Have Some Faith

Back to Focus.

This log is a) A Munitions Request placed at Falcon & Fox, b) Trinkets swiped by Faith during missions to commemorate them pinned up on her conspiracy board which rotates behind to school notes, and c)A journal hidden under a false bottom in the left drawer of her desk.

## S3E27 - How To Become a Hero: Or How I Learned That Secret Identities Are Terrifying

Form #013
27-07-2019 1149 Hours
Name: Faith Farryn Fallon
Munitions:

* (1) Arrow-Smoke
	+ Refill
* (1) Arrow-Grapple
	+ Repair

End Request Ticket

**Faith's Board**

The corkboard is mostly empty, a recently opened box of pins and spool of string sit at the base on a desk. The top right corner, however, is occupied by a button attached to a string bearing the Falcon & Fox logo. Next to it is a small note saying "First day is done!!" with a sketchy stick figure of Focus.

**The Actual Journal**

~~Okayokayokayokayoky THIS WAS THE DAY. Blergh lemme start again.~~
I'm part of Big Team!!!!!!! Boreas and Calcium Kid were totally like "Oh yea totally," over pizza that was kinda alright. Like, at the beginning it took a while to figure out that they were Big Team but I totally held it together the entire time and didn't freak out that they were Big Team and that I was meeting them in person and that I was in my costume and made a really good impression and did some hero work and I saved them.
ANYWAY. So, I was on my way to pick up a shift at Philosotea and was gonna stop by Marion since I made that feta sandwich recipe she recommended to me and I wanted to share but she was gone. Tried asking around but I couldn't contact any of the others who knew her but they were gone too! Even the local shelter near Bacon, Bacon, and Bacon was emptied out. Scouted there for a few days and saw this supposed plumber van that was super sketchy.
That's where I met Boreas- though at first I didn't recognize him out of costume. He was talking to some kid and another homeless person I think so I decided to get up all in their business to maybe help out. Turns out he was also checking out the disappearances so we decided to team up. At some point we got into the plumber van but it was full of garbage and some random guy who probably had a hoarding problem. That's when Calcium Kid came along!! The van guy broke one of my grapple arrows which was annoying but eh.
There was another signal though from near a bridge where a homeless city had been set up and they were gone. The good thing: we kinda figured out what to do and grab the tech and made a plan. The bad thing: we got caught and General Darlington got us caught and it wasn't because I forgot to oil my heelys and hummed the stealth song a bit too loud. The worst thing: It was mom's PMC that caught us and we ended up surrendering.
Luckily, we were allowed to keep our costumes and I didn't just reveal to mom that I was doing this new business now. Generally things were pretty awkward and I don't remember a lot since all I could here was classical opera blaring at full volume. We made plans and Boreas made some kind of deal with her between AEGIS and Falcon & Fox.
Calcium Kid took me off to the side since he probably noticed that I was practically vibrating in my seat and I reversed and took him to the broom closet where I sneak my stuff out. It was really cool since dad talked about him on the show at some point and here I was basically sharing a 5 by 5 foot space with him??? Anyway, he helped me calm down a bit and I decided to share my entire hot dogged identity like a doof and I think he doesn't like dad but I couldn't tell.
Got back to the office and made plans in the war room (which she let me name by the way) and made all these plans that probably everyone kept up with? We made our way there by nighttime (had to ask Simone to take over my shift) and our plan went pretty well. Honestly, I was imagining it as the whole montage where we went over the plan and it happened while we narrated while I was getting the homeless people out.
There was this really scary person who released all these locust things after I shot a smoke arrow at some baddies who were trying to shoot at Calcium kid. I fell from like 50 feet, it was no biggie since General Darlington came through and let me down! Let me down literally since I managed to grab onto his handles and go down slower. My tailbone is still kinda bruised but mission successful.
We got pizza and I asked to join Big Team (yea way to go Fay you dummy go ahead and ask like an orphan wanting more porridge). They said yes (and I screamed and hyperventilated in the panic room for about 30 minutes) and now I'm part of Big Team.

## S4E5 - Fog & Glass

Form #037
16/2/2020 1528 Hours
Name: Faith Farryn Fallon
Munitions:

* (1) Arrow-Flashbang
	+ Recharge

End Request Ticket

**Faith's Board**

A low-resolution picture of the AEGIS logo has red string attached to a baggie full of foamy grey goo. The sticky notes attached read: "AEGIS taking HELIX stuff??" and "Hee hoo sticky goo"

**The Actual Journal**

Hi journie bournie, how are you?
...
I really uhhhh don't know what that was but I'm gonna go with it. As of right now, I'm drinking some tea and contemplating a helmet in future designs of my costume. HOWEVER, the braincell that dinks around in my brain still hits the corner and told me to write this down before I forgot everything. It all started when this one atom went KABLAMO- no no no no I'm joking. It all started with a car chase in the Jackmobile aka the weird hippie van that Jackal's mom or aunt or grandma or someone owns. We managed to get the baddies and Shade got a gun somehow???? It was some kind of energy gun but you ABSOLUTELY NEVER GIVE A GUN TO A TEENAGER.
Now see what I'm about to write next may sound hypocritical but I politely asked to borrow the gun. TO BE FAIR, it was to dismantle it- which I did without incident- and that was the end of that. The others probably returned it too?
Anyway, Whiz and Cardinal knew exactly what was going on when some AEGIS men-in-black folks showed up. Or... at least they seemed like they knew what they were doing? Okay but like the cool thing about ~~Mr. Sir. Agent. Boomer~~ Carson showing up was that we got this really cool helo ride on one of their flying machines!! Reminds me of that one summer I nearly crashed one of the smaller 4-seater choppers in the Australia base. We got briefed that there was some freaky stuff going on in one of their bases where stuff was apparently going missing and no one was showing up in security other than the normal people. Well, as normal as super secret science agents can be.
We also met this super awesome Agent Tonner! She was a lot nicer than ~~Sir Agent Mr. Boomer~~ Carson and gave us a lot more info. We went inside the artifact vault or something similar with some guards and UH OH there are two Agent Tonners. That's probably not normal and then we were under attack.
I'd like to say I wasn't useless in the fight that ensued but I'm still pretty foggy on what happened. Jackal had all these really cool chain powers I know that for sure and Shade beat up this person who had some kind of weird transformation "Mirroring" powers. And, surprise surprise, there was dark fog to accompany them! So I guess we all ended up fighting a pair of baddies called Mist & Reflection? The details are weird. At some point I shot a flashbang to clear the smoke between all of us and I THINK that worked. We ended up taking down Mist! I went to go slap some weird anti-power goo on him and then everything went black.
Apparently I got knocked out by Jackal? I'm not sure if it was real Jackal or Reflection-Jackal but either way she felt really bad and I felt really bad for getting in her way. But she knows that Focus=Faith so that's at least one person who knows. I really need to get better at this so I don't put people at risk! Hopefully the villains won't focus on taking them down if they're too busy dealing with Focus.

## S4E30 - Never Meet Your Heroes Unless They’re Actually Pretty Chill and You’re Both Fans of Each Other

Form #038
21-03-2020 0728 Hours
Name: Faith Farryn Fallon
Munitions:

* (1) Arrow-Grapple
	+ Replace
* (1) Arrow-CIron
	+ Replace
* (1) Arrow-Multi
	+ Replace

End Request Ticket

**Faith's Board**

This time, a piece of paper carefully cut out of a notepad is laminated and pinned by the clear part onto the corkboard. On it is the signature of The Savior and a message. “‘To Focus, Always shoot true’- The Savior” There are a whole series of sticky notes with hearts and stars surrounding it.

**The Actual Journal**

Well I’m hopped up on boba and adrenaline. I didn’t expect multi-dimensional travel to happen so early in my Big Team career but I guess that’s gonna happen. As usual, I’m gonna start from the beginning which was actually was in Philosotea of all places! I was on the usual shift with Zed and kinda mentoring (is it mentoring if they’re probably more experienced than you?) the newbie, Mike. For one, firebird phoenix friend, Renata was kinda creeping up on Cypher, who I know from when I JOINED THE BIG TEAM WHICH WAS A THING THAT I WAS SO HYPED FOR I FORGOT TO WRITE IT DOWN IN MY JOURNAL. Okay but like anyway, they weren’t actually the more shocking ones to see at the shop. I got to meet (and *fight* with) *The* Challenge! She was trying to hide her identity from the rest of the public in the area with this really big hat but I understood and tried (and absolutely succeeded) in staying calm and chill and cool when she ordered shot after shot of coffee. I swear she was pounding them back like an old cowboy from out of town when Mike came over to confirm that this strange lady was, in fact, Challenge. He ended up getting her signature, which I had planned on nabbing via receipt confirmation. Confidence to walk up like that and just yoink it while I was stuck with whipped cream duty..
Back to the mission, stop fantasizing you dingus. Apparently Phoenix was on the phone with a kid and their house was being broken into? That didn’t seem good and they both ran off. Challenge followed after with an amazing flip-kick off the table that, in retrospect, was pretty cool... not like, mind-blowing like I thought seeing something like that in person would be. Turns out that Mike decided to take his break at the same time as I was planning, aka 5 seconds from when they ran off, and Zed really wanted my to stay. Still feel bad about lying and hazing the newbie for “having IBS” since that’s never a fun experience but I’m the one who backs up all the Big heroes! There’s no excusing the haphazard clock-out card though, but I texted Reese and he should be able to pick up in our absence with the enticing promise of half of our tips along with a quick pic of the just *wad* of cash that Challenge tossed at us.
Luckily for me, the condo at the end of the block towards where the rest of the team ran was still under construction and there were portapotties a plenty! Ended up getting lost a few times but when the magic house with uncanny valley architecture stood in front of the rest of the heroes, I knew I was in the right place. That and the weird blue glowing shining out from all the windows. But we ran in nonetheless because heroes and their sidekicks are there to save the day! Cypher just went inside the house like a normal person while Challenge did her super flippies up a floor, breaking through a window (hope they have hero insurance) so the natural course of action was to scale the side of the house with The General’s help. By the time I reached up, Phoenix and Challenge were both in some kind of scared daze while this creepo went to try and reach for an orb with rings around it which I assume was the MacGuffin. This small little racoon nearly scared me off the windowsill when he came up and chittered towards Wyle (whose name I just remembered since the others mentioned them) and I decided to do my thing as the “Arrow Girl” and shoot. Savior was there too!! He dove towards them and lined up the shot perfectly which also nearly made slip off the sill like a consumption-addled victorian dame.
I need to finish that book report on Pride and Prejudice...
Cypher managed too yoink the orb but Wyle still managed to play tug-of-war which lead to a ring thing falling off which, for magic orbs that light up, is probably (and turned out to be) very not good. Another bright flash of light poofed us to the Halcyon Needle and, as you know, made me scream because I absolutely hate heights and more so just the feeling of being that high up. To be honest, I adore falling ever since mom took me skydiving last year but going up on rollercoasters is way too terrifying. But it was the Haclyon needle and everything seemed just like teleportation shenanigans until a video-blimp broadcasting “The Mayor’s Speech” showed us the big celebrity face of Jack Niccals and his big celebrity smile. He was really kind when I saw him backstage after dad’s show and asked for him to sign my “Big Danger 2: Agent Who” poster and T-shirt.
But that’s not important right now. Apparently we were in a whole other universe where there were no Challenges so it was the “definitive worst” of all of them. That and everyone thinks Tilly is Gabbie which, like, aren’t all the Mean Girls the same? So it was also that point that the orb went haywire and we dropped through a whole bunch of other dimensions that I couldn’t stop to appreciate the scenery of. One looked like some kind of city in Canada, maybe Ottawa? The other ones looked like an upside down Halcyon (I would make an Australia joke by mom would kill my twice over if she finds out about this) We saw a bit of grodie big fungus. THERE WAS JUST A VOID, LIKE AN INFINITE VOID. And then we plopped down in this grassy field thing that went into like eternity. My throat still hurts from all the screaming.
I don’t know how long it was but there were some creepies (not Wyle, suited sigil weirdos) who also *really* wanted that orb. Their leader shot lightning towards it but Cypher did this super cool redirection trick like they were trying to control the lightning which was soooo metal. In all the excitement, I barely managed to nock my bow in time with the right arrow before Challenge went on the offensive. I guess the cameras really did enhance the experience because, and I really don’t mean to be rude, she kinda got tossed around like a ragdoll by a bunch of invisible forces. To be fair, it was a bunch of weird magic stuff but still. She told me to go and take action and I took action because who am I to deny the invincible Challenge whatever she commands.
We, meaning Phoenix, Cypher, and I managed to get a really cool combo up where I shot my multiplying arrows, Phoenix lit them on fire, and Cypher aligned them perfectly to all the targets!!! I need to come up with move names for stuff like this in the future so we look as cool as we sound. Phoenix suddenly got really really hot behind us and the orb itself started to glow red and there was that stomach-sinking feeling again as we got teleported.
This was the most fun part of the journey in my opinion since there were a lot of cool action movie-type stuffs that happened. So, I don’t like heights but I like falling right? We were falling through a city that had buildings which were tall enough that we basically were falling for like ever. Challenge and Cypher were fine since they managed to use their powers to grab onto bits but I was too far from The General to effectively slow my fall. Phoenix did something with the air pressure by creating some kind of heat cushion??? I managed to grab onto The General with her help and hook my legs in the space where the grip connects to the body. Those baddies didn’t know what hit them, considering that the creeps’ magic went out when their leader caught the cold iron arrow. How am I gonna explain that one to Steve...
We fell, they fell, everyone fell down. We were in Halcyon again. Except my dad was evil, the Savior and Wyle were tied to a witch-hunt-esque pillar, and everyone was immediately ready to take action. Phoenix went to go melt the chains and I ran to go punch my dad in the face. Yep. I tried, emphasis on *tried*, to punch him right in the face. But I guess he also had superpowers and caught me before I could do anything. Not sure fully about what happened next but Cypher kicked him off and we poofed back into Phoenix’s room.
Challenge said I was pretty but not that good at the whole heroing thing which... well I mean I agree with the latter part but that’s why I’m not a full hero, right? I’m the one who helps the heroes...
Anyway, we went to the backyard since the room was pretty trashed and the others arguing needed a larger space apparently. I can trust you to hold my secrets so I’m gonna be honest and say I was pretty grumbly when I got the vibe that Wyle thought I was useless because I could only shoot arrows. What else do you expect me to do??? I’ve been training for years to be able to compare and I guess that’s not enough when you can’t even take a stupid orb from a teenager’s room when they’re across the city. Whatever.
It got weird again and I grabbed the grass so I wouldn’t get teleported but I just poofed with the rest holding grass clumps. One moment of falling later, we were on the very familiar set of dad’s show. Turns out he was interviewing Roy Cooke AKA one of the movie stars in the upcoming GaG movie!!! If we weren’t in our costumes and also on official hero business, I would have absolutely asked him to sign my “Fallen Revenant King” helmet replica. We got introduced suddenly and everyone had fun ways of getting onstage. Despite the two times I was face-to-face with him in my hero persona, dad nearly forgot to introduce me. If there was one consolation in being on his show, it was seeing Challenge being really sassy to him about saving the city and people starting to hate the Big Team.
We ended up cutting to commercial and kicked out. Savior was invited to continue an interview with dad on the show. Everyone else seemed surprised that he ended up picking us over them, but I knew he wasn’t just after the cameras. He offered to fly people home- what a good bean- but everyone else had a way of getting back. I figured I might be able to get back to Philosotea faster than taking a cab back from the studio, especially with the 402 traffic at that time. What I didn’t think of was how we were going to fly but apparently bridal style was the way to go and we were off. It... was really nice.
In the end, I got his number and we exchanged social media but the weird thing is that he had my number saved as Faith???? And?? I?? Had his??? Gonna have to investigate that later since I accidentally saved it previously with the name being the phone number and “Call Back.” Way to go. After “brooding” for a few minutes on the edge of the rooftop- there was no wind to dramatically make my cape flourish- I ran down and changed back into my regular clothes, somehow coming back at the same time as Mike. That worked out for the whole alibi of him getting sick. I worked the closing shift with Zed and someone ordered an ice tea near closing time, *after* I cleaned out the juicer and kettle.
That was probably the more enlightening adventures and a cautionary tale about meeting the heroes you admire. It’s about a 50/50 chance in any case though.

## S5E8 - Sleep, Sunshine, Sealife, and Spontaneous Sounds

Form #\_\_\_
\_ \_-\_ \_-202\_ \_ \_ \_ \_ Hours
Name: \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_
Munitions:
X
Notes: I don't think I need to fill these out anymore considering mom knows.
End Request Ticket

**Faith's Board**

The board is no longer hidden behind a whiteboard but rather filed into a series of folders. Each little piece has been scanned onto an external hard drive with colourful 8-bit stickers. The most recent scan showed some dry seaweed and a little bag of glassy sand.

**The Actual Journal**

Oh wow. Hi journal it's been a while... I kinda forgot about you and the conspiracy board for a while. Being a pro hero does that to you. [A crude emote of a smiling sun wearing sunglasses is drawn next to this sentence]
There's a lot of stuff I gotta catch you up on but I think I'll leave it at what happened yesterday? It's like 4 am right now I have no idea what's going on.
So dad came by after all on vacation for the last week which was really nice!! The 4 of us went on a really nice hike and had a snowball fight (which I won of course) higher up on the trek. Turns out that our flights were all disjointed though but I got to fly back with him while mom and James stayed behind for another week on some kind of base oversight thingy and a charity game. Overall, I got maybe like 5 hours of solid sleep? We got back in one piece and wound up hitting the beach after some much needed iced coffee from this really small drive-thru shop. It was really good to actually see Boon and Atlanta again!! I think it's the whole having a group of friends thing to come back to after vacation was what made it feel great. We also have a new Big Team member?? Jason seems like a cool dude for sure. Everyone's parents decided to come along with Boon and Atlanta's moms, Maggie and Demeter. And dad apparently got matching swim cargo trunks and a button-up which like... kinda cringe but you do you dad.
This is where things hit the FAN.
Apparently Atlanta got stabbed like 2 days ago but she got better. So did Bolt?? And also Bolt's a robot????? I've got QUESTIONS to ask him. Also Atlanta has a sweet little babie doggie and Bolt also moved in with Boon and Ernest.
We were just chilling and catching up and a rogue Frisbee makes its way across the beach only to get blasted into petroleum smithereens by a... robot... in the lifeguard chair? I'm not gonna question things, I've been gone awhile.
We saw a few others from school and... well I don't know how to say this but Mike? You know the rookie at Philosotea? He's kinda like shredded but I mean he's a co-worker and old so that's weird but hey, good for him. He and a few others were playing volleyball 2 on 2 and 4 on 4 which seemed like a great idea at the time but probably wasn't the best in hindsight considering a) getting stabbed and f) mass sleep deprivation. We played though because we're the best and Big Team doesn't need bed rest in order to kick butt.
There was a tournament bracket type thing and we played against our parents with Ernest's mom, Helen, joining in as their fourth. The teams were "A Leap of Faith" for us (which made me want to squeal and jump up and down) against ~~The Boomers~~ "The Midlife Spike-its." We won, I ate sand, Atlanta just kept shutting down their attempts, Jason served some great shots, and Boon pulled some great volleys. The other team that had Mike, a new hero called "Flashing Fists," Tanya Tussle, and a girl from school named Maddie went up aginst us after winning their bracket. Their name... Flashing Abs... Respect considering the people on their team but Boon definitely put up a fight on our side for that title. This game was REALLY close and I probably got another concussion from eating 2 spikes but we won!
Little did we know that nighttime came early. And by early I mean there was a 70ft tall giant tidal wave making its way to the shore with a spooky lady shouting from on top. She was kinda pretty in the "Woah scary villain" way and her name is Undertow? It took me a while but when she announced that she was here for Mayor ~~Cyclone~~ Crossover and THAT'S where I remembered her from!! She was one of the bigger villains Cyclone defeated back when he had his powers and gosh that battle was AWESOME. We STILL do recreations of that battle in the clubroom and it's great every time.
Being a fan aside, Boon told Maggie to go grab Mayor Crossover and like I trusted her because she probably had a good plan (and what a great plan it was) in mind. She started to clear a path towards Undertow while Verve and Jason got people out of there. There was a way to go so I took off towards Undertow while summoning the bow.
OH SIDE NOTE: Before vacation Eclipse and I traded the fire-ice boomerang for this Zodiac twig splinter which I turned into a bow. It's SO cool and I keep it as a bracelet for easy transformations hehe.
Anyway, I got ready to shoot some kind of arrow and uhh... Well there aren't very many places you can keep a quiver when wearing a swimsuit. An archer with a bow but no arrows is like a falcon with claws but no talons. So I tried a thing. I reached out towards the magic of the bow that I used before to turn it from the bracelet and back and tried to summon magical arrows because that wouldn't be too difficult? Life force is a thing that exists because I felt it reach back which was spooky and ethereal but kinda cool at the same time and next thing you know I have arrows! I shot a magical version of the grapple arrow into the wave and let hydrodynamics carry me up. On the ~~ride~~ surf going up, Jason did some cool stuff with these slicky daggers, taking out some tentacles that had gotten to Frithr and Verve taking out others with lightning.
I poofed behind her and went all "Oh villain leave this fair city alone and we won't fight you!" and then she was like "Mwahahaha! No I shall not. The destruction of this city will be the only thing that brings me peace." The kinda scariest part is that she'd let me be the only survivor which I... ma'am I don't want to see the city I'm trying to protect get destroyed?
Adrenaline was a thing that activated at that point. She wasn't listening to reason!! So I tackled her off the now 120ft wave in order to maybe stop her control over the tentacles? Brain off I guess haha... Next thing I knew, Verve dashed through the wave and wowzers electricity plus sea salt plus water tastes wild. She took the brunt of the force and I really should have realized earlier that water from 120 feet hurts much harder than concrete at 120 feet. She seemed fine though which had me in starry eyes.
There was a sonic boom and some kind of burst through the wave. At first I thought it was Frithr doing her thing but it wasn't. Tackling Undertow through the wave was a... flying Cyclone? As in Mayor Crossover flying past us and fighting her in the bay just like that battle from years ago. I just about screamed but didn't because that's not appropriate for the situation of swimming for dear life. We got back to shore and apparently the cheers of everyone and noise generated did SOMETHING and Cyclone just ran and did the quintessential hero thing and ran headfirst into danger.
We saw everything from the beach and he brought her back knocked out and victorious. Oh goodness it was just like, like HE'S BACK I CAN'T EVEN BEGIN LIKE CYCLONE IS BACK OH MY GOSH. After the media frenzy went nuts over that, I tried to talk to him and like of course I told him he was awesome because well, he was? And... [There are a few shakey scribbles crossed out with dark spots marking where the ink was mixed with water droplets] he told the team that we did awesome and that... I did awesome.
I got back home and crashed for 8 hours and it's 4 am now.
Wow... I did awesome. :)