Mikoto didn't know where she was. Some foggy black place, standing in the midst of a field that seemed to be impossible to see. What was this? She moved her head, trying to see around, for some reason walking forward. She could hear the distant sound of laughter. Children were laughing. But Mikoto couldn't see any children, nor could she figure out from which direction it was coming from. The laughter faded out into the sound of a child chattering excitedly.

"Do you want to play with me?"

The voice seemed to echo, but she couldn't tell where it was coming from. Like it was just beyond her reach. Only just a little closer. As she ran toward where she thought it might be coming from, something grabbed her foot. Suddenly feeling panicked, Mikoto looked down to see the girl who had the same face as herself. The clone! But that wasn't the only thing there, there were more of them, bloodied and dying, all of them pulling her down. Mikoto's eyes were wide as she tried to apologize, but even though her mouth was open, even though her lips moved, no sound came from her throat.

"I'm going to become invincible! You're a level 5, you understand right?"

She looked up tearfully to see Accelerator staring down at her as she was being pulled down into the ground. She reached up for him, trying to request help but his smirk only widened as he reached past her hand and closed in on her face, covering her vision to crush her skull and then...

That was when Mikoto woke up, screaming actually. Kuroko was sitting on the floor next to her bed, looking at her, filled with concern. For once, not trying anything perverted. After all, it was not often that Mikoto had nightmares so violent. Ever since that night that Mikoto had come in, far later than curfew, she had been acting strange. It was worrying the level 4 teleporter greatly.

"Big Sister? Are you alright?"

Mikoto was shaken once more. These dreams terrified her, she felt the immense guilt for the deaths of her clones. This was her fault, the fact that they had been created in the first place had been because of her foolishness. She was on the verge of tears from the nightmare. If this was what the weight of the world felt like... ignorance was truly bliss. Mikoto brought her hand to her forehead, it was clammy with sweat. She was still finding it nearly impossible to believe that Academy City would be doing something so evil under her nearly perfect life with her friends. She took a deep breath to compose herself before looking at her roommate with a faint smile, all she could muster.

"Yeah, I'm fine. Just a nightmare. I'm sorry if I woke you." Mikoto assured her, trying to hide just how much these dreams tormented her. Even though she failed at it, Kuroko stood up anyway with a smile.

"Well then, Big Sister, I left a glass of water here if you need it. Try to rest well, tomorrow we have school." The girl gently reminded as she walked over to her own bed. Climbing under the covers, she feigned sleep, unable to do so because of her worry for her roommate.

"Thanks, Kuroko." The level 5 breathed softly, feeling the heaviness in her heart as she sat on the side of her bed. It was like this guilt was pulling her down, just as in her dreams. Though something further continued to nag at her, like she was forgetting something important. But every time she tried to remember, it was always just out of reach. So close, yet so far. Nothing Mikoto could do to stop this experiment either... She gripped the sides of her head as she tried to think of what Shinobu had told her the day before. She only had one choice. She couldn't beat the level 5 and strongest esper, Accelerator. So she would simply destroy what they were using to make the Sisters. Mikoto got to her feet, and dressed herself quietly. As she pulled her hair into a ponytail, she stared herself in the mirror. Would her guilt ease away? Probably not. But she would do what she could. That was what she decided as she jerked the hat down on her head. Thus beginning Mikoto's next battle against the seemingly impossible. Something she seemed to do pretty often.


After a handful of weeks, Mikoto had systematically destroyed many of the facilities that the Sisters were being produced. When she was on the second to last one, she clashed with Level 5, Mugino Shizuri. After the battle, that Mikoto defeated ranked 4 Meltdowner, Mikoto investigated the last remaining facility. Shut down due to bankruptcy, Railgun thought that perhaps, the horror had ended. That maybe, such a slaughter had reached an end. In such high spirits, Mikoto found herself meeting a familiar Level 0 at the vending machine. In such a relaxed state and a far better mood than she had been for quite some time, she was shell shocked to discover... a clone walking by them. Mikoto's shock had been evident as she pulled 10031 aside to converse with her, leaving Touma in confusion. To Mikoto's horror, she learned that countless facilities had joined in with making this project succeed. There was no way she could stop it in the way she had hoped. So the girl resolved to destroy Tree Diagram, the supercomputer that had concocted this horrible project in the first place...


After a farewell to Kuroko, and a strange encounter that left Touma baffled, Mikoto set out on her mission to eradicate Tree Diagram... or at least hack into it and install a false simulation that would shut down this whole project. So she headed for the sole terminal of Tree Diagram after making the security robots malfunction. But as she looked around the terminal, she noted that it was empty. She had come, expecting for it to be bustling with people, but no one was here. Nothing was operational, at all. Why would they leave the only communications terminal to Tree Diagram so unguarded? Was this some kind of trap? Or what? What could possibly be going on? It didn't make any sense. Even as she approached the transmission room... it was completely empty. Upon further inspection she realized there was dust, this hadn't been abandoned recently. But as she tried to hack into it, she was shocked to realize Tree Diagram had had zero transmissions today.

"What the heck?" What could this possibly mean? A dread started to settle on Mikoto's heart. Not wanting to believe what was becoming obvious to her. A cold feeling covered her as she read... Tree Diagram... had been destroyed. July 8th... it should have ended on July 8th! The report read that Tree Diagram was gone! Then.. the madness hadn't stopped when the reason for it was destroyed?! Mikoto stumbled back with panic across her face, this couldn't be possible! Her only option was to continue destroying the factories! She had to hurry, or another one would be killed, for even at this moment... 10031 was prepared to face Accelerator in combat that would only result in her death.

Mikoto walked as if in a daze. Not caring about the robots who tried to stop her. Only a little electricity was all it took. She could still hardly believe it. Could reality be so cruel? It was apparently. There was no hope for her.

"Your identity code could not be confirmed, unauthorized personnel are not allowed. Please leave imme-" The mass of security robots in front of Mikoto were shut down, she hardly noticed them as she kept her slow, slightly unsteady pace. Her dull eyes staring forward as she caused explosions with every step. Just watching the scientists run in fear. But Mikoto felt nothing. Looking at them with the lifeless expression of despair. As she walked the halls, just flinging her hands to the right, then to the left, each thrust of her arm sent a pulse, destroying everything in her sight.

"It's not over yet... I can't give up. I just need to destroy them all... no matter how long it takes." But despite her trying to encourage herself, there was no hope. She was faced against all of Academy City. And it was practically impossible.

Accelerator had been in the midst of slowly wearing 10031 out, letting her do her thing. Even bragging to her about how his ability worked. But now that she was laying face first at his feet, his smile vanished. For some reason he hesitated before speaking in a lower tone.

"Well then."

Mikoto had continued her wanton destruction of the facility, anything to make it one step closer to ending this madness. But even as she did, she nearly snapped. She would destroy it all! Every bit of it! A chuckle escaping her throat. Not a happy sound, it was a chuckle of sadness, of feeling the incredible weight of destiny being against her. But then she realized, no matter how much damage she did... it would never be enough in time. Screaming at her own consciousness she let loose a torrent of electricity. Screaming at the top of her lungs, she felt no hope.

"SHUT UP! What am I supposed to do?! How else can I make them cancel the plans?!" She was breathing hard after her rant. Nearly in tears,, but the sound of the video feed of one of the computers that had miraculously survived brought her attention. Terrified to look at the bloody figure, but unable to bring herself to look away because of her guilt, Mikoto turned to watch. Drunkenly moving closer to it, she thought she couldn't feel anymore despair, but she couldn't feel anything anymore. It was just numbness. She was gasping, just like her dream, unable to speak. Turning into a whimper, pleading whatever goodness was still in Accelerator's heart to just please, please don't kill the clone! Even though Mikoto knew that nothing would have changed since her last encounter with him.

"Second elimination question: What happens to the human body if the blood flow is reversed?" He asked with a chuckle, reaching down to press his right first two fingers into 10031's wounded flesh.

"No... no! Please... no! Please don-" Mikoto had been pleading desperately to the male who couldn't see her. But the blood splattered across the camera lens, obscuring her vision of the whole event. Mikoto was trembling, only able to gasp for breath due to shock. She slowly began to sink to the floor, if she thought she had felt like it was hopeless before... it felt ten times worse. Like this burden was pulling her down, holding her to the ground.

Accelerator stood there, staring at the bloodied mess he made from killing the clone. His expression almost sad as he closed his eyes. His gaze slowly moving away from hers but then he jolted slightly as he realized there was a camera, pausing to stare at it. Huffing under his breath before turning to leave. Almost as though he sensed the feeling from the girl watching the whole event occur. Once more the unfamiliar feeling of guilt plagued his mind as that memory of MISAKA 1 came up into his mind while walking away. He was beginning to doubt this was the right path. After his last meeting with the original, he had been questioning himself, and that pissed him off. He stood at the traffic light, deep in thought. Shoving those thoughts aside as he walked off.


Notes: So, thus concludes this bit, the next one will be the fight between Accelerator and Touma, then it'll be pretty much all original from there. Yay!