Ashes ~*~ [ THE UMBRELLA ACADEMY/FIVE HARGREEVES ]

CHAPTER EIGHT

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Episode Four: Kugelblitz

     Ivy touched down in the backyard of the Sparrow Academy, knowing she had beat them back there. She went inside and jogged up the stairs, going to her dad's room. She saw him sitting on the couch, watching TV and doing nothing. 

     "What did you do?" Ivy asked, Reginald looking over. 

     "I haven't a clue what you're talking about. I've been here," he said, motioning to the couch. 

     "Adopting me and making me less powerful, and a more vulnerable human being. Trying to control me better and failing again. What did you do?" she asked, walking towards him. 

     "When you visited in 1961, I ran more tests on you than you thought," Reginald admitted. "I learned how to sedate your powers in the future to not make them as dangerous. Still, good enough to win against any enemy. Never enough to try and kill me again. Are you here to try and kill me again?" 

     "I want to do a lot more than that. Unfortunately, that funeral would be a nuclear war. For now, I need you to fix it," Ivy said, Reginald looking up at her. "You're a wise guy about time travel, so go back and fix it. Adopt the Umbrella's again. We won't end the world this time, it will be fine!" 

     "Just because I know how to time-travel, doesn't mean I can," Reginald said, shrugging slightly. "I know the logistics, the consequences. I do not know the action of it." 

     "I'm getting really sick of you," Ivy said, shaking her head at him. 

     "You know, Ivy, you should be flattered I adopted you twice," Reginald told her. "Means I liked you the most." 

     "Yeah, I'm totally honored being replaced and that bitch getting the life I've always wanted," Ivy spat at him. "Feels great to know you actually had it in you to give a shit about me." 

     "I sense you're upset," Reginald said, looking her up and down. 

     "I just... The timeline needs to be fixed," Ivy said. "I can't do this again. You fucked it all, you did it! Not us! You have fucked us from the beginning, and I am tired! I am tired, dad. All I have ever wanted was for Five to come back, and for there to be no apocalypse, and no crazy exes with secret superpowers, and no dead dad's that want an apocalypse to happen! I want it all to stop!" She took a deep breath, stepping back as Reginald stared at her. 

     "Are you finished?" he asked, her eyes shifting to him. She nodded slightly, Reginald standing. "You can escort yourself out, I assume." Ivy stared at him, then sat on the couch making him groan. "Ivy, your other self will be home any minute now. I'm not sure you want to deal with the fallout of that." 

     "From what I've been told, I can handle her," Ivy said, glaring up at him. "Besides, I'm scared to face my own family right now. They're all being complete idiots. It's to the point where if I am there, I'm just going to yell at all of them and set them on fire." 

     "How are they being idiots?" Reginald asked, sitting next to her. 

     "Well, to further prove you were right to adopt different kids, they're being completely selfish dicks. Diego only cares about himself and Lila, Luther only cares about himself and one of yours that he's banging, Sloane I think. Allison only cares about revenge and getting the dumb briefcase, which we already got but if I tell her now she'll blow up on me. Plus, it doesn't work, so she'll get mad at us until we make it work. And Viktor is letting Allison go off the rails in her revenge plot," Ivy ranted to him. "Five is no where to be seen, and Klaus just disappears for hours at a time."