Last Chapter….

And like a wave was coming from her body. Ris watched as the prison unfolded itself like a cardboard box. The sound echoing around her and a pair of white eyes staring at her.

"VANYA!"

Ris jerked up, her body in cold sweat. Her throat felt raw for her screams. 'Maybe it was just a dream' she thought hopefully. Her hopes were crushed in under the span of 10 seconds. The Academy started to rumble, like there was a dark monster hiding in its walls.

The sounds of explosions, breaking glass and splintering wood hit her ears like a wall had been driven right into her. Jumping up, Ris dashed out of the room, stumbling as she did so.

"Vanya! Diego! Klaus! Allison!" Ris screamed, her heart pounding; as she ran though the broken corridors. Pain racked her body as she gripped her wound from Vanya stabbed her. Her lungs couldn't see to get enough air. The shaking didn't help.

And then, it stopped. Gripping onto the railing she looked down. Vanya and Pogo were facing off, Pogo looking at the other end. Looking up, her breath hitched. Allison and Luther. Luther's eyes widened when he saw her. Before she could call out to him, he and Allison were already halfway down the stair.

"Did you know?" Vanya asked quietly. Pogo looked down. "Yes, Miss Vanya. I knew." Vanya looked down, silent. It happened so fast, Ris hadn't even expected it. Vanya lifted her head, rising Pogo off the ground.

Swinging her arm, Pogo flew fast across the room. Getting impaled by the dead deer's antler. Covering her mouth to stifle her gasp, staring at Vanya is shock.

Before she could run, arms wrapped around her pulling her away from the scene. Ris stared in surprise at Grace, as she pulled her away. "Come on! Hurry!" Grace called out, Grace dragging her away from the scene. Ris nodded, following Grace though the cracking broken corridors. Opening a back door, Grace practically threw Ris out of the currently destroying house.

"Run! Ris, Run!" Grace screamed back, turning to close the door behind her. "No! Grace! Come on we have to go!"

The woman smiled at her. "My place is here." she whispered, before slamming the door shut. "Grace!" Ris yelled, running back to the door. Just as the house fell, crumbling before her eyes. She was thrown to the ground, landing had on her back. Her world going dark in seconds.


"Mom. Mom!" Diego yelled, looking up at the window where their mother was waving a sad goodbye. "Mom! Get out of there now! Mom, get out of there! Mom!" the two yelled at the top of their lungs. "I'm coming after you!" Diego yelled. "No, Diego!-"

"No!"- "Diego!"- "Please! Mom!"-"Get back!"-"Mom!"-"MOM!" The shouts rang hard in Grace's ears. A single tear fell from her cheek. As the last things she saw were her precious boys.

"Mom! Mom! Klaus, come here. Help me search." Diego called out to his brother. Klaus sighed. "Diego. Just stop it. Stop." Klaus said in a toneless voice, as he pulled his brother away from the rubble of the destroyed academy.

"No, what? What are you- Let me go. What are you doing?!" Diego cried out angrily. "Stop. Stop. She's gone. She's…She's gone, okay? She's…" Klaus said sadly. "What do you wanna do? You wanna…wanna walk away from this?" Diego stuttered. Klaus shook his head. "No."

"What about Pogo?" Diego asked. "He didn't make it." Luther called out as he and Allison walked towards the two, joining the three brothers. "What?"

Luther looked down. "Vanya killed him." Klaus and Ben gave each other a look. "But Vanya wouldn't-"Diego started.

Luther shook his head. "No, I saw it. Just before we got out." Luther said mournfully. Diego slowed lowered himself down. "First Mom. Now Pogo." he whispered, guilt washing over him like a-wait. Diego suddenly shot up. "Where's-

"Guys!" Five yelled out from behind them as he climbed over the rubble. "Guys. This is it. The apocalypse is still on. The world ends today." Five said hurriedly. "I thought you said it was over." Luther growled out.

"I was wrong, okay?" Five snapped. This newspaper, I found it in the future the day I got stuck. The headline hasn't changed." Diego shook his head. "No, that doesn't mean anything. The time could've been altered since that newspaper came out this morning."

Five growled. "You're not listening to me." he whined, "When I found it, I assumed this place came down along with everything else. But here we are. The Moon's still shining, the Earth is in one piece, but not the Academy." he explained.

Klaus snatched the newspaper, muttering a quiet "I'm confused. "Then listen to me, you idiot!" Five snapped frustrated. "Vanya destroys the Academy before the apocalypse. I thought Harold Jenkins was the cause, but he was the fuse. Vanya is the bomb. Vanya causes the apocalypse."

Five suddenly went rigid. His eyes sweeping over his siblings. "Where's Ris?" he asked. It was like a shock wave had been produced from those simple words.

"Where the hell is Ris?" Five repeated. Luther looked down, pretending to be deep in thought. Klaus, Diego and Allison (and Ben) shot to their feet, eyes wide with worry.

Five looked from face to face, already knowing the possible answers to the question. Without warning he ran past his siblings, running though the destroyed academy. Ignoring the shouts of his brothers. "Ris! Ris! RIS!" he yelled out every few feet.

Though only seeing the destruction and carnage of the building. The slow wave of panic started to settle in. 'She's not dead. She's not dead. She can't be dead. She's- '

"NUMBER FIVE HARGREAVES!"

Five whipped around sharply. Standing across from him, looking like she had been through hell itself was Ris. Gone were her Umbrella Academy issued pyjamas. They were replaced by pair of black jeans with camo patched around it along with a black long sleeve top and her signature pair of sneakers. As well as an angry, awake expression on her face.

Five let out a quiet sigh of relief. "Rissa!" he called out, running towards her. "Are you-" "I'm fine." She said quietly, before exploding.

"I told you so!" she said, giving him a hard slap on the arm. "I knew it was too easy! This is what happens when you don't listen to me! -58 bloody years!- I'm out of commission for a day and it all go's to crap!" Ris ranted, as they made their way to the rest. "Unbelievable!- So irresponsible…-You screwed up!- You idiot!"

It seemed to go on for hours at a time, but Five was too relived to care. Suddenly a whirling sound of a helicopter and police sirens reached their ears.

"We gotta go, now." Luther called out. "Regroup at the Super Star. Go!" Five nodded, grabbing Ris tightly by the arm, he spatial-jumped them away.


Ris let out a hiss of pain when they landed a few blocks away. "Are you okay?" Five asked worriedly, his spatial-jumps never hurt her before. She nodded. "Yeah, I'm fine. Just need to get used to it again."

He furrowed his eyebrows. "Again?" Ris looked up, her eyes tired.

"Jenkins and Vanya." She said quietly, knowing there was no point in lying. They could all be dead anyway. "When she…you know..." Ris mimed a stabbing action.

"Somehow…she weakened my mimicking. Before Jenkins died, he and I fought. He stuck a needle into me that somehow, took my mimicking away…or at least weakened it." Ris trailed off, seeming extremely interested in the pavement.

Five furrowed his eyebrows. "How?" he asked, Ris sighed before turning to Five.

"If I knew don't you think I'd tell you? And it doesn't matter anyway, not right now." Five opened his mouth to retort, but Ris instantly cut him off. "Yes it's not important, because Vanya is. It doesn't matter if I'm bleeding or bruised or even half dead. Because Vanya, she needs us. The whole damn world needs us."

"So I'm going to tell you in advance, cut the coddling and the crap. Because we cannot be distracted right now. Especially when the Handler could be on our tail. And don't you dare think for one second, that I'm going to sit on the side-lines, because I'm de-powered. Coz that's never going to happen. Ever" Ris said sharply, folding her arms.

Five sighed to himself, knowing there was no point in arguing about her safely or of her being included. "Ok, fine. You win" he said tiredly, rubbing his forehead.

"We should walk for a bit, blend in before taking off again." Five added. Ris nodded in agreement, and the duo set off down the street, in a peaceful silence.

Ris smiled as she watched the people bustling around, running this way and that. All busy, all completely ignorant to the horror that could happen in the span of a few hours.

"I want a dog." Ris blurted out, suddenly. Five raised his eyebrows. "A dog." He repeated. "A dog." Ris confirmed, nodding her head slightly. Five chuckled. "What kind of dog?"

Ris paused, deep in thought. "Maybe…a Labrador or a pug…well…any dog really. There all beautiful." Ris answered eagerly. Smiling at her, Five nodded. "Okay, so what would you name it?"

"Mr. Pennycrumb." Ris said instantly. "Mr. Pennycrumb." Five repeated, before bursting out laughing. "What kind of name is that?" Ris rolled her eyes playfully.

"A badass one." she replied, with a smirk. Five's laughed ceased, though his smile remained. "Tell you what, when this is all over. I'll get you a dog." Ris smiled. "Really?"

Five nodded. "Really." Ris ruffled her hair. "We should hurry then, which way to the Superstar?" Five sighed. "It's not too far. But it would be quicker to jump."

Ris nodded. "Kay, ready" she said, holding onto Five tightly. "Hold on. Try not puke." Five said, gripping her equally as tight. Ris gave him a cheeky smile "I make no promises."


"You know, when you said, 'Regroup at the Superstar' I thought it was like an abandoned warehouse or like factory. Not a bowling alley." Ris said grumpily, as she desperately tried to find a comfy position to sit. "With uncomfortable chairs."

"The end of the world is happening and you're complaining about chairs?" Diego said, "If I'm going to die, I would have at least liked to sit on a comfortable chair." Ris retorted.

Luther sighed. "Look, I hate to be the one to say this, but everyone needs to prepare." "For what?" Diego snapped. "To do whatever it takes to stop Vanya." Luther answered gravelly, Allison hit him in the chest with her pad of paper. Ris made an audioable tut sound.

"We may not have a choice, Allison." Luther said angrily. "Bullshit. There's always options." Diego shot back. "I agree with Diego," Ris said instantly. "What? Really" Diego said pleasantly surprised. "Don't get used to it." Ris repiled.

"Options, like what?" Five asked. Ris's eyes widened. "I don't know." Diego answered. "Look, whatever we decide, we need to find Vanya. And fast, okay? She could be anywhere." Luther interjected, stopping the argument that was going to break out.

"Or here." Klaus called out, as he flipped through a newspaper. "Look at this." Instantly everyone crowded around. "That's right. Her concert is tonight." Diego mumbled.

"Hello." came a perky voice for behind them. Ris groaned. "I hate to intrude, but my manager says if you're not gonna bowl, you gotta leave." she said before walking away. "I hate people." Ris said, as the manager slammed the bowling shoes down on the counter.

"Whose turn is it?" Diego asked. Grumbling Luther snatched a bowling ball and flung it. Hitting a turkey. Not bad.

Allison wrote something down showing it to them: She's our sister.

"We're the only ones capable of stopping this." Luther said. "We have a responsibility to Dad.-" Ris flinched at the mention of Monocle.

"To Dad?" Diego burst out. "No, I've heard enough about-"

"He sacrificed everything to bring us back together." Luther snapped back. "I'm with Luther on this one." Five said.

"Excuse me? You want to kill your own sister?" Ris instantly snapped back. "Well, we can't give her a chance to fight back. There are billions of lives at stake. We're past trying to save just one." Five said.

"So you grand idea is to murder your own sister?" Ris said angrily. "You'd rather have us all die?" Ris opened her mouth to argue, but Klaus effectively cut the two off. "Hey, you know, guys, uh maybe I could help."

"Now is not the time." Luther said, shutting Klaus down instantly. "No, let him finish. He saved my life today." Diego defended. "Is that true?" Luther asked. "Yeah, yeah, I did take credit for it. In fact, the real hero was Ben."

Ris wrinkled her eyebrows in confusion. As did everyone else in their 'circle'.

"Not to be insensitive, but isn't Ben…kinda…sorta…dead." she pointed out. Five nodded. "Today. Listen. Today, he punched me in the face. And earlier at the house, he was the one who saved Diego's life, not me."

"You are unbelievable, Klaus." Luther said. "You want proof, is that it?" Klaus said instantly, picking up a bowling ball. "All right. I'll give you proof. All right, it's showtime, baby. Catch!" Klaus said, throwing the bowling ball over Ris's head, Five quickly pulled the younger into him to safe her for the flying ball.

The ball in question landed on the floor with a loud thud. Well, thuds. Five glared at Klaus, Luther sighed. "Is there any way to silence that voice in your head that screams out to be the centre of attention?"

"You know, I liked you a lot better before you got laid." Klaus blurted out. The temperate in the room dropped by about 99.9%. Ris bit her lip awkwardly. Luther's eyes flew out from his eye sockets. Allison's eyebrows raised. The tension between them was high.

"Which was a complete. It…It wasn't his fault, 'cause he was ridiculously high, right?" Klaus said, desperately trying to save them from the tension. "And…And the girl, she thought he was a furry-"

"Stop!" Luther said sharply. Allison scowled, grabbing her pad of paper and walking away. "Allison, wait." Luther called out, following her. "Well, that was awkward." Ris murmured, Five chuckled slightly in response.

"Excuse me!" came another perky voice. The duo turned towards a mother and her son. "Excuse me," The mother repeated. "It's my son Kenny's birthday today, and…Uh wouldn't your son and daughter be happier playing with kids their own age? Assuming it's okay with your two dads." The woman said perkily.

The boy gave a large smile. Ris bit her lower lip, Five glared angrily. "I would rather chew off my own foot." he snapped angrily. Kenny's mother's eyes widened in horror. A familiar sound of a tube being sent rang in Ris's ears.

Instantly she jumped up to investigate, unknowing to Ris, Kenny's eyes instantly following her. Five got up, but before he did left he turned to Kenny.

"Don't even think about it, Kenny." He growled, as he walked towards Ris, listening to Diego and Klaus talking. "If I was going to date a man, you'd be the last man I would date."-"You'd be lucky to get me."

Ris turned around holding a tube. "How the hell did she find us?" she asked. Five paused, starting deeply at the tube. Letting out a silent curse, he started to dig viciously though his pockets.

Pulling out a sweet, he quickly unwrapped it. Revealing a tracker. "She's good." He mumbled, dropping the tracker onto the floor crushing it. Ris made an irritated noise. "Or your stupid."

"Really?" Five replied, opening the tube, which revealed a fortune cookie. Handing it to Five, who snapped it open.

Time marches on…or does it?

Rain Quail. Rm 12

"Don't go." Ris said instantly. "Five, it's a trap. You know that." Five looked down. "Five-" Ris started.

Suddenly without warning Five spatial-jumped away. Leaving a mildly annoyed Ris. "Rude." she muttered, before making her way to Diego and Klaus.


Ris sighed in annoyance, as Kenny's party friends sang 'Happy Birthday' for the 17th time in a row. "All right, where's Five?" Luther asked, walking up to them. "He left." Ris said boredly, as Kenny once again, turned to wink at her. Ris rolled her eyes.

"Oh, for the love of-Where'd he go?" Luther asked. "Didn't tell us." "Rain Quail. Room 12." Ris and Diego answered simultaneously. The two gave each other looks. Luther huffed. "Well, we're not waiting around for him. The concert starts in 30 minutes."

"All right, so what's the plan?" Diego asked. Luther stared blankly at him. "Well, I think that, uh…We go to the Icarus Theatre." he said. "And it's official. We're all gonna die." Ris said, face palming.

Diego sighed. "That's a location, not a plan. What? Is that all you got? Look, you wanna be Number One, fine, but you're gonna have to get us on the same page, because right now, we're all over the place." he explained calmly. Luther looked down. "You're right. We need a plan."

The sound of heavy footsteps jerked Ris up. Even from where she sat, the familiar smell of gunpowder reached her nose. Jumping up she faced them. Red gas masks, in combat uniform with no markings. And guns. Large powerful guns.

"Get down!" Ris and Luther yelled. Instantly the sound of gunfire filled Ris's ears as she ducked behind a counter/ table/ whatever-the-heck-you-call-those-things. It didn't really matter. With Diego and Luther, to her left were Klaus and Allison crouched down as well.

"Who the hell are these guys?" Diego yelled out. "Maybe they're here for Kenny's birthday!" Klaus shouted back, his hands cupped over his ears.

"No, I'm pretty sure they're here for us!" Luther shouted back at the two. "No shit Sherlock!" Ris yelled back, shaking her head she turned to Diego. "Cover me!" she yelled, ducking down and crawling away. A plan already formed in her head.

Diego nodded, throwing one of his knives. Which embedded itself into one of the gunmen. Falling backwards he knocked into the record player. Which happily blasted 'Last Saturday Night' by the Bay City Rollers'

Ris smirked to herself. This was going to be fun. Luther picked up a few bowling balls, throwing them at oncoming gunmen.

Ris jumping up from the floor. Ris ran into the Superstar's Staff Room, grabbing a few empty bottles, 2 spare bottles of motor oil, the grumpy manager's hidden stash of alcohol (she found that quite by luck) a few cloths and a box of matches.

Working quickly, she managed to create four bottles. Smiling wickedly she grabbed the bottles and ran out the room. Just to see Klaus throw Kenny's birthday cake in one of the gunmen's face. Running out of the staff room, still grinning. Ris jumped onto the table, lighting the first bottle.

"Hey Assholes!" she shouted. Hurdling the first bottle at a pair of gunman, she watched it successfully detonate. Instantly they were thrown back from the mini explosion. Lighting the next, she rained them down on the gunmen.

"Ris, Come On!" Klaus shouted as he and the rest made a run to the bowling pins. Nodding, Ris grabbed the final one throwing it hard. It exploded in the middle of the room. Before running off with the rest, sliding skillfully.

"Come on" Luther called out hailing them towards a door. Ris ran though, slamming it shut. "Well, that was awful leak in our plans." she said. Klaus gave a shaky laugh. As the two followed the others outside. "What the hell was that thing?" Klaus asked. Ris grinned. "Molotov Cocktail."


The song 'Last Saturday Night' played softly as Five walked up to Room 12. "Five," came the familiar sickly sweet voice of the Handler.

"I've been waiting for you." Walking in he was met with Agnus the nice doughnut shop keeper, tied to a chair underneath a boiling hot heart shaped Jacuzzi. The Handler posing on the neatly made bed. "He must really like doughnuts." He mumbled to himself.

The Handler grinned widely. "It's been a while." She said. "Three days." Five replied. "For you, maybe. But for me, it's been a lot longer since I've seen those adorable little shorts." she said, smiling widely.

Five sighed. "Well, you've had time to heal." The Handler smiled, getting off the bed and slowly walking towards him. Her heels clicking, but much more quietly on the pink floor.

"Luckily, for both of us, time is the one thing my organization has an abundance of."

Five shifted on his feet, standing a bit taller. "Got your message, by the way. Nice packaging, but so much for Commission protocol." The Handler smiled, picking up a chip from the table. "There have been a lot of changes since you left the Commission. You really did some damage." She popped the chip into her mouth and crossed her arms. "The briefcases were all but destroyed, to say nothing of the highly trained personnel you and our dear friend Clarissa killed. After all, what is an institution if not for-"

"What do you want?" Five interrupted. "To be happy. To have a simple unfettered life, to do the work my superiors require. But your being here, well, it complicates all that." She said, sitting down on the flower-filled couch.

Five started at her. "Billions of people are about to die tonight. You can change that." He said. The Handler picked up a sweet. "Tonight, tomorrow. So little difference in the scheme of things. Don't you remember the Commission's raison d'être? What's meant to be is meant to be, or, as I like to say, que será, será."

"It's bullshit in any language." Five snapped. "Why did you call me here?"

The Handler stared at him. "I wanna offer you a choice. Everyone's going to die tonight, but unlike the rest of the world, you have a way out. You can abandon your family and skip ahead to the apocalypse, take a walkabout for a few decades, wondering if I'll come back and offer you a job again,"

She picked up the champagne bottle and started to open it. "or you can stay here, with your family, and die a horrible death."

The cork popped off. "While you weigh your options, just know your siblings and dear Clarissa are fighting for their lives without you." She finished with a sinister smile as she poured two glasses of champagne.

His eyes widened. "You brought me here to pull me away." he said realization. "It's been nice knowing you, Five." The Handler said, but Five was gone before she could finish. Looking up at the ceiling she smiled to herself. "Cheers!"


The Icarus Theatre. With all its bright golden shiny lights, neat comfortable chairs and a particularly-troubled-female-whose-awful-father-who-gave her-a-seriously-horrible-childhood-and-many-other-underlying-issues-would-be-the-cause-of-the-apocalypse. AKA Vanya Hargreaves.

Ris had to admit, the Hargreaves family had some serious issues. And that Vanya sounded wickedly awesome on the violin. Jogging up what seemed like the thousand stair, finally they made it to Vanya's stage.

"Allison, I can't let you do that, all right?" Luther said angrily from the front. "She's beyond reasoning."

"You hear the music?" Diego called out loudly. "It's started." Luther sighed tiredly at Allison. "Do you honestly think she's gonna listen? After everything that's happened?" he said. "I'm gonna point out, most of that was your fault." Ris said bluntly.

Luther ignored her whispering a quiet "Okay." at Allison. Looking strangely at Luther, Allison gave a slight nod, before running up the stairs to Vanya. "You're using her as a distraction, aren't you?" Diego said, staring straight ahead. "Our best chance to incapacitate Vanya." Luther said calmly. "You guys, can't be serious," Ris said staring at the three brothers, they stared back. "You guys, are the worst." she said, running after Allison.

The music rang out thought out the classy decorated theatre. Allison and Vanya were ahead of her, as the latter started her solo. Vanya looked up, spotting her sister. A slow, joyful smile crept onto her face. Ris smiled at the sisters. The unfortunately the smile didn't last on their faces for long.

From the either side of the stage Luther and Diego ran out attempting to grab Vanya. Vanya jumped to her feet, swinging her violin bow. A burst of white energy burst out, throwing the two back. To say all hell broke loose would be the total accurate description of what went down.

Screaming people, running up and down in a complete and total panic. Almost complete smashing Ris. The music continued, though it had more of a creepy edge to hit. Vanya was swinging her violin bow left and right. The white energy flying everywhere.

"She's stronger than expected." Diego said. "Yeah." Luther mumbled, just as Allison threw her shoe at Luther. "Yeah. We're fine, thanks for asking. Look, I almost lost you once, all right? I wasn't about to lose you again." Luther snapped.

"I hope you liked that." Ris snapped, sneaking over to the three. "Well, so much for the element of surprise. What else you got? Ris?" Diego asked, turning to his siblings, then to Ris.

Allison mimed playing a violin. Ris's eyes widened, face palming herself while muttering an "Of course!"

"Mind telling us what you two are thinking?" Diego asked impatiently. "The violin!" Ris said. "What?!" Diego snapped. "She's talking about the violin." Luther said, the four looked at Vanya from behind the seats.

"It's her lightning rod. If we can take it from her and stop her from playing, we might have a shot." The second the word fell out of his mouth, the sound of gunfire mingled together with Vanya's haunting music.

"You just had to say 'shot' didn't you." Ris grumbled, glaring at the 'new guests'. Ducking under the seats. "What the hell happened to Klaus? He's supposed to be on lookout!" Diego yelled, ducking to avoid the gunfire. "Yeah, you surprised?!" Luther yelled back.

"What's with all the lollygagging?" came a new, but obviously familiar voice. "Five!" Ris yelled out happily. "Five, get down!" she shouted, grabbing his arm, pulling him towards the floor.

"Five, what the…I thought you bailed on us!" Luther yelled at the boy. "I had an errand to run." Five replied, squeezing Ris's hand. "This is not good." Ris shot him a dubious look. "You don't say."

"You two know these guys?" Diego asked. "Yeah, we do." Five answered calmly as a line of gunmen started to close in. "And?"

"Well we're screwed." Five said, Diego huffed throwing one of his knives. "Guys, it's Cha-Cha!" Klaus shrieked as he ran into the theatre. "It's Cha-Cha, she-"

"Klaus! Get down!" Luther yelled, instantly Klaus ducked. Five turned to Ris. "High Low?" he asked. Ris nodded. "High Low." Five spatial-jumped away, landing on top of the closest gunmen. Holding him in a choke hold, Five swung him around. His gunfire hitting his comrades instead of them.

Ris ran out behind his, kicking him from the back and then grabbing his spare handgun. Clicking off the safely, she pulled the trigger. Hitting some of the gunmen, where she knew they couldn't put Kevlar.

Suddenly, like magic. A few shining blue octopus tentacles entered the fight, grabbing some of the remaining gunmen and tossing them around like ragdolls. Quite literally tearing them to pieces. "That's awesome" Ris mumbled as she watched the glowing man and octopus. (octoman?)

"Oh, my God." Came a whisper from behind Ris. "It's him. Ben." Ris wrinkled her eyebrows. "Isn't he dead?" she asked, before a large blinding light distracted her. Vanya. She was glowing. Her neat black suit, turning a strong pure white.

"Anyone got any bright ideas?" Ris asked, being meant with a bunch of dubious looks. "Okay, nevermind. Anyone got any ideas?" she asked, Vanya's light was starting tom blind her.

Luther shrugged, before spotting Diego. "Oh, welcome back. Where were you?" he snapped. "Honouring a memory." Diego replied, Ris faintly noticing Allison squeezing his shoulder. "So, how do you wanna end this thing?"

"We surround her." Luther replied. "All right? We come at her from all angles." Klaus looked down. "So it's a suicide mission." he murmured.

Five gave him a small reassuring look. "Yeah, but one of us could get through. It's the only chance we've got." Ris gave a shaky laugh. "If your being this optimistic, it really must be the end of the world." Five shot her a smile. "Not yet. I still need to get you a dog."

Ris grinned. "Are we all in?" Luther asked. Klaus, Five, Diego and Ris nodded. "Allison?" Luther asked unsurely. Allison glared adamantly shaking her head. Luther sighed to himself, turning to the rest.

"Stage left." He said to Diego. "Stage right." He pointed to himself. "You guys take the front." He said to Klaus, Ris and Five. Nodding they ran to their positions. Ducking under the seats.

Vanya's white glow, becoming more powerful, by the minute. Ris gulped, not wanting to hurt sweet kind Vanya. 'The violin!" -"It's her lightning rod."-"Concentrate."-"Vanya!'

Ris's eye widened as the theatre began to shake. The world slowed. Luther, Diego, Five and Klaus ran at Vanya. And from the corner of her eye she saw Allison sneak up from the side stage, hiding behind the curtain.

Vanya swung her bow, once again white light, filled the theatre. Somehow she had attached herself to her four siblings.

Pulling out the small black handgun. She ran in the aisle. Allison was in her site. "Allison!" she called, running up behind the curly haired woman whipped around. "Wh-"

"We can save Vanya." Ris handed Allison the handgun. "Pull the trigger next to her ear. It will break her concentration. Go!" Ris said, turning on her heel back to the others. Their screams of pain, ringing in her ears.

"BANG!"

The sound of the gun, was so unexpected it made Ris jump back. The boys were dropped to the floor, landing hard. Vanya had bent backwards the white energy flying out of her in a thin line. Shattering the large round window.

Ris fell to the floor, instantly checking the boys to see if they were alright. Suddenly Vanya collapsed into Allison's surprised arms. Dropping her white violin.

The boy and Ris sprung up, running towards Vanya. Ris took Vanya's arm tightly, checking the woman's pulse. "Is she alive?" Luther asked quietly, holding Allison tightly.

"Yes. And I think she's gonna be fine." Ris breathed out, a large smile sliding onto her face. Luther let out a sigh of relief.

"We did it. We saved the world." He said, smiling at his siblings and Ris. Five smiled at the younger girl jumping up and unexpectedly hugging her tightly.


"Uh…Guys?" Klaus called out, Ris and Five looked up sharply. "You see that big Moon rock coming towards us?" Diego, Ris and Five jumped up. Ris's eyes widened. A large chunk of moon rock was hurdling towards Earth. And there was nothing they could do. "Are you kidding me?!" Ris said. "That's not good." Diego agreed

Klaus sighed, holding tightly onto his dog tags. "So this is it, huh? So much for saving the world." Ris looked down, before looking at Five who was currently pacing up and down like a madman. "If only Sir Reginald could see us right now, huh? The Umbrella Academy. A total failure." Diego said.

Ris shut her eyes. The world was probably on fire, coming slow at first. Then it will come crashing down on them. Killing everyone and everything. Again.

"At least we're together at the end. As a family." Luther said as he watched the moon rock come closer, the downcast look of pure failure painted on his face.

Five suddenly stopped pacing. "This doesn't have to be the end." Five said. Ris raised her eyebrows. The Klaus, Diego and Luther turned to face their 58-year old brother.

"What? What are you saying, Five?" Luther whispered. Five paused for a second, deep in thought. "I think I have a way outta here. But you gotta trust me on this." he said.

The three gave him dubious looks. "Yeah, I don't think so." "No." "No, no you're not very trustworthy."

"Guys! Come on! He's at least…45% trustworthy. 50 at most." Ris said, justified. "Thanks Ris." Five snapped back sarcastically. Ris shot him a large smile and a thumbs up. "You're welcome."

Five turned to his brothers, Ris didn't need any convincing. They would follow each other to Pluto if need be."Hey, guys, we might as well accept our fate, because in less than a minute we're gonna be vaporized." Diego sighed to himself. "What's your idea, then?"

"We use my ability to time travel." Five explained, "But this time, I'll take you with me." Ris gave a low whistle. "That's risky."

Diego's eyebrows rose. "You can do that?" Five shrugged "I don't know. I've never tried it before." Diego paused looking at his brothers. "What's the worst that can happen?" Klaus shrugged looking intrigued.

Five sighed. "You're lookin' at it. A 58-year-old man and woman inside children's body's, so there's that." He said, Ris shrugged in agreement.

The siblings shared a look. "Oh, what the hell? I'm in."- "Yeah, whatever. I'm in."-"Me too. Allison?"- Allison nodded slightly.-What about Ben?- Klaus turned to Ben (that was still weird for Ris. Wasn't he dead? Is he alive?!) Ris's eyes widened - Great, yeah, he's in." Klaus confirmed. "Ris?" Five asked.

Ris shot him an offended look. "I can't believe you just bloody asked me that. Of course I'm coming. You'll all kill yourselves if I'm not around." Five gave brief sort of chuckle, before turning to Luther. "Okay, great. Luther, grab Vanya."

They all gathered around in a tight circle surrounding Vanya, as they all picked her up. "Wait, should we be taking her?" Luther suddenly asked, his eyes wide. As he held his sister, "I mean, if she's the cause of the apocalypse. Isn't that like taking the bomb with us?"

Five sighed. "The apocalypse will always happen and Vanya will always be the cause, unless we take her with us and fix her." He explained calmly, as the rest of the siblings shared looks. "But-" Luther started.

"Luther, just shut up and grab Vanya." Ris said, holding Five's hand tightly. "See you on the other side." She whispered to him. "Partner." Five gave her a weak smile squeezing her hand. Before shutting his eyes.

Slowly a pulsing blue light appear above their circle. Ris looked at Five with worry, as his face screwed up in concentration and pain. And she felt useless, so she did the only thing that could offer some form of comfort. The gently squeezing hand. The blue was almost covering them.

Five let out a yells of pain. Ris shut her eyes, squeezing her hand, wishing, hoping she could dull it. "It's working!" Luther yelled out. Five looked around.

"Hold on! It's gonna get messy!" he yelled. Ris opened her eyes, her eyes meeting younger youth filled ones. Five looked at his siblings, he turned to Ris. She gripped his hand. "Ready?!"

And they were gone. Just as the world caught on fire.

So? I am sad to say, The Experiment has come to a close. But, I will be writing a sequel :} Unsure when its going to come...But its definitely happening. Thank you for everyone's support for this story. I really appreciate it! As always...Reviews? PMS, Questions? Ask, comment, criticize, ect. I don't mind...:)

Till next time...

UPDATE: The Experiment Sequel is up. Play With Fire. Hope you all like it!