Sehun laid unconscious on a cross shaped table, his wrists, elbows, and ankles locked in restraints. Many wires were attached to him, making it possible for the doctors watching him from the observation room above to monitor his status. His wounds continued to bleed, dripping onto the table and floor.

"Respiration: 27, Pulse: 57. Body Temperature: 94.1 degrees and rising..."

Sehun awoke and his eyebrows slightly twitched, the medical technician watching him noticed.

"Huh?"

Hyang Ki leaned forward to look at the monitor, "What is it?"

"I thought he moved."

Hyang Ki paused, glancing down at Sehun through their observation window, "Keep monitoring him."

Sehun remained still, but he slightly opened his eyes to look at his surroundings.

"I've been captured. This is the treatment room on the fiftieth floor of the OZ Military number three medical building in the South G.A.P. area."

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Junmyeon sat with his hands interlocked on his desk, Colonel Jongin standing next to him. Surrounding them on either side of the desk, attached to the wall, were long banners bearing the symbol of OZ.

They were busy watching a monitor placed in front of them. On the screen, a man saluted Junmyeon before holding up a small usb drive.

"We found this on the boy. It's protected with high level encoding. It won't take an access code."

Jongin looked down at the piece of hardware with a doubtful expression, "I thought OZ's main computer was able to open any file."

Junmyeon raised his hand to silence Jongin, "Keep trying. Obviously it must contain vital information. I want all our top men on this."

"Yes sir."

Junmyeon pressed a button on the monitor to turn it off.

"Do you think he is one of the secret agents of the rebels?" Jongin asked after a short pause.

"It's too early for that kind of conclusion."

Junmyeon hit another button on the monitor and suddenly Doctor Hyang Ki appeared on the screen.

"Give me the report on the boy you found at the G.A.P base."

"He's in excellent physical condition, and although he has over 200 bruises and broken bones, his only visible injury is the burn on his arm. It's obvious he's not just any ordinary kid."

"Should we use truth serum?" Jongin asked with a dark look in his eyes.

"No! I don't want to use such a strong drug on a boy that age."

Junmyeon raised his hand again, "Let us wait until he has regained consciousness. If he refuses to talk, then we will discuss our options further."

Doctor Hyang Ki made a rather upset expression, "Drugs like that may permanently damage his brain functions! His brain is still developing, you should never-"

"How dare you! You are under OZ's control now! You are to follow orders!" Jongin yelled as he harshly placed his palm on the desk.

Once again Junmyeon raised his hand, "Doctor, please update me immediately of any changes. That will be all."

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Baekhyun leaned himself against the wall inside a phone booth, holding the phone close to his face. He was dressed in some trendy street clothes, which was a large contrast to his usual polished image at school.

He was wearing a large baggy hoodie that fell to his mid thigh, accompanied by tight black pants and laced up boots. A long earring was dangling from one of his ears, and his eyes were outlined with eyeliner. On his back was a large backpack, and he was holding onto a stick like device, which looked like a propeller.

"Yeah, that will do. Also the car is broken, so I'd like you to have my lunch ready at the back of the wheat field, if you would. Thanks!"

Speaking in code, Baekhyun communicated to his friend that an Exo Suit would need to be retrieved, and that he would need to picked up on the beach. Baekhyun hung up the phone and looked over at the nearby medical building.

"Now then, it's time to visit the patient."

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Inside the monitoring room above Sehun, the medical technician was busying himself looking at his phone, occasionally glancing up to check on the monitors.

Sehun groaned and carefully tried to get loose from his restraints, but he stopped once he suddenly heard a hiss of static from one of the monitors on a nearby piece of equipment. Baekhyun's face suddenly appeared.

Baekhyun had managed to knock out some of the medical staff, and they were laying on the floor next to him unconscious. Baekhyun smiled as he started to silently talk to Sehun.

"I'm sure you're a well trained soldier like myself. You must be able to read my lips, right?"

Sehun didn't make any indication that he understood the words Baekhyun was saying, but his eyes stayed focused on Baekhyun's mouth, and that was enough for Baekhyun to continue.

"You're really amazing! You've been awake all this time without changing your pulse or breathing pattern...That's impressive. I'd like to ask you some questions, and in return I'll help you get out of here."

Up above in the monitoring room, the door opened and Hyang Ki entered followed by Kyungsoo. The medical technician quickly put away his phone before Hyang Ki could see it.

"Any changes?"

"Nothing to report, Dr. Do."

Suddenly the room was rocked by an explosion, almost sending Hyang Ki to the floor before Kyungsoo caught her.

"What was that?"

Alarms began sounding in the building and Kyungsoo looked down at the room where they were holding Sehun. Baekhyun was slowly revealed standing in a billowing cloud of smoke at the entrance of a rather large hole that now existed in the side of the room.

Doctors and OZ personnel began running throughout the facility, yelling excitedly as the alarms were sounding loudly and flashing red lights filled the halls.

"Hurry, before he escapes!"

Baekhyun set his propeller device aside as he kneeled down next to Sehun's table. He took out his knife as he examined his bindings and tried to determine the best way to free him.

"How do you get these things off?"

Sehun extended a bloody hand to him, and Baekhyun realized he had already forcibly removed one of his hands, causing damage to himself.

"Just give me the knife, I can do it."

Baekhyun cringed, watching the blood drip off his fingers as he handed Sehun the knife. Sehun sliced his way out of the remaining restraints and quickly hopped off the table.

Baekhyun began to run down the hallway, holding onto his propeller device. Sehun ran next to him, now wearing the backpack Baekhyun was previously wearing.

"This way!" Baekhyun yelled as he threw a grenade at the window.

Sehun and Baekhyun hit the floor and covered their faces while the grenade detonated. Amidst the smoke, Sehun and Baekhyun jumped up and leapt out the window, Baekhyun first and Sehun right behind him.

Baekhyun held up his propeller device, which began to spin and slow down his decent towards the beach. Sehun plummeted head first with his eyes closed towards the rocks below, it didn't seem like he was going to open the parachute inside his backpack.

Sehun planned on falling to the rocks below, forfeiting his life. He had failed his mission, and his Exo suit had already fallen into enemy hands. In his mind, his life no longer held any importance besides becoming a useful tool for OZ.

"Wu!!"

Upon hearing Baekhyun's voice however, Sehun suddenly broke out of his trance and opened his eyes. Not really knowing why, he pulled on the strap to activate his parachute.

Baekhyun watched Sehun painfully, "...It's too late."

The parachute failed to open completely, and Sehun quickly shed himself from the straps as he got close to the cliff wall that separated the base of the hospital building from the ocean.

Hyang Ki and Kyungsoo came to the window just in time to see Sehun smack into the cliffs and begin tumbling down the the jagged rocks, until he eventually hit the sand and rolled to a stop. Baekhyun held his breath as he stared at Sehun's body laying on the beach.

They were all amazed to see Sehun only rest for a short moment before he lifted himself off the ground and awkwardly stood up, only crouching a little bit from the pain of his broken leg.

Hyang Ki hung out the window, keeping her eyes on Sehun, "...He's still alive. Incredible. I really hope that boy's not one of our enemies."

Kyungsoo didn't respond, his expression hardened as he kept his eyes focused on Sehun.

Baekhyun landed on the beach a short distance from Sehun and immediately ran towards him.

"Dammit! What am I doing!?"

Baekhyun cautiously approached Sehun, analyzing his body in amazement, "...You're still alive..."

A ship suddenly moved within sight of the beach and Baekhyun turned his head to look at it. Baekhyun quickly went over to Sehun to support him, placing Sehun's arm over his shoulder to start walking.

"I know it sounds corny, but all you can do right now is trust me."

Sehun remained silent as Baekhyun lead him towards the pick-up point.

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Baekhyun helped Sehun step onto the salvage ship, and Sehun immediately noticed the Exo Suit sitting on board.

Baekhyun smiled, "That's my suit. EXO Light."

Sehun turned his head to look at him, "...So you're an EXO Pilot."

Baekhyun paused, staring at him curiously, "Yeah, I thought you knew that. Isn't that why you were trying to kill me?"

"No, you saw my face."

Baekhyun nodded, "Oh I see. You're an EXO Pilot too, right? That suit you were trying to destroy is yours?"

Sehun didn't answer, he just stared back at Baekhyun blankly.

"You're not trying to go through with Operation Meteor, are you?"

"No. I have chosen my own objective."

"And what is that?"

"To destroy the OZ bases here on Earth and eliminate OZ officials."

Baekhyun paused and smiled at him, "Good, it looks like we're on the same side then. I'm also here to stop OZ."

Sehun remained silent again, continuing to stare at Baekhyun with his emotionless expression.

"Now that I know you're not the enemy, let's get your suit back!"

They were suddenly approached by another man, and Baekhyun smiled at him.

"Hey Yixing, thanks for picking us up!"

"Of course. We should be arriving to the coordinates you gave me in a short while."

Baekhyun nodded, "I appreciate it."

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Once they arrived to the location where Sehun's Exo Suit had last been seen, Baekhyun began to operate the controls to hoist the Exo Suit out of the water.

"There you go." Baekhyun smiled.

Baekhyun turned to see why Sehun didn't respond to the recovery of his Exo Suit, and found Sehun laying on his back gripping onto his leg with both his hands, seemingly wrestling with himself. Baekhyun watched him curiously for a moment.

"Are you ok?"

Sehun rolled back and forth on the deck, making painful groaning and grunting sounds as he continued to wrestle with his leg, until at last it made a sickening crunching noise. Baekhyun cringed at the unpleasant sound.

"Ahhh..."

He watched as Sehun leaned himself against the guard rail to begin carefully splinting a wrench to his thigh.

"Did he seriously just treat his own broken bone?!"

Baekhyun watched in awe as Sehun limped over to the recovery tank and peered down at his Exo Suit, which was still partially submerged in the ocean and connected to it's recovery cables.

"He's really something else..."

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Whooohoooo! Another chapter down. Are you guys getting into it? I really hope so (⋟﹏⋞)

I'll keep adding the character ages as more people appear.

Yixing: 24