Saint Joseph School

David was breathing hard, pinned down by a barrage of incoming attacks. Nearby, Andrew Everly was running towards him, trying to block the volley that came at him. For a moment, it looked as though he might succeed, until an unexpected blow connected with his left leg and sent him spiraling to the ...

Five Days Later

David looked across the street, worrying about the time.

It wasn’t that he had arrived on the wrong day, or even at the wrong hour. He’d made it back to the night of prom, and it was just after eleven o’clock, so prom had just ended, two blocks away at the Palace Grand Hotel. No ...

The air thundered as the Rikti bomb exploded suddenly, carving a crater into the street and throwing debris in all directions. Mome Wrath simply phased from existence, hunks of concrete and twisted pieces of iron passing right through him. Jenny Wren leapt high into the air, flipping backwards to ...

David sat on the foot of the bed, telling his past self what had happened and was to come. He spoke carefully, just as he remembered his future self had done weeks earlier, keeping his voice low so as not to wake the other boys in their beds. When he finished, he sat for a moment, waiting for the ...

Updated!

Nineteen Days Earlier

Caitlin sat in Bruno’s, still picking at a slice of pizza long since cold. Across from her, Nova was smiling down at his own meal. Sam was talking quietly with Diego at a nearby table while the delivery boy sat at the counter, probably bored out of his mind. The evening had ...

David ran back to the dorm quickly, while things were still fresh in his mind. In the hall, he passed Ty, who called out to him about something having to do with the coming weekend. David waved him off with a promise to talk to him later, but he was trying to keep his mind focused on his mantra ...

David smiled. "Nah, it'll be fine. I mean, if it wasn't supposed to happen that way, it wouldn't have. I mean, the Menders already would have stopped me, right?"

Caitlin blinked a little. "You're asking me? You're the one earning the merit badges with those guys."

"You got me there," David said ...

David didn't even need any time to think about it. "Of course I want to go to prom with you! I'd just like to do it without causing the end of the universe."

"Sorta, yeah," David said, shrugging his shoulders. "It's not bad , exactly-- it's a minor predestination paradox, but we need to keep it from becoming a bigger one, or even an ontological paradox," he continued, gesturing with his hands. "But, see-- there's more."

"More," Caitlin repeated, folding ...

"So, okay," David said once Caitlin had sat down.

He'd pulled her away after lunch with a promise to explain things. He looked nervous, but then, he always seemed to look nervous when he was alone with her. Caitlin smiled; she'd seen him stare down the worst foes Paragon or the Rogue Isles had ...

David Andrias was born with bright red skin, a sure sign that he wasn't normal. His parents tried as best they could to cope, but when David was two years old, he began displaying pyrokinetic ability and would commonly set objects on fire in their house. His father left; his mother took to keeping ...