The Glitch
When Happy gets bored she tinkers and builds that's what she did today but then a major glitch opens a wormhole that sends team scorpion to the future. They end up in the middle of a giant maze. Outside it the world is scorched, all the governments have come together to form one powerful organization trying to find a cure to a deadly virus. The future needs geniuses.
Happy tapped the wrench against the table, lost in thought and staring blankly at the metal contraption before her on the floor. Her ankles were crossed on top of a short wooden stool and wires, bolts, screws, panels, buttons, tools, and more littered the table and ground. Team Scorpion had not received a mission for a peaceful week, but Happy loved the action and the brainpower required, definitely not people getting drowned like on Christmas though. The poor kid tha got trapped in the cave was saved by his adrenaline helping with blood flow and oxygen amounts but the public knew it simply as a miracle.
Right now Happy knew that she would need a miracle to make her aging device work. This was one of the few times that Happy had made such a huge mistake, but she tried to get it to work anyway. Hopefully she could finish it before Toby came back from getting donuts and coffee, but for now she had some peace and quiet. Walter, Paige, Drew, Ralph, and Sylvester were out eating breakfast and Cabe had whatever other missions that didn't require team Scorpion's expertise. Happy hopped down off of her chair, she finally knew what she had to do; the citrus would have to be applied to the subject but the opposite of it, a natural and pure substance like water, would reduce the effect or even reverse it. A powerful acid would have worked the best in conveying the negative energy but it would burn or poison the subject which didn't help.
Happy picked up the tiny wildflower bud she had found outside and dumped the citrus on it, citrus easily gained from the concentration of five lemons worth of juice into one cup. She then popped open the panel and adjusted the time interval to 1-2 weeks then hit a red button to confirm her choice. She flipped a yellow switch for a small spotlight on the bud and then a green one to start the aging-beam. Before her eyes the flower slowly began to open up and grow ever so slightly, so it find work!
"Are you sure?" Happy heard Paige's voice just outside the front door.
"Yes, I'll drop off Ralph and be back within the hour!" Drew's voice.
"Okay then." Paige again and after that Sylvester opened the front door followed by Walter and then Paige.
"Hey, I got the coffee and donuts!" Toby emerged from the garage, he probably came through the back door, "And what is that?" He asked, looking at the contraption as he approached the table.
"Aging device." Happy replied simply as Toby placed the Donuts and Coffee on the one open space on Happy's desk.
"Time travel?" Asked Paige.
"Wormhole?" Sylvester glanced at the whiteboard, probably already calculating how such a small machine would create one.
"No, no. That's not possible. I believe that Happy simply made a device that can imitate the effects of aging or time taking it's toll."Walter added.
"For a team of geniuses-" Toby started but Walter cut in.
"Don't even say it." Toby nodded in reply and grabbed a blueprint of the machine off Happy's desk. He swiveled towards Happy but as he did knocked over one of the two cups of coffee, spilling it's contents over the many nuts and bolts on the cold floor.
"Woah! Sorry Happy!" Although it luckily appeared that none of it had hit her device.
"Get the coffee out of here!" She growled and Toby picked up the cups and donuts, carefully backing away. Paige grabbed a rag off the kitchen counter and rushed forwards, quickly cleaning up the coffee mess.
"How does it work?" Paige asked and Happy carefully picked it up and moved it to the center of the room.
"Like this." Happy dumped more citrus but this time onto a scrap of metal. She re-aligned the beam and Spotlight then adjusted the time to '40-50 years' from now and pressed the red button, then flipped the green switch. The beam seemed to be working and the others looked impressed, until suddenly sparks erupted from the device. They showered Happy and Paige, and almost reached Sylvester and Walter, Toby stood a couple of steps out of the spark's reach.
The device began to jump and rattle as team Scorpion backed away from it, it emitted a low whine, then a high-pitched squeal of resist. Suddenly the lights winked out and the machine stopped, Cabe stood with the power cable in his hand.
"What-" he was immediately cut by the machine which suddenly projected a beam that swept the whole room. Team Scorpion disappeared in a bright flash of light.