Bop and the two reached Mussolini's headquarters.
When they arrived, two large Gorgog's met up with them. Bop instinctively feared their large physiques but instead of getting beaten up, they bowed to Tony instead.
"Caps (Captain)" "Wellcome back sir" The two Gorgrog said respectfully to the trio.
"Good work you two" Tony encouraged the two lesser ranked Gorgrog as he patted their soldiers, which was the exact opposite of how Bop imagined someone from a criminal syndicate like the Mafia would act.
Tony noticed Bop's inquisitive eyes and said: "Those two kids are still new, gotta lookout for the lil' ones"
Bop thought Tony's words had a darker and crueler meaning he didn't know of that was probably Gorgrog Mafioso slang, and so, to be "in" with the "cool guys" Bop made a cruel face as he looked at Tony. With a fierce face he said:
"Yeah, I catch your drift" Bop smiled trying to make himself look evil which slightly creeped out the big lug, Tony.
[Yeesh! With that creepy face, this guy's got at least a few screw loose here and there. Maybe he did survive a beating from Mei... Gotta tell the kids not to mess with this one. Thank god I didn't challenge him earlier!] Tony's misunderstanding of Bop started.
After the trio lugged their baggage onto the floor a Gorgrog on the same rank as Tony spoke to them: "Hey Tony, the Boss said he wanted to meet with Marcus' new lackey"
"M-me?" Bop asked.
"Yeah you" The Gorgrog said.
Bop looked on to Tony for company while he meets with the scary Mafia Boss but sadly Tony was currently preoccupied with the two Gorgrog they met in the gate.
Then Bop beggingly looked onto Meiyu next, but sadly she mistook his look for that of a different meaning.
"W-Why are you staring at me like that? I-I'm gonna go look around the place"
"Madam Xialiyu! I didn't know you came along wit Tony, feel free to look around ma'am" The Gorgrog said.
Meiyu blushed red from Bop's "intense" (Scared) and "Longing" (Crying) stares as she hurried off to somewhere.
[C-coward! If you're too scared to meet the Boss you could've just told me!] Bop cried out inside his head, completely misunderstanding Meiyu's intentions.
As Bop walked deeper into the Mussolini headquarters, many sights boggled him.
[W-what's this! A young boy being given cigarettes?! The Mafia is truly evil!] Bop cried in his head when he saw a young Gorgrog being forced to smoke by an elderly Mafia member... or not.
[It was a Hyperpop!] Bop realized the old man was kindly rewarding the kid a lollipop...
[Kuk-ka! Drunk this time of the day?! Mobsters really are scary...] Bop cried once again when he saw a group of men acting brashly towards each other while holding liquor and dangerously rave dancing... or not...
[Apple juice?!]
Again Bop misunderstood the circumstances again as it just a group of men acting out as they drank apple juice.
[I see... they were just stupid] ... It looks like that was how the Gorgrogs normally acted.
Bop was starting to think he was at a daycare center instead of a Mafioso headquarters as the place was surprisingly filled with kids.
But all of Bop's suspicions when were instantly killed as Bop saw the Mafia Boss himself.
A big scar on his left chin, a healthy plump muscular body, a cigar in his mouth, and wearing the stereotypical Mobster Boss outfit gave the man in front of Bop a threatening aura as the Gorgrog behind Bop closed the door leaving only Bop and the big boss man alone in the room.
"Ah, you must be Bop, sit down" The Boss gestured Bop to sit down as Bop willingly obliged... out of fear of course.
"Hello, the name's Mussolini, nice ta meet ya Bop" The big boss man amicably said with the Gorgrog's trademark mobster accent.
"Y-Yes, n-nice to m-meet you t-too, M-Mozzarella sir!" Bop blurted out in fear. But then he realized he had just realized the fatal mistake he had as he coweringly looked at the Mob Boss' facial expression.
The Mob Boss stared at Bop with a serious face, but then the serious face suddenly cracked into a subdued smile that made the Mob Boss' face weirdly funny looking.
But the Mob Boss could hold it down no longer as he burst into laughter like a mad man who had just heard the funniest joke in the universe.
"M-Mozzarella! Mozzarella! AHAHAHAHAHAHA, Mozzarella! I love it! AAAAAHHAHAHAHA!"
After a while of laughing Mozzarella, I mean Mussolini finally calmed down as he said:
"Ahhh, sorry bout' that shameful display... Been a while since I had a good laugh" Mussolini sighed as he calmed down. Bop noticed a slightly sad look in the man's eyes when he said it's been a long time since he had laughed like that.
"I like you, you're an honest guy, I can see that. And I see you've started working under Marcus, good for you. He's one of the good guys that one... Although a bit corrupt, and a little too touchy too. But still one of the good guys..." Mussolini said as he remembered some of Marcus' gay antics.
"You know, sometimes corruption ain't something you can avoid ya know, especially in politics with all that HPG corruption and redtape goin' on... But Marcus, he ain't like those other guys who steal for themselves.
No, he does it to make a change...
I respect that... So I hope you stick around with him you know. Not many allies stay with ya if you don't pay them up... Load o' bastards" *Sigh* Mussolini sighed as he looked out the window.
"Here ya go, a lil' somthin', for your troubles... And if your free, maybe do some jobs for me too. Lots more where that came from" Mussolini thew bop a small pouch with some coins inside.
*Tringgg* Bop's eyes shined when he saw the money that was handed to him. This was the most money he had ever held... Actually now that Bop thought about it, he never really held money before as new found greed started to seep inside Bop.
"Yes, Boss! I'll do any of that sweet sweet work, Mafia work, Janitor work, you name it! I'm your man!" Bop excitedly advertised himself.
"Hahaha, that's the spirit!... Although, we aren't exactly a Mafia though, and don't shout that out as the kids might misunderstand!" Mussolini corrected.
"I don't know where the misunderstandin' started but after we started an orphanage for lil' Gorgrogs and made the Mussolini's Family Orphanage, people suddenly thought we were gangstas!"
[It's obviously the name!] Bop shouted in his head.
"5 gangs even attacked us! They were real scary! Me and my boys had no choice but to snuff them all out of their territory... Now our men are pretty spread thin" Mussolini sighed at his burden.
[You took out 5 gangs?! You're the scary ones!!! And now you have territory?! You're obviously already gangsters!] Bop retorted at the oblivious Mob Boss-thinks he's not Mob Boss inside his mind.
"Well look at the bright side Soli, the happy townsfolk in those territories suddenly started givin' us relief funds for our cause, can ya believe that! Truly people shine when their hearts speak louder than their pockets..." Mussolini solemnly encouraged himself as he told the story to Bop.
[They obviously think you're the new bosses now!] Bop wanted to cry out, but then he thought: [Ehhh whatever... I mean the townsfolk are safer now I guess. And they do seem happy...] Bop remembered the people who gathered around Marcus during his campaigning, fanatically shouting Marcus' name who was endorsed by the Mussolinis.
"T-then what's with the Mobster Boss outfit?" Bop who was now a little bit comfortable with Mussolini or Soli for short asked.
"What mobster outfit? This is the Silver Fedora's costume! I loved him as a kid and thought since I'm runnin' an orphanage why not wear it? It'll be good for the lil kids to have a superhero they could look up to like I did... Annnd it is kinda cool..." Mussolini smiled at his own childish thoughts.
"As a young child in a gangsta infested street, I always hated those so-called mobsters. Pretendin' to be all tough, but in truth, they're all cowards! You think kidnapping women and children and forcing the elderly to give ya their money's cool? I always liked how the Fedora dealt with them... this is why I always tell the kids that all them stupid gangstas are all truly just dumb cowards" Mussolini narrated with a voice filled with raging justice.
[So many confused kids...] Bop thought as he lamented how Mussolini unknowingly became the very thing he wanted to destroy and how confused the kids must've been at the sight of a gangster boss calling his own profession stupid...