Their costumes are bulletproof, and does Mary have a history of aiming for the head like that? Tattletale's costume isn't visibly armor, and most people shoot for center mass first.
Tattletale's able to find people just fine, actually. She was how the Undersiders kept eluding the heroes, predicting when people like
Armsmaster were going to show up. She also somehow knew exactly where Taylor was after sending her 1 email (Insinuation 2.5). Tattletale being given info that Mary is in the building actually just gives her an exact location and a bunch of random info on Mary, like mindset, weaknesses, armament, etc.
As for people saying that she can cover her tracks, here's her power when she looks at some random floor:
| Grime and salt, past knowledge that sixty-seven thousand people pass through in one day, scheduling, past knowledge of staff, knowledge of attention to detail in security; floor cleaners are mechanical, work- | | |
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So yeah you're gonna need
some feats to outwit the power that was going to give her detailed information on the staff of a building just from looking at the ground for a little bit.
Mary being a cop is more likely to try to arrest a teenager than she is to just shoot one no questions asked, since that would be hard to defend and all. SBA just means she's not gonna refuse to do it. Tattletale's less restrained. She's ruined lives and did set up Coil to die at Taylor's hand, and in Ward is called out by Victoria for being too willing to accept human suffering in pursuit of nebulous greater goods, and even if she didn't want to her power lets her know just where to shoot to cripple anyways.
Let's not forget the other applications of her power either, and that she keeps a phone on her. She could call in cops, either to get Mary arrested and held up for a little while or to threaten them if Mary's not made to go away, if you want to assume Mary's actions are known about and sanctioned. Her power's great for blackmail and she has done that mid combat. If Mary has any sorts of traumas or sensitive subjects, you can bet those are being brought up to get her riled up and off her game. Even just saying things to take people out of fighting work here.
So between Tattletale's rather ridiculous power and that bullets to her near full body costume aren't going to penetrate, I think I'm gonna go with tattletale here.
