"Experiment 0.1: Rising star, part 1 of 2 complete. Start preparing for part 2."

"Are all the boys in the room?" Sungjin stepped forward, "Yes, hyung, they are all ready to wake up." Taecyeon nodded, statisfied of the hard work and turned towards Jihyo. "How about the bags? Are they ready? And the weapons?" Twice's leader also stepped forward and gave the other a reassuring nod, "Team Twice has everything prepared without any problems. The bags have been arranged and the weapons have been brought to their respective islands." "Good work..." the leader chuckled, "Now go prepare yourselves quickly before the boys wake up and then we can finally start." Chansung walked over to stand next to his leader, "Hyung, what about the participant list?" Taecyeon looked up at the other and blinked for a while. "Oh, right, I have it right here," he corrected himself and cleared his throat before handing the participant list to the maknae. "Now go and make it happen. Chansung, you take the lead and JB, you're the head of security. Make sure everyone who doesn't follow our rules gets killed mercilessly. And make sure that no one can escape, okay?" "Roger!" Everyone yelled perfectly in sync. "Good..." Taecyeon smiled, "Dismissed!" Everyone left the room one after another to prepare for part 2 of the experiment, starting the Battle Royale interlude: Boys24 edition. The word interlude made it sound so... Artistic, Taecyeon thought. It was a graceful word for a very entertaining, but certainly not graceful thing. The leader turned his chair around and crossed his legs while leaning back, looking at the bunch of screens in front of him. On a few of them in the middle, he could see the room the boys were in, and as 2pm and Wonder girls gathered in that room perfectly on their assigned positions, he saw that the pigs were slowly starting to come to their senses and finally wake up. "Entertain me... Boys24."

A first groan was heard.

"What happened..." one of the boys mumbled as he was slowly waking up. Opening his eyes slowly, scratching his hair and blinking slowly as he studied the unfamiliar surroundings. Chansung smirked as 2pm and Wonder girls lined up behind him, armed and ready. "Good day, participant Y-7..." The boy looked up, still very confused, as Chansung looked on his paper, checking the name of the first boy to wake up, "... Lee Changmin..." Changmin gasped and looked at 2pm's maknae with wide eyes. "W-what's going on! W-why are you all a-armed?? Aren't you all idols?" he gulped as he started to shake the boy next to him, who was still fast asleep. It was participant X-5, Unit Yellow's leader, Louoon. "Hyung! W-wake up! S-Something fishy is going on!" Changmin welped as he shook the older's shoulders. The vocalist groaned, "Changmin... Let me sleep..." he simply turned around and continued sleeping, thinking it was nothing serious. "Changmin, no worries, we'll wake all of them up in a second. Jun.K!" The first commander turned around to face his groupmate and gestured him to wake the boys up. Jun.K loaded his gun and simply shot a few times towards the wall across the room. Changmin squealed out loud and ducked away while the others all flinched awake. "So..." Louoon looked around while chaos welled up in the room, "This is real? You weren't just pranking me or asking for something silly, Changmin?" The younger nodded and pointed at the armed people from JYP. "We all got... kidnapped-" He murmured silently as the other looked around, counting the boys, "Oh dear... That's really true, all 28 are here!" Everyone was talking at the same time and the room became very noisy as they all stood as far away as they can from 2pm and Wonder girls. Chansung clapped his hands in an attempt to make everyone silent, but no one listened. "Silence!!" Wooyoung yelled, and suddenly everyone was silent, staring at the older with wide eyes as he swayed his gun around. "Stay silent or I will shoot you with this baby!" Most of the boys gasped, as some of them -Doha, Yeontae, Inpyo, Louoon and Sungho- instinctively hid other boys behind their backs. "Don't you dare shoot them for that reason, Wooyoung." Hyerim groaned and nudged the guy next to her. "Taecyeon won't like that," she added, whispering into the other's ear as he calmed down. "Now you all listen to the command of first commander Chansung!" Yeeun stepped forward and said with a loud, strict voice. Sunghyun chuckled, "Oh, it's you... If your groupmate didn't help you, you would've been asleep instead of me. What a pity..." The tallest smirked, but was pulled back by Sungho, who glared at him, "Don't provoke them, they have ing guns. Just stand behind us and obey." Yeeun groaned as Chansung chuckled, "That's interesting to hear, participant Y-6." Sunghyun blinked, "Y-6? What Y-6?" The first commander sighed, "You all are numbered in order that you were revealed to the public, and you all have numbers. You are divided in four sections. You all have a tag on your shirt, and you all have to sit down in order now, and make it quick!" he clapped his hands as sign to start as chaos welled up again. The boys were all trying to find their assigned seat. The first to sit down was Yonghyun. He knew that he was the first out of all, so he had to sit down on the first row on the left. Soon Haejoon sat down next to him and he sighed, "What is all of this... What is even going on..." "I know just as less as you, but I know that this is very frightening..." Haejoon answered and stretched himself, still sleepy. Yonghyun didn't expect the other to be this calm actually. He started thinking of how the others were reacting. He was concerned about everyone, but especially about his Sky members Isaac and Woojin. They could react really heavily and he bet they would be frightened. The rapper sighed yet again and leaned back in his chair as others were still trying to find theirs untill the room finally grew silent again.

"Okay, good job, boys!" Chansung chuckled, "Now let me explain why you, we, are here. You must all be confused about what's going on..." He stepped in front of the desk in front of the room and leaned on it. "Welcome to our tropical hide-out, JYP's secret private islands!" All the boys gasped, not expecting to be at such a place. "You are lucky, because you're the first people who are not from JYP who are visiting this place. It is amazing, you'll really like it! There's a lot of beautiful nature, and the best is..." Chansung smirked, "You can't leave once you arrive when you're not from JYP." Some of the boys started talking as San raised his hand. "Yes, Y-2?" Kang San stood up to ask his question as all eyes were on him. "What happens if we do try to escape?" The first commander grinned, "Good question, my boy! If you try to escape, you'll simply die, that's all! You have trackers somewhere in your body and there's camera's everywhere. You will never be able to escape from our allmighty eyes. And we'll hunt you down and shoot you. Same for here..." Woojin stopped listening to the explanation and looked around, scanning the room for cameras and saw one. He pulled a face at it before staring at the lens of the camera, he didn't