Mayhem in the Metropolis: An Ellie Adventure

Previously

…He hefted the contraption, which, despite its apparent complexity, seemed remarkably light in his hands. Ellie, still reeling from the sight of the bizarre machine, nodded, a reluctant thrill beginning to bubble beneath her apprehension. She had caused this mess. Now, it seemed, she was going to help fix it. And with Professor Quibble and his magnificent, if slightly insane, invention by her side, who knew what absurdities lay ahead in the perpetual twilight. The city was in chaos, and Ellie, the accidental architect of that chaos, was about to embark on an even more accidental quest to save it. The thought was both terrifying and, in a peculiar way, exhilarating.