Loki

Chapter 4C

"I've heard it once, I've heard it a thousand times." Loki grumbled as he stood up. "You. You conniving, craven, pathetic worm. You did this. Right?"

Mobius emerged from the Time Door. "What are you doing?"

"Passing the time."

"Do you care about this Variant?" Mobius asked.

"Sylvie?" Loki said snarkily. "I'm not sure if 'care' is quite the right word. I think we've covered this back in-"

"Shhh, shhh. Just shut up." Mobius said. "Do you really think you deserve to be alone?"

Loki said nothing.

"Loki!" Mobius urged.

"You told me to shut up." Loki said.

"Do you really believe you deserve to be alone?"

"I don't know."

"Well you'd better figure it out quick, because the nexus event the two of you caused, whatever that connection is, can bring this whole place down. So we better understand."

"We?" Loki questioned.

Mobius closed his eyes and breathed. "Do you swear she didn't implant those memories in Hunter C-20?"

"Mobius, no. I believe her." Loki said.

"So I just have to trust the word of two Lokis?"

"How about the word of a friend?"

Mobius nodded. "You were right, about the TVA. You were right from the beginning. And if you want to save her, you need to trust me. Can we do that?"

Loki nodded. "Yes."

"Okay." Mobius said. "You could be whoever, whatever you want to be. Even someone good...I mean, just in case anyone ever told you different."

Loki smirked and followed Mobius through the Time Door.

When the two emerged in the Time Theater they were greeted by a squad of four Minuteman along with Judge Renslayer.

"I think you have something of mine." She said.

"Yeah," Mobius said in an upbeat manner as he reached into his pockets. "I got all the way down there before I even realized I picked up yours."

Hunter D-90 took the Tempad from Mobius's hands, returning it to Renslayer.

"What's going on?" Mobius asked innocently. "What's the problem, Ravonna."

Renslayer and everyone else remained silent. The room felt charged with tension.

Mobius sighed as he realized the charade was over. "You know where I'd go if I could go anywhere?" A hint of humanity gleamed behind Ravonna's eyes. "Wherever it is I'm really from. And wherever I had a life before the TVA came along. Maybe I had a jet ski. That's what I'd like to do."

D-19 engaged his Timestick.

"Just riding around on my jet ski." Mobius finished.

"Prune him." Renslayer said.

D-19 jammed the Timestick into Mobius's chest. The former TVA agent grunted as he was slowly pulverized into nothing but sparks. Loki gasped in horror as his friend was obliterated.

The Minutemen grabbed him. Renslayer moved out of their way as they brought Loki to the door. He looked at her in disbelief as they took him.

"Wait for me at the elevator." Ravonna ordered.