Hopefully he gets some answers. Definitely worth blowing up the army for, even if she can't go watch.

What to do now? Medium- to long-term, she wants a look at that entity Cauldron has. Still no good leads on getting there herself. Short-term: more shades. Not New York. Maybe Philadelphia, go for round two with Chevalier. Or Brockton Bay is reasonably close, with plenty of targets.

Either of those works, if she's decided to go for singlehandedly upending Cauldron's equilibrium.

They've proven clairvoyant enough. If they want to steer her off, they'll let her know. And she can ask to see the entity.

To Brockton Bay.

It's some distance away. She's fast.

Conveniently, the Protectorate headquarters is extremely easy to find with its glowing force field and its complete lack of adjacent buildings in the middle of the bay. If she wants to start with heroes instead of villains, it's the obvious.

Anyone home?

She can't see shades from outside, but there are vehicles using the bridge. So at least it's not empty.

Does she have enough power to overload the forcefield?

She has enough variety to overload the force field. It's pretty generically tough, they had Leviathan in mind, but it's not built to handle assaults more exotic than lots of physical force.

Knock knock. Come out where she can see you, heroes.

They don't.

Instead, a woman disembarks from a car near the Protectorate side of the bridge. "If you're the Keres, you're in the wrong place."

"Where, then, is the right place?"

"Can't tell you that. I don't doubt you could force me to cooperate, so I don't know."

"Who sent you?"

"I did. Emily Piggot, PRT Director."

She sets the car on fire.

"I assume you've instructed your underlings that you are of no value as a hostage. You should leave, Emily Piggot, PRT Director, before I decide to kill you anyway."

She glares at the Keres for a moment rather than look at the explosion.

"Welcome to Brockton Bay." She turns and walks back to the apparently capeless Protectorate base.

Well then. Looks like she'll have to draw them out of hiding.

If she were a local hero, villain, or other superpowered individual, what areas of the city would she be invested in protecting?

Depends how much effort she wants to spend on research, really.

The best candidates are colloquially called the Trainyard and the the Docks, both left over from when the city had a thriving import industry. Now it still does, but the imports are of a slightly different character. Second-best alternative is the Boardwalk, filled with tourists and ludicrously expensive shops.

Boardwalk's likely to get a heroic response. Might be time to change it up a little. She'll start destructing the Docks.

Mostly what happens is people running.

She splits up to better herd them towards the water. And takes a couple potshots into the crowd. Just for fun.

Now it's almost more of a melee than a race. Amazing what a little fun can cause.

The heroes haven't had much time to arrive yet, of course. If they're even going to.

They may not, true. Someone probably will. She can occupy herself for a while.

The crowd is, on balance, mostly getting away. Unfortunately, it takes a fair amount of presence of mind to notice they're being chased toward the bay and will then be stuck. Some manage it, others don't.

She loses track of what's going on for a moment. When she regains it, a boy in the crowd has started pouring out white smoke from his nose and mouth, and basketball-sized flashes of energy appear sporadically around him. Definitely a parahuman, but no costume.

Hm? Where'd he come from?

Collection time. From range, no reason to play with his energy flashes if she doesn't have to.