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forty four

chapter forty four: renegade 

"What the hell are you doing?" Anthony asked as him and Luther both made their way into the kitchen to first be met with the sight of Five chugging down a jug of water, looking over when he noticed the duo standing in the doorway.

"Are you okay?" Luther asked.

Five stopped and gasped slightly "I'm gonna need to be hydrated" he sighed before closing the fridge.

"Hydrated?" Anthony repeated.

The boy walked over to the table and sprinkled a bottle of baby powder under his arms "What's with that?" Luther asked as he watched in confusion.

"It'll help with the itching" he replied simply.

"Itching?" Anthony repeated.

"What itching? There's itching?" Luther, who was extremely lost, asked "What the hell is going on here?" he watched as Five put baby powder down his shorts "Wait you do have a plan!"

"That's an odd place to put baby powder" Anthony commented, squinting his eyes slightly as he leaned against the counter and smirked.

Number Five jumped on the spot and moved his arms around "Well it's a desperation move but since our brain dead siblings are incapable of meeting a simple deadline, we've got no choice"

"What are you talking about?" Anthony asked.

"I have to find myself" the boy replied vaguely, holding his blazer over his shoulder.

Anthony raised an eyebrow "Is that like a spiritual thing or what?" he asked.

Five checked his watch "I just arrived in Dallas only fifteen minutes ago" he put on his blazer quickly.

"Should we be worried about you?" Luther asked.

He stretched in the living room "If you both recall, I was sent to 1963 on a job by the Commission to make the president was assassinated"

Anthony gasped slightly "Oh no Diego is not gonna like that" he commented.

"Oh!" Luther gasped in realization "Wait so your old self is out there"

Five moved his neck around "Precisely"

"What? Just walking around Dallas?" Luther asked.

"Walking around Dallas with a briefcase that can get us all home" Number Five explained.

"Oh my God, Five you're a genius" Luther praised, putting his hands together momentarily.

Anthony shook his head "How exactly is this going to work? You know with the whole paradox thing?"

"That's what I was getting to" Five replied "Our first problem is that I am a highly trained assassin, arguably the most dangerous assassin the space time continuum" he walked back and forth "If I know me, I'm not going to react kindly to bumping into myself"

"Yeah I don't think so" Anthony agreed "Also stop being so full of yourself you egocentric shit"

"Our second problem is the real fly in the ointment here; you're not supposed to exist in close proximity to yourself in the same timeline he continued "The side effects can be disastrous"

Luther furrowed his brows "Side effects? What sort of side effects?" he asked.

"Well according to  Commission Handbook chapter 27 subsection 3b, the seven stages in paradox psychosis are" Five paused to turn around and face them "Stage one; denial, two; itching, three; extreme thirst and urination, four; excessive gas, five; acute paranoia , six; uncontrolled perspiration and seven; homicidal rage" he finished.