They all fell silent after that, each of them trying to think of something to catch the robots by surprise.
"My Mosca is still over there." Eventually said Spanner.
"You can check if it's fine after we deal with the fucking robots trying to murder us!" Dismissed Hayato angrily. Why couldn't civilians get their priorities right, for fuck's sake?
"What I mean," Spanner whispered patiently. "Is that it could be the distraction you're looking for." All four members of Caeruleus looked at him in interest from where they were taking cover, so he kept talking. "My Mosca has a voice recognition system. It's not yet very elaborate yet, but it can understand a few prerecorded commands, like 'Shoot down the enemies'. It will shoot at anyone it doesn't recognize until it is manually turned off, or any threat is down, which means you will be targeted as well, but it should be enough to take the attention of the robots off you for a couple seconds." He shrugged. "I just though this was something that we could use."
Some part of Tsuna really wanted to know why such an order was among the few recorded ones, and why there was no vocal order to make it stop. A much larger part of him didn't want to know, so he let it go and quickly planned their attack with Shoichi, Hayato and Byakuran. Spanner was no fighter, and unlike Shoichi, he didn't even have some basics or a weapon, so he would remain hidden and only order his Mosca from afar.
The smokescreen was already pretty much gone by then, so they promptly put more space between each other, to have some room to dodge any bullets, and Tsuna waved at Spanner to begin. "Mosca, shoot down the enemies!" Shouted the blond.
Immediately, the crate fell open, gunfire was heard near the bus and the members of Caeruleus finally saw what Spanner's personal death robot looked like. Its head looked like some kind of gas mask, and was placed on a bulky, almost round body covered by black cloth and a few scraps of metal to keep the cloth down. Instead of legs, it moved with what strongly reminded Tsuna of 'tank wheels', and two stubby arms that ended with guns instead of hand were aimed at the enemy robots.
Said enemy robots turned around to get rid of the new threat (although its bullets were unfortunately not able to pierce through their defenses, it still did its job of attracting their attention), and Tsuna rushed ahead and called his Flames. He immediately fell in Hyper Dying Mode, as Fon had called it (he still though the name sounded really stupid) and targeted the head of the closest robot.
Thanks to the Mosca's distraction, he managed to reach it and with the help of his Sky Flames to enhance his punch and to melt the metal, he neatly decapitated the first enemy who fell lifelessly and didn't get up. One to go, three more left.
The three remaining robots at once decided that he was a greater threat than the Mosca who had not managed to harm them, and turned to face him, as did Spanner's invention, who didn't recognize the brunet as an ally.
But that had been planned, and this was the moment Hayato and Byakuran entered the fray. The youngest threw explosive after explosive at the most isolated enemy. His Flame-enhanced dynamite didn't do much against the thing, who had evidently been built to resist explosions, but it still managed to dent and bump its protective armor. As a result it switched targets to the silveret, who kept attacking and dodging. Hayato was more suited for taking down large amount of relatively weak opponents, not single, powerful ones, so it had been decided that his job would be to keep one busy until Tsuna or Byakuran could take care of it.
Meanwhile, Byakuran was facing off against another killer robot. Tsuna and the others had only vaguely seen what the older teen could do, since he only rarely participated in their training sessions, but they had seen enough to know that he was a powerful and skilled fighter. Indeed, the white-haired boy was managing to keep up with his opponent, while evading its bullets and the Mosca's. He himself was shooting some Sky Flames -which were white for some reason, but clearly felt 'Sky-like'- at the robot. He was making some progress, but most of his attacks needed him to focus and charge them to be at their most efficient, and he couldn't find the time to concentrate to build them up while dodging bullets and sword swipes from all sides. Unlike Tsuna, he was not a physical fighter and relied almost solely on his Flames, in fact, he didn't even have any kind of weapon.
Chapter 24: That doesn't have public transportation
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