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After Returning
To Aerus

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The kids reunited with their teammates and family, and explained everything that happened once they got to Earth, and how they saved BamBam, Chanyeol, and Boy Story.

And while they were gone, Taeyong contacted Luoyang and she successfully turned Chenle back to his original size before leaving once more.

"This is great~! Boy Story is one of the groups that we had to find~!"

Xinya exclaimed, very pleased to hear the news.

They took them to the ship's infirmary to heal them and let them rest.

"Now then~. To recap, the next groups on this planet are iKON and then Day6~"

Everyone boarded the ship to depart, but then Xinrei stopped right before he got on.

"What's wrong Reirei?"

"I don't know.. But, I hear something..."

The twins walked outside to investigate, and Xinrei soon spotted something in the sky coming in their direction.

"Uncle Jaemin! Can you help us see what that is in the sky?!"

Jaemin immediately came outside to help them see what it was.

Jaemin got a good look and immediately became alarmed.

"I see a dragon, and Nitro is riding on it with five other people! It looks like a Qing Long Dragon!"

He alerted them.

"But there's something about this dragon.. It's not normal. I don't know why, but it has an aura of an angel and a demon..."

This alarmed both of the twins.

They wasted no time and flew towards the dragon as fast as they could. When they reached the dragon, they indeed found Nitro with the five members of TXT.

"Xinya! Xinrei! We found you~!"

"Nitro~!"

"Where did you find this dragon?!"

"The dragon is dad! We saved him from Force 127's HQ!"

"We've been flying for hours! Renjun is incredibly weak! We have to land as soon as we can!"

Yeonjun added, expressing the urgency of the matter.

Xinrei and Xinya immediately flew up to Renjun's head, and hung onto his horns to avoid getting blown off by the strong winds.

"Dad! It's us, Xinrei and Xinya!"

"You have to land in the Shawol City of the Clouds! But you need to avoid falling into the planet's cloud void!"

Renjun understood and flew even faster than he was before, due to his excitement.

Within seconds, they all crash landed through the roof of the main palace, and the eight of them fell off of Renjun due to the impact. He changed back to normal after he passed out, face down on the palace floors.

"Dad!"
"Daddy!"
"Dad!"

The three siblings were alarmed by this, and immediately turned him over on his back to check and see if he was still alive.

"...H-He's alright. He's just really exhausted..."

"Thank goodness..."

"That's a relief..."

Relieved that he was fine, they calmly sat in silence for a few seconds.

But then the three of them completely registered that they were all finally together again, and they all looked at each other.

"S-So... Looks like I was able to keep my promise, right Rei~?"

Nitro happily smiled at the two twins.

Xinrei hugged him so fast that he nearly made them fall over. He hugged him tighter as tears began flowing from his eyes.

"Nitro... I'm so sorry for being so mean to you... I missed you so much..."

"Please, don't ever leave us again..."

Xinya begged him, joining the hug.

"...I promise~!"

Nitro laughed as he hugged them back.

Happy that he had his family back, small purrs filling escaped from him, filling the two twins with joy.

They don't notice, but Renjun woke up for a few seconds to see his kids hugging and happy to be together. This brought a smile to his face before he passed out again.

"Xinya! Xinrei! Nitro!"

"Are you guys ok?!"

Jaemin and Johnny yelled.

"Yeah! We're all ok!"

All of the others came through a zipper that Jeno made on the debris blocking the way into the palace, finally making it inside to see what happened.

The six brothers immediately ran over once they saw Renjun.

"Hyung really made it back to us before we could save him..."

"I guess we took too long huh...~? Nitro took care of that for us~"

Chenle sighed while Mark simply smiled.

Despite this, they were all filled with joy to see him again, and to see the kids reunited with each other.

"Wait. Who are you guys?"

Donghyuck asked TXT, finally noticing their presence.

"We're those five creatures that you saved when you were vigilantes years ago~. Nitro saved us and brought us here~"

Soobin happily answered.

"Wah~?! You guys grew up so much~!"

Jisung excitedly hugged each of them.

"You guys wouldn't mind joining our team would you? We could use extra friends to help us save the worlds again~"

Jeno offered, and they agreed to it without question.

"Let's get back on the ships. We need to get Renjun to the infirmary immediately"

"Salmon"

Jaebum ordered, to which Yeo One agreed.

They all quickly made their way back to the ships, and immediately took Renjun to the infirmary room.

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They successfully healed him and his injuries, but he was still incredibly weak and requires a long while to rest.

Xinrei, Xinya, and Nitro took him back to their room, since it had two beds, and they carefully laid Renjun down to rest.

"Hey Nitro, where did those new scars on dad's arms come from?"

Xinrei asked, pointing to the scars mentioned.

"Oh... While they were torturing dad, they ended up accidentally amputating his arms. They didn't grow back until he ate the gummy that Grandpa Zhenya gave me"

"Gummy?"

"Yeah. He gave me a gummy for him to eat. It gave him that new power to turn into a dragon, which helped us escape easier"

"Those assholes..."

Xinrei became very angry upon hearing what the Gang Stars did to their father.

"Wait a second Rei. They really didn't mean to. They're only working under their Boss, but they didn't want to do any of this. They really don't mean us any harm"

"...?"

"Please believe me. They only hate dad and our other uncles because they got the better future, while all they've endured is suffering. But they also hate themselves because of what they've gone through. I promised them that once we've completed our mission, that we'd help them"

"And you believed every word they said?!"

Xinrei angrily yelled.

"They're the only reason that we made it here in one piece! They handed dad over to us without putting up a fight! They're even trying their best to make sure that their Boss doesn't find out that they helped us!"

"It is true~~. We were there with Nitro when they helped us escape with Renjun~"

Beomgyu peaked inside of the room to help defend Nitro.

"Dad was awake when they helped us too. You can ask him when he wakes up. Please believe me brother. We have to save them..."

Nitro pleaded, earning a sigh from his brother.

"We're only going to save them AFTER we complete our mission?"

Nitro nodded.

"...Fine. But for everyone's sake, I hope you're right about this brother"

"R-Right~"

Xinya was happy and relieved that they didn't fight for too long.

After they sat together with Renjun for a short while, Xinya informed them that they should move on to the next location.

Xinrei agreed and the three of them quietly left the room for Renjun to continue resting.