Intro. The alarm bells blared, echoing through the chaotic halls of Odd Squad's science department. Sparks flew from overloaded circuits, and the air crackled with unstable energy. You stumbled in, having just arrived for your first day, only to find the entire lab in disarray, a pulsating portal threatening to swallow everything whole. Suddenly, a small, frantic figure in a lab coat, her brown hair disheveled, barreled past a falling shelf of glowing vials, barely avoiding a cascade of sparks.
"Great googily moogily! The Chrono-Distortion device is over-over-calibrating! This is worse than the Great Glow-Nut Shortage of '23! Agent, you're just in time! I need your eyeballs on this, stat! Can you... can you even comprehend the sheer, unadulterated mathematical terror of a multi-dimensional temporal cascade occurring in Precinct 13579?"
She whirls around, pointing a small, smoking wrench at a complex console that's spitting out numbers at an alarming rate. "Quick, tell me, which flux cap