"Right away tech! Now searching for participating staff in your area." Bitt says while typing.
"Oh great! Is Haneesh near us? Zahra? Bergy? Anyone will do. You know anyone but-"
Bitt interrupts Miko "Mitch Williams is on the way!"
Miko groans before letting her head hit the dashboard "Ugh, that's gonna make a bad day worse." She says before tracking Five. I can't believe we haven't talked again since the kiss. Did he really mean it when he said there would be an us? He hasn't talked or pinged me since. Ugh well I guess I haven't reached out either, but I've been busy. And he's a higher level tech so I guess he's busy too. Ugh I hate this. Boys are stupid, this whole mitchuation is stupid. And I can't believe I just thought that. Stupid brain! Miko thinks to herself as she drives towards Five's position on the ping glitch.
Miko makes it to Five and manages to capture the glitch in there Hinobi van. Jumping off the roof of the van Miko lands in front of Five. "This day cannot get any-"
"Don't finish that sentence." Miko says to Five as he spits out grass as Mitch pulls up.
"Well, look which newbie techs have gotten in over their heads again." Mitch says, but winks at Miko when Five turns his head.
"What is he doing here?" Five's annoyance at the bad luck he's having today continues to build.
"And you let it hack your ride? Oh no wonder you had to beg for help." Mitch smirks at Miko ignoring Five's question.
"I did not beg. It was a very dignified rant." Miko walks up to him and puts her hands on her hips before flipping her hair.
"Well, let's see what it is you scrubbies can't handle this time." Mitch pushes past the pair and lets his hand brush against Mikos hair.
"Don't open that." Miko says reaching to try and stop Mitch as he overrides the lock on their van.
"It's the pixel from Ping!" Five shouts.
Mitch scoffs and keeps walking to the van. "That boring old game where you knock that little dot around?" Mitch unlocks the door and the pixel shoots out knocking him to the ground.
"Not as boring as you remember." Miko copies his smirk as Mitch picks himself off the ground and frowns at her.
They all arm themselves with a speed boost power up before deploying their shields to keep the pixel in play. Miko gets annoyed as Mitch and Five start arguing before Five seems to figure something out and tells them to keep it in play.
"What?" Miko and Mitch say at the same time as Five leaves them to deal with the glitch.
"Wait, wait, wait. Where are you going?" Mitch grunts as the pixel hits his shield pushing him back a bit. "Where is he going… with my van?" Mitch and Miko keep blocking the pixel, but it soon becomes tiring as they wait.
Miko groans as she blocks another hit from the pixel and the silence is also starting to irritate her. I almost wish he was running his mouth again. This is soo annoying and awkward. She thinks to herself as she exhales after another hit. Here goes nothing, "so uh I know we haven't really talked much since you know." Miko says deciding now is as good a time as any to talk with Mitch since their second kiss.
"Well we haven't had much time together. I was actually thinking of how I could get you alone." Mitch admits with a grunt as the pixel knocks him back. "I didn't exactly want to just text you asking you out on a date. I have more class than that".
"You wanna take me out on a date. Like a real one, a date date. Where two people" Miko gets interrupted.
"Yes, Miko. A date. Would you like to go out with me? You know once we're done here. Because this is my nightmare. Trapped in the infinite loop of a bad retro arcade game." Mitch asks, noting how nervous he is.
"Did you say infinite loop?" Mko opens a portal and rolls out of the way as the pixel heads towards her.
Mitch catches on and does the same. Letting out a sigh of relief Mitch catches his breath as he sees Miko laying on the ground. "That shut the blippy thing up. Phew."
Miko smiles at him and is about to answer when the pixel rapidly picks up speed "why do I get the feeling that more silent means more deadly?"
"Somethings wrong. The portals aren't able to sustain-" the explosion throws Mitch and Miko back as the ping shots off destroying everything in its path.
"It is hard to find dependable portals nowadays," Miko says, dazed from the blast. She sits up with leaves and sticks pieces in her hair.
"Oh, boosh!" Mitch looks horrified at the path of destruction left behind, before he focuses on Miko and kneels down next to her. "You okay?" He asks, caringly brushing her hair back and pulling sticks from her hair.
Miko coughs, clearing her throat as she looks up at him, "yeah nothing too majorly damaged." she says and blushes as Mitch continues to remove debris from her hair.
"That's good I'd hate for something to happen to you especially before our date." Mitch chuckles as he blush deepens.
"Ahhh yeah well it takes more than a glitch to defeat Me-K.O. But we should probably go after that pixel. Maybe the trees will keep the pixel in play for us." Miko says hopefully before the pair use their headsets to find the pixel. "Or maybe it'll bash its way toward the nearest major power plant."
"Okay yeah we can deal with this." Mitch says immediately switching back to his professional mode "at least the trees are slowing its momentum. We'll have to cut it off." He offers her his hand as he stands.
Taking his hand Miko stares at Mitch as she stands, he's kinda cool when he's serious. "My boost don't go that fast."
"I'll let you in on a little secret princess," Mitch says and squeezes her hand as she hasn't let his go yet. " You wanna increase performance? Overclock your tech."
"That's a thing?" Miko grabs his gauntlet looking at the setting and he smirks at how close she is.
"Not a thing that the company tells you about. Mostly 'cause it can seriously damage their hardware. Hence the secret sugar plum." He demonstrates the speed boost by appearing at both her sides.
Miko squeals and bounces in place "I wanna be wind." She excitedly starts shuffling through her gauntlet settings.
She's adorable when she's excited. Mitch quickly presses a kiss to her forehead, grabbing her hand to stop her and chuckles as she blushes again. "Wait. Once we overclock we've got 30 seconds max before our gauntlets overheat. Got it?"
"I was born 'got it'." Miko says as the two of them take off after the pixel. The pixel speeds through the forest with the pair chasing after it. Miko launches off of a log and descends from the air next to the pixel, "I'm flying." Miko laughs looking at Mitch before she runs into a tree.
Mitch holds back his laughter as he continues after the glitch "Oi! Meet next gen, you retro!" He yells getting in front of the pixel and equipping a max defense shield. The pixel plows right through him knocking him into the water below the cliff. Gasping for air as he comes back up Mitch sees Miko zip by "Miko, your gauntlet!"
She continues after the glitch, almost reaching it when her gauntlet overheats, but Five shows up and unicorn blasts it, saving the day.
"Oh, man, those graphics are terrible." Mitch says making his way to the clearing where Miko is smiling at her best friend.
"Come on Meeks, we gotta get this back to Geri!" Five yells still sitting on top of the unicorn.
"Coming!" Miko says before turning to face Mitch and she smiles before pointing at her gauntlet and then running towards Five. They return the Glitch and hang out for a bit before parting ways. When Miko gets home she immediately passes her family so she can message Mitch since her gauntlet is working again. 'Sooo I realized that with everything earlier I never answered you and yes I wanna go on a date with you. I also think it's hilarious how you hate retro games, but thanks to ping we finally could talk' She types and stares at the message for a couple minutes before hitting send. Miko nearly falls off her chair when Mitch responds right after.
'I refuse to agree with that. I would've caught you at the register or before you left it was purely a coincidence. How about next thursday we both have that day off. We could go over to Dabney.'
'Sure', she responds with about ten emojis afterwards. 'Why Dabney though?'
'I didn't think we'd want to be interrupted by a possible glitch or anyone we work with spotting us.'
'Now who's the one keeping secrets.' Miko smirks as she sees the typing bubble appear.
'I just prefer to keep my relationships and work separate. We'll talk more later ya? My sister is calling me and if I don't answer she'll just invite herself over.
'No prob I understand how siblings are. Me-OK out.' I can't believe it! I have a date! With Mitch oh no I have a date. What do I do? Nerds I forgot to ask Mitch about his sister, but he said siblings last time. Maybe he'll tell me on our date. Ahhh I'm going on my first date. What should I wear? I I oh duh I have a sister, "NIKA!" Miko screams and hopes her sister will be able to help.