Shattered ||| Arcane Vi x Oc

Part:8 The rise of Gizmo

October's POV

When I woke up I was strapped to a machine, there was a man standing over me that I had never seen before. He had a distinct black eye with an almost orange pupil. "Your awake" he stated "good, I was hoping you would wake up soon." I was so disoriented by everything. "Where am I?" I asked while looking around at all the strange surroundings "-and who are you?" He smiled a little bit, I guess trying to make himself seem less frightening. "I'm Silco, you are in my home. I found you that night that you had taken a terrible fall. I patched you up and kept you here." " how long was I out for?" "2 months" he said nonchalantly. "What!?!?" I yelled while trying to get out of bed. Then a loud bang sounded in my ears and I fell to the floor. Silco stood up and walked over to me as I was trying to hold my head as it felt like it was going to explode. "What's happening." I said almost curled into a ball on the floor. "You see, you where nearly dead when I found you. The only way to save you was injecting you with that." He pointed at a glowing purple liquid. The pain went down and I looked up at it "what is it?" I asked "shimmer. It may have saved you, but the side effects may cost you your sanity." I thought he was joking but when I looked at him, he was completely serious. "The side effects," he continued "can be delusions, migraines, memory loss, sanity lost, fast hair growth, and, something that I have only ever seen happen to you, discoloration of the hair..." his voice dropped off as he held up a strand of my hair for me to see. It was a lot longer but the real eye catcher, instead of the dark purple I use to have, it was a bright neon purple. My eyes widened at the sight "wha..." I said taking the strand from his hand. Then some of my memories randomly clicked in my mind of that last night that I was awake. "Omg, I gotta get home, Claggor and Vi have got to be loosing their minds without me." I said while standing up. "About that, that night, they died." Silco told me grabbing my shoulder. My heart stopped. I started to breathe faster and make fast movements. I mean, this must be a bad dream? Right? It has to be. Any second I'll wake up to Vi standing over me telling me to get my lazy ass up and Claggor with my favorite drink telling me that I just fell after a mission. This can't be real. I started to fall when Silco caught me. "I'm so sorry kid."

After I had calmed down he had explained what had happened and how Powder had said that he needed to save me for her to go with him. I was so grateful that Powder was here. Even if she was Jinx now, I would protect her like I know Vi would want me to. It has been 6 years now. I was 15 when the accident happened. Now I'm 21, I go by the name Gizmo and work with Jinx as Silcos adoptive daughters. I never blamed Jinx for what happened that night. It was my fault after all, I was responsible for her, I let her out of my sight, she was only a kid who wanted to help. It was my fault that I didn't try harder to keep her away. I knew about Ekko too. Obviously as Silco's right hand girl I couldn't talk to him, even if he wanted to, I never let him catch me. But I always checked up on him, he knew too, even if he never saw me I would leave little traces of myself, like a mural or a monkey doodle on the walls.

Right now me and Jinx were guarding the cargo on a shipment. "This is so boring" I complained while swinging on a swing in there. "Ugh, I know-" Jinx was cut of by some rustling upstairs. We heard someone opening the cargo door and we shared a look before hiding. The guys came down and where looking around until Jinx strapped two bombs on them. After that I jumped up and opened the door as we exited smoke came out of the trap door with us making it hard to see. I popped my head out of the smoke giggling "hiya" I said before Jinx came from behind me throwing two bombs and knocking two fire lights of the platform. As we were fighting I had just taken out one when I looked over to see Jinx absolutely frozen. She was shooting everywhere, almost hitting me. Then I realized why, one of the fire lights had pink hair.I kinda lost it and started to blindly throw my knives at the retreating firelight.Once I was done I walked up to her and put a hand on her shoulder. "You okay?" She was still huffing and just nodded, then Sevika broke through the stuff she was stuck in before. Kind wished she would have stayed stuck. "What the hell where you two thinking? I told you to guard the cargo." She shouted at us. I just rolled my eyes before taking Jinx's hand and leading her back to the base.

As we got back, we headed up and hid in the top of Silco's office, out of sight from the angry Sevika that had just walked in "Jinx fired on us and Gizmo nearly took my head off with her knife throwing." "There are always mishaps in battle. The firelights were their target, and most are dead." Sevika took a swig of her drink before continuing "it wasn't a mishap. Jinx froze up and Gizmo lost her shit. I could have handled those brats. They are problems and we all know it." "We?" Silco turned around in his chair before continuing. "Who's we?" Sevika looked anywhere but at him. "I expect better from you then excuses. It was your job to make sure things went smoothly. You failed. Don't disappoint me again." He said turning around at the end. Sevika just grunted and left. Once she was gone Silco started complaining about the hextech gates , obviously talking to us til he finally asked. "What happened?" "She already told you." Jinx said. "I'm asking you two" we jumped down and sat on his desk. She was looking at him while I was laying down looking up. "One of those firelight wackos was a girl-" I said. He turned to look at me and I sat up and sat back to back with jinx, not facing him. "...with pink hair." He handed Jinx the tool and she sat closer to him as I turned around with my head in my knees. "She's gone. You know that as well as I do." He said looking at me as Jinx positioned herself to put that thing in his eye. "I know" I said looking away. Then Jinx spoke up "I know, sisters, right? Cant live without them, cant stuff 'em back in the ol' baby maker." I started laughing. Silco could tell that jinx was getting a little antsy and I was having visions of Claggor again. I had them a lot, I had a lot of the others to, but most of them were Claggor talking to me, begging me to save him, or that this life isn't what he would have wanted for me. "Gizmo." Silco said pulling me from my delusions. "Today's screw up will set us back weeks." "I'm sorry" Jinx said leaning again his chair "I need to know I can rely on you, both of you" he said the last part looking at me. I looked away again. " I'm doing this for us, All of us." He said looking at me. I got close enough to where I was hanging off the edge of the desk. "I know, it won't happen again." I said still not looking at him. "I want you two to take some time off, Jinx focus on your gadgetry, and Gizmo on your art. "Ugh but we don't need time." Jinx said flopping back so her head was in my lap. "Take it anyhow." He said sternly. Jinx got up and stormed off. I got up but decided against going after her, knowing she probably needed some space. "You can be easier on her sometimes. She's still a kid.-" "and your suppose to be an adult." He interrupted me " I asked you to keep an eye on her. Not help her blow up my whole operation. My prodigy, I expect better from you." I sighed. " I know, I'm sorry, I lost my shit." "I'm glad we understand each other. Now please go calm her down." I giggled, I was about to walk away when he said "and if you keep having those visions, please let me know." "How did you-" "I know what they look like Gizmo." I was silent for a second before replying "He's dead Gizmo, you know this.""I know." I said then I went after Jinx.

To be continued...
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So happy that I finally at the aftermath of the time skip. Also I apologize in advance for the angst in the next few chapters. :)