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While the rest of the Titans made their way into the city to fight off the new threat directly, Barry remained atop the tower, surveying the city as it began to literally rip itself apart. At least, that is what he appeared to be doing, in reality, his mind raced across the electric fields of San Francisco and the machine-creatures attacking it. While he fought to disable some, severing their connection to the entity pushing them to chaos, his focus instead was to track it, to locate this mechanical intelligence.

He found shards of it entombed in every creation, not a ghost, but an actual shard of the entity, as he approached what he assumed was the crucible of the issue, the number of shards and the strength of the resistance increased. Rather than fight, he simply passed on, tracing over the hostile entities.

When he finally located the intelligence, he found not one single entity, but a swarm. Countless intelligences together, acting as one. A cloud of machine minds linked by technology that was far beyond the capability of Humanity. An alien threat then. If heroes could fall from the sky, so to, it seemed, could villains. With that discovery, Barry returned in full to his own form, immediately patching into the Titan's communication network via his suit.

"Everyone, I'm providing the location of the control-entity, defeating that 'could' solve our problem, or, at least, prevent them from acting as one."

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The Overload felt the presence of the human mind reach across it, but that was not it's primary concern. Awareness of it did not present a threat, it was here simply to destroy, to bring the city to its knees. It knew not why, that was merely the purpose it found within it's own coding.

To that end, the greater target were those who worked to prevent the destruction caused by its lesser-entities. The law-enforcement and other emergency services of the city, for having recovered from the initial blackout they were making some headway through traditional means. Even more so were the spattering of more talented individuals, those with a greater ability than the average citizen Overload had been tasked with terrifying.

Sub-units were rerouted, targeting these new elements in the equation. Counters tasked to the equivalent threats, machines reforming themselves to best fight their new targets, to counter their abilities. Some were easier than most. Overload knew immediately that sub-units would likely not be powerful enough to defeat the greater of them, so instead, it swamped them with numbers, abandoning the task to destroy the infrastructure of the city to dispatching, holding, delaying the enemy.

[i]Central Unit. Move to Engage[/i]

It did not know where the command came from, but it made ready to obey all the same. The growing cloud of nano-robots shifting into a more solid shape, gathering itself in a more condensed form.

"Overload. Battle Ready. Executing."