Invisible String | Five Hargreeves

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You okay?" asks Allison pointing to Viktor's scratch. "Great. You?" he asks. "Never better."

A time portal opens spitting out Lila, Five and you. The three land on a piece of furniture. Making the landing even more painful. "Ow the fuck" "Shit" "shoo!" Five groans as Lila pushes him away. "Where have you been?" Asks Viktor. "Facing my mortality, Viktor. I don't recommend it." Five stumbles as he gets up. He reached out to help you. You groan as you too stumble getting up. "You had the briefcase?" snaps Allison, making you internally groan. "We've been looking for this!" She snatches the briefcase from the ground. "Well, look no further. That's the last one on Earth." The machine sparks in her hand. "Or was the last one." Allison scoffs throwing it back down. "Yeah, that's toast." Adds Viktor.

"Hey, Chatty Cathys, quit the chitchat, all right? I'm calling a family meeting here." Five catches his brothers attentions. "Where's Klaus?" Five asks. "Be right back," says Diego going after his kid. "Dieg- Lost another. Great." Five tries to stop his brother but simply accepts defeat. "Spit it out, Five." Allison hisses. "Oh, well, since you asked so nicely, sister mine, our little paradox brought forth a freaking Kugelblitz."

"What the hell is a Kugelblitz?"

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"So this Kugelblitz, it's...?" Viktor starts."The end of everything. Every rock, every star, every atom sucked into a radiant black hole." Five says serving Viktor and you a shot, as now the party has moved to the bar. "Randomly collapsing matter every moment in time across all existence till nothing's left." Lila adds. "Hate to say I told you so, but..." "You love to say I told you so." Five and Viktor clink their glasses, drowning the alcohol. Meanwhile, you couldn't even face yours as all you could think about was your siblings.

"You know, it's impressive. Whoever knocked off your mums hated you all enough to end the entire universe." Lila says. "We don't know that." Viktor says quickly and a bit too defensive. "It doesn't matter who created the thing. We just have to kick its ass." says Allison. "Oh really? How? Are you and Diego gonna punch it in the Kugel?" Luther says sarcastically. "The best plan is to go back in time and eliminate the paradox and destroy whatever it was that took out our mothers and stop the Kugelblitz before it starts, but we can't do that. Briefcase is kaput." explains Five. "And why the hell can't you just jump us out of here?" Allison asks. "Last time I tried that, we all got trapped in time. Do you really wanna risk that again?" Five looks back at her shutting her up real quickly. "What's plan B?" Victor asks.

"Gimme that." Klaus finally joins taking the bottle from Five. "What happened to you?" "Oh, just a speargun to the chest. No big deal." He says casually.

You felt an energy pulse outward, no one seemed to feel it but you. Must be power related. Five notices, he knew. As he grabbed your arm. "It's getting stronger. It feels much stronger." You tell him.
"What the hell was that?" Asks Luther as they could now feel it and see that people in the lobby disappeared. "That was a Kugel wave. Oh, it's getting worse." Five confirms your concern. "How long do we have?" Luther yells. "At this rate of escalation, if you factor in-" "How long, Five?" "Four, maybe five days before the rest of existence is blitzed." Everyone sighs.

"We should've given them Harlan." Luther says. "Luther." "What about Harlan?" asks Five. "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-" "Wait who's Harlan and why did my siblings want him." You ask making them look at you. "Harlan uh, he um," Luther stutters. "Harlan what?" You snap. "Harlan killed Jayme and Alphonso." Your heart stops. "What!?" you mumble letting out a shaky breath. Your hands tremble in anger. "Did you know?" you turn to Five. "What?" "Did you know? Did you set me up? Is this why you wanted me to come with you to the Commission?" Five looks confused. "Listen he had nothing to do with this. It wasn't as set-" "Where is he?" you ask Viktor interrupting his explanation.