Scape

<infobox> <title source="name"><default>Scape</default></title>

<image source="Image"></image> <image source="image"></image> <group><header>Basic Information</header> <label>Civilian Name</label> <label>Aliases</label> <label>Gender</label><default>Unknown</default> <label>Death</label> <label>Age</label><default>Unknown</default> <label>Post-timeskip</label> <label>Ward start</label> <label>Relations</label> <label>Family</label></group> <group><header>Professional Status</header> <label>Occupation</label> <label>Classification</label> <label>Unique Features</label> <label>Alignment</label>

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<label>Location</label> <label>Teams</label> <label>Previous Team(s)</label> <label>Base of Operations</label></group> <group><header>First Appearance</header> <label>Worm Debut</label> <label>Ward Debut</label></group> </infobox> Scape is the name given to multiple clones of Vista created by Echidna. They shared her memories, but, like all Echidna clones, felt a driving desire to destroy everything their original cared about.

Personality

Scapes were largely obedient to Echidna and even showed affection toward her in the form of hugging. However, one Scape wasn't as obedient, running off to kill Vista's family by herself.<ref name="six" />

Appearance

Six Scapes were initially created. Four of them had mask-like faces that were hard and rigid. The fifth was tall and elongated with bones that were curved. The sixth's appearance was unknown.<ref name="five">Grue leaned close, whispered in my ear, “Five Vistas. All but one of them have faces more like masks than skin and muscle. Hard, rigid. Wearing borrowed clothes, not costumes. The fifth one might be taller than I am, and her bones look curved.” - Excerpt from Queen 18.4</ref>

The "masked" Scapes had faces that appeared more like a mask than flesh. All of them had hardened skin, though certain masked Scapes had harder skin than others.<ref name="second">The second one had arrived, creating footholds and handholds to ascend the section of road she’d raised into a vertical wall, twelve feet high. She was now perched on top, crouching. In the time that it had taken me to lose the armband, she had started to work on cutting off our best avenue of retreat. The road we’d traveled on to get here was raising behind us, bulging upward into a similar barrier. As far as I could tell, her powers were most in line with the regular Vista, and she seemed to be reacting most to the bites and stings. I wished that would make me feel more confident about these circumstances. - Excerpt from Queen 18.6</ref>

One masked Scape had an angular, artificial-looking chin and thin hair on top of her head.<ref>It had been dumb of me to expect them to be in costume. I hadn’t even considered it, but Noelle wouldn’t spit out anything but the people themselves. The bugs noted the hardness of her face, more like a mask than flesh, her angular, almost artificial chin, and the thin hair on top of her head. - Excerpt from Queen 18.5</ref> Her "eye-holes" were small and her mouth was little more than a lipless slit.<ref>The bugs that I was sending her way were having a hard time approaching. They kept veering around so they flew clockwise around her instead of straight. I had only a few bugs attacking her, but the same effect that I’d seen with her face had hardened her skin and there weren’t many places left to attack. Her mouth was little more than a lipless slit across the lower half of her face, firmly closed, and only the smallest bugs could get at her eyes. She barely flinched at the bites and stings my swarm was delivering. - Excerpt from Queen 18.6</ref>

Another masked Scape had thinner skin and was presumably less mutated than the others.<ref name="second" />

Another masked Scape was shorter than usual. She was thicker in the arms and legs, with a neck as thick around as her head.<ref name="jagged" />

The tall Scape was described to look stretched like taffy, her bones so curved they were shaped like crescents. She was incredibly thin, with a face twisted into a perpetual, distorted scream.<ref name="tall">And I was aware of a third one. The tall Vista Grue had described. She’d stretched like taffy, her bones curving to the point that each was more a crescent than straight. Narrow, so thin it felt like she’d break, with a face twisted into a perpetual, distorted scream, she was picking her way through the rubble of the fallen building. Her power was twisting the largest pieces of rubble around her until they were wisps, chunks of concrete slowly corkscrewing in space until they were nothing more than dust. - Excerpt from Queen 18.5</ref> Her limbs were long, gangly, and formed zig-zags.<ref>That left the freakishly tall one. The Vista with limbs that zig-zagged, who was apparently turning matter into radioactive dust. She’d climbed past the wreckage of the fallen building and now stood on solid ground again, facing us. - Excerpt from Queen 18.6</ref> She also had hard and gnarled skin, similar to the masked Scapes.<ref>My bugs were covering every inch of her skin, and I had them biting and tearing at her flesh. Her skin was hard, gnarled, and calloused, but I did the damage where I could at the elbows, knees and neck, drawing blood. I tried to tell myself that she was a monster, a mockery of a real person, and she was too dangerous to be allowed to live. With that kind of unhinged mental state, and her ability to irradiate people… I grit my teeth. No choice. - Excerpt from Queen 18.6</ref> Her voice didn't sound normal, but was almost like a young girl's.<ref>Still fighting to avoid being brained by Wanton’s telekinetic storm, the tall Vista let out a drawn out half-moan, half-scream, equal parts despair and anger. It didn’t sound exactly normal, but that didn’t surprise me. What made my blood run cold was that she almost sounded like a young girl might. A little too close to reality for comfort. - Excerpt from Queen 18.6</ref>

A Scape freshly vomited by Echidna had fingernail-like plates of hard flesh covering her body.<ref>One of the heads of Noelle’s lower body vomited up a slurry of flesh, with two naked bodies in the midst of it. A Vista covered in fingernail-like plates of hard flesh and a Leet with one forearm and hand as big as his torso. The two clones were on their feet in seconds. The Vista ran in Eidolon’s direction, while the Leet made a beeline for a nearby mall entrance.. - Excerpt from Queen 18.7</ref>

Abilities and Powers

The Scapes all had powers similar to Vista, with some variations. One masked Scape had the ability to twist the world around her, using it to weaken walls and building supports. Her power worked differently from Vista's, affecting a wider area but at a slower speed. Her power was also not hindered by the presence of people.<ref>The first one I’d noticed was still on the rooftop, spreading out her efforts, thinning walls and twisting supports. Her progress was slow, but I was willing to bet that half of the city block would be collapsing onto us in a matter of minutes. If not sooner. If I had to guess, her power operated in a different manner than the original Vista’s. It affected a wider area, it was slower, and she didn’t seem to be suffering for our presence. - Excerpt from Queen 18.6</ref> She could sense the world through her power, able to stretch buildings even with her eyes obstructed.<ref>Meagre as my efforts were, they still should have left her blind, filling her eye sockets with ants and no-see-ums, but her power was still steadily working on the buildings around us. Another peculiarity of her abilities? The ability to sense the layout of whatever structures she was affecting? Did that extend to sensing us? - Excerpt from Queen 18.6</ref>

Another masked Scape could twist space around her into jagged shapes, with some of them raised into points.<ref name="jagged" />

The tall Scape could warp and twist matter, corkscrewing it until it was nothing but dust.<ref name="tall" /> Everything she dissolved turned into radioactive dust.<ref name="radiation">“It’s radioactive,” Tattletale intoned. “Everything she’s dissolving like that.”

“Unless I cover it?” Grue asked.

“Unless you cover it. Should cancel out the effects. But you did want me to let you know when I’m making an educated guess. This is one of them.” Tattletale said. “I hope I’m right. We could win this fight and still wind up dying in a hospital bed a few years from now, because we got too close as that stuff dissolved.” - Excerpt from Queen 18.6</ref>

Yet another Scape was able to hide people in two-dimensional space. Upon emerging from a surface, they would peel away and emerge unscathed.<ref>“And there’s a good half-dozen capes around her,” I said. “One Circus, one Vista that can apparently hide people in two-dimensional space, two Übers and the Leet with the gun.” - Excerpt from Queen 18.7</ref><ref name="flat" /> People in two-dimensional space could still be injured if the surface they resided on was damaged.<ref name="piledriver">He didn’t hesitate, punching the ground and driving both piledrivers into it. There were no fissures, this time. The entire area rumbled, and the ground spiderwebbed with cracks in every direction, not leaving two square feet of ground untouched. Bentley nearly lost his footing, and Bastard growled, until Rachel pulled on his chain.

The first clone stepped out of a piece of plywood that had been placed across a shattered balcony door. An Über. He pulled the plywood free and disappeared into the apartment, swatting at the bugs that I’d set on him.

A Circus emerged beneath the flying heroes, cradling a shattered arm. Bugs began drifting toward her, as if a strong wind were pulling them in. The normal Circus packed a pocket dimension she could put things into. This one was only storing air, forming a strong vacuum around herself. Chronicler’s cloud dissipated as it was sucked in, and the heroes with weaker flying abilities were swiftly being dragged her way. Regent hit her with his power, and the effect slowed, but she recovered faster than the fliers did. - Excerpt from Queen 18.8</ref>

A Scape with fingernail-like plates of flesh was able to raise surfaces and sculpt them into rough images. She used this to raise statues of Echidna from the pavement as decoys to distract Eidolon.<ref name="sculpt">I pointed the way to Noelle, and Rachel changed direction. Eidolon was dealing with the last Vista-clone that Noelle had spawned. The girl wasn’t going on the offensive, but she was using her power to move quickly, using every spare moment to raise lumps of pavement and concrete from the ground, sculpting them into rough images of Noelle. It would be sunrise, now, but in the dim light, they would be something that distracted Eidolon and potentially drew his fire. - Excerpt from Queen 18.7</ref>

History

Post-Slaughterhouse Nine

After Echidna kidnapped Vista,<ref>“Miss Militia,” I responded, when I realized none of the others were responding. Should have hashed this out with Tattletale. She can do the negotiating with hostile parties better than I can.

“You do this?” She jerked her head in the direction of the wreckage, not moving the rifle. Her voice was hard.

“Indirectly,” I replied. “But not really, no. I don’t know what that is, exactly.”

“I find that hard to believe,” she responded. “A hell of a lot of damage, reports of howling eerily similar to the reports we’ve had for Hellhound’s animals, and let’s not forget your penchant for kidnapping the good guys. Shadow Stalker, Piggot, Calvert…”

Kidnapping heroes?

With my bugs, I did a head count. Someone was missing.

How? Dinah said Noelle wouldn’t do any major damage before dawn.

“Vista,” I finished Miss Militia’s thought. “You’re talking about Vista.” - Excerpt from Queen 18.2</ref> she produced six Vista clones. One of the Scapes ran off to kill Vista's family.<ref name="six">“She was alone. And could smell how strong she was. Read about her online, too. Internet was all I had for a long time. Now I’ve got them. They’re pretty obedient, and it’s nice to have company. I haven’t had any physical contact with anyone for a while, and they like giving me hugs. Except the sixth.”

“Sixth,” Miss Militia said.

“Not as obedient. She ran off. Gibbering something about killing her family.” - Excerpt from Queen 18.4</ref> The rest accompanied Echidna during her talk with the Protectorate heroes through a webcam feed.<ref name="five" /> Noelle lied during this conversation, claiming that she had killed Vista to produce the six Scapes.

As the Chicago Wards and the Undersiders were moving to intercept Echidna, they came across several Scapes lying in ambush, two masked Scapes, and one tall Scape. The first Scape was on the rooftops, thinning walls and twisting building supports in order to collapse buildings near the Undersiders. The second Scape disrupted movement, cutting off avenues of escape by raising streets into walls.<ref>We’d ground to a halt, and sure enough, the pseudo-Vista on the rooftop was slowly starting to work on the buildings around us, thinning walls and twisting supports. She was spreading out the work and laying the groundwork for future collapses, I realized. The second psycho-Vista, busy trying to close the distance by folding the space between us and her and stepping across the shortened distances, was raising the street between two buildings, creating a steep incline that even Bitch’s dogs would struggle to climb, cutting off one avenue of retreat. - Excerpt from Queen 18.5</ref> She also assisted the other Scapes with dodging attacks.<ref>“She’s still alive!” I called out, interrupting him. There was a small explosion as Raymancer directed a shot at the Radioactive Vista and missed. I could sense how the barrier behind us abruptly stopped growing and how the space to one side of her warped to let her evade more easily.

“Vista to our three o’clock is assisting her!” I said. - Excerpt from Queen 18.6</ref> The third Scape, the tall one, produced radiation dust that was potentially lethal to anyone that entered it. Grue could use his darkness to counteract the radiation.<ref name="radiation" /> In a feint maneuver, the tall Scape managed to bombard Raymancer with radiation before Grue could cover it up. Wanton then attacked the Scape with his radiation-immune whirlwind form, snapping one of her arms. Grue, Skitter, and Tecton helped wear away at the tall Scape until she eventually collapsed, dead.<ref>She went all-out with her power, aimless, directionless. Street signs, mailboxes, piles of debris, walls and sections of road began twisting and bulging. Grue laid down a blanket of darkness all around us, aiming to dampen the spread of the radioactive particles. I wasn’t sure how that worked, but Tattletale thought it did, and I wasn’t about to complain. I’d settle for a white lie if it meant we were able to stay focused on fighting, rather than the cancer we’d have five years from now.

It took ten seconds before the Vista collapsed. Only ten seconds to bleed out to the point of unconsciousness. The blood continued pumping free, and nobody leaped forward to staunch the flow. - Excerpt from Queen 18.6</ref> The second Scape battled with Regent, Imp, and Bitch. With the help of Regent's interference and Imp's tasering, Bitch managed to get one of her dogs to catch the Scape in its jaws, crunching down and killing her instantly.<ref>“Kill,” Rachel said, her voice quiet. The bulldog picked up the Vista in his jaws and bit down until an audible series of cracks marked the breaking of a dozen major bones. He shook her like a rag doll, no doubt snapping her neck and aggravating every injury he’d just inflicted. The girl was dead in an instant. - Excerpt from Queen 18.6</ref> The first Scape was wounded by one of Raymancer's blasts. Skitter took advantage of the wound and poured bugs into the Scape's body. She was disabled by a glob of containment foam and, with an order from Miss Militia over the radio, was executed by an unnamed cape.<ref>It was Miss Militia who responded through the armband. She gave a curt order, and several capes turned away. One of the capes who hadn’t took aim and shot the fallen girl between the eyes. - Excerpt from Queen 18.6</ref>

When proceeding toward Echidna and Eidolon, the Undersiders and Chicago Wards drove past a group of capes dispatching another Scape.<ref name="jagged">We caught up to a group of the faster-moving heroes who’d flown ahead. They were dispatching another Vista. She was shorter, thicker in the arms and legs, with a neck as thick around as her head was. The space around her was twisted into jagged shapes, with some raised into points. Two of the capes had been injured but were still fighting. - Excerpt from Queen 18.6</ref> During the first battle against Echidna, there were two Scapes that accompanied her. One had the ability to store people in two-dimensional space, using this ability to hide herself on Echidna's body and various clones on the surrounding walls in order to set up an ambush.<ref name="flat">Something peeled away from Noelle’s side, and when it bumped into my bugs, they weren’t absorbed. The stature, the length of the hair… another Vista.

I thought maybe Noelle had produced another clone, but others started to emerge from the surrounding architecture, peeling away from nearby walls as if they’d been inside the surfaces.

And they weren’t all Vistas. I noted the presence of what had to be a Circus, disproportionate and thin, with a hunched back, using her knuckles to walk. There was another Vista, two large figures who might have been Übers, and on the second floor of the building behind Eidolon there was a narrow young man, shirtless, with a gun bigger than he was. Leet. - Excerpt from Queen 18.7</ref> When Eidolon attacked Echidna and her clones with his gravity magnification power, the Scape folded herself and her fellow clones into surrounding surfaces, keeping them alive.<ref>“It let him move well out of the way before it went off,” I said. “And it’s helping him when Noelle tries to trick him. She’s… I don’t even know how to put it. She’s wearing a Vista that can turn two-dimensional, and the Vista is helping keep her other clones alive. Whenever Eidolon moves like he’s about to drop that gravity magnification on them, she folds Noelle’s clones against whatever surface they’re touching and then pastes herself into Noelle.” - Excerpt from Queen 18.7</ref> It's possible that another Scape was also helping Echidna, as clones were seemingly pulled out of nowhere to help Echidna.<ref>I was getting increasingly worried that there was some factor here that would decide the battle, something I should grasp but wasn’t. It didn’t help that both Noelle and Eidolon had powersets that I didn’t fully understand. Noelle was apparently pulling clones out of nowhere, despite not having contact with Vista or the other villains. Getting a sense of any given power and accounting for all the possibilities was hard enough, but Eidolon had a bunch of them at any given time, and they could change. - Excerpt from Queen 18.7</ref> Another Scape was vomited out by Echidna that sculpted rough likenesses of Echidna out of the pavement. She used these to distract Eidolon in the dim lighting.<ref name="sculpt" /> When Tecton trapped Echidna in an "antlion pit," the two-dimensional Scape flattened out the new clones Echidna vomited in order to set up an ambush. Under Skitter's command, Tecton shattered the ground, forcing several two-dimensional clones to reappear and injuring a Carnie in the process.<ref name="piledriver" /> 

During her attack on Coil's base, Echidna employed multiple Scapes to clear the collapsed tunnels of Coil's base, offering her a way in.<ref>The tunnels that Coil had used to move his trucks in and out of the base had been collapsed, and it had been recent. She could smell the smoke from the explosives. She spat out a Vista, then another, and another, until she had one that could give her a way in, shrinking the rubble and expanding the corridor. - Excerpt from Interlude 18</ref>

It is assumed that they were all killed during or after the Battle against Echidna.

Trivia

• Scape is only named in the tags of the chapters she appears in.
• The word scape references a view or picture of a scene, used in words such as landscape and cityscape. Vista on the other hand refers to a pleasing view, especially through a long narrow opening. 

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