CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO:
THE END OF THE F***ING WORLD

When Jason woke up, he found himself alone in the living room. No Five to stroke his hair lovingly, no Diego to fawn over, no soul-brother, no monkeyman, no literal monkey, no—

you get the point.

He was absolutely alone.

he set out to go find the others, but he had no luck.

Grace was sitting in front of her paintings and enjoying the view when Jason found her. She tilted her head towards him without taking her eyes off of the paintings and he silently sat next to her.

"They're beautiful," Jason said looking at them all.

Grace hummed and wrapped a hand around Jason's shoulder and tilted him until his head was laying on her shoulder— or till where he could reach in his teenage body.

"I've always wanted to go outside," Grace began after a moment of silence, "See all of this for myself."

"Why didn't you?"

The hand around his shoulder moved to his hair, "I wasn't allowed to."

Jason closed his eyes, "Well, he's not around anymore to stop you."

"I have the kids to look after now, it's been years since I last saw them," the hand paused before continuing the gentle motion, "It's been lonely, I'm happy to have them around again."

Jason sighed and shifted closer to Grace, "You're a good mom Grace, they're lucky to have you."

"I'm lucky to have them," Jason could imagine her smiling as she said that, thinking about her kids, "Do you miss yours?"

Jason opened his eyes and tilted his head up to meet Grace's eyes that were already on him, "My mom?" he got a nod, "Yeah I guess, it's been...years. I try not to think about her."

"If you ever need someone to talk to, or hug, you know where to find me," She laid a kiss on his head and then looked back at the paintings.

Jason fought back the tears and closed his eyes, taking the comfort she was offering.

It didn't take long after that for the Hargreeves siblings to show up. Jason was peacefully dosing on Mama Hargreeves' shoulder when Luther's booming footsteps startled him but Grace just picked him up effortlessly making Jason's brain glitch for a moment before remembering Robot Mama Hargreeves was a robot so strength, and just leaned his head back against her shoulder as she carried him to the kitchen. Diego was already sitting behind the table playing with something in his hand, so Grace sat Jason down in the seat next to him.

She smiled when she saw Jason quickly seeking comfort and warmth from Diego and the Latino making himself comfortable and letting the teen cling to him. She turned around and started to make something for them both, leaving them to their thoughts.

In the end, she settled on pancakes with smiley faces, three for each of her kids. She placed the plates in front of them and watched as they started to eat. Placing a hand on each of their shoulders, she felt content.

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Five felt guilty about doing this without Jason.

Dolores warned him that the other boy wouldn't be happy about this but Five didn't want to drag Jason around. So with Dolores in his backpack, he set out to make his way to the store they found Dolores.

"Hey," Five said as he set her on her platform, "I bet it feels good to be back,  amongst your friends."

Dolores had to admit she missed them, as much as Five and Jason were refreshing and fun, being with family is something else.

"And it's okay, you can say it. We always were a pain in your-- a pain to deal with," Dolores agreed, they were hard to deal with.

"This isn't easy for me, Delores, and I... I want you to know that we cherish every single minute we ever shared with you, 23 and a half million of them. A lifetime. If Jason was here-- I wish he was here, you were right, he should've been here."

Dolores was always right, she didn't know why they kept disagreeing with her.

"Now look at us. We'd be lucky to spend another day together."

Dolores scolded the boy to stop being so angsty, and he was still too young to be acting like this.

"You are right," Of course she was, "I do have a lot of growing up to do."

"I'll never forget you, Delores. We will never forget you."

She promised them that she will never forget them either. How could she? with all the stupid stuff they've done over the years.

With one last glance, Five turned around and walked away. On his way, he asked one of the staff to give Dolores something new to wear, preferably sequins.

Dolores shed a tear as she watched him go, and hoped the best for both of her idiots.

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Jason was jolted out of his peaceful daze when he heard the explosions.

Diego, who he was spending time with grabbed him by the shoulder and dragged him to the hallway, where the others had gathered. Jason was dragged away immediately, but not before gathering that this was somehow Vanya's fault.

"Come on! We have to find mom!"

they passed by her wall of paintings but she wasn't there, so they tried to go downstairs but a chunk of ceiling fell on top of them, knocking them to the ground.

Jason looked up and saw more and bigger pieces ready to fall, but Diego wasn't responding to Klaus and there was no way he could drag him around.

feeling desperate, he turned into his dog form and attempted to drag Diego away by his shirt. He was tugging harshly when suddenly someone helped him drag Diego to safety and Jason sighed in relief.

But they still weren't safe, the house was still falling apart and they had yet to find Grace.

Klaus slung a hand around Diego and helped him run away, with Jason running behind them.

once they were outside, they saw Grace, watching them from one of the windows.

"Mom!" Diego shouted and tried to run inside but was held back by Klaus while Jason started to bark.

Grace waved at them, blew them a kiss, and disappeared with the falling building.

Diego went to the rubble, searching for Grace before being stopped by Klaus, and then they were joined by Luther and Allison and were informed about Vanya killing Pogo.

Jason was nearly in tears, in the short time they were here he had become attached to everyone in the Hargreeve's household.

He started to look around and realized this all seemed familiar, the apocalypse. the beginning of their tale, the start of all of this, and the end of them.

"Holy shit," he said as he shifted to his human self (naked like always) and looked up when he heard Five's voice and knew his fears were true.

The apocalypse was still on.

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The end of the world was around the corner and they found themselves in a bowling alley.

Five sighed when he saw Jason's naked form and handed him some clothes from somewhere. Jason didn't ask and Five didn't offer an explanation.

"Look I hate to say this but everyone needs to prepare," Luther said from where he was sitting.

"For what?" Diego asked.

"To do whatever it takes to stop Vanya," he was immediately slapped in the chest by Allison's notepad, "Ah! We may not have a choice, Allison."

Jason sat silently and just listened, this was something they had to figure out themselves. He had no place in this discussion.

"Bullshit, there's always options," Diego argued and was met with Five's snappy reply, "Yeah? like what?"

Diego paused for a moment, "I don't know."

Luther stood up and took charge, "Look whatever we decide we need to find Vanya. In fact, fast, she could be anywhere."

Klaus looked up from the newspaper he had opened, "Or here. Look at this," He leaned forwards while the rest gathered around him to get a better look.

"That's right," Diego commented, "Her concert is tonight."

Before anything else could be decided, a voice called from behind them.

"Hello," the lady who worked there dragged out the 'o' and looked at them with a smile, "I hate to intrude but my manager says if you're not going to bowl you gotta leave," she shrugged a 'what can you do' shrug and left. Behind her, who Jason assumed was the manager slammed a pair of bowling shoes on the counter while looking straight at them.

"Who's turn is it?" Diego asked as they tried to act like they even had an idea how to bowl.

Luther borrowed Diego's superpower for a moment and glared daggers at the manager before picking up the ball and throwing it without taking his eyes off of the manager.

Jason watched with fascination as it skipped lanes made a strike three lanes further than them.

He also wondered if he could ask for the manager to complain about the manager and if he had to change his hairstyle before doing it or after.

Allison wrote 'SHE'S OUR SISTER' on her notepad and showing it to Luther.

"We are the only ones capable of stopping this, we have a responsibility to dad."

Luther was doing good until he mentioned dad.

"To dad?" Diego snapped, "No I've had enough of-"

"He sacrificed everything to bring us back together."

Five pipped in, "I'm with Luther on this one, we can't give her a chance to fight back. There are billions of lives we can't just save one."

"Hey you know guys maybe I can help," Klaus said and looked around.

"Now is not the time," Luther said while Five shook his head and was then slapped in the back of his head for being rude.

"No let him finish," Diego defended Klaus and at that moment his eyes looked even prettier than ever, "He saved my life today."

Klaus stood up, feeling confident with one of his brothers backing him up and not immediately discarding him.

"Is it true?" Luther asked surprised, making Jason kick him in the knee.

"Yeah I did...take credit for it. In fact, the real hero was Ben."

Jason looked at Klaus confused before understanding the situation. He was proud of his soul-brother getting sober and gaining more control over his powers.

The others, however, shared a single brain cell and couldn't connect that statement with Klaus's power so they were all confused.

"Today, listen, today, he punched me in the face," Klaus moved forwards and pointed at his face, and earlier at the house, he was the one who saved Diego's life, not me."

"You are unbelievable," Luther started but was cut off by Klaus who moved to where the bowling balls were, "You want proof? Alright, I'll give you proof."

He picked up one of the balls and nodded to somewhere in front of him and then threw the ball. sadly, Ben didn't catch it and confirmed Jason's theory about them sharing a single brain cell.

The ball rolled away while everyone stared at Klaus, unimpressed.

"Is there any way to silence that voice in your head that screams out to be the center of attention?" Luther said but before Jason could kick him in the family jewels for being rude, Klaus decided to burn Luther.

"You know, I liked you a lot better before you got laid?!"

Luther's eyes widened and Allison looked between them.

Klaus tried to fix it, "Which was a- it wasn't his fault- he was ridiculously high, right?" he made it worse, "And the girl, she thought he was a furry and-"

Fortunately, Luther stopped him before he could say anything more, "Stop," and then risked looking at Allison, who picked up her notepad and with one final glance left. Luther predictably went after her.

Before Jason could high-five Klaus they were interrupted. again.

A woman walked up to them with her son, "Excuse me, it's my son Kenny's birthday today, and...  Uh... wouldn't your sons be happier playing with kids their own age?" Jason and Five stared blankly at her.

"Assuming it's okay with your two dads."

Diego and Klaus exchanged a look while Jason looked at them hopefully. Diego could be his dad!

"I would rather chew off my own foot," Five spat out making the woman take a sharp breath.

They left and Five stood up to go see what the commission had sent out now.

Jason stared at Diego with wide eyes. Diego looked at him confused, "What?"

Jason continued to stare.

"Wha-" realization set in, "Jason, don't even think about it-"

"But you have pretty eyes! I have pretty eyes!"

"That's not how this works!"

"It could be!"

Klaus looked between the two, "If you adopt him if you have to adopt me too, we're soul-brothers."

Diego turned away from them, ignoring them completely.

Klaus and Jason high-fived.

Sometime later, after Jason and Klaus had gotten themselves some popcorn, everyone (excluding Five cause he a lil bitch) gathered around again to plan their next move.

"What's the plan?" Diego asked as everyone looked at Luther.

"The plan is to...um... we go to the Icarus theater."

"I hate to inform you but that's a place," Jason said as he popped popcorn in his mouth. (hehe)

Diego got in Luther's face, "Is that all you got?" Luther stayed silent, "Look you wanna be number one, fine, but you have to get us all on the same page cause right now we're all over the place."

Luther nodded, "You're right, we need a plan."

However, before any plans could be made the commission people came in, guns out, and started shooting.

Screams filled up the place and the Academy kids plus doggo boi dived behind counters and whatever could be found for cover.

Luther screamed over the sounds, "Who the hell are these guys?"

Klaus put his hands against his ears, "Maybe they're here for Kenny's birthday!"

"Dang it! I knew we should've played with him!"

"No, I'm pretty sure they're here for us!" Luther shouted back.

"How would you know, weather boy?" Jason said and got a deadpan glare in return.

Diego got up and threw a knife hitting one of the bad guys, and then the lights went out and a dope song started playing.

with the opportunity given to them, the academy kids plus doggo boi started fighting back.

Luther threw a bowling ball at one of the bad guy's head.

F the dude.
came to this world softly, went out with a bang.

Luther liked this tactic and started throwing balls at everyone's heads left and right.

Klaus picked up Kenny's cake and threw it at another dude.

Jason sat next to Allison, "You come here often?"

Allison's face screamed 'are you serious?'

She pointed at the lanes and Jason shouted at the rest of the hargreeves kids, "The lanes!"

And they escaped via the lanes.

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They got to Icarus Theater as fast as they could.

Allison ran ahead, going to talk to Vanya herself. While Luther used this as a distraction and set Klaus and Jason to be the lookout.

Disappointing to be honest.

And that's how Klaus. Jason and Ben found themselves looking out.

That's what people on the lookout do, right?

Jason could hear the music, Vanya was really talented.

it wasn't long after that that the trio went across the street for snacks, and like two minutes later they heard gunfire.

So much for being on the lookout.

Oh and look, there comes Cha-Cha!

They ran in screaming about Cha-Cha and were told to get down.

They had no chance to fight against these dudes.

Looking over at Klaus, Jason saw his hands were glowing, and Ben appeared, kicking their ass.

"How's that for lookout?" Klaus laughed and waved off Luther and Allison's stare.

"That was... so cool!" Jason jumped up and down, "Again! Ben is so cool, he's my new soul-brother."

Luther came up with a plan and divided them all around the theater, while Vanya played and became stronger.

Her black suit shifting to white, complete with her White violin.

Luther's plan was to attack at the same time, which she stopped and held them up with white lights. leaving it to Allison to stop Vanya.

She held a gun against her head and shot it by her ear, breaking her concentration and causing her to shoot a beam straight to the moon.

"We did it, we saved the world," Luther said happily bu then Klaus looked up.

And there it was, the moon had blown up and was heading for them.

Five came up with a plan, time-traveling, all of them together.

and with that they formed a circle, holding into each other while Five opened a portal.

"If this doesn't work," Jason said right before the portal transported them, "You were the best family I ever had."

And with that, the world was destroyed and the umbrella Academy went away.

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Ciao!

I woke up and chose angst :)

That's it for season 1, starting season 2 immediately (after planning of course)

Thanks for following Jason's story till now and we'll hopefully see you in season 2! UWU

LOVE YALL
STAY SAFE ❤️

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