Gone 2 Long (Number Five)

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When we jumped back a whole bunch of shit came with us as we fell to the floor and we all landed in a pile. We shoved off each other. "Where have you been?" "Facing my mortality, Viktor. I don't recommend it." Five answered standing up to help me up too.

"You had the briefcase. We've been looking for this!" Allison said picking it up to try and get it to work. "Well, look no further. That's the last one on Earth. Or was the last one." Allison shoved it down and walked away to sit on the steps. Five inspected the case farther "Yeah, that's toast. Oh shit. All right."

"Hey, Chatty Cathys, quit the chitchat, all right? I'm calling a family meeting here." Five said interrupting Diego and Luther's conversation. "Where's Klaus?" Five asked. Luther just shrugged. Diego then walked off. "Dieg-Lost another. Great." "Spit it out, Five." Allison threatened. "Hey! I get it you're grieving and shit but you're not the only one and you don't see the rest of us acting like assholes!" I told her. She just rolled her eyes.

"Well, since you asked so nicely, sister mine, our little paradox brought forth a freaking Kugelblitz." "What the hell is a Kugelblitz?" Viktor asked. "It's not anything like a cheese blintz." I told him. "I asked." Lila said raising her hand. I pointed my thumb at her, "She did." I said nodding.

Five walked to the bar and we all sat down as he explained while making drinks. When he started to hand them out Viktor began to speak. "So this Kugelblitz, it's...?" "The end of everything. Every rock, every star, every atom sucked into a radiant black hole." Five explained. "Randomly collapsing matter every moment in time across all existence till nothing's left." Lila finished. "Hate to say I told you so, but..." Five said. "You love to say I told you so." Viktor corrected as we all took a drink.

"You know, it's impressive. Whoever knocked off your mums hated you all enough to end the entire universe." "We don't know that." Viktor said. "It doesn't matter who created the thing. We just have to kick its ass." Allison said. "Oh really? How? Are you and Diego gonna punch it in the Kugel?" Luther said taking a drink making me chuckle a bit.

"The best plan is to go back in time and eliminate the paradox and destroy whatever it was that took our mothers and stop the Kugelblitz before it starts, but we can't do that. Briefcase is kaput." Five said. "And why the hell can't you just jump us out of here?" Allison asked. "Last time I tried that, we all got trapped in time. Do you really wanna risk that again?" "What's plan B?" Viktor asked. "Oh! It's a pill women take after having sex to ensure they don't get pregnant." I stated jokingly. He just huffed out a laugh.

Then Klaus, Diego, and Stan walked in. Klaus joined me and Five behind the bar. "Gimme that." He said taking the bottle. We saw his chest. "What happened to you?" "Klausy what happened?" Me and Five asked. "Oh, just a speargun to the chest. No big deal." He said taking a swig. "I'm sorry what!?" I asked him.

Another wave hit taking out about half of the lobby. "What the hell was that?" Diego asked. "That was a Kugel wave. Oh, It's getting worse." Five answered. "How long do we have?" Luther asked. "At this rate of escalation, if you factor in-" "How long, Five?" Luther yelled. "Four, maybe five days before the rest of existence is blitzed." We all remained silent.

"We should have given them Harlan." Luther said. "Luther." Viktor said. "What about Harlan?" Diego asked. "The Sparrows said if we turned him over, we could end the fighting, and then work together to save the world. But if we didn't-" Viktor interrupted Luther. "But we tried to make peace. Okay, and then the step-siblings from hell attacked, kidnapped you, and they tried to kill us. I mean, come on. We can't trust them. Working together would be like trying to defuse a bomb by pouring gas on it. It's only gonna make things burn down faster."

"But don't we need the big bad glow-y thing in their basement?" Klaus slurred. We all looked to him. "Klaus, do you know where the Kugelblitz is?" Five asked. "Oh, yeah. I saw it. *gasp* When I went to visit Dad. It's in the old storage room where Mom used to keep all her luggage." "Why didn't you tell anyone?" Diego asked. "I did. I told you!" "You say stupid shit all the time!" "Of course. It appeared in the same place we did." Five said as they continued arguing eventually dragging everyone into the argument except Luther and Viktor who had walked off.