The knob tossed and Jungkook barged inside, followed by Namjoon and Archi while Yoongi silently closed the door.

My eyes were an overflow of salted tear drops, smearing all over my cheeks. I couldn't keep my body at rest and almost threw myself at her.

She had been holding her left arm, tightly and only gave her right hand to hug me. She couldn't move the left hand much.

I broke the hug to see her arm but she turned away from me. Her head had a bandage wrapped around with a torn piece of cotton shirt, which I suspect to belong to Yoongi.

"Archi, what happened to your arm?" I threatened her my question.
"I got shot. The bullet passed inches away and am currently partially paralyzed because it badly hurts." She casually delineated the whole story to me, as if nothing ever happened.

That bullet I heard, did hit her.

"That bullet hit you..." My lips quivered.

"Hey, ulijamarayo. Nan gwanchana, kure? (Hey, don't cry. I'm okay, okay?)"
"Ulgoshipji ana. But... Meomchul su eobseo.(I don't want to cry. But... I can't stop.)"

She smudged off my tears with the tip of her thumb. Her hand was cold and large, covering my whole face at once.

It is hard for me to not have her around me. And now that I hear her being harmed, my blood boiled.

"Eta dekh! (Look at this.)" I switched on my evidence of Aron being in our house.

"God! He's a serious criminal. What are we doing?"

It was quarter past 3 in the night. We were sleep deprived and scared, Archi was injured and I was restless.

Some of us are trained martial arts seniors but arms and firearms are two total different weapons, with the later being more efficient.

We were stuck in a game of chase, where neither is the cat or the mouse. Both sides are enemies yet all of us are villains in this reality fiction.

I am a villain for Archi and BTS, they're stuck here because of me. And my foe, is reason for this.

Archi groaned in pain, as the injury ached more with every passing minute. I can't see her in pain for long.

I can't save ourselves but I still have my phone. If only at this hour, the police do not disappoint me and come to our rescue, I promise to go to Church every Sunday.

I dialed 911 but guess what? That man disbelieved me to be the real Sparkle and scolded me for disturbing him.

These tiktok influencers are the reason why real urgencies and medical emergencies get overlooked, for being a probable reaction video.

I retried, but after 4 rings, they just don't want to pick up anymore.

Jimin had his head rested on Yoongi's shoulder and Jungkook slept on Jin's lap. Archi had also slept off. Her body was having it too much. Hoseok did not sleep but had his eyes closed and Taehyung sat in the corner, trying to remain strong.

Namjoon was still standing, his hands covering his face. His frustration and agitation were against his calm temperature. He maintained it, but how long?

"Argh! They aren't coming to our rescue." I punched the wall. I had it enough. Now I am gonna kill that bastard.

"Ummggh! Y/n-ah, sobai ghumochhe. (Everyone's sleeping)"

I sat down on the chair, obeying Archi. They needed rest but in this messed up world, I was powerless.

Silence has spread all across the house. It was in the middle of the night. The small weapons we had were worthless to the mighty guns.

"Y/n-ah? You heard that?" I remained quite to listen to whatever Namjoon wanted me to hear.

The sounds were coming from the 2nd floor. It was someone trying to cut off the lazer system.

Naive idea. The lazer may cut off temporarily but as soon as the sensers spot any movement, they'll be on again.

Only our retina can stop that.

"Archi, they're..."
"Trying to break in. We need to be ready to fight for ourselves but we don't have firearms."

"You're a scientist for a reason god! Why don't you make something out of all these colourful liquids you have in here!" My roar woke the members up.

Archi looked in my eye with her bewitching eyes which were like always, emotionless. She was thinking for a way. I know that.

Her brain did calculations in the air and her eyeballs glanced at everything inside the laboratory.

She was planning every possible reaction that we could make. Although ambidextrous, she was left handed and her right hand was unstable. At the moment, her main hand was disabled.

So leaving everything to be done by us.

"Y/n-ah, we have hydrogen peroxide?" She asked.

I looked around the beakers to spot the H2O2 label.

What is she planning to do with peroxide?

With some messing around, I found the peroxide container and brought it out to the experiment table.

The boys looked at me as I took the colourless liquid and wore Archi's gloves, which covered almost uptil my elbow.

"Done." I said.
"Take out sulfuric acid." She said.
"Where's it?"
"That upper rack- ouch!"

I was short and that rack was too high for me. Archi easily reaches that because of her height, pretty much a lot for an average number of women.

Being left handed, she absent mindedly reached her left arm to the rack which caused another pull on her already defective muscle tissue.

"Archi!" Namjoon and Yoongi thundered at her in unison. "I told you to not get excited!"

"Tsk! Quiet. You want us all to get caught?" Jin, the oldest shut the two thundering souls.

"Sorry." The trio apologized to their respective dominant.

"I'll take it out." Jimin stood up and opened the rack to get the SO2 labelled jar.

"You're making APM?" I asked.
"Mhm. I won't. You'll have to." She replied.

"I can help. I might not be a scientist, but my favourite subject was chemistry. You can instruct me and I know many of the reactions here. But I haven't heard of APM."

I remember Jimin revealing his favourite subjects in 2017. Having a helper who is aware of the reaction is better than just having an instructor.

"Sure. I know Jungkook wants to ask the same question." Jungkook hid his red face. Archi had noticed his curiosity and Hobi also had the urge to know.

"APM, ammonia peroxide mixture. It's a wet solutions that is used for silica removal. But that needs ammonium nitrate. And I don't have that.

So we'll be making Piranha Etch and Peracetic solution. Both of these are two very corrosive mixtures and solutions respectively.

All have to wear mask and gloves. Open that drawer and take one set each."

Jimin provided everyone with a pair of gloves, one mask and laboratory glasses. The members wore their respective equipment.

I fixed my hair up and prepared myself for some chemical fun.

"Okay everyone, let's do an interactive chem class at first. Piranha Etch is the deadliest chemical we can form inside a laboratory. It is super reactive but not a compound.

It's a mixture that has dilute Sulfuric Acid and Hydrogen Peroxide in a ratio of 3:1. Even the slightest of its touch can easily burn your epidermal layer and corrode your skin forever.

Peracetic solution is a compound of Hydrogen Peroxide and Acetic acid, which is yet again a corrosive acid and can cause major damage to all your internal organs.

So we'll be making them in glass beakers and even store in spray bottles made of glass.

Why are we doing this? Apparently our enemy has found out how to reach us and we have already ran out of food.

We can't be here like this for long and the police doesn't want to help us at the moment because they think it's a scam.

We have to be out ourselves and causing terminal damage to your abuser for self defence is accepted."

Archi explained the curious members about the plan she had already told me when she stared in my eyes.

Yes, that's what we were upto.

"You mean we're going to ruin them with acid? Then why not just use sulfuric acid?" Said Yoongi.

"Aron knows about Y/n and Y/n has revealed way much about me. He will be aware of me possibly using acids on him. That enables him to already carry metallic protection.

A lot of sulfuric acid is required to destroy 1 meter of iron. That'll be too much and I only have 5 litres. So we'll take things far stronger and try."

"Okay, words are wasting time. Instruct us." Said Namjoon, who was also helping Jimin.

"It's 5 litres of SO2, we need 3:1 ratio,i.e, 30%. 1500 ml of peroxide." Said Jimin.
"We have to dilute it." I added 10% water to the acid and stirred it with the glass rod.

"Okay, only 30% of it." Said Archi. "Slowly."

We started the stirrer and added the chemical from our 50ml test tube. The solution started to bubble an exothermic reaction.

It instantly heated up. We added 10% peroxide to each of the 10 container which carried 500 ml of sulfuric acid.

On the other side Archi was making Peracetic solution with Yoongi and Jungkook. They added 250 ml of vinegar to the 10 bottles and slowly added hydrogen peroxide.

The solution had no specific ratios, it all depended on the concentration of acetic acid.

"Arch, is it okay?" I called her and she looked at the last bottle which had only 20% of peroxide.

"Our calculations were right, right?" She asked.
"Yeah but we lack peroxide." I informed.
"Move away. I'll add dilute acetic acid. It'll be explosive so back off."

She pulled me back and dripped 10% dilute acetic acid in the solution which made some grumbling type sounds and produced a toxic odour.

Archi loosely closed the lid and asked us to leave the lab. She opened the window to let  the toxic out and called us in once it was preferable.

"Didn't that harm you?" Asked Taehyung.
"Wouldn't harm you all in a lil' time as well. I asked you all to back off for space."

"Okay, so we're ready?" Hoseok asked.

"Yes. We have 20 bottles. 1 bottle per solution per person. The rest two for whoever requires.

I want to get Aron jailed, completely and so we need his face. Aim at any other part of the body but any of their faces."

Archi gave Yoongi a lab coat two prevent his hand from getting in contact with the solution.

We had spare bandages and ointment in the lab and Hoseok helped Jin to nurse Archi, better than Namjoon.

We prepared to leave the lab and start towards the exit. If we all can get to the exit without any obstacles, we make our get away.

But if we don't, we fight.

We kept the bottles in our pockets. Archi kept the spare ones with her. The members practiced spraying on a piece of paper which didn't even leave ashes as residue.

"Ready?" They cheered in unison and I opened the door.

"We meet again." That same voice which used to shiver my heart even a day before, spoke.

After what has happened today, I can't let him be the wolf.

I met his lustful gaze and smirked. I have my power with me, even if partially disabled. So this times it's not him to raise the toast, but his preying prey.

"We sure do... Aron."

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Hey guys

Yeah, I'm uploading a week late but I wanted to give you all some rest.

And I was very busy.

Now I know some of you are going to kill me for a whole chemistry based chapter but I love chemistry.

Anyways, we're at the climax.
The last chapter will be published by Sunday or Monday the max.

Kay Bye~