Merone Base: A VERY LONG DAY (Part 1)

After breakfast and a bathroom break...

'Yosh, we have one minute-long briefing before we get out.' said Lal as the kids are all in the Briefing Room. 'We are made up of two parties: one led by myself, Sawada, Yamamoto, Gokudera and Sasagawa. The second party led by Hibari are Mai, Dokuro, Kusakabe and very reluctantly, I-Pin.' she said as I-Pin was given a ring and her two boxes.

'I-Pin?!' Tsuna gasped out. 'Did she even train?!' he cried worriedly, looking at the five years old child. He avoided Lambo fighting Levi with the thankful arrival of Mai but now this is even worse!

'Aa. Yesterday under me.' said Reborn. 'As expected of the World's Third Most Promising Assassin, she learned quick.' he said. 'She will be of great help as our group needs two healers and also, two groups to deal even better damage.'

'The first group is also the decoy party.' Lal continued. 'Because its the second group who will deal the most damage unseen. While we defeat fighters, they trash the base in a nutshell using all means necessary while searching for that white machine and Irie. If found, DO NOT kill him and that means you Mai.' she said, giving Mai a pointed look. 'Everyone else in Millefiore is fair game however. Let's get outta here! Team two, when Hibari returns, assemble at the foundation!' and they ran off, with the girls going to Hibari's hideout to wait for the man himself to get done.

'I-Pin-chan, will you really be OK?' Chrome asked I-Pin worriedly.

'Aye!' chirped the five years old whose sun ring was modified to fit a child since really, a teenager and adult's finger size is totally different. She also wore a waist holster where her two boxes are.

'Millefiore's gonna have a field day...' Mai snorted wryly. 'They never used a child but we do. This makes us look like bad guys.' she deadpanned. I-Pin went gloom and doom too.

'Indeed but all mafia use children anyway, Mai-san.' said Chrome sheepishly. 'We're just middle schoolers too.'

The Foundation...they waited there with Kusakabe for a bit. He is also equipped with his own boxes that Mai bought for everybody and he is a Rain type like Yamamoto too.

'Kusakabe-san.' Chrome greeted as Kusakabe also stood still.

'Kyo-san will be back soon.' said Kusakabe. 'He just went out to destroy a horde of Black Spell and White Spell that attacked us just now.'

'How and why?!' Mai gasped out, startled by this revelation. 'Aren't we all hidden?!'

'Erm, about that...' Chrome stammered out. 'When I came to this world, I appeared in Kokuyo Land.' she said. 'Its in utter ruins worse than what we know...I'd know since we always clean once a month.' she admitted. But this world's Kokuyo wasn't furnished at all. Its bare. 'And I fought a Millefiore Captain though I didn't know that...thanks to everyone's training, I pulled through...then I called for Mukuro-sama when I checked my bag and found a glowing thing and I had no idea what to do with it.' she explained. 'He then said its a transmitter and he'd tell Hibari-san...who'll then tell Sasagawa-san about it who's near my area. I then got instructed to bring it back with me and give it to Hibari-san although I never thought they'd use it this way.'

'Ah...so that dude's transmitter is weaponized by us then and Vongola just turned the tables this way. It also makes it easier for us infiltrators to decimate everyone else before going in. That way, less trouble in the underground base for us.' Mai mused thoughtfully. Soon, Hibari was back, unscathed.

'Kyo-san, we're all ready here.' said Kusakabe in a reportive voice.

'Good.' said Hibari. 'Dokuro will be concealing us from surveillance cameras and systems until we're deep into the base.' he instructed Chrome as she took out a box and summoned Mismagius. 'Let's go.' and they departed as well. They used a different hatch in the subway.

However...

'Nogami, I want you to cause Brain Death to other idiots, but leave any B or A-Classes alive.' Hibari instructed to many disbeliefs. 'I'll handle them myself.' Kusakabe squawked in comical horror. 'Kusakabe will handle the blueprint guide.'

"You just want to fight them!"

'Alright.' said Tsuna as she activated her Bio-Radar. 'Er, these two guys is a bit into the shopping mall where the others are. There are none in her area so we can proceed with a pile of bodies.' Hibari just grunted. And so, they went on but Chrome could not conceal them from flame users...

'I-Pin-chan this is your show.' Mai told I-Pin. 'All of us are seasoned but you could use a little battle experience with your boxes.' Mai instructed as I-Pin stepped forward.

'Aye!' I-Pin got ready to fight.

'You're making a child fight us?! Ridiculous!' one of the Black Spell sneered as I-Pin activated Hitmonlee since Tyrogue is a no-go right now.

'What the hell is THAT?!'

'Let's go, Hitmonlee!' I-Pin cried as the two martial artists set to work, beating up the Black and White Spell members with no injury on I-Pin's part.

'...it seems to me they rely more on tools and boxes than their own actual fighting abilities.' Hibari mused thoughtfully.

'Yeah...maybe its the Captains or Vice-Captains who are an actual challenge.' Kusakabe commented as I-Pin is soon done, with Mai causing Brain Death afterwards.

'Gokuro.' Hibari praised as I-Pin blushed. 'Are you used to it now?'

'Aye!'

'Good. Let's go.' and they continued running, occasionally only stopping over to make I-Pin fight, only stepping in when necessary. And to get to next rooms, they had to go through vents and hatches...that has security. Kusakabe who's in the lead disables the laser beams and they had to crawl in seconds quickly, and in attacking lasers, Pichu who's walking with him in front goes to disable it by causing temporary malfunction until they go by.

It was how they were getting around so far...unaware of the trouble the first party is in.

xxx

After Dendro Chilum, Tsuna's group encounter's Ginger Bread, a Magician's Doll as stated by Lal Mirch.

Tsuna's solution?

Yamamoto to stealthily fill him with Rain Flames and activate it when given the signal while Ginger Bread was gloating on how Colonello and Viper were killed while they were within Sun Flame webs. Then Tsuna had him activate it.

'Wha-?!' Gokudera and Ryohei gasped as Ginger Bread erupted in Rain Flames before shattering to pieces.

'This is why he's called a Doll.' Lal gasped out as Ginger Bread is in fact, a Hollow puppet. 'Until now, nobody's been able to get this close enough to finish him off. He's known as the Ominous Hitman.' she expositioned. 'Over the last few years he appears when there is a big conflict in families and then he brings about their downfall.'

'Scary...' Tsuna gulped.

'He's like a fairy.' Ryohei scowled as Yamamoto chuckled.

'Don't you mean monster?'

'Either way I just don't wanna see him ever again.' Gokudera scowled.

'But what moved him?' Tsuna stammered out. 'He can even talk and fight! Gokudera-kun, destroy all eggs in Lal's body!' he instructed. 'Oniisan please give her an egg after Gokudera-kun is done. She's in no condition to get her own supply.'

'Right-O.' Ryohei took out an egg from his pouch, ready to give it for Lal to eat after Gokudera was done.

'Yosh! All those eggs are gone!' Gokudera grinned. 'Hurry and eat the egg before you bleed in there, puncture wounds caused by injecting the eggs are all over the place!' At that, Lal quickly took an egg and quickly chewed and swallowed it, her injuries disappearing.

"They even got Ginger on their side...just what the hell do they have?" Lal thought darkly. 'At any rate, we were able to finish him off without tripping alarms. This is a miracle already and luxuries like this don't often come conveniently.' she said as she shakily got up.

'...every three hours for an egg...so oniisan will handle the rest by himself if she gets hurt within that time out. If Cellular Degradation occurs instead of Healing, Yamamoto neutralize it.' Tsuna mused softly. 'Let's go.' and they ran on ahead.

"Miracles huh..." Lal thought. "Is it because they're kids that they can really think of things we wouldn't normally do?" she thought as she glanced at Tsuna. "I guess this is our weakness. We're...limited. These kids just might be able to do the impossible.' However, the alarms rang. 'Y-yabe!'

'When we got rid of him, he must be connected to the alarms, that freak!' Gokudera gasped out in horrified realization.

'Lal-san, the stealth ring again!' Tsuna cried.

'I'm doing it! For now we're OK! Let's just get out of this hallway!' Lal grunted. 'At any rate, we're close! We can't get caught now!'

'The Surveillance Systems...if we get to it, Hibari-san and the others can go crazy and so can we! Then this job is as good as ours!' Tsuna chirped optimistically. 'Gokudera-kun, when we get there, go wild!'

'Ussu!' Gokudera grinned, smacking his fists and palm together. 'I'll turn all their supercomputers to ashes, just you wait!'

'Yosh. While you're at it, Yamamoto will protect us with a barrier so we won't accidentally get hurt.' said Tsuna. 'After all, you're our Storm the Destroyer.'

'Just like in Video Games eh?' Yamamoto grinned. 'I started playing recently and we make quite the team given what we got!'

"This Sawada is different from my Sawada." Ryohei thought while glancing at Tsuna. "Tsuna, he...he would avoid conflict and go for less troublesome ways to do the job as long as we get out of it successful and with little to no harm. This one is eager for action as long as success is assured and he knows what to do with any situation and leading at the front. Maybe its because they're kids while my Sawada is stuck behind the desk unable to lead in battle unless truly needed." he thought fondly as his boss is often swarmed with paperwork and Reborn keeping him in shape afterward until this fiasco but due to being boss, out of all of them, he was the least experienced fighter, even less than Lambo and Chrome as a result and they all knew why he was killed so easily that they blamed his job out of grief no matter what tutoring Reborn did. Experience still makes the difference. 'Sawada...you seem really into your game.' he commented thoughtfully.

'I have to be...I promised that no matter what happens, all of us will go home together no matter what. Nobody will die and get left behind!' Tsuna swore. 'We all have a place and people to go back to after all. If we die here, who knows what will happen to our world too and we really don't want to find out the hard way. Nevermind us, I'm more worried about Kyoko-chan and Haru. They're civilians, not Mafia!'

'Yeah, I agree with that...in every world, there's one of us in it.' said Gokudera. 'If we die in the wrong world, who knows what could happen!'

'That's a scary thought so yeah...we better win and live for it to be a real home run.' Yamamoto agreed.

xxx

Meanwhile, in the Control Room...Ginger Bread has informed the Control Room that they have rats onboard...and there they are. They are seen, unaware of another hidden camera so Lal could not use the Deception Filters on it.

'What is...this? Why are...they here?! Vongola?!' Irie Shoichi, the targeted man and 2nd Squad Captain asked his Cervello Retinue when the alarms rang. 'And where is that place?!' he demanded.

'Its the 8th Underground Floor.' said Twin 1. Irie looked horrified.

'Isn't that where our Surveillance Systems are?!' he sputtered out. 'Go and send all available C-Rank and whoever's available there right now!'

'Understood.' Twin 1 left to send orders and Irie turned to Twin 2. 'What of the status of Vongola Base? Still no news from the Assault Unit?'

'Negative. We could not establish a connection due to the electromagnetic wave interference. We could not make contact with them.'

"We've lost contact with the Assault Unit aimed at the Vongola Base...and now the Vongola Tenth and his Guardians have infiltrated the Merone Base on top of that..." he then pursed his lips. 'We've been had.' he swore as Twin 2 balked. 'The electro-magnetic interference was not caused by the destruction of the electric generators at Vongola's Hideout, it was all a part of their plan.' he said, leaning onto the control panels.

'What would you have us do?'

'Let's see...for starters, turn off that noisy alarm and send a recon team to the enemy's hideout.' he said as the Cervello gave the order. 'The real battle starts now. If their target is what I think it is, they'll head here. But still...why couldn't we detect them until now?' he wondered aloud. 'Why didn't our cameras see anything?'

/That's because there's Deception Filters on the cameras./ Iris Hepburn spoke as she contacted the Control Room. /Hi~, commander./ she greeted. /This filter was responsible for them not displaying anything out of the ordinary./ she explained, holding up a small square frame linked to the gadget.

'When did they?!'

/Well, had they used a Stealth Ring, it wouldn't have been impossible to set these up./ Iris chuckled. Irie twitched.

'Iris, were you aware of the display on the monitors?'

/No./ Iris shrugged casually. /I just stumbled on the weird monitor display earlier./

'Weird...monitor display?' Irie asked apprehensively.

/When the hangar shook earlier, part of the image on the screen was fragmented./ Iris reported. Apparently Lal didn't place it properly in a hurry. /It bothered me so I went to check on it but when I did, its already too late./ she said as behind her is a very-tied-up Dendro Chilum.

'T-That's Dendro Chilum!' Irie turned to Twin 2. 'What's the meaning of this?!'

'I'm sorry Irie-sama.' she apologized. 'Although we confirmed the tremor in the hangar, I thought it was not necessary to report.'

/It looks like a compound of blunders isn't it?/ said Iris wryly causing Irie to seeth.

'Something like that...'

/Although I doubt I'm the only one to notice this anomaly./ Iris continued smugly. /I'm sure Ginger and that turban head also did.../ she said when the communications got shut. /Huh?/

The monitors turned off.

'The Surveillance System's servers have been destroyed. The system is down.' said Twin 2.

'What?!'

xxx

Down below...

'Phew...' Gokudera whistled as a cacophony of explosions occurred due to the flames. 'Music to my ears.'

'Let it keep burning.' Tsuna smiled. 'It won't be easy to put off with the amount of purity put into it unless they have competent Rains onboard.' he said. Gokudera worked with Charizard, Flareon and Crawdaunt to end the job faster until the pokemon ran out of power. 'Let's go to the main installation next.'

'Right!' and they ran off with Lal in the lead.

xxx

'What are you guys doing? What of the agents I want sent?' Irie demanded.

'...due to the assault on the Vongola Hideout, there are hardly any C-Rank Members or higher left.' Twin 2 reported.

'I know that! Is there anyone nearby?!' Irie cried in frustration.

'Spanner of Rank B's Black Spell is carrying out Maintenance Work in the 9th floor.' said a CIC Member.

'Spanner, he's around?' Irie gasped in relief. 'We're in luck! Can we contact him with his personal communicator?' he asked hopefully.

'Yes.'

'Connect him.'

'Yes.'