Inspiration & Credits: Ateez: The World EP: Movement 2023 & Hoyoverse
(Chapters translated from Ateez album)
Interlude chapter of Nonstop
Hongjoong stared at the clock on the wall.
Everything was exactly at it is, and the members were all going on with their day.
So why did it feel so different?
Weeeeeeeeee!!!
A loud alarm sound echoed throughout the city. It affected the plazas, streets, schools, and buildings.
High above the ground the city, it was being monitored by a government.
They were known as the Guardians.
The Guardians monitored people from everywhere and were first to respond to the sound.
People walking on the street including office workers, business owners and students studying all stopped what they were looking and turned to the monitor in the sky.
Looking down from the sky, the whole world looked like a perfect world. People wore blank faces and went on with their day. The buildings and roads were also well organized. It was a pretty and neat world, futuristic one might add.
But there seems to be something missing.
What was it?
There was no life. People did not smile much.
In the middle of the cold, dull buildings surrounded by mannequin-like people, a mellifluous voice echoed.
"A perfect world. Being Perfect, Our World is safe. A small error is a crack, and a crack leads to pain. Pain, pain is an unecessary emotion and negative element in life. We want to protect you all."
"Z! Z! Z!"
At that point when the voices of the people shouting for Z flowed throughout the city. Music began to play out of nowhere with a crackling noise. It seemed tobe coming from a iron speaker. Soon after, along with the sound of the megaphone, Z's voice was swallowed up by the gradually increasing stand of the music. The light that flashed next to people's ears faded away. The Guardians who stood among the crowd began to look around as if they were looking for someone.
For the first time the feeling of "confusion" crossed the faces of those who were puzzled by the sound of the song.
When a man, standing in the plaza felt somebody's presence looked to the left, he saw another man in a Black Fedora. It was none other than the Ateez Captain, Kim Hongjoong who smiled at him.
The man didn't know Hongjoong but unknowingly spat out the group name, "A-TEEZ!"
"Look, Once you see us, you can never forget us." Said Mingi, who appeared, more like teleported to the man's right.
The man's eyes lit up with life.
Suddenly Mingi threw something from his hand to the man. The man who reflectively received the object, flying in an arc, opened his hand. It was a small, square shaped machine. Inside the machine was written in small letters: "There is a chip under your ear. There might be also one in your car. Let the breaker touch the chip."
In the middle of the street appeared Wooyoung and Yeosang, on the top of the building were Seonghwa and San. In the school were Yunho and Jongho.
Ateez started singing and dancing to the music. People who first looked blankly at it began to shake their bodies unconsciously in response to the music.

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