Road to Utopia - NCT

38 - Captured

"Fuck..." Taeyong cursed as he made his way back up to the weapon's room. There was a threat that needed to be dealt with and he couldn't eliminate it without more ammo and guns for the other members. That is if they weren't injured from the other three explosions that he had heard on the way there.

Grabbing whatever he could find (a rifle, more pistols and their ammo and a few knives), he made his way towards the source of the noises.

He passed by Yangyang on the floor (still breathing but unconscious) and Winwin with a bullet wound on his leg. He managed to grab a piece of fabric to stop the bleeding, but it would be hard to get to the infirmary from here. Taeyong passed a pistol to him and told him to stay safe. No one gets away with hurting his members.

Another explosion happened in the room next to him, so he entered. What he wasn't expecting was to find Eunhee standing in the middle of the room, unhurt and clearly not affected by the explosions.

"Well, we finally meet." She smirked.

He raised his gun to her face. He wasn't going to take any chances. "Where's Jisung? What have you done with him?"

"Oh, we decided to take him back for some more debriefing. It's funny how you still care for him despite being our rat. So, if you don't mind-"

"We care for him, no matter what. We'll find a way to reverse what you've done to him and free him from your grasps."

"I love how you believe you think you can. Not with your base going up in flames." Another explosion. "And not when we're taking all of you back with us."

"Not if I can help it." He shot a few bullets towards her, but she kept moving. She managed to hide behind a flipped table.

"You're too late anyway!" She called out, slightly muffled. "By now, the sleeping gas would have reached here."

The leader kept shooting at her, not hearing a word she said over the noise around him. It was only when he started feeling a little drowsy that he realised what was going on. Eunhee emerged from the table wearing a gas mask and he could faintly see her annoying grin.

"Sleep tight, Taeyong. I'll try not to hurt you too much on the way back." That was all he heard as he blacked out and fell to the ground.

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"Aah, the sleeping beauty is awake now, huh?" Eunhee smirked as Taeyong's eyes fluttered open. He was restrained to a chair, his hands and legs tied behind it. As soon as he realised this, he struggled against the bindings without success.

"I would have thought that your little gang of kids would have put up more of a fight, but you were too easy for us." She sighed and started circling him. "A shame, really. I love a good challenge."

"Let me go." he gritted his teeth,

"Hmm, I don't think so. Not when we have all of you here to witness everything." She placed a tablet in front of his eyes where he could see CCTV footage of several cells like his containing an NCT member each. He silently counted how many feeds there were, checking to see if Eunhee as telling the truth. Surely not everyone was captured, right?

"Actually, that's not all the members. We have two of them in a special holding cell." She swiped across to another set of CCTV cameras, revealing Jaemin and Mark in a brightly lit room. Taeyong could see that they were just unconscious as their chests were slowly rising and falling.

"No..."

"Yes, you see, one of our experiments ran away some years ago along with one of our handlers. It's only right that we take them back." The woman called someone on her phone. "You may begin."