"It's a time loop? We're trapped in a time loop?"
"Like you don't know, Green Ranger."
"It's starting to make sense. I didn't cause this, but I know what to do..."
"What? What can we do?"
"You can surrender. You always fight, and it always happens, so you give in when we come and it should end. And it'll be win win, you escape or it resets."
Invisus snapped Bridge's neck.
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They entered the warehouse cautiously, Bridge rubbed his stiff neck and turned to face the three aliens. They were all visible.
Bridge decided to start the conversation, "Stop right there."
"On what charges," Lonicera replied.
Sky took over, "Possession of illegal weapons, threats, armed robbery, manslaughter, murder and dangerous driving."
"Ok." The three dropped their weapons and put their hands up.
Bridge could feel his teammates surprise.
Z cuffed Lonicera, Syd cuffed Pugnator and Sky cuffed Invisus while Jack called for transport and Bridge looked into a few of the crates.
He could feel Invisus' stare the whole time, from the minute they walked in, and apparently Sky had noticed it too.
"Eyes in front, Invisus."
"What, is looking at a ranger illegal?"
"You haven't taken your eyes off of him since we arrived. More to the point, I don't want you walking into the door because you're looking at him. Ok?"
Invisus tore his gaze from Bridge and let himself be led away.
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"I'm worried sir," Jack started, "criminals don't usually just give up. And Invisus was staring at Bridge the whole time, they could be trying something."
"I agree," Commander Cruger responded, "that was one of the reasons I posted cadet Tate in their cell block. We are considering moving them..."
Bridge had to speak up, they had to stay in NewTech, he needed to thank them, if this worked, that is.
"They had a reason, a good one, it's had to explain."
All eyes were on him as Commander Cruger replied, "Go on."
"Well, umm, over the past few day's I'd noticed something was wrong, but what I noticed was something they'd noticed for several weeks. Although I think I knew and forgot, but I forgot so I don't know."
"And what was wrong?"
"I was about to get to that Z, the issue was that we were living the same day over and over again. Someone had looped us. It was weird. I think whoever did it was on our side because they won every time. We died! A lot! So every time we lost we just woke up at the start of the same day again, and again, and again, and ag..."
"We get it, but why would they surrender?"
"Well, Jack, the day before yesterday I was stabbed through the heart," he ignored their shocked reactions and continued, "and we're talking yesterdays in loops of today, anyway, yesterday I woke with a residual injury, a large cut. Kat decided I couldn't be on duty so I helped from here. Invisus attacked at the Command Centre and I told him I thought if us loosing looped us, us winning must end the loop. I guess they thought prison was better than looping."
Sydney smirked, "Makes sense, in a Bridge way."
Kat was still confused, "Stabbed? Residual injury?"
"Oh," he responded, "Yeah, that hurt, the injury thing was annoying. Every day I woke with a smaller scale version of an injury I'd had before, most often the one that killed me. Broken ribs became bruised ones; blaster to the face, small burn on the forehead; broken neck, sore neck."
"Broken neck!?" Sydney yelled, "Last loop, one of them snapped your neck?"
Jack turned to Syd, "How do you know it was last time? It could've been five ago."
"He's been rubbing it like it hurts," Z answered, "you are so blind."
Kat started messing around with the computers, "Bridge, the story you just told sound ludicrous, but there is residual temporal energy all around us. If I do this right, I might be able to... yes... I have all the security tapes that were looped over."
Bridge smiled and looked at the clock. 10:37 Monday 17th. "I'll pass on watching them, I've seen enough deaths, I'm going to wait for midnight down in the cells. Maybe find out more from their views. It's only an hour and a half."
They watched him leave before turning to the tapes.
It'd been a long Monday.
It's not over yet.
