《Space Voyage | VKOOK by LARRYVGL》Thirty-one
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Burst of explosions, lava spewing out in every direction, nearby moons getting gangled and combusting into flames in space. The planet exploded.
And their spaceship just drew further and further away, almost in a frightened panic. Jungkook watched with widened eyes, and a skewed silence fell across the marbled control room.
"T-Taehyung-" Jungkook let out, voice weak, scratchy. His hands were still placed against the window, and he saw it all go up in flames. And just for a few seconds, he felt this gutted, aching, throbbing pain in his chest, abdomen, arms, neck, filling him up like an infestation, a virus.
For a few seconds, he felt this longing, a stretch of emptiness, hollow. So fucking hollow. Like he couldn't breathe, and if he did, the air would go in and get consumed in a void of nothing. He felt so empty.
"Jungkook," Jimin let out, eyes wide.
"J-Jungkook, I'm-I'm so sorry-" Jimin started, but then Jungkook turned around, looking at the rest of them with watery eyes.
"T-T-Taehyung," Jungkook whispered, feeble, barely coherent. Jin walked up to him, wrapping his arms around him quickly, for Jungkook almost fell to the floor.
"I know- I-I know- I'm sorry, I'm so sorry," Jin whispered, but he also knew Jungkook's skin was turning a dark silver, and if he didn't treat it now, Jungkook might not make it either.
"He- h-he must've transported into the other thing!" Jungkook suddenly said, eyes going bright, tears reaching them as he tried so hard to push this whole thing away.
"H-Hobi- go c-check. There was an extra transporter in t-the engine room, r-right? Y-you made two!"
Hoseok stood there for a few seconds, hands bundling up in fists beside him, looking down. "J-Jungkook, I'm sorry-" Hoseok let out in a whisper, and Jungkook shook his head, refusing to believe it.
"No- n-no-" Jungkook started, and Jin tried taking him into the medical room, but he pushed him away. "No!" Jungkook snapped, and then looked at Namjoon.
"You said it was safe!" Jungkook shouted, face red. "Y-you said I'd make it out alive- you- y-you promised!" Jungkook screamed, tears falling out of his eyes. Namjoon gulped, walking closer to it.
"I know," Namjoon said, and Jungkook pushed him away, vision going blurry, from the tears, and the exhaustion, the pain.
"H-he w-wasn't supposed to die, I was!" Jungkook cried, and Namjoon grabbed him close.
"Kookie," Namjoon let out, voice strained, in a whisper. "I-I know t-this is really hard for you- a-and I'm so sorry, I-I really am-" Namjoon started, and Jungkook cried into his shoulder. "But- you- you need to get some rest, or you'll get really sick."
"I don't care! I-I don't care- he- has to be alive- he just- h-he can't just die like that! He c-came to save me, a-and-" Jungkook said, and then fell to the floor, not being able to hold himself up much longer, eyes sliding closed as his hands planted firmly to the ground to keep himself steady.
"T-Taehyungie," Jungkook squeaked out sadly, losing himself to his cried. His sobs only got louder, not trying to control it anymore. Jin walked up to him, lifting him up carefully and carrying him into the medicine room.
"I-I don't want him to die," Jungkook said softly, and Jin wiped Jungkook's tears away, ters in his own eyes.
"None of us do," Jin replied uietly, and Jungkook sniffled.
"I-It's all my fault. If I just- I-I don't know what happened. I froze. I couldn't move- I-I started seeing this black illusion like everything was in shapes and circles a-and-" Jungkook stammered, and Jin looked at him. "If I just.. did something properly for once he'd still be alive,"
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"Jungkook, don't- don't blame yourself-"
"But it's my fault! It's all my fucking fault!" Jungkook cried, and Jin put a pill in a glass of water, handing it to Jungkook. "It's all my fault that he's dead."
"Drink this, please," Jin said, and Jungkook shook his head, but Jin tipped it down his throat and he downed it completely. In the span of a few seconds, Jungkook felt drowsy and fell onto the bed, falling asleep.
Jin turned around to walk out of the room and saw Jimin crying into Hoseok's shoulder, while the older consoled him while looking close to tears himself.
"Namjoon?" Jin whispered, and Namjoon, who was sitting on the captain's chair looking outside with a darkened expression, looking at Jin. "Is Taehyung r-really gone?"
Namjoon looked at him for a few seconds, and then looked back ahead.
"Y-yeah," Namjoon breathed out, and Jin closed his eyes for a bit, trying to compose himself.
Yoongi looked at the monitor, which was static, earlier displaying the planet. He gulped dryly, neglecting the emptiness growing like roots inside of him. Everyone was.
"Guys," Yoongi let out, and everyone looked at him. "What- um- what happened to Jungkook? On the planet? He froze out of nowhere. And now he's saying he saw black swirls?"
Namjoon looked at him, a sudden stir. "Wait a minute-" Namjoon started, and then stood up from his chair. "The planet was going to explode. Jungkook... saw black swirls and felt like he was getting hypnotized. And- and he couldn't move-"
"Sel'uls." Hoseok cut him off with worried yet widened eyes, and Jimin looked at them, frowning.
"W-what's that?"
"Sel'uls are aliens from the planet Selour. They have a history for going to planets to steal its resources, so I'm guessing they wanted to get the lava from this one. They can hypnotize entities from a faraway distance through this enhanced technology they've acquired, which is probably what they used on Jungkook." Namjoon explained, and Jin frowned as well.
"How can you be sure? I mean.. maybe he just got scared or something. He has been ill lately," Jin said.
"No- no I think Namjoon's right. It makes sense. Before Taehyung left to go get Jungkook he... looked awfully frightened. He knew what it was. He knew it was those aliens trying to get Jungkook," Yoongi said, and Jimin's shoulders dropped at the mention of Taehyung.
"You're right," Jimin mumbled. "Maybe it's that. Or maybe it's the fact that there's a gigantic spaceship right in front of ours-" Jimin said, pointing outside the window.
Everyone looked outside, and Namjoon's eyes widened, seeing a gigantic black square shaped spaceship moving towards them slowly, four times the size of their ship.
"M-maybe it's friendly... we don't know if it's Sel'uls." Hoseok stammered.
Signal alert. Communicating... The computer voice spoke, and Yoongi turned towards the communications table. "They sent us a message. It says 'warning, we are Sel'uls'. Yup, it's them." Yoongi said, and Namjoon groaned.
"Dammit! Dammit- this isn't good. We need to get rid of that thing before they do something bad." Namjoon snapped.
"Maybe t-they just want to warn us... maybe they won't shoot-"
"'Warning, we will definitely shoot' I-I think they might." Yoongi stammered, and Hoseok groaned.
"What do we do??" Jin asked Namjoon, who looked ahead, and then took in a deep breath.
"I'll go in there talk to the leader," Namjoon said firmly, and Jimin frowned.
"Have you seen any movies?? This is the part where you go in there and get killed! Not it!" Jimin snapped, and Namjoon sighed.
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"What do you suppose we do, Jimin?" Namjoon asked, and Jimin gulped.
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"What're we doinggg," Jungkook mumbled, getting dragged out the control room and into the control room.
"You're changing. We're going on a mission." Yoongi said, and Jungkook felt his tight red clothes coming off and a shirt being pulled over his head.
"Mmmm.." Jungkook whined, rubbing his eyes with his fists. "Sleepy..... want Taehyungie..."
Yoongi's breath hitched, and he looked at Jin, who was rummaging through the storage. "The medicine I gave him made him loopy. He might act weird for a while." Jin said, and Jungkook poked Yoongi's forehead.
"Where's... TaeTae?" Jungkook asked grumpily, and Yoongi sighed. "Don't worry about it, Jungkook. We need to do this, and then maybe we can go home." Yoongi smiled.
"But-" Jungkook squeaked, and looked away and outside the window, and saw them right in front of a big ship. Jungkook's eyes widened. He then looked outside for a few seconds and looked back at Yoongi. "Big ship."
"Yes."
"Scary big ship."
"Indeed,"
"Is it gonna.." Jungkook leaned in to whisper. "Eat us?"
"Maybe. Go put a helmet on, and listen to Jimin's instructions." Yoongi said, and Jungkook nodded, putting a helmet on the wrong way and rushed over to Jimin, who was in the hallway.
"Jungkook! Great. We have no time to discuss the plan, so just follow along, okay?" Jimin said, and Jungkook nodded his head, helmet flopping.
Jimin put something in Jungkook's hand, and Jungkook looked at it for a few seconds, registering what it was in his brain. Jimin looked at him, and then patted his shoulder. "Don't worry. Taehyung will always be here with you, okay?"
Jungkook tilted his head. "Haha... silly Jiminie... of course he will be here with me... he's right here," Jungkook said, pointing to the side, and then realizing Taehyung wasn't there.
Jungkook then looked around and realized Taehyung was nowhere. Jungkook gulped, a rotting realization creeping into him. He dropped his head down. "T-Taehyungie..."
"I-I'm sorry, Jungkook. I didn't mean to make you upset! Please, j-just- don't think about this right now. We've landed the spaceship inside the other spaceship. Let's get off." Jimin said, and Jungkook nodded sadly and followed Jimin to the exit of the spaceship.
The other boys were there, and once Jungkook reached there, he realized what he had in his hands was a raygun. Great. Jungkook, in this state of mind, with a gun in his hand that could kill. Great.
Jungkook climbed down the steps of the spaceship and then tripped and fell to the ground, which was like a spaceship holding pad the gigantic spaceship had. Hoseok groaned and helped Jungkook up. Jungkook squeaked out a sorry, rubbing his eyes with fists.
"Don't rub your eyes," Namjoon said, grabbing Jungkook's hand and pulling it down. Jungkook whined softly, and then saw the other boys quiet, looking serious.
"Okay Jimin. We're following your plan. This could go terribly, but we'll do as you say." Namjoon said, and Jimin nodded, standing in front, holding a gun in his hands.
"Let's go," Jimin said, and then they all ran towards the entrance of the spaceship. They opened the door and walked in, and grinned when they saw no one there.
Suddenly, they heard some kind of a weird bubbling sound. "Everyone look down at the floor!" Namjoon pointed, and Jungkook didn't follow, so he continued looking up, but Jin grabbed his head and pointed it down.
They heard the alien language, so Jin turned around and shot his gun, and then looked up and saw a yellow and black colored alien on the floor, white blood pouring out of his chest where Jin shot him. The aliens had four eyes which sat tightly in their sockets and could often make them appear to be evil. Their eyesight is great at distances, which helps them with the hypnotizing.
"Oh no! I feel bad! What if he had a family?" Jin said, and Namjoon tsked, but then they kept rushing down the hallways of the spaceship. They reached a point where they were three hallways.
"Okay, so do as my plan says. Everyone, split!" Jimin snapped, and then Jimin and Hoseok ran one way. Namjoon and Jin the other. Yoongi grabbed Jungkook's hand and dragged him through another hallway.
"W-where's Taehyung?" Jungkook asked, and Yoongi looked at him sadly. Before he could respond, they heard some gunshot sounds (pew pew) and Jungkook widened his eyes.
Jungkook stopped in his steps and covered his eyes. "L-loud."
"Not now Cherry." Yoongi snapped, and grabbed Jungkook's hand and dragged him along. They suddenly saw two aliens in uniform.
"Hey! You two! How did you get on here-" One of them shouted, and Yoongi shot one of them in the stomach, making him fall to the ground. Yoongi pointed his gun at the other one, who was about to shoot, but then Jungkook shot him in the knee, so he fell.
"Good job," Yoongi said, and Jungkook nodded expressionlessly, and followed behind Yoongi.
Yoongi entered a room and saw it completely room. He grinned. "Great! Now we need to find the resources-" Yoongi said, and Jungkook followed him.
They walked to the front, seeing a bunch of shiny mechanical gizmos lying in a box. "Shiny... like my Taehyungie," Jungkook pouted sadly while looking down, and Yoongi patted his back, but then began looking through the box.
"Freeze!" A voice shouted, and Yoongi and Jungkook froze. Their eyes widened, and they turned around slowly and saw 5 guards standing there holding guns up.
"Weapons on the round!" Another guard shouted, and Yoongi groaned and dropped the gun, and Jungkook looked weary but dropped it as well.
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Jin and Namjoon were caught as well. Jimin and Hoseok were as well. "This plan was fucking awful, who came up with it?!"
"You, Jimin! You came up with it! Because you thought it's a big ship and they couldn't possibly have that many people on it!" Jin snapped, and Jimin rolled his eyes.
They were dragged into a room which was full of guards. They were all standing holding guns, staring at the six boys who were pushed onto their knees on the floor silently. Jungkook ooked down at the floor, eyes watering.
"You shall meet our current leader." The guard said, and Jungkook sniffled. "W-what if he tried to impregnate me again?" Jungkook squeaked, and the boys looked at him sadly.
"Don't worry Jungkookie," Hoseok said, and then shut up when they all heard footsteps.
Someone walked into the room, and Jungkook continued looking down. He suddenly heard the footsteps stop, and heard a gasp. Jungkook looked up, and then his eyes widened.
"All hail king !" One of the guards yelled.
Silver spiky hair, a sleeveless black shirt, black under eyeliner, black trousers, and a fucking cape.
"Taehyungie!" Jungkook suddenly let out and then started wriggling to get out of the tight restraints he was in, moving frantically.
"T-Taehyungie!!" Jungkook cried, practically toppling over.
It was Taehyung. Standing there. In the flesh. Not dead.
"Who?" Taehyung let out, frowning. "I'm King Vrux of planet Selour."
"Taehyung what the fuck is going on? We thought you died!" Namjoon snapped, and 'King Vrux' rose his eyebrow.
"I don't know who this man is you are talking about. I know who I am. And I am... a king." Taehyung said, looking up. The guards clapped, and the six boys who were on their knees widened their eyes in confusion.
"Now now now. You entered our ship and tried to kill us all, huh? Who's dumbass idea was this?" King Vrux's voice boomed, and Jungkook's eyes were still gleaming, because fuck. He looked exactly like Taehyung. He was just dressed different and had his hair spiked up. His eyes were still that pretty silver that Jungkook adored.
"Fucking guess." Yoongi snapped.
"How would I guess I don't know any of you. Anyways- the punishment for this is hard and- and cruel. And my guards will beat you until you die!" King Vrux/Taehyung shouted, and Jungkook gulped.
"Taehyung cut it out," Jimin said, looking up at him angrily.
"Who the fuck is Taehyung- you cut it out! Jeez. Anyways... guards, leave. I'm going to kill them on my own because they're annoying me now." King Vrux growled, and the guards all nodded, and then turned around and left the room in a line.
They all waited until every single guard left and the door closed. "Okay, what's going on-" Hoseok started.
"Quiet! Will you shut up? This is my ship, so you adhere by MY rules!" King Vrux shouted, and Jungkook gulped, getting tears in his eyes.
"Y-you're scary..." Jungkook squeaked. "I-I miss Taehyungie... I-I want Taehyungie!!" Jungkook let out, and then began crying. Loud bawling, like a baby.
Everyone's eyes widened, and the boys looked at Jungkook, and then looked at King Vrux. The king walked up to Jungkook angrily, looked down at him for a few seconds, and then pushed him back so he was against the wall.
Jungkook whimpered and then continued to cry. King Vrux knelt down, looking at him with darkened eyes for a few seconds, and then-
"Baby, it's me," Taehyung whispered into his ear, and Jungkook's crying halted. "I-I can't be too loud, okay? There are cameras in here and stuff. Don't cry, baby." Taehyung said softly.
Jungkook's eyes widened. He looked at Taehyung with gleaming eyes, and Taehyung cleared his throat and took a step back.
"Ahem. Anyways... I am a king and not anyone else, so follow me to the... place where I... erm... kill you."
Taehyung opened the door and then walked out. Once he was outside the room, he looked at the boys. "Guys! It's me! Kim Taehyung!"
"We know, dumbass! Why the fuck do you look like that? Who's King Vrux? We thought you died!!" Jin whispered-yelled.
"I know, I know! I'll explain everything, just- follow me." Taehyung said, and the boys nodded.
Jungkook got up and walked behind Jimin, who looked angry. Jungkook leaned in. "King Vrux is kinda hot."
"Shut the fuck up." Jimin whisper-snapped and Jungkook giggled, still a little loopy.
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