[Sada]

I’d been wandering again.

Never really know what I’m looking for. Well, duh, Farrin of course. Always, unconsciously, like there’s an unbreakable chain tethering his soul to mine. There I go, like everyday, dragging him down to hell even in my treacherous sinful thoughts. But this afternoon, I’m a few blocks away from campus; anxious seconds blend into the sun’s setting, with me standing there in my heels wondering where the light went. Then I’m far. Real far from campus. What was I looking for? My routine is everything. It was nine hours of classes today, then a volunteer shift at Tokyo University Hospital, then I was supposed to walk right back to my dorm.

Instead, now I’m in the underbelly of something deep. The carious trace of old, unmaintained buildings and broken pipelines presses down on this place; on the other side, there’s broken-up roads, lined with potholes like graffiti covers the walls. Someone’s smoking from the window above; there’s a shout or two across the street, the roar of an accelerating car over the pavement. For no real reason, I press a palm out to one of them, a neon cross hoisted up above the graffiti. Pink-kissed fingertips sweep down the sign next, covered in dirt. But still the words shine all the brighter, like they were meant to be uncovered. I take a step back, look up to a cross piercing the smoke-choked sky. I found my place. Church, like a turtle come to shore.

I’m not scared. Not until that racing car from earlier comes up and above me, flung through the sky and into an extension of the church at a hundred miles an hour. My heart goes through my throat as screams erupt from somewhere inside the building.

hey, there’s sorta- I whisper through the halo over my head, sprinting into the building as a Villain came rampaging towards the thing, -kinda a situation happening here! Would be super mint of you to come over!!

Who else but the only one who ever mattered?

My whole world.



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t the beck and call of none but one. As the sun set, Farrin had been finishing up an evening session in UAU's gym. The facility was most packed during the late afternoon, just after most typical classes ended, so Farrin waited until a few hours after to transfer from his grassy hill at the back of the training fields to the actual gym for some proper weight lifting. One final set saw his biceps drenched, lifting weight just shy of a small vehicle when Sada's words reached him. The Infinity system was quite the investment, one that paid for itself in her safety. 

The overloaded, hyper reinforced barbell slammed hard into the ground. Not the sort of gym rat he aspired to be, but acceptable gym etiquette was a raindrop of importance weighed against the ocean that was his Sada. No lengths too great. No challenge too difficult. No barriers he wouldn't break to bring his baby home safe. In a blur of emerald and alabaster he's gone. Off campus before anyone could advise otherwise. 

-On my way- He texted back.

The Infinity system was mostly one way, for now. Luckily, it provided GPS coordinates to his phone. The sprawling metropolis was massive, though, and while he dusted the myriad street racers whizzing about the city's many avenues and highways, it would be a few minutes still before he reached her. Sada was far from helpless, the Infinity's Halo was sharp and she knew how to use it, but she had always leaned more into support roles than direct combat. It made them a most deadly duo, but those duo tactics required they be within close proximity, so he burned across the distance at best speed. 

Before the sun had set, Farrin sped across half the city. He zipped between pedestrians, cut between streets and alleyways, homing in on her location. Just a few more seconds, and he would be beside. She just needed to hold out a few seconds against whatever "situation" she had found herself in.  

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[Sada]

Lifeline.

Just hearing those few words back from text immediately poured light over my world then, spiraling into churning, cold ebony. My soulmate. My whole dream come true as a person, across lifetimes in a way I just knew to be true somehow but couldn’t exactly point to how. I could breathe again, soul snapping into my body as debris rained all around the busted-up concrete. Infinity flared signals all over my periphery of incoming danger; the massive meatjerk rammed into the building, and in the same second instinct found me leaping all the way up onto a raft.

Was this what the enemy saw when he murdered you all?

I bit my tongue. Mom, all my aunts, uncles, cousins. A couple in the corner, mother and child hiding behind the altar as the tornado of a man torpedoed forward. “YOU WILL PAY FOR YOUR SINS, PASTOR!” His voice was everywhere at once, rumbled the undersides of my heels from here.

“YOU WILL PERIS-!!!!”

He raced forward, feet bolted to the ground. Ala the undulating, spinning pink halo tightening around his chest.

“Pink’s a good color on you,” I yelled over my shoulder, child in my arms, the woman’s hand in mine. Over their screams I ran us over to the couple, tagged them on their shoulders with a halo each. “Speed, you’ve got speed! Run run run!” I willed, thanked God they got the message as they barreled out. “I-I can’t run like that!” The woman with her hand in mine stuttered. I saw. She had some kind of handicap. Same moment, Infinity over the big brute snapped in two, sorrowfully boomeranging back to my hands with low vibrating uncertainty. It’s okay. I smiled at her. Then stood my ground as the murder hobo charged forward.

It’ll all be okay, because he’s here.

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arrin's lightning through the night. Through the sea of rolling clouds that are Tokyo's populace, he bolts. Where Sada's concerned, his light and energy, the ability to keep going, are infinite. She's his heart in human shape. The pulsating beats surge through his veins and make the entire world come alive. 

Neon lights and a billion billboards bleed into the distance alongside every vehicle, body, and form left in his passing. A quick turn to the left, down a dark alley, then a sharp right. The muscular monstrosity looms in the gulf carved into the side of the church. In the past, against that shadow-man he faced with Zenkai, Farrin froze. Not this time. Not when the stakes were so much higher than his own life. 

"Oi, roidrage, how 'bout we put the anadrol down fer' a second n' use the thing sittin' between yer' ears fer' a moment. Yuh' know, think things through," Farrin called from about halfway down the street outside the church.  

That was the one warning he'd offer the big fella. Of course, meat-for-brains did not accept. 

"WHAT WAS THAT, SMALL FRY?" He shouted, turning to face Farrin. "HOW ABOUT YOU COME A LITTLE CLOSER, ACT BIG AGAIN AND SEE HOW IT GOES!"

"Only one 'ere actin' is you, yuh' oversized gob," Farrin sighed, leaning down into a runner's start. "Alright then." 

The student-hero was a blur against the wind. He zipped down the street, skidding to a stop behind the oversized thug, then leaped into a dropkick aimed at the back of his knee. The towering titan tumbled backward, strong but not so strong that he could eat all of Farrin's weight thrust into the back of his joint. Despite his size, through, he was quick to react. Using the momentum of his fall in his favor, ol' Bane-brain dropped back on his elbow which slammed into Farrin's ribs, vacating all the air from his lungs. 

The thug didn't waste a beat. He pushed himself up onto his knees and took another swing. His fist met only the concrete, carving a hole into the sidewalk. Farrin rolled away at time-turned speeds, then pushed up off the floor and up into his fighting stance. Sada was inside, he caught a glimpse of her as he passed the thug for his dropkick, which meant she was safe for the moment. Big boy was distracted. Now, Farrin just needed to topple the tower - again.  

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[Sada]

I smile. Super big. You can tell even through my rbf.

It’s an endless thing, the liquid joy that pours through my chest knowing that he came. Knowing that he always would, the mere thought of him a light in tenebrosity’s despair. I hear that Irish lilt like a lullaby to my soul and my heart sings in response; but my body doesn’t wait, doesn’t make waste of the opportunity he’s given us as he approaches. “You’re getting out safe and sound,” I whisper, hooking one arm under the little bad witch’s shoulder, “just as God intended.” Her eyes are fires burning into wizened skin. She nods, hooks onto me just as concrete goes raining from outside. I didn’t miss the wind being knocked out of my soulmate. It hurts me just as badly, wince and all. Hang in there, hun. i’ll be out soon.

Gingerly we take a few steps forward. It’s agonizing. Moving a meter an hour, necessary work when rescuing the elderly or sick. It’s the stuff the action movies don’t want you to know, the work that knocked us off our butts in Hero prep school. Is this how he feels? Holding time between his fingertips as he does, the mightiest lion having courted a snail? More proof that my soulmate’s godly! He sticks with me, even if it takes me three hours to get ready each morning!

Outside, the big lug’s on some other drug. He breathes in, a massive heaving thing like an earthquake through his barreling chest, sizing my king up. “YOU PIECE OF WORK SMALL FRY!!” His two hands slam together with the force of a sonic boom. “DO YOU KNOW WHAT YOU’RE GETTING INTO? DO YOU KNOW THE SINS OF THIS PLACE?!” I surely don’t. But it’s plain as day to see the guy get ready for a charge, an all-out rampage run straight towards my timekeeper. The lady shudders against my shoulder. “That man was cursed. We all were.” Her words get lost as we make it outside, with my heel turning back towards the fray. A handful more of Civilians hiding behind the shaking pillars.

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he shockwave rolled over Farrin like thunder against stone. He held his ground, but the sheer force threatened to cast him into the wind. The time-turner’s feet were planted firmly in place, though. His world, his Sada, guided some of the civilians within the holy edifice away. He couldn’t afford to be blown away so easily. He had to hold the brute’s attention.

“Oi, quit blowin’ so much wind out yer’ gob. N’ brush yer’ teeth from time ta’ time, spare us from that shite breath with all yer’ bellowin’!”

It was his hands that boomed the sonic clap Farrin’s way, but all the bellowing wasn’t doing anybody any favors. The bull charged full speed, with hands for horns and a battering ram for a skull. He was fast. Incredibly fast. But not Farrin fast.

“Olé, Olé!” Farrin shouted, mimicking a matador waving his cape with his hands.

When the distance between them had disappeared, Farrin dodged to his right, lunging into a roll. He kicked off the ground again and blasted into a semi-circle, running out from his previous position and up behind the beast. He didn’t know what the giant was shouting about, but nothing justified tearing a building down with people still inside. Technically, Farrin wasn’t supposed to act to begin with, but when Sada was in trouble, there were no rules he wouldn’t break. They could sort out the villain’s motivations later. First, they had to take him down.

Farrin beamed ahead and leaped atop the giant’s back. There, he walloped the thick-skulled brute repeatedly. The flurry of fists battering the massive man.



A large fist grabbed hold of Farrin’s leg, though. No time turned warning this time and threw him through the church wall. Farrin rolled through two pews before slamming against a third, bringing him to a stop. He sat up, rubbing at his head, stars in his eyes. He felt that, but the big bastard was feeling it, too. Farrin had to end this with one massive blow. Soon.

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[attr="class","FarrinQuote"]Even if it's already been decided. Even if it's set in stone. I'll smash that future!

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[Sada]

“Take my hand!” There’s a countdown beating against my heart -

Thicker than blood, heavier than a hammer. One Civilian. Two more. Shocked and faceless simultaneously, made me wonder how often something like this happened around here. This was their home. I’m the guest. Open your door to me, God. A stifled cry whips my head around when I make it back to the streetside. A kid got caught in the crossfire of the rubble, a long gash spreading long dangerously across their little form. It’s gonna be okay. I think it more than say it, pink fingertips ghosting across the injury as a halo pops up over the little one’s head. There’s plaster lost in dusty black tufts of hair, tears running down a pale face. I wish I could say more, present as something more. I’m not Herolike. I press him to my chest, hope that the healing’s going to be enough and then sprint right back inside.

Outside, big lug’s not so pleased with my soulmate’s comments. Oh, that Farrin O’rourke, God’s favorite and the most amazing Hero that’ll ever stand. Of course he pisses the best of ‘em off.

“YOU AUDACIOUS PUNK!! MY BREATH IS PERFECTLY MINT!” I duck back inside, escorting out the last of the Civilians. Right in time to hear the unthinkable: the wicked crack of pew after pew, sound of my heart getting snipped with each and every blow Farrin takes. It was obvi he gave the other guy hell: a back soon-to-be covered in scars and bruises ugly as his soul. Injuries where the sun won’t shine. “Buzz off, you jerk!” I roar with a hoarse voice. Two seconds later I’m skidding to a stop, kneeling besides World’s Greatest Hero and my whole heart. “hi you,” I plead, pray, cradling his head with one hand while the other rubs across his cheek. ik we don’t have time for this but… I just can’t help myself when it’s him. My quirk fires back up, its second target the apple of my eye, launching his strength into the next level of power.

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arrin’s floating. Or he could be. Doesn’t matter the damage; nowhere is more his home than Sada. He leaned up, pressing his cheek to hers, one arm wrapping around her waist and pulling her into him, her lips against his. He kissed her, holding her there for a small infinity that passed in all of a second.

“Hey there, luv,” he said in hushed words, nuzzling his cheek against hers again.

Magenta might flooded his veins. Muscle made into steel. Power pumping through his entirety, just like - well - those were stories for another time. “Thank yuh’, luv’. I’ll have this handled in a moment. Keep yerself n’ the others safe.”

Farrin lifted himself up, rising with his world. His arm wrapped around her still. He flushed his lips against hers one more time. “Oh, n’, luv’ yuh’ the most.” With nothing more than a playful tap on her bum, he was off.

The clock was counting down on the battle. Farrin flew. Not really, but the whir of his every move displaced air, pushing it outward into an aggressive gust. The giant swung his trunk-like arms but proved far too slow. Farrin was behind him. Just ahead of him again. At his sides. One, then the other. Enormous fists jabbed left, then right. The giant balled his hands together and slammed them into the ground, a burst of debris and force flying out in every direction, but Farrin backpedaled several steps, then flew forward and planted his boot right in the giant’s face, kicking off of him into a backflip. He landed hard, inelegant, but functional.

The kick alone wouldn’t put the massive man down, but it was all set up. He needed the proper opening. Then, he would deliver the final blow.

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[attr="class","FarrinQuote"]Even if it's already been decided. Even if it's set in stone. I'll smash that future!

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[Sada]

Time stands still. It’s a sanctuary, the sweetness of his cheek pressed to mine and the kiss that lifts me off this earth. I fall into him as he pulls us up, flushed, fingers brushing through all that lustrous mane. Can just never get enough of this, of him, that warm scent and those chiseled arms I lived to drown in. “Get back to me safely, and super quick.” Or else. I pout up at him, gasping with the pat behind. Then I’m running out the door, lowkey looking wildly around me to make sure no one saw that. All these years of dating and it’s still brand new. “That’s cheating,” I murmur, pressing my fingertips to my lips, “cause i missed you more.”

Outside, the sky darkens. My phone slips into my palm, ringing 911… and ringing and ringing yet. I’m on hold, rushing from one Civilian to the next. “Are you okay? Who’s hurt?” The little boy from earlier peers up to me with diamond-cut eyes,, reflecting my look right back at me with a look worth a million dollars. They won’t come. I frown, counting heads, keeping a safe barricade between us and the storm. I hear my love giving the bad guy the beatdown of his life - the ugly roar the other guy belts out, earth quaking when his massive meathead self hands on the ground. Infinity finds itself in my palms, a killing edge that could never be blunted. From outside, I toss the weapon towards one of the curved arches, immediately severing a chain holding a glass chandelier. It crashes down on the brute as broken shards erupt all around the church.

Finish him!

An evil grin’s spreading across my face, even as I’m still on hold.

Farrin

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here it was. His sweetie came in the clutch and gave him exactly what he needed. Farrin wouldn’t waste the opportunity Sada gifted him. This most recent gift, in addition to all the others, her very existence, he would cherish.

The chandelier came crashing down. A comical, wooden prison locking the giant’s arms to his sides. It wouldn’t take him long to break free, but Farrin didn’t need long. He kneeled low, nearly into a runner’s start, then blasted ahead. He drew his arm back. The strength. The tension. It rapidly built, and the man made a locomotive. The wind blew the pews away in Farrin’s passing, though they hadn’t shattered. And when the threshold was crossed, he leaped.

“Smash!” He shouted.

It was the imperfect version of a technique he was working on. One based on his mother’s signature move. Imperceptibly minute fields of temporal power sparked just ahead of his fists. Dozens. Hundred. Countless numbers of them. Some slowed. Others accelerated. His fist was the ignition. With a thunderous boom and a heavy gust, the jab connected with the giant’s chin, rocketing him into the air before he plummeted back down, flying outside the building and crashing in the street.

Farrin landed, immediately falling to his knees. His right arm was pulsing pain - sharp stabs picking the limb apart. There was no bleeding, but the blowback from the attack was a costly one. That many fields, all hyper-concentrated to create a tearing effect, taxed the time-turner.

“Sonova-” he started to curse, pushing off his knee and onto his feet.

His breath was heavy, but the beast of man was down for the count. So, Farrin lumbered over in Sada’s direction. “E’eryone alright o’er there?” The question was mostly for Sada, but he hoped everyone else was okay too. One of these days, he would get in trouble for his heroic actions off campus, but that was later Farrin’s problem. For now, all that mattered was his Sada and the people she was protecting.

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[attr="class","FarrinQuote"]Even if it's already been decided. Even if it's set in stone. I'll smash that future!

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[Sada]

I tuck the boy with the diamond-cut eyes closer to my chest as we watch my honey bring the sky down. So it feels anyway, standing under his thundering smash and feeling the world ripple underneath my heels. "Geez," the lil one cooes. "Mhmyeah." Big lug roars, then passes right out, swears spilling out of his busted-up lips.

"Bless you," I say, tapping my fingertips in prayer, "and keep you." I do the same, watching the halo dissipate from the little one's head and then my dreamboat's as I wrap an arm around his waist. Nuzzle my face into his shoulder, look up into endless sanguine eyes. Exhausted was his default but I couldn't begin imagining what he felt now, a punch like that forever on replay in my stunned little mind. My other hand's idly holding a phone, 911 still on dial.

In response to his question…

"Fine. Everything's fine."

I whip my head around. Dark, thick eyebrows scrunch up over the sight of shadow torn from night, sin in his smile. That lithe, tall, tough, just where was he hiding all this time? Draped in robes and auric vines, he opens his massive hands to us like vulture wings ready to take flight. "Thank you for your service, the both of you. These many years of being a pastor and trouble finds me while I use the facilities." Now he frowns, ebony eyes unburdened not by that fact but by seemingly something else. I squint harder. "Anyway, welcome to the church. Please make yourselves at home, minus our big friend here, don't worry about him." he waves a hand in big lug's direction. "I'm Pastor Marsh. And you are?..."

He opens his hand up for a handshake. The phone tone suddenly beeps. A grimy neon light above flickers in and out, blinking uneven over the broken glass.

Your call has been disconnected.

Farrin

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arrin was already home. Fatigue may have weighed his arms, but with one wrapped around the soft warmth of his Sada, everything was right in the world. She was safe, so were her charges, and the villain had been subdued, for now at least. It was déjà vu. Time impressed the visage in his mind a hundred times over. The two of them stood triumphant against all odds. Him and his love.

“I’m glad yer’ alright,” he whispered, kissing her forehead.

Exhaustion couldn’t dampen Farrin’s contentment. They had done some good, and nobody was harmed. With that in mind, it seemed it was time to head back to campus. That was until the mystery man draped in the color of cold voids and death arrived. This was a man of the church?

Farrin’s breath was slow. His head leaned down against Sada’s horn when the Pastor introduced himself. Slowly, he righted himself and took Marsh’s hand in kind for a shake. Firstly, was it alright to trust this man with his real name? If the pastor reported the incident, including Sada or Farrin’s name, and UAU caught wind of it, they could get in trouble. On the other hand, the fella seemed keen to welcome and thank them. Deceit wasn’t deeply rooted in Farrin’s nature. He lied or omitted certain truths when necessary, but he didn’t like it.

“Farrin. Farrin O’Rourke,” he chirped with a pained smile, “though I’d ‘preciate it if yuh’ didn’t go tellin’ the authorities that. Rather keep our names out o’ such things,” he answered, looking to Sada should she introduce herself as well.

It was a vague response, but it got the message across.

“N’, uh, well, yuh’ sure the place shouldn’t be fixed up a tad before takin’ people back in?” Farrin asked, eyeing the gaping hole in the wall, the fallen chandelier, and the pews which littered the hold ground’s floor - all disorganized like. Yeah, the place was a mess.

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[Sada]

I shimmy when Farrin kisses my forehead. Just do, you would too, don’t lie. But I don’t entirely get comfortable. My phone’s still in my hand, cold, strange, off like these busted-up walls. I cling to Farrin for comfort. My peripheral jumps between the boy with the diamond-cut eyes and the pastor, back to the big lug stone-cold unconscious on the floor. The pastor’s not alarmed, at all. Is it the Peace of God, which transcends all understanding, with him? Or something else? We weren’t born yesterday. Like, eighteen totally long years ago. We’re too old in general, much less for this.

Pastor Marsh shakes Farrin’s hand. “It’d never be my wish. Only God can judge you,” he says, easily like an attack didn’t just happen at the church. My fingertips find the undersides of Farrin’s ribs, rub gently. The Pastor reaches out a hand to shake mine next and I give him that look. His expression shifts, maybe amused, as his hand comes back to his side. Then he shrugs, puts up a hand against what my dreamboat offers.

“That won’t be necessary. You’ve done enough for us, really. Thank you, thank you again.” His gaze shoots over to the little boy from earlier. “We’ll have this cleaned up in no time, trust us.”

It’s like gravity’s pressing extra hard upon us, an anvil upon my head making it hard to speak. Hard to think. Hard to put into words just exactly whatinthehell is off here! My thick eyebrows bunch together.

“I’ll be back next Sunday.” It’s quick, matter-of-fact out of my mouth. Like a warning. Then my fingers grip extra tight to Farrin’s hand, take one more look around, and walk us out of there.

Farrin

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✓ SO good!! I'm so proud of these two, love conquers all!! [break][break]

+ 5.000 EXP!

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Sada - 1.500 // 6.500[break]
Farrin - 12.750 // 17.750

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