What happens after the star of Bethlehem incident? Is it the end of the boy named Kamijou Touma? Or is it just the beginning. Featuring new characters, more incredible esper abilities and a whole new city in this new fanfic. Please enjoy it!
P.s I do not own any of the characters nor the Toaru Majutsu no index anime or manga
It was cold in the depths of hell. The fortress was dark, outlined by the blinking lights that lined the stone walls. One could assume that it was unhabitable, a place where no human could exist. Yet, in this ruthless darkness, a teenager sat in water up to his chest level. Blood was flowing, red liquid that dripped onto the stone walls and seeped into the sea water that marked his grave. The boy's head was covered in wounds and scars. Kamijou Touma had welcomed death. He tried to move his body, but soon realized that he was caught under a pillar that pinned him to the floor. Being pinned down in chest-level water was not an enticing prospect, but the pain made him accept his fate.
Touma's memories were a haze. In order to save a girl, he had fought with a certain enemy whose power was terrifying. To save millions of people's lives, he had discarded his own escape in order to ensure that the fortress did not fall in a populated area. Even when a certain middle school girl had tried to save him, his life-line was cut by his own ability to negate all other supernatural or magical abilities. In spite of this, Touma smiled, knowing that he had done the right thing. There were many times in his life that he had faced death and came out unscathed. This time however, his luck had run out.
"Such misfortune", he thought, as the cold arctic water continued to rise.
In a couple of hours, the whole fortress would be flooded and he would surely drown. Touma did not want to die a painful death, especially, one that ensured that he suffocated at the bottom of the ocean where no one could hear him. Yet, he was at peace. With the cold water at his neck and his body temperature lowering, Touma's eyes began to close and his memories comforted him. The times that he had spent with Index, Misaka and the others, it was all worth it. Even though he was always at the end of Index's bites or a punching bag for girls who accused him of being a pervert, he had enjoyed his life. Now he had no regrets.
A load drilling sound abruptly shook him out of his stupor. Touma opened his eyes and looked up. The drilling was getting louder and louder by the minute
"What could it be?" whispered Touma in a pained voice.
There was no one on board except him and everyone had evacuated when the "star of Bethlehem" went down. The archangel that had gone down with him had disappeared in a ball of energy and he was the only one left. Who was this who had come to join him in the depths of hell? The drilling sound stopped at a wall in front of him. Touma knew that there had been a room before the collapse of the pillar supports and wondered if it was still intact for somebody to have access to it.
Splashes sounded as more drills came into play, their blades echoing inside the dark of the fortress. Cutting though stone was no easy feat as the fortress had a solid foundation. However, Touma could not think of any scientific explanation for the power of the drills because his curiosity was captured and he wanted to find out who it was. As he squinted his eyes at the wall in front of him, a piece of stone snapped off and an arm reached through the large crack that had been created. More blades started whirling as more openings tore though the wall. Within a few seconds, the wall gave way, revealing a barrage of flashlights and voices. Touma's eyes hurt as he tried to adjust to the surroundings. He looked up and there, standing in the water were 4 men in diving suits. Touma could not tell who they were, but through his dazed vision and punctured thoughts, they had to be from the military.
One of the divers, spotting an oxygen mask and a tank, reached for an intercom dangling at the side of his waist and radioed in.
"Red leader one, come in."
"I read you blue leader two, what is your status?", asked the voice on the other side of the channel.
The diver replied, "We have located the victim, I repeat, location has been successful."
The man called Blue leader reached towards Touma and lifted his chin. He took a look at Touma's face and chest and saw that he was breathing.
Seemingly satisfied, the diver replied, "The victim is breathing, but he is bleeding heavily and is in need of a medic."
The voice at the other end said something that Touma could not make out.
Blue leader nodded "Yes, sir", and swung the intercom to his waist.
"We need to get the boy out of here", he motioned to the other 3 rescuers, who were listening in on the conversation with their superior.
The divers started to wade towards Touma. The Blue leader reached for the pillar that was trapping Touma's leg and nodded to the other 3 who had surrounded him on either sides of the trap.
"On a count of 3, we are going to lift this off the boy's leg. Be careful guys, we don't want him to be injured any further."
His companions nodded and waited in anticipation.
Blue Leader counted "1…..2…..3...now!"
The 4 of them lifted with all their might and struggled in the cold, freezing water.
Finally, the weight on Touma's leg was lifted and he was free. Touma wriggled his toes. They could move, which meant that his right leg had not been crushed.
"Okay, now for the boy..."
Blue leader placed his right arm around Touma's body and gently lifted him. As Touma rose into the air, the rescuer placed his left arm under the boy's legs for support.
Touma lay in the man's arms as the diver looked at him and spoke in Japanese through the mask, "Its okay kid, you did well. We are from Infinity 5 and we are here to rescue you. Just relax and leave this to us."
Touma wanted to ask how they were going to escape as they were in a fortress a few hundred metres, or even more below the Arctic Ocean. However, his fatigue caught the better of him and he slumped into unconsciousness in the grasp of his saviour.
Don't worry guys, more is to come! This is my first ever fan-fiction so please do comment!
