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On October 1st, 1989, 43 children were born. Now, this wouldn't be concerning if it were not unusual to the fact that the mothers weren't pregnant at the beginning of the day. Upon hearing this, the eccentric millionaire; Sir Reginald Hargreeves sought to get as many of them as he could by paying the parent a large sum of money.
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In the end, he only got eight.
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These were known as
โ The Umbrella Academyโ
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Instead of your average parent, Reggie took to labeling his children with numbers and would often yell at them in training by their numbers yet with the help of his robot companion that the children called Mom and the help of the primate butler: Pogo, they were given suited names although Sir Hargreeves ignored this, proceeding to call them by their numbers as they were forced to use around him.
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One was Lutherย
Two was Diegoย
Three was Allisonย
Four was Klaus
Five decided he didn't deserve a name since he was preoccupied with his trainingย
Six was Ben who died in action at the age of 13
Seven was Vanyaย
Eight was Y/n
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And each one had a special ability.
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Well... Not everyone 'had' powers. Vanya was constantly kept out of photos and missions due to her lack of powers, being treated lower because of her lack of abilities, and constantly pushed aside by the academy, and so was Y/n for some time until they found out about her power one morning when she did something that the eight children believed impossible even for them, which led to more abilities becoming obvious to the academy.
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[About 10 years after the mysterious birth]
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Y/n sat on her bed after one of her father's training sessions, clutching her head as it felt like it was overflowing with sand.
"How could I do such a thing to them?" She muttered lifting her head from her tainted hands, guilt washing over her.
"I'm sorry"
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"Y/n, this test will require your brothers Five and Four." Her father ordered as y/n stood in the center of the training room observing the row of siblings and her closest two siblings being used. "I want you to try and take the energy of their powers and create your own as if you are borrowing it" her father was testing everything possible to determine her abilities which he documented in a golden laced book in his hands that he never seemed to stop writing in.
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Y/n looked at Klaus, a certain worry hidden deep in his eyes. She could tell he didn't want to do this for fear of something going wrong with any of them. Y/n hadn't been allowed to trial her powers in front of anyone but her father which was uneventful since she couldn't muster anything but phasing through walls and as always it wasn't enough for her father since he always had high expectations for the entire academy, as each child could tell you for hours.
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Five on the other hand seemed more oblivious to his health and more on being worried about Y/n's safety. He knew how difficult it was to control his powers in the beginning when his father did trials to find out the academy's powers(which did mean it took a lot of tests for some to comprehend their limits) and she was now forced to take both emotionally and physically draining powers and cope as if the past years hadn't mattered.
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They both eyed Y/n, concerned as she returned the concerned look. She could feel the eyes staring at her from all angles of the room and so she placed a hand on both of their shoulders before closing her eyes deciding that it would be better to get it over with than stand here with eyes glued to her every move.
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She noticed how a warmth seeped into her arms and branched down through her stomach, causing joy to also flood through her. It was going right. She was pleasing her father after months of disappointment.
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Yet as she continued, she felt someone disappear underneath her grasp, quickly turning her grin to a frown as she stopped 'absorbing' the energy from them before opening her eyes to reveal the body lying at her feet.
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There, under her gaze, lay a rough looking Five. His hair was strewn about and his clothing had become a ghastly mess that wouldn't be seen on such a child other than Klaus.
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"Grace, take Five to his dorm and monitor him" Hargreeves ordered their robotic mother to which she complied lifting him away from Y/n and out of the room. "Interesting" Hargreeves stated, scribbling notes inside the book he held in his left hand. "Children, you are dismissed" everyone in the row took a cautious glance at Y/n before leaving her concerned and scared.
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"Father, where did Klaus go?" She quizzed the cold man. "You took part of their power and in doing so merged them." He answered, looking at his documented discoveries instead of his daughter. "Is there any way to return them to how they were ?" She began getting desperate, frantically spilling out her words as his ignorance grated on her.
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"I don't think that can happen" He stated coldly before walking out leaving an emotional Y/n on her knees in the training room.
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So there she sat. A 10-year-old looked worse than a tired middle-aged man, and since she hadn't slept well the night before, there were bags underneath her eyes accentuating the look as though her head was buried in her hands.
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"How could I have been such a fool to do something like that to them? It shouldn't have happened in the first place!" She began tugging at her hair, fighting the urge to scream or run away, which was futile since she found herself climbing out her window onto the fire escape before sneaking to check on five before she left the academy.ย
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As she leered through the window she noticed muffled voices coming from above. "where did she go?" she heard Luther quiz, urging her to hurry and leave. She quickly opened the window, got a notepad and pen, and scribbled a quick note :
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'I'm sorry for what I've caused, I didn't mean to harm you or Klaus and I don't want to hang around for anyone's accusations. I'm sorry for what I've caused and I hope this means I don't cause it to happen again.
Y/n '
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Once that was written she hopped out onto the fire escape before bounding down it and running down the street, ignoring the confused looks from some passersby and instead focusing on getting a fair distance away from the academy in case a search was held. She didn't notice that she was phasing through strangers like water though a sieve yet she couldn't care less, she was dangerous to her family and she wanted to stay away