Chapter twelve:

It was easy grabbing what they needed as no one was down there at the time.

The group had gone down there a little earlier than when the two had decided to go.

Now with the USB they meet in Nears room first. They plug it into a laptop along with the duplicate in order to try to copy the program. It begins doing so letting the two sit back and wait.

"This evening we should try to get information on all of those that are involved. Time is running out. We have to get our plan and all of our information ready by the end of the day tomorrow." Mello reminds Near who nods in agreement.

"As of right now we only have three days left to make sure that everything is ready." Near confirms and slightly glances down. "It doesn't give us much time."

Mello nods in agreement to this. "Yes. We'll have to move in as fast as possible."

Near hums in slight thought before blinking as a light bulb goes off in his head. "I think I have an idea." He tells the blonde who blinks in interest upon hearing this.

"Do share."

"Well if they won't all be there then we can send out a fake message to get them in the same place at the same time. Then when we spring our little surprise…" Near continues on informing Mello of his idea for a plan while the other listens to him.

Mello hums in an impressed tone upon hearing this plan that his partner has come up with. "I like it." He agrees with the plan making Near smile softly.

"Thank you."

The laptop beeps informing them that the copying has finished.

"Just in time." Mello gets the two USBs out and he hands Near the original USB. "We'll keep this one hidden for now and when we report everything we'll hand it over."

Near nods in agreement so the two put the laptop away only to head off towards Matt's room.

It is almost lunchtime anyways.

They make it to Matt's room only to knock on the door.

The red head opens the door cautiously then backs off letting the two slip quickly into his room. He closes the door once the two are inside. He feels that they had did it just in time as they hear someone just entering the hall just as the door closed. He turns to the two. "Did you get it?" He questions them quietly with a serious gaze.

The two nod and Near holds out the USB.

"Thanks." Matt takes the USB gently with a smile. His leg is almost bouncing in excitement at the fact that he gets to put his skill to good use now. "They won't know what hit them. The program will be under our command."

"Yes." Mello slightly turns away. "You get the program on there and we'll put it back where it needs to go."

"Don't worry." Matt assures him putting the USB into a laptop of his. "I've got everything ready. It'll be rather quick as soon as I make sure that it is tuned to the current program on here." He begins typing away as he works.

Mello and Near hang by the door to listen for anyone coming inside. They also have stepped back so if they need to talk they can whisper to each other with a lesser chance of Matt hearing them. They wait in silence for now as the red headed goggles wearing genius works.

"As soon as his program is done we can return the USB then we can get ready to gather the information we need on who is working on such a project." Mello whispers to Near who nods his head in agreement.

"Yes. It shouldn't be hard. I'm sure that their leader is keeping tabs on them. I don't believe that he fully trusts them." Near whispers back to the other getting a nod in return to his words.

"Ha! Childs play!" Matt slightly laughs causing the two to turn to look to him. "This program is so poorly put together compared to what I could do. This is going to be so easy!" His typing keeps going for a few moments longer then he jumps onto his feet. "And…. Done!" He spins around to try to meet the twos eyes as they are watching him. "The USB is now under our control. They won't know that anything is wrong. Then when the day comes we spring the trap. They'll think that it worked but really it will only protect the intended targets from any possible attack that they might throw."

"Excellent work." Mello nods and holds out his hand expecting to be given the USB. "Now lets go put it back."

"One more thing before I do that." Matt tells them watching both of them carefully. "I know there are things you have to hide from me for whatever reason. However how did you even come to learn of such evil in the orphanage? You're just orphans too and I'm not sure whether or not you ever were rivals and abandoned that to just an act… Or if you never were rivals… But what I do know is something is fishy here. You don't let me come to all of the meetings or so I am lead to believe. Things are just not adding up. How did you even become involved in this? In trying to stop this crazy plan? How long has this been going on? I just want to know more…"

Mello and Near share a moments glance at this then turn back to Matt.

"Well you see Matt we got involved when we had accidentally over heard a teacher conversation." Mello tells him making Matt blink in surprise. "It was a while ago. We just happened to be in the same room with no one else around at the right time. We knew that something was going on so we began to investigate." He lightly shrugs as if it's no big deal. He knows that he isn't being fully honest with the other; though the part of it all starting by an overheard conversation is true. "We had to investigate things starting from square one. So we took a little longer than we wanted to get the information that we needed. We didn't know who we could trust other than each other. So we tried to keep everyone else at a distance from what we really were doing. We also don't want you getting too far deep into this and while you can still live your life we are doing a bunch more work. We can't ask you to drop everything to help us. Plus we also can't have you doing everything. We feel we have to pull our own weight too. We just also don't want you getting hurt by going too far into this. Me and Near are already in danger from how deep we've gotten ourselves into this. At this point we'd just be dragging you down trying to bring you to how deep in this we are. Does that answer your questions?"

Matt blinks upon hearing this. "Oh." He offers the USB to the two of them. "I see. It's understandable when you put it like that."

"Thanks." Mello takes the USB. "If we had known we could count on you for all of this then we would have talked to you sooner. We just had to be really careful."

"I figured as much." Matt nods to them.

The two turn and head off cautiously out of the room with the USB.

"Huh. Good guys to the end." Matt smiles softly to himself. "I bet Near convinced Mello that they should just keep it between themselves." He turns to glance to the TV and game consoles in his room. "Plus Mello is right. If I had to do more work I wouldn't be able to really live my life. That'd mean no video games. I need my precious video games." He heads over to them and sits down grabbing a controller. "Speaking of video games, let me play for a bit. I feel like I've been gone far too long from them." He begins playing one of his games.