[X] Action Plan: Armageddon Initiative (Atheist Edition)
@Sir Stompy Given the importance of Hazou during infusing rune blanks, it's extremely likely that each set of Hazou SCs will have bodyguards to protect him,
likely including the group sent in to tunnel underground with the Superchiller blank. I'm struggling to figure out how to thread the needle between "Hazou needs to infuse the Superchiller before the fight starts so he can use it if it goes poorly" and "Hazou needs to keep Superchillers secret from people".
One tunnel clone spends 30 minutes infusing the force dome, the other spends <10 minutes digging straight up, 10 minutes infusing Iron Earth, 10 minutes infusing Superchiller, remainder saying to bodyguards:
"Whoops. Tha~at's not good. Don't panic, I've seen this before. Outside world should be fine, provided this cave stays shut airtight for at least a week, and nobody..."
...or similar, timed to cut off mid-sentence as the force dome deploys and shadow clones get popped by freezing. If the battle goes so badly that it becomes necessary to flood the entire interior of the force dome with LOX, use RER shots to make a crater deep enough to expose the superchiller's AoE. As a bonus, also makes it that much less likely Akatsuki will be able to directly observe, much less capture, intact Iron Earth or Force Dome runes.
When Oro inevitably asks what that particular rune was
intended to do, tell him orders from the Hokage specifically prohibit discussing it. He already suspects we were holding something back, this will get him bugging Naruto about it instead - who, as it happens, legitimately
has no relevant information to give and will presumably take it as some sort of political play, which he needs to respond to with political skills of his own, which will hopefully frustrate Oro enough that something else will come up to distract him from further follow-up.
