Out of Time

by LilKiwiBird

In which Five scatters his family across time & space, Theodore both finds & loses himself, Klaus becomes a cult leader, Diego is institutionalised, Luther is a mob man and Allison settles down once more. And, it is wont to do, the world is fucked up because of it.[OUT OF PLACE SEQUEL. REWRITE]

2. Prologue

APOCALYPSE CASE FILE: THE TRIGGER(S)

AGENT DOT

"On April 1, 2019, the Earth was destroyed in a cataclysmic event. Billions of people were wiped out in a manner of moments…Ironically, the seven survivors of the apocalypse were the very family members who brought it on"

"It is an established notion that time is fickle and, much like karma, luck or death, is unforgiving of your feelings…This is an undeniable fact; one that is supported by a multitude of theories: The Butterfly Effect, The RippleEffect, The Domino Effect…The Bootstrap Paradox, The Predestination Paradox, The Temporal Loop Paradox, The Polchinski's Paradox, The Hitler Murder Paradox and The Grandfather Parados, to name a few"

"…It only takes a slight chance or change in ANY direction for an ENTIRELY different outcome to occur…Mr Five learnt this lesson the hard way, during his escapades into the apocalypse as a child and then, subsequently, during his failure to prevent such an event…In an effort to save his family a second time, Mr Five quickly formulated the equation that would bring them backwards to a desired point in time, to do as such"

"Unfortunately, Mr Five once again misplaced that damned decimal point, and instead of landing together as Mr Five had intended, he instead deposited them across the timeline…At the very least, Mr Five was able to land them within the same state, so small mercies and all that…"

"Fingers knotted themselves together in white-knuckled grips and nails dug into flesh in an effort to stay together, but it wasn't enough to stop the centrifugal forces from tearing them apart…And with that, the Hargreeves were flung far across the timeline, alone"

"Here is how it begins:

1) Agent Hazel returns to the Room 12 of the RAIN QUAIL, to assassinate the Handler in 2019 before disappearing in time with Agnes Rofa & a stolen LA COMMISSION DU TEMPS ET DE L'SPACE briefcase.
2) Agent Lila Pitts is inserted into the timeline for her first ever mission, in 1914. It is completed in January, 1920 and she is extracted from the timeline.
3) Theodore N. Hargreeves arrives in Dallas, TX on April 1, 1914. He later moves to Apartment 2 of The Stellar Suites on April 3, 1914. He later disappears in 1917 and reappears in the timeline, in 1958 [as of yet, there have been no evidence found of the usage of a LA COMMISSION DU TEMPS ET DE L'SPACE briefcase in any of these instances]
4) Sir Reginald Hilde Hargreeves arrives in New York, C. 1918, and spends several years constructing the HOTEL OBSIDIAN around the unknown anomaly known as "The Entity"
5) Number Three "Allison" Hargreeves arrives in Dallas, C. 1956 and later marries Raymond Chestnut in the same year. She becomes a mother (again) in 1959, and later, in 1961, to toddlers Phillip "Pip" Chestnut & Clarissa Chestnut (respectively).
6) Christopher the Cube is discovered & retrieved from the anomaly in 1958, when Theodore returned from the first official mission inside the anomaly.
7) Both Number Four "(Ni)Klaus" Hargreeves & Number Six "Benjamin" Hargreeves arrive in Dallas, TX on February 11, 1938 where they are later adopted by the late Madame Cockrell and end up running a world-renowned cult named for the popular band "DESTINY'S CHILD" Klaus Hargreeves later becomes a father, to Vanda Cockrell-Hargreeves, in 1958.
8) The Handler is retrieved from Room 12 at the RAIN QUAILS and recovers from her head wound. She is reinstated at LA COMMISSION DU TEMPS ET DE L'SPACE, in the Apocalyptic Department. She goes AWOL three months later, in Dallas 1963.
9) Agent Lila is inserted back into the timeline in Dallas, TX. C. August-September 1961 at THE HOLBROOK SANITARIUM FOR NERVOUS AND MENTAL DISEASES. It is there, that her second official mission begins.
10) Number Two "Diego" Hargreeves arrives—and is later incarcerated—in Dallas, on September 1, 1961. He is admitted to THE HOLBROOK SANITARIUM FOR NERVOUS AND MENTAL DISEASES by a jury of his peers.
11) Number One "Luther" Hargreeves arrives in Dallas,TX, C. 1961, where he tracks down and is later rejected by Sir Reginald Hilde Hargreeves. He later becomes a body-man and a prized [underground] fighter for known gangster, Jack Ruby.
12) The Swedes are inserted into the timeline to do damage control.
13) And then there is Number Five, who arrives on the morn of the apocalypse, November 25, 1989. He is not pleased"

"…Admittedly, we at LA COMMISSION DU TEMPS ET DE L'SPACE, first believed the Trigger, the Ignition and the Bomb to be three seperate people…but it has become quite clear that we were in the wrong…All the players are now on the board, let the game begin anew…!"

—Excerpts from: APOCALYPSE CASE FILE: THE TRIGGER(S), Agent Dot