Authors Note: Hey all, sorry this took so long; I originally planned to upload it yesterday but hadn't finished it in time. I will warn you that I'm not the best when it comes to writing battles/fights… But enjoy anyway! :)
Summary: Giotto has a secret which he has sworn to keep, no matter what. His 'left hand man.' Hidden away, a young boy has grown up helping the Vongola as best he can. Using the numerous skills he has plus he obsession with computers and technology. He quickly became a hacker that no one has been able to rival, but there seems to be more secrets that have yet to come to light between the two.
"Hello" – Speech
'Hello' – Thoughts
Chapter 4: Squishy is on his way
Cielo was typing away trying his best to figure out why the explosion happened and what had started it in the first place. 'Damn… How can an explosion just appear out of now where?'
Cielo was beating himself up over it because he never seen it coming and there was nothing to suggest how it happened either. Cielo was scanning through security cameras double checking everything he could find. Giotto's team seemed to be his priority at the moment; the other groups would have to wait.
"Hey Cielo, I think we've found something." Cielo's attention was drawn back to his ear piece.
"Yeah? What have you found?" Cielo asked, hoping for something useful. He was still searching through the security footage of outside the building since the inside part had been blown up, the camera there no longer existed.
"There appears to be so sort of big laboratory…" Giotto spoke with a confused tone.
"Ok… Hold on." Cielo moved himself with a small push of his chair and went to a different computer screen. He swiftly cycled through the security cameras of the warehouse till he found the one showing Group 1. "Ok… Whoa." Cielo was slightly surprised at what he was watching.
On the camera, Cielo could see the large laboratory. There were numerous broken tubes that could easily fit a person in.
"Yes whoa indeed." Colonello was now speaking. "Cielo, There's so much broken glass all over the place."
"I can see…" Cielo continued looking for as many details as he could. Which was fairly hard when the camera didn't have very good quality in the first place, add that to the fact that the lighting was flickering on and off at random intervals.
Reborn was walking over to one of the broken tubes. "Hey Giotto, I think I've found something." Reborn crouched down and was looking at some purplish liquid on the floor. Giotto, followed by G and Colonello walked over to where Reborn was crouching down.
"That looks horrible…" Giotto had looked at the liquid and quickly turned away holding his nose. "It smells funny too."
"Damn, the lights aren't helping me here. Sorry guys, I can't really help you much here." Cielo said in an apologetic voice.
"It's Ok… We'll be fine. We should probably get a sample of that for the tech's to check back at the mansion." G was the one that answered this time.
Reborn stood up and moved out of G's way so he could get a sample. Reborn started wandering around.
"There's got to be at least 7 tubes in here… They all seem to contain that weird purple liquid like the one over there." Reborn mused. Only Cielo heard this as Giotto and Colonello where inspecting the different types of machinery that were no longer in operation, and G was busy with the liquid.
"I wonder what was inside them." Cielo spoke to reborn through the ear piece. "I've tried looking back through past footage, but it stops after about 1 hour ago and I'm unable to go any further. It's like it's been removed from the system."
"Just our luck, is there anything that happened on the footage between the hour when it stops to when we arrived?" Reborn wondered.
"Unfortunately, nothing pops out at me at first glance. I'm looking through it now; hopefully there will be something to help us in it." Cielo was starting to view the footage, watching out for anything that was out of the ordinary.
Reborn now walked back over to where the rest of the group were now packing up a few of the objects that were lying about the place, hopefully to be used as evidence.
"Ok. Since it's empty and Cielo's looking through the footage, there's not much else we can do in here. When this is over we will have to send in some people to search this place fully." Giotto wanted to get this operation over quickly and moving to the next room would be the next step. "Should we head off then?" Giotto asked.
"Ok. Let's head to the next room. Hope we find something much more beneficial to us there." Colonello started walking towards the double doors they had entered.
Cielo was searching through the footage and so far nothing had changed throughout the hour it had been running. Out the corner of his eye he was watching the outside of the lab, that Giotto's group where in. Something or someone was standing there waiting...
Cielo gasped and quickly tried to connect to Colonello who was right about to leave. "NELLO-CHAN MOVE!" Cielo shouted but it was too late.
The door was kicked it, it flew off its hinges and smacked right into Colonello causing him to grunt from the impact. The hit sent him and the door to the middle of the laboratory floor. Giotto and G ran over to where Colonello landed. Reborn was watching the doorway, he could sense someone was there but for some reason couldn't see them.
As Giotto and G reached Colonello, they could easily see that he was unconscious and he had a couple of injuries to his arm and face.
"REBORN!" Giotto shouted to gain Reborn's attention and waited as he ran over to them. Reborn looked down at Colonello. He was clearly unconscious and was losing a large amount of blood from one of his arms and the left side of his face. "Can you heal him a little? Just enough to bring him back to consciousness at least?" Giotto was crouched down beside Colonello and looked up at Reborn.
"I'll see what I can do." Although Reborn didn't like Colonello, he wasn't about to just let him die from being hit by a door… Reborn had to stop himself from chuckling at that but quickly realised how morbid that sounded.
"Ok… You two." Reborn looked towards Giotto and G. Reborn moved his hands so they were just hovering over Colonello's injuries, a dim yellow glow appeared.
"There's definitely something in the doorway. Can you guys go check it out while I help Colonello here?" Giotto and G nodded before slowly heading towards the doorway.
It was at this moment they heard a loud jangling sound and then all the power seemed to be cut as the lights all shut off and any machinery that was running stopped.
"Giotto! Can you hear me?" Cielo said trying not to shout in case something bad was happening.
"I hear you… Reborn's in the middle of healing Colonello. Myself and G are heading towards the doorway to see who kicked the door in." Giotto gave Cielo the main details before becoming silent.
In the shadow of the doorway stood a figure, it gave off an illusion of being taller than he actually was. The figure slowly moved out of the shadows. Giotto and G now realised where the jangling sound from before had come from, the handcuffs around the figures wrists and ankles.
As the figure stepped into view, G had to back away slightly as the figure gave off a strong killing intent. The figure had blue hair which went just past his shoulders, was fairly messy as well meaning that it hadn't been cut or washed in a long time. The man was wearing a simple grey t-shirt with patches of red and a pair of black shorts. Giotto quickly realised that the patches of red was blood. The most noticeable thing about the figure was his eyes. They were two different colours, one red and the other blue. Inside the red eye, was the number six.
"Who are you?" Giotto spoke up looking towards the man.
The man never answered and moved his head and looked towards Reborn and Colonello. He smirked at the damage he caused. He quickly turned his attention to G.
"Ufufufu…" A haunting laugh came from the man's mouth as he moved his left hand behind his back.
"I asked you a question." Giotto tried to get the man to speak once again, he was also eyeing the mans left hand waiting for him to act.
The man remained silent as he pulled his left hand out from behind his back… now holding a three-pronged trident. He never gave G or Giotto any time to react as he swiftly moved towards G and span he trident around so it would hit G.
Giotto seen him move and quickly tried to intercept the trident's attack as best he could but it ended up with both himself and G gaining a small injury. Giotto only had a scratch along the top part of his shoulder while G had a little hole in his shoulder which had started leaking blood.
"Damn it." G clutched his shoulder trying to not show a pained expression towards the man.
Giotto remained quiet as he began to move slowly to attack the man.
"Ufufufu, as if you don't know my name. How dare you think you can live after everything this family has done to me." The man had mistaken them as part of the Estraneo Famiglia.
"Huh? Why would we know your name…" Giotto asked but was ignored as the man turned to face Giotto who had moved to get into a better battle position.
Giotto had his gloves on ready to attack. He fired up his sky dying will flame and used it to thrust towards the man to hit him. The man quickly moved to block the punch with his trident. Giotto moved his other arm around to hit him in the stomach which made contact as the man was blocking his other hand. The man was pushed back a good metre or so before rushing forward to attack Giotto again, He had completely started ignoring G now and was solely focused on Giotto. G watched as he was trying to think of the best way to end the fight quickly. G started moving into a better position to join the fight, releasing his storm flames.
As this battle continued, Reborn had nearly finished healing Colonello. The bleeding had stopped and Colonello was starting to stir into consciousness. "Nearly there…" Reborn spoke to himself waiting for Colonello to wake up.
Cielo was trying to watch the fight from the CCTV but found it hard to follow because of the lack of light but he could see that G had been injured, though not too seriously.
"Damn it…" Cielo began looking at the other groups to see if he could send them over to help group 1. Group 3 wasn't a possibility as they were already within their warehouse and as it was the one closest to the mansion it was highly likely to get filled with guards soon because of the explosion from the one Giotto was in. Group 2 wouldn't be able to reach them in time as they were the furthest away and it would take them at least 20-30 minutes to arrive and by then it could be too late.
'Ok... Think Cielo… Think!' Cielo shouted in his head trying to come up with an idea. "AH!" Cielo finally had arrived to the best idea he could think of for this situation.
Cielo moved himself to the other side of the desk where his mobile phone was and picked it up. Cielo started looking through his phone to find the contact he was searching for. Cielo lifted his phone to his ear waiting for the other side to answer.
"Cielo! How've you been? Have you been eating well? Have you been sleeping enough? Did you miss me? I haven't heard from you for ages!" At the other end was a cheery and childish tone of voice but he was speaking so fast it was hard to understand.
"Squishy! I don't really have time to answer those questions as the moment. Giotto's in trouble…" Cielo answered trying to get the other to be serious.
"Why do you still call me Squishy…Mou…" The other made a depressed sound. "Fine... What do you need?" Finally the other had turned serious.
"Because I can… Anyway, Can you go down to help Giotto and G… they are kind of in the middle of a fight between someone… Reborn and Colonello are there also." Cielo answered.
"Because you asked Cielo, I will gladly help on one condition.. Let me come see you again." The man on the other end whined the last part.
"Fine, fine you can come visit me. I'll send you their location via a text. Good luck Squishy!" Cielo smiled.
"Yay! See you soon Cielo, Bye!" The other ended the call and Cielo got to work typing out the location of Giotto's group and sent it over to 'Squishy.'
Back with Giotto and G, Giotto had been able to land a couple of hits on the mystery man but in the process gain a couple of scraps and scratches himself. Giotto and moved away from the fight as G had joined in to help. Reborn had finally finished healing Colonello who was now conscious and leaning against one of the many machines away from the fighting. Reborn had changed Leon into a gun and moved towards the fight to help.
"How are you doing?" Giotto had walked over to Colonello and made sure he was Ok.
"I'm Ok… I guess. Damn.. It feels like I've just been hit with a door." Colonello wasn't fully awake yet and his eyes were half open. He moved his uninjured arm and ruffled his hair.
"Well, you were hit with a door..." Giotto replied wrapping his injuries in a few bandages that Colonello didn't use.
"Giotto!" A yell came from his ear piece.
"Yes? Where in the middle of a fight here you know." Giotto was happy to hear Cielo's voice but it was the wrong time as the fight was picking up pace.
"Yes I know. That's why I got you some back up." Cielo was smiling.
"Back up? You mean Alaude or someone?"
"Nope~" Cielo answered childishly. "Someone even better!"
"Better? Who's better than Al-" Giotto was cut off as he ducked under an unidentifiable flying object that went over his head. "Better than Alaude?" Giotto continued as if nothing happened.
Cielo giggled. "How about Squishy?" As Cielo spoke, Giotto crouched down besides Colonello so he wouldn't almost get hit again.
"Squishy? Wait...Who the hell is Squis.." Giotto paused, eyes wide. "Cielo… Please tell me you didn't…"
"Ding, Ding, Ding! You thought right~" Cielo spoke in a sing song voice
"Cielo… How can you be so stupid! What help can he be!" Giotto was angry now.
"Come on! You know he's one of the best in these kinds of situations. And don't be mean to Squishy!"
Giotto let out an annoyed growl. "Fine.. I'm not happy with this though. Why are you calling him Squishy? I was confused as to who you were talking about for a second."
"Because he's squishy, plus he looks very huggable!" Cielo giggled again.
"…. Ok…." Giotto was bemused at the answer.
"HEY GIOTTO, Kind of need some help over here!" A shout from G made it to Giotto's ears.
"I'm coming, I'm coming! Jeez, always wanting attention… Like dogs!" Giotto started talking to himself... He got up and ran back over to the fight.
Colonello just sweat dropped as he listened Giotto's conversation and as he could only hear Giotto's side it sounded really weird to him… like really weird. 'Squishy? What is that?'
"Yo Nello-chan. Any better?" Cielo asked in a concerned voice through Colonello's ear piece.
"Yes. I feel a bit better. Um… What were you talking to Giotto about. If I may ask." Colonello wasn't too sure if Cielo would answer.
"You may Nello-chan. I was telling him help was on the way." Cielo grinned. "Since nothing is happening I might make some food…"
Colonello sweat dropped once again. "You're really easy going aren't you." Colonello chuckled.
"Yup!" Cielo moved from his chair heading over to the kitchen area to make some food for himself… and to grab two more energy drinks.
Colonello continued to watch the fight, he couldn't see Reborn anywhere. 'He's probably hiding to get a better advance point or something… Wait… Why do I care anyway…' Colonello scolded himself for worrying about Reborn.
Giotto had joined the fight once again. "About time… Have a nice relaxing time over there!" G was annoyed that Giotto had left him alone to have a 'chat.'
"Oh stop complaining. You're still alive." Giotto snapped back as he blocked a stab from the mystery man. "Jeez, Can you a least tell us your name…" (A/N: I had to finally give out his name as I'm fed up with writing 'man' all the time…)
The man growled. "Fine… The names Mukuro… Time to die!" Mukuro's eye changed to a different number and he started to speed up and hit G, sending him to where Colonello was sitting. A low groan coming from G as he landed.
He then aimed towards Giotto with his trident. He swung the trident downwards but suddenly stopped as he blocked a bullet aiming for his head. With his eyes wide, he looked around the area to see where it had came from but there wasn't anyone else in sight.
Giotto had rushed towards Mukuro as he was distracted when all of a sudden there was a massive shock wave of sky flames knocking both Giotto and Mukuro to the floor.
"Giotto… Was that you?" G said in awe.
"Unfortunately no… It wasn't." Giotto mumbled.
From the doorway came a childish voice. "HEY! How you doing flame brain?"
Giotto knew exactly who it was and groaned to himself.
Mukuro turned towards where the voice had originated when he was suddenly grabbed by a giant purplish, semi-transparent hand, squeezing him so he couldn't move.
"Byakuran!" Giotto shouted at the marshmallow loving idiot. This drew everyone's attention to him, even Reborn who was hidden on one of the catwalks near the roof of the warehouse.
Everyone but Colonello walked over towards Byakuran. Reborn just jumped down and stood behind Giotto.
"Hey all!" Byakuran had a childish grin. "Cielo sent me. Now what seems to be the problem flame brain?" Byakuran teased Giotto.
"Hey, don't insult the boss like that." G shouted at Byakuran but was ignored for the most part.
"G, it's fine… Go help Colonello please." Giotto ordered and G followed as he walked over to Colonello helping him to stand up by placing Colonello's right arm over his shoulder and then slowly walking back over to the group.
"Back to you stupid question… You just sorted out the problem…" Giotto reluctantly answered. "And my name is Giotto not Flame brain…."
Colonello had now joined up with the others. Mukuro was still struggling but the hand wasn't budging.
On Cielo's request, Colonello removed his ear piece and handed it to Byakuran.
"Yo Cielo!" Byakuran shouted.
"Squishy… Thank you for helping them. Now I can relax and eat my just re-heated chicken wings!" Cielo had just recently got back from the kitchen with a plate full of chicken wings.
"Were you even worried about us?!" Giotto shouted angrily.
"Well of cause I was! But I knew Squishy was on the way so it wasn't that much of a problem." Cielo answered innocently.
"Cielo trusts me that's why!" Byakuran puffs out his chest proudly.
"Ah!" Cielo shouted.
""CIELO! What's wrong!"" Giotto and Byakuran shouted at the same time. They turned to look at each other. Byakuran sneered at Giotto while Giotto just wore a scowl.
Cielo made a clicking noise with his tongue. "It's hot." His sounded upset… because his chicken wings were too hot to eat yet…
Giotto and Byakuran sweat dropped at the fact that Cielo had just started to relax and not pay any attention to what was happening around him…
"Oh just wash it down with some of that energy drink…" Giotto replied, unhappy that Cielo was acting all laid back when they were in the middle of a mission.
Reborn spoke up, snapping everyone out of their thoughts. "Shouldn't we head out then? And take Poseidon over there with us?" Reborn just picked up the trident that had dropped to the floor and started walking towards the door not waiting for an answer.
"Sounds good." Colonello replied mostly to the others that remained.
"Cielo we are heading back now since we've pretty much got all the evidence we need to prove the experiments existed. See you soon." Giotto spoke with authority hoping to snap Cielo back into business mode.
"Hai, Hai. See you later. Oh and bring Squishy with you, I promised I would allow him to come for a visit." Cielo didn't really want Squishy to visit but he had to because he made a deal with him.
"Yay. I get see Cielo!" Byakuran was extremely happy.
Giotto groaned as he started walking after Reborn, G and Colonello in tow.
Byakuran picked up Mukuro with his giant hand and moved towards the exit, grinning like an idiot as he walked out.