Glitching to Fix Time {Poor Execution, Rewrite occurring in diff book}

Ch 8: Rip the mission highjacker

"Nate, where are you?" Sara asked, "Clarity's been trying to get a lock."

"I don't know, but I just had a chat with Professor Stein's weird lookalike evil cousin." Nate winced in reply.

"Great-great grandfather, to be exact. The famous stage actor, Sir Henry Stein." Gideon informed pulling up his picture for the group.

"Astonishing." Stein marveled from where he sat in his chair. "The... the chances of us running into one of my ancestors are astronomical. Family lore recalls him as being an eccentric. But then, what can one expect from an actor?"

"He's also an occult weirdo who kidnapped me to feed his master." Nate complained.

"Excellent." Rip clapped his hands together, "The vampire will lead us to Mallus. Stay where you are, Dr. Heywood." Rip ordered as if he had authority to order him.

"Yeah, that's not gonna be a problem. Whatever they roofied me with fritzed out my powers." Nate informed the team.

"I hate it when that happens." Clarity shook her head.

"Can you describe where you are?"

"Uh, like a... an operating room? All I know is there's a spooky-ass red moon painting on the wall."

"What's that?" Zari asked Rip who'd just whipped out a secret tiny notebook.

"It's, uh... It's some of my research on Mallus." Rip replied beginning to read from it. "Beware the blood-red moon, when the door that separates death from life will be opened." He recited, looking up from the book.

"Oh sounds spooky. What is that? A love poem from Mallus?" Clarity wondered.

"It's the first line of an oath taken by the Order of the Shrouded Compass, an infamous secret society of London's aristocracy obsessed with the occult." Rip answered in reply.

"Oh, so it's a love poem to Mallus. I was close."

"That sounds like the perfect place for an out-of-time vampire to take refuge." Amaya pointed out arms crossed approaching the circular table the legends were all crowded around.

"Yes, well, the Order also believe in the magical properties associated with" Rip rolled out a lunar chart for the time period they were in. "... a total lunar eclipse."

"Which is set to occur right here in London tonight." Stein pointed to the map.

"Gideon, what's the time?" Sara asked but before Gideon could reply Clarity remembered something.

"Time, oh my god, I was supposed to meet up with Jax and Ray hours ago. I gotta go help with that watch." Clarity glitched away to the lab. "Sorry, I'm late boys. I got sidetracked."

"Didn't know you were coming." Jax replied looking at her in confusion.

"Uh, he means that we thought you got busy with something else. Any idea why there were potatoes flying everywhere?"

"When we're there flying potatoes?" Jax wondered in confusion.

"You didn't notice?" Ray did his best to play along.

"Nah, man." Jax replied.

"At least one of us could focus on the task at hand. Which is this watch," Ray gestured to it. "So Uh Clarity, would you mind?"

"But of course." Clarity replied sliding into a seat next to Ray. Downloading the info, making a copy of the data, setting to work trying to read it. "Damnit,"

"What's wrong?" Jax asked her.

"When the watch fell through time, The watch tried to find a satellite signal but it must have ended up finding a bajillion of them throughout time as it fell. Just look at this list. It's no good. We need to try something else." Clarity look to Ray. "Something low tech." Clarity waggled her fingers.