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6 Months Later

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They're gone...

They're really gone...

They attacked us...

And now they're gone...

Mark...

Jeno...

Donghyuck...

Jaemin...

Chenle...

Jisung...

Taeyong...

Force 127...

They're all gone...

I never should've done this...

We never should've became vigilantes...

I failed them all...

This is all my fault...

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6 Hours Earlier
6pm
In The Lab

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"Why can't you just see my point of view for once?! It's been six months! We've wasted enough time! We have to make our move before they do! They're going to attack us eventually! I know they will!!"

Donghyuck yelled at me, full of annoyance and rage.

"We can't attack them yet hyung! We have to do this with the other hyungs! Going after them ourselves will only lead to our demise!"

Jaemin yelled back, defending me.

"Just because you see the future doesn't mean your visions are always accurate!"

"MY VISIONS HAVE BEEN ACCURATE FOR YEARS! DON'T SAY STUPID SHIT HYUNG!!"

"Jaemin-hyung does have a point. His visions have always been accurate, and he's helped us with many things with them"

Jisung tried to reason with Donghyuck, but it only made it worse.

"Just shut up Jisung. You're no better than Jaemin"

"Why are you getting mad at Jisung??? He just stated his opinion!"

Chenle tried to defend the younger.

"As if his opinion matters! As if any of your opinions matter!! You all know I'm right!!!"

"Maybe our opinions would matter to you if you didn't think about yourself all time, you self centered bitch"

Jeno snapped.

"Jeno! That isn't helping that matter!"

Mark exclaimed, smacking his shoulder.

"No hyung. Let him speak his mind. I wanna hear what this incompetent wannabe ninja warrior has to say for himself"

"Don't fucking test me Donghyuck. I'll take you on, right here, right now"

Jeno pushed Donghyuck up against the wall, holding him by the collar of his shirt.

"Guys, please just stop. Why don't we make a compromise?"

Jisung still tried to reason with them, while also trying to pry Jeno off of Donghyuck.

But Jeno suddenly slapped Jisung hard across his face, the sound of the slap making everyone go silent.

"Oh. So this is how it's gonna be...?"

Jisung's voiced dropped an octave.

We could all see that Jeno had just pissed him off.

"Jisung calm down! This isn't going to help!"

Chenle tried to reason with Jisung now.

"Fuck off you pussy"

Jisung snapped.

In a split second, Chenle shapeshifted into a tiger and tackled Jisung to the ground.

"DON'T CALL ME A FUCKING PUSSY!"

Chenle roared at him.

Mark and Jaemin tried to pry him off of Jisung, but while Chenle was distracted trying to get them off of him, Jisung punched him so hard that he reverted back.

"OWWW!"

Chenle yelled as Jisung attacked him.

"This is all your fault you hotheaded piece of shit!"

Jaemin yelled at Donghyuck, whilst trying to help Mark separate the two.

"It's not my fault that dicknips over here slapped the high and mighty Mr. Son of Poseidon!"

"THE FUCK DID YOU JUST CALL ME BITCH?!"

Jeno then punched Donghyuck, and they started fighting.

"Great... You made it worse Jaemin"

Mark scoffed after they finally pulled the two maknaes apart.

"Don't try to blame me for this hyung! You've barely done anything to stop this!"

"But it's not my fault you didn't try to prevent this from happening beforehand! I know you saw this coming, and you did nothing to stop it!"

"It's against the laws of time to try and change the future! Maybe you would know that I'm trying to protect our timeline if you weren't such a boneheaded retard!"

"AT LEAST I'M NOT A PINHEADED JACKASS!"

"Guys! Please stop fighting! We're a team, and brothers! We have to work together! We'll go after them in due time! But we have to keep preparing ourselves!"

"YOU'RE THE ONE WHO SUGGESTED WE BECOME VIGILANTES SO WE COULD ACTUALLY GO AFTER THEM RENJUN!"

Mark yelled at me.

"But that's only so we could let off some steam from the anger they caused us! I never intended for this to happen!"

"YEAH RIGHT! JUST LIKE HOW YOU DIDN'T INTEND TO BE A POWERLESS WANNABE?!"

Donghyuck yelled, making everyone go silent.

Everyone's expressions changed and they all looked to Donghyuck in pure shock. Donghyuck's expression soon changed as well, and he covered his mouth after realizing what he just said.

I didn't know how to feel in that moment...

"Oh shit... Hyung, I didn't mean that..."

They all looked at me, as if they were fearful of what I was going to do next.

I felt my lip quiver, and the tears slowly crept into my eyes.

I ran out of the lab with tears flowing from my eyes. I heard them calling for me to come back, but I just kept running.

I got into the elevator, and pressed the button to take me to the Helipad Top Floor.

After I got there, I just sat on the edge of the square Helipad and just let my tears flow.

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20 Minutes Later

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After the tears stopped, I just looked into the distance at the city around me.

I didn't know what to feel, so I just sat there feeling hurt from what Donghyuck said.

It's not my fault that I used to be powerless... I know he didn't mean it, but I never thought he'd ever say that...

Suddenly, I heard a loud bang from behind me. I looked back and saw that the others had busted through the door.

I guess they've been trying to find me this whole time.

"Renjun~! Finally we found you~!"

Mark exclaimed with a smile, but it faded when he saw I wasn't happy to be found.

I turned back around, ignoring their presence.

I thought they'd leave, but soon Donghyuck sat next to me.

I glanced over at him, but his expression wasn't what I expected.

He was crying, but he was smiling.

"Hyuck?? What's wrong with you??"

I was really surprised to see him like this.

I can't remember the last time I saw him cry, let alone smiling while crying.

"I-I'm s-sorry h-hyung..."

His tears just kept falling, and the others came over to help me comfort him.

"It's not your fault Hyuckie. I know you didn't mean it. It was an accident"

"B-But, I h-hurt y-you..."

"Hey, we all technically hurt each other. You guys come up with some really weird insults~"

I tried to lighten the mood, and that made the others giggle.

Donghyuck began wiping his tears and giggled a little.

"I'll say! Especially Hyuck's insult. I don't know what dicknips even means!"

Jeno teased, ruffling Donghyuck's hair.

"I-I actually don't know what it means either~"

That made everyone laugh and tease him more.

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After a few minutes of more teasing, we all sat together and gazed at the city, enjoying each other's company.

"Hey. How about we stop being vigilantes and just focus on becoming great heroes?"

I persuaded, and they all agreed to that.

"I guess it was a bad idea to let our anger consume us like that huh?"

Donghyuck stated, resting his head on my shoulder.

"No kidding. I won't make that mistake again. Believe it"

"Ooohhh! Guys! It's a shooting star!"

Chenle suddenly shrieked, pointing up at the night sky.

"Make a wish Lele~"

Jisung cheered, and Chenle shut his eyes, making a wish.

"What'd you wish for~?"

Jaemin asked, smiling at the younger.

"I wished that we could stay together forever~"

Everyone cooed at his cute little wish, but something was off to me about the shooting star.

"Guys, that star is getting closer"

Everyone looked, and became really confused.

After a few seconds, it didn't look like a star, but an actual object plummeted towards the ground near our house.

Jaemin suddenly got up and summoned his keyblade. He made an extremely huge bubble shield around the entire perimeter of the house.

As soon as he did that, the object landed and created a ginormous explosion.

The force of the explosion shook everything around us, causing debris from destroyed buildings to fly in our direction.

Strong winds from the explosion blew against the shield, but Jaemin used all of his strength to keep it up.

When the ground stopped shaking, and there was nothing but smoke left, the shield shattered and Jaemin collapsed, and his keyblade dematerialized from his hands.

We all went to his aid, and realized that he was out cold.

I looked over see what caused the explosion, and there was an extremely humongous robot firing lasers everywhere.

"What the hell is going on...?"

Mark looked up in utter shock.

"Jaemin! Get up! You can't be out of commission this quickly!"

Jeno kept shaking the younger to try and wake him up, but he wasn't budging.

One of the lasers was coming for us, but Jisung quickly got up and used his psychokinesis to stop it. He then fired it back at the robot, and it stopped firing after it got hit.

Jisung thought he did good. We thought he did too, but the robot suddenly scanned the area where the laser came from and spotted us.

It began firing more of lasers at us, but Jisung used his psychokinesis again to try and stop them. But this time, there were so many being fired, and it looked like Jisung couldn't hold them back much longer.

Mark acted quickly and froze the lasers Jisung collected, and to top it off, he shoved Jisung out of the way and kept freezing them, until it made a frozen trail of lasers that reached the robot, freezing it entirely in the process.

Jisung looked just as tired as Jaemin, but Chenle caught him before he passed out. Donghyuck had to catch Mark before he passed out as well.

"W-We have to find Taeyong-hyung..."

Chenle looked at me with pure fear and panic.

The rest of them followed me towards the door, but it was hopeless to open somehow, like someone had bolted it shut.

We had no choice but to take the elevator, and it was an agonizingly long time until we found Taeyong, along with everyone else in Force 127.

"Renjun! What the hell happened?!"

Doyoung asked in pure panic.

He ran up to us and hugged us, seeing that we were safe and unharmed, for the most part.

"What happened to Jaemin, Jisung, and Mark...?"

Sicheng asked, looking exceptionally sad.

"We were all just sitting on the roof and this huge robot crash landed in the city. Jaemin used up all of his strength protecting us from the force of the impact, Jisung used up all of his strength preventing the lasers it fired from hitting us, and Mark-hyung used up all of his strength freezing the lasers and the robot..."

I explained.

"How big is it?"

Xiaojun asked.

"Way bigger than the house"

Jeno replied.

"We don't know what to do... I-I don't know what to do..."

Donghyuck whimpered, holding Mark as if he was afraid to let him go.

"Wait, I just remembered!"

I touched all three of them one by one, healing them and restoring their strength, and they all bolted awake.

"I really should've done that sooner. But what do we do hyung?!"

I asked Taeyong, and he immediately had an answer.

"We'll attack it from the ground. The seven of you need to try and attack it from the roof. If that can't be done, you'll have to get closer to it by jumping the rooftops. If you make it, you have to find a way in, and destroy it from the inside"

He walked up to me, and placed his hand on my shoulder.

"I'm counting you. All of you"

"Wait hyung! Do I really get to snipe it~!"

YangYang asked with pure excitement.

"Yes YangYang. But don't get carried away"

"I'll make sure that doesn't happen~"

Hendery smiled, ruffling the younger's hair.

"Oh, and don't worry about Suko and everyone else. They're all in the emergency safety room that you made below the first floor last month"

Ten reassured, putting my mind at ease.

With our instructions, we ran to put on our actual hero costumes and went back up to the roof.

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When we got there, the robot was still frozen in place, as well as the lasers.

"Ummm. I kinda don't wanna attack it like this. What if it gets super pissed off-"

"GERONIMOOOO!"

Jaemin was interrupted with the sound of yelling.

YangYang suddenly appeared running past us, leaping off the roof, and used his sniper rifle to fire directly at the robots head.

Fortunately he landed safely on another roof, and jumped down to join the others.

We all heard a cracking noise, and noticed that the ice was breaking. It soon shattered, but fortunately, it destroyed the lasers that were once there.

Unfortunately however, the robot did seem pretty angered.

"Well, nevermind then"

Jaemin sighed.

Jeno wasted no time and restrained the robot with his chains.

"How are we supposed to attack it from here??? We're way too far away!"

Donghyuck whined.

"We have no choice. We have to board it by running across Jeno's chains. If it breaks the chains, we'll have to jump the rooftops until we reach it. Then we take out whoever's on it"

Mark ordered.

Jeno attached his chains to a strong enough pole, and we began running across them.

Thankfully, we boarded the robot before it finally broke the chains. It seemed to be looking around for us, but it couldn't find us and started firing at random again.

"I hate that someone always wants to destroy our home..."

Chenle sighed.

"Our hyungs will take care of it from the ground. Now let's go"

We followed Mark, who was leading our team instead of me this time around.

"Hyung, what's the plan?!"

I asked as we ran.

"We have to find the heart of this thing, then we can go for whoever's controlling it in the head!"

"Ok!"

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"This has to be the heart right?"

I asked Mark.

"Seems like it. Now, who volunteers to destroy it?"

"Wouldn't it be best to just set it to self destruct so it can destroy itself?"

I mentioned, pointing at the fairly obvious self destruct button.

"That could work too...~"

I pressed it, and the self destruct would be initiated in twenty minutes.

So we dashed to the head of the robot, which took the first ten minutes. When we got there, it was completely empty.

All that was there was a plastic dummy in a chair by the main control unit.

Suddenly, the robot started shaking, and the ceiling and walls around us began to fold in.

"What the hell??!"

Jaemin was just as confused as the rest of us.

Soon, the room was now just a floor connected to the robot's body. And out of nowhere, seven rings captured each one of us and levitated us in the air.

We couldn't move our arms to get loose.

We tried using our powers to get loose, but we couldn't use them!

"Why cant I use my powers?!?!"

Donghyuck panicked.

"There must be something in these rings that's preventing us from using them!"

I answered.

And it seemed that the more we struggled, the more it felt like the rings were draining our strength, making us weaker by the second.

The computer below us suddenly morphed together with the surrounding monitors around it, and made a huge Jumbotron-like screen in front of us, broadcasting three people we really didn't want to see this soon.

Seifer, Vexx, and Xander...

"Finally. At long last, we've found you"

Xander spoke with no emotion whatsoever.

"What the hell do you fuckers want?!"

Donghyuck yelled, still trying to get loose.

"To be rid of you all. Although, there's some of you I don't recognize"

"There's the water kid, the fire kid, the cat boy, and the boy who was with that guy that interfered with our plans that day. The other three seem to be new Xander"

Seifer spoke in a quite dark tone.

He's referring to the day Taeyong stopped them from hurting Chenle.

I was with him that day...

"Guys~! The kitten is even cuter than he was back then~!"

Vexx spoke in a quite psychotic tone, kinda like Aurora, but worse.

Not to mention, he subtly licked his lips whilst looking at Chenle.

He's even more perverted than he was back then.

"Come near me, and I'll bite you"

Chenle angrily stated.

"And he's feisty now too~?! We really hit the jackpot~!"

I could hear Chenle weakly growling under his breath.

The rest of us still tried to struggle, no matter how weak we felt.

"So desperate. You know struggling only makes you weaker, yet you still try to get free"

Xander chuckled.

"W-Whatever it takes to...g-get away from you..."

Mark whimpered, on the verge of losing consciousness again.

Heck, the rest of us were too.

"Wait. If we bring them here now, what's the point?"

Seifer questioned the eldest.

"Sei is right! They're so weak and vulnerable now! We'll have no problem doing stuff to them! It's no fun if they can't fight back, so what's the point?!"

Vexx added, whining to the eldest.

"Fine, fine. On to Plan B then"

Xander pressed something on his end, which controlled the robot, making it shoot seven whirlpool portals in the sky.

By now, everyone was unconscious except for me.

But to make things worse, we were now being separated, each of us slowly being sucked into a different portal!

This is even worse than the last time!

"RENJUN!! HANG ON! WE'RE COMING!!"

I heard Taeyong yell, coming for us with Johnny and the others with him.

They were all riding on top of Kun, who shapeshifted into a really huge bird beast, trying their hardest to come rescue us, Taeyong and Johnny especially.

"There's the two bastards we hate so much"

"And they have reinforcements with them"

"Extermination time~!"

Xander did something again on his end, but I don't know what.

I heard the robot's system alert that there was thirty seconds left until self destructing. So if our hyungs were planning to do something, it better happen fast.

Taeyong and the others were about to jump off of Kun to board the robot, but the robot suddenly shot a really big blast at them...

And it hit them head on, causing a huge explosion.

When the smoke cleared, they were all gone...!

"NO!!! HYUNG!!"

I yelled in pure agony.

I felt my heart break, and the tears flowed from my eyes, showing no signs of stopping as I sobbed aloud.

"...W-Why......?"

I questioned the three that just killed the majority of my family.

"I hope you enjoyed being with your family while it lasted, because you'll never see them again"

"The rest of you will be separated in different worlds, with no way of finding each other again"

"And if you do, it just shows that you're all worthy of our time~! But if not, then die alone~!"

It was then I realized that we were all inches away from our portals, moving closer to our separation.

"N-No....."

The robot self destructed and exploded below us, most likely taking out a good portion of the city.

The portals closed with each of us in one, and I could no longer see my brothers.

I closed my eyes and just cried, wishing and hoping that this was all just a horrible nightmare, wishing and hoping that this wasn't my reality.

They're gone...

They're all gone...

I failed them...

This is all my fault...