𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐌𝐈𝐒𝐒𝐈𝐎𝐍 | 𝐅. 𝐇𝐀𝐑𝐆𝐑𝐄𝐄𝐕𝐄𝐒

𝟸𝟺. 𝙼𝙴𝙴𝚃𝙸𝙽𝙶 𝙰 𝙵𝙰𝙼𝙸𝙻𝙸𝙰𝚁 𝙵𝙰𝙲𝙴

𝚃𝚘: 𝚃𝙷𝙴 𝚁𝙴𝙰𝙳𝙴𝚁𝚂
𝙵𝚛𝚘𝚖: 𝙿𝟻𝟷𝟹𝟾𝟸𝟻𝙷
𝙳𝚊𝚝𝚎: 𝟶𝟾𝟶𝟿𝟸𝟶𝟸𝟷

𝙲𝙷𝙰𝙿𝚃𝙴𝚁 𝚃𝚆𝙴𝙽𝚃𝚈-𝙵𝙾𝚄𝚁: 𝟸𝟺. 𝙼𝙴𝙴𝚃𝙸𝙽𝙶 𝙰 𝙵𝙰𝙼𝙸𝙻𝙸𝙰𝚁 𝙵𝙰𝙲𝙴

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Five and Diego got out of the car and approached the building. "D.S. Umbrella." Diego whispered.

"This is it." Five stopped for a moment causing Diego to look at him in confusion and concern. "You okay?" Diego asked.

Five cleared his throat. "Yeah. I'm fine." He approached the door before staring at the empty and dark hallway inside from the glass door. "Just..." Five tried to say more but he ended up sighing.

"How long it's been since you've seen the old man?" Diego asked, figuring out what was troubling Five while crouching down as he brought out some things to unlock the locked glass door.

"Twenty-five years." Five answered while he leaning against the wall and watching Diego do his work.

"That's a trip," Diego replied as he started working on the lock.

"No kidding." Five looked back inside the building before sighing. "You know, when I was stuck out there in the apocalypse, there wasn't a day that went by where I didn't hear his voice in my head."

"What was he saying?"

"I told you so."

Diego scoffed softly. "Well, Dad's here, he's never met you before, so he can't say that to you."

"I'm sure he'll find a way." Five looked back at the door when he noticed it was still unlocked. He sighed and spatial jumped to unlock the door from the inside.

Diego lowered and shook his head. "Right. Gotta remember that."

The two brothers entered the building as Five turned a lamp open. It managed to stay on for a few seconds but to their disappointment, the lamp slowly turned off. "Shit." Five muttered.

"Guess the old man wasn't much for home decor," Diego commented as Five lightly punched a pillow sitting on a chair. "Feels more like a front."

"A front for what?" Diego asked.

"I don't know."

"Well, I'll take the left. You take the right. Yell if you, uh... get in trouble." Diego took one last glance at Five before entering the left room. Five shook his head before opening the right door

Five looked for a room to find Reginald Hargreeves. He checked the other room when he spotted the door was open and found the room dark.

He opened the lights showing a room filled with some furniture and three mannequins acting as if it was a family. There were "windows" but it was only wallpapered acting as if it were background outside a house. The lights suddenly turned off. "What are you up to?" Five said softly, completely bothered with what was inside.

Five continued to search at the other rooms. While looking and browsing for anything useful, Five found an envelope. He pulled out what was inside to see an invitation of some sort. Five took it and shoved it inside his pocket. A metallic clattering was suddenly heard causing Five to turned around in the direction where it came from.

'What was that?' Five looked around until he noticed a small device blinking red just by the corner. Before he could investigate what it was, he was attacked by an unknown figure from the shadows. Five quickly spatial jumped and reappeared behind them to kick their legs but the figure instantly faded.