Turns out Taehyung was alive.

Jungkook was kind of, lowkey, on the down low, freaking the fuck out. He was still kind of high off the meds, so kept on squealing to Jimin about oh my god Jimin I think Taehyung's alive so Jimin stuffed a ball into his mouth.

"Don't spit it out." Jimin snapped, and Jungkook made a confused whine around the gag, probably asking where the fuck did you get a bright red ball from? But Jimin just turned around and continued walking behind the other boys.

Everyone was silent, taking soft steps towards wherever Taehyung was leading them. None of them knew what was going on still, and Yoongi mumbled a couple of times that they were all brainwashed and merely seeing Taehyung and that made Jungkook cry a little so Yoongi shut up.

"Where are we going?"

"Your mom's house."

"Guys shut up! The aliens could be anywhere! They're very good at sensing when someone's close by-" Taehyung whisper-snapped, and then turned a corner and froze.

Aliens. Taehyung gulped. "Y-yabadabadooba." Taehyung let out.

"OMG bilingual KING!" Jimin exclaimed, and then started clapping his hands. The aliens, confused by this random cheering, started clapping as well.

The aliens walked past, and Taehyung continued walking, breaking a sweat on his forehead. "Literally what is going on-"

"Shut up, Yoongi! I'll explain everything! By the way- time on this ship passes like back on their planet because they have high-level tech. I've been here for 3 years!"

"What?!" Jin shouted, and Namjoon placed his hand over Jin's mouth. "Holy shit Tae- really?"

"Nah, I've been here for a month. Still as bad, though." Taehyung said, and then walked into a room on the side which was cordoned off. He waited for all the boys to come in, and saw Jungkook in the end, walking in slowly.

"Why do you have a ball in his mouth?"

Jungkook shrugged, and Taehyung reached to remove it; "Keep it there, Kim." Jimin growled lowly from behind him, so Taehyung just kept it, and then turned around, closing the door. Jungkook's shoulders dropped, but he looked at Taehyung.

Jungkook reached forward to hug him, but Taehyung turned around before Jungkook could. "So! Here's the deets-"

"Don't say deets every again."

"Here's the tails."

"That's somehow worse."

"Oh my god, would you let me talk!" Taehyung snapped and then sighed. "I missed you guys."

Jungkook reached forward and tried to hug him, tried to say I missed you too- but Taehyung stopped him midway and just gave him an awkward friendly pat on the shoulder.

"Is there a reason Jungkook has a ball in his mouth?"

"Don't ask unnecessary questions, Seokjin," Jimin said, and Jin gulped.

"Here's what happened. The planet exploded. I saved Jungkook- and it was because I knew the reason he stopped midway was that he saw these aliens. I'd done my in-depth study paper on these aliens- so I realized instantly. However, they transported me to their ship the split second before the planet exploded." Taehyung spoke.

The boys nodded, so Taehyung continued. "I reached here, and since I knew how these aliens worked, I knew that they're easily manipulated. So I made up some sob story about how I'm a long lost king and this and that- and it took them, like, 3 weeks for them to believe me." Taehyung laughed.

"Oh jeez. What'd you do for those 3 weeks?"

"Rot in a prison cell in complete darkness engulfed with my inner thoughts," Taehyung said with a grin, and then looked at Namjoon.

"I'm really glad you guys came on here, I'd been waiting for a long time. Though, now that you guys have come here to save me, I'm wondering how we'll get out..." Taehyung trailed, and Jimin frowned.

"Wait a minute- you have no way of getting us out of here? What's wrong with you! All of us are stuck here now?!" Jimin snapped, and Hoseok looked at him with confusion.

"Jesus, Jimin. What's got you acting like a top today?"

"Shut your whore mouth."

"O-okay."

"I do know how to get out, Jimin. We can take one of the pods back to our ship... or- well. We could fight them to the exit and then rush onto our ship and use the fuel we have to get as far as we can." Taehyung said.

"I like the second option! Can we use swords."

"What? No- we're gonna use our ray guns. Shoot these aliens in the legs so they stop walking. But don't kill them." Taehyung said, and the boys nodded.

"If those alien dudes aren't gonna come in here- then can we just chill? Your room's big and spacious, and I haven't slept in the past week." Namjoon said, and Taehyung chuckled.

"Sure. I think you guys need a nap. Jimin especially-"

"Did I fucking ask?" Jimin snapped, and Taehyung gulped.

"N-no. Sorry."

"That's what I thought." Jimin snarked, and then walked over to the couch on the side and fell on top of it and literally fell asleep in an instant.

Yoongi and Hoseok curled up on the couch, Yoongi leaning against him. Jin laid his head against the back of the couch, and Namjoon lay down, his head on Jin's lap.

Taehyung looked around and then saw Jungkook, who was standing there idly, looking at Taehyung with big eyes. Taehyung walked up to him, and then took the ball gag out of his mouth. "Jimin put this in your mouth to make you stop talking?"

Jungkook nodded.

Taehyung chuckled. "Okay... are you feeling sleepy?"

Jungkook nodded again.

"You know you can talk, right?" Taehyung said softly, and Jungkook blushed. "I-I know. I wanted to talk to you, actually."

"Oh. Um- sure. But how about you take a quick nap first, yeah?" Taehyung said, and Jungkook nodded somberly and then saw a big plush couch on the side, so he walked over to it and lay down, finding it immensely uncomfortable.

"Feels like rocks."

"I know, it sucks." Taehyung snickered, and Jungkook looked up at him.

"Come sleep with me." Jungkook said, and Taehyung looked at him for a few seconds.

"I- um- I'm not that sleepy. In fact- I-I have some work. So. Bye." Taehyung said, and then turned around to walk away.

"Oh." Jungkook mumbled to himself but found himself drifting to sleep nonetheless. Everything could be avoided for a bit. For right now, all he wanted to do was rest.

-

Jungkook woke up to some kind of tingling on his cheek. He moved his face a little but then felt that slight swish of something airy on his face again. Jungkook whined in distress, and then opened his eyes, and saw two big black eyes staring into his.

"Ah! He's awake! The human's awake-" Jungkook blinked his eyes and sat up in confusion, rubbing his eyes. His vision was a little foggy, but when it cleared up, he saw a girl.

A girl with long white hair, olive skin, big black eyes, wearing a space suit. "Good evening. Sorry for waking you from your nap,"

"I-it's fine," Jungkook said groggily and then cleared his throat. "Who- who are you?"

"Oh! I'm Lavender! Lav for short. I was taken hostage onto this spaceship. Your friend Taehyung said he could help me!" She chirped, rather bubbly.

"Oh... sorry, Taehyung didn't tell me. Sorry that you got taken hostage," Jungkook said, and the girl giggled. She looked about Jungkook's age.

"Oh, don't fret it. It's fun! Not really. It's terrible. But that's okay! Things happen! You should probably get up- Taehyung's planning on leaving now." Lav spoke fast, and Jungkook nodded quickly.

He looked around and saw none of the other boys there. Why didn't Taehyung wake him up? Anyways, Jungkook got out of the bed and followed Lav out of the room they were in and into a small room on the side.

When Jungkook walked in, he saw all the other boys there. Taehyung saw Jungkook and his eyes grew big. Taehyung walked towards him.

"Are you alright?" Taehyung asked softly, and Jungkook felt himself feel lighter, his head feeling better now.

"Yeah, I'm-" Jungkook started, but then Taehyung walked right past him, and Jungkook realized he wasn't talking to him.

"I'm fine! I met your friend, Jungkook. Funny how you didn't introduce me to them, hmm?" Lav giggled, nudging Taehyung. Taehyung chuckled awkwardly and then turned to the boys.

"Guys, this is Lav. She's from planet Nour. She's been here for two months now. She knows about my situation," Taehyung said, and Namjoon smiled.

"Hi. I'm Namjoon-"

"The captain of the ship! I know! Taehyung told me!" Lav squealed. "And you must be Yoongi! Taehyung told me you had black hair and were small. You must be Hoseok! Ooh- you are very radiant!" Lav said, and then turned. "You must be Jin! Taehyung was right, your shoulders are really wide! And- and you must be Jimin! Ooh- Taehyung's best friend." Lav said with a smile.

"Aw, best friend? That's nice. I prefer homeboy-"

"That's enough, Park." Taehyung mumbled, and for some reason, he looked a little hesitant and shy.

Lav looked at Jungkook. Jungkook waited for the loud outburst, but Lav just smiled. "I'm sorry, I'm not sure who you are."

Jungkook paused, and then looked at Taehyung, who cleared his throat quickly. "That's- that's Jungkook, Lav. I told you who he was. Many times." Taehyung said quickly, and Lav looked at Taehyung, confused.

"What're you on about? You've never told me about him- I presumed there were six of you on the ship-"

"Lav, sshh." Taehyung whispered, and then turned to the boys. Jungkook looked at Taehyung with confusion and Taehyung gulped when he saw Jungkook staring at him, and turned to look at the rest of them. "If it's not a problem, I'd like it if we could drop Lav back to her planet. She got kidnapped by these aliens too, but they didn't listen to her and threw her in a dungeon. I helped her out when I came here. Is that okay, Namjoon?"

"Of course, Tae. You'll have a good time, Lav. We're all, like, very gay." Namjoon said.

Lav gasped, turning to look at Taehyung. "You're gay?"

Taehyung blushed lightly. "What- um- I'm- I'm bisexual, I thought I told you-"

"No, you only told me you were into girls-"

"Shut up, Lav!!" Taehyung mumbled quickly, turning blue. Lav just giggled. She seemed quite airy and blunt, and Jungkook couldn't stop looking at her with this weird feeling in his gut.

"So, we're just gonna fight our way out of this, and get into our ship. Does everyone have guns?" Taehyung asked, and everyone nodded.

"Cool. I'm going to go check if everything's okay. Jin, you're civilized, talk to Lav." Taehyung said, patting Lav's back. Jin nodded.

Jimin walked up to Taehyung. "Hey so... what was that?"

"What was what?"

"Her. Did you really not tell her about Jungkook?" Jimin asked.

"It- it just slipped my mind," Taehyung said quickly, putting metallic liquid bullets into the gun.

"...Right. And you not telling her you're into men, that was also a slip of mind?"

"Yup." Taehyung said, not looking at Jimin.

"Okay. Sure. Um- anyways... sorry for snapping at you earlier. I hadn't slept for, like 56 hours." Jimin said, and Taehyung looked at him.

"You woke up in the middle of your sleep, slapped me, and went back to sleep."

"It be like that sometimes-"

"I hate you-"

"Taehyung?" A voice came, and Taehyung turned and saw Jungkook. "Can we talk?"

"Not- not now, Jungkook. We need to go-"

"It'll just take a few minutes," Jungkook said, looking at Taehyung deeply. Taehyung gulped.

"Later," Taehyung said, clapping the back of Jungkook's back off-handedly and then walking out of the room.

Jungkook stood there for a few seconds, and then looked down, a dusk setting on the day of his mind. Jimin saw him and sighed. "Hey, cheer up. Taehyung's alive, and we're all going home."

"Yay." Jungkook mumbled, and then grabbed a gun, filling it up with the liquid bullets as well.

"So, Lavender. Tell us a bit about yourself." Hoseok said, and Lav grinned.

"My name is Lavender, I'm from Nour, I'm 19 years of age, I LOVE dogs and all things cute and soft- and back on my planet, I'm doing the exploration course in our best university! Taehyung's doing it too, I know." Lav said with a smile.

"Cool. Nice hair, by the way." Yoongi said, and Lav giggled.

Once everyone was done and ready, everyone grabbed their guns and stood in a line, ready to run out and bust some alien ass. Everyone was waiting as the clock ticked beside them, and then- Taehyung kicked the door open.

"Let's boogie, bitches."

"The human operation of their language is fascinating," Lav chirped to Taehyung, who smiled softly.

"Bet it is, Lavie. Now let's get this bread." Taehyung said again in a serious tone, and Lav giggled.

Jungkook looked down but then took a deep breath to regain that joy and energy he had earlier in the day. He doesn't know why his energy feels so low, but it just does. He felt a pat on his back.

"C'mon, Kookie," Yoongi said, and Jungkook moved forward down the line. They rushed out of the room and began running as fast as they could through the middle of the gigantic spaceship.

Jungook saw many aliens, and they all looked at the 8 running people in confusion. They begin shooting, but they were shot down by the boys (and Lav). Jungkook saw an alien point his gun up at him and shot the alien's leg.

Jungkook ran up, but then saw a giant bridge leading from where they were to the other side, and below that bridge (made of metal with no railways) was a dark abyss which led to nowhere, it seemed.

Jungkook gulped and saw Yoongi and Hoseok rush forward, shooting at the guards at front. There were many aliens coming from the other side of the bridge, and the side behind Jungkook. Jimin, Namjoon, and Jin made a run for it, rushing down and helping Yoongi and Hoseok.

Lav turned around and began shooting at the aliens behind her. Jungkook did as well, helping her out. Taehyung rushed forward down the bridge, and then turned around and saw Lav and Jungkook.

"Hurry up!" Taehyung said, and Lav and Jungkook turned around and both began running at once.

The bridge was wide, so they both began running at the same pace, almost reaching Taehyung, who was stood in the middle. Jungkook saw as Taehyung reached his hand out.

Jungkook felt this building sensation inside of him, and stretched his hand out as well, seeing how his pale fingertips which remained slightly silvery almost coiled with the tan longer hands of Taehyung, and Jungkook reached closer- and closer- and closer- and-

Jungkook was pushed back. He looked ahead. Lav caught Taehyung's hand. Taehyung began running with her, while Jungkook remained still.

He felt his throat close up. Lav turned around. "I'm so sorry! Come quickly~" Lav said, reaching her hand out.

Jungkook saw it, closer to his reach this time, but didn't grab it just let out a breath he didn't know he was holding and began running, grasping his gun tighter.

They reached the other side of the platform, and then all shot the guards that were standing and ran out of the gates and onto the spaceship holding area. They saw their big white ship and ran towards it as fast as they could.

"Sir King! Where are you headed off to... with the hostages?" One alien asked in confusion.

Taehyung paused. "Uhhh..." Taehyung hesitated, and then Jimin came up behind him and whacked the alien in the head and sprinted ahead.

Taehyung laughed and followed, and they finally reached their spaceship. The doors opened, and the eight of them piled into it as quickly as they could.

"Wow! This is so nice!" Lav said, looking around with her eyes wide. "And that was so much fun!"

"Fuck- cramp - cramp- cramp cramp cramp-" Jin started muttering, grabbing his side.

"God, I got so scared. Those other aliens almost got you," Taehyung said, looking at Lav.

Jungkook stood behind her and moved past Taehyung and Lav, chucking his gun to the floor. Namjoon was quick to fly the spaceship out of the big spaceship they were in and used the fuel to travel as fast as they could, until they bolted out of the galaxy and in the midst of space itself.

"Great! Let's stay here for a while- and get some food." Namjoon said, and everyone cheered.

Taehyung put his hand on Lav's back. "Let me show you the food here-"

"Ooh, is there pizza?"

"Of course there's pizza!"

Lav rejoiced cutely, and Taehyung chuckled at that. Taehyung began talking to Yoongi and Hoseok about how Pizza sucks on her planet, and Yoongi and Hoseok laughed. Namjoon and Jimin followed the others, while Jungkook stood there.

"Um- Jin?" Jungkook said, and Jin looked at him. "Can I get some more medicine?"

"Oh, why Kook? You alright?" Jin asked, walking up to him.

"Yeah, it's just-" Jungkook started, and then reached his hands out. "The silver stuff is coming back," Jungkook said softly, and this time; he might know why.