Invisible String | Five Hargreeves

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After that heated argument your siblings and you lead the Umbrellas to the hole.

"Beautiful, isn't it?" Asks Fei as the orb comes into sight. "Oh, wow." Diego says. Lila scoffs. "That's what took Stanley." "Along with a few other billion people." Fei adds. "Yeah, who I didn't know and don't care about." "Right. So it's all about you." Says Fei. "Yeah, and one of them being our older brother." You snap at her. Lila turns to you apologetically.

"All of us are irrelevant." Five pauses the bickering. "This thing's gonna take the whole damn universe. What is it made of?"

"Micro black holes collapsing at increasingly short intervals." Sloane answers. "Then why aren't we getting sucked inside?" He asks. "Honestly, we don't know. You shouldn't exist here, and neither should this." She tells him.
"An impossibility for an impossibility. The universe is a sucker for balance." Mumbles Five.

"Grace has been tracking the waves. Next one is due in three hours." Fei says. "All right, so what do we do?" Asks knife boy. "Well according to Sloane, we trap it." You answer. "Dyson sphere?" asks Five. "Yeah." Sloane answers this time.

Five clicks his tongue. "Okay. Confinement factor?" he asks. "0.98 at peak energy flux." Sloane responds. "Tensile strength?" "UTS ceiling of 10,000 gigapascals."

"Should I be finding this hot?" Asks Lila. "No!" Both Luther and Diego say, Luther's smirk said otherwise. "Yeah." you say bluntly, staring at Five. Ben turns to you confused. "What?!" you ask him realizing you said it out loud. He rolls his eyes at you.

"What do you think, Five?" Asks Allison. "Could work. Or we could all die horribly." He pauses for a second. "I'm in."

"You're not the one we need." Ben tells him. "Excuse you?" Allison butts in. "For this to work, we need Sloane, Y/n, Lila, Christopher, and- " "Viktor. Of course." Allison says with an attitude leaving. Gawd I can't stand her.

You sit on the stair case indulged in a book while you're all on standby, waiting for the next kugelblitz wave. They were also trying to get Viktor to help, hoping he would especially after the fight. A shadow is casted above you, covering the light that illuminated the words in your book. You look up, it was Five approaching you, you look back down and don't look at him. "May I join you?" He asks. You ignore him. He sighs and sits beside you anyways. "Look, I'm sorry okay. I really had no idea about Harlan. I swear to you it was not a set up." You don't say anything but finally look at him. His heart skips a beat.

"You know," you finally speak, closing your book. "If it weren't for that argument earlier, I probably wouldn't have believed you." He chuckles looking down. "I'm really sorry," he apologized again. "Don't, I know now you had nothing to do with it." You tell him. He softly smiles looking down. "Are you going to be okay?" he hesitantly takes your hand in his. You let him. "Yeah, I'm stronger than you think." You smile. "I know you are." He smiles staring at you for a second. The butterflies forming in your stomach.

"We're ready." Ben says interrupting the moment. You swiftly move your hand away from Five's. Looking down embarrassed. "Ok, be there in a bit." you say. Ben looks between you and Five, raising his brow and scoffing. He leaves and you finally exhale not realizing you were holding in your breath.

***

"Okay, how do we start?" Viktor asks. "Have you ever moved a nest of bees?" Sloane asks them. "No, because that's weird." Lila responds. "You can't just pick it up. You have to keep the nest calm while you build a box around it, and then you trap it." Sloane begins levitating as she uses her power.

"One of those black holes inside is vibrating at a different rate." Fei says. "You should be able to feel it, Viktor." You tell him. "Yeah, I can feel them." "Good." Fei says. "Now don't let them speed up or change." You inform him. "Or everything will blow." Adds Fei. "Don't shake the bees. Got it." He says.
You and Viktor begin to power up.