Chapter nine:

Near is walking along casually towards the destination keeping an eye out for anyone that might find him suspicious. He doesn't see anyone around however so getting into the room that has the entrance to where he needs to go into is pretty easy. "Okay I'm heading in." He radios in to the two sitting in his bedroom to help watch out for him.

"Copy that." Mello confirms first. "I am not detecting anything yet so you're all good to go."

"Same thing on my end so go ahead." Matt adds in confirmation as well. He had given Near a special camera that can scan the area to map out a room. He has also given him an inconspicuous camera to put down there to help them keep an eye on things even when not down there.

"Right then I am going in." Near confirms and he presses in the pattern to allow himself to go inside. He heads down the stairs quickly yet carefully not entirely sure who could be down there today. He makes it to the bottom and cautiously peeks around the corner but sees no one. "Anything coming from the darkness?" He whispers into the ear piece to the two watching from his room.

"No heat signatures are in the room." Mello informs him giving him the all clear.

"Hold on." Matt speaks up causing the two to listen worried that he might have seen something. "I want to scan the room so we can get a layout. This way we might see some more escape routes. Just stay where the camera on your shirt can see the room then stay as still as you can." His words cause an assurance for the other two that it is all that it is.

Near does as the red head has asked and he waits for the camera to scan the room in order for them to get a better idea of the layout.

"Okay." Matt gives the go ahead. "I got a good idea of the lay out. I'll keep it up and inspect it closer."

"Right then we will head inside to get more evidence." Mello confirms as Near moves further into the room to check out things on the table.

Near carefully turns off the part of the ear piece that allows the connection to Matt. He knows that Mello will inform him if Matt says something. He just can't let the red head know about this. He raises his hand to the other ear piece on his other side that he had snuck on that Mello has as well. He clicks the button to take pictures of what he is seeing. "Are you getting these?" He questions into the other ear piece.

"Holy smokes." A voice comes through the other ear piece so only Mello and Near can hear said voice. "If this really is what it is that they are planning then not only are the orphans in the orphanage in danger but so could the world!" The voice then makes a slightly thoughtful sound before speaking to them once again. "We may be putting you two in danger if we get you to tamper with the machine at this point. We may need to confront the ones that are involved in this entire plan. If you can get that information you will need to set up an ambush. Let us know when you have the plan set in place then contact us and we can provide any back up that you may need."

"Sounds good." Near confirms to this needing to speak for both himself and Mello as Matt would hear Mello if he said something to the other person. He switches on Matt's connection as he takes as many secret pictures as he possibly can wanting to include everything.

"So they plan to use these orphans as just stepping stones." Mello slightly growls as he watches all that is on his screen. "If they really do suck up all of this from all of the orphans then they are in a lot of danger. I don't think that they planned on the fact that there is a chance that the orphans could very well die from this. It is either that or they don't have the heart to care about the fate of these orphans." His hand on the small wooden table, that can be folded to be hidden easily, clenches into a fist. "Those bastards."

Matt turns away from his laptop screen placed on the work desk in the room to look to the blonde.

Mello feels the others eyes on him and he turns to meet Matt's eyes even if they are hidden behind orange lensed goggles. He finds a small smile of attempted assurance within that gaze. He feels like Matt is reminding him that they are doing all of this to stop them and that the red head is on board with helping to do so. He straightens not realizing he had hunched over in anger. He also turns back to his screen of the laptop that they are using. "Right. Well now we have information to look over."

"Shouldn't we tamper with the machine first?" Matt questions as he is unable to resist raising an eyebrow when the blonde turns to him. "That will at least set them back or even stop them."

"No. They'll take more cautionary measures and put us in danger. They'll be looking for someone or more who knows the truth. Right now we will get Near out of there. He needs to be safe." Mello informs Matt.

"It's strange hearing that from you." Matt must admit honestly to the other who lightly sighs.

"I'm sure you'll get used to it." Mello also adds a light shake of his head. "Anyways let us get our teammate to safety. We will plan from there especially after reviewing information we have gathered. Even if it will take us all night."

"Eh. I've gamed all night before. Can't be too different." The red head in the bedroom shrugs at this and turns back to the laptop that he is currently at. "Let's do this."

"Yes. Near get out of there. We'll meet in the current base and go from there depending on how long sorting through the information that we have will take." Mello informs their teammate currently out in the field so to speak.

"Copy that."

"Don't forget to plant the camera before leaving." Matt slightly pleads wanting to be helpful.

Near places the camera down glad that it looks like an automatic pencil sharpener which works. He knows that they won't see it coming. He hurries towards the stairs after planting said camera in the room.

"Camera is good and running. Now it is time to get you out of there." Matt speaks to the other who nods softly continuing the journey up the stairs.