THE UMBRELLA ACADEMY
fragments || five hargreeves x reader

CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE: EVERYONE HAS MONSTERS INSIDE

Written By: peachyhxlland

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"You seem to be the sensible one of the bunch," Reginald told Five as they both sat on bar stools, waiting for their drinks. You were just on a corner, afraid to be near Reginald.

"That's because I'm the oldest." Five said. Reginald raised an eyebrow in surprise and confusion before taking a liquor. "Cognac?" Reginald asked.

"Just a smidge." Five turned to you. "You?"

"Me?" You asked.

"Yeah, you."

"You want me...?"

"I mean what do you want?"

You stood there awkwardly, unable to form words. "I-I, erm, just a margarita will do. Or never mind, just water. Cold one, please. I-I drank too much earlier."

Five furrowed his eyebrows as he wondered when did you drink while Reginald stared at you. "You two look young to drink."

"Like what I said, I'm the oldest." Five said. "She's the same age as my other siblings but she's stuck on her 16-year-old body like me."

"Very well." Reginald poured down some liquor down on both glasses. "The other night you quoted Homer at me. Why?"

"You forced us all to learn it as kids. In the original Greek, no less."

Reginald gave Five his drink. He poured down cold water on one glass and offered it to you. You walked towards him and hesitantly took the glass from him. The two men raised their glasses before drinking. Five set his glass down. "This world ends in five days if we don't get out of the timeline."

"Worlds end. Paleozoic, Jurassic, and so on."

Five shook his head. "We can do something about this one."

"Man's greatest flaw: the illusion of control."

"I need your help. All right? You're my last sane option. Otherwise, I gotta make a deal that I really don't wanna make."

You looked at Five and wondered what the deal it was. Five glanced at you before asking Reginald a question. "What do you know about time travel?"

"In theory?"

"In practice."

"I know it's akin to descending blindly into the depths of freezing waters and reappearing—"

"As an acorn. Yeah." Five finished.

"What transpired when you tried traveling before?"

Five sighed. "I botched it."

"How?"

"I jumped too far forward, got stuck in the future for twenty-five years in an apocalypse."

"Hence, why he's the oldest in the group." You added earning a nod from Reginald.

"Then I jumped too far backward..." Five continued. "...except this time I brought my entire family with me, well, except for (Y/n)."

"Maybe your appetite is disproportionate to the size of your abilities," Reginald told Five. "Start small. Seconds, not decades."

"Seconds?" Five asked in disbelief.

"Mmm." Reginald hummed in response.

"Look, no offense, but I need a bit more time for what I'm trying to accomplish."

"So much can change in a matter of seconds. One could overthrow an empire. One could fall in love. One could save a life."

Five glanced at you who was too interested in Reginald's words. You were listening and understanding his words and Reginald seemed to notice that.

"An acorn doesn't become an oak overnight."

"I was really hoping you had more than that." Five said with disappointment in his tone.

"I'm sorry I can't be of more help."

Five shook his head. "I'm sorry, too. I gave you such a hard time as a kid. I didn't know any better."

"Hmm." Reginald sighed. "No skin off my teeth, old man."

The two drink their alcohols down, Reginald slowly drinking his while Five gulping it fast as if he was in a hurry. You stared down at your cold water, thinking until you were snapped out of your thoughts when someone called you. "You, girl."

You looked up to see Reginald looking at you. "Come sit with me."

You gulped before slowly approaching the bar stool on his other side and sitting just beside him. "You may be wondering why I called you too."

"I thought I was just here to hear your wise words to Five." You muttered.

"I have noticed your powers. You and the shy girl. Both powerful and dangerous. I'm surprised you two could control and handle it very well."

Five listened as you didn't know what to say. "I-I, well, I don't know how to handle it very well... right now."

"(Y/n) and Vanya have forgotten everything about the past." Five explained. "Vanya has amnesia and (Y/n) has fake memories written in her brain."

"My powers became more powerful and stronger when you... experimented on me." You told Reginald. "You tried to get rid of my powers."

"Then I must have a reason."

"Because I was too dangerous?"

"You and the shy girl could cause an apocalypse with those powers." Reginald said. "With you two together, well, I don't think there will be a planet for us to live anymore."

Five looked at you as you processed everything Reginald has said. "Well if it wasn't for you, my powers wouldn't have become more powerful."

"Then I apologize. For causing more problems for you. But I hope and know, you can handle it." Reginald poured more water down on your glass. "I can feel you're the strongest of the bunch."

"I—"

"You speak truthfully, you're not afraid, you guide your siblings to do the right thing. Although you're the strongest, be careful of the monster inside you."

"Monster?"

"Everyone has monsters inside. Just be careful with that." Reginald poured himself a drink again. "You either release the monster and cause harm to everyone or keep it inside, fight it, handle it, to keep everyone safe."

You sat there quietly as his words sank in your brain. Reginald turned to Five then to you then to Five again. "You two are an odd couple but a powerful one. With you two together, maybe you could both think of how to stop the end of the world."

After that, you and Five said your goodbyes to Reginald before leaving. You were on your way back to Elliott's home. Five excused himself away from you to go somewhere else so you were alone in the night. You stopped in your tracks and looked up to see Nico just outside the building. Nico turned his head to see you with your hood on. "How's the dinner?" He askes as he stepped on his cigarette.

"Oh, lovely." You told him sarcastically. "Just like my fake memory."

"You're sarcastic, I can tell. Is it that bad?"

You shrugged. "Not really? It was... not that bad. I don't know."

Nico looked down before adjusting his baseball cap. "Let's walk for a while. At least let me spend more time with you before you go."

"Sure."

Nico approached a car and opened the door. You blinked in confusion before looking up to Nico and then to the car to back to Nico. "What's happening?"

"Let's go for a ride."

"Why? Is this your car?"

"Yeah. Elliott let me buy a car before buying his groceries. He said he's going to cook something for us."

"Well let's bring him along."

"I told him that but he said he wanted to fix his things. Don't worry, I said we'll be back."

You smiled before excitedly getting inside the car. Nico shook his head and got inside the driver's seat. He removed his cap and placed it on top of your head before started driving away.

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After meeting with the Handler, Five traveled back in 1982 to complete his new mission: to kill the board of directors. Five saw the building and got inside, looking around. He saw a lady near the desk. "Excuse me."

"Uff da." The lady gasped. "You snuck up on me there. If you're looking for the cookies, we don't put 'em out till 3:00."

"I can hardly wait." Five said in a fake happy tone. "Uh, do you happen to know where the Midwest Soybean Society is meeting?"

"Sure do. Muskellunge Banquet Room." The lady pointed in the direction. "You looking for your mom? She in for the convention?"

Five ignored the question when he spotted a vending machine. "Hey, could I get some change?" Five took out his money and gave it to the lady. "Oh, sure, I'll just look in my purse. Only a nickel and a couple of dimes. Oh! You... are... in... luck, mister."

The lady gave the change to Five which he took. He chuckled softly. "You know, some say the best luck is to die at the right time."

The lady's smile disappeared as she became a bit disturbed by his words. Five walked away and approached the vending machine. He inserted the coins and pressed some buttons to buy the Fudge Nutter.

Five's eyebrows furrowed as he noticed the Fudge Nutter was stuck. He pressed the same buttons again to get the snack out. With nothing working, he started getting frustrated. He started slamming his hands on the machine. "Come on! Stupid mother Fudge Nutter!"

He started shaking the vending machine to get the snack out. "Fuckin' Fudge Nutter!" He shook the vending machine violently in anger causing some food to fall out but not the Fudge Nutter. Five stepped back and kicked the glass barrier of the vending machine.

Five sighed, scratching the back of his head before looking side to side if anyone saw his little tantrum. He walked away from the machine and noticed a cake. He slid his finger on the side, collecting the icing. He licked his finger as he spotted the room where the board of directors are.

He spotted an axe and took it. He prepared himself and licked his finger one last time before entering the room. He heard AJ speaking. "Let's move on to article 17, please." AJ instantly stood up when he saw Five with an axe. "You! Call security!"

A woman quickly head to the telephone but Five was quick, quickly cutting her arm off before she could create a phone call. AJ hid under the table in fear as Five grinned menacingly and proceeded to slash, cut, and murder the board of directors. He would spatial jump so most of them wouldn't escape quickly.

From time to time, he's getting covered with blood. He would fix his tie or drink water calmly as he kills the board of directors.

AJ looked up, peeking, until gasping when Five reappeared in front of him, standing at the table. "She sent you, didn't she?"

"Does it really matter now?"

"Whatever she offered you, I will double it, triple it."

"I'm not doing this for money." Five raised his axe up, ready to chop down AJ until the attendant lady from before pushed him off the table. "Get off me!" Five exclaimed.

AJ took this opportunity to run away. The lady was holding Five so he wouldn't escape. "You're gonna pay for that vending machine, little mister."

Five hit his elbow to her face to get out of her grasp. "Yeah? I don't want to hurt you, all right?"

The lady fought back, punching him in the face. "Hurt me? Oh, I ain't afraid of you, you little pus ball."

Five punched her back, knocking her out on the ground. Five looked around for AJ to find him no longer in the room. "Shit." He stood up, grabbed a cricket bat, spatial jumping to find AJ.

Five reappeared in front of AJ causing AJ to stop running. "Surely we can come to some form of agreement that benefits both parties. Quid pro quo? What do you say?"

"Why not?" Five smiled. "Here's your quid." Five hit AJ's side. "Here's your pro." Then he hit AJ's knee causing AJ to kneel down. Five looked down at AJ with a sigh of satisfaction.

"No! No! Please don't!" AJ whimpered.

"And here's your quo."

"No...!"

Five raised his bat up, slamming it right at AJ's fishbowl head. The fish, AJ, went out and so is his robotic body. Five looked down, unknowingly women opening the doors. When they spotted him, they quickly went back from where they came, not wanting to be involved in what was happening.

Five sighed, looking up before looking down again as AJ jumped up and down on the ground.

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Diego removed the last knife from Elliott's chest and Luther covered him up with a blue blanket. "I can't believe Elliott's dead."

"He was a good guy. Deserved better than this."

Luther sighed. "Yeah."

"Elliott must've been getting too close to the truth." Diego theorized as he looked down at the floor from above. "It smells like the feds."

"What? Are you out of your mind? Diego, if this was the federal government, they would take him somewhere and question him. They wouldn't... do this. No, this is the work of a psychopath."

"Oga Foroga. That a name?"

Luther looked down with Diego on the blood-written words inscribed on the floor which was 'ÖGA FÖR ÖGA'. Luther faced Diego. "I'll look her up."

Luther grabbed the book to find the person who has the name Oga Foroga but instead they found Olga Foroga. "Holy shit, I found her. Olga Foroga." Luther scoffed. "That must be her."

"Call the bitch."

"On it." Luther immediately called the woman they found unknowing that Five finally came and saw the bloody message on the floor. "It's ringing," Luther whispered.

Five, who just came to set the briefcase, which the Handler gave him, down and uncovered Elliott to find out what happened. Five sighed. "Damn." He whispered. He covered Elliott again and heard Luther speaking.

"Uh, hello, Olga?" When Luther heard the woman, he looked at Diego. "It's her." He whispered. "She sounds so old. What should I say?"

"Just..." Diego signaled Luther to hurry up and talk to the old woman.

Luther cleared his throat. "I-uh, excuse me, ma'am. Um, I was just wondering—what? My name? Is, uh, Luther Hargreeves and—"

Diego snatched the telephone so he could talk to the woman while Five looked around on where to hide the briefcase. Five set the briefcase down on a corner as he heard Diego speaking. "You killed one of ours, Olga, now we're coming after you. You will be dead by nightfall." Diego said angrily, his teeth gritting.

"Hey." Five called out to Diego and Luther. "It's Öga För Öga, idiots. Swedish for 'an eye for an eye'." Five explained as he took his blazer off. "It means the Swedes killed Elliott."

Diego sighed before turning to the telephone again. "Wrong number. Have a lovely day." Diego ended the call and looked at Luther who has his eyes widened and Five took his vest off. "We would've gotten there." Luther told Diego.

"Eventually."

"Yeah."

The two men turned to Five and noticed the blood all over him. "Uh, you have some blood on you." Luther pointed out.

"A lot of blood, actually."

Five ignored them, going into the bathroom to wash his face. Luther and Diego watched him, wondering what he could've done. "Five, what did you do?"

Five got uniform clean from blood and began dressing up. Five wore his necktie and glanced at Luther. "I found a way home."

"What? How?" Luther asked.

"All the details are irrelevant, but... I made a deal to get back to our timeline."

"What about doomsday?"

"Won't happen."

"And the 2019 apocalypse?"

"Everything will be back to normal. All right? Now, no more questions. We gotta go. We have to find the others, right?"

"Yeah." Luther nodded.

"Luther, you get Allison."

"Okay."

"Diego, Klaus. I'll get Vanya." Five paused and looked around. "I noticed something from the moment I stepped into this building a while ago. Where's (Y/n)?"

"She's not here," Diego said.

"What do you mean she's not here? She was heading back home."

"I thought she was with you."

Five sighed. "She's probably out with her grandfather. One of us should come here quickly before she could see Elliott. It would break her if she ever finds him dead. Someone has to be there for her but I will try to get back sooner."

Five grabbed his blazer and wore it. "Now, we meet back in the arrival alley in 77 minutes." Five grabbed watches and gave them to Diego and Luther. "Here. I've synchronized these watches."

"Okay, let's do this."

Five nodded and quickly walked away but was stopped by Diego. "Woah, woah, woah, hold on. You show up drenched in blood and expect us to believe everything's gonna go back to normal if we go home now?"

"Elliott just got killed because of us." Five exclaimed.

"What about Dad? What about JFK?"

"Diego, we have a chance to go home and make things right. We are taking it."

Diego sighed, looking down. "I have to say goodbye to Lila."

Five scoffed. "Lila doesn't give a shit about you, Diego!" He exclaimed impatiently. "She never did. She's one of them. She's a member of the Commission."

"No way. Not possible."

"She was just using you to get to me. You're the Oswald of this story, my friend. The goddamn patsy." Five started walking out again but Diego talked again.

"You don't know what you're talk—"

Five spatial jumped in front of Diego, interrupting his sentence and point his finger at him. "If you don't do this, I'll kill you myself. Got it?" He threatened before spatial jumping again to find Vanya and possibly you.

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All chapters were made and ready to publish. The chapters will be published every Tuesday and Thursday at 6 pm (Philippine Time).

I wasn't supposed to write a chapter about Five killing the board of directors but I need to fill something in because I don't want (Y/n) to figure out Elliott's death that quick.