Let it Rain (The Umbrella Academy)

CHAPTER FIFTY-SIX: Going Dark

They all ran into the White Buffalo Suite to see Luther laying dead in a lake of blood and Sloane resting his head on her lap. "Oh my God, Luther."

Bonnie put a hand to her mouth to cover her gasp. "W-What happened?" Five asked.

"He went to go get ice. I couldn't—He didn't come back. I... I don't know." Sloane wept.

Lila glanced at Diego. "It must have been him. The guardian."

Diego crouched down beside him. "She's right. Whatever did this had a long curved blade."

"How... How can you be sure?" Viktor's mouth hung low as he looked at his brother's limp body.

Diego looked up at him. "I don't know much, but I know knives."

"Children, what's going on?" Reginald gasped upon entering the room. "Oh God! Luther."

Ben took a seat. "If we attacked first, he would still be alive," he growled. There was a boom as the front of the hotel crumbled away and the remaining walls shook, bits of previously unseen dust coming down from the seams.

Cameron and Gilligan ran down the hallway to the voices in the suite. "Guys?! We're fixin' to go dark!" Cameron exclaimed as the couple reached the open door, light from the Kugelblitz spilling into the room.

Sloane sniffled. "What are we gonna do with Luther?"

"Okay, we're out of time! The Kugelblitz is here," Five told them.

"Into the passage! It's the only way!" Reginald told them and opened the door, ushering them in.

Bonnie caught Diego running for the passage, latching a hand onto his arm. "You agreed to stay!"

"They killed Luther, all right?!" Diego shouted back.

"Come on, children! Hurry, please!" Sir Hargreeves continued waving a hand.

"We can't leave him," Sloane looked at the others in distress and the building quaked.

"We go now, or we're gonna die." Allison pried Sloane off of Luther's carcass. "Come on!"

Bonnie stood and took a glimpse around at her surroundings, the walls being torn from their seams. "This is what we were waiting for," she muttered.

"Come on!" Diego grabbed Bonnie and Five by their wrists and pulled them along with him.

Five gritted his teeth. "This isn't over!" he groused then went through leading his love in the lit tunnel.

Viktor sighed. "Let's never do that again."

"What, narrowly escape the apocalypse?" Five said.

"It's kinda our thing," Bonnie murmured back.

"Hey, where's Klaus?" Cameron looked around with wide eyes.

"He-He was right behind us," Bonnie announced with an equally aghast expression.

"He'll be here, I'm sure," Five announced with his own doubting guise.

Allison inspected the room. "There's something wrong with this place."

"Same suite, just ass-backward," Lila responded.

Five narrowed his eyes at the white buffalo butt on the wall. "No hyperbole there."

"This is some intense Alice in Wonderland mess," Cameron commented as she peered at a painting of a woman that now held a man in the frame. Every aspect of the room was reversed.

"Or Coraline maybe," Bonnie adjoined from her side of the room. Freaky.

Diego cocked his gun. "Yeah, it only gets weirder."