Extra-ordinary: My life as number eight

~Chapter 7~

Two guys and two girls were walking down the street towards the bank. As they got to the bank, one of the guys held the door open for his friends. The girls giggled at this chivalry. The lead guy in the group entered the building, the girls and the other guy following him. Suddenly the lead guy's nose gets bashed in by the butt of a shotgun. The girls scream as several other armed robbers grab them and tie them up next to the other hostages. "Get onto the goddamn ground!" one of the robbers yells to the only guy in their friend group, who fell to the ground instantly. 

(On videotape)

Hours later and the robbery is still ongoing. The customers and bank employees are tied up together, sobbing. "I don't give a damn! You are out of time! I told you what would happen didn't I!?" One of the bank robbers was on the telephone talking to a hostage negotiator. He gestures angrily to one of the other robbers to bring him a bank teller. The frightened bank teller gets dragged to the phone and gets ordered to tell the person on the other side of the phone his name. "Craig. Craig Daniels," the bank teller stuttered. The second bank robber pulled Craig away from the phone and back to the rest of the hostages. "You go home tonight, your wife asks, "how was work," you tell her,oh, not bad, got a guy named Craig Davis killed," the first robber continued on the phone. The second robber was now holding a gun up to Craig's head. The first robber nodded his head as the second robber cocked his gun. "Excuse me sir?" A young girl asked. The second robber turned around to see a young Allison standing there with her uniform. "The hell-" you could hear the robber off screen. "Oh shit," Five mumbled as he let the camera accidentally fall. Luther motioned for Five to stay quiet. "I heard a rumour that you couldn't stop sneezing," Allison said, still off screen. Just as Five positioned the camera back, the man sneezed uncontrollably. His eyes started watering and he tried to steady himself at the desk he was standing at. As soon as he got his balance back, he angrily yelled through sneezes, "Get the girl!"

 The remaining robbers got ready to pounce on Allison but her siblings came to her rescue. One of the robbers was pulled off his feet by an invisible force. His body being thrown across the room. Five throws the camera over to Klaus where he catches it and points it over to Diego. Diego had another robber in a knife fight. As Diego wanted a challenge he gave the robber a knife to fight him with. The robber was useless with a knife so Diego could injure the robber's leg heavily. The robber screams in pain and falls to the ground clutching his leg. Klaus throws the camera over to Diego and he positions it that Five can get his time in the limelight. "Why do we have to bring this camera to every mission?" Diego asked irritated. "So that-," Five said as he was spatial jumping. "dad can see-" he said spatial jumping again. "what 'we' did 'wrong'." Five was back at the robber who cocked his gun. Only... it wasn't his gun but a stapler! "That's one bad ass stapler!"  Five said laughing as he smashed the stapler into the robber's head. Diego then threw the camera back to Five as he filmed Luther now smashing two robbers' heads together. "No Five. You just want to watch your glory over again!" Luther yelled. Five rolled his eyes off-camera and threw the camera to Luther who filmed Allison. "I heard a rumour that you shot your friend in the foot," Allison said to the robber. The robber turned around to the one standing at the table still holding on for balance. "Yo dude! What the-" the robber argued but he was interrupted as his friend shot him in the foot. Allison smiled at Luther still holding the camera and he threw the camera back to Five. "Do your thing Ben!" Klaus yelled as the siblings exited the building. Ben inhaled and the monster inside of him came free. The last few robbers got grabbed by his tentacles and were thrown out of the windows. Ben exits the building covered in blood and shivering. "Can we go home?" he asked softly. Ben was the only one in the Academy who didn't like his power.

 Five looked up to the building next to the bank, and saw Vanya standing up there with her father. He quickly spatial jumped, gave the camera to Vanya, and spatial jumped back down to his siblings. Vanya positioned the camera so that she could get a shot of all her siblings. "Mr Hargreeves? Why can't I go and play with the others?" Vanya asked, the camera still pointing at the siblings. "Well number seven, there's just nothing special about you." He said making his way to the rooftop door. Vanya switched off the camera and walked after her father. The videotape has now switched over to a news interview. Interviewers were recording as the children were standing there, with their little domino masks. Reginald has joined his children but Vanya has not. "Mr Hargreeves! Who are these children?" A reporter asked him, holding the microphone near him. "Are these the children you adopted 12 years ago?" Another one asks him. He holds up his hands making the reporters quiet down. "Yes, these are the children that I adopted many years ago. See there are a few under us, who are special. I have adopted seven such children. They form the Umbrella Academy!" Reginald said and led the children to where there were 2 black cars, waiting for them. Vanya was already in one of them and the children separated between the cars. "What do you think they did wrong, number eight?" Reginald asked Jinx sitting on the couch and taking notes. "They didn't plan their mission ahead and you could see that. Klaus was a little distracted and so was Luther. Diego should never give the opponent another weapon as the enemy could've killed him," Jinx said reading from her notes. Reginald was quite surprised by how she was so attentive to detail. "Good number eight."