The Glyph Monado

Ch. 46: Second Date, Blight Detour

The two managed to get in with relative ease, which never leads to anything good.

"Got it and we've still got Luz's invisibility glyphs. We can just sneak by if we hold her breath." Boscha said to her.

"But how long can we hold our breaths? I never counted." Amity said back.

"I can hold mine fore about ten seconds." Boscha said.

"Then we're going to need to be fast. I can hold my breath for about that long too." Amity said to her.

The factory seemed empty as they looked around, not seeing any workers around as they looked around a corner.

"Coast seems clear." Amity said.

"Yeah, well, looks can be deceiving." Boscha said.

The intercom system came on and her mother's voice rang through the factory, making both armored witch jolt as eyeballs with wings/cameras flew to their positions.

"You should listen to your girlfriend, Mittens."

"Oh, this can't be good." Amity said.

"It's so good to see you, Mittens. You had me worried sick when you didn't come home." Odalia said.

"Yeah, you were real worried about me." Amity said with a glare to the camera.

"I'm truly sorry it had to come to this, but you left me no choice." Odalia said, "Guards! Apprehend these trespassers!"

Amity and Boscha watched as Abominations rose from the ground.

"Does she really think these things can stop us?" Boscha asked as she readied her wing blades.

"Maybe but we don't need to fight them. We still have Luz's glyphs, remember?" Amity reminded her.

"Then lead the way, Top Student."

Amity took Boscha hand as took off running, pulling out one of the invisibility glyphs.

"Breath now!" Amity told her as she activated the glyph.

They both took a deep breath and became invisible. They ran around the corner, where they had to start breathing again. But that was long enough for Odalia's bat cameras to lose them.

"Find my daughter and Ms. Triplet now!" She ordered through the speakers.

"We need to get that damn machine and get out." Boscha whispered.

"Then let's keep looking."

The two ran off as they kept their weapons firmly in their hands.

"Alright, Mittens, if you were a time machine, where would you be?" Boscha asked.

"Probably in the secret vault." Amity said.

"You know where it is?" Boscha asked.

"I have a theory. Follow me." Amity said as she led the way.

Amity ran to her dad's office and removed a large painting of Odalia. She looked at the painting before, not so gently, throwing it down and looked at a secret combination lock.

"Wow." Boscha said in awe.

"Yeah, dad thinks we don't know about it but we all do." Amity said as she looked at the combo lock. "But I don't know the combination."

"Leave that to me. I can look at the tumblers with my X-Ray spell." Boscha said, moving to the door.

Boscha made a spell circle and activated her x-ray spell on her third eye and went to the lock. She starts turning it and manages to unlock it.

"Alright, 07-15-06 is the combination." Boscha said.

"That's... that's my birthday." Amity said.

Her father, a man who just mindlessly obeyed his Odalia, used her birthday as the combination? Boscha snapped her fingers in front of Amity's face, getting her attention back.

"You can focus on that later, Mittens, we're on a time crunch." Boscha said.

"R-Right. Right. Sorry." Amity said as she pulled the door open, revealing a secret passage way.

"Let's go." Amity said.

The two girls ran into the doorway, shutting the door behind them.

"Alright, that should buy us some time, now... what does a time machine look like?"

"Possibly big, taking up space, and maybe having a clock on it?" Amity suggested.

"Something like this?"

They turned around and saw Odalia, standing in front of the Time Machine.