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Disclaimer: I don't own Katekyo Hitman Reborn! Amano Akira does, KORA!

Note: 3 dots is a time skip.

Chapter 3: Operation Exploitation X

11:45am

Minerva sat her elbows on the desk and rested her chin on her fingers. Waiting….waiting. Her deep purple eyes glared up at the ticking clock. Signor Fesso's annoying old voice echoed slowly. Squalo watched Dino at the corner of his cynical grey eye as Dino…..Dino…..

The voice in Squalo's head screamed, HE'S ASLEEP!

He caught sight of Minerva ripped a piece of paper from her notebook as she jabbed her pacer on to the desk. She rolled the lead inside the paper and placed it gently, pointing towards Dino's head.

Dino woke with a jolt and his big brown eyes flew open as something hit his head. The little roll of paper stopped as he looked back at Minerva. She glared at him with murderous eyes and he gulped. His hands carefully unfolded the paper when he read the text. The message made his hands shake as he trembled in his seat.

His eyes quickly shifted to the clock, then back to Minerva, then to Squalo. He gulped at the message again:

LOOK AT THE TIME DINO, IF YOU FALL ASLEEP AGAIN WITHIN THESE LAST 15 MINUTES I WILL CUT YOU.

… 12:45pm:

Dino, Squalo and Minerva gathered in the ballroom towering over a piece of paper. "The archive dungeon only has one entrance. The super computer is in the middle of gothic-looking gates that has no entrance."

"Does anyone go down there?" Dino asked.

"Nope," Squalo replied, "there are security cameras down there and own the way."

"So Dino," Minerva said as he turned to her, "you're the decoy."

"Why am I the decoy?!" Dino pointed at himself.

"Don't worry about it," Minerva assured, "the cameras are really low quality with no sound or colour. If you run fast enough the cameras won't be able to process your identity with your student profile."

Dino let out a sigh in relief. "What about you two?" he looked at Squalo.

"We destroy the cameras while you run. Then when we reach the super computer I go into the cage and view the Newspaper-freaks' activity."

"But what's the point of destroying the cameras if they have such low quality?"

"The super computer is constantly being updated at an extremely rapid speed. To be able to view student profiles that are also being updated the computer would need to sustain that speed. We have to do one student at a time or the computer circuit would overflow and we would get caught."

Dino stuttered, "But there are so many people's profiles to steal, how do we know who to go for first?"

"The computer," Minerva explained, "has an artificial intelligence system where it judges if data recorded is negative, positive or neutral."

Squalo continued after her, "Positive information contains achievements, neutral stuff is like: This person was absent today. Negative things are records of things that the computer judges to have a negative effect on pride and mental health."

A loud ring startled them all and Squalo pulled out his phone. "It's 1 o'clock, we better get going." Minerva nodded and then looked at Dino. The ran back along the red carpet and out the marble door.

…

Squalo leaned on the wall looking around when he looked around the corner and waved to Minerva and Dino. They crouched around a trapdoor when Minerva looked at Dino, "You're going in first." Dino nodded as Squalo opened the wooden trapdoor. He gulped and reached for the steel ladder and climbed down into the darkness.

The dim candles lit the corridors of cobbled stone. He leaned on the ladder and looked up, "Minerva, Squalo, you ready?"

"All good," he heard Minerva shout from outside. Dino straightened up and leaned his foot on the ladder. He pushed his foot off the ladder and sprinted through the corridors as Squalo and Minerva jumped down the ladder and ran after him. One by one, the cameras exploded as Squalo and Minerva threw sharp rock at them.

"Keep going Dino! We're nearly there!" Minerva encouraged. Dino grinned as he nearly reached the cage when suddenly…his foot fell back, his body fell forward, his hair fell in front….Minerva and Squalo watched in shock….Dino….had slipped.

Dino fell to the ground and spun on the floor as though it was ice. His ankle crashed into the bottom of the gate as Minerva and Squalo began to panic. The copper coloured cage appeared to bounce and then they slammed on to the cobbled floor with a loud crash.

"VOI! DINO, ARE YOU OK?!" Squalo called out to him. He and Minerva rushed over to him when everything flashed in a dim red. The ear piercing alarm rung throughout the archives as Squalo ran over to Dino and dragged him up.

"Squalo! Dino! We've gotta get out of here!" Minerva shouted and helped Squalo help Dino up. They heard loud footsteps growing louder and louder. "Run! As fast as you can!" Minerva pulled her hair out and messed it up real bad. She unbuttoned her shirt and tied it together like they do in gang movies. "What are you doing?!" Squalo shut his eyes right and looked away with a blush highlighted on his face.

"Do something to make sure they don't recognise you," Minerva shouted and sprinted towards the security guards with her arms in front of her face. Squalo quickly said to Dino, "Take off your jacket and cover us so we can b certain not all of them will tell who we are."

Dino nodded as they heard Minerva growl viciously like a tiger. They guard backed away and made a path as she rampaged through them and to the ladder. Squalo dashed straight through the path as he dragged Dino's arm right behind him. He waved his jacket around and kept shaking his blonde hair around.

Minerva vigorously climbed up the rusty ladder like a lion reaching for its prey. Her hand reached out into the light as her feet bolted her up to the open trapdoor. She clawed at the grass outside and climbed out into the open sun.

Squalo and Dino reached into the outside light and climbed out on to the grass. Minerva stomped on the open trapdoor and closed it shut. She kneeled down and leaned her ear on the door. "It's all good, they're probably trying to fix the gate right now…."

"We should probably get moving," Squalo said.

"Yeah, go back to the classroom and I'll fix myself up behind the ballroom." Squalo and Dino nodded as they ran away and Minerva rushed to the wall. She loosened the knot in front of her and quickly buttoned her shirt up. Her fingers ran through her bright red hair and she quickly tied a normal pony tail high up on her head instead of her normal side braid.

…

"I'm back," Minerva cheerfully said to Squalo and Dino as she skipped into the classroom. She tilted her head and smiled at Squalo and Dino. They both smiled back as she said, "Even if we didn't get to humiliate the Newspaper-Writing Freaks, it was still fun while it lasted."

DAMMIT MICROSOFT WORD, STOP LAGGING! AHHH! Anyway, here's chapter 3! If any of you were confused about how Minerva wore her shirt in the archive dungeon well…sorry. But I'll explain it now: It's that thing that girls sometimes do. You have your shirt unbuttoned and then you tie the bottom of the loose shirt in a knot. It reveals your stomach and most of your chest but if you do it properly, it's ok. But seriously people, just…don't start doing that….

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