Toichi stared at the terrifying sight that stood before him, a piece of his past that he thought he erased and put behind him for good had come back to haunt him. He couldn't understand how it was possible, he made sure everything and everyone involved were destroyed. He held his head trying to make sense of all of this.

"Right now you're wondering why, am I right?" 012 said with a smile. "It's simple, we evacuated when you decided you didn't want to be a guineapig anymore. We all knew you would eventually. You share all the qualities of the original, it's only natural you'd be selfish enough to want a life of your own."

Toichi grinded his teeth and clenched his fist, this clone was created just like the rest, without a sense of the original. Toichi was deemed a failure because he was a exact copy from the original, in the beginning that was considered a success since he was the only clone as far as he knew that possessed the ability Replication. He was later considered a failure because he shared every single aspect of the original, including his faults, fears, memories, and sense of existence, just like a normal human being, he wasn't a standard clone to say the least.

"I don't understand, I made sure no one survived." Toichi said angrily.

"And you succeeded, no one survived in the facility you destroyed after you overloaded your ability with Extrac-34, or now commonly known on the streets as Fake Blood. Although the only ones onsite were the expendable ones. " 012 said laughing.

Toichi's eyes widened. "Fake Blood? So it has been them hasn't it? They've been producing it the entire time?" He growled at 012. "And you're selling it to everyone on the streets of Academy City so they'll be your new guineapigs, you're literally making a scientific city."

A huge grin came across 012's face. "You always did think differently to us and I can see you still do. We're just making up for your absence."

"Us? There are more clones that survived?" Toichi asked trying to hold back his rage.

"Oh, there are many and some new additions. It's all thanks to Professor Toharu who's been working hard ever since you left."

Toichi frowned as soon as Professor Toharu was mentioned, he could still remember the unthinkable tests he performed on him, on the original. "Toharu..." Toichi clenched his fist hard as he started running towards 012. "TOHARU!"

012 raised his hand sparking electricity at Toichi as he ran towards him, he fell onto the floor, his whole body sparked with electricity. 012 smiled seeing Toichi down on the ground powerless before him.

"Touched a nerve did I?" 012 laughed.

Toichi rolled on his back holding the left side of his chest right near his heart, the electric shock was so strong he thought his heart had stopped for a moment. He groaned a electricity ran past his old wound on his left side.

"That man is a monster, he destroyed his own son." Toichi groaned in pain.

"And from that we were born and you were his favourite toy but that's changed now." 012 laughed as he continued the pulse electricity through Toichi's body. "I'm the first with Dual-Skill and you've proven no match for me, I've taken your place."

Toichi squirmed on the ground unable to do anything as electricity ran through his body, he clenched his teeth trying to hold out from the pain. 012 suddenly stopped, Toichi stopped moving and panted heavily trying to catch his breath.

"Too much? It would hurt a lot more if I was higher than a Level 3." 012 said as he walked towards Toichi. "Well I'm a little bored now."

Toichi groaned struggling to get up off the ground, he was able to get up on his hands and knees when he suddenly felt something like a foot fly into his stomach, he flung back into the wall hitting it with his back, he coughed up blood as he fell back to the ground. He looked up at 012 lowering his leg after the kick.

Saten and Uiharu yawned as they walked down the street, Saten raised her hands over her head and stretched while looking at Uiharu, she looked exhausted.

"What's up Uiharu? You look tired." She said while yawning.

"You're the one who's yawning Saten-san." Uiharu laughed.

"Well yeah, it was a pretty exiting day in the Garden." Saten said with a smile.

Uiharu smiled back as they continued to walk, an Anti-Skill van drove past them headed the opposite way then what they were headed. Uiharu looked back as it drove past, the sirens were on, there must be some trouble somewhere that way. She turned back around and continued walking alongside Saten.

"Wonder where they're off too?" Uiharu asked quietly.

"Don't worry about it, you're off duty right now Uiharu." Saten replied. "They're properly headed towards the Garden of Learning."

"But that girl was arrested before we left." Uiharu pointed out.

"Well maybe they're headed that way to clean up some loose ends." Saten said yawning again.

Uiharu looked down towards the ground watching her feet as she walked. "I hope you're right." She suddenly looked back towards Saten. "By the way did Toichi ever call you back?"

Saten looked towards Uiharu with a huge grin on her face and stared at Uiharu as they walked along side each other, Uiharu felt a little unconfutable having Saten stare at her like that.

"Oh, Toichi. No honorifics?" She said with a smile.

"Toichi-san, Toichi-san." Uiharu said trying to cover up her mistake.

"Hmmm, no he didn't." Saten said turning back around. "I don't get it, he called and suddenly cut me off. When I tried to call back they all went straight to voice mail."

"They all? How many times did you call?"

"Eight."

'That's a lot of times.' Uiharu thought as she sighed.

Saten raised her hand over her head and stretched again. "I bet he's having fun out somewhere that he's forgotten about calling back, pretty rude if you ask me."

012's fist connected with Toichi's stomach, he fell back into a nearby table. He struggled to get up but he'd lost all his strength, he collapsed upon the ground. The only thing that could be heard in the cafe was 012's footsteps as he walked towards Toichi, he suddenly stopped walking as he started to hear a phone ring, he looked down at his feet to see a blue flip phone ringing next to him.

"Is that my phone?" Toichi said as he laid in a pile of rubble.

012 bent down and picked it up.

"Hello." 012 said.

"Finally you pick up Toichi! I called eight times and you don't pick up once!" A girls voice growled angrily over the other side of the phone.

012 looked at Toichi struggling to get to his hands and knees on the floor, he smiled realising that it was his phone and the girl on the other end mistook him for Toichi. They did sound the same after all.

"Sorry, I was held up." 012 said.

"Geez, anyway Uiharu and I have left the Garden of Learning and headed to the office. You can drop by to make it up to us."

"The office?" 012 asked.

"The Judgement office, what did you hit your head or something?"

"Oh sorry, I'm a bit out of it today."

Toichi raised his head as he picked himself off the floor, he struggled to support himself with just his knees and struggled even more trying to get to his feet.

"Okay I'll make it up to you." 012 said as he pulled the phone away from his ear to look at the caller ID. " Ruiko." 012 said as he hung up.

Saten looked confused as she put her phone away. "Ruiko? He called me Ruiko?"

Uiharu looked at Saten confused. "What's wrong Saten-san? What did he say?"

Toichi shook as he planted his feet firmly on the ground, he was finally able to stand up on his own even after taking so many hits.

"Ruiko...Saten-san?" Toichi said panting heavily as he looked up and faced 012. "I won't let you...hurt her and Uiharu-san!"

"Oh, I don't think I even mentioned her. Well at least now I know you're weak point, friends are such useless things."

"You're wrong! You don't know what it's like because you were born like a machine, you might look real but you don't have any human qualities!" Toichi yelled back at him angrily.

"Look who's talking, you're a clone too. You may have all the qualities of a human but you're not real just like me, we were born the same. And this fantasy you're trying to live in will crash and burn the moment you're found out to be a fraud." 012 responded.

Toichi clenched his fist, he knew he was right. Everything will end once they found out he was a clone, a copy of someone else. It was the reason he had kept everything secret from them, if they found out Misaka, Saten, Shirai and Uiharu would definitely leave him.

012 smiled, he found pleasure in making him miserable. "If I'm wrong attack me with your abilities, use your Replication! I must have hit you thirty times and you haven't attacked back with my power once."

Toichi and 012 stood still, neither of them moved an inch. Toichi looked down towards the ground almost in defeat, it was true his Replication ability allows him to use another person's power after coming into contact but it wasn't working properly. Why now? Why when his life was in danger it wouldn't work?

012 laughed uncontrollably while holding his sides. "Of course, you're not attacking because I'm right. You're not attacking because you can't."

Toichi looked back up at 012 in shock, did he already know Toichi couldn't fight back?

"Your Replication is used to copy another's ability but you see since I have two abilities you can't just copy one of them, you have to copy both. And you're unable to take in two powers at once, so your Replication is worthless against me. That's your second weakness."

Toichi looked at him shocked, he had figured it out. He couldn't attack because he had two abilities, Dual Skill, his reasoning was way off though. When he had been hit by 012 his Replication tries to copy both abilities at once, he has to concentrate in order to priorities one of the abilities, because of that it takes longer to copy than usual since there are two abilities at once. When he is hit again he loses the ability and tries to copy both again because he had to prioritise one over the other. It wasn't that he couldn't use his Replication ability, he just didn't have enough time to use it.

"Hmm, judging by that face I'm assuming I was right. Such a shame, you didn't even last until Anti-Skill got here."

Toichi started to chuckle to himself, 012 looked at him confused. He had won so why was Toichi laughing?

"You're about to die and you're laughing? I don't understand why you're laughing. You've lost." 012 said utterly confused by Toichi laughing like a mad man in front of him.

Toichi stopped laughing and stared at 012. "Anti-Skill is already here."

012 looked shocked, there was no way they could be here yet, they would have heard them if they were. This was a outright lie, a bluff in order to buy time. Toichi only needed to distract him for a few more seconds so he can use his power, he wouldn't get a chance like this again, 012 had already let his guard down it was time to take advantage of it. If he could do that he could win, he just had to hit 012 once and it will be all over.

012 thought it must have been a bluff but Toichi looked so clam, what did he have to gain from stalling? Nothing, he couldn't do anything. "What do I care, it's not like they can do anything to me."

"I wouldn't be so sure, shooting you would hurt pretty bad. And your electricity won't be able to stop all the bullets." Toichi said confidently. He was almost ready.

Uiharu raced up the stairs towards the Judgement office, Saten was walking behind very slowly. She was exhausted and could barely move because of the heat, it was almost like the sun had just appeared from behind a cloud and decided to shine down just on her, like a kid with a magnifying glass.

"Uiharu...hold on." Satan puffed as she walked up the stairs exhausted.

"Come on Saten-san, the room should have the air-conditioner on." Uiharu said as she walked towards the door.

Hearing the word air-conditioner suddenly filled Saten with an unlimited burst of energy, her eyes sparkled as she raced up the stairs and past Uiharu in a flash. She twisted the door knob trying to open the door but it wouldn't budge, she turned to Uiharu with a sad look on her face, she was almost crying.

"It's locked." Stan said crying.

"I have a key." Uiharu said as she pulled out a key from her back.

"You're the best Uiharu." Saten said still crying.

Toichi took in a deep breath. 'Almost there just a few more seconds' he thought as the faint sound of sirens could be heard within the cafe. 012 and Toichi both looked shocked to hear the sirens, it was obviously Anti-Skill arriving on site.

"Did you intend to keep me here until Anti-Skill arrived?" He said "You really were desperate weren't you?"

Toichi smiled at him, he was finally ready. "No that wasn't the plan, I was just stalling." He said as he clenched his fists.

012 stepped back shocked as Toichi sparked electricity all around his body. 'How the hell did he manage to copy my power?' He thought as sparks flung around the entire room.

"Wait." 012 said stepping back trying on to get hit by the blots of electricity flying around the room. "This doesn't feel the same, it's stronger. You're able to amplify power you copy?" He said worried that he had underestimated him.

Toichi grinned not saying anything, he didn't want to waste any time talking. It was time to act, time to finish this. He held out his hands in front of him, the electricity surrounding him compressed into a ball next to his hands. 012 stepped back scared, there was no way his copied power could be this strong, it was just a copy, copies cannot be stronger than the original.

The electrical ball hovered in the air next to Toichi, it was pulsing uncontrollably trying to escape from its compressed form. Toichi pushed his hands forward and the ball flung towards 012 at a magnificent speed, he jumped out of the way of the ball to avoid being hit when the ball exploded into a wall of electricity that was as big as the cafe. There was no avoiding being hit now, he'd take a direct hit from the electrical blast head on and would be destroyed.

Toichi watched as 012 was consumed by the wall of electricity, after he was hit the wall exploded leaving a thick layer of black smoke that filled the cafe and seeped out of the windows and doors. Toichi sighed as he fell to the floor exhausted, it was over, he had killed 012 before he had a chance to kill him.

"Well." Toichi said as he struggled to stand up. "I guess Anti-Skill is going to want an explanation about this."

Something moved.

Toichi quickly turned towards the direction where he heard movement, he couldn't see anything because of the smoke. He stared blankly into the thick smoke for a second before he started to stand up again.

There is was again.

Toichi heard it again, something moved, someone was here. Was it Anti-Skill? Toichi got to his feet and turned towards the direction of the sound. "Who's there? " He asked.

Lightning suddenly emerged from the smoke striking Toichi's left side.

"AHHHHH!" He yelled out in pain as the lost his balance and fell towards the ground.

As he fell he saw a figure run out of the smoke towards him, Toichi's eyes widened in shock as 012 rushed towards him with an angry face.

"ENOUGH!" 012 yelled as he grabbed Toichi's collar pulling him back up and following through with a punch to the stomach.

Saliva burst from Toichi's mouth as 012 punched him, he force of the punch was intense it felt like he was going to break. Toichi couldn't think straight anymore, his mind was a blur, he couldn't see or feel anything anymore. His eyes slowly closed and his head dropped towards the ground as his body became too heavy to hold up, he fell to the floor unconscious.

012 smiled as Toichi laid defenceless on the ground, he could hear the footsteps, possibly members of Anti-Skill running next to the cafe, he sighed as he stepped away from Toichi.

"You got lucky this time." 012 groaned as he ran into the smoke and disappeared.

Saten yawned as she laid on the couch with her feet up in the air.

"I don't know!" Uiharu yelled as she jumped out of her chair at her desk.

Saten fell to the floor from the shock of Uiharu suddenly bursting out like that. Uiharu looked at her with a blank face completely unaware that she scared Saten out of her seat.

"What's wrong Uiharu?" Saten asked as she picked herself off the floor and leapt back onto the couch.

"I can't find anything about the company Ganda-san told us about in the Garden." Uiharu complained.

"Ganda-san? That girl who cause all that trouble? If I were you I wouldn't take what she said seriously, I mean she used Fake Blood to increase her abilities so why would she rat them out?" Saten said with passion.

"You have a point there Saten-san." Uiharu said as she looked back at her desk. "Ugghh, I don't know. Maybe I'll take a little walk to clear my head."

Uiharu walked towards the door as Saten raised her hand.

"I'll pass, it's hot out there and cool in here." She moaned.

Uiharu walked out the door and closed it behind her, she then proceeded to walk down the stairs.

Toichi slowly opened his eyes, he could hardly see anything.

"Okay, one more time." Someone said.

He couldn't make out who it was, he still couldn't see anything clearly. He felt something soft touch his lips, what was it? Then he suddenly felt air blow into his mouth, was he being kissed?

He was suddenly awake. He saw a woman's face right up against his, her lips were touching his. His eyes widened as he pushed the woman off him, he coughed as he sat up trying to regain his breath.

"Good you're alright now." The woman said, she had long blue air and was weaning an Anti-Skill uniform. "Do you need a minute to recover?"

Toichi was still coughing trying to rid himself from all the smoke he inhaled. "I'm-I'm good, I think."

"Are you sure? We can call an ambulance." The woman said.

"I said I'm good." Toichi said back to her. "What happened?"

"We were hoping you'd tell us. Some girls from Tokiwadai Middle School have filled us in the events before you told everyone to evacuate but no one knows what actually happened inside."

Toichi looked down at the ground, he couldn't just say he had a fight with an evil clone of himself who wanted to kill him. That story is definitely unbelievable, not to mention it would bring up more questions. He looked back up at the woman, she looked like she was impatiently waiting for an answer.

"Umm, I had apprehended the suspect and was about to cuff him when he got the jump on me and knocked me out." He lied to her. "I guess he overpowered me in a moment of weakness."

'Wait, weakness? He kept going on about my weakness.' Tochi thought as the woman continued to talk to him. 'But he said my ability was my second weakness.' Toichi put his hands on his head as he crunched up his face trying to think what 012 meant, the woman continued talking to him but he couldn't hear her because he was too focused on his thoughts. 'Wait there was that one time.'

' "Oh, I don't think I even mentioned her. Well at least now I know you're weak point, friends are such useless things." '

Toichi suddenly jumped up to his feet, the woman stepped back a bit in shock that he had stood up so fast. "Satan-san and Uiharu-san." He said under his breath as his eyes started to water.

"Hey, you shouldn't be getting up so fast like that." The woman said as she grabbed hold of Toichi's arm. He shook her hand off and started to run away. "Hey, where are you going? I've still got questions!" She shouted.

"I'm sorry, I need to take care of something important!" Toichi yelled as he ran down the road. "I'll come into the office tomorrow and give you the full report!"

Saten walked out of the Judgement office closing the door behind her, she walked down the stairs as she noticed someone standing at the bottom of the stairs waiting. She smiled as she walked towards the chestnut brown haired boy.

"Toichi, where have you been all day?" She said smiling.

Toichi raced down the street completely out of breath, he pushed through the pain and fatigue as he continued to put one foot in front of the other. There was no time to rest, 012 was still out there, he didn't know where he might be but if he was out to destroy his life there was only one place to start. He put his hands in his pockets searching for his phone, he couldn't find it in his pockets he was in such a rush that he must have forgotten it.

As he ran he looked ahead to see the familiar building, Judgement 177 Branch Office. He hoped they weren't there today, they were all supposed to be at the Garden of Learning but who was to say they hadn't finished and left already. Toichi bit his lip as he ran up the stairs.

"Is anyone here!" He shouted as he opened the door.

He placed his hands on his knees puffing trying the catch his breath, he looked up hoping to see Misaka, Saten, Shirai and Uiharu in the room minding their own business as usual but that was just wishful thinking, actually it was far from the site that stared him dead in the face. Toichi's eyes widened as his eyes watered, he couldn't breathe. He clenched his chest where his heart was because it felt like it had stopped, he felt sick, nothing had made him feel like this before.

He looked in horror at the office that was completely destroyed, computers were reduced to nothing but scrap metal with shattered screens, the desks where now nothing but burnt wood and ash, the walls were pitch black, nothing looked the same as it was and it looked like nothing was salvageable. Toichi walked into the middle of the room in awe, he couldn't believe it everything was as he remembered yesterday but now it was all gone.

"If I had stopped him this wouldn't have happened." He said to himself.

His eyes were suddenly diverted towards a part of the walls that wasn't black, it was red. He collapsed to the ash floor holding his chest as he looked upon the splatter of red across the wall.

'Is that...blood?' He thought as he closed his eyes and screamed as loud as he could.

He crouched over and cried, tears ran down his face onto the ash covered floor. He spun around as he heard a sound behind him, someone was standing in the doorway, he couldn't make out who it was since his eyes were full of tears. He wiped away his tears to get a better look, it was Shirai, she was standing in the doorway with a shocked look on her face.

"Shirai!" Toichi yelled. "Do you know what happened here?"

Shirai's shocked face suddenly became angry in a split second, she grabbed her armband and directed an intimidating stare at Toichi.

"You're under arrest for destruction of property and attempted murder. Misaka Toichi!" She said angrily.

Toichi looked at her confused. "Huh?"

"How could you-" Shirai said clenching her fist. "How could you do that to her!" She shouted as tears ran down her face.

Toichi's eyes widened, that blood on the walls must belong to someone who was in the room at the time and by the look of Shirai it was someone close to her, someone close to him as well. Tears ran down his cheeks once again as he stared at Shirai's saddened face.

'What did...what did 012 do?'