⏳CLOCKWORK⌛️ - timekeeper/croissant x reader

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Your vision is blurry. You think you hear someone calling out to you, but can't quite make it out... You open your eyes, trying to look up at whatever Cookie is standing over you. You have double vision, you can hardly tell who it is.

"[Y/N]! [Y/N], are you okay?! Grab my hand, come on!" It's Croissant Cookie, looking rather panicked and reaching her hand out to you. You're still for a few seconds before grabbing her gloved hand with your own and pulling yourself up with her help, and now taking the opportunity to look around.

The environment is nothing like anything you'd seen before, and it was quite surreal... Dizzying. Just looking at everything around you made your head throb with pain and your vision blur. A deep amber haze covered the entire place—or was it covering your eyes? In the distance, you could barely make out giant gold and bronze gears, each one spinning in unison due to them all being connected. It was like... clockwork.

That's it! Clockwork! It's coming back now, you remembered where you were, what had happened before you fell unconscious—you and Croissant Cookie had ventured into a time rift as a part of an important mission to repair an anomaly in one of the many timelines. On your way there, however, the Timecraft had malfunctoned and crashed, leading to your unconsciousness and the disrepair of the machine, leaving you with seemingly no way out of the time rift. Suddenly, you remembered something important you had been forgetting—your goggles! You slid them down over your eyes, and suddenly everything was so much clearer; the rusty haze of the rift was much easier to see through and the seemingly endless mess of gears in the distance clearly defined.

You looked over towards Croissant to see her standing in front of her broken Timecraft, panicked beyond belief as she and you both knew it was only a matter of time until you started to slowly go insane, stuck in the time rift. "Oh, god.." she muttered, digging around inside the machine to try and find what the biggest problem was. "What are we gonna do, we can't just stay here, I... Do you think they'll send someone if they notice how long we've been gone? I can't even send a distress signal, we're way too deep in the rift..."

You felt even less prepared than she was in such a perilous situation, your ears still ringing and still slightly off-balance from spending so much time without your goggles on. You ran over to stand next to her, looking down at the Timecraft and, despite being an engineer yourself, hardly understanding any of the inner workings. You stared for a while before eventually inhaling to speak, though never got to say it, cut off immediately by a new, yet strangely familiar voice behind you.

"You've got yourself in quite a situation, haven't you?"