So You Wanna Be a Hero, Kid?

[Gifted]

"He's just telling us her weaknesses, it's not his fault the weaknesses she does have don't help us much." Stephanie snapped before Xander could say a word.

[Raven]

Awhina shrugged.
"So what's her strategy? Why haven't you been able to stop her?" Ryan asked.

[Gifted]

"Well, for one, you lot are the only supers we have. So unlike you, the risk of sending a special ops team in and having every single one get taken is with us a very real danger. Furthermore there simply aren't that many special ops teams that specialize in supers; I was on one of the few. We were in New York. I was the only survivor, because she hit her limit. And that's not so much a hard and fast power limit as a 'she can't actually keep track mentally of so many bodies at once' limit. She also is very difficult to take out through long distance methods such as sniper fire, because she seems to expect it. Wile she appears in cities and areas open enough for a clear sniper shot, she knows how to position her puppets to make it very difficult for us to get a target on her without hitting innocent civilians."

[Raven]

"Can she puppeteer people and possess someone at the same time?" Ryan questioned.

[Gifted]

"No, she needs her body to control people and she can't use it when she's possessing someone."

[Raven]

"We need to keep eyes on her body at all times," Cassie said.

[Gifted]

Stephanie nodded. "It sounds like the best strategy would be to wait for her to possess someone and then the rest of us go in to attack her body, isn't it?"
"You want to just let her take one of us like that?" Jason was shocked at the coldheartedness of the strategy.

[Raven]

"It doesn't sound like we have much choice," Awhina pointed out. "It's either that or let her kill a bunch more people."

[Gifted]

"Considering it's the only way to open up her weakness, we kind of have too..." Stephanie added. "Besides, it didn't sound like there was really any way to avoid it." She looked to Xander. "Is there?"
"No, not really." Xander agreed, grumbling.

[Raven]

"Is there any pattern to her attacks?" Cassie asked.

[Gifted]

"She's almost guaranteed to go for possession the first two or three times you meet her. See, she gets a distinct advantage in possession over control to make up for the vulnerability of not being able to be in her nown body; She can see inside the head of whomever is possessed. She uses it as an information gathering tactic."

[Raven]

"So she's going to know everything about us as soon as we've fought her a couple times," Ryan said, sighing.

[Gifted]

"Yes, Pretty much. That's why we're still using the same base as she worked in even though she's got about as good an idea where we are as you do." Xander answered. "If we didn't, she'd know where it was no matter what. Not much to be done about it, and this one's already got training facilities specialized for you lot."

[Raven]

"Is there anything else we need to know?" Cassie asked.

[Gifted]

"Not that I can recall at the moment, But I'll tell you if there is something."