1. Who has 'The Amazing Book Is Not On Fire' and has read it? I've literally JUST got it but haven't read it yet (pls don't spoil). Unfortunately, I can't go see Dan & Phil on their tour but hopefully I'll be able to see them soon in the future.

2. Who has listened to The Vamps' new song 'Wake Up' & watched the music video? HOLY SHIT. It parallels this story so blady much - especially with some things to come ;) ALSO: I'm seeing these guys in April again! YAYAYYAY!

3. Who's listened to 'Hey Everybody!' by 5SOS & watched them on the Alan Carr Show? Oh my, God, I can't believe the presenter made Ashton drink a bottle of wine in 5 seconds - I'm surprised he was able to play his drumkit afterwards considering they were given alcohol to drink. ALSO: I'm FINALLY seeing 5SOS next year in April! WOOOOOO!

4. Has anybody read Joe's book "Username:Evie" yet? I haven't. Mainly cos I'm getting it for my birthday next month lol. Also, is anybody getting Joe & Caspar's DVD "Joe & Caspar Hit The Road"? I think it's going to be hilarious. Especially considering they made it with the people who made Top Gear - and Top Gear is freaking hilarious!

5. I'M SEEING R5 NEXT SUNDAY & MEETING THEM HOLY HELL. I HAVE THE BEST M&G PICTURE POSE FOR THEM - BUT IT'S WHETHER OR NOT THEY'LL DO IT & IF I'LL HAVE THE CONFIDENCE TO ASK THEM TO DO IT ARGH.

So yeah. There's a lot of stuff going on in my fandoms lol.

Enjoy!

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 10
Questions & Answers

When Ross shouted out Rydel's name, everyone in the room looked over at him in confusement at how he knew her name. Or how he even knew her in the first place. Next, they all looked at Rydel who look just as confused as everyone else. She looked at everyone who was looking at her and over to Ross "Yeah..?" She said.

Ross walked over and grabbed her by an arm, pulling her towards the door and out of the room. Brad, Rocky, Ashton and Luke all glanced at each other and back to Michael and Calum who shrugged. "We don't know how he knows her... That's like... Impossible..." Michael said, looking back at the door confused.

Ross threw Rydel outside the Epoch Room and into the hallway "What are you playing at?! I looked for you all over in LA and I couldn't find you!"

Rydel shook her head, staring blankly at him "Why were you looking for me?" Rydel asked.

"'Cause you told me where you were and hinted that you wanted me to find you in that letter you sent me about two years ago!"

"What letter? What?" Rydel asked, being more confused than ever.

Ross rolled his eyes "Don't pretend you don't know what I'm going on about," Ross said.

Rydel continued to stare blankly at him and awaiting an explanation "I'm not pretending... I genuinely have no idea what you're going on about – I think you've got the wrong person. What are you even going on about?"

"Zombie apocalypse? Ring any bells?"

Rydel became thoughtful for a moment, trying to think and she looked back at Ross "No."

"What do you mean no? Wait... Don't tell me the Epoch erased your mind too and it was actually Riker or Ellington writing the letter or one of them messing with me!" Ross said, pointing towards the Epoch room where Rocky, Brad and Luke were – given that them three, four including Ross, were the only ones in the apocalypse.

Rydel looked away from Ross and thought for a moment "Hang on... When me, Calum and Michael were looking for information about you guys we did see something about a zombie apocalypse but... We weren't sure on whether or not it was a mistake so we scrapped it... Are you sure it was me?" Rydel asked.

"I'm positive! You had a life with your abusive Dad, had a daughter called Taylor with someone called James who took her to Utah to live with because he didn't want her in danger and neither did you so you agreed!"

Rydel shook her head, not being able to make any sense of this at all "I don't understand... I would have remembered something like this."

"Yeah, but you wouldn't 'cause of me having to use the Epoch which took us all back in time to before the apocalypse happened and it wiped everyone's memory of it apart from mine so I had to stop it from happening – I succeeded by the way! And now it's slowly driving me insane 'cause I'm the only one in this whole world that knows about it!"

Rydel stayed silent as something had popped into her mind and she started thinking about it.

Ross stood there, contemplating her "Who are you?"

Rydel turned her attention back to him "What? Why?"

"'Cause in the apocalypse there was something really, really strange about you..." Ross let a small silence fall over them both "what's your name?" He asked.

"Rydel."

"What's your full name?"

"I... Can't tell you that..."

"Those are the exact words you told me when I first met you! Why can't you tell me your last name?!" Ross asked, raising his voice a little.

"Well I can but... Not yet."

Ross rolled his eyes. "Come on, lets go back in the room before they all start wondering what's going on." She said, making her way in with Ross slowly following her.

Year: 2015
Date: March 16th
Location: Ryan & Landon's Room, The Boys Dorms, the H.I.L.L.S. Unit, Escalante Desert, Utah

Ryan and Landon were sat on their beds when they were disturbed by a knock at the door. Ryan stood up and walked over, answering it to see Harvey stood there "Hey." Ryan said.

"Have you two seen Ashley Evans?" Harvey asked.

Ryan stared at him confused "Who?"

Harvey rolled his eyes "Don't be stupid – I've you both talk to her in training and in the canteen."

"Ooohhh! Her..." Landon said, as if it all made sense "that's her name... I knew her name was Ashley, but I didn't know that her last name was Evans though. Ha, you learn something new everyday. But no, we haven't seen her. Why?" Landon asked.

Harvey glanced into the room "No reason." He said, before leaving.

Ryan shut the door, after making sure Harvey was well gone, and turned round "You can get out now." Ryan said.

Ashley crawled out from underneath Ryan's bed and stood up "Thanks."

"Why are you running from them and why are they even looking for you in the first place? What the hell did you do?" Landon asked, still being sat on his bed.

"Long story short, me and Joe seen and heard something between him, Priscilla and Maxwell we weren't supposed to."

"Which was?" Ryan asked.

"Basically... If we don't find a way to get Ashton, Rocky, Luke, Ross and Brad back, the world is going to be destroyed and we're all going to die."

"Why them?"

"'Cause the three of them said themselves that they know if Brad, Ross, Rocky, Luke and Ashton were still here they would have stopped them by now." Ashley said.

"What exactly are they going to do to destroy the world?" Landon asked.

Ashley faced him "Oh, you know, fire nuclear warheads at almost every country in the world." She said, as if it was no big deal.

"Fair enough, that should do it."

"Ash," Ryan said, directing her to a situation they had "if them five aren't here or are back yet, who's going to stop Priscilla, Maxwell and Harvey in the mean time?"

Ashley shrugged "I don't know... We're the only three – four plus Joe – that know about this. Maybe we could find a way to bring Brad, Luke, Ashton, Ross and Rocky back or we could try and stop them ourselves."

Ryan scoffed, laughing at the idea of the last suggestion "Oh, yeah, I can totally see only us three stopping them. Not like we'd get slaughtered at all." Ryan said, sarcastically.

"Well who else is going to be willing to help us?" Ashley asked.

Seconds later, the door flew open. "Guys, you do realise we have training right?" Bailey asked, coming in with Renzo.

"Yeah, we've just been sent to come look for you both. Do you know how long we've been looking for you? This place is huge!" Renzo complained.

Ashley, Landon and Ryan all glanced at each other before looking back at Bailey and Renzo.

Bailey and Renzo both noticed the looks they were receiving. Renzo furrowed his brow:

"What?"

Year: 2037
Date: March 16th
Location: The Epoch Room, the H.I.L.L.S. Unit, Escalante Desert, Utah

Ross sat by himself, obviously not looking like he was in a good mood. Ashton noticed and walked over to him seen as though nobody else was willing or seeming to "What were you and Rydel talking about?" Ashton asked, assuming it was why he had a face like thunder.

Ross glanced up at him, lowering his voice "You know why I dragged her out the room."

"I do?" Ashton questioned.

"That's Rydel."

"Yeah, I know it's Rydel."

Ross shook his head "No, the girl, Rydel. The girl who sent me the letter and the girl who was in the zombie apocalypse I told you about – that Rydel."

Ashton looked over at Rydel for a short while and back at Ross "What? How?" Ashton asked, 'cause surely that would mean Rydel would have to be living in the past somewhere in 2015. Not the future...

"That's what I want to know," Ross said, leaning forwards on his chair "she doesn't remember it but she sent me a letter saying she did – it was girls handwriting. I'm sure of it. There was no other girl I knew in that apocalypse." Ross sighed and put his head into his hands as Ashton tried to think of a logical reason to this.

"Well... I can't help you out much. I was dead apparently, so..."

Ross let out a small laugh. "That, and I don't know much about time travel." Ashton added.

Ross nodded in agreement but something came to him "Wait..."

"What?"

Ross stood up, looking around "Something's not right about this... I need Dan."

"Hey," Rocky said, loud enough to bring the rooms attention to him "can we know what the hells going on now?" He called over to Rydel, Michael and Calum – who were stood in the corner of the room.

The three glanced at each other and walked over to them. "Sure, take a seat somewhere." Michael said.

The five boys all found somewhere to sit that looked comfortable or at least looked as though it was strong enough to hold their weight. "Right, basically, it started before you guys got arrested at the base. Actually, long before that." Michael said, making the five boys confused.

"How much did the five of you know about Priscilla, Maxwell and Harvey?" Calum asked.

"Well... They're three out of four of the main bosses at the base – the fourth one's our boss Will. But he's at the bottom and doesn't get a say in much – he's only ever in charge if them three aren't around for some reason." Luke said.

"Well, them three are the reason you got arrested." Rydel said.

"How so?" Ashton asked.

Calum started pacing back and forth a little "You see, they set you all up to get arrested. They blew up the plane that they blamed you and Luke for and they set warheads to detonate that they blamed Ross and Brad for."

"What?! Why?!" Ross asked, becoming furious.

Calum stopped pacing and looked at Ross as if it wasn't the most obvious thing in the world "'Cause they're evil. They always have and always will be. They are the cause of why many, many things have gone wrong at the base and almost destroyed the base itself. And now it's the world. And they're going to succeed if you don't go back and stop it from happening."

"They've set eighteen warheads to detonate on March 25th and they need to have been disarmed before then." Rydel said.

As Rydel said this, Ross immediately looked at Ashton who was paying attention to what Rydel and the other two had to say.

Why was he looking at Ashton?

Because the last time an event happened on March 25th a certain Aussie decided he wanted to die.

Rydel continued on explaining through this "And... What originally happened was that people like Dan, Joe and Caspar tried to reach out to you all to come back but they couldn't get hold of you or you wouldn't come back. So... The warheads detonated. The first three hit America – New York, Washington DC and LA. Word got out about it happening and some countries managed to take down the warheads before it hit them but others didn't. In the countries that were left that hadn't been radiated or hit, there was loads of fighting and what have you to the point where Royals, Presidents and Politicians that ran the countries became dictators in the hope it would settle everyone down but it didn't. It made their people go against them, more civil wars broke out, civilisation was completely destroyed until there was barely anything or anyone left. Which left what there is to this day... There isn't a lot of people left in the world and if you're seen on the street by anybody they kill you instantly. As I said to Rocky, the best way to describe it is like a zombie apocalypse but without the zombies. You're fighting everyone to survive. And that's all going to happen if you don't go back to the base and try and stop it from happening."

"What happened to us?" Rocky asked, after a short silence.

"You all died," Michael answered "Ashton died in 2016 'cause he got caught and killed on the spot by patrol from the base. Dan died in 2028 from radiation poisoning, Joe died last year 'cause someone attacked him on the street, Caspar went MIA, Samara died the same way as Dan did – and with him – Luke, you drowned not long after Ashton got killed, Rocky you killed yourself in 2020 'cause you were left on your own due to everyone else dying and Ross you died in 2017 'cause you got caught in an explosion." Michael explained.

"What about me? What happened to me?" Brad asked, where everything went silent.

Rydel and Calum glanced at each other and then looked at Brad "You died." Rydel said.

"Yeah, but when?" Brad asked.

"Er... this year. 2015." Calum said.

"How?"

"Explosion."

"Ironic that two out of five of us died in an explosion." Rocky said.

Michael let out a soft laugh "Yeah, I got caught in an explosion once. It hurt a lot. I got first degree burns all over my body – them two had to reconstruct my face it was that bad." Michael said, quickly pointing at Rydel and Calum and making the other five boys grimace.

"Wait... So you don't actually look like that?" Ross asked.

Michael shook his head "Nope. I looked completely different to this – my facial features were completely different."

"Ah... How the hell did you get through the pain?" Luke asked, feeling the pain himself and he wasn't the one who had been caught in the explosion.

"Lots of anaesthetic. Lots. But after that, my pain threshold is very high now." Michael said, letting out another little laugh at the end of his sentence.

Through this, Ashton noticed that Rydel and Calum looked uncomfortable during the entire conversation about Michael's accident – which was fair enough. It was probably just as traumatic for them as it was for Michael at the time. Ashton would probably be the same if it happened to Ross, Rocky, Brad or Luke – heck, anybody would if it was their friend.

Or boyfriend.

Or son.

Or... yeah. Ashton's still bringing himself to come to terms with that one.

"I have a question." Rocky said.

"Yeah?" Michael asked.

"How do you know about us and that we're the only ones that can stop this from happening?" Rocky asked.

Rydel turned to Michael and Calum "Should we tell them?" Rydel asked.

Calum shrugged "Don't see why not – they'll find out one way or another."

"We were... Created to save the world. And by save the world I mean bring you guys back together and send you to the base where you would stop this all from happening – otherwise, without us, there would be no hope in that happening and the world being saved." Michael began to explain.

"And by created you mean..?" Brad asked, waiting for one of them to continue.

"Well, I was created in a dish and put into a catheter so I could be put into my birth parent – otherwise I wouldn't be here right now." Calum said.

"Us two weren't though," Rydel said, pointing between herself and Michael "we were born by our parents in the hope that when they left us, who we were left with would raise us and teach us what we needed to know before we got you guys back together to save the world. My parents and Michael's were together and dating so the deed had already been done and we didn't have to worry about us two being born and 'created' – whereas we do need to worry about Calum."

Calum smiled reassuringly "But it's okay. I've already done it. I have took the catheter and put myself into my birth parent."

"Right... Follow up question..." Rocky said, where the three in front of him all looked at him as they knew what the next question was going to be "who are your parents..?"

Rydel sighed and walked over to Rocky, putting her hand on his shoulder:

"Hey, Dad."

Next: So Much More

Bombshell.

Jk, you probs all figured it out.

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Also, I haven't checked through the grammar/spelling of this chapter bc I wanna read The Amazing Book Is Not On Fire (Dan & Phil's book) pls don't eat me.