In this chapter: Discussing how best to rescue your sister is not without it’s challenges. Namely trying to do it before the president is assassinated.
"Oh, god, kill me now." You moan and hang your head in your hands. With Diego and Herb popping in like this, this isn't exactly how you had hoped to lead Ray into this family. And apparently neither did Allison, as she nearly imitated your actions.
"Ray, this is my...other brother...Diego." She exasperatedly explains. Diego casually strolls up to Ray and shakes his hand. "Hey, man. Sorry for crashing in like this."
"Oh, wow." Herb exclaims. "Numbers One through Five! We have an Umbrella full house!"
"Uhh...Diego, wanna introduce your...friend?" Allison asks and Diego points over to Herb. "This is Herb. He worked with Five at the Commission."
"I thought you were a case manager?" Five questions and Herb ducks his head shyly. "Oh, I was promoted a few days after The Handlers little...accident. I'm a supervisor now!"
"Huh." Five nods in appreciation. "Congrats. But, why are you here, if that's the case?"
"Oh, well. Ever since the Boards assassination, The Handlers taken over. It's turned into heck in a handbasket over there!"
"Yeah, yeah, yeah, y'all can talk about that later.” Diego interrupts. ”We need to focus on right now. I know what causes the Apocalypse. It's Vanya."
"Well, Duhhh," You groan. "of course it's Vanya. Remember the glorious warning I gave you, "Keep Vanya away from the FBI?" This is why."
"Their right." Diego nods. "She blows up the Federal Building at Dealey plaza just as the president is passing through in less than an hour."
"The president doesn't die, but instead thinks it's an attack by the soviets." You add. "He strikes back, they strike back..."
"Next thing you know it's raining nukes...and you all already know this, don't you?"
You point to yourself and Klaus, scoffing a little. "Please. Me and Klaus did, sure, but the others wouldn't listen. Like usual."
"Yeah, well, We're changing that. What matters is getting to Vanya before she loses control." Five insists and you look over to see Allison leading Ray away from everything and talking with him quietly.
"Oh...kay... while Allison calms Ray from his mental breakdown, we need to talk about how we're gonna go about doing this." You start. "Because this is going off script in a way I didn't think was possible. We have two players I didn't think would be in this, Five and Luther. So things might go differently than I remember. And we need to take that into account."
"Okay." Five nods. "Fair enough. What was originally supposed to happen?"
"Hey, not to be a Debbie downer or anything...but uh, what are gonna do with...that?" Klaus points to Herb who had been listening intently. He perks up a little once he sees six pairs of eyes on him. "Oh! Uh, I can...Have that cleaned up while you talk." He laughs nervously. "We also provide body cleaning services."
Once Allison finishes up with Ray, you all rush out and get to the FBI building. It's calm and quiet on the outside but you know there's utter chaos and destruction inside the building.
"Okay," You start. You look around at everyone. Luther, Diego, Allison, Klaus, Five, and Ben are all with you at the FBI building. For once everyone is listening intently, hanging on your every word. "So, here's the problem. Vanya is currently hooked up to an Electroshock machine, set to...max voltage."
"Well, how high is that?" Diego asks and you can only shrug. "They never said, my guess would have to be somewhere between 3 and 5,000 volts, with the current cranked up to max. Enough to kill anyone, but Vanya being who she is...well, she’s currently trapped in her mind, trying to figure out her memories.”
Everyone gives you a blank stare. “Is that seriously happening, or are you just fucking with us?” Diego demands and you scoff irritably. “Do I look like the kind of person who’d lie about this?”
“Alright, enough arguing.” Allison throws out her “mom voice” and places her hand on her hips. “We need to figure out how to get to her.” You look up towards the top of the building and you can see faint pulses of energy come out of it. Looking down at your hands you can feel the energy of your shield surrounding you. In the background the voices of everyone arguing about how to reach their sister barely reach your ears and you sigh and close your eyes.
Klaus isn’t going to like this.
“I have an idea.” you announce and everyone shuts up and looks at you. With a sigh you flick your hands and the shield was previously surrounding you forms a bubble surrounding the 6 siblings. “I take point, and hopefully the shield protects us enough to reach her.”
Immediately Luther shakes his head. “No, we can’t do that, we aren’t throwing you in the middle of a suicide run!”
“What good is this shield if I can’t use it to protect the people I care for? We don’t have another idea as good as this!”
“Yeah, and besides,” Klaus interjects and throws an arm around their shoulders. “They’ve been practicing for the last 3 and a half years. You’d think they’d have learned some new tricks by now.” From the corner of your eye you can see Five shaking his head. “Something you’d like to add, Five?”
“Is thinking a concept you aren’t familiar with?” Five demands and you blink at him. “Is that meant to be rhetorical or do you actually want an answer to that?”
“Fives right.” Diego throws out. “You aren’t thinking about this rationally. The last time you took point in something like this you nearly died.”
“I think you’re both overreacting just a tad.” You laugh but nobody is joining you. They’re all looking down or away from you. “Guys. It couldn’t have been THAT bad, right?”
“Lieb, they’re not wrong.” You turn your head and look at Klaus. The grip on your shoulders goes tight and you feel his hands begin to shake. “You were...up so high.”
“We were afraid that fall would actually kill you.” Allison quietly adds. “Vanya didn’t mean it, but she had you higher than everyone else and you...you looked like a skeleton. I looked up at you, and I...I was genuinely afraid you were dead.” Around you everyone was nodding quietly and you reach over and grab the hand wrapped around your shoulders,
“I get that you all are scared for me. And I’m sorry, that you are all terrified that something like that could happen again. But we don’t have the luxury of thinking about this carefully. In less than-” You snap your fingers at Diego and he throws “30 minutes” out. “In less than 30 minutes Kennedy is going to be travelling through here. If we don’t get to Vanya before then, that’s it. Game over. Now. I’ll admit, as far as plans go, it’s a crapshoot. But.” At this you look around at everyone and smile gently, placing a small kiss on Klaus’ knuckles “I trust you all to have my back on this.”
Nobody says a word, and with a tight smile you gently and calmly place Klaus’ hand back by his side. “I don’t know about the rest of you, but I’m going to be going in. You can stay here, and think about what to do as Kennedy rides through, or you can come and join me. Your choice.”
With that you walk into the FBI building, Shield thrown up around you. “If given the option though,” You toss behind you, “I’d rather have my family at my side. Just saying.”
The inside of the building is quiet, and not in the ‘nobodies home’ kind of quiet. This is the kind of quiet you hear in graveyards, where the only other occupants are the dead. Which makes sense, seeing as how everyone you pass is nothing but a withered husk on the ceiling. You look up, spotting a receptionist T-posing on the ceiling and you gulp nervously. Her face is sunken, mouth open in a gruesome shriek and you can’t even see her eyes. It’s...horrifying. You shake your head and continue forward. ‘Don’t think about it, don’t think about it.’
Reaching the elevator and pressing the button, you wait for the doors to open. Once they creak open, you step into the box, hitting the top floor button. You can only hope that the rest of the siblings made the right choice.
“Hey, wait!” You see a hand hold open the doors and Klaus and Ben walk in followed by Five, Allison, Diego and Luther.
“For the record:” Five begins, “I still think this is a terrible idea. But you’re right. It’s the only one we’ve got. So let’s do this before I change my mind and start thinking the paradox psychosis is a good idea.”
Klaus kisses your temple and you smile with the action. “We aren’t gonna let you go through this alone, schatz.” Klaus murmurs.
“You’re family.” Ben adds and Diego practically mimics his words “You’re our sibling, you dork. You think we’re gonna let you go through this alone? United front. We’re team Zero.”
You look behind you at Allison and Luther, holding hands and looking nervously at you. “I’m your sister,” Allison simply states. “I’m not gonna let you deal with this on your own.”
“This is a blatant suicide run, but hell, I’ll run the gauntlet with you. You’re a better Number one than I could ever hope to be.” Luther smiles at you and you laugh softly. “Maybe in another timeline.” You murmur and the doors close, The Hargreeves family together again.
Maybe with luck, You’ll come out of this together as well.
Her body glitched for a moment revealing in her place the red-clad figure but the hair is out of the way to reveal the face of a man that both Y/N, Abe and Dark knew very well.... Mark..... After a while of silent his glitched and Glace is back where she was still holding the cane.
“Oh my god…” Abe said, immediately struggling to get free. “Oh my god.”Dark, to his credit, barely reacted; but the slight widening of his eyes revealed that he, too, was shocked. Then he stepped forward.“Glace, give me the cane.”@ynkilled
How does Mr. Cat just casually call out all his students’ biggest insecurities by name like it’s nothing. “Ahiru, not to pry, but lately it seems like you are paralyzed into inaction because you believe that you cannot effect meaningful change without creating a disaster. Or something like that?”
Ahiru I love you but you sure are taking your sweet time to realize that there is nothing inherently more powerful about your Princess Tutu form. All her powers are already your own, the transformation just gives you confidence and cute dress.
Ahiru thinks that she’s useless because she doesn’t see any effects from her actions!! And even others like Autor think that she doesn’t do anything and give the credit to Fakir’s willpower!!! But only the people she loves can feel the power that she can’t see herself!!!!! Ahiru effects change in that she allows others to effect change!!!!!! She is the ultimate party healer!!!!!!!!!!!!
drosselmeyer: children who love stories, gather round, I will tell you a tale in which my own great-great-great-grandson, who I will never meet and have no reason to dislike, suffers horribly
