Editing Behemoth (section)

===Shockwaves===
Behemoth can produce shockwaves, often in quick succession, by clapping his hands or claws together. These shockwaves can be powerful enough to knock over nearby buildings<ref>Behemoth clapped again, then again, each collision of claw against claw serving to extend the damage one step further, clearing obstructions out of the way for the next. - [[Interlude 23]]</ref><ref>Grue shook his head.  He started to reply, but was cut off as Behemoth generated another shockwave.  A rumble drowned everything out, as every building without something to protect it fell. - [[Crushed 24.1]]</ref> and liquefy people in close proximity.<ref>Behemoth slammed his claws together.  The Yàngbǎn responded by creating forcefields en-masse, one for every person, overlapping with those to either side of them.  The shockwave of the clap ripped through them, shattering the first two rows of forcefields and virtually liquefying the unfortunate capes who no longer had protection.<br/><br/>The Yàngbǎn in the back rows were already dropping their forcefields, extending their hands forward, open palms aimed at their comrades.<br/><br/>The shockwave’s effects reversed in an instant, and the injured were whole, holding the positions they’d been in an instant before.  Here and there, the reaction had been a fraction too slow, and the Yàngbǎn members were only reversed to the instant the shockwave made contact.  They were thrown back and caught by the ones in the back row, blood streaming from their eyes, noses and ears.  One was saved much too late, and the process of being liquefied was only repeated, splattering the Yàngbǎn soldier who’d failed to react in time to rescue him.- [[Drone 23.5]]</ref><ref>The Endbringer clapped his hands together, and forcefields went down, defenses and defending capes falling in response to the impact. - [[Crushed 24.4]]</ref> The concussive shock can even travel far enough sometimes to be weakly felt halfway across a city.<ref>The windows briefly rattled with the shockwave of one of Behemoth’s attacks, halfway across the city. - [[Interlude 23]]</ref> However, enough cover and/or distance can mitigate the effects of the shockwave.<ref>A shockwave ripped past us, harsher, briefer and more intense than a strong wind, not quite the organ-pulverizing impact it might be if Behemoth were closer, or if there were less buildings in the way.  I ventured up to a rooftop where I might be able to see beyond the darkness.<br/><br/>The shockwave had parted the clouds of smoke, but they began to close together once again.  I could make out a form, maybe one of the Indian capes, swiftly growing.  Ethereal, translucent, his features vague, the light he emitted only barely cutting through the smoke cover.  He slammed hands into Behemoth’s face and chest.<br/><br/>Behemoth parted his hands, then swung them together.  I didn’t wait for them to make contact.  I ducked behind cover before the shockwave could hit me directly.  All around me, the smoke was dashed out of the sky by the impact’s reach.  With the front of my body hugging the building, I could feel not only the shockwave, but the vibrations that followed it, as buildings fell and debris settled in new locations.<br/><br/>He delivered shockwave after shockwave, and I was forced to abandon the cover of the building for something a little more distant. - [[Crushed 24.2]]</ref><ref>Behemoth generated a shockwave, and I could ''sense'' the heroes reacting to it.  The only cover here was cover heroes like Golem were creating, and the concussive shock traveled through the air, knocking capes off their feet or out of the air.<br/><br/>I grit my teeth and pressed my back to a building as it rolled past me, fell over at the impact. - [[Crushed 24.3]]</ref><ref>He clapped, and a shockwave tore through the area. Rachel was already directing the dogs; they moved so there was cover, buildings between them and Behemoth. The chain, imbued by Foil’s ability to shear through anything, cut through the buildings as though there was nothing there. - [[Crushed 24.4]]</ref>

Behemoth can use a shockwave when leaping to cover short distances.<ref>Defiant declined to fill me in, staring at the screen.  His voice was almost ''pained'' as he muttered, “They’re too close.”<br/><br/>One Dragon suit was unleashing what looked like a freeze ray at the Endbringer, while another of the Dragon suits was turning a laser on the ground beneath Behemoth’s broad feet.  It wasn’t enough to take away his footing.  He set one ‘claw’ -a growth of obsidian-like black shards- onto solid earth, then half-loped, half-hopped forward.  With his claws and feet now on firm ground, he leaped.  The shockwave of his departure toppled the slipshod buildings around him in his wake.<br/><br/>The landing as he arrived flattened ''another'' set of buildings.  The heroes started to run.  They were too slow, when compared to the length of Behemoth’s legs, the sheer power he was capable of putting into the simple act of walking.  One by one, they fell within his kill range.  Two were scorched from the inside, a brawny-looking cape seized up with smoke billowing from his corpse as he struck ground, his arms and limbs still twitching in death. - [[Drone 23.5]]</ref> He can also use shockwaves to help spread the radiation he produces.<ref>“Radiation,” Thirty-two said, her English perfect, unaccented.  It was for Cody’s benefit, and the benefit of the other two English-speaking members of the group, who might not understand the more complicated words.  She got glances from the other members of their squad, but continued speaking.  “He’s using the shockwaves to spread irradiated material across the city.  We’re retreating, okay?” - [[Interlude 23]]</ref>

Behemoth can deliver massive impacts by slamming an appendage against targets.<ref>Behemoth slammed his claw into the glowing hero, and the shockwave tore him free of Scion’s grip. - [[Interlude 24.x]]</ref><ref>She flew in close, slamming her hands into his face, driving him back, throwing him off-balance.<br/><br/>He struck her and drove her into the ground.  His flame burned through her, the sand was turning to glass around her, burning her costume, but it didn’t burn ''her''.<br/>[...]<br/>''Fire, sonic, lightning. And he hit me harder than he should have, even being as big as he is. Kinetic energy, too.'' - [[Interlude 15.z]]</ref> The resulting shockwave can be powerful enough to level a whole row of buildings.<ref>An instant later, he resumed destroying the craft.  Three in as many seconds, and then a slam of one claw against a building.  The shockwave that followed leveled a whole row of buildings. - [[Drone 23.5]]</ref> If given enough time underground, he can possibly use shockwaves in key areas to set up fissures and shatter the above landscape.<ref>As if reminding us of the culprit, there was a distant rumble.  It grew steadily in intensity, then stopped abruptly.  As far as I could tell, with bugs spread out over the area within two thousand feet or so, the Endbringer wasn’t moving any closer to us.<br/>[...]<br/>There was a rumble, with a shaking that affected the whole structure.  Something distant, beyond my power’s range.  A heavy crash.  Somewhere in a northwesterly direction.<br/>[...]<br/>Behemoth emerged with a plume of gray-brown smoke, and the landscape ''shattered''.  It was Tecton’s natural power, taken to an extreme.  Fissures lanced out in every direction and disappeared into each horizon.  ''Secondary'' fissures crossed between each of the major ones, like the threads of a spider’s web.<br/><br/>As far as the eye could see in every direction, terrain shifted.  Hillsides abruptly tilted, standing structures fell like collapsing houses of cards.<br/><br/>A full quarter of the temple collapsed.  The bugs I’d kept to the edges of the room could sense it as a small share of the capes who were in the entry hall were caught beneath the falling rubble.  The ones furthest towards the back.  Eidolon’s protective effect kept the remainder intact.<br/><br/>Behemoth emerged from the smoke.  He was more robust than he had been, but that wasn’t saying much.  Seventy percent burned away, perhaps.  The regeneration had slowed, but it was still functioning to a degree.  He’d recuperated, built his strength, and he’d used the time to, what?  Burrow through strategic areas?  Had the distant rumbles been controlled detonations or collapses at key areas?<br/><br/>The temple was the one building that stood.  Everywhere else, there was devastation. - [[Crushed 24.5]]</ref>