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"I'm telling you it's true!" the girl yelled. Hands pushing off the table. She had Wide smile on her face as she looked at her friends. Pulling out her phone the girl pointed to the small screen. A picture titled "The Shadow of Academy City" the picture was blurry a street could maybe be made out, but there was one thing that stood out of place even on this poorly rendered photo with single black smudge. It looked so...so weird. Her friends looked at the photo with low curiosity. "I'm telling you guys it's the Black-rider!"

"I don't know Saten? I'm pretty sure it's just a garbage bag" one short haired school girl put in. looking intently at the photo. The picture wasn't that detailed

"I'm telling you, there's been a rumor going around that he lives in the third district" of academy city. To be more precise the 3rd had been

"Academy City has been invaded by this hooligan. It moves on It's own, people have reported hearing loud noises." Uiharu finished reading the article in her face. "Such as loud crashes and someone screaming DIE DIE DIE you bastard" Uiharu sighed at the report.

The brunette of the group reacted with a nervous laugh. "...Well it's definitely someone supernatural."

Saten smiled at her friends "I'm telling you it's-" Saten had stopped herself from finishing. closed the gap between them getting all up in Misaka's face. "Wait do you know what did this?" she questioned. Uiharu decided to take a sip of her tea

Misaka had put her hands up to her face. "It looks like district 7, where'd you find this anyway!?" she happily interjected.

The excited girl blinked for about five seconds before answering. "Oh on the Dollars forum." Soon after that was said Uiharu almost choked on her drink, Misaka gave her a tired look.

"What" was all the girls could say. Looking at their friend.

"Yeah it was the craziest thing I suddenly got this message from out of nowhere, last night and it sent me to their homepage " Ruiko smiled warmly. "Then another message came with a password." She finished.

Both her friends looked at the "gang-member" to differing degrees. Misaka looked annoyed while her hacker friend looked at her with concern.

"Why would you want to be a part of a group like that ." The level 5 said admiring her keychain. Then went back to enjoying her drink. "I mean isn't just a bun." she put simply. Both her friends looked at her dejectedly.

"No It's Not!" the two said in unison getting up in their friends grill. Mikoto became slightly alarmed.

"The Dollars are way more than that." Uiharu defended. She was still Mikoto's face. she moved back into her seat. "Skill-Out is made evel-0's in the dollars anyone can be a member" the girl barked.

"their still thugs right?" the 3rd barked spinning her straw in her drink. "it's been really annoying having to beat up their bosses." she said under her breath.

Uiharu had to pause at this question…"W well yeah, but not all of them!"she found the resolve to say. She looked at her friend. "Wait...Boss?" Mikoto looked her friend in her face then suddenly Uiharu began to laugh. Both Mikoto and Date looked at their now laughing friend.

"What/What" the 0 and 5 said simultaneously.

uiharu had stopped laughing and gave them a cheerful smile. "Oh it's nothing"

Location:District#3

*Ring* *Ring* *Ring*...*Ring*

*"Hello"*

"..what the hell did you want me for Izaya?"she asked with a twinge of animosity

*"Well I see Mugi-chan got my message so are you for up for it?"*

"Bastard" the. The woman had left hand on her hip. She sneered at the it as well walked down the street. "Who the hell do you think you are? " she walked, continuing to yell into her phone. "What the fuck makes a bootleg level-5 so vuluable."

*"Does that really matter? "* he said calmly. His professionalism stayed intact talking to the fourth ranked. *"So you think you find her?, she was taken by the Hound"*

" Those fake Anti-skill ass-hats right?" she said looking at the picture in front of her. She examined the picture before her. "The ones who get off to all that "Justice" Crap." scowling as she said. "Tch..annoying ants." The picture she examined was that of Misaka Mikoto. "Why the hell would they want with the thirds clones."

*"Who knows, but it's tragic really their suicide mission has stopped, but now they have the rest of the cities Darkness. "* He exclaimed dramatically. *"Oh how tragic"* the voice let out a small chuckle.

She gave an irritated sigh. "stop with the Melo-drama shit for brains, what do you want with this toy anyway?"

*"Oh that's easy play hero"*

A flat "What" came from the 4ths mouth. As if what she heard sounded really really stupid. This man really expected her to…

*"You know the hero?"* he said calmly. *"It's a simple task really all you need to do is pick up the girl from Hound; it should be easy for ITEM"* The Fourth was about to speak up, but *"Oh before forget how'd your little outing with the Black-Rider turn out."*

"Piss off make sure you have the Money" Mugino hung the phone. She hated that little shit but, she couldn't say he was complete waste scumbag would be a kindness. Still holding out her phone she began to dial.

*Ring**Ring* *Ring* *What's up?*

"We got a job." Mugino hung up her phone once again.

District: 7

"Hey have you seen this" Saten raised the smudged image to the group of students. She had just arrived at District 7 still searching for the mysterious "Black Rider." and had found a group of students to investigate. Said all looked at the image before them focusing on it. The level zero's face lit up. However all the students shrugged and nodded their heads. "Awe come on" was all Saten could say.

"Sorry the image is really crappy, I can't tell what that even is." one student spoke up.

"Looks kinda like a cake stain if you ask me." the other spoke. The highschooler had gotten a closer look at the image "actually this looks like it outside the hospital." another classmate moved his head in closer to look at the image before them.

"Hey I think you're right." another said. Saten perked up at this news.

"Sweet thanks" She began to only run off. In a matter minutes

"I didn't even tell her where it is." those words fell out of the kids teens mouth. His friend then looked at him. They then looked back to Saten.

"Then where the hell is she going?"

"Who cares." the one student then looked down at the floor. "But the picture looked familiar."

"Hey Dotachin!" the boy's name was called and turned to see a girl in black clothes. "Hey what are you guys doing?" her head tilted to the side.

"Just helped a middle schooler with directions, she said something about looking for "Academy cities Shadow"." He shrugged. She's probably just one of those fangirls The girl's head lit up.

*Buzz* *Buzz*

Suddenly all their phones went off, all of them grabbing them. What they saw shocked them, a picture of a very familiar girl.

Saten looked at the girl in front of her. A nervous smile on her face. The other girl, a blonde, looked at her with a scowl across her face. All they did was stare at each other. "...Sorry"