Tattletale watched the storm.

It had started a few minutes ago, and just kept growing and expanding. Already, it covered a quarter of Brockton Bay.

The storm had barely raged for a minute before her employer called, and ordered her to get some information about it.

Parahuman power. Ice creation and manipulation. Powerful. Hard to control. Tied to emotions. User stressed.

The blizzard was getting closer. Tattletale reached for her scarf.

Centre of storm at school. User stressed. Bullying.

Snow fell on Lisa's nose. She sighed. She needed to get closer, try and find whoever caused the storm.

Storm growing rapidly. Going faster north and east. User going north-east. Heading for the Docks. Gang territory. Villains. Lung, Oni Lee, Baku-

Tattletale shook her head. Focus. It doesn't matter who's in the Docks. The source is heading north, which was to her south, which meant she just had to find them.

Sliding on an extra sweater, Lisa walked into the blizzard.

To say it was cold would be an understatement. Despite multiple layers of clothing, Tattletale felt colder then she had been her whole life.

Everything was freezing around her.

Blizzard growth rate slowed. User stopped moving.

Huh. The source had stopped?

Then the roaring started.

That's not good.

Tattletale began running.

As she ran, the noises began. More roaring, swearing, gunfire, sounds of fighting.

Someone had found the source.

It didn't take long for Lisa to get there too.

A huge, hulking ice golem smashed it's fist into Armsmaster, sending him flying. Miss Militia stood stood near where he landed, firing explosives at the golem. The golem battered the explosive to the side, and it blew up harmlessly in the snow.

Armsmaster stood up, and ran around the golem whle it was distracted, heading for...

Girl. Fifteen years old. Parahuman. Source of blizzard.

The girl whipped her hand, and some ice emerged from the ground, trapping Armsmasters arms between two spears of ice each.

Could be lethal. Isn't. Holding back.

The golem roared, and Miss Militia dodged a thrown snowball twice her size. Her weapon morphed again, and she fired a jet of flames from a flamethrower.

Doesn't want to kill. Doesn't want to stop.

Why was the girl doing this?

Pushing ther heroes. Wants to die.

Tattletale stopped.

Wants to die. Wants to be remembered.

Oh.

Pushed to far. Bullying. Held back power after Trigger. Let it go after further bullying. Suicidal.

No no no no no no.

If the girl died, Lisa would be the only person who would know why. That's bad. She couldn't let her die without people knowing why. Not like him.

Armsmaster broke free of the ice, and ran at the girl.

The girl pointed at him, and a bolt of ice struck him in the heart.

The hero fell to his knees. Miss Militia broke off from fighting the golem to help him.

The two talked for some time outside of Lisa's hearing range, before backing off.

Tattletale took the chance to look at the girl.

Brown her. Glasses. White skin.

That should be enough to identify her.

Tattletale turned to leave.

She had to find out about her. Find out who she was.

She had to help her.

"Armsmaster." Said Emily Piggot. "Miss Militia. What happened?"

Miss Militia answered. "We ran into the girl who made the storm. As soon as she saw us, she attacked."

"She made some sort of construct." Added Armsmaster. "A giant made of ice."

"And she was able to make ice out of nowhere." Finished Miss Militia. "She almost impaled Armsmaster a few times before we retreated."

Piggot sighed. "Is there anything else?"

"The girl wasn't wearing a mask." Said Armsmaster. "Or a costume. Just a dress."

"She didn't seem to have any goal." Suggested Miss Militia. "As far as I can tell, she was doing it for the sake of doing it."

Director Piggot thought on this for a second. "We're going to have to bring her in." She said, gesturing to the snow outside. "Someone with this much power going on a rampage is disastrous. Armsmaster, go find the Wards. Miss Militia, stay here. and help me identify this girl."

The Tinker nodded, and left.

Just before he left the building, he ran into Velocity and Dauntless.

"Hey." Called Velocity. "Armsmaster. What's up?"

Armsmaster hid his irritation. "I'm going to get the Wards, so we can stop the girl causing the storm."

"Have they assigned a name to her yet?" Asked Dauntless.

"Not that I am aware of." Repled Armsmaster.

"Didn't she give you a name to call her while she was kicking your ass?" Asked Velocity. "Or was she giving you the cold shoulder."

Velocity chuckled to himself. Armsmaster glared at him.

"Well." Said Dauntless. "I suppose you shou..." He trailed off.

"What." Demanded Armsmaster.

"Uh... Your hair's going white."

Armsmaster frowned, and checked his reflection.

A strand of hair on his head gone white.

"Are you okay?" Asked Dauntless. "If you're getting stressed or anything-"

"I'm fine." Interrupted Armsmaster, walking out.

He didn't have time for this. There was a crisis going on. It's not like his hair was going to kill him.

Arcadia was covered in snow. Pretty much all of Brockton Bay was, at this point.

The Wards were standing out the front, most of them wearing multiple layers of clothing. Vista and Clockblocker were throwing snowballs at each other.

"Sir!" Said Aegis, who was just in his normal uniform.. "What's the situation."

"High-level Shaker." Responded Armsmaster. "Miss Militia and the Director are trying to work out who she is."

"She?" Asked Clockblocker, dropping a snowball. "Is it just me, or are all the powerful capes here all chicks?"

Gallant turned to look at him.

"I mean, think about it. Vista, Panacea, the new girl..."

"Shut up." Said Vista, pegging a snowball. "We have a job to do."

"Speaking of Panacea..." Interrupted Aegis. "Where did she and Glory Girl go?"

"Went home." Replied Gallant. "Victoria texted me. They were going to meet up with the rest of New Wave. Regroup. Which I guess is what we're doing."

Armsmaster nodded. "We need to go by Winslow to get Shadow Stalker, then get back to base."

The Wards nodded, and they left.

If Arcadia was covered in snow, then Winslow was frozen solid.

The majority of the doors were blocked with ice. Vista was able break most of it, but when they came to a room filled with people, she was useless.

Kid Win walked forward, covering his face with a scarf, and drew one of his ray guns. The people behind the ice cleared the way, and Kid Win fired.

After a few minutes later, the ice had been sufficently reduced enough for Aegis to smash it apart.

The students rushed out, followed by the teachers. Most of them ran for the exit. Shadow Stalker remained behind.

"Aegis, Kid Win, Vista, go check if there's anyone else." The three Wards nodded, and left. Gallant stayed behind, looking at something on his phone.

"Shadow Stalker." Said Armsmaster. "What happened here?"

Shadow Stalker shrugged. "Some Hebert girl was getting bullied, she snapped and froze everything."

Hebert. So that was her name.

"That's everybody." Called Aegis, a few minutes later. Armsmaster nodded.

"Back to base." He said. "Wait for further orders."

And maybe warm up a bit. Even with the multiple layers over his costume, Armsmaster was starting to get cold.