A/N Hey everyone. This is a new story I just had the idea for a few days ago after finishing the Toaru Majutsu no Index: Miracle of Endymion movie. I've finished all four shows and the movie now, and decided to write this story starting right after the movie finished. Anyway, hope you enjoy the new story! Let me know what you think in a review below!
Disclaimer: I do not own the Toaru series: Index nor Railgun.
Chapter 1:
Misaka Mikoto stood on a near empty street in the middle of the night. It was far past curfew, but her headmistress's rants were the farthest thing from her mind at the moment. It was almost midnight, so the road was empty except for her, and for the cloaked man thirty feet ahead of her.
"What are you doing?" Mikoto shouted. She was panting lightly but she closed her mouth and grit her teeth hard. "Why did you attack me?" She questioned, pointing a finger at him and giving her most threatening glare to dare him into trying something.
The figure in the center of the street stood to the right of a dark alleyway, the same one he shot out of a few moments ago. He had a deep frown on his shadowed face, only the bottom half of which Mikoto could see because of the hood he had up shadowing the top half including his eyes. His hood was a deep blue like the rest of the cloak, so dark some would call it black. The way Mikoto could instantly tell it was not black however, was that there was a pitch black hilt as dark as the night sky resting in this man's right hand.
"Misaka Mikoto," the figure, a man telling from his deep voice, began. He spoke in Japanese but Mikoto heard an accent and narrowed her eyes at him further as she tried pinpointing where he was from. "You move as quickly as I have been told. Perfetto."
An Italian? She thought, recognizing the accent now. She kept her right hand raised but sparks started flying off of it and little bolts of lightning dropped from her fingers to the floor. This action made the man before her frown even deeper and Mikoto thought she had him intimidated so in a commanding tone she shouted, "Tell me what you want right now, or-"
The man vanished. Mikoto's eyes opened huge as he was suddenly right in front of her. Fast! She thought as he brought his sword around. Her lightning sparked on that side though and the silver blade sticking out of the man's hilt filled with electricity. He winced and Mikoto took that moment to focus a larger amount of electricity on that side. As everything started to glow though, the figure leapt backwards while still managing to hold onto his static-filled sword.
"Impressive," he remarked from the edge of the road and Mikoto spun farther as she had not seen where he ended up yet. She had another bead of sweat coming down the left side of her face now and she was getting pissed off as well as nervous. Her teeth clenched while the man looked down at his sword, muttering, "Even though my hilt is coated in rubber," he looked back up and his hood rose a little this time so he was looking straight into Mikoto's eyes and she back into his. "You are worthy of learning the name of the one who will kill you."
Kill me? "Why?!" Mikoto shouted at the man on the side of the road. He started circling her but she stayed in place with lightning sparking in a circle around her for protection. He walked back to the place he was before and Mikoto called out, "Your hilt is rubber so that means you planned on attacking me from the start. This is a premeditated attack, but I don't even know who you are!"
The man she faced reached his hands up and grabbed his hood. He lowered it off the top of his head and Mikoto's eyes widened more at the sight of the clean shaven, shiny scalp of the man she was fighting. His skin was white, but on top of his skull there was a tattoo, a tattoo of two thick black lines that crossed each other to look like a lowercase 't.' "In Italia I am known only as 'Assassino.'" He said this to Mikoto and then rose back up the katana in both hands so it was on his right side with the blade pointed straight at her. He did not answer Mikoto's questions, though now she only had more as the man calling himself an assassin darted forward. "Die!" He yelled. "Railgun of the Kamijou Faction!"
Mikoto swung her arms across her body and two strong bolts of lightning rippled across the floor. They were so much stronger than her last attacks that this time the bolts left scars on the ground beneath her lightning. Black trench marks where the pavement was ripped through appeared under each of Mikoto's lightning bolts as she dragged them around herself, doing three-sixty spins the whole time. Assassino was running around her so fast he was a blur, and she had to keep complete focus on what she was doing or she would lose sight of him.
As much as she wanted to stay focused though, her mind darted elsewhere. Kamijou? What does that idiot have to do with this? Mikoto's eyes shifted up a little and she looked into the distance a couple of streets in the direction she just came from. There was a tall building that she looked straight at and made her furrow her eyebrows.
Assassino saw her look away and in that split second he darted forward. Mikoto's angered expression matched her powers however, and an aura of electricity surrounded her before pulsing out in every direction for ten feet. The Italian man skid to a stop, bent his knees, and jumped backwards fast. A wide bolt of lightning was flying towards him, but he slashed his sharp sword in front of him as he arced through the air, using it as a lightning rod to redirect the electricity away from him. He landed and skid back a few yards further before standing up straight and staring thirty feet away at Misaka Mikoto. Both of them were in the same positions they were in two minutes ago, but now Assassino was the one taking some deep breaths instead of the middle school girl. He did not take many, and he stopped panting as his lips curled up into the first smile Mikoto had seen on his face yet.
Mikoto only glanced down at his face for a moment though before lifting her gaze back above his head. Assassino did not turn around but he spoke as if looking at the same thing she was staring at, "You do not have the freedom to be worrying about Kamijou Touma at a time like this. Besides," the assassin's smirk rose, "Il Capo is already at the hospital. That boy is no longer a problem."
Mikoto's eyes widened and she snapped her gaze down from the hospital to the man before her she was now furious with. He continued without changing his own smug expression, "Kamijou Touma will die tonight."
In the following second, Mikoto felt the urge to sprint right by her opponent and also felt that urge completely vanish. All intentions of beating him quickly to rush to the hospital were quashed as the man in front of her surrounded in a veil of translucent darkness and his smile flattened out. Her face covered in more sweat as she realized that everything up until this moment had merely been a warm-up for this man whose blade's sharpened edge dripped black dots of aura to the floor like blood, her blood. She could imagine it and it put her fully on guard, it made her understand that this person was no ordinary assassin, and it told her that his speed was not the only thing she had to worry about.
Although Mikoto realized all these things in seconds and they kept her from running off recklessly, her fists clenched and she ground her teeth in anger. Why? Why are you always in the center of everything?! Why are there people trying to kill you? She thought and her eyes glanced one final time at the hospital in the distance, the one she had just been returning from. Why, is it always you?
28 Hours Earlier
Mikoto sprinted out of the rumbling building and she dove forward as right when she reached the exit, the roof above it started to collapse. She did a forward roll on the other side of the door and spun to look back as part of the cracked roof came down. Mikoto stared at the falling debris for a second then sighed in relief as the roof did not crack anymore. She rose her gaze and stared at the giant building touching the sky, Good, it's working. The tower isn't falling anymore.
Misaka Mikoto stood up and turned around, only to be met with cheers and applause from the Anti-Skill gathered behind her. Two girls in the crowd started running over, but a third with them who was sitting in a wheelchair sped over three times as fast. Shirai Kuroko teleported out of her wheelchair and into a mid-air dive straight at Mikoto while yelling, "Oneeeesamaaa!"
Mikoto held up her right hand and palmed Kuroko around the face with it. She held the Level 4 teleporter in the air squirming for a second or two before the wheelchair rolled the rest of the way to her and she dropped her roommate down on it. Saten and Uiharu caught up to Kuroko's wheelchair and before the injured girl with pigtails could complain about not being able to hug Mikoto, the two of them started excitedly talking to their friend, the Railgun.
"You did it!" Uiharu exclaimed and clapped her hands over and over.
"And the other two?" Mikoto questioned.
"They came down at the same time," Saten replied. "Anti-Skill got some help apparently, and whoever that third voice was pulled through too."
Mikoto nodded and opened her mouth to continue with another question, but before she could start, everyone stopped what they were doing and snapped their heads up. The sky was a beautiful reddish pink as it was nearing sunset, but there was light seemingly radiating from the top of the space elevator they were all standing at the bottom of. It was not the light that made them all look up though, it was the voice that came along with it.
"What is..." Mikoto whispered, but she stopped as any noise other than the voice seemed disruptive to her. The hum of the girl's voice echoed over Academy City, and everyone stared at the sky wondering who was singing this beautiful song. The sky glowed bright white around the top of the space elevator, and the song almost seemed to match up with the sparkling of the light. They listened for close to a minute before the amazing voice began to fade. Even when it stopped, everyone stayed quiet for a few moments as if waiting for her, whoever she was, to start singing again.
The first one to snap out of it was the female Captain of Anti-Skill. Yomikawa Aiho was worried about what those bright lights high in the sky really meant, and her concerns were confirmed by the radio behind her at the command tent they had set up outside of Endymion, the space elevator. "Hello? Is anyone out there? We need help up here!"
Others spun around to look back at the command tent where Yomikawa picked up the radio and shouted into it, "This is Yomikawa Aiho with Academy City's Anti-Skill. What's the situation up there?"
"Move out of the way, move it!" A deep man's voice came over the radio and replaced the panicky one originally speaking. "Hello, this is Ryan Wilson with the staff for the concert. There's been an explosion up here and the structural integrity of the space station has been compromised. The oxygen level is going down and we're cut off from the space elevator, if it's even still working. I don't know what we're supposed to do in this situation, and Orbit Portal's CEO and the rest of her staff for the opening ceremony are nowhere to be found."
Yomikawa looked up from the radio and around at the rest of the security forces. They had only been fighting Endymion robots down here so they expected Ladylee Tangleroad and Endymion's other top members were up at the top of the space elevator. The men grabbed their weapons tighter, and Yomikawa picked up the radio and put it to her mouth. "Hang on just a little while longer, we're heading up to get you."
"You hear that? We're saved!"
"They're coming to get us!"
The voices on the other side of the radio turned into cheers, and Ryan's voice came back over the device, "Thank you. We'll hold tight. Please, hurry though."
"We will," Yomikawa put the radio down and stepped out of the command tent. "With me," she called out and started jogging for Endymion. "We're going up to rescue the passengers and take the Endymion staff into custody. Our priority task is getting those people out of there."
The woman came to a sudden stop and the thirty people about to follow behind her all stared at what made her do so. A girl with short light-brown hair stood in between Yomikawa and the entrance to Endymion. Mikoto's three friends looked nervously her way from the side and Kuroko whispered loudly at her, "Onee-sama! What are you doing?"
"Misaka Mikoto, what are you doing?" Yomikawa asked, trying not to sound too hostile. Mikoto did not move and Yomikawa's forehead scrunched up in annoyance. "Thank you for your help with the manual termination, but now you need to move out of my-"
"I'm going up with you," Mikoto said. She crossed her arms as Yomikawa opened her mouth to argue and continued loudly over all interruptions, "Without me you'd still be on the other side of the bridge!" Yomikawa narrowed her eyes at the frustrating girl, but then Mikoto continued, "What if there are more of those robots waiting for you in the space station? You might need my help again," many of the Skill-Out started nodding their heads as that made sense, and Mikoto finished, "Like that Ryan guy said, we don't have a lot of time. So let's stop standing around here and go, and don't waste any more time arguing because I'm going and that's final."
Yomikawa growled but began, "Against my better judgement, I will allow you to come with us. Though, try not to go overboard with that power of yours. In space, a single crack in a wall would pull us all into the vacuum of space." All the people who were happy Railgun was going with them suddenly became a lot more nervous, including Mikoto herself. She gulped and nodded her head though, saying that she understood.
"Alright then! Let's not waste any more time!" Yomikawa announced and started running for the Endymion tower. Her men all ran behind her but Mikoto stopped near her friends for a second.
"Be careful Misaka-san," Uiharu whispered with her hands together.
"I'll come with you too," Kuroko began in a proud voice. She started pushing down on the arm rests on either side of her wheelchair to get up. "That way, when you fly into space, I can teleport us both- ahh," she winced in pain and could not stifle a quiet yell of pain.
"Stay here," Mikoto ordered and her other two friends were already putting their hands on Kuroko's shoulders to get her back in her chair. She smiled reassuringly at them all and said, "Don't worry. I'll be right back." Mikoto turned and ran after the group of Skill-Out all heading for the space elevator.
She had a smile on her face for reassuring her friends that she would be okay, but her expression lowered into a concerned one with straight lips and worried eyes as she ran towards Endymion. I don't know how I know, but that idiot is up there. How he got from the hospital there in such a short time, I don't know, but he's there. He probably had something to do with the explosion too. The corners of her straight lips dipped down so she started frowning right as she ran inside the building. If he was in the center of it, and the hull was breached... no! Who am I kidding? He beat me, and Accelerator! He'll be just, fine, her lips did not curl back up and Mikoto sped up so she was second to reach the elevator after Yomikawa.
The Anti-Skill Captain typed into a computer next to the elevator for a few moments, and then she sighed in relief. "It's still functional. We can go up."
"Then let's go," Mikoto said in a rushed voice. Yomikawa glanced at her oddly but decided the girl was acting as someone should in that situation and nodded her head in agreement.
The doors to the elevator opened and Anti-Skill and their ace in the hole ran inside. The space elevator was fast, but as they started going up, a few people screamed and almost all of them were taken off their feet as an explosion happened high above.
"What was that?!" Mikoto exclaimed.
The elevator jolted, but it kept moving at its maximum speed and they all calmed down as they got back to their feet. At least, most of them calmed down. Yomikawa Aiho was one of the two not to fall in the elevator like Railgun. Unlike Mikoto though, she was not staring up eagerly, wishing the elevator would move faster. Instead, Yomikawa stared through the glass elevator's walls with eyes as wide as saucers. She rubbed them a few times before shaking her head furiously to get what she just saw out of her mind.
It's the stress of the mission. There was not a woman falling from space. She did not have a sword. That was a hallucination, she cracked a smile at how crazy the illusion was. Everyone else was getting back up, but she had stumbled forward so she was right up against the glass, looking down at that imaginary beautiful woman who looked completely calm as she plummeted towards the Earth.
The elevator started slowing down at one point and Mikoto opened her mouth to shout in frustration, but one of the other men in the elevator spoke up, "We're here. Weapons hot." He pulled out his magazine and slammed it back in before grabbing the weapon with both hands and gaining a completely serious expression. Mikoto glanced around and everyone else in their SWAT gear looked the same, and she suddenly felt very out of place amongst the soldiers.
The doors opened up and the group rushed out. The soldiers pointed their weapons around, but there was no one waiting for them up here. Mikoto rushed out behind them and then she ran ahead and around the next corner. Yomikawa frowned at the girl's back and shouted, "Be careful!" The Railgun was already around the corner though and Yomikawa sighed in frustration, regretting bringing the girl with her now. "Quickly," she began, snapping her attention back to the mission, "let's find those passengers and get out of here."
The Anti-Skill team made their way through the space station that had just opened only for something like this to happen. They turned around a corner and spotted a door that had a blinking red light over it and a large pile of debris stacked against it. There was a panel on the side of the door, but the touch pad it had was shattered and sparks were coming out of it. The soldiers ran towards this door because they could hear shouting on the other side of it, and they moved the rubble as fast as they could. Yomikawa slammed the butt of her gun on the steel door to get everyone on the other side to hear her over their own screams.
The voices on the other side switched from panicky to full of relief, then the deep voice of the man Yomikawa recognized from over the radio called out asking if it was Anti-Skill. "That's right Mr. Wilson," Yomikawa responded. "We're going to get you all out of there. The door is malfunctioning though. It may take us some time to get it open."
"We don't have that kind of time!"
"Get us out of here!"
"There's a fire behind us!"
Ryan Wilson tried shouting over everyone else's voices to get them to calm down, but the panic was only rising further. Yomikawa could hear all this and she turned to her men, two of whom were engineers, and she yelled at them, "Get this door open!"
They ran forward and started messing around with wires near the door, but Yomikawa heard a commotion behind her and turned around. She looked back and saw her men clearing a path for an annoyed-looking girl who loudly cracked her knuckles in front of her. "A door like this, I'll get it open in ten seconds top," Mikoto bragged. She stepped up to the door and put one hand on it and the other down on the panel that the engineers of Anti-Skill backed away from. Lightning sparked off her fingers while she continued to frown, thinking, Didn't find him yet, so he's probably on the other side of this door with the rest.
Anti-Skill watched Mikoto work and after only five seconds they all heard loud clanking noises followed by the center of the steel door opening up slowly to each side. Yomikawa sighed in relief and took back wishing she had left the younger girl behind. "Good work-" she began complimenting the Level 5, only to drop her bottom lip as Mikoto sprinted into the crowd as soon as the doors were wide enough. Everyone else ran towards Anti-Skill and Yomikawa could not waste time wondering what the Hell Misaka Mikoto was doing, instead shouting over everyone else's voices, "Calm down and move in an orderly fashion! Anti-Skill will lead you to the space elevator and we will all make it out of here! So stop running already!" She roared the last part and the people at the front of the terrified crowd skidded to stops coming face to face with this woman.
Pushing through the audience of the interrupted concert, Mikoto reached closer to the back where people were less crowded together and she could start running again. She sprinted down the hall but stopped and grabbed a man by the front of his shirt. The guy was farther behind everyone else in the audience, standing near the last intersection and looking back in the direction of the concert hall where he had heard shouting and more explosions not long ago. He looked down at the girl with an annoyed expression but it softened at her worried one. "Are there other people here?!" She questioned. Although she had ran right through the crowd, she was looking at everyone's faces carefully and she had yet to see who she was looking for.
"There should be," the man began. He turned to look back down the last hall where there was a fire coming out of a broken wall panel, and sparks flying from pipes in the ceiling. He pointed a finger and continued, "Down this hall, then take the first left, then straight down all the way until you reach the concert hall. Arisa-san isn't out here, she was singing to try and calm everyone down, but then there was another explosion as I was getting out of there and she stopped." He grimaced deeply and turned the other way towards the rapidly thinning crowd of people being led away by Anti-Skill. "I wouldn't waste your time checking. This entire place is a ticking time bomb. Doubt it'll hold on for another few minutes."
He smacked Mikoto's hand off his shirt then started walking after the crowd in the opposite direction the girl started looking. "Arisa-san was caught in an explosion?" She whispered. She felt bad for that girl who she considered a friend of hers, but at the same time she knew that if she had to guess, he would also be anywhere a girl was in danger, and her mind shifted back its focus. Mikoto started running down the hall and she crossed her arms in front of her face to protect from the flames coming out of the wall near the intersection she had to turn down.
Mikoto ran down the final hallway and then out into a giant room that looked like a concert hall. There were cracking beams on the ceiling, and to her far right and up a couple levels she saw one of those steel beams drop right as she got inside. The beam fell and flattened a dozen seats that were luckily all empty. In fact, the entire concert hall was empty, at least in the audience. When Mikoto looked down towards the stage, she saw it was completely smashed apart and there were pieces of it lying all over the place. And there were also two people amongst the rubble.
The first person Mikoto saw was a girl with black hair, sitting down with her back leaning against a chunk of wooden rubble. Her eyes were closed but she did not look unconscious; her mouth was up in a smile and she looked so peaceful it appeared she was sleeping. The second person Mikoto saw made a huge smile appear on her face, though she only allowed it for a brief second. I knew it. She walked forward and lowered her smile into a cockier one while putting her hands down on her hips. "How did I know you were going to be here? It's like every time-" Mikoto froze mid-sentence and her eyes grew as wide as saucers.
She had seen the top of his head and the black spiky hair and instantly recognized him, but she had forgotten something the entire time she was looking for him. He may have beaten her, and Accelerator, and he may have gotten involved in so many dangerous events since she met him that she knew he would be okay, but she forgot that every time one of those events would happen, he would always end up in the hospital. She stopped closed to him and looked down at his back, as he lay flat on his face and stomach. The back of his shirt was soaked through with blood where it was not ripped, and he had burns all over his exposed arms and legs.
"Hey... Hey!" She ran up to him and got down to her knees. Mikoto shook him around and then gently turned him onto his side so she could get a look at the front of his body. "You can't be serious," she said through a gasp. "Kamijou, wake up," she whispered as she looked at his face, scratched and bloody and beaten. "Damn," she muttered, since the older boy did not open his eyes. His front looked as bad as his back and she did not like how he was not responding to her.
Mikoto glanced at his neck and she started moving two fingers to it, two shaking fingers, but she stopped herself before checking his pulse. The girl shook her head and frowned deeply, instead using that hand to reach under one of Kamijou's armpits before standing back up herself. It was difficult and she staggered to the side, but she was suddenly steadied by something and she spun her head around. Mikoto's eyes widened to see that girl who was sleeping when she got here standing next to her and putting a hand on her back to keep her up.
Shutaura looked at Mikoto for a second and she recognized the girl, but said nothing to her. She still had that small smile from when she was sleeping on her face, thinking about her father, Meigo, and how miracles really could happen. Shutaura stepped to Kamijou's other side and she put his other arm over her neck like Mikoto had his right over her own. "Come on," the Captain of the Black Crows said in a soft voice. "Let's get this idiot out of here."
Shutaura started walking and Mikoto nodded somewhat confusedly, but she stopped after a second and spun around. "Wait! What about Arisa Meigo? Is she-"
"Meigo is," Shutaura began, making Mikoto turn her way wondering if she knew. The black haired girl opened her mouth, but she had no idea how to explain what had happened. Instead, she just smiled and whispered, "Meigo is just fine. Now let's go. This place is coming down." Almost as if on cue, another two beams fell behind them, and one of them hit a pipe on the way down which made fire start spurting out of it.
Mikoto started walking again as she had to agree they needed to leave, but she did not understand this other girl's explanation at all. Meigo's fine? I want to believe that, she glanced behind her as they reached the exit and looked into the concert hall one more time. I didn't see anyone else in there though, so maybe, she did get out somehow.
Mikoto and Shutaura reached the first turn in the halls back towards the space elevator, but before Mikoto could turn right to head back the way she came, she caught a glimpse of something on her left and turned that way with widening eyes. The flames that were coming out of the wall around here were gone, and somehow the panel that had broken and lay on the ground when she ran past the first time was back on the wall without any damage visible on it. This was not even the most shocking thing though, as there was a figure standing on Mikoto's left side that made the girl drop her jaw as low as it could get.
"Touma!" The small girl dressed like a nun in all white shouted. Index ran forward and grabbed Touma by his bloody shirt, shaking him around while the older girls stared down at her.
"You," Mikoto whispered. She's always with him, she thought, her shock somewhat lowering and replacing with a different feeling. What is this girl to you? Her eyes darted left at the guy whose right arm she tightened her own grip on.
"Come on," Shutaura snapped at the two who were not focused enough on leaving. "We can get him to a doctor once we get back to Earth. Now let's go!" She started jogging and Mikoto jogged to keep up, while Index ran behind them and kept yelling at Touma's back.
"Touma! What happened? Are you alright? Where's Arisa-chan? Did you save her?"
"He did," Shutaura replied. Index looked at the girl's back and stared closely at her for a few seconds before her eyes widened.
"Arisa…chan?" Index questioned.
Mikoto looked back at the small girl in confusion, then even more as she saw where Index was looking. What is she thinking? This girl isn't- Mikoto turned to the other girl helping her take Kamijou Touma to the elevator, and her eyes opened wide at the big smile on her face. Index smiled too as she saw the older girl's face and she excitedly started ranting about things that Mikoto could not keep up with. It all sounded like nonsense to her and she shook her head as they turned around the next hall.
"There you are!" Yomikawa called her way. She was ready to scold Mikoto for making them wait for her, but then she noticed the other three that the girl had with her and once again she had to sigh as Mikoto's recklessness was not for nothing. Then, she spotted the front of this boy's shirt and her eyes opened huge. "Quickly, bring him to the elevator." The entire thing shook and she glanced up at the ceiling. "We didn't find Orbit Portal's CEO, but we can't wait up here any longer than we have. Another team will come up once we've gotten all the civilians out."
Mikoto nodded as that made sense, but she already got what she came for anyway. She took a step and then heard a groan on her left that made her spin her head and a huge look of relief to wash over her face. The spiky-haired boy moaned again before quieting down again, and Mikoto let out a deep breath. "Idiot," she whispered. "You always go too far." Why do you always have to go so far?
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PRESENT
I'm gonna beat the answer out of you one of these days. But for now, Mikoto's eyes shifted focus back to Assassino, and her body covered in a much thicker veil of electricity, I have to deal with this bastard first!
Misaka Mikoto sprinted towards Assassino, not waiting for the man in a black aura to charge at her. He started saying something but she ignored his mutterings and swung her right arm at him while she was still twenty feet away. Her electricity coursed through chunks of pavement that had been torn up around her and the magnetic elements inside them reacted. She sent rocks flying at the man who leapt up high to avoid them.
Mikoto stopped short and snapped her head up to see the bald assassin raising over fifty feet in the air. He rose in between her and the moon in the sky, making himself a silhouette in the sky. As he reached the point between her and the moon, Mikoto caught a glimpse of that aura around him. She had just pulled out a coin to attack him with, but when she looked up, she froze at the sight of his black aura transforming around him. "Slifer101. Lupo!" He roared, and the black aura of a giant wolf that surrounded him opened its mouth and howled down at her too. Its roar was a lot more terrifying and Mikoto shook where she stood while staring up in fear. What is that?! What type of ability is this? I've never heard of it, and, and it doesn't even look like an esper ability!
She shook her head of the fear though as this man started falling out of the air towards her. The Railgun calmed herself and flicked the coin in her hand above her. As it flipped around, sparks condensed around her and especially her right hand at the point she had her thumb tucked in behind her index finger. She put a lot of pressure on her thumb, watching as the coin flipped and then dropped right down in front of her hand before the assassin arrived. She flicked her thumb at the coin, and a trail of yellow shot through the air so fast it was impossible to see with the human eye. At least, Mikoto thought it was impossible to see, until she saw Assassino with his sword down like he had just slashed it vertically in front of his body, and she also saw two trails of yellow going behind him in opposite directions.
He, cut, the coin, she thought in shock, then leapt backwards just in time as the head of the aura wolf that blew apart when her coin went through it reformed. It opened its mouth and Mikoto just escaped from beneath it before it smashed into the ground hard and blew a crater in the street from sidewalk to sidewalk. "Ahh!" She yelled out as chunks of pavement flew her way and hit her. Then, she yelled in a lot more pain as two shiny projectiles she could barely see flew past her on either side.
She landed on the ground and surrounded herself with a charged aura again, before looking down at her arms and seeing shallow cuts on both forearms. Mikoto glared forward at the man whose black aura turned back into just that, no longer a menacing animal, and he smirked while holding up his left hand in front of his body. He still held a katana in his right, but in his left Mikoto could see three sharp metal objects sticking out between his knuckles. "I do love your country's weapons," Assassino remarked. He threw another ninja star at Mikoto but as she saw it coming this time, not blocked by the wall of debris and dust, she was able to redirect it with her lightning. Assassino did not look deterred though and instead smirked more, "Prepare yourself for round two-"
"Assassino," a voice came out of the man's waist and he stopped smirking, confusing his opponent. The frowning bald man reached down and into his cloak and pulled out a radio. Mikoto looked at the radio and heard a man's voice less deep than Assassino's continue, "Rendezvous immediately. Change in plans."
Assassino frowned but he lowered his arms and nodded his head. He pressed a button on the radio and responded, "Understood." He slid the radio back in his pocket and then grinned towards Mikoto again. "We will have to continue this at a later date."
"Don't think you can just walk away after this!" Mikoto yelled his way, getting really pissed off now as he was just deciding to end their battle early.
He lowered his smile to have flat lips and looked the girl straight in the eyes. "At every new country I visit, I master their native weapons." Mikoto's eyes started to widen as she realized what that meant. "However," he continued, "the next time we meet, I will not be trying new weapons. You will face Assassino at his full power. Prepare yourself." His black aura suddenly darkened so much that the man inside it became invisible. He vanished inside it, then the aura itself faded and Mikoto snapped her head left and right as the street before her was empty except for burn marks and debris.
She snarled but then winced and looked down at her arms to see they were bleeding pretty bad. I might need a doctor to- she froze and her head snapped back up. Mikoto wasted no time and started sprinted towards the hospital in the distance. Who was that voice over the radio? Why did their plans change? Is Kamijou- she didn't want to finish that last thought and just sprinted faster down the street.
Mikoto reached the hospital in under a minute, and she did not even go to the doors. Zapping her own feet and the wall of the building, she leapt up and then ran up the ninety degrees slant of the hospital wall without any difficulty. She tried to think of where his room would be from the outside of the hospital, and she at least knew the floor so she ran up there first. Once she got close, it was not hard to figure out which room was his though. She could see it from halfway across the hospital, because of the curtains flapping outside while every other window was closed.
Mikoto ran towards the odd window out, and stopped when she reached the edge of it. She looked in the frame at the shattered glass, then carefully stepped through it and dropped to the floor where she heard the cracking of some glass shards under her feet. The light above her was off, but then again the lightbulb itself was shattered and mixed in with the glass from the window all over the floor and the bed in the center of the room. Misaka Mikoto looked around the room and saw burn marks on the walls and floor, broken furniture, and slashes in the mattress directly where the boy she recently saw in here had been laying.
She stared closer at the mattress and she gulped at the sight of red on the sheets. Mikoto looked back up and around the destroyed room. "Kamijou, where are you?"