CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE:
THE SONIC

After a beautiful reunion between Alex and his grandpa, Five, they both decided that they've wasted enough time and now they have to get serious. As serious as Alex can get. Which is very serious.

Five suggested finding Diego, who he had apparently left in a mental hospital. Alone.

After Five got an earful about not leaving your brother in a mental hospital after revealing his plan for escape, they set their eyes on anyone matching Diego's description.

Which is a Hispanic dude with long hair.

Alex pouted when he heard Diego had long hair —and that it suited him—while Odessa had told him that if he ever thought about growing his hair, he should go dig himself a grave before visiting him.

Before they could even make their way to the hospital, news reached them about a recent shoot out at the hospital and the possibility of some escaped patients.

So, visiting there would be a waste of time —a time they didn't have—so the next best thing would be looking for stolen cars in the area, then asking around for a man with Diego's description and-

Five sighed before interrupting Alex's Sherlock mode and poofed himself somewhere else. without Alex.

Alex huffed and puffed before leaving.

Five, on the other hand, had successfully located his mentally ill brother and arrived perfectly on time to make a jab at his younger brother.

"I'm not trying to be a hero, okay?" Diego was saying to a girl sitting beside him in the car.

The girl --we all know it's Lila-- looked at Diego, "Then why are you doing this?"

"Because he is an idiot," Five said, and honestly, he didn't need to know what they were talking about before his arrival to say that. Every single sibling he had was an idiot and that was a fact.

Lila turned around with a surprised look, "Who the hell are you?"

Five smiled the fakest smile and waved, "Hi, I'm his second loving brother."

"Who left me to rot in the nuthouse," Diego who hadn't even blinked when Five had spoken, said with the most 'I'm-done-with-everyone's-bs' voice.

"To protect you from yourself," Older brother knows best and all.

"That's quite sweet."

A moment of silence before Diego spoke, "Okay, both of you, out."

Five leaned closer to Diego like he was sharing a secret, "Lose the crazy lady and come with me, we have important business."

"I'm not going anywhere with you."

Five looked out of the car and noticed a cop walking by, "Okay fine," He then stuck his head out the window and yelled, "Officer!"

Faster than sonic, Diego grabbed Five by his jacket, "What are you doing?"

The deadly voice of The Kraken didn't faze Five, "I heard there's a reward out for you two."

"He's bluffing," Lila said, watching the two brothers.

Diego stared deeply into Five's eyes, "He's not. Fine, I'll go with you."

Five's smug look was calling Diego to punch him until he's fucked.

"What about me?"

Diego faced Five again, "And I'm bringing the crazy lady."

"Fine by me," Five shrugged but his smile was mischievous, "Let's go see what our dear, loving proclaimed older brother is up to."

"You found Luther then," Diego huffed, not overly excited over meeting the monkey dude.

"Well, yes, I've found him but that's not who I was talking about."

Diego stared at Five suspiciously, "Who?"

Five's grin widened.

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Now from the top

"Where did you get the film, The Franklin Footage, the truth this time!"

Was the first thing the group of three idiots heard when they walked into Elliott's lair.

Elliott came out of a room, holding a rifle and pointing it at the three.

"You know this lunatic?" Diego asked Five without taking his eyes off Elliott.

Five faced Diego, "New acquaintance, He's harmless."

"Are you sure about that?" Lila said nervously.

Right on cue, Elliot shouted, "Are you or are you not an enemy of the people?!"

Diego and Five hesitated —which says a lot about them— before both answered at the same time.

"Such an open-ended question, yeah."

"Really depends on the people."

Five and Diego nodded at each other, while Lila looked confused.

"You move one more muscle, I will blow your brains out," Elliott shouted once again.

"You want to take this or should I?" Diego considerately told Five.

"No, I got him."

Diego turned to face Lila, "Hey, Lila-"

And then in a show of awesomeness, with the powers of distraction, teleportation, and speed, Elliott was disarmed in a matter of seconds, leaving two smug Hargreeves, one confused Elliott, and one scared Lila.

"What the hell just happened?"

"Long story, what I wanna know," Diego turned to Five, "Is where is this loving brother you talked about."

"Yes," Five turned to face a still confused Elliott, "Have you seen my brother?"

"Mr. Hargreeves?" Elliott asked, "No, was I supposed to?"

Behind Five, Diego mouthed the words 'Mr. Hargreeves', looking even more confused.

Five sighed, "Typical Alex-"

"Did you say Alex? Alex is alive?" Diego, in double the speed of sonic, marched towards Five and looked into his eyes.

"Yeah," Five spoke softly, not wanting Elliott or the crazy lady to overhear, "Found him playing dead in a pool, But he's alive Diego."

If their eyes were wet and their voices shock —or the fact that before playing the Franklin Footage, Five pulled Diego aside and they hugged for a max time of 1 minute—no one said a word.

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Make it drop

"Odessa!" Alex hollered as he entered the saloon.

Suddenly all activity ceased, the employee --wow so many faces since the last time he visited-- and the customers.

"Can we help you?" One of the new employees said as she walked towards Alex.

Alex's grin faltered, "Um, is Odessa here?"

The lady looked at Alex and without taking her eyes off of him shouted, "Dessa!"

"Coming!"

And Odessa dashed out of the backroom ready for a fight with anyone who has dared to mess with her.

"Yes?" She came and stood before Alex, giving him a look and then sighting and stepping aside, inviting him to come in further.

"It's okay girls," She said and hugged Alex, "he's harmless."

"Alex!" Peggy, who was previously napping, woke up and rushed to hug the young man, "haven't seen you around here for a while!"

"Pegs! We saw each other yesterday..." Alex said before thinking hard to make sure it was in fact yesterday.

The m̶e̶a̶n̶ kind lady shrugged before dragging him towards one of the chairs, followed by a
sighing Odessa.

"So what are you doing here?" Odessa asked once they were all sitting.

"Well, turns out my brother is alive-"

"You have a brother?" Odessa asked.

"Four brothers and two sisters."

"Your mom is a busy woman," Peggy thought about making Alex buy a fruit basket for the kind lady who has tolerated Alex and his other siblings.

"We're all adopted, There's Luther who's kinda a douche but we still love him, Diego with his knife obsession —don't ask, it's how he is— and one of my awesome sisters-"

"Alex?" A voice said from behind him.

"-Allison, who's a badass female and all who dare to defy her-"

"Alex!" The voice said again, and this time Alex recognized the familiar voice of his one and only second sister.

"Ally..." Alex stood from his chair, and once again the saloon was quite.

The two siblings looked at each other before running and hugging the other lower than the speed of sonic but still pretty fast.

Odessa watched with a smile as her two favorite people —which is like high praise coming from her— hugging and crying and laughing and- wow, punching? Doesn't matter, Alex deserved that.

She yelled at her employees to get back to work and thus giving the two some sort of privacy.

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Wap

After Much crying and punching and promises, Alex and Allison, The A duo, Started talking about their lives. about how Allison is now married --Alex couldn't stop crying over his baby sister marrying-- and with her husband and the rest of the employees of the Saloon they've formed a movement against racism, which Alex told her he had no idea about it but if he could do anything then he would.

They also talked about how Raymond was arrested and the cops wouldn't let him out. She, however, didn't say anything about Klaus, having heard the rumors of Alex's wife, she decided it's best to keep this a secret for now.

On their way to free Raymond, Alex told her about his arrival and how he had made his own brand which ended in Allison thanking him for the numerous dresses he had sent her or one of the other girls.

When they arrived, they were told that someone had already bailed Chestnut out, 'A pretty boy who had connections.'

Alex then decided to bail the other men that were arrested for no reason other than the stupid reason of their skin color.

Alex wondered what the white skin assholes would do if they were thrown in an alternative universe where they were treated how they treat black people.

"Well, that was a surprisingly active day," Alex said before looking at his watch, "Oh shit, gotta go pick up my wife, Sorry Ally, You got my number, yeah?"

Allison nodded with a heavy heart.

"Good! Call me then, Bye! love you!" And with that Alex hurried away.

"Love you too," Allison mumbled before leaving as well.

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Ray was having a weird day.

First, he was arrested and held in jail overnight.

Then he meets this dude, dubbed 'pretty boy' by others.

Then Allison is curious about some dude's tattoo.

After that, 'pretty boy' comes bails him out and tells him that their family? Brother-in-law?

And after he arrives home there's this giant dude saying he's Allison's brother.

And before going to the protest, He's called by one of his friends who was also in jail, and told that Allison and some 'posh boy' came earlier and bailed everyone out. He'd bet all his fortune that this 'posh boy' is another brother.

So when he finally goes to the protest, he's... frustrated.

Where the hell did his wife get so many siblings?

( T_T)＼(^-^ )

Klaus parked his car in front of Glen Oaks Hardware.

"The help are we doing here?" Asked Ben from the backseat, "S-Some ole DIY?"

(BEN! I MISSED YOU!)

"You just stay here, pumpkin," Klaus fixed his hair in the mirror, "Okay."

Ben looked as Klaus circled the car and then opened the store's door, "Don't do anything dumb."

Klaus shot him a look before entering.

"Close the door!" The owner shouted as he saw the dog zooming past the shelves, trying to escape.

Klaus quickly closed the door and only opened it for another customer when one of the two employees had picked the dog up.

Klaus could see that his tag said 'Robert'.

"I'm sorry sir, Elizabeth here is a trouble maker, just like her owner," Robert said as he stroked the dog.

Klaus smiled, "You mean yourself?"

Robert laughed, "Oh no, I can barely take care of myself, this little cutie is-"

At that moment, the door of the store opened, "I'm so sorry I'm late I just found out my siblings are alive-"

Klaus turned with the speed that would leave sonic jealous, "Alex?"

Alex fell silent, "Klaus..."

"Woof!" Elizabeth barked at the sight of her owner.

Robert and Dave came and stood behind Klaus, both knowing from Alex's expression that this is The Klaus that they've hears so much about in the few past years.

Alex took Klaus's hand and disappeared.

Robert and Dave gave each other a look, seems like Elizabeth is staying with them some more.

WORDS: 2500

HIYA!

Yeah so apparently Elizabeth is a dog, so all this time I've been thinking about a cat.

Heh, the wife thing gonna come bite everyone in the ass.

Okay so, I wanna change the summery (maybe), what do you suggest I should put as summery?

STAY SAFE
LOVE YA!

Happy October!

[would y'all like a Halloween one shot? I didn't do one last year (I did but I never published it) so tell me if you want to read it]