WHO ARE YOU?|ATEEZ FANFIC (In Editing Progress)

Chapter 46|Talk to me

In the shadow of the parking garage, in front of two cars that were fueled and ready to go, a Halateez sat staring straight ahead at the road. He was alone on the street. None of his somber grim reaper friends were anywhere around. No one could have come to his aid. Before he even knew what was happening to him, the pointed end of a crowbar pierced his metal torso. Sparks from his internal electronics twitched, and his arms and legs immediately lost the ability to move. The gun was pulled out of his body again and he fell to the ground. He landed on his back and stared at his attacker's legs. Breathing deeply, Seonghwa looked down at the Halateez, not satisfied that he could still move.

»Die you bastard.« he swung the crowbar a second time, gathering all his anger, and then punched the Halateez in the chest. He flinched, not from pain, but from his movement mechanics being triggered. Seonghwa didn't care. He hit again and again until he got tired of his gun, dropped it and started kicking the defenseless Halateez with his feet. His six friends stood behind him and watched worriedly as he processed the Halateez into kindling. He ripped the robot's forearm from the body and carelessly threw it in the corner, kicked its head several times until it resembled a flattened can rather than a head, and then kicked its dented chest one last time before Wooyoung kicked himself to his heart, ran to the enraged boy and carefully grabbed his wrist. The eldest jumped slightly and turned around in confusion. When he saw his friend, his anger subsided almost automatically and he hesitated.

»Did I overdo it?« he asked a little ashamed and Wooyoung smiled.

»Maybe a little.« They looked at the utterly devastated Halateez on the ground and Seonghwa made a face. Yeosang smiled and walked over to the two.

»Well, at least he's broken now.« he said, and nudged the Halateez with his foot again. The Halateez's mechanical joints creaked softly.

»No rubbish compactor would have finished him off better. Respect, Hyung.« The mint haired man patted his older friend's shoulder proudly, then pulled him by the wrist back to where the others were waiting by the two cars. Wooyoung followed them. The cars were a jeep and a regular car. The jeep was silver, a little older, and big enough that it could easily carry five of them, while the car - a black Mercedes - only had two seats.

»Please put down the crowbar, Hyung.« Mingi said as Seonghwa came to stand next to him, intimidated by the fact that Seonghwa had turned a 1.83 Halateez - the one with Mingi's face on it by the way - into nothing but a sad pile of tin in a matter of seconds. Seonghwa smiled amused, placed the crowbar on the hood of the jeep and then looked around the group.

»So what's the plan?« he asked and Jongho, who had climbed into the jeep and was staring at the city map that had been on the dashboard.

»There are two locations circled here,« he said, holding the map out to Seonghwa so he could look inside as well. This card was a bit larger than the one Hongjoong had in his little card book. It showed another part of the city that the boys had never seen and in that same part of town were two buildings circled in red marker. One pretty close, another a little further away.

»Are you suggesting we split up again?« San asked confused and Jongho nodded.

»Its faster. If we can't find Hongjoong in both places, we'll just meet at one of the places. We'll take the walkie-talkies with us.«

»Are those things still working?« Yunho asked, and Jongho nodded.

»Put new batteries in before we went down here.»

»Where did you get batteries?« Seonghwa looked puzzled at the youngest, who took off his backpack and patted it proudly. The clinking of batteries could be heard inside the backpack.