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Alex was having a completely normal day, in his normal life.
While walking down town, Alex got slammed into, His vision swarmed blue, his ears started to ring and he felt his body was being pulled in so many different directions, a wave of nausea hit him as he fell to the ground.
He felt his lungs fill with smoke, his eyes watering as he tried to focus his vision, he felt a weight on him move, he looked down and saw a black haired boy moving to get up, he looked right at Alex, then around, his eyes widened and he looked panicked.
Alex decides to look around as well only to see a desert world with corpses and destroyed buildings around him he felt a rock in his throat his eyes widened as well with the realization that that foul smell isn't just the smoke it's the rotting corpses around him.
-"What happened? How did we get here? Where is here? Who are you?" Alex asks while the boy clutches his fists as a weird blue like comes out of it and quickly dissipates the boy looks more panicked now his eyes feeling with water it seems like he was struggling to breathe.
The boy turns to him again,
-"I think I may have accidentally brought you to the future with me. We got here with my powers. I don't know where this is, just the fact that it is the future. I'm Number Five… Hargreeves from the Umbrella Academy. Who are you?" The boy, Five explained, that name… Alex remembers hearing that name, but he couldn't remember why.
-"I'm Alexsandri Santos, when in the future are we? Like centuries, Decades or are we days away from this?" Alex asked concerned
-"I don't know, maybe we can look for clues? If you want?" He asked
Alex nodded as he got up from the floor, They both looked around, Alex found a newspaper with the date April 1,2019. He turns to tell Five, when he sees him stare at a group of… well a group of dead people, Alex moves closer and he can see tears falling from his eyes, Five was in fact crying.
-"Hey. It's okay, I got the date, let's go back, with your powers right? That way whoever these guys are, they won't be dead anymore, so nothing to worry about." Alex tried to be reassuring, he didn't have any reason to believe they were going home
"They are my siblings…" Five moves closer to Alex and takes his hands and puts them on his shoulders. Five clutches his fists as bright blue light appears out of them then fizzles out he tries again and again and again soon enough his face was slightly red he seemed to add a breath and he was slightly sweaty he looked closer to panicking now.
-"My Powers aren't working. I don't know what happened, maybe I'm out of energy? This can't be happening, we can't be stuck here." He said, definitely panicking rightfully so Alex also felt panicked they were stuck here with the no food and no water and their family and friends are dead, no way back, just desolate world with corpses of people they vaguely recognize, Alex didn't know how to react, He didn't want to react, he didn't want to accept that maybe they were stuck here.
-"No, I'm smart enough to figure it out! I can do advanced maths in my head, I can go days without food or water, I can get us back!" Five said forcefully, like he was trying to convince both Alex and himself. Alex thought the last bit was concerning, but he was more worried about being stuck in this hell hole.
-"Why did you try time traveling if you didn't know how to go back!" Alex said frustrated
-"I… I'm sorry you got stuck here with me.
I didn't think it would be so diferente, the equation was… well not simple but straight forward. I made an equation to go back but it didn't work, i don't know why I'll have to redo it to try and get us back." Five explained, he seemed exhausted, his body was shaking and his face was slightly red. He was muttering things that sounded like long strings of numbers. Alex took a deep breath to calm down, it did the opposite as he started coughing as smoke filled his lungs.
-"Are you okay?" Five asked, looking at him again
-"Yes, I'm fine it's just smoke" Alex answered. He suddenly felt tired, he just wanted to go home and sleep but he can't do that
-"Food!" Five blurted out.
-"What?" Alex asked, confused.
-"We should find food and water, and somewhere, err stable to stay." Five replied. Trying to explain his train of thought
-"Well there is, was? A market to block down." Alex thought out loud, Five was right they needed food and water and a place to stay till they figured out how to get out of here.
Five nods, he turns back to his family and stares at them before snapping his gaze back to Alex, motioning for him to show how to get to the market.
Alex looked back at him, then looked at the corpses with an umbrella tattoo, before sighing
-"How about we bury them? A proper funeral. And… if we find my family we do the same thing" Alex asked, Five looked at him then at his family before nodding.
They spent probably hours burying them, before looking for food and water, they found a little grocery store and looked around, found canned food and bottled water, they were carrying everything in their hands before finding a wagon, they both put everything in said wagon and started looking for a place to sleep, they found a pretty intact library.
So they both went inside, they gathered dusty pillows from the kids section.
They opened canned peaches and ate them talking about nothing really, neither of them trying to make the other uncomfortable or worse cry.
After eating they both lay down and go to sleep. Hopping when they wake up this will all be a dream