Warning: swearing, minor violence
"Shit, they're here."
Before any of the Hargreeves could move, masked agents barged in and started to shoot at them. Five quickly blinked away from the scene, while the others scattered around the room to dodge the bullets. If it wasn't for the fact that most of their furniture had been specially made for any accidents that might've occured in a household full of superpowered children, the bullets would've shot right through.
While the others were hiding, Five reappeared behind an agent and tackled them. This caused the agents to loose balance and shoot the others. The other agents caught on, and turned their aim towards Five. Five disappeared as the bullets flew towards his direction. He appeared once again, behind the other agents, and used a gun to knock them out.
Just as Five finished off the agents, more agents appeared. Luckily, while Five was busy taking care of them, the rest of the family were able to get out of hiding and prepare themselves to join the fight.
In the end, they were able to take out all of the agents. They thought about capturing one of the agents to interrogate, but before they could do so, the agents disappeared in a blue flash. Everyone was confused. The Umbrellas turned to Five who said, "Commission protocol."
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"Okay, what the hell was that?" Diego's alternate asked.
"That was the Commission." Five said. The Hargreeves turned to him with confused looks.
"And what is the Commission?"
"An organization that monitors the space-time continuum."
"So why did they attack us?"
"Well, if this universe's Commission is the same as the one in our universe then they were probably trying to eliminate us since we're not supposed to be here."
"And how do you know this?"
"..."
"We've handled them before."
"If that's the case, we should quickly find a way to get you back to your universe before they attack again." Other Five said.
Five nodded in agreement.
"Alright then, let's continue our last conversation again since it keeps getting interrupted." Alternate Five said with a hint of agitation at the end.
"You've already explained what happened in your world, so it's only fair if we explained what happened in ours."
"I'm guessing that our childhood is quite similar as in we were all adopted by Reginald and were raised as the Umbrella Academy." They all nodded.
"With all of us having powers, except for Number 7 who we were told was ordinary, sorry." Alternate Five said while directing the last bit to Vanya.
"The biggest difference between our worlds would be that you time travelled to the future, while I didn't."
Diego raised his hand.
"Yes?"
"Why didn't you time travel?"
"Well, as I said during our first conversation, there was a time where I almost did-"
"Why didn't you go through with it?"
"As I was saying, I almost did but decided not to. The reason being... well, you."
That last part shocked everyone.
"Wait what!?"
"How!?"
"Well, it was during breakfast and I could feel the waters of time pushing me to slam my knife into the table. I wanted to do it. I wanted to see where time could take me, and I almost did but then the moment I raised my hand, I saw you, glaring at me. And although this is embarrassing, I didn't want to hurt you since I knew how much you value knifes and I was reluctant to blunt one in front of you.." Other Five's said, slightly red in the face from embarrassment.
Diego and Five looked at each other for a moment before back at alternate Five.
"I'm assuming that there was an incident that happened which led to this, cause there's no way I would do that." Five stated.
"We're not close in your universe?" Other Diego asked.
"No?"
"Oh.."
"How did you two become close anyways?"
"It was during the aftermath of a certain mission, 'the Bank Incident'."
"There was never a 'Bank Incident' in our universe?" Luther said, looking at the other Umbrellas for confirmation. They all seemed equally confused.
"It was during the early days of the Academy. We were on a mission at the bank. It was a simple robbery.. or so we thought. It turned out to be a set up. Everyone else had been captured except for me."
Alternate Five paused for a moment before continuing.
"I already had a terrible headache, and space was uncooperating. I tried to rip it open but it only made the buzzing louder."
'Buzzing..?' Five thought.
"Diego must've noticed me cause he shouted at me to get my ass up and help them." He said glaring at Diego, who had a slightly guilty look.
"But thanks to that, I had the motivation to stand up and knock down the wall of reality."
"Wall of reality?" The Umbrellas asked.
Alternate Five looked at them confused.
"You know, the large wall, (he said while making hand gestures) the one that shakes everytime Allison uses a rumor?"
That confused the them even more.
"Wait, you don't manipulate reality?" He turned to Five.
"I manipulate space and time."
"Well shit... I thought you had the same powers as me!" Alternate Five exclaimed while smacking his head.
"Wait what?"
"My power is to manipulate the fabrics of the universe: space, time, reality, and dimensions." He replied, using his fingers to count the 4 fabrics of the universe.
"Holy shit, that's so cool!" Klaus said.
"Eh, not so much.."
There was a pause.
"Anyways, now that you know, I'll continue our story. After knocking down reality, it caused an explosion at the bank. Luckily, I was able to channel space and get my siblings and I out. After that I was bedridden for a week."
"The others didn't see Five but I did. The moment he woke up, I asked him about it." Alternate Diego continued as he looked at Five, his Five.
"And that was the turning point of our relationship." Alternate Five smiled and nodded.
"After I told Diego, I told Vanya. She already knew about space, so I told her about reality and dimensions." Vanya nodded silently.
"Now being powerful comes with its own set of problems. Sometimes the world is too much for me to handle. I told Vanya about this and she told me that when the world was too loud for her, she takes her pills and it would quiet down."
By this point the Umbrellas knew what happened next.
"So, she offered me one. I took her offer, and for the first time, it was quiet. I was ecstatic. But that only lasted for a moment because the next day, Reginald found out that I couldn't use my powers during training and beat me up."
There was silence once again. The Umbrellas glanced at Five, their Five, who just looked away.
"Anyways, that's when I put two and two together and found out that Vanya's medication blocks powers. I told her but she didn't believe me."
Allison flinched.
"However that soon changed. It was dinner time, we were eating, when the lights flickered and swayed. Eventually it fell, which caught the attention of dad. I took the blame for her."
"Thanks, by the way." Vanya said to alternate Five who just smiled back.
"After that, I told Ben. I told him about how the Horror was planning to force its way into our dimension."
The Umbrellas, minus Five, flinched.
"I gave him an offer to seal the horror away forever. He agreed. After our discussion, Klaus fell into the room and demanded to be in the loop, so we told him."
"I assume your plan to seal the Horror worked?"
"Mhm, though it was quite a horrible experience. We had sessions at first, where I would slowly smooth out the dip between the two dimensions, but the horror decided to force it way earlier than expected."
They knew where this was going.
"We were sixteen. During a mission, I released the Horror and things went horribly wrong."
"Everyone was in a state of shock. Hearing your brother's screams... I took it upon myself to do something. I took the center of the dip and pulled. I won't go into detail but it took me three weeks to wake up."
"During those week, we, the people who knew, planned to run away from the academy." Diego said.
"We ran away, bought an apartment, got jobs, and lived our life in the outside world."
"Four months later, Allison called me to tell me her plan to escape. We traded numbers and she left for Hollywood." Klaus said, looking at Allison with a small smile.
"What about Luther?" There was a big difference between the two Luthers. This Luther doesn't have the upper body of an ape.
"I- I got out a few years later and stayed with Five, Klaus, and Ben at their apartment."
"So dad didn't send you to the moon?" Luther asked. Other Luther shook his head.
There was a silence. The Umbrellas were looking at their alternates, thinking that this could've been their lives, that they could've been a family, a real family.
"And now we're back at the academy to celebrate the death of daddy dearest!" Other Klaus exclaimed.
This caught Five's attention. The others might've forgotten but he didn't.
"Reginald's dead?" He asked.
The Hargreeves nodded while saying some comments like 'good riddance', 'finally' and etc.
"What's wrong, Five?" Viktor asked. The others looked at him then at Five.
"The Apocalypse."
A/N: That's the end of chapter 6! This chapter has a lot of references from the inspiration fanfiction. Anyways, hope you enjoyed.