A/N: hi! Sorry for lack of updates! Everything has just been going a bit wrong recently but it's alright(ish) now. I hope you enjoy this chapter!
The chains that bound my wrists rattled with every step. I stared down and the silver steel and focused on my thoughts. I hoped this trip wouldn't be for nothing and we wouldn't all die. If we did it would be my fault. We only came here because of me.
The chains still rattled. The sound of the other six chains suddenly appeared. I had been so focused I never realized they sounded like mine. I lifted my head and saw the others looking down. I couldn't read their faces. Not a single on showed any emotion. They looked so cold. They looked so destroyed. But why? Why did they look that way? Did they know something I didn't?
If so, what did they know? That coming here was pointless and that we would never make it out? Because if that's what they were thinking then it wasn't something I didn't already know. I knew that going there was a mistake. It was all for nothing, but I wanted-needed to see Jooheon again. Even if it wasn't him I was looking at.
The building itself was tall and grey. Had not the slightest bit of color about it. I suppose they wanted to blend in with the sky or something, probably why it was so hard to find, you couldn't even see it at a distance. But there was no way of seeing it up close. Every gate, door and any other form of entry was guarded by at least four people who had loaded guns on hand. If anyone approached this building who shouldn't, they would most likely be killed immediately.
What a pleasant thought.
If anything we should've thanks the people who had taken us in, otherwise we would've been unnecessarily killed.
But non the less we pressed on.
We soon came to a large, black, metal door with a small key pad to the left of it. The guard swiftly punched in the numbers and the door smoothly slid open with an unsatisfactory screech.
We were pushed inside and the screech sounded again and the door locked us inside. But what I saw was not expected. It was a massive computer room. The technology in that room was far more advanced then anything I had seen before. It was hard to describe exactly what it was but all I can say was that there were computer and posts of them. Lots of computers.
And lots of people.
So all the people they had captured over the years, they had brought here to work for them. But what were they trying to do?
"This way" the guard grunted as we were dragged away from the computer room. We were taken down a long thin corridor in a single file line until we came to the end door way.
The doors were flung open as if they were expecting us and we were shoved into the room. The doors slammed shut behind us.
The room was cold but bright, there was a large window that stretched the entire width of the left wall. In the exact center was a dark figure who had their back to us. We all huddled together and I gripped Changkyun's arm as he was the closet one to me and my only source of comfort at that time.
"So," began the figure, he had a voice that was like gravel but somehow soft as well "three years of looking and we finally have you. Monsta X. As you like to call yourselves" he laughed.
"Who are you?" Shownu asked
"I'm the leader" he said "your leader"
"You're no leader of mine" Kihyun said "you're a monster"
"No," he said with a chuckle "you're mistaken, I'm not the monster, but I created the monster"
"What do you mean?!" Minhyuk questioned
"You don't know?" He said tilting his head to the side "then you really are just as stupid as I thought"
"It's true then..." I whispered
"So the girl gets it"
"What? What is it (Y/N)?" Wonho asked quietly
"Soldier 47...is really..."
"Ah yes. Your dear friend Jooheon. Is actually the cause of all your pain. He was there for everything you've been through and he was working for me the whole time. Isn't that right, Soldier 47 ?"
Jooheon appeared next to the leader and they both walked towards us. Jooheon said nothing though but just stared blankly and those he once called his family. Not nothing but more targets for him to destroy.
"Jooheon...you...you lied to us?" Changkyun said, slightly in denial at what he was hearing.
Jooheon said nothing though but just stared with that same blank look.
"Say something!" Kihyun yelled.
"Kihyun" I said softly placing a hand over his. I looked over to Jooheon and saw his eyes locked on mine. "Why have you been looking for them?" I asked
"Oh so it's a them now. I was under the impression that you were part of them"
"Just answer the question" I pestered
"Fine, if you must know, it's because they are the only ones who aren't scared of us. Of me. And I don't like that, because you see, I'm planning on world domination and I can't do that with people like them trying to fix everything"
"So, you want to kill innocent people because you can't get your own way? Sounds a bit childish to me" I said
"Childish? I'll tell you what's childish, the fact the you still hold onto things like love and the thought of your family still being alive" he laughed "they're dead, I killed them almost as soon as I captured them. They were no use to me. What was the point of keeping them alive. Soldier 47, take them away"
Jooheon nodded and lifted a gun from his side and pointed it towards us all. A few other guards did the same and dragged us out of the room. Took us back down the same thin hallway we had walked down, it was still just as cold as before.
We came to what looked like a prison. There were cell room with bared doors that we got thrown into, separately of course. The door slammed shut behind me and I looked and saw Jooheon just standing there looking at me. With his left hand he trapped his right wrist and pushed it through the bars. Struggling, he opened his hand and a small ball of paper fell from it.
He immediately retreated his hand but just stared at me. His violent hit his head against the bars hearing a loud clink from contact making me fall backwards in fear. He shook his head and was dragged away by the other guards. I crawled across the stone floor and picked up the crumpled paper.
I unfolded it and saw it read "I'm sorry" but the hand writing was forced, almost as if he was stopping himself from writing it. It looked struggled, as if it were written by a child.
But why was it like that? Why was he forcing himself?
"He's fighting against himself" I muttered
"What was that?" Kihyun asked from the cell next to me.
"Jooheon and Soldier 47 are two different people in the same body. When he's here he is Soldier 47 but when he see us, he's Jooheon. He know it's us but because of what they've done to him, he forces himself to forget. Think about it, when we were in that shelter and I came to you because he ran towards the helicopter sounds, it was because he had been taken over again. That's why he always runs towards the danger. That's why he was pulling you away from here. He wanted to help you and himself"
Kihyun stopped for a moment and stood "that makes sense" Kihyun said "but..how can we save him? We're in here and he's out there"
"I think that while he's here, he's always being followed by guards to make sure he doesn't turn into Jooheon I guess. Maybe if we can get him to be alone, we can convince him to help us get out" I offered "it sounds stupid but...I don't want to see him like this...it breaks my heart..."
"(Y/N), we will do what we can to see our friend back to normal" Kihyun smiled. I smiled back. I saw him check the room for guards and saw it was empty. For a place so heavily guarded, did they not think to guard the prison?
"Guys, listen up. Me and (Y/N) have made a plan to get us and Jooheon out of here" the others pressed up against their bared doors to listen as Kihyun explained my plan. I knew the plan wouldn't work, but I wanted my Jooheon back.
I would do anything to get him back...
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