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"𝐇𝐎𝐖 𝐃𝐎 𝐖𝐄 𝐀𝐋𝐖𝐀𝐘𝐒 𝐌𝐀𝐍𝐀𝐆𝐄 𝐓𝐎 𝐄𝐍𝐃 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐖𝐎𝐑𝐋𝐃, 𝐁𝐔𝐓 𝐁𝐄 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐎𝐍𝐋𝐘 𝐎𝐍𝐄𝐒 𝐓𝐎 𝐒𝐔𝐑𝐕𝐈𝐕𝐄?"

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𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐏𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐄𝐍𝐂𝐄 between everyone was beginning to run out. It had been more than an hour ever since Viktor left and there wasn't a sign of him for a long time. But as Viktor quickly came running down the stairs, wanting to walk past them, judging by his fast pace, Y/n noticed him.

"Hey." She softly spoke up, making him stop in his steps and look at them. The fear was visible on his face.

"It's time." Five said, catching Luther's attention. "Where's Harlan?"

But Harlan was nowhere near. "He's gone." Viktor quickly replied.

"You let him go, didn't you?" Luther asked in disbelief.

"Harlan's death is not gonna stop the Kugelblitz." Viktor began ranting as the others rolled their eyes at his behavior. "It's just gonna be another tragedy on a tragedy. And we can find another- I will find another way."

"Well, congratulations, Viktor." Luther chuckled. "You managed to destroy everything. Again." Before scoffing and walking away from them.

"I really thought you were smarter than that." Five said in disappointment.

Viktor nodded and looked over at Y/n for her to say something like them. "Wish you hadn't done that." Y/n shook her head.

But Viktor had enough and walked out on them, leaving them to be mad at him by themselves.

Y/n followed his steps with her look until he was completely gone and out of the hotel. She crossed her hands on her chest and stared at the last place he was seen as Klaus and Five were busy sitting at the bar with their shots.

As usual, she drowned out the talking and stayed one with her thoughts until Five came over to her. "Y/n?" She snapped out of her thoughts and turned to him. "Listen, I have to go and handle something, you wanna come along?"

Y/n looked around herself and tilted her head. "Depends. Is it important?"

"Not necessarily." Five shook his head. "I thought maybe you would want to stay back because-"

"You don't need to treat me like that." Y/n smiled. "But yeah, I'll stay back, I'm sure this place will go into chaos soon enough."

"I'll be back soon." Five softly pecked her cheek. "Stay safe." Before jumping away.

A warm smile appeared on Y/n's face as she touched her cheek. "Aww, you two are really adorable." Klaus chuckled all the way from the bar. "Such a cute old couple, I would wanna be like that when I'm old and saggy."

"Yeah, but I somehow manage to keep my skin bright." Y/n chuckled, walking over to him and sitting down. "You wouldn't even guess that I'm 58."

"Yeah, talk about having a baby face." Klaus chuckled.

The two sat there in silence for a couple of seconds. "How do we always manage to end the world, but be the only ones to survive?"

Klaus took a big sip of his vodka and sighed. "Eh, at least we have something to do. That's like the best job out there."

"Saving the world without getting a second to breathe?" Y/n squinted her eyes. "Well, it does have its own advantages." She sighed and turned around in her seat. "Anyways, I'm going to bed."

"Now?" Klaus turned to look at her. "You're already tired?"

"Well, I did have to put Allison to bed last night while she was drunk." And go through a huge emotional rollercoaster which she kept away from him. "So, I guess that's enough."

She walked over to the elevator and up her floor, but as soon as the doors opened, she could hear Lila's distant voice. "Stanley! Stanley!" Which sounded scared and concerned.

Y/n stepped out of the elevator and after taking a few corners, she saw Lila roaming the hallways. "Lila? What are you doing?"

Lila turned around and sighed. "Stanley wandered off somewhere and I can't find him."

"Oh, yes. Great parenting skills." Y/n crossed her hands on her chest and walked over to her. "Where's Diego?"

"He's uh," Lila looked behind herself to make sure that she was alone. "He's busy."

"Well, I'm sure he's busy just enough to help you search for your kid." Y/n said before walking to her right and leaving Lila to continue.

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"𝐘/𝐍?" Five jumped to her hotel room. He walked away from the door and saw her peacefully sleeping on her bed. He walked over to her and thought about leaving her there to sleep more until...

"I know you're here." She said in a sleepy tone. "I'm not fully asleep. What's wrong?" She rubbed her eyes and sat up on the edge of her bed.

"Listen," He sat down next to her. "Pogo told me about something that had to-"

"Woah, Woah," Y/n cut him off. "Pogo's alive?"

"Yes, but he's different." Five explained. "Anyway, he told me about how Dad had a project going on which had something to do with this hotel. Now, I don't know what it exactly means, but I do know that there is a secret passage in one of the rooms."

"A passage to what?" Y/n asked.

"I'm not sure yet." Five sighed and stood up from the bed. "But would you like to come along with me and find out?" He lent his hand out for her to take it.

Y/n looked at it and gave him her hand. He raised her up from the bed, their faces being inches apart from each other. "Absolutely."

After the two walked out into the hallway and were about to start looking, Lila's yelling caught their attention - she was still calling out for Stanley. But an opened door to a seemingly very fancy room caught their eyes. They walked over to it and slowly walked inside where they saw Diego getting dressed up.

"Diego?" Y/n looked at him. "What are you doing here? Your son is missing, why aren't you helping Lila find him?"

He didn't reply to her because the sight of clothes being scattered around everywhere already gave a pretty clear answer.

"Great." Five rolled his eyes and looked away. "Diego, did this room seem unusual to you? Maybe you saw an open door to something? Anything?"

"Well," Diego grunted standing up. "That wall had a door which opened up to some shitty and dangerous place." He pointed at a wall behind the couple. "Such a shithole."

The two turned around and saw a very colorful wall with a door inside it, but you couldn't really tell it. Only a small curve made is visible. Five walked closer to inspect it as Y/n carefully stayed behind him.

"What the hell are you doing?" Lila yelled coming inside the room. "Stanley is gone! We need to face this!"

"Just check the chimney!" Diego told her as he flipped the mattress.

"He's not in the bloody chimney!" Lila yelled back. "He's been Kugelblitzed!"

"And who's fault is that, huh?" Diego walked up to her. "You're the one that brought him here!"

Five had enough of their yelling. "Congratulations. You're both mildly terrible parents." He made them stop yelling and look at him. "Can we focus? Come on. How did this thing open before?"

"I don't know. It was already kinda open." Diego showed no interest.

"Already kinda open." Five repeated his words. "You know, Diego, you should have been an engineer. It's a lost opportunity."

"Hey." Y/n softly slapped his hand as a sign to man up.

"Why'd you wanna go in there anyway?" Lila came up to them with Stanley's slushy in her hand. "It's just sushi and death."

"When we met future me in the Commission bunker, I warned myself about Oblivion." Five explained to her. "Now, Pogo told me-"

"Wait, whoa, whoa, whoa!" Diego shouted, walking over to him. "Pogo's alive?"

"Different Pogo, but yes." Five told him. "The monkey said Dad spent years training the Sparrows for some kind of super-secret mission into..." He waited for them to finish his sentence.

"Oblivion." Lila said, earning a clap from him.

"So, I come back here and find that you two sentient STDs have actually been in there." He walked closer to the door. "Everything's leading to Oblivion. So we have to go in there."

"Hell no! Not happening." Diego protested.

"No way! We barely got out alive." Lila agreed.

"Yeah? So what? This is about more than just you two." Five said.

"Says the guy with all his fingers." Diego talked back.

"Okay, calm down." Y/n put her hand out to keep him a bit further away from Five. "What did you see in there anyways?"

"We went in there and I lost my fingers to this thing with..." Diego imitated stabbing with his hand. "...with a knife and on a chain."

"A knife on a chain?" Y/n shook her head. "Would it hurt you to be more descriptive?"

"Hey, look," Lila came closer. "Diego might be 90% moron and 10% pelvic thrust, but he's right about Oblivion, okay? We're not gonna waltz back in there just because you say so."

"Good." Luther spoke up behind them after coming out with Sloane out of nowhere. "Because you're coming with us."

"This should be interesting." Five remarked. "Where to?"

"Sparrow Academy." Sloane replied.

"The world's ending, so I think it's time we put our petty bullshit aside and work together on this Kugelblitz." Luther explained.

"Yeah? Or what?" Diego asked.

"Or Stanley won't be the last of us to disappear." Lila told him. "Come on."

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𝐀𝐒 𝐒𝐎𝐎𝐍 𝐀𝐒 𝐆𝐑𝐀𝐂𝐄 held out a plate of freshly baked cookies, Lila took a handful of them as if someone else was going to take them away from her. "Lovely to meet you."

The siblings all gathered around in the living room where the coffee table was already full of food. Guess Luther wasn't lying when he said that they are very good hosts because they went all out on this one.

The place seemed to be decorated for their comfortability, judging by the extra fancy chairs and lit-up fireplace, the Sparrows wanted to give a good impression.

"Welcome." Fei acknowledged everyone, walking inside the room with Ben behind her. "Please make yourselves at home."

"Bitch, this is our home." Allison rolled her eyes.

"Excuse me?" Fei sat down in her seat.

"Where the hell is Viktor and Klaus?" Diego asked.

"With our luck, probably Kugelblitzed by now." Five replied to him.

Diego stared at him in shock. "You're a dark little dude sometimes."

"Ooh, what happened to your hand?" Fei curiously asked him.

But Ben clapped his hands and caught everyone's attention. "We don't have time for idle chitchat. Everyone sit down."

"A "Please" would be nice, you know?" Y/n crossed her hands on her chest.

But Five pulled her down onto the couch, making her sit down between him and Diego. Ben followed her with his eyes, giving her his cold death stare.

"So, uh..." Luther paced around the room nervously. "This is kinda nice, right? All of us together. One big happy family." He anxiously chuckled. "I feel like I'm sweaty. Am I sweating?" He bent down to Sloane.

"No, you're fine." She assured him as he sat down next to her.

Y/n rolled her eyes and whispered to Five. "Tell me when this is over, okay?"

"Look, I know there's been bad blood between us." Ben began. "Whatever. Bygones, right?" But Diego raised his hand. "Question?"

"Yeah, if I kill you, do we get our Ben back?" He asked as Fei snickered at that. "Hypothetically."

Ben chuckled. "I think Y/n over here likes me just the way I am, right?" He made everyone turn their looks at her.

Y/n's eyes went wide as little plates, but the most confused reaction was on Five's face. He didn't say anything though, instead, he tried to figure out what he was talking about by himself. Until Viktor ran into the room, breaking the tension. "Where is he?"

His look landed straight on Allison who was calm as ever. "Viktor."

Viktor turned to his left to Ben. "What did you do to Harlan?"

"They didn't do anything." Allison replied. "I did." A silence set in. "I killed Harlan."

The pain in Viktor's eyes was seeable while Allison showed no remorse. "I...I don't...I don't understand. Why?"

"Because he didn't deserve to live." She bluntly answered him.

"What? Because they said so?" Viktor pointed at Ben, who took an entire bowl of cheeseballs and sat between Diego and Y/n. "You don't have to listen to them."

Five kept a stern look on Ben, being ready to see if he was going to do anything to Y/n. Ben came in closer to Y/n and smiled. "20 bucks on the little one."

"They don't get to tell us what to do." Viktor continued.

"Fair enough." Y/n nodded.

"You coulda talked to me." Viktor was on the verge of tears. "We could've figured out something else."

"So, what, you could lie to us again and take his side?" Allison protested.

"That's not what happened." Viktor lowered his voice.

"Oh, no, that's exactly what happened." Allison did the same. "I know Harlan killed all of our mothers."

"What?"

"Whoa."

"What?"

"Shit."

"Bloody plot twist." Lila said taking a bite of a twizzler.

"Who told you that?" Viktor let a small tear fall down.

"Harlan. After you lied about it to my face." Allison said through gritted teeth.

"Is that true, Viktor?" Diego spoke up. "Harlan started all this?"

Viktor looked down at the ground, not wanting to see his sibling's faces. "Yeah, but he didn't mean to hurt anyone. He-"

"How do you know?" Five asked.

Viktor turned to look at him. "Because I knew him. And he was sweet and kind until I made him like us. Okay?" He slowly changed his look to Allison. "So, I screwed him up. And if you need someone to blame, I'm right here-"

"What makes you think I don't?" She cut him off with a menacing look.

"This wasn't about saving the world." Viktor's lip quivered. "This was about hurting me. Payback for-"

Allison slowly stood up from her seat. "Go on." Everyone followed her slow footsteps. "Say her name." She whispered, looking down at him when she finally reached him.

"You know what?" Luther stood up and was about to walk over to them. "Maybe we should all just take a minute-" Before Allison pointed a finger at him, making him go back and sit down. "Okay."

"Did killing Harlan bring Claire back?" Viktor continued.

"Did protecting him bring Sissy back?" Allison shot back. "It was just as personal for you-"

"I didn't kill anyone!" Viktor lost his temper and yelled straight into her face.

"But you risked everyone!" Allison kept herself a bit more calm. "Do you know what that felt like? Watching you fight harder to protect the man who helped destroy my daughter than you ever did to bring her back?"

"I don't know how to bring Claire back." Viktor said. "Okay? No one does. But I was there for you. I tried. I was-"

"To what? Help me grieve?" She cut him off again. "God, this whole family is so quick to tell me to suck up my pain and so worried about fixing yours! Somebody had to pay because you never seem to. Destroy the world, kill Pogo, almost kill your sisters, and for what? So we can all run around and clean up your mess?" Allison continued. "I'm sick of it."

"Take it easy, Allison." Five warned her, getting shushed by Ben and ignored by Allison herself.

Viktor had enough of it. "Okay, I-"

"Shut your mouth!" Allison yelled at the top of her lungs, her eyes turned yellow and her voice echoed through the room.

Viktor's eyes turned white as he began choking and not being able to open his mouth as if it was glued together. The siblings watched in horror, seeing Allison acting like a psycho for the first time.

"Every time I build a new life for myself," She came in closer to Viktor. "You end the world and take it from me!

"How are you doing this without saying "I heard a rumor"?" Five asked her.

"Just a little residual gift from Harlan." She answered him, not taking her eyes off Viktor.

"All right, that's it." Luther stood up. "Knock off the power shit, Allison. It's not okay!"

At those words, Viktor finally opened his mouth and began coughing, gasping for air. He bent down and put his hands on his legs. Allison also bent down to his level and whispered. "We should have left you in the basement."

"Whoa! Allison, all right!" Diego shot up from his seat.

And that was enough for Viktor to swing a punch straight into Allison's face. The force was strong enough for both of them to stumble back. Everyone gasped and watched in shock as Allison turned around with a bloody nose and an evil smile.

Viktor stormed out of the room, not giving a look to anyone else, as Y/n stood up from her seat and walked over to her. "You okay?"

Allison followed Viktor with her eyes until he was gone out of her sight. "I'm fine." She wiped away the blood with her tongue and walked back to her seat. "Let's continue."

"Sweet." Ben smiled. "You guys fight just like us."

"Nah, man." Diego disagreed. "We don't fight like this."

Everyone silently sat back, keeping it to themselves. Because this was a sight to the Hargreeves just like it was a sight for the Sparrows.

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