Time is what we need but don't have (The Umbrella Academy)

Chapter 2

All it took was seconds.

One moment Diego was looking at the clearly exhausted Five, which is given considering that their brother is still suffering from a flu he got three days ago.

Then the next thing Diego knew, his brother has pushed him as the bullets embedded itself into Five's side instead of his head. Five's body crumpled and out of pure instinct to protect him further from the rain of bullets, Diego wrapped his arms around Five's body and rolled them over until he was on top of Five.

"Five!" Diego tried to call him out, he gently nudged Five's face hoping to get even an inch of reaction from him "Goddamn it Five, don't do this to us!"

Diego tore his gaze away from his unconscious brother just in time to see Vanya in front of all of them, Diego can't see it but he is sure that Vanya's eyes are glowing white. The bullets that are incoming are being turned into dust as Vanya's power easily disintegrate it mid-air. All the while, Klaus's hands are glowing soft blue making Ben corporeal again, Eldritch once again in action as the tentacles pierced themselves into the armed guy's stomach before ripping them all in half effortlessly.

"Oh my god Five!" Allison exclaimed, already removing her blazer "Stop the bleeding!"

Diego immediately took her blazer and pressed down where the bullet has entered Five's body, hands slightly trembling as Diego can see just how easily the blood has swept through the cloth. They are no stranger to blood, after all ever since he can remember, seeing blood was the only constant thing in their life. But it's still different if the said blood is coming from one of your siblings.

"We need to get out of here right now! Five needs medical attention." It was Allison who manage to snap all of them out of their panic haze.

But Diego was not paying full attention to them, the horror he was feeling grows each time more of Five's blood covers his hand. Suddenly there was a gentle pat on his shoulder.

"Diego give me Five, Ben says there are more of them outside. We need you as an offense, I'll care Five."

It was Luther, Diego thinks. He and Luther might not have the best relationship out of all of them but Diego knows that their pride and ego as Number 1 and Number 2 doesn't matter, not when one of them could die.

So Diego looked directly at Luther's eyes "Please don't let him die."

Luther's lips are set on a tight grim "No one will die Diego, not on our watch."

When Diego nodded, Luther wasted no time into picking Five up as if he weights nothing. The moment Five is now settled in Luther's arms, Five groan as his expression twisted into pain. Luther could breathe a little because that is a good sign that Five is still very much alive, but still in danger of blood loss not to mention his body is already strained because of the flu.

As they all walk out of the warehouse and towards the parking lot, like Ben had said several men all armed with guns showed up. They all went down without so much of a fight as Diego and Vanya easily killed them all. The moment they finally arrived at the parking lot, Allison immediately spotted a large van that obviously belongs to the guy they just killed a while ago. It's a small blessing that it's large enough to fit all of them comfortably.