

He could tell, because here, in this world, it actually had a visible effect, causing the three of them to look washed-out, colorless. One of the boss’s feet was touching said cape’s shoulder, spreading his power over them as well. Not even his team.Īs if on cue, he caught sight of the boss and the buttboy, the former standing tall, stalwart as ever, a hand on his boyfriend’s shoulder as the latter knelt over another cape he didn’t recognize. No, he couldn’t help anyone, except maybe himself. Even now, running away on his own, even with time slowed to such a degree that even the most precariously unstable rubble could not shift beneath his weight, or at least not in time to matter, even now it was wearisome and difficult, to run and climb over it all – and his power actually boosted his endurance a great deal!

The city was too damaged, even if he found his bike, he could not possibly use it to speed things up. Taking just one other person along for the ride, it’d halve his remaining time. Maybe, if I use up all my stored time, I could save one or two.īut doing so meant splitting his time. I could help them, came a treacherous little thought. Not that he himself really knew what was coming, other than that it was bad.Īnd so he ran, pushing as many seconds into his time as possible, and it still didn’t feel like it was enough – the calamity, whatever it was, was edging forward, spreading it had already enveloped Mindstar and was reaching the edge of the crater, towards the Dark and the others whom had gathered there. Over rubble and around rubble, vaulting over people frozen in place, most still oblivious to what was coming.
