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#433 - Badge - Time is a Thief (Drabble) - Lightning_skies - BtVS/Teen Titans
Title: Time is a Thief (Drabble)
Fandom: BtVS/Teen Titans
Prompt: 433 - Badge
Words: 521
Warnings: Some dialogue from Teen Titans 2.01 - How Long is Forever
The portal quickly disappeared behind them as they drifted away down the wormhole through time and space at an indeterminate speed. X was not an astrophysicist, but he’d watched enough science fiction to keep his hands and feet inside the tunnel at all times for his own safety. He had no idea what contact with the misty, glowing walls of the tunnel would do to him. Images of himself aging instantly to dust or emerging as a helpless baby flashed through his mind.
On the other hand, if he allowed Warp to reach his planned destination, then he would be 100 years late for his own lifetime and completely at the villain’s mercy. With Warp’s arrogant determinist view on the influence of time-travel to the past, he’d probably claim that the reason X wasn’t remembered by history is because he had disappeared just like the Clock of Eternity rather than just because X had never been caught. If he had to choose between his own skills or Warp’s interference being the reason that he apparently hadn’t been included in history books, he’d bet on himself every time.
If Warp reached his future, he would probably deem the whole night a rousing success and refuse to return X to his proper time. Villains of the mad scientist subtype were like that. X would have to make sure that they were both in the same predicament. He had to make sure that either Warp didn't reach his destination or X had leverage before they arrived.
Luckily, X recovered from their sudden time tumble before the villain and spun around to grab Warp’s suit before the man could react. He grappled with the man’s arms and clung too tight for him to properly aim his gauntlet and helmet weapons or discharge his tasers. He gummed the man's arms behind him with an adhesive X.
With his arms blocked, Warp couldn't do much more than wriggle as X inspected the portal generator built into the chest plate inches from his face. If he had to be uncomfortably intimate with the man to keep Warp from frying him, at least people from the future believed in good hygiene.
Upon closer inspection it became clear that Warp's weapons and devices were all mounted on the armor instead of built into it. Warp's suit had apparently been designed as containment to shield the man from whatever radiation soup they were currently floating through. Unfortunately, X's was only lightly insulated with protections specifically geared towards xenothium poisoning. He really hoped his insides weren't liquifying, that would be an unpleasant way to go. He ignited the laser cutter in his glove and ran his finger over the weld seam on the portal generator, neatly separating it from the armor as they weightlessly tumbled end over end through time. It was a shame X wasn't able to fully appreciate his first experience with zero-G.
"Stop! If you damage the suit before we reach my future-" With a final flick of his wrist, the arc-reactor looking piece of Warp's time suit separated from the armor and came away in X's hand. "NOOOOooooooo….."
Fandom: BtVS/Teen Titans
Prompt: 433 - Badge
Words: 521
Warnings: Some dialogue from Teen Titans 2.01 - How Long is Forever
The portal quickly disappeared behind them as they drifted away down the wormhole through time and space at an indeterminate speed. X was not an astrophysicist, but he’d watched enough science fiction to keep his hands and feet inside the tunnel at all times for his own safety. He had no idea what contact with the misty, glowing walls of the tunnel would do to him. Images of himself aging instantly to dust or emerging as a helpless baby flashed through his mind.
On the other hand, if he allowed Warp to reach his planned destination, then he would be 100 years late for his own lifetime and completely at the villain’s mercy. With Warp’s arrogant determinist view on the influence of time-travel to the past, he’d probably claim that the reason X wasn’t remembered by history is because he had disappeared just like the Clock of Eternity rather than just because X had never been caught. If he had to choose between his own skills or Warp’s interference being the reason that he apparently hadn’t been included in history books, he’d bet on himself every time.
If Warp reached his future, he would probably deem the whole night a rousing success and refuse to return X to his proper time. Villains of the mad scientist subtype were like that. X would have to make sure that they were both in the same predicament. He had to make sure that either Warp didn't reach his destination or X had leverage before they arrived.
Luckily, X recovered from their sudden time tumble before the villain and spun around to grab Warp’s suit before the man could react. He grappled with the man’s arms and clung too tight for him to properly aim his gauntlet and helmet weapons or discharge his tasers. He gummed the man's arms behind him with an adhesive X.
With his arms blocked, Warp couldn't do much more than wriggle as X inspected the portal generator built into the chest plate inches from his face. If he had to be uncomfortably intimate with the man to keep Warp from frying him, at least people from the future believed in good hygiene.
Upon closer inspection it became clear that Warp's weapons and devices were all mounted on the armor instead of built into it. Warp's suit had apparently been designed as containment to shield the man from whatever radiation soup they were currently floating through. Unfortunately, X's was only lightly insulated with protections specifically geared towards xenothium poisoning. He really hoped his insides weren't liquifying, that would be an unpleasant way to go. He ignited the laser cutter in his glove and ran his finger over the weld seam on the portal generator, neatly separating it from the armor as they weightlessly tumbled end over end through time. It was a shame X wasn't able to fully appreciate his first experience with zero-G.
"Stop! If you damage the suit before we reach my future-" With a final flick of his wrist, the arc-reactor looking piece of Warp's time suit separated from the armor and came away in X's hand. "NOOOOooooooo….."