Dysfunctional ~ F.Hargreeves

41} Meet The Family

The Hargreeves family stood in the living room of the place they once called home, staring at a new group of people who looked like cheap knockoffs of themselves and went by the Sparrow Academy. And at the front of them all, was Ben. Not quite their Ben, but close enough to fool everyone but Jenna.
"Ben," Klaus looked at him in disbelief.
"Is that really you?" Luther walked up closer to get a better look at his 'brother'.
"And who are the weirdos on the balcony!?" Diego yelled, glaring at the others upstairs.
"They are the Sparrows," Reggie replied with great pride, "My children."
As the families had a stare-down, the room started to shake ever so slightly. Jenna noticed the vibrations and felt a weird wave pass through her, but brushed it off as nothing.

"I'm sorry," Five peered over at Reginald, "What do you mean, your children? That's not possible, old man."
"Of course it is!" Reggie fired back, "I think I'd know, wouldn't I?"
"Everybody else can see Ben, right?" Klaus squinted at Ben like he was dreaming.
"Cute hat, Sundance," Ben smirked as the other Sparrows filed downstairs behind him.
"They call themselves the Umbrella Academy," Reginald informed the Sparrows, "A group of scheming, perfidious malcontents who accosted me in the fall of 1963 when I was away on business in Dallas," Jenna caught Five eyeing the briefcase and she grabbed his hand, mouthing 'no' to him in the process, "Be warned, they claim to be my spawn."
"Claim?"Allison walked up to Reggie, "Look, Five what the hell is going on?"
"I don't know yet," He replied, gripping Jenna's hand harder, "But it's concerning."

"Is he telling the truth?" The Luther knockoff asked.
"Not the part about us being perfidious," Vanya responded.
"No," Klaus blew raspberries, "We're amateur-fidious, at best."
"But we are his children," Vanya continued, "This is our house."
"Yeah, yeah," Luther agreed, "We, uh... we grew up here."
"Oh, yeah, yeah, we grew up here," The Sparrow with a contorted face mocked.
"I kinda think we would have noticed you," The pretty woman pointed out, causing Luther to stare in awe at her.
"Hi," He cheekily smiled, "I'm Luther."
"Okay," Allison cut him off before she suffered anymore secondhand embarrassment, "None of you belong here."
"Oh! Well then," The woman with sunglasses chuckled, "I guess we'll just pack our bags and move out."
The floating cube started to make gargled noises and flashed a few different colors. Whatever he said, though, made all of the Sparrows laugh.
"You slay me, Chris," Ben laughed.

"I wasn't expecting company," Grace entered the room with a plate of cookies, "This is the best I could do on short-" She started to glitch out, "Short... short notice."
"Mom," Diego whispered solemnly.
"Mom?" The other Sparrow woman scrunched up her face, "She's a robot, you perv."
"It's not a robot," Diego glared at her.
"Hey, don't you call him that," Luther defended his brother.
"Or what?" Ben challenged.
"Why don't you come closer and find out?" Luther egged him on.
"Think I'm afraid?" Ben stepped closer, taking on Luther's challenge.
"Luther! Guys, chill!" Vanya tried to calm them down, but failed.
"Stand down, Ben," The Luther knockoff reasoned from the Sparrow's side.

Both sides continued to bicker back and forth until the black haired girl spat some sort of black spit at Diego after he yelled, "How about I hide that big Rubik's cube up your ass?"
Diego touched his face where it hit him and the woman just blew him a sarcastic kiss. Jenna furrowed her eyebrows as she grabbed his hand, "Everything alright?"
"Yeah..." He trailed off and listened to his siblings.
"Enough!" Fake Luther yelled, "I don't know what circus you people escaped from or how you got past our security, but we're done here. You got thirty seconds to get out of our house."
"And if we don't?" Allison crossed her arms over her chest.
"Then we'll have to settle this the old-fashioned way," Fake Luther cracked his knuckles tauntingly.
Luther stepped forward, "Agreed."
Everyone from both sides lined up preparing to fight, until the song Footloose came on over the sound system, catching the Hargreeves family off guard. The Sparrows, though, started to dance, specifically fake Luther, who led.