5: A Stormy Mishap

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Sigils sees India suffering in the hot weather, and declared that they needed it to rain.

"Nico! India is in dire need of rain!" Sigils demanded urgently.

Knowing Nico's resilience, Sigils resorted to drastic measures, igniting the fireplace. "Henwy?"

Henwy sighed and approached, clutching Nico's beloved supreme merch, reluctantly offering it to the flames. Nico, fighting back tears, pounded the console in silent anguish.

"Sorry, Nico," Henwy apologized. "No hard feelings, but it's necessary."

"I hate you," Nico muttered through clenched teeth.

"At least it's raining in India now," Henwy remarked. "What's next?"

"With Australia facing rampant forest fires, what's our plan?" Sigils inquired.

"We could summon rain again. Nic—oh, he's already on it," Henwy observed as Nico promptly conjured rainfall over Australia without hesitation.

"Problem solved. Dark rain clouds are gathering over Malaysia for the fourth time in a row. What's our strategy?" Henwy outlined the next task.

Nico, having ceased his tears, suggested, "We could enlist Biffle to disperse the clouds?"

"How did you stop crying so quickly?" Sigils questioned.

"Acting skills. And fake tears," Nico confessed, earning a reproachful smack from Henwy.

"We can ask Biffle to create wind to blow the clouds away—wait, where's Biffle anyway?" Henwy realized.

"I tasked him with reading manuals as punishment for tampering with the orbs at the pedestal," Sigils recalled.

"But he's not there..." Henwy trailed off.

"Wait, what?!" The trio frantically searched for Biffle until Nico's keen ears detected a noise and the TV turn on. "I heard something drop! And the TV turned on."

Rushing to investigate, they found Biffle meddling with the console, wreaking havoc across Europe with tornadoes and hurricanes.

"Biffle! What are you doing?!" Sigils demanded.

"Uhm..." Biffle faltered, swiftly pushed aside by Sigils and Nico scrambling to rectify the chaos.

As panic gripped the weather reporter Jerome, urging Europeans to seek shelter, Henwy restored the fallen orbs to the pedestal. Suddenly, a new, blue orb materialized.

"It's a core weather orb..." Nico observed.

"But it's blue..." Henwy added.

"We can only have one of each! Stop it immediately!" Sigils ordered, prompting Henwy to elevate the pedestal to prevent the core weather orb from spawning a new island.

Sigils presses a button to throw the core weather orb away, but Biffle tries his best to prevent it. "Sigils, no! That's a core weather orb!"

They both kept pushing each other away and started fighting while Henwy and Nico looked in shock. "Should I stop this?" Henwy asked.

"How?" Nico asked.

"By cursi-"  Henwy suggested, but Nico immediately snapped. "NO."

But then Sigils sees Biffle trying to insert the core weather memory and gasps; he jumps at Biffle and he loses grip, dropping the core weather orb as it rolls toward the activated tube and gets sucked up through it and out of the roof to the Weather Factory. But it is still not done yet; one of the weather core memories— the main one, begins rolling toward the still-sucking tube as well as it starts coming down from the ceiling.

"Oh NO NO NO NO!" Sigils yelled, and rushed to grab the memory but gets sucked up the tube himself; he tries to keep himself weighed down by keeping his foot hooked outside; he struggles to reach his other foot down, but Biffle gets sucked toward him as well and disappear out the roof hatch, and the door closes as the tube retracts while Nico and Henwy watch in shock as they got into the forbidden place when they are in headquarters.

With Nico's quick actions, Europe's weather stabilized, but the mishap left them shaken.

"Well, now the weather's improving, somehow. Stay safe, Europeans, and the every other citizens out there!" Jerome's voice echoed from the TV before Henwy switched it off.

"Can I say that curse word now?"

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