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"Onii-san!" Tsubaki shouted as she ran forward and jumped onto her older brother. She was crying hard as Danny pushed a hand over her hair, trying to calm her down.
"It's alright Tsubaki-chan. It's all over." Danny said quietly to the girl.
"I'm sorry. I was just so scared. I didn't mean to." Tsubaki cried, burying her head in his blood stained shirt. Danny knew what she meant. She hadn't meant to expose them as espers.
"I know, Tsubaki-chan. I know." Danny said as the true scale of what had just happened started to fall on him as well now that the adrenaline from the fight was wearing off. Over ten years of hiding their powers had just been lost. Now everyone would know that the siblings weren't as normal as they had always pretended to be.
Looking up over to where the former hostages were, Danny could see their mother, staring that them with wild eyes, her lips moving rapidly in a silent chant of shocked horror.
"Okaa-san?" Tsubaki said, carefully as she looked at the woman who had been their mother.
"Stay away from me!" Nene shouted, pushing herself away from the two children. "You aren't my children... my children are normal. They are normal. You... you did something to them! Give them back!"
"Okaa-san, please don't..." Tsubaki stammered but Nene just started to shirk, covering her ears.
"No! I don't have children! I can't have espers!" Nene screamed.
Danny turned his head away. He had always suspected that this would happen. He knew that their parents would not accept espers as part of their family. But he had never really felt an attachment to them like he had for Jack and Maddie.
Tsubaki on the other hand had never known any other parents. The little girl looked crushed as the woman who had raised her for the last ten years openly denounced being her mother. Deep down, she had also known that it was going to happen, but that just made things worse for her.
"Come on, lets go." Danny said, putting an around around his little sister and turning her away. He then scooped her up in his arms and began to fly off, teleporting past the walls when he reached them.
"Minamoto-san, are we there yet?" Kaoru complained as she used her telekinesis to swing a fan back and forth by her head, having already pulled off her blazer. The ten year old girl with burnt orange hair that didn't quite reach her shoulders wasn't exactly loving the summer heat in the cramped space of the B.A.B.E.L. helicopter.
"If you would just release our limiters already, I could have teleported us there by now." Aoi said, kicking her feet out. Aoi was also ten only with much longer black hair and librarian like glasses that she didn't really need, but she thought made her look more mature.
"Girls, we need to go over the situation, you can't just rush in there like you always do." Minamoto said as he tried and failed to keep the girl's attention. Why did they insist on being so childish?
"We are not childish." Shiho said angrily, causing Minamoto to jump as he realized she had grabbed his sleeve and was reading his mind. Shiho was glaring up at him with her bright purple eyes as he started to sweat. The girl might have been cute as a button with her puffy white hair and gentle features but she had a bit of a dark side that came from years of reading people's innermost thoughts.
The other two girls glared at him as well, and Minamoto prepared for the pain that was to come. Sure enough, Kaoru's hand shot towards him and he was lifted up off his feet and throw into the side of the helicopter. Not hard enough to do any damage, but hard enough to leave him in quite a bit of pain. Though the pain got worse when a bit of the gear that was stored in the over head compartments was teleported above his head to land on top of him.
"Itaitaitai..." Minamoto mumbled in pain, rubbing his head. He was getting used to this. It came with the job of being the supervisor to the youngest and more powerful team of espers in all of Japan, perhaps even the world.
'The Children' was the code name for the team, as amusing as it was to see them denying the fact that they will just little kids. Each of them was a level seven in their own specialized area. Shiho was a Psychometry, meaning someone who could extract knowledge about anything they touched, history, composition, and in the case of animals and people, even their thoughts. And with her being a level seven, there was no why to hide anything for her.
Aoi was a level seven teleporter and could teleport herself any anything else several miles with every jump, without the need for things like direct contact or an strong grasp of composition that lower level teleporters needed in order to get the job done.
And finally Kaoru was a level seven user of telekinesis. Able to apply hundreds of pounds of force just by thinking about it, literally having the power to throw a house if the desire ever came to her. Many espers who were in telekinesis had a sort of focus, a technique that their power revolved around, whether it was controlling electricity, water, or the air currents, but Kaoru had never needed anything like that. She could get by on just pure power.
Though each one of the girl's was anchored down with a limiter, lowering their levels by three. Though level four powers were nothing to scoff at.
It was law that any child who had esper powers had to wear a limiter outside of their homes until the turned eighteen. The law was logical enough, best to wait until the kids are more mature and won't suddenly lash out with their powers in a fit of anger before letting them off the leash, and the espers agreed to wear them because it was a reasonable request, and because they still hoped to be accepted into the community.
The unfortunate part was that the limits were usual very obvious, and marked the children as being different, often leaving them alone in schools and other activities.
That is, if they are even allowed in. With children who's esper powers were level four and below it was consider safe enough for them to be around others as long as they had activated limiters on them. But with even higher level espers, things like elementary school weren't even an option, leaving them feeling separated from the world. Normal lives were all but impossible. It was only recently that Minamoto managed to sneak The Children into a school roster by lying about their levels.
"We know what to do, Minamoto!" Aio said angrily. "First Shiho-chan scans the group of hostages from a distance to find out if there are any armed men among them! Then I teleport the hostages out of the building, and then Kaoru-chan gets to do her thing on the bad guys! So just release the stupid limiters and let us at them already!"
"What she said!" Kaoru shouted, smashing her hand into her open palm, sending a small shockwave through the helicopter.
Minamoto considered pointing out that they didn't know anything about the enemies lay out, or their powers yet, and that they should let him tell them. But, he knew that they wouldn't listen and would just say that he was underestimating them again, and then he would be thrown into the side of the helicopter again. Though he was their supervisor and sixteen years older than they were, they never really showed him that much respect. Gratitude for the little things he did to help them feel like ordinary little girls and oddly enough a sort of love, sure. But never any respect.
Sighing with defeat, Minamoto pulled out his phone and opened up the function for turning off the girls' limiters. "The Children, release." He said, pressing the final button.
In the blink of an eye, the girl's were gone.
The Children appeared in the department store, using the inherent power of all level sevens to fly in order to hold themselves in the air.
"Alright bad guys get ready to face..!" Kaoru started but then stopped. "Man it's so cold!" She shouted, shivering as they looked down at a building completely filled with snow and ice, the hostages had already left and only some frozen statues of people holding guns and a few of the local police men walking around.
The Children flew down to one of the offices. "What happened here?" Aoi asked as Shiho went to check out one of the frozen people.
"No idea. Apparently one of the hostages was a high level esper who went crazy when the criminals grabbed his sister. Though its hard to believe that one esper could do all this." The officer said, too much in a daze to realize who he was talking too.
"These people. They are still alive inside of the ice." Shiho said surprised. "It seems that it was only meant to hold them still, and not kill them. Aio-chan should be able to teleport them out."
Nodding Aio immidiately teleported all of the thugs out of the ice and into a group in front of them, leaving all of their guns in the ice without them while Kaoru used her telekinesis in order to grab a hose and wrap it around the criminals, binding them all together.
Shiho walked forward and touched one of the men. "None of the people in this group is an esper." She declared. Looking around, they saw the police putting anti-esper handcuffs on the remaining few gang members who hadn't been frozen.
"So... does this mean we can go home and watch my anime?" Kaoru asked the other two.
Aio shrugged. "I don't see why not." Teleporting again, the three left the scene of the crime before their supervisor could even get there. After all, they just stopped criminals, clean up was other peoples work.
Danny and Tsubaki sat in the park, taking in some fresh air to calm themselves down after the nasty business that day. They had gone by their old home where their father had reacted similarly to their mother.
Didn't matter. They hadn't gone there to say goodbye. They were picking up all of the tools and weapons that they had left there from over the years, since it would have been a pain of those things landed in the wrong hands.
So now each of them had a backpack full of equipment and very little idea of what to do next. "What now, Danny-nii-chan." Tsubaki asked quietly.
Danny had been thinking about it. If the two turned to a life were they stole what they needed to live, it wouldn't be that hard with their powers. But that wasn't the kind of life that he wanted for his little sister.
They could have gone to an orphanage, but those would not be kind to espers either.
They needed to find some way of having a sort of job and a place to stay. And for that there was only one place they could go. One place that would take in two high level espers and put them to work, even if they were just children.
Danny looked south, activating his Clairvoyance in order to see the three miles to B.A.B.E.L. tower. "Tsubaki-chan. How do you feel about become special agents?"