The last part of the great 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 7 – Misfortune Duo VS Accelerator (Part 2)
"Is it over?" Touma asked looking at the figure on the ground.
"I…. think so" Peter answered.
"We did it. We defeat him! We saved the Sisters."
Peter put his hand on Touma's shoulder and gave him a friendly smile. "No, Touma. You defeat him. You saved the Sisters."
"…I couldn't have do it without my support" Touma's smile went wider.
"You, guys…" a voice that both teens recognized said. The duo turned to the voice and saw Misaka Mikoto along with Misaka Imouto, who was holding herself up using her original's shoulders. "You… you…"
Mikoto had an expression that was a mixture of surprise and relief. She was finding hard to belief it. That duo had saved her from her nightmare. Get herself out from the darkness and took her to the light again. They saved the Sisters. They saved her life. She had never felt so grateful in her life. She even forgot what Peter did to her on the bridge. However, she couldn't just run and hug them saying "Thank you, thank you, thank you", in tears. That wasn't herself. She will have to properly compensate them.
"It's over" Touma told her with a smile. "The Sisters are safe."
"…" Mikoto lowered her head. A little laugh got out from her mouth. "Finally… finally… finally" tears came from her eyes along with those little laughs.
Touma and Peter smiled at each other. They did a good job.
"Misaka had requested the assistance of the other Sisters to properly take Misaka's body to the nearest health facility, notify Misaka seeing the world in a different way" the clone said with her regular doll expression.
Her fight with Accelerator had only left her a few wounds and broken bones. Nothing that should be treated immediately. That's why Peter, after checking that she wasn't too bad, had just lean the girl in a bench outside the train switchyard instead that taking all the way to the hospital and risked to leave Touma for longer time. Mikoto should have found her clone resting in the bench when she arrived to the place.
"Hey, Touma, I think you also need some assistance" Peter said looking at his new friend's beaten up body. "You don't look to good."
"Ahh, don't worry" Touma replied casually. "Just a few bruises and scratches. Either way, it's much better than last time."
"Last time?"
"Nothing, nothing" Touma taking importance to the subject as he remembered a sliced arm incident.
"In that case, guys, let's get out before Anti-Skill show up" Peter said to the group.
The group turned back leaving Accelerator unconscious body behind. Terrible mistake. Suddenly a tremendous wind began to blow in the all the place. The dust lifted from the ground. The hairs of all the group moved in chaos. The girls' skirts lifted.
"Don't you dare to look!" Mikoto yelled at the boys, with a red face and several sparks generating from her head.
"We won't! Wait, shorts?" the unfortunate guys felt that some of their dreams had just been destroyed.
"It's cold, complains Misaka"
"What the hell is going on?!" Peter yelled to be heard over the wind.
"Don't know!" Touma shouted.
The quartet turned around again. They realized that the wind was blowing like a tornado and in the eye of that tornado, there was Accelerator. He was standing up with his hand raised towards the sky.
"With this power… I have the world in the palm of my hand!"
The wind was getting stronger. Peter stuck his feet on the ground. "Everyone! Hold!" Peter grabbed Touma, who was just besides him with his left arm and with his other, shot a web to Mikoto's back. "Grab her!"
Mikoto followed his order and hug Misaka Imouto just before it happened. Do to the tornado-like wind Mikoto and her clone were lifted from the ground, but thanks to Peter's web they didn't go flying away. For Touma, he maintain in the ground for a while until the wind got even stronger. When this happened, Touma legs started to be taken by the wind. He wasn't taken by the diabolic wind because Peter was holding him with his left hand.
"Peter!" Touma yelled, but more worried of Mikoto and the Sister than for himself.
"Don't worry! I got you all." Peter yelled even he was in a very difficult position. With one hand he was preventing Touma from flying away, with the other, he was using Mikoto and Misaka Imouto as a kite. As the wind got even stronger Peter was forced to use his wall climbing ability to stick in the ground, but suddenly…
Peter was separated from the ground and all the group was sent flying.
"Sorry! I grab of you with my right hand" Touma said while they flew. The Imagine Breaker had the ability to negate every kind of special power. It didn't matter if it was esper, magic, a miracle of God or even the ability given by the bite of a radioactive spider with the Oz formula.
"Oh crap! / Such misfortune!" both teen shout, but before they were sent higher into the sky something stopped them.
"Aaahhhhh!"
The teens, who were grabbing the spider web, saw Mikoto pasted to one of the several 20 tons containers of the place. With her powers she managed to use magnetism to stick her hands and feet to the side of the steel container. Holding her waist was Misaka Imouto.
"Aaahhhhh!" Mikoto yelled again. Those were big cries of pain. Even she was using magnetism, Mikoto's body was barely surviving this action.
The situation was like lifting a huge weight with a powerful crane using two strong width wire ropes. One of the wire ropes was connected with the weight and the other to the crane. But, to join those wire ropes the constructors just used a thin steel cable. In the system the only problem was this thin cable, which in any moment could break because of the force of gravity. And the system would be ruined.
In this case, Peter and Touma were the weight, the spider web was the wire rope connected to them, the container was the crane, the magnetism was the other rope connected to the crane and the tremendous wind blowing was the force applied. Finally Mikoto was that week cable that joined the two strong wire ropes. She was currently holding with her young body the others three bodies against the demonic wind. It didn't matter how powerful Electromaster she was, she didn't had the physical strength to perform that kind of great feat. Of all the group, Peter was the only one who could do something like that without any kind of difficulty.
Either way, she didn't care. She wouldn't left those two idiots who just saved her life. "Aaaahhh! Ho-hold!"
"Onee-sama…" Misaka Imouto began to say seeing the danger in which her original was in.
"Shut up!" Mikoto replied. "I-won't-let-you-gooooooooo! Aaaaahhh!"
Peter couldn't stand this situation anymore. "Look, Touma. I want you to grab this web with all your might."
"Fiiiine! But, why are you telling me this now?"
"I'm going to release it, so Misaka don't have to carry with my weight too."
"What?!" Touma asked anxious. "You aren't going to make it!"
"Yes, I will. I have been in more difficult situations. Well good luck and don't worry about me!" and with that words the masked teen let go the spider web that connected him with the ground.
"Peteeeeeeer!" Touma yelled. He was worried for him, but he had seen this guy doing superhuman feats during all the fight. So, he was more worried about Mikoto. Even without Peter's weight, she was really having a difficult time. He knew that if she suffered more, she wouldn't be able to keep magnetizing herself to the container. The espers needed concentration to use their powers well, and pain made difficult to concentrate yourself. He took a decision.
"Such misfortune!" and Touma also let the web go.
While this happened, Mikoto's muscles relaxed only to need to hold the weight of her young clone, but her mind didn't. When she saw the masked teen letting the rope go, Mikoto almost yelled but she saw then how that guy shoot another web to the ground. Without his weight she it would be easier to hold there. However, she was still having a really difficult time having to hold the Sister and the spiky haired.
"Mmff" Mikoto bit her lip to restrain another cry, but suddenly, most of the weight disappeared. The girl looked at the sky and couldn't keep restrain the scream any longer. "Nooooooooooo!"
What she saw was the spiky haired teen she met long ago. The boy which she had tried to defeat several times before but never took the fights seriously. The one who unselfishly came to her aid first. That boy who stood against the most powerful being in Academic City. She saw him smiling at her and letting go his only connection to the ground.
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When miraculously the force of the wind decreased, Touma lost altitude, but unfortunately his body crashed with a container before it felt to the ground. He ended face down on the gravel with all his t-shirt drenched in blood. Peter, who landed casually from a 6 meters altitude, saw this and heard Accelerator sadistic laugh.
"That's what happen when you mess with the strongest! Hahahahaha"
Peter and Mikoto turned his gaze towards the white haired, but immediately looked up. Several kilometers up, there was a gigantic purple sphere. It was formation product of the compression of the air of the surroundings. Peter and Mikoto knew what it was.
"Plasma" both pronounced at the same time as they gulped.
They were separated. Peter, who was taken by the wind a few meters but managed to stay close using his spider web to keep connected to the ground, was in a certain position. Mikoto along Misaka Imouto kept besides the container, they were in another position. Finally, Touma was sprawled in the ground far away in another position. The three parties surrounded Accelerator, who was smiling.
"I will kill you" Accelerator told Peter, without noticing of Mikoto.
"Accelerator stop this!" Peter yelled. He didn't had any idea left, but he knew what that deadly scientific bomb could do in the place. It wouldn't only destroy the entire train switchyard, it also was a big threat against the several surrounding buildings.
Accelerator didn't stop. He just kept extending his hands towards his big bomb, observing its growth. "Soon… soon… soon… Nobody will ever try to face me again! Hahahahaha!
Peter didn't know what to do. He couldn't stop Accelerator. He couldn't bring him down. Worst, he couldn't even hit him. The plasma bomb was too high for him to reach it, and even if he do it, how could he stop it?
'A punch isn't any help against something like that, right? Dammit!' Peter was breaking his head trying to find a solution to the problems they were in. He looked at Touma's body. Even from the distance he could see the little movements produced by his breathing, so he was more worried about the current situation. 'If Touma was awake.'
Then he noticed of Mikoto along with the Sister, trying to tell him something. "Get his attention! Gain us some time! If you distract him, it will take longer for him to make the necessary calculations" Railgun yelled knowing that Accelerator wouldn't hear her because he was concentrated in the bomb and the wind was still strong. Of course not strong enough to lift a human body up.
Peter didn't meditated too long. Whatever they were planning, it was better than doing nothing. "Hey, old man!"
"Are you really making jokes instead of running for your life" Accelerator said with a mocking smile.
"I believe is funnier to tell jokes than to run for your life, don't you think" Peter replied with a similar smile. "…old man. Oh wait, now that I see you closer, I can't say you're an old man. You are an old woman. How dump of me, sorry."
"Old…. Woman" Accelerator clenched both fists in rage.
"Yeah! Hey, I know how you could look cute. Imagine yourself with a pretty sailor t-shirt with a ribbon on the center" Peter recalled the girls uniform of his school. "A dark blue skirt and a-a-a-a pink flower in the hair. Yeah. Your name could be… I don't know… what about…? Suzushina Yuriko (A/N search this and laugh). Don't you realize how cute you would look?"
Accelerator didn't respond. A bead of sweat fell by Peter temple. 'Did I, maybe, crossed the line a little?'
"Tch, you're crazier than that Level 0" Accelerator finally said and nodded at Touma's body. "Either way, I am concentrating a little here. So, I just going to silence you. But, don't worry, I going to stop just before I hear your ultimate scream when you die."
"Oh crap, I forgot he can do that" Peter muttered annoyed. "In that case… I am really the craziest man on Earth."
An idea was developed in his mind. The most dangerous he had and will have in his entire life. Peter ran and put himself three meters from Accelerator. Then he began to run around the Level 5.
"What are you doing?!" Accelerator shouted in rage focusing his diabolic red eyes on the other teen.
"Something crazy" Peter muttered. After a few laps, he went and jumped over the white haired like he had done before.
"You-are-making-fun-of-me!" the Level 5 yelled. Then he thought: 'It isn't just that. He is trying to distract me so I have problems with my calculations.' He began to smile again. "That won't save you, in less than a minute this bomb will blow up all the area."
"That's where you are wrong" Mikoto suddenly said. Peter turned to look at her and Accelerator follow his view. Mikoto was standing several meters from them. Behind her was Misaka Imouto.
"Oh, what do you said?" the white haired asked in a sarcastic sad voice disabling his sound block. "I couldn't hear it?"
"That you're wrong!"
Accelerator smile stayed as always for a second, then it froze. He look up and saw his bomb losing its shape and size. "No, no, no! What's going on?" he yelled. It was supposed that even with the distractions his equations were right. What was happening?
He realized it. The wind. The wind had begun to blow again but no because of his intervention. He knew that this phenomenon could only happen if the turbines that fill Academic City started to function by human interaction. Then he remembered that those power generator motors could be made to spin with microwaves. And which group that was all around the city could generate microwaves with their power?
"You" the strongest esper said.
Mikoto smiled before replying. "Me?"
"Misaka? Asks Misaka sarcastically wanting to take part of the amusing joke" it was funny even with Misaka Imouto's expressionless face.
Peter couldn't help it, but laugh.
"I-will-kill-you" Accelerator words took the trio back to reality. "After I finish with the Railgun and the idiots, I swear that I will destroy your body. Then I will do the same with all your dolls companions!"
"I won't let you" Mikoto extended her arms to cover her clone with her body.
"Misaka run!" Peter yelled. "Take her with you. I am going to…"
"It's ok" Mikoto answered with a smile looking for something in his pocket. "It's ok."
Accelerator prepared to propel himself like a bullet and destroy the girl in front of him, but suddenly…
"NO!"
Everybody turned to the origin of the sound and froze in the spot. Even, Peter who was about to yell the same. With many blood stains in his t-shirt, with blood in his face, barely standing abusing of his willpower. He started to walk towards them, towards Accelerator. Peter, Mikoto, Misaka Imouto and even Accelerator were speechless and froze.
'It's… impossible!' the white haired thought anxiously. He moved a step back as Touma slowly approached. 'How much can a human body endure? I have destroyed many others. Why this one don't breakl? Either way, he is barely alive. I can kill him now!'
"You're amazing!" Accelerator, who had regained the composure said. He took a posture that everyone already known.
"Dammit!" Peter cursed. He shot a spider web to a container in his left and another to a container in his right. Using the spider webs as the elastic band and his body as the rock, he went backwards to create a gigantic slingshot.
"You're really fucking amazing!" and with this last words he propelled himself towards the injured Touma.
"Nooo!" Mikoto got her hand out of her pocket, but the coin that symbolized her best weapon felt of her hand before she could do anything with it. Either way, it would have been useless just as last time.
"Tooouuuuumaaaaaaa!" Peter shot himself with his improvised slingshot. He knew that it wouldn't work. He couldn't do anything to stop Accelerator. Even, if Peter put himself in front of him, he would just die a few seconds before Touma.
'But I need to something' Peter thought while flying. 'I can't let this happen… again!' The teen who was secretly Spider-Man recalled the event that happened not too long ago. The day he saw the one who once was his best friend being beaten up to death by own out of control father. For Peter, the history was repeating. He yelled.
"Accelerator ('Osborn')! Get away from Touma ('Harry')!" Even with Peter's determination to stop what was about to happen, it was useless. Accelerator jumped very high to crush Touma with his fist. Peter was still 4 meters away from his new friend and the strongest esper was already over him.
"You're really fucking amazing!" Accelerator yelled for the last time. "But now you dieeeeee!"
Slow motion. Suddenly, Touma leaned his body dodging Accelerator's fist. The strongest esper passed over him landing behind the Imagine Breaker wielder. The situation was a line. First it was Peter, then Touma looking at the front and finally Accelerator looking to the back. Touma eyes crossed with Peter's. He just muttered one word, but that was enough for Peter.
Accelerator turned back after landing and saw the dam Level 0 standing in front of him. Even that he was barely maintaining on foot, the Level 0 looked as the worst treat ever. But, that didn't matter for the strongest esper. He was going to kill that weakest esper.
"Die" Accelerator extended his deadly right hand to end the life of the Level 0, but before he could touch him, Touma gave a quick punch to the hand that broke his index finger. The strongest esper groaned for the pain and went a step backwards.
"Now… (gasp) Peter" Touma put his right hand over Accelerator's shoulder, surprising him.
'He can't even hit me' Accelerator thought and smile crossed his beaten up face; but, without warning, something similar to a web pasted over the Level 0's right hand. It was an elastic substance, but very strong. It joined together the Level 0's hand to the Level 5' shoulder negating his powers all over his body. With the corner of the eye, he saw the masked teen 4 meters away from them pointing with a bracelet in his wrist.
"What's…?" Accelerator began to ask, but stopped talking when he saw Touma clenching this time his left fist. Then he delivered a strong punch into the Level 5's chest. In a second all the oxygen in his lungs went to the outside. His head went to look down and, before the strongest esper could do something, Touma gave him a hook punch that make him bit his tongue.
Accelerator tried to move with his both arm, the right hand that was pasted to his body, but that substance covering it was too strong. He saw again with fear, a fear he had never experimented before, how Touma clenched his left fist.
"Grit your teeth, strongest" Touma said with a ferocious, beast-like smile. "You are going to taste my weakest."
Then he delivered an all mighty fist into Accelerator's face. The so-called strongest esper fell to his knees feeling all the pain flowing through his body. Touma raised over him, still with his right hand pasted to his shoulder. He punched the Level 5's face again. Then he did it again. Breaking his teeth, nose, lips, getting out the blood of his body. Touma clenched his fist one more time to deliver the final blow that would end the fight.
The fist flew, but it was stopped before it reached its objective. Another hand holding the fist preventing it for going further. Touma turned his gaze and saw that the hand belonged to another teen. This teen was wearing his same uniform and had web mask covering his face. It was Peter, who after telling him to do it, had shot a web to his hand to paste himself to Accelerator, so he could negate his power and punch the esper.
"It's ok, Touma" Peter said with a friendly smile. "You defeat him."
Touma looked at Accelerator's face. It was almost totally covered in blood. Blood from the owner of the face and blood from the fist who attack him. The person, because in the end he was a person, had his eyes half opened, his mind fighting against unconsciousness.
"Did I-I… really do this?" Touma asked.
"It's ok" Peter repeated holding the spiky haired by the shoulder. Then he looked at Accelerator half open eyes. "You are the strongest, but you wanted more power. Do you know? With great power come great responsibility. I think you forgot something."
Accelerator, who barely hearing the words of the other teen, began to think. 'Responsibility? Did I forgot something? I wanted this power so I… Maybe I actually forgot something' and with that last thoughts he finally lost consciousness completely.
Peter broke his web to release the join between Touma's right hand and Accelerator's body. The white haired felt to the ground. Then Touma lost also consciousness and began to fall to the ground. However, Peter grabbed him before. The teen concentrated to made sure if his the spiky haired was breathing. For a second he didn't felt something, and feared that the history repeated. Then he heard a heart beating and felt the breathing.
"Don't worry" Peter said at the same time that a few tears began to flow from his eyes. "I got you buddy."
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It was three o'clock of the next day and Touma, who had been resting in a comfortable hospital bed in a private room, was steering at the face of a certain little nun two centimeters from his.
"Touma, don't you have something to say?" Index asked.
"Um, good morning?"
As expected, the nun jumped over Touma and began to bite his head like a dog would do with his bone.
"Wait! Wait! This time my injuries aren't something to joke about!" Touma yelled. "And weren't you worried about your landlord!?"
"I was worried!" Index stopped biting and hugged Touma from the back. "I was worried."
A few seconds passed before Touma could answer. "I'm sorry."
"It's fine" Index said. "And Touma, once again, once again, once again, you kept the problem all to yourself, no?"
"Actually, I gave him a hand" a voice from the door which Index left open said interrupting them. "I'm sorry, am I interrupting?"
"Peter!" Touma and Index said at the same. Peter entered the room. He was wearing his school uniform, now without any kind of mask and his Judgment armband. He was carrying a bag.
"Oh, you already know each?" Touma said a little confused, then he remembered. "Peter, you told me that you met her when you went to my apartment last night."
"Yes" Index answered for Peter. She turned to the American. "(ENG) Thank you for the food, but…" she didn't know if it was right to tell that she couldn't managed to cook almost all the groceries and made a tremendous mess on Touma's room. "(ENG) Thank you!"
"(ENG) Don't mention it."
"(ENG) You said you helped him" the nun turned to Touma. "(JAP) Is it true? I mean, did he help you?"
"Yes" Touma answered as he gave Peter a thank you smile.
Index looked at Peter and gave him an angelic smile. "(ENG) Again, thank you!"
"(ENG) Again, don't mention it" Peter replied also smiling.
"So what were you fighting for, Touma, Peter?"
Peter let Touma answer first. Touma recalled why he chose to fight. His dream. His dream of seeing everyone going home with a smile and without losing anyone or anything. "For myself" he replied.
Index and hugged Touma more. "And you, Peter."
He didn't need to meditate anything. "It's my duty. The duty of Judgment."
'The duty of Spider-Man.'
Suddenly the duo of teens heard a weird sound. It was similar to growl, but more deep and it came from the stomach of a certain nun. "Touma! I'm hungry!"
"As always" the teen resting on the bed complained with a tired voice.
"Touma, what are you trying to say?"
"Nothing. Sorry Index, I don't actually know where is my wallet right now. You are going to have to wait."
"But, I'm hungry!" Index complained as she pouted and moved her arms like an angry kid. Then she discovered the bag Peter had in his hand. "Peter, what's that?"
"Um, a hamburger, a soda and fried chips" Peter recognized the way Index was looking at the bag. "I bring it for Touma."
Index kept smiling and looking the back with the same expression. Touma gave Peter a glance that said "Don't try to steal the meet of a hungry tiger". The American handed over the bag to Index.
"(ENG) Thank you! (JAP) Look Sphinx! Peter gave us…. Oh no! Where's Sphinx? I left him in the lobby!" and with those words she ran off of the room.
The teens couldn't help it but smile at the cute scene.
"…"
"…"
"So… I'm not your first visit?" Peter said breaking the silence.
"Actually, you're the fourth" Touma replied recalling the other visits. Those weren't unwelcomed but they were very uneasy for different reasons. "Misaka Imouto came at dawn. Then Misaka Mikoto, the original came in the morning. After her, Index and immediately you" the spiky haired proceed to tell him the current situation of the Sisters.
"They are clones after all. Their bodies should be very different from ours" Peter nodded. "Well, at least they are safe. I'm glad."
"Yeah… Hey, Peter… Don't interrupt me! I really want to say it. Thank you, without you I couldn't have done it."
Peter smiled. "I'm your support, remember. And you are the hero here. You are the savior of the Sisters. The mighty hero who saved them of the strongest monster."
"It's not that great."
"I actually believe that you could be a good superhero."
"Peter…" Touma began to say. "Look! If you are ever in trouble… let me be your support."
"Got it." With that last words, Touma and Peter, they extended their hand towards each other and made what is known as a fist pound. It was symbol to represent what just happened.
A friendship was born.
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Happy New Year! I don't know how I did it but in one day and a half I managed to write this entire chapter. I hope you have enjoy the clash between the Misfortune Duo and Accelerator. A few things to say: From now on this type of attack plan of Assault and Support will be mostly the base of the duo. When they have to face magic, as we know why, Touma will be assault and Peter support. When facing science it will be mostly inverted.
(ENG) and (JAP) mean that the next words are said in English or in Japanese. This is when there is a conversation in many languages. If there nothing before the phrase it means that is in Japanese, unless that I make a talk between just English speakers.
Could you gave me some ideas of Marvel characters that I can put as villains? I want characters either that can be science side or some that could be from the magic side. Don't say Spider-Man villains. I have a plan for them already.
So, what do you think? In the end I used the Railgun S battle along with some lines of the original novel as a base from my fight. I know that the Railgun S fight is completely away from the one of the novel, but I really like it, so I chose it.
In any case… Fav, Follow, and most important: Review. Sebaspe out!