— 𝗰𝗹𝗼𝘂𝗱𝗲𝗱 𝗺𝗲𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗲𝘀；𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘂𝗺𝗯𝗿𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗮 𝗮𝗰𝗮𝗱𝗲𝗺𝘆
— 𝖼𝗁𝖺𝗉𝗍𝖾𝗋 𝖿𝗂𝗏𝖾：𝗋𝗎𝗇 𝗄𝗅𝖺𝗎𝗌，𝗋𝗎𝗇

𝗕𝗮𝗱 𝗚𝘂𝘆
𝖻𝗒：𝖡𝗂𝗅𝗅𝗂𝖾 𝖤𝗂𝗅𝗂𝗌𝗁
"𝘪 𝘥𝘰 𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘪 𝘸𝘢𝘯𝘵 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘪'𝘮 𝘸𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘰 𝘮𝘺 𝘴𝘰𝘶𝘭 ？𝘴𝘰 𝘤𝘺𝘯𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 ．

THANKFULLY THE REST OF THE ROAD TRIP, was not as bad as the first part because Five and Cleo finally stopped bickering even if it was for a little while, and everybody was on board with Klaus's plan to find his birth mother.

Arriving on what looked like private terrain, Gemini, Cleo, Five and Klaus got out of the car and took one look around to learn that Klaus is Amish.

Or that's at least what Five said, "Son of a bitch! Klaus is Amish."

Rounding the car Klaus went to go stand by the three travelers. "This explains everything."

"How does this explain anything?" Five questioned, not seeing any connected clues.

"Because look! Look at this place! This is everything my childhood was missing." Klaus explained in his own terms.

Seeing his brother walk further into the compound, Five stopped him before he could go any further.

"Hey uh, Klaus?" He called out.

"Yeah?"

"Wait up a minute." Five asked walking up to his brother.

"Doppelganger check. You feel anything strange?  Uh, itching, sweats, gas, anything like that?"

"I'm sure if he was feeling anything, we would've noticed it already." Cleo stated

Five glared at the girl, which seemingly made her go quiet.

Turning his attention back to his brother, Klaus answered his question with full honesty.

"No. No, I feel great. Apart from the old rash on the tackle, but what can you do?" Klaus replied, walking towards the gathering of people.

"All right, good luck." Five wishes.

Making Klaus do a turn around. "What? Wait, neither of you guys are coming?"

"No babes, Cleo and I only came along so you wouldn't change your mind and opt out on it, but seeing as you're here this you have to do alone." Gemini answered.

"She right, this one you gotta do alone." Five agreed, surprisingly.

Klaus huffed with a pout, "Alone? Yeah, okay. Yeah, I can do that, sure." He nodded and turned back around to walk through the field of people.

☂︎︎

Finding a secluded area wasn't hard, where Klaus's birth mother lived was full of it.

So Five had the bright idea to park beside a pasture full of cows, and turn up the radio while looking over his map of cool places to go.

Now playing on the radio was, Gerry Cinnamon "Sometimes" and Five putting his vocal skills to work.

"Well, it's a cryin shame"

"You don't even know my name. But every time you pass me by. Girl, it makes me want to cry. It's a crying shame." Five sang along.

"It really is a bloody crying shame, because not only have you managed to annoy me yet again, but you most certainly act your actual age." Cleo whined.

Just to annoy her he started to sing louder, Making Gemini laugh at their antics.

"I go inside the–" but Five sadly got interrupted from feeling the car jerk.

"What is.." Five began to question.

Jogging towards the other side of the car, Gemini looked at a now empty field.

"Uh, Five, I don't suppose cows can suddenly sprout wings and fly. So my question is where the bloody hell are they?"

Getting out of the car, Five also observed the scene in front of him.

"Oh, can't I get one fucking day off?" He exclaimed.

Being snarky, Cleo decided to answer his rhetorical question.

"While I'm around, I hope not." She smiled sarcastically.

Ignoring her response, Five got to work at once writing equations on the windows trying to figure out what could have caused cows to disappear out of thin air.

All of a sudden Gemini hears a distant voice that sounds like Five's name being called, sitting up from the back seat of the car Gemini looks to the distant field to see Klaus running from a mob of Amish people.

Having a laugh, Gemini nudged Cleo to show her.

"Five! Five! Start the car would ya!" He shouted trying to get his brother's attention.

And all the while, Gemini and Cleo just laughed at the scene in front of them.

"RUN KLAUS, RUN! DIG INTO YOUR INNER JACK SPARROW AND RUN!" Cleo yelled, catching Five's attention as he finally looked up from his equations.

"Oh my... shit, shit, shit! Five! Start the car!" He waved his hands up high while running as fast as he could from the angry mob.

Turning towards the direction of the yelling, Five saw his brother being chased and shook his head.

"Hurry, hurry, hurry, hurry, hurry, hurry!" He chanted, while flailing his arms around.

Going to the driver seat of the car, Five yelled back to his brother. "Why can't you just get along with people?"

"I tried. Really, I did. I tried!" He replied.

Gemini and Cleo were already in the backseat ready to go, but they couldn't lie and say that this wasn't the most fun they hadn't had in a long time.

While waiting in the car, the two see an Amish woman coming around the corner yelling for Klaus to wait.

"Hold on a second!" Klaus told Five and ran up to her.

After a few seconds Five became impatient. "Come on, get in the car Klaus!"

"Klaus it's now or never! Klaus!" Five called out.

And finally Klaus got in the car, and the group of super-humans drove away from an angry Amish mob.

Only making it a few miles away from the mob, Klaus opened up the book that the woman gave him.

"Oh, this whole timeline is chock–full of riddles. Get this. My mom died here before I was ever born!" Klaus pointed out reading the book.

Causing Five to abruptly stop the car. Sending everyone in it flying forward.

"Do that again and you won't have feet to drive." Cleo threatened.

Like always, Five ignored the girl's statement and focused on what his brother just told him.

"What did you just say?"

"Yeah." Klaus replied, showing Five the book.

☂︎︎

Rushing through the lobby of the hotel a group of four miscreants looked around trying to find the rest of the umbrella academy.

"Okay, gather round, people. Where is– Where's every– Where's Luher?" Five began to ask, looking around.

"Haven't seen him." Allison answered.

"Who knows." Diego replied.

"Anybody know where– Okay, you know what? We got bigger problems to worry about right now." Five began to state.

"Like what?" Allison uninterestedly asked.

"This," Five began to show pictures of  different women on separate pages of the notebook Klaus had gotten.

"These are our mothers."

Flipping to another page, Klaus stopped Five.

"That one's mine." He pointed out, growing fond of the woman he had never met.

"They're all dead. They all died on the exact same day, October 1st, 1989." Five explained.

"That's our birthday." Viktor noticed.

"Not anymore, it isn't. They all died before we were born." Five corrected.

"That's dumb. If we weren't born, how can we exist?" Diego questioned.

"Exactly." Five agreed.

"What are you saying?" Viktor asked.

"I'm saying, when we jumped here, we created a time paradox. All right? Not just any paradox. This is the grandfather paradox." Five explained.

"What the hell is a grandfather paradox?" Klaus asked.

Five then went on to explain exactly what a time paradox was.

"I am so confused." Diego stated.

"Shocking." Allison said.

"Well, if someone killed our mothers, so we shouldn't exist. But clearly we do exist and the universe can't handle it, which is a problem." Viktor gathered.

"Big problem." Five agreed, holding up a cup of coffee.

"Yah!" A buzzcut kid called out, after doing a high kick with a pool cue in his right hand.

"Stanley!" Diego yelled, catching the kids attention.

"Now is not the time to be doing karate, okay!"

"Yeah, well mom said I need to practice." He argued.

"Yeah, well, she's not wrong. You're very bad." Diego admitted while tossing a knife up in the air and catching it again.

"Well, I saved your pathetic ass."

"Okay, hold on. Five, so we caused a paradox. What does that mean?" Allison asked, not seeing the full picture.

"It's hard to say. It's all been theoretical until now, but things have started to disappear." Five stated, aimlessly

"What things?" Viktor asked, wanting to know what had gone wrong.

"Right now? Lobsters."

"And a shit ton of cows!" Klaus added sitting up from off the floor.

"But I have a feeling this is just the beginning." Five redirected.

"A feeling? Aren't you retired?" Allison questioned, having enough problems already.

"I want nothing more." He answered.

"You know, you can't drag us through hell because you have an itch only an apocalypse can scratch and then expect us to deal with the fallout. You're not the boss." Allison called out, walking up to Five.

Feeling the negative chi energy in the room, Gemini backed away from the commotion to keep a distance.

This didn't go unnoticed by Cleo who decided to say something.

"Oi, look I might not have known Five for very long and I sure as hell don't like him, but what he's saying is actually happening. So take it or leave, but calm down because you're making Gemini uneasy and you know what it feels like when her powers start to take hold."

Saying this silenced the group.

Allison turned to face her. "What are you even doing here? Aren't you a sparrow?" she questioned, seemingly pissed off more than she already was.

"We are, but Gemini believes in your interesting family so she decided to tag along and help you solve your bloody problems. But I on the other hand couldn't give a shit, so back down or it won't be the paradox that takes you away." Cleo coldly threatened.

At this time, Gemini walked over to her double and backed her away from Allison before anything else happened.

Five didn't say anything about Cleo standing up for him, he just decided to move on so he turned to his sister once again.

"Regardless, you can call me the messenger, and I'm telling you something terrible is coming."

"Then let's go attack the sparrows, get the briefcase, and go home." Allison planned, making Cleo want to get up again but Gemini held her back down.

"This is our home, Allison. Accept it."

And while tension filled the air, Stanley knocked something over.

"That's it I'm telling your mom." Diego said.

"Ohhh." Stanley teased.

"Wait, where's Lila?" Five asked.

"Shower, I told her she could stay with us." Stan replied.

"Wait, when did Lila get back?" Viktor questioned.

Seeinghis brother leaving, Diego asked. "Five, where are you going?"

"Go talk to somebody who only has half her head up her ass. Come on, Cleo and Gemini." He called out, walking away.

Causing the two to raise an eyebrow at each other, but shrugged nonetheless and followed after Five.

"Don't leave, Five. Don't leave, Cleo, Gemini. No." Klaus whined.

"No Klaus, we're leaving."

☂︎︎

Walking down the corridors, Five went into the custodial bathroom along with Gemini and Cleo only to find Lila shaving her leg.

"What the hell are you doing in here?" Five questioned.

"She's shaving obviously." Cleo scuffed.

"Shaving my nest, you little perv." Lila said, at the same time as Cleo.

"I like you." Cleo decided as she spoke to Lila.

Five rolled eyes, not wanting to deal with the aftermath if the two actually got along.

"Don't flatter yourself, Lila. I like my women a little less likely to kill me in my sleep." Five reassured.

"You also like your women plasticky, but hey that's you." Cleo shot back.

Five now wonder why he invited her to join him in the first place.

Lilia hummed, "We're learning so much about each other." She said reaching down to grab a throwing knife out of her bag.

Throwing it in Five's direction, he blinked away. As Cleo and Gemini stood to the side and watched the two fight each other.

They watched as the two blinked across the room battling it out.

"You guys are just going to stand there and watch as she tries to kill me?" Five questioned out of breath.

"Yep." Cleo and Gemini answered at the same time.

In the last round, Five took a bottle of shampoo and squirted it in Lila's eyes, then proceeded to kick her in the face.

"All right, enough." Lila tapped out, grabbing a towel.

"I have to say, she did extraordinarily well fighting you naked. So in my eyes she won the fight." Cleo said aloud, while Gemini agreed.

"Thank you, so much." Five huffed out.

"You are most certainly welcome." Cleo replied back sarcastically.

"I forgot how much I hate you, you puny little turd." Lila recalled.

"The feeling's mutual, Lila."

"Looky here, we have another brit among us." Gemini smiled.

"As much as I'd love to stand here shivving each other, I have bigger concerns than you." Five spoke.

"Yeah, like what?"

"What do you know about the grandfather paradox?" He questioned walking over to her.

"Well, I read the same training manuals as you did. Why?" She stated, then asked.

"Because it's happening." He said, rather vaguely.

"You being stupid?"

"Hand over the briefcase, I need to go to Herb and find out how he let things get so cocked up." He elaborated.

"Over there with my knickers. Toss them to me, will you?" She directed.

Walking over to her belongings Five tossed her what she wanted, then noticed a second briefcase amongst her things.

"Lila, why is it you have two briefcases?" He asked, lifting them up for those to see.

"Mmm. One's yours. Nicked it from the sparrows. Go on. Give it a go." She insisted.

"And while he does that, it's time we introduce ourselves. I'm Gemini and she's Cleo." Gemini greeted.

"Ah, nice twins."

"We are not twins." Cleo recorrected.

"Wicked. Anyways, I'm Lila Pitts, pleasure." She stated, holding out a hand to shake.

After shaking hands everyone redirected their focus back to Five and briefcases.

"First, we try yours." Lila narrated, as Five opened the case.

The briefcase sputtered, then powered down while a dim orange light showed.

Seeing this, Five hurriedly grabbed the second briefcase. Only for it to do the same thing as the last one.

"And then we try mine."

"This can't be happening. The odds of one of them failing, it's in the millions. But two of them..." Five started.

"Astronomical. Yeah. So, what does that mean exactly? End of the world?" Lila guessed.

"Oh, it's much worse than that." Five said, setting the briefcases back down on the floor.

"It means all of us are going to have to work together." He finished.

"No." Cleo said.

"Shit." Lila responded.

"Okay." Gemini agreed.

Coming out of the bathroom, Diego called Lila's name.

"You need to take this kid with you." Diego said, pointing towards Stan.

He then saw Five come out of the bathroom as well.

"The hell were you doing in there?"

"Bathing." Lila replied.

"Together?" He questioned.

Soon then Gemini and Cleo walked out of the bathroom.

"What the hell are they doing in there?" He questioned, once again.

"Diego, I assure you if I wanted your woman. I would have her." Cleo informed walking away while chuckling.

"Diego, look, we don't have time for this. All of us have important shit to do." Five confirmed.

"Wait. What's more important than family?" He asked, following the retreating group.

"End of the world, genius." Five stated once again while getting into an elevator with Gemini and Cleo.

As Diego and Lila had their parents' decision argument, Cleo spoke with Five.

"Just so you know, I'm only working with you because I live on this earth too."

"Of course."

Lila now headed inside the elevator.

"Wait! What am I supposed to do with him, huh? I got important shit going on too!" Diego yelled.

"I doubt that. Figure it out, Diego. Be a dad." Lila answered, as she pressed a button to close the elevator.

"Rock and Roll." Cleo smirked as she lost sight of Diego.

Cleo and Allison probably won't get along most of the time in this book fair warning.

Besides that, who are your favorite umbrella's?

Mine are: Five, Klaus, Diego and Viktor.