The first thing Matt noticed when he woke was that his game wasn't in his hands anymore. He scrambled over the side of the bed in a rising panic not bothering to stop and calm down before finding it on the floor with a bunch of his things, including his goggles. Second, he wasn't wearing the orange goggles anymore. He almost put his hands over his eyes to shield them from the light and saw there was barely any to speak of. The only illumination came from a lamp across the room and the crack under the door. He was just used to the dark by now, it was easier playing halo that way. Which he should set up after he went over the equipment in the other room, which he would visit simply because Mello had mentioned it.
Picking up his goggles he padded over to the door slipping them on over his eyes and stepped into the empty hallway lit with the morning light. He could hear snoring from the big front room at the end of the hall where he'd walked in from the day before. The door next to him was unlocked and unoccupied so he slipped in and shut the door quietly behind him fully intending on not waking up the gun wielding gangsters. Who knows what they'd do to a guy like him, he thought pointlessly, but Mello wouldn't-
"No way!" he breathed taking in the equipment before him.
It was easily as impressive looking as L's set up at Wammy's. About ten working screens and hard drives and wireless hookups everywhere under the desk where it was all arranged to where one could easily sit in the little swivel chair and over look everything at once, as L used to do. He marveled at it a moment longer moving over to where he could bend down to examine the wires and his face fell. he snorted, Who the hell set this up? An idiot, surely, because everything was connected wrong. The wireless information retrievers weren't set correctly and after further inspection, also seemed to be lacking their stealth modes- wait, that's a gamer term. Sighing he sat down and pulled open the devices and fixed them one by one stopping only to pull his bag over to the control room so he could reach everything he needed to continue on with hooking up the cables correctly and get rid of the screw ups in the tech. Before long he lit up a much needed smoke and tried to turn on all of the screens. All ten screens showed a jumble of videos at once as if the split windows had been shredded, Not to mention the connection was bad. He would have to go back behind and reconnect the screens properly and organize the display of the feed.
After Matt had brought his bag in and ceased to pay attention a few people had come by to listen to the ruckus inside and take a peek at the busily working redhead in the strange goggles tear apart everything and put it back together before they would walk away confused about the co-boss's new friend. By the time Matt had finished and set up his Xbox live and started playing halo just about everybody had seen him, except for an angry man that stormed in preparing to ask the boy what the fuck he thought he was doing with his precious equipment all morning, when Mello appeared in the doorway causing the man to fluster and step away from the unresponsive Matt that hadn't noticed anything that was happening as of yet. The blonde quickly dispatched the dark haired American in a pompous display of shouts and whacks upside the head and slammed the door shut. He turned back to his childhood friend and grunted walking over to thump the back of his head. it didn't even phase the gamer paying more attention to the graphic violence rather than the display that had been right behind him.
"I hope you at least fixed something before you set this up, Matt" he sighed standing akimbo surveying the screens.
Without looking up he replied casually "i rewired the connections into the right drives and set up the feeds-" he switched out of his tech talk without having to look at Mello's lost face "i fixed everything. Including the satellite feeds on japan"
"There was something wrong with them?" Mello asked annoyed at the soon to be dead hacker that had just been in here.
He nodded with a superior huff. "Yeah and those bugs you set up there weren't well concealed either" he pointed to a screen showing an older man sitting in his chief of police office in some city in the kanto region of japan. "Fixed those too and got a better cable connection. That hack job was awful at stealing TV." he pointed to a screen showing an up and coming Kira show.
Mello studied the screens as Matt finished off a troop of gunners and paused the game to look up at the blonde he had been without for so long. Someone would say that he looked completely different in his leather outfit and dangerous aura but... He was the same old scowling Mello. Mello looked down to see Matt looking back at him scanning over his face and got a little self-conscious "what?" he growled
"How did you get this whole thing here? They look pretty dang scary for a kid to fight." He asked honestly.
Mello looked genuinely indignant which almost made him laugh "I'm nineteen now, soon to be twenty so I'm NOT a kid and i wasn't all those years ago either. I tracked down some mob boss even Kira couldn't find and won them over because obviously they're not Kira-freaks... And i pulled a few favours..." he trailed off on the last part when Matt cocked a brow barely visible over his goggles. "Shut up"
"That explains the get up-" he started mumbling when a hand connected with the back of his head.
"Anyways, i came here to ask you something. See Mr. Jap copper? That's the Japanese chief of police and he'll in LA soon taking little time off with the guys in the mob. I want you to supervise all the overseas negotiations so it'll be secure. Can you do that for me Matt?"
"I'll do whatever. Just tell me by what and to whom and about what. Do you really think this guy knows Kira?" he asked a bit confused
"He might. We do think the police in japan have the death note L spoke about and we intend to have It." he smirked
"Huh" he mused turning back to his game when Mello sat next to him and restarted the console adding another controller and switching the game. "Mountain blade?" how did Mello know this game?
"If you're thinking why i chose this, it's because it had a cool cover" Mello started up the game and immediately lost. He growled at the screen then glared at Matt who had killed him. "What was up with that?"
"you should have asked to play Pokémon on the Nintendo, noob" Matt felt giddy inside with Mello sitting so close again for the first time since he had played ruby league on the gen 1 DS but he wasn't about to loosen up on the skills "at least you didn't pick Disidia or anything like that or we would get nowhere"
"shut up and stop killing me before i do all this in real life" he pointed to the gun in the front of his pants making Matt wince trying to play it off as rolling his eyes idly wondering how that was possible in such tight pants.
"I don't think this is a rape simulator, they actually sell those in japan. You should pick one up for me when you kidnap what's his name." Matt grinned
"Matt, how about i feed you to the closet queers out there?" Mello half smiled back pressing start again
