Sorry for the delay. I have been distracted by other thing. A little longer chapter as compensation. Now, let's begin…
Disclaimer: I don't own Spiderman or To Aru Majutsu no Index, or any character from the comic and novel.
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Chapter 3
Peter was standing in front of a five floor building. As always, since he first came to Academic City, he was wearing his school uniform. A short sleeve with t-shirt and dark blue pants. He was carrying the papers that he would give in to become an official Judgment member. Yesterday he felt confident with himself, but looking at the Judgment 177 Branch Office building was making him feel like a new student of an elementary school.
He remembered how he used to be bullied by many people before he became more confident with himself, something that came after a massive genetic incident and terrible loss that would hunt him for the rest of his life. The reason why he chose to become a hero and protect all innocent.
'OK, relax. This isn't worse nor scarier than fighting against Venom or Osborn.'
He entered the building, climbed up the stairs and got to the floor where the office was located. He took a huge breath and knocked the door.
He waited for a few seconds until someone opened the door.
"Welcome, sir" a small girl with pigtails tied with ribbons greeted him. She had around 13 or 14 years and was wearing the same uniform of the girl he knocked yesterday. That made him more anxious. "Is there any request or problem that you would like the Judgment to attend."
"Hello, my name is Peter Parker and well..." Peter started to say. "...I want to join Judgment. I was told to give in my papers here."
"What?" the pigtailed looked confused and a bit angry. "A new member? Just like that. You expect me to believe..." she looked at the papers with a surprised look. "This looks real. Konori-sempai! I need you take a look at this".
The girl turned her back at Peter and walked into the office. Peter didn't know if enter or staying at the door. In the end he decided to take a few step. The office wasn't what he expected. There was a small kitchen, a coffee table surrounded by couches, a sleeping girl... What?!
Lying in one of the couches there was a sleeping girl who had long black hair and was wearing a uniform consisting of a white shirt and a long skirt that reached her knees. Peter thought that she had the same age of the girl who opened the door and that she looked cute while sleeping. Judgment office wasn't what he had first thought. Instead of a room full of ultra-technologic equipment, a conference meeting room and a supercomputer as a database, it looked like a study room for students. Confirming that was the fact that all the room was filled with stacks of papers and notebooks.
"Excuse me, Parker-san" a more adult voice called him.
He turned to the voice. There was a high school student of Peter age. She had short black hair and dark blue eyes. She had glasses and was wearing a school uniform conformed by a blue no-sleeves vest and a striped short skirt white and blue.
"My name is Konori Mii, I am in charge of the Judgment 177 Branch" the girl said. "Even if all this documents look real, we need to confirm a few things because mm... This is totally unorthodox. We weren't informed of anything about this matter" then she add in a murmur that Peter couldn't hear. "Again."
'And I wasn't informed till yesterday, we are in a similar situation' Peter thought, feeling bad for being a bother for his new colleagues right from the beginning.
"Uiharu, please search Parker-san profile and compare with this files" Konori Mii was asking a girl seated in front of a computer, while passing some of the papers Peter gave to the pigtailed girl when he first entered the office.
"I am checking it now" responded the Uiharu girl. She had black hair decorated with a big flower crown and was wearing the same uniform of the sleeping girl. As her, Uiharu seemed to have the same age of the pigtailed, who was looking over her friend shoulder into the computer.
"Here it says that you pass the 4 month training... in America?!" the pigtailed almost yelled. "In what facilities? There is no Judgment in America."
"It was a private coaching of an entire year" Peter said remembering all the fake information written in his curriculum. "It is on the files, right there."
"Just as her."
"Exactly, just as… What?" Peter was puzzled. "What do you mean by that?"
"You aren't the first person this month that unexpectedly came this month to join Judgment" responded the pigtailed. "She also had similar documents that confirmed that she had a private coaching in America to join us".
"Who is her?" Peter asked, but the girl just ignored him and continued to look on the computer. The three girls kept confirming the veracity of Peter's documents, checking the online files and sometime calling other people by telephone.
"What's all that noise?" asked the girl who had been sleeping on the couch, rubbing her eyes. She noticed Peter's presence. "Oh, hello." Then she gave him a shy smile.
"Hello" Peter said and noticed that she wasn't wearing the regular band of the Judgment members, which they wear on the right arm. "Are you also a member of Judgment?"
"Hahaha! No I just like to chill here with my friends" she told Peter. "My name is Saten Ruiko."
"Peter Parker. I'm the new guy, or at least that's what I want."
"Hey, Saten-san, can you give us a hand in this?" the girl with flowers in the head asked her friend.
"A new rookie?"
"Saten-san? Are you listening?"
"Two in a month that's…"
"Santen-san!"
"Ah, alright" Ruiko responded. She seemed to be angry. Why was that?
'She probably dislike to be woke up in this way and then interrupted' Peter thought.
The group of girls kept checking the authenticity of Peter's files for almost an hour until there weren't any doubt about his right to join the branch.
"So… Welcome to the Judgment 177 Branch, Parker-san" Mii said with a nervous smile. She pointed at the other girls. "The girl sitting in the computer is Uiharu Kazari from Sakugawa Middle School."
"It's a pleasure, I hope we can get along" Kazari stood up and bowed politely.
"And she is Shirai Kuroko from Tokiwadai Middle School" Mii pointed at the pigtailed.
"Nice to meet you, new one" Kuroko said in a not very politely way as Kazari, but not rude.
"You already met her, she is Saten Ruiko, same school as Uiharu" the chief gave the middle school student a look that said 'why are you always here?' "And finally, again I am Konori Mii, chief of the Judgment 117 Branch. I study at Yanamiri High School (A/N according to the wiki her school has been named till now, so I just invent this)."
"Nice to meet you all" Peter bowed trying to show good manners in Japanese style. "My name is Peter Parker. I come from New York and now I am studying in a Certain High School (A/N this is just the term used to refer to Touma's school which its real name hasn't been said). Shirai mentioned that I am the second person to join this month. Can you tell about it?" Peter didn't know why he was feeling something was not right.
"Well, around a month ago we received the visit of a girl" Mii continued. "I was really surprised because it was the new transfer student from America that enrolled to my school a few weeks before. She had similar documents that also confirmed that she had her Judgment training in America. We check if the information was correct and it turned to be legal. So, we had to give her a band and teach her the responsibilities of a Judgment member. In the end it was the same situation… oh, she is here."
Peter turned around and found a girl of his age. Peter was completely frozen.
"Pe-Pe-Peter?" the girl stammered.
She had light brown hair, green eyes and western characteristics. She was wearing the Yanamiri High School uniform and a Judgment band, the same as Mii. Peter defrosted.
"Kitty? Is that you?"
Peter was totally astonished. The girl who joined the Judgment 117 Branch was Kitty Pryde, member of the X-Men. The Shadowcat. His ex-girlfriend.
"Of course is me! Do you know other girls with my face? I don't remember having a twin… Oh, forget it! What the hell are you doing here in Japan?"
"It's quite long story which involves a middle age scientific with crazy ideas and a bit of bad luck in the job, but… What are YOU doing here?" He emphasized the "you". Peter was so stunned that he forgot that he was in Japan and began to talk in English.
"It's…" Kitty looked a bit nervous and was also talking in English. "We will talk about this later" She nodded at the place where the other Judgment members were standing.
'Oh crap, I forgot about them' Peter thought.
All of the teens stared at each other silently feeling a bit awkward, especially the westerns. The silence maintained in the room for a complete minute until Mii took the word:
"So you know each other?" the chief ask with a silly smile.
Before Peter could say something Kitty:
"We were in the same school" the Shadowcat said grabbing Peter arm with a big smirk like a little girl. "I haven't seen him in a long time" she turned to Peter. "I missed you."
"Oh, that really nice" Mii said giving a nervous smile. "So you are good friends that haven't seen each other in a while."
"Mmm…" Peter received a stomp that passed unnoticed, in the foot that almost make him jump. "Yes-yes we are good friends. Really good friends" then the injured teen proceed, ignoring the pain and tears that wanted to flow, to also hugged Kitty. He didn't notice anything about what this action was making in the girl.
The others girls seemed to feel a bit uneasy by standing in the middle of the meeting of such adorable couple.
"In that case there is no more presentations necessaries" Kuroko said looking at the couple with inquisitive eyes. "I will show you how to be Judgment member. You are coming with me in my next turn. Unless you have to leave some properties here before."
"Let me see" Peter felt his pants pockets. "No, nothing. Besides all that paperwork I am poor. When are we doing this patrolling?"
"Right now!" and she took Peter's hand. "You don't have to come Kitty."
"What? Oh" Peter just noticed that Kitty was still holding to his arm.
"I have known him for a long time" Kitty began. "I think is better if someone he knows show him his way around."
"No-no-no. It is better if someone more veteran teach him" Kuroko replied.
"Kuroko-san, you don't have to worry about this guy. I can teach him, he isn't so much dumb as he look like."
"Kitty, I think that Shirai is right" Peter interrupted. "She is more veteran than you and me. Besides… Wait! What did you mean by that last phrase?"
"It's better if I teach him!" Kitty was arguing Kuroko ignoring the unfortunate guy. She pulled Peter to her side.
"No, he will learn more if he watch a veteran instead of a novice" Kuroko responded almost losing her temper. She also pulled Peter to her side.
"I tell you. He won't have any trouble with me. I am going to teach him everything" Kitty had already lost her temper.
"No buts!" Kuroko also lost it completely. "Let him go!"
The pigtailed squeezed Peter's hand tightly pulling him to her side. Kitty did the same, the only difference was that she was grabbing Peter's entire arm with hers. This scene would result very weird for anyone that could see it. A 13 years old girl pulling a bigger boy by the hand and a 16 years girl grabbing the arm of the same guy also pulling. Just for the sight it could be described in fewer words as: two girls fighting for a boy.
"Let go his hand!" Kitty yelled.
"You release his arm!" Kuroko shouted.
"Don't break my limbs! We aren't playing the game of pulling the rope. Moreover, I'm not freaking rope!" Peter cried. He didn't remember any other moment when he had felt so uneasy…
'No, that happened yesterday with that biri-biri girl. Men, my bad luck never leaves even if I cross to the other side of the world.'
"Shirai-san, Kitty-san, Parker-san" Uiharu and Ruiko were trying serenate the trio. "Please calm down."
"I'm not doing anything!" Peter cried again. "Hey, Kitty. My arm… your chest"
The girl didn't had noticed that the position in which she was hugging the other western was something that could be really awkward for both. Kitty was grabbing Peter's arms with both of hers. That meant that Peter's naked skin was touching the body part that was between the arms of a girl. Most than a body part, a pair or relatively big hills that many men thought were a gift from God.
"Kitty! You are really making it hard for me." Peter said that, but he was thinking: 'This isn't too bad.' He shook his head furiously trying to cool down.
Finally Kitty realized the situation she was in. She released Peter's arm and blushed. Kuroko also freed Peter's hand. Kitty started to open her mouth again to say something, but Mii cut her.
"It's enough. Look, Kitty, I know you haven't seen Parker-san in a long time, but he is now a novice Judgment member who needs to learn a lot of the job. Shirai has worked for the city for a long time. Considering that, she is along with me, the best one to teach him. Besides all is her turn to go on patrol. You just came from yours, one of the first you have done alone without any supervision."
Against those arguments Kitty couldn't make any type of reply. She just stood at the spot.
"And Parker-san, for now on you'll need this" Mii handed an official Judgment armband to the new boy.
"Awesome!" Peter giggled feeling finally as a Judgment member. 'Ouch! Crap! My limbs. Those girls pulled me as chewing gum.'
He looked at Kitty, who seemed to be a little unhappy. He felt the need to intervene.
"Hey, Kitty. Don't worry about it we will can talk all we want later" he was saying this while thinking: 'I will tell you why I came here. Hahaha! You are probably going to laugh at me, but you must tell me also why you are here.'
He was thinking that Kitty just wanted to know the reason of their meet in Academic City. If he had been a little more intuitive, he could have realized that she didn't care that much for that. Instead, she wanted to be alone with him. Unluckily, he didn't see any of that. Like a certain spiky haired unfortunate boy who was normally involved in this kind of situations.
"Ok" Kitty agreed with an unnoticeable sad smile.
"When do you said you will take me on patrolling?" Peter asked Kuroko.
"Right now!" and she took Peter's hand again.
"All right, but you don't have to take me by the hand" Peter closed his eyes for a second. "I can easily…"
The two Judgment Members, the veteran and the novice, disappeared at the spot without leaving any trace. Kitty, Mii, Ruiko and Kazari were left alone.
"He is handsome" Ruiko said gaining three inquisitive looks, especially from the western girl. "Don't you think, Uiharu?"
"Satan-san! What are you saying?!" Kazari replied blushing like a tomato. "Don't say such embarrassing things."
"Isn't it true? Good looking face and… Did you see those arms?" Ruiko was looking at the rooftop smiling with colored cheeks.
"Really good arms" Mii was muttering with a face similar to Ruiko. Then she noticed about the looks of the other girls. She coughed and said: "Well, I mean, is good to be in good shape. In that way he won't get tired while doing his job. I just hope that his discipline is also shaped that way."
Kazari smiled at the comments, but Kitty looked like she was going to burst out in any moment.
"...walk my way..." Peter opened his eyes. "...out? What happened to the office? What I am doing in the street?"
He was outside the five floor building of the Judgment with Kuroko.
"You didn't get dizzy? Nice" Kuroko said with a smile of satisfaction. "Most people who I teleport gets dizzy. At least when they experience something like that for the first time. Have you been teleported before?"
"It must have been because I closed my eyes" Peter said casually thinking when he swung with his webs back in New York. He was used to many different movements. Compared to some of his craziest acrobatics teleportation wasn't a big deal.
"In that case let's go" Kuroko took Peter's hand again and teleported them to the middle of the sky.
"Waaahhh!" Peter shouted. They were more than 7 meters above the floor.
'Oh crap! Did she just miss the objective spot and we end up here?'
Slow motion. It was a long fall. Peter could easily survive it and even walk his way to his dorm after, without a scratch or a broken bone. He could do that, but Kuroko couldn't. Peter proceed to, in free fall, change their position and cover Kuroko's body with his. In that way Peter would receive the complete impact, but she would be safe. He closed his eyes and waited for the impact. Nothing happened. He opened his eyes.
"The trip ended" Kuroko said before teleporting them both into safe ground. "You can stop hugging me."
Peter, blushing, released Kuroko from his protective hug. The Judgment members were in a bridge over the street. Even they just appeared there from nowhere, the people walking in the bridge didn't looked surprised or interested. Academic City was totally used to seeing amazing esper abilities every day.
"You were afraid, weren't you?" Kuroko joked Peter with a grin.
"No, I was trying to protect you." Peter said angry of being mocked by a younger girl.
"Hahahaha! I don't think so. You were afraid. When people are in the middle of a free fall, they tend to hold on to any type supporting point. It's natural. I am used to be hugged like that when I teleport people."
"No, really, I was protecting my body with mine" Peter replied worried of being judged as scaredy-cat in his first day on the job.
Kuroko seemed a little skeptical. "If I hadn't teleported us, you would have received all the impact. A lot of broken bones would be considered a lucky day after that kind of accident."
'I wouldn't have any problems with the fall, but I can't say something like that' Peter thought while thinking his answer. "That's true, but you would have die."
The grin left Kuroko's face. "So you are saying that you would risk your life for a person that you just met minutes ago."
Peter didn't need to meditate the answer. "Yes."
'I am Spiderman, I risk my life for unknown people every day. Helping people is one of the few things I actually take seriously.'
The pigtailed girl looked surprised. Not for the answer itself, but for the seriousness in Peter's tone.
"I me-mean that..." Peter stammered. "Well you are my Judgment partner and sempai (superior)."
"Hahaha!" Kuroko laughed. Apparently she had regained from the surprise. "I must say Parker-san, that you have a hero personality."
"Hahahaha!" Peter laughed with her. "What can I say? I like to help people."
"That's nice. Every Judgment member should be the same, but listen to me" a serious expression appeared on her face. "That kind of thinking is as admirable as dangerous."
"What do you mean by that?"
"I mean that putting yourself in danger without thinking won't help anyone" Kuroko began to lecture him. "Even if helping was your only aim. That hero personality can easily lead to serious wounds. For you, your partners or maybe even the civilians."
Kuroko started to walk off the bridge where they landed before. Peter followed her.
"You know what we are, the Judgment and Anti-skill? We aren't superheroes. We are the guardians of Academic City. We guard the law and the people from any threats to their safety."
Peter tried to cut her, but Kuroko's gaze didn't let him.
"Being a guardian means that you must think about every aspect before acting. If you are going to deal with another esper, you must think first of evacuate all the civilians of the place. It's simple logic. Think more about the consequences of your actions than the actions of the delinquents. I know about a lot of Judgment members who because of not seeing beyond the surface of the problem, end up wounded or penalized for letting civilians get injured."
"I just tried to save your life" Peter argued. "The only life risked was mine. Is it wrong?"
"No, that was the best action anyone could do in that kind of situation" Kuroko's expression softened. "I am telling you that you must remember to think about everything. Consider all your surroundings and even farther than that. Then you act. Act and win. I have thought that way since…" Kuroko looked at the floor.
"Since?" Peter asked with a bit of interest.
"It doesn't matter" Kuroko said waving his hand. "The important thing here is if you just heard what I said."
"I heard you and I think you are right" Peter admitted. He was surprised. Less than an hour in the Judgment and he had already learned something new and important. Tony was right about joining Judgment. Peter recalled the phrase of his uncle Ben and mutter: "With great power must come great responsibility."
"That's not exactly what I was saying, but it also important. The Judgment members have authority and sometimes strong abilities. One of these are power and we have to wield it with responsibility." Kuroko closed the theme. After that conversation, the pair patrolled the streets of Academic City looking for any problem in which they could help until the afternoon.
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Now that the main characters have been presented let's see their profiles:
Touma Kamijou (JAP: Kamijou Touma): Touma is To Aru Majutsu no Index main character, also called Imagine Breaker because of his ability. He possess the Imagine Breaker, which enables him to block/negate any kind of supernatural ability (esper or magic) and even the miracles of god (ex: the fortune). Every special power will be destroyed at the touch of his right hand. He has a hero personality, which means that he will try to save anyone in danger. It doesn't matter if he knows the person or not. His main weakness is that even he has the best defense, his only attack is to punch his enemy with his right fist until he/she goes down. Besides, he doesn't has any advantage against regular people. In few words, he can beat someone as Accelerator, but he can't defeat five brawny thugs.
Peter Parker/Spider-man: Spider-man main character. Hero personality like Touma, same lack of luck. He is a funny guy who likes to make jokes even in the toughest battles. Being bitten by a radioactive spider gave him many special abilities. He has superhuman: strength, speed, stamina, durability, agility, equilibrium and reflexes. He can climb walls thanks to his ability to control the flux of inter-atomic attraction between molecular boundary layers. I think this is something like using the negative/positive energy in his atoms with the positive/negative of the surfaces. Also making stronger bonds to resist all the weight of his body. His only weapons are the web-shooters. This machines like bracelets allow him to with the touch of a button in his palms (that's why the pose of putting two fingers in his palms when throwing webs) throw a shear-thinning liquid that, on contact with air, transform into an extremely tough, flexible fiber with extraordinary adhesive properties.
Mikoto Misaka (JAP: Misaka Mikoto): Co-character of To Aru Majutsu no Index. Main character of To Aru Kagaku no Railgun. Also called just Railgun. She is an Electromaster and the third one of the seven Level 5 espers of Academic City. She has several powers besides throwing lightning bolts to unfortunate guys as the capacity to move metallic objects thanks to the electromagnetism and even the little particles of iron in the dust to make them vibrate as an electric saw. Her iconic ability and strongest is her Railgun. Misaka use an arcade coin along with her electricity to shot it at a velocity of 1030 m/s (2307.2 mph). Personally I think this thing can destroy a tank. Misaka's main weakness is her dependence of her ability. She has ALMOST no fighting skill when it comes to evade and give punches. This can be seen when she tries to fight Touma in the Railgun series. So, Capacity Down is the best way to defeat her.
Kitty Pryde/Shadowcat: Character of the X-Men series. Kitty main power is selective intangibility, which allow her to pass through solid objects and move inside them as swimming (although she don't do any movement). The scientific base of this power is that she can pass her own atoms through the spaces between the atoms of the other surface. Besides this she can make others persons or objects pass through solid objects like her when touching them, and walk in water. Kitty is really strong and has good fighting skills. She can also condense the atoms of her body, fortifying her body with it and increase her resistance tremendously.
Well there are the profiles. I got most of the information of and . Feel free to check more about the characters (The Peter and Kitty I used for this story are of the Earth-1610) in this pages. I tried to summarize the scientific facts about each characters, but it was more difficult than I thought. So I really recommend you to check their pages. I think that the scientific base behind the superpowers are very interesting.
If you get bore in your science class talk to your teacher about the scientific background of the fictional superheroes (unless he/she is very close-minded). Thank to that I was able to get good grades in my class this year :)
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