1:49 PM

"Dammit!" Touma said before he gritted his teeth. "Come on, let's go before something worse happens!"

Touma ran ahead. Stiyl tossed his cigarette to the ground and stepped on while he followed him.

"That's my line," the tall magician bitterly said.

"What the hell was that?!" Mikoto said as she swung her head in the direction of the loud noise.

"Misaka thinks it may be an explosion, Misaka says explaining her simple deduction."

"Rally up the sisters."

#10039 nodded and ran off looking for her machine gun that seemed to have been misplaced. Meanwhile Mikoto jogged over to Kuroko who shouted something into her rectangular device.

"Uiharu, Abicus has escaped custody! I need you to be on the lookout in case he escapes to an area out of our range."

"You can count on me!" Uiharu replied.

Kuroko put her device in her pocket. She felt a hand on left shoulder. She turned around to face Mikoto.

"I'm coming wi-"

"No." Kuroko coldly interrupts. "I keep telling you that citizens have no place in these kinds of battles. As a Judgement officer, I cannot allow you to partake in this fight, even if you are Academy City's 3rd ranked Level 5."

"Oh come on Kuroko! Now's not the time to argue about this..."

Mikoto's voice trailed off as Kuroko pointed with her head to the fleeting groups of Judgement and Anti-Skill officers. It was true, as a member of Judgement, it was Kuroko's responsibility to protect citizens of Academy City, including Mikoto Misaka.

However, things would be different if she just happened to be in the neighborhood.

Mikoto almost smiled when she caught on to Shirai's plan.

(Kuroko, you sly bitch!) she mentally noted while forcing a serious look on her face.

"And sissy, keep in mind that you are very sick. If anything were to happen to you, I'd never forgive myself."

What that really meant was,

"We can't be seen going there together. Find another way to catch up."

Kuroko leaned in to kiss Mikoto but was blocked by a palm to the face.

"Just get out of here!" Mikoto yelled.

*FWISH!*

(I should try hacking their frequency again. Shouldn't be too difficult for Academy City's #1 electromaster.)

As she pulled her phone out, Mikoto turned around and ran off.

The heroes from Z-City turned their forward to the direction of the explosion. They didn't realize that they have been subconsciously been instructed to walk several meters away from the alley. This was to prevent them from noticing Touma and Stiyl sneaking into Abicus' car.

"It appears we are needed," said Bang.

"Looks like it," agreed Atomic Samurai as he scratched the back of his head.

"And here I thought this would be a simple retrieval mission," said Speed-o'-Sound Sonic with a creepy smile. "Now here's something that'll relieve my boredom."

"Probably some terrorist," said Tatsumaki.

Saitama looked around inquisitively.

"Does anybody else notice we're in an entirely different place than we were a few minutes ago?"

Mumen Rider nervously looked around. He slapped the sides of his head with his hands.

"My bike!" he screamed. Then he ran down the street.

"Yo know, literally any of us can get it for you faster than you can to conserve ti-" Fubuki yelled.

"Go without me! I'll catch up!"

"Well alright then."

"It appears you are correct sensei," Genos says. "But we don't have the time to worry about such trivial matters."

Several Anti-Skill officers and some Judgement members jumped into military grade vans and drove off.

A young man with short spiky orange hair, brown eyes and freckles walked up to the group.

"Uh," he nervously says as Judgment members and Anti-Skill officers darted past him. "This is a matter for Judgment and Anti-Skill members. I can't allow you to get involved in this."

"We don't recall needing your permission," Tatsumaki stated as her tiny body became lit in a light green hue. She flew above him and headed towards the location of the bomb. Fubuki as well as the Fubuki group glow blue and follow Tatsumaki.

Four mechanical legs grew from Child Emperor's backpack and he quickly strided away. Speed-o'-Sound Sonic dashed ahead at a blinding speed. Genos followed using his palms thrusters. Saitama, Bang, and Puri-Puri Prisoner holding a sobbing Atomic Samurai close to his chest leapt into the air and hopped on buildings.

The young man stood still with his finger pointing up and his mouth opened as if he wanted to say something.

"...Well okay then…I did my job."

Accelerator walked down the suspiciously deserted street using his cane for support. Suddenly, an explosive noise reached his ears.

(What the hell?)

He stared at the protruding gray cloud about four blocks away to his left. To his surprise, a muscular man wearing a striped prison outfit is jumping along with some sort of robot, some guy with white hair and…

Accelerator's posture straightened as he noticed a certain caped bald man soaring through the sky.

A sadistic smile appeared across his face.

(Neat.) He thought as he pressed a button on the choker styled electrode on his neck.

Speed-o'-Sound Sonic was the first to arrive to the scene of destruction, naturally. The debris of broken streetlights and vehicles along with a few limbs littered the streets. The atmosphere was soaked in pessimism. Speed-o'-Sound scoffed at the sight.

Suddenly, he heard a moan and quickly turned his head to the direction it came.

Suitahana weakly raised his bloodied left arm. The rest of his body pinned under a destroyed car.

"Is someone…is someone there…?"

Suitahana was not asking because he heard Speed-o'-Sound Sonic's footsteps. Most of his hearing was obliterated by the explosion he took head on. Nor was it because he saw him either. His eyes were burned by the flames of the explosion. Even though they were halfway closed, dark, ring like objects were visible.

Speed-o'-Sound Sonic ran over to the boy. He looked down with a stoic expression.

"...Is anyone... thereeeee?"

"You poor, poor creature..."

"Anyone…? Pleasssssse...help me…"

After a moment, Speed-o'-Sound Sonic knelt on a knee and lightly grabs the boy's charred hand. A weak smile slowly formed across his burned cheeks.

"Hellllp?"

Speed-o'-Sound Sonic unsheathed the dagger on his back with his free hand.

"...Yes."

Genos screeched to a halt as he sees Speed-o'-Sound Sonic staring at the ground.

"Speed-o'-Sound, we do not have time for sightseeing. We must-"

Upon closer inspection, a heavily damaged body laid face down next to his feet in a puddle of red liquid.

"Ah. Mercy kill."

"Yep. Better to end his suffering than to draw it out."

Genos scanned the body.

"But I'm not entirely sure if I made the right choi-"

"He's still alive."

Speed-o'-Sound Sonic turns to Genos with shrunken pupils.

"...What?"

He returns his gaze to Suitahana who appeared to be choking. Speed-o'-Sound Sonic sliced his throat but it appears he did not finish what he intended to.

"And according to my scanners, all he needed was some medical attention. This city has more than enough methods of preserving life at a state this close to death including cybernetic enhancements that, according to the teenaged police force Judgement, would have been provided to him for free due to his services."

There was a long pause between the two.

"...FUCK. Cyborg, lift this car up for me-"

"It's too late now. He will die within the minute. Even if you get him to a hospital, there wouldn't even be enough time for the doctors to set up their equipment."

Another pregnant pauses plagued the two. Speed-o'-Sound looked down with an indifferent expression but his disposition did not tell the full story.

"It' would have been different if he wasn't able to be saved. Hpmh, I guess there's no such thing as redemption for a villain like me. But whatever."

Genos walked over to Speed-o'-Sound Sonic and put a hand on his shoulder as Suitahana gagged.

Saitama saw Genos and Speed-o'-Sound Sonic several feet below him as he soars through the air.

"Hey guys!" he shouts putting both hands next to his mouth to create a makeshift megaphone. "You can poke dead bodies later! We've got a bad guy to punch…"

Saitama goes out of sight as he leapt off a building.

"...now!"

Saitama heard a wail from Speed-o'-Sound Sonic.

"...What happened?"

"Sonic stepped on some sharp glass."

Seconds later, the group minus Mumen Rider arrived at an area littered with passed out Anti-Skill and Judgement members. Destroyed vans and armored suits laid scattered across the road as tiny flames brighten the scenery.

"Maybe now would be a good time to start mercy killing…" Speed-o'-Sound Sonic said to no one in particular.

"Stop," objected Genos immediately.

"Hey, look," Tatsumaki exclaims pointing forward. A brown haired girl with pigtails was frozen solid in a block of ice.

"Oh," Saitama said casually. "That's Teleporting Girl."

"What?"

"Yeah, this city seems to be full of superpowered children. I was actually attacked by one who threw a building at me."

"...I think I'd like to meet that one."

The group jogged over to the frozen girl who had her hands at her sides as if she was scared by something she saw in a horror movie.

"Poor thing," Puri-Puri Prisoner said as he rubbed his cheek.

Child Emperor scratched his chin as he stared at the frozen solid girl. He then touched a segment of the ice right under her breast with his mechanical claw leg.

"The hell. Are you doing?" Tatsumaki questioned.

"Locating the pressure locusts," he replied as he moved his claws on several other locating around the block of ice. "Bang, if you attack here, here, here, and here, using a mid tier strength attack, you should be able to free the girl without destroying the bod-"

Saitama knocked on the block of ice with the knuckles above his index and middle fingers. The ice was instantly shattered which released the girl from her icy prison. She fell to her knees and gasped.

"...Or that. That works too."

"Hey, Teleporting Girl," Saitama said. "Are you alright?"

She gasped a few more times and Saitama rubbed her upper back.

"Easy there."

"*Gasp* My… n-n-n-n-name i-i-i-is Kur-r-r-r-r-r-r-r-rooo-rooo-rooko… and you have to l-l-l-l-l-leave now… *Gasp*"

"Have no fear madam," Genos said. "We are heroes for justice here to help."

"Yeah," Saitama agreed. "We're the good guys."

The sound of an approaching motorcycle engine from behind caught everyone's attention. It stopped a few feet away from them and the driver threw off her helmet. Mikoto ran towards the group.

"Kuroko!" she shouted. She knelt besides Kuroko and hoisted her drooping body over her shoulder.

"Ah. Friend of yours?"

"Excuse me young lady," Bang begins but is interrupted by Tatsumaki.

"You can't be here. It's too dangerous for civilians."

Mikoto scowls at the unflinching Tatsumaki.

"I can take care of myself."

"She's right," Genos says. "She is an esper capable of discharging over 100,000 volts of electricity."

Tatsumaki stared at Mikoto for a moment before turning around and folding her arms.

"Hmph. She could fix her attitude."

Genos squinted at Tatsumaki.

"And so the pot calls the kettle black."

"We're wasting time," Speed-o'-Sound Sonic said. "I'm no hero but I'll kill anyone that makes me kill without my consent."

"...What?" Atomic Samurai beckoned.

"Please don't ask" Genos said.

"Sissy," Kuroko shouted "You all have to leave n-n-now!"

As if on cue, an enormous black sphere appeared on top of a large building several blocks away. The building as well as the ones adjacent crumble bit by bit as they were sucked into the void.

Abicus observed the frozen Kuroko using a telescope from a distance above a high building several blocks away. He pulled the telescope away from his eye and it turned it into a wand. He waved his wand and the darts in his arms, left shoulder and thighs retracted in midair, before they fell to the ground. He sucked his teeth with a bitter look.

"Tsk. Stupid little girl tried to turn me into swiss cheese. Luckily, I had more tricks up my sleeve than she anticipated. Who'd have thought I would have ran into someone that actually specializes in teleportation?"

He dropped his left hand to his side and left it to dangle.

"The Hero Association was back there. They'll be here in a matter of seconds no doubt. I don't think I can fight all of them without going all out. Hell, I barely escaped the caped baldy…"

Abicus squeezed his left hand.

"Those stupid bags of ass. All I wanted to do was sniff stolen panties. Is that so wrong? Is it that hard to understand? Those stupid, fucking shit brained idiots. Thinking about it just makes me want to ARGRAHAFUBRARGH!"

Abicus closed his eyes for a moment.

"My bad habit's coming out again. In cases of extreme stress, I tend to act irrationally. But how else am I supposed to act when I'm stuck in a situation that I can't win rationally?"

He noticed the heroes arrived from up the street. He observed them as they studied the frozen Kuroko. In a few seconds, Saitama freed her.

"No...it's time to stop giving in to this feeling. This whole time, I've been repressing my darker half but I've been going about this entirely wrong."

Abicus waved his wand and tapped himself on the shoulder.

"Leviousa."

Abicus slowly levitated. His placed his wand inside his coat. He raised his arms above his head and two saws with rainbow patterned hilts slid out of his sleeves.

"If I can't steal panties in either of these dimensions, NO ONE CAAAANNNN! AHAHAHAHAHAH!"

Abicus continued his maniacal laughter as he rubbed the saw together. Friction formed a shower of orange sparks. A small black sphere appeared. It slowly increased in size. The building beneath it was torn into pieces as it sucked them in.