Chapter 12
Everyone got to their positions and waited with bated breaths. It was two more minutes to midnight before the commencement of the operation. Already some patrol guards were beginning to prepare for a shift change. When they do, it would be the perfect opportunity to strike and create havoc. Skull was going to set off the explosion once Colonello fires a gun in the dead of the night.
One minute to the moment of chaos, a truck entered the gates of the camp. Colonello cursed. He had forgotten that every two weeks a military truck would come to drop off some weaponry. There would have to be a change of plans.
It was five minutes after midnight and yet, no sound of a gunshot could be heard. There were no screams of chaos or even the sound of footsteps. Skull was beginning to have doubts about the plan and wanted to leave his post. The only thing stopping him from doing so was the threat Reborn gave before the operation's commencement. A shudder made its way down skull's spine. There were many things he could take like bullets and punches and knives and explosions because he won't die. However, Reborn's sadism is something that was worse than dying which Skull did not want to face. It was beyond logic how the hit man would take pleasure in traumatizing innocent people's minds and his contact sources were influential enough to start the third world war. Skull had to learn the hard way when he accidentally offended the said man and was thrown to a deserted island which was barren and left to starve to death. The said island, Skull learnt after he had been rescued, belonged to this sadistic bastard called Reborn and even if he died there no one would discover him because Reborn himself had every right to do whatever he wanted on that island. Skull owed his life to this said man even though he still held a grudge against him. "You shall be my lackey," the smug face of the Espresso loving hit man maddened him beyond reasoning.
Before Skull could go crazy from thinking of the infuriating man, an alarm went off.
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Reborn frowned at the alarm that went off. Looks like there was going to be a change of plans after all.
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Viper looked indifferent as the alarm went off. No longer caring about the agreed plan, Viper headed straight for the military archives. Money came first and it did not matter how the job was done.
In the library, a few soldiers sat down discussing some important agenda when they spotted an intruder. Viper sighed when they pulled out their guns. It was going to be a little rough tonight.
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Colonello cursed as a bullet barely missed his head. He accidentally tripped over a trigger and set the alarm off. True, he was supposed to create a commotion and distract the main force from the archive library and the General's quarters but the weaponry truck arrived and it meant security would be tighter than ordinary nights. Colonello knew there would not be a change of shift so long the truck is still around and wanted to make a detour to the other end of the building without the truck. However, that meant passing by the storage for ammunitions. His luck ran out as he tripped over a wire and sent the alarm going. By now the whole camp base was awake and chasing after him, the said intruder.
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Verde hummed thoughtfully as the sound of the alarm blasted throughout the entire camp. It looks like the plan was taking action sooner than expected. He began to dial for the Vongola's assistance.
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Viper was frustrated after raiding the third shelf for the blueprints of the human bio-chemical weapon. The entire library was just too huge! Then an idea struck the illusionist and the said illusionist wanted to commit suicide. Of course there was an easier way…
Summoning the duplicate copies of the illusionist's self, Viper began to search the entire library. A hundred more selves were better than searching through as an individual.
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Reborn broke down the fifth door but still there were no signs of the dumb General he was supposed to kill. The mission was taking far too long for his liking and he decided to go for the easy way out.
"Chaos shot!"
The entire building crumbled to dust and Reborn watched from afar for the target he was supposed to land a hit on. If you can't catch the rat, make him come to you. Hook, line and sinker set. Satisfied with himself, Reborn smiled.
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Luce frowned at the commotion going on but did not comment on it. She was currently in a car with Lal who was still in a delirious state from the fever on the way back to her mansion.
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While all the army personnel scurried in panic at the abrupt attack to their camp base, Skull was fretting over the right cue to set the explosives off. His subordinate had suggested waiting while Skull struggled and tried to pry the lighter from his hand when the lighter fell out of their grasps, flicking open in the process and accidentally lighting the trail of gunpowder.
Unable to react in time, the explosives went off and sent Skull with his subordinates flying. The explosion stirred even more trouble within the camp and Reborn promised to kill his lackey later for a bad timing. Now he had to reset the trap he had in place for his target.
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Viper nearly danced for joy when a clue leading to the whereabouts of the blueprint revealed itself in a form of a hidden passageway behind the shelf. The search had been worthwhile and Viper knew the familiar smell of money coming from afar. It would only be a matter of time before the illusionist could get over all these trouble.
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Colonello was freaking out when he saw more than a platoon of soldiers hot in pursuit behind him. "Think fast… think fast…" he muttered to himself while mentally bashing himself up for being stupid. A sudden idea popped up in his mind and he took a sharp turn to go up the abseiling tower.
"This had better work..." he prayed.
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Leon transformed into a night binocular while Reborn tried to discern his target from the crowd. A devilish grin spread across his face when he found the person he was looking for. "Time for the main event of tonight's chaos…" he told Leon who transformed into a glider and Reborn pushed off the cliff from outside the camp.
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Once on top of the abseiling tower, Colonello took a double take on the number of people behind him then took a deep breath before leaping of the tower, unmanned.
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If anything, Reborn learnt from this mission not to trust Colonello's words too quickly. It was totally unplanned for to have Colonello falling onto his glider and sending the both of them crashing onto the ground. Also, having at least 500 men chasing the both of them from behind was something uncalled for. His mission had been simple, perform a hit on the General. Colonello only needed a small distraction to clear obstacles in his path for him to do a clean job but no, the idiot had to wake the entire camp by tripping over a wire and sending off an alarm and falling on him and getting him involved with the ridiculous chase.
"I swear I will kill you after this," Reborn growled at Colonello who was running casually beside him.
"You are welcomed," Colonello replied and took a swift turn before Reborn had time to catch him. He sighed in relive that they were no longer together. Expecting the number of pursuers to fall at their separation, he turned to look behind only to find the exact number of pursuers chasing him. Reborn cursed and a dark aura spread throughout the entire vicinity.
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Viper sparkled with glee as the precious blueprints presented themselves before Viper's eyes. The smell of money was now becoming a reality.
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Somewhere along the hallway, Reborn met Viper and they managed to escape the crazy pursuit of soldiers. Reborn went to look for the General after that while Viper headed for the agreed meeting point for the Vongola to pick them up.
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A strange looking man with head buried in the ground appeared at the agreed waiting point and Viper deadpanned. "What are you doing?"
A muffled voice said something and Viper told him, "I'll only do it for a payment of one million dollars USD."
Another muffled reply came and Viper pulled the man out using an illusionary tentacle.
The said man gasped for air and thanked the illusionist. "Don't forget the payment."
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When Reborn finally located his target, his target was already half dead with some other bodies littering the room. Colonello was pounding his fist into the target's face while rambling on like a mad man about Lal.
Reborn sighed and told Colonello to leave the target to him which he grudgingly obliged. The gunshot echoed for a moment and by the time the soldiers arrived to the room, there was only a mass of dead bodies and a thoroughly abused General shot several times in the most indecent places.
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Daybreak came and all the trouble makers during the night were fast asleep from exhaustion. The Vongola escort drove through the quiet streets in the early morning of a sleeping town. The mission was accomplished and that should have been the end of the story.
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Colonello burst into the room only to barely dodge a bullet aimed at his head.
"Colonello!" the former Major shouted, "Your reflex was still so slow! I'm going to pound all the training that you will never forget my lessons! Get ready, we will commence sparring shortly."
Luce was about to stop Lal by saying she was not recovered but Reborn stopped her. As much as he wanted to kill the man called Colonello he could not because he understood entirely what he felt at that time when he nearly lost Luce to a flight of staircase when she fell and lost consciousness for a while.
Colonello still smiled and teased Lal a lot during the training. Lal might not have been in her strongest form while they sparred but clearly from anyone's view, Colonello had grown stronger.
They say that after trials and difficult times there will be a long stretch of peaceful times where people will grow stronger quickly. However, nothing is certain about the future except for those with ready promises.
The promise of love is something that will not change no matter the circumstances.
"Lal," Colonello told her, "you are most beautiful. I love you."
"Shut up," she told him half-heartedly, a rapid blush forming on her face. Colonello laughed.
"But truly," he thought "My Lal is most beautiful."
The End
Author's Note: Hope you all enjoyed it… Finally all good things come to an end I'm very happy to have written this… A final review to the end of this series will be lovely. Thank you everyone, I'm not sure when I'll post again but please do continue to look out for me :D