Straykids

■A/N POV■

(Sorry about the lowercases ig)

It was a long drive to the skz secret base but after a while they made it,

All the members got out quickly knowing time was of the essence in such situations

Taehyun: well? Are you nervous?

y/n: a little, CONSIDERING I'M GONNA MURDER SOME PEOPLE TO MAKE SURE MY BROTHER STAYS ALIVE FOR LONGER THAN YOU COUNT IN 10 SECONDS

Beomgyu: awwww you finally care about me

y/n: Shut the fuck up retard.

Beomgyu: YAH-

Soobin: kira and typhon survey the area and everyone make sure you get into your posts in time. And it's typhon right now.

Everyone: yes ok

Yeonjun was carrying a weird suitcase with a certain tense aura to it, and he was headed straight for the post he was given, 60m away from the site on another building.

■Y/N POV■

y/n: hyuka what are we supposed to do?

hyuka: go around everywhere and memorize the blueprints with accordance to the actual building shape and surroundings. And it's typhon right now.

y/n: that sounds like tedious work.

I said not missing the oppurtunity to let out a sigh.

hyuka: that's cause it is, now get to work

After some 10-ish minutes of going around everywhere, I saw a guard that seemed to be saying something to his colleague.

Guard: when do you think they'll be done with the construction? We have a long way to go till the boss' dream is achieved.

Guard 2:I don't understand you all talking about dreams and stuff, I work for him because of the money.

Guard 1: whatever, all that matters is that you do your job well.

Guard 2: say that to the construction workers, I'm fairly sure there's no steel in a few pillars.

Especially the ones at the corners next to the alleyway.

Guard 1: yeah they're definitely doing something shady.

What a weird conversation to have during a coffee break and what's this about dreams?

These guys are very weird, at least I won't feel bad for knocking them down a peg or two or three or fou- frick. They're coming this way, I gotta hide, but where? Where should I hide?

Ah. I got it I can hide in the mud to camouflage myself.

y/n proceeds to role on the ground and hides in the dim light, they didn't seem to notice her at all, at the worst possible moment, she starts sneezing like crazy from pollen in the bush nearby.

Guard 1: there's an intruder!

Guard 2: it came from that way.

As they slowly crept closer, y/n realize there was no other way and grabbed her knife.

■Yeonjun POV■

I got to my position after a while of brisk walking.

I wonder what the others are doing right now, I hope they aren't in trouble.

I'm gonna check on them now.

"hello?" I said, seemingly to nobody, but I was attempting to utilize my earpiece.

I guess no one has turned it on yet.

"Hello!" a reply rang out, it was beomgyu.

Relieved that I knew I wasn't the only one waiting for the others to get in position.

I told him:

"have any idea when the operation will start?" I said in a rush.

"not sure"

"perhaps when y/n and hyuka get in position."

"so in 15 minutes or so knowing hyuka."

I waited for just under my estimated time as I heard everyone chime in as they got in their positions one by one. 1 2 3 4 wait where's the 5th one? y/n isn't in her post yet.

We were all quite worried but we were put at ease from her, somewhat trembling voice.

She said she ran into a "pitstop" on the way to her post.

■Y/N POV■

It looks like I had to do what I had to do. My hands and knife were bloodied and my shirt took quite the beating from a stray stab, luckily it only grazed me. I had killed for the first time in my life. It felt horrendous knowing they had a family, siblings everyone else, even friends. I had taken someone's life and ruined that of many others. No. this wasn't wrong.

I wasn't like them. I will never be like them. Yeah I killed to protect. I killed to protect not destroy. That's justifiable right? Right?

No wait. What am I thinking. I'm losing my conscience. I have to remember the mission, and I have to protect my brother, and my friends that I finally made. I ran swiftly to my spot and immediately activated my earpiece.

"hello?"

Yeonjun: why are you so late? Its been 12 minutes since everyone else got to their spot, let alone me waiting for 40 whole minutes.

y/n: Oh. I ran into a pitstop on the way here

taehyun: what do you mean pitst- you know what, I don't care just start the mission.

Soobin : alright everyone do you all remember your jobs? Just stick the plan and when things get out of hand, improvise, alright? Let's go.

Everyone got rope and climbed on top of the mostly unfinished second floor although the third and fourth was almost done building discreetly.

And then Soobin shouted begin as loud he can be, with everyone else soon following suit. About 30% of the henchmen stray kids had were hired by txt as spies and mercenaries.

And bullets poured like rain, the other side had hardly any time to react. Bodies were dropping faster than you can count.

It wasn't too long before stray kids realized and they struck back.

They had made a machine that specifically attracted bullets.

I'm not sure how that works at all but it simply happened and it was brilliant, for stray kids.

Not so much for us, we lost our element of surprise and lost our ammo, which was a key part of our tactic. Everyone was screaming, internally or externally, our chances dropped by such a huge amount from a simple machine, that wasn't actually that simple.

We had to think fast.

"we should raid the weapons room." My brother exclaimed ecstatically as if we had found the solution to all our problems, and I gotta admit he's right. The machine seemed to no longer function as a few bullets that didn't get pulled in and crushed, were still flying perfectly fine.

Everyone else and I rushed to the room expecting an easy upper hand, but not only was it empty, it wasn't an arms room, it was a big staircase leading to this floor from downstairs.

We realised this was probably a bad idea and rushed to the exit to the "arms room"

But just a few metres after the exit, we were faced with a crowd of people from our side struggling against their opponents, it wasn't a skill issue, it was strength in numbers.

They outnumbered us about 1:7 now since quite a few fell to the onslaught of bullets at the beginning. We looked back, and realised we got flanked.

Things were looking bleak, a particularly strong member of the opposing side was on a roll, knocking people left and right. We were getting destroyed right now.

A single streak. A single streak of light. Zoomed past us all directly to the heart of the skz member.

■Yeonjun POV■

Even with night vision goggles it is so incredibly hard to see, but I'm getting used to it.

We had the upper hand for an instance, but some magnet or something sucked in all the bullets. HOW THE HELL DOES THAT WORK? THAT MAKES NO SENSE AT ALL. Thankfully it wasn't  just our bullets that got attracted to the magnet, but theirs too. They seem to be retreating somewhere. The audio feedback on the earpiece was terrible at this distance. It was hardly decipherable to me. Why have they come back? There's a guy pulling a flurry of punches on everyone. He's most probably a main member. I guess he's my first target.

I loaded my bullet in, the clink of the bullet being highly satisfying. And I aimed, now, I pulled the trigger, it wooshed past, glimmering in the moonlight as it flew by. It looked glorious, the path was perfect. It pierced straight into the man's heart. Now I have to wait for my gun to cool down.

■Y/N POV■

The one that died appeared to have been close with hyunjin as he emerged from the crowd, in a frenzied state, thirsty for blood. His rage was entirely requited and he seemed to have been wounded both physically and mentally.

He held knuckle dusters in his hands and he blitzed everyone in his path, he eventually got to soobin and hit him in the stomach, right before I got to him and snuck past his punches,

With as much force as a speeding semitruck. I stabbed him right in the back, near his liver.

He slowed down a lot and eventually went unconscious from blood loss.

Cough cough

"soobin are you ok?" hyuka said very worriedly

"yeah I am totally fine"

Cough cough

"are you sure? You seem to be dizzy and your coughing blood"

Just as soobin was about to reply he fell down.

He had been knocked from that extraordinarily strong punch.

Things weren't looking good again. My brother took soobin to the bathroom, which was the only safe place right now simply because it was a bathroom.

Clink,  Bang Bang a couple bullets had been shot. they aimed straight for taehyun's chest, however he had been running and fighting highly sporadically, rather than being a mortal blow it simply dug into his elbow and shoulder, very deeply.

An agonizing pain arose within him causing him to tear his vocal chords while screaming his lungs out. He had never been shot before, due to the more guerilla nature of his fighting.

He was wailing in pain, much to no avail since he had lost voice, with the occasional screech,

The whole building was resounding, every single person there had stopped, there was silence. Not a single person dared to speak.

A man, a very tall one, woke up all of a sudden, his steps thundering throughout the place.

He cracked his neck and his fists. Wait am I imagining this? It looked like they crackled with some light, not cracked. He flickered. Wait no, that isn't possible. He is just too fast for me to keep up.

He took out his gun, is he stupid? He has no bullets left….. OH MY GOD. He threw at someone. It ripped a hole in them, as well as others in the way. He then teleported, no he ran to someone, grabbed them by the neck and spun them around as if they were doing a cartwheel in place. He then jabbed them in the abdomen and they went flying, or at least that's what I think happened, since the person spun and flew. As they were flying they gathered others in a sort of ball of people, all spinning unimaginably fast, while they flew out of the building. He once more, ran very fast and everyone in his path seemed to go flying. It was a massacre, and an indescribable one at that.

He lightly tapped taehyun in the head and said: "Wake up, let's go." and both of them smirked before taehyun too crackled, with immense tension being released before he too began feeling…. Different. His eyes were glowing or were they reflecting the moonlight very brightly? Either way, he was looking everywhere with great swiftness and then punched the wall to the "weapons" room and smashed the rubble to fine dust. He threw them at people, their eyes, fists, feet, mouths anywhere that when sand is thrown would make them flinch, make a misstep or get slowed down, now even though there were less fighters from our side, they all seemed to catch up with higher numbers. Sand and bodies were flying everywhere and we were winning immensely. But then soobin, trying to save hyuka teleports behind him to save him from a stray sword, when soobin was almost stabbed by a flurry of throwing knives. Hyuka punched them away as they stood back to back.

Hyuka then saw a masked man, presumably "bangchan" according to intel. He was a fighter that focused a lot on kicks and the occasional slams. Both of them started fighting which was slowly accelerating? No, now its decelerating. I think they're both predicting each other to the point where making quick moves would put under too much mental stress. But now that its decelerating it would be stupid to make a move since the other is fully prepared on what to do next. They... aren't moving at all. But then a few grains of sand. Straight into bangchan's eyes, within an instant or less, hyuka reacted and feigned a punch, right when it was about to be kicked away, he dodged it, danced(?) behind bangchan elegantly, did a backflip, grabbed him by the waist with his legs and did a German Supplex on him, in such a way that his legs were turned crooked and fractured.

Hyuka eventually collapsed from the mental stress of fighting a 100 people at once, predicting each and every move they made. Soobin, who so far was just fighting random people, had to save hyuka who was getting mobbed, and he no longer ran as insanely fast.

■Yeonjun POV■

Ahhh this so relaxing, take a bullet, load it in, aim, shoot.

Although it seems my info was correct, when people feel immense pain they do indeed unlock superhuman capabilities resting deep within them, I knew I could trust them.

The skz members have been trying so hard to always have some of our people shielding them from my snipes, even though I'm getting the occasional shot in. perfect, an skz member right next to a pillar, cornered by our spies. If I hit the pillar, the skz member should die with no death on our side. Looks like I'll have to use my unnecessarily expensive, rare bullets. Clink, there we go, zoom, off it goes. Unsurprisingly, no one died except the skz member, it was a bit of a gamble since I didn't know whether they were [insert substance] reinforced pillars or not, but it appears they aren't.

Time to wait, looks like the remaining skz members are going ham on us. Even though our victory was basically in our grasp it seems quite difficult now. We just have to give skz all painless deaths or knock them out. The henchmen are mostly weak compared to us now that our numbers are similar.

Soobin, hyuka and taehyun are too injured and burnt out right now, meaning only y/n and beomgyu can save us now. skz is mostly still in the running, I hope we don't need a miracle for this, nothing is going according to our plan of blitzing in and coming out. I just got an idea, what if I break every pillar that keeps the building stable? I have 2 more bullets, and two is all I need.

Great. Beomgyu got slammed into a pillar. Judging from his expression and the way he was slammed he probably fractured a couple ribs.

Clink, woosh now just one mo- huh? It got stopped. Only netherite(??) can do that.

(My wifi wasn't working so netherite it is.)

Is it a guessing game now? One more bullet, before that I might as well tell them so they can get away from all the pillars and escape from the building in case it collapses.

"guys, I'm destroying the pillars with my special bullets, stay away, and try to escape if it begins to collapse."

"how many do you have left?" a worried taehyun said, since these bullets unlike yeonjun's normal ones are easily spottable and much louder, some people might already be on the way.

"only one."

■Y/N POV■

People were everywhere and skz is destroying us now. I finally shook off the swarm that was on me. I heard some people talking on the earpiece while I was fighting. I used the earpiece and asked: "taehyun what were you saying to yeonjun?"

"he said the reason that pillar came crashing down was because he shot it with his special bullet"

"wait, I think I heard something about that."

NOW I REMEMBER

"yeonjun, did you shoot yet? Did you shoot????"

"huh????"

"did you shoot????????"

"WHAT"

"DID YOU SHOOT YOUR FINAL BULLET?"

"N- SHIT I MISFIRED."

"DAMMIT"

Clank.the bullet hit the pillar to no avail. It fell down leaving a small dent in the netherite.

"yeonjun do you have a spare bullet?"

"no, I think hyuka has one that I asked him to install some tracking software into."

"hyuka, do you still have the bullet I gave you?"

"yeah it's in my backpack in the bush outside this building" he said, with a shaky voice, still impacted by the aftereffects of 'that'

"I'll get it" taehyun said, with his arm all fixed up with some medical supplies soobin had.

Taehyun ran with all his might and I started to focus on fighting again.

(taehyun pov)

There it is. Hyuka's backpack now to find the bullet, ah, here it is.

It was in a tiny case with a strange blue glow? No that must just be the moonlight.

I took and clasped it in my uninjured arm.

Time to give this to yeonjun.

I ran as quick as possible and found him sitting alone with a huge sniper with the same blue reflection of the moonlight.

"here you go, and don't misfire again."

"you know I won't."

Clink Yeonjun shot and it had much higher power than his normal bullets, and it was almost deafening. I can't hear at all. My ears are ringing so hard, yeonjun has his ear-mufflers, so he was ok. One of the more of the pillars have fallen. The building was shaking a tad bit, but it was hardly anything, one more pillar would have sealed the deal, and the deathbeds of skz.

Our best bet now is to somehow grab hold of explosives in such a large quantity that even netherite can't handle it.

(y/n pov)

Taehyun pulled through… one more pillar to go. But they've run out of special bullets, explosives aren't available in this situation. I know what to do, no I know what I have to do.

"Everyone, leave the building, now. I'm going to destroy the final pillar."

"wait, no you can't do that, you could die from the collision."

"there's no stopping her" a tired beomgyu said, with great fatigue and pain clearly expressed within his voice, still going because of that "phenomenon"

"good luck, everyone, leave with no casualties."

Smart guy in txt: I've got a plan, everyone bring attention to us in the bathroom, then beomgyu, smashes through the wall of the bathroom and we leave through that hole and  roll into the ground floor from the stairs. Next, all our henchmen leave while their attention is on us.

Everyone: alright, let's go.

The plan was executed incredibly well but not without casualties from people still fighting those who weren't distracted, txt left with no more deaths after that, and now it was up to me.

"I'm going to do it now, in three, two, one."

I broke my arm with a precise quantity of force such that I can be recovered and doesn't have any permanent damage. Now "that" was taking me over. It felt like paradise but hell at the same time. Every second, every instant felt painfully choking. Almost as if it would cost my life for a breath of fresh air.

I could feel strength building up in myself, I felt like a shackled. Like I  could fly but cant. My body was aching incredibly hard, I couldn't even speak. All I could do was execute the task I had thought of doing. I was hyper-focused, no, rather, my body is.

I took a sword from the ground, it had a good make, perhaps a member of skz owned it.

Just as I was about to swing I noticed a man rushing towards me with immense agility, ignoring all of the people fighting him. And only focusing on getting towards the epicentre of the chaos. Me. I had destroyed the pillar with great difficulty, even with "that" netherite is so incredibly strong.

The floors above were toppling, falling almost like a landslide and just as I was about to say goodbye to my legs as they would get crushed by the rubble since I could hardly move as the exhaustion was so immense. A certain man who couldn't hear what I was saying took me and crashed through the open exit. By that I mean jumping off of it. I think I shattered my elbow-

Things faded. Its quiet now.

___________

---------------