𝐄𝐕𝐄𝐑𝐘𝐁𝐎𝐃𝐘 𝐖𝐀𝐍𝐓𝐒 𝐓𝐎 𝐑𝐔𝐋𝐄 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐖𝐎𝐑𝐋𝐃 ━ loki laufeyson

9│BLINDED BY THE LIGHT

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❛ ᴇᴡᴛʀᴛᴡ. ❜ ° . ༄
- ͙۪۪˚   ▎❛ 𝐍𝐈𝐍𝐄 ❜   ▎˚ ͙۪۪̥◌
»»————- ꒰ ʙʟɪɴᴅᴇᴅ ʙʏ ᴛʜᴇ
ʟɪɢʜᴛ ꒱　


❝ TIME TO BE BRAVE ❞

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"How we looking?" Mobius asked as he and Jimin returned to the control room.

Victor seemed pleased by the results so far. "Everything is going according to plan."

"Good."

Timely gave them a curious look due to the cups they were drinking out of. "What is that?"

"This? A little Mobius pick-me-up, courtesy of the hot cocoa machine."

"Hey!" the Asian woman protested. "I thought we had a pretty good therapy session."

"We did," he reassured her. "Sometimes I just want a little hot chocolate."

Her lips quirked slightly in amusement. "So good that I should schedule a weekly meeting?"

The analyst shook his head. "Not that good. Maybe you should get a license first."

The Variant seemed stuck on Mobius' words about their drinks. He leaned forward, unable to believe what the other man had said. "Did you say hot cocoa. . . machine?"

"Machine? Yeah."

O.B. turned away from the Multiplier for a moment to catch their attention. "Mobius, can I see your TemPad?"

He handed it over without a thought as Timely's interest continued. "You have a machine for that?"

"Everything has a machine," Jimin told him. "We're even trying to get cars to drive themselves now."

His eyes widened in awe. "Amazing!" Seeing as they didn't have any cars in the building, he returned to the previous topic. "About this hot cocoa machine. . . Could I take a look?"

Ouroboros frowned as he fiddled with Mobius' Tempad. "Weird. This one's not connecting either."

This news distracted the analyst and he waved off the man's question. "Can you sit tight for just a second? What do you mean?" This was directed at his colleague.

The Hunter with the low voice, who'd been sitting off to the side when they'd returned, stood. "I can take him."

"Can you? Okay. Professor, he'll take you."

O.B. got on the computer to investigate the problem further, his fingers tapping away at a speed even Jimin envied. "So strange. All your files are being corrupted in real time." He glanced up at Mobius. "Did you download unauthorized games again?"

Offended, the gray-haired man exclaimed, "no! I'm not gonna make that mistake twice."

"Something's messing with this thing," Casey observed, still trying to get the TemPad fixed. The digital clock appeared and tsked at him disapprovingly. "Yours wasn't working either."

"Did you try turning it off and then on again?" the Asian woman asked sarcastically. The two tech guys gave her an unnervingly similar irritated glare.

"That only works on the coffee maker on level three," O.B. informed her shortly.

She took a sip of her hot coco. "Oh, of course. My mistake."

"It's Miss Minutes," Ouroboros explained. "She's taken control of the systems."

Mobius was already on the move. "That's why the TemPads weren't working. Grab the Multiplier and let's get Timely."

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