The Siren's Song [ The Umbrella Academy ]

Chapter Seventeen

*Andromeda's POV*

"Where are we?" I follow Five as he walks briskly, holding a piece of paper in his hand. We had just travelled via briefcase to somewhere I did not recognise.

"Wisconsin, 1982," Five replies, looking up from his paper.

"This is where the board meeting is?" I say skeptically, glancing at the building before us. 

"Yes," Five says, "And why are you wearing your Umbrella Academy uniform?"

"I wanted to match," I say pouting and looking down at my blazer.

It turned out to be some sort of inn, but everyone was dressed in polka outfits.

"Excuse me," Five approaches a woman.

"Uff da! You snuck up on me there!" The woman looks between us.

Five and I share a look.

"If you're looking for the cookies, we don't put them out till 3,"  The woman continues.

"Can hardly wait," Five mutters. "Uh, do you happen to know. where the Midwest Soybean Society is meeting?"

"Sure do, Muskellunge Banquet Room," The woman says. "You looking for your moms? Are they in for the convention?"

Five completely ignores the woman.

"Hey, could I get some change?"

"Oh, sure! I'll just look in my purse," The woman rummages through her purse. "Only a nickel and a couple of dimes...oh! You are in luck, mister,"

The woman hands the change to Five.

"You know, some say the best luck is to die at the right time," Five says while taking the change.

The woman looks at Five in shock, but before she can say anything, Five is leading me away.

We stop at a vending machine and Five puts the money in, but when the Fudge Nutter doesn't come out, Five starts shaking the machine.

"Come on!"

"Five calm down!" I hiss, as he was drawing attention.

"Stupid mother Fudge Nutter!" Five yells.

"Five!" I yell back.

"Fuckin' Fudge Nutter!" Five kicks the glass, which breaks.

He moves on without a word, and I follow him, until we are right outside the board meeting.

"You sure you're up for this?" Five asks me seriously while taking the 'emergency' axes down from the wall. "Why don't you wait out here,"

"I'm doing this," I say, yanking an axe from Five's hand.

I follow him around the corner, my axe raised and ready.

I hear the distant voices of people discussing things, but as soon as we enter the room,

"You!" A guy with a fishtank for a head points at Five.

"What are they doing?" A woman asks.

"Call security!" The fish guy yells.

As soon as a woman moves to get security, Five lunges at her. 

Everyone yelps as Five cuts her arm off.

Five and I look at each other and he winks at me.

I stand up on the table and throw my axe up in the air, it does a full 360 and then I catch it again perfectly by the handle.