Gate: So the JSDF and Espers fought there.
James Lee
Disclaimer: Neither Gate or Railgun/Index are owned by me. "Gate: So The Defense Force Fought" is owned by Sentai Filmworks and "A Certain Scientific Railgun/Magical Index" and "Durarara!" is owned by Funamation.
"Imperial Language"
"Elvish"
[electronic Transmission]
Chapter 11
"Sure, I don't think that'll be a problem," Kuribayashi sighed in relief on hearing that as she too quickly realized how crowded it was going to be. "Well let's all go over and have ourselves a nice relaxing bath."
"I'm all for that!" said Mikoto, not realizing she would soon run into some more friends.
Inn Changing Room:
Mikoto walked into the changing room to see a familiar platinum blond girl starting to undress. "Chibi-nun?"
"Short Hair?" asked the platinum blond, who was dressed in a white nun's habit that was held together with safety pins.
"Is she someone you know Misaka?" asked Kuribayashi,
"Well, yeah. I've met her a few times back in Academy City. Her name is Index."
"You mean like in a book?" asked Risa.
"My full name is Index Librorum Prohibitorum," said the girl. Misaka then turned to her. "Hey If you're here, that means that idiot is here too."
"Who, Toma? Yeah he's next door."
"Who's Toma?" asked Rory.
"Umm…Just this guy I know," said a nervous Misaka. 'Interesting…' thought the Apostle. As Mikoto started to take off her clothes she asked. "So, I've been gone for the past three months. How's he been doing? Not that I care or anything…"
"He's actually been doing pretty good."
"Oh, really? How many times has he been sent to the hospital?"
"Only eight times!"
"Only eight? Wow, he is doing good," said Mikoto, while everyone else thought; 'Only EIGHT!?'
A short while later the group was outside looking over the bath. Shino looked on proudly as the girls from the special region looked at the bath in awe.
"Isn't it great?" asked Shino smiling.
"To think this revolutionary bathhouse existed in our world," said the princess.
"Your Highness, this is a different world," Bozes reminded her.
"It looks like all the spring became hot water," said Tuka, her ears twitching in excitement.
"A bath after one week," said Risa happily. Her apartment hadn't had hot water sense the gas had been turned off for negligent payment.
"This is the first time I've enter a bath with this large a quantity of hot water," said Lelei as Rory tested the water with her hand. Smiling the Apostle was just about to step in when she was grabbed from behind.
"WAIT A MOMENT! You must wash your body before!" said Shino, pulling the girl back. She then noticed Mikoto looking off into the distance.
"Something wrong Misaka-chan?" asked Kuribayashi.
"Oh, it's nothing," Misaka quickly said. 'Not yet anyway,' thought the girl frowning.
Meanwhile at the Ministry of Defense Regional Command Center in Tokyo…
[Archer; A1, A2 and A3 have been eliminated. Clear] came the voice over the radio. Inside the command center a man in a suit and an officer were watching the battle on screen as several other soldiers were passing on orders to the troops.
"To think combat has become like this, lieutenant Colonel Ryuuzaki," said the man in the suit. This man was the minister of defense.
"The type of encounter you are thinking about only happens in movies and developing countries," said the Colonel. "Modern warfare mainly consists of either an unconventional mix of police activity and guerrilla warfare like the war in Afghanistan or it can be similar Iraq with a blitz against an enemy's strategic assets. The operation taking place in the Sankai Resort is of the former type."
"Hmm, so how are the guests doing?" asked the Minister.
"They are currently using the open-air bath. Should we put it on screen."
"Permis…Maybe not," said the minister as several of the female soldiers in the room glared at them. "Minister, Lt. Colonel that's sexual harassment!"
Still some of the other officers had already put the bath on screen showing the thermal image of several females nearby. The screen then flickered and the thermal images disappeared.
"What the hell was that!?" asked the colonel.
"Something's jamming the camera."
"Is it the enemy?"
"Unknown sir, only the cameras aimed at the bath are effected."
Back at the bath house…
"What is it Rory?" asked Kuribayashi as she noticed the girl looking around. "It felt like someone was looking at us."
"WHAT!? Is someone peeping on us!" Shino yelled. 'Could it be our commander!?'
"Peeping?" asked the princess.
"A voyeur," answered Lelei. "I didn't have to worry about anyone peeking on me. No one ever stopped to look when I was washing myself at the village's well."
"Oh, I see."
"It's a drone," said Mikoto. "Don't worry I took care of it."
"Mikoto, what did you do?" asked her mother.
"I just put their imaging in a loop. All they're seeing now is an empty bath house."
Just then another woman entered the bath area. The others turned to see a foreign woman with long blond hair. She was dressed in a towel and had a pleasant smile on her face. "Oh, excuse me. I wasn't expecting it to be so crowded. I hope you don't mind me joining you."
"Umm, sure no problem," said Kuribayashi, eyeing the woman. She wasn't quite sure she could trust this foreign woman yet, considering what had been happening with their group lately. The woman smiled as she went to the sinks and started to undo her hair to wash it.
"Whoa lady, you got some serious hair going on there," said Mikoto as she saw the woman's hair. Now that it was undone if looked to be almost twice the length of her body. Misaka wonder just how long it took to grow that much. "Umm, isn't a pain the ass to maintain that much?"
"It can be a hassle at times, but I do love it so, I'm Laura by the way." Answered the woman.
"Oh, I'm Mikoto Misaka," said the girl, as Index turned to look at them.
Index's eyes widen at the sight of the woman and she was just about to blurt something out, when the woman looked directly at her and brought a finger to her lips. For a time, Index had had her memory periodically erased, but the church had made sure that she retained certain pieces of information. In addition to the 103,000 books, St. John's church, basic church knowledge, beliefs, and practices; they also made sure she remembered the upper leadership of the Church of England. 'What's the Archbishop doing here!?' she thought franticly.
Meanwhile on the other side…
Itami and Tomita had checked in and met Dr. Shinra in the room. After introductions the three, entered the bath area to see a teenage boy with black hair already soaking. "Umm, hello?"
"Oh, we didn't know there were other guest here. I'm Youji Itami; these two are Akira Tomita and Dr. Kishitani," said the Lieutenant to which the doctor followed; "Just call me Shinra."
"I'm Toma Kamijo," said the boy. Toma had once again gotten involved in a mess, and had pissed off some of the board of directors. So, his teacher had once again order him to leave Academy City, and of course Index had to come along. He then looked at the man named Itami. "Wait didn't I see you on TV yesterday?"
"Umm, yeah that was me," said Itami Nervously.
"Does that mean the girls from the special region are here?"
"Yes, they're next door right now," answered Tomita with narrowed eyes. Oddly, instead of being excited, boy looked annoyed. "What's with the face kid?"
"Oh, it's nothing," said Toma, while dreading what could be coming. The last two times he went somewhere, some craziness went down. Now he was at an inn with VIPs from another world. This did not bode well. 'Okay maybe I'm being a little paranoid, just because there are special people here doesn't mean there's going to be an attack or anything. Yeah, the government probably got this place well defended,' thought the boy in wishful thinking.
"So where are you from?" asked Shinra. "Are you here with your family?"
"Oh, no. Me and friend are here from Academy City."
"Oh, like Misaka?" asked Shinra.
Toma blinked. He hadn't seen Mikoto in several months and nobody seemed to know where she was. To tell the truth he was starting to get a little worried. "You know Zapper?"
"Zapper is that what you call here!?" laughed Itami. "Oh, we should start calling her that."
"Not unless you like being electrocuted. So how do you know Misaka."
"She's the esper who supports our unit in the Special Zone. She's here by the way," said the officer.
'What's Zapper doing fighting in the Special Zone!?' thought Toma, before he recalled the second thing the man said. Toma's eye started to twitch as realized that he, index, the SDF, some important extraterrestrial VIPs, and now Mikoto Misaka were now all in the same place. His brain cells started to go into a panic as they went to DEFCON 4.
"Hey kid, are sure youryou're okay? Your face is looking kind of weird."
"Yeah, just a slight headache." Keep telling yourself that Toma.
A Little later…
Lelei entered a small room that the inn offered as a private office space. The others were playing games in the arcade. As the princess and Bozes had enter in a game call "Ping Pong" with Kuribayashi and Tomita, she had excused herself. The game involved launching a small white ball at the other team by hitting it with a paddle. It was an odd game as it seemed as the princess' team was hitting Tomita with the little white ball repeatedly, but all the points were going to his team.
Putting the game out of her mind, Lelei pulled out a folded piece of paper. When she had left the bath, she had found a note among her cloths. It had "open privately" on top of it written in her native language. Lelei took out her new lightning powered notebook and started following the instructions in the note. After opening something call "Vid-chat" and going through several passwords, she found herself looking at the image of a man looking back at her. The man seemed to be wearing a robe and had long white hair. For some odd reason, the image of the man was upside down.
[Good evening, Miss Lelena. I'm so happy to meet you,] said the man in her own language. "Who are you?" asked the girl. She was slightly unnerved by the man's seemingly mechanical voice.
[A sage, much like yourself.]
"Why have you contacted me?"
[The same reason you scoured all those book stores in Shinjuku, curiosity. I would like to know more about you and your world.] Lelei hesitated, could she really trust this strange man? The fact that he seemed to have intimate knowledge of her whereabouts and activities during the day, put her on edge slightly. The man then continued; [I'm sure you have questions about our world. As a sage, I know you can't ignore some of the things you have seen here. Perhaps we can share information and ideas.]
Lelei narrowed her eyes. "Yes, maybe we can."
At the same time in another part of the inn…
Rory followed Index as she led her down the hall. After Lelei had excused herself, the girl had approached the apostle and asked to come with her. Seeing no harm in it, she left the others to their games and went with the platinum blond. Coming to a door, Index knocked.
"Enter" Came a voice from the other side of the door.
Index open the door, saying; "I've brought her as you asked your holiness."
Rory raised her eye at that. She had seen how the girl was dressed before the bath and felt she was a priestess of some sort. Entering the room, she found herself facing the lady with the long hair that had joined them in the bath. The woman smiled at the sight of the apostle. "Thank you Index. Please leave us to our privacy."
Index bowed to the woman and left the room. After the door closed, Rory turned to the woman and smirked. "Your holiness?"
"Yes, I am the Archbishop of her church. You could say I'm currently traveling in secret."
"I see. So, what can I do for you?"
"Oh, I just was hoping to hear you views on religion."
"Sure, why not."
Yet, little later still…
A nervous Tomita and Shinra could only stair at the grown man laid down on the floor, waving his arms and kicking his legs like a ten year old throwing a tantrum. Which was pretty much what Itami was doing. "Ahhh, I want to stay here until New Years!"
"You know we can't do that sir," said Tomita, while trying to stay alert. After their bath, Misaka had quietly told them about what she sensed outside. Suddenly there was a banging at the door. Both of the soldiers jumped up and stood in front the doctor, ready for whatever was to come. The door slammed to the side to reveal an intoxicated Kuribayashi and Rory.
"You MEN! You're coming with us!" growled the drunk Kuribayashi.
"Yeah, you're coming with us!" Parroted Rory. The woman then dragged the two men out into the hall. Shinra decided to follow to see what was going on. As the they head towards the girl's room, Itami saw MisikaMisaka and the little platinum blond dragging a clawing and screaming Toma by the ankles into the room.
"That's it girls! Show that boy who's boss!" yelled Shino. Once inside the room the men saw all the girls drinking and eating snacks. Even Misaka and Lelei, were sipping beers, while the platinum blond girl was stuffing her face with snacks. Tuka was already down for the count.
"Umm, Miss Bozes, your yukata…" said Tomika trying to not look to much at woman's partially open robe. The blond girl looked down at herself.
"What, do you want to see more?" asked the drunk knight opening her yukata even more, revealing her undergarments. Tomita's eyes widen before a pillow was thrown into his face.
"PERVERT! I know you plan to take her back to the futon storage area and do this and that during the night! Don't you!?" A short while later, Itami saw Tomita sitting in the corner in gloom.
"Hey Lieutenant, I have a request," said Shino holding a large bottle of sake.
"What is it?" asked Itami nervously.
"Please introduce me to someone in the special forces group,!" said Kuribayashi.
"The special forces, why?"
"I wanna get married."
"Married? Well I suppose about half of them are single."
"Then, there shouldn't be any problem!" said the sergeant ripping open her yukata revealing a camouflage bra. "Someone like me with real battle experience would be a perfect wife for them! I'd heal their tired body from secret missions with my these breast of mine!"
"Ok, ok, I get it. Many of them do have a hard time finding a wife. I guess I can ask the brass about this," said Itami while thinking. 'Those aren't muscles?'
"ALRIGHT!" yelled Shino, pumping her fist in the air. Unfortunately, while doing so, she socked the lieutenant in the jaw. "Sorry, did I hit you?"
A slightly tipsy Misaka then turned to the woman with glasses. "Hey Risa, you're kind of stupid, you know that?"
"NANI!?"
"You said you divorced your husband because he didn't understand how you felt. Don't you know no man understands how a woman feels?"
"That's my little girl! Mama thought you well!"
"Take this jackass for example," Misaka continued pointing at Toma. "He's got women crawling all over him and doesn't know what to do with any of them. Instead he spends all his time with the one that eats like a horse!"
"HEY! I do not eat like a horse!"
"The hell you don't! You should see yourself pack away groceries. If you had a theme song it go: nom, nom, nom, nom, NOM, NOM, NOM! Why I've even seen her you try to eat him a few times."
"Hey, let's keep it clean!"
"No! No! I mean literally. I've seen her chomping down on his skull; like a zombie trying to get to the brains." Misaka turned back to the nun. "You know there's nothing in there, right?"
"I know," answered the nun as Toma joined Tomita in the corner gloom.
"Misaka, these two are from the same city as you. Do they also have powers?" asked Lelei.
Mikoto looked thoughtful for a minute. "I don't know about Chibi-nun here. As for Toma he's listed as a level zero which is supposed to mean he has no power at all. But that's bullshit! He actually has a power that's out of this world."
Lelei raised an eyebrow. "Out of this world?"
"Yeah, watch this. HEY IDIOT, HEAD'S UP!" Toma looked up just in time to see a bolt of lightning headed for his face.
"What hell Zapper!" the boy yelled canceling the attack with his right hand. 'His hand destroyed lightning!?' thought the princess.
"I see," said the mage sending a spell at the boy, that was also cancelled. Bozes eyes widen as she thought; 'It works on magic too!?'
"Cut it out!"
"Interesting, right?" said the esper, throwing another bolt at the boy.
"STOP IT!"
Lelei nodded throwing another spell. "Very."
"NO!"
"You know; ? This use to really piss me off, but actually kind of fun," said Misaka sending out another shock.
"WHAT!?"
"Yes, I could do this for hours," agreed Lelei, as she sent another spell in his direction.
"HOURS!? Dirty, Rotten, Lousy, Lu…AHHHH!" Toma jumped away just as a large axe imbedded itself in floor right where he'd been sitting.
"Aww, you didn't stop it," pouted Rory.
"My right arm works on powers, NOT WEAPONS!"
"AND THAT'S WHY I'M THE MONKEY KING!" Mizusu suddenly yelled out. Mikoto sighed. "Okay Mama, time to go to bed."
"Aw, I don't wanna…" said the woman dozing off.
"Hey, Anri can you help me?"
"Sure," said the girl, helping Mikoto left her mother up. Celty decided to follow them. Once they got to the room, they broke out the futons. After Misaka had tucked her mother in, she turned to the teenager and her face became very serious.
"Anri, I know you're not normal."
"W-What!?"
"Even in the bath, I could feel some sort of metal moving through your body," said Mikoto. Seeing the look on the girl's face she continued. "Relax, if you haven't noticed yet, I'm not exactly ordinary myself. I'm just going to ask you a simple question and I want a simple answer. Can you two fight?"
"Can we fight?" asked Anri, turning to Celty. Celty pulled out her cell phone. [Why do you want to know?]
Misaka looked at the window. "There's a battle going on all around us right now."
"A-A battle?" Mikoto nodded. "I've been listening to their radio chatter all night. So I need to know, if it spills over into inn, do I have to defend you too?"
"I've been in a few fights and Cetly's very strong," Anri answered.
Mikoto nodded. "Okay, get yourself some rest. I'm going to take first watch."
Anri nodded and laid down on her futon. She then went to sleep, only to wake up to Mikoto shaking her.
"Get up!" said the girl in a whispered tone.
"W-What is it?"
"We've been ratted out!"
To be Continued...
