“So,” Zelo started sipping his can of cola, “let’s run through this again.” All the other members nodded and Youngjae just couldn’t help but facepalm at the stupidity of his teammates.

They were all sitting down in Himchan and Yongguk’s room. It was large, it even had its own lounge. That’s where they currently were. Daehyun stuffing his face full with cheesecake. Himchan doing what Himchan does. Yongguk silently praying that everything is a dream. Whilst Jongup and Zelo were taking everything in and remaining level headed.

“The black hole brought us to this planet called ‘Earth.’ We must stay on Earth because our ships broken and the Guardians won’t let us leave. Something about getting punished by Fate and Destiny.”

“Yes, that’s basically it.” Youngjae answers, still nursing his aching brain.

No one else spoke. They were all quite content in the silent that surrounded them. It made them feel peaceful and at one with themselves. A loud crash from outside had them scrambling to stand, rushing to the window, they were all relived to see that it was just Sungyeol and Myungsoo arguing.

“I think,” Yongguk was surprised to see the startled look on his teammates faces.

“You scared us!” Himchan accused, his finger pointing at Yongguk.

“Yes, I’m sorry.” His eyebrows furrowed and he turned away from Himchan to look at the rest of his team, “As I was saying, I think we should try and avoid the Guardians as much as we can.”

Eyebrows rose at his statement but Himchan was the first to agree, “Yes, something about them gives me bad vibes. If you know what I mean.”

“Why?” Daehyun looked up from the pizza he was devouring. He was sitting on the window seat because he didn’t have enough energy to retreat to the lovely sofas the others were on. “They’re nice and they give us food.”

“Exactly.” Jongup said, sending Daehyun a patronising stare. “They’re too nice. Also, I feel like they’re keeping something from us.”

“I don’t know what you guys are talking about.” Zelo leaned forward to grab a slice of pizza, “Sungjong and Jinki are nice, and so are Minho and Taemin and Ren and Aaron…” he continued listing off all the Guardian names he could remember.

“Okay,” Yongguk cut him off, “we get your point but I still think that we should avoid them without making it look like we’re avoiding them, just in case.”

Zelo snorted, “Just so you know, you sounded stupid saying that but I will do what you said, you’re our leader after all. On another note, who wants to explore the place?”

The others nodded and vocalised their opinions before they all stood up and left to go explore their new home, for a while anyways.

Except Daehyun, he wanted to stay behind and finish his pizza, so the others waved bye to him as they left.

***

“Why are we all here?” Yongguk asks, doing a headcount of everyone in his team. Panic rises through his body, when notices that Daehyun is missing but breathes a sigh of relief when he sees him on the other end of the table.

“Something has happened.” Key answered, “The legends, our children have been kidnapped.”

“Why is this bad?” Zelo prompts, his eyes glancing to Jinki before bouncing back to Key, who looked tired, distressed and worried.

“We are the Guardians; our children are gifts. They are important to us and the whole universe. If they are killed, then the Red Force will win. They will destroy everything and our children are the only ones that can stop them.” This time Jinki answers, so Zelo lets his eyes stray to the man and as he speaks he cannot help but think how lucky Sungjong is to have a man like that.

 Yongguk grows worried as Jinki continues explaining and he and his team can’t help but be awed at the power of these teenagers. “What happened, did they all go missing at once? What happened?”

“They all went missing at once, so we were assuming they’d gotten kidnapped. It turns out we were right. We’ve found out where they’re been held,” Sungjong paused, and they could see his eyes watering, “but it’s been guarded from us. There are certain charms that have been activated that won’t let creatures with magic through. If we tried they would’ve killed us off.”

Jinki took over the rest of the explaining as Sungjong had started sobbing after he had finished. Tears stormed their way down his face. The man had turned around and left the room, probably heading to a place where he could cry more freely.

Jinki tried to give them a reassuring smile but it just made them feel depressed, it wasn’t his usual bright ones. It was more like a corpse of what it used to be. “We know that we have just met but we are hoping, hoping with all our heart that you will help us in getting our children back.” The man was literally begging them to help, “Please, please help us.”

 Himchan heard Yongguk take in a sharp breath, obviously not expecting this but then he sighed.

“Yes, we will help you. It’s the least we can do.”

***

“Are you sure they’re here?” Daehyun whispered out into the dark.

“Yes, I’m sure.” Yongguk’s voice whispers out from behind him, “We need to be careful though. Jinki said that they’re dangerous, very dangerous.”

Daehyun nodded, not knowing if the other could see him. He retreated deeper into the forest with the team. They went deep enough that no one would see or hear them but they would still have a good view of the building. It was an abandoned warehouse and Daehyun shivered thinking of what they could be doing to the poor teenagers in them.

“Let’s go over the plan again.” Yongguk whispers, they all surround him as he starts speaking in a hushed voice. “Daehyun, you, Jongup and Youngjae go find the Legends, kill anyone that gets in your way. Zelo, me and Himchan we’ll take care of any guards that try to follow you. Got it?” Everyone nods at his tone of voice. It’s serious and so is everyone else. They had lives to save.

 ***

Daehyun jumps through the window after Yongguk, his gun already in his hand and his knives strategically hidden on his person, so he can whip them out whenever he needs them. “Tread carefully. Don’t alert them.” With Yongguk’s warning everyone becomes more silent than before, which should be impossible but not for them. They’re soldiers who were brought up in MATO, unlike EXO the residents don’t have magic instead they’re gifted with survival instinct and are built as warriors.

Yongguk nudges to a hallway and Daehyun takes the lead. His gun resting on his hand as he carefully treads through the hallway. He knows that Youngjae and Jongup are doing the same as him, whilst Himchan, Zelo and Yongguk are probably checking their rear and sides, to intercept any possible attacks.

They hear yells before them and soon they’re running through the random hallways. Yongguk shouting at them to get away faintly fading away. “Dae-,” Youngjae starts, but Daehyun cuts him off, they’ve been wandering the hallways for a few minutes now and he can hear a faint noise. He doesn’t need to say anything as he knows that the other two can hear it and just as they are about to advance towards the noise the unmistakable noise of heels clacking on the ground start. It is followed by more and by the sound of it, it seems that they’re getting closer.

Daehyun curses and quickly looks for a place to hide, he finds nothing. He looks to his teammates and sees Jongup pointing up and he follows the direction. The ceiling, he nods and all three of them turn on their boots. A little boost from their boots and they are safely hidden away on the ceiling. The suction effect in their clothes allow them to stick to it, without alerting anyone of their presence. 

 

He holds his breath and can’t help but gasp when he sees a crowd of nurses in red heels run through the hallway they were just in. They stay like that for a long amount of time, the nurses kept coming and coming, Daehyun and his team could do nothing but stay put as they passed.

After the last group passed, Daehyun raised his hand, they stayed put for another few minutes before Daehyun gestured for them to go and they dropped from the ceiling.

“Where did they come from?” Youngjae asks, brushing off his suit and making sure it was in perfect order.

“I think they came from the right. At least that’s where the sound of heels came from.” Jongup points in the direction and they all head off to it.

Their footsteps echoed in the silent hallway and Daehyun couldn’t help but look behind him, he kept imagining the nurses creeping up behind them and injecting them with whatever the they have in those syringes.

Shaking his head, Daehyun moves further down the hallway, completely disregarding all the closed doors, when he halts.

“I heard something.” This catches the attention of his teammates who flock to the door he was staring at.

“Are you sure?” Jongup answers, his voice is curious.

“Is someone there!” A voice called from inside the room. Jumping away in panic, they frantically look at each other and the door.

“One of us has to go first.” Youngjae whispers, “And it’s not going to be me.”

“Do we have to?” Jongup whines back, he just wants to find the Legends and get back to base.

“Yes,” Youngjae hisses back, “what if it’s them in there?”

“Then you go in first.” Jongup retorts back, pushing Youngjae backwards.

“Why you-,”

“Shut up.” Daehyun’s voice is low but it’s enough to get them to do exactly what he said. “I’ll go in first.”

“Are you sure?” Youngjae asks, patting Daehyun on the shoulder, “you don’t have to.”

Daehyun snorts, “Then are you going to go in first?”

“Hell no.” Youngjae pushes him towards the door and backs away, “I’ll be second.”

He can’t help but feel flustered at the smirk Daehyun sends him, before he opens the door and steps through.

He hears Daehyun gasp, “Everything okay in there?”

“Yeah,” a voice answers, “you can come in.”

 

When Daehyun went in, he wasn’t ready for what he saw. It was a medical room of some sort. There were 12 beds, six on each side of the room. All the beds held a patient except for the last one.

“Hello.” He whips his head to stare at the boy on the first bed, a brunette. The sign on his bed read ‘Junmyeon – Water’.  “Hello,” the voice repeated a bit more firmly.

“Hi, what’s happening?” He takes in the sight of all 12 boys, one of them isn’t in bed, he was standing up, just barely with a syringe in his neck.

“They’re taking our DNA,” the boy began, “They’re trying to replicate us.”

“What?” Youngjae asks, Daehyun turns to stare at Jongup and Youngjae before turning back.

“It doesn’t matter.” Daehyun snaps.

He turns to Junmyeon, “we’re here to get you out of here, can you stand?”

The boy nods, “We can but they always strap us in.”

“We’ll get you out of them.” As soon as he says that, the other two are already helping the others out of the bed. He walks towards Junmyeon and starts undoing the straps. “What’s happening to him?” Daehyun gestures to the boy at the back, who looks more drained than he did before.

“He’s Baekhyun, they were trying to get blood from him before they just suddenly left.”

“Why is it blue?”

“What? The blood, we don’t know why it’s blue. It just is.”

At the explanation Daehyun nods and turns to see all the other boys on their feet.

“I’ll go help Baekhyun,” he points to the boy, “Youngjae help the patients, Jongup the window and then find a way down.”

Jongup nods and runs to the window, smashing it open. “There’s a tree, Youngjae get them all down.” As soon as Jongup says that, Youngjae starts ushering all the boys towards the exit and Daehyun turns back to Baekhyun.

The boy looked drained and so weak, that Daehyun couldn’t help but feel sorry for him.

His hand hovers over the syringe, hesitant to take it out.

What if he hurts him?

Shaking his head, his hand grips the syringe and tries to gently ease it out. When it does come out it makes a pop sound and Baekhyun winces at the rush of air, hitting the open area. He turns, still holding the syringe in one hand and Baekhyun in the other, to hear the nurses at the other side of the door. He panics and turns back, his mind drawing a blank on ideas.

This is no good, I need to calm down.

He doesn’t know but in seconds he has managed to calm himself. He looks at Baekhyun and can’t help but sigh, the boy’s unconscious. It was surprise he was still standing when Daehyun got to him.

He hears the door open and drops the syringe, grabbing Baekhyun he was about to haul the boy over himself when he notices something. The syringe had attached itself to him and was draining his blood.

“Goddamit.” He mutters and grabs the thing off, wincing at the slight pain he felt when it was taken out. He grabs Baekhyun, bridal style and turns. He comes fact to face with a room full of nurses.

He curses again, as they all charge towards him and before he can do anything a nurse has attached the same syringe into his shoulder.

He turns and snarls at her, before kicking her into the wall. He takes a glance at the machine the syringe is attached to and runs. The machine follows, the sheer force of MATOEN warrior pulling it through the crowd of nurses.

Daehyun turns to stare at the mess of bodies and reaches behind him to pull the syringe out. He steps on it and spits on the face of the nearest nurse before he jumps out the window and onto the tree.

In his haste, he doesn’t notice the mixing of blood in the battered machine. The mixing of his Baekhyun’s blood.

 

 

When the Legends wake up, they wake up to a different sight. They’re still in a medical room but it’s different to the one they were held in before. Baekhyun stands up and walks the floor feeling cool below his feet. It’s been ages since they could walk around like that.

Kyungsoo would probably tell me to sit down.

He giggles to himself at the thought of his brother. He abruptly stops and starts frantically looking around, eyes wide until they stop at a bed that holds the sleeping face of his brother.

“Soo.” He mutters under his breath before quickly walking to the bed and lifting the covers. He snuggles up to his brother and lets a sigh escape him.

Everything felt okay, he felt safe. His only hope is that they’re actually safe and this isn’t just an illusion.  

 

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I hope you guys enjoyed this chapter. It was originally meant to be way shorter and the rescuing and stuff was supposed to happen in the next chapter but it just kinda worte itself, I guess.

I really do hope you all enjoyed this chapter.

TIME TO WORK ON CHAPTER 6!

The next chapter will focus on EXO and will be about how they got kidnapped, and what was going on. It will end at where this chapter ended, so basically a filter chapter from EXO point of view.