On the 12th hour of the 1st day of October, 1989, 43 women gave birth at the same time. This was unusual only in the fact that none of these women had been pregnant when the day began.
Sir Reginald Hargreeves, eccentric billionaire and adventurer, resolved to locate and adopt as many of the children as possible.
He got 8 of them.
Not really wanting children, but couldn't let the opportunity go by, Sir Hargreeves now had 8 children. Which he then so eloquently named, Numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8. Unsatisfied with just that, 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, and 7 asked their "mother" to give them names. They came to be known among themselves as Luther, Diego, Allison, Klaus, Ben, and Vanya.
Eventually, these children developed special abilities or "talents", Sir Hargreeves would call them. It is with these children and their talents he would build the "Umbrella Academy". An academy exclusive for his "children".
Sir Hargreeves would train the children in the Academy to ultimately stop a "world-ending crisis". Along the way, they stop multiple crimes and super villains who threatened the world. With their exploits, it wasn't a surprise that the world would catch their attention. And the world's attention they got.
The Umbrella Academy became big. And they eventually became known to the world as Spaceboy, Kraken, Rumor, Seance, Five, Horror, and Daydreamer.
"How come there are only 7?" You may ask. That is because Vanya, number 7, did not have any talents. Of the 8 children that Sir Hargreeves adopted, only Vanya seemed to be ordinary.
However, the Umbrella Academy was not to last.
Unsatisfied with their "father's" attitude towards them, the children all found their own reasons to leave. Diego out of hate. Allison, out of unsatisfaction. Klaus, out of fear. And Vanya, out of neglect.
Number 5 and Ben also left, but their departures were a little more tragic.
Number 5, out of arrogance and desire to prove his father wrong, tested and pushed the limits of his power and time traveled. Everyone assumed he succeded. After all, he was never heard from again.
And then there was Ben. The unluckiest of the siblings. In an unfortunate turn of events, Ben, Number 6, The Horror, lost his life in one of the Umbrella Academy's missions.
As for Luther and number 8? Well, they stayed. They stayed in the Umbrella Academy. They stayed and carried out their father's orders. That is, until they suffered an accident that almost cost them their lives. In a mission that turned for the worse, Luther took a fatal blow for Number 8. And in a desperate attempt to save him, Number 8 took a risk that could only end badly for her. Fortunately, they did survive.
The Umbrella Academy, however, did not.
Instead of resuming operations, possibly as an act of concern, Sir Hargreeves sent Luther to the moon to scout for any threats from the stars that may come and threaten humanity, away from the dangers of crime fighting.
And as for Number 8, The Daydreamer?
None of the siblings really knew what happened to their sister. But they would soon find out years later, when everyone would return to where it all began.
Author's note:
Hello everyone! I just wanted to first and foremost thank you for giving my story a shot. Right now, only the prologue is up because I'm still working on my first Chapter. I literally just started writing yesterday. Also, I would like to take this time to tell you that this will be a "Re-imagined" sort of story. It's basically an OC story where the story follows the flow of the original series but with my own personal additions. Also yes, this is my very first ever fanfiction. I have played around with the idea of making other stories in other fandoms like the Arrowverse, various anime like Naruto, Fairy Tail, Highschool DxD, RWBY, Final Fantasy, Disney stuff, Undertale, and all those other fandoms. I never really went through with it because I pussied out. But this time, I was just so passionate about this series that I just had to make a story. I've read Gerard Way's original comics before and when I heard a Netflix Adaptation was coming I just could not keep my excitement in check. Anyway, yes, I will be basing this off the Netflix series but I will be adding bits of the comics here and there. M rating because it's Umbrella Academy, you know? With me adding stuff from the comics, it's better to be safe than sorry. Also Five is one messed up little bastard. I also had to put it under the Umbrella Academy Comics category because Umbrella Academy wasn't listed under TV Shows yet. Anyway, this Author's Note is way too long already. One last thing though, the disclaimer.
I do not own Umbrella Academy. Neither the Netflix Adaptation, or the comics. Those belong to Gerard Way and the team behind the Netflix Adaptation.
With all that said, peace out everyone.