The grenade tosses disrupt the clones suicides. On the very down side of things, this also shows why the Leon clone was so sure that the rise of the Great Mother couldn't be stopped. There's already been enough sacrifice for at least a partial manifestation as a hideously malformed but feminine head and torso emerges from the wall of machinery.<br/><br/>As it opens its mouth to stare at the last remaining sacrifices with the gigantic eye resting inside, it takes notice of Lapine. Submit, it says with words echoing through the physical, astral, and matrix spaces in the room, submit and you shall be allowed to serve Emma, though you are not her child.<br/><br/>And like a subtle wave of heat carried on a strong breeze, Lapine can hear dozens and dozens of voices chanting "Praise te Greatness of Mother Em. She has surmounted the heights of Deus! She is manifest."