*Boom Boom* *Crash* *Huff Huff* Damn! The ESP is too strong I can't… Outside Mikan's room alices clashed mid air and screams echoed from everywhere. Mikan was trying desperately to break through the barrier that kept her trapped but so far not much progress had been made. She wanted… no needed to be out there. She knew she could help. She desperately fought through her tears.
"Come on stupid barrier let me get to my friends. Oh Kami let them be alright!"
Suddenly the barrier was gone and Mikan fell over before quickly getting up and running because in this situation, lives depended on it. Finally she reaches the grounds and with a pounding heart stares at the scene before her. Her friends, Z, her senpais, even Narumi sensei all fighting. It was awesome and terrible.
Suddenly she saw Hotaru fighting inside one of her newer inventions alongside her brother. The thing was monstrous. It towered at seven feet tall and looked like a robot out of one of Natsume's mangas she saw once. Only thing was the head looked just like that of a panda bear.
One of the robot's giant hands reached out and picked something up. When Mikan looked close enough she recognized the figure as Ruka-pyon. Ruka was calling the animals. Soon she could see Pyo. She was bigger than when she last saw him. He suddenly crashed into the ESP's building. The ground shook and suddenly something tugged on her pig-tail.
"Oi, little girl what are you doing here."
Hearing this Mikan suddenly whirled around and gave the speaker a hug.
"Having not seen me for months the least you could do is give me a kiss," Natsume said while pointing to his lips.
"H-h-h- hentai! Natsume you fox! We need to help our friends!"
"Yes, Yes. I know polkadots. Which is why…"
Suddenly Natsume was taken over by a hacking cough. His body shook and a faint red stained his hands. He wiped his hands on his pants too fast for Mikan to see though. He had already used a lot of his alice protecting his friends and trying to find Mikan.
Mikan's eyes portrayed her nervousness but quickly widened again when she heard Ryo's voice. It came from behind her and sounded choppy. It wasn't at all charismatic or containing any hint of his alice. His breathing was labored and sounded forced. When Mikan turned to see him she saw he was wearing A LOT of restraining devices. Tsubasa-senpai had him trapped and was forcing him to bind himself in rope making him unable to move any further.
Tsubasa turned to see Mikan and a smile appeared on his face followed by a small grimace. He strode over and gave his kouhai a quick hug irritating the fire caster and put Mikan down before speaking.
"Mikan I am glad you are free because it is a sign that the ESP is weakening but it is not safe right now and we have already had a few casualties and I don't want that to happen to my favorite kouhia."
Mikan understood that Tsubasa was concerned but she also knew that she has to help. The ESP had kept her locked up for a reason and she knew exactly how she needed to stop him.
"I understand Tsubasa-senpai but I cannot hide! I know how to stop him and I am the only one who can. Please feel free to help me but please do not try to stop me."
Now it was Natsume's turn to grimace. He was used to calling this girl before him a baka but that sentence had proved this to be wrong. Something had changed in her in the past couple months that he had not seen her. He felt a stab of guilt as he wondered if she had changed because he had not been able to rescue her.
"Little girl, I can't allow you to do that. I will be going with you and if I think you to be in mortal peril I will try to stop you."
"Good that's what I was hoping you would say. Now come on Natsume I am going to go do something stupid."
