among the stars / hyungwonho

01

[ LOG: 8- Date: 25716.1 - DESTINATION: DAEGU COLONY ] 

"Hello, Captain Yoo here without 'first mate' Wonho. We're outside a bank and we're just waiting for Jooheon and his gang to get here. We have some information that they're planning to rob it and one of the tellers is supposed to be in on it," Kihyun pauses for a moment to collect his thoughts, he hums a little to himself before continuing. "I'm pretty excited. It's been a while since Wonho and I have caught a bounty and this is a pretty big one. Umm, I'm sure what to say, these are much easier with Wonho but he's inside the bank waiting for Jooheon and his gang to show up. He told me to wait outside in case they have a getaway driver," Kihyun sighed. He leaned back and stretched out in his chair. He let out a loud yawn and groaned. "I really hate waiting, especially when I'm waiting on criminals."

***

Kihyun was jolted awake by an explosion. He rubbed away the tiredness in his eyes to find that the bank now had a huge hole in the front of it and out ran four hooded figures dressed in black. They hopped in the back of a pickup truck with bags presumably full of money.

Kihyun saw Wonho running towards the ship and opened the door. Wonho, out of breath, slumped down on the chair beside Kihyun.

"Follow that truck and don't let them get away," Wonho panted. Kihyun quickly put the ship in drive and flew down the street keeping close to the truck. Wonho promptly got on the phone with the police and told them that they were in a chase with Jooheon.

"What the hell?" Kihyun questioned. There was a series of gunshots followed by the pickup truck stopping in its tracks. All of the members of Jooheon's gang in the truck including Jooheon went limp except for one. The last of the gang members got out of the members got out of the back of the truck and made their way towards the driver's side. Kihyun watched as they threw a limp body out of the seat and drove off. The truck came to an abrupt stop and the remaining gang member grabbed a bag from the back of the truck and climbed down a nearby manhole.

Kihyun landed the spacecraft on the top of a nearby building. He and Wonho quickly ran to the pickup truck where they were met with the smell of blood and none other than himself, Jooheon.

"Wow Wonho, I never thought I'd see you again, I really missed you, you know," Jooheon provoked.

"Shut up Jooheon. Who's the one that went down the manhole?" Hoseok spat.

Jooheon shifted and propped himself up with his elbow. He grunted and clutched his bloody abdomen while looking Kihyun and Hoseok in their eyes. "I don't know. I don't even know why it matters, he's one of the most wanted men ever and he's never been caught. Even if I told you, I don't think a couple of amateurs like you two could stop him. He was supposed to help us rob the bank and only ended up screwing us over in the end. Fucker," Jooheon swore.

"Does he at least go by a nickname or something?" Kihyun asked.

"He does but if you want to know, you have to make a deal with me," Jooheon smirked.

"Which would be?"

"You don't turn me in. If you let me die right here and lose your bounty, I'll tell you his name."

"And how will we know you're not lying?" Kihyun questioned.

"You have my word," Jooheon. "And Wonho and I go way back, he should know I'd never lie to him," Jooheon added.

***

"I can't believe we lost our bounty," Kihyun whined.

"Well we didn't lose all of it," Hoseok said throwing an envelope of cash at Kihyun. Kihyun opened the envelope and took out the wad of cash and counted it.

"Those bastards couldn't even give us at least half of what we were promised? Jooheon had a bounty of two-hundred and fifty thousand dollars. And they gave us five thousand," Kihyun spat. "What the hell are we gonna do with five thousand dollars?"

"That part does suck, but think of the guy Jooheon told us about. He's worth four times Jooheon. Could you imagine having one million dollars? We could buy a new ship," Hoseok beamed.

"First of all, my ship is fine. It may be a little old, but it's stronger than those new fancy ones. Second of all, if I had a million dollars, I'd move back home to Venus and start a restaurant and when I get old, I'll retire. Maybe move to Gaia's landing, I hear it's nice there," Kihyun said.

"You're so boring Kihyun," Hoseok joked.

"After five years of this, I think I deserve a break. All this bounty is a lot of work and I want to settle down and start a family," Kihyun sighed.

"Kihyun you're twenty-three years old, not forty. Even if you quit bounty hunting after we catch Hyungwon or H.One, whatever he goes by, won't you miss me?" Hoseok suggested.

"Miss you? Not in a million light years!" Kihyun snickered.

"Shut up, you'd be so bored without me."

"What about you Wonho, what are you gonna do when we catch Hyungwon?"

"I don't know. Maybe continue bounty hunting? I have no interest in going back to earth. I guess we'll cross the bridge when we get to it."

"You have no interest in getting married Wonho?"

"Not my thing. I have no interest in relationships or anything of that sort. It'd probably be for the better."

"Hey Wonho, did you and Jooheon know each other?" Kihyun asked.

Hoseok tensed up and inhaled sharply. He then exhaled and gave Kihyun a soft smile. "Maybe we should save that for another day," he said softly.

"Wonho-"

"Man I'm beat. I'm gonna go to bed early tonight. See you tomorrow Kihyun."

"Uh okay then. Goodnight Wonho."