A few months later

"Fuck! Sungchan don't go in there. There's at least 4 people there. Someone help Johnny"
Yuna screamed into her mic as she saw Johnny going down behind Sungchan, knowing her brother couldn't handle 4 people on his own.

"Where's Sungchan?"
Jeno's voice ringed into her headset.

"3rd floor but you're injured Jeno, don't do anything crazy. Sungchan back up first"
She ordered as she watched the screens. She saw Sungchan looking back before nodding and entering the room, going against her orders. Yuna was losing her mind until she saw a figure running in.

"Yuna, how is the situation on the right side?"
She switched her screen to the situation on the right side of the 2nd floor. "Clear, no heat signals, it's there".

"Noona, 3rd floor is clear"
"Great cause 1st floor is starting to flood with back up. And I told you to help Johnny". She said as she saw Johnny was still in a corner.

"A little help on 1st floor. I don't think we prepared enough ammo"
Renjun said as he, Jaemin, Yangyang and most of the 127 trying to hold them off.

"Lucas, Winwin, Xiaojun, help the 127 on the first floor. I'll guide Ten and Taeyong to the room"
She saw Lucas,Winwin and Xiaojun running down as Ten and Taeyong continued to search for the room where they stored their information.

"Straight ahead guys, take about 7 steps and it would be somewhere on your left"
Yuna said as she checked the screen as a blinking tracker glowed before returning her gaze to the 3rd floor cams, spotting a rather familiar figure, helping Sungchan.

"Yuna, I think we found it but it's coded"
"Doyoung, help Ten. Taeyong replace Doyoung on the 1st floor"
She watched as the two began running to their new placements.

She saw the members starting to get exhausted and saw how much of them were injured but still fighting. She checked the 4th floor, spotting Haechan running. "Haechan finished setting the bomb guys, Doyoung you need to hurry"

"Shut up"
Doyoung was still struggling to open the door when he came to an abrupt decision. Pulling his gun out, he aimed towards the edge of the door before pulling the trigger, the door creaking open on impact. Yuna face palmed as she watched the scene.

"Well, even I could hack if it came down to that"
Ten stated, following Doyoung into the room. A lot of files were scattered but they knew that was just a set up. Flipping stacks of files off the table, they searched for a laptop that contained all their info.

Ten was throwing some files to the floor in a rush before hearing something heavy crash to the floor. He saw the laptop partly smashed. "Oh boy, now I'm in big trouble"

Doyoung approached him, taking the pendrive from Ten's hand as he tried to turn on the laptop. After a few attempts, the laptop finally lit up. He inserted the pendrive and proceeded to transfer all the information as their ear pieces ringed.

"A minute and a half left before the bomb goes off"
Haechan said as he entered the van, checking the timer. Ten and Doyoung glanced at the laoptop screen, realizing the progress was only 20% left. They wished the downloading to go faster.

85%

90%

95%

"Noona, where the hell are Doyoung and Ten? The bomb is about to go off in 50 seconds"
Haechan screamed as he saw most of the members running out without them. Yuna was about to answer when a presence grabbed her neck from behind as she yelped. The others noticed the sound of struggling in the background growing worried by the second as Yuna continued to not respond.

Doyoung glanced at the laptop. It was stuck at 99%. He carried the laptop as Ten and him ran down 3 flights of stairs. Just as they exited the building, Doyoung took the pendrive, throwing the laptop into the building before it blew up. Both of them arrived into the van before the building burst into flames.

"Wait, where's Sungchan? We can't go back without him"
Chenle asked as Kun was treating him. The door of the van then opened, revealing Sungchan who was helped by Shotaro.

"We'll explain later. Noona's probably struggling right now, step on it"
Sungchan said as Shotaro helped him up. Shotaro was about to leave when Taeyong held his shoulder.

"Get on here. Yuna told us about what you did. Not that it was the best way to do so, making most of us worried but you had your intentions. At least you had no intention on hurting her that day"

Shotaro hesitated before joining the rest of NCT in the van. Most of them were smiling at him as he sat down, knowing well what's going to happen soon.

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Back at HQ, Yuna was held by the neck against the wall as the male in front of her, stabbing her arm and scarring her hands. She tried to twist the hand holding her neck but it only made the male's grip on her throat tighten. She struggled for air, arms starting to feel limp.

'No.. this can't..'
Yuna kicked the knee of the male with all of her strength. She stumbled back as her opponent held his knee in pain.

She was exhausted from having missions the last few days, today being the day her body giving up on her as she fell to the floor.

The male walked over to her, continuing to choke her. It was obvious he wanted her to die a slow death. The man grazed the blade's sharp edge across Yuna's face, open cuts spewing blood.

She continued to struggle against his hold but her arm was giving up, starting to get paralyzed by the loss of blood. The man proceeded to dig the blade into a non vital spot besides Yuna's stomach

Her screams filled and echoed throughout the whole HQ, silencing every other sound made. The mic from her thrown away headset picked up her scream, the members hearing the wails of pain.

"DRIVE FASTER, YUTA"
"I'm speeding through a small lane, Doyoung. We're going as fast as we can. Just one more minute"
"We don't have one minute!"
"Kim Doyoung, calm the fuck down"
"How am I supposed to calm down when I literally pushed her to stay at HQ alone?!"

The members just sighed, remembering his argument with Yuna before going out for the mission. He was supposed to stay with her in case of any accidents but he wanted space from her, pretending to be upset with her.

"Listen, she's fine"
"She never even groans when she gets punched. How do you expect her wailing and screaming is her being fine?"
"Why are you being like this? You're the one that wanted to go on the mission with us instead of staying with your already injured girlfriend at HQ"
"I know! That's why I want to go back as soon as possible, John"

The sound of screeching of tires and engines dying down, signalled NCT's arrival back at the base. "We're here. Get off first. I need to park this"

Doyoung rushed out of the van, running up the stairs to the tech room. The door was locked, he entered the usual code but it failed to unlock causing him to panic more. He shot the door multiple times, only creating a crack.

There it was, another scream from Yuna. He heard the members start running up, trying to break the door down. It was a horrid moment for them.

"Yuna noona once taught me this. Let me try"
Shotaro said, making his way through the members that were trying to break the door. In his hand was a crowbar. He stuck it in the crack Doyoung made, pushing it through with Sungchan as the door opened.

The sight made them all weak. There they saw, Yuna on the brink of death as a man held a gun to her head. Her head hung low as the man held her in a choke hold, her energy going down fast.

"Get away from her"
Doyoung tried to take a step forward towards the man when he heard a click from the gun. He was threatening him with Yuna's life.

Yuna slowly lifted her head, her eyes falling to the clock on the wall. One minute until 12AM. She took deep breaths, choking on her next words.

"You guys are useless in these situations. Someone needs to sleep at 12, am I right sir?"

The clock struck 12 as Yuna gathered the last bits of her energy, twisting the man's arm that was choking her and taking his discarded blade, digging it in his back through his heart.

The man and Yuna both fell to the ground, Yuna's eyes slowly closing. Doyoung immediately rushed to her, lifting her head to look at her face. "Hey, open your eyes. You can't do this to me. I haven't even made up with you yet"

The members made way for Kun as he crouched next to Yuna. "Doyoung, please give her space for this. Her body feels pressured and overwhelmed because the amount  of people here. I'll try my best so everyone go treat yourselves. I'll be busy for the rest of the night"

Doyoung refused to get up, still holding Yuna who's breaths got slower each second. Hendery approached him, trying to pull him away which indeed is a struggle as Taeyong and Haechan had to help him.

"Kun, I swear you need to-"
"Don't forget this was actually your fault, Doyoung. You were supposed to stay here with her"

Doyoung got dragged to his room, Taeyong pushing him onto the bed. "Come to your senses, Doyoung. What the hell is going on with you?"

Doyoung bursted into tears, Haechan and Hendery taking it as a cue to leave Taeyong and Doyoung alone. The two went to the living room, finding the members passed out because of exhaustion. They watched as Shotaro looked back and forth everywhere.

"Hey, Shotaro. I heard from noona that you went back to Japan to find your mother"
Haechan started the conversation, not wanting the boy to feel outcasted.

Back in the tech room, Kun was trying his best with the help of Chenle to keep Yuna from losing conciusness. She kept losing her breath as the lack of blood made it harder.

They couldn't move her from the floor, afraid of injuring her more. Mark had entered with Taeil, the two needing to dispose the enemy's body. They saw how Kun and Chenle were struggling to treat Yuna, feeling anxious.

They took away the body before joining the boys in the living room, the smell of blood strong. Taeil gulped before bringing himself to say the words he wouldn't want to say in a million years.

"Yuna's struggling. From what me and Mark saw, it was really bad"
Sungchan that entered from the kitchen dropped the glass that was in his hands. Shotaro, who was adjusting to Haechan and the members, turned silent.

"Is it really bad, hyung?"
"Doyoung? Why are you here?"
"NO!!"

Chenle's panicked scream alerted the base of the worst.

Edited on: 31/12/2020