Beyond The Clock || Number Five x Raven (fem reader)

Raven slowed the motorcycle as they were driving through the woods now. She stopped next to Pogo's motorcycle, took off the helmet and looked back to Five.

"Where here, I think?" She tilted her head.

"I guess this is it indeed." Five said before getting off the motorcycle.

There was a small caravan in the middle of the woods, a few chairs in front of it. A woman was sitting outside, but Pogo was nowhere to be seen.

"Can I help you, kids?" The woman asked as they approached the entrance of the caravan.

"Need a word with Pogo." Five said as he placed his hands in his pockets.

"Ain't no Pogo here, pumpkin."

"Okay." Five clicked his tongue as he walked closer to the caravan.

The woman stood up. "So I suggest you both get your ass off my property before I call a truant officer." She treathened them.

"It's okay, Tammy. Let the boy and girl in." Pogo spoke from the caravan.

Raven smiled fakely at the woman, Tammy, before going into the caravan.

Pogo nodded to them to sit in front of him by the table, so they did. Five sat down first, and Raven squeezed herself next to him on the tiny sofa.

Pogo cocked a pistol from under the table, making Raven gulp. If Five says anything that screws them up, they're dead.

"First I wanna know, how are you alive, Cassidy?" Pogo was the first to speak up.

"I- I'm not Cassidy. I'm her twin sister from another timeline." Raven spoke softly.

The chimp hummed. "I see. I've encountered many impossible things in my time, but this... this is something entirely new."

"Yeah, tell me about it. I never knew I had a twin-sister until I landed in this timeline."

"But you both are here, which means you're either dumb or desperate. Which is it?" Pogo asked.

"You tell me." Five said. He grabbed the piece of skin and placed it in front of them on the table.

Pogo grabbed the skin, observing it. "That looks like my work, but I never did that tattoo."

"Not yet, you haven't. I cut it off my 100-year-old self."

"Ah, so desperate it is." Pogo said before taking a sip of his drink.

"You would be too if you knew the entire universe were at stake." Five said calmly.

Pogo inhaled sharply. "So it's happened." He uncocked the pistol and put it on the table. He grabbed something out of a case, a book, and gave it to the teens. "Here it is. Look familiar?"

Five placed the skin next to the book and compared the symbols with the ones in the book. Raven took a close look too, despite thinking it's gross to be near that piece of skin.

"Reggie was obsessed with these symbols. It's a sigil. A symbol thought to have magical powers." Pogo said to them.

"Didn't dad believe in sience, facts?" Raven asked.

"Yeah, I didn't respect much about the old man, but I respected that." Five added. "Hoo-ha was not his thing. It's gotta have a rational meaning."

"I don't know, but he referred to it as Project Oblivion."

Raven could hear Five's breath hitch, like he knew something about it that she didn't.

"This project. We need to know more." He said.