Thanks for reading this far, I hope everyone is enjoying the story.

I bet people can tell a fight is going to take place this chapter. This is the first real battle I have written, so I hope it turns out alright. But for readers to understand some important information, I am going to turn the clock back slightly to earlier that day.

Disclaimer: I do not own Toaru Majutsu no Index or any of the characters.

"Onee-sama," a voice called out. "Onee-sama, you need to wake up or we are going to be late." Mikoto groaned and opened her eyes to see Kuroko leaning over her bed. "Well, I suppose you just need a good morning kiss," Kuroko says cheerfully leaning down towards Mikoto's face.

Mikoto quickly punched her in the face and sent Kuroko flying across the room. "Kuroko, you pervert!" Mikoto yelled. "Can't I wake up once without you sexually harassing me?"

"Hehe," Kuroko laughs innocently. "Sorry Onee-sama, I was worried when you got back last night. You seemed depressed. I am glad you seem to be back to normal."

Mikoto frowned at Kuroko. She's pretty perceptive. Mikoto had returned to the dorm after Ruiko had asked Touma out. She didn't really understand why, but she didn't want to talk much to anyone, even Kuroko. She felt weird, her stomach hurt and she wanted to both punch the idiot and wish Saten good luck. She did not sleep well that night either. She kept reliving the moment Saten asked Touma out and it made her ill.

"I'm fine Kuroko," Mikoto says forcing a smile. "I think I might have just eaten something that disagreed with me."

"Are you sure?" Kuroko asked with eyes full of concern. "You know you can talk to me about anything. If anything is bothering you I will help you Onee-sama in any way I can."

"I know," Mikoto replies smiling for real but at the same time thinking, I can never tell her it's about a boy. I'm not even sure why I feel this way. Wait…..can I really lo….like him? She shakes her head and heads to the bathroom, stops and turns around the look at Kuroko. "Thanks."

Mikoto found it hard to concentrate during her lessons for the rest of the day. She was so thankful when classes finally ended. Like always, Kuroko teleported to meet her outside of her class.

"Onee-sama," she called out. "What do you want to do today?"

Mikoto didn't really have plans today, but then she thought of Ruiko and Touma. "Actually, I do have something I want to do. You can even help me."

Kuroko looks slightly confused and interested but then smiles. "Anything for you Onee-sama."

Mikoto and Kuroko hurried to the Ferns Plaza after school. Both of them had coats covering their uniforms and had acquired hats. They had bought some crêpes and sat on a bunch behind some bushes waiting for Ruiko and Kazari to arrive.

"Onee-sama," Kuroko asked, "Why are you interested and Saten-sans and Uiharu's date?"

"Uhh," Mikoto had to think quickly, "Well, I wanted to see how it goes. They are our friends. I bet you are curious too."

"That's true," Kuroko conceded. "Do you know who they are going to the museum with? Uiharu didn't tell me."

"Uh yea," Mikoto said. She didn't want to tell Kuroko that Touma was one of them, Kuroko didn't approve of Touma because she thought Touma was trying to take Mikoto from her. Maybe that might not be too bad….no stop, don't think those thoughts. "You know one of them; he's going with Saten-san. His friend is going with Uiharu."

"Wait," Kuroko said thinking. "Someone I know? Who could that be?" Mikoto didn't elaborate.

They only had to wait about 10 minutes before Ruiko and Kazari showed up in front of the museum. "They look nice," Kuroko said and Mikoto agreed. They watched their two friends talk but were too far away to hear anything they said. Another five minutes pass before the two boys showed up. Touma and Jason were dressed in semi casual clothes but they both looked nice too. Kuroko eyes widen when she say Ruiko wave to Touma. "That ap…." Kuroko started to sputter but Mikoto covered her mouth with her hand.

"Shush. Don't give us away."

They watched Ruiko drag Touma into the line while Jason offered Kazari his arm and she took it but seemed to avoid making eye contact. "Wow I didn't think Uiharu would be bold enough to do that," Kuroko says and Mikoto nods in agreement. "At least that ape's friend seems to be a gentleman."

Once Touma, Jason, Ruiko, and Kazari entered the museum, Kuroko and Mikoto left their hiding place. "Now what?" Kuroko asked. "We can't really follow them inside without breaking the law."

Mikoto shrugged. "I wonder what they are going to do in there."

"If that ape does anything to Saten-san, I will make him regret it," Kuroko said aggressively. Mikoto found herself thinking the same thing. "I don't know much about that Jason guy though. Except he doesn't see how great you are."

Mikoto shakes her head at this. "I don't really want people to worship me though."

"Of course Onee-sama," Kuroko says eyes sparkling. "You are above silly things like that and I know my love is enough for you." She teleports onto Mikoto and hugs her from behind. Mikoto might have let her do this as thanks for coming, but Kuroko decided to start feeling her chest.

"Can't…you…for one freaking day…." Mikoto says angrily, "stop trying to feel me up?" Lighting forms all around her and electrocutes Kuroko causing her to fall onto the ground smoking. "Sheesh, why won't you learn?" She lifts Kuroko up and puts her on the bench while she gets them drinks and waits for Kuroko's recovery.

Roughly twenty minutes later, Kuroko seemed to be in perfect health. Mikoto always was surprised at her friends recovery speed, or maybe she just developed a tolerance to electricity. "You really need to stop doing that," Mikoto says to Kuroko.

"I can't help it," Kuroko says happily. "Your beauty shines brighter then all others."

Mikoto sighs and looks back at the museum, when something catches her eye. "Umm, Kuroko, do you see something strange about the museum. Please tell me I am not hallucinating."

Kuroko scans the building. "Onee-sama," she says her eyes widening. "What happened to the door and windows?" The building's windows and doors had disappeared and the walls where now smooth with no entrances in sight.

Inside the museum, Touma, Jason, and Kazari had not been noticed by the magician. The number of people had blocked them from his sight.

"What did he do?" Touma asked quietly.

"Looks like the head of Medusa," Jason said. "She was Greek creature that turned people to stone with a glance. I don't know it she was real, but that magic artifact might have been what caused the myth."

Kazari finally got Jason's hand off her eyes. Due to her Judgment training she was able to stop herself from screaming. "Magic?" she asked quietly. "What are you talking about?"

"Long story," Touma says. "But we have to stop that guy from doing whatever he is trying to do. You know it can't be good after turning everyone to stone."

"Hmm," Jason said thinking. "Touma you should be able to destroy that head with a touch. I'll distract him, you go right and I'll go left."

"As a member of Judgment I can't let you two civilians place yourself in danger," Kazari says firmly.

Touma and Jason sighed. "We have to do this," Touma said. "Afterwards we will follow your command. Besides I can stop him, watch." Touma touched the Ruiko statue in front of him, the sound of breaking glass and a part of the statue changed back to its original color but when Touma removed his hand it turned back to stone.

"The head needs to be destroyed," Jason says watching Touma. "It won't be easy enough for you to just negate the after affect."

"He can negate this magic, well ability?" Kazari asked wide eyed. Touma nods. "Saten-san had mentioned an ability like that before."

"Ok," Jason says. "You know the plan. Kazari, you need to contact anyone on the outside. Let them know what's happening." Touma and Kazari noticed that something dark seemed to start swirling around Jason. Darkness started turning his clothes black, his hair turned black, and a black cloak started to unroll from his back.

"Kagere-san," Kazari said shakily, "You're the vigilante that's been appearing the last few days? Shirai-san said she met you yesterday." Jason nods but doesn't say anything else. He moves to the left of the group of people while Touma moves to the right. Touma had seen the shadow before and was not as surprised as Kazari was but he did not know the abilities of Jason's shadow. Touma and Jason both manage to get near the edge of the crowd on both sides of the magician.

"We have a captured audience," the man says on his phone. "Hurry and get what we came for. I don't know how many uninvited guests we will get if we take too long."

"So," Jason says stepping out from behind the statues. "There are more of you, which makes since. You wouldn't pull a stunt this big alone." He takes another step out from behind the statues. His cloak was swirling behind him. His face wasn't giving anything away, it looked almost bored. "Why don't you just surrender, you can't win, your surprised attack failed."

"Ha," the man said turning his attention to Jason. "I don't know what you are, but by your mana, I take it you are from our world. I welcome you to my stage. I am Fabula843, the one who brings myths to life." He raised the golden head again and a flash of light appeared from its eyes. "Why don't you just stay there, forever," he says while laughing. He looks again and saw that Jason had not been turned into a statue. "How?" he gasps.

"I simply blocked my eyes with my shadow." The man realized, too late, Jason's eyes were pitch black, he could not see anything. "You fell for our trap."

"What are you….?" The magician started to ask when Touma suddenly jumped out from behind him and grabbed the golden head with his right hand. The Medusa head exploded into a thousand gold pieces. "AHHHH!" the magician yelled as he jumped to the side, his hand bleeding from the pieces cutting it. "What the hell are you monster?" he shouted at Touma. "That head should have been indestructible."

"You call me a monster?" Touma says with indignation as anger fills him. "You are the one who turned innocent people to stone for your own gain. I am going to SHATTER THAT ILLUSION OF YOURS!" Touma charges and delivers a powerful right fist to the magician's face and sends him flying back unconscious. "I will always fight against people like you."

Jason walks up, "Good job. We need to get these people out of here and find out where his accomplices are."

"You sound like Judgment now," Touma says. Jason scowls at him.

Kazari ran up to them holding her cell phone, "Look," she says pointing to the statue. All the statues had started to crack all over and then, with simultaneous shattering, a thin stone layer falls off them and everyone stands there looking confused. "Everyone needs to listen up," Kazari calls out to everyone in a loud commanding voice unlike her normal one. "We were attacked by a strange ability user. He has us trapped in here but help is on the way. Everyone needs to remain calm. I am part of Judgment, follow my instructions and we will get everyone out of here." The crowd exploded in questions and Kazari was doing everything to keep order.

"What now?" Touma asked Jason. Jason opened his mouth to respond when the magician on the floor stirred.

"You fools," he gasped. "No one is getting out of here alive. " He pointed to the ceiling. "Let the stones of the wicked purify the sinners." BOOM, an explosion rocked the building's roof, people screamed, and part of the ceiling started to fall at impossible angles to center on everyone near the stage.

"Nooooo," Touma cried at the magician as everyone screamed and tried to get out of the way. Many tripped and fell into each other.

Suddenly, about 10 feet above everyone, the stone rubble stopped falling. Attached to each piece was a thin strip of darkness. Jason was standing on the stage with hundreds of darkness tendrils coming from his shadow. His shadow had caught all the falling rocks. Touma watched as the shadows lifted the stone back into the ceiling and put the pieces back in place. It was almost like a kid was putting together a puzzle. The shadow strips moved over the cracks and the cracks disappeared as each piece was placed. What the hell is his ability? However, Touma noticed Jason couldn't replace the entire ceiling because some pieces were thrown outside the building or too small and where missed. Touma started to make his way to the stairs leading upstairs in order to find the magic source to stop the collapse of the building.

"Touma, YOU IDIOT," Jason yells. "This is a distraction; the real culprits are down in the basement. You need to stop them; I'll cover everyone up here till they get out." Another explosion rocked the building and another section of the roof exploded and flew at them. Jason's shadow caught the pieces again."Hurry, this spell is continuous. It's going to keep going until everyone is out of this area or the mana runs out. There isn't a specific source for you to break."

Touma makes a fist, angry at himself for not being able to stop this, but he nods and rushes toward the downstairs in order to stop the true mastermind behind this attack. He though he heard Kazari yelling "Hurry!" on her phone before he lunged down the stairs.

Kuroko and Misaka were circling the building. "How could all the entrances just disappear?" Mikoto yelled.

Kuroko teleports on top of the building. "There doesn't seem to be any access points up here either." She teleports back down. "What kind of ability do you think did this?"

"I don't know, but whatever happened, Anti-Skill has been called." Mikoto points at the several vans that just appeared and men and women in blue and black uniforms rushed out. "I hope our friends are ok."

"I'm sure they are…." Kuroko said when her phone started ringing. She looked at and immediately answered. "Uiharu?"

"Shirai-san," Kazari's voice said. "Thank goodness I reached you. We have a situation at the new Museum at Ferns Plaza. A man with a strange power has everyone in here as hostages."

"WHAT!" Kuroko yelled. "I'm nearby and Anti-Skill has already been called. They are looking for away in. All the entrances have mysteriously disappeared."

Kazari didn't immediately respond and Kuroko grew worried. Then she heard a loud voice in the background, "SHATTER THAT ILLUSION OF YOURS." Shortly afterwards she hears Kazari's voice along with several other people. Thank goodness she's ok. Kazari's then started to call out about remaining calm.

"Kuroko," Mikoto called out. "What's happening?"

"Looks like Uiharu and a couple other people took out the criminal and she is trying to keep everyone calm."

"That's good," Mikoto sighed with relief. Then BOOOOM, an explosion shook the building and smoke came from the ceiling. "They have bombs now?"

"Uiharu," Kuroko yelled. "Status report!"

Silence then, "They are trying to bring down the ceiling on us," Kazari replies. "Kagere-san has it under control for now but we need to get the people out of here."

"Understood," she said. "I will be there shortly."

"Hurry," Kazari yells then hangs up.

Kuroko puts her phone away and then teleports to the squad of Anti-Skill members. "I'm from Judgment; I have a status report on the situation." She quickly explains about the terrorist taking hostages, the collapsing ceiling, and an ability user keeping the civilians safe. "I plan to keep teleporting in and out to start evacuating the civilians."

The lead Anti-Skill member was a tall woman with blue black hair tied up into a pony tail. "I'm Aiho Yomikawa and currently in charge. Your plan sounds dangerous, but it is the best we have. With those explosions, we can't break the walls without risking collapse of the entire building. Rescuing the civilians is the first priority. Do not engage any targets. Understand?"

"Yes," Kuroko nods and starts teleporting near the building. Onee-sama is gone. I hope she is not going to get involved with this mess. She needs to leave it to Judgment and Anti-Skill. Kuroko stops right outside the wall where the entrance was originally. Thinking back about what the entrance looked like, she was able to picture how far back she needed to teleport to make sure she was past any obstacles. She took a deep breath and teleported in.

The first thing she noticed was the crowd of people standing in the middle of the museum. Hostages look safe. The second thing she saw was black shadow tendrils coming from a single individual connected to floating pieces of rubble. Is that what I think it is? She moved forward and called out, "I'm from Judgment! Is anyone hurt?"

"Shirai-san," Kazari called out. "We need to start evacuating. I don't know how long Jason is going to be able to keep this up." Kuroko noticed who the individual controlling the shadow was.

"Kagere-san's the vigilante?" Kuroko asked shocked. The memory from yesterday flared to the front of her mind and she made a fist.

"Shirai-san," Kazari pleaded snapping Kuroko out of her memory. "Please, there's no time, he's the only one keeping us unharmed. You need to get the civilians out."

"Is Saten-san and the ape ok?"

"I'm here," Ruiko said coming out from the crowd. "Kamijou-san ran off though after Kagere-san yelled at him"

Damn it, Kuroko thought then said, "Ok, first thing first, I'm going start evacuating everyone. I can teleport two people at once. Get in line and let's make this fast." Another explosion rocked the building and several more tendrils started to catch the rubble and fix them back to the ceiling. What is that ability?

Touma dashed down the stairs three at a time. He had to find who was down here and stop whatever they were trying to do. They were willing to take innocent people hostage so whatever they were doing, could not be good. He turned a corner down the last flight of stairs and saw a man in a cloak at the bottom. The man turned and Touma saw that he was wearing a gold mask commonly used in theatrical performances.

"What the…" he started to say before Touma dived down the stairs and punched the man in the stomach knocking him to his knees gasping. Touma quickly kicked him in the head and knocked the man unconscious. Touma stood up, and looked down at the figure. The gold mask was a face of a sad man. Maybe I can use this as a disguise. He reached down and tried to remove the mask. The sound of glass shattering and the mask exploded in his right hand.

"Ouch," Touma said jumping back in surprised. "I guess the mask was magical….." He trailed off as he noticed the man's face. There was nothing to his face. It looked like someone just wiped his face clean off, no eyes, no nose, and no mouth. "What are you?" He shook his head. Now is not the time to delay, there has to be more of them. He ran off down the hall looking for other. Several open doors were on both sides of the hall. Touma noticed several broken artifacts and scattered instruments in each one. It looks like it has been ransacked as the intruders looked for something. What could they be looking for? He reached the end of the corridor and he heard voices in the last room. He crept near the wall and stayed hidden from sight to try to hear what was going on.

"We found it," a man said.

"About time," a female voice said. "He was getting impatient. Where is Tal?"

"He was checking another room, he should be back soon."

The women sighed. "Are you really that stupid, can't you feel the person outside this room?"

Touma realized the female knew he was there. He stepped out and moved through the open door and entered the large room. This room was destroyed like the others. On the far end stood two more people in cloaks and gold masks, the male had a sad face similar to the guy Touma knocked out, and the female figure, based on her assets, was wearing a smiling mask. "Tal won't be joining you," Touma said. "Give yourself up. We took care of your partner upstairs."

"How dare you take to a priestess like that," the man said to Touma, his voice full of anger. "Sink under the weight of your own arrogance." Touma didn't know what he meant until the ground below him turned into quicksand.

"Shit," Touma said as he started sinking. "He couldn't pull his foot out." The man was laughing. Wait, it's magic. He reached down with his hand and touched the sand. He sighed in relief as he heard breaking glass. The sand turned back to stone and Touma was standing on top of it. "Is that all you can do?"

"You, you," the man sputtered before the women took charge.

"Silence," she said and the man instantly shut up. "Well, well, Imagine Breaker boy, I did not expect to see you here today."

"You know me?" Touma asked confused.

"He he," she says giggling. "Yes, we planned to contact you at a later date, but now we might as well take you too."

"I won't let you," Touma said angrily. "I will never go with people who are willing to hurt others for their own gain."

"Sadly," she said, yet her voice was more maliciously gleeful. "You do not have a choice in the matter. Suffer under the weight of your sins…"

There was more but Touma didn't hear it. He body exploded in pain as if he was being burned alive. He fell to the ground twitching and he felt as if he was about to die. He couldn't keep his eyes open from the pain. He was barely able to determine that his right hand didn't hurt. His mind was foggy from the pain but he focused every thought he could to move his hand to his chest. His heart and mind felt like they were going to explode. Inch by inch he finally manage to touch his chest, glass shattered, and the pain stopped. He was lying on the floor but couldn't get the strength to stand. He gasped for air but at least he was alive. He could just barely open his eyes and just make out the man walking towards him.

"His hand is indeed powerful," the male said. "It even broke your Curse of Wrath."

"That is why he is so valuable," she said. "His hand is the ultimate weapon. Take him alive."

"Understood," he said. He crouched near Touma. "Hmm, couldn't we cripple him so that he can't fight back when he can finally move?" He pulls out a long knife with an eerie green blade.

"Do whatever you want," the female said. "But first…" She walks over to him and pulls a small orb out of her cloak. She takes the orb and touches it against Touma's hand. The sound of breaking glass and a flash of blue light appears. She stands up and walks away. "At least the annoying barrier is gone, you can incapacitate him now. But DO NOT KILL HIM, we need him alive."

"Finally," the man said as he raised the knife. Touma was just getting the feeling back in his limbs and he knew he wasn't going to be able to block it. Shit, is that how it is going to end?

"Get away from Touma!" a voice yelled. The man looked at the door and was immediately struck by a gigantic lighting strike. Touma wasn't hit but the amount of electricity made all his hair stand on end. The man fell down next to Touma burnt and smoking. Touma was just able to make out the voice and saw the young female standing at the door.

"Biribiri?" he gasped.

"Shut up idiot," she replies. "I got another person to take out." She points to the women in the mask. "I will give you one chance to come quietly. But I will never forgive you for hurting my friends."

"A science puppet too?" the women asked. "Sigh, none of these minions can do anything right." She raised her hands. "Let my Wrath consume all." Dark red flames appeared and circled around her. "Let me see what you are made of little girl," she said laughing and threw a ball of fire at Mikoto.

Mikoto dodged to the right as the fire blew away the door frame and part of the wall. She shot a bolt of electricity in response. The female used her flames like jets to just avoid the blast and fly to the corner of the room. Several spears made of fire appeared around her and flew at Mikoto. Mikoto had to charge several metal artifact pieces in order to boost her jumping power to avoid the spears. Each spear left a two foot hole in the solid stone walls and floor.

Mikoto started sweating. In this confine space the heat from the flames were getting to her. The women didn't care if Touma got hurt as long as he didn't die but Mikoto couldn't fire electricity off everywhere because she was not going to hurt Touma. I don't really have a choice. Mikoto reached into her pocket and pulled out a coin. As she was doing this though the female laughed and shot a wave of fire at Mikoto. She realized she was not going to be able to fire off the rail gun in time. She tried to get a wall of electricity to block the flame when suddenly someone jumped in front of her.

Touma gritted his teeth and used all his strength to stand and jumped in front of Mikoto and raised his right hand. The entire wall of fire disappeared as soon as it came into contact with it. Touma stood between Mikoto and the masked female panting, but still being able to stand. "I won't let you hurt her or anyone else," he said.

"Such power," the female said in awe. "I see why he needs you." Before she could say any more Mikoto had shot a bolt of electricity at her knocking her to the ground and smoking. Somehow, the female was still conscious. "I won't fall that easily brat," she spit out angrily getting up on one knee

"You are cornered and no one is going to save you," Mikoto replied confidently.

"Do you really believe that?" a voice whispered.

Mikoto and Touma immediately turned to the wall at the back of the room where the voice came from. The wall was glowing white and from it stepped out a man. This man was tall, easily seven feet, and dressed in red and gold robes. The mask he wore was gold also, but it was the face of an angry man. The reason Mikoto and Touma turned around instantly was the tone of the voice. Ii was quiet, but emitted an aura of command and it was cold. His very words sent shivers down their spine. They both realized this was not a man they wanted to fight.

"I see you have taken care of my servants," he said, his voice chilling them to the bone. He turned to the female. "Do you have it?"

"Yes high priest," she said, gasping as she made her way toward him on the ground. She holds up a small red orb decorated with intricate gold designs. "We even used the boy's power to remove the barrier."

'At least you did something right," he took the orb from her hand and looked at it then looked back at Touma and Mikoto. "You both could have been a real hindrance to my plan. But because I have what I came for, I will let you live. The same cannot be said for the failures." He raised his hand.

A cry of pain came from the unconscious man. Mikoto and Touma turned and looked at him. A strange symbol was glowing yellow on his back and they watched the man start to glow white. Before their eyes he seemed to start disintegrating. In only a few seconds all that was left of the man was a pile of white dust that looked like salt.

"Why did you kill them," Touma yells at him finally regaining his voice.

"The puppets failed me," the man said simply.

"What…What kind of logic is that?" Mikoto said in shock.

"Children cannot understand the workings of this world," he said. "Now I shall leave. Come Wrath." The women nodded and stood up on shaking legs and hurried after the man.

"Not so fast monster," Mikoto called out angrily. She released as much electricity as she could at the man. She needed to stop a guy like him. He would just kill anyone in his way, regardless of their innocence. The electricity went right towards him but appeared to hit a wall of air and reflected randomly around the room.

"The wall that separates this world from the next cannot be broken," he comments and turns around to enter the white wall. The sound of shattering glass stops him and he turns around.

Touma had charged forward and punched the wall of air between him and the masked man. "Now Misaka," he yells as he dives to the floor.

"You are as big of an idiot as ever," she said but at the same time flicking a coin at the masked man. A boom shakes the room as the coin is rocketed forward at several times the speed of sound and covered in electricity. Mikoto had used her most powerful move, the rail gun. She was able to turn that coin, using electro magnetism, into a high speed projectile. The women fell through the white wall but the man was not as lucky. Through the coin missed his vitals, his entire right arm was blown away from the shoulder down and the coin disappeared through the white wall.

"ARGGGG," he yells for a second then he stops. "You brats have angered me for the last time. Next time we meet, I will not be so kind." He steps through the white wall and the glow disappears leaving only a normal wall. One last phase echoed through the room, "You both will suffer."

Mikoto fell to her knees panting. "Who was that guy? His arm was blown off and he barely noticed."

"He's not normal," Touma said trying to get to his feet. "Did you see his arm after it was blown off? There wasn't blood of any kind. It was like his arm was just a decoration."

"We made a serious enemy today didn't we," Mikoto said. Touma nodded and then they made eye contact. For a second they didn't say anything then the broke into nervous laughter. "Just another day for us, right Touma," Mikoto asks.

"Don't I know it Misaka," Touma said sheepishly. "Just my luck…"

"Mikoto."

"What?"

'Call me Mikoto, we are friends right?"

"Yea we are but it feels weird, I still prefer Biribiri."

"MI-KO-TO. Not Misaka, not Biribiri, Mikoto."

"Ok, fine you win Mikoto," Touma says. Mikoto turned away to hide her slight blushing. "But you have to avoid calling me an idiot.

"I can't make promises I can't keep," Mikoto says laughing. "Come on let's get out of here. You are a mess." She helps Touma stand and they both make their way up the stairs.

"I don't hear any explosions anymore," Mikoto said. "I hope they got everyone out."

"By the way," Touma said remembering something. "How did you know I was down here?"

"While Kuroko was teleporting people out, I snuck through a hole in the roof. Several pieces were being blown outside so even with Kagere-san repairing it, some holes remained. I jumped down and heard you had run off down here. I knew you were playing the hero so I came to help. I am glad I did, you really needed it."

"I wasn't playing the hero," Touma said with slight indignation. "They had to be stopped."

"I know," Mikoto said. "You still should have waited for back up. Though, I would have done the same."

They stopped talking as they got to the main floor. There weren't any loud noise so they walked in carefully. The only people left inside the building were Jason, Kuroko, and three Anti-Skill officers. It looks like Anti-Skill broke part of the wall to make a doorway. Kuroko was the first to notice them and immediately teleported over.

"ONEE-SAMA," she cried. "Are you ok? You look terrible." She hugged Mikoto.

"I'm fine get off Kuroko," she said while trying to push Kuroko off with one hand. The other arm was still supporting Touma.

"Onee-sama, why are you hugging this ape? What did you two do down there? You ape, I am going to kill you if you defiled Onee-sama in any way."

Mikoto hit Kuroko in the head. "What are you talking about defiled? Get your head out of the gutter. We ran into some intruders downstairs."

"That's what I want to talk to you about," a female Anti-Skill officer said to them. None of them noticed her walk up.

"Yomikawa-sensei?" Touma asked.

"You seemed to be involved in a lot of dangerous situation Kamijou," she said dryly. "This time though it looks like we can't edit you out. Too many people were involved. The higher ups want a full detailed report on everyone here."

Touma sighed, "I don't really want to be in the center of this."

"Not only you, but Kagere too," Aiho said. "He's wanted through Judgment for being a vigilante. You both cause me so much trouble." She puts her hand on her face. "I think his punishment is going to be light though because he saved a lot of people."

Kuroko and Mikoto were watching Touma and Aiho talk, they both felt like this conversation has happened before between them.

"So there's nothing you can do to get us out of here?" Touma asked.

"No," she sighed. "My direct supervisor demanded we take you all in for questioning. I can't overrule it."

"Hmm," Jason said as he walked over. "So you are saying then if someone higher above in the chain of command said you could let us go, you would?" Everyone looked at him in surprise.

"I could if that was the case," Aiho said hesitantly. "But you would need someone up near the board of director's level to do that."

Jason smiled and reached into his pocket and took out a small brown case. He handed it to Aiho.

"What's this?" she asked as she opened it. Inside the case was some kind of code with Jason's picture.

"Call that in and identify me," Jason said. "See if that does anything."

Aiho shakes her head but gives him the benefit of the doubt. She walks a little way off and activates her communicator.

"What are you doing?" Touma asks Jason.

"Trying to see if we can get out of this mess."

Kuroko glares at him. "You already break laws, how can we even trust you?"

"Kuroko," Mikoto said. "He saved a lot of people including Saten-san and Uiharu."

"Yea but…" she started, she really didn't want to say what happened yesterday because she lost.

"Besides," Mikoto said. "You should be angry at Touma for running off to fight other intruders by himself and not staying with everyone else."

"Hey," Touma said. "You get in trouble by yourself too Mikoto."

Kuroko froze, "When did you two get on a first name basis?!" she yelled. Before anyone could think of an acceptable response, another person yelled to draw everyone's attention.

"THAT CODE IS FOR WHAT?" Aiho yelled into her comm.

Everyone, including the other two Anti-Skill officers, turned to look at Jason. He smiled.

"We might get out of this after all Touma."

Well, that was a fun chapter to write. Not a lot of time actually passed in the story but a lot of things happened. This is the first time I tried to have two different groups of people running at the same time. It was tough to make sure the timing fit, but I felt it worked out decently.

Thank you everyone who read and gave comments, suggestions, and reviews.