Circuit Broken- Ateez

9: The Mission 2 - Deepwater B-3087 Pt 2

Warning loosely based off 2 different events. References and mentions of prisoners, slavery, overpopulated areas, death, fire, burns and more.
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Hongjoong, Hwanwoong, Ravn, Keonhee, Yunho, and Jongho

"Stop pacing and counting your steps. It's making me tired. Plus it's lunch. EAT!"

"Why are you counting your steps Hyung?"

"It's a thing I've learned. It can be helpful. 1. 2. 3. Left. 1. 2.... 6 left."

"This is weird even for you Hongjoong."

"You gotta do what you gotta do to survive and adapt."

"He's not wrong though. You do have to adapt. I can't tell you how many times I went looking for a bathroom while it was my shift."

"I can tell you. It was at least 20."

"20? That's a lot."

"Okay to be fair I got lost. Went back to my post. Tried again after a solid 2 minutes to look again. And the cycle would repeat till I found it."

"So... after the first time you found it you just forgot where it is?"

"Errr yeah.."

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San, Seonghwa, Wooyoung, Yeosang, Mingi, Xion, Seoho, and Leedo

"Okay so let me run this through you one more time. The person that came up to you for help disappeared? So you think he's dead. But you also heard about people being relocated so you want us to find out?"

"Errr yeah."

"Hey that hurt!"

The remaining 6 turned their head to the person. Wooyoung gripped his arm while Yeosang lightly laughed.

"What did you guys do?"

"He punched me."

"No shit Sherlock. I'm asking why."

"Ask him."

"Bitch you literally went up to one of the other workers and said hey I'm new but maybe we can get down and dirty later"

"He said yes!"

"Yeah then he asked if his wife could join."

"Uh...."

"Come on guys we have more important things to do."

"Seonghwa is right. The other trio has probably gotten their part of the investigation done."

"What did they have to do again?"

"They're getting documents from the higher ups here regarding any people that have been relocated, killed, unnamed all that. All that you know. Suspicious stuff."

"Relocating isn't suspicious."

"It is when you have rumors about prisoners tagged with your name."

"Facts."

"Tea."

"What was Hongjoong's average in training?"

"If I remember correctly, and I usually do it was; Hongjoong with an overall of 9, Ravn with 8.29, Hwanwoong with 8.31, Xion with 7.52, Leedo with 7.74, with 7.51, Seoho with 8.12, Keonhee with 7.21 and I had 7.19. Also back then their standards were higher like you couldn't graduate till you had a 2 month period of perfect scores. Meaning no messing up. The overall of our class was like 7.69. Now it's around 5.3 because they're letting the real dumb fuckers pass.

"What the fuck 9?!"

"Yeah I mean as a kid Hongjoong went through some things that I guess gave himself a head start but he also never took breaks."