Fictions Mentioned: Doctor Who/Faction Paradox, A Certain Magical Index/A Certain Scientific Railgun, Case Closed/Magic Kaito, The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya, Re:Creators, Code Geass, Science Adventure, When They Cry
This Story is connected to My other Story: Doctor Who: The Anime: Series 1
Episode 1 – A Certain Gang of Rail Girls
OP Song:
To Aru kagaku no Railgun opening 1
Location:
Multiverse Cluster: Kamachi Verse
Universe: Toaru Verse
On A Certain Day in Academy City, the day after The Graviton Bomb Incident.
The bombings that forced the organization known as Judgment to investigate the recent influx of espers who have suddenly gained powers in a short period of time and the major issues of inconsistency among the esper data banks.
A Certain Girl with chestnut brown hair, with a visible small hair clip and chestnut brown eyes, who wears the Tokiwadai Middle School uniform, sporting white loose/slouch socks and brown loafers with a light brown vest sweater over a white blouse and a grey skirt, who wears shorts under her skirt and dress.
This is Mikoto Misaka.
A Certain 3rd Ranked Level 5 Esper.
A Certain Scientific Railgun.
She was leaning on the side of A Certain Broken Vending Machine that she often frequented in her free time. With her were her three Certain Best Friends.
The first girl was a girl with tawny hair tied into two curly pigtails; the rest of her hair is left to hang as two rows of fringes divided in the middle. Her pigtails are tied in place by a red bow each. Her hair is naturally curly and as such needs to get a straight perm for it.
With 152 cm she isn't very big and with a flat chest as her appearance is the usual appearance of an average girl at her age.
As per the rules of both Academy City and Judgment, she wears the uniform of Tokiwadai Middle School and The Judgment Armband; though the latter only during on duty. On her thighs, she secures a pair of black straps where she stores the metal spikes used to secure criminals of all types.
This is Kuroko Shirai.
Her Esper Rank Level is Level 4.
The second girl sports short black hair and has golden-brown eyes. She has thick eyebrows but her most striking feature is her headband made out of artificial flowers. She wears the uniform of Sakugawa Middle School.
This is Kazari Uiharu
Her Esper Level Rank is Level 2.
The third and last girl had blue eyes and long black hair with a small, white flower on the left side of her hair. She also prefers wearing medium length skirts instead of short ones. Her estimated height is somewhere between 150 cm to 160 cm. She also wears the uniform of Sakugawa Middle School.
This is Ruiko Saten.
Her Esper Level Rank is Level 0.
The girls just stood there, not really doing anything in particular or of importance. The only reason they were even there at all was because Mikoto said that there was something, or rather A Certain Someone, important that she needed them to meet with.
This was one of the many flux events that continued as a result of The Imagine Point.
"Onee-sama" Kuroko asked, "why exactly are we here?"
"It's just something that I think that you all need to know about," Mikoto answered simply.
"So why are we waiting here?" Uiharu pushed as she was confused as well.
"There's someone that's missing from this meeting."
"Is that so," Saten said with a sly grin, "Whoever they are, they must be important."
"You could say that," Mikoto responded, her eyes focused on her feet.
"I don't deserve the credit. My Railgun wouldn't have made it in time back there," Mikoto thought to herself, thinking back to the incident that other day, 'It wasn't me who saved Uiharu and that little girl, it was him.'
As if on cue, Mikoto heard A Certain Someone humming a tune to himself as he walked towards the group from the other side of the vending machine. Figuring it was time, Mikoto pushed herself off of A Certain Vending Machine and came out from behind it to meet this person face to face. In front of her was none other than the mysterious high school boy that couldn't help but play the hero. The only person to ever survive her electricity. The boy with the mysterious ability.
"Eh, an ambush? Really, Biribiri?" the boy whispered with a hint of curiosity and anticipation as he knew that Mikoto always frequented this place in her free time whenever he visited this place in order to get A Certain Drink from A Certain Vending Machine.
"You angry?" Mikoto asked, leaning against the front of A Certain Vending machine, her friends coming out from behind the machine as well to see what was going on.
"Huh?" everyone else asked in confusion.
"Everyone seems to think that I'm the one that saved those guys from The Graviton Explosion," Mikoto explained, further confusing her friends, "If you come forward you'll be a hero."
"Wait, what are you talking about, Misaka?" Uiharu asked in confusion.
"I'm saying that this guy is the one that saved us when the explosion went off," Mikoto explained, jabbing a thumb as said boy.
"Onee-sama, you can't be serious," Kuroko cried in outrage, "I know you shouldn't judge a book by its cover, but this gentleman doesn't seem like he could have stopped that explosion."
"You saw the crime scene," Mikoto argued, "Can you really think of any way my ability could have created an area where the explosion didn't even affect it? There was no iron sand for me to form a shield and it wouldn't have been very sturdy. My railgun definitely wouldn't have such an effect on the explosion."
"How do you even know this guy?" Saten asked.
"I've challenged him to a few fights before," Mikoto explained, ignoring Kuroko's disappointed glare, "Nothing I do with my ability seems to affect him. He just does something with his right hand and my ability fails."
The girls themselves could barely believe what they were just hearing. Before their very eyes, Mikoto Misaka, The 3rd Ranked Level 5 Esper, was admitting to having been totally outdone. The boy in front of them had somehow managed to best her abilities as a Level 5 Esper and apparently did things that she couldn't. Theoretically, the only two people who could do that to her were the Number 1 (Accelerator) and 2 (Dark Matter), and this boy certainly didn't match that description. The girls tried to come up with an answer, but were interrupted by the boy.
"Why exactly do you care so much?" the boy asked.
"Huh?" all the girls said in response.
"Everybody got out of it alright. I don't really see a problem, do you?" the boy reasoned as he began to walk away, "So what difference does it make on who really saved them?"
As the boy walked away, the girls could only look on as he continued to hum the tune he was humming before being interrupted. The girls remained silent for a moment before Mikoto quickly spun around on her toes to face A Certain Vending Machine.
"Stop acting so cool!" she yelled as she kicked the vending machine, knocking a can out, "Why does he always have to play the hero! And why does he only do it in front of me! It's driving me crazy!"
In her anger, Mikoto continued to repeatedly kick the machine, much to her friends' displeasure. A majority of her kicks were not as severe as the first one. For the most part, she was mostly stomping on the front of the machine. However, the last kick was another roundhouse kick, which was enough to force a second can out of the machine.
By some miracle, the force of the second can falling out was enough to knock the first can out of the retrieval slot in the machine. The can then rolled away from the machine before stopping right under the boy's foot as he took a step. Oblivious to this turn of events, the boy stepped on the can, causing him to lose his balance and fall flat on his back.
"Fukou da (Such misfortune)," the boy lamented as he picked himself off the ground.
As he said his iconic catchphrase, his danger sense began to go off. For some reason, he knew that some other form of misfortune was coming his way shortly. Years of experience in his misfortunate Life and his adventures and misadventures in The TARDIS would do that to him. Turning around, he noticed a red-faced Mikoto glaring at him, sparks flying around her bangs. When he spoke, the boy made his presence known to the third ranked Level 5, who was throwing a tantrum regarding his normal behavior. Realizing he was still there, Mikoto flooded with anger and embarrassment at the face that had just heard her calling him 'cool'. At this point, her emotions were too out of control for her to properly keep her ability in check.
"Now, now, let's not do something we might regret, Biribiri," the boy attempted to negotiate, backing away and holding up his right hand in order to avoid whatever electric punishment he may face as always when it comes to their random misfortunate encounters.
"I told you, my name is Mikoto Misaka!" Mikoto screamed as she let out a huge bolt of electricity right at the boy whom she could never beat.
Acting on years of reflex and years of training, the boy jumped back and let his right hand take the blunt of the attack. The moment the electricity hit his hand, the sound of shattering glass was heard and the electricity disappeared, like it was never there to begin with. As soon as he was sure that the attack had been blocked, the boy turned around and ran away faster then what most people thought was humanly possible. He had no intention of staying after that last outburst.
Needless to say, everyone else present was shocked, literally and figuratively. While the electricity was gone, the after effects were still felt as the girls' hairs were standing on ends. Somehow, the boy that just ran off had managed to block Mikoto's attack with little effort and was still able to run away. Even more shocking was the fact that Mikoto put so much strength behind her attack. Normally, she hit people with warning shocks when they annoyed her. Here, she fired an attack that could critically injure someone if it hit directly. It was as if she was confident that that boy would be just fine, adding more proof that she spoke the truth about him, not that they needed any more proof at this point.
"Who was that guy?" Saten asked while still in shock
"Not sure, never got his name," Mikoto shrugged, trying to calm down.
"You complain about him not calling you by name, but you never bothered to ask for his? I expect more from you, Onee-sama," Kuroko said in a disappointed tone, trying to ignore the fact that he acted so familiar with Mikoto, even using a nickname.
"Hey, what's that?" Uiharu pointed out as she approached the spot that the boy was standing at earlier.
The item in question appeared to be a brown wallet, most likely belonging to the boy that ran off. It seemed that he was rather unlucky enough to drop it after falling on the ground. Checking the contents of the wallet, Uiharu found a student ID with the boy's photo.
"Touma Kamijou," Uiharu read out loud.
"Well, at least we know his name," Saten remarked.
"Still, it a pretty odd name," Kuroko mussed.
"What do you mean?" Mikoto questioned as she looked at Kuroko.
"His name can be interpreted a few ways," Kuroko explained, "'Kamijou' can be read as 'He who is above God' and 'Touma' can be read as 'Invisible Demon'. Take his name as a whole and you get 'He who purifies God and exorcises the Devil'."
"Pretty scary when you put it that way," Saten commented.
"Yeah, like a mysterious hero that strikes fear into the hearts of the wicked," Uiharu added as she gushes at such a prospect.
"You really need to stop created such outlandish fantasies," Kuroko advised her partner.
"I don't know about striking fear, but he sure does like to play the hero and is a pretty big mystery," Mikoto remarked.
"Likes to play the hero, huh?" Uiharu said to herself before breaking into a grin and running off with the wallet.
"Uiharu, where are you going?" Saten cried out.
"I need to speak with Konori! I'll see you guys later!" Uiharu yelled back, not slowing down her pace.
"I wonder what that was about," Kuroko confessed.
"I don't know, but I have a bad feeling about it," Mikoto said with a slight shiver.
Meanwhile, when all of this was happening, A Certain Time Lord (The Doctor) was watching them all from A Certain Distance as he begins to ponder deeply on his mind on how this incident with Touma and The Girls meeting face to face had never really happened before in The Original Timeline as far as he and any outside observers are concerned, but due to The Doctor pulling in a few strings here and there, he had managed to nudge A Certain Few Minor Events that would end up becoming a lasting importance to The Life of Touma Kamijou as a whole.
One of them happens to be The Doctor taking full advantage of Touma's Misfortune by knocking one of his wallets out of his bigger on the inside pockets and send it down towards the floor without him noticing it, and as he leaves while running in A Certain Direction, the girls managed to spot the wallet that was on the floor and managed to get his name and ID, which was all in accordance with A Certain Plan ("Keikaku").
For The Story of A Certain Scientific Railgun has officially gone off the rails.
For The Story of The Imagine Breaker has officially gone off the rails.
The Doctor smiled in expectant anticipation as he begins to say in a solemn voice. "Well Touma, I hope you're ready. Because you may find that your life would be a little different this time around."
And so, The Doctor begins to leave the premises discreetly while headings towards The TARDIS, as by the time he enters it and closes the doors, The TARDIS ancient engines sounded as it begins to dematerialized at its known hidden location, as little by little, it disappears into thin air, with no one around to notice it.
Vworp Vworp Vworp
The following day, Touma Kamijou was just sitting down in his usual class with the fully grown but still extremely small Komoe Tsukuyomi. The day had started off normal enough. His only real issue at this point was that he had not faced too much misfortune that morning, the worst that happened was discovering that one of his wallets went missing. Now, one might think this was a good thing, however, Touma knew deep down to himself that if he didn't face a large number of small unlucky events, he would face a huge unlucky event.
His suspicions were later proven true when one of his other teachers, Aiho Yomikawa, a member of Anti-Skill, entered the classroom with two female students, one was a girl that was his age who has short hair and glasses while the other girl was a middle schooler with a flower headband. On each of the girl's right arms was a green armband, signifying that they were members of Judgment on duty. However, upon closer inspection, Touma recognized the girl with the headband as one of the girls with Mikoto the other day.
"Fukou da (Such misfortune)," Touma whispered under his breath.
"Is Kamijou present today?" Yomikawa asked her fellow teacher.
"Kamijou-chan is here, yes," Komoe responded.
"Can he please come up here?" Yomikawa asked the class.
The entire class all turned to face Touma's direction, expecting him to do something. Resigning to his fate, Touma got up from his seat and walked to the front to join the guests. The students' eyes never left him, even when he got to the front to speak with the Judgement Officers and teachers.
"Is there anything I can help you with, mam?" Touma asked, as he was getting straight to the point of the matter.
"My name is Konori Mii, chief of The 177th Branch of Judgment. The girl next to me is Uiharu Kazari, a Judgment Officer working under my branch," the girl now known as Konori said as she gestured to Uiharu, "She has informed me that you were present during The Graviton Bombing in Seventh Mist and helped her find cover when the bomb went off, saving her life. Is this true?"
Touma nodded in response, although technically he only provided cover for the girls back then. The class began to whisper among themselves upon hearing this news. They all heard about the attack, but no one knew that Touma was involved. Among the whispers, comments about Touma acting like a hero again and picking up girls could be heard. Touma knew what they were talking about behind his back but he decided to just ignore whatever side comments that he heard and remained focus on his conversation with the two Judgment Officers that seem to want him for something.
"We wanted thank you personally and ask something of you," Uiharu spoke up as she and Konori bowed, "Please join Judgment. Your assistance would be very much appreciated."
"Uh oh!" Kamijou thought as he begins to realize the reason as to why he was being asked by two Judgment Officers.
At that exact same moment, A Certain Classroom of A Certain High School erupted into complete and utter chaos.
The Students of Year 1 Class 7 were all jumping out of their seats while making various and diverse comments and reactions on the current situation. Many of the girls were congratulating Touma for his apparent act of heroism and encouraged him to join. On the other hand, the boys were all cursing him out as usual, mostly because he had both a beautiful high school girl and a cute middle school girl bowing their heads to him like he was some kind of king. The latter type of comment was especially strong from his two Certain Best Friends in this universe.
The first boy has blonde hair and is always seen with his sunglasses on for some reason.
This is Motaharu Tsuchimikado.
The second boy has blue hair and is the class representative.
This is Pierce Aogami
The first boy was a pervert and a masochist and the latter was a lolicon and a siscon.
However, the strongest remark about the current situation came from none other than Seiri Fukiyose, the single girl that seemed to be immune to the alleged Kami Disease, an infection that made all forms of females gravitate towards the unlucky Kamijou.
"Take the job, Kamijou!" Seiri said sternly.
"Now, wait just a minute!" Touma said as he begins to excuse himself with his hands raised in a gesture of letting him take a moment to think, due to the fact that he never really wants to see himself in public due to the fact that he has enemies everywhere in the known and unknown multiverse and that he greatly feared that if he were to join Judgment, then he would basically be on their automatic radar.
Case in Point: The Committee of 300.
"As far as I can recall, all Judgment ever does is go around cleaning and directing traffic when the automatic systems go down, plus the fact that they also help all of the citizens of the city with their general problems, plus the fact that they assist Anti-Skill with handling the law enforcement of the city which are all basically just doing community service."
"Which is exactly why you should join! Make yourself useful and contribute for society!" Fukiyose added.
"Besides Kamijou-chan, you do all this kind of stuff during your free time anyway," Komoe pointed out.
"Don't we all know it!" Tsuchimikado yelled.
"I saw him help a young boy get his kite out of a tree yesterday." Aogami remarked.
"Before the bomb went off, I saw him guiding a little girl through Seventh Mist," a girl added, "She was even calling him Onii-chan."
"Alright! Alright! You all made your point!" Touma yelled, having heard enough of their praise.
"Thank you very much!" Uiharu and Konori said with another bow.
"By the way, you dropped this in the park yesterday when you tripped," Uiharu added as she presented Touma with his wallet.
"Of course I did. Fukou da," Touma thought to himself as he reclaimed his wallet.
"Since I'm in Anti-Skill, I can help you get your paperwork in order," Yomikawa explained, "Meet me after class and we can get that taken care of. We can even bypass the normal training you would have to go through since I know how physically fit you are. I am your physical education teacher. Komoe has also told me you're more of a hands-on learner, so protocol will be covered on the field. If all goes well, you will be enlisted by tomorrow."
"Just my luck," Touma lamented as his entire class cheered on for their new Judgement Officer.
Clearly, Touma Kamijou was going to be having a very rough time from now on.
"I should probably tell The Doctor, Rika, and the guys about this." Touma thought to himself as he begins to make plans on calling his second father/guardian/teacher, his girlfriend, and his best friends/fellow companions.
Later that night, on A Certain Dorm Room Apartment, Touma was in his bed as he was multi-dialing the numbers of a few Certain People in A Certain Cellphone (Inter-Dimensional Space-Time (IDST) Cellphone) as it begins to ring for a few seconds.
Suddenly, five holograms begin to appear in his room that is as follows.
A man with brown ancient eyes, who wore a dark brown suit with a Duster type overcoat which is accompanied with a dark brown tie, plain white shirt, olive brown t-shirt, and with Converse All Stars as his footwear.
This is The Doctor.
A high class lady with purple eyes and a hime cut of light blue indigo hair with a solid tint of purple, who wore a white shirt, a pink bow tie, a long blue skirt that touches the knees, white socks and black shoes.
This is Rika Furude.
A little boy, with the apparent appearance of a child but with the mind of a high school detective, who has dark brown hair which mostly hangs downwards just above his blue eyes, but there are also a few strands that stick up at the front and back of his head. His outfit consists of a blue blazer with a single button and a pair of shorts, red trainers and white socks. He also wears a red bowtie, his father's old glasses, and red shoes which were all modified to aid him in his cases as a detective.
This is Conan Edogawa, formerly Shinichi Kudo.
A teenage boy with brown eyes, who wears the standard uniform of North High which is composed of a red tie, blue jacket, white shirt, gray pants, and brown shoes.
This is Kyon.
A teenage boy that has the looks of an average young man in high school with straight brown hair that reaches down to his neck and amber brown eyes who was wearing his school uniform which is composed of a red tie, blue jacket, white shirt, gray pants, and brown shoes.
This is Sota Mizushino.
A teenage boy who was a tall handsome young man with black hair and violet eyes, which he inherited from his mother, who was physically fit, having hidden muscles that are hidden on his person and appears rather thin. He wears the standard uniform of Ashford Academy which is composed of black trousers, white long sleeved shirt, black shoes, and a black jacket (or gakuran) with gold trims and linings which is accompanied with the Ashford logo on the neck.
This is Lelouch Lamperouge, secretly Lelouch vi Britannia.
"Anata! (Dear!), what you made you call." Rika asked as she was curious as to why did he call her, The Doctor, and his best friends all at the same time as he only really does that when there seems to be something important to talk about.
"Sorry to call you all in short notice everyone. But I figured that I need to tell you all about this right away seeing as this could potentially be a problem." Touma said.
"What seems to be the problem. Touma-san." Sota said with a curious expression.
Touma sighed heavily as he begins to explain his reasons as to why he called them specifically.
"Apparently, due to some misfortunate circumstances, I just got drafted into joining Judgment."
"WHAT!" Rika and The Companions reacted in shock and surprise.
"Yeah, that was my reaction when I first found out." Touma said as he nodded.
"How did this happen?" Lelouch said seriously.
"Well…"
And so Touma began to explain his predicament by telling them all about A Certain Incident that involved A Certain 3rd Ranked Level 5 Esper and her Certain Best Friends, his wallet being the cause of his predicament, two Judgment Officers that were seeking him out as they bowed their heads and pleaded with him to join Judgment, with his two best friends, classmates, and teachers urging him to join Judgment as well, and with him finally agreeing to it after the constant urging of his friends, classmates, and teachers.
"Wow, Touma-san, you seem to have a more interesting day than I have." Conan said as he was amused at his best friend's predicament.
"Tell me about it." Touma sighed as he continued. "What exactly am I supposed to do in this situation? I can't exactly allow myself to get broadcasted in public due to the fact that our enemies out there such as The Committee might be able to use this as one of their possible plans to take us down."
"I wouldn't really worry about them so much, Touma." The man known as The Doctor said as he explains further. "The Committee may have their tentacles everywhere but that doesn't mean that they control everything. Remember, we have lots and lots of friends that are out there with us that are in this fight, so we're not really alone, Touma."
"I know that, Doctor." Touma said as he continued. "I'm just worried that if I were to join Judgment, many of my co-workers might get caught in the crossfire. I don't really want that to happen."
"Oh, Touma," The Doctor said as he shakes his head in exasperation, "You always did worry about everyone's safety but your own, but think of this as a learning experience. I think that it would be wise and prudent if you were to join Judgment."
"Why's that, Doctor?" Sota asked in a curious tone.
The Doctor began to explain in a serious tone. "Because he would definitely need more friends in this city for the future to come. There will be battles that Touma may not be able to fight by himself on his own. As you all know, we may not always be around to help Touma with his problems due to the fact that we have problems of our own to deal with on our own end and the fact that most of us are in entirely separate universes so it's probably for the best if Touma has back-up for the future battles to come."
"The Doctor's right, Touma. We all have our own problems to deal with on our own end so we may not always be around to help you out whenever you're in a tight spot. I mean, look at Kyon-san's situation with Suzumiya-san." Conan said.
"Ugh, don't remind me." Kyon said while facepalming in exasperation.
"Still, are you sure that this is a good idea, Doctor? I mean, like Touma said, this is a possible risk that he would be taking." Lelouch asked as he looked towards The Doctor for clarification.
"I believe so, Lelouch, but ultimately the decision to push through would be to the one who is in this current predicament in the first place."
The Doctor, The Companions, and Rika all looked towards the spiky-haired boy in question as he began to think of the matter.
It was true that The Doctor, His Friends, and Rika wouldn't really be around all the time to save his bacon and that he needed to face his problems alone eventually. That, and having the assistance of Judgment should make things more smoothly in the long run. As he was thinking all of these thoughts, Rika called out to him as she said.
"Anata (Dear), whatever would be your decision on this matter, know that I would always be here to support you and if you ever have problems, know that you can used that phone to transmit the coordinates of your universe into my phone so that I can use it to transport myself immediately to your universe at the exact location that you are right at the moment." Rika said as she explains A Certain Feature that was one of the functions of The IDST Cellphone that The Doctor included in cases of emergency as she looked into the black-sphere optics of the spiky-haired boy who in turn looked back to her luminescent purple optics with gratefulness at the support as he finally makes a decision.
"Alright I'll do it."
The next day, Touma found himself in front of the office building for The 177th Branch of Judgment. True to Yomikawa's words, he was to be officially a member of Judgement starting today. In actuality, he was supposed to be assigned to The 73rd Branch since it was the branch that was the closest one to his school, but due to A Certain Number of Circumstances that was exploited by A Certain Time Lord, it was decided that The 73rd Branch and The 117th Branch become a conjoined branch that was a part of A Certain Plan ("Keikaku") to eased the usual problems that comes with a new member that would be joining on short notice.
He was already given his armband and was currently wearing it on his right arm. That armband was a symbol of his new obligation. Although Touma didn't want to join at first due to valid reasons, after his conversation with The Doctor, his best friends, and Rika, he knew that deep down to himself that there was no actual harm in and of itself. He always did enjoy helping people from all walks of life, whether in his universe or in the wider multiverse as a whole, and this was a way to let him reach out to more people than he ever could before.
Taking a very deep breath, Touma walked into the building, ready for whatever misfortune it had to throw at him. Or at least he hoped that he was ready for anything. He followed the signs to the second floor when he found a single door marked with a sign indicating it was the Judgement office. He knocked on the door twice before the door opened, revealing Konori standing behind the door. Just behind her were the four girls Touma met in the park, Uiharu, Saten, Kuroko, and Mikoto. Uiharu and Saten gave him a warm smile. Kuroko did the same but there were clear undertones of skepticism. Mikoto, however, was glaring daggers at him and sparking slightly. The girls were sitting on a set of couches at a coffee table in the middle of the sizable yet cozy office.
"Welcome to Judgment, Kamijou-san," Konori greeted with a smile, "Please come in. We have much to discuss."
Having just arrived at the office of Judgment Branch 177, Touma could only describe this first encounter with one word.
Awkward.
First, all the people in the office were all girls, most of them were a lot younger than he was, both in a physical and a mental sense. If it weren't for the fact that he was there to meet with his fellow Judgment Officers, he would probably be arrested by a Judgment Officer for pedophilia. Second, only a little more than half of the girls wore Judgment armbands, implying that they were the only officers. If that was the case, then he was the sole boy in an office full of girls. He could only hope and pray to every god that he had ever heard of (which was a lot actually since he traveled a lot of places in the multiverse) that Tsuchimikado and Aogami didn't learn anything about this. He especially would not let his fellow companions from other universes find out for he knew that they would never let him live it down but he would tell his girlfriend just in case it becomes a problem in the future. Finally, one of those girls was Mikoto Misaka, aka Biribiri, who would surely take every opportunity that was presented to her to just zap the unlucky Kamijou.
Yup, just another regular day in the misfortunate life of Touma Kamijou.
"Maybe we should get introductions out of the way. Your name is Kamijou Touma, right?" Saten asked, earning a nod, "I'm Saten Ruiko. I'm not a member of Judgment, but I'm a close friend of these guys."
"I'm Shirai Kuroko," Kuroko introduced herself, "You already met Konori and Uiharu, and from what I can tell, you already know Onee-sama."
"How do you two know each other anyway?" Uiharu asked.
Upon hearing this question, the two people in question gave each other a look, as if to communicate silently. Touma had an awkward smile on his face, his forehead sweating profusely. As for Mikoto, she was sending him a glare and was blushing a dark shade of red. From an outside perspective, one would think that they were a couple who was just asked how they met and started dating, with the guy being awkward and the girl refusing to say anything embarrassing. However, the two people in question had a very different first encounter, as Mikoto was threatening him to take any action and Touma was in fear of his life.
"Well, if you must know, I was out late one night and a bunch of guys started hitting on me," Mikoto explained, "I was about to deal with them when this idiot came out of nowhere to help me out."
"Well, isn't that sweet," Uiharu mused, "Rushing in to save a fare maiden like a knight is shining armor."
"Again, Uiharu, you need to stop with those fantasies," Kuroko chastised.
"Seriously, his plan didn't even work," Mikoto added, "Who would have actually thought that he was a friend I was meeting up with?"
"Those guys did actually!" Touma said with a pointed expression, "My plan was working just fine until you decided to blow my cover!"
"It was still a stupid plan!" Mikoto yelled back, "I could have handled those guys myself!"
"Stupid or not, my plan was producing results until you decided to blow it for us! Not to mention my plan wouldn't have left people fried on the streets! If it wasn't for my right hand, I would have been on the ground with them!"
"I only did that because you started running your mouth about those guys being pathetic and me being childish! Sure, I agreed with the first part, but was calling me childish really necessary?!"
"You two are arguing like an old married couple," Saten said with a grin, much to Kuroko's horror.
"As if!" Mikoto yelled in response.
"I honestly don't think that's possible." Touma said as he continued. "Considering the fact that I actually have a girlfriend."
"Eh!" Mikoto, Saten, and everyone else where surprised that the boy was no longer single.
"W- Wait a minute! You have a… girlfriend!" Mikoto said as she begins to asked the spiky-haired boy for clarification which was accompanied by the feeling of uneasiness.
"Yes, I have a girlfriend. And hold on a minute, why are you so surprise, Biribiri?" Touma said as he raised his right eyebrow in suspicion.
"Um… n- no reason." Mikoto said as she looked away with a somewhat sad expression as she went back to her seat and with that, Touma returned to his seat as well.
Everyone said absolutely nothing and were still in shock with the new information that was just given from the spiky-haired boy as a few minutes of silence had passed that rendered the situation even more awkward.
"So… Kamijou-san…" Uiharu said slowly while trying to move past the awkward moment, "What exactly is with your right hand? I looked at your profile in the data bank but you're listed as a Level 0. Your scores are so low that one would think you never took The Power Curriculum Program."
"Wait, seriously!" Saten asked in shock.
"But to stop both a Graviton explosion and Onee-sama's electricity could only be the work of a Level 4 at least!" Kuroko added.
"Well… the thing is, my ability isn't an Esper ability," Touma explained, scratching his cheek, "For as long as I've known about it, my right hand has been capable of negating any sort of supernatural phenomenon with a single touch. Academy City can't seem to detect it so they just labeled me as a Level 0 based on my scores alone."
"No way…," Saten said in a near whisper, "you're him."
"Huh?" Touma responded in confusion.
"There's an urban legend on the web about a boy with the ability to negate other abilities," Saten explained, "You're not just an urban legend, you're a living legend!"
"Well, isn't that something," Uiharu laughed, "We try to recruit a kind soul and end up getting a living legend."
"You're going to be an even bigger help than we originally though, Kamijou-san," Konori said with a smile, "Now we have a surefire way of dealing with reckless Espers."
"Speaking of which, I need to get started with patrol," Kuroko said as she stood up and took hold of Touma's shoulder, "and you're coming with me to help."
"Don't I get a say in this?" Touma pleaded.
"Nope," Kuroko said without skipping a beat.
Truthfully though, she just wanted to get him away from Mikoto. Anyone could tell that she was not the biggest fan of the boy whose name implies greatness, but Kuroko saw him as a threat despite the fact that he is no longer single. Not to Mikoto per say, but to Kuroko's personal quest for her affections. Mikoto was never truly honest about her feelings, her quickness to cover her love of Gekota and cute things was proof of that. Based on her reactions to Touma hearing her call him "cool" and being treated like the two were a couple, along with the fact that when Touma revealed that he had a girlfriend which triggered a saddened expression on Mikoto's face. It was clear that she actually had some sort of attraction to him. So she decided to use patrol as an excuse to keep them both apart. Besides, she could use the back-up against any unruly Espers anyway.
With her hand firmly on Touma's shoulders, she closed her eyes and stood there, as if waiting for something to happen. Everyone else in the room just gave her a look of confusion as she continued to stand in the same place doing absolutely nothing.
"Um, Kuroko, what are you doing?" Mikoto asked.
"I…," Kuroko stuttered, chocking on her own words, "I… I can't teleport!"
"Yeah, about that. Since my right hand is attached to my arm and the rest of me, I'm completely unaffected by supernatural phenomenon that directly targets my entire body, so things like teleportation won't work on me. It's probably why I don't have a normal Esper ability, my hand negates any ability I could have developed," Touma explained, "You might be able to localize the teleportation to everything other than my right hand, but I would like to keep it attached."
"Looks like you're walking, Shirai," Konori said with an amused smile.
"What misfortune," Mikoto joked along, having trouble not being amused by the situation.
"Welcome to my unfortunate world," Touma said as he got up from his chair and headed for the door.
"I hate it already," Kuroko complained as she followed the high school boy.
However, before Touma could open the door, it flew open by itself, revealing Tsuchimikado and Aogami.
"Yo Kami, Aogami and I thought we'd pay you a visit at your new workplace!" Tsuchimikado yelled with a wave.
"How have you been, man?" Aogami cheered as he and Tsuchimikado let themselves it.
As soon as they walked in, they got a good look at the room. From their perspective, it appeared that Touma had a grand total of five all to himself. Of course, they weren't exactly wrong, just had the wrong context. Unfortunately (and rather appropriately for Touma as he expected this from a mile away), the context they had was one that no one is going to like.
"Kami, how could you?! Using your new position to collect more girls! How shameful! Kami Disease is taking over the world one girl at a time!" Tsuchimikado cried.
"Why must you toy with us like this, man! How will the rest of the guys of the world get girls if you hog them all to yourself?! Humanity as a species is doomed!" Aogami screamed.
The room feel silent at the two intruders' outbursts. All of the girls had no words for what the boys had just said. They were supposed to believe that the boy that had just joined Judgment not only had the ability to negate other abilities, but was also an extreme lady's man? That was taking it a bit too far. Sure, he seemed like a nice enough guy, but Touma seemed a bit plain. He could surely win the hearts of a couple of girls with his heroics, but enough to put the existence of the human species in danger was a bit much. That, and he has an actual girlfriend. Yet these boys that appeared to be the unlucky Kamijou's friends seemed to imply that he could gain girls affections with little to no effort. Just who was Touma Kamijou? He was definitely a strange one.
"Fuko da," Touma lamented in facepalm as he thought to himself that if it was already this bad if they were reacting this way due to the fact that he had co-workers who are all women, how much more would they react if they ever found out that he actually had a girlfriend.
After somehow getting Tsuchimikado and Aogami to leave and clearing everything up with the girls, Touma and Kuroko were finally able to go out for patrol. However, Kuroko was not in a good mood after that encounter with Touma's friends. She honestly didn't know what to make of the boy. From what his friends said, he seems to unintentionally pick up girls with his mere presence, something that she noticed that had bothered Mikoto an awful lot. Kuroko couldn't stand it! This boy is somehow earning the affections of Mikoto, yet seemed to be completely oblivious and regard her as something to be avoided to save his own skin! He should be grateful that Mikoto even acknowledged him as a worthy opponent!
On the other hand, Touma could clearly see that Kuroko was still upset. She had barely said a word to him the entire time they were on patrol, despite the fact that she was supposed to be showing him the ropes. He did skip on the normal four months' worth of training so he could start as soon as possible. He could handle himself in a fight, but he needed to know how to do stuff other than just fighting which was actually far better in his own opinion. Unfortunately, every single attempt to make a conversation was met with indifference or with a glare. Eventually, Touma just decided that if Kuroko was not going to speak, he would at least make his stances as clear as possible.
"Shirai-san, listen," Touma pleaded as he followed behind her, "I get it if you don't exactly like me, but please, help me to learn what I need to do to be a good Judgment Officer. I was pretty much strong armed into this against my will, so I at least want to make the best of this as I possibly can. If you don't teach me, I can't help you. If I can't help you, I become a liability. If I become a liability, you can't do your job right. If you can't do your job right, then people get hurt. All I want to do is to help people, so please, help me help others."
Although Touma couldn't see it, Kuroko's expression softened slightly. As they walked, she contemplated Touma's words. He seemed earnest enough, and his words held nothing but the truth. She couldn't keep acting petty like this otherwise someone might not get the help they need, especially if Touma's particular skill set was required.
Without warning, Kuroko stopped in her tracks and turned to face Touma, as if to say something. However, she was interrupted when the pair heard the sound of someone being pushed against a wall. Looking around, the pair of Judgement Officers saw a boy being surrounded by a group of guys in an alley across the busy street from them. This could only mean one thing.
"Looks like we've got trouble," Touma said as he prepared to charge right in, but was stopped by Kuroko, who teleported in front of him to block his path.
"Oh no you don't! You're still a rookie. Let me handle this," Kuroko said sternly, "Just contact Uiharu at the office and she'll contact Anti-Skill to make a proper arrest. I'll deal with those guys while you watch and learn."
Without saying so much as another word, Kuroko teleported to the other side of the street to deal with the crime in progress. Resigning to his fate, Touma called Uiharu to tell her about the situation. However, he was not going to just stand by and just watch. That was just not like him at all. Without so much as a second thought or an amount of hesitation, Touma ran off at full speed in order to find the nearest crosswalk to get past the traffic.
"Hold it right there!" Kuroko yelled as she presented her armband to the group of delinquents, "I'm with Judgement! You are all under arrest for attempted assault!"
In front of her were a total of five guys, each one looking to be about the age of a high school student. The largest one hand another high school boy pinned to the wall by his sleeves with what appeared to be concrete spikes. The five delinquents only laughed at her display of authority.
"Who does this chick think she is?" the biggest delinquent laughed, "One of you, take care of her."
"You got it, boss!" one of the delinquents answered as charged at Kuroko.
The boy threw a punch at her, but the attacked missed by a large margin as Kuroko teleported behind his head.
"Nice try," Kuroko taunted as she kicked her target to the ground before teleporting in front of him, "Better luck next time though."
"Crap, a teleporter!" the boss yelled.
"You b****! Your gonna pay for that!" another thug screamed as he charged at her as well.
However, Kuroko wasn't going to go down so easily. She teleported to the thug's right and grabbed hold of his sleeve. She then teleported the both of them into the air before punching the boy in the back of the head. The second boy landed on the first boy so the first boy was pinned. Kuroko then teleported to the ground and several of the needles she kept on her person into the second boy's clothes, pinning both of them to the ground.
Unfortunately, Kuroko made the fatal mistake of having her back turned to the boss of the delinquents. She felt a piece of concrete hit her in the back of the head, knocking her onto the ground and giving her a head-splitting headache, making it harder to concentrate and perform her calculations to teleport. She then found her arms and legs bound to the ground by concrete rings that seemed to have been formed from the ground around her.
"Pretty impressive, huh?" one of the still conscious thugs remarked.
"This is the boss's Level 4 ability, Terrekinesis," the other thug explained, "With it, he can control the very earth we stand on."
"You made a big mistake, girly," the boss of the thugs said as he touched the ground and formed a concrete knife, "You mess with us, we pay you back tenfold."
"Hey, leave them alone!" a male voice that was familiar to Kuroko yelled out.
Insert Song: Start
Atsushi Abe - Zero Kara no Gyakushū (Kamijou Touma's Character Song)
Despite her headache, she looked up towards the opening of the alley to see Touma standing there, a serious look on his face and his right hand was clenched into a fist.
"Who the hell are you?" the thugs' boss demanded.
"I'm with Judgment," Touma said sternly, presenting his armband, "and I don't appreciate you guys hurting innocent people and my partner like that!"
"Too bad for you, punk," one of the thugs said as he charged, "Today is not your lucky day."
"Oh, you have no idea." Touma thought as his face was stern and battle hardened as he begins to take a battle stance.
The thug threw a punch at Touma's face, but Touma quickly shifted to the thug's right and grabbed his arm. Using the thug's momentum against him, Touma threw and flipped the thug over, dropping him onto the pile of his companions that Kuroko had started to take down earlier.
"Don't talk to me about luck!" Touma yelled as he elbowed his opponent in the face, knocking him out.
"You bastard!" the fourth delinquent yelled as he too charged at Touma.
Reacting quickly, Touma grabbed his new opponent's arms and held him at bay. With his opponent locked, Touma swiped his leg at the thug's feet, causing him to lose his balance and started falling towards the ground. Before he hits the ground, Touma quickly swung the thug around and threw him onto the pile of delinquents which in turn knocked out the rest of them.
With only the boss of the group left standing, Touma turned towards his final opponent with a serious and dangerous look in his eyes. The final delinquent prepared his handmade knife, but his grip was shaky, and Touma was the cause of that shaking. His display just now shook the thug to his core.
"He didn't even use an ability and he took down just as many guys as the girl in the same time. Just who was this guy?"
"You think that just because you have power that you can do just as you please," Touma spoke with an edge in his voice as he walked towards his final opponent. "That's nothing but an illusion, a lie that you tell yourself in order to satisfy your ego."
"Damn you!" the final thug cried as he thrust his knife at the rookie Judgment Officer.
"If that's the case, I'll shatter that messed up illusion of yours!" Touma yelled as he threw a right straight at the incoming knife.
The knife and the fist collided, but the fist was not injured in the slightest. Instead, the sound of shattering glass was heard as the knife shattered into a million pieces upon making contact with the fist, much to the thug's surprise. With the knife no longer in its path, Touma's fist rocketed into the thug's face, throwing him back a couple meters, knocking him out upon hitting the ground. Touma remained standing triumphantly, standing tall like that of a hero that was found in a comic book.
Insert Song: End
A few minutes passed and Anti-Skill arrived at the scene, as well as Mikoto, Uiharu, and Saten. By then, Touma had used his ability to undo the concrete bindings holding Kuroko and the victim. Kuroko was currently sitting on the side with an icepack to deal with the headache, with her friends keeping an eye on her. Not too far away, Touma was consoling the victim as he continued to thank the rookie member of Judgment. Eventually, Anti-Skill came to interview the victim, leaving Touma to check on his companions.
"How are you doing?" Touma asked as he approached the injured Level 4.
"I've been better," Kuroko admitted.
"You did great today, Kamijou-san!" Uiharu congratulated.
"Not too bad for a rookie," Saten added.
"Well, I did take up a lot of martial arts over the years," Touma replied, scratching his cheek, as he remembered all of the lessons that The Doctor had taught him throughout the years.
"I'll admit, you did good," Mikoto nodded, "Nice to know the guy that beat me isn't a total wuss."
"What's that supposed to mean?!" Touma said in a deadpanned exasperation, earning a laugh from the girls.
When the laugh died down, the unlucky Kamijou turned to his injured coworker with an extremely apologetic look in his eye.
"Listen, I know we didn't get off on the right foot, but couldn't we just get along? I want to be able to help anyone that I can, and I know that you want the same. If we want that to happen while working together, we need to get along so that you can teach me and that I can back you up. So, what do you say? Friends?" Touma pleaded as he offered his right hand.
Kuroko simply smiled before taking the hand.
"Friends," she replied genuinely as she thought. "He wasn't so bad after all."
And it was on that day that the start of a beautiful partnership begins to form among them.
Between A Certain Teleporter and A Certain Imagine Breaker.
And it was on that day that the start of a beautiful friendship begins to form among the spiky-haired boy and the middle school girls.
Between A Certain Imagine Breaker and A Certain Gang of Rail Girls.
Meanwhile, A Certain Witch of Miracles (Lady Frederica Bernkastel) was observing this incident on a nearby rooftop with intrigue and interest as she was most impressed at how The Imagine Breaker managed to handle himself in a fight as was expected while beginning to sigh in exasperation at A Certain Time Lord (The Doctor) for interfering once again when he shouldn't have.
"Honestly, I swear That Man never knows where and when to stop interfering wherever and whenever he shouldn't have."
As far as she and any outside observers were concerned, this never happened in The Original Timeline.
"But I could forgive That Man for this one instant since this will be beneficial to My Understander (Touma Kamijou) in the long run."
She muses as she begins to think of A Certain Spiky Haired Boy who has overcome challenge after challenge as he manages to break the illusions that were sent his way and pass "The Test" that The Witches of The Senate had prescribed as a way to test his character.
He pass The Test.
Touma Kamijou managed to surprised her.
Touma Kamijou managed to surprised The Witch of Certainty (Lady Lambdadelta).
Touma Kamijou managed to surprised The Witches of The Senate.
Touma Kamijou managed to surprised The Majestic Witch of Theathergoing, Drama, and Spectating (Lady Featherine Augustus Aurora).
She recalls all this with a twisted sense of joy and pleasure as she remembers clearly the look on Aurora's face which denotes a divine surprise that hasn't been seen since Eternity which brought her out of her boredom immediately as she took absolute interest on The Story of The Imagine Breaker.
She recalls her master assigning her to watch out for The Imagine Breaker as she has been intrigued and amused about his character and growth and wants her to nurture him with delicacy, to which she replied in an agreement of pleasure, much to the annoyance, jealousy, and ire of The Witch of Certainty (Lady Lambdadelta).
She then looks lovingly and longingly at the boy in question with her ancient eyes that denotes coldness that was beginning to shine a little brighter as she says with a solemn tone that was full of confidence, pleasure, and delight.
"Oh my dear Imagine Breaker, I hope you are ready for the challenges that lay ahead of you, show me what you can do as The Man Who Makes Miracles and Certainty, for I will be watching you with absolute interest and delight. Show them. Show them all of the man who has managed to capture the hearts of both The Child of Man (Rika Furude) and The Witch of Miracles (Lady Frederica Bernkastel). Know that I will be rooting for you from near and from afar my love for I know that you will not disappoint me."
"Fu, fu, fu." (soft laugh)
ED Song:
To Aru Kagaku no Railgun Ending 1
Characters:
The Tenth Doctor - A: David Tennant
Lady Frederica Bernkastel - VA: Yukari Tamura
Touma Kamijou - VA: Abe Atsushi
Rika Furude - VA: Yukari Tamura
Mikoto Misaka - VA: Rina Sato
Kuruko Shirai - VA: Satomi Arai
Uiharu Kazari - VA: Aki Toyosaki
Saten Ruiko - VA: Kanae Ito
Shinichi Kudo/ - VA: N/A
Conan Edogawa - VA: Minami Takiyama
Kyon - VA: Tomozaku Sugita
Sota Mizushino - VA: Daiki Yamashita
Lelouch Lamperouge/Lelouch vi Britannia - VA: Jun Fukuyama
Komoe Tsukiyomi - VA Kimiko Koyama
Aiho Yomikawa - VA: Yuko Kaida
Konori Mii - VA: Kana Ueda
Seiri Fukiyose - VA: Ayumi Fujimura
Tsuchimikado Motoharu - VA: Anri Katsu
Aogami Pierce - VA: Yoshihasa Kawahara
Timeline:
Doctor Who: Tenth Doctor - Post-Planet of The Dead, Pre-The Waters of Mars
Era: Post-Time War Era, Pre-Day of the Doctor changes
A Certain Magical Index/A Certain Scientific Railgun:
Case Closed/Magic Kaito:
The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya:
Re:Creators:
Code Geass: