— 𝗰𝗹𝗼𝘂𝗱𝗲𝗱 𝗺𝗲𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗲𝘀；𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘂𝗺𝗯𝗿𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗮 𝗮𝗰𝗮𝗱𝗲𝗺𝘆
— 𝖼𝗁𝖺𝗉𝗍𝖾𝗋 𝗍𝗐𝖾𝗅𝗏𝖾：𝗐𝖾𝖽𝖽𝗂𝗇𝗀 𝖻𝖾𝗅𝗅𝗌 𝖺𝗋𝖾 𝖺 𝗋𝗂𝗇𝗀𝗂𝗇𝗀

𝗠𝘆 𝗙𝗶𝗿𝘀𝘁 𝗠𝘆 𝗟𝗮𝘀𝘁 𝗠𝘆 𝗘𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴
𝖻𝗒：𝖡𝖺𝗋𝗋𝗒 𝖶𝗁𝗂𝗍𝖾

"𝗆𝗒 𝖿𝗂𝗋𝗌𝗍，𝗆𝗒 𝗅𝖺𝗌𝗍，𝗆𝗒 𝖾𝗏𝖾𝗋𝗒𝗍𝗁𝗂𝗇𝗀 𝖺𝗇𝖽 𝗍𝗁𝖾 𝖺𝗇𝗌𝗐𝖾𝗋 𝗍𝗈 𝖺𝗅𝗅 𝗆𝗒 𝖽𝗋𝖾𝖺𝗆𝗌．𝗒𝗈𝗎'𝗋𝖾 𝗆𝗒 𝗌𝗎𝗇，𝗆𝗒 𝗆𝗈𝗈𝗇，𝗆𝗒 𝗀𝗎𝗂𝖽𝗂𝗇𝗀 𝗌𝗍𝖺𝗋．𝗆𝗒 𝗄𝗂𝗇𝖽 𝗈𝖿 𝗐𝗈𝗇𝖽𝖾𝗋𝖿𝗎𝗅，𝗍𝗁𝖺𝗍'𝗌 𝗐𝗁𝖺𝗍 𝗒𝗈𝗎 𝖺𝗋𝖾．"

THE KUGELBLITZ HAD FINALLY ANNOYED CLEO TO HER CORE. She was fine with that fact that the plan didn't work because there was really only a 10% chance that it would have worked, but what really annoyed her was the fact that the kugel took Fei.

If she had it any other way, Five would have gotten taken instead of Fei, but yet there she was sitting on the couch in Hotel Obsidian, while the rest of the surviving members from both groups sat in silence.

That is until Allison had something to say.

"So, how is it that we're still here, but the whole of the universe is going down a cosmic shitter?"

"Maybe we're just the last to get flushed." Viktor chimed in.

"Wasn't talking to you." Allison deflected instantly.

"All I know is if the damn thing wants to take me, then it better do so. I'm not just going to sit here and wait to die." Cleo scuffed, as she sank back into the couch.

"Hey, has anyone seen Klaus?" Luther asked, still not seeing a glimpse of his other brother.

"Or Dad?" Sloane added, thinking about his unseen presence as well.

"They'll be here." Diego assured, mostly to himself.

"Really? Did they...hit traffic?" Ben snarked.

"Well, wherever they are. On the way back here or not they're on the highway to hell." Cleo stated.

"Look, people, we're alive because we're special, right? We're the only ones who can save the universe." Ben rallied.

"Uh, question." Allison proposed.

"Yes." Ben said, as he turned to face her.

"Didn't we just try that and fail miserably?" She stated blatantly.

"Yeah, it's because his plan was stupid." Diego started to say.

"Mmm." Allison hummed.

"I got a better one."

"Of course you do." Ben muttered.

"We go with the large hard–on particle accelerator. You guys do some science, and we launch the kugelblitz into outer space. Didn't think I knew that, did ya?" Diego explained, while using a catapult hand motion.

"Hold on a minute, wanna be Cisco Ramon, does this look like Star Labs to you?" Cleo smart mouthed.

"If you would have let me finish, I would have told you it's in Switzerland. Wanna be Loki Laufeyson." Diego shot back.

Instead of rolling her eyes at him, Cleo actually laughed at the insinuation.

"Actually, Five gives me Loki Laufeyson vibes. But I, on the other hand, am more like Shego." Cleo corrected, but agreed.

Ignoring their silly banter, Ben corrected Diego's mistake. "First off, it's hadron, not "hard–on" ya moron!"

"Oi! At least he's trying you shitty little squid. What have you contributed?" Lila defended.

"Shitty little squid." Cleo cackled, while Gemini tried to get her to stop.

"Actually, he did blow up half his family." Diego stated.

"Hey! That's a sour subject at the moment, don't bring it up again." Gemini ordered. And Diego nodded in understanding.

"Oh, you wanna talk about family problems?" Ben began to say, walking up to Diego.

"You know what should have blown up is your face on that neck!" Ben expressed in a hostile manner.

"I wish I had a cake to hit you with in your face!" Diego shot back.

"Museun yaegileul haneun geongayo?" Ben argued in Korean.

"Será mejor que cortes eso..." Diego argued back.

"Dagchyeo!"

All the while those two were fighting Cleo found it hilarious, Gemini on the other hand was annoyed with their egos so she got up off the couch and headed over to them.

"Tous les deux, taisez-vous et asseyez-vous, avant que je ne vide vos corps." Gemini stated in French, while she put her hands in both of their faces and pushed them away from each other.

"You guys done yet? The universe is disappearing outside. So you can keep rearranging the deck chairs of the Titanic if it makes you feel better, but the fact remains that we are too late."

"Five, come on." Luther pleaded with his brother to have a little hope.

"It's over, Luther. We failed." Five concluded.

"Come on. It can't be over over."Viktor thought.

"Yeah, come on, Five. We gotta figure this out, man." Diego agreed.

"Okay. How about we take a step back? Look at the big picture here. Most of us have spent the last 28 days trying to stop the world from ending. What exactly have we accomplished?" Five asked.

"That we don't like each other and there's other things we'd rather be doing." Cleo stated, with a sarcastic smile.

Five rolled his eyes yet again at her statements and ignored her.

"Well, we made some friends along the way." Luther kindly said, as he looked at Sloane.

"Oh my god." Cleo muttered.

"Incorrect!" Five dismissed.

"You know what we've done? Nothing. We made things worse every single time." Five recalled.

"Umm this may be bad timing to say this but, this sounds like a y'all problem." Cleo shared her opinion.

"Amen to that." Allison agreed, surprisingly.

"Look, when I went to the Commission, I had a conversation with my 100 year old self. And my last words were. "Don't save the world.""

"Don't save the world?" Viktor questioned.

"Don't save the world." Five nodded.

"That's the stupidest thing I've ever heard." Diego disagreed with the whole discussion.

"Is it? Whatever we're doing, it's not working. All we ever do is save the world for a day, pat ourselves on the back, and then everything goes to shit again." Luther stated.

"Yeah, maybe we're the problem." Viktor agreed with his brother's statement.

"Oh, yeah. Us." Allison huffed.

"I second that, wherever you guys go trouble just seems to follow you, you're like a broken mirror. You all cause bad luck." Gemini admitted, thinking over all the occurrences that happened while the umbrella we're here.

"So wait. Your big plan is, no plan?" Lila asked, wanting to set the record straight.

"Exactly. Conscientious objection. Why the hell not? We've tried everything else. Look, maybe this is just what the universe needs. I say, embrace the apocalypse. See what's on the other side."

"What if it's... nothing?" Sloane questioned fearing for the worst.

"Then it's been nice knowing you all." Five informed.

"I can't say the same." Cleo said surely.

"Whatever's on your bucket list, I recommend you do that now." Five suggested.

A moment of silence occurred, while everyone was in their own heads until Luther spoke up.

"Well, on that...super happy not, we've, umm... Oh, hell. We've, uh, got a little announcement to make." He started to say, as he and Sloane both stood tall hand in hand.

"We're engaged!" They both shared happily.

"Kill me, Jesus." Ben muttered to himself.

"Idiots." Five also muttered to himself.

"Where's the kugel when you need it?" Cleo thought aloud.

"This is surprising news." Gemini stated trying to show some enthusiasm for the new couple.

"Now?" Allison asked.

"Yeah. Look, we realize the timing is less than ideal. But, obviously, it's now or never. Am I right, Five?"

"Don't drag me into this, please."

"What...Whatever time we have left, we wanna spend it with all of you. So we're super pumped if you would join us in the banquet hall at 6:00 p.m for a celebration of our love, and the official union of what's left of our two great families." Sloane explained.

"Dress code is creative black–tie." Luther added, as he and his fiance stood with big happy smiles on their faces.

☂︎︎

Some time had passed, and the remaining Hargreeves children had nothing to do.

Next thing they know, their absentee father and missing brother waltz into the hotel.

"Dad?"

"Klaus!' Allison exclaimed.

"Hey." He greeted his sister.

"Oh, thank God." Viktor praised.

"Gather around children. Quickly now!" Reginald ordered.

"I don't know if you have noticed but we are gathered." Cleo stated.

"The hell have you been?" Diego asked his brother.

"Oh, Reg and I. We got all tangled up in a whole father–son–end–of–the–world road trip kinda thing. You know?" Klaus explained.

"I honestly feel sad for you, because you had to spend your free time with that troll." Cleo sympathized.

"You two are hanging now?" Ben questioned.

"Yeah, we laughed, we cried, we played in traffic, and long story short, I'm immortal now." Klaus flexed.

"Whoa, wait. You're what now?" Luther asked, not thinking he heard his brother right.

"Klaus, have you gotten into the bath salts again?"

"And if you have, please give me some." Cleo added.

"I think the more pertinent question is, why are you all playing with jars?" Reginald asked, eyeing each and every single one of his children.

"They're invitations." Sloane informed.

"Nobody's playing." Luther corrected.

"Luther and I are getting married." Sloane told her father.

"All of space and time is collapsing, and you lot are planning a wedding?" Reginald disgraced.

"And you were playing in traffic with Klaus. What's the difference, better yet who cares." Cleo shot back.

"Yeah, and, uh, the thing is, um, space is limited. So it's kinda of a per–plate situation, so, you know." Luther explained, plucking the invitational jar from Reginald's grasp.

"Is this how I raised you? To fiddle while Rome burns?" Reginald accused.

"You didn't really raise us." Cleo muttered.

Klaus warned Reginald to remember their training, but of course Reginald told him to bugger off.

"Dad, have you been taking your pills?" Sloane asked.

"As a matter of fact, I haven't. And I can confirm that I've never felt better in my life. You thought you could dope me up and slow me down, take control of my affairs and squander my fortune. Well, Klaus here was good enough to wean me off that wretched poison. And now that the fog is lifting, I can see all your dastardly designs with a bracing clarity." Reginald informed.

"Great, he's even crazier than he was before." Gemini whispered to Cleo and she also agreed.

"You took him off his meds? What were you thinking?" Sloane rhetorically asked Klaus.

"Clearly, he's the only one doing any thinking at all. All of you could learn a thing or two from this impressive young man." Reginald praised.

"If anything it's you who should learn a thing or two from that impressive young man." Cleo fired back.

Diego laughed at the exchange. "The world really is ending! Oh my God."

"As for the rest of you, your training is to resume post–haste. We're running out of time. We have a mission to complete."

Cleo laughed at his orders.

"I'm ready. Let's do this." Ben agreed eagerly.

"Kiss ass." Cleo muttered for Ben to hear, causing him to roll his eyes at her.

"Let me guess. Project Oblivion?" Five asked, knowing the answer to his own question.

"How do you know about that?" Reginald questioned.

"From an old friend." Cleo started.

"We heard about it from Pogo." Five finished.

"Now, there's a name I haven't heard in some time."

"And he confirmed what I've always suspected about you."

"Which is?"

"That you're a sadistic lunatic who's planning on gambling all of our lives in another pointless mission." Five stated quite surely.

"And you take the word of a disgruntled chimp, over that of your own father?"

Five blinked closer to Reginald. "Every damn day."

"Nobody wants you here, Dad. You should leave" Luther said, confronting his father.

"Hey, you don't speak for all of us, big guy." Ben pointed out.

"Actually he does, well everyone except for your kiss ass." Cleo stated.

"What she said, you can also feel free to join him." Luther agreed.

"I see. So this is what it's come to. Insurrection."

Having enough of this conversation both Gemini and Cleo tuned out the rest of their father's coercion.

☂︎︎

After everybody else disbursed, Gemini decided to pick out the outfits that she and Cleo were going to wear for the wedding.

In the meantime, Cleo decided to drop by the bachelor party that she wasn't invited to simply because she wasn't a boy.

Walking on the upper level towards the stairs, she passed by a glaring Ben.

She didn't even pause to see if he was okay, instead she laughed and walked her way down the stairs to a bachelor party she wasn't invited to.

Taking the video camera out of her jacket pocket that she found, she opened the lens and switched on the camera.

Cleo walked in just in time, because as of now she was video taping Luther singing "Total Eclipse Of The Heart" horribly might she added, but whenever she needed a good laugh she would be sure to watch this video over again.

Standing in the back, she continued to videotape the ongoing scene. And after a good 3 minutes into her video she plopped down on the couch next to Viktor.

"And what are you doing?" Five asked, not seeing why she would ever join them voluntarily.

"First off, it's a free country. Second, I needed a good laugh and your family provided me with that." She said, still holding the video camera.

"Who cares. The only thing I can't believe is that Luther is the first one of us that gets hitched." Diego voiced.

"I can, I caught him marrying my action figures in, like, third grade." Viktor shared.

"Did not." Klaus questioned in disbelief.

"This isn't how I pictured our bachelors' party, you know?" Diego graveled a past pretense.

"Well, the world's running a little short on strippers and tea cakes right now."

"You know I could make an illusion of strippers right now if that's what you really wanted." Cleo shared with Klaus.

"Really!"

"Yeah, I could." She nodded.

"I'm just surprised you didn't invite Daddy Dearest to come join us." Five stated.

"For once, I'm going to have to actually agree with Five on this one." Cleo said.

"Oh, come on. He's such a kind and thoughtful soul. He's not like our Hargreeves. Au contraire."

"Well, then your Reginald must have been a disaster, because ours is absolutely horrendous."

Klaus nodded and admitted something else. "But I'll admit I needed a break from the old dog."

Finishing their conversation, they all turned back to notice Luther was finishing his song.

"What're you SOB's so down in the mouth about? This is a party." Luther expressed, walking back over to the group.

Cleo stood up from the couch offering Luther his seat back and went back to standing.

"I'm just so glad we got to go out with a big ol' bang while we still can. Hey, here's to us." Klaus toasted as he stood up.

"We've had a hell of a run." He cheered.

Cleo tipped her camera to the toast.

"Who's next?" Luther asked.

"Oh. That'd be me 'cause I finally come to a decision."

"What's it going to be, maestro?"

"It's gonna be a duet, my friend." Five told Klaus as they walked up to the clearing.

"Oh, this right here is gonna be amazing. I hope I never lose this footage." Cleo stated.

"This is gonna be good." Luther complemented.

"No karaoke is good. That's the point." Diego corrected.

"Bucky Barnes over here is correct." Cleo agreed, keeping her camera focused on the two umbrella's at the center stage.

Five started off first by singing "The Time Of My Life".

Shortly after, Klaus joined in. By singing his verse.

Then both the Hargreeves brother's invited their other brothers.

They also tried roping in Cleo, but she insisted on recording the whole thing so they let her be, as they danced around and sang off–key.

☂︎︎

Actually having a good time with the umbrella's for once, Cleo said her goodbye's as she went to get ready for Sloane's wedding.

Going to her shared room with her sister, Cleo opened the door to see her outfit displayed out on the edge of her bed.

Gemini knew that Cleo didn't like skirts or dresses of any kind, so she went with a feminine suit that she knew Cleo would like.

The suit was maroon with little flower details that consisted of the color white, blue and black. Tying it all together Gemini had also pieced the suit with a simple black belt and black high heels.

Grabbing all of her clothes and personal effects, Cleo walked to the communal bathroom to get ready.

Walking in she saw her sister getting ready as well. Already out of the shower Gemini was adjusting the last of her outfit that was also maroon.

Instead of a suit, Gemini's outfit consisted of a sequined off the shoulder cropped top paired along with a long maroon skirt.

Now finishing up with her outfit, Gemini walked over to the mirror and started to apply her makeup.

It was safe to say the two Hargreeves look alikes were going to be rocking the color maroon tonight.

After about 45 minutes, both sisters were back in their room, they both grabbed the shoes that they were going to be wearing tonight and put them on.

Then they both checked each other's outfit to see if they needed to change anything.

Scanning over Cleo's outfit Gemini noticed she was wearing Jayme's necklace.

"I see you finally decided to put the necklace on." She stated with a simple smile on her face.

"I have, and I see you decided to wear Jayme's rings as well." Cleo pointed out.

"Looks like Jayme's going to be there to see her sister getting married." Gemini stated.

"Yes she will, even though she would have joked about the whole thing." Cleo laughed at her sister's memories.

"Her and Alphonso."

"Can't forget Fei, either." Cleo mentioned, and Gemini nodded.

"Marcus would have been here to walk her down the aisle."

"Yep, our big do-gooder of a brother."

"That he was."

"With that being said, let's have fun for them tonight. Yeah?" Cleo suggested and Gemini agreed.

Hooking themselves to each other's arms they opened the room door and started walking their way down to the elevator.

☂︎︎

On the way down to the base level of the hotel, the elevator made stops along the way to pick up all the other Hargreeves.

Lila, Gemini and Cleo all complimented each other.

Even Allison gave the doubles a complement, which they accepted and gave one back.

As the elevator doors opened everyone stumbled out.

"Not sure this place is gonna be big enough." Klaus doubted.

"This place better be an open bar." Allison stated, walking out ahead of everyone.

"Hey, come on. It's Luther. Let's perk up." Lila advised, then took a look around the place. "Wow." was all she could say.

The elevator dinged again, and out stepped Viktor and Luther.

Allison was the first to argue with her brother again.

But that all came to a halt when Luther ordered them to get along.

Breaking up all the tension, the Hargreeves turn to see Sloane stepping out of the elevator with her wedding dress.

There was a moment of silence for the bride.

Gemini and Cleo smiled at their sister for her new found life and love, they were very happy for her.

"Let's get this over with before I die of cringe." Ben interrupted the peaceful moment with his broodiness.

Making their way to the altar, Cleo and Gemini and Lila stood to the side of the bride.

Earlier today when Gemini, Sloane and Lila were shopping for dress materials, Sloane had popped the question and asked if she and Cleo and Lila would be her bridesmaids and of course Gemini and Lila agreed.

Even if Cleo didn't want to do it, Gemini was going to force her either way but surprisingly when she told her Cleo didn't put up a fight she agreed happily.

So now they were all gathered around waiting for Klaus to start the ceremony.

"We're gathered here today for a good time, not a long time, so let's have a good time, huh? 'Cause the sun can't shine every day. Can I get an amen!" Klaus preached.

"Amen!" Everybody cheered.

"Luther, do you be taking this banging hottie to be your lady?" Klaus asked.

"I do." He answered with a smile.

"Sloane, do you promise to love and cherish this big hairy bastard for the next 24 to 48 hours?"

"Give or take a day." Five chimed in.

"Shut it, Five." Cleo whispered.

Sloane nodded, "I'm gonna try.

"Well, then. I'm sorry. I pronounce you married as shit! Viva la apocalypse." Klaus declared.

And everyone one cheered happily for the new couple.

☂︎︎

Stepping inside everyone headed to the dance floor, and watched the bride and groom dance by themselves.

"This is officially worse than the apocalypse." Five stated, then quickly spotted bottles of alcohol and left the scene.

Looking at each other, Gemini and Cleo nodded to each other as they walked out to the dance floor to join the bride and the groom.

While dancing together was fun, everyone else agreed that it was time to eat, so they all grabbed a set at a table and ate the food that was prepared for the event.

Everything was going fine besides the fact that Klaus was trying to gather people for Reginald's mission, which didn't bode well for him with the two sisters who wanted nothing to do with Reginald or his missions.

Then speak of the devil himself, he shall appear. Reginald Hargreeves walked into the wedding and took a seat.

After a while he decided to apologize to all of his children and recite some weird death poem, as Sloane would call it.

Between that death poem, Allison and Viktor had another argument.

But Cleo and Gemini didn't care; they were just there to enjoy themselves for their sake and their dead siblings' sake.

Then another round of dancing presented itself and the Hargreeves children did not disappoint for the second time throughout this apocalypse they all had fun together.

Gathering up again, the remaining Hargreeves headed outside to take a seat and watch the apocalypse work its magic in the sky.

All of a sudden everyone started booing because Klaus brought Ben with him.

"Klaus, why are you bringing Ben here?" Five groaned.

"Hear me out before–"

"Hear him out." Ben backed him up, clearly drunk.

"Well look who's finally let loose and got wild." Cleo remarked.

"The brother that you all knew as Ben is gone. And not– I don't mean our Ben, the nice Ben.This Ben, the asshole, he's gone now."

"Gone."

"And I'm Princess Jasmine." Gemini snarked.

"Klaus, what are you talking about?" Luther asked, not getting where Klaus was coming from.

"And the man that stands in front of you is new new Ben, and he's one of us, and he's a member of the team.And he's part of the family!"

"-part of the family!" drunk Ben cheered.

"And as a welcome gift, I suggest we throw him off the roof." Five seriously suggested.

"Yeah, I'll help."

"And I'll record." Cleo added.

"Come on."

"You know what? You know what? He can stay, he can stay." Luther accepted.

"Why?"

"Because it's my wedding day, man. Come on. He can stay." Luther approved.

"Yes!" Ben and Klaus cheered together.

After a moment of family harmony, Gemini and Cleo decided to call it a night and said their goodbyes to everyone as they walked away.

Arriving at their rooms they both saw the back of Allison as she entered Reginalds room.

At the moment both Cleo and Gemini were drunk so they shrugged it off, but little did they know Allison Hargreeves was making a deal with the devil.

Tonight's chapter was a long one, but that means this book is coming to an end :(