We are all doomed...
My mid sem holiday is coming so I present you a chapter~ Furthermore, today is my sister's birthday!🎂
Btw, the picture is Baili Shouyue(百里守约）from wang zhe rong yao（王者荣耀）. Hot right😍. He is one of the heroes that I like to use in matches.
Getting deadpan looks from two kids was not how Clint has wanted to start the day. Then again, having them traumatise him on a mission is not how he would have liked to spend the week...
"He's not our sky." Mukuro stated while rolling his eyes. "We're not even his elements, Tony is."
Chrome nodded in agreement, "En."
Clint felt like he needed to get a masters degree in psychiatrist if he was to understand their metaphors. Then again, SHIELD has some but most did not have the clearance for this kind of information- namely, reincarnation.
The creepier one of the two abruptly smirked, a whole cascade of subtle emotions flashing in his eyes for a brief second. "You want us to locate Byakuran's hideout...?" he drawled.
Clint feels that something amusing will be happening. Not for him unfortunately, he feels that he himself would be the one amusing them. He did not look forward to what they have in store for him. He even felt that today's 'babysitting' duty was not worth the extra holiday that Fury had promised. All he wanted was to make it to the end of the week... and today was only the second day!
Clint now know why Shoichi had reacted as if he had seen a ghost when they brought those two- what did he call them? Mist? Clint wonders why they are called according to their flames. Is it like their title or something? He made a memo to ask the fumbling mechanic next time.
(Author-chan: Shoichi did not remember who belongs to which sky... yet.)
As Clint was sympathizing with Irie, Mukuro jumped down from the bar chair he was sitting on and headed towards who-knows-where. Clint pretended to another direction instead of following them blatantly.
Just as the lift had shut it's doors, Clint sprinted to it. Inwardly hoping that the two are headed to their own rooms. Just to save him some trouble. He did not want them going haywire somewhere unknown and cause his supposedly peaceful job to turn into chaos.
A ding sounded, startling him from his reverie. Looking at the floor they were on, he knew just where they were headed- Tony's lab.
This was odd... usually their schedule included eat, sleep, play games and the like, but never Tony's lab. Or at least, that's what he heard from Natasha, who made it her duty to watch them like a hawk for the first two days. Nobody wanted that babysitting duty after what happen at the now dubbed, Mad Carnage. So Natasha had to step up to that job before the duty roster was set up.
Nothing out of the ordinary was reported on her shift... lucky her.
He instead, had his intuition telling him that he would be murdered today. Well maybe not murdered, but something at the same level as that.
Anyway, to make the selection fair, they had asked Jarvis to do the random selection of 'babysitting' shifts. Despite being suspicious that Tony would tamper with the results, the slots told otherwise- Tony is in charge of this nuthouse after him.
As always, he took the air vents down. Luckily, he had a shortcut to the lab, or else he would have to travel a distance to reach it.
He caught up to them just as they stopped in front of the entrance of said lab, FRIDAY kindly informed them, "I'm sorry, but boss had barred anyone from entering."
The twins did not turn back, instead Chrome asked, "Kikyo you in?"
Kikyo? Did Tony made a new AI? What did the alphabets represent this time? King of Intelligence Today? That's definitely not it... Even Thor wouldn't snoop this low in naming sense. Moreover, he never knew that Tony knew Japanese!
"Ha-han, who do I owe the pleasure of having the infamous twin mists here today~" Clint was startled by the flirtatious voice coming from the sound system.
Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. Tony absolute do not build AIs with that kind of style. He prefers a tone which sounds polite and intelligent, with a hint of sarcasm.
Wait, Kikyo seems to fit all these requirements... but something seems off! Way off! He just couldn't put a finger on it.
Mukuro took no notice of Clint's internal dilemma (because he couldn't, not when Clint is in the shaft). Well actually, it would be much more accurate to say he bluntly ignored it (yes, Mukuro knew Clint was tailing them). He had other plans to focus on. "Is the elevator usable?" Mukuro asks, regardless of the fact that 90% if the time, the elevator will certainly be there.
Clint was confused. I don't remember having two elevators here? He pushes that thought aside though, regarding it as an alternative escape route that Tony had made and went back to scrutinizing the new AI named KIKYO.
He really should have payed attention to the elevator part...
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"Of course~" Kikyo replied.
With his words the doors opened and the mist ring holders strides in. Clint quickly slipped in through the cracks last minute, but not before activating the newly created stealth technology, which helped him to become invisible.
He should have really think twice before going through with such reckless action...
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How... Just... how did this happen?
He just arrived at the presumably, Tony's other lab (or at least, that's what he thought), and have not even looked around for 10 seconds before he got sludge all over him. Worse of all the mists were looking calmly like they knew he was following them all along! In the first place, where the hell is this!!! He doesn't remember SHIELD having this kind of base!?
He doubts Tony could have made a place like this without SHIELD knowing. Furthermore, this does not fit Tony's style. I mean like hospital style white!? Not off white, but those shining pure white that you would see some blue hues in it. Despite not knowing Tony that well, Clint at the very least, knows that Tony does not do pure white. No sir, he does not. He likes those colour that basically scream 'I am here and unless you are blind you would definitely see me!'. Like red and gold. Not bright orange, definitely not orange. Tony runs at the sight of an orange T-shirt while yelling, "This is an absolute fashion disaster!".
Clint has to agree with Tony on that though, orange is a hard colour to mix and match.
"Welcome to my base! I hope you enjoy your stay here~" A chirpy voice sounded from the sounds systems. It sounded very familiar... Very familiar...
Wait... No. It can't be! Oh no. No. Definitely no. Definitely absolutely no! Shit! What did he get himself into!? Clint felt like crying.
"Well? What do you think of my base?!" The now identified speaker, Byakuran showed off happily, as if Clint was not having a panic attack.
"You... You!" Clint could not think anything to say. The only thing he could think of is to report it to Fury as soon as possible.
Trying to keep his sanity afloat, Clint tried to shift his attention to somewhere else. His first thought was, where is Tony!!!
As if knowing what he would what he would say, Byakuran stated in a matter of fact manner, "He is training to control his flames." As for what Byakuran gave Tony to do for his training... Well... All we can say is that it is full of explosions and screaming.
He really have to thank a certain tutor for giving him such brilliant and amusing idea under the guise of 'training'.
Omake
"...so you are saying you found the unknown Byakuran's hideout?"
"Yes."
"But you are unable to say where the entrance is?"
"No, sir."
"Because he said that if you did, we'd be facing not only the mastermind behind the New York alien invasion, but also him as well?"
"Yes, sir..."
"...on a scale of 1 to 10, how bad news is his base?"
"An irrefutable 10, sir..."
Fury really wanted to yell at someone right now...
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