"And this is our room," Lilian walks into the dorm room with Rutile. "I think that just about covers half the grounds."

"Only half, really?" Rutile eyes widen.

"Yeah, this place is huge," Lilian tells her. "It took me a while to get used to."

"That's amazing, it is."

"We should unpack your things whenever we have the time," Lilian looks at the boxes inside the room.

"Why don't we do it now, really?"

"No, there's no rush. It'd be better to get you used to your new surroundings first."

"O-okay."

"Hey, do you want to go out into the city? I showed you all the most important stuff. A change of scenery would be nice. We can continue the tour here some other time."

"It sounds like fun, really!"

"Alright! Just give me a moment." Lilian walks into their room's washroom. "Hey, Isolde... Isolde?"

(Huh? Oh, sorry.)

"This is the longest you've been quiet in like, ever. What's up?"

(It's something that little nun said.)

"About Miss Misaka acting weird?"

(Huh? Oh yeah, she said that too, didn't she?)

"That's the only thing that comes to mind. Miss Misaka said that the thing about Kamijou being missing is a regular occurrence. And she didn't seem affected by the news."

(That's exactly why she's weird. Common occurrence or not, she should still be worried.)

"I guess you're right, but what can we do?"

(Nothing but take her word for it unfortunately. One other thing that bugged me is how she seemed a little, tired.)

"She said she was busy. May be she's helping Judgment again, like trying to capture that Magneto thief."

(May be...) Well, I managed to avoid a dangerous topic of discussion. Just who was that nun anyway?

"We'd better get moving, Rutile is waiting."

(Have fun.)

XXX


"Wow!" Rutile walks around in awe of the inside of a tall mall. She can see all the way up to the clouds through the empty center and glass ceiling. "This place is so huge, really!"

"This isn't even the biggest building around here, it's not even that tall," Lilian informs her. "Did you grow up in a small town?"

"Not exactly small, just nothing this big, really."

"Well, is there anything that interests you?"

"Food!" Rutile points to the food court.

"What? Oh, we have been walking around for a long time, I'm kind of hungry myself. Yeah, let's go eat."

Lilian and Rutile walk into the food court, Rutile was checking out several of the menus while Lilian quickly ordered a small meal and found a table. Rutile sat across from her, with a plate that had fish and rice omelette on it.

"You really do like fish don't you?" Lilian smiles.

"Yep, really!"

"Do you have a second favorite food?"

Rutile points to the rice omelette.

Both Rutile and Lilian eat their respective dishes.

"Oh yeah, you never tried takoyaki before right? I'll treat you to some, just wait here."

Rutile finishes nibbling on a fish bone. Lilian quickly returns holding a small plate with some takoyaki. Rutile picks one up and puts it in her mouth.

"Hmm!" Rutile's face perked up.

"You like it?"

"Mmhmm!" Rutile nods.

"Hahaha..." Lilian giggles to herself for a little bit. She joins her friend in eating the Takoyaki.

XXX


"What do you think?" Lilian holds up a dress in front of herself.

"It goes against your hair, really."

"Oh really?"

(Yeah, really.)

"Darn..." Lilian puts the dress back.

They both walk out of the store, it was located about halfway up the mall.

"So, where to next?"

A loud fire alarm rings through the entire mall.

"A fire?"

Sprinklers start spraying all over the mall. Rutile raises her hands above her head, but there was an umbrella of ice above her.

"You alright?" Lilian asks, holding the ice umbrella.

"Yeah, thank you, really!" Rutile and Lilian stay close together as everyone else panics.

"Let's get out-"

Both girls are shoved aside by some panicking people. They both fall to the ground and the ice umbrella shatters.

"Watch it!" Lilian yells. "You okay Rutile?"

"I'm fine, really," Rutile gets up, all soaked.

"Come on," Lilian leads Rutile through the mall and the crowds. They followed everyone down two floors of stairs. "We're almost there. Rutile?" Lilian turns back to see Rutile padding her chest and looking around herself. "Rutile?"

"My pendant..."

"What? It fell off?"

"I... I have to go back!" Rutile runs back up the stairs.

"Rutile!" Lilian chases after her. She runs up the stairs to the 3rd floor. She sees Rutile heading towards the place where they were knocked down.

Rutile checks the water filled floor, searching the area carefully.

Lilian looks around as well. "We need to hurry."

"I know, I know," Rutile panics. "But that pendant was my mother's, it's special to me, really it is."

The glass ceiling shatters.

"What the heck?!" Lilian looks up, the glass was falling down the center of the mall.

She blinks and her eyes change color from blue to red. The ice girl pulls herself and Rutile into a store as large pieces of glass fall down. They slip on the floor and crash the ground.

(Isolde?)

"Sorry about that," Isolde apologizes as she gets up. The fire sprinklers stopped spraying water.

"What happened?" Rutile asks.

"The glass roof broke," Isolde answers. "But it's too soon for the water to stop. Someone stopped them. Stay here."

"Lilian?"

Isolde slowly looks out of the store. There was a purple figure with cape floating down the center of the mall, with a big floating steel case. The figure wore a dome helmet covering most of his head, but his face could not be seen. Cash registers were flying towards the figure from the various stores, flipped upside down over the steel case and opened up. Their insides, all cash, rained down into the large steel case.

(Is that...?)

"The Magneto," Isolde finishes Lilian's line of thought. "But I can't see his face. Where's his curly mustache at?"

(What do we do?)

"My mother's pendant!" Rutile's voice catches Isolde's ear.

Rutile ran past Isolde outside of the store, Isolde catches a glitter on the floor, it was the pendant. The store's cash register flies into Isolde's automatic ice armor. The impact was strong enough to knock her down but the register just flew up. Isolde gets up fast enough to see Rutile reach for her pendant, only for it to fly away.

"No!" Rutile jumps for it, she misses. She hops on the railings and super jumps after the fast flying pendant. "Wait!"

Her voice caught the attention of Magneto. He turns to see her flying up at him. He silently rips out a railing, wraps it around Rutile, then tosses the girl aside, pinning her to a wall.

"Rutile!" Isolde yells out, catching Magneto's attention.

The magnetic thief launches empty registers in her direction. Isolde erects a thick ice wall in front of her. The registers crash into it, only cracking the ice before they drop like rocks. Isolde sees Magneto pull out a large refrigerator containing drinks.

"Oh hell," Isolde readies herself.

Magneto throws the refrigerator at the wall of ice. Isolde dives to the side, hitting the ground. The ice girl gets up and fires icicles at Magneto. The thief blocks her shots with another large refrigerator.

Isolde stops firing and gathers large amounts of mist above her. It forms into a large, hollow icicle full of mist. Magneto moves the refrigerator slightly to see her forming the icicle. Isolde shoots the giant icicle at Magneto.

Magneto floats to the side and lets the icicle slam into the wall behind him.

"Gotcha!" Isolde smiles. The giant icicle bursts open, releasing massive amounts of mist around Magneto, the purple figure is engulfed in thick mist. The cloud instantly freezes into a ball of ice.

(You got him!)

"No," Isolde sounded grim. "He protected himself."

(What? How?)

A closer look at the ball of ice reveals a refrigerator inside the ice.

"He managed to fit himself inside that before the mist froze."

(W-what?)

The ice starts to crack from the inside.

"Did he anticipate my hollow ice somehow?"

(W-what are we going to do?)

Isolde hears a loud crumbling sound, like a wall breaking apart, then some steel hitting the floor.

"Rutile?" Isolde turns to the sound of the noise. Rutile was running towards the area where the ice ball is.

(What's she doing?)

"Her pendant."

The ice ball breaks apart, pieces of refrigerator and ice fly in all directions. The smaller pieces just bounce off of Rutile as she dodges the larger pieces while running forward. She dives for the steel case, it flies up and away. Magneto floats a slight distance from Rutile.

"Don't you know who I am?" A deep voice speaks from the dome helmet. "I'm Magneto! Master of Magnet-" Magneto just barely dodged a large chunk of ice that Rutile kicked.

"Give back my mother's pendant!"

Magneto levitates several empty registers around himself. Rutile puts one foot back, both hands around chest level with one slightly lower and closer in while the other is slightly higher, she enters a fighting pose, with cat paws.

(We need to get up there!) Lilian screams into Isolde's head (Make a bridge or something!)

"Too risky, he can easily destroy something like that. We have to climb these floors first."

Isolde shoots spiraling mist in front of herself and freezes it into a spiral staircase. Isolde climbs up to the higher floors hoping to quickly get to where Rutile and Magneto were.

Magneto launches the registers at Rutile. The cat-ish girl uses quick fist strikes and arm swings to knock them away, while stepping forward with each attack. Magneto pulls out another large refrigerator and launches it at her. Rutile turns around as it comes and crashes into it with her back and shoulder. The refrigerator flew back to Magneto.

The purple figure merely caught the refrigerator with his power. He sees Isolde climbing up her stairs of ice and throws the refrigerator at her.

"Lilian!" Rutile warns the ice girl.

"Oh shi-!" Isolde jumps off of her stairs and grabs onto a railing. The ice girl quickly freezes herself to the wall. The ice crumbles fast from the force of the impact but Isolde manages to create a platform for her to land and stand on. She's now only a couple floors below and the entire building across from Rutile.

Isolde sees Magneto floating up and away through the hole in the ceiling. Rutile looks up as well. The cat-ish girl hops on the railing and hops to the hole in the roof.

"Rutile!"

XXX


Rutile jumps onto the roof of the building. She looks around for Magneto. She finds him running away with the steel case. Rutile finds a roof turbine and kicks it towards Magneto. The purple man hears the kick, he stops and turns around. The turbine is stopped mid air, but Rutile wasn't, the Tokiwadai girl flying kicked Magneto's chest. His body flew and hit the rooftop, skidding to a stop.

Rutile rushes over to the dropped steel case. "It's locked?" The case suddenly slides away. Rutile sees Magneto getting up, then floating up.

Magneto points a finger at Rutile. "Come, Esper!" The steel case opens and a single coin floats out from it.

XXX


Isolde climbs up the hole in the ceiling. A large shockwave flies past her. She feels rumblings from the powerful blast. But what caught her eyes was the body of Rutile flying her way.

"Rutile!" Isolde gets up and places an ice wall behind her. She catches Rutile's body. "Dammit!" Isolde winces slightly.

"Li-lian...?" Rutile regains herself slowly.

Isolde stares at the Magneto, he has his arm stretched out, his hand was positioned as if he just flicked something from his thumb. He lowered his arm slowly.

"What the hell did you do to Rutile?!"

Magneto turns around, runs away, then jumps super high, while the steel case flies behind him and out of sight.

Isolde feels movement in her arms. Rutile manages to get up on her feet, slightly wobbly, she falls on her knees but otherwise fine. She composes her stance while holding her head.

Lilian and Isolde switch control. "Are you alright?" Lilian asks worriedly.

"I... I'm fine..." Rutile answers. "Where... where is he?"

"He's gone," Lilian's voice sounded depressed. "I'm sorry..."

Rutile puts a hand over her chest and clenches it. A slight breeze blows by them.

"Rutile?"

"I feel... tingly...?"

"Tingly?" Lilian ponders her words. "It must've been from the attack, just don't move too much right now."

"I'm a member of Judgement!" They hear a voice behind them.

Both of them turn to see another Tokiwadai student with twin tails holding up a green armband.

"Miss Shirai!" Lilian recognizes her instantly.

"Miss Sterling, and..."

"Miss Sopheria," Lilian completes her line.

Kuroko face palms, "The school isn't going to like this..."

XXX


"Ms. Yomikawa," Kuroko address the one leading the Anti-Skill.

"Ms. Shirai, any news?"

"I do, but it's one that you won't like."

"... Was a Tokiwadai student involved?"

"How did you-?"

"I guessed," the officer answers. "At the moment I can only think of one person with strong ice powers. How's the damage inside?"

"Minimal, the glass roof is shattered to bits, cash registers are ripped out of their tables, a couple of wrecked refrigerators, and a part of the safety railings pulled out. You'll still have to be careful about the remaining ice in there."

"Noted. What are you going to do with her?"

"For now, I'll have to take them to our Judgment office and make a report to the school. We'll see after that."

"They definitely don't want anyone to know that one of their students got involved." The officer sighs. "They're likely going to pressure to cover it up somehow."

"I'm sorry."

"By the way, as much as I hate to involve civilians, any luck with Miss Misaka? She's one of the few people I know that can probably stop Magneto."

"No, she's always... 'busy with something', as she puts it." (And I promised not to use her phone's GPS to track her down. Where are you Sissy?) "Wait. Did you say 'she's one of'...? Who are the others?"

"Huh? Oh, well there this boy I know that can negate powers, but he's been missing for the past couple of days."

"A boy that can negate powers..." (Wait! Can it be-?)

"And the other one is too lazy to get off the couch."

"What?"

"Nothing, nothing. We'd best get to our jobs now. See you later."

Kuroko ponders the officer's words. (So that man's been missing for the past couple of days. Sissy's been acting weird for the past couple days. Could she be more concerned with finding him than helping me?! Then again, if we can get both of them to help out, it'll make catching the Magneto much easier.

For now, I gotta get back to Miss Sterling and Miss Sopheria.)

Kuroko teleports away, not knowing about the mind controlled eavesdropper nearby.

XXX


"So, they're going to the Judgement office? Driver, change course, head for the Judgment office. In the meantime, I'll have to pull a couple favors to recruit Lilian and Isolde..."

XXX


Author: So, does anyone have any idea on who the Magneto might be? I'm pretty sure several of you have, and you're likely right. Now ask 'Why'? Why is the Magneto doing all this? If you could solve that, then you pretty much got the whole story worked out. It's just a matter of watching it unfold.