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2 Days Later
Planet Tieter

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"This planet is even prettier than the last~"

"Tieter has always been one of my favorite planets to visit~. It's a shame that we can't come here more often though"

Sungmin and Jaehyun gazed out at the planet from the windows.

Once again, Xinya guided me to EXO's HQ, and once we got there, we parked right in front of it. Only Xinya, Taeyong, and I got out this time.

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"So this is their palace?"

"Sure is. It goes by the name of EXOPLANET"

Taeyong smiled, leading us up the palace steps.

The closer we got to the door, we soon spotted multiple TVs neatly placed on the ground. Some of the monitors were off while some were on.

"Long time no see Yong~"

Xinya and I were startled by a sudden voice, followed by an unexpected sound similar to sounds that her Malfunction power makes.

"Chanyeol-hyung~. How have you been~?"

We turned in the direction that Taeyong was looking in, and found the head of a person glitching through the palace walls!

"I've been good~. It's such a surprise to see you here unexpectedly~"

He completely glitched the rest of his body outside, and cheerfully sat on one of the TVs.

I guess they must belong to him.

"Sorry about that. We wish we were here on normal visiting terms, but that's not the case this time"

"That much I can tell. What happened?"

"Yeol... Is there ever going to be a day where you use the front door...?"

Another one of his members came outside before Taeyong could explain.

He held the door open with one hand, and was munching on a piece of candy that he held in the other.

"Baekhyun-hyung~. I should've known that you wouldn't be too far behind Chanyeol-hyung~"

"Ah~. Welcome back Yongie~, and welcome kids~. All of you please come inside~. And Yeol, use the door this time..."

"Can do~"

Chanyeol skipped inside through the door, while the rest of us followed behind him.

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EXOPLANET's Dining Room

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"Welcome back Tae"

The one that seemed to be there leader greeted him.

From the look of his forehead, he seems to be a gem just like Sungchan.

"Still as cheerful as ever I see. That's nice to see"

Another one of them spoke.

This one was sat in a far off corner instead of at the table.

"Thanks Xuimin-hyung~"

"To be fair, I've always liked that about him. It's quite a charming point of his"

"Couldn't agree more Chen"

Their next member was standing right next to Xuimin in the same corner.

I can sense dark powers coming from both of them, and only from them so far.

"I'm sensing that something happened. I can't feel Renjun's power, so I assume he's not with you"

"Did something happen..?"

Two more spoke from the table.

One appears to be either bionic or a cyborg, and the other was strumming a soft tune on his guitar.

"It's got to be pretty serious if he's not here"

"Did I miss anything??"

Another one of the members had a TV of his own that he was messing with.

The other came through a side door without a shirt, making his large dragon tattoo visible. He looks like he just got out of the shower or something.

"There's definitely trouble"

"Despite it being very big news, the report only just surfaced on Tieter a couple minutes ago"

"It's on every platform already in such short time"

Three more members came in and sat down at the table, informing everyone of why we were here.

The trio looked like they meant nothing but business, especially by how they walked in.

"So, I'm guessing that Renjun sent you to find us, so that we can help you take back your world from the enemy, right?"

"Right you are Kris-hyung~. Except, I'm afraid that soon it won't just be our world that we'll have to save again"

Taeyong sighed.

"In my opinion, there's no need to contemplate about this. Renjun saved all of our worlds from certain doom. Why wouldn't we agree to come along and help?"

"Tao is right. It's only fair for us to repay him this way. And besides, even if we hypothetically did have better things to do and refused to go along, we'd still have the possibility of dealing with the repercussions. If our world did get attacked once again by an enemy that we're not there to face, and if this enemy is just as powerful or even more powerful than the last, then it could mean the end for us and our world"

"Lu-hyung has a point... Not that we're saying no, but just how powerful is this guy?"

The one with the guitar asked Kris, strumming quieter than he was a few minutes ago.

"Considering that they took control of just about every hero on Ethora in such a short amount of time should say enough"

"And they keep sending them after us. They're trying to stop us from carrying out our mission"

Taeyong explained.

Right as he said that, we all heard the sound of glass shattering.

"And it seems like they've sent someone after you right this moment"

Tao sighed.

"I'm detecting only two of them on the floor right above ours"

The cyborg informed us.

"Great observation Jongin. So, which one of you wants to handle this?"

Suho questioned.

Four of them raised their hand.

"Very well then. Lu-hyung, Tao, Chen, and Minseok-hyung will handle this quick and easy"

He decided.

"I won't stop you, but there's something that you should know. They both should have one earring in one of their ears that's controlling them. Destroying them is the only way to turn them back to normal"

The four of them took note of that before venturing to the second floor.

"Sehun, would you do the honors?"

Suho asked and he nodded.

Using a power that seemed very similar to Chanyeol's, he seemingly hacked the two doors in the room and they closed shut. A wall of purple pixels covered the entire room right after.

It doesn't seem like anyone can get in here from the other side now.

"What is that power?? It looks very similar to Chanyeol-oppa's power"

Xinya questioned.

"That's easy to explain. Chanyeol's power is called Glitch, while Sehun's power is called Hack. Glitch lets Yeol glitch into the mainframe of any technological thing, like his TVs, and he can glitch through and camouflage into any environment by pixelating his body. Hack, however, lets Sehun hack anything, as well as people, and he can discharge electromagnetic energy to hack anything within his vicinity"

Suho explained.

"Basically, Sehun hacked the doors to make sure that if the two gets passed them, then they won't be able to just open the door and attack us. That in turn allowed him to spread his power to the rest of the room, so now they can't come in at all"

Taeyong explained.

"Thankfully, it doesn't look like the precaution was needed"

Jongin informed once more.

"Why so?"

Suho questioned.

"It seems like they got the job done already. They're heading back here now"

Hearing this, Sehun un-hacked the room and they returned not long after, carrying Jungwoo and Xiaojun!

"How did you guys manage to take them out so fast???"

I asked.

"For taking care of Xiaojun, I used my Triplicate ability to throw off his guard and distract him. He used his Stand to destroy my two clones, but in that time, Tao was able to use his Laser Arrows ability to destroy his earring"

Luhan explained first.

"As for Jungwoo, Xiumin-hyung and I worked together to weaken him. I used my Reap ability to damage him with two of these guns"

Chen showed off one of his guns that appeared in his hand from a plume of black smoke.

"My power gives me a variety of abilities, but mostly it lets me steal the energy from anyone that I damage with my guns. This allowed me to weaken him so that his powers and Stand would have no effect on me. After he was weakened enough, Xiumin- hyung used his Bloodlust power to become a vampire and destroy his earring"

"All without taking any of his blood"

Xiumin winked with a small smile.

"Well, I'm gonna go find a shirt or something to put on. I'll come back quickly since I know we're leaving now"

"Good call Yixing. We'll meet you outside"

"Right"

He immediately dashed off to get something to wear, while the rest of us made our way outside.

We carefully loaded Jungwoo and Xiaojun onto the ship and into the infirmary, then waited outside for Yixing afterwards. Once he returned to us, we departed for Ahgase Temple to recruite GOT7.

It only took us about two hours to find it, but as we go closer, we knew that something was off.

There was already a battle going on.