Any comments given on the way to their destination was met with little more than nods as Tsusho was obviously becoming more focused the closer they were. He knew that moving at this pace would put them behind the support team, already having alerted them as such, not even as much as responding to the sly remark given after he moved back to his own team. This was likely the most serious any of these shinobi, including those that had seen him a few times, were likely aware of, as they had never followed him into battle or on missions. This was a side of Tsusho that rarely came out from the otherwise happy-go-lucky guy with that large smile plastered across his face.
He personally had no sensory abilities to speak of, having to rely on anyone else that might have, but it didn't take sensing chakra to get a good idea of what they were walking into once they were close enough to hear and see. His immediate thought was to move over and try and relieve the support squad, but he had to trust them, they were shinobi just the same, and they had their job to do as well. Without speaking now, Tsusho made sure he was moving in front of everyone, but then made a motion to stop, letting everyone for no more than a full minute catch their breath as he prepared for battle himself.
Pulling the large pack from his back he dropped it down and opened the large lid at the top, from it he pulled out a large scroll, quickly unraveling it across the ground as he slammed his hand down, using the puppet summoning technique. A large puff of smoke heralded two fairly large metal tarantula shaped puppets, big enough that either one would have had some trouble moving into the tunnel opening, but together would have been near impossible. Wrapping the scroll back he put it back into the large holster of the pack, putting a hand on the rather large scroll inside as he narrowed his eyes looking at the tunnel opening, then reaching for the third medium scroll inside.
"If you need any last minute preparations, do it now. Do it quickly."
As he spoke, he pulled out the scroll and unraveled it much like the larger one before, once more dropping his palm down upon the scroll and using the puppet summoning technique, creating a similar puff of smoke, but now four puppets appeared. These were near identical to the two larger once, but far smaller, just about reaching Tsusho's own height. the inert puppets sat unmoving as Tsusho stored the scroll, grabbed the pack, and threw it onto his back once more. It wasn't the most chakra he had ever spent at once, but he thought that it was better to summoning these guys now than try in the midst of a fight.
With his arms raising, chakra strings shot out from his fingers, connecting and bringing to life the metal puppets, essentially doubling the physical bodies in the advancing squad. Looking back at everyone, he had the spiders spread out, the two larges directly in front having the Romu leading them, with two of the Nemu flanking on either side, then the last two falling back to make sure to the side of the group to cover all of their flank entirely. Without moving the puppets he reached into a pocket on the front of his vest and pulled out three prepared sealing tags, walking to two of the puppets of the left first. The front had a tag slapped on the underside marked with "Buddha". The one behind it stuck to the underside as well had the marking for "Dharma". The last puppet, front on the far right had the sealing tag stuck to it's underside with the mark of "Sangha". Rolling his neck he walked back in front of the group, behind the two large metal spiders, flexing and cracking his fingers as the puppets moved around a bit, a few metallic creaks here and there.
"You all know your jobs, don't engage until I engage. If you spot something out of the ordinary, call it out."
Moving forward, he motioned for the group to follow, and as they started, he moved his arms up and the puppets spread out suddenly in a different formation. The two that were in front fell back flanking either side, the one puppet he didn't attach a tag to jumped back and was now following, causing Tsusho to raise his arms up his in the air, and the three that were tagged spread out in front of them.
"If you see me move these three puppets in any formation of a triangle, get the hell back fast and don't get near them."
He'd slowly move the group towards the entrance of the mine, formulating a plan in his mind as they moved ever closer, spotting eyes from the darkness, moving his three puppets up a bit further, keeping the three near one-hundred yards ahead.