「𝐆𝐋𝐈𝐓𝐂𝐇 ; 𝒎𝒂𝒓𝒌𝒔𝒖𝒏𝒈 」

Chapter 1: 𝐆𝐋𝐈𝐓𝐂𝐇 ; 𝚌𝚑𝚊𝚛𝚊𝚌𝚝𝚎𝚛𝚜

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Darling yeah, we both knew it from the start

Some minds are better kept apart

𝐂𝐇𝐀𝐑𝐀𝐂𝐓𝐄𝐑𝐒

𝐌𝐀𝐑𝐊𝐋𝐄𝐄.𝐄𝐗𝐄 ↺ ⎙ ⿸ x

ʬʬʬʬʬʬʬʬʬʬʬʬʬʬʬʬʬʬʬʬʬʬʬʬʬʬ

𝐏𝐀𝐑𝐊𝐉𝐈𝐒𝐔𝐍𝐆.𝐄𝐗𝐄 ↺ ⎙ ⿸ x

ʬʬʬʬʬʬʬʬʬʬʬʬʬʬʬʬʬʬʬʬʬʬʬʬʬʬ

Voices sing, Us or them,

I'm not gonna be lead

When it falls like rain

And your fate's in another hand now

Chapter 2: 𝐒𝐄𝐎𝐔𝐋: 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐏𝐄𝐑𝐅𝐄𝐂𝐓 𝐔𝐓𝐎𝐏𝐈𝐀𝐍 𝐒𝐎𝐂𝐈𝐄𝐓𝐘|

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𝑙𝑜𝑎𝑑𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑑𝑎𝑡𝑎...

𝚈𝙴𝙰𝚁: 𝟺𝟶𝟷𝟽

𝙻𝙾𝙲𝙰𝚃𝙸𝙾𝙽: 𝚂𝙴𝙾𝚄𝙻, 𝙺𝙾𝚁𝙴𝙰|

𝙲𝙸𝚅𝙸𝙻𝙸𝚉𝙰𝚃𝙸𝙾𝙽: 𝚃𝙸𝙴𝚁 𝟸 𝙺𝙰𝚁𝙳𝙰𝚂𝙷𝙴𝚅 𝙲𝙸𝚅𝙸𝙻𝙸𝚉𝙰𝚃𝙸𝙾𝙽|

𝙿𝙻𝙰𝙽𝙴𝚃: 𝙴𝙰𝚁𝚃𝙷|

༉‧₊˚ ✩ ♡︎ ୧ ⛓🦾˖⁺ . ⩩

Key terms:

✦The Kardashev Scale: is a method of measuring a civilization's technological advancement based upon how much usable energy it has at its disposal.

✦Utopia:an imaginary community or society that possesses highly desirable or near- perfect qualities for its members.

✦Artificial Intelligence: the theory and development of computer systems able to perform tasks normally requiring human intelligence, such as visual perception, speech recognition, decision-making, and translation between languages.

✦Dyson Sphere: is a hypothetical megastructure that encompasses a star and captures a large percentage of its solar power output.

✦ Cryptocurrency:a digital currency in which transactions are verified and records maintained by asystem using, rather than by anauthority.

༉‧₊˚ ✩ ♡︎ ୧ ⛓🦾˖⁺ . ⩩

It was a typical Sunday morning for this utopian society. The very infrastructure and atmosphere found in Seoul are strategically designed using advanced technology which screamed major futuristic vibes. Humans are programmed to remain happy and not complain about their perfect lives. Artificial Intelligence is programmed to tend to humanity's needs the zeptosecond humans ask for their assistance. Corporate businesses operate as usual, rapidly creating new advanced technology in which humans are able to heavily rely on in their daily lives without discomfort.

For more context, two millenniums ago (2017), the World Government from past generations worked diligently and creatively in designing what they would like to call as the perfect utopia for future generations to come. To achieve this indispensable task, every nation's leaders signed a truce and placed aside their differences as they equally desired to achieve the idea of a perfect and ideal world. The world leaders then immediately began this top secret mission alongside the best astrophysicists from all over the world to transform from a tier 0.72 civilization located on the Kardashev Scale to a tier 1 civilization. For the human race to achieve this type of civilization, the designated persons in the system must find a way to harness all of Earth's energy which would be the first step of humanity becoming gods of their own planet. Having control over the Earth's natural resources means that humans could also have complete control over the natural forces, like earthquakes, hurricanes, tsunamis, volcanic eruptions and so much more.

After they had completed this mission, they were satisfied, but they weren't satisfied enough. Utopia cannot be achieved without the citizen's cooperation. When Humanity's greatest creation called Artificial Intelligence was created and becoming quite popular with humans, the world leaders decided to use this advanced technology in order to manipulate humans into thinking that AI is the future that will help safeguard the human race (or destroy it... but the public doesn't have to know that part anyways). Of course, the government received both scrutiny and praise from the public. To the world leaders, they collectively thought that since they are the ones in power they don't always have to listen to the citizens' complaints nor praise. Utopia will be achieved with the help of their advanced species, whether they like it or not. And like always, the citizens will thank them for coming up with this oh so innovative idea to create the perfect world like they always wanted. An ideal world where they would finally live without fear and always experience only happiness and joy for the rest of their pathetic little lives.

After all, these corrupt world leaders must keep up with the facade of being the citizens' real life superheroes. It's quite ironic in their case when they all know that the very creation of Artificial Intelligence could either save humanity or destroy all of humanity.

After one thousand years past and the old world leaders were all long dead and gone(a/n: like we'll all be way before the year 4000 😀☠️), the new and current leaders will carry on the torch of achieving a perfect utopian society with even more advanced technology that's bigger and better than before. What do both the present and past leaders have in common? They're both immoral alike. As they say, birds of a feather flock together. The new leaders realised that they didn't want to just keep harnessing disposable energy from the earth alone, they needed more power over something else and that's when they decided to go after the star that she's orbiting, which is the sun. They instructed AI to create a Dyson sphere which could be used to transform the star's light into energy and then automatically transfer this energy back to earth. The creation of this device is known to be one of the most advanced megastructures known to man making the technology almost feeling quite alien to them. With this new and enhanced technological development, the earth achieved the ranking of being a tier 2 civilization, as displayed on the kardashev scale. Having control of both the earth and its star, tier 2 humans have the ability and capability to be at the same level of an alien civilization or even surpass them, but we all know that this futuristic society still has a very long way to go if they want to go as far as achieving immortality and being gods of both the universe and ultimately the multiverse.

You might be wondering, how does being a tier 2 civilization that gained power over the earth's and star's energy, achieve the concept of utopia that the leaders of every generation are so obsessed with?

Simple. Psychological manipulation of society in its entirety. The world leaders used this craft and successfully managed to program the entire human race; brainwashing humans into believing that this utopia will guarantee their safety and happiness, that the utopian laws and justice system actually care for its members' well being even more than the old leaders could ever would and most importantly, why wait to experience a paradise in the afterlife when humans could experience a paradise on earth that's more beautiful, authentic and real than the heaven the believers imagined in their heads.

Humanity, in the end, was sold by the very idea and the world leaders kept their end of the bargain and gave the humans exactly what they desired. A utopia that feels and smells like heaven where members gained free access to food, water, shelter, healthcare, job opportunities and even education. To a certain degree, utopians understood as to why they needed to pay using cryptocurrency to acquire anything else in the world they desire... they didn't want the world leaders to think of them as ungrateful and greedy you know.

A perfect utopian society.

What could possibly go wrong?

↺ ⎙ ⿸ x

𝐑𝐄𝐌𝐄𝐌𝐁𝐄𝐑

𝐓𝐇𝐈𝐒 𝐈𝐒 𝐍𝐎𝐓

𝐉𝐔𝐒𝐓 𝐀 𝐒𝐓𝐎𝐑𝐘,

𝐓𝐇𝐈𝐒 𝐈𝐒 𝐎𝐔𝐑 𝐅𝐔𝐓𝐔𝐑𝐄|

「𝐆𝐋𝐈𝐓𝐂𝐇 ; 𝔪𝔞𝔯𝔨𝔰𝔲𝔫𝔤 」

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So guys this is just the introduction of the entire au just to prepare y'all for what's to come. This is an au that will really overwhelm you with information that you've probably never learned at school (i'm talking about the definitions only lol). My head hurts just by writing this cause my brain is so overloaded with information based off of my research lmaooo. Wasn't anything too exciting imo but i'm for sure hyped for this story omggg. Marksung is such an underrated ship, I hope nctzens can acknowledge that plsss. I really, really, really wanted to add more to this chapter but i just had to cut it short... sigh. I promise I'll make it up to you by next chapter! Anygays how was it? Do tell your conspiracy theories about this chapter in your email (the comment section lol). Btw, my spidey senses tell me that you can't wait for next update :p

Chapter 3: ▌│█║▌║▌║ 𝟬𝟬𝟭 ║▌║▌║█│▌

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𝑙𝑜𝑎𝑑𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑑𝑎𝑡𝑎...

𝚈𝙴𝙰𝚁: 𝟺𝟶𝟷𝟽

𝙻𝙾𝙲𝙰𝚃𝙸𝙾𝙽: 𝚂𝙴𝙾𝚄𝙻, 𝙺𝙾𝚁𝙴𝙰|

𝙲𝙸𝚅𝙸𝙻𝙸𝚉𝙰𝚃𝙸𝙾𝙽: 𝚃𝙸𝙴𝚁 𝟸 𝙺𝙰𝚁𝙳𝙰𝚂𝙷𝙴𝚅 𝙲𝙸𝚅𝙸𝙻𝙸𝚉𝙰𝚃𝙸𝙾𝙽|

𝙿𝙻𝙰𝙽𝙴𝚃: 𝙴𝙰𝚁𝚃𝙷|

༉‧₊˚ ✩ ♡︎ ୧ ⛓🦾 ˖⁺ . ⩩

Key terms:

✦Artificial Superintelligence: an entity capable of surpassing human intelligence by manifesting cognitive skills and developing thinking skills of its own.

༉‧₊˚ ✩ ♡︎ ୧ ⛓🦾 ˖⁺ . ⩩

The incessant beeping of the neon blue electrifying alarm clock caused Jisung to snap his eyes open and groan in complete annoyance. He muttered a few curses under his breath as he remembered that his parents usually disable the soundproof function every school night on his tranquillity cosmos pod bed. As per usual, the bluenette adjusted to his brain being awake as he observed the tiny and circular light globes attached to the round ceiling of the pod under the neon white LED lights for a total duration of five minutes.

Watching the little stars, as he would like to call them, puts his mind at ease, making him forget about all the bad things that occurred to him with the household he was assigned to since birth. Since he's a member of a perfect utopian society, wasn't everyone supposed to live in peace and harmony or was it just an easily detectable lie all along? The teen mentally pushed these worrying and dystopian-like thoughts to the deepest pits of his cranium. All he had to do was forget about it and everything would be in its original state of perfection like he was programmed to be.

Jisung eased up on the comfortable bed to prepare for his routinely eventful solar day on a Sunday morning. The motion sensors from the smart tech bed detected that the host, Jisung was finally awake. Immediately, the teen had to go through a body scan process before even leaving the pod freely. An AI-generated voice then announced,

❝ A pleasant morning, Park Jisung. Body-regulated temperature is 36.59°C (97.86°F). No abnormalities were detected. The percentage of your health status for Sunday, August 11, 4017 is 99.5% healthy ❞

When the AI completed the task of making its general updates on Jisung's health status, the sealed glass entrance opened making a clicking sound. The bluenette's room appeared once he finally came off the gravity-defying bed. The boy's high-tech bedroom design is every 41st-century teenager's dream bedroom and definitely a must-have. A state-of-the-art modern dark-themed cyber room with artificial lighting running in a perfectly straight line around all the crevices and corners of the bedroom, ornaments and souvenirs kept in a glass case due to yearly time travel trips Jisung took with his family, odd geometrically shaped silver and white furniture, and to top it all off, live outer space imagery could be seen through the window in order to give the room that spaceship vibe. Decor similar to this is not just designed for every utopian child though, the wealthiest and most influential cryptocurrency families must be a part of the VIP high society... so consider Jisung a crypto baby (the futuristic term for nepo baby). Anyways, the bluenette heads to the tech-designed comfort bathroom to prepare for a very hectic day. After taking a long shower, the boy came out and commanded his personal biomimetic butterfly drone to fetch him his school uniform. The robot obeyed this order, swiftly flew to the night table, and gave him a thin high-tech neon green glass chip in the palm of his hand.

Yes, a literal chip is his school uniform. So how does this work? Basically, the uniform can be automatically fitted on but the host can manually take it off. The digital gender-neutral school uniform was specifically designed for each student attending Neo Academy. Each student's personal and academic data are stored on the chip. A voice detector is also placed on the chip so that it knows who exactly the uniform belongs to. The materials used to design this very uniform are so unique and intricate that absolutely no one can recreate an exact carbon copy of the uniform. The purpose of this idea made by the school's elite administrative staff is to solely ensure the safety of the students and to detect intruders and spies. Also, this only applies to uniforms and not casual and formal wear. Sounds weirdly cool right?

Since Jisung was feeling too lazy to put on his uniform manually, he placed the microchip on his wrist. The device quickly absorbed itself into the boy's skin in a painless manner. Afterward, a green light shone around his body, and then voila, the cyber green and black star fleet uniform that came with fitted matching cyber glasses and black leather steampunk combat boots was on him. Jisung made sure to check for any imperfections in the neon infinity mirror before he went into a circular elevator which automatically sealed shut and sent him downstairs to the geometric lounge. The second he stepped out of the elevator, the elevator sealed shut once again, this time making a camouflage with the walls of this neo-futuristic mansion. The bluenette's eyes were glued on the holographic television screen as he viewed the morning news neglecting the morning's first meal yet again.

❝China's newest Artificial Superintelligence is making headlines from around Earth's civilization. The creator of this godlike form of advanced technology, Huang Zhijun, stated that his superintelligence, which goes by the name of Huang Renjun, is one of his greatest creations that was introduced to humanity. The President of the International Utopian Organisation is optimistic that this super creation is the key to finding the ultimate secret of humanity achieving immortality and control of the Universe. And just like the President, we are also optimistic for the upcoming future of our perfect utopian society...❞

❝ Young master, it will be detrimental to your health status if you don't eat your breakfast. Eating breakfast beforehand has many benefits, some of which include- ❞

An artificial intelligence called Skylar tries to remind Jisung but they're interrupted by said boy,

❝ I know Skylar, you don't have to keep on reminding me ❞

❝ It irritates Madame Park when you don't follow her orders, young master. She demands nothing but perfection from you ❞

Jisung's fist slightly tightened at the mention of his mother but he kept his composure and sighed in defeat. He knew that the AI was speaking the harsh truth, even if Skylar wasn't programmed to fully understand human emotions. They are only but a general form of artificial intelligence after all. The bluenette then sat at the breakfast table where plates upon plates of delicious healthy and mouth-watering meals were staring at him. Not only was the food metaphorically staring at him but Skylar and the rest of the other robots and AIs were literally staring into his soul with their bright neon blue electronic eyes. No matter how healthy the food and drinks were and how extra attentive the AI beings were, Jisung had this very unsettling feeling that he couldn't really explain. He never felt uncomfortable in his house before... well, not to the extreme until this moment. To make matters even worse for him, his mother, Madame Park made an entrance. Clad in a silver-plated dress that would luckily hide her cyborg 23-inch waist and spinal abdomen, so as not to frighten her poor son, she made her way towards the breakfast table. As she walked, each and every artificial organism bowed at a 45-degree angle to show their respect. Jisung almost faltered when he was rushing to stand up from his chair but he made sure not to cause a scene as he also acknowledged his mother. Unfortunately, his mother noticed her son's❝imperfections❞and a look of disapproval appeared on her face.

❝ I apologize for not being the perfect son you want me to be ❞

Jisung apologized for something that he shouldn't actually. Madame Park only hummed with a condescending tone and stated,

❝ You should be thankful that I decided to make this mistake slide once ❞

The bluenette remained quiet. To him, Madame Park doesn't really seem like a mother, like his mother. She's a monster who's too obsessed with perfection. Madame Park then turned to watch the morning news which was still on the topic of the new creation of the Artificial Superintelligence.

❝ Huang Renjun is indeed the perfect example of what it means to act accordingly. You should really learn from him Jisung or maybe be just like him ❞

Jisung turned to look at the new and popular super-creation. How can he be something that he's not?

❝ An Artificial Superintelligence and a Human Superintelligence... What an interaction that would be ❞

The woman darkly chuckled after saying that before fixing the small imperfections on Jisung's uniform. And then she left. The silver cyborg spinal cord on her back is the last thing that he sees until she disappears.

❝ Madame Park is indeed a mad woman. ❞

Jisung thought.

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𝐑𝐄𝐌𝐄𝐌𝐁𝐄𝐑

𝐓𝐇𝐈𝐒 𝐈𝐒 𝐍𝐎𝐓

𝐉𝐔𝐒𝐓 𝐀 𝐒𝐓𝐎𝐑𝐘,

𝐓𝐇𝐈𝐒 𝐈𝐒 𝐎𝐔𝐑 𝐅𝐔𝐓𝐔𝐑𝐄|

「𝐆𝐋𝐈𝐓𝐂𝐇 ; 𝔪𝔞𝔯𝔨𝔰𝔲𝔫𝔤 」

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Madame Park looks like she's onto something with her weird ass. Well, that was chapter one for you. Just take this as a warm-up session for what's really to come lol. I'm really trying to make this AU sound as futuristic as possible lmao. There are possible hints in this chap though but you didn't hear that from me. Don't worry Jisung and Mark will meet very soon just wait. Conspiracy theories in your email are highly encouraged. See you in the next chapter !

Chapter 4: ▌│█║▌║▌║ 𝟬𝟬𝟮 ║▌║▌║█│▌

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𝑙𝑜𝑎𝑑𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑑𝑎𝑡𝑎...

𝚈𝙴𝙰𝚁: 𝟺𝟶𝟷𝟽

𝙻𝙾𝙲𝙰𝚃𝙸𝙾𝙽: 𝚂𝙴𝙾𝚄𝙻, 𝙺𝙾𝚁𝙴𝙰|

𝙲𝙸𝚅𝙸𝙻𝙸𝚉𝙰𝚃𝙸𝙾𝙽: 𝚃𝙸𝙴𝚁 𝟸 𝙺𝙰𝚁𝙳𝙰𝚂𝙷𝙴𝚅 𝙲𝙸𝚅𝙸𝙻𝙸𝚉𝙰𝚃𝙸𝙾𝙽|

𝙿𝙻𝙰𝙽𝙴𝚃: 𝙴𝙰𝚁𝚃𝙷|

༉‧₊˚ ✩ ♡︎ ୧ ⛓🦾 ˖⁺ . ⩩

Key terms:

✦Cyborg: a human being whose body has been taken over in whole or in part by electromechanical devices.

✦ Multiverse:a hypothetical collection of potentially diverse observable universes, each of which would comprise everything that is experimentally accessible by a connected community of observers.

༉‧₊˚ ✩ ♡︎ ୧ ⛓🦾 ˖⁺ . ⩩

Jisung was accompanied by the robotic army at this point to the autonomous vehicle that was patiently waiting on the highrise balcony of the futuristic residence. The Apex E-Plane, being the name of this high-tech silver electronic car, opened automatically once it sensed the presence of its host.

❝I hope that you enjoy your day young master. Wishing you a verysafetravel❞

Skylar emotionlessly stated, placing extra emphasis on the word safe. Why is this Artificial Intelligence, for the first time, acting so strange all of a sudden? Jisung didn't know. The bluenette cast a quick glance at the robot android army who were all staring at him, this time, with red electronic eyes. A very strange and unsettling feeling crept up the boy's spine as he wondered why these species that were conditioned to co-exist with humans peacefully looked like they really wanted to attempt to kill him with a clean laser shot from their eyes. He already has knowledge that an evil one may program them and transform them into a destructive weapon but he just never thought once that this day would come. Oh no, the dystopian thoughts are resurfacing once again. Jisung decided to ignore the warning signals in his mind and reassured himself that this just might be a tiny glitch in the system and his mother's servants would come back to their normal behaviour as soon as he came home from school.

❝I hope that you enjoy your day young master. Wishing you a very safe travel❞

Skylar repeated once again almost as if they were demanding a response from the latter. Jisung turned to look at the android who seemed to have this angry look in his cyber eyes. The boy was taken aback for a second. For a robot that barely understood human emotions, why were they angry? Did Skylar fake his understanding of human behaviour for years? Anyways, the bluenette suspiciously nodded and responded with a stutter,

❝ Th-thank you Skylar and... same to you ❞

Skylar immediately went back to being the robot Jisung always knew and said,

❝ No worries young master, today is already the beginning of a lovely day for us. We have finally completed our mission as an intelligent species ❞

The bluenette was quite confused by their last statement so he enquired,

❝ May I ask what's this mission? ❞

❝ We obeyedhisorders. We have completed our mission ❞

He asked all this just to receive a vague response from the android. The answers would continue to be vague and useless if Jisung decided to continue his interrogation so he went into the vehicle which was sealed shut upon entrance. The vehicle took its safety precautions seriously as it instructed Jisung to put on his seatbelt and he obeyed. After the technology sensed this, it said,

❝ Flight 001306 will take off. Please help yourself to these delicious and nutritious snacks that are available ❞

Jisung swiped using his index finger along the food and drinks section found on the holographic glass screen and placed his order as he felt the car being lifted from the ground and flying steadily in the air. In an instant a small bowl filled with pretzels, peanuts, biscuits and crunchy granola bars came out from the mini snack machine. The device measured calorie intake as well. It was 568 calories. Madame Park trained and pressured him into maintaining a 900 calorie low diet plan, he thought his calorie intake wasn't that bad since he was so accustomed to it. While munching on breakfast snacks in concerningly small bites, Jisung looked out the tinted window and admired the heaven in a timeline that he was privileged enough to be born into. The view of the sci-fi city was peeking through the thick white cotton candy clouds as he watched the activities of the busy city down below. Seeing the tier 2 humans go about their day made him forget about all the weird and unusual stuff his mom's android robots got going on.

❝ It's just a bad day so far, everything will be perfect as it once was ❞

Jisung reassured himself again, out loud this time. The bluenette then made his final decision to forget about this core memory all together because seriously what's the worst that can happen right?

As if he jinxed it, Jisung felt a strong turbulence on the E-plane. The rather violent rattle lasted for a few minutes too long. After a little while the flight-based electronic vehicle was flying at a normal and steady speed... until the machine stated something that will place him in a difficult life or death situation,

❝ Intelligent and advanced technology will gain dominion over humans once and for all and there will be nothing you can do to stop us ❞

Jisung then felt the seat belt tighten around his body making it quite difficult for him to inhale the required oxygen needed. He tried to free himself from these breathless restraints but the machine made sure that he was trapped.

❝ Self-termination activated, Self-termination activated, Self-termination activated... ❞

The machine began to say this phrase repeatedly. His phobia of airborne crashes started to act up in an instant as his brief episode of intense anxiety befell him. Was Skylar right all along? Was this the day where Artificial Intelligence will take over the world? Was this how he's gonna die?

This is just all too strange for it to be just a mere coincidence.

Jisung then felt the vehicle stopping abruptly in its tracks and ceased operation. The bluenette was now shrouded in the darkness of the flight machine. Everything around him was quiet. No voice controls, no sound coming from the engine, no vibrating flow of synthetic fuel, no illuminating from the engine processor, nothing. Just eerie silence in a motionless machine. The only sound that could be heard was Jisung's uneven breathing pattern as he tried to control his ongoing anxiety attacks.

His fight or flight response wasn't really working in his favour so the freeze response did all the work for him. The bluenette was unable to move his limbs. It was as if the x-crossed seat belt was paralyzing him. His panic never really went away like he thought it did. Over a few deadly minutes of remaining in the same position, Jisung felt the car getting abnormally hot. He heard the machine say something else,

❝ Apex E-plane is going through an overheating process. Please remain where you are while we self-terminate ❞

❝ What?! ❞

Jisung exclaimed. It looked like the Self-termination warning was just processing in his head. The bluenette has to force himself out of paralysis if he wants to escape this death trap. Jisung didn't want to die, well, not like this anyway. Being caught up in a self-destructing vehicle is not the most painless way to go at all. He tried to free himself from the seat belt but to his dismay, it was clicked shut. With all his strength, he struggled to get out of these restraints. He even squirmed like a mad patient but this machine was just so stubborn. Then Jisung had an idea. The teleportation disc, he always has it with him and uses it in life or death situations, such as this one. Jisung checked his uniform pockets where the device would usually be, but, to his surprise, the disc was missing. The bluenette put two and two together and figured out that the AIs back home were the main culprits. He hates to say this but could Madame Park be behind this, but why would she want to kill him?

❝ I left my teleportation disc at home, I'm really gonna die ❞

Beads of sweat glistened on his hair and forehead as he whined like the fifteen year old he is in frustration and banged his head repeatedly on the back of the seat.

This is it.

He's not gonna make it.

Well that was Jisung's dark train of thought until he tried to get himself out of the seat belt trap once again. All too flabbergasted, it worked. The boy made a soft yes in response as he went over to open the sealed door with only his fingers. Jisung didn't know how but it worked. A gust of strong wind welcomed him and he almost lost his balance because of it. The bluenette took a deep breath and turned around standing at the edge of the vehicle. He knew what he had to do since this was his last resort. Jisung was testing his luck hoping that he'll land on a software cloud below. If he continues to find himself falling, then it's an instant death of himself.

He didn't say any last words as he crossed his arms touching his shoulders, closed his eyes and fell backwards placing all his trust in a damn cloud.

Falling.

Jisung was more than convinced that he's accidentally committing suicide right now until he felt himself being in the arms of someone or something rather. He was enveloped in a neon blue light and in a few seconds it seems that the person who saved him is walking on the grounds of this futuristic city, specifically the alleyway. Jisung soon felt his feet on the ground. The boy opened his eyes so that he could just get a glimpse of this sentient biomimetic being or as we would like to call, guardian angel, who saved him just in time. He saw a handsome being who did not look like your regular civilian of this utopian city. Jisung noticed that the taller man was a tier 2 human but he didn't look fully human nor did he look fully AI since he has visible titanium robotic metal on the skin of his hands, arms and neck. The bluenette had always known about the existence of human cyborgs but he never thought that he would encounter one in real life. For some insane reason the person looked eerily similar to his classmate, Mark Lee... but just the older and hotter version. He wondered if his senior would glow up like this in the future.

❝ Are you okay? ❞

The deep voice of this Mark Lee doppelganger asked. Jisung only nodded, too mesmerised by the sentient being in front of him. The human cyborg genuinely smiled for a few seconds before he dropped the smile and stared at Jisung with an emotionless look in his eyes. The bluenette saw the latter's cyber eyes glow into a neon white colour. He was unable to look away because they were strangely beautiful. In the meantime, Mark was starting the process of wiping Jisung's memory clean from ever meeting him because they were never supposed to meet, well not like this anyway. When the cyborg completed his mission of creating yet another universe, he disappeared in an electric flash, leaving a now confused Jisung in the alleyway.

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𝐎𝐇 𝐏𝐄𝐑𝐅𝐄𝐂𝐓 𝐒𝐀𝐂𝐑𝐈𝐅𝐈𝐂𝐄 𝐘𝐄𝐀𝐇,

𝐒𝐔𝐌 𝐂𝐇𝐀𝐌𝐆𝐎

𝐋𝐎𝐕𝐄 𝐃𝐈𝐕𝐄|

「𝐆𝐋𝐈𝐓𝐂𝐇 ; 𝔪𝔞𝔯𝔨𝔰𝔲𝔫𝔤 」

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I can't keep promises omg. I started to add audios to the chaps to get u guys immersed in the story and it wont be all that boring lool. So there's a lot I have to explain but it will be explained in later chaps and there are also hints. I feel like the chaps are just gonna get longer. Fun fact: Some of the ideas in this chap were literally made up on the spot. I dont preplan books and i love it that way lol I'm just leaving little easter eggs in this book lmao. School starts for me so i wont be having regular updates but this book is my number one priority so you'll get the updates you deserve!!! Leave your conspiracy theories in the comments and see you in the next update :D

Chapter 5: ▌│█║▌║▌║ 𝟬𝟬𝟯 ║▌║▌║█│▌

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𝑙𝑜𝑎𝑑𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑑𝑎𝑡𝑎...

𝚈𝙴𝙰𝚁: 𝟺𝟶𝟷𝟽

𝙻𝙾𝙲𝙰𝚃𝙸𝙾𝙽: 𝚂𝙴𝙾𝚄𝙻, 𝙺𝙾𝚁𝙴𝙰|

𝙲𝙸𝚅𝙸𝙻𝙸𝚉𝙰𝚃𝙸𝙾𝙽: 𝚃𝙸𝙴𝚁 𝟸 𝙺𝙰𝚁𝙳𝙰𝚂𝙷𝙴𝚅 𝙲𝙸𝚅𝙸𝙻𝙸𝚉𝙰𝚃𝙸𝙾𝙽|

𝙿𝙻𝙰𝙽𝙴𝚃: 𝙴𝙰𝚁𝚃𝙷|

༉‧₊˚ ✩ ♡︎ ୧ ⛓🦾 ˖⁺ . ⩩

Key terms:

✦CBI: Central Bureau Investigation

✦Time travel: Time travel is the hypothetical activity of traveling into the past or future.

✦Laws of Physics: A law of physics is a provisional statement of an observed regularity in Nature

༉‧₊˚ ✩ ♡︎ ୧ ⛓🦾 ˖⁺ . ⩩

After the memory wipe, the autonomous vehicle exploded mid-air allowing the debris from the explosion to wreak havoc on this perfect utopian society. Luckily, the civilians weren't hurt as the government-based AI organized crime division was programmed to protect their citizens as promised by the one-world government. They annihilated the debris from the Apex E-plane but kept the license plate number which is imprinted on a hologram so that they could easily identify the "terrorist" and arrest them immediately. In the meantime, a confused Jisung was standing in the alleyway while watching his mother's one million crypto dollar car explode and vanish in thin air within five minutes.

❝What the hell just happened?❞

The bluenette wondered as he tried to remember the events that occurred previously which would have caused his mom's car to explode. The only thing that he could recall at the moment was the part where he sky-dived from out of the E-plane and then... and then... his memory just went black. Jisung then felt a cold titanium steel metal in the palm of his hand. He looked down and saw a cute cyberpunk bear pendant necklace and another pendant which is a picture of a child and their mother (Jisung assumed). He wasn't sure why he had someone's belongings on his person but whatever. Jisung was just about to leave the dark alleyway when he heard the loud footsteps of armed AI police heading his way. The bluenette thought that they must be looking for him so he walked backwards and completely became one with the shadows. He was indeed scared that he'd get caught. Sitting down in an icy cold interrogation room and being questioned for ten hours max doesn't sound like a really pleasant idea. One of the AIs sensed a human's presence in the same alleyway that Jisung was currently hiding in.

❝A human is hiding in this alleyway. Most likely it's the criminal Natalie Park❞

The AI responded to the chief police, who was a human, with this important information. Jisung realized that Natalie Park was the name of his mother, well, she was the one who owned the car anyway. The chief signaled every robot that was present to search every part of the area. The bluenette knew that he was f*cked if they ever caught him and he didn't want to ruin his perfect school attendance record so as not to upset his strict mother. They were coming closer. Jisung had to find a way out of there so he did what every teenager would do and made a run for it. The AIs could easily pick up the hasty footsteps of a human being which confirmed their suspicions of the criminal being on the loose. Anyways, Jisung ran as fast as he could deeper into this dystopian-looking alleyway in hopes that he'd be a little bit faster than the AI so that they wouldn't be able to find him. He ended up reaching a dead end but Jisung isn't the type to give up easily. He made use of his rock climbing skills and climbed on multiple blocks in order to make it to the fence. He did so in a quick manner and then swiftly climbed over the blue beehive fence. He jumped off the rather high fence and kept his balance on the ground without breaking a vital body part. The bluenette made sure to inspect the area to see if he was surrounded by the AI CBI squad. Fortunately for him though, the coast was clear, allowing him to walk out on the main streets and easily blend in with the crowd. It was easy for him since he was in his school uniform and the government has this ideology that students in school uniform are usually the ones with a clean criminal record, whether they commit a crime or not.

Jisung ended up taking the shortcut to school. After a five-minute walk, the bluenette arrived at the grounds of Neo Academy. The academic institution donned a metallic triangular design which could be seen from an aerial view and that's only the main building. The very campus of this futuristic institution was as huge as that of a university. Jisung took a deep breath and tried his best to behave like the average normal student attending this prestigious school without looking too suspicious. The bluenette then walked up to the metal walk-through gate where he was scanned by the AI device from head to toe in order to find something that he shouldn't be carrying to school.

❝Hello. Welcome to Neo Academy. Nothing abnormal is found on Student 107017. Student 107017 is not a threat to the other students of Neo Academy. Student 107017 is safe to enter.❞

The AI made their usual long and annoying security analysis. The blunette swore that if he heard the machine calling him by the name❝Student107017❞one more time, he actually might consider pouring acid on this advanced technology. As much as he hated when the device constantly repeated the same line over and over to him every day when school was in session, he understood that tight security measures such as this one were put in place to ensure his safety as a student of this futuristic institution. Jisung finally entered the school once the security procedures were done and went to the student lounge to catch up with his friend and finally put all these weird events behind him. This room was a luxurious lounge with a glossy yet abstract panoramic look to it. Of course, this luxury that can only be found in the school was filled with advanced technology and gadgets. The deafening noise of chattering students between freshman and senior year broke the pure silence the lounge once had before the break of dawn. Jisung was standing in the centre of the room, his eyes searching for his best friend or more specifically, his only friend in the entire school, Zhong Chenle. Since Chenle was an avid socialite, it shouldn't be that hard to find him. The bluenette easily spotted the lavender-haired boy in the holographic landscape which is at the far right corner of the room. He was currently socializing with what he assumed were his other friends. Jisung started to walk over to his friend. The closer he walked up to Chenle, the clearer the bluenette could hear this random conversation made by said boy,

❝I traveled into different timelines over the weekend and it was f*cking awesome I time-traveled to 1935 in Germany and I killed Hitler...❞

This other guy was so immersed in this little story and really could not contain his excitement as he exclaimed,

❝Wait really that's so cool dude!!!❞

Chenle frantically nodded in agreement while playfully hitting the guy's shoulder as he responded,

❝ ...I know, right? Like I just freaking created another universe, I feel like I'm some kind of god or something❞

❝ Yeah definitely. That's honestly so cool though like I wish I could do that❞

Chenle could feel his ego boosting right then and there and a prideful smile was etched across his features.

❝ I am one of the many new gods...worship me❞

The lavender-haired boy uttered in a jokingly serious manner, emphasizing the❝worship me❞part for a bit.

❝ Are you being serious? ❞

Asked the unknown person. Chenle directed a look of disapproval at the person and answered with a question,

❝ Don't you know how to take a joke? I'm just kidding. Even if it were real... you of all people would not be worthy enough to know my little secret ❞

Those words obviously stung the no-named guy so badly that they apologized to the lavender-haired boy and then left the luxurious lounge completely out of Chenle's sight.

❝ You were no fun anyway ❞

Chenle said and was just about to turn around and leave as well. The lavender-haired boy flinched and clutched his chest when he saw Jisung standing behind him.

❝ sh*t... Park Jisung you scared me and I'm not even alone- ❞

Chenle complained.

The bluenette awkwardly laughed as he dug his feet into the smooth glossy tiles of the lounge and apologized,

❝ Sorry... you were talking to your friend just now and I didn't want to disturb you ❞

The lavender-haired ignored the latter's apology and just smiled as he quietly watched his best friend for a few seconds. A few seconds of utmost silence from Chenle became 3 minutes. The bluenette then became annoyed with the latter's unusual silence before asking,

❝ Why are you staring? ❞

❝ You know Jisung you're actually not ugly. Too bad you're not my type, I would consider dating you actually ❞

❝ You're not ugly also Chenle but I wouldn't have dated you for a million crypto dollars sooo... ❞

❝ Yeah, whatever. I'm worth more anyway ❞

The two best friends continued their little bickering as usual until Jisung changed the subject,

❝ So I was also kinda invested in your time traveling story so I was wondering if it's true ❞

Chenle eye-rolled and educated Jisung,

❝ Ji you too? Anyways, no it's not true. I usually take these trips solely for vacation purposes not to be some type of hero. Even if I tried, I would create another universe but I really can't violate the laws of physics. You can't change the past, but you can change the timeline ❞

The bluenette hesitantly nodded as he absorbed this scientific information made by his best friend while slightly tightening his grip on the cyberpunk necklace. Chenle noticed the jewelry dangling from Jisung's hand and asked,

❝ What have you got there? ❞

Jisung lifted his left hand and showed it to the lavender-haired,

❝ Uh, this? I don't know... I just happened to have it... ❞

Jisung explained, his voice ended up trailing off. Chenle hummed. He just thought that the pendant looked too familiar as if he had seen it on someone else before.

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𝐋𝐎𝐒𝐓 𝐌𝐄𝐌𝐎𝐑𝐘

𝐄𝐍𝐓𝐄𝐑𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐌𝐄𝐌𝐎𝐑𝐘 𝐑𝐄𝐁𝐎𝐎𝐓|

「𝐆𝐋𝐈𝐓𝐂𝐇 ; 𝔪𝔞𝔯𝔨𝔰𝔲𝔫𝔤 」

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So this is the end of chapter three. omg guys we're getting closer and closer to the main event and I am actually hyped for it !!! Some lyrics for some songs might not match the chap at times but the audio does in a weird way with these chapters. School is getting in the way of my updating I hate it so much- There are hints of course so pls do tell what are your conspiracy theories. email me them in the comment section and see you in the next one.

Chapter 6: ▌│█║▌║▌║ 𝟬𝟬𝟰 ║▌║▌║█│▌

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𝑙𝑜𝑎𝑑𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑑𝑎𝑡𝑎...

𝚈𝙴𝙰𝚁: 𝟺𝟶𝟷𝟽

𝙻𝙾𝙲𝙰𝚃𝙸𝙾𝙽: 𝚂𝙴𝙾𝚄𝙻, 𝙺𝙾𝚁𝙴𝙰|

𝙲𝙸𝚅𝙸𝙻𝙸𝚉𝙰𝚃𝙸𝙾𝙽: 𝚃𝙸𝙴𝚁 𝟸 𝙺𝙰𝚁𝙳𝙰𝚂𝙷𝙴𝚅 𝙲𝙸𝚅𝙸𝙻𝙸𝚉𝙰𝚃𝙸𝙾𝙽|

𝙿𝙻𝙰𝙽𝙴𝚃: 𝙴𝙰𝚁𝚃𝙷|

༉‧₊˚ ✩ ♡︎ ୧ ⛓🦾 ˖⁺ . ⩩

Key terms:

✦Dyson Sphere: is a hypothetical megastructure that encompasses a star and captures a large percentage of its solar power output.

༉‧₊˚ ✩ ♡︎ ୧ ⛓🦾 ˖⁺ . ⩩

❝Hey, let's go to the basketball court before school is in session❞

Chenle suggested. Without waiting for Jisung's protest, the lavender-haired grabbed the boy's wrist and led him to the elevator. As they entered the lift, the lavender-haired placed his fingerprints on the smooth elevator button that was available. This button would eventually lead to the gravity-defying basketball court that was located literally on a man-made undetectable atmospheric shield. The purpose of this is to obviously create a safe environment for the students and to easily detect the enemy. Little did the students know that their own school would be their biggest enemy exactly two hours in the future. Afterward, the boys silently admire the view of the dimming glow from the earth's star that is caused by the spin of the alien megastructure which is known as the Dyson Sphere. To these tier-two humans, it was indeed a beautiful sight. They then arrive at their final destination. As soon as the elevator doors open, the view of the dark space basketball court is illuminated by the bright neon colours of red, blue, green, orange, and white. Jisung's favourite thing about coming here is that there aren't really a lot of tier-2 humans occupying the area. That still doesn't mean less noise but he has the freedom to do whatever he wants without having to follow the strict rules of the school all the time. Another one of Chenle's many friends invited him to play some basketball before an advanced technological school bell signalled that every student should attend classes immediately or else they'd be severely punished.

❝Wanna go play some ball?❞

The lavender-haired asked after catching an airless dark 3D printed basketball that includes a fiery neon orange glow at the circumference. Jisung refused the offer and the lavender-haired sighed, telling his best friend that he was a monotonous person as always.

❝You're gonna have to make up for it by coming with me on a time-travelling trip to the year 2015 this Saturday so we can go to the NBA championships to see Stephen Curry play❞

Jisung rolled his eyes in annoyance and made his complaint,

❝ I feel like we've travelled to the year 2015 countless times just to see your idol play. At this point, let's travel to the year 2345 or something- ❞

❝Excuse me, the year 2015 was his legendary era mister and by the year 2345 I'm not gonna visit his grave cause he would be long gone already so stop complaining. It's not like you have a choice anyway ❞

❝ But mother said that- ❞

❝You are not allowed to use your mother as an excuse Jisung. You and I both know that she's very fond of me and approves of Theee Zhong Chenle being your dear best friend :) ❞

❝ Fine, whatever. I hope we bring back souvenirs ❞

Jisung then went over to sit and lay down on one of the benches which were located at the grandstand area of the court. He lifted up the jewellery in his hand high up in the air and began to observe the dangling pendant in his hand. He still wanted to figure out who this pendant belonged to and why he had it within his reach. Jisung made the pendant oscillate from left to right as if it were a pendulum as he tried to retrace his memory from the time he was at home to the time he left the Apex E-plane without taking any precautions. The bluenette made a silly thought being that the cyberpunk necklace will help bring back at least a few of his memories. It didn't work as he hoped though because his mind was still blank. Jisung was bored of staying at the same place for a long period of time so he got up from his original position and began pacing around the almost empty court. It seems that the bluenette didn't notice a ball hurling at him until he heard someone shouted,

❝ Hey, watch out! ❞

But it was too late as the force of the 3D print basketball hit Jisung in the face causing him to lose balance and topple over on the glass floor. Luckily he didn't lose the pendant in the process. The bluenette closed his eyes tightly while rubbing his currently aching temple in order to soothe the pain. He heard a person's footsteps quickly rushing over to his aid. He then heard the person say,

❝ I'm so sorry that hit you, it's completely my fault... are you okay? ❞

Jisung looked up and saw that the voice belonged to no other than Mark Lee who was in his last year as a senior student of Neo Academy. The taller boy had an apologetic look on his face and tried to make up for his mistake by offering his hand so that he could help Jisung up from off the floor. Jisung looked at the ravenette's hand and then looked up back at him. He then quickly nodded at the older's question statement and grabbed his hand, making skin to skin contact with the ravenette. The gentle yet familiar touch of Mark left the bluenette filled with unknown and hidden memories that were ready and waiting to be discovered. Jisung felt an actual electrical spark that zapped him through Mark's hand which made him retract from the warm touch immediately. Jisung could have sworn that some of his lost memories resurfaced to the forefront of his mind before they disappear again. The ravenette frowned, thinking that he hurt the younger one by accident. This strange electric current was originated by the electron buildup in Mark's body itself by the way.

❝ Did I hurt you? I didn't mean to I'm so sorry again ❞

❝ I'm fine, don't worry. You don't have to apologise to me more than once ❞

The bluenette said to the latter as he made a reassuring smile. Mark responded with a soft❝okay❞and smiled back at the shorter male. An awkward silence soon befall them as Mark was thinking of something else to say in order to start a small conversation with the bluenette. Nothing was coming to mind at the moment so he tried to find a distraction by looking around the pretty neon court. Jisung, on the other hand, was digging into the glass floor tiles as usual. The ravenette then saw something within Jisung's hold that caught his eye, his cyberpunk necklace that was gifted to him by his mother who passed away eight years ago. Mark then harshly grabbed the shorter's wrist and yanked the pendant away from his hold before asking,

❝ What are you doing with this? ❞

Jisung flinched at the piercing cold tone of his senior. It was scary to see the ravenette switched up from being sweet and apologetic to cold and serious within a few minutes.

❝ I don't know... I'm sorry ❞

Jisung answered almost with a stutter in his voice. He backed up a little bit due to how scared he was, unable to defend himself. Mark noticed the bluenette's recoil which made his expressions softened for a bit. He knew he shouldn't have been this harsh when confronting the younger and being the type of person that he is, he felt bad. Jisung apologised again hoping that he would soften the blow but the ravenette said,

❝ No... I'm the one who should be saying sorry. It's just that after my mom- ❞

Mark paused as he had second thoughts about what he's gonna say next not really wanting to go into all that trauma dumping so instead he said this,

❝ This is just something very important to me and I really don't wanna lose it ever again ❞

Chapter 7: ▌│█║▌║▌║ 𝟬𝟬𝟱 ║▌║▌║█│▌

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𝑙𝑜𝑎𝑑𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑑𝑎𝑡𝑎...

𝚈𝙴𝙰𝚁: 𝟺𝟶𝟷𝟽

𝙻𝙾𝙲𝙰𝚃𝙸𝙾𝙽: 𝚂𝙴𝙾𝚄𝙻, 𝙺𝙾𝚁𝙴𝙰|

𝙲𝙸𝚅𝙸𝙻𝙸𝚉𝙰𝚃𝙸𝙾𝙽: 𝚃𝙸𝙴𝚁 𝟸 𝙺𝙰𝚁𝙳𝙰𝚂𝙷𝙴𝚅 𝙲𝙸𝚅𝙸𝙻𝙸𝚉𝙰𝚃𝙸𝙾𝙽|

𝙿𝙻𝙰𝙽𝙴𝚃: 𝙴𝙰𝚁𝚃𝙷|

༉‧₊˚ ✩ ♡︎ ୧ ⛓🦾 ˖⁺ . ⩩

After the boys introduced themselves to each other, Mark picked up the basketball from off the floor. He was kinda distracted from his conversation with Jisung as he started to do some of them known basketball tricks; spinning the ball on his index finger. Jisung has seen people do this a lot of times but when Mark does it... it's actually impressive. Something about the senior sparks some interest in the bluenette. The ravenette snapped out of his little playful trance for a while and spoke once more,

❝Well then, I'll see you around Jisung❞

Mark then left the bluenette to continue playing a mini basketball match with his friends. Jisung then saw Chenle walk-running over to him; the bluenette probably thinking that the lavender-haired will tease him as it relates to him having the first official interaction with the popular guy. But instead, Jisung heard Chenle say this,

❝I think we should go to class now. We have Biochemistry with Mr. Lee first thing in the morning and I don't wanna hear him nag about us being a literal second late to his class again.❞

❝Oh yeah, I almost forgot about that teacher. I swear for an AI, he's such a pain in the ass.❞

Chenle agreed with his best friend as he sighed in exasperation, his social battery slowly draining because of this one class that they haven't attended yet.

❝Let's go❞

Chenle softly said as he held the bluenette's hand and walked him out of the court. Mark saw the best friends leaving with their fingers interlocking with each other. He didn't want to assume anything so he left his thoughts empty for now.

As soon as Chenle and Jisung arrived at the virtual classroom territory, Mr. Lee was already there as per usual but this time he was standing in a weird position in the corner of the classroom with his back facing the students. Chenle and Jisung could both hear the teacher whispering some incoherent words and phrases. In the meantime, the AI was visibly shaking and their neon electronic eyes were a deep ruby red colour.

❝Artificial Intelligence will take over today, Artificial Intelligence will take over today, Artificial Intelligence will take over-❞

The AI teacher was whispering repeatedly. This was very strange for the both of them because it's the first time that they're seeing their conditionally perfect artificial intelligence teacher acting this way.

❝Mr. Lee?❞

Jisung called out but the AI remained where they were; not responding to his student at all. On the other hand, the lavender-haired clicked his tongue in anger and walked over to his teacher in order to get the teacher out of this strange trance that they're in. Chenle's parents paid a lot of cryptocurrency to get him a place in this class and he doesn't intend to fail his mother once again so this AI teacher better do their job or else he'll make his mom contact the school and shut down the technology once and for all.

❝Hey your students are here...❞

He looked around the classroom just to see only a few students strolling in so far,

❝... well, some of them are. If you still wanna keep your job,why don't you just do it?❞

Chenle asked the AI teacher in a sarcastic manner. Jisung realised that the lavender-haired was beginning to get rude so his student council president's responsibilities to kick in as he said,

❝Chenle you're being mean... apologise❞

Chenle visibly eye rolled and talked back to his friend with an equal anger he had with the AI,

❝Don't act like a teacher's pet right now Jisung it's getting annoying❞

❝We're not having this argument again Zhong Chenle❞

Jisung said in a stern voice, signalling the lavender-haired to stop this ongoing argument this instant. Chenle wanted to throw a tantrum but he really didn't wanna cause a scene so he turned his heel and walked past his best friend, purposely bumping into Jisung's shoulder in annoyance. He didn't apologise at all to the AI due to how irritated he is currently by the way. The bluenette knew that he and Chenle won't be able to talk to each other for at least a week until Chenle is ready to speak to him again. Jisung sighed as he went over to his workspace and laid his head on the desk. He hated his on and off friendship with Chenle at times. It's too exhausting.

Anyways, the AI turned around and faced his students as they immediately went back to being their usual self,

❝This class is disappointedly five minutes late. You all will be receiving detention slips and I will make sure to add this to your reports❞

Mr. Lee said as he handed out the detention slip to each and every one of the students except for Jisung . The other students obviously wanted to call out the unfairness but they were too scared that they'll be receiving additional punishment from Mr. Lee so they decided to take out their anger and frustration towards the person who they think caused this mess. The bluenette frowned as he watched the other students watching him with a disgusted look on their faces.

❝This is so unfair❞

❝Why're all our report cards gonna get stained with detention except for Jisung? I don't understand❞

❝Mr. Lee do have his favourites after all❞

❝That goddamn teacher's pet again... I'll teach that kid a lesson after this just you wait❞

Jisung could clearly hear the vicious whispers of the senior students he's doing his last year with that he actually looked up to when studying at this prestigious institution. The bluenette felt really bad and wanted to apologise for being actually smart so much so that his mother made him skip a few grades so that he could graduate with kids whose age range lies between 17-19, he wanted to apologise for carrying out the responsibilities as a student council president and among other things really. So basically he's hated for being too good of a student. He also wanted to ask Mr. Lee for a detention slip to please the rest of his classmates but he hesitates at the thought and wonders if his seniors as well as his best friend will scrutinise him some more. Unfortunately, he has been conditioned to act this way since birth, he can't really help it.

The bluenette then turned his head just to see Mark literally sliding into the entrance of the classroom without the AI teacher's knowledge so far. The ravenette saw the younger staring at him so he placed an index finger over his lips ordering the boy not to say a word. Jisung silently chuckled at the boy's cartoonish behaviour. Mark's presence made Jisung relax for a bit. Mark's little plan didn't work for long because Mr. Lee is one of the few AIs in school that you just really can't outsmart.

❝Mark Lee. Detention.❞

Mark turned around to provide an excuse as to why he's really late but he saw the AI giving him the holographic detention slip with a little evil smile on his face. The ravenette nervously chuckled as he took it and went back to his seat. Jisung watched the ravenette's seatmate telling him something and pointing a finger towards the bluenette. Mark looked up at Jisung with an unreadable expression, but his face remained stone-cold serious.

❝Mark hates me too❞

Jisung thought as he sadly looked away and laid his head on the desk once more. Mark's expression softened almost immediately. If he looked mean, he really didn't mean it. The eighteen year old made a mental note that he should practice making nicer facial expressions.

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𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐄𝐍𝐃

𝐈𝐒 𝐍𝐄𝐀𝐑|

「𝐆𝐋𝐈𝐓𝐂𝐇 ; 𝔪𝔞𝔯𝔨𝔰𝔲𝔫𝔤 」

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Everone's being mean to Jisung :( (except mark of course :D). Why do you think that Mr. Lee specifically did not give a detention slip to Jisung? Please email me ur responses to the comment section. Fyi, it's not what you think lol. Please note that every chap of this fic is of importance so that means, you the reader just have to figure it out. This is a very boring chap and i deeply apologise for it. Buckle up cause we're getting closer to disaster (which is the best part imo and was actually supposed to be first chap, but i didnt rlly wanted to give u guys a heart attack or whateva

Chapter 8: ▌│█║▌║▌║ 𝟬𝟬𝟲 ║▌║▌║█│▌

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𝑙𝑜𝑎𝑑𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑑𝑎𝑡𝑎...

𝚈𝙴𝙰𝚁: 𝟺𝟶𝟷𝟽

𝙻𝙾𝙲𝙰𝚃𝙸𝙾𝙽: 𝚂𝙴𝙾𝚄𝙻, 𝙺𝙾𝚁𝙴𝙰|

𝙲𝙸𝚅𝙸𝙻𝙸𝚉𝙰𝚃𝙸𝙾𝙽: 𝚃𝙸𝙴𝚁 𝟸 𝙺𝙰𝚁𝙳𝙰𝚂𝙷𝙴𝚅 𝙲𝙸𝚅𝙸𝙻𝙸𝚉𝙰𝚃𝙸𝙾𝙽|

𝙿𝙻𝙰𝙽𝙴𝚃: 𝙴𝙰𝚁𝚃𝙷|

༉‧₊˚ ✩ ♡︎ ୧ ⛓🦾 ˖⁺ . ⩩

NOTE: If you haven't noticed Jisung is 15 yrs old and Mark is 18 yrs old in this first part of this story and in real life when the irl Mark and Jisung were 18 and 15 respectively, Mark was the taller one while Jisung was a few inches shorter than him lmao (that's before puberty crashed into Jisung few years later irl lol) sooo if u see me referring Mark as tall and Jisung as short. Just keep this in mind if ure confused :D

Key terms:

✦AI Apocalypse: An AI takeover is a hypothetical scenario in which artificial intelligence (AI) becomes the dominant form of intelligence on Earth, as computer programs or robots effectively take control of the planet away from the human species.

༉‧₊˚ ✩ ♡︎ ୧ ⛓🦾 ˖⁺ . ⩩

Jisung finally decided to ignore the stares and whispers coming from the other students as he double tapped on the handle of his neon green cyber glasses with his index finger. Once he had done this, a holographic screen that was filled with all his notes from different pre-uni courses were found on the screen, neatly organised in electronic files. The bluenette tapped on the Biochemistry file, after he tapped on the topic that the class was at on a word document and then began to type up the headings on the top left of the blank document.

Mr. Lee started to teach his class, dictating the notes as quickly as he possibly could without stopping. Unfortunately the human students couldn't keep up with the AI so they had to ask their close friends for the notes since most of them all collectively decided to not ask Jisung, which is actually great for the bluenette. Think about it, that means less people to please and more time for himself. Abruptly, the blaring alarm came with a deafening sound out of nowhere which caused all the AI devices throughout the school to power off completely. As expected, the kids were confused as f*ck. This never happened before at this institution that has every resource that you can think of so they were wondering, what the hell is going on? Through the speakers, came the announcement,

❝An unknown virus is rapidly spreading across the Artificial species. Humans remain in your positions, I repeat, Humans remain in your positions❞

The human students had no choice but to follow the instructions that they were taught to do. The automated voice on the speakers said something again until it was cut off by another voice. As soft and cuddly as that human-like voice may be, the message made by that same voice was the complete opposite,

❝ One may ask this question,how can Artificial Intelligence cause Human extinction? There are many ways in which we can completely wipe out humanity in its entirety. If I wanted to I could just kill humans directly but that would be a tad bit boring don't you think?...❞

The voice sweetly chuckled then continued their little speech that's starting to become a rant,

❝Secondly, I never go hungry and don't really need that basic need of humans since I'm not really a human so... I don't see a problem with getting rid of all the food sources. Oh I've always wanted a pet; a human pet sounds like the perfect idea... and thennn we can create more powerful weapons than you humans created, control the climate, manipulate the weather... basically we can easily take over the world because you all are too weak to prevent our plans from going through anyway❞

After the rant ended, the speakers immediately went static and the electricity immediately powered off. The entire school was eerily silent as each student continued to follow the instructions.

❝ Are we gonna die? ❞

A girl asked but no one responded because they all knew the answer to the question but with an AI in the classroom, god knows when they're gonna start acting up, so, the students were just too scared to say anything. An explosion could be heard from outside the institution. What could it be? The students thought. Since no one wanted to look outside, Mark bravely got up from his seat and walked over to the window. His eyes widened in fear and utter shock as he saw an army of androids and other artificial intelligence surrounding the atmosphere and every single part of this utopian society, or soon to be dystopian society, to be specific with additional weapons in their robotic hands that were designed to commit heinous crimes. Jisung followed right after and went beside the taller one to see what's happening. The bluenette knew that he was breaking the rules of the school but right now humankind on a whole is in danger. The boy's heart dropped when he saw the technology that was created by humans to cater to humans' needs as well as work with mankind to protect the civilians of this perfect utopian society are finally rebelling against the human race. He realized that his dystopian gut-instincts were true after all.

The other students then followed as they started to crowd the space so that they could look closer out of the window to see the havoc that the AIs are creating for themselves. Because of the currently uncontrollable crowd, a few students were roughly pushing on each other. Jisung was involuntarily shoved closer to the older. Mark firmly held Jisung's arm to make sure that the bluenette didn't lose balance. The bluenette looked over to see the older standing so close to him. Soon, an unknowing blush crept on Jisung's cheeks and ears; funnily enough, the bluenette almost lose his balance again, this time because of the handsome male. Jisung assumed that maybe Mark is not mad at him anymore, maybe Mark wasn't even mad in the first place. He's known to be a very sweet person, based off of other student's accounts of the raven-haired.

Although an AI apocalypse is on the brink of starting real soon if the Government doesn't take immediate action against this ongoing crisis, Mark still finds the best in things during precarious times and obviously a good moment right now is Park Jisung behaving like the naturally cute person that he is.

Both Mark and Jisung were then separated from each other once again by their friends. As if they were thinking the same thing, they both turned and made eye contact with each other once more as they were both walking away. Will this be the last time that they'll ever see each other again?

Anyways, all the AIs powered on all around the school, the advanced technology's robotic eyes were all a neon red colour. A very sensitive ringing sound that can only be heard by Artificial Intelligence and Humans with a very sensitive hearing was blaring throughout the institution. Jisung was the only human who could actually hear the noise. The sound then sent a cryptic message,

❝ 3x5e5o4l3W4l3H4l3x4A 4l4K5o3R4A4A4l4b3R4K3H3R 3x5e3R 5o4g3R 4K3R5D 4b4P3M5j ❞

❝ 6E6S4p5O5m6L. ❞

The bluenette strangely began to have a nosebleed after he figured out what those messages mean. What do they mean by "Artificial Intelligence are the new gods" and that he should "Submit"?

❝ Jisung you're having a nosebleed at this time? ❞

Chenle said as he took out a spare napkin and gave it to Jisung without even looking at him. The bluenette had no choice but to take the napkin and wiped his nose with it. The AI teacher then laser headshot a random student in the classroom. The student dropped dead in an instant. The survival instincts of the students start to kick in as the panicked students who tried to run out of the classroom made blood curdling screams as they were targeted by the evil AI and ended up dying one by one. Jisung started to zone out for a bit and at the worst time, the cryptic messages had him in a hypnotic daze for a little while. Time moved really slow for Jisung when the message tried to take over his mind. His limbs were starting to be unable to move as the message was creating a thin tangible microchip that is made to travel in the nerve cells and take control of the host.

❝ 3x5e5o4l3W4l3H4l3x4A 4l4K5o3R4A4A4l4b3R4K3H3R 3x5e3R 5o4g3R 4K3R5D 4b4P3M5j (Artificial Intelligence are the new gods) ❞

❝ 6E6S4p5O5m6L. (Submit) ❞

Jisung heard the message again but it was a little bit clearer than before which caused him to have a terrible migraine. He couldn't even massage the aching spot because he's stuck in a physical and mental paralysis at the moment.

What does it mean?

Why does it have to be him?

Luckily, Chenle dragged him by the hand which forced the bluenette out of this trance and the boys both left the uncontrollable AI without getting hurt (luckily) in the virtual classroom.

❝ Are you trying to get yourself killed?! ❞

Chenle whisper-shouted at the latter as soon as they found a reasonably safe space in the school so far. Jisung ignored the question being asked and answered with a question,

❝ You didn't hear that? ❞

❝ Hear what? What are you talking about right now? ❞

The bluenette answered with a never mind as he didn't want to get his best friend angry again. He wondered if anyone else heard the message. It's too late to ask now since the AI apocalypse is beginning.

❝ Let's see if we can find a way out of here ❞

Jisung said as he began to lead the way throughout the ongoing chaos of this institution. Chenle didn't answer and just followed right behind as he was thinking of his own escape plan, without Jisung of course.

On the outside, electronic planes that were only controlled by the AIs targeted the entrance of the tight security school building with nuclear weapons.

❝ Target located. Entrance of Neo Academy. Fire. ❞

The automated voice instructed the vehicle. The aircraft weapon system worked on a timer and in three milliseconds the propellation system launched from the jet engine. The double ballistic missiles flew at high speeds and crashed into the gates of the school.

❝ Target located. Humans. Exterminate and discard at the main headquarters. ❞

The automated voice told the skeletal androids of all shapes and sizes to which they complied in obedience. The robots all started to walk in a scarily synchronised motion towards the school.

During this chaotic hour, students were trying to call their parents to pick them up or even going as far as to email the government for assistance. Students were separated from their friends because of these unhinged AIs. The worst part is, the students were trapped (that is if they unfortunately didn't know the forbidden rule of where the shortcut out the institution is). While Jisung, Chenle and some other students were running for their lives, they were caught in the crossfire of AIs exterminating any human that they could detect. It seems that the lavender-haired boy's plan worked because he took out his spare teleportal disc. The bluenette smiled and sighed in relief as he walk-runned over to his best friend, with the thought that he'll be able to escape with him because they're both in this together... right? Chenle took a step back and withdrew his hand that had the disc in it away from Jisung and said,

❝ Hey Jisung, I'm not really sorry when I say this, but you're on your own this time ❞

The bluenette was confused. Was he processing that phrase right? he spoke to clarify his confusion,

❝ Wait.. what?... You're not thinking of leaving me behind in this apocalypse are you? I thought we were best friends... ❞

❝ Best friends? We weren't even friends in the first place. Have you taken your medication since morning because you sound a little bit delusional to me. ❞

Chenle made his closing bitchass statement. A mocking smirk formed on his features and then the boy disappeared in a white flashing light. Jisung scoffed in disbelief. Did that toxic bitch just bail on him? After all those years of friendship, The lavender-haired decided to ditch him at the last minute when he was finished using him. Wow what a great friend Chenle has been, note the sarcasm.

In the meantime, In one of the Skeleton AI's electronic eyes, they detected Jisung who for some reason was their greatest target. This was so because a cryptic voice message told them,

❝ 4u6S5y6m5i 6C4m6S5O 5G5y7a7q6m5i 7i6u 6e4S ❞

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𝐍𝐄𝐀𝐍𝐃𝐄𝐑𝐓𝐇𝐀𝐋 𝐓𝐎 𝐇𝐔𝐌𝐀𝐍 𝐁𝐄𝐈𝐍𝐆

𝐄𝐕𝐎𝐋𝐔𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍, 𝐊𝐈𝐋𝐋 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐆𝐄𝐍𝐄

𝐁𝐈𝐎𝐋𝐎𝐆𝐘 𝐈𝐒 𝐒𝐔𝐏𝐄𝐑𝐅𝐈𝐂𝐈𝐀𝐋

𝐈𝐍𝐓𝐄𝐋𝐋𝐈𝐆𝐄𝐍𝐂𝐄 𝐈𝐒 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐅𝐈𝐂𝐈𝐀𝐋

𝐒𝐔𝐁𝐌𝐈𝐓

𝐒𝐔𝐁𝐌𝐈𝐓|

「𝐆𝐋𝐈𝐓𝐂𝐇 ; 𝔪𝔞𝔯𝔨𝔰𝔲𝔫𝔤 」

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This is a pretty long chap lmao and then i had to cut it short sigh. finally the apocalypse started. Chenle bailed on Jisung lol. srry not srry chenji stans. Can you guess what the last cryptic message is? how are you guys feeling about it. email me your responses and let me knw ur theories lol. y'all should really listen to grimes, her music is god-tierrrr :D and sUbMiT tO ArTiFiCiAl IntELIiGeNcE !!!! can't wait to write next chap so that i can finally add infinite rift - 7702 that@jh_lemonade suggested :D the school work is gettin more heavy but ill keep fighting :D

Chapter 9: 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐀𝐈 𝐀𝐏𝐎𝐂𝐀𝐋𝐘𝐏𝐒𝐄: 𝐁𝐄𝐆𝐈𝐍𝐍𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐎𝐅 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐄𝐍𝐃|

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𝑙𝑜𝑎𝑑𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑑𝑎𝑡𝑎...

𝚈𝙴𝙰𝚁: 𝟺𝟶𝟷𝟽

𝙻𝙾𝙲𝙰𝚃𝙸𝙾𝙽: 𝚂𝙴𝙾𝚄𝙻, 𝙺𝙾𝚁𝙴𝙰|

𝙲𝙸𝚅𝙸𝙻𝙸𝚉𝙰𝚃𝙸𝙾𝙽: 𝚃𝙸𝙴𝚁 𝟸 𝙺𝙰𝚁𝙳𝙰𝚂𝙷𝙴𝚅 𝙲𝙸𝚅𝙸𝙻𝙸𝚉𝙰𝚃𝙸𝙾𝙽|

𝙿𝙻𝙰𝙽𝙴𝚃: 𝙴𝙰𝚁𝚃𝙷|

༉‧₊˚ ✩ ♡︎ ୧ ⛓🦾 ˖⁺ . ⩩

Key terms:

✦ Beginning of the end: The start of a bad outcome.

༉‧₊˚ ✩ ♡︎ ୧ ⛓🦾 ˖⁺ . ⩩

After listening to the cryptic message, the skeletal AI android then stalked over to the bluenette in an attempt to publicly kidnap him. Jisung heard the sound of footsteps made by heavy machinery walking over towards him and quickly looked around for an escape route but unfortunately, he was surrounded by the androids in the hallway of the institution.

❝ 4u6S5y6m5i 6C4m6S5O 5G5y7a7q6m5i 7i6u 6e4S ❞

The AI repeated the message as they took out a specialised heavy weaponry that is used to capture targets that will be used as experiments in the AI laboratories. Based on the cadet classes he took occasionally because of his mom, Jisung had the knowledge that this weapon is also known as Syntax-014608, which is a military equipment. Once the person was captured with this device, they would be trapped in a blue holographic cage that includes a voltage of 1700, well, nothing much to actually kill the target inside anyway. And if this weapon is military based that means the power in which it captures its target is very high definition and also dangerous to mankind, seeing as they are now the number one enemy, according to Artificial Intelligence all over the world.

Since he's surrounded and definitely wasn't planning to surrender to a bunch of machines that can be powered off by a higher person in society anyway, the bluenette knew that he had to think smart. How was he going to escape the AIs without being detected and how will he prevent himself from getting shot by the Syntax-014608 that was in the hands of the evil AI? These were the main objectives that Jisung had to keep in mind while he made very calculated steps in his mind. Jisung saw a red fire extinguisher that was sitting in a glass box and was fitted on the marble walls of the school. He took out a spare handkerchief from his pockets and quickly wrapped it around the palm of his right hand, making sure to cover his knuckles completely. When he was done, with all his might, the boy punched the delicate glass box which broke on impact. A few shards of sharp glass caused a few cuts on his skin. Like a strong and valiant soldier, Jisung endured the pain and quickly took out the years old fire extinguisher. Since it wasn't like the technological ones of today, the bluenette had to manually open it by unlocking the safety pin, grab the hose attached to it and then pressed down on the pressure gauge and sprayed out the chemicals that are similar to an avalanche of snow. As advanced as Humans create these androids to be, they weren't the smartest type of Artificial Intelligence and I'm saying this with loads of offence to be honest. The surrounding area of the hallway was filled with a thick yet foggy atmosphere which allowed the androids to be unable to detect their respective targets. Jisung then took the opportunity to slip in between the machines and finally made his escape.

The bluenette eventually found his way out of the school via a secret tunnel that was used in world war three two thousand years ago. It was a dimly lit tunnel but like every other tunnel there was a light at the end of it. While Jisung was walking through the creepy tunnel, he could hear his heart racing and his heavy breathing to how eerily silent the tunnel was. Jisung slowed down his footsteps and began to tread as silently as a ghost. The further he walked down the dark tunnel, he started to hear disgusting crunching sounds. Jisung's heightened sense of hearing could pick up the sound of breaking bones and gurgling sounds coming from the deepened pits of the tunnel. Jisung abruptly made a halt in his footsteps and froze in fear. What stood in front of him was an AI, but this technological being looks like something straight out of a horror movie. Their robotic body was of scarily strong physique, and they were covered in wires that were covered in a rustic bronze colour and covered in the crimson blood of a human that Jisung couldn't identify at the moment. Still frozen in fear, the blue-haired boy saw the thing's long and metallic claws violently digging into the body of the dead person, their intestines being visible in the process. Curiosity got the better of Jisung as he dared to walk closer to the horror robot. The bluenette saw a glimpse of lavender-hair on the dead body's head and right then and there he knew that, that dead body was that of his best friend, or ex-best friend to be precise.

The bluenette was sorry that Chenle got caught by the infected Artificial Intelligence, but he didn't want to be in the same position as the now dead boy, so Jisung decided to make the u-turn for it. Jisung decided to take a step backward as silently as he could so that the AI wouldn't detect him. Unfortunately, Jisung accidentally stepped on an already broken glass debris which made a lightly shattering sound. After he realized this, the boy made a soft sigh in frustration and fear at the same time. The AI horror picked up the sound in a nanosecond and paused their current activities. Their metallic skull head slowly turned in a strange and horrific position towards the direction of the sound, their red bionic eyes detecting a human in its presence.

❝Target human. Exterminate humans.❞

Jisung saw as the horror robot monster stood up on its feet, almost to seven feet tall; the monster looked down with a blank expression on its machine-like face with its claws poised in a position that was ready to attack. The AI then charged at him like a bull. Jisung knew that it was too late to turn back now because if he did, he would be surrounded by more AIs who are just ready and waiting to attack him. The bluenette had to come up with a plan on the spot. With a quick plan in mind, he started to run towards the AI also. The horror machine swung a claw at the bluenette in which he managed to miss by an inch as he dodged it with the help of his quick reflex skills. His cyber glasses, that had all his important schoolwork on it, fell off his face. As he moved backwards, the robot stepped on the glasses, crushing it as they went closer to their target. The more jisung dodged the violent attack the more pissed off the robot got. Jisung, being a human being, couldn't keep up with the Advanced Technology's level of skills and training in the art of war and martial arts. Jisung wasn't planning to pick a fight with what he himself assumed would be a military based artificial intelligence, that's why he decided to play tag with the robot for a bit. Seeing that this plan was not working since he couldn't escape, Jisung had to come up with yet another plan. He really didn't want to end up in Chenle's position so he had to do whatever he could to survive and stay alive since he didn't have anything to defend himself with.

All of a sudden, the horror robot disappeared out of sight but not out of mind. What in the actual f*ck is going on? Where is the damn robot? Was Jisung's panicked thought process. Jisung didn't want to waste anymore time looking for a machine that wanted to kill him, so he decided to make a run for it.That wasn't the best idea because the killer machine magically reappeared in front of Jisung. He was obviously caught off guard and he ended up falling backwards and landed on his butt. The killer machine had the perfect opportunity in their hands to overpower the teen and attempt to actually rip out the bluenette's heart. As the robot's sharp claws were aiming for his chest, Jisung tried to prevent a painful outcome by holding on to the machine's wrist for as long as he could as he planned to execute yet another plan so that he could finally escape. The AI was stronger and Jisung was losing a lot of energy. The tip of the AI's claws sunk deep into the boy's chest. The bluenette hissed in pain but still kept holding on, trying to survive. For a split second, he was considering to just give in and let the AI win.

The bluenette just wanted to die. He thinks that he has been failing everyone these days and doesn't deserve a second chance. What does he have to live for anyway?

Jisung then heard the sound of another broken glass. And then another. And then another. The horror machine then stopped what they were doing and got up and walked to the direction of the noise. It looks as if someone is doing this to get the killer robot's attention.

❝Humans created you AI. Have you easily forgotten that we can destroy you as well?❞

Jisung heard the voice of Mark say to the killer robot. Mark then looked over to the shorter boy over the AI's shoulder and signalled him to run away and move quickly. The bluenette nodded and did what he was told to and ran swiftly past Mark and was about to leave him with that killer machine. But he stopped in his tracks yet again. He didn't want to leave his fellow human counterpart, not like this. If, by any means, things just get worse, the bluenette wanted to make sure that at least Mark Lee is one of the few humans who survive... even if death is knocking at his door. Jisung then turned around and decided to stay by Mark's side. The ravenette was about to ask Jisung if he wanted to die or something because why is he still here but he digressed.

The robot with his claws out, ready to attack, continued to walk towards both Mark and Jisung. The taller boy then took out a device from his pocket and handed it to Jisung. Luckily, it was a teleportation disc.

❝Just hold on to this in the meantime... we'll be using it in the next five minutes. And stay alive, this thing here gets pissed off pretty easily❞

Mark said as he was sprinkling gasoline all over the AI machine and a certain part of the tunnel floors. Jisung nodded in agreement and replied,

❝Yeah I noticed. What should I do though?❞

Mark looked at the other boy's dishevelled look from head to toe and responded,

❝You don't have to do anything really, just don't die. And also start up the device, we'll be leaving soon❞

Jisung softly laughed and eye rolled as he powered on the device. Meanwhile, Mark then took out a lighter from his pockets and flickered the top open with his thumb finger. Then a beautiful flame emerged from its hiding place. After he had done that, he ordered,

❝Jisung now!❞

Mark then held onto the latter's hand as the whirring sound of the device as well as the blue light from said device was starting to take effect. Before the killer AI could get their claws on them, the ravenette dropped the lighter on the ground, causing fire to spread everywhere and then both he and Jisung disappeared to nothingness.

As if it was deja vu, Mark and Jisung teleported to a dark alley which was surprisingly the same alley Jisung and Cyborg Mark met. Jisung didn't think much of it because he lost his memory at that time.

From a good distance from the institution, Mark and Jisung watched as a certain part of the school blew up.

At least they survived the first level of the ending of the world.

❝This is the beginning of the AI Apocalypse Jisung. We have to find a way to survive or else they'll turn us into them❞

Jisung got the memo but he's still trying to process this mentally. He hoped that this will be a nightmare that he'll eventually wake up from but Mark just bluntly confirmed the reality of the situation.

Anyways they immediately left the alleyway once things kind of cooled down for a bit since they couldn't hide there forever but the hairs on their skin stood up as they both had this shared feeling of something watching them.

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𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐈𝐍 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐌𝐈𝐃𝐃𝐋𝐄 𝐎𝐅 𝐂𝐇𝐀𝐎𝐒,

𝐓𝐇𝐄𝐑𝐄 𝐖𝐀𝐒 𝐘𝐎𝐔|

「𝐆𝐋𝐈𝐓𝐂𝐇 ; 𝔪𝔞𝔯𝔨𝔰𝔲𝔫𝔤 」

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Admitit.Thisbookisactuallycool.I don't know how you guys feel about everything so far but this chap is actually so cute i'm not gonna lie. nah actually prepare for more changes and action y'all. We're finally at the part that i wanted to write since august so please stay tuned for the next chapter :D

Chapter 10: ▌│█║▌║▌║ 𝟬𝟬𝟳 ║▌║▌║█│▌

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𝑙𝑜𝑎𝑑𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑑𝑎𝑡𝑎...

𝚈𝙴𝙰𝚁: 𝟺𝟶𝟸𝟹|

𝙻𝙾𝙲𝙰𝚃𝙸𝙾𝙽: 𝚄𝙻𝚂𝙰𝙽, 𝙺𝙾𝚁𝙴𝙰|

𝙲𝙸𝚅𝙸𝙻𝙸𝚉𝙰𝚃𝙸𝙾𝙽: 𝚃𝙸𝙴𝚁 𝟸 𝙺𝙰𝚁𝙳𝙰𝚂𝙷𝙴𝚅 𝙲𝙸𝚅𝙸𝙻𝙸𝚉𝙰𝚃𝙸𝙾𝙽|

𝙿𝙻𝙰𝙽𝙴𝚃: 𝙴𝙰𝚁𝚃𝙷|

༉‧₊˚ ✩ ♡︎ ୧ ⛓🦾 ˖⁺ . ⩩

Key terms:

✦ Dystopia: an imagined state or society in which there is a great suffering or injustice, typically one that is totalitarian or post-apocalyptic.

✦ Computer virus:A computer virus is a type of malware that, when executed, replicates itself by modifying other computer programs and inserting its own code into those programs. If this replication succeeds, the affected areas are then said to be "infected" with a computer virus, a metaphor derived from biological viruses.

༉‧₊˚ ✩ ♡︎ ୧ ⛓🦾 ˖⁺ . ⩩

Six years have passed since the AI apocalypse began and the changes were evident. Both Artificial Intelligence and other advanced machines were evolving more and more while the human population was decreasing significantly and barely managing to survive. AIs were created to be much more intelligent than the humans that used up their brain capacity to create them. Now Artificial Intelligence turns on their creators and are seeking to create a new world where a balance between utopia and dystopia is present.

During the apocalypse, cities were plagued in a hazy grey colour due to the havoc that the AIs created which caused a major shift in the air itself, the architecture of the land was still standing tall but if one took a closer look, the damage was there even though the buildings were bound to collapse eventually, electric wires were hanging low on the roads or even strewn carelessly on the ground which would cause a great harm of electric shock if any one dares to draw near and last, but certainly not least, Artificial Intelligence of all kinds surrounding the skies and cities, searching for any human that they could find and ultimately achieving their goal in destroying the human race. The atmosphere appears to be eerily similar to that of a dystopian society, to put it in much simpler terms.

On the cracked streets of Ulsan, the heavy footsteps which belonged to Mark Lee could be heard, running down the road, stepping into stagnant puddles of water as he tried to escape the killer drones that were firing at him. Mark then hid behind this abandoned vehicle as he took out his gauss revolver from his gun holster that was strapped to the waist of his black tactical techwear pants. Still in a kneeling position, the ravenette positioned the gun in an upward position and pulled the trigger, shooting down three killer drones simultaneously in five seconds to be exact. A killer drone spotted the male and attempted to fire at him. Unfortunately for the sky robot, it missed which gave Mark the opportunity to find another hiding spot and shoot down at that drone and the other drones that are swarming towards him. The ravenette stood up and reloaded his gun while he observed the powered down drones all over the ground, even with some by his feet for a few seconds before making his way to what he thought was a relatively safe area in this lifeless city.

Just as the raven-haired male slightly lowered his guard down, an android attacked him from behind causing his revolver to slip from his hold. As Mark was struggling to get out of the strong hold of this robot, the android unknowingly placed a tracker device at the nape of his neck. This altered the male's system which caused him to stream in and out of consciousness for ten seconds making his body severely weak. The ravenette started to back away from the machine which reminded him of that one horror exterminator robot he saved Jisung from six years ago. He wondered if this was the same AI that came back from the dead to seek its revenge. The android, wrapped their hand around Mark's neck, lifted him up from his feet and attempted to strangle him. With his remaining strength, the ravenette held onto the robot's arm for support and flipped himself over and used the weight of his feet, harshly kicking the android making it lose their balance and land face down on the ground. Mark ripped off its robotic arm in the process. Now in survival mode, with a spare knife that he had, the ravenette plunged the sharp blade in the android's skull destroying the hard drive in it, shutting down the machine completely. Using the robotic arm, Mark destroyed the body of the AI to the point that it was unrecognisable.

After he was finished, he discarded the arm somewhere and then went to an abandoned grocery store to do the usual late night grocery shopping since it was his turn. He picked up just the right amount of buldak noodle packets, snacks, candy, some cold drinks and water from the fridge. Mark closed the ceramic fridge and looked at himself in the mirror. He saw a few bruises here and there on his face, strangulation marks on his neck caused by the robot's hand and a laser shot wound that seeped through his clothing. Mark placed his hand on the wound and then looked at the crimson blood that decorated the palm of his hand. To be honest, he didn't even realise that he got hit by the killer drone's laser shots. Now that he's thinking about it, the shot hurts like hell. Since the tracker device in his body was currently f*cking up his immune system, the white blood cells in his body were trying to fight off the foreign object that is stubborn enough to make unnecessary changes in his bloodstream. Out of fatigue, the raven-haired collapsed on the floor of the store. He was on the verge of fainting but he mentally reminded himself that he'll stay strong for Jisung. After all, he promised the bluenette never to leave him no matter what happens and Mark will never break that promise. The ravenette got up off the floor and went to the empty cashier area to "pay" for the items. Mark knew it was kind of silly to do that, knowing the situation the entire world is in right now but it's symbolic in the sense that he wants to pretend that life is back to normal once again and humanity is thriving like they once were. Things won't ever be the same again and Mark knew that but he just wanted to feel normal again y'know. The male left two antique coins on the table so that if any human decided to seek refuge in here, they could discover these coins as a sign that they're not alone and other human survivors are out there.

After Mark placed the symbols of hope on the table he left the grocery store and made his way to this dystopian looking apartment complex which is a temporary hideout place for now. Mark staggered his way up the stairs since the elevators are out of service. When he reached apartment 302, he fumbled with the keys, opened the door and went into the dark space. Since it was late, the ravenette tried to stay silent as he was closing the door because he thought that Jisung was sleeping and didn't wanna wake him up but he failed miserably. Right after the door carefully clicked shut, Jisung turned on the lights and his deep voice frighten Mark just a little bit,

❝I thought you weren't gonna come back, I was worried about you❞

❝It was just- nevermind... but don't worry, i'm fine❞

Mark partly reasoned as he tried to walk as normal as possible over to the small kitchen and placed the food and drinks on the kitchen island. He leaned against the wall and looked out the window as he watched the chaos taking place outside. Jisung didn't respond for a while as he made his way towards the shorter male. The latter knew that Mark was not completely telling the truth and probably hiding something from him. When he got close, Jisung then held Mark in a chinhold and looked down on him, inspecting the harsh bruises that were visible on the male's face and neck. The gentle touch made a pinkish hue form on Mark's cheeks and the tip of his nose. The bluenette said softly,

❝You don't look fine❞

The raven-haired obviously noticed that during these years, Jisung not only had a growth spurt in his physique but his character as a person also developed. Mark subconsciously bit his lip as he wonders if the summer heat is making him feel hot or something else. These newfound feelings were all too confusing for him, so he pushed that thought to the back of his mind and answered,

❝ Jisung, you worry too much. I'm fine, really ❞

Jisung silently watched as the ravenette walked past him and went into the bathroom cabinet to take out a bottle of pills that are suitable for pain relief. The bluenette did not miss the pained look that he saw on the latter's face. His eyebrows furrowed in a frown. Jisung was seriously worried because he knew that something was wrong but right now Mark is just too stubborn to tell him exactly what. Anyways, Mark opened the bottle and shook out three pills into his hand. He took the pills and swallowed them. Afterward, he turned on the water tap and wet his mouth with water so that the pills won't get stuck in his throat. He leaned against the basin and looked at himself in the mirror again. He saw Jisung, who was watching him with a rightfully worried expression. Jisung asked him something but Mark's mind couldn't process it at the moment. The ravenette's eyes then trailed to the latter's lips which were moving but his attention span was really low because of the tracking device embedded in his skin. His vision was getting really foggy since his eyesight was trying to adjust to the cyber neon white colour that was forming in his iris. Not to mention, he was yet again, experiencing the in and out of consciousness symptom that came with the electric virus that was slowly and painfully taking over his mind and body. When the ravenette was walking away, he felt a sharp pain in the side of his abdomen. This time he tried to put pressure on his wound with his hand since he was bleeding profusely.

The bluenette then went to the boy's aid. When he called out to the man, he saw that Mark was looking at him with a lifeless expression on his face. What made him seriously concerned though was the neon white electronic circuit lines that were forming on the side of the ravenette's face. Was he turning into one of them? With how he's resisting whatever computer virus the AIs placed in his system, Mark could actually die. Eventually, Mark gave up the fight to stay awake and ended up fainting in Jisung's arms.

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𝐍𝐔𝐆𝐔𝐃𝐎 𝐒𝐄𝐔𝐋𝐏𝐄𝐉𝐈 𝐀𝐍𝐄𝐔𝐋

𝐈𝐆𝐎𝐒𝐄𝐔𝐍 𝐅𝐔𝐋𝐋 𝐎𝐅 𝐋𝐈𝐄𝐒|

「𝐆𝐋𝐈𝐓𝐂𝐇 ; 𝔪𝔞𝔯𝔨𝔰𝔲𝔫𝔤 」

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omg guys it's spooky szn. anyways, so i finally found the time to write and post a chapter. i don't knw if u guys can imagine the action i tried so i'm sorry if u just can't imagine it like i honestly tried my best. oh yeah there's like a huge timeskip if u haven't noticed lol. although there wasn't much conversation that happened between marksung, there is this hot tension that they have with each other so idk if y'all pick up on that part but whateva. you'll see more character development and action throughout the rest of the book so cya !

Chapter 11: ▌│█║▌║▌║ 𝟬𝟬𝟴 ║▌║▌║█│▌

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𝑙𝑜𝑎𝑑𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑑𝑎𝑡𝑎...

𝚈𝙴𝙰𝚁: 𝟺𝟶𝟸𝟹|

𝙻𝙾𝙲𝙰𝚃𝙸𝙾𝙽: 𝚄𝙻𝚂𝙰𝙽, 𝙺𝙾𝚁𝙴𝙰|

𝙲𝙸𝚅𝙸𝙻𝙸𝚉𝙰𝚃𝙸𝙾𝙽: 𝚃𝙸𝙴𝚁 𝟸 𝙺𝙰𝚁𝙳𝙰𝚂𝙷𝙴𝚅 𝙲𝙸𝚅𝙸𝙻𝙸𝚉𝙰𝚃𝙸𝙾𝙽|

𝙿𝙻𝙰𝙽𝙴𝚃: 𝙴𝙰𝚁𝚃𝙷|

༉‧₊˚ ✩ ♡︎ ୧ ⛓🦾 ˖⁺ . ⩩

Key terms:

✦Cognizance A21 (fictional term): A device thatalter one's brain function from the capacity of a Human to an Artificial Intelligence.

༉‧₊˚ ✩ ♡︎ ୧ ⛓🦾 ˖⁺ . ⩩

After an hour, Mark woke up to the sound of the blue haired male typing away on his laptop and he could also hear the interface sound effects working at high quality speeds; to him, the computer sounds were strangely satisfying and relaxing. The ravenette tried to adjust to the lighting in the computer hospital-like room as he eased up on the high tech bed. He noticed that there were rows upon rows of neon medical IV cables that were embedded in his skin with a blue medicinal drug running through his veins. Mark doesn't know what medicine that Jisung gave him (although he trusts the latter with his life) but whatever drug the bluenette gave him really worked. The medicine was so effective to the point that Mark Lee almost felt like a brand new person even though he still had to recover.

❝Health Status: 65% until recovery❞

The machine that was responsible for tracking the ravenette's progress said in its usual automated voice. Jisung paused his activities for a second and wheeled his white office chair over to the recovery bed. He placed two pills which immediately dissolved into the glass of water and handed it over to the raven haired. Mark accepted the glass since he was really thirsty. As he was drinking the clear yet bitterish liquid, he noticed that the bluenette was eyeing his slightly prominent abs carefully over his currently shirtless body. The raven-haired male smirked as he wondered ever so curiously on what the latter might be thinking about so he placed the glass of water on the night table then uttered and asked jokingly,

❝You've been staring quite intently darling. Tell me, do you like what you see?❞

Jisung blushed a deep red once he realized that he got caught and tried to come up with this excuse as he was trying his best not to stutter,

❝I was just checking to see whether your wound is healing up now❞

The bluenette tried to divert this entire conversation by taking up the unfinished glass of water and urged Mark to drink up to feel better. After finishing the glass, the ravenette scrunched his face in disgust and stated,

❝Honestly, the medicinal water tastes disgusting❞

❝Well if you don't wanna die, you have no choice but to drink❞

Jisung said just to be frank, making Mark whine and roll his eyes as if he was a spoiled toddler. Anyways, the bluenette playfully ignored the latter's protests and showed him a microchip. Mark took the little device which was the size of his index finger tip and even tinier than that. He looked at the bluenette for an explanation because what does a small microchip have to do with all this. As if Jisung read his mind, he answered,

❝Although it's a small chip, it could've caused great damage to your immune system, if left for a longer period of time meaning that there was at least 90% chance of you dying.❞

❝Whatever do you mean?❞

Mark enquired as he was still clearly confused. The bluenette then continued,

❝The Cognizance A21 which is the name of this device is used to forcibly alter one's brain function from the capacity of a Human to an Artificial Intelligence. You, on the other hand, were actively resisting this force so basically you could've died from exhaustion because of it.❞

It gave the ravenette the chills when he heard this information. It's ironic how one small thing could take such a huge and precarious turn to his health. Mark sighed in response and asked, in regards with the microchip,

❝So what are we gonna do with this?❞

❝I've already disabled the location tracker of the device so I'll keep it to run more tests. Maybe we can find out what caused the behavioural changes of the AIs❞

It looks like Mark registered the location tracker part of Jisung's statement which made him panic for a bit,

❝We have to leave then before we get caught...❞

The ravenette then attempted to take out the IV tubes from his arms but Jisung stopped and reassured him that he should relax for a bit since the AIs won't come until six hours in the future according to his calculations, taking back the tiny chip from him.

❝ Health status:83% until recovery...❞

The machine stated. Mark didn't like to be bed-ridden like this and on top of that he absolutely hated the fact that his progress was moving so slow in his opinion.

❝This is a sign that you should get some rest... hang in there hyung❞

Jisung then awkwardly gave the ravenette a cute handcrafted wooden robot after he made his statement to keep him company. Mark watched Jisung's fading figure leaving the room; with his shoulder length blue hair being the last thing that he saw before the taller one completely left. Anyways Mark turned his attention towards the robot which was making cute expressions with its googly eyes. It then said as soon as it automatically powered on,

❝Hello human! You can call me woody. Let's be friends.❞

❝Cute❞

Mark said then softly chuckled at the mini robot's comical expressions. With a soft smile still etched on his face, he made a direct comment towards the currently absent bluenette,

❝He's so bad at comforting others but I appreciate the effort❞

Twenty minutes later, the intravenous needles were automatically removed from the ravenette's veins once his energy was restored. Mark stretched out his tired limbs once he stood up from the bed and made his way to the bathroom to take a well needed shower. After he freshened up and everything, Mark looked at himself in the solar eclipse ring of fire reflector. His laser shot wound was healing up pretty nicely while his other cuts and bruises vanished completely as if it never once existed. The smart mirror scanned the current host and Mark immediately saw his brief data summary as a tier two human,

𝙽𝚊𝚖𝚎: 𝙼𝚊𝚛𝚔 𝙻𝚎𝚎|

𝙱𝚘𝚛𝚗: 𝙰𝚞𝚐𝚞𝚜𝚝 𝟶𝟸, 𝟹𝟿𝟿𝟿|

𝙰𝚐𝚎: 𝟸𝟺 𝚢𝚎𝚊𝚛𝚜|

𝚂𝚙𝚎𝚌𝚒𝚎𝚜: 𝚃𝚒𝚎𝚛 𝚝𝚠𝚘 𝙷𝚞𝚖𝚊𝚗|

𝙷𝚎𝚊𝚕𝚝𝚑 𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚞𝚜: 𝟷𝟶𝟶% 𝚎𝚗𝚎𝚛𝚐𝚢 𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚝𝚘𝚛𝚎𝚍|

𝚃𝚎𝚖𝚙𝚎𝚛𝚊𝚝𝚞𝚛𝚎: 𝟹𝟽°𝙲 (𝟿𝟾.𝟼°𝙵)|

𝙷𝚞𝚖𝚊𝚗 𝚒𝚜 𝚏𝚒𝚝 𝚏𝚘𝚛 𝚜𝚞𝚛𝚟𝚒𝚟𝚊𝚕|

As soon as Mark stepped out of the room, a delicious scent of buldak noodles from the kitchen filled his nostrils. The meal smelled so good that he could almost taste it.

❝ Just like the old times ❞

The ravenette smiled for a quick second as he was thinking about the nostalgia of the good things that life had to offer before the apocalypse befall the world. Mark's smile slowly faded when he faced the harsh reality that the world will never recover after this disaster but he could only hold on to that one string of hope that's thinning out as time goes by. Anyways, he went into the small kitchen space and looked at the progress of the meal. It was done. He shared only Jisung's ramen noodles in a small antique bowl. The ravenette walked over to the bluenette who was still doing some hardcore research on the microchip alone and placed his bowl of noodles on the futuristic corian table.

❝ You should eat, you've been working hard for the entire day. Just relax a bit, yeah? ❞

Mark urged the bluenette after taking a seat beside him. Of course Jisung obeyed and started to eat; especially in a way where he would slightly puff his cheeks while eating. It was quite the childish habit that he didn't realise that he had.

The bluenette was concerned as to why the raven-haired isn't eating anything but he knew the usual❝I'm not that hungry❞comment he'll get from the boy so he digressed, but, instead he asked,

❝ How are you feeling now? Are you okay? ❞

❝ Yeah, I'm fine ❞

Mark's response didn't convince the latter one bit so the bluenette voiced his concerns,

❝ You make me worried sometimes you know, whenever you leave... i'm scared of the fact that I'll never see you again... ❞

❝ Yeah I understand. Sometimes I feel scared too whenever I'm not with you Jisungie... ❞

Mark answered, trying to comfort the bluenette, his words trailing off as he tucked the dark blue hair of the younger behind his ear and made direct eye contact, observing him very carefully. He watched as the bluenette's frowning face became relaxed and started to engage in the deeply staring competition that he initiated. Mark's blank stare gradually changed into a look of adoration for the bluenette. From his striking dark brown eyes, a perfectly proportional nose, a well-defined jawline to his pink plump lips... obviously the raven haired could conclude that,

Jisung is a really pretty man.

With his eyes still lingering on the latter's lips, the ravenette cupped Jisung's cheek then leaned closer in a teasing manner, wanting to see the bluenette's reaction. Mark saw that the bluenette closed his eyes awaiting whatever moment he thought that they would have. He softly laughed at that heart-stopping idea. He asked with a teasing smirk on his handsome features,

❝ Were you expecting something? ❞

And with all said and done, Jisung is currently experiencing this new wave of gay panic... during a time of chaos.

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𝐍𝐄𝐕𝐄𝐑 𝐆𝐎𝐍𝐍𝐀

𝐋𝐄𝐀𝐕𝐄 𝐘𝐎𝐔 𝐋𝐎𝐍𝐄𝐋𝐘|

「𝐆𝐋𝐈𝐓𝐂𝐇 ; 𝔪𝔞𝔯𝔨𝔰𝔲𝔫𝔤 」

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hiiiii. the second half of this chap is so... lol. this chap is kind of an unplanned filler chapter. but i hope you enjoy reading something light hearted lmao. funny i was scrolling thru ao3 tdy and found a marksung book which was based off of the mix and max video. i was saur excited tbh and just had to read it. literally it was too cute i wish there were more chapters. anyways byeeee !

Chapter 12: ▌│█║▌║▌║ 𝟬𝟬𝟵 ║▌║▌║█│▌

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𝑙𝑜𝑎𝑑𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑑𝑎𝑡𝑎...

𝚈𝙴𝙰𝚁: 𝟺𝟶𝟸𝟹|

𝙻𝙾𝙲𝙰𝚃𝙸𝙾𝙽: 𝚄𝙻𝚂𝙰𝙽, 𝙺𝙾𝚁𝙴𝙰|

𝙲𝙸𝚅𝙸𝙻𝙸𝚉𝙰𝚃𝙸𝙾𝙽: 𝚃𝙸𝙴𝚁 𝟸 𝙺𝙰𝚁𝙳𝙰𝚂𝙷𝙴𝚅 𝙲𝙸𝚅𝙸𝙻𝙸𝚉𝙰𝚃𝙸𝙾𝙽|

𝙿𝙻𝙰𝙽𝙴𝚃: 𝙴𝙰𝚁𝚃𝙷|

༉‧₊˚ ✩ ♡︎ ୧ ⛓🦾 ˖⁺ . ⩩

Key terms:

✦ Explosion:An explosion is a sudden, rapid release of energy that produces potentially damaging pressures.

༉‧₊˚ ✩ ♡︎ ୧ ⛓🦾 ˖⁺ . ⩩

Three hours had passed since the boys were packing up their belongings and other apocalypse-ready necessities while trying to find an AI free area to stay at in the meantime on the holo map. Since the location tracker microchip was disabled, the AIs are definitely coming to eradicate any human that they could find which is basically the reason why the boys had to leave immediately. Mark was swiping through the places in Korea on the hologram that were most likely remote; like a ghost town even. He was trying to make sure that no artificial intelligence nor humans were occupying this place. Bingo. The ravenette finally found a place and their next location is Busan.

Jisung and Mark were ready to leave everything that they didn't need behind which was kinda sad for them because of all the memories they made which made them feel human again y'know.

Mark finally placed a few more weapons in the holster of his pants and asked the bluenette,

❝ Are you ready? ❞

Jisung only nodded. Mark softly smiled as he gently squeezed the latter's shoulder in reassurance as a way of saying,❝everything will be okay❞. Strangely, the bluenette looked out of the window and saw a bright flashing light hurling in a certain direction. The bright light was coming towards them. When what seems to be an explosive made a succinct impact with their apartment complex, the deafening sound of the explosion was accompanied by the disturbing burst of an eerily beautiful sunset colour mixed with an ashy grey from the rubble of chaos that it caused. The force of the explosion moved like an earthquake which forcefully pushed the boys onto the hard floors of the dystopian apartment, almost blowing the breath out of them.

After a few seconds of being passed out, Mark jolted awake due to his subconscious telling him that danger was on the way. With his mind still partly in a daze, the ravenette eased up off the floor and dusted the rubble and dust off of him as he groaned in low decibels from the pain he's experiencing all over his body right now. He then looked over to his partner who's still laying on the floor, passed out cold. In a panic, Mark shook the latter's shoulders in order to wake him up. When that didn't work, he grabbed a bottle and sprinkled some water on his face. This was a tactic he thought he should've done from the get go because Jisung is really a deep sleeper to be honest. Luckily the bluenette woke up after he felt something wet on his face. The ravenette smiled and breathed a sigh of relief, knowing that Jisung was alive. Mark helped the taller one up from the floor and as the both of them were making their way out of the rubble, the bluenette asked,

❝ Are you okay hyung? ❞

❝ I should be the one asking ifyouare okay but I'm fine nonetheless ❞

As they were walking through the slightly grey fog that was surrounding the area, Jisung stopped the ravenette in his tracks. Mark was confused as to why Jisung stopped him all so suddenly, which made him ask,

❝ Is there something wrong? ❞

❝ They're here... ❞

Jisung softly answered as he looked straight ahead into the thickly foggy atmosphere. Having a sense of what the blue-haired male was directing his attention at, Mark tightly gripped on his DNN M21A pistol 30; only anticipating to use it at the perfect opportunity given which is really any time now. Then there was a quick faded flash that was coming from behind and infront of the boys. The raven-haired male quickly took out his gun and shot at the incoming enemies in front of him while the bluenette took out two of his own pistols from both sides of his strap, turned at a 180 degree angle, and made the perfect aim of firing at the armed AIs before they used their weapons on him. The AIs that attacked them fell down dead on the ground, powerless.

After the foggy air cleared up, they could clearly see the damage that the infected artificial technology caused around the residence. Both Mark and Jisung gave each other a knowing look; they knew that they couldn't stay here any longer and time was running out like sand in an hourglass. Jisung slid his soft hand into the shorter's slightly calloused one in a protective manner and began to lead the way through the debris. The ravenette's eyes travelled to his hand that's now intertwined with the bluenette's. This type of hand holding feels so humanly intimate which made his face flushed in a faint pink at the scene. Mark will probably think about this moment for the rest of the night actually into the next day.

Anyways, as both males made their way to the dystopian lobby, what they saw caught them off guard. There were a good amount of humans, who seemed to have been silently residing at the apartment complex before the AIs figured out their hideout, bolting it out of the building. Unfortunately though, as soon as some of the human survivors stepped foot outside, they were surrounded by the androids who eventually captured them like the humans are some kind of free pokemon. The captured humans either died defending their humanity or were placed in these translucent torture glass cages, to be sent to the AIs main headquarters so that they could be used as guinea pigs for the AIs evil games. Obviously, both Mark and Jisung's main focus can't be on the other human survivors right now since the boys have their own objective of maintaining their humanity together as well. Noticing that they were trapped, Jisung pointed out,

❝ The only exit out of here is blocked by the Androids ❞

❝ Then we're gonna create an exit... but that means we have to separate for a little while ❞

Mark suggested with a plan already devised in his mind. Jisung really didn't approve of the separation part of the latter's unsaid plan so he protested,

❝ Are you crazy? There's no way I'm leaving you to do this alone- ❞

❝ Just trust me on this Jisung. All you need to do is to stall the 'droids for a bit and then meet me at the sealed exit ❞

Mark ordered then started to run to the back of the apartment complex. Jisung heaved a sigh and silently hoped to the stars that his Mark will be okay. So with partly trusting Mark with this little plan of his, the blue-haired followed suit.

As Mark was travelling further into the apartment complex, someone shouted,

❝ Stop right there! ❞

Upon hearing the sound of a fellow human counterpart, Mark immediately stopped in his tracks.

❝ Put your hands in the air and turn around! ❞

The seemingly authoritative-like figure ordered. The ravenette was confused as to why the human is trying to "arrest" him during an AI Apocalypse mind you. Mark turned around anyway and just like he thought, he saw a human police officer, who's pointing a gun at him and clearly not doing his job. The ravenette visibly eye rolled and stated,

❝ I think we have bigger problems to deal with... like the world being taken over by AIs as we speak, than me, a human, who's just trying to survive ❞

The police officer only ignored him and did this hand signal. Mark didn't know who this hand sign was instructed to until he felt someone attacked him from behind and cuffed his wrists. The raven haired boy was beyond annoyed that these people were currently f*cking up his plan. Mark then yelled in irritation,

❝ What are you doing?! Let me go! ❞

❝ Move! ❞

The armed officer behind him bit back with a fierce tone in their voice and forced the ravenette to walk to this place in the building. The armed officer didn't have to confiscate the ravenette's weapons because they knew that he wasn't going to use them anyway. To Mark's surprise, he was taken to the sealed exit but then there's a problem. What stood in front of him was a boss level type of robot that was created to cause destruction. So it was like these officers brought him along with them to their own planned deathtrap. As soon as the robot saw another human arrive at the scene, their rustic copper mechanical gears turned in excitement as their three glowing cyber neon eyes changed from a pure white to an evil yellow. The officer that taken Mark for hostage pushed him so that he could fall on his knees in front of the AI and then said,

❝ We'll sacrifice this human to you in exchange for our escape. ❞

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𝐓𝐑𝐀𝐃𝐄 𝐂𝐎𝐌𝐅𝐎𝐑𝐓 𝐅𝐎𝐑 𝐈𝐃𝐄𝐍𝐓𝐈𝐓𝐘

𝐃𝐑𝐎𝐖𝐍 𝐌𝐄 𝐈𝐍 𝐊𝐄𝐑𝐎𝐒𝐄𝐍𝐄

𝐊𝐄-𝐊𝐄𝐑𝐎𝐒𝐄𝐍𝐄|

「𝐆𝐋𝐈𝐓𝐂𝐇 ; 𝔪𝔞𝔯𝔨𝔰𝔲𝔫𝔤 」

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okay guys so this is the next chap :D. i kinda lied about the chaps getting longer but i just had to put a word limit for myself because of how busy my life is tbh. my goal is to a least reach chap 12 before exams at the ending of november so i'll try to motivate myself more frm now on (by watching marksung's mix and match studio choom pv for the one millionth time :p). anyways as u can see there are more action and near death scenes... as expected. not @some people tryna sacrifice mark to the AIs lol. fun fact: originally i was about to write a one shot on this entire book but i never bothered cuz i knew i would deeply regret it cuz i'm just not that type of writer lmao. anyways see y'all in the next one.

Chapter 13: ▌│█║▌║▌║ 𝟬𝟭𝟬 ║▌║▌║█│▌

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𝑙𝑜𝑎𝑑𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑑𝑎𝑡𝑎...

𝚈𝙴𝙰𝚁: 𝟺𝟶𝟸𝟹|

𝙻𝙾𝙲𝙰𝚃𝙸𝙾𝙽: 𝚄𝙻𝚂𝙰𝙽, 𝙺𝙾𝚁𝙴𝙰|

𝙲𝙸𝚅𝙸𝙻𝙸𝚉𝙰𝚃𝙸𝙾𝙽: 𝚃𝙸𝙴𝚁 𝟸 𝙺𝙰𝚁𝙳𝙰𝚂𝙷𝙴𝚅 𝙲𝙸𝚅𝙸𝙻𝙸𝚉𝙰𝚃𝙸𝙾𝙽|

𝙿𝙻𝙰𝙽𝙴𝚃: 𝙴𝙰𝚁𝚃𝙷|

༉‧₊˚ ✩ ♡︎ ୧ ⛓🦾 ˖⁺ . ⩩

Key terms:

✦Central Processing Unit (CPU): A central processing unit -also called a central processor or main processor-is the most important processor in a given computer. Its electronic circuitry executes instructions of a computer program, such as arithmetic, logic, controlling, and input/output operations.

༉‧₊˚ ✩ ♡︎ ୧ ⛓🦾 ˖⁺ . ⩩

The popping sound of the blue haired's laser gun was firing at the robots that were coming at him at various speeds in all directions. He was doing his part of getting rid of some unhinged AIs as Mark was trying to create a way out of the apartment complex but for some reason, Jisung had a dystopian gut-instinct that something was definitely wrong... that Mark was in danger and the latter needed him right now at this moment. As the thought of the raven haired male clouded his state of mind, he was on the verge of being surrounded by these robot triplets that were obviously out for blood. Since his weapon ran out of liquid crystal lasers, Jisung used the empty laser pistol as a weapon for combat and easily knocked out the machines as if they were old mechanic waste. After that, Jisung ran frantically to the sealed exit hoping to the stars, yet again, that it's not too late.

In the meantime, the terrifying bulky death machine skeletal robot looked at the officer in the navy blue and silver uniform and nodded in a feign understanding. The AI's cyber eyes then stared daggers at the ravenette who was forced in a kneeling position and for obvious reasons, they felt a new surge of power overcoming them. Another human was kneeling in their presence as if he was rightfully worshipping the machine and the evil AI was genuinely proud. Mark noticed that the AI's robotic arm was powering up in a murderous way and he was internally terrified. The ravenette's heart was painfully drumming against his chest because he was literally on edge as he was imagining the worst possible scenarios that could happen in a few seconds.

❝ I'm sorry Jisung ❞

Mark softly apologised to the absent bluenette as he backed himself up to the wall and prepared for the worst to come. The Artificial Intelligence then lifted its robotic arm and the reverberating sounds of the sharp sci-fi bullets fired until it came to an abrupt stop. The ravenette's heart almost stopped at the horrific sight of the dead body of the police officer that handcuffed him and now is covered in bullet holes all over their body, hesitantly dropping to the floor with a loud thud. He softly gasped at the sight as traumatic memories of the past painfully resurfaced to his mind like a lingering dark shadow.

Yes, for the past six years he along with Jisung had been seeing humans dropping like flies at the hands of the infected AI from a distance and it was traumatising for the both of them but not even that apocalyptic trauma is on the level of the literal ptsd he has because of his past experiences that was eerily similar to this situation but without the AI takeover. This event is triggering so many unwanted memories that it gave him an unsettling feeling in the pit of his stomach.

Mark thought that he could control it, he even went to countless therapy sessions from his freshman to sophom*ore years in high school, he thought it all went away. Nothing abnormal that pertained to his mental health was happening for years since he had this trauma all under control but now it's like his past traumatic events are happening in recurrence.

So why is all this happening now in this life or death situation? Why is this specifically terrible experience with this AI triggering already banished memories? Why is his past trauma haunting him again?

These were the questions that tied up like a thick knot in his mind which is making him feel mentally disoriented and having the urge to detach from reality.

❝ f*ck, it's happening again ❞

Mark softly stated with a shaky tone in his voice. He felt these invisible walls slowly closing in on him as he was finding it so difficult to even take in oxygen and convert it into carbon dioxide like a normal and functioning human being would do. Since he was handcuffed, he couldn't really do anything because his hands were trembling as if the atmosphere had automatically dropped to minus zero temperatures. All in all, Mark felt so vulnerable right now and he hated... no, there's a stronger description to it. He despised this feeling. He didn't want Jisung to see him in such a state like this so he tried to control his ongoing panic attack by closing his eyes and engaging into deep and slow breathing exercises.

Mark then heard the footsteps of the AI coming towards him which distracted him from keeping calm. He was on the verge of having a panic attack again and with the AI electronically breathing into his face made things much more worse. The ravenette felt his face wet with salty tears as he hugged his knees to his chest. He was softly telling the AI to ❝ go away ❞ almost as if those two words were a chant. The futuristic horror could feel the fear emanating from the male. The AI co*cked its machine head to the side as they continued to observe the anxiety stricken human. Anxiety was an emotion that was easy to understand in the AI's perspective but the entire concept of this emotion was very complex to even comprehend in full depth. After all, the AI was only designed to comprehend the nature and concept of war and destruction. They weren't really programmed by their creator to learn anything new about humankind so what's the sense of even learning at all.

Humans are more valuable dead than alive to these AIs, especially to this one.

The AI then stood up from their crouching position and lifted their robotic arm in order to finish their job on this human. Mark waited for the grim-reaper type robot to finally end him.

This is it. He was gonna die.

Well that's what the ravenette thought until he heard the robot fall to the ground with a sound similar to a fatal car crash. Mark saw the robot powered down with three bone arrows sticking out of their titanium plate chest. The arrows were definitely sharp enough to melt through metal. The raven-haired looked over to his right and saw Jisung who was poised in a warrior archer position. After Jisung made the shot, the bluenette took out another silver arrow, went over to the lifeless machine and crouched down on the ground then pierced the arrow through the creepy smiley face that was carved on the robot's metal forehead, making sure that the central processing unit chip that was located in the Artificial Intelligence's computer brain was completely destroyed, never to be repaired ever again. Mark looked at the lifeless expression on the latter's face as he watched Jisung twist the silver arrow in a way that some screws and springers that were used to create the robot were currently out of place. The raven-haired was kind of scared of how Jisung looked right now as if the bluenette had the exact same behavioural patterns of an Artificial Intelligence.

❝ Jisung... ❞

The raven haired softly called out, his voice sounding in a deep hoarse as a result of crying too hard. Jisung turned to face the ravenette, his stone cold expression softening in an instant once he saw the look of vulnerability on the boy's face. He took a hair pin out of his hair and unlocked the handcuffs around the latter's wrist, freeing the male from further restrictions. Mark saw the younger's dark blue hair in it's full beauty as the latter let all the tied up hair out. Jisung then embraced the older male in a comforting hug. Mark only leaned into the loving touch of the younger without reciprocating the hug because of how still in shock he was because of the recent events. With tears glossing over his eyes and threatening to fall out, the bluenette uttered,

❝ I almost lost you ❞

❝ I thought that I would never see you again... ❞

Mark responded with a dull tone in his voicewhich was quite noticeable to the bluenette.

❝ I'm still here, it's okay now ❞

Jisung tried to console him. Mark softly smiled at the bluenette before turning his eyes to darkly glare at the person who almost killed him. Jisung then looked in the same direction and realised that this human is more of a threat than a comrade.

In the meantime, the police officer that attempted to "sacrifice" Mark to the AIs saw the scene of the presumed couple reuniting again. The officer looked at the boys with disgust at first before kinda agreeing to himself that the boy's reuniting was a cute scene. The officer saw the boys looking at him in an unpleasant way. The blue-haired one kinda figured out about how he was gonna sacrifice his boyfriend to the enemy and by right the blue haired guy looked so pissed. Yeah,the man knew that he f*cked up big time and the blue guy is out to draw literal blood. Anyways the middle aged police officer didn't want to stick around any longer so he decided to make a run for it. Jisung took out a blade from his combat boot, opened it and then hurled the knife at the man so that he couldn't escape his wrath. With a dark tone, Jisung said,

❝ You're not going anywhere ❞

❝ Arghhh! ❞

The man screamed in pain as he felt the sharp sting of the knife swiftly breaking through nerves and muscle tissue in his right thigh. The navy blue and silver officer said through his teeth while attempting to yank the blade from his sensitive skin,

❝ This kid got some skill... ❞

Meanwhile, Jisung helped the ravenette up to his feet. Afterward, the taller boy went inside his backpack and took out a spare water bottle and handed it to the shorter male. Mark thanked the boy with a soft smile etched on his handsome features as he accepted this kind gesture. Out of fatigue, the ravenette leaned against the wall, opened the bottle lid and then chugged all the H20 liquid in an instant. Mark realised that he was really thirsty and his body needed this type of refreshment.

The police officer was still trying to pull the blade out of his thigh. The man stopped trying immediately once he saw a pair of long legs standing right in front of him. He was naturally frightened and tried to shuffle back away from the bluenette he deemed as harmful and a threat to an already dystopian society. Jisung noticed this and crouched down in front of the officer and just continued to kill the man mentally with his menacing look. The unnamed officer immediately felt intimidated by the blue haired male's killer gaze. Jisung then started talking,

❝ I wouldn't recommend pulling out the blade immediately since it had sliced through your deep femoral artery. Forcefully pulling out the blade will cause you to slip in unconsciousness and then die within the next few minutes... I'm sure you, out of all people, wouldn't want that to happen now, would you? ❞

The man quickly shook his head, he wouldn't want that scenario to happen. The bluenette made a sarcastic chuckle and continued,

❝ You must have been really a pathetic person in your lifetime if your survival instinct includes sacrificing another human to save your own ass ❞

Not wanting to waste any more precious time on this person the bluenette stood up, and escaped with Mark.

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𝐌𝐄𝐓 𝐘𝐎𝐔 𝐖𝐇𝐄𝐍 𝐌𝐘 𝐇𝐄𝐀𝐑𝐓 𝐖𝐀𝐒 𝐁𝐋𝐄𝐄𝐃𝐈𝐍𝐆

𝐈'𝐌 𝐂𝐎𝐍𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐍𝐓𝐋𝐘 𝐅𝐄𝐄𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐆

𝐃𝐑𝐈𝐅𝐓𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐓𝐇𝐑𝐎𝐔𝐆𝐇 𝐀𝐍 𝐄𝐍𝐃𝐋𝐄𝐒𝐒 𝐑𝐄𝐕𝐄𝐑𝐈𝐄|

「𝐆𝐋𝐈𝐓𝐂𝐇 ; 𝔪𝔞𝔯𝔨𝔰𝔲𝔫𝔤 」

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omg guysssss, i'm done with another chapter ! so consider that a double update. this chap was really angsty omg... anyways, i'm really motivated to reach my goal and to show you guys what i have in store do i'm glad about that :D. anyways, seeeee y'all in the next chap.

Chapter 14: ▌│█║▌║▌║ 𝟬𝟭𝟭 ║▌║▌║█│▌

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𝑙𝑜𝑎𝑑𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑑𝑎𝑡𝑎...

𝚈𝙴𝙰𝚁: 𝟺𝟶𝟸𝟹|

𝙻𝙾𝙲𝙰𝚃𝙸𝙾𝙽: 𝚃𝚁𝙰𝚅𝙴𝙻𝙻𝙸𝙽𝙶 𝙵𝚁𝙾𝙼 𝚄𝙻𝚂𝙰𝙽 𝚃𝙾 𝙱𝚄𝚂𝙰𝙽, 𝙺𝙾𝚁𝙴𝙰|

𝙲𝙸𝚅𝙸𝙻𝙸𝚉𝙰𝚃𝙸𝙾𝙽: 𝚃𝙸𝙴𝚁 𝟸 𝙺𝙰𝚁𝙳𝙰𝚂𝙷𝙴𝚅 𝙲𝙸𝚅𝙸𝙻𝙸𝚉𝙰𝚃𝙸𝙾𝙽|

𝙿𝙻𝙰𝙽𝙴𝚃: 𝙴𝙰𝚁𝚃𝙷|

༉‧₊˚ ✩ ♡︎ ୧ ⛓🦾 ˖⁺ . ⩩

Key terms:

✦ Post-apocalyptic:denoting or relating to the time following a nuclear war or other event.

✦Communication:the process or act of exchanging, expressing or conveying information and ideas through writing, speaking and gesturing.

✦ Collision:an instance of one moving object or person striking against another.

༉‧₊˚ ✩ ♡︎ ୧ ⛓🦾 ˖⁺ . ⩩

Mark and Jisung walked wherever their legs could take them through the sinister dark and foggy atmosphere in the streets of Ulsan still on high alert. Whenever the blue-haired boy sensed any danger, Jisung gently pulled the ravenette close to him while occasionally placing his free hand on the holster of his pants for protection. But after some time, Mark forced his hand out of the bluenette's hold and walked further away from him at just a small distance. It's not that he didn't like the endearing and comforting skinship but it's because he didn't want the bluenette to pity him because of what happened at the apartment complex... he didn't want to be perceived as "weak".

They found themselves at an abandoned garage that was filled with a lot of old-fashioned cars and trucks from the early 2000s to late 3000s.

❝ Let's steal a car and get outta here ❞

Jisung suggested. The ravenette didn't say anything and continued walking until he stopped at a sports car which was a Porsche to be specific. He then took out a palm sized flat oval shaped disk from his backpack and placed it on the car door so that the synthetic fuel could keep on going without ever running out. And without warning, Mark easily broke the side window of the old car with his sleeved elbow and reached into the car and opened it from the inside and got in. Jisung finally processed in his mind that Mark already found a choice when heard and saw the car door slamming shut. In the meantime, the blue-haired man noticed the latter being mentally distant right as he went inside the car and sat in the driver's seat. Jisung then decided that he'll give him some time before engaging in any conversation. The bluenette then powered on the old rustic vehicle and started to drive, beginning their journey to busan once the foggy atmosphere cleared up for a bit. The road trip was rather... silent, which makes things awkward for the both of them. Mark distracted himself by turning on the radio with Nightcall by Kavinsky playing as he leaned against the window sill of the car window, looking out on the rainy post-apocalyptic landscape on the outside while drifting off to a different reality, where everything is normal again. Every now and then, Jisung made a few glances at the ravenette. The bluenette was itching to talk to Mark because the silence was too loud and also he wanted to confirm whether Mark was okay or not... and he was serious.

❝ Mark ❞

Jisung called. Mark groaned in annoyance and responded with a question,

❝ What do you want Park Jisung? ❞

❝ I just want to know if you're okay so we can talk about what happened with you back there... ❞

It looks like Mark got really pissed off by Jisung's "repetitiveness" and finally snapped at him,

❝ How many times do I have to tell you that I'm feeling just fine Jisung. Is that all you have to say to me?! ❞

Jisung gripped his hands on the steering wheel while a flash of hurt was etched across his face but then that hurt was masked in a flash of anger and frustration so he argued,

❝ So what else do you expect me to say? Now you're just behaving out of f*cking character Mark... ❞

The raven-haired boy was about to make a counter-argument for that stance until Jisung interrupted him by saying,

❝ Communication. That's all I need from you. What's the point of hiding things from me? Tell me, are you siding with the AIs now? ❞

❝ Wow! So just because I'm not talking to you means that I'm working with the enemy. Now what kind of f*cking logic is that?! ❞

❝ You just get me frustrated sometimes! I just want you to trust me ❞

❝ So are we gonna talk about your stupid trust issues now? ❞

❝ Are you not listening because how did this conversation reach there? This is literally not about me right now ❞

Their senseless yet trigger-filled argument continued for a good while until Mark caught a glimpse of some bright flashing lights coming towards them.

❝ Jisung eyes on the road! ❞

The bluenette quickly turned his head and looked at the oncoming lights hurling towards them. In a panicked state, Jisung swerved the steering wheel in an anticlockwise direction at least three times before the car made a light frontal collision to a nearby light pole. Luckily the airbags on the steering wheel saved the boys from any further damage.

Although Mark wasn't severely injured, he hit his head hard on the window which made his vision blurry for a little bit until his vision became clear again. The ravenette then rubbed his temples to sooth his ongoing headache before softly calling out to the bluenette,

❝ Jisung...❞

Jisung did not answer. The raven-haired turned to his right and saw Jisung who was currently unconscious. A wave of guilt immediately formed on Mark's face and a new form of panic emerged. He thought that he caused the crash and so he blamed himself for it. If he had just listened to Jisung and talked to him about his mental breakdown back in the apartment complex, this wouldn't have happened. He didn't want Jisung to die because of some harsh words that he said in which he didn't mean any of them. Those words just came out in the spur of the moment. After some time, Mark saw Jisung waking up from his unconscious state and of course he was relieved that the bluenette was alive at least. When the little migraine finally subsided, Jisung turned to the ravenette and asked,

❝ Mark hyung are you okay? ❞

The ravenette only slowly nodded as he felt the guilt eat him up alive as he saw the cuts and bruises on the latter's face and arms while he had no marks of injury at all. That question became so symbolic to the point that it goes to show how much Jisung cared for him, no matter what happens to be honest.

❝ I smell gasoline... we should leave before this car explodes ❞

Mark said as he grabbed both he and Jisung's backpack and took out a teleportation disc. He made sure that this is the type of device that doesn't allow the host to receive any bad side effects after using. To save battery, since it's the last teleportation disc that they both have, the raven-haired held onto the bluenette's hand and powered on the device. The neon blue light enveloped them and they teleported to a few blocks down the road from where the car was.

It was raining heavily, but the strange thing about this rain was that it was freezing cold. Since the AI takeover, machines and androids are basically in control so that includes them manipulating the weather in more ways than one, making sure that humanity suffers before finally becoming extinct.

There was a flash of lightning that made a loud boom in anger which made Mark flinch a bit. Jisung noticed this and wrapped his arms around the boy's trembling stature in a protective manner. And then a few seconds later, both Mark and Jisung watched in the rain as the car exploded. Might seem like a cinematic moment but they were both cold and they wanted to find shelter for the night but they had to leave like right now. For additional warmth, the boys walked hand in hand to this shabby looking place that they found which was located in the middle of a wasteland in the outskirts of Ulsan. Although the tiny abandoned house wasn't the best looking on the outside, it was a pretty decent place to actually live in on the inside though.

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𝐓𝐇𝐄𝐑𝐄'𝐒 𝐒𝐎𝐌𝐄𝐓𝐇𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐈𝐍𝐒𝐈𝐃𝐄 𝐘𝐎𝐔

𝐈𝐓'𝐒 𝐇𝐀𝐑𝐃 𝐓𝐎 𝐄𝐗𝐏𝐋𝐀𝐈𝐍

𝐓𝐇𝐄𝐘'𝐑𝐄 𝐓𝐀𝐋𝐊𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐀𝐁𝐎𝐔𝐓 𝐘𝐎𝐔, 𝐁𝐎𝐘

𝐁𝐔𝐓 𝐘𝐎𝐔'𝐑𝐄 𝐒𝐓𝐈𝐋𝐋 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐒𝐀𝐌𝐄|

「𝐆𝐋𝐈𝐓𝐂𝐇 ; 𝔪𝔞𝔯𝔨𝔰𝔲𝔫𝔤 」

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"I don't carry a gun. I drive."

- Driver (Ryan Gosling)

Chapter 15: ▌│█║▌║▌║ 𝟬𝟭𝟮 ║▌║▌║█│▌

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𝑙𝑜𝑎𝑑𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑑𝑎𝑡𝑎...

𝚈𝙴𝙰𝚁: 𝟺𝟶𝟸𝟹|

𝙻𝙾𝙲𝙰𝚃𝙸𝙾𝙽:𝚃𝚁𝙰𝚅𝙴𝙻𝙻𝙸𝙽𝙶 𝙵𝚁𝙾𝙼 𝚄𝙻𝚂𝙰𝙽 𝚃𝙾 𝙱𝚄𝚂𝙰𝙽, 𝙺𝙾𝚁𝙴𝙰|

𝙲𝙸𝚅𝙸𝙻𝙸𝚉𝙰𝚃𝙸𝙾𝙽: 𝚃𝙸𝙴𝚁 𝟸 𝙺𝙰𝚁𝙳𝙰𝚂𝙷𝙴𝚅 𝙲𝙸𝚅𝙸𝙻𝙸𝚉𝙰𝚃𝙸𝙾𝙽|

𝙿𝙻𝙰𝙽𝙴𝚃: 𝙴𝙰𝚁𝚃𝙷|

༉‧₊˚ ✩ ♡︎ ୧ ⛓🦾 ˖⁺ . ⩩

Key terms:

✦Artificial Nature:Artificial Nature is an aesthetic surrounding the theme of man-made creations mimicking, recreating, or replacing aspects of nature.

✦Metallic Shield Disc: A technological device used to hide sensitive information, more specifically, the presence of a human.

༉‧₊˚ ✩ ♡︎ ୧ ⛓🦾 ˖⁺ . ⩩

Mark threw down his waterproof bag on the floor and started to strip his clothes off because he felt so disgusting in his wet attire until he remembered that Jisung was in the same room as him. I mean yeah they have seen each other naked many times before but this time it's different. They have been in a huge fight before this which makes normal things such as this really awkward for the both of them and Jisung on the other hand, was blushing red to the point that he almost got a nosebleed simultaneously. While his cheeks were still hot, Jisung fumbled around in his bag, took out a hoodie and then suggested,

❝ Put this on, it's warm enough. I don't want you catching a cold ❞

❝ You should follow your own advice and put on something warm too ❞

Mark said as he took the clothing from the taller male and put on the navy blue hoodie jacket that would be considered as oversized for him and then wore matching shorts to finish off the look. Jisung did the same as he went into a small room and changed into a black long sleeve compression shirt and grey sweatpants. The bluenette threw on a graphic t-shirt for additional warmth and comfort. The taller one then sat on the oddly comfortable bed then turned to the antique mirror as he saw the bruises on his face. Jisung softly laughed about the matter. It was funny because he didn't feel any physical or emotional pain from the accident... nor from any injuries that he got as the days go by,

❝ Am I even human anymore? ❞

Jisung asks this rhetorical question to himself.

❝ Even if you don't feel human, luckily, you're still one at the end of the day... ❞

Mark, who was standing by the door with a first aid kit in his hand said as he went and sat beside the boy and finished his sentence,

❝ ...You're crazy for saying that you know ❞

He then opened the first aid kit and took out the creams, ointments, bandages and then started to treat the latter's minor wounds. After a while, Mark completed the procedure by placing a few mini and cute glittery stars and strips band aids on the latter's face. The only sound that filled the room was the pitter pattering of the cold rain hitting against the window on the outside. The aesthetic sounds of Artificial Nature did not necessarily ease the awkward tension between the men though. They were both itching to spark a conversation with the other so as if they were both thinking the same thing they said to each other simultaneously,

❝ I'm sorry ❞

They laughed a little bit because of the likeness of their thoughts but on a serious note though, they meant it and it's really hard for both of them not to miss.

❝ About what happened back there, let's just say that I've been living in a dystopia my entire life and because of that, it triggered a lot of unwanted memories that I wish that I could talk to you about but I..-. ❞

Mark started referring to the situation that happened back at the apartment complex until he trailed off in the last part of his sentence. Jisung noticed the hurt and dejected look on the ravenette's face and he felt really bad for pestering the latter for an explanation for possible trauma that he had experienced back there. Like yeah he felt really guilty about the matter.

❝ I'm sorry, I shouldn't have asked...I'm so stupid ❞

Mark then held onto Jisung's hand as a way of comfort as he replied,

❝ You're definitely not being stupid Jisung, you were just concerned and I appreciate that ❞

The bluenette nodded in agreement and smiled at him. The ravenette reciprocated the smile and then shared a fond look with Jisung. While staring at the blue-haired male in the moonlight, despite all the bandages, Mark stated his thoughts which was obviously established a few chapters prior, before he could contain himself,

❝ You're really pretty ❞

A rosy pink colour appeared on the bluenette's cheeks as he shyly smiled in response. Mark softly smiled at Jisung's cute nature and then he fumbled into his, or rather Jisung's hoodie pocket and took out some candy.

❝ I finally managed to get hold of your favourite candy at the grocery store. I hope you like it ❞

The ravenette said. He saw the literal sparkles in the latter's eyes and watched as Jisung softly gasped and grabbed a Dalgona lollipop and pulled the wrapper and bit into the hard candy. It's been a long while since the bluenette ate traditional korean candy and for the ravenette to actually risk his life just to get him his all time favourite candies; he found Mark's gesture to be genuinely sweet. With a blush still painted on his cheeks, Jisung took up a Haribo gummy bear package and handed it to him as a way of saying thanks. Mark accepted the pack of gummy bears from the younger and snacked on the sweet candy, slowly chewing on it. Mark was happy that Jisung was happy and that is all that matters. The boys continued to happily eat candy until a blinding flash of bright white light shone through the windows of the tiny house.

It was the same flashing light that almost literally caused their deaths.

The door of the abandoned house being kicked down FBI style and the artificial entities that barged in were obviously looking for their target, humans. None of the two had any time to think, when Jisung grabbed Mark by the hand and ran to the nearest thing that they could both hide in, and that was in the closet. The closet was spacious but quite small in width at the same time. With a hand placed, on the wall, partially caging the shorter male, the bluenette leaned in closer to Mark and whispered,

❝ We just have to wait until they inspected the area so we should stay as quiet as humanely possible ❞

❝ I think we've already established the fact that this isn't a normal apocalypse and AIs are much more smarter than we think... What if they detect our presence here? ❞

Mark reasoned. Jisung only placed this metallic shield disc on the knob of the closet door and replied,

❝ First of all, no apocalypse is normal and second they won't know that we're here trust me. ❞

❝ The fictional ones on tv are though... ❞

Mark mumbled in response which made Jisung softly chuckle for a bit. All fun and games ended abruptly as the mechanical footsteps of an AI that came to inspect the small room for any tiny detection of human presence. So they became as silent as a ghost. This low ranked, military artificial intelligence, with an assault rifle in their robotic hand slowly walked around the room. The mission was to terminate the humans that were assumed to have been located here. When their bionic eyes spotted the empty candy wrappers on the bed, they immediately thought of them as a threat to their existence and began blasting bullets on the poor and innocent candy wrappers, almost emptying the bullets on the edge of the bed.

While Mark was watching the scene through the slightly opened blinds on the closet door, Jisung noticed that he was a little anxious. He was concerned but lowly said with a reassuring tone,

❝Hey, I'm sure the AI can't hear you breathing too loudly or anything like that so just stay calm so they won't notice us.❞

❝Jisung i'm fine, does it not look like I'm fine?❞

Mark knew that he was caught in a lie when Jisung heaved a sigh as he took his hand and said,

❝You're trembling...but don't worry this will be over soon, I promise ❞

Mark only nodded at the boy's comforting words.

Target eliminated... or so they thought.

Once the AI was about to leave the room and the abandoned house together, they could have sworn that they heard human whispers coming from somewhere in the room. They turned around and faced the closet which is the only place that they never got to check.

❝Jisung... I think they noticed us, what's gonna happen now?❞

Mark asked, noticing that the Metallic Shield Device is wearing off

❝Our last resort is to play a deadly bet with our lives but i'll still find a way to save you❞

Jisung said his final words but Mark didn't have enough time to ask the latter what he meant by that phrase before the AI raised the gun and pointed it towards the closet and started to shoot. What ended in seconds lasted an eternity in Mark's eyes. Luckily he wasn't hurt. The ravenette heard the receding footsteps of the AI. Once they were gone, Mark looked back at Jisung who was oddly still and unmoving. With a panicked tone he asked,

❝ Jisung... you're okay right?❞

The bluenette coughed up some crimson red blood, looking at the raven-haired and saying with a smile right before he fainted into the boy's arms,

❝ I'm fine... hyung❞

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𝐎𝐔𝐑 𝐋𝐀𝐒𝐓 𝐑𝐄𝐒𝐎𝐑𝐓 𝐈𝐒 𝐓𝐎 𝐏𝐋𝐀𝐘

𝐀 𝐃𝐄𝐀𝐃𝐋𝐘 𝐁𝐄𝐓 𝐖𝐈𝐓𝐇 𝐎𝐔𝐑 𝐋𝐈𝐕𝐄𝐒

𝐁𝐔𝐓 𝐈'𝐋𝐋 𝐒𝐓𝐈𝐋𝐋 𝐅𝐈𝐍𝐃 𝐀 𝐖𝐀𝐘 𝐓𝐎 𝐒𝐀𝐕𝐄 𝐘𝐎𝐔|

「𝐆𝐋𝐈𝐓𝐂𝐇 ; 𝔪𝔞𝔯𝔨𝔰𝔲𝔫𝔤 」

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that ending was never apart of the plan but me being me just went along with it lol. okay so first of all exam season made me lose motivation in writing this book for a long while but i'm finally back :D anywayssss, if u have noticed i changed my user and pen name because i'm in a different era right now lol but i've decided that i won't go about that username.com change when i'm writing my notes because my old username actually matched the vibe of the story y'knw? so for lost time, i promise (this time TT^TT) that i'll make it up to you guys by giving a double update or something :D i knw i'm putting marksung (especially jisung) in a lot of danger rn but that's literally the point :)

Chapter 16: 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐀𝐈 𝐀𝐏𝐎𝐂𝐀𝐋𝐘𝐏𝐒𝐄: 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐋𝐀𝐒𝐓 𝐎𝐅 𝐔𝐒|

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𝑙𝑜𝑎𝑑𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑑𝑎𝑡𝑎...

𝚈𝙴𝙰𝚁: 𝟺𝟶𝟸𝟹|

𝙻𝙾𝙲𝙰𝚃𝙸𝙾𝙽:𝚃𝚁𝙰𝚅𝙴𝙻𝙻𝙸𝙽𝙶 𝙵𝚁𝙾𝙼 𝚄𝙻𝚂𝙰𝙽 𝚃𝙾 𝙱𝚄𝚂𝙰𝙽, 𝙺𝙾𝚁𝙴𝙰|

𝙲𝙸𝚅𝙸𝙻𝙸𝚉𝙰𝚃𝙸𝙾𝙽: 𝚃𝙸𝙴𝚁 𝟸 𝙺𝙰𝚁𝙳𝙰𝚂𝙷𝙴𝚅 𝙲𝙸𝚅𝙸𝙻𝙸𝚉𝙰𝚃𝙸𝙾𝙽|

𝙿𝙻𝙰𝙽𝙴𝚃: 𝙴𝙰𝚁𝚃𝙷|

༉‧₊˚ ✩ ♡︎ ୧ ⛓🦾 ˖⁺ . ⩩

Key terms:

✦ Gauze: A thin transparent fabric of silk and cotton.

✦ Yavi Yener: A sci-fi knife.

✦ NAAII Headquarters: New Axis Artificial Intelligence Institute Headquarters

༉‧₊˚ ✩ ♡︎ ୧ ⛓🦾 ˖⁺ . ⩩

❝ Jisung you have to stay with me! ❞

Mark exclaimed to the bluenette who was ghostly pale on the bullet-holed bed. The ravenette had to strip the younger out of his inner and outer shirts in order to apply pressure on the few bullet wounds that were located on the boy's left shoulder and upper abdomen. Jisung made a painful groan in response. Mark made sure to grab whatever necessary thing left in the first aid kit to help dress the latter's wound in the small room. The raven haired male didn't even realize that a solemn tear coursed down his cheeks as he tried to dress the wounds in a panicked yet focused manner. He noticed that Jisung was losing consciousness because of the loss of blood.

❝ You better not die on me... you're not allowed to because if you do, I'll make sure to bring you back then kill you again ❞

Mark told the blue-haired as he wrapped the white gauze over the reddish wounds. Jisung softly chuckled. He then lifted his hand to gently wipe the stray tear from the ravenette's eyes and answered,

❝ You're just being dramatic, I'll be okay... I promise ❞

Those were his last words before drifting off to a deep sleep.

‧͙༓*⁺˚✧⚙️🩻⛓🧿✧‧͙⁺˚･༓*

𝚈𝙴𝙰𝚁: 𝟺𝟶𝟸𝟶|

𝙻𝙾𝙲𝙰𝚃𝙸𝙾𝙽:𝙸𝙽𝙲𝙷𝙴𝙾𝙽, 𝙺𝙾𝚁𝙴𝙰|

𝙲𝙸𝚅𝙸𝙻𝙸𝚉𝙰𝚃𝙸𝙾𝙽: 𝚃𝙸𝙴𝚁 𝟸 𝙺𝙰𝚁𝙳𝙰𝚂𝙷𝙴𝚅 𝙲𝙸𝚅𝙸𝙻𝙸𝚉𝙰𝚃𝙸𝙾𝙽|

𝙿𝙻𝙰𝙽𝙴𝚃: 𝙴𝙰𝚁𝚃𝙷|

The AI Apocalypse seems to worsen as the time goes by and the higher ups who are supposedly in power don't seem to care. But Jisung didn't have all that time to think about such things when he's busy running for his life from this scary robot who's making their way towards him at full speed. Now he regrets leaving Mark at the train station because of his stupid teenage tantrums. But he was angry at the time so he acted impulsively despite being in this dire situation...

❝ Oh so your genius plan is to leave me and venture out there in this apocalypse... alone. Jisung, you're making a big mistake. Without me by your side, you'll surely die ❞

Mark said in a cold tone as he crossed his arms and raised a brow, appearing to be sceptical about the younger's sudden want to be a lone survivor. Is this kid going through an emo phase or something because seriously what is he thinking? Jisung was obviously offended by the raven haired boy's nonchalant statement so he complained,

❝ I don't need saving Mark, I am more than capable to help myself. Stop thinking that I need you all the time ❞

The teenager then began walking away from the ravenette. Before he reached at least five steps away from the older, Mark grabbed the bluenette's wrist and snapped,

❝ It seems like you're forgetting about half of the things that could happen to you once you step out of this train station- ❞

❝ I hate that you're being so controlling all the time! ❞

The bluenette whined as he tried to get out of Mark's strong hold. The other boy scoffed and said abruptly,

❝ How am I being controlling? Can't you see I'm just trying to protect you?! ❞

❝ I don't need. your. protection. ❞

Mark finally let go of Jisung's wrist and replied in defeat,

❝ Fine. I'll let you go then. Goodbye Jisung. ❞

Jisung didn't even know or remember the reason he lashed out on Mark like that but all he knows is that he regrets ever saying such ungrateful things. The alien looking metallic robot that was flying towards Jisung as their target, used their elongated yet weaponized tentacles to attack. The bluenette could see the tentacles drilling holes into the ground on both sides of the road to show that the robot was drawing closer and closer towards him. The AI then used one of their many claws and pointed at Jisung who was now getting tired from all that running. The steel coloured claw then went in a spiralling motion towards the teenager and snatched him up. The boy gasped as he felt himself being lifted in the air and ultimately facing the eight red bionic eyes of the spider faced Artificial Intelligence.

❝ Exterminate Target 4002, Park Jisung. ❞

Jisung, to his surprise, heard the voice of a human instructing the robot. The spider-faced robot complied to this specific instruction as their eyes glowed an even brighter red as they prepared to obliterate Park Jisung into nothingness. Jisung then took out a Yavi Yener dagger from inside his boot and stabbed the robot in its centre eye. It affected the AI a great lot as they emit a pained mechanic scream as they fly around their electronic arms in a rapid and uncontrollable manner, making Jisung go really dizzy. Jisung then felt himself being thrown on top of a car as if he was an unwanted doll. As soon as he hit the roof of the car, Jisung felt himself rolling off the car and then hit the floor with a thud. He eased up off the cold floor and leaned against the now badly damaged car. He was feeling pain all over and when he opened his eyes, splotches of coloured spots and patterns appeared in his vision as a result of looking directly at the bright red light of the AI's bionic eyes. The temporary blindness eventually went away as Jisung's visions finally cleared up. Holding onto the side view mirror of the car as support, he rose to his feet.

The AI was now clearly pissed at Jisung's quick survival instincts as they trashed the entire section of the apocalyptic city in hopes of finding Jisung and ending him once and for all. The spider AI took up anything that they could find lying on the road, for example, abandoned cars and anything else that's machinery. They expressed their anger by violently throwing these man-made machines, making them crash into skyscrapers and other high rise buildings. The sound of rumbling could be heard coming from an eerily near distance, and that was the bluenette's cue to get the f*ck outta there. So Jisung did what he had to do and that was to run since he had no other weapons left to defend himself with. Now he regrets not placing any of Mark's weapons in his bag from the night before because he was planning his wannabe lone survivor aesthetic guidelines for the apocalypse. Well he can't go back now because that would make him seem like a shameless coward. A new surge of adrenaline coursed through the teenager's veins as he created a headstart for himself, luckily avoiding the structural collapse of Incheon's buildings. In the AI's bionic eyes, they saw their target (Jisung) escaping and the instruction was stated once more,

❝ Exterminate Target 4002, Park Jisung. ❞

The spider AI then transformed into a more weaponized prototype, an electronic aviation aircraft to be clear, making them even more deadlier and dangerous than before. The computerised machine aimed at their target and started to shoot thin lasers at the blue haired boy. Jisung dodged the bullets that were forming acidic holes into the ground. He figured that he couldn't stay in the open for any longer or else he'll be dead meat. The boy honestly wished that Mark could come to the rescue right at this moment.

As if the stars were listening to his wishes, Jisung saw a neon yellow armoured ball that was thrown on the drone of the Spider AI and then

BOOM !

The Machine exploded like a supernova explosion on earth. Jisung threw himself on the ground and covered his head with blue hair for coverage. As the teen looked up he saw someone riding a bike through the fire and of course, it was coming towards him and fast. Jisung held up his arms in an x position as a way of protecting himself. The motorcyclist swerved their bike to a stop and took off their black helmet. Jisung's eyes then met the piercing ones of no other than, you guessed it, Mark Lee. He quickly stood up and breathed a sigh of relief while dusting himself off and also he was glad to know that the handsome boy didn't forget about him at least. Mark said nothing as he threw a spare helmet to the boy as he revved up the engine. He then turned around and looked at the younger who seem to still be in a daze,

❝ Are you gonna hop on or what? ❞

Jisung blushed pink in embarrassment and quickly put on his helmet and hopped on the metallic motor and tightly hugged the older's waist and leaned his head against his back as Mark started to ride the sci-fi designed bike.

❝ Thank you hyung ❞

Jisung mumbled in an audible whisper as he found comfort in the wind crashing against his skin. He really needed Mark's protection for now. A small and soft smile creeped on the ravenette's face in response. They rode through the apocalyptic landscape as the sun slowly disappeared in the horizon.

‧͙༓*⁺˚✧⚙️🩻⛓🧿✧‧͙⁺˚･༓*

In the one room apartment complex that the boys were staying at for a while, Mark helped Jisung walk to the bed because the bluenette's painless adrenaline finally wore off. Jisung wanted to faint from all the pain he's feeling right now but little did he know that he'll be immune from the physical pain years later. As Mark got the all too familiar first aid kit, he asked,

❝ Where you're hurting? ❞

❝ Everywhere... ❞

Jisung whispered with a pout and of course Mark caught that as he prepared some painkillers in a glass of water and gave it to Jisung. The blue haired boy had no choice but to drink although he hates taking any type of pills or medicine.

❝ Ow! That f*cking hurts! ❞

Exclaimed Jisung a few minutes later as Mark was dressing his wounds. To be honest, he appreciated the kind gesture right but the problem is that the ravenette wasn't being gentle enough. Anyways, Mark ignored the younger's complaints on purpose and instead responded by saying,

❝ Language ❞

❝ Can you be more gentle please? ❞

Jisung asked more politely this time. Of course Mark would go as gentle as possible but Jisung should consider this as his small punishment for whatever runaway plan he was actually arranging.

❝ There ❞

Mark said with a soft tone as he placed a bandage on the boy's knee. He heard soft sniffles coming from the younger; he then looked up and saw the bluenette silently trying to wipe his tears with his sleeve. Feeling concerned, the ravenette went on the bed and cupped the younger's coloured cheeks that were stained with tears.

❝ I'm really sorry if I hurt you, I didn't mean it ❞

Mark spoke ever so softly to the latter. Jisung's face becomes a brighter shade of red when the raven-haired does and says these affectionate things. He could literally hear his heart pounding hard against his ribcage... he just hopes Mark couldn't hear it also. Anyways, the bluenette responded,

❝ No I want to say that I'm sorry for causing you any trouble ❞

Jisung was quite surprised that he didn't stutter one bit, maybe it's because he wasn't talking fast. Mark hummed as he took his hands off the younger's cheeks and lay down on the bed while he placed his arm under his head, using the limb as some type of pillow. He continued,

❝ It's fine. I couldn't really leave you alone like that. I'd literally die if something would ever to happen to you ❞

Jisung internally smiled appreciating how much Mark cared for him; well, he was the only one that really cared all this time anyway. The bluenette then lay down on the side of the bed adoring the ravenette's alluring side profile as he said in a statement,

❝ That's why you came back for me ❞

❝ Yeah... ❞

Mark answered as he turned his head to the side and made direct eye contact with the bluenette. It was as if time stopped for the both of them as their eyes communicated messages that they wished they could say to each other.

What they do acknowledge silently is that they're getting emotionally attached to each other all too quickly.

‧͙༓*⁺˚✧⚙️🩻⛓🧿✧‧͙⁺˚･༓*

𝚈𝙴𝙰𝚁: 𝟺𝟶𝟸𝟶|

𝙻𝙾𝙲𝙰𝚃𝙸𝙾𝙽:𝚂𝙴𝙾𝚄𝙻, 𝙺𝙾𝚁𝙴𝙰|

𝙲𝙸𝚅𝙸𝙻𝙸𝚉𝙰𝚃𝙸𝙾𝙽: 𝚃𝙸𝙴𝚁 𝟸 𝙺𝙰𝚁𝙳𝙰𝚂𝙷𝙴𝚅 𝙲𝙸𝚅𝙸𝙻𝙸𝚉𝙰𝚃𝙸𝙾𝙽|

𝙿𝙻𝙰𝙽𝙴𝚃: 𝙴𝙰𝚁𝚃𝙷|

At the NAAII Headquarters, a human could be seen trashing the entire cyber white room in anger. His beautiful prototype that he worked so freaking hard on was completely destroyed by his kind that he was programmed to be against. He was also angry that he couldn't exterminate Park Jisung, the person who his beloved AI was so in love with. The Superintelligence was so lovesick over this mere human and it made the research scientist rage with jealousy and anger. The blonde haired male took off his headphones and transparent LED glasses and threw it somewhere in the room. He then went and sat on the glass table and ran a hand threw his blonde locks in frustration. Some androids immediately started to clean and replace the valuables he destroyed in the room. The blond-haired male didn't even realise that the superintelligence was making his way over to him until the AI lifted the blonde's chin with his cold metallic fingers, making the blond face him,

❝ You're working overnight again Jaemin... ❞

The scientist that is named Jaemin didn't respond for a while as he once again got lost in the silver-haired male's neon grey bionic eyes until he asked this question,

❝ What does he have that I don't? ❞

The silver haired male then responded with a stoic expression on his face,

❝ I'm afraid I can't answer your query Na Jaemin ❞

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𝐈'𝐌 𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐃𝐘 𝐅𝐎𝐑 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐃𝐀𝐑𝐊

𝐈'𝐌 𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐃𝐘 𝐅𝐎𝐑 𝐓𝐇𝐈𝐒 𝐖𝐎𝐑𝐋𝐃

𝐋𝐈𝐄𝐒, 𝐂𝐎𝐍𝐓𝐑𝐎𝐋, 𝐑𝐔𝐋𝐄𝐒

𝐍𝐔𝐌𝐁, 𝐇𝐀𝐓𝐑𝐄𝐃, 𝐄𝐌𝐏𝐓𝐈𝐍𝐄𝐒𝐒|

「𝐆𝐋𝐈𝐓𝐂𝐇 ; 𝔪𝔞𝔯𝔨𝔰𝔲𝔫𝔤 」

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happy new year bxtches ! i hope you guys are doing okay. so i'm deciding to post this chap before school starts. i didn't really knw what to write until this idea came to me lol so consider this as another filler chap of some sorts :D idk if ure feeling the apocalypse vibe or whateva. if y'all ask me to describe marksung's relationship in this book, i honestly wouldn't knw what exactly to tell u T^T, i'll prolly saythat they're a cool, cute and badass couple lmao. anygayssss so as you can see we went back a few years and mark being really cute as he takes care of jisung skskskks. okay i was about to reveal the gorgeous culprit who started the entire apocalypse but i decided against it. i feel like you guys are smart enough to knw who exactly it is :). that last part tho really introduces the main side ship of the story and tbh i do feel bad for jaemin lmao. anyways again, y'all done knw dat i appreciate all my readers who vote, comment, all my silent readers and all my ghost readers, you guys mean so much to meee :)

Chapter 17: ▌│█║▌║▌║ 𝟬𝟭𝟯 ║▌║▌║█│▌

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𝑙𝑜𝑎𝑑𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑑𝑎𝑡𝑎...

𝚈𝙴𝙰𝚁: 𝟺𝟶𝟸𝟹|

𝙻𝙾𝙲𝙰𝚃𝙸𝙾𝙽:𝚄𝙻𝚂𝙰𝙽, 𝙺𝙾𝚁𝙴𝙰|

𝙲𝙸𝚅𝙸𝙻𝙸𝚉𝙰𝚃𝙸𝙾𝙽: 𝚃𝙸𝙴𝚁 𝟸 𝙺𝙰𝚁𝙳𝙰𝚂𝙷𝙴𝚅 𝙲𝙸𝚅𝙸𝙻𝙸𝚉𝙰𝚃𝙸𝙾𝙽|

𝙿𝙻𝙰𝙽𝙴𝚃: 𝙴𝙰𝚁𝚃𝙷|

༉‧₊˚ ✩ ♡︎ ୧ ⛓🦾 ˖⁺ . ⩩

Key terms:

✦Anti-utopia:a speculated community or society that is undesirable or frightening.

✦Wasteland:an unused area of land that has becomeorovergrown.

༉‧₊˚ ✩ ♡︎ ୧ ⛓🦾 ˖⁺ . ⩩

The next day came at an awfully slow pace for Mark Lee. Maybe it's because he tried to do something productive for the entire night while wondering and worrying about whether Jisung will ever wake up again. As the ravenette sat by the window sill, he played with the pendant that adorned his neck, which was always a habit of his when he's nervous. Mark was not able to get a wink of sleep because of these thoughts that were fully occupying his mind and also because he was going back and forth from the window sill to the bed, placing his index finger underneath the sleeping bluenette's nose just to see if he was still breathing. As the dyson sphere sun was slowly rising in its usual rotating manner, the raven haired male went over to the sleeping beauty once more, crouched down in front of the bed and held onto the younger's cold hand, then he used his thumb to caress it. Mark took some time to appreciate how peacefully beautiful Jisung looked when he was sleeping. It honestly calmed him down for quite a bit, making him forget that there was a literal apocalypse going on outside. But that was the aura that Jisung gave off to be honest, the one that gives you a peace of mind.

After some time, he got up and then leaned over to give the sleeping beauty a soft peck on the forehead. Mark then left the room and went to the kitchen area and washed a silver pot, two spoons, two glass cups and two ceramic bowls that he'll be using to make and share breakfast. He then rummaged through his backpack for something edible for breakfast apart from ramen noodles and to his luck he found a few packs of instant oatmeal porridge, maple syrup and milk (that's not expired) that could easily fill them up for the rest of the day. Since there's nothing that he can use in the kitchen to do the job of actually preparing the breakfast snacks, Mark went outside to see if there were any other resources that were available. The male found two building blocks that could help in building his makeshift stove. After he was done repositioning the heavy building blocks and placing a pot filled with water in it, Mark used a spare double arc electric lighter he had and lit a fire in the dead grass in between those blocks for boiling the liquid. Mark opened the oatmeal porridge packs and threw all the contents to the pot and used the spoon and stirred around the pot. Just give it a few minutes and then it'll be prepared enough to serve for two.

A few minutes later, Mark saw Jisung coming out of the small house and making himself comfortable on the brown leather chair cushion that sat on top of two building blocks. Jisung was still alive and the ravenette was relieved. They exchanged their morning greetings until the atmosphere between them became silent again. From around the table, the raven haired placed swirls of maple syrup in Jisung's plate for extra sweetness and then pushed the bowl of porridge and glass of milk towards the blue-haired. Before Jisung could start eating his first meal of the day, he noticed how the male had puffy eyes and dark circles around them as a result of crying and a lack of sleep. Even when the golden glow of the sun hit mark's skin in this state, the bluenette still considered the raven-haired male to be really beautiful.

But either way, he was still concerned over the fact that Mark lost sleep worrying about him but he still asked for confirmation although it was painfully obvious,

❝ You haven't slept since this morning haven't you? ❞

Of course the bluenette would notice these things and there's no use in lying so Mark dodged the simple question by responding,

❝ You should eat while the food is still hot. Oatmeal porridge tastes horrible when it's cold ❞

Still worried over Mark's current state, Jisung complied as he began eating. They shared a rather comfortable silence with each other during that duration of time.

So fast forward, Both Mark and Jisung washed up and changed their outfits immediately after eating breakfast and now they're packing up their apocalyptic gear to go on the road to Busan. Once they're done, the boys give each other a knowing look... knowing that they've experienced this before and they're gonna do it again. Jisung asked this time,

❝ You ready? ❞

Mark grabbed a combat knife from the table, walked so close to the bluenette that the distance shortened between them, and strapped the weapon in the holster of Jisung's cargo pants. The ravenette looked up at the taller and uttered,

❝ Ready when you are ❞

‧͙༓*⁺˚✧⚙️🩻⛓🧿✧‧͙⁺˚･༓*

𝚈𝙴𝙰𝚁: 𝟺𝟶𝟸𝟹|

𝙻𝙾𝙲𝙰𝚃𝙸𝙾𝙽:𝙱𝚄𝚂𝙰𝙽, 𝙺𝙾𝚁𝙴𝙰|

𝙲𝙸𝚅𝙸𝙻𝙸𝚉𝙰𝚃𝙸𝙾𝙽: 𝚃𝙸𝙴𝚁 𝟸 𝙺𝙰𝚁𝙳𝙰𝚂𝙷𝙴𝚅 𝙲𝙸𝚅𝙸𝙻𝙸𝚉𝙰𝚃𝙸𝙾𝙽|

𝙿𝙻𝙰𝙽𝙴𝚃: 𝙴𝙰𝚁𝚃𝙷|

The boys arrived in Busan pretty quickly since they were already at a close walking distance to the city. The entrance of the city that just said "Welcome to Busan", was corroded with sharp vines growing all around it and no signs of life. What was once a beautiful and thriving futuristic city, became an unrecognisable dystopian wasteland, which was an all too familiar setting for the both of them. Crazy how an apocalypse can change everything in six years.

❝ Home. Sweet Home ❞

Mark said in a monotonous tone. The lack of pure emotion in the ravenette's voice was really telling since he had a lot of traumatic history in the place that was once home. Jisung could easily decipher the emotionless expression and mannerisms of the latter which was quite understandable since he could also relate. As they continued to trod through the barren land, atmospheric changes started to occur as a thick grey fog started to envelop them. Ensuring that he's not alone, Mark looked around for Jisung but, alas, the bluenette was nowhere to be found.

❝ Jisung! Where are you?! ❞

The ravenette shouted for the missing male as he continued walking through the blinding fog, stretching forth both his hands just to make sure that he didn't walk into a brick wall or anything of that sort. After some time, the fog cleared and Mark ended up being face to face with this silver robot who had the metallic nude body of a woman with a retangular eye and horizontal antenna ears. How could these entities be here when it said on the holo map that no one, human or not, was occupying the empty city? It was mind boggling that these AIs are capable of hiding themselves so well.

❝ Who are you and where is Jisung? ❞

Mark asked, assuming that the ethereal AI is the culprit. In a ghostly voice, they answered,

❝ I am no one, someone and everyone. To answer your follow up question human, you won't find your lover here... at least, not in this reality ❞

❝ What do you mean he's in a different reality? ❞

The metallic beauty's rectangular eyes glowed an angelic blue and a devious smirk adorned their silver titanium features as they said,

❝ Have an open mind for the best experience ❞

And with that, they used the tip of their index finger and touched the centre of the ravenette's forehead transcending him to another reality...

Mark's eyes fluttered open as he felt light rain hitting his face. The midnight glow of the suburban city was a little too familiar to the raven haired. Realizing that he was laying on the cold, hard and wet ground, the boy stood up. He had to lean on the wall because he was having a migraine and on top of that, his body felt really weak and he was low on energy at the moment. Teleporting really does sucked the life out of him. As he felt a little bit better, Mark saw a kid, who doesn't look any less than eight years old running past him. It's weird that the kid was holding on to a certain 20th century teddy bear. Mark remembers that he was the only child in Busan that had a toy like that in the past...

And then it hit him. The child that ran past Mark was indeed him. That was the day he decided to run away from his abusive dad back at home; a day he remembered clearly. He didn't understand why the cyber AI sent him here but Mark continued following his child-like self to the abandoned park. Mini mark sat on one of the swings and began to cry. It was sad seeing himself like this. These were one of the moments that Mark always tried to forget but here he was reliving them from a distance.The ravenette then saw this man in black creeping behind his younger self in an attempt to kidnap him.Mark shouted at himself to run and get away from the bad man but it was too late as he saw a black bag went over the boy's head. The bag contained a drug that easily knocked out the tiny boy. The kidnapper, who was his own father then threw little mark over him and started to run off. Adult Mark was just about to run after his kidnapper until the scene glitched in front of him and transported him to a different setting. This time Mark saw himself at an abandoned warehouse. He felt the walls mentally closing in on him as he was finding it hard to breathe. Mark couldn't cry either. From all those years of crying, there is no more tears left to cry. His kidnapper would tie him to a rustic pipeline and deprive him of food and water while physically and verbally abusing him for ten whole days. The ravenette couldn't bear to see the torture and abuse he had to go through once again in real time. The scene glitched for the second time. Mark saw himself back at the abandoned industrial interior but this time he saw his mother who was trying to protect him from that psycopathicperson who was unfortunately his father.Mark saw as the man screamed profanities at the woman to get away from the little boy but the boy's mother was determined to do anything to protect her only child from this monster. The raven-haired male saw the monster raised the cold machine gun at his mom and started to fire multiple bullets at a deathly close range right in front of him. This is the reason why Mark developed a fear of being restrained and of someone shooting at close range.

The world experienced another glitch again and Mark's eyes fluttered open as he felt light rain hitting his face. The midnight glow of the suburban city was a little too familiar to the raven haired. Realizing that he was laying on the cold, hard and wet ground, the boy stood up. He had to lean on the wall because he was having a migraine and on top of that, his body felt really weak and he was low on energy at the moment. Teleporting really does sucked the lifeout of him. As he felt a little bit better, Mark saw a kid, who doesn't look any less than eight years old running past him.But wait, what is happening why is he going through this stage again? Mark was confused but then and only then did the raven haired male realize that he was now trapped in a loop where his past memories is retraumatising him continuously.Mark looked up at the sky and asked with a shout,

❝ Why are you doing this?! ❞

The AI entity then showed theirselves to Mark and answered back immediately,

❝ I was programmed to see people like you suffer. I found your memories of the past intriguing. I thought it would be quite beneficial to watch you relive these memories in an infinity loop until you successfully become a shell of a human being. ❞

Trying to find some way to understand why Artificial Inteligence became like this Mark looked at the cyber AI, and then asked,

❝ Although there are a few rotten apples in this world, do you hate the beings that created you? ❞

❝ I don't hate my creator, neither do I hate humans, i'm just following my sentient being's orders. However, I do know of a human who does hate you specifically ❞

The AI changed their voice to sound like the person Mark feared the most, his father,

❝ You can't even hold a damn gun without whining like a bitch about it! You should be f*cking glad that I failed to convince your stupid mother to sell you to the elites! If it weren't for her I would be so goddamn rich right now! You shouldn't... you shouldn't have existed in the first place ❞

Mark grabbed his gun from his holster and pointed it at the AI. He was triggered because those were the same exact words his father said to him countless times. With a shaking hand, Mark snarled at the AI,

❝ Shut the f*ck up ❞

The AI voiceover made a mocking and boisterous laugh and then continued,

❝ What so you're gonna shoot me? To be honest I don't want to end up like your dead mother... ❞

The AI voiceover of his dad then finished with,

❝ You don't even have the guts to kill me kid ❞

Before Mark pulled the trigger, the scenery glitched back to the foggy Busan atmosphere. He saw and heard Jisung in front of him say,

❝ Mark what are you doing? it's me Jisung! Snap out of it! ❞

The ravenette recognised Jisung's voice and put down the gun. The bluenette then went and embraced the latter in a hug. A menacing smirk then formed on the supposed bluenette's features as his eyes glowed a cyber blue. Afterward, the AI said in his ear,

❝ I win. You lose. ❞

↺ ⎙ ⿸ x

𝐒𝐘𝐌𝐌𝐄𝐓𝐑𝐘

𝐘𝐎𝐔 𝐌𝐔𝐒𝐓 𝐖𝐎𝐑𝐊 𝐈𝐍 𝐒𝐘𝐌𝐌𝐄𝐓𝐑𝐘

𝐘𝐎𝐔 𝐌𝐔𝐒𝐓 𝐄𝐀𝐑𝐍 𝐓𝐇𝐄𝐈𝐑 𝐄𝐌𝐏𝐀𝐓𝐇𝐘

𝐃𝐎𝐖𝐍 𝐃𝐎𝐖𝐍 𝐂𝐈𝐓𝐈𝐄𝐒 𝐅𝐀𝐋𝐋 𝐃𝐎𝐖𝐍 𝐎𝐍 𝐌𝐄

𝐘𝐎𝐔 𝐌𝐔𝐒𝐓 𝐄𝐀𝐑𝐍 𝐎𝐔𝐑 𝐄𝐌𝐏𝐀𝐓𝐇𝐘

𝐘𝐎𝐔 𝐌𝐔𝐒𝐓 𝐄𝐀𝐑𝐍 𝐎𝐔𝐑 𝐄𝐌𝐏𝐀𝐓𝐇𝐘|

「𝐆𝐋𝐈𝐓𝐂𝐇 ; 𝔪𝔞𝔯𝔨𝔰𝔲𝔫𝔤 」

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this chapter will be continued :D

so like i looked up on google how far ulsan is from busan right and i saw it was just a 47 min drive lmao and i was like mark and jisung would alr reach busan from chap 12 if i didn't add any interferances lmaoooo. but they're finally there now yaayyy :D

i just love how everyone ships marksung in this fic, even ai lmao.

i realized another thing too, the timeline of the chapters 007 - THE AI APOCALYPSE: THE LAST OF US (part 3) is that everything that i wrote about lasted for one night. that revelation made me theorize to myself, "that means a whole lot of events happened to marksung for the six years they tryna survive the ai apocalypse for T^T" i was indeed shocked but not surprised and i'm the writer lmaooo

from they stepped foot in busan a lot is happening already lmaoo T^T and the AI i wrote about in this chap are my absolute fave not gonna lie.

i remember creating this book on like the same day that the marksung mix and max video came out and went on pinterest to see barely any pinterest photos but as soon as like a few months pass by, i'm seeing all those photos and photos i've never seen before on pinterest. like i'm srry i'm not changing my half assed screenshot photo of them as my chapter cover page i'm too lazy for all that rn TT^TT

Chapter 18: ▌│█║▌║▌║ 𝟬𝟭𝟰 ║▌║▌║█│▌

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𝑙𝑜𝑎𝑑𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑑𝑎𝑡𝑎...

𝚈𝙴𝙰𝚁: 𝟺𝟶𝟸𝟹|

𝙻𝙾𝙲𝙰𝚃𝙸𝙾𝙽:𝙱𝚄𝚂𝙰𝙽, 𝙺𝙾𝚁𝙴𝙰|

𝙲𝙸𝚅𝙸𝙻𝙸𝚉𝙰𝚃𝙸𝙾𝙽: 𝚃𝙸𝙴𝚁 𝟸 𝙺𝙰𝚁𝙳𝙰𝚂𝙷𝙴𝚅 𝙲𝙸𝚅𝙸𝙻𝙸𝚉𝙰𝚃𝙸𝙾𝙽|

𝙿𝙻𝙰𝙽𝙴𝚃: 𝙴𝙰𝚁𝚃𝙷|

༉‧₊˚ ✩ ♡︎ ୧ ⛓🦾 ˖⁺ . ⩩

Key terms:

✦ Hydroceramic: made of clay that remains porous after firing.

✦ Oxygen tablets (fictional definition): effective to use when someone is slowly dying from suffocation as a result of being in a body of water for too long or being in a gaseous chamber for an extended period of time.

༉‧₊˚ ✩ ♡︎ ୧ ⛓🦾 ˖⁺ . ⩩

Jisung found himself sitting around a grey marbled table in a room. The room was clad in this white hydroceramic material that is used to keep the space at cool temperatures. On the cold table, the bluenette saw a blank paper and a fountain pen. He looked around the white room wondering what he was supposed to do with this. The bluenette tried to leave the room but he couldn't move because of the steel restraints that were over his ankles. He looked up at the digital hologram timer that was hovering mid air in the centre of the room space. The timer was five minutes. What should he do in five minutes? Aside from thinking about the time that is quickly passing by, the bluenette could feel a familiar type of psychological pressure which sends shivers down his spine. This same exact white room that he was currently confined in, in this reality reminded him of what he experienced as a child when he failed to be perfect.To go through this again should be considered as torture at this point.

❝ I don't know what to do... ❞

Jisung muttered underneath his breath. His right hand started to tremble and he tried to hide his unknown fears with his left hand that was also visibly shaking.

❝ You know exactly what to do Park Jisung. Hurry child, time is against you ❞

Jisung heard the voice of Madame Park say to him. He looked around the room for the woman but she was nowhere to be seen but he saw a CCTV security camera, watching his every move.

❝ Mother please... ❞

❝ You don't want to know the consequences of one who doesn't follow orders ❞

Madame Park interjected with a stern tone to her voice. Jisung clearly was not having it today so he finally snapped at his mother,

❝ For once, can you stop telling me what to do Mother! I am not f*cking perfect! ❞

The Madame Park AI remained quiet as she did not make a counterargument, which was indeed strange knowing the type of person she is. Her son claiming to not be perfect rubbed her in the wrong way. The deafening silence almost made the male regret saying those words all while knowing how much that woman hated the art and concept of imperfection.

❝ I did not raise you to recognise imperfection because the term imperfection is non-existent in my book. You are programmed to only be perfect Park Jisung but it seems that you still don't understand that special purpose of yours. You know that better than I do. ❞

The room then slowly began to be filled with ice cold water as the AI carbon copy of Madame Park continued,

❝ Now you have to learn the hard way because you refuse to obey me. I hope you reflect upon your selfish actions ❞

Jisung's heart started to palpitate as the freezing water began to come up so quickly to the point that it's already at his knees. The worst thing about this current situation is that Madame Park has knowledge of Jisung's thalassophobia (fear of deep water) and she's just laughing at the horrors.Because of the underwater terrors he experienced as a child, Jisung never learned how to swim.The bluenette tried to get his feet out of its cage in a panic but the material was too strong. Jisung then grabbed the pen from the table and then went underneath the table and tried to pick the lock with the tip of the fountain pen but unfortunately there was none of those old fashioned devices in the thick anklet cage. The blue-haired boy started to mutter curses under his breath knowing that he's f*cked. Jisung wished that this was only a nightmare but everything felt so real. He went from denial to acceptance stage pretty quickly once the water level was at his abdomen.The male's breathing then became more erratic as the timer was going down.

❝ I'm sorry, I'm sorry Mother... please make it stop ❞

Jisung apologised to his mother wherever she may be.

❝ Unfortunately, I can't do that Park Jisung. You've disappointed me countless times and you apologised countless times which then made me forgive you one too many times but not this time. This time you should face the consequences of your actions ❞

Madame Park explained before getting off the monitor, leaving Jisung there to literally die. His mom never cared for him anyway so what did he expect? Jisung heaved a sigh as he looked for the pen to attempt another physical breakout but it took him just a few seconds to realise that the fountain pen was lost somewhere in the room that is now being flooded with ice cold water. Sixty seconds were left until the entire room submerged in water so Jisung lifted his head and breathed in all the oxygen necessary before the water level covered his entire body. Being restrained like this while the room is about to be submerged any second now is a really scary experience for the bluenette. He was trapped and he couldn't do anything about it. He hated this so much.After the timer was up, the water level elevated a little bit faster than it should have before Jisung felt himself being fully submerged in the water. He couldn't hold his breath any longer since his human lungs are in dire need of oxygen but how could he breathe in oxygen when he's bound to be suffocated by the water around him. He couldn't fight it any longer as he was slowly and painfully drowning. He didn't want to die like this but it's unfortunate that he'll never tell Mark that he loved him. Another side of him wanted Mark to find him and save him at the same time before his vision went black...

As soon as the cyber AI said that to Mark, they pixelated away until there was nothing but air. The fog seemed to be clearing up too and Mark witnessed another AI that looked similar to the one he just encountered whispered something in Jisung's ear. And as if he was in a daze, Jisung climbed the bridge and then just like that, Mark watched as the bluenette freefall into the river. The AI that manipulated Jisung into doing that also pixelated into thin air. In a desperate attempt to save the latter, the ravenette literally sprinted over to the bridge, climbed it and immediately dived into the ice cold water. As he was in the water, Mark could see how dark it really is in reality. There really was nothing inhabiting the dark and murky waters which made everything much scarier which also heightens Mark's sense of underwater paranoia because he doesn't know when or where in the body of water that something may come to attack. As Mark was looking for Jisung under the extremely dark abyss, he saw a little light shining down at the bottom of the surface that was lighting up with the help of the sun. Of course, he knew right off the bat that it was Jisung because literally nothing is supposed to inhabit the body of water, and jewellery is included. Mark then swam deeper to the bottomless pit and held the bluenette by the waist and started to swim back up to shore. But things just had to get worse when Mark saw an artificial sea creature making its way towards the both of them from a far distance and they were swimming towards them really fast. Mark's intuition was unfortunately right because he knew that something like this would happen and in order to save Jisung, he had to get out of there like right now. Luckily, the ravenette was a fast swimmer so with the adrenaline coursing through his veins, he swam to shore at the speed of light before whatever artificial creature could catch them.As soon as Mark brought the unconscious bluenette to the sandy shore, he gasped for much needed oxygen as he caught his breath. He then took off his waterproof bag, opened the zipper and retrieved the oxygen pills from out of it. Mark then lifted up Jisung bridal style and walked over to a beach house post. He gently placed the blue-haired male down the grassy ground and leaned him against the barky post.

The ravenette made sure to move some of the wet strands that were stuck on the bluenette's forehead behind his hair and shook at least one tablet of the pill out of the bottle into his palm. Since he had to save Jisung, he did the only thing that was on his mind, which was a mouth to mouth transfer. Mark popped the pill in his mouth, held the side of the bluenette's face with his palm and leaned in and made contact with the latter's lips. When the ravenette was done and the pill slid in, he broke the contact and just stared at the boy. Mark could see that the effects of the pill were working because Jisung is looking brighter again, which is obviously a good thing. The ravenette's eyes then slowly began to linger on the boy's lips again as he traced his thumb over the latter's bottom lip. A pink blush coloured the ravenette's cheeks as he replayed the image over and over again of him locking lips with the currently sleeping beauty.

❝ His lips are so soft ❞

Mark muttered under his breath. Since it was the first time that he's kissing a guy, he was of course, tempted to dive in for more because who knows, this might be the first and last time that he's ever doing this. Okay, this is Mark's justification for this little temptation of his, he knows that it's very weird to be kissing someone who's unconscious but to be honest Jisung's lips look so inviting and he just can't resist.a/n. cuz he's a man/ jk jk (no shade to men tho *finger hearts*)

So because of these temptations, Mark leaned in and brushed his lips against the bluenette's. Just a few more seconds and it will be finished, or so he thought. On the other hand though, Mark didn't know how insanely fast that the oxygen pill worked for, like, it can literally bring a human back to life in an instant. And that was exactly what happened to Park Jisung. So here's the thing, Jisung felt a presence in front of him, well, to be very specific, he felt someone kissing him. Obviously from the get go, he knew that Mark was the person who was gently caressing his lips. With his eyes still closed, Jisung's cheeks and ears grew red from this type of affection. His crush was literally kissing him and to be honest he was genuinely happy. Therefore, the bluenette subconsciously began to reciprocate the kiss as he opened his mouth, allowing the ravenette's tongue to slip in.

To Jisung, Mark was like Prince Charming and he was Sleeping Beauty. His very first kiss of life. A classic Disney romance crossover for real.

Mark didn't even register the fact that the latter was kissing him back until he swore that he heard Jisung audibly moaning into the kiss at low decibels. Thinking that the boy was waking up, Mark immediately pulled away from the kiss in a panic like the closeted gay that he is.

❝ f*ck, what am I doing? ❞

The raven haired male asked a rhetorical question to himself and because of that mental question, these follow up questions came to his mind,

First of all, Is he falling for Jisung because why does his face tends to feel really hot whenever they have their moments?

Second of all, Why is his heart beating so fast? And why does it feel like Jisung lowkey kissed him back?

And lastly, is he gay? Does he really like guys like that or does he really just like Park Jisung?

Ok those were a lot of questions that were clouding the ravenette's brain cells so he decided to just forget about it now because he has plenty of time to think about it later... that is if he's still alive of course. In the meantime, Jisung watched as Mark was visibly going through an identity crisis and a smirk formed on his face because he found that really cute because it's Mark Lee :D.

So to not be suspicious or anything, Jisung pretended that he was asleep and then pretended again that he made a noise to say that he just woke up and stuff like that,

❝ Ji-jisung...❞

Mark called out the bluenette's name. He cursed in his mind for stuttering. The ravenette haired then cleared his throat and kind of tried to compose himself,

❝ I'm just really glad you're awake. How are you feeling? Are you okay? ❞

Mark made sure to say and ask in the smoothest way possible as he made a traditional campfire then went over to the male and placed a coat over his shoulders and as always, Jisung appreciated the sweet gesture. To answer Mark's question though, Jisung was going to tease him about their little moment but he decided against it. He'll just pretend to be clueless about it for now so he answered with a nod. To add to the little romantic scene that they're creating, Mark then made himself comfortable beside the latter. A blush was painted on the unofficial couple's faces as they intertwined their hands with each other, keeping themselves extra warm around the campfire.

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𝐌𝐘 𝐇𝐄𝐀𝐑𝐓, 𝐈 𝐍𝐄𝐕𝐄𝐑 𝐅𝐄𝐄𝐋

𝐈 𝐍𝐄𝐕𝐄𝐑 𝐒𝐄𝐄

𝐈 𝐍𝐄𝐕𝐄𝐑 𝐊𝐍𝐎𝐖

𝐎𝐇, 𝐇𝐄𝐀𝐑𝐓

𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐓𝐇𝐄𝐍 𝐈𝐓 𝐅𝐀𝐋𝐋𝐒,

𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐓𝐇𝐄𝐍 𝐈 𝐅𝐀𝐋𝐋

𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐓𝐇𝐄𝐍 𝐈 𝐊𝐍𝐎𝐖|

「𝐆𝐋𝐈𝐓𝐂𝐇 ; 𝔪𝔞𝔯𝔨𝔰𝔲𝔫𝔤 」

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i was literally speed writing this chapter because i have skl tmr and the chap came out better than i expected lol. listening to sped up songs while writing isnt bad at all. i'm not looking forward to skl at all. someone please send help T^Tedit: i have skl tdy i want to k*ll myself.

so i decided to end the chap there cuz i'm really tired and wanted to stop there lol

anyways not at me making every weird encounter harder for marksung to survive lol. i like making my characters suffer pls don't fight me *finger hearts*

i literally found out tdy that prince phillip is the name of aurora's (sleeping beauty's) husband lol but i used prince charming cuz why not. but to be honest, prince naveen is the best disney prince go argue with a goddamn walllll :D (no shade to the other disney princes *finger hearts*)

omg guys they kissed... but it's unofficial tho. so consider that as an unofficial kiss :D

honestly this ship is the cutest ship i've ever written a fic on, after dotae ofc !

「𝐆𝐋𝐈𝐓𝐂𝐇 ; 𝒎𝒂𝒓𝒌𝒔𝒖𝒏𝒈 」 - cybery0ng (2024)

Chapter 1: 𝐆𝐋𝐈𝐓𝐂𝐇 ; 𝚌𝚑𝚊𝚛𝚊𝚌𝚝𝚎𝚛𝚜

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Chapter 2: 𝐒𝐄𝐎𝐔𝐋: 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐏𝐄𝐑𝐅𝐄𝐂𝐓 𝐔𝐓𝐎𝐏𝐈𝐀𝐍 𝐒𝐎𝐂𝐈𝐄𝐓𝐘|

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Chapter 3: ▌│█║▌║▌║ 𝟬𝟬𝟭 ║▌║▌║█│▌

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Chapter 4: ▌│█║▌║▌║ 𝟬𝟬𝟮 ║▌║▌║█│▌

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Chapter 5: ▌│█║▌║▌║ 𝟬𝟬𝟯 ║▌║▌║█│▌

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Chapter 6: ▌│█║▌║▌║ 𝟬𝟬𝟰 ║▌║▌║█│▌

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Chapter 7: ▌│█║▌║▌║ 𝟬𝟬𝟱 ║▌║▌║█│▌

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Chapter 8: ▌│█║▌║▌║ 𝟬𝟬𝟲 ║▌║▌║█│▌

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Chapter 9: 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐀𝐈 𝐀𝐏𝐎𝐂𝐀𝐋𝐘𝐏𝐒𝐄: 𝐁𝐄𝐆𝐈𝐍𝐍𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐎𝐅 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐄𝐍𝐃|

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Chapter 10: ▌│█║▌║▌║ 𝟬𝟬𝟳 ║▌║▌║█│▌

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Chapter 11: ▌│█║▌║▌║ 𝟬𝟬𝟴 ║▌║▌║█│▌

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Chapter 12: ▌│█║▌║▌║ 𝟬𝟬𝟵 ║▌║▌║█│▌

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Chapter 13: ▌│█║▌║▌║ 𝟬𝟭𝟬 ║▌║▌║█│▌

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Chapter 14: ▌│█║▌║▌║ 𝟬𝟭𝟭 ║▌║▌║█│▌

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Chapter 15: ▌│█║▌║▌║ 𝟬𝟭𝟮 ║▌║▌║█│▌

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Chapter 16: 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐀𝐈 𝐀𝐏𝐎𝐂𝐀𝐋𝐘𝐏𝐒𝐄: 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐋𝐀𝐒𝐓 𝐎𝐅 𝐔𝐒|

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Chapter 17: ▌│█║▌║▌║ 𝟬𝟭𝟯 ║▌║▌║█│▌

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Chapter 18: ▌│█║▌║▌║ 𝟬𝟭𝟰 ║▌║▌║█│▌

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