Till the World Ends // Five x reader

20 Bowling

When we were walking, it had already reached night, Five saw the newspaper. The newspaper, the exact same headline, picture and story that was on the newspaper Five showed me in the apocalypse... it wasn't over. I'd felt it, I just never focused on it to much, why it was always easy for me to feel and sense Vanya's energy, why I suddenly felt it growing. Harold Jenkins was only the fuse, Five and I both know that now, and Vanya was the bomb. We hurried back to the Academy.

"Oh god." I gasp as we approach the Academy it was destroyed, rubble, fire.
Five and I ran through to where the others were.

"Guys! This is it. The apocalypse is still on. The world ends today."

"I thought you said it was over." Luther asked Five.

"I was wrong, okay?" Five held out the newspaper. "This newspaper, I found it in the future the day I got stuck. The headline hasn't changed."

"No, that doesn't mean anything." Diego shook his head. "The time could've been altered since that newspaper came out this morning."

"No. You're not listening to him, Diego." I tell Diego. "Five."

Five continues to explain, "When I found it, I assumed this place came down along with everything else. But here we are. The Moon's still shining, the Earth is in one piece, but not the Academy."

Klaus took the paper from Five, "I'm confused."

"Then listen to me, you idiot! Destroy the Academy before the apocalypse." Five sighs. "I thought Harold Jenkins was the cause, but he was the fuse. Vanya is the bomb. Vanya causes the apocalypse."
We hear helicopters above and sirens wailing.

"We have to find her." Luther says.

"We gotta go, now." Diego shout standing up as bright blinding lights from the helicopters shine-down on us.

"Regroup at the Super Star. Go!" Luther told us.

Five took my hand and he Blinked us away.

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Super Star was a bowling alley, that's where we were now.

   "Look, I hate to be the one to say this, but everyone needs to prepare." Luther says as we sit in one of booths for a lane.

   "For what?" Diego asks.

    "To do whatever it takes to stop Vanya." Allison hit Luther with the notepad she had when he said that.
Grace was able to save her, but her vocal cords were damaged so she can't speak, we don't know how long until she can, but she at least needs to let them rest.
Luther looks at her, "I— We may not have a choice, Allison."

   "Bullshit." Diego says. "There's always options."

   "Yeah, like what?" Five asked him.

    "I don't know." He answered.

     "Look, whatever we decide, we need to find Vanya. And fast, okay? She could be anywhere." Luther stood up.

   "Or... here." Klaus says, looking up from the newspaper in his hands. We look over to see what it was. I stand up and look over his shoulder. "Look at this."
'ST. PLUVIUM
Chamber Orchestra'
An add in the paper, there was a picture of Vanay with her violin.

    "That's right. Her concert is tonight." Diego remembers.

   "Hello." A female employee smiles at us. "I hate to intrude, but my manager says if you're not gonna bowl, you gotta leave." She walks away.

   "Whose turn is it?" I ask.

   "Oh, for..." Luther picked up a ball and threw it without looking. It bounced into a different lane and kept bouncing down the other lane and still ended up knocking down all the pins.

'She's our sister' Allison wrote on her notepad.

    "We're the only ones capable of stopping this." Luther tells her. "We have a responsibility to Dad."

   "To Dad?" Diego turned around angered. "No, I've heard enough about—"

   "He sacrificed everything to bring us back together." Luther defended.

   "I'm with Luther on this one." Five says. "We can't give her a chance to fight back. There are billions of lives at steak. We're past trying to save just one."

    "Hey, you know, guys, uh... maybe I could help." Klaus spoke.

   "Now is not the time." Luther tells him.

   "No, let him finish." Diego says. "He saved my life today."

   "Is that true?" Luther asks.

    "Yeah, yeah, I did... take credit for it. In fact, the real hero... was Ben." We all were quite waiting for his explanation of how that was possible. I mean, Ben is dead, he couldn't. But I still knew Ben was standing close to Klaus. I could feel a faint trace of him.

Klaus sighs, "Today... Listen. Today, he punched me in the face. And at the house, he was the one who saved Diego's life, not me."

   "You are unbelievable, Klaus." Luther says.

   "You want proof, is that it? All right. I... I'll give you proof." Klaus picked up a bowling ball. "All right, it's showtime, baby. Catch!" Klaus threw the ball. But as expected it just hit the ground and bounced a few times.

   "Is there any way to silence that voice in your head That screams out to be the centre of attention?" Luther asked Klaus annoyed at him.

   "You know, I liked you a lot better before you got laid." Klaus told him, then there was the look on Allison's face. "Which was a complete... It—It wasn't his fault, 'cause he was ridiculously high, right? And— And the girl, she thought he was a furry..."

   "Stop!" Luther demanded.

   "Okay."

Allison started walking away. "Allison, wait." Luther went after her. Leaving me, Five, Diego and Klaus.

   "Excuse me!" A woman walked over smiling, her arm around her son. Her voice was an irritating high pitched happy tone. "Excuse me, it's my son Kenny's birthday today, and... Uh... wouldn't your son and daughter be happier playing with kids their own age? Assuming it's okay with your two dads." We just looked at her for a moment.

I was about to tell her no but Five spoke first putting it in a better way, "I would rather chew off my own foot."

Then we heard a whooshing sound, a sound very familiar to me and Five, but unexpected. We stood up and walked to the thing that returned your bowling balls one lane over from ours.

   "If I was going to date a man, you'd be the last man I would date." I heard Diego tell Klaus because of that woman thinking him and Klaus were married.