Road to Utopia - NCT

33 - The Beginning of Ends

"I'm not crazy," Taeyong muttered to himself in the dark again, "I know there's something fishy about Jisung. How can it be so easy to get him back when we couldn't even steal anything else from their buildings?"

Mark walked in and the leader hissed. He decided to turn the small nightlight on in the corner of the room. "Taeyong, what have I told you about staying in the dark and conspiring against Jisung?"

"It's better than being on the toilet or in the shower for hours!"

"It really isn't, I'd rather you waste all our hot water than become a vampire." He looked at the corkboard, which was now covered more than before. "Is this really necessary? He's just a kid, why would he work with the government, even after learning about their terrible schemes?"

"They could be controlling him...or brainwashing him!"

The younger leader placed a hand on his shoulder. "Taeyong, how long have you been awake?"

"About 2 days, not the point. I will find something about him, even if it takes me months."

The office door slammed open, revealing Kun with a stack of files in his hands. He sighed once he saw his leader cower with the extra light entering his office and narrowed his eyes when he scanned the room. "You really need to keep your office cleaner. I'll get Winwin to help. I'm leaving these on your chair."

He was about to leave but turned around to face the conspiracy board. "Also, whilst I don't condemn the use of this board, I do think you're going a little overboard."

"See! It's not just me! Taeyong, just stop it, you won't find anything."

"We'll see about that," he smiled creepily.

~~

Jisung didn't know how he reached the shooting range, but he was there. It was currently empty since the others had gone out for ice cream supplies and the leaders were in their offices like the true workaholics they were, or at least he thought so. As always, Ice Cream Tuesdays had broken their machine and they had to replace the parts for the 30th time at least.

He felt like his body was moving on its own Naturally, his first instinct was that maybe it was his amnesia forgetting how he got to places he didn't know how, but recently his limbs have had a mind of their own. Sometimes, he had managed to 'regain' control, but other times - like now - it led him to places he didn't expect.

Like the gun supplies room. At first, he thought maybe his body wanted to practice shooting for when he was allowed back on missions, but his right hand grabbed a pistol and his left snatched up as many rounds as it could before storing them in his deep-pocketed pants said otherwise. Before he could even register what he had done or what he was doing, he blacked out.

In the corner of the room, a shadowy figure crouched behind one of the barriers separating the cubicles.

"What is he doing?" He muttered to himself as he saw Jisung look around suspiciously and ran out of the room.

~~

Now Jisung was back in his room.

What is going on, he thought to himself as he started his computer to load up something. He had a sudden idea to open up his hacker program at 2am in the morning. He wasn't sure why and he just went along with it for now. Maybe Kun would know something more about his condition soon because the random energy bursts to do weird, inexplainable things were starting to annoy and concern him.

When the program launched, he hesitated a little as black spots filled his blurred vision. What he could see, and feel was his hands typing some unknown code onto the black screen and entering it. He couldn't even decipher what it was, and he wouldn't be able to even in a normal state as he never learnt that coding language.

/

At Taeyong's office, he decided to check the cameras. He didn't trust the others putting the ice cream machines back together, especially at 1am since only the chaotic ones were awake then, and maybe Kun too. As he flicked through the cameras, he found Jisung's camera recording him at his desk. He moved it to face him more and get a better view of him because which sane person is awake at 1am, almost 2am?

(A/N - Me, but we move on.)

He saw his hands typing away at the keyboard, his blank expression staring at the screen. This is my chance to prove everyone wrong, he thought, this is too strange not to note down. As he was about to hit the record button on his screen, it turned off.

The leader didn't know what happened. He flicked through the other cameras and found them to be working fine (and saw Taeil take a huge bowl of ice cream to his room whilst leaving the machine on). So, what was wrong with Jisung's camera?

He flicked back to it and saw it was back on.

Except, in the space of mere seconds, he had managed to turn off the computer, climb into bed and act as if nothing happened.

END

The title sucks because I tried to sound cool whilst starting the final arc. I hope it worked.