－𝗰𝗹𝗼𝘂𝗱𝗲𝗱 𝗺𝗲𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗲𝘀；𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘂𝗺𝗯𝗿𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗮 𝗮𝗰𝗮𝗱𝗲𝗺𝘆
－𝖼𝗁𝖺𝗉𝗍𝖾𝗋 𝗇𝗂𝗇𝖾：𝗇𝖾𝗀𝖺𝗍𝗂𝗏𝖾 𝖾𝗇𝖾𝗋𝗀𝗒

𝗕𝗲𝗹𝗹𝘆𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗲
𝖻𝗒：𝖡𝗂𝗅𝗅𝗂𝖾 𝖤𝗂𝗅𝗂𝗌𝗁
"𝘮𝘺 𝘧𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘴 𝘢𝘳𝘦𝘯'𝘵 𝘧𝘢𝘳，𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘣𝘢𝘤𝘬 𝘰𝘧 𝘮𝘺 𝘤𝘢𝘳 𝘭𝘢𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘳 𝘣𝘰𝘥𝘪𝘦𝘴． 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦'𝘴 𝘮𝘺 𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘥 ？𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦'𝘴 𝘮𝘺 𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘥 ？"

CLEO AND FIVE HAD BEEN RIDING THE BIKES THEY STOLE FOR A WHILE NOW. They were currently following Pogo's trail since he had abruptly left them at his bikers club.

'Why would anyone choose to live this far out.' Cleo thought to herself, as she tried concentrating on the open road in front of her, but that was becoming somewhat of a difficult feat seeing as Gemini's guilt was distracting her.

Trying to rid her head from the plaguing feeling of guilt, she turned on the motorcycle's radio.

She did not expect "Big Ollie" to be a fan of Beyonce, because once she turned the radio back on the receiver played the most recent song that was played before the motorcycle was turned off.

" Cause if you like it then you should have put a ring on it "

It didn't take Cleo long to figure out that "Single Ladies" was playing, she actually liked the song but she wouldn't dare say that out loud, Beyoncé's songs were her guilty pleasure.

Five heard the blaring music and was about to tell Cleo to turn it off, but he noticed she had stopped fidgeting and her bright red eyes also stopped glowing a ruby red.

He sensed something was wrong with her before but didn't bring it up since she didn't talk about it so he just let her be, and now he had to endure listening to Beyoncé till they arrived at Pogo's house.

They were still traveling a long strip through the woods, but they both soon saw an opening on the right side of the road which meant somebody's property was placed there.

Giving each other a quick glance they both turned right and entered the clearing, pulling up they saw a woman sitting in front of a trailer and an abandoned motorcycle sitting out front matching Pogo's bike.

Turning off their engines, they placed the bike petals down and advanced towards the woman in the yard smoking a cigarette.

"Can I help you?" she asked, taking the cigar away from her mouth.

"Need a word with Pogo." Five stated plainly.

"Ain't no Pogo here, pumpkin." She denied.

"And I'm Queen Elizabeth. Look lady, we're just looking for a grumpy chimp and seeing as your trailer is the only living area we've seen for miles, Pogo's got to be here." Cleo said, wanting to skip all the small talk and pestering.

Five knew the woman wasn't going to budge so he decided to walk up towards the trailer, causing the woman sitting down to stand up and walk towards him.

"I suggest you both get your asses off my property before I call a truant officer." She threatened more or so towards Five.

"I could manipulate your mind right now and we wouldn't have to deal with this bullshit right now, but I decided to be nice today – for whatever reason. SO I suggest you step aside." Cleo also threatened.

There was a moment of silence before Pogo spoke up, knowing Cleo really wouldn't hesitate to manipulate anyones mind.

"It's okay, Tammy. Let the kids in." He called out from the inside of the trailer.

Five gave the lady an unpleasant smirk then followed behind Cleo as they both entered the trailer.

Cleo slid into the booth first then Five, after settling down they both heard a click of a gun underneath the table.

Cleo knew the gun wasn't meant for her but for Five.

"You're either dumb or desperate. Which is it?" Pogo concluded, seeing that both the children had followed him all the way from the pub.

"Neither, I'm simply just curious." Cleo replied, but she knew Pogo wasn't speaking to her.

"You tell me." Five stated, disregarding Pogo's previous statement. And placed the flap of skin he cut off his older body on the table in front of Pogo for him to see.

Setting his drink down to the side, he picked up the skin and looked at the tattoo design.

"That looks like my work, but I never did that tattoo." He answered, setting the skin back down.

"Not yet, you haven't. I cut it off my 100 year old self." Five enlightened.

"Ah, so desperate it is." Pogo decided.

"Oh definitely." Cleo assured.

"You would be too if you knew the entire universe were at stake."

Pogo sighed hearing the news. "So it's happened."

De-clocking the gun, the chimp reached over the table to grab a notebook.

Flipping to the right pages, he turned the book over for the two to see.

"Ah, here it is. Look familiar?" he asked.

Taking the book in hand, Five compared his tattoo to the drawings in the book.

"Reggie was obsessed with these symbols. It's a sigil. A symbol thought to have magical powers." Pogo explained.

"Dad believed in science, facts. I didn't respect much about the old man but I respected that." Five stated.

"I can't say I'm surprised the old man literally has magically gifted children, why wouldn't he believe that a sigil has magical powers." Cleo countered.

"Whatever you say, but hoo–ha was not his thing."

"Maybe in your timeline but not in ours."

"It's gotta have a rational meaning." Five said, trying to piece the sigils together.

"I don't know, but he referred to it as Project Oblivion." Pogo answered.

It wasn't too long since both Cleo and Five heard that name being uttered.

"This project, we need to know more." Five stated more as a demand than actually asking.

Thinking it over for a bit, Pogo decided that it was the best thing to tell them exactly what they were walking into.

"It was a kamikaze mission, he was preparing the sparrow children with the expectation they might never return. That's why I gave the children those pills. To keep you safe from him." Pogo explained, making it known that the last sentence he spoke was meant for Cleo to hear.

"I always wondered why you two were acting so strange around each other before your departure, then seeing you give Marcus the box of pills was the last straw, but before I knew it we never saw you again." Cleo spoke.

Pogo sighed but nodded knowing what she meant.

"Well, my druggie brother just got him sober. Go figure." Five added.

"Of course Klaus did." Cleo muttered, as she leaned back against the booth.

"Then Project Oblivion is starting again, and you are all in danger." Pogo said, not putting it mildly.

Finishing their drinks, Five spoke up again.

"Then I should probably get that ink. Complete the loop."

"Are you sure?" Pogo questioned.

Standing up, Five shrugged out his blazer. "Oh, I don't think destiny cares whether I am or not."

"Bitch is cruel ain't she." Tammy agreed, pulling out Pogo's ink kit.

Walking over to where she was previously sitting, Five took her place and started removing his tie.

"While you're getting a tramp stamp, I'm going to be taking a nap so wake me up when you're finished." Cleo stated.

Five nodded, and Cleo made herself comfortable while drifting off into a not so peaceful slumber.

"Well then, let's get started." was the last thing she heard before sleep consumed her.

☂︎︎

In Hotel Obsidian, Gemini decided to get out of her room and wander around the hotel, maybe talk to an umbrella or two, anything to take her mind off of her Jayme and Alphonso.

Getting ready she gathered her clothes and personal belongings and walked to the communal bathrooms to take a shower.

She thanked the lord's up above that it was empty for the time being.

So knew she had to be in and out before anyone else decided to pop in. 20 minutes later she felt clean.

Turning off the water she grabbed her towel and dried herself off and lotioned her body.

After she made sure she did everything she needed to do, she grabbed her clothes and put them on.

Today's outfit consisted of a red and black striped long sleeve, black fishnets and black denim short overalls. She paired her outfit with a pair of black doc martens.

Making sure everything looked in place, Gemini walked over to the bathroom mirror. Turning on the sink faucet, she opened her bag and took out her tooth brush and tooth paste.

Putting a strip of toothpaste on her toothbrush she put the brush under the running water to dampen the brush with the paste.

As she was concentrating on the task at hand she failed to see the person standing behind her.

The lights in the bathroom started to flicker as she lifted the brush up to her teeth, and as she took a look around the bathroom to see nothing she turned back around to face the mirror only to be scared out of her mind.

Her dead siblings Jayme and Alphonso were standing behind her moving their heads side to side.

"You should have died, not us." They spoke at the same time.

Toothbrush still in her mouth, Gemini tried blinking several times to get them to go away.

But it was no use she was being haunted by her dead siblings and it was her own guilt to blame.

So she continued to brush her teeth and try to ignore their presence, but she could lie to herself and say that she wasn't going crazy.

As she finished brushing her teeth she gathered all of her belongings and walked out of the communal bathroom, heading straight for her own hotel room.

Opening the door to her room she was met with Jayme and Alphonso again.

"Why are you here, why can't you just leave me alone." She said to herself mostly as she broke down. She already had her own guilt practically eating her alive. She didn't need to see her siblings dead body every corner she turned.

"We've decided to give you no peace." Alphonso put it simply.

"If we're dead, we're taking you down with us no matter how long it takes. You will have no room to breathe, no peace and most certainly you won't have a good life." Jayme threatened walking towards Gemini.

"Don't you know that I'm sorry, I am so sorry." She pleaded, trying to get them to move on and leave her alone.

"No." They both said, but this time their voices came out more distorted.

Gemini set her stuff down, and walked over toward an open window in the hotel room.

Looking out she saw it was a sunny day outside.

She used to love sunny days. It was great when she would go into the sparrow's living room and do her daily yoga. But now it felt like everyday was a cloudy day even if the sun was out.

Trying to convince herself that everything was going to be alright, she settled herself in the middle of the room on the floor.

Putting her legs in a criss–cross applesauce position, she started to meditate. It was probably one of the only things that could clear her mind, so she thought to at least try it even though she knew what the outcome would be.

About 5 minutes had passed by and Jayme and Alphonso's voices became quiet in her head.

At a moment's peace she started to think everything was going to be alright, well at least for the time being.

But she had too much hope in her mind to ever think it would all go as planned.

They knew if they gave her a moment's peace that she would think they were gone but on the contrary, they had a plan for her.

While she looked at peace for a while, they decided to disturb it.

At the time being, Gemini was floating in mid–air due to her chi–energy wave trying to balance out.

As she tried to bring her own scales to balance, Jayme and Alphonso's voices came back but now they were louder than ever.

Gemini tried to block them out but they were too strong, one minute they were gone and the next they were back.

She had almost balanced her scales but when they came at the last minute her energy tipped towards the negative side.

☂︎︎

With Cleo and Five, Pogo had finally finished Five's tattoo. When Cleo shot up from her slumber.

While she was asleep she also heard Jayme and Alphonso's voices bombarding Gemini's thoughts.

Getting up from the booth she was laying in, she saw Five putting his blazer back on.

"Come on, we've got to go now." Cleo urged walking to the door.

"Can you not wait one minute?" Five asked, shooting up an eyebrow.

"No I can't unless you want to return to the hotel to see your siblings dead bodies along with everyone else's." She replied with a sharp tongue.

Five became curious as to what Cleo was talking about. "What do you mean by that?"

Cleo turned to Pogo to see him already looking at her, "Remember the time Reginald took Gemini to train her negative chi side?" she asked.

"How could I ever forget, we all almost died and some actually did. Why do you ask?" He replied.

"There has been a death in the family, Jayme and Alphonso specifically. And you know how close we were, so now that they're dead Gemini thinks it's her fault and so her conscience is eating away at her."

"Oh dear." Pogo muttered more so to himself, but everyone else still heard him.

"Yes, oh dear. Right after that training session Gemini's guilt ate away at her because she actually did kill people by accident and when she went into her

depression she almost killed us all again because she didn't have control over her powers." Cleo explained.

"Okay, so what does that have to do with us leaving in a hurry now?" Five asked.

"Well, for your information my dear creator is being haunted by her dead brother and sister ones that she was the closest to by the way, and now she's quite literally a ticking time bomb ready to explode. Meaning everyones going to die if we don't leave now."

Not wanting to take any risk, Five nodded and took a hold of Cleo's hand.

"Oh yeah, you might want to tell Big Ollie that their bike is outside." Cleo told Pogo, and the chimp nodded and watched as the two disappeared in a blue blink.

☂︎︎

Gemini opened her eyes from the meditation practice that didn't work.

Still hearing the multiple voices of Alphonso and Jayme, Gemini opened her eyes to see her room full of multiple Jayme's and Alphonso's.

Her mind became more unstable as she tried to make them go away. And while she was concentrating on trying to make them go away she didn't notice her powers start to seep out.

Closing her eyes tight she put her hands to her ears trying to block out all the voices.

But it was no use, the ghosts of Jayme and Alphonso drove Gemini insane.

"Stop it.....stop it.....stop it...." She repeated, but nothing was working.

"YOU WILL HAVE NO PEACE!" they all continued to yell.

Gemini Hargreeves had finally reached her breaking point, eyes glowing as bright as a flame and orange mist seeping out of her hand she screamed.

"ENOUGH!"

☂︎︎

Cleo and Five had reached the hotel and were walking down the hallway towards Gemini's room, they were three doors away but they didn't make it in time.

The last thing Five saw before he felt the most pain he had ever felt in his entire life, was a bright burst of orange coming from Gemini's room.

☂︎︎

Though she tried to reign her power back in before it got too intense she couldn't. Gemini's negative energy took over, it was as if she was on autopilot.

It was like a never ending feeling of pain.

Orange power surrounded her and spread throughout the whole hotel.

Diego was in the white buffalo suite when the wave of orange pain washed over him, bringing him down to his knees.

Lila was in the bathroom when the wave hit her, making her clutch her head to try and withstand the pain.

The guests in the hotel were also hit with the wave of pain, they felt their life being drained from their bodies and there was nothing they could do about it.c

Cleo was the only person still standing, because she came from Gemini's body so her powers didn't affect her like everybody else.

Running to Gemini's room, she saw her creator on her knees screaming in pain as her power flooded from her body.

She could feel her agony but she knew the real threat wasn't her body it was her mind, so she had to become one with her again.

Going back into her aura form, she entered her headspace and went through Gemini's head to locate the girl and bring her out before she killed everyone before the kugelblitz did.

I'm so sorry that this took so long to come out, but here it finally is.