Took a while, but finally the battle has come. (Drumroll) Now, let's begin…
Disclaimer: I don't own Spider-Man or To Aru Majutsu no Index, or any character from the comic and novel.
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Chapter 6 – Misfortune Duo VS Accelerator (Part 1)
The train switchyard, due to the hour, had a dark atmosphere that only was suppressed by the light of the full moon. It was a beautiful and windless night. Misaka Imouto was lying in the gravel soil. She had a few broken bones and a big cut in her forehead. One of her eyes was blinded because of the flow of blood that came from that wound. A white haired teen was standing by her side, smiling. The strongest esper started to kick the girl side. Again, and again. Although, the monster was holding down his power. If he hadn't hold back in each hit, the girl's body would have already exploded into many meat pieces. Just like it happens to a grenade after it is activate. And the white haired wanted to have some fun before heading home to take a proper sleep.
It was her time of dying. Her time of being killed by the strongest esper, Accelerator. However, Misaka 10032 didn't have any resentments against the white haired. She was clone with the value of 180000 yens (1500 $ approx.), developed completely in 14 days with the use of diverse chemicals. After that process she only needed to receive basic education from the Testament. If she need more information the clone would just take it from the Misaka Network. That was all she was. The same for the others remaining Sisters. She waited for the fatal blow.
"…Hey. What happens to the experiment if this happens?" Accelerator asked surprising her that she was still breathing.
Misaka Imouto raised her head enough to see what was looking Accelerator at. A few meters of her, standing like a soldier would do in front of the enemy army, was certain boy. This certain boy had spiky black hair and was wearing a uniform consisting of a white short sleeves t-shirt and black pants. He looked like an ordinary high school student, nothing more.
"Get away from her" Touma shout.
Accelerator didn't respond him. "Oh, come on! What I do now?" instead he asked Misaka Imouto angry. "I know the right thing to do now is to silence the intruder, but that just leaves a bad taste in my mouth. He isn't some disposable doll like you are. Hey, don't fall sleep. Tell me." Accelerator kicked her ribs again.
"Stop! Hey, don't you hear me? Get away from Misaka Imouto, you big bastard!" Touma yelled again clenching his right fist.
The white haired was stunned for a few seconds. Nobody had ever talk to him in that way before. "Oi, what the hell do you said? Do you know who are you talking to?" Accelerator said giving a pair of steps in Touma's direction with a terrifying smile. "I am Accelerator, the strongest Level 5."
"Shut up! You lowly thug" was Touma reply. "I won't let you harm more Misaka Imouto nor the others Sisters."
"Sisters? You are aware of the experiment" Accelerator asked that crazy spiky haired boy of his age. Who did he think he was? That idiot was threatening the strongest esper. How crazy was he? Accelerator smiled. "Misaka Imouto, you said? You mean this doll? Do you want her?"
The white haired proceed to stamp his feet over the girl's skull. He didn't do it with the force to break it, just to make pressure and produce pain. Touma could hear the low and barely audible cries of pain that came from the girl. He clenched his teeth and his fists even more. "Stop!" he yelled.
"You really want this doll" Accelerator said and then he laughed maniacally. "In that case catch her! Hahahaha"
The strongest Level 5 kicked the girl again, this time she was sent flying 4 meters into the sky. Touma ran to catch her, but before he could give more than a pair of steps another figure caught the girl in middle air saving her from the fall. Touma stopped running and sighted in relief. Misaka Imouto was safe in the hands of that other teen, his support.
"What?" Accelerator was confused and rolled his eyeballs in every direction. "Where did she go? Who else is there?"
'Just your friendly neighbor, Spider-Man' Peter responded him in his mind. He was lying over a tower of three containers, 7 meters over where the fight was taking place. Besides him was Misaka 10032, most known as Misaka Imouto.
Thanks to darkness of the place, Peter could sneak in the surroundings of the battlefield without being noticed by the others. That and his tremendous speed gave him the opportunity to grab Misaka Imouto in a blink while she was still in the middle of the air. Despite that movement, his position wasn't reveled to the enemy who was still searching with his eyes in every corner he could see. The fight hadn't begun, but Peter could sense the pressure in the atmosphere surrounding the two espers, Touma and Accelerator.
"I told that you wouldn't harm her anymore nor the others Sister" Touma repeated glaring at the Level 5 who stopped searching and focused on the Level 0.
What Touma was doing wasn't a very good idea. Teasing the enemy from the beginning of the fight like that. Either way, Peter had no right to complain of that behavior. If it was his regular way of fighting. Although, Spider-Man would have made a surprise attack.
"Why? Asks Misaka to understand the situation" the young clone besides him asked in a low voice with her last forces. "Why is he risking his life for Misaka? Misaka is a clone with the value of 180000 yen and there are 9968 more in reserve, explains Misaka. Misaka can be automatically produced at the press of a button. So, why? Asks Misaka again."
The girl looked at the brown haired boy besides her. This other high school student was wearing the same uniform as the black haired and a weird mask made of something similar to a web. The mask didn't cover the eyes, so the Sister could noticed of his western features.
Peter also looked at her and smile. "He told me about his dream" he began to say. "He said his dream was to see everyone going home with a smile and without losing anyone or anything" Peter recalled the conversation they had between their arrival to the train switchyard and the beginning of the "Save Misaka Imouto and Her Pals Operation", how he called it. That moment they used to plan a little strategy and don't rush in the fight without any thought.
"Misaka can't understand, says Misaka feeling confusion. And why are you doing this? Asks Misaka also not understanding your behavior" Misaka Imouto asked Peter.
Peter thought the simplest answer. "Because that's what Judgment do." He showed her the Judgment armband he had on his right arm.
'Because that's what Spider-Man do' was what Peter wanted to say, but couldn't. 'I promised to help everyone even if I have to risk my life. Never let a person die whatever they are good or evil.'
"It is Judgment duty to protect all citizens of Academic City and you happen to be one of them. The same for him." Peter nodded in Touma direction. "I am currently supporting him."
While he said that, Misaka Imouto had lost consciousness muttering: "But Judgment shouldn't be involved in the experiments, contradicts Misaka while she fells sleep."
Peter smiled and carried the girl far away from the train switchyard in the same time that the battle began.
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With a battle cry, Touma rushed towards Accelerator with his right fist raised.
"Too slow" Accelerator said and stomped the gravel ground generating a burst of gravel and particles of rock.
Touma was pushed away raising two meters in the air. He felt to the floor with a lot bruises in the torso product of the big particles. Ignoring the pain, Touma stood up again and clenched his right fist again.
"Hey, idiot, let me see how you dance" Accelerator said giggling. He got near to one of the several railways of the place and, with the tip of the shoe, he barely touch it.
Touma stopped in his tracks sensing an incoming danger. However, he didn't expected to see what happened next. After the touch of Accelerator, the rails lifted like a person standing, bended in several parts of them.
"Dance!" Accelerator yelled with a big smile as he just touched the now vertical rails with his knuckles.
The metallic rails flew like arrows in Touma direction. The teen managed to avoid the first projectile jumping to the left, while the second grazed his side making him lost his balance and fall. Then 3 more headed towards his spot.
"No-no-no-no!" Touma began to step back, but it was obvious he couldn't avoid them. He shrink himself expecting the rails to fall around him. Suddenly a class of rope came from the darkness, pasted to his back like glue and pull the teen just before the rails stabbed the spot where Touma had just been.
"Again?! What the fuck is that?" Accelerator shout in anger, his red eyes flashing and his teeth clashing. "Who is there? Show yourself!" Somebody was teasing him. Nobody ridiculed Accelerator and lived to tell it.
Hiding behind a container, out of Accelerator sight, there were two teens. One with black spiky hair and the other with a web mask.
"Thanks, Peter" Touma muttered.
"I'm support, you're assault" Peter said using shooter videogames references.
"I'm the knight, you're the healer" Touma used RPG references.
"I can't actually heal you but it is close. Either way, I am here to watch your back. Do you have a strategy to defeat him?"
'What Tony told me. What Kuroko said' Peter was recalling. 'Which is the duty of a hero? It is the same for Judgment. And it isn't just to defeat evil. What a hero must do. What a Judgment member must do. What Spider-Man must do. I must protect the people. That's my duty' Peter reached that conclusion. 'Right now the one I must protect is Touma. If I protect him in his fight he will be able to save the Sisters. I'm happy, in the end I have learnt. Tony would be proud.'
"Not exactly" Touma replied getting Peter out of his deep thoughts. "I just need to get closer to him. If I can hit him with my right hand, he will eventually fall down, no?"
"Taking a look at him, I can say he don't have any melee training" Peter said as someone who had face several skilled fighters and he was one himself.
"You believe that?"
"Yes. Ok, now that I secured the girl, let's pass to the second part of the Save Misaka Imouto and Her Pals Operation… Come on, Touma, don't put that face, it is a good name. How I was saying, I am going to distract him in any possible way and with that you… Oh crap!" Peter grabbed Touma by waist and jumped with him just before the container that had been their cover was shot like a billiard ball.
'Thanks, Spider Sense.' Spider-Man thought.
The container crashed with the tower in with Peter was hiding a minute ago, making it collapse in a union of different noises. Some from the containers itself and some from their contents that was now spreading all over the floor. Peter landed with Touma and turned their gaze towards the disaster, although, they weren't looking at it. They were looking at the guy between them and the disaster.
"Oh, so you are finally showing yourself, you fucking coward" Accelerator said laughing focusing his red eyes on Peter who was besides Touma. "And I thought I was a big scumbag, but you! Letting your friend fight me completely alone while you are hiding" the esper laughed again. "How do you manage to sleep every night?! Hahahaha! And what's with that fucking mask? What're you hiding? Is your face so ugly? Don't worry, it won't be a face after I finish with you"
"Shut-up-NOW!" Touma ran towards Accelerator, furious of keep hearing the voice of that monster who talk about killing people with that easiness.
"Touma, NO!" Peter yelled trying to grab him by the collar of his shirt, but even with his reflexes the other teen had gotten out of the reach of his hand.
"Listen to your friend, weakest" Accelerator mocked while he leaned and punched the ground generating a big area attack of a 3 meters radius that split the soil like there was something coming from beneath the earth.
"Whoa!" the unfortunate teen was launched to the air, but was caught by Peter before he reached the floor.
"Don't do that" the masked teen reprimanded him.
"Sorry"
"So you have that kind of relationship" Accelerator said with a grin standing in the spot from where he launched the attack.
"That kind of…? Peter put me down!" Touma yelled with clear embarrassment.
The duo was in an unexpected positon. The American teen was holding the Japanese like it would do groom with her fiancée in their wedding night. Peter took his hands away from Touma and the spiky haired felt to the ground with a big BUMP sound. Touma got up and moved away a meter from Peter looking in other direction. Peter did the same.
"Let's ends this game now! I will kill you both with one touch" Accelerator yelled with a sadistic grin in his face extending his hands in Touma and Peter direction. He kicked the ground and propelled himself like a bullet. A bullet that headed towards them, but…. Accelerator was thrown 5 meters horizontally and ended face up looking directly to the moon.
'Why I am looking the moon?' he wondered. 'Why I am in the floor?'
The strongest esper stood up and looked at the spiky haired who was with his right fist extended in the same spot he was before Accelerator attack.
'Did he… punch me?' Accelerator wondered. It was impossible.
"This is interesting" the white haired said laughing and rubbing his right cheek. He was like a masochist, he laughed and felt pain at the same time. "Dammit. Excellent, excellent. That was great! That was wonderful! Now you've done it! Be happy in your last minutes… I mean seconds, because you were the first person that could lay a hit in strongest esper of Academic City and the world: Accelerator. And I tell you, that won't happen again."
With the same movement of before, he launched himself towards Touma again. The spiky haired just avoided him moving to the left and punched him again.
'How?' Accelerator was wondering.
Accelerator try to touch him in any place he could get close, but Touma always found a way to dodge that dead touch. Every time Accelerator missed an attack, Touma managed to give him a direct punch in his face. The Level 5 stopped then focused to grab the right hand of the teen, but Touma after every attack moved his arm in a complex trajectory like a Swat would do with a knife. After 2 more hits in the face and one in the stomach, the white haired was pushed two meters by the force of the last hit and almost fell down. The strongest wasn't in his total senses because of the hits in the head, so he didn't see Touma approaching clenching his right fist and giving him a mighty hook punch.
POW! BUMP!
Accelerator's feet were raised 1 meter from ground and he felt to the floor. Peter, who had separated from Touma to leave him space to punch, got near him and told him: "I told you he isn't any melee fighter. Beat him up with all your might! While me…"
"Dammit! What the fuck is going on?!" Accelerator shout spitting a few drops of blood because of that strong hit that he receive in his chin.
Peter smiled walking around the Level 5, while Touma was getting closer to the white haired. "Maybe you are the strongest esper, but you aren't the strongest fighter."
"It doesn't matter how strong fighters they are" Accelerator replied angry at Peter's joke. "It doesn't matter if they are Level 4 or 5. All of them will just die if they try to face me."
"And what about a Level 0?"
"What?" Was the only thing Accelerator could say when he turned back and saw a fist heading directly to his face.
While Peter was teasing Accelerator, Touma managed to get closer to him and lay another punch on him. The strongest esper was pushed again and the weakest clenched his right fist again laying many another hit on him. Accelerator noticed that until that moment, that Level 0 had only used his right hand.
"What's with that right hand?!" Accelerator asked in rage.
"Single for 16 years" Touma DIDN'T say.
Touma managed to hit Accelerator 4 times before the white haired back away enough to distance himself from that enemy who had actually became a threat for him. The spiky haired ran after him.
"Get away from me, trash!" Accelerator yelled stomping the ground generating an explosion of gravel and rock particles that were directed to Touma.
Touma blocked his face with his arms and received the impacts of the rocks, but…
"Die now! Level 0!" Accelerator propelled himself like a bullet extending his hand to touch.
As Touma had his right hand, his Imagine Breaker, currently covering his face, there was no way to block the hand of Accelerator before it reached his chest.
"I will turn you into such a lovely piece of art that… What?!" Accelerator yelled in surprise because the teen which he was about to turn into a stain on the ground was suddenly pulled away.
Peter had realized the emergency in which his friend was and shot his web to pull him out of Accelerator reach. Unluckily, the blows that Touma received left him with a big pain in his torso and a bit dizzy. He would need a few seconds to be completely on his senses again and fight.
"You" the white haired said focusing his red eyes in Peter. His left cheek was swollen, there was a big bruise in his right eye and blood was flowing from his lower lip. All that was product of Touma's right hand.
"Me?" Peter asked.
"You"
"Me?"
"You"
"Me?"
"You"
"…Me?"
"You dare to tease me, you piece of shit" Accelerator raged feeling most annoyed than ever before.
"..." Peter grinned. "…Me?"
"Aaaaagh" Accelerator propelled himself besides a container and manipulating the vectors of gravity carried it with one hand. "I-will-break-your-body!" And he threw it to Peter.
'I better dodge those deadly 20 tons' Peter ran towards the esper and ducked so the container passed over his head not even grazing him before it crashed into the ground. He continued running towards the esper, but before they could clash, the American jumped 2 meters over the white haired. Peter easily landed one meter behind the esper. Accelerator turned back and tried to touch him with his left hand, but the other teen dodged him with a simple movement. Peter grinned at him. "Too slow"
Accelerator growled like a mad dog and tried to do the same again. Same result, Peter avoid it easily. The white haired propelled himself again, this time just a three meters distance separated him from his prey. Peter jumped over Accelerator again.
"That won't work again. Hahahaha" Accelerator redirected the vectors of gravity to perform a huge jump that quickly took him beside Peter. "Got you! You can't dodge in middle air."
"I don't think so, old man" Peter said pointing his left web-shooter to the ground. The spider web paste to the floor and Peter could pull himself out of Accelerator reach. He landed calmly and look how the white haired also landed.
"What the fuck is that web coming from your wrists?" Accelerator asked getting more furious.
"Oh, you don't have to worry about this, old man" Peter answered looking at his new updated web-shooters that Tony made for him before leaving America. "It is just something a friend gave me."
"Tch, equally I don't care. I'm still going to turn you in a red piece of art… Old man? I'm sixteen!"
"Your hair contradicts you" Peter said with a relaxed expression.
"Why are you trying so hard?" Accelerator asked seriously in a low voice without any kind of sadistic mockery that surprised Peter. "You can't defeat me. You should now that eventually I will destroy your body. Nobody should fight me if they care about their lives."
"I do care about my life" Peter answered calmy. He didn't show it, but he was really scared. He was literally avoiding death every second. He knew that if Accelerator just lay a finger on him, he would end up dead. Not wounded. Totally dead. "As everyone else I want to live, but you are making a little mistake?"
"What?"
"I'm not fighting with you" Peter said firmly. "I haven't even tried to lay a finger on you. In the end I'm just a guy who is being attacked by the strongest and scariest esper of Academic City. Somebody who just trying to avoid death."
"I don't understand you" Accelerator said angry. What was trying to do that masked idiot?
"You tell me now, why exactly are you doing this? Why are you so interested into reaching that Level 6? You don't need that."
Accelerator had been growling between every phrase he said since the old man joke, but hearing that questions he stopped. He smiled. "I want power farer than imagination. A power that make everyone think that is a craziness to try to defeat me. That everybody who try will inevitably end death."
Peter was a bit surprised. "Power? The same thing that most villains want besides money? Your reason for killing more than 10000 Sisters and currently trying to kill the rest is getting more power?"
Accelerator didn't responded at the act, but after 10 seconds he said: "Yes" and a sadistic grin appeared in his face. 'Maybe after this… maybe there will be a chance for me to…' he remembered again the deepest reason of why he was taking part in the experiment.
"And why do you want that power? Conquering the world, right?"
"Why would I want this shitty world?" Accelerator said with clear displeasure.
"So why you want it? That's the problem with most villains. They seek for power, but in the end they don't know exactly what to do with it" Peter said.
"… Tch. You are annoying, but it won't affect me anymore" the strongest esper said.
"Yeah, old man, whatever… Whoa!"
Peter barely dodged a rock of a golf ball size that came after him with the speed of a bullet. Then another came, and another, and another, and another. Peter, even with his superhuman speed, was having a hard time dodging all the rocks that Accelerator was shooting at him. The Level 5 was just stomping the ground and those stone bullets flew towards Peter.
"Hey, I like your tap moves, but do you think they are like to oldie" Peter joked trying to distract him after he avoid a rock that almost penetrated his forehead. Strangely, the Level 5 didn't reacted at all to Peter's mockery. He even didn't stop smiling while he launched all the rocks. "Hey, Accelerator, are you listening to me?"
Accelerator didn't reacted at all and kept shooting the rocks. "You are probably wondering why I don't fall to your teasing anymore" his grin got wider. "I am currently redirecting the vectors of the sound that reach my ears so I doesn't hear more of your stupid jokes. Whatever you say, I won't hear it. So now I will just concentrate in killing you."
Peter kept dodging the stone bullets but managed to say: "In that case… Touma, you know what to do."
Touma, who had regained totally his senses, took advantage of Accelerator's temporary deafness and positioned behind the Level 5's back. Every time he had to punch him, he had to take quick decisions and disposed of a short time to prepare his fist. This time, he took the necessary seconds to clench his fist and aim. Touma finally managed to lay what could be considered a really good sharp punch at the back of Accelerator head. The strongest Level 5 didn't launch anymore rocks, he stopped redirecting the sound and finally fell face down to the gravel ground.
"By the way" Peter began with a grin, "that Level 0 is the one who is actually fighting you."
This time the esper didn't say anything nor moved at the moment.
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Accelerator was astonished. That dam spiky haired had attacked him by the back when his senses were all concentrated in killing the other guy. He couldn't see it, but it was obvious. Who was the only that had managed to pierce through his reflection? That dam spiky haired. He tried to stand up again, but his body didn't respond. So he just kept sprawled face down on the ground.
'What's going on?' the strongest esper wondered. 'Did I was just defeated by that asshole? That's… impossible.'
He thought that, but deepest he knew that the Level 0 had took him to the ground. He was feeling a lot of pain, something he had never felt before, at least physically. He was tired. He wanted to go to sleep. But, he knew that if he didn't stand up again, his defeat would be done. Accelerator wouldn't be considered the strongest esper of Academic City. The scientist would stop believing in the Level 6 Shift Project. He needed the power, the power that will take him away from the fights.
'I can't lose. I'm the strongest. Dammit! Dammit!' Accelerator yelled in his interiors. 'Is my Vector Change unable to kill those bastards? Come on. I can manipulate every forces, it doesn't matter if it is motion, heat, electricity or… wind'. With his face still on the ground he smiled.
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I know I said that this would be the last chapter of the arc. That it would consist of the entire battle versus Accelerator and an epilogue, but I couldn't manage to write all the fight in one chapter. It can be helped. I am still a rookie in writing so every time I start to write a chapter I can't know how long it would be. But I promise that the next chapter will be the end of the fight and the epilogue of the arc.
NoNameAvailable Bis: I want to thank you for your review and your idea of Accelerator using his power to block sound so he don't hear more Peter's jokes. I'm sorry it just last for a few seconds.
MK Havoc: Thank you for your review and that you have given this story an opportunity. In response of it I will tell you that Peter won't wear the Spider-Man mask in all the story. I think it would raise a lot of questions if randomly Spider-Man appears in Japan. But don't worry, in his Judgment work he will do pretty much the same thing. About Peter saying "With great power comes great responsibility", it didn't appear here but it will. Along with Touma's famous phrase.
Jose19: Again, thanks for all the reviews you made. Making sure you have no doubts about the Misfortune Duo plan of attack. If Touma attacks Accelerator and also receive attacks from him, it would be considered that they fought. But, if Peter just avoid his attacks and don't even try to lay a hit on him, I believe it won't be considered a fight. It would be like a hunter trying to kill his prey.
I have reread this chapter like 3 times already. I have really focused in doing this a memorable battle. In the end this is what it came to be. I really really really hope you had enjoy it, and remember the Part 2 will be out soon before New Year.
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