CHAPTER TWELVE: DALLAS

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On April the 1st, 2019, the Earth was destroyed in a cataclysmic event. Billions of people were wiped out in a matter of minutes. Ironically, the ten survivors of the apocalypse were the very people who brought it on.

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'15 January  1963'

The sound of energy thrumming was heard as a blue portal appeared above an alley before Mitch and Andy felled out of the blue vortex above them before landing on ground.

Andy got up before he rushed over to his brother "Mitch are you okay?" he asked as he help him up "I'm fine" Mitch said before they both looked up at the vortex above them "MOM" they shouted and suddenly Lara felled through the portal, landing on her feet.

"Mom" the twins said before they rushed over to their mom "Are you okay?" they asked "I'm fine just a little dizzy. What about you two?" she asked "We're fine" they said before the three looked up at the vortex. The energy was whipping around inside of the portal. The energy was whipping around inside of the portal.

"FIVE" Mitch and Andy shouted, hoping that Five and his siblings would fall through the vortex like them.

But instead the vortex zapped shut as it disappeared.

Then there was a quick bright light from the building behind them causing the three to turn towards the building with an eyebrow rise.

But there was nothing, so they turned back towards the opening of the alleyway.

"Come on boys, let's see where the hell that guy took us to" Lara said and the three walked out of the alleyway.

The first they noticed was the few cars that was park around the street and the few people that was walking around.

The people's clothes didn't look they were from 2019 and neither did the cars.

They furrowed their brows, looking around more to scan everything.

"I don't think we are in the 2019 anymore. This more looks like Dallas Texas in the 60's" Lara said as she looked around "Can this get any crazier?" she asked.

"Damn it" Andy said "I guess this wasn't part of your boys' plan?" Lara asked and the twin shook their head "Five was the one that lead, we just combined our powers with him" Andy said "But I don't think this was his plan" Mitch said "That idiot have taking us too far backwards" Lara said "So what do we do?" Mitch asked "Well, the best thing we can do is try to settle down, act like we belong here, and hope that this Five guy show up and when he does I'm gonna slap him across the face again" she said "How are we gonna settle down here?" Mitch asked as both him and Andy was exhausted after using their powers like that. 

The twins always get exhausted when they have used their powers for too long and too much.

"I know how to. Let's hope that the money I have and my Credit card also work in this time" she said.

Lucky Lara's credit card and money could still be used, so she brought a small apartment with two bedrooms.

Lara found a job while Mitch and Andy got enrolled in school even so they were too smart for their class, they had to do something to pass the time, but everyday on their to and from school, they would swing past the alleyway to see if Five of any of his siblings have landed, but there was nothing.

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'25 NOVEMBER 1963'

The wind was whipping and blowing as Five felled through the blue vortex, landing on the ground in an alley.

He put his hands under himself before his face could hit the ground.

He got up before taking a small step backwards.

Hearing the whipping noise from above him, he looked up to see the blue vortex above him.

"MITCH! ANDY! LUTHER! DIEGO!" he shouted, hoping to get a respons or someone would fall  through the vortex, but instead it closed with a zap.

"Shit" Five said, hoping that the twins and his siblings were okay.

Then he heard distant overlapping gunshots from behind him, causing him to turn around, looking at the opening in the alley.

He furrowed his brows as he walked forwards to the end of the alley way that he had landing in.

He looked around at the scene in front of him as he could hear nearby machine-gun fire and bullets ricocheting while people was shouting indistinctly Russian.

Buildings was on fire and destroyed. There were abandoned cars spread out with their widows bashed in, and there were bullet holes on buildings and walls while soldiers was running across the street, shooting, it was a war zone.

A loud whooshing sound came from the sky causing Five to look up and he saw two jet fighters flying across the sky and a few seconds later there was a big explosion in the distance.

Five then spotted a newspaper that was laying between rocks and bricks and he ran over to it, bending down and grabbed the side of the newspaper to read it.

"'Soviets attack US'"?" he read as the sound of a machine-gun fire and men shouting in Russian was heard.

Five got up before he stumbled forward "No, this can't be right" he said as he looked around the war zone "Gonna get you out. Keep your head down" a English soldier said to a injured man.

"Medic! Medic!" another English soldier shouted as the sound of overlapping shouts was heard.

"Hey, kid, get down!" a soldier shouted at Five as he was standing next to a tank that had slowed down before stopping.

"What the hell did we do now?" Five said as he was looking around the war zone.

Then a loud sound came from the tank behind him, shooting out a missile causing Five to jump off to the side

The missile flew through the air, forward, but it was stopped as Vanya whose skin was pale and eyes was ice blue, floated up in midair with her arms out towards it and with her powers, she stopped the missile and it exploded causing the metal to bend backwards before it turn into a cloud of smoke.

A group of soldiers charge towards Klaus, but he lifted up his hands and the ghosts from the dead soldiers appeared behind him before he push his hands forward making the ghosts to charge towards the soldiers who all started screaming in fear.

There was a shout form the air and Luther landed on the ground next to Klaus before he put his arms out at his sides as one of the soldiers shot a missile towards Luther, hitting him in the back, making a explosion behind Luther.

He let out a scream as the explosion died out, nothing happen to Luther.

A man let out a scream as a blue tentacle wrapped around him before lifting him up into the air and threw him backwards.

Ben was standing up on top of a building, grabbing three men, one by one before throwing them around.

"Hey" Allison said causing three soldiers to turn around and look at her. She stopped before putting her arms up slightly "I heard a rumor that I blew your minds" she said, her voice echoing as the sound waves traveled to the soldiers' ears and the three mens' head blew up before falling to the ground.

The soldiers lifted their guns and Diego jumped off the car, flipping around in the air as the soldiers started shooting at him.

While flipping around in the air, he control the bullets in the air making them turn around and hit the soldiers instead, causing them to fell dead on the ground.

Five then spotted Lara knocking a soldier to the ground.

Another soldier ran towards her but she kicked the weapon out of his hand before swinging another kick at his face, knocking him to the ground.

Five was surprised over that Lara could fight like that, he was impressed and he gotta say, he felt a little attracted by that.

Five then spotted a missile flying towards Lara but then the twins appeared in front of the missile before they grabbed each other's hand and sent out a huge energy wave, throwing the missile backwards to it hit the tank that it was fired from causing it to explode.

"Five! You sick son of a bitch where the hell have you been?" Diego suddenly shouted at Five.

Five was about to move forward, but then a sound of energy zaps appeared and a hand grabbed Five's shoulder causing him to stop and he saw Hazel with a briefcase in his hand "If you wanna live, come with me" Hazel said "Hazel. What the hell's going on here?" Five asked "There's no time to explain" Hazel said before he pointed up ahead towards the nukes that was coming from the sky "Those are nukes, old-timer" he said as the sound of missiles droning was heard and Five looked back at Hazel.

"What about my family? What about Mitch and Andy?" Five asked worried "You can't save them if you're dead" Hazel said and Five grabbed onto his hand before they teleported away.

Five knew that if he wanted to save the twins, his siblings and stop the apocalypse, he have to go with Hazel.

Lara, Mitch and Andy walked over to the siblings before they all looked up to t the sky as the sound of explosions booming was heard.

When the nukes hit the ground, a huge exploding went off in the distance, they were pushed away forcefully as the nuke destroyed everything include Lara, Andy Mitch and the siblings.

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The sound of energy zaps was heard as Five and Hazel appeared on the same street but everything was different, it was more quite and peaceful.

"Okay..." Five said while looking around "What the hell was that?" he asked as he looked back at Hazel "The end of the world, November 25, 1963" Hazel answered "'63..." Five said while looking around confused before he chuckled softly as he put his hands together, looking back at Hazel.

"You know, Hazel, I'm no history buff, but I don't recall there being a nuclear holocaust" he said "No shit" Hazel said as the two looked around "What about my family? What about the twins?" Five asked as he looked back at Hazel "Dead, like everyone else" Hazel answered "And where am I now?" Five asked "Dallas. Same street. 10 days earlier. Plenty of time to restore the timeline and save them" Hazel said before he sat down on a bench "Okay" Five whispered before he sat down next to Hazel.

"So where do we start?" Five asked "'We'? You're on your own, pal. I'm just here to keep a promise to Agnes" Hazel said "Is she...?" Five asked "Dead?" Hazel asked "Yeah" Five said and Hazel nodded "Cancer" he said as he remember the time he shared with the woman he loved "Took her quick. But we had 20 good years together. I guess forever just wasn't the cards" he said "I'm sorry Hazel" Five said with a voice that he actually cared and felt sorry for Hazel.

He did feel sorry for Hazel, 'cause he knew what it was like losing the person you loved. He have lost Lizzy.

"What about The Commission?" Five asked "I quit those assholes, remember? I don't owe them the fuzz off my peaches" Hazel said and Five looked forward and that's when he spotted three men walking towards them. The men had almost the same face, the same eye color and they had platinum blonde hair.

"Well then, who the hell are those guys?" Five asked as he got up and the three guys lifted up their guns, pointing them at Five and Hazel "Shit" Hazel said before he put something in Five's pocket "Run" he said and gave Five the briefcase and just as the men started shooting at them, Five blinked away while Hazel was shot multiple times in the chest causing pedestrians to start screaming.

Five appeared behind a car with a gasp as he was crouching down.

The sound of a electricity crackling was heard and Five looked at the briefcase to see that it was broken "How many times did I say 'Bulletproof briefcase'?" he said before he lifted his head to peek from behind the car to see if the coast was clear.

When he didn't saw anyone, he got up before walking around the car.

But then the three guys spotted him before they pointed their guns at him.

"FIVE WATCH OUT" someone called out before Five felt someone grabbing him, blinking away.

Five appeared on a building's roof while panting as he also could hear two other people panting.

"You okay?" a voice asked and Five sat up to see Mitch and Andy but they looked at bit older.

"Mitch, Andy" he said "Yeah, that's us" Andy said "You two have no idea how glad I am to see you boys" Five said "So are we" Andy said "What are you guys doing here?" Five asked "Saving you again" Andy said "We were on our way home from school, but we saw you and saw what happen" Mitch said "Well, thank you for saving me" Five said "You're welcome" Mitch said.

"I'm sorry, I know that I screw this up. This was not my plan" Five said "We know" Mitch said "Technically, your plan did work, but you just took us a little bit too far backwards" Andy said "But we are safe from the apocalypse" Mitch said "Yeah, about that" Five said and the twins raise their brows.

"We brought the apocalypse with us and we only have ten days to gather the others, stop the apocalypse and find a way out this timeline" Five said as he looked around before he looked back at the twins "You two with me?" he asked and the two glanced at each other before looking back at him "Of course" they said and he smiled "Let's go then. To the alley where we landed" Five said as he grunted softly while getting to his feet before the three blink away again, appearing by the alley, they landed in.

The three looked back as they heard old-timey police siren wailing and Five scratched the back of his head as he turned back and that's when they spotted someone quickly moving away causing the curtain to move a bit.

"I think the person that live in there knows something" Mitch said as they also spotted some antennas together with a camera right above the window on the roof.

"I have a feeling about that too" Andy said as the three walked closer to the door 

'Morty's television Radio. Shipping & Receiving'

"Let's find out what this person know" Five said before the three blink inside.

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They appeared inside the building by the stairs, before they walked up the stairs and they looked down the hallway as they walked up to a door.

'MORTIMER GUSSMAN D.D.S'

"Great cover up" Andy said as the twins tried to look through the door's window where the blinds was, but they couldn't see anything "We can't see anything" Mitch said.

"Then let's behavior nicely and knock" Five said before he knocked on the door.

The door next to him opened and a skinny guy with short brown hair peek out and looked at Five.

"What do you kids want?" the guy asked and Five took a step forward, putting his hands in his pockets "Hi" Mitch said "We're selling encyclopedias for our youth group. I was curious if--" but Five got cut off when the guy closed the door in front of him before he could finish the sentence.

"Okay, we don't have time for that" Five said before he looked at Mitch and Andy "Let's not give him a heart attack and since he don't look like much, let's take it slow and easy" he said and the twins nodded before the three blinked inside.

The three appeared inside the apartment behind the guy causing the guy to jumped and he let out a shrieks as he started panting while looking for something in the kitchen drawer making cutlery clattering.

Five, Andy and Mitch just tilted their head as they were staring at the guy who grabbed a small butter knife before he pointed the knife at them while panting.

"How'd you do that?" he asked as he was looking between the three and the door while holding the knife towards the three, hoping it would keep them away from him.

"Don't really have time to explain" Five said "You three from the Pentagon? Huh?" the guy asked and the three shook their head "Definitely not" they said "CIA? FBI? KGB?" the guy asked and Five spotted some coffee standing on the kitchen table "Is that fresh?" he asked, pointing on the coffee pot before he blink over to the coffee causing the guy to let out another scream while he continued panting "What..." he said, quickly moving the butter knife at him again as he poured the coffee into the mug.

Mitch, Andy and Five then looked at the guy before they walked into the living room and started looking around before Five took a sip of the coffee.

The guy didn't look or acted like much, so Five and the twins didn't felt threated by him, therefore they were calm.

"Hmm" Five said as he turned to the guy "This Columbian?" he asked as the sound of machine beeps was heard nearby.

"It's my own blend" the guy answered as he was still pointing the knife at the three and Five nodded before him and the twins scan the room.

A newspaper article hanging on the wall. 'STRANGE LIGHTS MAY BE SPACE VISITORS' was the line on it.

Five looked around the room at all the machines before looking back at more of the articles on the wall, reading the headlines to some of them.

'AMERICAN AIRMEN SIGHT A "FLYING SAUCER"'

'EYE-WITNESS SOTRY OF "FLYING SAUCERS" SEEN ALONG STATE BORDER AND COASTLINE'

All the articles was about signs of aliens.

"Okay, this guy definitely knows something" Mitch said "Yeah" Andy said as the two and Five looked around at all the machines and it look like that the guy was doing researched on something.

"You ever heard of, uh, Area 51?" Five asked as he walked farther into the living room before he turned to the guy again while Mitch and Andy was looking at some scanners.

"Roswell?" Five asked and the guy let out a scoffs before he chuckled as he shook his head, turning around in circles while he let out another scoff and a chortles before he threw the knife onto the table to the side causing to make a clatters noise "Hot damn!" he said with a smile as he was pacing excitedly.

"Whoo! See, I always knew we weren't the only ones. See, Eleanor thought my head wasn't screwed on tight, but...but it's all true, yeah? UFOs, crop circles..." the guy said and Five took took some steps forwards "Well, the truth is out there" he said with a smile and the guy took some steps forward while moving his hands around slightly.

"No, no, no, no, no. The...The truth, it's...right here in front of us" he said as he was walking towards Five causing him to take a few steps back.

"Okay, he is a little weird" Mitch said "'Little', he is really weird" Andy said.

"Tell me, wh...why is it always an anal probe?" the guy asked and Five leaned his head towards him "Any closer and I'll melt your brain" he said with a sarcastic smile.

"He needs a little space. Yes" the guy said before taking a few steps back "I'll be over here" he said and pointed on the couch behind him.

Mitch, Andy and Five started walking towards one of the machines "All those contraptions on the roof, you built those, right?" Andy asked and the guy nodded while taking a few steps to the side, following Five "Oh, yeah, yeah, sure did. Yeah, I've been tracking anomalies in...in the atmosphere. Just waiting" he said "Waiting for what?" Five asked as the three were looking at him "For you" the guy answered before he glanced at the wall.

"For all of you. It all started in 1960, the year the Silvertone Omega was released. I was in the middle of a sale when something very...strange happened. I saw some light while hearing energy crackling outside, so I went up to the window and I look down to see someone falling from the sky and landing in the alley. So, for the past three years, I've witnessed six energy surges in that alleyway out back. Same thing every time. A bright blue light, then something appears" he explain.

"You two are one of them" the guy said as he pointed at Mitch and Andy "You both came here with a woman a little over a year ago" he said "Yeah, we did" Andy said.

"Did you get a good look at the rest any of them?" Five asked as he was looking at the indistinct picture that was trapped up on the wall. The pictures showed people that have landed in the alley.

"Yeah, the first one. And then the big, sensitive one" the guy asked and Five turned to look at him as he furrowed his brows "'Sensitive'?" he asked.

"That's either Klaus or Luther" Mitch said "You wanna best?" Andy asked as he looked at his brother who nodded "5 dollars that it's Luther" Andy said "5 dollars on that's Klaus. And you will take my chores for a week if I win" Mitch said "And you will take mine for a week if I win" Andy said "Deal" Mitch said and the two shook hands which cause Five to roll his eyes while he also smiled as this remind him of that time he was a child and was having siblings time with his family before he left.

"Yeah, cried a lot, kept coming back to the alley, sat around for hours calling a woman's name. Uh..." the guy said, snapping his fingers, trying to remember "Allison" he said and Five turned to the pictures again "Luther" he said.

"Damn it" Mitch said before he looked at Andy who smiled "I win again" Andy said and Mitch rolled his eyes.

"Yeah, he...he wasn't the only one. Uh, the others came too, off and on over the years, looking for each other. Eventually, they...they stopped" the guy said.

"So, my family is alive. Shit. I think I stranded them here" Five said before he turned to the guy "Now listen to me...." he said before he started walking towards the guy who panic as he started stumbling backwards, causing him to stumble over the couch as Five blinked away.

"Elliott. Elliott. My name...My name's Elliott" he said, spluttering as he grabbed the table behind him to support himself as Five blinked in front of him "Whatever, all right?" Five said loudly and Elliott hit the back of his head on one of the lamps as Five pointed back on the pictures.

"Listen we got ten days to find them and save the world" Andy said before Five pointed back at Elliott "Now, we need your help to do that" he said and Elliott pointed at himself "You need...my..." he said and Five put his hands in his pockets.

"You know what? I, uh..." Elliott said before he put his hand on the handel on a draw and opened it before grabbing a paper that was ripped out from newspaper.

"I always thought that this, uh, mugshot looked like arrival number seven" Elliott said, closing the draw before he show the article to Five.

Mitch and Andy blinked over to stand next to Five which cause Elliott to gasp.

The three looked at the article that showed a mugshot of Diego that have being arrested.

'DISTURBED MAN WITH MULTIPLE KNIVES ARRESTED OUTSIDE 1026 N.BECKLEY' Mitch read at the headline.

"Diego" Five said as he took the article from Elliott.

"Why am I not surprised?" Andy asked 

"So then, that's helpful?" Elliott asked "You have no idea" Five said before the three blinked away causing Elliott inhale sharply.

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