ᴄʜᴀᴘᴛᴇʀ ꜱɪx ᴏꜰ ᴅɪᴠᴏʀᴄᴇ
'ᴛʜᴇ ᴍᴀᴊᴇꜱᴛɪᴄ ᴛᴡᴇʟᴠᴇ'

"I told you it wouldn't be a good idea for me to go up there" Five turned his head towards Inanna, pointing towards the hole that Luther had just punched through his wall while talking to Vanya.

"Maybe seeing you get thrown from the building would have been the highlight of my day" Inanna said.

"I'm taking you dancing later, I'd thought that would be the highlight of your day" Five said, he stepped away from the car, walking towards the end of the building where Vanya would exit.

"I can't dance. I'm only coming with you because I want to" Five glanced over his shoulder, his hands tucked into his pockets.

"I've seen you dance, you're not half as bad as you think" Inanna stepped away from Vanya's car as Vanya hurried around the corner. "Well, that clearly went well. You ready to go?" Five asked his sister, he knew Vanya's talk with Luther wouldn't go well, but she had insisted on speaking to him.

"I'm going back to the farm" Vanya said.

"Hey" Five ran to catch up with Vanya, his smile fading from his face. "Unacceptable, Vanya. Remember, we need to stick together" Five said.

"Oh, why, so I don't end the world again?" Vanya asked.

Inanna furrowed her brows, keeping her distance from Five and Vanya. Inanna didn't know much about the world ending, especially not the one that led to Five and the rest of the Hargreeves siblings being scattered across the 1960s, but she didn't expect Vanya to be the cause.

Five scoffed as he looked back at Luther's room. Luther had told her. "Were you even gonna tell me?" Vanya asked.

"You know what?" Five leaned towards Vanya "In my defence, no. All right? And can you blame me? When you... you get angry, shit blows up".

"Great. Are there any other family secrets you failed to mention?" Vanya asked as she got into her car.

After Vanya had got stuck in time along with her siblings, she had lost any memory of her life before the day she arrived in the alley outside of Elliott's. Everything Five had told her since he ran into her was all new, including Five being her brother.

"A boatload, Vanya" Vanya closed the door on Five "Which I don't have the luxury of sharing them-" Five shouted his head pressed against the rolled up window, his voice catching the attention of a couple residents "with the-" Five looked around, sighing as he made eye contact with a man at the end of the street.

Five knocked on the window as Vanya put the keys in the car. Vanya was hesitant to roll down the window, never looking at her brother as she did.

"The clock is ticking on doomsday. Just tell me that when I need you, you'll be ready" Five said.

"I can't help you, Five" Vanya said turning her head towards Five. "I don't even know who I am".

"You're our sister" Five said. Vanya started the car up. "And a member of the Umbrella Academy. Like it or not, that's who you are".

"Look, that's who I was, okay? New timeline, new me".

"No" Five shouted. He stepped away from the car as Vanya drove off "That's not how it works".

Inanna tucked her hands into her coat pockets as Five looked behind him. Luther stood in his room, peering out of the hole he had created, with his middle finger raised to Five. He had heard everything Vanya and Five had said to each other.

Five tilted his head as he spun around to Inanna. "Wonder if it's too late to be un-adopted" Five said.

"New timeline, new you?" Inanna repeated what Vanya said as Five approached her, his glare burning into her skin.

"That's not-".

"I know that not how it works" Inanna sighed. "You're siblings make you even more intolerable" Inanna extended one of her hands to Five. "You wanna go home and see if Diego is still alive?".

Five took Inanna's hand as she turned on her heel to walk next to him. "Not exactly, but Diego seems to be the only sibling who wants to cooperate".

"Oh, the joys of having living relatives" Inanna muttered, sarcastically.

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"So, what, you just let her go?" Diego asked, his voice drowsy.

Once Inanna and Five returned to the apartment to find Diego barely conscious on the couch and Lila talking with Elliott. Five went through everything from the moment Elliott had detected something on one of the machines.

That's how he had found Vanya in a crop field, hiding from the Swedish triplets who had hunted her down, her unknown powers saving her life before a bullet went through her skull.

"Well, Vanya had a lot to process" Five said pacing behind the couch as Lila cleaned Diego's wound and reapplied a clean cloth to stop him from getting an infection. "She'll come around. I know she will".

"What about the guys that went after her?" Diego asked.

"The Swedes?" Five asked.

"Yeah, I mean, how do you know they won't go after her again?" Diego asked as Elliott and Inanna came out of the kitchen, carrying two cups of coffee each.

"They probably will" Inanna said, leaning across the table to hand one of the cups to Lila.

Inanna had only seen the Swedes once before after a meeting at the Commission. She never spoke to them, but she knew they were bad news — most assassins were.

Lila gave Inanna a small smile, that was barely noticeable as she lifted the cup to her lips "Any idea who sent them?" Lila asked.

Her eyes darted from Inanna to Five as Inanna stood behind one of the chairs, leaning her elbow against the high back.

"Oh, I have my suspicions" Five gave Lila a tight lipped smile, picking up the cup of coffee that Elliott had sat on the table. "But right now, our priority is finding Dad and getting answers, 'cause everything else depends on it".

"Which, for the record" Diego started as Five sat down in the chair that Inanna stood behind. "I found him already".

"And then let him go" Five interrupted. "Before we could have a meaningful conversation".

"He stabbed me".

"I'm surprised he waited this long, Diego. We've all had the urge" Lila and Elliott chuckled and Inanna hide her smile behind her cup as Diego's offended gaze burned into Five's face.

"Good one" Lila raised her hand for Five to high five it.

Five leaned forwards sitting the cup down on the table as he looked at Lila's hand, ignoring the gesture. "Good thing I know where Dad's gonna be tonight" Lila's smile and hand dropped simultaneously.

Five pulled out the gala invitation from his pocket, handing it to Diego who snatched it from him.

"Where'd you get this?" Diego asked.

"Found it at his office while he was busy stabbing you" Five said. Diego chuckled sarcastically.

"Your dad is a strange guy-".

"Yeah, he stabbed his own son" Diego interrupted Inanna.

"No" Inanna shook her head, switching the coffee cup from her left hand to her right. The set up of the building still haunted her thoughts. If it was to distract anyone from knowing his true work, it was working with Inanna. "He has a weird thing going on with mannequins and it's like-" Inanna didn't know how to describe it "-it was so strange" Inanna muttered.

"Like father, like son" Diego raised his brows. "Right, Five?".

Five narrowed his eyes at Diego, threatening him to continue with a single look. "What-".

"Nothing" Five cut off Inanna before she could ask what Diego meant by 'like father, like son'. "Diego is just pissed that he lost a fight to Dad".

"Yeah" Diego muttered. "Hoyt Hillenkoetter and the Consulate General of Mexico in Dallas cordially invite you to a gala" Diego read the words off the paper, pulling the attention back to the invite and the plan.

"Whoa" Elliott pointed at Diego. "Wait. Hoyt Hillenkoetter? Are you serious?" Elliott asked.

"You know him?" Five asked.

"We should go" Lila muttered turning her head towards Diego. "Says there's gonna be a seafood tower".

"No, Hillenkoetter is... is one of the Majestic Twelve. Imo— Inanna, I'm sorry-" Elliott extended his hand towards Inanna as he corrected himself, still not used to her name.

"The hell is the Majestic Twelve?" Diego asked.

"What?" Elliott asked in disbelief. "It's a... a secret committee. Uh, scientists, military" Elliott handed Inanna his cup as he hurried passed her to his desk, wanting to find the photo of them. "Uh, deep state. No one knows what they really do".

"Wait, so they're government?" Diego asked as he tried to sit up, grunting quietly in pain.

"A shadow government" Inanna looked over her shoulder to Elliott who nodded. "I mean, that's what Elliott told me" Inanna shrugged.

Inanna had never heard of them until she met Elliott and it was only by accident that she had stumbled upon a random file about the 'Majestic Twelve', even then she barely remembered anything about them, not enough to recall Hoyt's name when she saw it on the invite.

"Yeah, Kennedy was the first president to try to push 'em into the light, but these guys are not to be trifled with" Elliott said as he searched a different desk. "Oh" Elliott mumbled as he grabbed the photo. "Oh, here we go" Elliott crossed the room. "Right here".

Elliott put the picture of the Majestic Twelve on the table in front of Five and pointed at Hoyt Hillenkoetter. "That's Hoyt right there".

Inanna stepped around the chair, sitting the two cups on the table as she glanced to the photo she had already seen before. Sat around the table wearing suits and hats were 11 men, staring at the camera that took the picture.

"I only count 11" Lila said looking at the photo upside down.

"Well, that's because they've only identified 11 so far" Elliott said looking from Lila to Five.

"Who's the twelfth?" Diego asked.

Five looked to Diego raising his brow. He thought it was his dad. Reginald Hargreeves was the twelfth member of the Majestic Twelve — or at least he could be.

Once Elliott returned from Doris's dress shop with the dress that Inanna had picked out and a different dress for Lila, Diego changed into one of Elliott's suits and Five stayed in his uniform, even after Elliott suggested he made another trip into town to buy a suit for Five.

They were out of the door before 5pm and arrived to the gala as it was starting, staying hidden behind a brick wall as the first attendees entered the building.

Diego was first over the wall, crouching behind a car as the other three followed, all of them falling into a crouch behind him.

"So, what's the plan?" Lila asked.

"We infiltrate, we identify, we extract" Diego whispered. "Double time".

"What the hell's he taking about?" Lila turned to Five as Diego looked over the car.

"Find the old man and get out fast" Five put simply.

"That's what I said" Diego looked back at the others. "On me".

Diego stayed crouched as he moved from behind the car to hide behind another car which was closer to the entrance.

"After you" Lila said to Five. Five narrowed his eyes at her. "What, I can't be polite?" Lila asked.

"Cut the crap" Five muttered.

"Oh my God" Inanna sighed. It wasn't the time or the place for Five to start interrogating Lila. Inanna personally thought Lila could be trusted to an extent, but Five thought otherwise.

Inanna put her hand on Five's shoulder as she lifted her dress, to stop it from dragging across the ground as she followed after Diego.

Diego glanced over his shoulder to Inanna as she pressed her back against the car. "So, over 40 years alone with Five? That's gotta drive someone insane, right?" Diego asked.

"Only the first 10 or so" Inanna said.

Diego nodded slowly "You're not related to us, right? I mean, you have powers-".

"They're not powers. Just a little gift from an old briefcase when it tried to kill me" Inanna interrupted. "And no" Inanna shook her head "I'm not related to you. Well, unless your Dad had an affair with my mom when she was barely 20. I mean, it would explain why my parents split before I was born, I guess" Inanna shrugged.

Diego's brows furrowed. "Let's just hope that never happened, don't need anymore sibling relationships in this family, one is more than enough" Diego said, he looked passed Inanna wondering what was taking Lila and Five so long.

"One? Wh-" Inanna's voice dropped to a whisper as she recalled how Five had instantly guessed that Luther was the 'big sensitive one' because he kept coming back looking for Allison. "Allison and Luther?" Diego nodded "Really?" Diego nodded again as Inanna grimaced.

"Are we going or just staring?" Lila asked crouching behind Inanna, Five right behind her.

"Waiting for you two to quit chit chatting" Inanna said as Diego took another glance over the car making sure no one was looking. "I mean, seriously, time and place, Five" Five glared at Inanna.

"Let's go" Diego said "All of us this time".

inanna's parents split because
inanna's mother, iris, is/was a lesbian.
i wanted to mention that here because
it won't be brought up in a chapter,
inanna never knew the real reason as
to why her parents split.