I had some problems writing this chapter. That why it took me almost the same as last one and this one is shorter. I want to point out I'm bad in summaries. Now, let's begin…
Disclaimer: I don't own Spider-Man, To Aru Majutsu no Index, or any character from the comic and novel.
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Chapter 9 - The Golem and the God
"Hey, what happened to you? I mean, again" Peter asked Touma, who was resting his head over his school desk.
"…No-nothing" and he went back to sleep.
Two days passed since that night when Touma encountered the still unknown and unfound esper, Multi-Man. No one would believe that something worse could happen in just a night and an entire day, but in Touma's case, things normally turns different.
'Such misfortune.'
First, a pair of hours after the incident, he found out that he had forgot to do his homework from summer school. And for some misunderstanding, Index bit him. The next day, he took a bit of his time just to hang out for a while with his friends, Tsuchimikado Motoharu, Aogami Pierce and Peter Parker. In that innocent promenade, he was suddenly tackled by Misaka Mikoto. She asked (force) him to pretend to be her boyfriend to get rid of some stalker called Unabara Mitsuki that was grandson of her school's principal, who she couldn't just fry to get rid of.
That was just the beginning. However, because of many reasons, he discovered that Unabara wasn't the real one. He was some magician sent to spy him to recognize if his "group" formed by magicians and espers was an actual threat. This magician called Etzali, used magic to copy Unabara's appearance. Nevertheless, apparently when he met Mikoto, he deeply felt in love with her.
Unfortunately, the magicians all over the world were starting to fear this "Kamijou Faction", which even Touma denied it existence. There was the possibility that they could attack the members of this unreal group. A certain scientific Railgun was also saw as part of this group, even if she didn't know anything about it. That made Etzali change his mind and betray his cabal. He would lie them to protect the girl he fell in love with. He fought with Touma to take down the imaginary leader of this faction, so Mikoto wouldn't be attacked. However, Touma win the fight, but promised him that he would protect the people he care about. Mikoto was included in this group.
That was all in the day. At night he tried to finally finish his condemned report in a restaurant where he took Index to eat. There the waitress dropped him their food that also contained liquids. His homework was totally ruined. Index suggested him to just recopy the words in another paper, because, even if it was all wet, it was still readable. Touma was planning to do that, however...
Suddenly, a magician (another one) attached them with some weird crossbow that instead of bolts, shot big wind blows. Touma was able to negate the attack and prevent himself and the other people in the place from suffer any damage. It was a relief until...
"Such misfortune" Touma muttered again remembering all those events.
He found that the wind had shattered all his, already damaged papers, into pieces. For him it felt like seeing your girlfriend of many years suddenly kissing with your brother, no worst, with your own father. The magician managed to kidnap Index and escape with her.
After that, his night became race and his speedway the entire Academy City. In the end he found Index and rescued her from the magician, but there was something else. Apparently, the magician just wanted some of the knowledge from one specific of the several grimoires in Index's head. With that information he wanted to save the life of someone important for him, who was cursed.
Touma, when he found out about the situation, did what he always do. He gave him a hand. Specifically, his right one. To save this girl's life he needed to touch her body with his right hand. However, he needed to leave Academy City, and that is something difficult to achieve even legally. He did that and went to save the girl. After doing that he managed to reach the city where he lived and finally returned home. He received a surprising welcome: Index's teeth on his head. Finally, less than an hour later he was on his way to his first day of the school semester. Without his homework.
Saying that nothing could go worse after being chased by an army of doubles and in less than two days was a complete lie in Kamijou Touma's world.
"Such misfortune" and the teen sank his head on the desk again.
"Hi minna-san" the petite teacher Komoe-sensei greeted the students, who were returning to school after vacation. "Kamijou-chan! The classroom isn't a place to sleep."
"..."
"Kamijou-chan!"
"...What? Oh, sorry I… couldn't sleep very well tonight."
"Really? I'm sorry, Kamijou-chan, you must have been focusing a lot in the homework I sent you" the sensei gave her student a cute, innocent and bright smile.
"Ye-ye-yes!" Touma felt like the devil for lying to the 135 centimeters teacher. The worst was that she would eventually find out the truth.
"Anyway students, besides the welcome, I got an announcement to… Kamijou-chan! Don't bang your head against the desk. I can tell that you will need both if you want to get at least a barely acceptable note this semester" Komoe-sensei proceed. "As I was saying, I got an announcement to tell you, boys and girls."
The class, with the exception of the spiky haired sleeping boy, listened to their sensei carefully.
"We have not one, instead two transferred students coming to our class! It is a boy and a girl. Congratulations, both kitties and perverted wolves! About the boy, some of you already met him in summer school, but most don't know who he is. Please, Parker-chan, do you want to introduce yourself?"
Peter stood up from his desk, which was behind Touma's, and walked towards the blackboard. "Good morning everyone, my name is Peter Parker. I come from New York, USA. I have been staying here for a couple of weeks and started to develop as an esper. I hope we can get along."
The American teen returned to his seat followed by some cheers and giggles from most of the girls. Some were saying phrases like: "He is handsome!", "Kyaa! Look at those arms", "I love his hair" and even a "Y-you can come to-today to me-meet my parents".
Those were the girls, the boys were like: "Come on! Another big rival", "First that spiky haired harem king, now this American?!", "Goodbye, woman population of Academy City!" and some ruder words.
Aogami Pierce, who had already took out of his jealousy attacks on the summer school, only said: "Pete-yan is again getting everyone attention. Especially from girls... If I didn't like you I would kill you... And that harem king over there."
He talked all the way there with a sincere smile on his face. If he had been there, Tsuchimikado would have said something similar.
"Hey! I'm no harem king" Touma declared a bit annoyed. "I don't have any luck with girls."
"Me neither" Peter said.
Aogami's smile trembled for a brief second, but it maintained its position and curve. "Oh, I'm lying. I will do kill you. Both." His smile was still there.
Touma and Peter took mental note of locking their doors that night. And the several next ones.
"By the way, where's Tsuchimikado? Did he also forgot the homework and stayed home?" Touma sank his head in the desk again thinking that it could have been a better idea.
"Don't know" Aogami stretched his arms over his head and leaned over his chair. "I haven't seen him since yesterday."
"Now I will present you the other transferred student" Komoe-sensei was saying. "Don't be shy, you can come in."
The person who entered through the door was someone Touma didn't expect.
"Touma, I'm hungry" Index said in front of the class, besides Komoe-sensei.
Many people began to whisper some things between them and everyone glared at Touma, who seemed to be related to this unexpected character.
"Hey, do you enroll her in? That's okay, but… shouldn't she be in a lower grade?" Peter asked the spiky haired who seemed embarrassed as ever.
While this talk were taking place at the back of the classroom, in the front the sensei wasn't any happy at all. "Sister-chan! You shouldn't be here. You aren't the transferred student."
"But I'm hungry and Touma hasn't left me anything to eat." With those words the unfortunate teen got more glares after the young nun's words.
"Either way, you can't stay here" the little sensei took with her the nun out of the classroom.
With that incident literally all the classroom, except for Peter, were glaring at one of the global representatives of misfortune.
"Such misfortune!"
Then Himegami Aisa came into the classroom and said: "Just to clarify, I'm the transferred student."
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"That little…" Touma clenched his fist and a vein popped out of his forehead. He was really angry.
"You aren't going to hit her, right?" Peter was walking behind him.
After the event that happened in the class and the opening ceremony began, Touma was able to escape in the search of Index. He knew he shouldn't be missing that event, but for various reasons that include a possible war between two powerful entities, he needed to look for Index. He knew she was roaming freely in his school, but exactly where?
"Of course not! Yeez, I wouldn't lay a finger on her" Touma responded annoyed at the comment.
Peter followed him at the moment he saw him getting away from the place and decided to give him a hand in finding the greedy nun.
"I'm grateful for the help, but you shouldn't be losing the opening ceremony."
"You neither."
"Yeah, but I have been in that kind of event a lot of times, so it doesn't affect me to lose one. While you need to integrate to the class. You're losing this chance for my sake."
"Don't worry about it" was Peter's simple answer. The truth was that he didn't mind too much about integrating with the class, if he was going to return to America eventually.
The talk he had with Kitty made him think a few things he had forgotten. His only motives for his residency in Academy City was his "superhero training". Nothing else. He knew that eventually Tony, when he considered that the Spider-Man had enough training, would make him return to the States. But, Peter didn't know when that playboy with an iron suit would realize that.
Peter didn't have the answer to that, but what he knew was that he didn't want to leave Academy City. It wasn't as he was planning to stay forever in Japan. Even if he was having a good time here, he still missed the people he left in his homeland. His dear Aunt May, his friends Bobby (Iceman) and Johnny (Human Torch), Gwen, M Jane and the other people he knew and was important for him.
However, he felt that there was still some job for Spider-Man in Academy City. Well, Tony forbade him to wear his mask, so he couldn't take Spider-Man role. But, that didn't mean he couldn't take the role of Peter Parker, Level 2 Sticky Touch user and new member of the Judgment. He smirked, feeling like the main character for the first time without having to put on a mask.
"I think I hear her" Touma approached one of the several doors on the left side of the halfway they were walking by. "That stupid sister."
He could hear some murmurs behind that door. Over the door frame there was a sign that said "Nursery". Even if he could hear them, he didn't get what the girl was saying. Peter, on the other hand, with the help of his superhuman ear, could understand perfectly what Index and another girl were saying.
'They are saying... Hey, that tight me on the chest... Nice underwear... Why are these girls saying that? Are they...? Oh crap!' Peter saw with fear in his heart how Touma, without thinking, reached out his hand to open the sliding door. 'Touma noooooo!'
Before Spider-Man could make his body react or his mouth conjugate a word, Touma opened the door and rushed into the room.
"Oi, Index, why did you... came to my school?"
In front of the young and hormonal teens, there were two girls half-dressed. One was little, of about thirteen years old. She had green eyes, silver hair, pale white skin and western features. The girl wasn't using her regular nun white habit. She was Index. After recovering from the surprise of Touma's sudden interruption, she gave him a devil-like glare. The other person with Index was a girl they didn't know, who had a really big pair of…
'Better don't think about them' both teens said to themselves at the same time.
The girl seemed to be around their age. Her hair was of a brown darker than Peter's, but not so much. She was using glasses and the uniform from another school. Her cheeks were completely dyed with red, tears were dangerously about to flow from her eyes and her body was trembling for realizing that two boys of her age were seeing her half-dressed.
Apparently, what the girls the girls were doing was changing into one of the several PE uniforms that you could find in the classroom. Why they did that? It was unknown for the boys.
"Touma..." Index said with a more cheerful expression, a gentle smile and closing her eyes. That could have been the face of an angel.
'So why my Spider Sense is going crazy like in my fights with Venom?' Peter wondered giving a few steps backwards, a sweat coming from his forehead.
"...Again?" Index finished the question.
"I swear that I didn't plan this. It's true! Tell her Pe...ter? Hey! Where are you going?"
In the brief seconds Touma talked with Index, Peter disappeared from his side, leaving him alone to face the young nun with vampire teeth. "Sorry man, I just… I just remembered that I need to do something elsewhere."
"Wait! Don't leave me with… Gyaaaaa!" and Touma felt (again) how Index's vampire-like teeth pierced his head.
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Classes finished early, as expected of the first day of the new semester. It was around 1:00 pm and many students were hanging out around the city, instead of staying in their respective schools. A certain Tokiwadai middle school's girl wasn't the exception. Shirai Kuroko, member of the Judgment was inside one of the several public trains that traveled through Academy City following a certain person. This certain person was a terrorist who managed to enter the city in the evening.
"Hey, Peter" the pigtailed talked to her little and advanced pink phone. "We are reaching your position. Do you found a good observation spot?"
"Of course" Peter replied through the line. "She won't be able to see me from where I am, but I will see her perfectly."
"Where are you?"
On the other side of the call, over a building there was a 16 years old boy crouching and looking the train station in front. He was waiting for a specific passenger of the incoming train.
"I am…" he thought a bit about it. There wouldn't be a problem to tell her. They are in the espers' city after all. "I'm on the roof of a four floors building."
"What? How did you get there?" Kuroko asked through the line.
"Remember my ability? S-s-s-sticky touch" Peter had a hard time to get that horrible name from his mouth. "I can climb most kind of surfaces concentrating the electrons of my body to magnetize with them."
"Oh, yeah. Now I remember. It's a quite useful ability."
"Indeed."
"Just don't damage any structure" the girl warned him. "Every time one of our members damage any public or private property the culprit and also the branch he or she is enlisted with have to fulfill a big report. And don't make me tell you about the economic charges that it will cost us."
"You don't have to worry about that. When have I damage any property? ...Uh."
Peter recalled the reasons that brought him to Academy City while a pretty similar voice to Maria Hill's from SHIELD screamed in his head: "Always, always, always, always, always, always, always, always…!"
"What's that 'uh'?"
"No-nothing… Hahahaha… Hey I must go, the train is arriving. I will report if something happens. Talk you later."
Peter hanged up before Kuroko could say something like "You better don't destroy anything". He saw the train arriving the station and the passengers walking downstairs towards the street. Between that big mass of people he managed to see the suspect. Peter retrieved the photo he received from Mii when she communicated him that he would be going on that mission along Kuroko. In the picture there was a woman with dark skin, blond hair and a rather weird gothic dress. Yeah, it was her.
He retrieved another picture. In this one there was a young woman with black hair and sunglasses. She was wearing a green blouse and black pants. The information he received said that this woman came with the other one. It didn't say that she was also a terrorist, but she sneaked into the city illegally together with the gothic lady, so it was also very important to find her.
However, the cameras just caught her when she was entering the city. Then it didn't matter how many people were looking for her, they just couldn't find her. The higher ups from the Anti-Skill believed that after she just entered, she went into hiding. Either way, the other one had been already localized. So it was obvious which of them arrest first.
"Now let's get down" Peter stood up and looked at the street, which was four floors below him. "Easy."
He went to the left side of the building, which was over an alley, confirmed that there wasn't anyone looking and jumped down. Before he landed, he remembered Kuroko's words and decided to roll so he didn't damage the pavement in the fall.
The plan was simple. Kuroko would follow the terrorist from behind and report her movements to Peter. With that information he needed to reach the place where it was supposed that the gothic lady would go and wait her there. Peter walked into the crowd and mingled with it. A few minutes later he received a text from his partner notifying where he should head next.
Peter rushed towards the street where it was planned to intercept the woman. He moved through the crowd, not without complains of some of the several pedestrians on the road, and got to the place before the terrorist. He decided to get a good view. There was a close building easy for him to climb up. He walked to the side of it and made sure nobody was looking before he began to climb up.
Up there, the teen checked his new web-shooters. He had them hid under a pair of black highly-technological sport gloves that Tony made for this purpose. This web-shooters, also Stark's, were smaller than his regulars and painted black to match with the gloves. Even if Tony asked Peter to not get into troubles, he knew that Spider-Man wouldn't do that if he saw someone in a dangerous situation. So he decide to help him and prepared this kit. With it, as long he wears the gloves, Peter would be able to use his favorite gadgets without anyone noticing he was wearing them. The other people would just see a teenage with black sport gloves. Not a common fashion, but still less eye-catching that a pair of steel bracelets.
Suddenly, after checking everything about his new web-shooters, somebody in the road shot a blue flare towards the sky. It was the evacuation signal for the citizens of Academy City. Kuroko must have done it to confront the terrorist without any civilian interference. As always, that girl think first of watching after the innocents than the goal of the mission. Good. Soon all the people left the road only leaving the Judgment's girl. Well she and a dark skinned woman, with western features, blond hair and a rather weird gothic dress.
"So this is it" Peter jumped from the building and started to get closer to the pair.
He was ordered that he mustn't interfere in the detention of the suspect, unless she tried to escape. In that case he would have to call for reinforcements and wait for them. Peter tried to protest but nobody listened to him. That was normal, for his comrades and bosses he was just a Level 2 Sticky Touch user. They couldn't know that he was Spider-Man. While Kuroko was well known to be a powerful Level 4 teleporter and melee expert.
When he first entered the city, Peter was able to disguise his crawling ability, which the radioactive spider with the Oz virus gave him, as an esper ability. A guy who could climb wall was nothing out of the ordinary, at least in Academy City. However, he couldn't disguise his other skills, like: his superhuman strength, speed, stamina, durability, agility, equilibrium and reflexes.
This was mostly because the esper powers were only related to the brain, not to the body. It didn't matter how powerful an esper was. If the esper is hit in the head with a bullet, and the person don't do anything to stop it, it is a certain death. While in Peter's case, a few handgun bullets wouldn't be so much trouble. Even if he is shot while sleeping. In summary, much to Peter's chagrin, he needed to stick for everyone else as a guy that can only climb walls... Suddenly, the earth began to shake as in an earthquake.
"Oh crap!"
Peter, immersed in his own thoughts, had forgotten about the fact that his partner was engaging contact with a terrorist, but that wasn't the most important right now. For some unknown reason, in front of Kuroko, who was 50 m from his position, several pieces of materials were forming a...
"What the hell"
There was 5 meters golem in front of his partner. The pieces that conformed the golem were asphalt fragments, metal from the trash cans, glasses from the windows, concrete from the sidewalks and many other materials. Peter saw how the big humanoid figure stood between Kuroko and the gothic lady, preventing her from arresting the suspect.
'Is she… controlling him?' Peter wondered a bit dazed, but snapped out when he saw the monster grabbing the little pigtailed girl with his enormous hand and squeezing her. Kuroko girl screamed in pain.
Peter didn't know what the cause of the golem appearance was, but he knew two things. One: this wasn't any esper power. Two: he needed to help Kuroko. So chose to he ran towards the enemy without more thinking. Kuroko was fighting desperately against the squeeze that was hurting all her body. However, when she saw Peter coming in her help, she yelled: "Peter! Don't come! Call... for... reinforcements! Don't worry about… Aaahhh! I…can't...teleport!"
Kuroko didn't want to see her comrade getting hurt for a reckless act to help her. Although, she was in a rather big predicament. The way that big golem was pressing her body prevented her from teleporting because of the pain, which distract her of doing the right calculations.
"Sure, I call them after saving your ass" Peter said while he dodged the other fist of the golem with an impressive movement. The teen closed his distance with the golem, ran through its legs and jumped to the stone back. Then he leaped to the arm that was holding his comrade. Spider-Man raised his fist.
"What are you doing?" Kuroko asked dumbfounded at the scene she was witnessing.
"My duty" and Peter punched the enormous hand with almost 80% of his strength.
No need for more. The entire arm explode into pieces. Peter jumped down and grabbed Kuroko's small body. Both felt to the floor and Peter protect her from the remains of the stone arm falling with his own body. He grinded his teeth and wait for the rubbish, but nothing happened.
"Peter, please get off me" Kuroko said with a bit angriness in her tone. However her cheeks were red as a fire extinguisher and she was blushing.
"What? Oh, alright" Peter stood up and gave Kuroko a hand to help her up. It was obvious what happened. Kuroko, seeing herself without pain, concentrated to teleport themselves far from the rock rain.
"Why can't Onee-sama be as bold as him?" Kuroko muttered blushing.
"What do you said?"
"N-n-nothing! Nothing at all! No, forget that! Please, could you explain how do you broke that gigantic stone thing with only your fist?"
"I'm… quite athletic…" Peter replied scratching the back of his head.
"A-a-athletic!? Don't try to sell me that…"
"Watch out!" Peter grabbed the girl in his arms and jumped three meters to avoid the incoming fist of the golem. 'Thank you, Spider Sense.'
He landed in the ground with Kuroko in his arms princess-style. "I've had this dream many times with Onee-sama. Why is only happening with him?" the girl muttered blushing.
Peter didn't hear very well what she last muttered, but he chose to leave the topic. "I'm going to fight him. Are you with me?"
"..." Kuroko didn't answered until she saw the golem getting closer to them again. "Alright, but… this talk hasn't end."
Peter nodded and without any warning, ran against the golem, which in some way had regained his missing stone arm. He used his left fist as a hammer, but Peter easily dodged it. He prepared to avoid the next one, but suddenly the golem's right leg was pierced by a lamp post, it lost his footing and fell to the ground face down with a strong BUMP.
"Take this!" Kuroko yelled from the behind touching another lamp post and teleporting it in the middle of the golem's torso nailing it to the ground.
"Good job Shirai" Peter congratulated before he jumped to the head of the stone giant.
"Shut up and defeat him!"
"Aaaaaaallllllllllllll right!" Spider-Man raised his fist. "Hey, Mr. Big Golem. The next time I see you, you are going to be a nice paperweight over my desk. Until then, see you!" And he punched the golem with all his strength.
"What kind of joke is that?" Kuroko said finding rather stupid her partner joke.
The stone giant shattered completely. Even the concrete was damaged. The stone body cracked and the figure was easily transformed into a big mountain of rubbish. It wasn't difficult but it was finally done. Now was time to find the terrorist.
"She escaped!" Kuroko sighted in frustration.
"Oh crap!" Peter forgot about the gothic lady because he was more concentrated in defeating the golem, who was more able to hurt other people.
What he should have done was to send the small teleporter after that gothic lady. He could have deal with the golem alone without much problem, but the stubborn pigtailed wouldn't have done that. She would have request him to go after the gothic lady while she tried to stop the stone giant.
"Yes, I'm so sorry" Kuroko was talking through her phone reporting their situation. "Okay, Konori-sempai. Yes, we are going to continue our search as well. I already informed you that the suspect appears to have some sort of esper power that allows her to move objects in a specific way."
'That isn't esper' Peter didn't know what kind of thing was that, but it wasn't related to the espers. However, he didn't feel like telling his partner about his real thoughts.
"Peter, let's go!" Kuroko waved at him. "We must find her. Uiharu will tell us her position." She started to walk away and Peter followed her, however... "And after this you are going to be honest with me."
'Better think of a good answer for later' Peter thought while he nodded.
The Judgment members went to look for the enemy.
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Far away from where the pair were looking for her, Sherry Cromwell, magician from the Anglican Church, was walking rather calm. She was in a regular street next to a park, in front of an outdoors restaurant. For some reasons related to a Judgment evacuation signal, the place was empty. It was a perfect spot to plan her next strategy. However, her relax didn't last long because of his partner's arrival.
"Hi Sherry, do you take care of the annoyances?" a high school student with dark brown hair asked her in perfect English.
"Of course. Now, shall we continue with the operation?" Sherry turned her gaze towards him just for brief seconds and talked without any kind of respect in her voice.
The guy in front of her just grinned at her. Uff, how she hated to work with that guy, but it was necessary. Without him what she was planning to do would be way more difficult. She disliked his existence because itself was a direct hit to her church and believes.
When Sherry was about to enter Academy City all by herself, an unknown man who seemed to be around his mid-twenties appeared in front of her and offered her a deal that would help her to reach her objective. Sherry asked him what he wanted in exchange, because it was quite obvious that this man wouldn't risk his life for nothing. He just said that he needed something that was found in the city. In the end, she accepted to ally with this man in order to enter Academy City and fulfill her own wish.
"Could you please take off that costume?" she asked annoyed. She didn't like the feeling of talking with someone using a "mask". And that was this man wearing many since he enter the city.
"You mean this?" the boy appearance suddenly changed into the one of a young black haired European woman with sunglasses. "Is this better? Although, I think this appearance is already caught on camera. But I personally like it."
"I mean all your costumes. I don't see why you wouldn't. There aren't any cameras nor people here except for me and you. And I dislike to talk with a person with such realistic mask."
"Oh, I understand your point" without leaving his grin the character disguised as a woman change her appearance again.
This time finally to his real one. A young man with black long hair, western features, green eyes and an evil smile. He was wearing dark green pants, a light green shirt and under it a mail cloth. In his back he was using a black fur cape of some animal. He was caring in his belt two long golden sticks of 40 cm each similar to a pair of small spears. This suit could be best described as a modern renascence armor.
At this sight Sherry frowned.
"What? Do you still hate just the mere fact of my existence?" the man asked with his characteristic evil smile. "Why don't you just think that my people and your God exist together? Why should your God be the only one?"
Without losing her composure Sherry replied. "Our God from the Bible is the only one for me."
"You do realize that a bunch of old priests were the ones who wrote the Bible, not your precious and all mighty God. Who actually seems to be on vacation since the first century."
Sherry clenched her teeth. 'I need him. I need him... But I want to kill him.' In that moment she could just call Elis and attack him, but it would be useless. The person in front of her was too powerful.
"Either way, I just gave you an idea to tolerate our temporary alliance" continued the man. "Now I should tie up the loose ends you left."
"What do you mean?" Sherry asked with a mixture of concern and angriness.
"(JAP) Come out. I know you are hiding in there" he yelled ignoring his partner.
A girl wearing the Tokiwadai Middle School left from behind a wooden sign that welcomed the people who entered the park. "So you noticed."
"Of course young girl" replied the man. "I just wanted to see if you were going to do something. Apparently no."
"Oh, I will do something" Misaka Mikoto, alias the Railgun said, sparks coming out from her hair.
Until a few minutes ago, she had been walking through the crowded streets of Academy City. She was rather relaxed and was humming a song she heard in a Gekota's commercial the previous week, when suddenly a blue torch lighted up in the clear sky. She recognized it immediately as Judgment's evacuation signal. Mikoto was no Judgment member. It didn't matter how strong she was, she was still considered as an ordinary civilian.
However, when she saw the signal from a far street, she rushed towards the place from where it came. She arrived and the scene left her dumbfounded. A manga-like stone golem was in front of the Judgment member, her kouhai and best friend, Shirai Kuroko. Mikoto was planning to interfere but saw that the Jerk who help in the fight against Accelerator was there. Mikoto concluded that she could leave her kouhai's safety to him and instead followed the woman who seemed to be responsible of the golem. And all of that lead to this encounter.
She pointed her hands towards the gothic lady and the green dressed man. Electricity was dancing in her fingers. "If you two don't surrender, I will have to use brute force and I tell you, you will really regret later."
Sherry took a defensive position and prepared to summon Elis, her golem. While the man...
"Hahahahaha!" He was laughing as he had just heard a really good joke.
"I'm not kidding!" Mikoto yelled feeling very angry. "I swear I will fry you two."
"Hahahaha! Okay, okay, okay" the man said palming his stomach for the laugh attack. "I can see you are superior to most espers. However, you aren't superior to my brother."
"Your brother?"
"Hey Sherry, sweetie, could you continue the operation by yourself for a while? Use that spell elsewhere. Just remember..." his voice turned deeper. "He is mine."
"I do remember" Sherry said while walking away. She sounded mad and annoyed but in her insides she was trembling of infuriating this character.
"You think I will let you escape!" Mikoto yelled shooting an electric spear from her head.
"Elis!" the gothic lady yelled. Unexpectedly, a giant arm formed from the ground and received Mikoto's electricity. The Railgun prepared to launch another attack when suddenly...
"That was good" the unknown man's voice said those words directly to her ear.
"Kyaa!" the girl couldn't avoid making a short scream, but quickly turned behind releasing many volts of electricity around her as an area attack.
Mikoto kept firing electricity all around her for at least 10 seconds non stopping. When she finally stopped, the girl took a few seconds to catch her breath again and looked around her...
"You're indeed powerful."
Mikoto turned around slowly. Impossible. The man that she just tried to fry was now resting on a table of the outdoors restaurant, which was obviously empty because of the evacuation signal. The man looked calm, seated on a chair with his boots, graceless, over the table. He even had a wine glass in his hand. There was a bottle in the table he probably took from the restaurant in an unknown moment.
"How?" The strongest electromaster was totally speechless. 'It's impossible. When did he...? He was right behind me... Hey! How did he get behind me in the first place?'
"How? Hahahaha! Oh, poor electric girl. Poor mortal" the man mocked interrupting her thoughts.
"Mortal?"
"Do you know something" the man ignored the girl's confusion. "I just realized that… You can be useful." He stood up and walked towards Mikoto. No fear in his face, just an evil grin.
"Are you a…. a teleporter?" Mikoto asked, her body prepared to fight.
"Teleporter? Oh, you mean those espers" the man laughed. "No."
The girl backed away instinctively. Why was she so afraid about him? Using all her will she start to form and electric sphere with her hands. "Back away… I sw-swear. You will really get hurt if I throw y-you this."
However, the man laughed. He unsheathed the golden small spears from his belt and said: "Try."
Mikoto shot the sphere following a lot of lightings directly. The man raised the spears and put them in a blocking position. 'That won't help him' the Railgun thought as the sparks reached the target.
The man received the attack, but unexpectedly he didn't even fall to his knees and less screamed. He just kept blocking the attack with the spears and clenched his teeth until Mikoto stopped her volts' realizing. The man was panting and there was some smoke coming from his body, but he wasn't wounded.
"No… way" Mikoto couldn't believe what she was witnessing.
This guy in green had bared enough lighting to take down 10 men. Of course, that was just a really small part of her real power, but it still shocked her. This situation was completely different from when she normally shot sparks to that Idiot. Mikoto recalled how, in a way she couldn't understand, that spiky haired Idiot canceled all her attacks. It didn't matter how strong they were, the guy stopped them with his bare hand and her rays never damaged him. While this strange man had took on his attack and resisted it.
"Uff… That was good, but…his lightening attacks are stronger" the man said. His smile hadn't gone when he received the attack, but when he talked of this other person an angry expression appeared in his face.
Mikoto backed away again. He kept doing that movement until her back hit the sign in which she hide before. Slowly, she got from her skirt pocket an arcade coin. She maintained between her thumb and index finger of her right hand and point it towards the man.
"Th-th-this… this is my last wa-warning!" she yelled pointing at him her most powerful weapon, the Railgun.
"Hahaha! Your hand is shaking."
"Shut up! You will be lucky if you survive this."
"Lucky, lucky" the man seemed to meditating the word. "Yeah, I'm lucky."
Suddenly the man disappeared from the place where he was and reappeared in front of the girl, who was still aiming her Railgun. Mikoto couldn't even yelled before she felt the strong grip from the man in her neck. She attempted to shot another electric area attack, but something prevented her from doing it. This man put, grabbing both with his free hand, his spears over the girl's heart. He didn't pierced her skin, he just touched it with them.
Mikoto felt a sensation similar to when she had discussions with her classmate and rival Shokuhou Misaki. 'This is mental control, I must...' She, as always in these cases, used the electromagnetic barrier created by her AIM dispersion field to prevent this, but… 'Why…? Why it isn't working?' She felt how her body wasn't responding anymore.
"This spell take control of your mortal soul" the man explained.
'My soul? If there are still discussions whether it exist or not… And it shouldn't influence my actions.'
"Wh-who are y-you?"
The man talked to her ear. "I'm Loki... The God."
'God?'
Loki's power pierced her interiors. At first sight it was like Shokuhou's ability, but then she felt a big, really big pain completely different from any she felt before. She had a sensation as her own power was bursting inside her body. This was something different. This was a mental control she had never seen before. An ability that wasn't only attacking her will, it was also harming her physical body. Mikoto fell to her knees and couldn't control her. The poor girl screamed in pain. 'What… is this?' She began to lose all her will and finally her own personality got locked inside her own head.
"Now it's done. It was a good idea to steal this Sorcerer Spears from my dad's private chamber. From now on you will serve me" the God said solemnly. "You are under the commands of..."
Loki was interrupted when suddenly, blood started to come out from Mikoto's right temple. It wasn't caused by a hit or something similar. It was the result of this type of power flowing around her esper body.
"So it was true that your bodies can't handle other types of power. In this case magic" Loki seemed a bit sad, but then he smiled. "I hope you last me enough... Now you are under the commands of Loki the mighty God of Mischief! Say it!"
Mikoto put a knee on the floor in a knight pose and replied: "I serve you, Master Loki." The girl said this solemnly but a sudden burst of blood from her waist almost made her lose balance. "W-which are your commands, Ma-master."
Loki made his hand a fist. "We are going to obtain a certain weapon that I need."
"Master, where is this weapon? Who has it?" even if the girl was under magic mental control, she looked like nothing was happening to her.
The God showed her a picture.
"I know him."
"How lucky I am" Loki was amused. All the troubles he had to go through to get a picture from that boy were worth. He retrieved the photo and stared at it. "Soon...soon...soon… The Imagine Breaker will be mine."
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I want to thank personally Bestplayer109 for being my Beta Reader for this story.
First of all, I do know that there are a Thor and Loki in the To Aru universe. I checked the wiki. However this characters aren't actually related to the Nordic Gods. The first one just copied the name and is a total bishounen. The second one apparently just an old magician. Both from this organization formed after the events of WWIII (somewhere I haven't still reach reading the novels) called GREMLIN.
I have learn other thing writting this chapter. I actually suck in writting about feelings. The part of Loki entering Misaka's mind was... Well I wanted to be much better. This is something I must improve with time.
Something I must point out. From now on for Misaka, Touma will be the Idiot (as in the series) and Peter will be the Jerk. I thought that if she don't say Touma's name, why she would do different in Peter's case. I have been reading Loki's page on Marvel Wiki (both from Earth 616 and 1610). Those Sorcerer Spears he is wielding are of my invention based on the spear I saw in Avengers the movie.
I wanted to put more Touma here but in the end I decided to save this part for the next update and upload this sooner.
Either way… Fav, Follow and most important: Review. Sebaspe out!