And here is number 6. I think I did a rather poor job at this for the same reason I do all chapter. I suck when it comes to non-dialogue. At least in my opinion. Anyways, there's something at the bottom concerning ocs. For those of you interested, go ahead and read it. Now on to chapter 6.
Disclaimer: I don't own Index or Railgun
Chapter 6: Monster - AIM_Burst
"Oi, Miko-chan, ya think you can deal with her for a bit? I wanna make sure of something," Enshin said as he and Mikoto stood ready to fight. "I'll provide some backup of course."
"Hm. No need for that. I can handle her myself," Mikoto said as she rushed forward. As she did so, part of the road under her cracked, making her lose her balance and unable to properly counter the attack headed for her.
A whistle was heard throughout the area and the attack headed for Mikoto dissapeared.
"Thanks for that."
"Next time don't rush in."
"Hm. I'll think about it." Mikoto turned back to Kiyama and and said, "That Duel Skill really is something else."
"I got my powers through other means, so I think you'll find that I have something different from the scientifically impossible concept of Duel Skill...If anything, I would call it Multi-Skill."
A large slash of wind was shot on the road, making both Mikoto and Enshin jump to the side.
"I don't care what it's called. It doesn't change what I have to do!"
Mikoto set out a large amount of electricity that quickly made its way towards Kiyama, but was stopped before it could reach her.
'Hm. An insulator? Is it using air or a different method?'
"What? Did you think I could only use them one at a time?"
The two felt a rumbling under their feet and looked down to see a portion of the bridge they were on collapse and made them fall.
Thinking quickly, Mikoto stuck to the support of the bridge while Enshin used the rubble to make a safe landing.
'Jesz...She doesn't care if she takes herself out with us,' Mikoto thought as she looked at the perfectly fine doctor.
Water started to gather around Kiyama, but fell to the ground as another whistling sound was heard.
'That boy's ability really is troublesome.'
'Nice! She can't use all those abilities if Enshin is here!'
Mikoto sent out another electrical attack, but that was stopped once again.
'So if I'm right...Damn. I would have to unravel multiple abilities to get rid of that lightning rod barrier of her.'
"Is this seriously all a Level 5 and a pseudo-Level 5 can do?"
"Hm. Insults don't work on me," Enshin said as he pulled out two playing cards.
"Shutting down my bolts...doesn't mean you've won!"
Mikoto used her magnetism to take a part of the support and throw it at Kiyama.
What appeared to be a lightsaber came out of Kiyama's palm and was used to slash through the concrete.
Seeing his chance, Enshin ran forward to try and land a punch on Kiyama, but she turned around and tried to cut him. Seeing the attack coming, Enshin did a quick duck and moved past her attack. He turned around on his heel and landed a kick that sent her back.
"Well there's at least one hit on her."
Enshin went wide eyed when a laser went past his head and hit the support Mikoto was on. A hole was burned through the cement and made the top part start to fall to the ground.
"Are you finished yet? I want only to complete my research. I'll release everyone when it's done. No one will get hurt..."
"What a load of crap! 'No one will get hurt'? All those people mixed up in your selfish plan...You're playing with their hearts. Theirlives! Research that can only be done like that isn't worth doing! I'm not about to let you get away with it!"
Enshin took a side glance at Mikoto and gave her a quick look of pity before hardening his expression and turning back to Kiyama.
"You may be a Level 5, but you're still a naïve kid. Every student in this city trains their powers, every single day. And you think it's all safe and ethical, right?" Kiyama looked from Mikoto to Enshin as she continued. "Academy City is hiding something about these powers...and the teachers here are 'developing' 1.8 million brains without that knowledge." She turned her gaze back to Mikoto. "Doesn't that sound dangerous to you?"
"It sounds like a fascinating story. I'll have to look into it..." A small buzzing sound could be heard as iron sand started to collect together. "After you've been arrested!"
Multiple blades of iron sand sped past Enshin and towards Kiyama, but were stopped when two large piece of the ground bent upward and blocked the attack.
"You'll...look into it? Be my guest. You and your friend there are already deep involved in it all..." Kiyama said, muttering the last part.
Enshin narrowed his eyes as a can started floating into the air. He let out a whistling sound for a few seconds before smirking.
"Sorry, but I've been told about that ability. I can easily counter that one," Enshin said as he walked towards Mikoto. He whispered something in her ear and asked, "You got that?"
"Yeah. Let's do this."
Sparks started to dance around Mikoto's head before slamming into the ground. Dust and debris flew into the air, making Kiyama shield her eyes.
He saw some movement and looked down to see Enshin trying to land an uppercut punch. She stepped back and doged a few more punches before using a wind attack to launch him and the dust back.
"Hm. Was that all?"
"Not even close."
Kiyama went wide eyed when she felt a pair of arms wrap around her stomach. She looked back and saw Mikoto grinning at her.
"That idiot could handle a point blank attack, but I doubt you have the same crazy power as he does." Mikoto noticed multiple iron rods headed towards her, but paid no mind to them. "Too slow!
KA-KOOOOOON!
Enshin watched as a large amount of electricity was let out by the middle schooler, frying their opponent. He let out a sigh before scratching the back of his head.
"Looks like it's over."
"I'll admit I went easy on you. Still, that should be more than enough to knock you out," Mikoto said with the grin still on her face. Her grin quickly went to a shocked expression as images started appearing in her head. "What the...?"
"Hm? Miko-chan, what's wrong?" Enshin asked as he walked up to the two. He felt a small spark coming off of Mikoto and decided he should touch them. 'She's an Electromaster and Kiyama is using a Brainwave Network, so...Shit. Looks like I gotta wait until this is done.'
After a few seconds, Mikoto let go of Kiyama and the older woman fell to the ground coughing while the younger one just stood with the same shocked expression.
"Wh-what was that, just now..."
"You...saw...!?" Kiyama turned back and let out a yell as a cord went towards Mikoto, but fell to the ground before reaching her.
"How could you do such a thing...?"
"Heh...Heh heh heh...That experiments true face was none other than The Law of Rampant Abilies: An Analytical Induced Explosion Experiment. In other words, we purposely stimulated an Esper's AIM Dispersion Field in order to find out what would provoke an outbreak of psychic ability." Kiyama grabbed her head as tears stared to gather in her eyes. "We used those kids as disposable lab rats."
"Human...experimentation... If that was the case, then why not go to Anti-Skill?"
"Twenty-three times." Kiyama staggered to her feet with a fierce look on her eyes. "That's the number of times I requested and was denied use of Tree Diagram supercomputer. I had hopes of running some simulations, in order to find some way to restore those kids and figure out what exactly caused that horrible accident. The Board of Directors is involved in the cover up! Do you really think Anti-Skill would act in that situation!?"
"But doesn't that make what you're doing the very same thi-"
"YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND!"
Enshin watched from the sidelines with a solemn expression. He knew exactly what Kiyama was talking about, but he also knew that nothing he could say would help. Nevertheless, he felt something ominous was going to happen.
"I won't let them repeat that tragedy, never again! And in order to ensure that, I'll do whatever it takes! I WON'T STOP, EVEN IF IT MEANS TURNING ALL OF ACADEMY CITY AGAINST ME!"
Before any more could be said, Kiyama let out a scream as she held her head tighter. She fell to her knees as the screaming continued and a strange substance started to form on the top of her head.
"What the...What's happening?"
"The network...is rampaging? No, this is...AIM...AAAAAHHHHHH!"
The substance flew out of her head and quickly fell to the ground. It looked like a blob of goo until tentacles started to sprout out of it. It started to float in the air with the tentacles moving around with it.
'A fetus...? I've never heard of...an ability like this. Is it some Metamorphosis? No, this...This is-'
The giant fetus blob let put an ear-piercing scream as multiple explosions went off.
Mikoto used her magnetism again to build up a shield in front herself and another one in front of Enshin.
'This thing is crazy. This is gonna take some effort to beat.' Enshin looked past the shield and saw electricity sapping the fetus blob.
The fetus blob's back was instantly gone. The fetus blob turned to Mikoto and gave it a dark look as it's back started to bubble as a new tentacle came out of it.
The two were shocked by this, but quickly snapped back to their senses as pieces of the bridge started to fall on them.
"I don't know what the heck's going on, but if it's a fight, I'm more than happy to-" Mikoto looked over to see the fetus blob just floating in the air. "It's not coming after me? Is it just random in lashing out." That's when she noticed that Kiyama by her feet.
"Miko-chan, what do you suppose we'll do? Your great Onii-chan-senpai can't do anything unless he knows what that thing is made of and what it can do." That's when they heard the sound of gunshots and looked over to see bullets go through the fetus blob. "What are they doing? Like I said, we don't know what it can do."
The fit us blob started to regenerate as it let out a loud cream again. It got hit by multiple bullets, but it continued to regerate. A large beam shot through the fetus blob, making dust fly back into the air.
"Miko-chan, I've been wondering...Where is Kuroko-chan? Her ability would be helpful, ya know."
"She's back at her Judgment office so that she and Konari-senpai can keep track of what's going on and keep us informed."
As the dust started to clear, they saw that the fetus blob was now a deformed monster that had multiplied in size.
"...Okay...So they see the bullets aren't working...Why are they still trying to shoot it? Can you answer me that, Miko-chan?"
"Oh, shut up and come on!"
Enshin sighed as he started to run up to the blob with Mikoto as she used her electricity to send some metal to push the glasses wearing Anti-Skill girl out of the way from an attack.
"Don't just stand there! It's not our fault if you end up dead!" Mikoto said as the two stopped in front of the girl.
"Wh-who are you two!? What are civilians doing in a place like this!?"
"We were just taking a little stroll when we saw you guys needed some help. Isn't that right, Hun?"
"I'm so going to fry you after this, Deer." Mikoto grabbed the girl by the back of her vest and flew up to cling to a support of the bridge while Enshin dodged to the side. "At any rate, there's nothing we can really do if our attacks don't work on that thing. I'll get its attention so you can get out of here and take the surrounding residents to safety...That goes for you too, Enshin!"
"Like hell. As your senpai, I have to protect you."
"I go to an all girls school and am a 2nd year, like hell you're my senpai!"
"I meant that generally. Just like how I'm Ruiko-chan, Kuroko-chan and Kaza-"
"Now's not the time for this discussion!" Mikoto exclaimed as she used some iron sand to cut off one of the blob's arms.
The arm quickly regenerated like all the other times.
Enshin sighed at the attempt then narrowed his eyes when he saw something a ways away.
"Hey, Anti-Skill-chan, what's that building over there? If it's way out here than it's gotta be important."
"It's an experimental nuclear reactor."
"Son of a..."
Enshin pulled out a card from his pocket, looked at it then quickly went to a piece of rubble while Mikoto let the girl out to regroup. He picked up the rubble and threw it straight at the monster, taking an arm out.
Mikoto saw a chance and used the iron sand to take another arm.
The two could see Uiharu running to the stairs from the corner of their eyes and went for more attacks as the monster regenerated. When they turned back to the monster, they saw light gather above its head.
The light that gather a over its head started to make a big sphere before letting out a beam that headed straight for Uiharu.
Before it could reach her, Zurui was in front of the girl with his tails in front of him. The attack hit the tails and Zurui looked as if he was having trouble before the light was gone.
"I told you I'd take care of her, so just focus on that thing, you two!"
"Thanks, Zu!"
"Does he have tails?"
"Not the time for that." Enshin let out a sigh as he pulled out a small notebook and his phone from his pocket. "I didn't want to use this, but...Miko-chan, can you stall it while I do something? It won't take more than a minute."
"Then hurry up."
Water started to form around the monster's head while light gathered above its head. It shot water bullets twards the two, but was blocked by the iron sand. The light was fired, but it clashed with some metal that was launched at it. It tried to use its tentacle to attack, but that got fried by electricity.
"Alright. All safeties have been unlocked. I can use it now." Enshin grabbed all the pieces of paper from the notebook, ripped them out and threw them into the air. His eyes quickly looked over every paper at a quick pace before they all fell to the ground. "One of my trump cards. Get ready to attack."
Enshin rushed towards the monster at faster speeds than normal humans and dodged on coming attacks from it. A large tentacle tried to smash him, but he jumped up and brought his whole body down to destroy the tentacle. He turned his body and landed a hard kick to the side of the monster, destroying part of its gelatinous form. He grabbed onto the currently regenerating tentacle and smug himself up to plant his foot onto one of it's many eyes. He jumped up again and flipped in the air.
Seeing that Enshin was in the air, Mikoto let out a large amount of electricity and destroyed more of the monster along with using the iron sand to slice off more tentacles. She stopped attacking when she saw that Enshin was going to attack it again.
Enshin lifted his right foot up and brought it down as he started to fall. His tore through the monster and left spiderweb cracks on the ground. He felt something tug on the back of his shirt and was next to Mikoto with some iron sand connecting from her foot to the back of his shirt.
"That shout stop it for-" Enshin looked to see that the monster had already completely regenerated, "a few seconds...This is why I don't like doing main character things. Most of the time it doesn't pay off."
The monster let out a scream as it used two tentacles to slam into the two and sent them flying towards the nuclear reactor building.
"This is bad..." Mikoto jumped away from an attack headed for her. 'Why is it still heading towards the nuclear reactor? I mean, what is this? Some bad monster movie!?'
"Miko-chan, look out!"
Mikoto went a little wide eyed when she saw Enshin jump away and a tentacle wrap around her ankle. She zapped a larger, and sharper tentacle that was trying to skewer her.
'Oh, this is so messed up! There's no point in us even attacking if it's just going to regenerate!'
Both of them were shocked when they heard some music playing and saw the AIM Burst (name courtesy of Dr. Kiyama Harumi) wasn't regenerating and slim was coming off of its tentacle.
"I don't know what's going on, but now's my chance!" Mikoto grabbed the tentacle wrapped around her leg and sent high voltage electricity through it, frying the AIM Burst. "Guess that counts as managing to stop it in the nick of time, huh?"
"Not particularly my type of music, but it worked, so I have no complaints," Enshin said as he sat on the grass while rubbing his shoulder. "Damn. That's why I hate using my trump card."
"Don't let your guard down! It's not over yet!"
Mikoto and Enshin jumped away just in time to not be hit by one of its arms.
Enshin ran over to Mikoto and Kiyama that were standing a little ways away.
"What the hell man. Why can't that thing just fall over and die already? It's starting to piss me off."
"That thing is a soul of the AIM Disperson Fields. You can't treat it the way you would a normal, living creature. No matter how much damage you deliver to its physical form, that damage has no influence on its true form at all."
"Then what the heck are we suppose to do!?"
"It should have some sort of core, giving the field's soul an independent will. If you can destroy that, then..."
"Desire."
"Pain."
"Grief."
"Jealousy."
"Compassion."
"Encounter."
"Help."
"I recognize some of these voices...We should end this now, Mikoto. I'll get rid of some of its abilities," Enshin said as he took in a breath. "Kiyama, you should get back...or you might get wrecked even further."
"I don't care. I have a responsibility for giving birth to that thing. I don't care what happens to me..."
"That might be fine for you, but what about your students?" Mikoto asked, looking at the older woman. "Let's say they do recover. What are they going to do if you're not there for them? Then they wouldn't have truly been saved at all. If you promise not to do anything like that again, I'll help you. Or were you planning on giving up and abandoning them already? Oh, and by the way..."
The AIM Burst shot out its tentacles to attack the three.
Enshin started to whistle and changed the pitch and volume.
Mikoto zapped the tentacles and destroyed them.
"Enshin meant you might get wrecked by me!" Mikoto let out a massive amount of electricity that seemed to get stronger when Enshin changed the pitch again. The electricity went for the AIM Burst, but was stopped by a barrier.
'I can't do anything about the insulator, but...'
'That's the same barrier I put up. As I thought. She's no match for-"
"Sheesh... So annoying, just like your maker." Electricity started dancing across her hand as she grinned. "Well then...In that case...What about this!?"
This time, the electricity was sent out with a wider range and higher voltage. It was stopped by the barrier, but the heat that was created started to burn the AIM Burst and effect its core.
The AIM Burst let out a raor as its tentacles twisted together to make a giant one. The larger tentacle went for them, but was quickly cut off by iron sand. Shards of ice were starting to form around its head, but with a change of pitch and volume, were quickly turned into water and fell to the ground.
"So, you're an aggregate of people's AIM Dispersion Fields..." Mikoto pulled a coin out of her pocket and aimed for the Burst. "You just wanted to do your best. But you know...Why not just try hard again?" She flicked the coin in the air as some electricity ran through her arm. "Quit moping around here. Stop lying to yourself...and once more!"
Electricity surged through her arm and out through her finger and she used her thumb to flick the coin three times the speed of sound straight through the AIM Burst. The burning coin came out of the other side with the core right in front of it. Just as the coin burned out from the heat created by the air resistance, the core shattered into multiple pieces.
The AIM Burst started to disintegrate as Enshin stopped his whistling and fell to the ground again.
'A power so overwhelming that not even an AIM Burst can come close to it. This is the face of Academy City's elite. This is a...Level 5.'
THUD!
Mikoto fell to the ground while Enshin tried to hold his laughing with his hand, but failed.
"Wh-what just happened?"
"I ran out of batteries...Literally..."
"Hehehe. That's what you get for not holding back a little, Mikobiri-chan." Enshin turned his head to face Kiyama with a nonchalant expression. "Hey, Kiyama, I'm gonna be stopping by your cell some time to ask you a few things, 'kay?"
"Oh yeah. Enshin, I need to ask you something. When I saw her memories, I saw a kid that kinda looked like you with the researchers."
"Ah. Sorry, but that's a story for another time," Enshin said before falling back and closing his eyes.
The two hear soft snoring and simply stared at him.
"Damn~~~ Everything still hurts from the damn fight."
"Your fault for not being careful," Zurui said as he sat on Enshin's bed. "By the way, what did you go ask Kiyama anyways?"
"Hm? Oh. Nothing much. I needed some info on certain people and just wanted to know if she had any idea about them." Enshin grabbed his phone and opened it to see a message on the screen. "But now I have to deal with this."
"What is it?" Zurui jumped of the bed and went over to see the screen.
Dear Toaru Enshin-san,
We require your assistance in doing a demonstration for a partner organization in England. One was recently done in Russia, and we would like you along with three others to represent Academy City and show them our students' splendid ability. We will be waiting for your reply.
-Academy City's Board of Directors
"What!? That's awesome! You should totally agree to it!"
"I'm still in pain here, ya know."
"So what. It's not like they'll make you go out and fight some sort of magic cabal or something. Come on~~ Please~~"
"You just want to go to England because you don't have to do anything. And what the heck is wrong with these people? Don't they have Level 5s for that stuff? I'm sure Miko-chan would be fine with going."
"I'll tell you what, if we can go, I'll transform into whatever type of woman you want!"
"No thanks. Just an illusion. Would rather have the real deal."
Zurui let out a sigh as he went back to the bed. He started thinking about how to get Enshin to go until an idea popped into his head.
"What if I transform into you when we get there? That way we can go and you don't have to do anything!"
Enshin let out a long sigh before turning to see the kitsune giving him a pleading look. Before he could say anything, an image of a small boy looking up at him with a pleading look appeared in his head. He shook his head and looked again to see Zurui.
"...Fine...But you don't need to transform into me...You can just have some fun when we're over there..."
"Yay! Thanks, En! You're the best!" Zurui exclaimed as he wrapped his arms around Enshin neck and laughed.
"Alright, alright, just let go before you choke me."
Doing as he was told, Zurui let out and let out a sheepish laugh.
"Heh heh. Sorry about that."
"It's fine. Now go play a prank on Rusty or something. I need to answer back and do some research."
"Alright! See ya later, En!"
Enshin got a small smile on his face as he watched the kitsune leave the room before turning to his computor with a serious expression.
Current Target: Kihara Gensei
Way of reaching target: Exterior, Academy City's #5 also known as Metal Out
And there you have it. I hope you enjoyed. I known I probably messed up big time on the fight, but what's done is done.
On a different note... NT 14 is coming out soon! I'm so damn excited! And the cover looks amazing! Anyone else? No? Just me? Okay...I'm sorry.
Until next time, see ya!