"FIVE!" Miko yells as a boss glitch knocks Five against a brick wall. She uses her gauntlet to summon her giant hammer.

"Ha ha ha ha. You plebeians think you can defeat Lord Transyl. It is time to meet your doom!" The glitch bellows before sending some ghouls towards Miko. She smashes them rushing forward closing in on the glitch.

"I am so over these vampire titles" Miko huffs punctuating each word by smashing another ghoul. She looks to her partner, but Five is knocked out from the hit. She ducks behind a wall as the vampire glitch sends another wave of ghouls. "Oh nerds!" Ok Miko think. Think, Think! Five's KO'd and this is going from bad to super worse. What do I do? What do I do? Call BITT. Yeah he can give me some advice. As Miko starts to call, BITT the ghouls blast through the wall. "Owww" Miko rubs her head as she picks herself up from the rubble.

"Hello tech tag Me-KO. This is BITT."

"BITT I need help. I'm being swarmed by a ghoul army. Fives ko'd and I can't get close to the boss glitch." Miko yells as she switches to multi directional targeting shooting ghouls as she runs over to Five.

"Sending the nearest available tech to your location" BITT says before switching off.

Miko reaches Five. He's still knocked out, but Miko pulls him behind a car. Ooooo his arm should not bend that way.

"Come out knave it's time to meet your doom!"

"Is that all you can say! Get some new lines you Castlestien knockoff! Oh nerds " Miko shouts immediately regretting it as Lord Transly sends more ghouls in her direction.

"Looks like you blueberries could use a hand" Mitch says as he jumps out of a portal.

"Ugh" Whhhhhyyyyyy. Miko groans as a familiar British voice calls out. She rolls her eyes at his theatrics.

Mitch uses a mini railgun to plow through the ghouls. It looks like he uses a speed boost by how fast he closes in on the glitch, but Miko doesn't see the usual blue speed trail. She stares in awe, hating how quickly and efficiently he's getting this done. Lord Transyl sounds like he's about to start another line of dialogue but he freezes and stares at Mitch. Mitch doesn't give him a chance to to continue as his gun switches to a rapier and he strikes the glitch so fast Miko almost misses it, before he's captured. "Boosh! And that's how you get it done, newbies."

Miko snaps out of her daze at hearing Mitch's voice. "Hey, that was our glitch! Why are you here?" She stomps over to Mitch.

"BITT told me you, blueberries were out of your league and needed saving." He says arrogantly. Miko can sense there's a hint of aggravation as he stares at her, but quickly adverts his gaze, closing his eyes for a second and taking a deep breath.

Oh what is he too good to look me in the eyes? Miko thinks to herself. She's about to yell at Mitch again when she hears a groan "oh nerds Five!" She runs over to her best friend as he wakes up.

"Did we get owwwww ay dios mio that hurts" Five shouts as he clutches his arm.

"Later noobs! Thanks for the glitch." Mitch calls out glancing once more at Miko before leaving them.

"Let's get you back to hq. I'm sure there's some high tech whatchamathing that will fix you right up" Miko says optimistically. Her optimism is quickly dashed as they got back to hq "SIX WEEKS!?" She yells as BITT talks about Five's broken arm and Phil says how he'll only be working in the store.

"It's okay Miko, six weeks will go by fast and we'll be kicking butt again in no time" Five says, trying to cheer her up as she had visibly deflated at the news. He's bummed about being benched and thinking of what he'll tell his abuela who will no doubt baby him because of his injury.

"And in the meantime Miko you'll be assigned a new partner." Phil says and pulls up the list. "Ahh you can partner with Mitch since Haneesh and Zahra are working on leveling up so they won't just continue being support." He says while updating the roster on his tablet.

Miko drops to the ground dramatically and yells out a loud nooooo before crawling on her knees to Phil. "I'll work with anyone else, nix, Bergy, Veckman. Maybe we could get Simi to transfer back from Dabney. Just anyone other than" Miko doesn't even get to finish as Mitch bursts in through the door.

Mitch walks straight to Phil ignoring both Miko and Five. "Phil have you gone mad? Why does it say I'm partners with Miko now. She's support class. Low level support class at that" He slams his hands down on Phil's desk.

Miko swears she heard the wood crack and lets out a surprised eeep. Mitch finally notices her and sneers at her as she's still on the ground.

"Yeah you don't get a say. Besides, this will be good for the both of you." Phil says as he moves to sit behind his desk. "It'll help Miko level up and you get better at dealing with techs other than Zahra and Haneesh. You learn a few things and everyone walks away happy," Phil directs his last sentence at the both of them.

"Hey I don't want to work with a major griefer like you anyways. Heck BITT would be a better partner." She says as Five uses his good arm to help her get up. Miko glares at Mitch.

He nearly growls at her before he averts his gaze back to their boss. He closes his eyes and takes a deep breath. That's the second time he's done that.

"Either you two work together or you'll be on storefront duty and only catching glitches in emergency situations. Clear?" Phil says not wanting to deal with the two of them anymore.

"Fine" "Crystal" Miko and Mitch say at the same time. Mitch leaves first and slams the door behind him causing Miko, Five and Phil to flinch.

Phil sighs. Miko and Five look at each other before exiting their bosses office. "I can't believe I have to work with that goblinoid. Five these next six weeks are gonna be terrible. I can feel it. Feel it in my bones."

"At least you still get to catch glitches. I won't be doing anything other than register duty." Five sighs and Miko feels really bad for letting her best get hurt.

"Sorry about that I should've gotten to you sooner." Miko says while staring at Fives cast covered arm.

"Meeks, it's okay. It was a tough glitch. And try to look on the bright side you might actually learn some tricks from Mitch. After all, he is the number one tech on the leaderboards." He says trying to cheer her up. "Plus we can always hang out and you can tell me how terrible he is."

Miko finally laughs as they head out of the store.

"Hey Five wait up!" The pair turn and see Zahra heading towards them.

"ZAHRA! Hi, I mean hey." Five says and Miko giggles behind him. She kept telling him to do something about his crush on her, but Five was too scared. Saying that Zahra was too cool for him.

"Heard you got hurt. Sucks big time, but it happens to every tech. It's kinda a rite of passage, so here." She says and hands Miko the bag since Five couldn't hold it. "Everyone put something in it, like a get well bag." Zahra smiles and nearly melts.

"Dude there's a Hinobi swatch in here. And the new Doom Crossing game and a sumo slammers, digi summoners, atom blast." Miko says while looking through the bag. She notices Five isn't paying her any attention as Zahra signs his cast and writes her number on it.

"Gimme a call if you get bored, wanna go on a raid, or need any advice once the cast drives you crazy. I broke my arm a while ago fighting a glitch from Block Brawlers. It wasn't fun." She says before Nix calls her name and she heads back to work.

Five stands there stunned and Miko laughs before dragging her friend outside. "Dude she gave you her number and you just stood there." She says but Five doesn't respond. "FIVE!"

"Huh? Did you say something Miko?" Five asks still with a goofy smile on his face.

"Let's get you home casanova. I'll call my mom and she can give you a ride." Miko says realizing it's probably not smart for Five to bike home. She's pulling her phone out as she sees Mitch exit the store. He looks over at her as if he felt her staring. Miko quickly turns back to focus on calling her mom as Mitch walks over to his car. She glances back at him as he gets in and drives out of the parking lot. She's snapped out of her staring as her mom answers the phone. "Hey mom can you come pick me and Five up?"