Corrosion || BTS Jung Hoseok (J-Hope) ✓

Corrosion Episode 17

As she walked back through the corridors to get to the locker rooms to grab her things, J-Hope came pouncing up to her. His entire expression full of worry. "Are you okay?" He asked, hugging her. The guards walking her to the locker room backed up, knowing the two were 'married.'

"I'm fine...honey," Karen replied, pushing his hands away, a slowly. She didn't know why they still had to pretend they were married, technically they didn't, but J-Hope never told her that. He never really had the chance to, since they hadn't had a real conversation since for a while.

"Here, let me clean your wounds before they get infected," J-Hope urged, pulling her into the locker room. The two guards gave each other surprised looks, not sure what to do, but at the same time, they were quite impressed with how much J-Hope seemed to care for his 'wife.'

"What are you doing? Let go! You shouldn't be in here," Karen demanded, pulling her arms from his hold. J-Hope didn't seem fazed by her aggressive acts, pulling her onto a bench to sit, as he found a first aid kit. J-Hope cut open the back of her shirt to reveal the half inch markings the flail left across half of her back. He sighed before cleaning the wound. Karen wanted to hiss in pain, as her back felt like it was on fire, but she had no intentions of letting J-Hope see her weak side anymore. Although she unknowingly let out a huge sigh of relief when she felt him press his thumbs around the bandage on her back, keeping it from falling out of place. He then pulled out of his bag a new set of clothes for her. He set them beside her, pointing towards the shower before leaving the room, "Don't worry. Susana came back yesterday, I had her get them for you, I didn't look," he assured before leaving.

Karen scoffed in disbelief before letting a few tears escape from her eyes. "Why am I crying?" she scolded herself. "I guess it just can't be helped, he's just nice," she concluded before making her way to the shower.

Demian, Jayden, Kevin, Susana, and J-Hope sat nervously outside the building, "What's taking so long?" Kevin asked.

"It's getting late, they've already held it off for four hours, anymore, and people might start leaving the building," Demian agreed. As he spoke, a vast amount of armored cars began pulling up, circling the several buildings with the ongoing Gladiator Underground Championships. J-Hope greeted the leader, briefly explain each building. The leader nodded before speaking through his walkie-talkie, "You know the drill, bring them in!"

The building was being overrun by the police from the top floor down. People everywhere were fighting, not wanting to be taken in. Demian had slipped into the building and was leading Karen through a backway when they met Ironfist and his gang of panicking Gladiators. "Hey, beautiful," Ironfist cackled, shoving two fingers towards her eyes.

Karen, swatted his hand away with her wrist using the elbow of the other arm to bruise the area just above his collarbone. As Ironfist took a brief step back, Max jumped in, only to fall to his knees when two of Karen's fingers dug mercilessly dug over his collarbone. Karen jumped, swinging her legs around, kicking another third man in the head.

Demian picked a guy up by the legs, swinging him into another guy before grabbing Karen's hand and pulling her towards the exit. However, they had underestimated the number and power of Ironfist's minions as the popped up, swinging whips, flails and knives pushing them deeper into the building.

Demian stood in front of Karen, arm outstretched in front of him and behind him, in a protective stance. Demian flinched back another step when a whip made contact which his cheek, snapping raw flesh off of him. He peered behind him at Karen, realizing they had been cornered. Ironfist's orders could be heard clearly from the back, "Kill them quickly!" The whips, stabs, and swings pushed Demian and Karen flat against the wall.

From behind J-Hope, Susana, Kevin, and Jayden with a couple of the police barged through the exit door and into the room, creating a ruckus among Ironfist's Gladiators. One of the Gladiators made it close enough to Karen to try and plunge and knife into her face. J-Hope lunged at the man, tackling him into the wall, while his back received at least twenty lashes and gashes from the whips and flails.

Karen stood up running into the fray, grabbing a man by his ears and using him as a body block. She shoved him aggressively into the others, causing them to fall into disarray. Seeing a man charging at her from behind, she did a back roll, her leg meeting with his face as she bounced to stand upright again.

J-Hope watched in horror as someone managed to grab Karen by the arm, kick her knee and punched her face, before she could move. He broke free from his own fight, grabbing Karen's abuser and rammed both of his fists in the temples of the man's head. J-Hope turned his head slightly to see Karen dizzily stand weakly on one leg.

Another Gladiator managed to overpower a policeman, ripping his gun from his hands. The female gladiator pummeled the policeman's face before aiming the gun at J-Hope's unguarded back, and unloading the pistol three times before she was overwhelmed by other police officers.