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2018-01-22
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#StrongerTogether

Summary:

"I loved her, but love doesn't stop bullets."

When EXP Edition and their (few) stans make an alliance with Belieber and other Western Fandoms, EXO-L doesn't have the choice : to save Kpop, she must work hand in hand with her ex-girlfriend, ARMY. Luckily, other fandoms will join them and make sure they don't kill each other.

"Shut up and stay local, I'm obviously the best."
EXO-L smirked.
"I'd agree with you, but then we'd both be wrong."

Notes:

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO MY GIRLFRIEND JADE hey I know you're reading this, Ily <3 <3 <3
Please don't hate me for this. I'm sorry. Forgive me.

Now, where's the holy water ? I should take a shower.

Chapter 1: Zéro

Notes:

(See the end of the chapter for notes.)

Chapter Text

“You must be kidding me.”

     VIP sighed and crossed her arms.

     “Sadly, I’m not. Look, EXO-L, I probably hate this as much as you do.”

     NCTzen snickered, her green eyes on her screen.

     “Impossible, you know how much they hate each other.”

     “Right. Let’s just say that I hate it too, just like probably everyone here.”

     A black-haired girl played with her cigarette before raising her hand.

     “Actually, Carat and I don’t have anything against her.”

     “Because you don’t have anything against anyone, Monbebe,” ReveLuv said in a matter-of-facts tone. “You’re too perfect, it’s boring. She tried to come at you too, remember ?”

     Said Carat shrugged and let their girlfriend circle their waist with her arms.

     “We just ignored her and she gave up. She’s pretty chill with us now, she probably had a bad day. You should try to befriend her !”

     “Carat, you let someone punch you and then asked if they needed to talk about whatever was bothering them. You’re lucky Monbebe looks so intimidating or you wouldn’t have made it past your first year of high school.”

     They didn’t reply, Monbebe petting their rose quartz and blue serenity hair. It was almost annoying how both of them never really fought back, even if Monbebe looked like she could kill someone for breathing. She was actually a sweetheart and that’s why Carat loved her so much, they just fitted so well.

     “I don’t care about it, EXP Edition aren’t powerful enough to threaten us THAT much. We can take care of it without her help.”

     ReveLuv imitated VIP and crossed her arms. She was way smaller than the other girls and only looked even younger.

     “Look, I am the little sister here, not you, so stop acting like a child ! They got Western Fandoms by their side now, we have to let her and her little minions help us or we’ll never see the end of this.”

     “No. Way.”

     “VIP and you couldn’t talk without trying to kill each other and look at you now, maybe it will be good !” Carat tried before Monbebe put her hand on their mouth to stop them from triggering EXO-L.

     “She’s my EX, Carat ! It’s not like with VIP !”

     “I can’t believe I’m about to say this,” VIP growled through her clenched teeth. “EXO-L, we don’t have a choice. You HAVE to work with her. We’ll be with you, don’t worry.”

     “Yes !” NCTzen nodded and smiled at her sister. “We’ll make sure her or her minions won’t stab you in the back, we got you.”

     “Could y’all slow down for a second ? I’m lost.”

     High, Carat’s little sister, was pretty new in the group. She didn’t know much about each person, their past or present relationships, etc.

      Everyone’s eyes on her made her blush. She wasn’t used to being in the group without Blink and Once, but the girls were already busy with SONE and MeU, two of the SM siblings.

     “Who’s… her ? I mean, I already guessed that she’s EXO-L’s ex, but who is she ?”

     “My ex-girlfriend who cheated on me even after everything I did for her ungrateful little a… self,” the Asian girl quickly corrected herself after a quick glance at her youngest sister. “We’re talking about ARMY and, sadly, I don’t think I have much of a choice.”

     Carat immediately smiled so brightly the sun considered quitting its job.

     “Really ? So… does it means that you will...?”

     EXO-L groaned.

     “I can’t believe you’re making me say this, Carat.”

     The genderneutral little (well, not so little, they were one of the tallest in the group) ball of fluff gave her an innocent look, but it was obvious that they were trying to stop themselves from smiling.

     “I have no idea what you’re talking about.”

     “Well yes, to save kpop, I’ll work with ARMY. Happy now ?”

     “Very,” Carat giggled, “mostly because I already called her and it would have been awkward if she showed up without your permission.”

     “You WHAT ?”

     The door banged against the wall, revealing a teenager with long hair as brown as her eyes. Unlike the others, she wasn’t Asian and looked out of place.

     “Hey, EXO-L,” she smiled even if it didn’t reach her eyes. “Nice to be in that room again.”

Notes:

Twitter : https://twitter.com/PetitSkittles

Chapter 2: Un

Summary:

EXO-L has loyal siblings (ARMY can't relate).

ARMY has friends (suck it, EXO-L).

Carat has a Lightstick (and they're tired of ARMY and EXO-L's bullshit).

Notes:

I made you wait way too long, so here's an update! Sorry if it ends weirdly. I'm writing this for fun and I'm sorry for not making it as serious and well written as Love And Cookies (thanks to my beta Lily, she's helping me making LAC as awesome as she is), but I'm using ST to improve my English and to write when I can't find inspiration for my other stories.

More fandoms will come (like NU'EST's Love and MAMAMOO's MooMoo) later! I don't know EVERY SINGLE KPOP FANDOM though, so leave a comment if yours isn't in the tags and I'll turn it into a character :)

Credits to kaiiiiaaaaa for Starlight's dialogue about the Lightstick vibrating and the expression related to BTS' reaction videos!

Chapter Text

ARMY was having a great day until annoying-little-shit-aka-Carat called her. Don’t get her wrong, she didn’t have anything against them, but it was kinda hard to be nice towards the one who blackmails you into seeing your ex-girlfriend and working with her again. Carat had the face of an angel, but the horns of a devil. It was funny how Monbebe seemed so scary when Carat and their sweet smile had enough information to force anyone to do as they say. Looks could be disappointing and the couple was a proof of it.

     ARMY definitely didn’t want to come to EXO-L’s house again, not after their breakup and everything who went after it, but Carat was both evil and nice, so she still accepted and called Ahgase. They weren’t best friends anymore and fought more often than they had good moments, but they were still friendly towards each other sometimes and they didn’t want to waste all those years of friendship. ARMY sincerely appreciated the other girl, especially how they could still get along well even after fighting. To her defense, it wasn’t all ARMY’s fault. Like in her fight with EXO-L… except that in that case, she was only defending herself. EXO-L was the one in the wrong.

     “Thanks for coming with me,” she said as Wannable got in her car.

     “No problem. EXO-L has all these siblings and she’s pretty popular within the Big Three, I wasn’t going to let you meet her by yourself.”

       “Hey! I’m here!” Ahgase protested.

       “And we’re going to pick up Buddy before meeting. We’re not really friends, but she got in a fight with EXO-L once and now they hate each other. My enemy’s enemy is my friend, you know.”

     “Right,” Wannable fished out her phone to play some games on the way. “That’s how we became friends, after all.”

 

“I’m not going in.”

     “Oh yes, you are, don’t even think about going back,” Ahgase warned the young girl, frowning. “I didn’t wake up so early for you to give up.”

     “Make a woman of you and open that fricking door,” Buddy groaned, crossing her arms over her chest. “I’m bored!”

     ARMY sighed, knowing she didn’t have much of a choice. They were already there, and she couldn’t pretend that their problem was simple enough to be solved without EXO-L and her friends.

     So, she pushed the door.

 

“Hey, EXO-L. Nice to be in that room again.”

     NCTzen looked at Carat, frowning. They gave her a smile and shrugged, mouthing some apologies.

     “You didn’t tell me about it. I thought we would have more time to prepare Eri to… that.”

      “Sorry, but you wouldn’t have let me do it. I’ll call Aroha too if you want.”

     “No. Let’s keep her out of this for as long as we can. For now, it’s more about ARMY and Eri’s mutual hate, that’s none of her business.”

     ARMY snapped her fingers, getting NCTzen’s attention back.

     “We’re here, Carat. Explain why you wanted me to breathe the same oxygen as that copycat.”

     “Copycat? Please, it’s quite ironic coming from you. I invented those dolls you like to make, sweetie. The original idea came from me, you just copied it.”

     “Guys! Stop it, we have something more serious to worry about!”

     “Thanks, Bebe,” Carat smiled. “We’ll have to work on your relationship to stop it from ruining everything and leading us to our death, but it’s just a part of the actual problem.”

     “We were wrong to underestimate EXP,” Monbebe started before correcting herself. “Okay, I admit they aren’t a menace when they’re alone, but now that they have the Western Fandoms with them, it got way more dangerous than we ever thought.”

     “So your plan is to form an alliance so we can defeat them?” Wannable guessed.

     “Uh, it’s not really about defeating anyone, more about protection. We don’t want to be the first ones to attack, but if they do, we’ll defend ourselves. We’re all targeted, it would be stupid to stay divided. We’re stronger together, it would be harder to defeat us.”

     “Except that we can’t stand ARMY and that it’s not one-sided,” NCTzen mumbled.

     Carat weakly punched her shoulder.

     “We’ll fix that. You two have more in common than you think, you could be great friends if you tried.”

     “Some of the WF are quite powerful, but I think we’ll manage as long as we’re not against Directioner.”

     “Well…”

     Monbebe threw her bag at Carat, who dropped it as soon as they got their hands on it. Used to her friend’s clumsiness, NCTzen caught it before it hit the floor. High took a tablet from the bad and frowned, not understanding why her sibling brought it to their meeting.

     “Thanks Highey,” said sibling thanked her before opening it and tapping on an icon, projecting the screen on the white wall of EXO-L’s room. “Here’s the list of the fandoms against us.”

     “First of all, there’s EXP Edition. Kind of weak, she’s the least dangerous. Weakness? Basically everything. Let’s be honest, she’s okay, but can’t compare with us. Power? Unknown.”

     “So she’s the easiest to bring down,” NCTzen resumed while furiously typing on her laptop. “Probably our first target.”

     “Here’s the problem,” Carat interrupted her. “EXP got the dark Directioner with her.”

     Everyone gasped. Directioner was almost a part of the family, but her dark twin, always complaining about lipsyncing, different languages and Asians being Asians, was quite problematic. She usually left them alone as long as they weren’t put against each other, but whenever they fought, it quickly got serious.

     “Well shit.”

     “That was absolutely necessarily, ARMY. I don’t know how I managed to live six years without these words.”

     “And I don’t know how you managed to live those six years without a brain,” ARMY sassed back.

     “Should we talk about your years in the industry without any strong vocalist?”

     “What about talking about something actually important, for once?” Ahgase stopped them, putting a hand on their mouth and rolling her eyes. “You’re hopeless.”

     Monbebe didn’t even stop, used to hear EXO-L and ARMY fighting. Rolling her eyes, she raised her voice :

     “Weakness? We took some of her strength. Also, her sister doesn’t hesitate to stop her if she gets too problematic, but sometimes she lets her do what she wants. We shouldn’t trust Directioner too much, so let’s just fight on our own. Power? She’s older than most of us, stronger than most of us, wiser than most of us.”

     “We should eliminate her first,” ReveLuv suggested, eyes on NCTzen’ screen. “Once she’ll be gone, it’ll be easier to get rid of the others.”

     “Next, Belieber.”

     “I was against her for a social award,” EXO-L and ARMY both said before turning toward each other.

     “You never got nominated for any social award,” ARMY raised an eyebrow. “Stop lying, no one believes you.”

     “I got nominated when no one even knew you existed and I won against Belieber and Directioner.”

     “Hun, the only reason you won is because I wasn’t there, let’s be honest.”

     “And let’s shut up so Carat and Monbebe can finish,” Wannable groaned, exasperated. “I shouldn’t have said yes.”

     After separating EXO-L and ARMY (honestly, letting them sit beside each other was pretty dumb), Monbebe and Carat continued. A few moments later, everyone knew their enemies : EXPE Stan, Directioner, Belieber, Arianator, 5SOS Fam, Mixer and Harmonizer. Even if they weren’t as much as the people in EXO-L’s room, they were older and bigger than some of them – the youngest didn’t even celebrate their first year yet.

     Once they finished with their presentation, Monbebe and Carat had to face another issue : no one seemed motivated anymore after knowing who they would have to fight.

     “It’s pointless,” Buddy sighed. “I hate admitting it and I won’t repeat it, but they’re all more powerful than me. Maybe that’s because I’m young and underrated.”

     NCTzen snorted and High rolled her eyes. Somewhere, Boys Republic’s Royal Family coughed.

     “That’s why we’re together, to be stronger.”

     “If you think that the magic of friendship will save us, I’m sorry but life isn’t made of rainbows and sparkles,” Wannable sat on EXO-L’s bed, talking with a bored tone. “Maybe we should just give up, there’s no way we’d be powerful enough to fight them all.”

     “Actually, we were thinking of something else.”

     Monbebe smiled at Carat, who bounced on their feet like an overexcited puppy, showing their cute little canines when they smiled at their girlfriend before running outside. When they got back, it was with a bunch of shoes boxes. When they got back, it was with a bunch of shoes boxes, Starlight following them.

     “Adidas. You want us to fight them with Adidas.”

     “These are just the boxes, what’s inside is more important. Hi, by the way,” smiled Starlight.

     VIP shrugged.

     “Adidas, that’s what I said.”

     Monbebe mumbled something that sounded like “I swear if those Western Fandoms don’t kill them I’ll be the one doing it” and opened the first box, revealing a black stick with a yellow crown on top.

     “After searching them for months, we finally found them : the Lightsticks.”

     ReveLuv was the first one to break the silence, watching said object with an unimpressed face.

     “How are we supposed to fight with… that?”

     Carat dropped all the boxes on EXO-L’s bed – Wannable yelling at them for throwing one on her hand – and opened a red one. The Lightstick inside was beautiful, made of a white stick and a transparent blue sphere with what looked like a pink diamond inside. The side of the jewel made VIP’s eyes sparkle, but it was obvious Carat wouldn’t let her have it so she didn’t even think about asking for it.

     “This is mine, the Carat Bong. My colors are rose quartz and serenity.”

     “So, pink and blue.”

     “Monbebe, dear girlfriend of mine, please shut up.”

     NCTzen’s left eyebrow raised while she looked at the Lightstick. It looked harmless, nothing they could use against other fandoms.

     "What does it do?"

     "Do you really want to know?" Starlight smirked suggestively, before continuing anyway despite the protests. "It vibrates."

     The exclamations of denial and disgust multiplied like the views and subs of a western d-class youtuber who mentioned BTS once. Carat sighed before snapping their fingers, getting the others’ attention back.

     “I… don’t really know? I still didn’t figure out how to use them – but yes, it does vibrate when you activate it. For now, there’s only one thing I can do with mine, but I feel like there’s more.”

     “Show us, then,” ARMY smiled – a real smile – for the first time since she stepped in the house. “One thing is a beginning, it’s still great.”

     They nervously held the Lightstick in their right hand, the left one touching a round button without pushing it.

     “Okay, this is more defensive than offensive so I don’t think that’s the only thing it can do… anyway, here we go I guess.”

     And they pushed it.