So here's the next chapter for you all. It ended up way different then what I had planned. There's also something at the end of the chapter for you all. So, I hope you all enjoy!

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Chapter 7: A Threat

"Man, school is so boring. Why do we have to go so early?" Josh said with a sigh as he and Kei walked to school.

"It isn't that bad, just think about it like this; you sit in the back in most of your classes, so you can sleep through the boring parts." Kei said happily as Josh let out another sigh. "You know, with the way you sigh all the time, people might think you're depressed or something."

"Whatever. Like I care about what others think." The air manipulator said with a yawn.

"So you didn't care about what I think?" Josh turned to see Kei giving him a sad look with tears in her eyes. "Josh-kun is so mean!" That's when she started to fake cry.

Josh just clicked his tongue and turned the other way with a small blush.

"You know what I mean."

"I know. So how is Will-kun and...Hans...kun..." The two went wide eyed when they reached the school.

The scene they came too was a shocking one. The windows of the school were shattered, graffiti was all over the school, stuff from the classrooms were all over the courtyard, the ground itself was destroyed and all the trees were all over the place. Other students and staff were looking at the destroyed building too.

"What happened here?"

"Hopper-san!" The two turned to see Shinji running up to them.

"Shinji, what happened here? Who did all of this?" Josh asked as the other boy stopped and tried to catch his breath.

"It was some gang. They just came in here and started destroying everything. We tried to stop them, but they were too strong. All Level 4 at least." Shinji said as he stood up straight and his clothes disheveled.

"Was the leader a woman with black hair and used shadows?" Josh asked, ready to find the other Level 5.

"It wasn't Senketsu. We already questioned her. She and her gang were at their usual spot."

All three turned to see Natsu and Mei walking up to them.

"Natsu, Mei. If she didn't do it, then who did?"

The two Judgement officers didn't say anything for a few seconds, until Mei broke the silence.

"It was actually the gang you two beat last week." Mei said, looking at Josh and Kei.

The two went wide eyed.

Josh looked really irritated since he was the only one who knew exactly how their Level was raised. He wouldn't let something like this go unpunished and he knew exactly how he was going to go about with the punishment.

"Somehow, they got even stronger and after hearing that you two came to this school, they trashed the place. They probably won't go to the others' schools since they are in School Orchard and won't take that risk."

"That's good to know." Kei said with a sigh of relief.

"Although..." They all turned to Shinji. "There was a student who was taken?"

They all went wide eyed.

"What happened?"

"They came in here asking for you two, but since you weren't here, they started destroying the school. They took one of the kids that tried to stop them. He had brown hair and glasses."

Josh's eyes went wide and started to walk away. Now he was going to blow up both that person and the gang of idiots.

"Hey! Don't go after them. Leave it to us." Natsu said as he tried to stop the other.

He stopped when Josh turned around and gave him a dark look.

"This is my fight. Don't get involved."

The four were shocked at the other's additude.

"I'm going too! They want the both of us, so I'll help." Kei said, looking determined.

"No. I kinda know what's going on. I'll go by myself." Josh said as he started to walk away.

When he was walking, he saw two figures walking beside him.

"I'm going no matter what you say. Besides, you're sounding like a manga protagonist again."

"I wanna help in any way I can."

Josh just let out a sigh at his two classmates.

"Fine. Natsu! Don't even think of getting involved!" Josh said before the three left.

Now it was Natsu's turn to sigh.

"What an idiot. But I guess they can get this done." The male officer said with a smile.


"So how are we going to find them?" Kei asked as they ran through the street.

"Leave it to me." Josh said as he stopped, closed his eyes, took a deep breath in and released it. His eyes shot open and the other two were surprised when they felt a gust of wind hit them and expand outward. "Ten...Thirteen...Seventeen...Twenty...Twenty-seven...They're not that far. Follow me." The two looked at each other before quickly following.

"How can you tell where they are?" Kei asked as they ran.

Josh just let out a sigh, but explained anyways.

"I let out air from my body and that air combines with the air outside of my body. It expands to a certain extent, but since Aki is a Wind Manipulator, the wind I let out attached to him. Now I just need to follow where the wind connects. It leaves a kind of rope connecting us." Josh said as they reached a big bridge with a river flowing under it.

"So you made it, brats! It's about damn time! Seems like you have someone else!"

The three walked down the hill.

"Did you come here to save your little friend!? Well here he is!" The guy in front moved out of the way to show Aki tied up on the ground. "So, just stay out and-"

There was a small breeze and Josh was suddenly in front of the guy. They were all surprised, but even more surprised when the guy easily caught the fist aimed for his head.

"Nice try, kid. We aren't going to lose this time." The guy said before ramming his knee into the other's gut. He didn't relent and sent a punch to Josh's face, then kicked him back.

"Are you okay!?" The other two said as he helped Josh up.

"I'm fine. Get ready. These guys really did get stronger. And if I'm right...There should be a certain someone watching this...Can you two keep these idiots occupied while I find this guy?"

"Yeah. Just leave it to us." The two said as they walked forward.

"You can't beat us!"

After he said that, a bolt of electricty shot through some of them, making them fall to the ground. More were suddenly thrown into the river and a strange, strong current swept them away.

"Really? You could have called us, you know."

The three turned to see Will, Hans and Takeshi standing there.

"Now find that person while we hold these guys off."

The gang ran towards all of them while Josh jumped away and did the same thing as before.

"I found him. Can you guys handle it from here?" Josh asked.

"Just go already, idiot!" Hans yelled as he held his hands in the air with pieces of earth were above his head.

'Damn. This is really turning into some crappy cliché manga now.'


"So it was your doing. Seriously, how the hell did you get these idiots to higher levels? Also, please tell me that you're going to turn them back to normal." Josh said as he looked at the man from before.

"Heh. I am, I used my ability and like hell I'm letting those idiots have that much power." The guy said.

He turned around and gave the other with a smirk.

"Well that's good to know. Now, can you tell who you are and why the hell you're doing this?"

The other just kept his smirk and said nothing.

Josh let out a sigh and scratched the back of his head.

"Fine. Have it your way then."

The other guy went wide eyed when he saw Josh in front of him and punching him in the stomach.

"Looks like I win."

"Yeah right."

Josh went wide eyed when he saw the guy start to fade away.

"What you punched was my past self."

Josh turned around just in time to get a kick to the stomach and sent back.

"My ability is called Clock Life and you are within my range. You can't win, even if you are a Level 5." The person said with a smirk.

For his part, Josh just started chuckling and started to stand.

"Wow. You can laugh at a time like this. You do know I can kill you right now, right?"

"No. I don't." Josh said as he gave his own smirk. "You're a hundred years away from being able to kill me."

The other person's smirk fell at this.

"Sorry. I wanted to use that line at least once. But do you know the full extent of my power?"

"Yeah. You can manipulate anything in the air, all the way down to water molecules." Clock Life said with a frown. "So what? Against my ability, that's nothing."

"Really now? Then maybe you should take a look behind you."

The person quickly turned around just so he could be blown back by a sudden explosion.

"Your rage of attack is approximately one mile around you, but my ability..." Josh extended out his arms and spheres started to form around him. "Is everything in the atmosphere."

The spheres headed for the guy, but he quickly dodged them, only for them to blow up near him. He was blown away and almost off the of the bridge they were on.

The guy stood up and wiped away the blood on his face.

"This...This kind of attack is nothing to my ability."

That's when Josh heard a clock chime and he saw all of the wounds on the other's body start to heal.

"Now that I know what you can do, I won't lose. You shouldn't have told me. Not very smart."

"What's your name?" Josh suddenly asked.

"Oh? You want to know it know? I guess it's fine. My name is Aoi Dai, Level 4 and third strongest in the true #2's group. My ability is Clock Life and I and the guy who is going to show how weak you are!"

He was suddenly gone and in front of Josh in an instant.

Seeing the attack coming, Josh blocked a punch and tried to land one of his own. He was met with another punch. Jumping back, Josh snapped his fingers four times and four explosions followed afterwards around Dai.

"You can't win with that!"

Dai sent a kick towards Josh, but just stopped by an invisible shield.

"Did you forget? I can use wind."

Dai's foot ended up getting shredded and that's when Josh heard the clock chime again. He saw all of the injuries were healed up.

"Let's try this then."

Water started to form around Dai and continued until the Level 4 was trapped in a sphere of water.

Josh snapped his finger and the whole bubble exploded. He heard the clock chime, turned around and snapped his finger again. Anther explosion occurred, hitting Dai head on. He heard the same chime and snapped his fingers eight times. Eight explosions went off all around him and smoke filled the air. He heard the chime again and calmly turned around to see Dai standing there without a scratch on him.

"It's not nice to destroy the bridge, you know." Dai with with a grin.

"Hm. Sure. Is that why there's nothing destroyed?"

As the smoke cleared, the two stood there on an in tact bridge.

"I already figured out your ability. It's Time Distortion. Every time I hear that clock chime you rewind time and a smaller, almost unnoticeable chime is made when you fast forward time. You heal yourself by rewinding time on yourself to when you didn't get hurt. Your whole ability is out and open to me. Now I know how to counter it." Josh explained with a smug look on his face.

"Oh? Now that I would like to see. Let's test it out!"

Dai was gone and reappeared in front of Josh again.

The Level 5 was wide eyed as the arm went through his stomach.

"Looks like I won't be able to see this great counter."

"I wouldn't be so sure about that."

Dai went wided eyed and looked behind him to see Josh standing there with the same smug look.

"By the way, you shouldn't try to do anything to that."

Dai looked forward and saw the Josh in front of him fizzle out. He heard a snap and cursed loudly as he got caught in a massive explosion.

"I don't use it much, but illusions are not a problem for me."

"Heh...You...think this'll...stop me?" Dai panted as he walked out of the smoke.

He put a hand on his chest and smirked.

Josh just kept his smug look.

Dai went wide eyed when there was no chime and he was still injured.

"What's going on? What did you do?"

"I know someone who's ability is Space Distortion. Naturally, it would counter your ability. I guess I should thank both him and manga for helping me figure that out."

Before he could do anything, Dai was smashed to the ground by a powered punch from Josh.

"So you guys finally done?"

"Yeah. I'm kinda shocked it took you that long." Will said as he walked with the others.

"Well I'm glad Takeshi has that kind of ability or I wouldn't be done." Josh said with a sigh. He then turned to his classmates and saw that they were more injured than the others. "You guys okay? Ya wanna go to the hospital?"

"Hm? You actually care about some people!? What is this world coming too!?" Hans said with a smirk. He ended up getting a fist to his head.

"Yeah, we're fine. Just a little banged up is all." Kei said with a smile.

"That's good to hear. We should get going before we get in more trouble for ditching school."

The others nodded and started to walk away.

None of them noticed that Dai was gone or the multiple pairs of eyes watching them.


"This sucks. Even with Mei's help in talking to the teachers, we still get punished." Josh said with a sigh as he, Kei, Shinji and Aki left the school grounds.

The sun was setting as the four were walking further and further away.

"Well I guess we did stay out longer than we should have." Kei said as she looked at her phone.

"Sorry I got caught." Aki said as he looked down.

"Shut up. It wasn't your fault. It was that jack-" Josh froze in the spot he was in and let out a frustrated sigh.

"Hm? Hopper-san? What's wrong?" Shinji asked, seeing his classmate staying still.

"Kei."

The girl gave him a questioning look.

"You can go on ahead. I need to see something."

"What are you talking about? Do want us to help you?" The brunette asked with a curious look.

"No. It's fine. I just need to check up on something." Josh said before disappearing from his spot.

The others just looked at each other and shrugged their shoulders.


'Crap. I forgot about that jackass and didn't even check to see if he was still there. I highly doubt he is, but...' Josh pulled out his phone as he was building hopping. "Come on. Come on. Pick up, damn it."

"Hello?"

"Will. Hey, I need you to do me a favor."

"Hm? Josh? What is it?"

"I need you to help me look around the city for that guy I fought earlier today. I forgot about him and just remembered that the dude is probably going to be back. Can you help?" Josh asked as he landed on the bridge from before.

"I don't know...I don't think our dorm manager will let me...but I guess so. Do you want Takeshi too help too?"

Josh let out a relieved sigh.

"Yeah. That'd be nice. Thanks." With that, he hung up his phone and looked around the bridge.

"Heya. So you're the new guy?" Josh quickly turned around to see a boy with dirty-blond hair and brown eyes standing on the bridge.

"And you are...?"

"The real #2 Esper, Keith."

Josh just gave a bored look.

"You do know that your name just ruined your ever-so-slightly-if-I-was-a-lower-level intimidating image, right?" Josh said, looking very unimpressed.

"Yeah, I know, but so what. Now, get ready to fight..." Josh was surprised when he saw a tree rushing at him. "Or you'll die quickly."

END CHAPTER

OMAKE

"Heh...You...think this'll...stop me?" Dai panted as he walked out of the smoke.

That's when a refrigerator came our of nowhere and smacked into him. He stood up and looked more tired.

"Okay...Ow."

He put a hand on his chest and smirked.

Josh just kept his smug look.

Dai went wide eyed when there was no chime and he was still injured.

"What's going on? What did you do?"

"I know someone who's ability is Space Distortion. Naturally, it would counter your ability. I should thank both him and manga for helping me figure that out."

Before he could do anything, Dai was smashed into the fridge by a powered punch from Josh.

"So you guys finally done?"

"Yeah. I'm kinda shocked it took you that long." Will said as he walked with the others.

"Well I'm glad Takeshi has that kind of ability or I wouldn't be done." Josh said with a sigh. He then turned to his classmates and saw that they were more injured than the others. "You guys okay? Ya wanna go to the hospital?"

"YOU MONSTER! THAT REFRIGERATOR WAS THE ONE FILLED WITH CONDIMENTS! How could you be so cruel!? Condiments are the only thing that my ability can't effect!" He then saw Takeshi and glared at him. "You're the monster!"

Hearing this Takeshi started to get tears in his eyes and ended up crying.

"Yeah! Cry you monster! Ow!"

"Shut up. You just made a kid cry, jackass!" Josh said as he punched Dai again on the ends while the others tried to comfort Takeshi.

In the backround, if you look very closely, you could see four figures shaking their heads.

END OMAKE

Well there ya guys go. How'd ya like the omake? I'm not the one who thought of it though. The person who did is that last person mentioned in this account's bio. I made this after a stupid discussion of this chapter. Last thing. I'm sorry if the fight sucked. I don't really have much more to say, so until next time, sayonara!