When Sylvie continued to walk away from Ivy and Loki, Loki called out to her, "You'll give everyone free will and walk away?"

Sylvie spun around, "That's the way it works. You're welcome."

"But what if his Variants decide to show up, what's your plan?" Ivy questioned, though she was sure she already knew the answer to that.

"Kill 'em." Sylvie shrugged.

"Sorry to interrupt." Mobius walked out of the McDonald's, Brad following behind. "I think Brad's got something that he might want to get off his chest."

"Zaniac's getting a sequel. And you're all invited."

"Hey, we can wait all day." Mobius stated.

No, we can't." Brad corrected, clearly agitated about something. "We need to talk about this back at the TVA."

"No. We can talk here. Now." Mobius argued.

"Fine. If we stay here we're all gonna die." Brad admitted. "They're gonne die." He pointed to a couple walking by. "Orange shirt, she's gonna die." He pointed to another person. "Most importantly, we are all gonna die." He turned towards the building, waving around. "This is gone! Unless we..."

Sylvie cut Brad's rambling off by pushing him up against a nearby car, using her powers to read his mind. When she let him go the face she made read of fear. "They're gonna bomb every branch."

"Yeah, including this one." Brad noted.

Ivy sighed loudly, looking up at the sky briefly. "Of freaking course."

"Where do we go?" Loke questioned Brad.

"I'll show you." Sylvie spoke, using her magic to change from her work uniform to her combat suit. Everyone quickly followed her through a time door. Mobius sent Brad back to the TVA before following as well.

Once the four made it to the new place they all crouched behind a pile of supplies. They seemed to be in some sort of warehouse where Minutemen went in and out of time doors continuously. It looked like the staging area for a warzone.

"What are they doing with all the Time Doors?" Mobius whispered.

"Looks like they're connected to the TemPads." Sylvie whispered back.

"Maybe that's why Brad's was modified."

B-15's voice came through Mobius' TemPad, "Mobius, they're killing billions. Take Dox down now!"

Ivy cursed under her breath as Loki pointed something out. "Minutemen are all carrying reset charges."

"That's how they're bombing all the timelines at once. They're all connected to that central control panel." Sylvie added.

"Looks like we have a target to hit." Ivy noted, slightly smiling to herself as that was something Ally would say a lot. She realized she hadn't had much time to think about her friends back home in a while and wondered what they were doing now.

"I'll distract them." Loki announced.

Loke, Sylvie, and Ivy then ran forward to fight off as many Minutemen as they could. Loki and Sylvie used their magic to their advantage where Ivy relied on the two twin daggers she held.

"Our mission is compromised!" Dox shouted. "Set off what you can!"

As Minutemen began to quickly walk through time doors with bombs, the three were just as quick. Loki used his magic to throw people around. Sylvie used both her sword and magic to lash out at people. Ivy threw punches and kicks just as much as she slashed her daggers around, aiming for the back of legs. Mobius even joined in by using a pruning stick to disintegrate bombing machines. 

Just as one Minutemen began to walk through a portal Ivy appeared right behind him. "Oh, no you don't." She then grabbed the man by the arm, twisting it back just far enough where it would disorient him before pushing him to the side. She didn't realize how much she missed field work until that moment.

And unbeknownst to her Loki seemed to also like that she was able to use her ass-kicking abilities. Maybe a bit too much because he was nearly lunged at by a Minutemen when he was a bit too distracted. Luckily though he realized a moment before to simply wave his hand to make the guy fly back.

Once most of the Minutemen seemed to be taken care of, Sylvie and Loki joined their magic together to throw back the remaining, including Dox and her equipment. A giant cloud of green smoke-like energy being thrown right in their faces.

Though this did get the job done, they were still too late to arrive. Dox and her team may have not been able to get their job done completely, but they still managed to bomb a third of what they meant to.

When Ivy, Loki, Mobius, and Sylvie made it back to the TVA they were met with a very quiet control room. In front of them on the timeline screen they were left to watch dozens upon dozens of branches being erased from reality with no way of being able to reverse it.

Ivy felt like she was going to throw up, not entirely sure if from sadness or anger. Billions of people were being killed in real time, right in front of her, and there was nothing she or anyone could do. Her one job in all reality was to make sure innocents didn't die and here it was happening at such a large scale. As tears began to well up in her eyes, she felt Loki's arm snake around her shoulders. She in return hugged into his side.

"Those are people." B-15 spoke, her voice shaking. "Those are lives."

For a long moment no one spoke, they all just stared teary eyed at the monitor in front of them. What was there to even say in a moment like this?

"Uh, guys," Casey suddenly spoke up quietly. "I got a hit on Renslayer's TemPad." Everyone turned to look at the computer to see that Renslayer was in fact found.

As Ivy and Loki peered at the screen, they both noticed out of the corner of their eyes Sylvie standing off to the side. Sadness and anger were seen across her face. Her jaw clenched as she crossed her arms over her chest.

"Is this the best you lot can do?" Sylvie questioned Ivy and Loki as they walked towards her.

"There was nothing we could do." Loki spoke sternly.

"Some defense."

"What else could we have possibly done?" Ivy's voice came out shakier than she would have liked.

"The TVA is the problem." Sylvie proclaimed. "It's broken, it's rotten." She then swiped at the device on her wrist. "I'm going home... if it's still there."

"Please, Sylvie..." As Ivy began to speak the god was already walking through a time door and back to her time branch. Ivy and Loki both hung their heads low, a million different emotions and thoughts running through their heads.

"She'll come back..." Ivy spoke barely above a whisper, more so to try and convince herself. "She has to."

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a/n: hello everyone! sorry for the incredibly late upload, I know I'm an episode and a half behind :/

So, there's some good news and some bad news. Good news is that I have absolutely every intent to finish this book and will continue to write it until I can't write anymore! I love this show and these characters so much that I literally thing about them 24/7. Bad news is that I won't be able to upload chapters as frequently as I would like. I'm currently in the middle of my first semester of college and that takes up so much of my time and mental state. So, from the looks of it I will only be able to upload a chapter every other week or every two weeks unfortunately :/

I hope this isn't too much of a downer to you all cause believe me that I hate that it seems like it has to be this way. I would very much rather write this all day then do my classwork lol. On the bright side I'm taking this as an opportunity to be able to write these chapters to my best ability without having to worry about strict time limits!

Anyways, I appreciate you guys' patience with me and continuing to love these characters and story as much as I do :)