It was a really scary place. Just dark and chilling and old. It looked like no one had been there for years.
"Are you sure this is the right place? To me it looks like this place has been abandoned"
Tsuna was keeping his cool but that place was just unsettling.
"It was abandoned, I mean… it was but we came back in time and… It wasn't"
"Sorry, but…"
"Okay I don't expect you to get it anyway"
They just kept walking for a few more minutes to apparently no direction whatsoever, it was starting to get awkward so Tsuna tried to strike up a conversation.
"Hey… Coming to think of it… Don't you guys speak English here? How is it that you talk in Japanese?"
Gwen who was walking in front of him just came to a sudden halt.
"Wait, what? You are the one speaking English"
"What? N-no… My English grades are really bad, actually all of them are…" Said Tsuna a little embarrassed, just muttering the last part.
Gwen came close to him, just inches of his face and put up a serious look.
"Is it true?"
"Y-yes!"
Coming to think of it, he was able to read billboards and such even though there is clearly no Japanese subtitles anywhere.
"Say Tsuna… Everything you read is in Japanese too?"
"It is"
Gwen backed off and released a sigh while resting her hand in the face.
"Why does everything just have to be so complicated?"
She had scanned him using her magic four times already, but nothing looked out of place. That guy, where was he?
"Gw-Gwen…"
Tsuna voice brought her attention, just to see him with a panicked face, pointing at something behind her.
Turning as fast as the girl could, she stares at what Tsuna was looking at.
"Don't worry young Gwen, I think my presence means no harm"
"Paradox!"
After seeing that blue hole, portal, open Tsuna just got caught off guard, only to a man get out of there.
"Paradox!"
Is this the person Gwen was talking about? He looked like a middle aged man with green goggles and a lab coat.
Still behind them, Tsuna noticed that after talking a little with Gwen he averted his head to look past her and at him.
"Well well well, if it isn't the young Sawada Tsunayoshi. I can see you have the complete Sky Vongola Ring, so you should know who your father Iemitsu is right?"
Tsuna was dumbfounded.
"D-do you know me?"
"Of course, I know everyone, okay that was a lie. I know important people, like you Decimo"
Gwen appeared to be relieved for Paradox knowing who he was, but Tsuna was still in shock.
"Any way Professor Paradox…"
"I know I know, please come with me"
Opening a new portal, Paradox gestured with his hand for the two to follow him.
"I just hope you are not from the reality where you suddenly can go back to the present and fight your clone…" Muttered Paradox.
"What is it?"
"Haha, nothing young Sawada, nothing"
After passing through the portal Tsuna appeared to be in a very weird place, he saw green technical stuff all around him, it was like some futuristic room. But the big shock came when he looked through a window the size of a person.
Not only everything was covered in technology, but there were spaceships flying everywhere, it was crazy!
"Look Tsuna, if you just stop to contemplate every mind-blowing thing we will stay here forever"
Gwen said trying to call his attention.
"Oh, sorry"
Tsuna spun his head trying to find that Paradox guy until he saw him at the corner of the room, crouched and talking to someone.
Or something…?
After passing through the portal they were in Galvan for some reason. Did Azmuth know a way to fix this? Gwen sure hoped so.
Of course after seeing the green alien Tsuna was taken aback… Again.
"This is the boy I talked about Azmuth"
He was welding something and only stopped to take off the mask look at Tsuna for five seconds and turn back.
"Come on, don't start being grumpy now"
Professor started talking again just to be met with silence.
"Come Tsuna, this is gonna take a while"
Gwen pulled him from the arm to lie on the wall.
"Pay attention please, we need your help"
"Why should I help you?"
"For Ben at least"
"The universe seems quieter now that he is gone"
"But aren't you interested in the idea of parallel universes?"
"Indeed I am, however I don't want to risk destroying the fabric of space and time"
"It won't happen"
Upon hearing this, Azmuth put off his visor and took a good look at Paradox.
"What do you mean by that?"
"The universe we are talking about is not exactly parallel, it's more, congruent let's say. The laws of time and space work differently in there so actions taken here won't affect that place and vice versa"
The Galvanian looks at the ground for a bit before meeting eyes with the Professor again.
"Very well, I will help for the sake of studies, not to help that thankless brat. Or the spiky hair in the back"
"His name is Tsuna" Gwen responded.
"Like I care"
"Humph, what can you do for us anyway? You are not here to construct an interdimensional portal because Paradox could have taken us there himself"
"Clever but not even I can explain what it is possible for me to do Gwendolyn"
"What?"
"I gave him instructions" Paradox intervened.
"But you can't tell the whole thing right?"
"Indeed, but don't worry, I gave him instructions"
"Yes, yes. Now get out of here you are disturbing me"
"Okay, it's about time for us to leave anyway, by now the Vongola base must had the front part destroyed already"
"What!?" Tsuna cried in a mix of confusion and worry.
"Millefiore found your base and are invading it right now, at least by your universe time standards"
"So we have to go there right now!"
Tsuna determination showed up again, ready to do what was needed.
"Right" Gwen agreed.
"Yes let's go, Ben is going to be a huge help but he can't do everything himself. Farewell Azmuth, I will come to visit you more often"
"Please don't"
With another blue portal opening they were out of there faster than they came. Leaving a lonely Azmuth in his lab.
"If the situation is as you say Paradox, maybe we need another hero…"
The Galvanian stared at the stars from the window.