Taehyung bangs his head on the table for what seemed to be the 100th time today. He has spent all day trying to get the program to work again. He has a feeling that it's beyond repairable.
"I'm going to head off. You should do the same," Hoseok says, putting a hand on Taehyung's shoulder. "Don't overwork yourself."
"How can I not? I never got to say goodbye to him, Hoseok. You don't know how much it eats me inside," Taehyung says, crying into his arms. "He means everything to me. You don't understand."
"I'm sorry, Tae... I do understand... It just hurts seeing you like this," Hoseok says.
Taehyung doesn't reply, making Hoseok sigh.
"I'll see you tomorrow, Tae."
The door closes, leaving Taehyung alone with his computer. He sighs, alone once again.
He wishes he had installed a backup system. He wasn't expecting all of this to happen, though. JK97 was initially made to live only 3-months. He smiles, thinking about how much they have accomplished. Over and over, they had broken what seemed to be the norm. They have written out what things are supposed to be, only for them to be shattered. Taehyung needs to continue that trend, but this latest roadblock is the most challenging.
"Wait a minute..." Taehyung pauses, thinking really hard. That's when it clicks. "The 0's & 1's backup communication protocol!" He completely forgot that he did have a backup plan. He frantically digs to find the function. When he spots the folder, everything starts to shatter down. He bursts into tears—happy tears.
The 0's & 1's backup communication protocol is what he installed in secret the day before JK97 left Earth. He then realises, maybe the program he installed onto JK97's internals extended his lifespan over the 3 month period, as it was originally designed to communicate back to Earth once his communicator battery runs out. The space program doesn't know about the function, so the protocol was left untouched.
He opens the program and starts to type a message. His heart starts to race as he types. The program automatically translates English into the coding language that is 0's & 1's.
010010100111010101101110011001110110101101101111011011110110101100101100001000000110000101110010011001010010000001111001011011110111010100100000011101000110100001100101011100100110010100111111
TH: (Jungkook, are you there?)
Taehyung waits nervously for a reply.
01010100011000010110010101101000011110010111010101101110011001110010110000100000011010010111001100100000011101000110100001100001011101000010000001111001011011110111010100111111
JK: (Taehyung, is that you?)
A smile widely displays across Taehyung's face as tears roll down his eyes. "It's really him."
01001001011101000010011101110011001000000110110101100101
TH: (It's me)
0100100100100000011001000110111101101110001001110111010000100000011000100110010101101100011010010110010101110110011001010010000001111001011011110111010100101110001000000101000001110010011011110111011001100101001000000110100101110100
JK: (I don't believe you. Prove it)
Taehyung frowns. What have they done to him? He was never distrusting. He thinks hard, trying to find something that will prove his identity. He starts to write.
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CODE:JK97 | Taekook
FanfictionTaehyung lives his childhood dream and lands himself a job in the Space Program. He pitches an idea of a human-like rover to further research if it's possible to sustain life on Mars. With a team of four, Jungkook(JK97) is created and launched off i...
