Dysfunctional ~ F.Hargreeves

51} Brutal Family Fight

After a long drive back to the hotel, Five and Jenna found themselves upstairs in the White Buffalo Suite with a terrified Lila and Diego. Five and Jenna stared at the weird door in the room, examining it, while the other two argued.
"What the hell are you doing!?" Lila yelled at Diego, "Stanley is gone! We need to face this!"
"Just check the chimney, alright?" Diego tried to stay calm.
"He's not in the bloody chimney! He's been Kugelblitzed!" Lila held a hand up to her mouth, slowly dragging it down her face.
"And whose fault is that, huh?" Diego jabbed a finger at her, "You're the one who brought him here!"
"Congrats," Jenna fake cheered, "You both suck at parenting. Can we focus on the door now? How'd you open this before?"
"I don't know," Diego paced around, "It was already kinda open."
"'Already kinda open'," Five repeated back, "You know, Diego, you should have become an engineer. It's a lost opportunity."

"Why do you wanna go in there anyway?" Lila pointed towards the door with her cup, "It's just sushi and death."
"When we met future me at the Commission bunker," Five pointed out, "I warned myself about Oblivion. Now, Pogo told us-"
"Wait, whoa, whoa!" Diego cut him off, "Pogo's alive?"
"It's a different Pogo," Jenna explained, "But yes he is. Your favorite chimp told us that your dad spent years training the Sparrows for some kind of super-secret mission into..."
"Oblivion?" Lila guessed.
"Bingo!" Jenna smirked.
"So," Five continued for her, "We come back here and find you two sentient STD's have actually been in there."
"Well, after we visited my family," Jenna added.
"You saw your family?" Diego asked, "How were they? Did you see Steve?"
"Yeah, they're good," Jenna smiled happily, "And I did see Steve. How'd you remember that?"
"I don't know," He shrugged, "I guess the basic white boy name just kinda stuck. And you mentioned him a few times and how important he was to you, so..."

"Enough about Steve," Five grumbled, "Everything is leading to Oblivion so, we have to go in there."
"Hell no! Not happening!" Diego freaked.
"No way!" Lila agreed, "We barely got out alive."
"Yeah? So what?" Five dismissed them, "This is about more than just you two."
"Says the guy with all his fingers," Diego held up his bandaged hand which was missing two fingers, "I didn't get this by giving a mummy a hand job, all right? I went in there and lost my fingers to this thing with... with a knife on a chain."
"Here," Jenna grabbed his injured hand, "I can at least heal it for you."
"Thanks," Diego gave her a grateful smile, "At least someone," He flicked his pissed off gaze between Five and Lila, "Cares about me."
"There," Jenna wiped her nose, "Should be all better."
"Damn," He flexed his hand, "Already feels nice. Thanks, Jen."
"No problem, Batman."

"All right, look," Lila rolled her eyes, "Diego might be 90% moron and 10% pelvic thrusts, but he's right about Oblivion, okay? We're not just gonna waltz back in there just because you say so."
"Good," Luther and Sloane said from the doorway, "Because you're coming with us."
"This should be interesting," Five commented, "Where to?"
"Sparrow Academy," Sloane told them.
"The world's ending," Luther elaborated, "So I think it's time we put our petty bullshit aside and work together on this Kugelblitz."
"Yeah? Or what?" Diego asked skeptically.
"Or Stanley won't be the last of us to disappear," Lila grabbed his arm and pulled him along.

The walk to the academy was fairly silent with only light chatter from some of the couples. Jenna decided to break her silence and approached Sloane.
"Sloane?" Jenna tapped her shoulder.
"Oh, hey," Sloane replied, slightly startled.
"Can I talk to you for a sec?"
"Sure. What about?"
"I wanted to say sorry for kicking you down a flight of stairs when we first met. You're actually pretty cool and I feel bad now."
"I don't take offense to that. We were fighting and you bested me. You were really good, in fact. I even told my sibling right after, 'Damn, the pipsqueak can actually fight!' I was impressed."
"Awe, thank you. You weren't half bad yourself. I think if you'd been fighting literally anyone else in the family that you would've won."
"Cute talk," Five walked up and snagged Jenna, "But I need to talk to my wife for a minute."
"Oh," Sloane frowned a bit, "I get it. Thanks for the talk, Jenna."