BTS Kidnapped!

BTS Kidnapped! Part Fifty by Sandra & Kaelyn

The news of the press conference and translations of what had been said spread like wildfire across the internet. Twitter errored out as the masses descended to solve the mystery of what had really happened to Bangtan Sonyeondan; new accounts rising to collect receipts of any information anyone had to offer. Inspector Kwon's phone started ringing off the hook as tens of thousands of leads came pouring in, each one requiring careful consideration regarding validity.

In small town Ohio Anna Kelly and her friends gathered together watching the subtitled replay of Hitman's press conference in anger and sadness. Everyone present had been overwhelmed in their joy when it came across the internet that Bangtan Sonyeondan was still alive. But now that joy was overshadowed by the fear of what their beloved BTS had endured in the time the world had thought them dead and Anna and her friends were starting to wonder if they would ever see the boys alive again.

The girls now wept as they listened to Hitman play the tape recording of Jimin's call.

"Oh god...his voice is so raw." Anna's best friend cried.

"Wait..." Anna's other friend paused the video on the computer. "Could that part be a mistranslation?" She was pointing to the last subtitled line of Jimin's call. "Who is he calling master and why?"

All the girls looked at each other in horror.

In no time the entire internet was filled with dozens of news stories, some actual news and some nothing more than cleverly worded clickbait. Both Koreaboo and Allkpop reported on the matter but no additional information came forward.

Several celebrities stepped forward making their own heart felt pleas for their colleagues and friends to be returned to them, and a joint statement was made on behalf of the parents regarding their mixed feelings on this latest information.

Danny Kwon sat in office scanning a few hundred useless leads and reading every article he could find.

"What kind of trash is this?" he asked the person he had on speaker. "BREAKING NEWS: @BTS_twt ALIVE!!! Listen to the desperate plea for help made by member Park Jimin minutes before his 'master' catches him and demands his phone be returned! http://www.allkpop.com/article/bts-jimin-plea-for-help ...?"

"Allkpop at it again, Inspector Kwon?" Hitman's tired voice came from the other end. "Seems as though they have employed the same brainless writers as Koreaboo and other hack news sites. Their article reads almost word for word."

"We have hundreds of leads already, Sir," Kwon supplied, trying to offer the man on the other end some hope.

"Any of them look promising?" Hitman asked.

"No," Kwon admitted. "But I have some ideas..."

On the other side of nowhere the compound was in chaos. While Sven sat in his private quarters comfy in his delight, the Foley clan was starting to show its cracks.

In his office Dorian Foley was in a blind rage smashing everything he could get his hands on. Carl, the blithering idiot that he was, stood cowering against the wall while Mathan stood blankly at attention trying to keep his expression in check when all he really wanted to do was roll his eyes at the idiots before him. These fools would never learn, and he would NEVER sink with the ship they had so disastrously sailed.

"Calm down before you give yourself a coronary, Dorian," Mathan said, his tone scathing. "I've offered you an out to this whole disaster. Let me load those broken no good bodies up, dump them in the middle of nowhere, place an untraceable call, and we all scatter to the wind like the roaches we are. Stick the fall on Ivchenko and be done with it. Money be damned. I'm sure you brainless cowards will hatch another get rich quick scheme in no time and I'll be in hiding somewhere far from here."