Stuck • the umbrella academy

10

The twosome sat in the van patiently, staring out the window.five in the drivers, Eliza in the passengers, and Dolores in between the two. She didn't want to admit it, but Eliza had become quite accustomed to the mannequin. Dolores was one hell of a gossip and a sparkling conversationalist. "There's our guy", five suddenly mumbled. He turned towards Eliza and nodded," its go time".

   Eliza turned to smoke and slowly crept her way into the doctor's car, before returning to her normal form and wrapping her hands around his neck. He started to flail around violently. "Shut your piehole petunia", she shouted. " it's, lance", he choked out. 'Oh really Keith must be missing you so much", she chuckled, laughing at her own joke. She stuck her head out the window and shouted, "roshambo!". The was the signal. Lance continued to struggle as Eliza turned to fire, to burn him only a little. Five soon jumped into the car, wielding a knife, " ill take it from here", he smirked. Eliza crawled into the back seat but kept a firm hand on lances shoulder. Five rested the knife against his neck, pushing ever so slightly. "What do you want", lance gasped out. " one chance that's all you got, before I plunge this knife into your neck", five growled. "Tell me everything that's going on in that lab". Eliza burned his shoulder for good measure. " I manufacture prosthetic devices for fake patients.  I bill the insurance companies then sell them for cash on the black market", lance stuttered out. "Including eyeballs?", Eliza questioned, burning him once more. " they're my best seller, they go like hot cakes, I've got a waiting list of nearly 20 buyers", he mumbled. "So the number I told you", five continued. " could have already been bought", lance shrugged. "We need that list lance", Eliza hissed. " I don't have it, the only copy is at the lab", lance cried. "Well then start driving petunia, we're going on a field trip", Eliza smirked.

  They arrived at the lab to see smoke billowing out of the top, they speeded towards the building but it was already going up in flames. " I'm going in", Eliza stated. Five grabbed her arm, "you could get hurt", he whispered. "Details, details", she shrugged. " listen to me, I'll always come back to you", she put her hands on his shoulders and nodded. She then turned into fire herself and rushed into the building, she navigated around the area, when suddenly the masked figures that shot up the department store ran around a corner. They ran straight into her, causing her to return to her normal form. She coughed from all the smoke, it was already getting so dark. One of them grabbed her arm. In the state she was in, she was too weak to fight back. "You're coming with us", the person stated. Then it all went black