Chapter twenty four:
"What about some kind team attack?" Matt suggests coming over to his two friends who turn to him. He has a hop in his step and a grin on his face standing slightly hunched over for better effect. "I bet it'll look really cool!" He gives the biggest puppy dog eyes that he can manage at the two with the most hopeful expression the two have ever seen on his face like he's glowing with hopefulness.
Mello and Near glance to each other and can't help but smile softly only to turn back to Matt.
"Okay Matt." Mello crosses his arms over his chest while Near places his hands on his hips. "I assume that you've already planned it out for us correct."
Matt straightens and closes his eyes rubbing the back of his head with the fakest innocent smile on his face. "Maayybbee." He admits to the two.
"Okay let's hear it." Near encourages moving a few steps closer lowering his arms to hang at his sides when he does this only to put his hands on his hips again after he's done walking.
Matt lowers his hand to his side opening his eyes and he nods. "Okay so this is what I was thinking." He slightly turns to the dummy so one side is facing his friends and the other at the dummy. "We need to use our abilities to their best and so if we use them in the right way and the right order then we can make them work really well." He turns to look to his two friends. "So. We need to imagine the dummy as someone real instead of an unresponsive thing. I've thought of some combinations like what if Near uses his time power to stop an attack then we use it a little later. Plus one of us can distract them while the other attacks."
"It'd only be for a short amount of time." Near informs Matt while he twirls a strand of his hair around his finger though unlike other times Matt has noticed him do it this time. "So we would have to use the attack suspended in time pretty fast."
"We can work around anything like that." Matt nods in assurance.
"In battle this truly can be a great idea." Mello speaks up in agreement. "Alright. Let's test something's out." He uncrosses his arms. "And see what kind of battle strategies we can come up with."
Matt and Near who were looking at Mello as he spoke both nod in agreement to this and they all turn to the dummy.
"Okay Mello you distract the target while me and Near move around it to get to the other side to attack from behind." Matt gives a suggestion and the other two nod.
"It's show time." Mello moves forward and lights his hands up in flames waving them at the dummy to try to get its attention.
The dummy sits there unaffected and unmoving though they pretend that it's working.
"Okay stealth mode." Matt slightly crouches then turns to the other who speaks up.
"Wait. I want to try something."
Matt nods and Near places his right hand on Matt's shoulder while his other hand has a strand of hair wrapped around his middle finger.
Near concentrates and the two of them vanish only to appear behind the dummy. He slightly falls into a crouch while Matt stumbles a little only to remember what they're doing.
Matt lights his arms up with visible electricity moving down his arms towards his hands like lines wrapping around his arms. He slams his hands onto the dummy electrocuting it then pulls back while a small fire starts on the dummy's head.
Another person practicing with water notices and tosses it at the dummy putting the fire out in which Matt waves his thanks with no more electricity visible on his arms.
Mello had to jump back to avoid getting splashed though Near and Matt got a little on them though they choose to ignore it as they aren't wet in any inappropriate places. He flicks his hands downwards to make his hands become extinguished then he races over to the other two as Matt turns to Near. "Near!" He falls into a crouch, almost sliding, next to the platinum hair male. "What were you thinking? What if something happened like last time?"
Near smiles in assurance at his blonde boyfriend trying to get him to calm down though he leans into Mello's embrace when he wraps his arms around him. "I know that I haven't had a good history with teleporting more than one person." He tells the other. "But can you imagine how crucial this could be if we go against a really big enemy. It might be our chance to take them down when it really comes down to it. Besides." He lays his head against Mello's chest with his eyes half open. "I'm still conscious."
Mello tries to hug Near closer to him closing his eyes as he holds the other. "Don't scare me like that."
None of them notice an extra audience watching them only to let out a slightly interested noise.
"Interesting."
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"There you have it." A tablet screen is shown to a man. "He's in and we have the location."
"Thank you." The man at the desk nods and waves a hand at someone off to the side to come over. "And now it is our turn to keep our half of the deal." He gestures to the desk and four black brief cases are put onto it as well as opened up revealing stacks of a hundred dollar bills. "The money that you asked for."
The girl with the table hands it to the other girl then her eyes sweep over the money with a pleased look while her hands rub together. "Perfect."
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Matsuda blinks awake raising his head as hurried footsteps go through the area where they are being kept only for multiple cells to be opened rather quickly. He can head some of the doors banging open as it echoes clearly through the area. He sits up onto his knees when he realizes that it is moving closer and closer to his cell. He almost jumps when his cell door is opened and someone rushes inside making him wonder where the fire is. His arms are forced behind his back and handcuffs are placed on him only for the cuff to his cell to be taken off. He is forced to his feet and is roughly pushed out of his cell in a rush making him almost stumble. He turns as Halle's cell is opened and she is taken out as well in which she looks to him worried but also a little confused like how he's feeling.
They turn to look down the hall as they hear something come from further down somewhere though it is hard to tell from who with so many people moving around in the hall.
"Hurry up and get them all! We don't have much time to waste!" An order is shouted down the hall. "We must prepare for war!"
Matsuda and Halle turn to each other with great concern and fear upon hearing this then they stumble as they are dragged down the hall towards the direction that they are often taken to for their training.