Light As A Feather..Diego Hargreeves

twenty eight.

You're The Human Equivalent Of Shit

present !

Grace had finished with the surgeries a while ago and she was letting the girls rest. Diego had also left to go take care of some things. Allison had woken up a few minutes ago and she had spoken to Luther, well not spoken too but communicated with. She went down stairs and was with Luther, Diego and Klaus. Luther had locked up Vanya in a cage filled with spikes and a metal door. They were all arguing at the door where Vanya was trying to get out when upstairs something else was happening.

Maria woke up and she gasped for air. She leaned over a bit and started coughing. She put her hand on her face and felt a blindfold on her eyes. She felt toward the back of her head and untied it. She could see slightly out of one eye. It was a bit blurry, but she could make out everything enough that she wouldn't be running into walls every second. She couldn't see out of her other eye at all. She went over to a mirror and looked at her eyes.

She had an X shaped scar across the middle of her face that overlapped her eyes. One eye looked fine which was the one she could see out of. The other one had a giant slash mark through it.

She put her blindfold back on to protect her eye. She could see out of her blindfold, but it was for mostly just protecting her eye. She walked downstairs to see if anyone was around. She heard people yelling and she followed it. She walked downstairs to find Allison holding up a notepad and she heard Luther say, "I can't do that, she hurt you." Maria then came into view and spoke up. "Guys, what's going on?"

When Diego heard her voice, he was mentally jumping for joy. He just wanted to run over to her and give her the biggest hug ever, but he had to maintain his composure. Diego decided to speak up, trying not to sound to excited. "Maria, you need to rest."

"Not until you tell me why we're in this creepy basement."

Klaus moved out of the way so she could see Vanya behind a metal door screaming for help. "Why is Vanya locked up?" Luther now answered her. "Because she almost killed the both of you."

"Yeah, but that was our fault! We told her the wrong way, we freaked her out!" Allison nodded in approval. "Do you guys agree with this?" Diego shook his head and Klaus spoke up. "Obviously not, this is sick!"

"Klaus is right, just please let her out, Luther." Luther looked at Allison. "I'm sorry. but she's staying put. Just until we know what we're dealing with."

"I know what we're dealing with! She's just scared! You're making things worse by keeping her in there!"

"Maria, I'm sorry you're not in charge."

"You're not either! The numbers don't mean shit anymore, Luther!"

"I'm Number One, dad's gone so I'm in charge."

"No, you're not, Luther, you're weak!" Everyone looked at her with confusion. "The numbers are backwards. Number one is the weakest and Number 7 is the most powerful, except for 0, 0 is infinite. Infinite power. Dad told me." They all looked at her with surprise. Luther tried to brush it off. "She stays put." Allison stormed off in anger and Klaus followed behind her. Maria ran at the door, but Luther pushed her to the ground. Diego then stood in front of Luther. "Hey, you don't touch her!"

"Diego, just calm down."

"Don't ever touch her again." He walked off in anger again. Maria stood up and tried to get through Luther again.  "Luther, let her go!"

"She's staying put, Maria."

 "You know, you're the human equivalent of shit!" She looked at Vanya and walked up stairs. Luther went upstairs to see Allison thinking Maria gave up. Maria never gives up, she had a plan in mind.

She was in the living room and when she saw Luther go to Allison's room, she ran back down stairs. She ran up to Vanya and she saw her crying and leaning against the door. Vanya looked up and saw Maria and started banging on the door. "Hey Vanya, I'm gonna get you out, okay? Okay?" Vanya was crying but she was nodding too. Maria was to tired to use her powers so she had to get it open by herself. She tried pulling on the handle and it wouldn't budge. Vanya started banging on the door, trying to encourage her. "I'm sorry, Vanya, I'm trying, I'm trying."

She kept pulling on the handle trying to get it to twist open, but nothing was working. Vanya's face went numb and Maria looked at her with concern. "Vanya? Vanya?! Hey Vanya?! What's wrong? Vanya!"

Suddenly, Maria was sent flying back and she slid all the way to the back wall. She was coughing a bit and she looked up and saw Vanya walking out of the room with glowing bright blue eyes. Maria stood up and ran up stairs. She saw pieces of the ceiling falling and she ran upstairs to get her friends. She saw Diego and Klaus lying there and she went and helped Klaus up and she started to shake Diego to get him to get up.

Suddenly, her and Diego were pulled out of the way of the falling ceiling, but not by Klaus. They both got up and the three of them ran back down stairs and ran out of the house. They looked around them and realized that Grace wasn't with them. "Where is she?"

"Mom!"

"Mom!"

"Wait, Grace, she's up there!" Maria pointed to the window and she was waving at them. "Grace!"

"Mom!" Suddenly, the whole building collapsed and Diego shielded Maria. They stood back up and found their childhood home in ruins. Diego ran into the huge pile of rumble and started looking everywhere for Grace. "Holy shit."

"Come on, Diego, come on, come on." Maria was looking at Diego with a tear running down her face. "Klaus, Maria, come here, help me search." He was throwing giant rocks out of the way looking around for Grace. Maria walked over to Diego. "Diego, stop, stop please, Diego." She put a hand on his should and turned him around. "Diego."

"What, what are you doing, let me go, what are you doing?"

"Stop, just stop she's gone, okay? She's gone."

"What do you wanna do? Y-you wanna-wanna w-walk away from this?"

"No, Diego, please just-"

"What about Pogo?" Luther, Five and Allison came walking in behind them and Luther interjected. "He didn't make it."

"What?"

"Vanya killed him." Maria let go of Diego and took a little step back out of disbelief. "No, Vanya wouldn't do that."

"No, I saw it. Just before we got out." Maria was extremely enraged now. If Luther didn't insist on being a so called leader all the time, they wouldn't be in this mess. "Guys. This is it. The apocalypse is still on. The world ends today."

"I thought you said it was over?"

"The newspaper. I found it in the future, the days I got stuck. The headline hasn't changed."

"No, that doesn't mean anything. The time could have been altered since that newspaper came out this morning."

"You're not listening to me! When I found it, I assumed this place came down along with every thing else. But here we are, the moon's still shining, the earth is in one piece, but not the Academy."

"I'm confused."

"Then listen to me you, idiot! Vanya destroys the academy before the apocalypse. I thought  Harold Jenkins was the cause but-"

"He was the fuse." Everyone looked at Maria with confusion. "Harold Jenkins made her realize her powers, he's the fuse and Vanya's the bomb. Vanya starts the apocalypse."

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