Mobius was holding a candy box called Kablooie, which you recognized.
"Kablooie." he said.
" What's that?" Loki asked.
"Candy. Do you have candy on Asgard?" Mobius says.
"Yeah, grapes, nuts."
"Huh, well no wonder your so bitter." he says before grabbing a large bunch of files and heading to the desk leaving you and Loki to follow him.
"Okay, so Kablooie was only sold regionally on Earth from 2047 to 2051, so we need to cross reference that with every apocalyptic event, I'm gonna give you half, Y/n take a few from him, have a competition see who finds it." Mobius explains.
"Sure." Loki says seeming interested in the 'competition'
" You wanna bet on something?, Yeah a bet, let's play for pride, may the best person win!" Mobius declares.
Rolling your eyes with a small smile, you take the files Loki hands you.
~~~~
"Anything?" Mobius asks, going through a file.
"Uh, it's not the climate disaster of 2048." Loki replies
"Or the Tsunami of 2051." you pipe in, not looking up from your pile.
"Let's go, let's go come on." Mobius chants.
"2050..the extinction of the swallow.." Loki reads out.
"That's a thing?" you say, a little shaken up at number of natural disaster and problems.
"Completely screwed up the ecosystem.." Mobius answers.
"Krakatoa erupted in 2049 as well." you say
"No kablooie" Loki says.
"God, it's just one damn thing after another, isn't it?" Mobius muses.
"Tell me about it." you scoff.
"Cyclones, famine, volcanoes,floods-"
"Got him!" Loki says, holding up the file, "That's where he is."
"Alabama, 2050." you say reading the file.
Leaning forward, Mobius looks at Loki and smirks," You're gonna take my job, if I'm not careful."
" Ok, pack it up, Lovebirds!" you say giggling, while simultaneously feeling this unreasonable jealousy.
Playfully glaring at you, Loki leans back and lets out a little breath.
" I have to go to Ravonna and ask her to approve a fully-armed task force, this mission, if it even happens, is really important." Mobius gets up and you and Loki closely follow.
~~
Mobius was inside Renslayer's office, you and Loki were waiting outside. To pass the time, you decided to play a game.
" Ok, tell me about a time you scared your brother" you ask, hoping to hear the iconic snake story.
" Ohhh, I have a good one, we were about eight at the time, and you see, Thor loves snakes, so to scare him, I transformed myself into a snake and he picked it up to admire it and then I transformed back into myself and said, " MEUH IT'S ME! and stabbed him." he said smiling at the memory.
"My turn!" you say
" Ok, were you ever in love with someone?" he said.
Shit.
Shit.
SHIT. FRICK.GODDAMMIT.
Taking a deep breath, you for yourself to look at him.
"Yes. Yes I was." you say smiling lightly.
"Oh! tell me about this lucky person." he says interested, and..is that a tinge of jealousy in his voice?
YOU DAFT DUMB IDIOT! IT'S A VERSION OF YOU, OK! WHAT THE HELL AM I SUPPOSED TO SAY RIGHT NOW?!
" Well, he was one of the most caring, sweet, and amazing people, I had ever met in my life, he loved forehead kisses. But h-he was murdered, right in front of me" you say sadly, eyes becoming moist.
" Oh, I'm sorry about that." he says sympathetically.
" What about you, were you ever in love?" you ask, when Loki was alive, he didn't tell you much about his past relationships, mainly because you never asked.
" Well, I've had my fair share of relationships, but in most of them there was nothing ever......authentic or real.." .
You selfishly sigh in happiness on the inside.
"-except one girl." he continued.
What.the.ever.loving.fuck.
"Oh, nice so who was she?" you ask, jealousy raging and burning inside you.
" Oh, well her name was Astrid and I really loved her, we talked about marriage and things like that, but then she was married to a duke of Vanaheim."
"Huh, I'm sorry."
" It's alright, it was for the best."
The awkward silence is broken by Mobius walking out of the office.
"So? Are we on?" you ask.
" We're on" he replies, walking to the locker room.
~~
"I'm telling you, you help us catch this variant, and who knows my friend-" Mobius begins.
" What good enough for a face to face with the time keepers?" Loki asked, while you headed to your locker.
"I didn't say that, one step at a time."
" Ok, one step at a time."
Reaching into his locker, Mobius pulls out a pair of daggers and hands them to him, " Just in case."
While Loki fawns over them, Hunter B-60 immediately comes and snatches them away, putting them in her own locker, leaving Loki adorably pouting and you laughing.
"Gather around for a briefing!" she announces.
After everyone is gathered, she begins.
"Roxxcart is a vast superstore common to the era, it consists of a series of sprawling sections, including a large warehouse. This warehouse is being used by civilians as a shelter trying to ride the storm. Remember this is a class-10 apocalypse, while the Variant wouldn't know we're coming, he could be hiding anywhere, and should be considered hostile. So stay alert. Every time there is an attack, the Variant steals a reset charge, he's planning something, we just don't know what. So keep an eye out for the missing charges, and if you see a Loki, prune it."
"The bad Loki, preferably." Loki pipes in.
~~
Destination, Haven Hills, Alabama.
Year, 2050.
It's pouring outside and as you walk in, there's a flash of thunder. Out of habit, you look up expecting Thor, only to look at Loki and seeing him so the same.
Poor sweetie.
Walking into the store, you immediately see Loki use his magic to dry himself, and that reminded you,
Shit, I can do magic.
So you did the same, only the color of your magic was gold.
Loki looked surprised as hell.
" The hell was that?" Hunter asked Loki.
Loki, looking surprised that you could do magic, said to her, " That was me, using magic to dry my clothes, so I don't announce myself with every squeaky footstep like the rest of you." he says.
The lights flicker making all of you alert.
"Ok, take two teams and sweep the storm shelter." she says.
"Loki and I are gonna check out the greenhouse, we'll mee-" Mobius begins
"No" Hunter says.
" No? He's under my supervision" Mobius, argues.
They argue back and forth making you get frustrated.
"Ok, enough! Mobius let Loki go with her, I'll scout on my own." you butt in.
Begrudgingly, he allows Loki to go with B-60.
~~
As you go through and check the aisles, you see Loki and B-60, talking to someone with his hands up.
"It's a hurricane sale, azaleas are half off." the guys says.
" Could that be you?" B-60 asked.
"I mean I probably would have worn a suit, but yes, maybe."
You walk over and stand next to Loki, " Who's the guy?"
" We're about to find out." he replies.
Hunter makes her way to the guy, prune stick( is it called a prune stick? if anyone knows what it's called, please tell me) charged. As she goes near him, he grabs hold of her arm and you can see a flash of green magic make its way up Hunter's arm, the man falls to the ground.
"Is he dead?" Loki asks not realizing what happened.
"Loki, that's not Hunter." you say.
" No, they usually survive." Hunter, no, the Variant says.
Facing Loki, she says," So you're the fool the TVA brought in to hunt me down."
"Me, I presume." Loki says
"Please, if anyone's anyone, you're me." she says smiling cheekily at him.
He retaliates by smiling wider.
Rolling your eyes, you scoff.
Children, literal children
"How nice to meet you."
~~
In the surveillance room, Mobius and the others find C-20
The poor girl looks traumatized, saying one thing over and over again.
"It's real, it's real, it's real." she says shaking, her voice wavering
Speaking into a comm, Mobius says, "Y/n, we need y-"
~~
"Enchantment is a clever trick." Loki says, as you all walk around." Cowardly, a bit amateur-ish, but clever."
"Almost as cowardly as working for the TVA." the Variant replies.
"I'm working for me."
"You really believe that don't you?"
"Yes."
"Heh, and here I was worried that they found a better version of me."
This is getting boring
"Hi, are you guys looking for the disaster shelter?" a worker asks.
"No." the Variant says before enchanting him and taking over his body, Hunter falling to the ground, Loki and you go to check on her.
"Oh bless, you gonna call you're little friends for help?" the Variant says.
" What's the matter, you too scared to meet me face-to-face?"
"Y/n, we need you here, come to the surveillance room, we have a problem."
Slowly backing away, you leave and teleport to the surveillance room.
~~
"It's real, it's real, it's real, it's real-" C-20 kept saying over and over again.
"What's real?" you ask.
" She's off the dial." an agent replies.
"Look at me c-20, what's real?" you repeat
"I wanna go home." she says eyes wide.
" We're gonna get you there, call the TVA and let the infirmary kno-"
"No, I gave it away!" she shouts
"What, what did you give away?" Mobius asks.
" The Time Keepers! Where they are!"
In shock, you look at the live camera footage of the shop and you see Loki getting beaten up.
"Shit, Mobius I'll be back." you say and teleport to a different part of the store
~~
You arrive just in time to see a hooded-figure in front of Loki and you.
"Where did you go? I got my ass whooped." he asks you
"The Variant knows where the Time- keepers are." you reply
The hooded figure comes forward and lifts the hood to reveal a-
Holy shit.
a beautiful lady is standing in front of you, wearing the signature horns, her hair is like Loki's except it's blonde. Blonde?
"This isn't about you." she says
In shock you just nod and Loki slowly says, "Right."
At that exact moment, a timer goes off and and the lights go out, the only source of light coming from.... wait is that a TemPad?
"INITIALISING"
Everything becomes brighter and you can see lots and lots of reset charges, each one going into a different timeline.
The lights flicker red and you can see the lady wave and then walk into a time-door.
You can also hear Mobius shouting in the distance.
You and Loki look behind and then at each other and nod before running through the door after her.
The last thing you hear is Mobius shouting.
Crap.