AETHER ~ UMBRELLA ACADEMY

1.05

Number Five

"When's it supposed to happen?" Luther after Five and Mila had told the story of the apocalypse. "This. . . apocalypse."

"I can't give you the exact hour, but. . .from what I could gather, we have four days left," Five told him.

"Why didn't you say something sooner?"

"It's not like it'd have mattered anyway, we still don't know what caused it," Mila complained, leaning her head on the wall.

"Of course it would, we could have banded together and helped you try and stop this thing," Luther offered, but the two teenagers knew it wouldn't be of help.

Five looked down sorrowfully, "For the record you already tried."

"What do you mean?"

"I found all of you. Your bodies."

"We die?"

"The apocalypse is caused and Five is left all alone, of course you die you buffoon," Mila groaned, receiving a harsh glance from Luther. "Oh, wait, is that offensive? Sorry."

Then silence filled the room for a moment as Luther tried to comprehend the situation before Five continued. "You were together, trying to stop whoever it was that ends the world."

"Wait, how do you know that?"

Five then pulls out a cloth from his pocket, "This was clutched in your dead hand when I found you," he then threw it towards his brother. Must've ripped it out of their head right before you went down."

"So cool," Mila muttered under her breath.

"Whose head?" Luther asked.

"Like I said, I don't know," Five said in a quiet tone

"Well, there's a serial number on the back- Think maybe you could try-"

"No, that's a dead end. It's just another hunk of glass."

Luther then handed it back to Five as Diego slammed the door open to the room angrily.

"Fucking piece of shit," Diego said, before walking threateningly over to Five. "Do you have any idea what you just did?"

Luther managed to grab him before he could get any further, Mila stepping protectively in front of her friend just in case. Luther then had to restrain the man.

"No, let me- Get your ape hands off of me!" He groaned, struggling to get out of the taller man's grasp as he was lifted up into the air.

"I can do this as long as it takes you to calm down."

Diego then stopped moving, tears still clouding his eyes, panting slightly, "Fine."

"Now, you wanna tell us what you're talking about?"

"Our brother and his girlfriend-"

Mila quickly put her hand up, "Not girlfriend."

"- have been pretty busy since they got back. They were in the middle of that shootout at Griddy's, and then at Gimble brothers, after the guys in masks attacked the Academy and kidnapped Klaus and Lillith, looking for him."

"They kidnapped Lillith?" Five asked in shock, as Luther chose not to tell him, knowing the boy would have gone mad.

"That's not all, they killed my friend and they shot Lillith and I had to take her back to the Academy while she was bleeding out, Five. She looked dead," he said, having to hold on slightly to Luther with the weight of the emotions before he buried them under an angry facade.