is roughly 400 feet.)</small></div> Alexandria could also fly fast enough that when entering the headquarters via the roof, photography or being spotted wasn't a risk for her.<ref name="22.4 e2">Alexandria arrived the same way she had after her last two excursions, through the hole in the roof.  With the speed she moved, she didn’t risk being spotted.  Even photography wasn’t in the cards.<br><br>With the speed she moved, she didn’t seem to notice the bugs that followed after her as the aperture began to close behind her. - [[Cell 22.4]]</ref></div><br>[[Doctor Mother]] claimed in 1988 that Alexandria could fly at speeds that matched [[Legend]].<ref name="15.z e3" /> However, Legend in 1988 has not yet tapped his full speed, developed his powers, or tested his limits.<ref name="SB4">Legend hadn't tapped his full speed at that point in time, probably out of reticence. He's had time to develop his powers and test his limits. - Comment by Wildbow, archived [https://spacebattles.com/posts/16845961 on Spacebattles]</ref> During the [[Battle against Echidna]], [[Apocrypha|Alexandria's clones]] could not catch up to Legend when he purposefully flew in loops and circles to find opportunities for taking aim and firing at [[Echidna]]'s clones.<ref name="19.6">Legend and Alexandria still fought above us.  I could, when he passed into my range, note how he got faster the longer he flew, giving him the ability to put distance between himself and Alexandria, but he couldn’t stop to take aim and shoot without losing that acceleration and giving her a chance to close the gap.<br><br>The result was that he was flying in loops and circles, using the turns to find opportunities to take aim and fire on her.  She dodged most, but the hits that did land bought him distance and time to stop and laser down clones who were attempting to escape. - [[Scourge 19.6]]</ref>

During the [[Battle against Khonsu]], [[Pretender]] in Alexandria's body, as well as other capes, managed to get from [[Japan]] to Cape Verde in under ten minutes.<ref name="25.4 e3">“Japan,” Wanton said.<br>[...]<br>Now he stood still, weathering attacks with the same durability the other Endbringers had.<br>[...]<br>I tore my eyes from the screen, marching towards the emergency doors.<br>[...]<br>The dragon-craft was waiting for us outside, ramp doors open.<br>[...]<br>We stepped inside, entering the center of the craft.  I found a seat by a monitor, with a laptop ready and waiting for use, login screen displayed.  The monitor was showing the battlefield, roving over the dead, the buildings that had collapsed under the weight of years.  Oddly, the cameraman wasn’t focusing on Khonsu or the defending heroes.  A few heroes were fleeing, but most weren’t in view.<br>[...]<br>The craft hadn’t taken off.<br><br>My growing sense of dread was confirmed as the image on the monitors changed.<br>[...]<br>The monitors showed him in a different city.  A caption on the bottom of the screen showed the words ‘Cape Verde’.<br><br>He’d teleported halfway around the planet.<br>[...]<br>My phone vibrated to alert me to a new text.  I didn’t need to read it to guess what it said.  I read it anyways.<br>[...]<br>The heroes were engaging, now.  Legend and Eidolon had caught up.<br>[...]<br>Five minutes, six, as he leisurely tore through the forces he’d caught off guard.<br>[...]<br>Alexandria and other capes joined the attack.  Too few.  Everyone else retreated. - [[Scarab 25.4]]</ref> However, Pretender (and presumably these other capes) specifically required the help of [[Doormaker]].<ref>'''Tessa Did Nothing Wrong:''' I remember someone did a calculation of how fast Alexandria had to fly in one feat<br>Does anyone know where I can find it though<br><br>'''Wildbow:''' Which disregards that doormaker portals exist.<br><br>'''Kyakan:''' it was specifically about her travel time in a situation where Doormaker portals were explicitly not something Doctor Mother wanted to use<br>(the first Khonsu attack)<br>unless they used them to cut the distance in half without actually making either portal anywhere near Khonsu, I guess<br><br>[Wildbow reacted with :agree:] - Comment by Wildbow on Discord, [https://spacebattles.com/posts/53539480 archived on Spacebattles]</ref> [[Wildbow]] confirmed that Doormaker cut the distance down significantly without dropping Pretender directly at [[Khonsu]]; he did not specify the portal's location.<ref>'''Kyakan:''' As the person in that conversation, yes, Wildbow was agreeing to me saying Cauldron used Doormaker to cut the distance down significantly without dropping her directly at the battlefield. Just to clarify. - Comment by Kyakan [https://spacebattles.com/posts/67499076 on Spacebattles]</ref>