Roux and the broken piece of time

an alternate universe where Roux found a weird small clock from his father. And fucking break it bc failure And then realize that he just didn't only break a clock, he broke a small piece of time and everything becomes a mess

Also yeah Spec gone missing bc failure was a failure and wanted her to go into a cut in time first and it disappeared

## Act 1

### *Welcome to Nowhere.*

Roux wakes up in some kind of void. When he opens his eyes, he sees clocks with different times on them ticking. Some are ticking backwards, some forwards, some are broken, some too fast or too slow, some look old and some look young, every time they're different. There are also alot of portals, opening and closing in some kind if unknown rhythm. There is ticking able to be heard. Roux stands up, looks around and starts "What happened..." He slowly remembers. He found a weird small golden clock on a table at his parents house. He knows it's from his father, but the weird thing is: it was ticking backwards. But then Roux accidentally dropped it. So he did the only thing his panicking brain told him to do: *steal the clock and fix it. Just hope your parents don't hurt you again.* At the beginning, everything was fine, until the next day. He was showing the clock to Spec when he noticed something weird. The clock is vibrating, it's just a bit but it's clearly vibrating. But he ignored it, maybe he is just hallucinating or something. Suddenly, a loud ticking was able to be heard, the clock starts vibrating strongly- and a kind of cut appears behind Spec. It's just there, in the middle of the air. Some kind of portal they were able to look trough. On the other side is some highly modern city. Roux was scared, so he and Spec agreed on Spec going in there first. As soon as she jumped in and waved at Roux to follow, the clock stopped vibrating and the portal closes as fast as it appeared. Roux panicked. He shaked the clock, ran around, just tried everything to get the cut back, but nothing happened. As soon as he gave up, the clock vibrates, loud ticking again, portal opens- Now he's here. Looking into the endless endlessness of endlessness. He doesn't notice that someone comes to him, until this person stands right next to him. It's a grunt with a dark hat, that appears to be some kind of glitching at a small part that is weirdly missing, his eyepatch over his left eye has a clock attached to it. It appears that the grunt has eyes like Roux, only that the visible eye is in a bright red color. The grunt himself looks a bit weird, a few parts of him are glitching like the hat, his clothes are a bit similar to roux, just the color is a bit more grey-ish. "Good morning sir! Welcome to nowhere! It appears that you are new here, or you would be just as broken of time traveling like i am. Come on, stand up, it appears that you've done a big, big mistake or you wouldn't be able to mess up time. Good job with that, by the way." The strange grunt smiles at Roux with a look that says: *wow you lil shit, you are truly a failure.* Roux just stands up and looks at the stranger in confusion while he just continues talking. " Welp, let me say it short: You broke the clock of time didn't you? Yep, you did. We now need to go trough hell a lot of times to get everything to repair it, you are aware of that, right?" "No, no i am not-" "As expected. People in the past, just so predictable... Just, you will help me repair this before everything ends because of your stupidity, okay?" "Okay- maybe" "Good, i would've forced you if you didn't agree." A portal appears, the strange grunt looks at it for some time and then says: "Wow, we're lucky, this looks like London from 1859, the time where big ben was finished and the bells rang the first time- maybe we find a time-cogwheel in there, we need it for the clock." He goes trough the portal, then comes back to ask Roux: "Are you coming or do you try to have endless time in a timeless place?" and then waits until Roux comes to him and the portal closes.

### *He's way ahead of us.*

Quietly, Roux and the strange grunt walk trough the streets of London from 1859. It's a awkward silence, so Roux is trying to start a conversation. "So uh, what's your name?" The grunt seems to think for a while. Roux doesn't understand why he needs so long, but then the grunt just responds with: "You can call me Stranger." "Stranger? Okay- Well, i am Roux-" "I know." "What?" Roux looks at Stranger in confusion. How does he know his name? "You might be confused now, and you will stay confused because i won't give you any answers." Alright then. They continued walking to Big ben, the giant clock shows that it's 11pm. "We must hurry. The time-cogwheel must be here somewhere... Give me the clock." Roux just does what Stranger says, who then starts using the clock as some kind of compass. First it doesn't vibrate at all, then it slowly starts, Stranger walks into different directions and walks there where he thinks the vibrating gets stronger. Roux watches it in confusion. Stranger sees Roux's confused look and says: "Wow, you truly are unexperienced. This clock is able to sense holes and anomalies in time. The stronger it vibrates, the closer we are." Roux just gets more confused. "Where do you know that from, this clock belongs to my father!" "This clock is build by the T.P.A., also known as the Time protection agenzy. Some fools who think time shouldn't be controlled or changed by anyone, how stupid. These bastards are always trying to lock me in the timeless void, but fail." "Huh. Why?" "Because i like to change time for my own benefits and like to see people suffer. Any more questions, i don't have time for an interview right now." Silence. Roux just watches him continuing to search the time-cogwheel. Stranger looks back with annoyance. "A bit of help would be nice too you know, stop standing there and watching me and fucking help me!" Roux nods and goes with Stranger when suddenly the clock stops vibrating. "FUCK!" "What happened?" Stranger is shaking the clock furiously while Roux is just getting more confused. "This bastard... He's way ahead of us!" "Who?" Suddenly, someone loads a gun behind them. "Me." They turn around and look into the face of Roux's dad who points a gun at them.

### A Bork

Reginald points at Stranger with a gun. "Roux, get away from Stranger and come to me. He's a really dangerous man. You cannot trust him for a second." Roux slowly goes away, but then Stranger starts to laugh. "HAHA, OH LOOK WHO'S TRYING TO PLAY THE HERO! Protecting your son, trying to cover up your lies... Wow, i really need to laugh. That's just- ABSOLUTELY PATHETIC!" Stranger starts laughing again, while Roux wonders himself how Stranger knows that Reginald is his father. Rouxs father shoots, but Stranger is surprisingly fast and dodges it easily. " Oh my oh my, you dare to shoot at me? Maybe i should kill you like i killed-" He suddently starts to notice something, and looks angry. "WHAT'S THAT BITCH DOING HERE?" Renigald and Roux look at the same place where Stranger looks, there is just a small, white weird dog-like being sitting. In the air. It's just floating there. Suddently, it opens it's mouth and says: "Börk" It floats towards Stranger with a high amount of speed, gets out a bat out of nowhere and bonks him once. "Börk bönk bäd güy" After saying this, it just dissapears. Stranger looks confused too, what gives Renigald enough time to shoot him into shoulder. "Thanks Börk. Now, Stranger-" "Nah, shut up, i won't help the shitty TPA. And what will you do, kill me? I know you never will be able to do it!" Renigald lowers the gun, he realises Stranger is right. He will never be able to kill his own son. Roux is just more confused. "What's going on? Stranger, why can't he hurt you?" Stranger just quickly runs to Renigald without answering to Roux, knocks out Renigald, yoinks the timepiece and smiles. "You'll find out one day."

Also never going to be finished lol

-Birb, the stupid lazy author