Mechanical Bonds
Summary: Tsuna decided to appoint new guardians after becoming the Vongola Decimo officially. He does not give the rings to his friends. Instead, robots were appointed as guardians for the first time in the entire Vongola history. No one can do anything to change Tsuna's mind, not even Reborn. Then something goes wrong with the robots and Tsuna faces death. Will human bonds win over the programmed robots?
Chapter 7
Forceful
Author's Note: Thank you for reviewing! Yes, I did mention that it would be a happy end. If you have questions feel free to ask~ Now let's continue on with the new chapter. Sorry for a short chapter!
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Mammon went in search of Chrome. There was something that she required the girl's help. The thought of having to pay the girl made Mammon cringe but she knew that if she got to the bottom of the case, she would be rewarded handsomely by the Ninth.
Chrome was surprised to see the Mist arcobaleno, seeing the money minded illusionist can't be bothered to waste time in things not worth investigating. She smiled as Mammon placed a file down. Chrome looked at it questioningly and Mammon urged her to look through the contents.
Chrome skimmed through the documents and her eyes steeled with resolve. She would be getting to the bottom of the case and even if she was powerless to aid her boss directly, she would do her best from behind the shadows. Mukuro and Hibari were with the brunet so Chrome had a load of her mind.
Now, she had some memories to retrieve and some people to track down. It wasn't going to be easy but it wasn't impossible.
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Xanxus seethed. Squalo had called and explained the messed up situation and now the Varia had to get involved with babysitting a brat. He refused to do so. However, in times of crisis the Vongola will always be one. Getting up from the chair, something he hardly did, he called the guardians into the meeting room.
Belphegor smirked crazily and licked his knives when the boss announced that they were going on an all-out find and slaughter session. Lussuria giggled and Levi smiled disturbingly. The sword emperor was already on the move to find out more. Mammon was acting independently and Xanxus knew that he wouldn't need to wait long before giving orders for the crazy bunch back in Italy to wipe out the headquarters and get some information. While they waited for the information, Xanxus made arrangements to talk to the Ninth about the Decimo's decision.
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Reborn fumed. His search was leading nowhere. Irie and Spanner had run all tests they could on the guardians yet nothing suspicious appeared. Shamal on the other hand was making arrangements to check on Tsuna's mysteriously deteriorating health. There had to be a link and Reborn knew he was missing out on one crucial lead.
Reborn cursed fluently in his mother tongue making Spanner cringe. Shamal slammed the table in frustration. "There has to be something. I know we overlooked it but what? What would they hide in plain sight from us?" Shamal seethed. Time was of essence but luck was eluding them in a never ending game of tag.
Seeing that being in the same room led to no results, Reborn told Spanner and Irie who had not eaten or slept for a few days to get some decent sleep. Shamal pulled at his hair in desperation.
Reborn was thinking hard as well. He closed his eyes to focus. Just then he felt a slight disturbance in the air and by reflex shot whatever was making the disturbance. Shamal was startled out of his thoughts and Reborn glared in the general direction where it appeared from. There was nothing there. "What was that for?"
Reborn frowned. "There was something there previously. Was it an illusion?"
Shamal raised an eyebrow. It was unlike Reborn to make such a mistake. He scoured the place with his eyes and was about to brush it off as Reborn's paranoia when something familiar nabbed his attention. It was a small fly, nothing impressive but then something clicked in the doctor's mind.
"Reborn! I got it! We need to shift Tsuna out now. I can't afford to have any technology in that area and we need to make it insect proof. Can you do that?"
Reborn nodded. "Have you figured out what's wrong yet?"
Shamal shook his head. "It's only a hunch now. I need blood samples to pinpoint what the disease is. It seems like someone else other than me uses insects for assassination. I believe all the accidents with the technology were mere distractions. Also, if it were the case, the controller would have to be within range. I don't think the hacker has a worldwide network unlike the Vongola. Try looking closer, the program and device has to be something very common."
Reborn felt ready. He knew now what they had to search. "Thanks. Leave the rest to me now. Focus on that boy. When that no good student of mine recovers he will be training with me… intensively. How dare he do this to me of all people! He should know better than to lie to the world's greatest hit man."
Shamal smiled. It was good to see the usual Reborn back.
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Mukuro contacted Chrome via telepathy. "Nagi… it seems like the arcobaleno has figured something out. How are things on your end?"
Chrome whispered, "Mukuro-sama, I think I might have chanced upon something very unpleasant."
"Speak."
Chrome explained what she saw in the file's content. Mammon had a very wide range of connections and Chrome uncovered too much dark history in Nono's dealings. Of which one man stood out. Liam D'amore was the man Chrome had very little information about.
"Do you anything about this man? I have come to the end of my leads. Unless I can start with a place Liam had been once before, I cannot retrieve memories as proof. His current status and location is unknown to me. Mammon had tried Thoughtography but this man uses something like the supressing chains Mammon has. We cannot trace him."
Mukuro nodded. "Good job Chrome. This is more than enough information. As for the location you should search through Nono's mind. After which once you gather enough evidence you should use the ring to seek audience with those hell guards. Ask the Mist baby to accompany you. Also, hurry. I have no idea how Tsunayoshi will fare. We are transferring to a new location."
Chrome was shocked as the ring materialised on her finger. "Mukuro-sama! How…?"
Mukuro chuckled. "I never give away what is in my possession. It was the Vongola's fault for not checking the authenticity of the rings."
Chrome nodded with a smile. There was hope after all. "I understand Mukuro-sama. I won't let you and boss down."
With that she ended the telepathy and entered a comatose state in search of Nono's mind.
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Croce smiled. Things were going well for them. Liam was happy. If things continued the way they did, the Decimo will die in less than a week from now. He knew of the nano virus but it had only been planted a good week ago.
"It works fast enough. Without them suspecting it, the Decimo will be gone for good. First it will be headaches. Then stomach cramps. After that stage it progressively gets worse with fever and coughing fits. No one would suspect it to be deadly and will pass it off as a normal cold. The last two days of the victim's life will be too late to save him at all. His lungs will no longer function and all he can do is cough blood, cry blood and be poisoned by the corroded blood. Even if they got him a bone marrow transplant, it will be too late. More than 90% of his blood cells would be beyond repair. That will be the time you can approach Nono."
Liam smirked. "How did you do it though? No one suspects it."
Croce scoffed. Leave it to the dumb to ask stupid questions. "See those?" he pointed to the nano chips. They were so small that a few of them put together would only make up the surface of a fingernail. "They are attached to mechanical insect bots to do what is necessary. What was used to infect the Decimo was a mosquito. Thank Trident Shamal for the wonderful inspiration. Unfortunately for them, even if they discovered the nano virus, they wouldn't be able to come up with a cure for it. Not even Shamal will be capable of creating a cure by then. They only have a week before the child dies. Five effective days to find a cure and use it or they will expect a funeral."
Liam smirked. He liked how evil the plan was and killing one or two children did not faze him, much less the ruthless nature of this assassination attempt.
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Irie and Spanner slept like the dead. No one suspected anything when Irie's phone started blinking. No one even realised how Ame who was nearby powered up by itself.
Ame scanned the environment using infra-red and sent the data back to Croce's base. Croce quickly typed in commands to touch whatever main supply he was close to. Also, he replicated the virus and transferred it into all the other guardians. The main operation folder was to eliminate several people. Even the guardians would have difficulty when faced against a Mosca.
What Croce did not know was how Moscas held no chance against the guardians who had visited the future.
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Tsuna was shifted to a helicopter that was arranged by Reborn. Hibari and Mukuro sandwiched the unconscious brunet while Shamal sat by the pilot. Almost immediately when Shamal saw the boy, he pulled out a syringe to run a few tests. Hibari and Mukuro made no fuss on their trip and Reborn had explained the risks of having too many electronic devices.
Hibari surrendered his phone immediately while Mukuro just declared he had no such devices since he never had a need for them. Shamal had took extra precautions and brought all his mosquitos along. Hibari merely gave Kusakabe instructions before he left with his tonfa, box weapon and a Grade A+ cloud ring that he received from Dino.
The journey was silent and nerve wrecking as Tsuna's life hung precariously on the balance.
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Author's Note: Sorry for the long wait! I had report and work and music and auditions and so many things *cries* but now that things have more or less fallen into pace I found some time to write. Also, on the side note please review… this series has too little reviews in my opinion and I know it's not my fault for making it boring.
Anyway, that aside I'm happy people are following this series. It has become a long one unfortunately. As it is long, I believe omakes are due. With that please vote (only once please) for the top three omake scenarios you want to see at the end of the series. (Or you can include the omake you would like to see if I had not listed it. (No pairings please ^^" I know I'm a 1827 fan but no pairings still.)
Here are the omake scenes:
- Hibari spares with Tsuna one sidedly
- Ryohei forces Tsuna into a match
- Tsuna visits Varia to apologize and gets 'treated accordingly' by Xanxus
- Reborn gives Tsuna more hell training
- Dino blackmails Tsuna after he found Tsuna's diary of true feelings while he acted uncaring
- Mukuro's angry confession and pledge of loyalty (death threat) about the time Tsuna' died
- Chrome's assurance (why she wasn't affected like how everyone else was during his uncaring time)
- Lambo matures (and requests training from Reborn so Tsuna-nii won't throw him away)
- Nono (grandfather version) visits Tsuna in Japan and chats about Vongola Don and guardians
- Nana and Iemitsu's idiot love bird scene