Yes, guys, that's right. I'm alive - and I'm here with Part 1 of 2 of the "final" BRRAL story. ("final" bc I may write a prequel)
I have worked on this story for 3 - 4 MONTHS. MONTHS. Just to make sure that it's perfect & I am completely happy with it. And I can say I am very, very happy with it & the way it's played out. I've only got about 2 chapters of Part 2 written - but I do have it outlined. Hopefully Part 2 won't take me as long as Part 1 did.
And bc of the amount of time this story has took me to write - I really hope you guys read it cos I'll be kinda pissed if the story flops.
Also, the reason why it's in 2 parts is bc... Well... There is just so much stuff happening in it to comprehend that the story would feel like that it's dragging & going on forever if I put it into one story. So it'll be 2 stories! So it's not the end just quite yet.
But as the title says... it is the beginning of the end.
Now, I won't do a big sappy speech about BRRAL & the stories until the very end - I'll save it for the end of Part 2. Ngl, when I get to the end of Part 2 I may cry.
For more reasons than one ;)
but I will say there are so many twists & turns in this story & in part 2 that I am so excited for you to see like shgfjskagfk. It's like The Weight of Us all over again with that plot twist! Haha.
Anyway, I shall shut up now & let you get on with reading.
Title: The Beginning of the End
WARNING: Some violence.
Summary: R5/5SOS/The Vamps AU. Part 1 of 2. Thanks to the kind stranger back in 1995, Rocky finally makes it back & finds himself arrested along with the others for crimes they didn't commit. In desperation for them to get out alive, their friends break them out of jail & put them on the run to avoid their fatal fate's. Whilst on the run, the five boys meet three strangers who are from the future - the three strangers take the boys & show them the apocalyptic-future that was created due to the choices each individual made. So now it's up to the boys, along with a little help from some friends, to fix the mistakes that were made, change the future & save the world. But how can they do that when there is an unexpected traitor in their midst of friends?
Rated: T
Genre: Drama, Action, Adventure, Humour, Sci-Fi, Friendship, Family, Romance, Tragedy & Angst (?)
Starring: Bradley Simpson, Ross Lynch, Rocky Lynch, Ashton Irwin, Luke Hemmings, Dan Howell, Joe Sugg, Caspar Lee, Calum Hood, Michael Clifford, Rydel Lynch & more
Fictional Characters: Ashley Evans, Ryan Lancaster, Nate Rodriguez, Renzo Lovera, Bailey MacCarthy, Kyle Ainsley, Alexander Blatov, Landon White, Will, Harvey, Priscilla, Maxwell, Samara Goodwin & Mia Wright
Couples: Luke/Ashton
BrOTP: Ross/Brad, Luke/Brad/Ashton, Dan/Joe/Caspar, Calum/Rydel/Michael, Bailey/Renzo (a/n: I think there's more I'm not sure lol)
Disclaimer: I do not own R5, The Vamps, 5 Seconds of Summer, Dan Howell (danisnotonfire), Joe Sugg (ThatcherJoe) or Caspar Lee - all rights go to Hollywood Records, Virgin EMI/Mercury Records, Capitol Records & YouTube.
Chapter 1
Needing A Miracle
Year: 2015
Date: March 15th
Location: the H.I.L.L.S. Unit, Escalante Desert, Utah
Outside the base, someone trudged through the sand as they made their way towards the familiar building, having made an almost day journey from where they were dropped off.
Eventually, the someone made it to the doors of the H.I.L.L.S. Unit and let them self in, thus receiving the attention of everyone who stood outside – either doing their job or getting some fresh air. They were shocked and became wide eyed when they seen who the person was.
The anonymous person pushed the doors to the Unit open with such a force that both doors smashed off the walls of the reception, getting funny looks off people as they walked through. The person seen the looks they were receiving but chose to ignore it as they had been gone a while and it was about damn time they found their way back – plus, being gone for this long, the person was bound to get funny looks. The person ignored them and proceeded to the boys dorms where who they were looking for would be.
Joe came out of his room and made his way to work despite the whirl wind of depression he had fallen into these past few days and for the ones to come. It just wasn't fair. What was happening wasn't fair. He didn't like it at all and if he could do something, he would.
Well, he can. He just doesn't want to do it on his own 'cause it will take a lot of work and it's not a one person job – but the people he keeps asking for help keep refusing to give him it because apparently there is nothing they can do. Which is a load of crap because there is a hell of a lot they can do.
He kept walking through the boys dorm until he collided into someone.
"Whoa! Watch where yo—Joe! Oh my, God! I never thought I would be so happy to see your face again!"
Joe froze at the familiar voice of the guy.
It couldn't be.
No.
And if it was... This was bad.
Joe slowly looked up to the guy who spoke his eyes widened and his fear was correct.
"R-Rocky..."
Rocky smiled "Hey," his smile fell when he seen Joe's facial expression but he chose to ignore it "where are the others? Are they in their rooms?" he asked, referring to Ross, Brad, Luke and Ashton. Maybe they wouldn't give him such a horrified look.
"They're not here." Joe said.
"What do you mean?" Rocky asked.
"They're gone."
Rocky became suspicious, yet concerned due to the way Joe was acting and he rarely ever acts like that "Did Will send them off on a mission somewhere..?"
"Rocky, you're not safe here. You've gotta get out of here." Joe begged, pushing him in the direction of where he came which was towards the exit of the base.
Rocky fought Joe's pushed "Why? What's happened to them? Where are they? Are they okay? What about Ross?" Rocky asked, becoming scared for his friends and brother.
"Listen to me, Rocky. Go. Don't even question me just run and get out of Utah – do not even go home because they will find you."
"Why?! What's happened?!" Rocky asked, getting frustrated.
Joe sighed, being defeated. He went to respond to give Rocky the information he wanted to know but he was cut off by an angry voice. A voice that Joe didn't want to hear right now because that meant Rocky had no chance of getting away and it meant he had pretty much met his end.
Just like the other four.
"There he is! Get him now!"
Rocky turned around, with Joe, where he seen the main boss Harvey, who is in charge of the base, with two large looking guards. Guards that Rocky would not be able to fight away by himself. Rocky backed away from them "Wait, what." He said, confused.
The two guards suddenly grabbed hold of Rocky and began to drag him away. "Joe! Help me! What's going on?!" Rocky exclaimed.
"Take him to the basement and get the other four there too. Now we can decide on what we're going to do with them." Harvey said.
"JOE! DO SOMETHING!" Rocky shouted.
Joe stood watching with tears in his eyes due to frustration and depression, running his hands through his hair, tugging at it and stepping forwards slightly. Joe shook his head and turned around, running in the opposite direction.
That was it.
He had to do something.
As Joe ran through the base, he thankfully ran into Caspar – but Joe didn't stop running. "Joe? Joe! Where are you going?!" Caspar asked, raising his voice as Joe got further away from him.
"Follow me!"
Caspar sighed and took off after him.
Where the hell was he going?
Eventually, the pair got to where Joe was running to and he burst through the doors to Dan's lab, letting the doors hit harshly off the door. Dan jumped in fright from where he sat, finally getting distracted from his thoughts. He sighed "Go away, I'm not in the mood."
"No, no!" Joe walked closer to Dan, looking pissed "You are going to be in the mood 'cause I am not standing by and watching this happen to them! We need to do something!"
"Like what?! We can't do anything without getting into trouble ourselves!" Dan protested.
"We can think of something! Come on Dan! You're a fucking scientist, I watch the CCTV, surely we can do something! I can get rid of footage of us helping and you can get rid of any DNA we leave behind or any traces. Come on! We have one chance. Rocky's just come back from wherever the hell he was and got taken away by Harvey. That's five out of five! And you know what they said they were going to do once they had all five of them – and be honest, do you want to sit by and watch that happen knowing you could have done something?" Joe asked, being desperate for Dan's help as well as Caspar's.
But he was done and they were going to help whether they liked it or not. Even if it meant that Joe ended up in the same position as the five boys.
Dan stayed still, not saying a word as he wasn't sure what to think or feel. "I-I I don't know, Joe..."
Joe calmed down a little "Dan... If they have any chance of getting out of this without being hurt or killed, they are relying on us or for some sort of miracle to happen. And right now... we are their miracle. Yeah, we're not as smart or as sneaky as them, but we've watched them. Surely we've learned something and picked up a few tricks."
Dan and Caspar glanced at each other, trying to think for themselves. On one hand, they didn't want to get themselves in trouble and get put in the position Ross, Brad, Luke, Ashton and now Rocky had found themselves in – but on the other Joe was right. And unfortunately, Caspar had to admit that. "He's right." Caspar said.
Dan put his head into his hands, wiping his face as he began to think. Joe leaned on the table "If you knew now what you knew back when Phil got his memory wiped... would you have done everything in your power to help him escape?" Joe asked.
Dan stayed silent and sighed, nodding "Yeah, alright, I see your point. But... It's gonna take more than us three. We need a few other people."
"Like who—oh..." Joe said, quickly getting it.
Those people wouldn't be so bad to use right now.
Dan nodded, looking at Caspar:
"And I think you know who too."
6 Months Earlier
Year: 2014
Date: September 27th
Location: Training Room, the H.I.L.L.S. Unit, Escalante Desert, Utah
Ross walked into the room with a clipboard in his hand, looking at everyone who was in the room, soon followed by Brad, Luke and Ashton "Right then you little brats."
Brad elbowed him in the side, as they were in a room full of 16 – 19 year-olds "Ross!"
Ross turned to him "Hey! You want me to be in charge and take Rocky's place, I'm going to act like him, okay?" He said, not making any of the other three boys amused "besides, if you all wanted someone who's more nice and that actually knows what they're doing why didn't you put Ashton in charge?"
"We did," Luke said, as Ross faced him "but you insisted because you thought it would be fun. Tell me, Ross. Are you having fun?" Luke asked, rhetorically as he already knew the answer.
Ross stayed silent, sending Luke a small death glare before turning to Ashton and Brad "Why do we have to do this?" Ross questioned "why can't Dan, Joe and Caspar do it?"
"Because they've done this before," Ashton answered "I have too, but I wanted to do it again with you guys, so did Rocky when he was here. Caspar hasn't though. Shouldn't he be here?" He asked, looking around the room for him.
Seconds later, Caspar walked in the room with Dan and Joe. "Why are you two here?" Brad asked, looking at Dan and Joe.
"We're not letting you five do this on your own, we know what it's like so we told the people who are in charge of mentoring new people that we'd do it again," Dan said, he walked closer to Ross where the clipboard was "have you got the list of who's with who?" Dan asked.
Ross nodded, showing him before turning his attention to the teens in the room "Okay, so listen up, when I say your name, come forwards or stand up and go to whoever your mentor is – and if you don't, I swear to god I will hit you with my shoe."
"Ross!" Luke scolded.
"Anyway!" he flipped the piece of paper over to the names and began reading out the names of people who got up and went to their mentors – that was when he finally reached himself and the others. "Alexander Blatov—ahh, Russian, brilliant," he said, where a boy with blue eyes and black hair stood up "yeah, you're with Caspar. Bailey MacCarthy, you're with Brad. Nate—I can't pronounce your last name so I'm assuming you're from a country that doesn't speak English—have fun with that Dan!"
Dan looked at the name on the clipboard and gave Ross a disbelieving look when he seen Nate's last name "It's Rodriguez. He's Spanish. Is it really that hard to pronounce Rodriguez? Did you even pay attention at school? How did you even get this job?"
Ross rolled his eyes and went on to the rest of the names. He came to the next name and laughed softly "Oh, the irony. Ashley Evans? You're with Ashton. Have fun with her, Ash. Ton," he quickly added on the 'ton' onto the end in case of any confusion "Kyle Ainsley, you're with Joe. Renzo Lovera, congrats, you have the pleasure of being with me. Landon White, you're with Luke and last but not least—oh."
"What?" Ashton asked, looking over Ross' shoulder at the clipboard.
"Um... Ryan Lancaster?" Ross said, where a boy with long-ish dirty blonde hair stood up "yeah, um... your mentor isn't here any more... He was called Rocky. Erm, wait a second. We'll figure something out," he quickly turned to the others "what are we going to do about him? There's nobody else that's free to mentor."
"Maybe one of us should take him on as well as the person we've already got?" Dan suggested.
"Yeah, but who?"
Dan looked over to Ryan "Hey, Ryan. Life or death decision and you had to pick one of us to be with, who would you pick?" He asked.
Ryan shrugged "Um... I don't know..." He said, being unsure. He had only been here a day and barely knew anyone. The only person he had talked to was Renzo and Landon – and he only talked to Landon because he's his room-mate.
"Helpful, Ryan, very helpful." Ross said sarcastically.
"Well, not you there's a start." Ryan said.
"How about him? He's a good fighter." Ross said, pointing at Brad.
Brad raised his brow "Excuse me?" He said to Ross "no offence to you, Ryan, I'm sure you're nice and everything, but I'm good with sticking with one person, this is my first time and I could completely mess this up," He said, making Bailey – the boy he was going to be mentoring – become nervous and Brad noticed "I'm sure I won't – don't worry... I just don't want to put two people at the risk. It's bad enough I'm putting you at it."
"Please stop talking you're making it worse." Bailey said.
Joe sighed heavily in frustration "Oh my, God, you know what, I'll do it. Gosh."
The seven boys split up and went over to the person they were going to be training in the next eight months – just to get to know them a little better before they did anything as that was what they had to do first. Dan walked over to Nate "Hey, I'm Dan, I'm your mentor." Dan said.
"Oye, no hay punto de presentarme a mí mismo. Usted ya sabe quién soy (1). (Hey, there's no point in me introducing myself. You already know who I am.)" Nate replied.
Dan stared blankly at Nate, not having a single clue as to what he just said "Oh please tell me you speak English..."
Nate stared at Dan but smiled reassuringly "No, pero lo entiendo. (No, but I understand it.)"
"Oh my, God..." Dan muttered.
Already, this was turning into a disaster and it had only been five seconds.
Luke walked around, searching for the boy he had been put with to mentor and he found him in the middle of the room "Are you Landon..?" Luke asked, being unsure – Landon nodded. "Thank, God for that," Luke became relieved "I'm Luke. So... Landon. Whereabouts are you from?" he asked.
"Australia."
"No way..." Luke said, with a little bit of a laugh "so am I! Whereabouts?"
"Adelaide."
"Oh," he said, becoming a little disappointed "I'm from Sydney, so's Ashton – he's over there," he silenced for a moment "small world... That's weird..."
Ashton walked over to a girl who was sat in the corner at the far end of the room – practically away from everyone. He stood in front of her "Well... You're obviously Ashley."
"How do you know?" She asked, looking up at him.
"You're the only girl in the room so it kinda gave it away," Ashton sat down next to her "where are you from?" he asked.
"Spain. But I've lived in America for a long time so you can't really tell."
"Oh, cool. Can you speak Spanish?"
"Sí, muy bien teniendo en cuenta la última vez que estuve allí, yo tenía diez años de edad (2) (Yeah, very well considering the last time I was there, I was ten years old)."
Ashton stared blankly at her "I'll pretend I understood that and take it as a yes." He said, making her sort of laugh.
Joe walked over to Kyle, with Ryan following him "Hey, I'm Joe, you probably know that already. This is Ryan, seen as though you're both going to be seeing a lot of each other," He introduced – Kyle gave Ryan a small wave "where are you both from?" Joe asked.
"America." Ryan answered.
"Scotland." Kyle answered.
"Cool! I'm from England. I live—well, lived—in London. Whereabouts in Scotland do you live?" Joe asked.
"Edinburgh."
"What about you, Ryan? Whereabouts in America?"
"New York. Why are you so interested?" Ryan asked, finding it a little weird.
"Because... I'm your mentor. I have to know stuff about you in order for us to get along. Trust me, I've done this before." Joe reassured – even though Ryan's personality was beginning to show already and oddly enough it was reminding him of somebody else he knows.
He just couldn't figure out who.
Kyle raised his brow "Really? 'Cause... You're really small. You look like you're only just starting out yourself."
Joe became offended "Excuse me, I'm twenty-three years old. I've been working here longer than you've been in secondary school."
Ryan furrowed his brow confused "What's 'secondary school'?"
"The British way of saying 'High School." Kyle answered.
Joe sighed, throwing his head back as he could already tell that he was going to have a hell of a lot of fun training these two at the same time.
Brad walked over to Bailey who was near Renzo, meaning that Ross had to walk over with him – but Ross took Renzo about a metre or so away from Brad and Bailey. "Hey, I'm Brad, you're Bailey right?" Brad asked, Bailey nodded "cool. Where are from?"
"Ireland."
"Really? It's not very often we get someone from Ireland here." Brad said.
"It's not very often we get somebody from England either." Ross said, who was kind of ease dropping from behind – managing to talk to Renzo at the same time.
Brad turned and faced Ross "Um... Dan and Joe are British. And so am I."
"Yeah, but them two are the only ones that I know that are British – technically you're Australian, you just have a British accent."
Brad stayed silent, 'cause in a way he was right "Do me a favour. Go away." he turned back to Bailey and Ross rolled his eyes, turning back to Renzo.
"Don't you two get along?" Bailey asked.
Brad nodded "Oh, yeah, we do. We're room-mates. We've known each other since I started. We may look like that we don't like or care about each other, but we do. It's kinda... how we work I guess."
Bailey's brow rose "Are you two..?"
Brad furrowed his brow, not being sure what Bailey meant by that but he soon realised and his eyes widened and he shook his head "Oh, no, no, no! Far from. Trust me. That's them two over there, Luke and Ashton. No, me and Ross are just friends. Are you an only child? Or do you have any brothers or sisters?" Brad asked.
"I have a brother and sister. Technically they're not though."
"What do you mean?"
"I'm adopted."
"No way, me too! Looks like we found something we both have in common – do you know your birth parents?"
"Apparently I did – only when I was a new-born baby, but new-born baby's don't really tend to remember things. But they died soon after I was born." He said.
"Oh, I'm sorry." Brad said, feeling slightly bad that he had gone there with that question.
Bailey shook his head "It's fine, don't worry about it. Do you know your birth parents?" Bailey asked.
Brad nodded "Oh yeah, very well."
"Oh, cool, when did you meet them?" Bailey asked, smiling a little as we would have done anything to have met his real parents. And it's nice to know that someone that's adopted the same as him has met their actual parents.
Brad looked thoughtful for a moment "About... Two years ago? I mean, I only found out they were my parents a few weeks ago."
"Damn... Really? How?" Bailey asked, being slightly amazed that a secret like that could be kept for nineteen years.
"Eh, it's a long story – I'll explain it another time. But... I didn't take it very well. I got kinda mad."
"Mad?!" Ross raised his voice, turning back round from Renzo "'mad' is an understatement and you know it!"
Brad shook his head, facing Bailey "Do me a favour? If he tries to talk to you or interact with you in any way, ignore him."
Next: The First Arrest
Now, I can't promise regular updates for this as I have just started college today but I will TRY my hardest to get one up once a week & even harder for once every other day.
Thank you for reading :)
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(1) & (2)- I'm not Spanish - I don't know any Spanish. I got it off Google Translate so the chances of what I wanted him to be saying in Spanish is wrong lol. Let me know if it is (if you speak Spanish) so I can correct it cos there's a few moments in future chapters where Nate speaks Spanish again as well as Ashley.
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