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Target 36: Marco and Cotton: Double tornados
Primo has just arrived by chopper all the way from Italy to watch the matches of the ring conflict and a strange boy has appeared in the arena. He's holding something in his arms. "Are you unhurt my lady?" He asks and a little red ball jumps up landing on top of his head. Kotsu naturally recognizes it as Cotton.
"Cotton! What're you doing here!?" Cotton puts her hand in her onesie pulling out a red ring, which Kotsu recognizes the guardian storm ring.
"Because of THIS Mortal-kun!" She declares laughing her signature laugh.
"Y-YOU'RE my guardian!? T-then who's that!?" He tries and the boy holds up his hand showing that he too has a storm ring.
"I too am your storm guardian,"
"But I'M the most important one Marco-kun!" Cotton yells and the boy, now revealed to be named Marco, chuckles a little patting her on the head.
"Of course my lady…"
For once Kotsu isn't the only one who's stunned. Both Zaccaria, Ywan and even the Cervello seem surprised.
Ywan angrily grits his teeth and takes out his dagger mostly for effect rather than use. "What is the meaning of this Primo!? You cannot appoint TWO people to the same position even if one of them is but a child! YOUR thunder guardian was but a child as well and Vongola Nono surely did not appoint someone else to accompany him!" He yells and the grey-haired boy holds his arm forward which has a scary-looking skull cannon on it.
"Lower your weapon when speaking to the 10th or I will consider it an act of treason," he says and Ywan doesn't budge. However Primo just lowers his bodyguard's weapon.
"It is quite alright Gokudera… then please Ywan… by all means… tell me where it is written that I cannot appoint two people to the same position…? As far as I can see the council is also comprised of multiple people. Even if they all perform the same task. Is that not right?" He says overflowing with confidence.
"This is different from the council! This is a clear violation of the rules set up by my… by OUR predecessors!" He adds and Zaccaria just smirks.
"You're just jealous because YOU didn't think of it! If you did I bet you'd have 12 guardians instead of six!" He yells and Ywan points his knife at Zaccaria.
"You be quiet child! I am NOT to be trifled with!" He yells and the Cervello break in.
"Enough of this chatter please. We have contacted HQ and they have confirmed no rule stating against this. Not only that… but they have found an example of this happening before. Therefore it is safe for Marco-san and Cotton-san to both be Kotsukiba's storm guardians… but next time Primo-sama… please inform us of any odd decisions beforehand…" They say and Ywan puts his knife away having no say as it seems someone's already had two guardians at one point in time.
"Well… I do have one other thing to tell you of in that case, however let us take that after tonight shall we?" He says and Albert, Marco and Cotton's opponent just laughs.
"It matters not to me whether I have one, two or TEN opponents! I will destroy you all!"
Cotton jumps forward and Marco holds out his hand to catch her. "You cannot defeat the mightiest Cotton-heika!" She yells not even acknowledging her companion in this fight.
"Indeed. I will do my best to secure victory as well," Marco says bowing kindly Albert grits his teeth almost annoyed with them.
"I'm fine with fighting some random old guy and his little sidekick!" He says smirking and Cotton jumps forward on the ground in front of Marco.
"I am NOT a sidekick! HE is the sidekick!" She yells pouting and Marco picks her up and gently pats her on the head.
"There there my lady… do not let mere words get to you… we will take care of this man," He says and puts Cotton onto his shoulder where she can hold on tight.
Albert gets a bit annoyed that he seems to be getting underestimated as Marco takes a rather ordinary fighting stance from karate it seems. The bubble appears signaling the beginning of the bout.
"I will show you not to underestimate me!" he yells clasping some large metal object onto his arm. It's a giant gauntlet which appears almost like a shield shape with a large blue gem on the middle as well as on the end of each of the six spikes at the edges of the shield shape.
"It seems our opponent is using some kind of box weapon…" Marco comments to his lady however Albert just shakes his hand.
"You dare think this is a box weapon? Nah I tell you! This is a weapon of my own invention! It is in fact more like a ring than a box weapon!" He yells and channels his rain flame into the weapon. The main gem lights up and so do the spikes on the edge and it starts moving around a little. "Let's see you handle this…" He says before punching forward and the gauntlet stretches out with all the little segments with spikes function as thrusters to blast it forward and Marco ducks under the attack and attempts to knee Albert in the stomach while holding Cotton firmly however he hits something hard and grits his teeth in pain. "You think I would enter a brawl without protection!? I am no brute who relies on pure force!" He swings the large gauntlet into Marco sending him tumbling but he seems more concerned with keeping Cotton safe than anything, which it seems she is inside the meat-shield surrounding her.
"Marco-kun… are you okay?" She asks and Marco stands and tickles her a little.
"If you are safe my lady then I guarantee that I am…"
Albert grits his teeth and points the gauntlet forward and punches again and this time it's a bit faster. Marco doesn't really have time to react and so only manages to throw Cotton into the air as he's flung backwards. He rolls along the ground a bit before recovering quite quickly for a man his age. He catches Cotton as she falls screaming like the little girl she is. Marco looks back to Albert before jumping back as the fist comes flying again. Albert simply keeps attacking them with the long range fist constantly running towards them to close the distance and make it faster to hit them.
"You see now!? You are too focused on protecting that little shrimp to counter my attacks! This was a HUGE mistake appointing such a weakling as the second guardian!" He yells before the six spikes in the gauntlet shoot themselves into the ground and the blue gem raises itself up and it begins glowing. "But you cannot dodge THIS!" The gem blasts a large blue laser beam straight at them two of them. Too big to avoid. Marco quickly sees this. Marco spins around letting the giant laser beam directly hit him in the back and he attempts to stand his ground, but eventually he's pushed forward having his entire shirt's back destroyed and he's pushed along the ground as the beam stops once more dropping Cotton, the little girl tumbling further than him. He slowly looks up to see her come running towards him.
"Are you unhurt my lady…?" He asks and Cotton tries pulling him up, but he's much too heavy for her to carry.
"Get up Marco-kun! We need to beat this mortal!" She yells and Marco slowly manages to get to his knees.
"My apologies my lady… but I am quite weak at the moment… I believe it is your time to shine…" He says taking out a little red ball with little green and deeper red strands in it handing it to the young girl, right as Albert's gauntlet once more connects with Marco's back sending him flying into the bubble.
"Marco-kun!" Cotton yells looking after him before looking back to Albert angrily puffing her cheeks to look as big as she can.
"W-what's that ball he gave to her?" Kotsu asks and someone behind them answers.
"It's something I made when I trained her at home…" Jute says walking up to the side of them. Now Kotsu has almost OFFICIALLY had it! HOW MANY STRONG AND TALL GUYS ARE GOING TO COME JOIN THEM! THIS IS RIDICULOUS!
"A-and what is it…?"
Reborn clears his throat. "You remember the legend I told you about the Rosa Rossa family Klutsu?" He asks and Kotsu slowly nods.
"W-what about it?"
"Cotton hasn't learned how to willingly use her burning hair yet… but I found out thanks to your mom making some spicy food to eat that hot food makes you feel like your mouth is burning. So I made the spiciest thing I could, that ball there, and it worked…" He says and Cotton angrily looks to Albert before popping the ball in her mouth eating it with quite a sour face. "Red peppers, chili, curry, I just threw everything I could in there. Cotton will be able to use her ability for about five minutes…"
Cotton gets all red in her face as her hair slowly starts moving before bursting out everywhere in a shower of fire, which Kotsu recognizes as dying will flames of the storm variety. "BURNING HAIR! ACTIVATE!" She yells trying to look all cool and epic in her new form, but she still looks small and cute.