|Doppelgänger| Five Hargreeves

𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝟗𝟓

_"Ah, shit! We gotta get that thing away from Viktor!"-Luther said as we watched the Ben-Jennifer monster slowly dragging it's form to our brother's unconscious body. I didn't know what would happen if it touched him, and I didn't want to find out.

_"What if we hurt it?"-Lila asked. I understood why she asked that, but I also had already lost hope that Ben and Jennifer were still minimally in control.

_"Doesn't matter."-Diego muttered at her, sliding one of his knives from his pocket.

_"They might still be alive in there."-Klaus suggested, and I shook my head slightly, answering him.

_"I don't think so."

Before we could further discuss if we should run or fight, Diego made his decision and ran up to the being. He jumped through the air as it tried to attack him with one of it's deformed tentacles, perfectly avoiding it, but landing a bit roughly on the floor. He started going up the escalator, using it as stairs since it was turned off.

_"We should get to cover."-Five said, grabbing my hand and blinking us away to the second floor of the mall, close to where Diego was arriving. Lila ended up mimicking him and coming with us. I looked down, worried about Klaus and Luther who were the only ones not following Five's advice.

_"Let's go! Over here! Over here!"-Luther was actually doing the exact opposite. He was trying to get the monster's attention, shouting and jumping. Klaus stood by his side quietly, confused and afraid.

_"That's right! Come on! Come and get these legs and eggs, baby!"-...His provocation methods were a bit disturbing.

_"Hey, come on assface. Come on! Hey!"-Klaus ended up joining him in whatever that was. Seemed like they had a plan of sorts.

However, they didn't expect that the monstrous thing would attack from a distance, winging a tentacle in their direction. As if that scene could get more surprising, Klaus grabbed Luther by the arm and they both flew up to the second floor as well. Literally flew. Apparently that was Klaus' new power. Took a while for us to discover that.

Allison appeared from behind somewhere to wake Viktor up before the monster noticed them. Five, trying to help, grabbed his gun from his pocket and started shooting at the thing. It didn't do any harm. In fact, the monster only seemed to get stronger with that.

_"Okay, that didn't work."-Five said with a sigh, lowering his hands. I continued to watch the monster's behavior. Something about it gave me deja vu.

_"Eye lasers?"-Lila asked Five, and I turned to her, shaking my head frantically.

_"Yeah, yeah. Aim for the tanks."-Five told her before I could speak.

_"Wait, no, don't-"

Before I could stop her, Lila activated her lasers and directed them at the gas tanks close to the being. In less than a second, they exploded, insanely big flames surrounding the monster. At first glance, he seemed to get affected by that, letting out a loud growl that echoed through the entire place. But then it grew bigger, stronger, angrier and scarier.

The monster noticed us, and attacked with it's tentacles again. It was my turn to grab Five's hand and turn us both intangible for enough time that we could hide behind a wooden counter. Lila blinked some other place away from us.

_"Don't throw things at it!"-I yelled at Five. I thought he would've realized what was happening when he shot the monster.

_"Why not?!"-I rolled my eyes at his question.

_"The damn thing is a living Kugelblitz! It'll only grow bigger."-I explained my theory. Five furrowed his brows in a way that told me he was thinking.