Lokius

Yellow Sparks

CHP 6

"I looked so happy.."

Sylvie pulled away her hands, feeling this sick feeling in her stomach. Pity. For a TVA employee. The last person she ever thought she'd feel pity for. But, is it wrong? The TVA hurt them, all of them, and it's not at all this hunters fault.

"So what now?"

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"You know this is wrong, Renslayer! What happened to that girl? What really happened to her?!"

"Can you stop, Mobius?!"

"No, what happened to her that was so-"

She held up her pruning device, and Mobius stepped back.

"Wherever that thing sends me.. it's better than here."

Renslayer took a deep breath.

"Let's hope that's true." She stabbed his chest, and he cried out, evaporating into yellow sparks just as Loki had done.

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"I gave you your memories. Now give me mine."

Hunter b-15 felt crazy for trusting her, but the truth had been let out. There were no more excuses. The thing she had dedicated her entire life to had betrayed her. Now she can betray it too.

She grabbed Sylvies hand, and went through a portal she summoned, leading straight to the timekeepers.

"I thought I'd find you here." As soon as they stepped through, there stood Renslayer, all by herself with her pruning device.

"What are you going to do? Prune us? Like you do everyone else?"

"B-15?.. what are y... oh. I see. Loki here as corrupted you."

"Sylvie actually." She corrected. Sylvie looked at B-15 with worried but caring eyes, wondering why she was standing up for her.

"Ha.. alright.. 'Sylvie'. Tell me why I shouldn't prune both of you right now."

"All I want is to know what my nexus event was, why my entire life was stolen!"

"Ah yes.." a deep voice boomed. They all turned around, seeing the three timekeepers towering over them. "And you seek that answer here, with us?"

"Obviously. I've spent my whole life getting here."

"It is simple, Sylvie. You..."

The room fell silent, his voice commanding even beyond the room.

"..are a cosmic mistake."

"AGHH!" Sylvie lept forward and up, quickly summoning a dagger, and sliced off his head. Everyone gasped, and she fell to her knees in exhaustion, doing everything she could not to cry.

"Sylvie.." B-15 whispered. "Look.."

Sylvie turned around, covering her mouth in shock, seeing the timekeepers severed head sparking with wires falling out, laying not so lifelessly in B-15's hands.

"I .. I don't .. I don't understand."

B-15 dropped the head, walking towards Sylvie to comfort her.

"This was supposed to be it!"

"Sylvie-"

"THIS WAS SUPPOSED TO BE IT!!" She cried, chucking her dagger across the room. Renslayer scoffed.

"What, and I suppose you're enjoying all of this?!"

"Me?! I spent my whole life dedicated to them too!!"

"Then I guess you're out of a job then! So you can put the pruner down-!"

"NO!" Renslayer held it up. "No! I still think there's something beyond this, beyond.. beyond the keepers. My whole life couldn't have been.." she kicked the severed head. "..this.."

"And what if it was?"

"It. isn't." She held up her pruner directly at Sylvie. "And you're going to help me prove that."

"I don't think so." Miss Minutes said, appearing out of thin air. Renslayer whipped around to find dozens other TVA employees, all fully armed.

"Don't tell me you believe this Loki Variant?"

"Of course not. I'm simply helping them understand."

"Understand what?!" Sylvie yelled.

"That the TVA is real, I'm real, the sacred timeline and everything we do here is worth so much more than you and your cosmic mistake!"

Suddenly, Sylvie snatched the pruning device. "See you in hell." She flipped it around, and stabbed herself in the chest, making no cries or explanations.

B-15 stepped towards where Sylvie once stood, breathing shakily.

"What have you done?"

".. what I had to do."

"You didn't have to do anything!"

"Grab her!" The TVA agents went towards B-15, but before anything else could happen, she picked up the pruner.

"Join the dead when you're done being stupid, Renslayer." She jabbed her leg, wincing, and disappeared.

And so there were none.