"everything is ready mark." chenle said, entering the computer room where jaemin, jisung, jeno and mark were repeating the plan over and over.

"great. we're leaving in ten." he said, raising to his feet.

renjun entered the room behind chenle. "why can't i come with you?" he whined.

jeno and jaemin ran to their boyfriend. "junnie baby, we're sorry, but this is way too dangerous." jaemin said.

"we want you safe." jeno added.

"but, i know how to fight, i've been doing taekwondo..."

"if you fight the same way hyuckie does, you're screwed." mark stated.

all the boys looked at mark. "h-hyuckie?" jisung questioned rather surprised by the endearment the cold-hearted member had just used.

"yes hyuckie, and he's currently getting tortured, so we really should go."

"but please! i want to come." renjun said again.

"renjun, it's too dangerous." jeno said sternly.

"i can be useful!" renjun insisted.

"how so?" chenle raised a brow.

"my father is a policeman. he can help you. if i call him, he'll be there in the following minute."

"renjun, we don't work with the police. the police hate us. it's a gang battle now, not a simple robbery." mark sighed looking at his watch.

"i know but..." renjun continued, standing on the way so that no one could leave the room. "...it's lee sooman we're talking about, and i know the police is against him. they just need solid evidence! this could help, and they don't need to know you are in the way." renjun finished out of breath.

mark thought for a second.

"he got a point there." jisung stated.

"then, renjun will come with us." mark said.

"no, i don't want him to come, it's too dangerous!" jaemin opposed.

"he's our boyfriend, we don't want him injured or anything." jeno added, blocking renjun from the other's view.

mark approached jeno, his eyes darkening. "listen here. donghyuck is out there, getting tortured, and i won't hesitate to sacrifice my life to save him." he growled, making jeno nod. "so, any person that could help me save him and the rest of our members is welcome." mark walked past him and got to the door. "in the car, now! we're going."

XXXXXXXXXX

"i still can't believe it!" taeyong yelled for the millionth time, gripping at his cell's bars.

the gang had been locked in a huge prison-like room, divided in little cells separated by metallic bars, each member being locked in a space, and still five or six cells empty.

"taeyong, it's the truth. sooman was on exo's side." jaehyun sighed.

"but nothing makes sense... why would they try to kill donghyuck then? and why would they capture us?!" the leader groaned.

"none of us know..." yuta replied hitting his head against the wall gently.

"we did our part of the deal. we kept donghyuck safe. we even saved him when he purposely tried to harm him! we never asked him more money, we never refused to do anything for him... so why are we here now?!"

"taeyong, stop rambling, will you?" taeil piped in. "we are all in the same situation, and we can't do anything about it."

"but..."

"TAEYONG!!" all the members yelled at the same time.

taeyong stayed silent for a whole minute, making the members' breathing the only noise in the room.

"does any of you have something that could be useful? like a weapon or anything?" taeyong started again making all the room sigh.

"why would we have a weapon? we all put them in the boxes!" doyoung answered irritated.

"why would you put all your weapons in there!?"

"perhaps because you said we should do EVERYTHING sooman said?" johnny exclaimed, empathising on the 'everything' part.

"why am i like this?" taeyong pulled on his hair. "and why do you listen to your leader?!"

"taeyong, stop doing that, you're saying nonsense..." jaehyun sighed once again.

"you're the leader taeyong." doyoung said.

"you're an example for all of us." hendery added.

"you shouldn't let yourself down this way." johnny finished.

"but because of my stupid decisions, we're all stuck in here..." taeyong whined.

"we are a gang taeyong. you are our leader. you know what is best for us. if it wasn't for you, none of us would be where we are now... you helped us getting out of our hell, so we will eventually get out this hell, don't worry." kun reassured the boy.

all the boys around nodded, smiling at the wise words of their nurse.

"i respect your speech and everything kun," yuta broke the emotional moment, "but it's past 10:00pm, and they still haven't brought us dinner."

the members who had a watch looked at the time and before they could agree, they heard noise coming from outside.

after seconds of ruckus, the door opened in a piercing creaking, revealing someone none of them expected to see.

"let's get all of you out of here." jisung said, shaking the keyring he had in his hand.