Loki stepped through, walking into a TVA hallway. Within a moment, Wanda was there with him.

"All minutemen to the armory." An overhead announcer spoke.

"Loki. What the hell is this? What is your plan here?" Wanda asked, very annoyed with this whole situation.

"I'm going to overthrow the Time Keepers, I already told you. What's your plan, why do you keep following me?" Loki questioned back, not turning to look at her.

"Why are you following her!?" Wanda asked, raising her voice.

She grabbed his shoulder and forced him to turn around and look at her.

Loki looked at her initially, but then his eyes went to the thing beside her. The locker.

"Do you still want a prune stick?" He asked.

"What?" Wanda asked, annoyed as to why he changed the subject.

"Do you?"

"I guess."

"Good."

Loki walked around her and Wanda turned, watching him open a locker that had his daggers and a few prune sticks. He tossed one to Wanda and took his daggers for himself.

Wanda caught it and sighed.

Loki brushed past her and began walking, expecting Wanda to follow him, which she did.

As they walked, they passed by a few unconscious guards. Wanda looked at them and saw a prune stick lying on the ground. There were probably more to begin with.

That showed that female variant knew how to fight.

Loki continued walking, pretty much ignoring the bodies, and Wanda soon caught up to him.

The two rounded a corner to see the blond Loki kick a guard into a wall. An elevator was at the end of the hall.

Loki twirled his daggers in his hands and Wanda kept the prune stick in her hand like a regular cane that one would fight with.

The woman saw them and rolled her eyes, drawing her own sword as Loki flipped his two daggers in his hands.

Wow Loki's really like dramatic openings Wanda thought.

"A few questions." Loki started, pointing his daggers at the woman.

"Have you really got nothing else better to do?" The woman remarked, walking towards the two.

Loki stepped closer as well while Wanda stayed put, not planning on walking into a fight with people with knives while she didn't have her magic.

"Rude." Loki replied.

The two switched spots as they circled themselves, and Wanda debated pruning the woman right then and there. She decided not to though since the woman seemed to be a good fighter, so the best way to win would be watching her fight Loki, learn her moves, then attack like that.

"Are you sure you're a Loki?" Loki asked, not taking his eyes off of the woman.

"You're in my way." The woman stated.

"You are my way." Loki replied.

His dagger was still pointed at her, so the variant used her own sword to push it away and swing at Loki, who reluctantly dodged and went to attack as well.

The woman threw Loki towards Wanda and Loki stumbled back, Wanda moving back as to not get hit.

"I thought perhaps we could work together." Loki said, regaining himself.

The woman replied by kicking Loki in the gut, sending him towards Wanda again. This time Wanda jumped out of the way and turned the prune stick on.

"But now I see, you lack vision." Loki finished.

The woman turned to Wanda and the two locked eyes for moment, both ignoring Loki's comment.

As if they were reading each other's thoughts, neither said a word, and neither attacked the other. The variant had her sword drawn, but Wanda turned the prune stick off. The woman smirked.

Loki just looked at the two, very confused.

The two broke eye contact and the woman turned towards the elevator that the guards were originally guarding.

Loki marched towards the woman.

"So, either you'll come willingly." He grabbed her shoulder.

The woman ducked down and moved out of the way, grabbing his arm and thrusting her sword at him. Loki leaned back and the woman lunged forward, allowing Loki to grab her arm and pin her so she couldn't move.

"Or you won't. Either way, that's how I get to the Time-Keepers." Loki finished.

The woman freed herself by pulling her arm away and grabbing Loki's, flipping herself over him and throwing him to the ground.

Wanda turned her head and saw three guards coming towards them, including Ravonna or Renslayer or whatever her name was.

"Oh great." Wanda murmured, moving closer to the Lokis fighting.

"Hey!" Ravonna said, reaching the entrance.

Loki and the variant were at each other's throat and Wanda was standing off to Loki's side, not joining the fight.

The guards all turned their prune sticks on, so Wanda did too, and the woman variant moved behind Loki and moved her sword to his neck.

"Come any closer and I'll kill him." She threatened.

"Go for it." Renslayer smirked.

Wanda threw her prune stick at the guards, catching them off guard. It didn't hurt any of them but it did slow them.

Loki grabbed out the Tempad from the variant's suit and pressed a button, causing the floor underneath them to open, which Wanda jumped in last second before it could close on her.

The Lokis landed on a mattress and Wanda landed on male Loki, causing him to grunt.

Thankfully during the fall he must've made his daggers disappear because Wanda didn't feel like she was impaled with one.

The three were in a small room in a small house. There were no windows, only a few lights along the ceiling.

Wanda was the first up and she rolled off of him. The woman variant was next and she turned her head towards Wanda, then climbed over Loki in order to grab something. Wanda didn't notice the Tempad next to her foot, and was worried that the woman was trying to kill her or something.

Thankfully Loki grabbed her and pulled her back, falling off the bed in the process.

"Get off my leg!" The woman shouted at him.

Loki tried to grab at the Tempad but the woman grabbed him and slammed him into a desk that was sitting next to the mattress.

Wanda moved out of the way and just then noticed the Tempad.

The woman variant leaned down to grab it and Wanda kicked her in the head, causing her to let out a grunt and move back some. Wanda quickly grabbed the Tempad and looked at what it said, but it was out of battery or something cause it didn't show anything.

The woman variant kicked Wanda in the legs, causing Wanda to fall back, and the woman caught her by the arm, taking the Tempad before letting her go to fall again.

"Bye variants." She stated.

"You're out of juice." The Tempad said.

"It's not working." The woman said.

"Wow no crap." Wanda muttered, sitting up with pain in her chest from hitting the ground like that.

Loki got up and the woman pulled out her sword again, swinging at Loki. Before she could, he disappeared into green magic.

The woman turned to Wanda but before either could say anything, Loki reappeared behind the woman and grabbed her, throwing her over his side.

Wanda got up and Loki grabbed the Tempad. He looked at Wanda, trying to figure out if she would attack him for it as well. She didn't so he turned his attention back to the female variant who had gotten up.

"Just give it back to me. You don't even know how to recharge it." She said.

"If course I do. You're not the only tech savvy Loki." Loki replied.

"Don't ever call me that." The woman stated.

The two began circling each other again and Wanda just sat back on the mattress, watching them.

"Tech savvy?" Loki asked.

"No. A Loki." She replied.

Loki gave a confused look and the woman went to grab the Tempad, which then disappeared into green magic.

"Do you're just fully a magician then?" The woman asked.

"Fine. For my next trick," He drew out his daggers once again. "I'll make you disappear."

The woman drew her own sword but before she could actually attack, a red blast shot down in between them.

Both turned to Wanda, who had the red magic, and Wanda gave an equally confused look.

"Did you do that?" Loki asked.

"Wasn't me." Wanda said at the same time.

"Where did you send us?" The other variant demanded.

Wanda stood up and the woman Loki went out the only door in the room, so the other two followed.

She put her sword back as she ran throughout the home, Loki retracting his daggers as well.

No one was in the home, which was quite confusing.

They eventually reached the front door and the woman twisted the doorknob, then kicked it open.

The world around them was pink. Pink rocks, pink houses, pink sky.

And a pink tornado was headed right for them.

"Tornado!" The woman variant pointed out since Loki and Wanda were still in the house.

Loki immediately ran out to see it and Wanda did the logical thing of forming a magic shield around them since it was too late to run out of the way thanks to how close the tornado was.

The woman variant looked around, her face growing angrily.

"You idiot!" She shouted at Loki. "This is the collision of Proserpina and Chryseis!"

"I don't know what that means!" Loki shouted back.

The storm passed over them, threatening to suck up the shield, but it didn't. It did wreck the house that the three were just in however.

"We're even now." Wanda said to Loki, allowing her shield to disappear once the tornado was far enough away.

"It means that that planet over there is breaking apart and crashing into this one!" The woman finished.

"What!?" Wanda shouted for Loki.

Another blast of fire came from the planet Chryseis and the three started running since this seemed like a deadly splash zone.

Most of the houses, if not destroyed, were damaged by the falling flames or the storm tearing through.

"Of all the apocalypses saved on the Tempad, this is the worst!" The woman shouted at Loki as they ran. "No one makes it off of here!"

"Watch out!" Wanda shouted.

She sent her own blast of magic to meet a flame headed straight at the three, sending it to explode in front of them.

The woman variant grabbed Loki, who was about to run straight into the explosion and turned him at an angle so they were still running just not into the fire.

"I'm sorry madam. Didn't have time to scan the brochure!" Loki replied.

More fire rained down and the three ran under what appeared to be a roof without walls. There was just enough room for the three of them, but it wouldn't last.

"By the way, I thought you wanted me dead." Loki said.

"I don't know where you hid that Tempad, but if you blow up, it blows up, and then I end up blown up." The woman stated. "And the red witch girl seems to be able to fight off the storm somehow. So might as well keep her around too!"

"My name is Wanda, not red witch girl." Wanda said.

The woman variant got out for a moment.

"There!" She called, pointing out a storm shelter standing a fair distance away from them.

"So we're a team now?" Loki asked as he got up to run towards the shelter.

"Oh God no!" The woman replied.

Wanda got out and ran towards the shelter as well, keeping her eyes up to make sure no flames were falling towards them again.

"Get down!" Loki shouted.

He grabbed the blonde and pulled her out of the way of a flame that landed next to her, then he continued running.

"Didn't need your help!" The woman shouted, now running behind him.

"You're so weird!" Loki shouted back.

"Can y'all stop arguing for two seconds!?" Wanda shouted, running a few feet behind the blonde.

Loki reached the storm shelter and went to open it, but it was locked. He shot a blast of green magic at the lock and the door swung open.

The blonde, then Wanda ran in before Loki did, slamming the door behind him.

Inside the room finally wasn't pink, it was pitch black, and once again there were no windows. Maybe this planet didn't have glass.

"Where's the light?" Loki asked.

Wanda held up her hand and a glow of red filled the room. The blonde noticed a small light at the ceiling and she clicked it on, filling the room with a dull yellow light.

Wanda put her hand down. She was used to running during training hours with Steve, so she wasn't super winded, but she'd never run for her life like that before.

Loki on the other hand was panting much more than both the women. Guess he'd never done that before.

The blonde seemed completely fine however, still standing and probably ready to run out there again.

She stepped towards Loki and Wanda sat down, her legs weary.

The woman put her hands on Loki's neck, who was taking deep breaths to get his breathing back in check. Her hands glowed green and the two stood inches apart from each other.

"What are you doing?" Loki asked after a moment.

"What are you doing?" The blonde asked back.

"You trying to enchant me?" Loki confronted.

The blonde didn't reply, still holding her hands on Loki.

"It won't work."

"Why? Because you're a magician?" She moved her hands off of Loki with a scoff.

"No because my mind is too strong." Loki replied defensively.

"Fine!"

The woman drew her sword again and Loki drew his daggers. Both got into a fighting stance.

Wanda rolled her eyes.

"Look, are we really about to do this here? Again?" Loki sighed.

"What do you propose instead?" The blonde stood up straight.

"I don't know. A truce?"

Loki made his daggers disappear again while the blonde scoffed.

"Listen, none of us are getting off this rock if we can't turn that Tempad on."

"Where do you have it hidden!?" The blond pointed her sword at him angrily.

"In my heart." Loki replied sarcastically.

"Well then I'll cut it out!"

"Nice. Very droll. Lovely." Loki replied. "Okay, yes, I do have the Tempad, but I'm not going to get very far if you keep trying to kill me every thirty seconds!"

"Well you're full of it because you need me to get that thing recharged! That's the only reason you saved me out there."

Suddenly, both variants were picked up and held still in the air by red magic.

"Okay, this has been fun but can the both of you please shut up? The only way out of this is if you two get along at least long enough for us to get the Tempad fixed."

"She started-"

"No! I tried being patient with y'all but you two are really getting on my last nerve. You both need each other for something, so can you please stop!?" Wanda asked, her tone like an annoyed mother.

Both Lokis looked at her with glares, but she was kind of holding them captive so there wasn't much that they could do.

"Blonde woman who's name I haven't gotten, what is your problem with Loki and I?" Wanda asked, still holding them in the air.

"The plan you two interrupted was years in the making. Years!" She stated angrily.

"Okay, got it." Loki replied.

Wanda glared at him and he said no more.

"And as soon as I turn that Tempad back on, I'm going straight back to the TVA to finish what I started."

"Good." Wanda nodded.

"I'll kill him then."

"Or I'll kill you."

"Hey!" Wanda stopped them.

The blonde scoffed at Loki's reply.

Wanda lowered them and the blond put her sword back before going towards the exit.

"Where are you going?" Wanda asked.

"There's a power source somewhere on this planet. We just need enough to travel through inter-dimensional time and space."

Suddenly, a flame hit the shelter, causing the whole thing to shudder.

"Jeez." The woman remarked, leaving.

Loki looked at Wanda and Wanda sighed.

Then the two left the shelter, out into the storm again.

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My favorite quote of this chapter: "Why? Because you're a magician?"