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"Tou-san~ Misaka is bored."
"Shut the fuck up already." Accelerator replied.
"Why can't we use the front door?" Worst asked.
"The fucker is probably rigged to explode or something; let the hero deal with it." Accelerator replied. "There should be an employee entrance on the side somewhere."
"But Tou-san~ it's taking so long!" Worst said, with a grin. She knew she was being annoying; it was her goal after all.
"Then go fucking home! I don't even know why the fuck you're following me anyway!" Accelerator shouted.
"Misaka is curious about where you go at night; Misaka is making sure you're not going to strip clubs behind Misaka's back." Worst replied.
"Did you really think I'd do shit like that, especially right now? Fucking bitch, just go home." Accelerator said.
"You would dismiss me already? Tou-san is mean." Worst replied. "Without Misaka, you'd get caught and killed within five minutes."
"Tch, yeah fucking right…" Accelerator turned toward the wall next to him and flipped on his switch, and then kicked the wall, using his Vector Change to ramp up the force, demolishing it.
"Tou-san is getting impatient~ be careful, you might explode too early…"
"Shut up already. Keep up or go home!" Accelerator shouted as he walked into the hole he had made. Worst could only grin as she followed the Number One esper, much to the said esper's annoyance.
-Gilgamesh's Location-
Crash. Boom. Crash. Thud.
"Whew… the straight down approach worked." Gilgamesh said.
"Y-yeah…" Enkidu nervously replied. "Wow… it's so dark… I can't see a thing." The only reason they could see anything at all is from the daylight from the hole they made.
"Hrm… let's see…" Gilgamesh mused, and made a fireball in his hand to create more light. The floor was a pale white, and although about three meters around were lit up, it was still dark all around them. Gilgamesh threw the fireball in a random direction and saw it light up… and eventually go so far it vanished from sight, the sound of a small boom arriving about ten seconds later. "Whew… a lot of ground to cover… looked a lot smaller above…"
"What should we do? We can't exactly see where we are going… and we have no idea where the door is..."
"Well... this is a problem… and heading back the way we came isn't an option… well, at least for me." Gilgamesh scratched his head. "Well… if we walk till he hit a wall, and follow said wall, we will eventually find something like a door. I don't see many other options…"
"True… I just hope we can find our way fast. This place… feels wrong…"
-Touma's Location-
"Who the hell puts dynamite on their front door!?" Touma shouted.
"Obviously someone who doesn't want company…" Mikoto replied.
"I think it goes a little bit farther than just that…" Touma sighed.
"The entry way into a secure military complex; of course it's trapped somehow." Stiyl said.
"Oh shut up already…" Touma sighed. He then looked around, noting that like the outside, the inside was kept in order. It was as if time stopped. It seemed somewhat creepy that a supposedly abandoned building was so clean and organized.
"I don't like the way this place feels…" Mikoto said.
"Same… let's find our way and get this done as soon as possible." Touma replied. After a little bit of searching, they found a steel door with an electronic lock. Like the rest of the facility, it was in working order, and as such, locked. "No use… it won't budge."
"Hold on… I can hack the lock, I just need a minute." Mikoto said, removing the electronic lock's console. Before she could do anything, massive flames blasted the door down, and Stiyl started walking forward, down the revealed staircase."
"They already know we are here, trying to sneak around is pointless." Stiyl said.
"R-right…" Touma replied. They started down the long staircase until they ran into another door that Stiyl once again blasted down. It led into a dark room.
"Where… are we?" Mikoto asked.
"It must be the basement Aleister was talking about… watch your step…" Touma answered, slowly making his way out into the room, with his partners following closely. With an odd sound; the light from the staircase they just descended had vanished; the door had been fixed. "What the hell!?" Touma turned around and ran for the door; it had indeed been reconstructed, because he was standing on the old one.
"It fixed itself?" Mikoto asked.
"No… a new one re-appeared in its place." Touma answered. A strange buzzing sound seemed to come from all around, as a large flash of light filled the entire area. It must have lingered for at least ten seconds before fading away, and what they saw next astounded them
It was like they had stepped into a completely different world. The way back seemed to have vanished, but the entire area lit up. The sky appeared a natural blue, occasionally flashing a dim purple tint, but with occasional bolts of electricity streaming off, making patterns like circuit boards. They came and went in sequences, at a rate that made it seem almost like a heartbeat. On occasion, streams of random figures and symbols of data could be seen streaming down and vanishing. It felt like a completely digital world. The white floor seemed to have risen on both sides of them, making a straight narrow path for them to follow, with the walls of this path not even appearing solid, more like glass. Strange symbols and figures were on them and they would pulse on occasion, and glow all sorts of different colors.
"I-it's… I don't know why but… it looks so beautiful… yet unnatural…" Mikoto said, looking around.
"…The Breath of Creation." Stiyl said. "A spell said to have been used by God when he created this existence… this experiment wasn't just a research project to develop easily made goods or new lives; it was an experiment to replicate the miracle of the creation of life… that flash of light wasn't the lights coming on... it was literally this world coming into existence…"
"The only thing the same is the floor… everything else must be created with DST… it must also be able to influence the height of the floor…" Touma said. "Dynamo is making his move…"
"Then let's go. We don't want to get stuck inside this… fictional world." Mikoto said. "That Dynamo wouldn't seal us off completely; there must be a way to get to where we need to go."
"…Right." Touma said as the group started to walk down the path created for them.
-Accelerator's Location-
"Tou-san? What the hell is all of this?" Worst took notice the moment they made their way into the basement of the strange surroundings. Unlike Touma's group, there were multiple paths, with no real rhyme or reason to them.
"They're leftovers from another project." Accelerator answered briefly. "It's a fucking maze… pain in my ass."
"Why don't we just blast down the walls?"
"Because unlike upstairs, down here any one of these could be the power generator; we could kill the fucking lights and have to fuck around in the dark just to find out way." Accelerator replied.
"So Misaka should blow everything up?" Worst asked with a smirk.
"Do it and I'll beat the shit out of you. Stupid brat." Accelerator shot back.
"You're no fun Tou-san…" Worst sighed. "Where are we going to go then? Misaka doesn't like this fake existence."
"…Down this one; entrance to this floor from the facility map was south, so where we need to go should be north." Accelerator said, pointing to his left.
"And what if that way leads to a dead end?" Worst asked.
"We jump over the fucking wall; no fucking roofs in sight you know." Accelerator gruffly answered.
-Gilgamesh's Location-
Unlike the previous two, Gilgamesh was in a wide open area, no walls in sight. He stood in this open area, while Enkidu was practically dancing all around, looking.
"Oh wow! Look at it!" She said. "It's so beautiful… it is, right Sir Gilgamesh?" She asked in joy. Gilgamesh didn't respond. "Sir Gilgamesh?" She asked again, still without a reply. "Sir Gilgamesh… is something wrong…?" She asked nervously.
"Ha… haaaa… haaaaaa…" Escaped Gilgamesh's mouth, and then he suddenly took a deep breath. "AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" He screamed, suddenly grabbing Enkidu's arm and running as fast as he could in a random direction.
"S-Sir Gilgamesh!?" She screamed, being forced along.
"How did it happen how did it happen…" Gilgamesh chanted like a mantra. "I've spent so long avoiding it…"
"W-what are you talking about!?" Enkidu franticly shouted.
" After all these years… HOW DID I GET STUCK IN THE RIFT AGAAAAAAAAAAAAAAIIIIIINNNNNN!?" Gilgamesh shouted as he ran, noticeable tears of depression in his eyes.
-Central Processing-
"A few modifications for our guests… and the traps in the maze are complete!" Dynamo said, currently being in a completely different area than the main researcher's office, Shurui's location, mostly for the influence. The Central Processing Center, the place Dynamo was keeping himself busy with the main computer, where the main computer is stored for control of the DST equipment. "Now… what should I make for a challenge…"
"How is it going, Dynamo?" A radio transmission from Shurui.
"It's all set. It's just a matter of making and placing the things for our guests to enjoy!" Dynamo answered.
"Will I have enough time to set up Endless Fiction?" Shurui asked.
"Set-up? Definitely. To gather up the magical energy to cast it… I'd wait until our associates are down for the count. It'd be too close of a call in the best-case scenario. Some of our guests are… unexpected. I'll bide you as much time as I possibly can."
"Good…" Shurui said. After a small pause, she spoke again. "…Thank you. Thank you for your support, Dynamo…"
"…Don't worry about it." The Plasma Caster answered. "One way or another; there will be a happy ending to this story of ours."
-Touma's Location-
"It opened up…" Touma said, observing the area the path had led them. It was a rather open area, with multiple paths out; the room looked like it could hold about fifty people.
"This room… it looks kind of like… an arena." Stiyl said.
"An arena?" Mikoto asked. No sooner that she said that, a low growl was heard down one of the paths. A large green lizard of sorts slowly lumbered out, his long neck reaching out into the area before its winged back and tail made its way. Once outside, it stood on its hind legs and spread its wings, letting out a massive roar, and appeared to breathe fire. The creature's identity was un-mistakable; it was a dragon. It suddenly charged at the trio, who moved out of the way as the dragon rammed into the narrow pathway.
"W-what the hell is that thing!?" Touma shouted.
"It's a dragon you idiot! Look out!" Mikoto shouted as the dragon charged again, aiming for Touma. The Imagine Breaker in question rolled out of the way, just narrowly dodging a powerful bite from the large behemoth. Touma got onto his feet quickly and tried his best to put as much distance away from the large creature and him as possible. The dragon roared and a massive flame erupted from its mouth, the great wave of fire racing toward Touma. On instinct, Touma held out his right hand as the fire preyed upon him, and despite the fact that a dragon breathing fire should have been a natural event, a loud cracking sound was hard as the flames made contact and moved around, eventually vanishing completely, and in response the dragon roaring again.
"I-it worked…?" Touma asked, clutching his right hand. It was completely unharmed, like it always is.
"Touma! Look out!" Mikoto shouted as the dragon charged again. But instead of moving to the side, Touma stood his ground.
"If the fire produced by its body can be negated then…!" As Touma as about to be head-on rammed, he pulled back his fist and slammed it into the large dragon's nose, and almost immediately, it stopped. A loud cracking sound was heard, and with a roar the dragon began to dissolve into blue streams of data, floating into the sky until there was nothing left, and its loud cries of pain finally vanished. With a relieved sigh, Touma slumped back against a wall, leaning and eventually sitting.
"Touma, are you alright?" Mikoto asked.
"Yeah… I'm fine. Just stressed out, I thought I was really going to die there." Touma replied.
"How did you know your right arm would work?" Mikoto asked.
"I didn't… it was just a hunch…" Touma replied. "If a dragon's fire is produced by its body, not magic or anything like that… it would be a completely natural reaction, so my Imagine Breaker shouldn't have been able to negate it. But it did… so I took a guess." Touma opened and closed his right hand. "It's what Aleister was talking about… even though these things are produced through a scientific reaction, it must still be supernatural enough to fall under the Imagine Breaker's jurisdiction."
"But how did they even get a dragon to work like that… experimentation to find out how dragon's work?" Mikoto mused, helping Touma up.
"No, more than likely information from Aleister about dragons… they are very real." Stiyl said, lighting up a cigarette. "Or at least they used to be… they are extinct, but Aleister has been around long with to probably have information on them."
"I see… this world of magic combining with science is so confusing…" Mikoto said.
"The important part here, however, is that the Imagine Breaker was able to negate the dragon's existence… which means anything created with the DST can be killed and destroyed by it." Stiyl said.
"…So no matter what Dynamo throws at us, we can take it down." Touma replied. "He probably knows that… where do we go now? There are three paths."
"The dragon probably was guarding the way… we should stick together, you never know what will happen, something could be created that only the Imagine Breaker can kill." Stiyl said.
"Right… and who knows how big this place is, we could get lost really easy…" Mikoto commented.
"This maze is going to be a problem…" Touma sighed. "Such misfortune."
-Dynamo's Location-
"The little Imagine Breaker even works in this fictional world I have created… I guess the power of God truly has no influence over it." Dynamo leaned back in his chair. "…Born to kill God, huh…?" Dynamo's thoughts turned toward that thing that he had awoken. "I wonder what it's like… to house multiple beings within your body…"
"Progress report." Shurui asked via the radio.
"Just as we thought; the Imagine Breaker works on things made by the DST." Dynamo replied.
"Understood… got any ideas?"
"I have loads of creatures and things loaded up and ready to go, and I can make more. Just need to plan…" Dynamo replied. "Speaking of which; how goes your little project that's based on the DST?"
"Excellent… if needed, I can show our guests my Little Diablo." Shurui replied in an amused tone. "I know you dislike him, but I find him quite cute!"
"It. Has. Toad. Eyes." Dynamo said. "There is NOTHING cute about that thing!"
"You're just scared because I give it more attention than you."
"No; I'm scared because it looks like it might eat me." Dynamo replied.
"You always dislike my pets…" Shurui wined.
"Your pets always try and kill me." Dynamo replied with an annoyed tone.
"Not my fault you're bad with animals…"
"Your 'little Diablo,' is not an animal!" Dynamo shot back. The line went silent for a moment.
"…What do we do if this doesn't work, Dynamo?" Shurui asked, suddenly sounding serious.
"Are you having second thoughts?"
"No… it's just… what do we do if this fails?" Shurui asked again.
"…Then we try it again somewhere else." Dynamo replied.
"Are you sure you want to follow me to cause more pain again?" Shurui asked. Dynamo paused for a moment before replying.
"If the pain can bring about an end to all pain, then it is a pain worth suffering through."
And where we are again... what are your guy's thoughts so far on this story? Has it met, exceeded, or fallen short of your expectations so far? Let me know in a review! I'm very interested! Have a good day everyone, thanks for reading! ^^
