17 years ago

"In five, four, three, two... this is Jim Hellerman, reporting live for Channel 2 news outside of the Capital West bank at Main and Sixth. A group of heavily armed men stormed the bank not three hours ago and took an unknown number of hostages."

"Hey, get them behind the counter!" The man shouted as he rounded up the hostages, gun in hand. "Now you've put me in a position where I've got to do something I don't want to do."

Allison calmly skipped up to the man, arms clasped behind her back, like she didn't have a care in the world. The man turned to her, "Hey, get back with the others!"

Allison took a step closer, "I heard a rumour."

"Huh?"

She took another step closer, a smug smirk on her face. "I heard a rumour...that you shot your friend in the foot." The man's eyes glazed over as he proceeded to turn around and shoot his bewildered accomplice twice. The hostages screamed.

Luther jumped down from the rooftop into another man, slamming his head against the counter before using his super strength to throw him straight through a window.

Diego ran in shouting "Guns are for sissies. Real men throw knives." He threw his daggers straight forward, only to use his power to curve them at the last-minute landing them straight into the chest of one of the men.

Thea couldn't help but snort at that, "Real men, really Diego?" "Hey, shut up!" She smirked, "Never mind real men, let me show you what a real woman can do." She prowled towards a man, who seemed to realise he was in danger as he raised his gun towards her. She laughed, "Really? You're going to point that tiny thing at me? Haven't you got anything larger, big boy?" she winked his way. Before he could do anything else, she made eye contact and delved into his mind, bending his will to her own.

Do it. She whispered into the darkest corners of his mind. Do it now, follow what I say. He slowly brought the gun up to his head, hand shaking.

"Do it." She said with a smile on her face. And he did. The man shot himself with her smile mirrored on his own face.

"That's still always scary to watch, sis..." Klaus whispered into the silence that followed. Thea turned around to see her siblings and some of the hostages watching her in fear. Oh, you have every right to fear me. I'm No.0

Thea grinned at her twin, "Then you'll just have to make sure to never get on my bad side, won't you Klausy?"

The man on the counter seemed to come back to himself after watching Thea kill his friend and began aiming at all of them in a crazed frenzy. "G-get back you freaks."

"Hey, be careful up there buddy." "Yeah, wouldn't want you to get hurt." Diego and Allison riled him up, before Five popped up behind him "Or what?" before popping away.

The man was frustrated and unloaded most of his magazine into the space Five was just in, before Five popped back in behind him, punching him in the face with the newly replaced weapon. "That's one badass stapler!" Thea laughed out loud at this comment, making Five turn around and smirk at her.

Luther took charge again. "They shouldn't be here to see this." He said, pointing towards the hostages. They nod and began to show them the way out, un-taping their hands and mouths. As the hostages ran out of the building, Ben timidly turned to the others. "Do we really have to do this?" He looked over at Thea and Klaus for help.

"Come on, Ben. There's still more guys in the vault." Luther said.

Thea grinned and sauntered up to him, before wrapping her arms around his neck and leaning down to whisper into his ear "C'mon tentacle boy, do your worst." She kissed his cheek before sending him a smirk. "We'll be waiting right here," she continued, her smile turning soft "and we can all go get hot chocolate when we get home." They all smiled at this. They all loved the times when they could bond as real kids should. Ben nodded, a small blush on his cheeks, before walking into the room separated by glass. Mumbling under his breath "I didn't sign up for this..."

As Ben did his part, Thea started to look around for Klaus. She could have sworn he was right beside her a minute ago. The screams behind the glass got louder as the monsters under Ben's skin tore the men apart with ease. It's was only as he opened the door and started to ask to go home that Thea caught sight of Klaus. Her blood boiled at what she saw.

They'd missed a man who now had a gun pointing directly to Klaus' head as he tried to sneak up behind him. Klaus was unaware. Because his powers weren't the most combat-relative he often left to talk to the dead that hung around during missions.

The others were all looking at Ben when they heard a low growl coming from Thea. Her eyes had gone almost white and her fists were shaking at her sides. When they turned to see what had gotten her so upset, they saw Klaus looking scared. He'd only just realised someone had been behind him all this time. The man however, was frozen. His eyes wide in terror as he looked back at Thea.

Do you like that? That's what you get for even thinking of touching Klaus. I know everything about you. What makes you laugh, what makes you cry...and what makes you fear. With that, she tugged her fist downwards and the man's eyes rolled violently back into his head and he dropped dead, foaming at the mouth.

Everyone was quiet. They all knew just how close Thea and Klaus were. Out of all of them, only those two were real siblings. Blood related. It's not like the twins treated the others differently or any less because of it, it just meant that they both sometimes got...overprotective of the other.

Thea came back to herself as she turned to see all her siblings looking back at her in slight awe. She immediately noticed Ben had come out, the poor boy was covered head to toe in blood. She ran towards him and threw her arms around his neck not minding the blood, grinning cheekily. "Ben! Did you miss me?" The others all shook their heads laughing at her complete change in attitude.

The children walked out of the bank, having taken care of all the thieves inside. They lined up on the stairs waiting for their father to arrive. Reporters were shouting questions but they all ignored them, just as Father had ordered them to.

"Shouldn't you be over that way, Z?" Five asked. He nodded his head over to where Luther, Diego and Allison were stood. Despite now having names, Five continued to call her Zero. Thea wondered if it made him feel closer to others if they kept their numbers like him.

"Nah, all my favourite people are over this way." She replied with a grin. She met Ben's eyes and winked, "although I think I found my favourite." He looked down bright red whilst Five and Klaus burst out laughing at his embarrassed face. Thea slapped her brothers for laughing before she turned and saw their Father on his way over. She gave them each a kiss on the cheek before running over to stand by Luther, now in order.

"Our world is changing. Has changed. There are some among us gifted with abilities far beyond the ordinary. I have adopted seven such children. I give you the inaugural class of the Umbrella Academy."