ATTACK ON BT21! ✓

13, jjk

Maybe Jungkook should have changed his shirt before walking into the dorm. Jimin answered the door, and when he saw Jungkook in a blood stained shirt, he screamed, which caused Taehyung and Namjoon to show up, and then all three of them started fussing over Jungkook, asking him if he was hurt.

"No, I'm not— hyung, I'm fine!" Jungkook said loudly. "It was just a bloody nose, calm down!"

Jimin backed up a bit, looking wary of Jungkook's shirt. "Your nose isn't broken, is it?"

"No, it's fine."

Taehyung opened his mouth to say something, and then his jaw dropped when he looked behind Jungkook. "You guys found Mang!"

"Yup, and he roundhouse kicked me and gave me this nosebleed."

Taehyung's eyes widened comically. "Mang gave you that nosebleed?"

Jungkook nodded.

Taehyung ran up to Mang and put his hand out for a high five. "Nice job, Mang! No one's ever been able to get Jungkook to spill a drop of blood before. He's practically indestructible!"

Mang looked a bit frightened by Taehyung at first and snuggled further into Hoseok's arms, before reaching a hand (Paw? Hoof? Leg?) out and pressing it gently against Taehyung's large hand. Taehyung's box shaped smile widened.

"Traitor," Jungkook mumbled.

Taehyung laughed. "Come on, Kookie! Now that I know it's nothing serious, I can make fun of you for it!"

Jungkook rolled his eyes, but gave a small grin. "Where's Yoongi hyung?"

Namjoon answered. "I think he's still in the studio— maybe his headphones were on and he couldn't hear Jimin's high pitched scream."

Jimin pouted. "Hey—"

"Or maybe he fell asleep," Taehyung snickered.

"I'm very well awake, thank you very much."

Yoongi trudged into the room, looking grumpy. In his arms was a sleeping Koya. Tata was clinging to Yoongi's right leg, and Chimmy onto the left. Jungkook let out a laugh at the sight.

Yoongi frowned at Jungkook. "Go take a bath, kid. You look like you got into a fight."

Mumbling a small "I did", Jungkook headed to the bathroom.

Twenty minutes later, Jungkook was lying on the ground in the middle of the living room, Mang sitting on his chest. He was making it clear that he was sorry. It was something Hoseok would do; cling to you until he made sure you weren't mad at him anymore.

The hyungs all sat on the couches around him, Jin and Hoseok explaining how exactly they had found Mang.

"You left out the part where you both tried to sacrifice each other!" Jungkook said when they were done, grinning mischievously.

"You brat," said Jin, rolling his eyes.

"So, aside from finding Mang," said Namjoon, who had Koya curled up in his lap, "How was practice?"

"It was great!" said Jungkook. "You should've seen Jin hyung!"

Jin sighed tiredly, expecting teasing. "Kook, this really isn't the time—"

"He was great!"

Jin blinked. "Say what now?"

Jungkook turned to Hoseok. "Jin hyung could be in dance line now, hyung!"

Hoseok laughed. "I don't doubt that. He could even take my position as lead dancer."

Jin flushed with embarrassment. "Hey, let's not get carried away..."

Jungkook grinned. Seeing Jin, the most confident person he knew, get embarrassed, was something he would never forget.

Yoongi coughed. "Sorry to ruin the moment— great job, by the way, Jin hyung —but aren't we here to discuss how exactly the BT21 characters keep ending up in places convenient for us? I thought we'd have to travel around Seoul or something to find them."

"About that..." said Taehyung. "Tata has something to show us."

Tata jumped off of Taehyung's head and marched to the center of the room, where he gently pushed Mang off of Jungkook. Jungkook was about to ask why, when Tata took his place instead, standing tall and proud on Jungkook's chest. Jungkook refrained from laughing and waited until Tata finished his speech.

"Tata ta ta, ta-ta ta tata ta!" he announced proudly. The silence that came afterwards lasted a long time until Taehyung said, "Oh! I forgot you guys can't understand him!"

Taehyung started explaining after everyone was finished rolling their eyes. "See, Tata built several devices that he gave to the other characters. They're like trackers, sort of. They'll help us find them. Tata didn't tell us because he was unsure he could trust us, but now, that's changed. These devices are the reason that Chimmy and Koya were able to find their way to the dorms, and why Mang was able to find his way to the practice rooms. It's all Tata's technical genius."

Taehyung looked like a proud father.

At least, that was, before Namjoon found a problem.

"Why aren't they working, then?"

Taehyung flushed. "I guess it's something to do with the device's frequency on Earth... I'm assuming that they don't work here because Tata only had to worry about losing the other characters in space, not on an actual planet. They never thought they'd crash land on Earth, so it's not equipped for Earth. Am I right, Tata?"

Tata nodded. "Tata ta-ta ta, ta ta."

"But they're working well enough for Chimmy, Koya, and Mang," Taehyung translated.

Yoongi was nodding along. "So, what do we do to get the others back?"

"Simple. We help Tata fix his device."