Finally I can update. Long time since updating. I'm sorry. New Year eve, I didn't touched the PC for 3 days because I was in the beach with my friends. When I returned I felt that I needed a little rest of this fic and focus in the other one I'm currently writing. This Monday I also began the classes at the University. Also I had my first author block writing this fic :(
Bestplayer109: Thanks for the review. I'm really happy that you like the story. Tony will have some appearances, but there will only be calls. At least until the final chapters.
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 8 - Army of one man
"Sooooooo, how do you end up here?" Peter asked inquisitive. "I mean again."
"It's a pretty long story" Touma answered scratching his head. 'Itaiii (it hurts)! Index's bite is still hurting.'
The two teens were, as last time, talking in the hospital. However, this time when Peter arrived Touma had already left the room and was filling some files in the waiting room. Touma had gone out from Academic City a couple of days ago because of the aftermath of his last adventure, which was defeating the strongest esper of the world. The higher ups of Academic City called Touma and suggest (force) him to leave the city until they could settle down the temperature.
The plan was successful, so Peter wasn't even mentioned after the fight. Besides, he had been with his improvised web mask, so there wasn't any way somebody else could know that he interfered in the fight. The only ones who knew about Peter specific involvement were Touma and Mikoto. Except for certain important person with more power than every president in the world and despite that, lives inside of a capsule located in a certain windowless building.
Peter talked with Mikoto after the battle, when they were taking Touma to the hospital, and asked her to not tell the Sisters who was that masked man who claimed to be from Judgment. She accepted, but later told him that they seemed to be very interested on finding out who was under the mask.
"I talked with your frog face doctor" Peter said while Touma finished with the hospital's files. "I asked him what he thought about someone who is interned in the hospital two time in the same week. Do you know what he told me? He said that it was actually your fourth time in almost the same month. What can you say about that?"
"Um… I should be more careful."
Peter laughed. "Yeah, that true. Knowing you, this is because you were trying to help somebody else, right?"
"It isn't a big deal, don't worry" he recalled the reasons why he end up there. It was actually a big deal. All the problems he had to face involved in the Angel Fall incident were things he didn't want to remember. Then it was the fact that Tsuchimikado was a multifaceted spy working for several different organizations. A big deal.
"Alright, alright. But, are you truly okay?"
"Yeah!" Touma waved his hand casually. "They already discharged me. Let's get out of here."
The teens got out of the hospital and began to walk towards their regular hanging out area.
"I better check on Index. She's probably hungry…and angry. I will have to take her to lunch outside or she will bite me, again. Want to come?"
"I would really love that… even after you mentioned the biting stuff, but I just escaped from my Judgment duties to visit you" Peter replied. "If I don't return soon Shirai and Konori will be mad and I don't want that."
"Shirai? Shirai Kuroko?" Touma asked thinking of the awkward encounter he had long ago.
"Yes, how do you know?"
"She's Misaka roommate. I met her when I went looking for Misaka in her dorm."
"Um, who would think that they are related?" Peter meditated something. "Is she…you know…aware of the experiment?"
Touma's expression turned serious. "I don't think so. I can tell that Misaka wouldn't tell her to keep her away from danger."
"I also believe that" Peter never told anyone of his secret identity for the same reason. "Either way, that's Misaka decision. Oh crap! Look at the time, I better run. See you!"
"Bye!"
The teens clashed their fists and went in different directions.
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Peter entered to the Judgment 117 brand office. "Hey people! Sorry for the delay I had to…ouch!"
"Got you!" Shirai Kuroko said grinning while she squeezed Peter's temples with her little fists. When the teen just had entered she teleported over him and managed to grab of his back.
"Shirai, what are you doing?" Peter asked while he wondered why his Spider Sense didn't warned him.
'Maybe because I don't consider her any threat or danger, so my Spider Sense neither. Never happen to me before.'
"Teaching you a lesson. Do-not-leave-your-du-ties" the pigtailed answered emphasizing every syllable.
"I'm sorry Shirai, but I was in the hospital visiting a friend."
"You said the same thing before!" Kuroko put more force into Peter's temples. For him that kind of punishment was more a bother than a pain. "But, if you want to apologize, apologize to her."
Suddenly his Spider Sense began to beep as an alarm. 'Oh crap. It think I know this real threat.' He looked at the girl in front of him.
"Do you have any excuses, Peter-kun" Konori Mii, chief of the Judgment 177 branch, asked him with inquisitive eyes. "Real excuses, I mean."
"Hi Konori, I have…I mean…hahaha, it's actually a funny story…hahaha…"
"So, why I am not laughing at all?" Mii's demonic bespectacled glare increased his pressure over the unfortunate teen.
"Oh, crap…" Peter sighed surrendering to the teleporter on his head and the murder glare from his actual boss. "Yeah, I deserve this."
Luckily, Kitty went in his help. "Kuroko-chan! Get off his back!" she yelled leaving whatever she was doing in his computer.
Kuroko looked at her Mii. Her sempai just waved her hand and Kuroko jumped from Peter's back. The American teen looked at his savior. He still didn't know the reason her to Academic City in the first place.' It was impossible to believe, but in the few days after their encounter they never found a way to have a proper private conversation. At least until that day.
There were several reason for that. Between their work at Judgment in which they never were alone and their respective curfew, they never found any gap. The days when there was a chance for the two of them to go on patrol together, Kitty just wasn't there. Peter heard from the girls of the branch that she had a part time job in a woman cloth store far from the office. When Peter tried to ask more, they told him that it was an underwear store. Obviously, Peter didn't ask anymore nor brought the subject up after that.
"As always, Shirai-san and Kitty-san have a lot of energy" Uiharu Kazari said with a gentle smile closing her eyes. She was currently, as most time, working on a computer.
"Hi Uiharu, how're doing?"
"Very well, thank you Peter-san."
"I haven't finished with you" Mii remind him interrupting their conversation. Peter felt the bespectacled glare of the death again over him. "Why did you escaped? It was supposed that you would help me with today's paperwork."
"I had to… Wait, what?"
"I said, you promised me that you would help me with today's paperwork" Mii said. Her expression was a mixture between seriousness, angriness and sadness.
"Did I…? Oh!" Peter face-palmed because of his stupidity. He just remembered how yesterday, he made that promise to her. However, when he heard that Touma was in the hospital (again), he just forgot it. "Konori, I am so sorry…"
Mii's face remained the same expression. It was one that he had seen a lot of time when, back in New York, he usually lost his appointments with his friends because of his Spider-Man's job. Those used to happen a lot with Gwen and Mary Jane in the times in which both didn't know about his secret identity. It also happened with Harry sometimes, before…that happened.
"If what you are saying is true, it… it is ok. Just, next time, remember to call us and notify us of your situation" Mii voice sounded sad. Peter tried to apologize again, he was even going to bow in the Japanese way, but Mii cut him before speaking. "Next time, there won't be any problem if you follow that instructions. Now, I need ask. You told us the same excuse 8 days ago. With what kind of people you hang out with?"
Peter didn't responded at first thinking how to apologize, but he saw how Mii was trying to get over the subject. "Well, that guy is...he is..." Peter scratched the back of his head, trying to find a good excuse for Touma's special situation.
"Don't tell me that you are taking of the same guy who you visited one week ago" Kuroko intervened. "You told us days ago that he was out of the hospital already."
She was talking when he visited Touma for the first time days ago. After the fight with Accelerator.
"..." Peter could feel the pressure of the two ladies in front of him. They both were really responsible, so it was normal if they got annoyed with people who liked to avoid their responsibilities, what Peter wasn't doing. He indeed went to visit a friend who seemed to spend more time in the hospital than in his house. But Mii, on the other hand, had the complete right to be angry with him. "I..."
"Whaaaaat?! Don't tell me that you are talking about the Nurses' fetishist hero" Saten Ruiko said suddenly surprising everyone.
"…" Mii's reaction.
"…" Kuroko's reaction.
"…" Kazari's reaction.
'Thanks Saten! Thank you so much!' Peter thought in relief very grateful to her for changing the mood.
"What?" Ruiko wondered. "You haven't heard about the Nurses' fetishist hero. It is a very well-known rumor of a guy who has this big taste for nurses, so he is always having accidents on purpose just to go to be attended in a hospital. Hey! What's with all the sights?"
"It's just another of your rumors" Kuroko said returning to work. "Nothing of interest."
"Hey! They are really interesting" Ruiko said while pouting. "If you don't believe me hear this. There's…don't sigh again! …how I was saying; there's a rumor that less than a week ago, hear this, the strongest esper of Academic City was defeated! Oh, now you look interested. You should be more interest to know that it occurred in a train switchyard located in a district not too far away from here."
'I'm interested!' Peter thought a bit anxious.
"I was sent there" Kuroko said. "There was a terrible destruction and I along other members of the law came to investigate it."
"The destruction was obviously the result of the battle" Ruiko said.
"Not exactly, the official report says that the destruction was a product of the explosion of one of the several containers, which had some dangerous compound inside" Kazari intervened.
While the girl with flowers on her head talk, Kuroko recalled something mysterious she found on the scene. An arcade coin similar to the ones which her Onee-sama used for her Railgun attack. 'But that's impossible. Even Onee-sama wouldn't be so reckless to fight with that kind of esper.'
"Hey, Saten" Peter grabbed her by the shoulders. The question he need to ask was important. "I need to ask you something."
"…Wh-what?" the girl blushed and look to another direction.
Peter got closer to the embarrassed girl. "Does those rumors talk about a 2 vs 1 battle?"
"What? 2 vs 1… N-no, I re-read that it was just one w-who de-defeated him" Ruiko stammered.
'Uff, I'm saved' Peter thought in relief.
"Thanks, I was…curious."
"Oh...alright" Ruiko answered with her cheeks totally red.
'Is she with fever?' Peter wondered not understanding the effects of his acts on the middle school student.
"If you don't mind, would you please return to your duties?" Mii suddenly said with a bit of angriness in her voice.
"Yeah" Kitty agreed. There was a vein in her forehead that looked to be bursting at any time.
The teen didn't give it more thought and went to look for his Judgment armband. "It's my turn to go on patrol. Who's with me?"
"Me, me!" Kitty jumped extending her hand, the vein had disappeared from her forehead. The girl looked like a kid when she wanted to answer a question of the teacher which she only knew. Then the American girl realized how she was acting and noticed everyone's glances. Kitty cleared her throat. "I mean, it will be positive if we go on patrol together so we can both learn. Konori-san, is it okay?"
"Who was the last person who went on patrol with you, Peter-kun?" Mii asked.
"Last time… I went with Uiharu" Peter turned to her. "Thank you for taking care of me."
"It was nothing. Thank you for buying me the ice cream" the girl bowed politely with her cheeks slightly red.
"Don't mention it."
"What?!" Kitty suddenly yelled losing her coolness again. "What ice cream? Explain yourself Peter."
"Oh, it was nothing. We went on patrol together and Uiharu taught me a lot of things about the laws in Academic City. Then we felt hungry and I bought an ice cream for the two of us."
"I also want an ice cream from Peter-san" Ruiko muttered still red.
"AN ice cream…you-you-you mean just one…for the two?" Kitty looked shocked.
Peter was wondering why. Does it was a big deal to invite your partner a 300 yens (2.5 $ aprox) ice cream?
"I want Onee-sama's ice cream...haha" Kuroko muttered giggling with a drop of saliva flowing from her mouth and a perverted expression. Luckily everybody ignored her.
"Yeah" Peter answered casually. "She was out of cash and I almost. So I could just afford to buy one for the two. Oh, I almost forgot. Konori, catch it!"
From God only knows where, Peter got a Musashino's milk box and threw it to Mii, who grabbed it with mastery.
"Thanks, Peter-kun, but why?"
"It was originally for me, but I decided to give it to you" Peter said, although it was a little lie. He actually bought it to get on her good side after escaping his duties. But, now he had more important reasons. "Maybe with this… I can begin to make you up for not fulfilling my promise."
Mii's gaze turned from Peter to the milk box, and from the milk box to Peter.
"I remember that you told me it was your favorite drink of all the world. I decided to try it" he said.
Mii's expression softened and transformed into a smile. "When it comes to milk. It's gotta be Musashino!" She said with a delighted expression.
'Nicely done, Parker' Peter thought. "I will be leaving now. Kitty, are you coming with me?"
"Yes" the girl grabbed Peter's hand and took him out of the office before anyone could say another word.
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"Why do you came here?"
"What are you talking about?" Peter asked confused at the sudden question that came from Kitty.
"We finally are alone" Kitty said in English. "Now, you can tell what brought you to Academic City."
"Oh that… Well…"
Peter and Kitty had just spent an hour of patrolling around the streets of Academic City. They were currently sitting in a bench located in some park. The park was surprisingly empty for the hour, which was late afternoon.
"The thing is…" the teen had it difficult to talk about it. "Promise me you won't laugh."
Kitty nodded seriously.
"Things didn't turn out very well in NY, so other heroes request me to do a special training. It was going to be some sort of "superhero training… Hey! You promised you wouldn't laugh!"
"Sorry, but… hahahaha" Kitty was having a fit of laughter.
"(SIGHT) Anyway, first I thought they, I mean the Avengers, were going to be the ones who train me, but no. Tony Stark thought that sending me here to work in the Judgment would be a good training. I was a bit reluctant at first, but in the end I feel it isn't any bad here."
"You think so? Me too. The people I met here. Although we have been together just for a month…wow, I feel that I know them for years" Kitty gave a beautiful smile.
Hearing Kitty's words, Peter couldn't avoid thinking of Touma and some of the people he met there like Aogami Pierce and Tsuchimikado Motoharu, from the summer school. In Kitty's case, it was obvious she was talking about Kuroko, Ruiko, Mii and Kazari.
"They are all good people" Kitty said that but her smile was sort of sad. She was looking the floor.
"Hey, are you alright?" Peter asked concerned giving her a slight bump with his elbow in the ribs.
"Yes…it's just that one day… I will have to return to America and I don't think I will be able to see them again."
"Why do you think that?"
"Because they are esper and I'm a mutant."
"Oh that" Peter knew the meaning of that. Academic City citizens were aware that there were many types of people with superpowers similar or better to theirs in all the world. It was much known that the espers had some kind of rivalry against this super humans, but it was bigger against the ones called mutants. Moreover, it could be consider that there existed a mutual hate between this two sides.
The mutants hated the espers because they consider them "lab rats". They felt that everyone in Academic City had sold themselves to let scientist play with their bodies as toys. Besides, the mutants believed that every esper received a great outcome just living here and they were all a bunch of rich brats. Which was a lie, but as Academic City had a not-let-anything-leak policy, nobody from the outside world heard any news about Skill-Out or the rebellious espers.
In the case of the espers, they also had their reasons to hate mutants. First, they felt that the mutants didn't deserved their powers. All mutants were born with their abilities and didn't need to give all their effort into developing them. Very different from the espers that focused their entire life into improving their powers. Second, many mutants rejected their powers, because those made them different from normal humans. In Academic City most people wanted to be powerful espers and were proud of their powers. Finally, it was well known that many mutants were dangerous criminals and a big threat for the world. The espers didn't stand this, as none of them were an actual threat for the world, with the exception of a certain white haired boy.
"If they learn that I am a mutant...they won't talk to me again..." Kitty grabbed the pleas of her uniform's skirt.
"Kitty..." Peter put his arm around her shoulders to comfort her. The girl blushed with her cheeks red as a fire extinguisher.
'Um, why that reaction?' Peter wondered moving his body a few centimeters. 'It isn't the first time we have this kind of contact. We used to date, no? Maybe she is too into the just friends' policy.'
"Espers hate masked people" Kitty muttered.
"Kitty, there is a reason why most of us, I mean heroes, use masks. You know..." Peter gave her an inquisitive grin. "Shadowcat."
Kitty, feeling better, also smirked. "I know, I know... Spider-Man."
"Shhh..."
Kitty giggled, all cheered up thanks to his ex-boyfriend and rested her head on his shoulder.
"Thanks Pete" she muttered closing her beautiful eyes.
Peter was satisfied seeing her like this, but he still needed to ask something important. "Hey, sleeping beauty, don't fall asleep. You haven't told me why you came to Academic City."
"...beauty" Kitty muttered and her smirk went wider.
"Kitty...?"
"What?" The girl looked tired. Indeed, when they were patrolling around, Peter noticed that she looked a bit tired. Although, he never brought up the subject. The girl began to mutter again. "Pete...come back to bed...shh..."
'Bed? What are you talking about? We are in a park bench! Not in your bed. Why I would also be in your bed? Besides, you aren't using your pillow. You are using my shoulder! Come on!'
"Kitty...wake up!"
Kitty seemed to hear that, because she woke up blinking her eyes. "What?"
"Tell me why you came to Academic City?" Peter asked getting a bit annoyed at Kitty behavior.
The girl got her head off Peter's shoulder and looked at him with a serious expression. "It's a long story..."
"I'm all ears."
Flashback (ENG)
Kitty Pryde entered the office after knocking the door and hear the "Come in".
"Professor, do you called me?" she asked the bald old man in front of her.
"Yes" Professor Charles Xavier replied. He was sitting in front of his desk with several papers over it. "I have a mission for you."
"What kind of mission, sir?"
"How's your Japanese?"
"My Japanese? Well my grades are rather good" Kitty was lucky that Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters had Japanese classes.
"In that case there won't be any problem" Professor X said. "You are going there."
Kitty understood that her mission was going to be on Japan. "Who will come with me?"
"I am sorry Kitty, but you are going to be on your own in this mission" Xavier sighted. He didn't want to send one of his children there and less send her alone, but he had to. "Of course, you can reject it."
"It's okay, professor. Which is the mission's location and objective? It is in Tokyo?"
"No, it is in..." Xavier was finding difficult to tell her this. "It is in Academic City."
"..." Kitty was left speechless for a few seconds until... "What? Academic City? Don't tell me that you are talking about the espers' city. I don't want to go there!" The girl began to complain as a little child until she remembered who was in front of her. "I'm...so sorry, Professor. Is just that it will be very hard for me to deal with those rich boys and girls with superpowers."
"As a represent for mutants since many years ago, I am very aware of the tensions between our people and the espers, but this mission is very important."
"Okay...(SIGHT)...if that's the case. What's the mission?"
"First, I received the report that there are mutants trapped in Academic City and a group of unknown scientist are using them for inhuman experimentation. I need you investigate and find out if it is true or a false alarm. After that, I want you to report me whatever you could found. I will tell you then what to do next. Ah, you will be pretending to be an esper."
Kitty exhaled in frustration but nodded.
"There you will be enrolled in the Yanamiri High School" Xavier continued. "Also you will be enlisted in the Judgment, one of the two forces of law in Academic City. Belonging to this organization will grant you access to information that regular people can't access."
"It is everything?" Kitty asked her leader and mentor.
"No, not at all. You will have a contact in the place. He will help you in the investigation" Xavier expression went sad. "Again, I am sorry Kitty. I wish I could send one or two of your comrades with you, but he didn't allow me that."
Suddenly, Xavier's hands began to shake. It wasn't a product of fear, but one produced by a severe rage that Kitty had never seen in the always calmed Professor X.
"What's with you, Aleister you bastard. What is your plan this time?" He muttered in a furious, but barely audible voice.
Kitty learned that she hated to see this wise old man, who had almost saved and give shelter to many young mutants of the country. "Um...excuse me, are you alright, Professor?"
Xavier realized what kind of show he was displaying in front of his pupil. "I am so, so sorry Kitty. The problem is...no, it is my fault. Please, forgive me Kitty."
"It's okay, professor. It isn't the first time I go in a mission alone. Now, it is everything, sir?"
One week later, one month before Peter, Kitty went abroad.
Flashback end
Peter looked at the sky and tried to absorb all the information he just received. "Professor really felt bad for sending you to what could be said, was the enemy base."
Kitty laughed loudly. "If someone had told me that the enemy base was going to be so funny and welcoming, I would have laughed at his face."
"What have you find out about kidnaped mutants?" Peter asked worried about the safety of those people Xavier talked about.
Kitty looked at the floor. "Nothing. It's so frustrating. I have been here an entire month and I have found nothing."
"What about your contact?"
"He, or she, told me that he also didn't had nothing. He said that maybe the scientist involved thought that it was a good idea to slip pass for a while before they continue their research" Kitty clenched her teeth. "Their diabolic and inhuman research."
"He or she? You haven't seen him?" Peter asked confused.
"All the few times he had contacted me, he did it making a call from a different number every time. Besides, he use a software that alter the voice. That's why he could also be a she, because with a software like that you can make big changes to your voice."
"Very secretive" Peter commented. "Well, it's reasonable if you are working for mutants and living in Academic City at the same time."
"I wouldn't have problems with that, if he was any help" Kitty muttered sighting with frustration.
"Okay, I'm giving you a hand" Peter said.
"You don't have to" Kitty answered. "At least now. I haven't discovered anything. Remember it could be fake information. But, if it isn't... I would like you to backup me if I have to infiltrate the enemy base or something like that."
"Got it"
"Thanks Pete" Kitty said and leaned closing her eyes.
"We should get going to the office" Peter said standing up without noticing of the girl's action. "Come on."
"Okay!" Kitty replied crying in her insides and followed Peter.
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It was already dark and Touma was returning to his dorm after buying the groceries for cooking dinner. He was planning originally to just take Index to eat in Julian Restaurant, but the girl wasn't willing to leave the house because of some "mahou shoujo anime" end of season. However, she still wanted Touma to feed her, as usual. So the unfortunate teen was forced to go to the convenience store, buy the ingredients and then he would have to return to cook them.
"I just came back from the hospital, a bit of pity please. And as if that wasn't enough someone already bought all the coffee cans of the shop. (SIGHT) Such misfortune."
Touma was muttering as he walked with his head down and the ingredients he just bought inside a bag in his right hand. There weren't anyone else in the street he was currently walking in. However, Touma could hear the people from his houses and the stores along the street. Suddenly, he heard a low scream coming from a narrow alley.
Touma turned to look the alley. It was a pretty similar to the one in which he found he found the body of one the Sisters after Accelerator killed her. That didn't make it an attractive alley to walk in for Touma. Even if he wanted to go quickly to another place. The teen, worried about the source of the scream, hold his breath and entered in it.
Thanks to the moonlight, Touma could walk without problems and see enough well in front of him. After a few steps, the holder of the Imagine Breaker reached a space between buildings where diverse alleys connected. It was an almost perfect square five times wider than the alley in which he had just walk in.
"Hey, who told you that you could raise your voice? ..."
Touma looked at the opposite corner. There was a man of his age, no, it was maybe seventeen or eighteen. He could be even nineteen. He was wearing dark pants and a black leather jacket similar to those Americans of the 70's or 80's. Touma wasn't too into that culture, so he couldn't know. He had a piercing in his left ear and his hair was red, or rather it looked dyed red. Similar to Styl's but this man used a short mojo haircut.
There was also a girl in the place. She was wearing a middle school uniform conformed by a white t-shirt with a green ribbon and a short skirt of the same color. Her hair was black and tied in pigtails. She seemed to be around fourteen or fifteen years.
The situation Touma was witnessing made him clenched his fist. The girl had her back against the wall and the man was over her using his arms to prevent her from escaping through the sides. He had his face very close to her, glazing all her body with a lecherous look and an evil smirk. The girl was terrified, her eyes were getting wet to the border of crying and her body was trembling like a little chicken in the snow.
"This is our moment, you don't want anyone to interfere, right?" the redhead man laugh raising his fingers and touching the girl's cheeks and chin producing her to tremble more.
"Please…le-let me g-go…" the girl pleaded with the tears starting to flow from her eyes. "I a-am go-going to miss my do-dorm's curfew…"
The redhead just giggled. "Japanese girls are rather cute when they got red like that. Hahaha. Such a shame. If you had a better legs you will be perfect for me…but I'm not that fussy. So, this night we are going to have some…"
"Leave her alone" Touma requested with a serious voice that showed how he was containing his fury. He could imagine the situation. The girl was afraid to miss her dorm's curfew and decided to take one of the alleys. Unfortunately, she could never have expected to run into such guy.
The harasser turned around. Touma noticed that he was wearing a white European plastic carnival or opera-like mask that just covered the half superior part of the face. Not his mouth or eyes, his western green eyes.
"What did you say?" he asked cracking his knuckles with an annoyed face. "You better get away from here boy, before I crush you. And that will in around 5 seconds…" he returned to harass the girl again. "Well, how I was saying. Tonight, this onii-san (A/N older enough to be her big brother but not enough to be her father) is going to…"
"Are you deaf, idiot? I told you to-leave-her-alone!"
The man stood still. His lips curled into an evil smile. "…4…5."
He turned around and ran to give Touma a kick to the stomach. Touma jumped backwards out of the reach of the redhead's legs. Then he clenched his good right fist and drove a good punch towards the face of his enemy.
"That's won't work" the redhead managed to block Touma's fist.
'You think?' Touma jumped to the left and gave a quick punch with his left fist. The hit landed in the cheek of the redhead making him move backwards.
"Run!" Touma yelled the girl, who had been frozen since the beginning of the fight.
The girl defrosted and ran away through one of the alley. "Th-thank you so much….!" She shout while she ran.
Suddenly, Touma felt a big pain that threw away all the air in his lungs. The redhead, after regaining his senses, had landed a strong punch in Touma's belly.
"You piece of shit. I told you. I will crush you. Hahaha... Ouch!"
Touma drove the back of his right fist into the redhead's back of the head. Then he leaned his forehead hitting his nose.
"Gyaaaa! You fucking Asiatic" the redhead yelled covering his bleeding nose.
'Asiatic?'
Western features, not fluent Japanese, and now racism. This guy didn't live in Japan. Also, he couldn't be a tourist. It didn't make any sense why a guy like him would have managed to enter in Academic City just to harass young girls. If this city had strong security measures created in order to avoid the entrance of outsiders to the place. It was even difficult the when the citizens just wanted to go out and visit their families. All for not letting their technology and other advances leak into the outside world.
"No… I won't crush you… I will kill you!"
The harasser jumped extending his hands towards Touma's neck. The spiky haired was pushed against the wall. The redhead began to apply pressure with his hands. Touma's face distorted in pain and he tried to push aside that dangerous hands.
"You screwed my night" the redhead spitted. "Nobody like party poopers. Hahahah… Gyaaa!"
Having his opponent distracted gave Touma the chance to aim his a knee into his crotch. A fatal blow. The redhead went backwards again, this time covering his lower parts because of the deep pain he was feeling in there. But that didn't stopped Touma. He got near him in a second and stomped the redhead's left foot with his. Then the spiky haired boy delivered a strong hook punch and with his left hand punched his ribs taking away all the oxygen in his lungs.
Touma was starting to feel more confident. Tsuchimikado's movement were actually working. After his fight with the esper-magician hybrid, he decided to use those kind of movements when he get involved in a face to face fight. Although, Tsuchimikado was trained, so he could defeat a regular opponent in a matter of seconds. In Touma's case, he was only winning because of the not requested training he received in his last fights.
"You… (ENG) motherfucker…!" the redhead groaned revealing his American accent in pain holding in his feet with the help of a wall.
"Modefaku? Hey, at least talk in Japanese!"
"Very well, I want you to understand what happen if you mess with me" the redhead laugh and, unexpectedly, his body began to distort like some invisible force was stretching him.
"No way" Touma muttered.
The redhead's body separated like a bacteria would do to reproduce and now, in front of Touma, there were two equal copies of the first. The same body and clothes.
"W-what kind of ability…?"
"Surprised? This is true power, not like the one you and your people have" the voice of the two masked echoed at the same time. "Scared? Hahaha. What a shame? This is nothing."
The two figures, each, multiplied like the first time. Now there were four enemies in front of Touma, who judiciously went a few steps back with an astonished expression.
"Yeah, I have seen that face before" the four said at the same time and laugh as well. "I have never been too good in combat and everyone starts to think that I'm something easy to deal with, but no. I-have-allies and, how it would be in Japanese? Tch, doesn't matter. (ENG) Unity is strength. Hahahaha" and with that last phrase the four persons duplicated again.
Touma was facing 8 opponents at the same time. A sweat dropped from his forehead. His body was totally in tension. There was no way he alone could defeat eight guys. One was something, not impossible, but something. Two were a problem hard to handle. Three, it was a better idea to run. Four, just run with all your speed. Eight…
"…Don't fuck with me. No, no, no, no… Even someone with my grades knows that there aren't espers with that kind of impossible abilities, and I have even met two Level 5. You must be using just some light reflection ability to mess with moonlight and make me think there are many of you."
"You think?" the redheads smiled devilish.
Touma nodded a few times. "Of course. In less words only one of you is tangible. All the others can't hurt me. They aren't real."
"Let's see" two of the doubles ran towards Touma. They parted ways, one went to the left and the other to the right.
The one coming from the left tried to punch Touma, but he; reacting instinctively, blocked the movement with his left hand. He touched something. It was a tangible object.
"So you are the original and the others aren't..."
Touma couldn't finished the phrase because two punches landed in his face and belly. He fell to his knees and the doubles looked at him with grins. One of them kneed him in the chin and the spiky haired ended in the floor. Touma spited some blood and began to stand up.
"What do you say now?" the eight asked at the same time. "Do it felt real for you?"
Touma stood up and clenched his right fist. One of the eight tried to punch him, but he parried the movement and hit him in the chin. A sound similar to a glass braking echoed, the one that characterized the Imagine Breaker when it touched any special ability.
Surprising everyone, the double turned into orange aches and disappeared in the air without leaving a trace. "Aaaaaagh!" yelled the other seven pressing their heart like they were suffering a heart attack. However, that only lasted a pair of seconds. "(ENG) Dammit! What happened? They no-normally return to me… Why did it just disappeared? Fuuuuuck!" one of them, the one who looked more in pain, cursed.
There was no doubt. The doubles were reals and were created using a special ability. That would explain why the one he touched with his right hand was negated and disappeared. Touma also noticed that the one who talked must be the original who commanded the doubles. He couldn't think more because the seven redheads were totally recovered and launching the next attack. This time all of them were participating.
Touma took the wiser decision. He turned to the alley he had walk in before and run away. All the doubles went after him, but as he was expecting; as it was a narrow alley, the doubles could only walk one by one. This gave him the chance to act. The spiky haired teen quickly turned around again and drove his right fist into the closer double. As the first one, it vanished into orange ashes.
"Gyaah!" the others six groaned in pain. "What's that ability? You fucking esper!"
'Fucking… esper?' Touma thought confounded. Wasn't that guy also an esper? Or was he… 'A magician?'
That could made sense because of the western features, but… Could magicians have spells to duplicate themselves? No, it didn't make any sense. The magicians he always see have complicated abilities that required calculations, chanting and many times objects. Even if Touma wasn't any intellectual about the magic side, he felt that this redhead wasn't a magician. And, it didn't make sense to think that a magician take the risk of entering Academic City only to harass girls.
Touma got out of the alley to the big street, but unluckily it was empty. So there weren't anyone to help him. Much less a Judgment or Anti-Skill member.
"There he is!"
Touma ran away through darks streets persecuted by the doubles while they yelled many insults at him. Some of them in Japanese and others in English. The spiky haired didn't know why he was feeling some sort of deja-vu. Has he ever been in a situation like that before? When? He couldn't remember (A/N remember ep 1). Well, he couldn't remember many things. The memory loss took away almost his entire life.
"You are going to see...esper!"
There was something that the Imagine Breaker owner didn't need to remember. He was a really, really, really an unlucky guy.
"Such misfortune!"
What could he do? Those redheads didn't looked any tired or willing to let him go away. There was something he could do. He preferred to face his own problems alone, but this was a special case. He took off his cellphone from his pocket and marked... Judgment? Anti-Skill? Which had a closer base of operations?
"Let's go for... Judgment!"
Touma put the cellphone in his ear and wait for a response. He pray for someone to answer. Maybe there wasn't any Judgment member working at this hour.
"Come on. Come on. Come on! Come on!"
"This is Judgment 177 Branch Office" a masculine and rather serious voice talked from the phone. "I am sorry to inform you that our members aren't working at this hour. But, I will be happy to pass your situation to Anti-Skill. Which is your situation?"
"Ri-right now... I am running away from..." Touma began to say until he recognized the voice in the line. "...Peter?"
"Touma?" Peter asked now with a cheerful tone. "Hey! How are you man? Cool?"
"Weeeeell I actually... Wait, there's no time to chat. I am in a fucking predicament! I am being chased by six… No, twelve guys right now. Oh, such misfortune!"
"Where are you?" Peter asked with concerned voice.
"I ammm... Near to the park where we had that incident" Touma replied thinking when Peter knocked off Mikoto. He decided to enter there and look for a place to hide. "I'm going to enter and hide. Please call Anti-Skill or something."
"Don't worry about it. I am on my way."
"Wait! Peter! What I need is a grown up Anti-Skill to scare this guy...s" Touma exclaimed, but Peter had already hang up.
Touma rushed into the park. He, instead of walking on the road, crossed over the grass between the trees and bushes. In the darkness he got distance between his pursuers and himself and jumped behind a big bush. He peeked and saw the doubles spreading and looking for him.
He waited behind the bush for a few seconds but... "Find you."
Touma felt how an arm grabbed him by the neck choking him. He tried to touch the arm with his right hand, but two others doubles grabbed his arms each in a position that didn't let him do that. It wasn't on purpose. The masked doubles couldn't know that his ability was only located in his right hand. What a problem, he couldn't even touch with the hand the masked that was grabbing his right arm.
The one who was behind him kept applying pressure on his neck. Touma's vision was starting to blur. Suddenly he heard a snap of fingers and the pressure in his neck disappeared. He felt to his knees panting looking to the ground.
"Hahaha!"
Touma raised his head. What he saw made him feel more fear than when he fight with Accelerator. In front of him, there were 22 doubles. With the ones holding his arms there were 24. Touma was in the hands of 24 guys.
"Oh boy, you are in serious trouble" one of them mocked. The original. "I don't actually have permission to roam around freely, but I was tired of just staying in the lab all fucking day and night. I wanted to have fun and, how lucky I am? I found a cute girl to hang out with, but… You need to came and screw my night. You fffuking esper, lab rat of Academic City since his arrival. Bitch of the scientists."
'Lab? Again, esper? What does he mean with that?' Touma wondered.
"After we finish with you, you will have to return home doing a handstand. That, if you return home instead of the hospital. Oh, did I said hospital? I mean morgue" redhead laughed maniacally.
Touma gulped and tremble, but then he recomposed himself. "You bastard. Do you think you are so brave fighting in a 24 people group against one?"
"Brave? Hahahaha. I don't care to be brave. I just want to win every fight. Is that too much to ask? Well, win and show the others… That they lost. Hahahaha."
The 22 doubles walked forward, fists raised, prepared to hit his face and stomach until they break his bones and teeth.
'I'm sorry Index... I won't return home tonight' was Touma last thought before he clenched his jaw, closed his eyes and prepared mentally for what he was about to suffer.
"Stop!" yelled a feminine voice freezing everyone. But, that didn't lasted because a second later a lightning spear went through the masked redheads' army throwing most of them to the floor. The electricity that flew near them, made the doubles that were griping Touma let him go. The tired teen looked up and saw…
"An… electric angel?"
"Why are you calling me angel?" Misaka Mikoto said red as a fire extinguisher. "Oh, doesn't matter. Stay there while I finish with this morons" then she add something in a whisper. "Now we are even."
"Who are you?" one of the doubles asked furious.
"Not your business" Mikoto replied with dead voice. You couldn't see her eyes. Her head was slightly down (A/N imagine Yuno when she sees someone hurting Yuki. In few words: SCARY). Electricity coming from her hair like fireworks. She was really pissed off. Touma had seen her many times angry, but never like this. This time she seemed to be capable of really hurting the person that made her angry. "Maybe I tell you after I put you into Anti-Skill custody. That…" her voice turned almost monstrous. "…if you wake up in less than a month with your brain undamaged."
"Oh, scary" the original masked redhead laughed. "I now remember who you are. You are Mikoto Misaka, the Railgun. I heard about you."
"Yeah, that's me" Mikoto answered with a furious face. The sparks weren't only coming from her head. They were also starting to come from her fingers. "You messed with the wrong electromaster and…" she looked at Touma, who was on his knees grabbing his neck because of the pain that came with the last choking. "You, you, you dare… You dare TO HURT HIM!"
Mikoto formed two electric spheres in her hands and threw them to the doubles. They yelled in pain, some barely dogged the attack, but most of them transformed in orange dust. The difference this time was that the dust made a return-like movement towards the one who could be the original. He nor his doubles made any pain reaction, very different from when Touma touched the double.
"Wow… That was tough" the original said interrupting Touma's thoughts. He was surrounded by the only doubles left, which were only four. "But it doesn't matter. I don't need to fight you. Hahaha! I just need to wait until we get stronger. Then you…" he smiled devilish. "…won't be much problem. Hahaha!"
"Idiot! You are digging your own tomb! Argh!" Touma shouted interrupting the conversation, but the pain in his neck prevent him from saying much more.
"Hahaha! Are you worried about me? Hahaha!" the original redhead said mockingly. "Oh, how nice. Now, Railgun, as I was saying. You won't have a chance against our new power. I want you to remember my name. Call me Multi-Man. When that happen, when we become the most powerful beings…" he gave Mikoto a lustful look that make her tremble even with her fury. "…I going to have a lot of fun with your body, because… I just love small breasts and nice legs. And you have both."
'He finished digging his tomb' Touma thought feeling a little sad for what was going to happen to the idiots in front of him. 'Wait, the most powerful beings?'
Mikoto released began to charge a lightning spear, but the five doubles multiplied creating ten. The girl stopped her attack at the show she was witnessing. The ten multiplied into twenty and the twenty in forty. The doubles of the self-appointed "Multi-Man" were filling that part of the park.
"Now, let's see your power, Railgun" the Multi-Man army said at the same time. His voices echoed in the whole park.
"I don't know what kind of illusion ability is that, but I will just fry you all until I find the real one" Mikoto yelled and began to throw lightings from her head and hands like a machine gun would do with bullets.
The Multi-Man's copies vanished one after another. However, there were 40 people there and Mikoto's attacks took their time to damage the bodies enough to disappear. Eventually the number decreased to the half. It was weird. The group didn't were trying to surround her. Moreover, they weren't even attempting to attack her. They just stood there like a human barrier.
'They aren't standing there like a human barrier. They are a human barrier.' Touma recognize. "Misaka! Stop it! That's his plan!"
Unfortunately, she didn't listen to him. Mikoto kept launching powerful lighting strikes. The army was reduced, vanished into orange dust. However, none of them yelled in terror. None of them attempted to run away. Mikoto released enough electricity to power an entire district and soon, in the place where the army of masked redheads had been standing, there were just burn marks on the roads, trees and grass.
"Where…?" Mikoto began to ask.
"It's obvious…" Touma said gasping while he stood and walked over to her. "He used those doubles to make a meat shield so you'll be concentrating on them and he could escape."
"You mean the original?"
"Yes."
"Dammit! That piece of… Argh! I swear that I'm going to fry him" Mikoto clenched her fist generating several sparks. Then her voice softened. "Are you…ok?"
"Me? Just a few bruises" Touma replied breathing hardly. "I'm fine."
"I'm glad" Mikoto muttered in a broken voice. "If… If anything had ha-happened to you… I-I-I…"
"Were you worried about me?"
"Baka (idiot)…" Mikoto said with a red face. "I…just…didn't want to see you… Doesn't matter! I…owed you one for…what you did…" the girl looked away.
Before Touma could say something, someone yelled. "Touma!"
The pair turned to the precedence of the call. There running like a professional athlete was Peter Parker with his Judgment armband.
"Touma! Are you ok?" Peter asked worried about his friend.
"Only thanks to Misaka"
"You!"
"Misaka? Hey, hello" Peter said relief that even if he arrived late, his friend was ok thanks to that electromaster.
"Onee-sama!" Kuroko teleported besides Peter.
"Kuroko?"
"Onee-sama, what happened? We received a call that there were a bunch of thugs attacking some civilian and… THE APE!"
"…Ape?" Touma and Peter repeated at the same time.
"What's your relationship with Onee-sama? What do you want from her? What…? Itai!" Kuroko received a karate chop on the forehead.
"Leave him alone" Mikoto said with a serious tone after properly disciplining her kouhai. "Would you like to be interrogated like that after almost been the victim of the crime?"
"Onee-sama!" the pigtailed cried petting her head. "Are you protecting him? Oh, no! You have feelings for that… Gyaaa!" the girl ended in the floor in a rather compromising position after receiving a very low electric shock.
"Shut up! Don't say those kind of things" Mikoto said with her face as a fire extinguisher. "I-it's just that… Well, he just had a bad experience and… Y-you are Judgment member. This civilian was attacked by 20 thugs and you don't show any concern?"
"Oh… yes" Kuroko coughed, calmed her voice and focused on the "ape". "Excuse me, ape-san… I mean, sir. Could you describe us the situation you were involved? Before, on behalf of Judgment, I apologize for not attending your problem on time" the girl bowed politely in an attitude very different from before. "But, you must understand that, you should have called Anti-Skill as the current time is outside Judgment schedule."
"I know, Peter already told me through the phone" Touma replied.
"I'm glad to hear that" Kuroko said. "Either way, there is the need to attest your incident. Are you hurt? Do you need to go to the hospital?"
"No, no, no I just came back from there in the morning."
"What? Are you kidding me? Just got from the hospital and you are already wounded?" Mikoto said.
Touma just scratched the back of his head with a guilty smile.
"Wait a second! Peter-san, is this guy the friend you visited in the morning?" Kuroko asked stunned that her nice comrade was related with that ape. "And Onee-sama, do you happen to know Peter-san?"
"Weeeeell…" both began to say.
"Doesn't' matter. We are going to give you some treatment in the branch office and hear you testimony. May we go?"
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"How are you feeling? Mikoto asked Touma.
"Much better. I feel like I was treated by a real doctor" he turned to Kuroko. "You are really good in this Shirai."
"Of course I am. The Judgment training includes first aid courses" the pigtailed responded.
The whole group had moved to the Judgment 177 Branch Office, where they joined with Kitty and Mii. Kazari wasn't there, much less Ruiko. Touma was sitting in one the couches and Mikoto in another in front of him. While the Judgment members; Kuroko, Kitty, Peter and Mii were sit on one of the several desk chairs of the office.
"So, Kamijou Touma-kun, right?" Mii began to say. "Now that you are all patched up, can you tell us of the events you were involved tonight?"
Touma proceed to tell them everything that happened to him since his encounter with the harasser of the white mask. He found it difficult to describe how the redhead multiplied into tangibles copies of him, but eventually he managed to do it and reached the part when Mikoto saved him.
"Thanks Misaka. Without you I… At least I wouldn't be able to talk with you all right now" Touma gave her a tired but very grateful and kind smile.
"Y-y-you don't have to thank me that much" Mikoto replied blushing heavily, cheeks pink colored. "I owed… you."
"So that masked guy has an ability you have never seen before?" Kuroko asked him taking a mental note to remind herself to ask later about why her beloved Onee-sama owed something to the ape.
"Yeah, he…multiplied. First I thought he was doing something like using the moonlight to play with my eyes, but then I felt how the doubles hit me."
"An ability that let you create perfect tangibles doubles" Mii meditated in high voice. "I have never seen something like that. Nor even in the database."
"Me neither" Mikoto added remembering his last fight.
"I'm going to send this information to Anti-Skill" Mii said sitting in front of one of the computers of the place and switching it on. "They are going to investigate which kind of ability is and catch the suspect."
"They will probably be reluctant to believe your story" Mikoto said putting a finger on her chin. "An ability like that actually breaks the law of conservation of mass."
"Conservation of mass's… law?" Touma asked scratching his head.
"You know… You actually don't know."
"No… I just forgot about it…momentarily" Touma took a mental note. Pay more attention this next semester.
"Ok… How I was saying" Mikoto continued. "If he multiply the mass of his body like that and; besides, the mass of his clothes, this Multi-Man would be breaking one the principles of physics."
"True, as Onee-sama says"
Peter and Kitty just nodded, but…
"…Of co-course!" Touma stammered. "That would totally break all the laws."
Everybody in the room stared at him, sighted and continued the talking.
"Mass can't be created or destroyed. It can only be transformed" Peter voluntarily explained the law to help his lost friend.
"So that esper ability can't exist" Mii said from the PC.
"…" Mikoto didn't answered. She remember how Multi-Man multiplied in front of her. Then when she electrified the army in front of her. The electricity got them. It ended in the same result that it would have been if they were real humans. The difference was that instead of falling to the floor unconscious, they vanished in an odd orange dust.
"Maybe it was a trick"
Everyone turned to Kitty, who until the moment haven't say a word. She had her chair next to Peter's.
"What are you trying to say, Kitty-san" Mikoto asked the girl. She and Kitty already knew each other. One day Kuroko, Kazari and Ruiko invited Kitty to hang out with them a, of course, with Mikoto. They already knew each other for more than three weeks. So they considered each other as a friend.
"What I'm trying to say is that maybe he use a skill that tricked you, Kamijou" Kitty told Touma.
"It could that" he agreed.
"Yes, because there's no esper that can break physics' laws" Kuroko said. "And the only beings with special abilities in Academic City are the espers. It must be problematic in your country with all those barbarians with superpowers doing whatever they like. Everyone with masks trying to be heroes or actually performing criminal acts."
Peter and Kitty exchanged a look that luckily passed unnoticed for everyone in the room.
"Of course, in USA the superpowers users aren't controlled or followed as it is in Academic City. SHIELD in the end isn't much help" Peter said. His tone got serious. "However, you shouldn't call them barbarians just like that. They do wear masks, but they have their reasons. Many of them actually are needed by the people. Some of them have saved the entire country. Sometimes the world."
"They risk their lives…" Kitty began to say in a soft voice. "They do their best to help the people the most. And despite that, most times they are chased. Either villains or members of the law. If the villains discover their identities all they family would be in danger. A few of them have died trying to save the people or defeat the villains that want to hurt the in-innocents…" her voice broke. She remembered a horrible lost she suffered a while ago. When the only trace of him she found was Logan's half-destroyed arm (A/N for the ones who don't know it, Wolverine is dead in the Ultimate Universe. Kitty was the one who found his remains).
No one said a word. A silence hanged in the office for an entire minute.
"Excuse me, I shouldn't had behaved nor talked in such a harsh way" Kuroko apologized bowing her head. "Excuse me, Kitty. Excuse me, Peter-san."
"Don't worry" he replied while Kitty just smiled and nodded. Even if Kuroko was referring to every person with superpowers outside Academic City, it was obvious that the people most close to that description were the mutants. At least for what the citizens of Academic City believed.
"Ok, I already sent the information to the Anti-Skill" Mii said suddenly. "They are probably starting the investigation tomorrow."
"Good" Touma said while he had his mind in another place. "In that case I better head home."
"A-are you truly o-ok?" Mikoto asked with her cheeks pink.
"Yeah, it's ok."
"Either way, I'm going with him. We live in the same dorm" Peter said. "Come on, Touma."
"Shouldn't we first walk the girls to their dorms?" Touma asked still more concerned about other people than himself.
"It's ok, hero. Let's go" Peter said cheerful pushing Touma to the door.
"You don't worry" Mii said with her Judgment's authority voice that she used to calm civilians. "Tomorrow Anti-Skill will handle properly that esper, self-appointed Multi-Man."
".." Touma silently got out of the office behind Peter. The American was saying something, but Touma had something else in his mind. 'He wasn't a magician, but… Was he really an esper?'
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How's everyone? Yep, I haven't update in more than 2 weeks. Several reasons explained at the beginning. Glad to be back in this fanfic. A few things to tell. From now on, at least until vacation, I am not going to update too often (sorry). But, when I update, I will make them quite longer like this last one (maybe not soooo longer). I don't know about you guys, but I actually prefer short chapters in less time than long chapters in long time. For all who are like me, sorry.
Good news, I have established which will the arcs of this story. 2 of them will be completely of my imagination. The others are Index's arcs I chose mostly because they were my personal favorites at least until now. Of course all of them have their changes most focused in the appearance of other Marvel's villains. The others arc will be jumped without Peter intervention, as the Angel Fall Arc.
About this ch… Action, romance, humor and a bit of drama. All in one single chapter. The espers have a tough relationship with the mutants. Of course it isn't as the one that exist underground with the magic side. Multi-Man (my first actual OC character of this fic) is going to appear again but not at least after the Kazakiri Hyouka Arc, which will start in the next chapter. Do you already hate that jerk? Because I do. You are going to hate him even more. I already want Misaka to burn him to the ground. I want to remind you that if you want to have a better idea of his mask, google the words "opera mask" and look for the ones the just cover the surroundings of the eyes. I checked to see if there was any Multi-Man in Marvel Database, but there isn't. However, there is one in the DC universe. Although, he isn't anyone important there. What do you think of Misaka's temporal transformation from tsundere to yandere? I think she will be this way if she ever sees Touma being hurt or about to be hurt.
Even that I have chosen the arcs, ideas and suggestions are as always accepted and wanted. Fav, Follow and most important: Review. Sebaspe out! (Glad to be back)
Scientific TO ARU trivia: When Kuroko teleports objects like her iron bars to the guns of the enemy destroying them, she is actually breaking the principle of mass conservation. As you may remember, her bars take the place of the mass that was in the aimed spot. Where did the original mass go? The principle of mass conservation states that mass can't neither be created nor destroyed. Only transformed. Ex: When we burn something it turns to aches. If we burn it even more, the mass only transforms into thinner dust that goes floating to the air. I'm no scientist, just a guy who has a little taste of physics. If there someone who can explain if (in a world where teleporters exist of course) this is possible. I ask him/her to put your answer in the review section so everyone can see it and learn a bit more this day. I believe that Kuroko's technic wouldn't work in real life, but there're always someone with more knowledge than me.