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“Good morning! Welcome to 13 Carats café.”

“Hello sir! What may I get you today? Would you like to hear today’s specials or even suggest something to read? We just got the comic book called, Young Justice. It’s very popular with the teenage crowd.” the young man said excitedly as an older man took a seat by the window.

“I’m here everyday. I order the same thing Joshua.” the man said with a glare.

“I just thought you’d like something new.” Joshua said with a slight chuckle.

“Yeah Seungcheol, you should try something new.” 

Letting out a long sigh the man said, “I’m fine with my usual order. Thanks.” 

“Are you sure? Maybe Young Justice is too hard for you to read. Here try Captain Underpants, it should be a bit easier for you to read sir.” 

“I said I was fine!” the man said with a tinge of annoyance present in his voice. 

“I’m sorry sir, what Jeonghan meant to suggest was, If You Give a Mouse a Cookie.” Joshua said with a smile, handing Seungcheol the book.

“YA! HOW OLD DO YOU IDIOTS THINK I AM” 

The two co-workers started laughing uncontrollably at their friend's reaction.

One of the men paused, saying, “Um, I’m not too sure. Maybe 65?” This answer made both men burst out laughing even more, holding their sides as they had difficulty breathing.

With a calm demeanor Seungcheol said, “Joshua. Let me see that book.” after taking the hard cover book of, “If You Give a Mouse a Cookie” out of Joshua’s hands. Seungcheol proceeds to hit both Jeonghan and Joshua on the head repeatedly.

“Ow! That hurts, would you stop?”

“Yeah you are gonna give us brain damage” the two men said before laughing lightly at the older man.

Taking the book and throwing it towards Joshua the man said with a pout, “I’m the same age as you two.” Continuing on, the man says. “Now if you two would move out of the way, I am going to make myself a coffee and grab something to eat. Since you two don’t seem to want to work today.”

Jun and Minghao have been friends for a lifetime. Some people thought they were brothers with how often they hung out and how they fought. Jun had always loved the thought of being an actor, and one day his dream came true. Leaving his best friend and his family, he moved countries in hope of making a name for himself. After a year of being away from home he started talking to his roommate Mingyu mentioning how much he wanted to see his best friend.

“JUN! THERE’S SOMEONE AT THE DOOR CAN YOU GET IT?” 

“One, I’m right here you don’t need to yell. Two, why don’t you get it yourself?”

“One, I don’t want to. Two, I still don't want to.”

Letting out a sigh, the man walked to the front door, opening it quite quickly as he wanted to get back to what he was doing. “Who are you and what do you want?” Pausing quickly seeing the man standing outside. “MINGHAO!” Jun said, practically throwing himself into his friend's arms. 

“For a moment I thought you forgot about me Jun.” Minghao said before throwing Jun to the side and walking into the apartment. “After I put my stuff away in your room can we go and get some food?”

“Yeah go put your stuff in Jun’s room and then we can go to this café I’ve heard good things about.”

“Wait, he’s staying in my room?” Jun asked the two younger men as they took the bags and walked into his room. “Uh, hello? I KNOW YOU TWO CAN HEAR ME!”

“Yeah we can hear you loud and clear, we just don’t care.” The two continued talking as a shoe flew between their heads prompting the three men to glare at one another.

“HORANGHAE!” it can be heard throughout the hallway causing people to look concerned. “HORANGHAE!” being shouted slightly louder. This causes the short man in the studio to get up and the door to prevent this strange man from coming in. As the man went to let out another horanghae he put his hands up and walked straight into the glassdoor. Being a bit stunned the man tried to open the door to find it was locked. “Jihoon? Buddy? Can we go get food?”

“Soonyoung I will agree to go on two conditions. You pay for whatever I want and no more horanghae for today.”

He sadly agreed and the two went to the café.

“Hey Four-Eyes!” That comment earned the man a glare as a stress ball went flying to his face.

Letting out a light chuckle, “good catch Seokmin. And the name is Wonwoo!” throwing yet another stress ball and having Seokmin catch it.

“Why are you surprised? I am a professional baseball player.” He said smugly. 

“Oh. You are? I thought you were a monkey. My mistake.”

“Rude.” he said, giving the man a side eye. “I’m hungry Wonwoo.”

“Good for you, go get food then mister professional baseball player.”

“But, I want to go out to eat with you.” pulling out his puppy eyes and pouting looking at the man who is interested on his computer screen then his friend.

Sighing quite heavily the man turned his attention to the young man, “If I agree will you leave me alone?”

Shaking his head quite aggressively and shouting, “YES! YES! YES!”

“Alright, but you're paying. We are going to that café around the corner too, got it?” After agreeing the man shut off his computer and grabbed his jacket and left his room heading for this café they both enjoy.

“Hey Chan, business is slow for you today too?” a man said walking into the music shop hearing a light jazz song playing over the speaker. 

“Hey Seungkwan!” Chan said walk out from behind the counter. “Yeah, I was just about to go on an early lunch break. Would you like to join me?”

“Sure, how about we go to that café again?” nodding in agreement the men left the store locking it and started walking to the café. “Oh by the way Chan, I got this vintage player recently. Why don’t you come by later and look at it?” 

“Oh nice! I’d love to look at it later. Thanks Seungkwan!”

“WHERE IS THAT CLEANER?” a man said angrily looking around for someone.

“I’m right behind you sir.”

“W-what, where did you come from?”

“I was over there cleaning. Was there something you needed?”

Clearing his throat still a bit unsettled from his surprise encounter. “Yes, the lab called and they requested help in cleaning up a failed experiment. Can you go an—” the man paused looking around. “Where did he go?”

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The elevator opens up to a dark grungy hallway. Some lights flicker while most others are dead and in need of a change. Faint creepy singing and whistling can be heard. 

~It’s a world of laughter 

  A world of tears 

  It’s a world of hopes 

  And a world of fears

  There’s so much we share 

  That it’s time we’re aware~

The singing was cut short as Vernon walks into the laboratory. Walking past several animals. Stopping by a couple bunnies and saying hi and trying to pet them.

“Who are you?” a voice can be heard behind the man.

Vernon pauses before standing up and turning around, “I’m Vernon. The cleaner.”

“Oh, um, how did you get into the lab?”

“I just walked in.” he said, turning back to pet the bunnies.

“Uh, okay then… Excuse me sir please don’t touch the animals. Please follow me sir.”

After saying bye to the bunnies, he follows the gentlemen looking at the various machines and tools he can’t help but press a few buttons.

“Here we are. Please clean this room quickly as we still have work we need to do here.” 

“Sure thing. Hey, what are you guys doing? It looks interesting.” he says, heading over to the mass spectrometry and attempting to press more buttons. Before he can touch anything his hand gets swatted away.

“What goes on here is need to know and you don’t need to know. Just clean the room and leave, understood?” he said, a bit annoyed.

“Sir yes sir.”

“Oh, one more thing. DO. NOT. TOUCH. ANYTHING.”

“How am I supposed to clean if I can't touch anything?”

Letting out the biggest sigh rubbing his temples, “don’t touch any buttons just clean.”

“You could have just said that.”

Before the lab technician can start yelling at Vernon an assistant walks in asking for help. Both technicians leave Vernon alone to clean up the mess.

Vernon starts putting gloves and a mask on while also making sure his skin is covered up. After he starts heading over to the spilt chemicals and items on the table. He makes sure to move the animals out of the to make sure they don’t get hurt due to the mess.

“Oh? What’s this?” He picks up the cage checking to make sure there’s nothing in it before opening it. “I guess what was in here they already took out and moved somewhere else.” The man shrugs and empties the contents of the cage into his waste bin as some glass and liquid had split into the cage. 

After disposing of the contents of the cage he sprays and wipes it down before placing it with the other animals. He starts sweeping up the broken glass into piles on the floor before putting it in the waste bin. Turning around to grab a bit of sand so he can throw it on top of the spilled liquid. 

“Hm? What’s this? Where did the sand go?” looking around scratching his head wondering when he could have misplaced the bottle. After a bit of searching, “ah, there it is. Must have fallen off.” 

Going back to the counter to pour sand on the chemicals. Once he’s done he makes sure to put the bottle back on his cart. He then heads over to trash cans in the room and starts replacing the garbage bags while he waits for the sand to absorb the chemicals.

“I wonder what they have in here.” He heads straight to a cabinet that has a lock on it and a sign saying “KEEP OUT” “DO NOT OPEN”. “What’s this lock doing here?” Completely disregarding the signs and stickers he picks up the lock and chain only to notice it’s unlocked. Unchaining the doors and throwing it on the floor, “lets see if you have anything of interest why don’t we?” As the doors open the man lets out a disappointed sigh. The cabinet seemed to be emptied to the human eye. After trying to search for something only to come up empty handed he picked up the lock and chain to close the doors to make it seem like the doors were never opened. 

Once everything was put back to how it was he walked around. He stopped to look at some notes that got left behind. Getting bored of trying to understand the foreign language being the equations he heads over to the wall that has a bunch of machines on it. Being intrigued by them he takes a closer look. Seeing some have test tubes he starts pressing buttons causing the machines to run. 

Letting out an, “Uh oh,” Vernon was so fascinated by watching the machines run he missed the open bottle of chemicals next to him. He accidently knocked them over, spilling it not only over the machine causing a bit of smoke to start coming up and making it promptly stop working but the spill also dripped onto the floor causing it to run towards the cages. Rushing over to grab the bottle of sand only to drop it causing it to spill out a bit. Picking it up and hurrying just in time to stop it from spreading further. Once he is dumbing the sand and his heart calms down he moves the animal cages outside the room so as to not endanger them.

“Maybe I should stop touching things and just clean.” Going back into the room to grab a broom and sweep up all the sand he notices in the pile he accidentally dropped, he saw a small footprint looking to be like it was from a bunny. Looking around to see if there was an animal out of its cage but seemingly not finding anything, he ignores it thinking it was nothing. Grabbing his broom he starts sweeping up all the sand while simultaneously singing

~Heigh-ho, Heigh-ho

  Heigh-ho, Heigh-ho 

  Heigh-ho,  

  Heigh-ho, Heigh-ho

  Off to work we go~ 

Finishing up cleaning and getting rid of the sand, he still has an uneasy feeling but can’t place it. Taking off his gloves and mask, throwing them away then rolling back up his sleeves. He grabs the cages and carefully brings them into the room and puts them back onto the countertops before saying bye to them. 

Vernon heads to the breakroom where the lab technicians went while waiting for the room to be cleaned. Walking into the room he walks up to the man that asked for him to clean the chemicals.

“Hey sir, everything is cleaned up now. You can go back to work now.”

Jumping a bit and choking on his water, “W-where did you come from?”

“Like I said, I just finished cleaning.”

“I know that.” raising his voice before ultimately sighing, “how did you get in here?”

“I walked through the door.”

Before the man pops a blood vessel his coworkers drag him out and back to the lab. While Vernon follows behind.

“Oh, some of your notes had soap and water spilled on them so I hung them up to dry.”

The technicians thank him and Vernon grabs his cart and heads for the door to go up to the elevator. While waiting for the doors to open he hears running and someone yelling, “WAIT!”

“Yes?”

The man pauses breathing heavily trying to catch his breath, “Did you go into that cabinet in there?”

“The one with the signs and stickers and a chain?”

“Yes!”

“Nope! Sorry.”

There’s an awkward pause before the elevator dings. 

“Well, I’m gonna go now.”

“Wait! How did the lock open?”

“I don’t know, maybe you should  actually make sure it’s locked next time.” Vernon shrugs as the elevator doors close. The man was cut off by the doors shutting. 

“Anyway I gotta head to the cafe. I’m already running late. Hopefully they won’t be too mad when I explain.”

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“That’s one weird cleaner.” a man says walking into the lab room.

“Yeah, I don’t think I’ve ever seen Mr. Kim so mad before. A lady responds laughing.

Ignoring the chit chat from his colleagues Mr. Kim walks around making sure nothing was broken. As he is walking around he notices the cabinet is unlocked.

“Hey! Which one of you was in this cabinet?” 

There’s no answer.

Letting out an annoyed sigh, “Go find that cleaner and ask him about this cabinet.” 

A young man runs out the room and proceeds to sprint to the elevator in hopes of catching up to the cleaner. After a short bit the young man comes running back into the room and up to Mr. Kim.

Breathing heavily he says, “he didn’t touch the cabinet. He said it was already unlocked.”

Raising his voice slightly, “he could have locked it.”

“Well sir, you did tell him to just clean and touch nothing.” a lady responds, causing Mr. Kim to side-eye her. “Sorry sir.” she responds before going back to work.

“Oh yeah, the cleaner mentioned we should make sure to lock up the cabinet if no one is supposed to be in there.” the young man said which resulted in him getting a side-eye as well. 

Turning his attention back to the cabinet he slowly undoes the chain. He proceeds to open the doors cautiously. Mr. Kim takes a moment staring at the empty cabinet as if he’s looking for something specific. 

“It’s not here! Where did it go?”

A small panic sets in. Groups form to cover different parts of the lab. While a group of people head towards the doors and make sure they are shut tight before the search begins. One person grabs a bottle of sand and starts putting little piles on the floor in hopes of spotting little footprints while the others are careful to avoid the piles. Smaller groups of people start moving the tables and stools checking every corner of the lab. 

“Sir. It’s not here.”

“It has to be. Where could it have run off to?”

“Sir, what if the cleaner lied? If he opened that cabinet and saw nothing he wouldn’t think anything of it and shut the doors back.”

Mr. Kim pauses for a moment before saying, “call security. Have them bring that cleaner here, NOW!”

A young lady walks over to the phone hung up on the wall. She dials the number for the security desk, “hello, this is Ms. Lee. I need someone to escort the cleaner and his cart down to the lab in the basement.”

There’s a moment of silence on the other end before an older man says, “cleaner? Ok what is the name of the cleaner?”

“Um, the name?” Ms. Lee looks around trying to see if anyone knows the name.

Mr. Kim grabs the phone and says, “the weird one. He’s also annoying.”

“Oh you must be talking about Vernon.”

“Yeah, him I guess. Whatever, just get him down here now.”

“Sorry, no can do. He has already left the building.”

“Fine, then just bring his cart down here.”

“Well sir, he took his cart with him.”

“WHAT! WHERE DID HE GO? YOU HAVE TO TELL ME NOW!” Mr. Kim yelled a bit louder than expected, having his colleagues covering their ears. 

Removing the phone away from his ear as Mr. Kim yells from the other end. The yelling stops after a bit, “Ahem, if you are done sir.”

The man says yes in a small voice and the security officer continues.

“I’m not sure where Mr. Vernon is or has headed off too. I do have a number for him, if you would like I can try giving it a call in hopes of getting an answer from him.”

“YES! Do that. Why are you still on the line with me? Call him!”

Mr. Kim hangs up the phone and begins pacing the floor.

The security guard starts dialing the number for Vernon.

~ring, ring

 ring, ring

 ring, ring

 The number you have dia~

The security officer hangs up and tries a different number.

~ring, ring

 ring, ring

 ring, ring

 The number you have dia~

Letting out a frustrated sigh the officer tries another number. After about ten different numbers the officer finally gets through.

“Finally, hello, I am a security guard at Shining Diamond Labs.”

“Hello sir, did I forget something?”

“No, Mr. Kim from the lab would like to have a word with you. Can you come back to the building?”

“Who?” 

“Mr. Kim. You just cleaned up his lab.”

“Oh, him.”

“Yes. So can you come back to the lab?”

“Nope, sorry.”

“What? What do you mean no? Hello? Did you hang up on me?”

Getting annoyed, the security guard dials the number again.

~ring, ring

 ring, ring

 ring, ring

 The number you have dia~

“I JUST CALLED HIM FROM THIS NUMBER. HOW DOES IT NO LONGER WORK?” the older man gets angry and slams the phone down. This earns him a couple of head turns and having people ask if he was ok. After assuring everyone he was ok he tries a different number.

After a few rings there is an answer.

“Hello, who is this?”

“I am a security guard at Shining Diamond Labs. We just spoke.”

“Oh, hello, did I forget something?”

The older man on the other side of the line lets out an aggravated noise and whispers under his breath, “I see why Mr. Kim hates him now.”

“What was that sir? I didn't quite catch that.”

Clearing his throat, “ oh, that was nothing. To answer your question, no you didn’t forget anything.”

“Oh, then I’m gonna hang up now. I have to-”

“NO! DO. NOT. HANG. UP.”

“Okay?”

“Mr. Kim needs you and your cart back here now.”

“Sorry. I have another job right now so I can't leave.”

“Where is this other job then? I’ll have Mr. Kim, meet you there.”

“It’s at 13 Carats Café.”

Before the officer can say anything else Vernon hangs up the phone again. With a heavy sigh the officer makes one more phone call. 

“Hello, this is the security desk I am looking for Mr. Kim.”

“MR. KIM. THE SECURITY DESK IS CALLING.”

“Hello, this is Mr. Kim. Are you on your way down with the cleaner and his cart?”

“No sir.”

“WHAT!”

“He has another job and can not come back to the building at the moment.”

“I don’t care. I need him back here right now!”

“I can’t get him back here but, he did tell me his next job is at a cafe called, 13 Carats café.”

Mr. Kim hangs up.

“Hello?” the man lets out another sigh, “I’m going on break.”

Mr. Kim and a few other lab technicians leave the room and head straight for the café. 

“I GUESS WE WILL CLEAN THIS UP?” a lab assistant yells after the group that ran off.

“CAN YOU BRING US BACK SOME COFFEE?” another assistant yells.

“What? The coffee we have here is old and stale.” 

“He has a point.”

“Just clean this mess up.” The group of young men protested at the comment.

The lady sighed and said, “I’ll buy you guys coffee after we clean this mess up, deal?”

The group lets out an excited yes making the older technicians laugh at them.

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“Wow! You guys seem pretty busy today. Looks like you two could use another set of hands.” Seungcheol says as he takes a sip of his coffee.

“Yeah it would be nice to have someone help, JOSHUA!”

“I’M SO SORRY I’M STUCK CLEANING UP BACK HERE.” whispering under his breath, “maybe if someone didn’t make a mess every time they made an order there would be less cleaning.”

The two men start to bicker.

“As much as I love watching you two panic and struggle, I have to go. Have fun!” The man gets up from his table and heads to the door before getting stopped.

“WAIT!”

Seungcheol pauses for a moment before turning around.

Joshua runs out from behind the counter breaking a few glasses in the process. “Come here! Please.” the man pleads.

He lets out a sigh, swings his bag over his shoulder and walks towards the man. “What?”

“Can you please help us out today?”

“No. Goodbye.”

“Wait!”

The man rolls his eyes.

“We really need the help.”

“I see, hire someone or multiple people.”

“We will! Soon! I promise! Can you just help out for today?”

Being unable to refuse when his friends are in desperate need of help he replies, “Fine, go take orders I’ll finish up cleaning then I’ll help you make the orders.”

“Thank you Seungcheol!”

“Hello! I’m sorry for the wait, what can I get you guys?”

“I’ll have a medium grapefruit juice.”

“Ok. What about you?” he says looking at Minghao.

“I’ll have a small cup of milk and a large green tea latte.”

“Ok, and you?”

“I’ll have an iced americano.”

“Ok, and what size?”

“Size?”

“Yes, size. Do you want a large, medium, or a small? Or would you like our alternative sizes?

“Alternative sizes?” Minghao and Jun say simultaneously.

“Yes, we have two alternative sizes. A pup cup and a kid's small cup.”

Jun happily say’s, “he’ll take the pup cup.”

“Ok, and one-”

“NO!”

All three men start laughing.

“I’ll have a medium iced americano.”

“Ok, one medium grapefruit juice, one cup of milk and a large green tea latte, and a medium iced americano, right?”

The three men agree and Jeonghan leaves to go prepare the drinks.

“Hello! What can I get you two today?” Joshua said with a bright smile.

“I’ll have water and a crème brûlée.” 

“Ok, and for you?”

“I’ll have cider to drink. To eat?” the man thinks for a second, “I’ll have two creampuffs and let’s see…” he pauses for another moment, “OH! Can I have one of those tiger doughnuts and ten boxes of the tiger cookies?” he says very excitedly. 

“TEN!?” Both Joshua and Jihoon reply in a bit of shock.

Soonyoung puts his hand up like a cat about to attack and say’s, “horanghae.”

Jihoon rolls his eyes and hit’s Soonyoung in the head, “I said no more of that.”

Slowly lowering his hands and in a sad, small voice he says, “sorry.”

“Is he always like that?” Joshua asks, looking over to Jihoon.

“Sadly.”

“Ok then.” he says a bit awkwardly, “So one water and crème brûlée for you. For him cider, a creampuff and a tiger doughnut. Is that right?”

“Yes.”

“Wait! What about my cookies?”

“You were serious?” both men asked, looking at the man as if he was crazy.

 “Of course I am.”

Rubbing the back of his neck letting out a nervous chuckle, “well we don’t have ten boxes worth of cookies made at this moment. You will have to give us a few days to complete that order.”

“That’s ok!” he says happily writing down his phone number and giving it to Joshua.

“Ok, I’ll go and put the…ten boxes of tiger cookies in the system. I’ll also be right back with your orders.” He turns around getting ready to leave, “oh one more thing. I need a name for the order.”

“Kwon Soonyoung.”

The man nods acknowledging him and continues on.

“Hey. Hey! HEY!” Seokimn says a bit annoyed.

Rolling his eyes he replies, “what? I’m trying to play a game.”

“Hello, what can I get you?”

“I'll have chocolate milk and a beignet.”

“Ok, and for you?” he says looking at Wonwoo. “Sir?” 

Wonwoo got lost in his game not being able to hear anyone.

“He’ll have green grape juice.”

“Ok, then. I’ll be right back.”

Jeonghan heads back to the counter leaving the men to themselves.

“Hey! Give me that!” He says as he takes Wonwoo’s phone.

“Give me my phone back!” 

“After we are done hanging out.”

Wonwoo sighs, letting out a couple grumbles.

“Here you two are. I’m so sorry for the wait. Enjoy your drinks. I’ll be back shortly with your food.”

“Thank you!” they say at the same time.

“You know this is a really nice place.” 

“I know. It’s such a warm cozy place to hang out.”

Seungkwan nods his head in agreement, taking a sip of his green tea latte.

“They seem to be pretty busy today.” 

“Yeah, it must be hard, they had to get their friend to help out.”

The front door opens slowly as someone is struggling to walk in with a large cleaning cart.

“I take it you’re the cleaner?” Seungcheol says as he holds the door open for the young man. 

“Yup. Thanks for the help. So are you the owner?” he says walking past the man leaving him with the cart and heading to take a seat.

“No. I’m just a friend helping.”

“Oh well then can I get a hot chocolate?”

“Aren’t you here to clean?”

“Yeah.”

“So why are you not cleaning?”

“I want a drink.”

Seungcheol picks up a water bottle and gets ready to throw it at the man. Before he can he hears, “finally you're here.”

Vernon stands up to greet the owners. “Sorry I’m late. I had to stay a bit longer at my other job. Then I got lost on my way here. Then I was stopped by an elderly lady looking for her cat. Somehow I ended up in the woods next to a cabin. And th-” Joshua cuts him off. 

“Whatever, I don’t really care. Can you just start cleaning?”

“But don’t you want to hear about the cabin and how there was a witch and two children there and the children kept eating sweets?”

“NO!” all three men cut him off.

“Wait.”

“Oh so you do want to hear it?”

“NO!” all three men shout again.

“What’s wrong Jeonghan?” Joshua asks.

“Isn’t that the story of Hansel and Grettel?” 

“Yes, it is.”

“Why do you think we kept stopping him?”

“I just thought we didn’t want to hear him talk anymore.”

“That too.”

“Oh, I thought that scenario seemed familiar.”

“Are you ok?”

“Yeah, why do I look hurt?”

“No, no, that's what I meant.”

“Oh, what did you mean then?”

Letting out a sigh, “nevermind.”

“So can you start cleaning right now?”

“Sure.”

“I thought you wanted hot chocolate?”

“No. I never said that.”

Seungcheol raises his voice a bit, “you just asked for a hot chocolate.”

Vernon disappears.

“Huh? Where did he go?” 

The three men look around scratching their heads. 

“I already hate him.” Seungcheol says annoyed.

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Vernon ends up disappearing into the café hopefully to do his job, but who knows.

“So, now that the cleaner is here are you leaving?” Joshua looks over to his friend.

“If you want me to stay just ask me.”

 “SO!” Jeonghan cuts in, “will you stay?”

“Nope.” Seungcheol says, turning around to grab his bag.

Joshua and Jeonghan rush and grab Seungcheol’s bag before he can get it. They both say with begging eyes, “please!”

Being unable to refuse the cuteness of his friend’s pleas, “fine! Give me an apron.” he says, rolling his eyes a bit. “And stop staring at me.”

Both men hug their friend happily, “thank you!”

“Just get off me would you?” he says pushing the guys to the ground and going to make some drinks for the customers,

“Wow, these owners are strange people.” he said as he looked at the three men.

“Says the guy that just ordered ten boxes of cookies because they are tiger shaped. And who thinks he’s an actual tiger.” Jihoon says glaring at his friend.

“Horanghae?”

Jihoon glared at him and threw a notebook at him. “I said no more of that.” he threw a pen this time.

“Hey! That hurts you know.”

“Good.”

“Hey did you hear that guy over there ordered ten boxes of cookies?”

Wonwoo was distracted and didn’t hear Seokmin talking to him.

Seokmin turned to the wall, “Hey wall, did you hear that guy thinks he’s a tiger and ordered ten boxes of cookies? Weird huh? Yeah I know Mr. Wall.”

“Why are you saying other people are weird when you're the one talking to the wall?”

Seokmin let out a nervous chuckle.

Vernon walked around the café a bit unsure what to do.

“You look lost.”

“Oh. I do?”

“Yes, why don’t you clean?”

“Clean?”

“Yes. Clean.”

“Why would I do that?”

“What do you mean why? It’s your job.”

“Oh yeah.”

Seungcheol goes to say something else but notices Vernon is gone. “You are so annoying.”

“Who's annoying?”

Seungcheol jumps out of fright.

“How? When?”

“Are you ok?”

“I’m fine.”

Sighing and giving up in defeat Seungcheol went back to making orders. 

“Hey, can you make me a hot chocolate. Hey. Hello?” Vernon asked whilst poking at Seungcheol’s back. Getting no response Vernon turns and leaves.

Vernon walks around cleaning where he can. He sweeps up the floor and mops up in some spots. 

“Hey Wonwoo, I’m gonna get another drink. Do you want one?” Seokmin gets up and heads to the counter to ask for a new drink.

Before Wonwoo can respond, Seokmin starts walking and slips on the wet floor. His friend looks up and starts laughing at his friend now on the floor.

“Are you ok?”

“Do I look ok?”

“Yeah.” Wonwoo looks away, still laughing. “Hey when you get off the floor I’ll take that drink.”

Seokmin sits up glaring at his friend before he stands up. He stands up staying still for a moment then he fixes his clothes. “Would you stop laughing?” he says with a pout.

Wonwoo holds his breath trying to control his laughter.

After fixing himself up he goes to start walking again. When he goes to take his next step he slips and falls again causing Wonwoo to lose his control and burst out into laughter. 

“Hey, do you see that guy over there on the floor?” he says, holding back laughter.

“Would you stop laughing at the poor guy?” Jun says to Minghao.

Vernon walks up to Seokmin, “you ok down there?”

“I’m great. Can’t you tell?’ Seokmin says a bit sarcastically.

“Do you want help getting up?”

“No. I’m just gonna lay here forever.”

“Ok.” Vernon replies, getting a wet floor sign and placing it on top of Seokmin.

Wonwoo and Minghao, who have been watching this whole thing happen, burst out laughing, unable to breathe clutching their sides.

“Do you want help?” Joshua looks down carrying a couple drinks.

“Please.” he looks up, reaching out a hand.

Joshua sets down the drinks and grabs Seokmin’s hand and helps him up. He gets and catches his balance and heds back to his seat.

“So” he pauses, holding back a laugh, “enjoy your trip?”

“Shut up.”

“Seungcheol can you help me make more dough?”

“Do I have a choice?”

“Nope!” he says with a smile.

Rolling his eyes, “what do you need?”

“Sugar.”

Seungcheol passes Jeonghan the bag of sugar, “here.”

Jeonghan takes the bag and starts pouring it into the bowl without measuring anything. 

“You need to measure the ingredients before placing them in the bowl.”

“That’s boring.”

“You are going to make a m-” before he could finish his sentence Jeonghan spills the sugar over the counter. “Mess. Before you make a mess is what I was trying to say.” 

“Oops!” he lets out a chuckle.

“Why does Joshua allow you in the kitchen?”

“I’m good at baking.”

“In what world?”

“Rude.”

“Just clean up the mess.”

“Can yo-”

“No. Now clean it.”

Jeonghan turns around grumbling, “I can bake too.” He grabs the trash can and turns back around to sweep the spilled sugar into the bin.

“Hey, did you do this?” he asks, pointing to the spilled sugar.

“No, you spilled it, remember?”

“I don’t mean that. I mean this footprint in the middle.”

“What do you mean?”

“Look.”

“It’s nothing, you probably just had something make an imprint by accident without knowing it.” 

“Oh. Ok”

Jeonghan being a bit weirded out just continues doing what he was doing.

“Are you two done making the drinks and desserts?”

“I am done. Him on the other hand, I’m not sure what he’s doing.” looking over at Jeongan who seems to be struggling to mix the ingredients. 

“Yeah, I’ll just take these. Can you finish up the last order?”

“Yeah I got it.”

“Jeonghan.”

“Yes!” He looks over happily.

“Just leave that bowl there. I’ll finish later.”

“But. What am I supposed to do?”

“I don’t know.” Just sit out there and look pretty.”

“OK! I’m good at doing that.” he said with a smile on his face.

Both men chuckle, “yes you are.”

Chapter Text

“Can you two hurry up?”

“Says the one that's farther behind us.”

“Can we just get a cab? I’m tired of running.”

Back at the café things are getting more.

“Ow! I think something just bit me?” 

“Mhm, sure you did Seokmin.”

“I swear something just bit me Wonwoo.”

“Ok. What do you want me to do? Kiss it?”

“Please?” He holds out his arm. 

Wonwoo hit’s his arm.

“Ow!”

Wonwoo ignores him.

“Ow! I think something bit me.”

“Yeah I think something bit me too. Weird.”

“Yeah it is.”

“I think a mosquito bit me.” 

“Ew.” 

“I don’t want to get bit. I don’t like them.” Mingyu said, squirming away from Jun.

“Ouchie.”

“Ouchie?” Jihoon replies, laughing a bit.

“Yeah, something bit me. It hurts and itches.”

“Ok but did you have to say, ouchie? Are you five?”

“It hurts.”

“I know I was bitten too.”

“Hey, Joshua, Jeonghan. I think there’s a problem with your customers.” 

“What do you mean Seungcheol?”

“Yeah. What’s wrong?”

“They keep saying something is biting them.”

“Biting?”

“There’s nothing there.”

“I can see that. Just thought you two should know.”

“Hey.” Vernon walks up to them. “Does this look good to you guys?” he rolls up his sleeve to show a nasty looking bite mark.

“No, no it doesn’t. What happened?”

“I don’t know. I think I was bitten.”

“You think? It looks like a bear ate your arm.”

“Anyway I’m gonna go back to work.”

Before Seungcheol can say anything Vernon vanishes. 

“He should get that looked at.”

“I think we should close the café.”

“Yeah. You should call an exterminator. I think everyones been bitten now.”

“Yeah. I’ll go find a number.”

“Finally. Good call on that cab ride Ms. Lee.”

“Yeah, but maybe we should have waited for Mr. Kim.”

“It’s fine he’ll catch up.”

“I’m so sorry but we have to close a bit early today.”

Before one of the lab technicians could answer, one more man rushed in.

Breathing heavily the man says, “hello, I’m Mr. Kim.”

“Hello sir. As I just told your friends, we have to close for the day, I’m sorry for the inconvenience.”

“You all need to stay here.”

“Excuse me?” Seungcheol chimes in.

Mr. Kim sees the bite marks on Seungcheol’s arm. Grabbing his arm he asks, “what happened?”

Pulling his arm back, “something bit me and the other people here.”

“Who else?”

“Everyone, I’m looking for an exterminator now.”

“Wait! I need to talk to Vernon before anything.”

“Why?”

“Look, I am Mr. Kim. I’m the head lab technician at Shining Diamond Labs. We had an experiment that is now missing. We think that it’s here.”

“How did it get here?” 

“Look, mister?”

“Seungcheol, just call me Seungcheol.”

“Look Seungcheol, I can explain more but I need to talk to Vernon first.”

Before Seungcheol could say anything else, Mr. Kim walked away.

“Hey Mr. Kim, what are you doing here?”

Jumping a bit, “stop doing that.”

“Doing what?”

“Nevermind. I just need to know something.”

“What’s that? I know a lot of things. Did you know there's a witch that lives in the woods and cooks children?”

“STOP TALKING ABOUT HANSEL AND GRETEL!” Seungcheol yells.

“Vernon, look at me. Back at the lab did you go into the cabinet?”

“I went into many cabinets to clean.”

“Did you go into a closet with a chain on it?”

“Yeah.”

“Was there anything there?”

“No.”

“Are you sure?”

“No.”

Mr. Kim starts getting annoyed, “did you see anything weird?”

“Weird?” he thinks a bit, “oh! On my way here this nice old lady asked me if I wanted candy.”

“That’s not what I meant.”

“Oh.”

“When cleaning up the lab, was there anything weird?”

“There were footprints in the sand I placed down.”

“I spilled sugar before and saw footprints in the pile.” Jeongan says.

“It’s here.”

“What is?”

Mr. Kim rushes to his colleagues. “It’s here we need to catch it.”

“How do we do that? We can’t really see it.”

“Uh see what?”

“The missing experiment.”

“IS IT INVISIBLE?”

“Soonyoung shut up.”

“Jihoon if we get bitten do we get powers?”

“Did you say powers?”

“Yeah! Maybe we will be like Spiderman!”

“COOL!”

“YEAH!”

“Are you two stupid or something?”

“Seokmin is.”

“You’re mean Wonwoo you know that?”

“There is no such thing as powers and superheroes.”

“Ok look.” Mr. Kim says gathering the attention of everyone in the café. “We have an experiment that has escaped our facility. We would kindly ask you to help us catch it.”

“Is it dangerous?” Seungkwan asks.

“No it isn’t.”

“Didn’t you just say it’s what bit us all?”

“Um. No comment.”

“Ok then.”

“What does this…experiment…look like?” Minghao asks.

“Well, when you can see it, it looks like a cute little white bunny.”

“What do you mean, when you can see it?” Jun asks.

“Well, it's invisible most of the time.”

Both Seokmin and Soonyoung stand up happily and say, “ARE WE GOING TO GET SUPER POWERS TOO.”

“Unclear.”

Both Wonwoo and Jihoon hit the backs of their friends' heads. 

“He’s messing with you Soonyoung. There is no bunny.”

“Really? So what’s that on your head?”

Everyone pauses for a moment looking at the shorter man's head. 

One of the technicians says, “no one makes any sudden movements. Do not scare the bunny. And you DO NOT MOVE.” 

After the technicians start moving to Jihoon the bunny starts to flicker meaning it’s getting ready to go invisible. The bunny gets frightened and jumps from Jihoon to Seokmin’s lap. Before the bunny can go invisible Mr. Kim rushes Seokmin and jumps on him with a cage.

“Good we got it. Let’s go!”

The technicians get ready to leave before saying, “you guys need to come with us as well. We need to run some…..tests.”

“What kind of tests?” 

“Don’t worry about that.”

“Are you kidnapping us?” 

“I wish they would just kidnap you, Seokmin.”

“Now let’s go.” Mr. Kim says holding open the door.

“Do we have a choice?”

“No, now let’s go.” Mr. Kim says ushering the thirteen men out the door.

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“Yeah. We totally got kidnapped. It was nice knowing you Jihoon.” 

“Shut up Soonyoung.”

“Are we almost there?”

“No.”

“Can you tell us how much longer?”

“No.” 

“Hey, this cage is a bit cramped. Can I be let out?”

“Not until we get to the laboratory.”

Getting tired of walking, Soonyoung jumps on top of the cage.

“Soonyoung, get off the cage.”

“No. It’s comfortable up here.”

“Soonyoung, get down!” the shorter man raises his voice.

Soonyoung ignores his shorter companion and curls up into a ball on the top of the cage.

“KWON SOONYOUNG! GET OFF THE DAMN CAGE!” Jihoon yells while grabbing at his friend's leg and trying to drag him off the top of the cage. Soonyoung getting angry starts growling as if he’s an animal. “Soonyoung knock it off. You aren’t an animal.” 

“Hey, do you think you two can be quiet? This creature keeps biting me.”

Ignoring the protest of the man stuck in the cage, Soonyoung and Jihoon keep arguing. 

Minghao watching the show unfold between the two men he turns to Mingyu and says, “Mingyu, you look strong. Why don’t you stop them.”

“No way! They could hurt me!”

“Oh come on. You are taller than both of them and you are stronger than them.”

Reluctant, the man walks up to the shorter man and picks him up as if he was a mere child. “You should just leave him alone and let him stay there, little one.” Mingyu says, setting the man down gently down on the ground and patting his head. 

“Oh no.” Soonyoung said starting to getting more comfortable on top of the cage. Looking over to the taller man, “you may want to start apologizing.”

“Apologizing? For wh–” Mingyu getting cut off before he can finish his question. Despite being the shortest among the thirteen men, Jihoon jumps on the tallest man's back putting him into a headlock.

“It was nice meeting you!” Minghao shouts from a few feet away.

Angrily Jihoon says, “not everyone has the privilege to be built like a mountain. Treat me like a kid again and you'll regret it. Understood?” 

Mingyu, clearly frightened, nods his head quickly. 

“Good.” he says as he jumps off the man’s back.

Mingyu, being scared, runs back to his two friends as he tries to hide behind them.

“So, are your muscles just for show or what?” Jun says, holding back a laugh.

“Did you know you shouldn't pick fights with people shorter than you? They will bite your ankles.”

“Or in your case jump on your back and put you in a chokehold.”

“Or that.”

“It feels so nice to be able to stretch my legs.”

“Can you be quiet for two minutes? I'm getting a headache from you lot.” Mr. Kim says, letting out a sigh. After a moment Mr. Kim pauses every pausing with him. Turning slowly to look at Seokmin. “HOW DID YOU GET OUT OF THE CAGE?” Mr. Kim yells so loud his face turns a bright red.

“While the fight was happening I noticed the cage wasn't locked. So I just pushed open the door.”

Before Mr. Kim can say anything Ms. Lee steps in saying, “What did you do with the creature?” 

“I made sure to keep it in the cage. It wouldn’t let go of my jacket so I had to leave it there. I guess it was cold.” Everyone looks over at the cage and only sees the jacket sitting there. 

Mr. Kim glares at Seokmin.

“I swear it was in there when I got out!” Seokmin says a bit frightened. “LOOK! LOOK! The cage it's in there is flickering. I swear on Wonwoo’s grave it's in there.”

“Sir, it is indeed still in the cage. We should hurry and get back to the lab.” Ms. Lee says.

“Did I hear you say, I swear on Wonwoo’s grave?” Wonwoo says glaring at his friend.

“Uh…”

“DO I LOOK DEAD TO YOU SEOKIMN?”

“No.” The man says nervously. “I didn’t think you could hear me.”

Hitting his friend in the back of the head, “I’m blind not deaf you idiot.” 

“Sorry…” Seokmin says sadly as he keeps walking.

“These are some weird people.”

“Yeah they are.”

“Perfect for you two. You fit right in.”

“You’re supposed to be nice Seungcheol.”

“That was nice Joshua.”

“You seem grumpy Seungcheol.”

Seungcheol glares at Jeonghan.

Jeonghan whispers to Joshua, “Someone missed nap time.”

“Yeah, we'll get him home soon so he can sleep.”

“I CAN HEAR YOU TWO. I. AM. NOT. A. CHILD.” 

Both men look at each other. Then at their friend saying sorry. As Seungcheol walks past them Jeonghan says under his breath, “you are such a child sulking.”

“What?”

“Nothing, my bestest friend ever!” Jeonghan says with a big smile while Joshua is chuckling.

“This group is strange, Chan.”

“Yeah it is Seungkwan. But I'm kinda scared of them.”

“Yeah me too, just stay close ok?”

“Alright.”

“So, Mr. Kim.”

Jumping a bit and turning with an annoyed look. “What?”

“When do we get to know what superpowers we have?”

“WE GET SUPERPOWERS!?!?” Both Soonyoung and Seokmin shout while they run up to Vernon and Mr. Kim.

“You wanna take this one?” Wonwoo says as he looks over to Jihoon.

“Nope.”

“Alright then.”

“I thought I told you, you aren’t getting powers.”

“Actually you said it was unclear. Meaning there is a possibility.”

“Vernon?”

“Yeah?”

“Leave me alone.”

“Sure.”

“Thank you.”

“After you tell me about superpowers.”

Mr. Kim stays silent so as to not get angry.

Vernon starts poking the man until he’s had enough. Mr. Kim grabs Vernons hand and yell’s, “YES YOU WILL HAVE ABILITIES. NOW WOULD YOU BE QUIET.”

The thirteen men freeze. They all shout simultaneously, “WHAT?!?”

“We need to hurry back to the lab before anyone hears this conversation.” Ms. Lee says a bit panicked. 

“But we want to know mor—” Soonyoung and Seokmin say sadly.

Ms. Lee buts in, “we will explain everything back at the laboratory. We can not be talking about this in the public so please hold all questions until we get back.”

The men nod their heads as they follow the three scientists back to their lab.

Eventually the thirteen men along with the three scientists and the experiment arrive at the main lobby of the building. They walk a bit further into the building towards the elevators. Everyone ends up cramming into one elevator. 

“Is it safe having this many people in this small elevator?” Seokmin asks.

“Probably not, but I don't trust you lot to take separate elevators.”

“That’s rude!”

“I don’t care. Deal with it.”

After an excruciating elevator ride they all get off staring down this dark grungy hallway. Some lights flicker while most others are dead and in need of a change.

Mingyu runs and hides behind Jihoon, “it’s scary down here.”

“Can you tell your giant friend here to let go of me?” Jihoon says looking over at Jun.

Jun nods, grabbing Mingyu’s hand and dragging back over to him and Minghao.

 Suddenly faint creepy singing and whistling can be heard from behind the group. 

~It’s a world of laughter 

  A world of tears 

  It’s a world of hopes 

  And a world of fears

  There’s so much we share 

  That it’s time we’re aware~

Mingyu screeches like a banshee whipping around and clocking Vernon in the face.

Mingyu apologizes to Vernon while Vernon gets scolded by the group.

One of the scientist walks off with the experiment while Mr. Kim and Ms. Lee stayed with the men.

Ms. Lee clears her throat gathering the attention of the boys, “Before we go any further we need to ask you guys a few questions.”

“Can we please go somewhere other than this hallway? It's creepy.”

Seeing how scared the man was she nods her head and takes them to the breakroom.

After everyone calms down she continues her earlier speech, “yes, you guys have abilities but we are unclear as to what each of you hold.” half the group lets out excited squeals while the other half are still skeptical. “We would like to run tests on you guys to see how the abilities affect each of you. Eventually we would like to send you out into the world so you can protect the people. So, what do you guys say? Are you in?”

Chapter Text

The room falls silent. Most of the group just sits there in disbelief. Everyone except Soonyoung and Seokmin. They jump up from their seats and run straight to Ms. Lee.

“WE REALLY GET SUPERPOWERS!” Both men yell a bit louder than intended causing the young lady to cover her ears.

Sighing, Seungcheol stands up and heads towards the door, “sure whatever you say.” His two friends get up and follow close behind.

Jihoon and Wonwoo both get up from their seats. Wonwoo grabs Seokmin by the wrist and pulls him towards the door while Jihoon grabs Soonyoung by the back of his shirt collar.

“Hey, Jihoon. Where are we going?”

“WE are going to the hospital to get these bites looked at.”

“But I want to stay! I wanna know what power I’m gonna have!”

“Yeah! Me too! Me too!” Seokmin says looking at Wonwoo.

“Soonyoung, there is no such thing as superheroes or powers.”

“But she said we get super cool abilities.”

“She’s lying Soonyoung.”

“Hey, your name is Soonyoung right?” 

Soonyoung nods his head.

Mingyu placed his hand on the man’s shoulder and asked, “how about after we get cleared by the doctors I get you an ice cream?

Soonyoung lets out a scream trying to run away from the taller man.

“Get off me! You're crushing my shoulder. IT HURTS!” Soonyoung getting mad from the severe pain starts to grow a bushy tail and sharp claws. The man breaks free from the hold and slashes Mingyu in the face with his claws.

“OW! WHAT WAS THAT FOR? I DIDN’T DO ANYTHING!”

“I SAID IT HURT.”

“I JUST PUT MY HAND ON YOU.”

“LET GO OF ME YOU BLIND IDIOT.” Seokmin yells loud enough to break his friend's glasses.

“Hey Seungkwan, I’m gonna leave. This is just so strange.” Chan gets up and starts to walk to the door but instead of walking he runs full sprint. He misses the door and goes head first into the wall.

Laughing at his friend failing to leave Seungkwan ends up creating a burst of energy sending Vernon flying across the room.

Mr. Kim walks past Seungcheol and his friends and says to Seungcheol, “I can't deal with this anymore. Get them to behave then come talk to me.” Seungcheol stands there dumbfounded. The man tries to get the attention of the men only for it not to work. As he raises his voice vines appear from the cracks and various plants located in the room. They wrap around Mingyu’s arms to stop him from hurting someone. Seokmin’s mouth becomes covered to stop him from screaming. And Soonyoungs tail gets grabbed, hoisting him up in the air upside down.

“Wow! That was cool Seungcheol.”

“Jeonghan is right! That was cool. Do it again!”

“Uh, I can’t.”

“Lame.” Joshua shouts.

“Boring.” Jeonghan shouts.

“WHAT?” turns around to look at his friends but what he sees is vines knocking his friends on to their butts. “Deserved.”

“I think it’s safe to say we have powers.”

“What gave you that idea Jun? The fact that guy spawned vines from thin air. Or that one sent the weirdo flying into a wall. OR MAYBE the fact that guy has a full TAIL.”

“Yes thank you, I do have working eyes. As I was going to say before you interrupted me, Minghao. We should go talk to Mr. Kim.”

Vernon appears behind Jun, “I agree.”

“I agree too but do you think someone can help me up? I think my nose is bleeding.” Chan says, raising his hand as the others rush towards him to help him up.

After helping Chan, Ms. Lee walks the boys down the hallway so they are standing in front of a door. The door has seen better days. It's covered in dirt and dust. The small door knob looks like it can fall off any second. There is a small glass window on the top half of the door. Looking at it, it has spider webs attached to the missing pieces of glass. The boys look through the window seeing very little but what they notice is a dark room with no light fixture insight, broken glass, paper, and other objects thrown across the floor. 

“Alright just go through this door and Mr. Kim will help you out.

“You know what? I think we'll be going now.” Mingyu says slowly backing up.

Ms. Kim, confused at first, slowly realizes what they see. Letting out a slight chuckle she says, “oh, I’m sorry here.” She opens the door and explains that there’s a barrier on the door. Only certain people are allowed to know what happens in here.

Soonyoung screams, “COOL!” while still hanging upside down.

Ms. Lee walks over to Mr. Kim and explains that their powers have started awakening.

“So, I hea–” he sees Soonyoung and Seokmin wrapped in vines. “I’ll just ignore that. Anyway I have been told your powers are awakening. I need each of you one by one to stand on this platform while we scan you to learn about your base power.” 

“Will it hurt?”

“Probably not, tall guy.”

After around five long hours of trying to control these thirteen men they finally finish the scans.

“That took so long.”

“Yeah.”

“I want food.” Mingyu says.

“I can’t wait for the results!” both hyper men exclaim.

Mr. Kim and Ms. walk in the room where the men are sitting. They begin listing off the results of the scans, “Seungcheol can affect the earth around him, Jeonghan can control people's mind, Joshua can change how the light refracts, Jun can create illusions, Soonyoung can shapeshift, Woonwoo can control shadows, Jihoon manipulate sound, Seokmin has a powerful voice, Mingyu has strength, Minghao effects gravity, Seungkwan uses his emotions to attack people, Vernon has invisibility, and lastly Chan has the ability to run fast. Now just so you are aware this is the baseline of each power. We need to learn more about each power through several tests.”

Soonyoung being the most excited screams, “I CAN SHAPESHIFT? CAN I TURN INTO A TIGER?” Soonyoung begins trying to turn into a tiger only to not know how his power works. 

“Please just ignore him.” Jihoon says. 

“Noted. Anyway we would kindly request you thirteen live together so we can keep an eye on you and how your powers work with each other. We have a house just outside of the city. There's a big training ground and a large pool in the yard.”

They take a moment talking it over with each other and eventually agreeing. Just like that the thirteen men leave the lab to go home and pack their bags as they start a new unexpected journey.

Chapter Text

“SEUNGCHEOL!” the tall man shouts seeing the older man walking into the kitchen.

“What’s wrong Mingyu?”

“Do you know where Jun is?”

“I don’t know.”

“Can you find him? I’m hungry.”

Seungcheol glares at him.

“What?” I need to eat a lot to get stronger.”

“Fine. I’ll make you something since I’m here.”

“No thanks.”

“I’m a good cook.”

“But Jun is better.”

Seungcheol walks out of the kitchen annoyed, when he sees Seokmin walking down the stairs.

“Good morning Seokmin.”

“Food first. Then talk.”

“Why are you acting like this you’re a morning person aren’t you?”

“Yes but food first. I’m starving.”

“Hey before you go eat, can you please wake up our three sleeping beauties for me, Seokmin?”

“No thanks. I’m going to get food.”

“Seokmin, go wake them up.”

“No, I wanna eat.”

“LEE SEOKMIN!”

“But—”

“Please, go wake them up.”

 “Ugh, but why me. I hate waking them up, Seungcheol.”

“Well for starters you have a powerful voice that can wake the dead.”

“Tell Mingyu to wake them. He has the strength to wake them up.” the man says as he heads to the kitchen.

“No way! They scare me.”

“You are the strongest one here, what did they do to you?”

Walking into the kitchen Jihoon interrupts the three men talking, “well, Seungkwan threw a pillow at him.”

“That’s not bad at all.”

“I wasn’t done.” the short man continues, “Seungkwan threw a pillow at him, Minghao threw a night stand at him, and Vernon disappeared making Mingyu think we lost a member.”

“But, he’s strong. That shouldn’t hurt him.”

“Oh! One time he made me come with him to hide behind.”

“But you’re half his size.”

“What did you say?”

“They scare me. So I am not waking them up anymore, it's your job now Seokmin. Have fun.” Mingyu says before the two men start fighting.

“Just go wake them up for me Seokmin.” 

“Fine. But you owe me food, Seungcheol!”

“Fine, fine. Just go wake them up.”

“Ok then! I’ll take some doenjang jigae with an omelet and rice on the side please.” Seokmin says with a smile on his face.

“You get an omelet and rice.” Seungcheol says.

Seokmin walks out of the kitchen sulking as he walks past Jun.

“Hi.” he mumbles annoyingly towards Jun.

“Uh hi?” Jun replies a bit confused before heading to the kitchen. 

“Hey, do you guys know where this rat came from?” Jun asks, holding the rat by its tail next to Mingyu’s head. 

Mingyu turns his head to be face to face with the rat. He jumps from his seat and runs screaming to Seungcheol.

“Jun get that thing out of here.”

“What am I supposed to do with it?”

“Put it outside, I don’t know and I don’t care, just get it out before they duplicate.”

“Before what—-”

“Oh hey you found Soonyoung! I agree just let him lose outside. He’ll most likely be fine.”

Jun and Seungcheol freeze and look at Jihoon, “Soonyoung?”

“Yeah, he transformed last night. I think he’s stuck though.”

“Well we have to help him.”

“I mean we don’t HAVE to.” a voice says behind Seungcheol.

“Yes we do Ming—” Seungcheol gets interrupted by the three sleeping beauties.

“Nice to grace us with your presence, your majesties.” Seungcheol says sarcastically. 

While Seungcheols back is turned, Minghao lifts a cup, “Minghao, If you throw that cup at me you will regret it.” with that Minghao gently puts the cup back down.

“I like the nickname.” Seungkwan says, flipping his hair and walking off.

“Ooo! A rat. Can I keep it as a pet?”

“Why are you so weird?” Minghao says.

“Hey! I’m not weird. I like to think of it as limited edition.”

“You’re limited for a reason then.” Minghao says as he pats Vernon on the back.

“So, Jun. Can I keep the rat as a pet?

“All yours Vernon.” Jun says throwing the rat to Vernon.

While flying from one side of the room to the other the rat transforms back into Soonyoung.

Vernon stepping off to the side says, “aw man! I wanted a pet rat.”

“HEY! I. AM. A. TIGER.” Soonyoung says. “Not a rat!”

“Says the one who has been a rat all night.” Jihoon says while drinking coffee.

Soonyoung turns to Vernon, “you could have caught me you know.”

“I know. But I didn’t want to.” he says walking away.

“Alright, let’s start off going over the plans for the day,”

“Uh Seungcheol?”

“Yes?”

“We are still missing people.”

“Yeah Jun is right. It looks like Wonwoo and Chan.”

“No Wonwoo and Chan are right there Soonyoung.”

“Sorry. I lost my glasses and Chan was helping me.”

“Alright, who else is missing.”

“Jeonghan and Joshua.” Jihoon says.

“Those two I swear are going to drive me crazy.”

“Just those two?” Jihoon says.

“Going to?” Minghao asks.

“Joshua. Let’s hide here so he won't see us.”

“Yeah. Hurry up, they are starting. You know what you want to say?”

Jeonghan sits there for a bit concentrating. 

“Well?”

“I don’t think it worked, Joshua.”

“What makes you say that Jeon—”

“We should run.”

“Agreed.”

Before the men can get up and runaway vines reach out and grab their ankles. Dragging them to the kitchen where the rest of the group sits. 

Not even acknowledging the two men that just got dragged into the kitchen, Seungcheol continues his earlier message, “It has been five months since we gained these powers. We still have a lot to learn to control these powers, but Mr Kim has said it's time to start thinking about hero names.”

“We finally get to pick our hero names!” Seokmin and Soonyoung shout out.

“Yes but our first priority is still getting better control of these powers. Understood?”

Everyone except two agree.”

Seungcheol looks over to the two men, “understood?”

“It’s hopeless.” Wonwoo and Jihoon say.

“They heard hero names and nothing else.”

“Yup. Safe to say they each have half a brain cell and when they are together it combines to make one.”

“Sadly.”

The group laugh at the two as they sit thinking hard as to what their names should be.

Chapter Text

“What is a super cool hero name for a super cool person.”

“Who's the cool person Soonyoung?”

Soonyoung opens his mouth to retaliate but nothing comes out.

“That’s what I thought.” 

The young man sulks out of the kitchen while the other twelve men walk away as they laugh at the stunned man.

“So Seungcheol. Do you have any ideas on a hero name?”

“If not Jeonghan and I could help.” Joshua says, smirking as they watch their friend lift weights. 

“I have a name in mind. How about you two?”

“I’m thinking of cheonsa (천사).

“Oh! I like that for you Jeonghan it's very fitting. I was thinking something simple like Jisoo.”

“Really you think cheonsa is fitting? I’d go with saaghan (사악한) for Jeonghan. Actually for you two you could be saaghan ssangdung-i (사악한 쌍둥이).”

“I like that!”

“Me too!”

“I hate you two.”

“Love you too Cheol.

“So” Jeonghan says. “Can you tell us what name you picked?”

“Yeah Cheol! Tell us.” Joshua begs.

“Nope. Can I just work out alone?”

“Please just tell us.”

“If you don’t tell us we’ll start guessing.”

“Ooo. Guessing is fun. Any ideas Jeonghan?”

“Hm. Oh what about tokki (토끼).”

“No, no, no. It’s too cute for him.”

“What did you say?”

“What about hal-abeoji (할아버지)?”

“I like noin (노인) better.”

Both men start laughing.

Seungcheol getting annoyed he picks up a five pound medicine ball and throws it in the direction of the two men, glaring at them.

“HEY! That could have hit us, you know?”

“Damn, my aim was off. Maybe next time.”

“What do you mean next time?” Jeonghan says.

Seungcheol walks out of the in-home gym to the shower. Joshua and Jeonghan follow him trying to guess. Having enough as Seungcheol walks into the room with the showers he pauses and says, “FINE!” You wanna know the name I picked?” both men shake their heads yes.” “S. Coups.” Both men look at each other confused. “S. Coups that's the name I picked. S for Seungcheol. Coups for “coup d’etat.” both men look and Seungcheol even more confused. Annoyed Seungcheol says, “coup d’etat” is a French phrase meaning sudden seizure of power.” With that the door slams in Joshua and Jeonghan’s face with their sudden realization. 

“We will wait for you in our room for you Scoops.” 

“Yeah hal-abeoji.”

“Wonwoo. I’m bored. Can I play video games with you?”

“Why don’t you go and think about your hero name, Seokmin?”

“I already have one. Want to hear it?”

“No.”

“Ok so I was thinking—”

“I said I don't want to hear it.”

“Dokyeom!”

“Ok monkey.”

“I said Dokyeom.”

“Mhm. Sure thing donkey.”

“Want to know what it means?”

“Not really but I'll take it, you're gonna tell me anyway.”

“Ok so, Dokyeom or 도겸. Do (도) in “Dokyeom” means path or road. Kyeom (겸) means multitasker.”

“Are you done?”

“Mhm! So can I play.”

“Fine! If you will be quiet.” 

“Can I know your hero's name?”

“Don’t have one.”

“Oh! I have one! Natae (나태).”

“Ok. Now sit down and be quiet.”

“Soonyoung get off the couch.”

“Is there something wrong with him Jihoon?” Minghao whispers to Jihoon.

“Sadly.” he whispers back. “SOONYOUNG!” Jihoon yells louder as he throws a pillow at his friend.

A loud crash is heard as Soonyoung falls to the ground. “Ow! That hurt!”

“Good!” 

“So do you guys have a hero name picked out yet?”

Both men nod their heads.

Soonyoung looks at them with big eyes, “share please! I need help.”

“Fine, my name is going to be Woozi.”

“Oh. I like it Jihoon!”

“ So Soonyoung, do you have any ideas for names?”

“I was thinking of Tiger Man!”

Minghao looks at Jihoon, “is he for real?”

“Knowing him, yes.”

“Give us some other names.”

“Well I also have, Horangi (호랑이), Tigger, Hoshi and Tony the Tiger.”

Jihoon and Minghao sit there concerned.

“First of all.” Minghao says, “Tony the Tiger is a cereal mascot. And Tigger is a cartoon character that has ADHD.”

“I think Tigger is fitting for him.” Jihoon says struging.

A bit sad his friends don’t like his name ideas. “Well Minghao what’s your idea?”

“Yeah I'm going with Qīngwā (青蛙). It’s frog in Chinese.”

“What’s tiger in Chinese? Please tell me!” Soonyoung said, almost shouting.

“Tiger?” Minghao thinks for a moment. “Cāngshǔ (仓鼠).”

“I like it.” Soonyoung walks away to ponder his options.

Minghao laughs.

“So, what does Cāngshǔ mean?”

“Hamster.” 

Both men chuckle.

“Hey Chan. Here’s your drink.”

“Thanks Seungkwan.”

“No problem. What’s that you’re writhing down?”

“Just some hero name ideas. But I’ve chosen one.”

“Oh really?”

“Mhm. I’m going with Dino.”

“I like it. I’m going with Boo.”

“HEY! SOONYOUNG!” Seokmin shouts running towards Soonyoung. 

“Hey Seokmin.” Soonyoung says a bit sad.

“What’s wrong buddy?”

“I can’t choose a name. They are all such good names.” the young man starts to cry a bit.

“Are you drunk?”

Soonyoung nods his head while hugging a bag of ice.

“Can I have some too?”

Soonyoung shakes his head happily and pours his friend a drink.

After one too many drinks the two men decide to play a game to figure out Soonyoung’s name.

“OK! You ready Soonyoung!”

“Ready Seokmin!”

“Three! Two!” There's a long pause before Seokmin rolls a garbage can that contains Soonyoung down the hill. “ONE!”

 Soonyoung rolls down the hill at a high speed hitting a rock before flying ten feet into the air causing the tire to land into the pool.

Emerging from the pool the man shouts, “that was so fun! Let's go again!”

“I wanna try!”

After about an hour Jun, Wonwoo, Seungkwan, Mingyu, Chan, Vernon and Jihoon join in playing along with Seokmin and Soonyoung, even drinking with them. 

“Hey cheol. It’s been pretty quiet.”

“Yeah. Shua is right. It's usually a lot louder and crazier. I haven’t seen anyone in awhile.

“We should go look for them.”

“Yeah, let's make sure they are all alive.”

The three men venture out of their room and start looking around the house. 

“Cheol. I don’t think they are here.”

“I think I found them.” Jeonghan says looking out the window as a tire rolls down the hill into the pool.

Seungcheol walks towards Jeonghan. His eyes widen in horror as he sees two tires fly down the hill and collide with someone getting out of the pool. Seungcheol rushes out the door as the two other men follow close behind. The men arrive at the top of the hill hearing a conversation take place.

“Please Jihoon, it’s going to be fun,”

“Mingyu shut up. I said no. You aren’t throwing me down a hill. Not with your strength.”

“Will you go down if someone else pushes you?”

There is a pause before Soonyoung says, “I’ll push you!” while raising his hand and jumping.

Reluctantly Jihoon agrees and gets into the tire.

“What are you lot doing?” Seungcheol says, scaring the group.

Drunkenly Seokmin says, “well. Soonyoung said he needed help picking a name. So I suggested we play a game to help choose.”

“Ok, so what is this game?”

“Human bowling. You get in the tire and we push it down the hill and then you hit the pins. Just like regular bowling.”

“Like regular bowling, Soonyoung? There are no pins down there.”

Soonyoung and Seokmin look at each other. “Oh. We forgot the pins.” 

Seungcheol looks at the group with disappointment. 

“Hold on Jihoon, I'm gonna go find pins for you to hit.” Before Soonyoung leaves he walks into the tire with Jihoon in it, sending him down the hill. “Oops. Sorry.”

Jihoon comes out of the pool like he's ready to fight Soonyoung but it takes him a while to get back to the top of the hill.

“Soonyoung, let us help you pick your name.”

“It’s not like I'm the only one that hasn’t figured out their name.”

Everyone stands there quietly.

“Oh. Well Mingyu, Jun, Vernon, what name did you guys pick?”

“I’m going with Māo (猫). It’s Chinese for cat.”

“I picked Titan. You know since you guys make fun of me for being tall and strong.”

“Vernon.”

Everyone pauses.

Jihoon finally back at the top of the hill with a blanket. “Did you say Vernon? As in your name?”

Vernon nods.

“The names are meant to hide your identity.” Seungcheol says.

“Vernon isn’t my real name. It’s Hansol.”

Everyone stands there shocked. Vernon continues drinking.

Seungcheol writes down all of Soonyoung’s ideas and puts them in a hat. “Pick one.”

Soonyoung rumages around and pulls a small piece of paper out and reads it. “Hoshi. It says Hoshi.”

“I was hoping for Cāngshǔ.” Minghao says sadly.

Jun looks over and says in Chinese, “Cāngshǔ?”

“He wanted to know what the word tiger was in Chinese. Don’t tell him it's actually Lǎohǔ (老虎).”

Both men chuckle while others seem confused at their conversation.

“SEUNGCHEOL!” Joshua yells.

“WATCH US!” Jeonghan shouts.

Both men managed to fit themselves into the singular tire. Soonyoung happily rushes over to push them down the hill with a little help from Seokmin. Seungcheol watches them as if he was a terrified father.

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Seungcheol runs down the hill tripping a few times until he gets to the pool. After arriving at the edge of the pool the man stands stunned, unable to speak while he watches Joshua use Jeonghan as a surfboard. 

Seungcheol creates vines and has them wrap around the men and drag the men onto the concrete. “You two are such idiots. You know you could have killed yourselves?” 

“But we didn’t.”

“Yeah Jeonghan is right, we are perfectly fine.”

Seungcheol sighs, dragging the two men back up the hill. Back at the top of the hill, Soonyoung and Seokmin are getting another tire to head down to the pool. Once getting to the top, Seungcheol uses his power of Earth Manipulation to create vines that surrounds each member. Taking his time to get down the mountain as some members try to fight their way out while others laugh as they act as if they are flying. Finally inside Seungcheol drops the men on the floor. The group of men let out an agonizing groan as they hit the floor with a thud, soon after falling asleep in their spots.

“Jeonghan, Joshua, you two stay here and watch them and make sure they don’t kill each other. I have to run out for a bit.”

“Where are you going?”

“Yeah why can’t we come.”

“Because Joshua, you two are the only sober people here. I need to go and get food for breakfast since they eat everything.” Seungcheol says gesturing towards the men on the floor.

With that Seungcheol leaves.

“So…Jeonghan. What do we do?”

“He said watch them. So I guess watch them.”

“But they are sleeping. They can’t cause any harm. Right?”

“Yeah. That sounds right. So what do we do now?”

“Wanna play video games or watch a movie?”

“Yes.”

With that the two men run off to their room while the other men sleep on the floor where Seungcheol left them.

About an hour goes by and the members start to wake up.

“Jun. Hey Jun.” Mingyu says, shaking his friend. “Are you up?”

Slurring his words, “Nooo-wwwhyy.”

“Need food. Now.”

“I can cook.” Vernon says appearing out of nowhere.

Mingyu runs to Vernon and tries to hug him but trips over his feet

Vernon walks across the Mingyu who is now sprawled out on the floor into the kitchen to cook. 

Stumbling close behind Vernon Jun asks, “can you even cook?”

“Yeah.”

With that the two men wander into the kitchen while Mingyu crawls his way behind them.

“WOOOOOO LETS GOOOOOOOO!” Chan shouts running away, waking up the others. Chan then runs out the back door.

“Ugh……my head hurts.” Jihoon sputters out.

“Does he have to be so loud?”

“HEY GUYS! WHAT DO YOU WANNA DO?” Soonyoung screams out.

“Soonyoung if you don’t shut up I will kill you.”

“I’ll help hide the body.”

Soonyoung transforms into a hamster and starts to run away.

Seokmin wakes up and starts walking around. Seokmin wanders into the kitchen singing It's a Small World. 

~It’s a world of laughter 

  A world of tears 

  It’s a world…..~

“Hey Seokmin. Whatcha singing?”

“It’s a Small World.”

“It really is, isn’t it? But what’s the song called?”

“The song is called It’s a Small World.”

“I know the world is small compared to everything else in space. But I want to know what the song you are singing is.”

“The song name— you know what? Nevermind I’m leaving.”

With that Seokmin leaves singing It’s a Small World. Vernon mumbles the words to the song, awarding confused looks from Jun and Seokmin as he walks away, while Mingyu tries talking to a plant. 

Seokmin walks out of the house to where the pool is. Walking on the edge of the pool Seokmin starts singing Baby Shark.

~Baby shark, 

doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo

Baby shark, 

doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo

Baby shark, 

doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo

Baby shark~

“SEOKMIN!” a voice shouts out.

“DINO!” 

“BYE!”

“Oh. I wanted to talk.” 

Seokmin walks back inside where he watches Jihoon and Wonwoo chase around Soonyoung. Seungkwan walks over to Seokmin.

“It’s like watching a scene from Tom and Jerry.”

“I KNOW! RIGHT? IT'S FUNNY!”

“Can you be quiet? My head hurts.”

“NO! BUT I CAN SING! WANNA SINGE AJU NICE WITH ME?”

“Yeah sure why not.”

~Ilchi anasseumyeon hae seoroga

Uriraneun mari jikyeojil su itge

Jinjihande tteungeumeopjiman

*Tteungeumeopjiman, 

woah-oh-oh* oneul nan marya~

With Seokmin hitting the high note higher and louder than before, All the glass surrounding him shatters.

“YA! LEE SEOKMIN!” Wonwoo pauses from chasing Soonyoung.

“Uh oh.”

“YEAH UH OH! YOU BROKE MY GLASSES.”

“You should run Seokmin”

“Yeah.”

“I’m gonna go watch dramas, be quiet please.”

With that Seokmin bolts back outside. Wonwoo starts to go after Seokmin but runs into Minghao first.

“Was that Seokmin?”

“Yeah.”

“Did he cause the glass to explode?”

“Yes.”

“Stay here.”

Minghao walks away following Seokmin.

“HEY SEOKMIN!”

“Oh no. LEAVE ME ALONE MINGHAO!” Seokmin shouts running even faster.

“Hey Vernon. Aren’t you supposed to be in the kitchen cooking?”

“I left Mingyu there.”

“You know he’s drunk, right?”

“It’ll be fine.”

“Do you not smell the smoke? Or hear the smoke detector going off?”

“Oh. Is that what that is?”

“YES!”

“Ok. What should I do?”

“Oh I don't know, maybe, PUT THE FIRE OUT.”

“Oh. Ok.” Vernon just sits there looking out the window.

“Are you gonna get up?”

“Yeah I wanna see if Minghao catches Seokmin.”

Jun takes the back of Vernon’s shirt and drags him into the kitchen.

“PUT THE FIRE OUT.”

“But I don’t want to.”

“THE KITCHEN IS BURNING, IT’S BLACK, BURNT TO A CRISP.”

“I mean if it keeps going it’ll go out by itself.”

“THERE WILL BE NOTHING LEFT IF YOU LET IT KEEP GOING.”

“See you get it.”

“Chwe Vernon Hansol, if you don’t put the fire out, I will use your body to put it out.”

After some back and forth Vernon and Jun eventually put the fire out.

“Should we wake Mingyu up?”

“Nah if he slept through the fire and everything he’ll be fine.”

“Hey Joshua, did you hear that?”

“Hmm? Hear what?”

“Eh, it was probably the game.”

“Probably. Now press play.”

After having enough of Vernon, Jun walks outside.

“Hey Chan whatcha running from?”

“I saw a scary tree in the front of the house.”

“A tree?”

“Yes.”

“You know there's a lot more scary things out there right?”

“Oh really? Like what?”

“That clown standing behind you.”

Chan slowly turns around to see a carnival clown holding out a balloon towards Chan. He lets out a terrified screech and runs full speed into the pool.

Jun lets out a laugh walking towards the pool running into Minghao.

“Hey Jun. What are you doing out here?”

“Scaring Dino.” Jun says pointing towards the pool.

“Nice.”

“Hey Minghao. Why are you dragging Seokmin by the leg.”

“He shattered all the glass on the first floor and woke me up. So I'm gonna tie him up and suspend him over the pool. Wanna help?”

“Yeah alright.”

With that the two men tie Seokmin up and Minghao uses his Gravity Control to hang Seokmin upside down over the pool.

“KWON SOONYOUNG! GET BACK HERE!”

“JIHOON WAIT! I ALMOST GOT HIM!”

“I LOST HIM!”

“WAIT! WAIT! WAIT! I GOT HIM.”

Jihoon creates spears out of sound and throws them in Sooyoung's direction just missing him ever so slightly. Eventually Wonwoo picks up Soonyoung holding him up to the ceiling while Jihoon throws a spear pinning him to the ceiling. After Soonyoung gets pinned to the ceiling the men fall asleep. Wonwoo on the coffee table and Jihoon underneath the coffee table.

While Seungkwan watches dramas his emotions get the better of him causing an energy burst to shoot out hitting the tv knocking it over and breaking.

“Hey Jeonghan, want to watch another movie? Jeonghan?” Joshua looks over to see his friend is asleep. The man takes a blanket and covers his friend and heads to his bed to sleep.

Back outside Jun falls asleep against the glass back door with his eyes open. Minghao sleeps floating over the pool while Chan sleeps on the edge of the pool, head hanging over into the pool. Seokmin’s face becomes bright red as he hangs upside down over the pool unconscious due to all the blood rushing to his head.

Walking up to the house about 3am Seungcheol unlocks the door.

“Hey guys are you all still up?” He turns around after shutting and locking the door.

Vernon jumps out and jumps on Seungcheol causing the man to clock Vernon in the jaw.

“Ow! That hurt.”

“I’m sorry Vernon. I didn’t realize you were still up.”

“It’s cool.” Vernon shrugs and walks away.

Seungcheol follows Vernon into the house, hands full of bags. 

As soon as Seungcheol walks through the entryway into the living room to see a Mingyu who is shirtless, short shorts, and painted red burst through a wall. Mingyu shouts, “OH YEAH!” as if he was the Kool Aid Man. Mingyu then falls forward and goes back to sleep.

Seungcheol freezes, dropping the bags he was holding.

“WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED?!”

“We are drunk.”

“What did you guys drink? We didn't have much alcohol to get everyone drunk.”

“We have grape juice. A Lot of it.”

“Ok and? You aren’t drunk.”

“But it’s grapes. You know the same thing wine is made of.”

“I know how wine is made. It’s made with fermented grapes.”

“Well, Soonyoung was drinking it earlier. And he said it was old and was drunk.”

“How old is it?”

Vernon hands over the jug of grape juice. 

“Vernon, this expired yesterday. When you were drinking it, it was in date.”

“Oh… so we aren’t drunk.”

“No you aren’t.”

“Oh. Bye then!”

“YA! GET BACK HERE!”

Vernon runs off and turns invisible. Seungcheol storms off, he goes upstairs into Jeonghan and Joshua’s room. Walking into their room Seungcheol throws a pillow at each man. He then creates vines to drag the men out of bed and down the stairs letting the men's heads hit each stair. At the bottom of the stairs he lets go of his friends and tells them to stand up.

“You were supposed to watch them. What happened?”

“Me and Shua went upstairs and played video games and watched movies.”

“Yeah I think we fell asleep.”

“YOU THINK? IT LOOKS LIKE EVERY NATURAL DISASTER HIT THIS PLACE.”

“Yeah this place doesn’t look so good.”

“Yeah. you should have had someone watch these guys to make sure nothing like this happened.”

“Yeah Jeonghan is right.”

“I LEFT YOU TWO INCHARGE.”

“Oh…..well that's your fault.”

“YOON JEONGHAN!”

“Ooo he used your full name. You are dead.”

“HONG JISOO JOSHUA!”

“Damn, he pulled out your English and Korean name.”

“Yeah. We should run now Jeonghan.”

“Yeah. Let’s go.”

With that the two men book it. Jeonghan uses his Mind Manipulation to try and calm Seungcheol while he chases them. Joshua uses his Light Manipulation to create a shield to block Seungcheol’s attacks. He also uses beams of light to try and get away. Eventually he has to use healing rays to heal from the attack that got through. Finally the men get tired causing themselves to fall asleep ending the chaotic night that unfolded.