Limitless - The Umbrella Academy

10. Guns Blazing

I zip up my suit, looking for my mask, as I throw it on. I practice, lifting up an eraser along with a pencil and moving it into my pencil case with my powers. Mom passes my the room, looking at me.
"You're doing great Aleya! Keep it up! Someday you'll be able to move buildings." She says, smiling as she moves on.
I stare at the pencil case, remembering her cheering me on all the time. She always said she was our biggest fan. I don't understand how they wanted to shut her down for cleaning his monacle. I did think Mom maybe had something to do with it, but not anymore. I knew she cared too much, I just knew it. Diego reminded me. Speaking of, I see him walk into my room.
"Knocking would've been nice." I say, smiling as he comes and sits down.
"Do you really think we shouldn't shut Mom down?" He says, looking at me.
"Well yeah, of course. She's still my Mom, still our Mom. I don't wanna just power her off like a machine. She's evolved, like you said. You shouldn't even be able to shut a mother down. Like, ugh Diego why is my life so..." I start, and his hand goes on my back, rubbing it.
"Look, Aleya, I know you want to be normal, but in this time, you can't be. We are family, we have to stick together, you can't spend your time running from your family and what your destined to be. God or fate or whatever put you in this family. I know you have begged and begged to live as a normal person, and you had just gotten that. But fate brought you back for a reason. It wants you here, Dad died for a reason. You gotta know that." Diego says, and I turn to him. He looks at me, his brown eyes like deep oak.
"Thank you." I whisper to him, not even realizing we were nothing but mere inches apart. I kept staring at his pink lips. As much as I hated Diego, he was so god damn tempting. It was like darkness pulling me in. I stop, turning my head. "I'm sorry, Diego." I say sadly, not turning back to see his face. I didn't want to know what his reaction was.
"Is it.. because of stoner boy? Klaus?" Diego says quietly, and I turn to him, sighing.
"Diego, you know. I know most of you know. It's been this way since we were kids. I can't betray him like that. It's been to long.." I breathe out.
"But he's literally a fucking idiot, Aleya. He's out of his mind." Diego says coldly, as I scoff.
"Diego, he understood me. He made me laugh, he was charming and no matter what happens I'm by his side. He went through a lot, he went through mental torture and some of you don't understand that. He was there for me when Five dissapeared, he was there even before that and all the way up until I left. I owe him." I say sternly, as he takes my chin with his finger to make me look at him.
"You don't owe that idiot shi-" he starts to say. He turns away, looking towards the door. He gets up, pulling a knife out.
"I heard something. Stay in here." He says, walking towards my door. Says the one who just told me not to resist and then resists! Bull. He walks out of the door, and looks out. Before I know it, he's gone and gunfire is ringing throughout the house, and ammunition being fired lighting the hallway in a blaze. I stand up, hearing the shots grow closer. I run out, seeing two people in masks of some sort shooting before I throw a picture frame at them with my powers, hitting full force before I run for Diego, making sure he didn't get hurt. We both hide behind a wall. We look at each other, before he jumps out, fist fighting one of the people. This one had on a blue mask of a bear? And a suit on? I thought anyways. I jump out for the other one, fighting them as best I could, punching and kicking. I try to punch the person's face, seeing it's made of metal? Or something like that, and ultimately does nothing to hurt the person. I push the person, running as fast as I could with Diego. As the gunfire continues, we both jump over the ledge of the upstairs, falling down onto the couch, and running, just barely missing the rapid fire behind us. I hide behind the couch, trying to scan the room for the heaviest thing I could find. I see one of Dad's statue things, thinking that was perfect. I pick it up with my powers, using my hand to guide it, I peer over the couch, throwing it as hard as I could at them, knocking it over. I feel the blood trickle down my nose, remembering the effects of doing heavy heavy things like statues. I duck back down as the gunfire starts again, covering my head. Who in the fresh hell were these people? I hear a grunt, and no more gunfire, looking up to see Luther and Allison kicking ass. I see one of them choking Allison, all of us running to her aid, with Diego just hitting the guy, being no help really. I try to choke the guy into letting her go, before Luther throws him across the room.
"I was getting there!" I whine, before Luther looks at me.
"Not fast enough." He says, as everyone looks at each other.
"Who the hell are these guys?!" Allison asks, all of us shrug.
"You're welcome." Luther says to me and Diego, and I groan.
"I was doing fine!" Diego shouts back, and I point.
"Yeah, what he said. Except I was doing it better." I say, smiling.
"Oh, yeah, you really had em." Luther says, pointing to Allison.
"Ever hear of rope-a-dope?" Diego says, as I see one of the people approaching.
"No time!" I shout, as I point to the person with the gun, as they start shooting again. We all run, as I take cover again behind the couch. I start to get up as I inch closer to the stairs, trying to get towards the kitchen where the knifes were, I could do something with those. I hear Vanya's footsteps come downstairs, her yelling out to us.
"Guys? Is everything okay?"..."Hello? Guys?" Vanya says in worry, as I try not to yell out to give my location away. I see her inch towards the living room, and entering. I run after her, I wasn't willing to loose a sister today. I see one of the guys come up behind her, as I scream out.
"Vayna! No!" As soon as it was too late. He strikes her over the head with a flail that Dad kept around, as she falls to the ground. This guy just pissed me off. I fling my wrists, making my powers come out full force. I pick up anything I can find, this being a lamp, and throwing it at the guy, shattering on him. I take the flail, flinging the ball at his head. I drop the flail down by his feet, knowing that did some sort of damage.
"Hey asshole." I hear from behind, turning around to see Luther in the corridor. The man turns towards him, as he picks up the flail and swings it around. Luther grabs the flail, yanking it out of his hands and throwing it across the room. They punch and kick some more, me standing behind Vanya. I look toward her, as she looks at me.
"Aleya, y-your nose.." She says, looking at me worried. I wipe the blood away, smiling.
"That's nothing. Happens." I say nonchalantly, Running towards Luther and the person, trying to hold the guy's fists back so Luther can get a good hit.
"Now, Luther!" I grunt out, my powers wooshing in my hands as I hold his fists back. Luther throws a good punch, sending the man flying. Luther goes after the man, as he gets up, throwing some more punches. These guys are resiliant as hell, they have to be professionals. Luther looks at Vanya, then looking back at the guy, still punching and hitting.
"Vanya! Go!" Luther screams, as he hits the guy more. Vanya scrambles to get up, as she runs away. Luther throws the guy on the ground, walking on his back before trying to go back to the living room. "Vanya?" He says, as the guy gets back up. I watch as he runs towards Luther.
"Luther look out!" I scream, once again too late. The guy picks Luther up, throwing him on the ground as Luther grunts and groans, laying on the ground still, the guy comes for me next, walking towards me.
This guy doesn't know what the fuck he's dealing with.