Just want to say that I began to play again the Spider-Man Web of Shadows, which is my favorite Spider-Man game ever. Look forward for battles even more epic since now. I got my inspiration source :)

Update for Ch 11: A review explained me about this so I changed the results of the Railgun clashing with the Imagine Breaker in some details.

Disclaimer: I don't own To Aru Majutsu no Index nor Spider-Man, just the plot of this fanfiction.

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Chapter 12 – Against a God

Touma kept embracing the unconscious Mikoto for several minutes. It took him a while to remember that his job wasn't done. He slowly and carefully left the girl leaned against the wall. He took a look of her body and worried about the amount of blood she had lost in the time she was possessed by Loki's magic. However, there wasn't time for him to apply an improvised and amateur first aid. Luckily, she wasn't losing more blood, despite her wounds were still open.

"Wait here for me, I'm coming back soon" he said to her as he walked away. "Or, at least, someone else will take you to the hospital."

Outside the restaurant he sent a text message to Peter telling him about Mikoto situation. He requested him to tell Anti-Skill to bring a stretcher for her. Then he closed his phone and turned his gaze towards the man in the middle of the street.

"So you managed to survive. Congratulations." Loki clapped without interest putting a boring expression. "In the end that electric esper was useless. Well, at least she did the work of amusing me a couple of minutes."

Ignoring every word the other said, Touma spoke with a serious expression. "Where's Index?"

Loki stopped clapping. "Index? Oh, you are talking about the Index Librorum Prohibitorum." He pointed his fingers towards some tree.

The teen follow the finger's route and saw the young nun sleeping deeply leaning against a tree. 'I can't see if he hasn't hurt her more than he did before we encountered. I hope it is that way.' Touma thought and then glared at the god again. "You have harm people. Good people. Index, Kazakiri and Misaka. I won't forgive you."

(Now: Misfortune Duo VS Loki)

Touma ran trusting his right fist forward. Loki just laughed at this. "Hahahaha! Again reckless straightforward attacks. This will be so easy that it won't fall into the category of fun." The god waited patiently until the wielder of the Imagine Breaker was above him.

"Gyaaaa!" Touma launched his punch with all his mighty against the face of the smiling god.

"Easy." Loki moved aside his head from the fist's trajectory and punched Touma in his gut.

The teen stumbled back and almost fall in his knees, but he was able to recover himself in time. He looked at his foe and tried again to land his fist in the god's face. Loki jumped to the left letting the teen pass by him, ridiculing him. Touma didn't mind about that and trusted his fist again.

"Hey, you do know that there are more places to hit a person" Loki said. "Not just his face. Places like…" He blocked Touma's punch. "…Like the arm." In that moment, Touma received a slight hit in his right arm. He grabbed it instinctively because of the pain. Loki took advantage of the opening and put behind him. "You could also try to hit your foe in the leg."

Touma was pushed forward after receiving a kick in his left knee that made him fall to the floor. "Ba-bas-bastard." He was standing back again, but felt something pushing his back against the floor. He tried to get free from the pressure, but it was impossible. Loki's foot was pressing him with superhuman strength.

"You are a total amateur in when it comes to fighting, don't you?" Loki said looking at his fingernails uninterested and, at the same time, pressing the teen against the floor. "Your movements are inaccurate. Every time you take the offensive you low all your defenses. You repeat the same actions again and again. In conclusion, you are no worthy fighter."

"Shut UP! Get off me! Now!" Touma shouted infuriated. 'Amateur. That fucking word again. I'm getting tired of it.'

"Hahahahaha! What are you feeling right now, Imagine Breaker?!" Loki ridiculed him. "Do you feel week? Do you feel that you can't defeat me? Do you feel like you are below the others? Well, that was what I feel when I look at my brother."

There was no way. Loki was a stronger existence, raised in arms and battle since childhood. He was a highly powerful sorcerer. A regular mortal like Kamijou Touma was less than a threat for him. It didn't matter. He couldn't defeat a god like Loki. "Why are you doing this? Why?!" Touma shouted more frustrated than ever in the life he could remember.

"I need your power. I need the Imagine Breaker. The power that can even shatter Mjolnir and finally grant me the victory I always wanted against...against..." The god clenched his fists with anger. "...Against my brother, Thor!"

"Is it that much important that...? Aght!" The spiky haired teen was cut off when Loki began to apply more force over his back.

"Important? Important?! IMPORTANT?!" Loki shouted his lungs out. "It is for me. You don't know nothing about what I have been feeling since I have memories. The way everyone cheered him. How he always was at the top while I was looked down. You can't possibly know! You week mortal of Midgard!"

"The Level 0 sometimes feel that way. When they see how the powerful espers are put in the top, while they aren't even look at." Touma began to put force in his arms and began to get up despite the foot on his back, as his words were giving him strength.

He continued. "I accept myself as who I am. I don't envy the Level 4 or 5. However, there are people who live hating themselves and envying the ones put above. Let me tell you, THAT ISN'T A GOOD WAY TO LIVE!"

Loki flinched, as the force of the words had pushed him. "That-that-that... That is nothing compared to what I suffered! What I am still suffering!" He was sweating, his expression looked almost in panic, and his eyes were getting out of its orbits. A mortal with no power, a no real threat, was producing a reaction on a god. Touma stood up and walked fearless towards the disturbed god. "It doesn't matter how jealous you are. There is no reason that allow you to harm innocent people." He raised his fist. "If you think that, I will break that fucked up illusion of yours!"

Touma grabbed Loki's collar and clenched his right fist. "This is for Kazakiri." He hit him in the cheek. "This is for Index!" In the eye. "And this is...for Misaka!" The furious teen launched a powerful hook punch.

The god received the strikes. It was like he wasn't trying to avoid them. Those powerful punches were more than enough to put anyone on the floor. However, Loki wasn't just anyone. He was a god with a body that could resist a fall of ten meters or the impact of a truck in the face, and still walk away from the battlefield in his own foot. This awful punishment only made him stumble back a pair of steps.

"You know..." he began to say. "You have seal your faith." Before Touma could even articulate a word or actually notice what was happening, Loki took him by the neck and put him against the wall. The spiky haired tried to get free from the powerful grip, but it was useless. There was absolutely no way for him to win, with his regular human strength, against a being with superhuman strength.

"I will take your Imagine Breaker and finally defeat Thor" the Asgardian growled with fury as he unsheathed a war axe from his belt with his free hand, while he restrained the teen with the other. "I wouldn't have minded to leave you alive after cutting your arm." His tone of voice became lower and rough. "Unfortunately, you talked too much. You won't see the end of this day."

Touma saw how Loki raised the axe over him, aiming at his right arm. The weapon had a black handle and its steel blade was so bright that it looked like silver. He couldn't know where gods gets their blades, but he didn't have to guess something. Even if a god was wielding it, the weapon wasn't related to magic or other kind of supernatural power. Nevertheless, this simple axe could cut every part of his body. Even his right hand. His Imagine Breaker.

'This can't be happening. I need my Imagine Breaker to protect Index. I can't lose it.' However, there was nothing he could do. He didn't have the strength nor the skills to defeat this powerful being. Was it over?

"Die, Imagine Breaker." Touma saw how Loki moved the axe blade toward his body.

"Get away from my backup!"

Suddenly Loki was hit in the head with... A cleaning robot? Loki's body was sent flying away and hit a near wall cracking it. Touma was now free of his grip, wondering what just happened. Yeah, it was him.

"You okay?" Peter asked him putting a hand on his shoulder. Touma looked at his friend and savior before nodding. "Good. Now, stay aside. Let me handle this now, this guy is too much for you. You take care of Index."

Before his friend could replied, Peter ran towards Loki, who was already in his feet with a frown. "You simple mortal won't defeat me." Loki extracted the pair of small golden lances he used before from his belt. "Take this!"

Peter dodged with ease the green beams coming his way and, before reaching his target, jumped four meters. He pointed his feet to land a kick in his foe. Loki, seeing this, put his spears in front of him in a blocking position. In that way, he received the attack, which managed to push him a few meters crating marks on the asphalt of the road. Loki tried to counter him, but quickly Peter jumped back, shot a web to his target, used the momentum and launched himself with another kick prepared.

"Argh!" Loki gasped as he felt the feet of this teen hitting his chest with an agility and strength not normal for Midgardians. "(ENG) I don't know how you actually got these skills, but something is clear. You are no normal mortal. I won't underestimate you."

'Me neither' Spider-Man thought focusing in this powerful enemy. 'I won't hold back. I will die if I do that.'

After those words, the infuriated god proceed to unite his spears into a single one. The tips began to glow and released a pair of green beams at each end. The beams kept glowing with blade-like shapes. It was a double edge spear.

As he witnessed this, Peter frowned. "(ENG) Heyheyheyheyheyhey! You are just breaking many copyright laws using that thing light-saber-like!"

"(ENG) You won't confuse me with that strange vocabulary of yours, mortal." The god swung his weapon horizontally and released a huge green wave.

Peter jumped to avoid it, but Loki took advantage of having his enemy on the air and throw a similar attack. Luckily, Peter managed to shot a web towards a building a pasted. From his vertical position he talked to his foe. "(ENG) Hey, Dark Maul, you will need more than that to defeat me."

"(ENG) Feel my rage!" Loki jumped towards trying to crush him with his double edge spear.

"(ENG) You better return to Star Wars!" Peter jumped from his vertical position in the opposite direction of his foe.

Before the two of them clashed, Spider-Man thought a quick strategy. 'Now I am going to shoot a web and pull him so I can hit him in middle air. Then I am going to paste him to the floor and deliver my best punch to leave this god unconscious.' He began his plan at that moment. He shot a web to his target, but, unexpectedly, the spider web went through the body as it was air. 'An illusion?! Spider Sense!'

In that precise moment, Peter felt how a strong force hit him in midair. He was thrown towards a streetlight and ended having some quality time with the floor. "(ENG) Ufff! That hurt." Peter stood up feeling just like a pinball. 'This guy have a lot tricks under his sleeve, doesn't he? This won't be an easy battle. I have never fight before against Loki. Much less alone. He is an Asgardian, just like Thor. Maybe he isn't as strong as him, but still, he is more powerful than most enemies I fight with regularly.'

"(ENG) Are you still in conditions to fight after being hit by my attacks?" Loki asked scratching his chin. "You are indeed not normal esper."

'I'm no esper, I'm Spider-Man.' Peter shot a web to a streetlight and used it to swing his whole body like a pendulum to kick his foe with a huge amount of force. However, Loki disappeared from the spot in a dark green smoke curtain before he could hit him. 'Dammit! He can teleport.'

Loki reappeared several meters behind and grab a car. He throw it to Peter and he had to jump into the air quickly to dodge the huge tons of steel coming his way. It was impossible for the teen, as he was in midair, to avoid another wave attack from the god's double bladed spear and he was embedded to wall. Peter didn't take his time to recover, as a second after being hit, he was already getting his body out of the concrete. 'Ugh... I think that... broke me... something, but I can keep going for a while. I better get good sleeping tonight.'

"(ENG) Why don't you die?!" Loki swung his spear horizontally creating several green waves coming Spider-Man's way.

"(ENG) I'm sorry, tomorrow I got school." Peter jumped of the way. He landed on the floor skillfully as always and had to put all his concentration in dodging the next attacks.

Loki, every time he swung his spear horizontally to the left or right, generated a huge wave capable of blowing up a good portion of concrete from the buildings near the street. 'Better not to let him hit me with that more, or my bones will get pissed off with me.' Even with his speed, Peter was having a rather difficult time dodging all the attacks. Loki's waves were coming at very fast speed and in a short amount of time.

"(ENG) Fuck" Peter muttered worried as he swung in his web avoiding the waves. "I don't know if I can defeat Loki alone. If the Avengers could be backing me here it would be another whole situation. Even having SHIELD behind me would be a relief. Either way, I must not let Loki harm more people. That's my duty."

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While his friend was enduring this difficult fight, Touma was having an inside battle. He couldn't defeat Loki. That opponent was far stronger, intelligent, faster and a, obviously, a better fighter. However, he didn't want to run and leave things to Peter. No, it was more. All his cells wanted to rush and help him.

Loki was a guy who didn't need magic or other special power to be far more than any human being. He wasn't a mortal human after all. He wasn't as Mikoto or even Accelerator, which despite their amazing powers, in the end they were humans which his right fist could defeat. For Touma, it was useless to hit him. His punches were a little more than a bother for Loki. While a single hit from this formidable opponent could left the teen in the floor.

Moreover, that spear was certainly a problem. Touma could see how Peter suffered to dodge the wave coming from it. 'Maybe...' Touma looked at Loki fighting with his friend and took again his resolution. 'He protected me in the battle against Accelerator. He was my backup there. Now's my turn.'

As he was having these thoughts, something big almost crashed with him. The teen barely managed to duck the object which ended up colliding against a truck parked in the street near him. That object was Peter. "Uff... Again... I broke... something... again... But I am okay. Nothing to be worry about... Hey, man. How're you doing?"

Touma opened and closed his mouth several times before speaking. "Don't just… go and 'how're you doing' me! You just dent a truck with your body and you are like 'nothing happen, nothing happened'... What the hell is with that?!"

"Hum, that's Spider-Ma… I mean Peter Parker way! Yeah, that's Peter Parker way."

"Oh! Como on!"

"If you finished talking, is a good time for you to die." Loki pointed at Peter, then at Touma. "And you to lose your right arm."

"Dammit, the god" Peter said annoying and standing up again. "Touma run with Index while I…"

"Fuck that!" Touma said cutting the other teen of. "I'm with you."

"He's too powerful for you. Don't you get it?!" Spider Sense. "Duck!" Peter, instinctively, threw himself over Touma just when another energy wave graced their bodies. From the ground he kept talking. "I don't want to say this, but… You have to leave this completely to me."

"Accelerator was also powerful." To this statement, Peter couldn't argue. "But you stayed by my side even if I told you that you couldn't with him. You were my backup that day. Now YOU let ME be your backup!"

"..." Peter had been left speechless. He didn't want to let his friend get hurt, but Touma had a point. "Touma. He is way stronger and faster than you. To use those skills he doesn't need magic. The Imagine Breaker can't do anything here."

"I can destroy his spear."

Peter was about to say something to his stubborn friend, but stopped himself. He was right. The spear was a real bother. If Touma could destroy it, the battle would be less impossible. "I-I-I…"

"So you two swing that way." Loki was looking at them with a confused face.

"Swing that… PETER! You are still over me!"

"What? Oh! Sorry." Peter stood up and helped his friend to do the same.

"Why does this has to happen to us every time?! It's your fault!"

"Hey! That's unfair Touma!"

"Did I had just been left abandoned?" Loki scratched his head with annoyance. "Hey, you pair! Don't forget who is in front of you!"

"Why the hell everyone thinks that we are some kind of yaoi couple?" Touma wondered annoyed ignoring the mad god.

"I don't know, but it isn't my fault."

"I have battled with many kinds of enemies in my life, but this pair is something unseen." Loki put a hand on his forehead. "They are really something, but better kill them now."

"As I am saying... Whoa! Hey, don't just throw that magic wave at us!" Touma said angry after negating the last attack.

"Yeah!" Peter corroborated. Then he realized it. "Hey, weren't we fighting seconds ago?"

Instead of answering, Loki fired another green wave, which was blocked by the Imagine Breaker. "Peter, go!" Touma yelled clenching his right hand.

Peter closed his distance and shot a web to the enemy propelling in his direction. Loki was stronger than him, but not faster. Spider-Man managed to connect a direct punch in his foe's face. Loki was sent flying, but he was able to land in the ground after doing a cartwheel in the air. He then, angered, grabbed his spear by the center and separated it by the half.

"You will see my full power now!" He was now wielding a single beam-sword in each hand.

To this, Peter couldn't stay silent. "Waitwaitwaitwaitwait! That's totally breaking copyright laws. Two swords?! That's the Kirito's style. Do you think a disclaimer will save you from this this?!"

"What are you talking about?" Loki literally had a question mark over his head.

"I don't know... Forget it! Let's finish this!"

"I say the same!"

The fighters clashed. Peter launched his powerful punches and Loki blocked them all. Loki fired his waves with the swords and Peter avoided them skillfully. They were in similar conditions. The god was stronger but the spider was faster. Peter shot a web to his target and pulled himself to him. Loki blocked with the handles of his swords and countered the movement.

"Whoa! Argh!" Peter shouted as he was lifted and then crushed against the floor. "Uhhh... My bones aren't really happy..."

"Last words?" Loki put his swords in his neck.

"Yeah" Peter spoke. "You are really stubborn, don't you?"

"Eh?"

"I can tell you the same."

Loki turned his gaze around and saw Touma trusting his fist forward. "Useless." He swung one of his swords to intercept the teen. The weapon was aimed for Touma's head. Loki expected that this amateur still tried to hit him in the face as in their previous fight. But it wasn't that way. Touma's fist wasn't aiming for his face. There was a glass breaking sound.

"..." Loki was left speechless when he saw one of his magic swords shattered.

Totally opposite to the god's mental state, Touma smiled. "You didn't think that amateurs don't learn nor think new strategies when they see the previous one failed?" After hearing these words, Loki screamed infuriated and grabbed the teen by the neck. "You will die!" He pointed the tip of his remaining sword to his heart and trusted it forward. The sound echoed again and Loki was left out of his weapons. This time he couldn't even blink at what just happened. Touma, still being choked, smirked again. "I can't block your fists, but I can destroy you magic."

"That's my backup."

Before Loki could understand what was going on, Peter used a roundhouse kick to push aside his opponent.

"You okay?" Peter asked putting a hand on his friend shoulder.

"Perfect." Touma made a thumbs up.

"You are reckless and stubborn."

"Look who is saying it!"

Loki was standing up after receiving that last blow. "You... I will kill... youuuuuu!"

Touma and Peter looked at each other and smirked. ""Me?""

Loki drew his not-magical axe and, with a war cry, top speeded to kill the teens. Touma retreated while Peter rushed forward. Spider-Man and God of Mischief clashed again. Peter launched a punch and Loki moved aside his head barely avoiding it. Loki swung his axe horizontally, but Peter jumped back dodging it. Immediately, he used his web-shot to pull himself towards his opponent.

Loki tried to block the incoming attack, but it was impossible. Peter reached him, grabbed him by the shoulders and threw the god to the wall of some construction zone. The force of the throw was so strong that the wall shattered and Loki fell inside. Peter followed him.

"Aahh! Die!" Loki swung his axe in a vertical strike.

Peter dodged it to the left and the attack left the floor cracked. He started a punch rain that was impossible to block for his foe. Loki received the powerful combo and hit the other wall of the construction zone. His axe fell to the ground. He tried to pick it up, but Spider-Man was faster.

"Could you lend me this?" Peter grabbed the axe from the floor with his web. When the weapon was in his hands, he destroyed it against his knee. "Zero blade now. Let's see how you do in melee against me."

"Don't think that I need a weapon" Loki replied getting the dust of his modern-medieval cloths. "Until now you could only hit me for mere luck."

Peter frowned. 'Luck? Sorry, that word isn't in my vocabulary!' All his fights were solved by his efforts not by luck. He would love it to have it so easy. Spider-Man jumped into the air to perform an eagle kick. Loki jumped to the left. Peter landed in the floor and shot several webs trying to slow down his opponent.

"What's this dirty shit?!" Loki began to rip off the webs pasted over his skin and Spider-Man used the opening to release another punch storm. But this time, Loki was able to grab his fists. "Fall to the feet of the mighty Loki!" He kneed the teen wildly until the boy was able to block the blows with his own knees.

The two opponents glared at each other from a very close distance. "I'm stronger than you!" Loki blurted out. Peter smirked. "Yeah, but I got my backup."

In that precise moment... "Peter! Duck!" Touma appeared wielding a big shovel like a hammer. After seeing his friend following his command, the spiky haired landed a powerful strike in the face of their opponent. Loki was thrown to the floor, he tried to stand up, but Touma got closer with a berserker smile. "Maybe my fists can't harm you, but what about this?" The infuriated teen raised his improvised weapon over his head.

"Are you going to kill me, Imagine Breaker?" These words made Touma stop short in his spot, still raising the shovel. His face had lost all the determination. Loki smirked. "How naive. Even if you attack me with that tool a twenty times, you wouldn't kill me." Loki kicked the teen in the gut and stood up. "You are the same as my brother. Showing mercy so I can backstab him. Hahahaha!"

Touma glared at him. "After all you said. I know this already. Your brother loves you."

Loki stood speechless before he could even move his body to harm the teen. Even Peter, who was going to intervene again in the fight, stopped on his tracks behind Touma. The spiky haired continued. "You two grew together. But he was the most prized. You got jealous of him. Your feelings changed, but his don't."

"That's true" Peter intervened. "Thor want you to return to his side and fight side by side like you used to do years ago." To this statement Loki raised an eyebrow and Touma's eyes widened. "I-I-I mean… I am an esper raised in America" he lied. "For some circumstances I met him and he told me that his biggest wish is to see his brother by his side again."

Loki began to tremble. "N-no! He...he...he just want to humiliate me again! Look me from above like always!"

"That isn't true" Peter said standing beside his friend. "Do you know how much he suffers every time he has to fight you?" The duo of teens walked towards the god fearless.

"Suffers? He-he-he doesn't suffers!"

"I don't know him, but I can say he suffers!" Touma said with a loud voice. "Every nii-san would suffer if he see his otouto falling in the darkness and forgetting the ones that love him. If you think different…" His voice turned deeper. "We are going to break that illusion of yours!"

Touma used the shovel to hit him again and Peter put force to his fist and launched a powerful hook punch to the god. Loki was sent to the air and then followed by Peter who began to kick him unstoppable in midair. For many seconds Spider-Man stroke him until, concentrating all his power in his leg, he gave landed a very destructive kick in the head that crushed the god in the floor.

"I...can't...lose… What's this?" Loki tried to stand up but the floor where he fell was sticky and thick.

"So Loki isn't lucky" Peter joked seeing how the god had fallen on a hole that was meant to be filled with concrete. They were in a construction site after all. "Touma, would you do the honors?"

"My pleasure." Touma operated the concrete mixer that was besides the hole, and liquid cement started to fill it.

"No! No! NOOOOO!" Loki screamed infuriated as he was trying to get free from being buried in concrete. He was sweating and his voice was the one of a madman. His physiological situation was so critic that he even forgot he could teleport. Soon all his body, except for his head, was covered by thick and heavy liquid cement. All his mobility was sealed.

"Academy City really is something" Peter muttered as he walked alongside Touma over the now hard concrete, where their opponent was trapped. "Ultra-hard concrete that dries in less than ten seconds when it comes into contact with a big quantity of air. If in America there is enough time for a kid to write things on it before it dries."

"Do you think I won't be able to free myself of this?" Loki moved his head frantically, as it was the only thing he could move.

"No, but don't worry. I will just…" Peter charged up his fist and trusted it forward.

The last thing Loki heard, before falling unconscious, was the words of the other teen, Kamijou Touma. "You better apologize to your onii-san when you see him."

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The fight was now over. "Uff, finally" Peter sighed in relief while Touma took a few breaths. "Hey, Touma. We better check on Index and Misaka, don't you think so?"

"True, let's go." The teens did that and took the girls to the park where Peter fought with Sherry Cromwell. Index was already awake, but Mikoto was still unconscious.

"She isn't well at all" Peter commented. "Is this what magic do to the espers bodies?" Touma nodded.

"Touma, Touma" Index pulled the teen's sleeve. "Where's Hyouka? Who was that guy that attacked us? ...And why are you carrying that short haired girl on you back?!" She grinded her teeth.

"She is unconscious, Index. What should I do, leave her on the floor?" The nun couldn't retort that.

In that moment, Peter phone rang. "Parker. Oh, hey Kitty. You found Shirai? Nice. Yes. So she is on an ambulance right now. Alright. Better pay her a visit later. What else?"

"I was informed that a whole Anti-Skill squad was sent to put the terrorist you took down before into custody" Kitty explained through the line. "What happened to...you know, Loki?"

Peter smirked. "We took him down." He proceed to explain briefly the situation they had to face, jumping details as the strongest Electromaster being possessed by the magic of a certain Asgardian god. However, he did tell her that there was a wounded. Then he asked Touma. "Hey, man. Are you alright? That doesn't look to good." He pointed at the wound on his friend's shoulder.

"Hum. Another visit to the hospital."

The group entered the park, expecting to see the Anti-Skill's bans retrieving the Necessarius's magician. Nevertheless…

"Cannot be…"

"How could...this…?"

Peter and Touma were stunned by what they were witnessing. There were several Anti-Skill members on the floor, out of their senses. Their rifles scattered everywhere, some of them broken. The bans parked on the street were dented like a giant had used them as a boxing sandbag. In the center of all this mess, Sherry Cromwell stood victorious with her golem by her side.

"Oh, look who is here" Sherry said cheerfully with a madman smile playing with a chopstick between her fingers. "The Imagine Breaker boy and his annoying friend. You thought that the chopstick you destroyed before was the only one I had? Well wrong!" She swirled the object in question and her four meters rock servant stomped the ground vibrating even the floor below the teens' feet.

"You are just using one" Touma commented inquisitive. "I heard you before. The way you summoned five golems was due to something that Loki gave you."

"..."

"If it is only this big guy we can take him down with ease. Don't you think, Touma?" Peter added.

"I kn-know you can...do that, but would you two be able to stop me before Elis crushes this thing?" The gothic lady pointed to something on the floor.

The first to shout was Index. "Hyouka!"

"Fuck!" Touma cursed at the sight of the girl he hid before in some bushes to protect her. "She found her."

"Don't dare to harm her" Peter warned the magician.

"I'm not afraid of you" Sherry said glaring at the teens. "You won't stop me. Killing the key to the Imaginary Number District will start the war I need."

"Why do you want to start a war?" Touma asked as he tried to find a way to save the girl.

"The science and the magic can't possibly cooperate ever! That would only bring pain for everyone. A war is the best way to separate definitely the two factions. Do you know what happens to the body of an esper that comes into contact with the magic?"

"..." This time it was Touma the one who was left speechless. He has seen that two times already. More than enough.

"So you do. The first time I saw it, it happened in a very important friend. Her name was Elis." The woman expression showed a lot of pain, but then recovered and showed her determination. "That's why I won't let anyone suffer that again! Seeing close persons die from the stupid idea to unite the magic and the science!"

Touma looked straight at her. "Don't you realize that you are putting at us what you suffered? You say that you don't want to stop that pain from happening. You can't see that killing Kazakiri, a precious friend for us, will just give us suffering!"

"Don't care killing this monster to what I suffered!" Cromwell shout out with her face distorted.

"She's no monster! She is..."

"A...m-monster…" Everyone's gaze turned to the sobbing girl in the floor, Kazakiri Hyouka. "Wh-when that man attacked us, I saw what I truly am. A-and you saw it too later. I'm n-not human, I'm a monster…"

"You are indeed no human" Touma said after a few seconds. "But you aren't a monster, you are our friend."

"Hyouka is Hyouka!" Index yelled out with tears on her eyes. "And Hyouka is my friend."

"Index..." Kazakiri's eyes were already with tear, but her lips curved into a smile. "D-do you really think that?"

"Of course!" The little nun replied with a cute smile. "There is still many things I want to do with my friend, Hyouka. Eating hamburgers together, eating pizza together, eating ice cream together, eating..."

"She wants to have you by her side" Touma added with a happy expression. Then he realized the meaning in the nun's words and paled. "Wait... Where are you going to get the money for all the food? My wallet! Such misfortune!"

"Now that I remember" Peter said with a hand on his chin. "A few days ago I lent you a few yens so you could buy yourself a soda. When are you going to return them?"

"Do you think is the moment to talk about money, Peter?" The spiky haired put his hand over his head.

"Touma!" Index said with a serious expression. "You shouldn't avoid your debts, especially if they involve a friend."

"I don't want to hear that from a freeloader!"

"I c-can pay my p-part." Kazakiri tried to ease the group, without realizing that she was near to be crushed by a four meters golem.

"Stop this crap right now!" Everybody stopped taking at the sudden shout that came from Sherry Cromwell mouth. "I don't care about your friendship. I will distance the science and the magic side forever now. Elis!" The woman moved her chopstick and the golem swung his arm with the intention of destroying the girl on the floor.

""Kazakiri!"" Touma and even Peter, who didn't know the girl firsthand, shouted out. The later shot a web to his left and right in order to make a giant slingshot. He backed off to propel himself. However, it was impossible. He wouldn't be able to save her in time.

The arm was already over Kazakiri, but Index took a step forward and muttered some incomprehensive words. In that precise moment the rock limb changed its direction and hit the ground several meters from the girl. The teens didn't get what just happened, but Index gave them a quick explanation about how she intercepted the spell.

"Nice done, Index" Peter praised her and took the best position for his human slingshot. "Now's my turn." The teen flew towards where the magician, the golem and Kazakiri stood.

"Elis end this now!" Cromwell used her chopstick again and her giant servant followed her orders.

However, before the golem could attempt to crush the girl again, Peter kicked it in the chest with the force of his slingshot and the giant fell. "Not better than Mikasa Ackerman, but still better than Armin Arlert" he commented cheerfully as he hopped down of his down opponent.

"Elis stand up!" Cromwell tried to use her chopstick again, but Touma intercepted her before that.

"A war will just bring the pain you want to avoid!" Touma yelled as he trusted his fist forward breaking the chopstick in the hand of the magician, before clenching it again. "If you think different, I will destroy that fucked up illusion of yours!" And he sunk his punch on Sherry Cromwell's face, taking away her consciousness in a single second.

Peter had already broken apart the golem and now, with the master defeated, the fight was now truly over.

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"Soooo, this...this is..." Touma muttered scratching the back of his head.

"...a little awkward. Hehe." Peter finished from the other side of the room.

"W-what are you trying to say with that? Eh" Misaka Mikoto asked from her assigned hospital bed.

"I wonder, is there any kind of special meaning behind?" Shirai Kuroko put an inquisitive grin as she rested on her own hospital bed.

The teens quickly denied the suspicions. It was almost the afternoon. The duo of teens were on the hospital room where these girls were assigned. Touma was sitting close to Mikoto's bed and Peter by the other side of the room besides Kuroko's. It was a situation that could be considered... unexpected. For both parties.

Something important happened pair of hours before. After the fight finished and Loki was handed to SHIELD by the Anti-Skill, while Sherry Cromwell was handed to...well to Tsuchimikado, who Touma secretly called. Then, the teens were witnesses of the sad farewell between Index and her friend Hyouka. However, the nun had been able to smile again knowing that they wouldn't be separated forever.

After that scene, Touma and Peter decided to visit Mikoto and Shirai, who were had been taken to the hospital. The first one had just woken up, despite of her dangerous wounds and strong medicines she took. She didn't remember anything after her first encounter with Loki and even that moment was a little vague for her. That was relief for Touma, who still couldn't feel comfortable around the girl after the big seduction moment they had hours ago. Meanwhile, the younger girl had just received a hit on the head, but still it was necessary to admit her on the hospital just in case.

"What happened to you?" Mikoto asked looking at the bandages of the teens.

"This? Hum, just an accident" Touma lied looking at his covered shoulder and his right hand in similar conditions. "At least this didn't take me to a hospital bed."

"In my case…" Peter began to say. In the battle several of his bones were broken, however… "With a bit of cream for the bruises it will be fine." He smiled giving a thumbs up.

"H-hey" Mikoto said without looking at Touma. "D-do you kn-know...what...happened to me?"

"Hum, you were attacked by the terrorist. That's what I heard." He was lying. He didn't care to be praised as a hero.

"Ah, you heard. You didn't…" Mikoto strangely was looking a little saddened, her cheeks were dyed red and her voice turned into a murmur. "I-I just th-thought...you…y-you had save me again..."

"What? I couldn't hear what you last said."

"No-no-nothing!" The shy girl waved her hands in front of her face, which was redder. "I didn't say anything!"

"Onee-sama, if this ape is a problem for you" Kuroko began to say with diabolic eyes. "I can still teleport my nightstand over his head."

Touma gulped and Peter thought it was time to support his friend. "If you do that you probably would have to pay for the table."

"Tch, you are right."

"What?! You people are more concerned for a nightstand than for my well-being!" Touma almost shouted.

The room was completely in silence until Kuroko commented in frustration: "How could I let a terrorist knock me out and kidnap two civilians as hostages." She closed her eyes and clenched her small fist.

"Shirai, that guy was...it was impossible for you to defeat him" Peter said trying to comfort his younger friend. "You won't be penalized or anything. Konori told me that. And…I believe you behaved really brave. You are always like that. You are a really valuable member of the brand. Of the brand? No, of all the Judgment."

Kuroko looked at his eyes. "Do you really think that?"

Peter smiled and put his hand over her head. "I do." Even if the girl was technically his sempai of the Judgment, she was still younger than him. He needed to cheer her up wherever she felt down.

The pigtailed girl showed a bright smile, but it was almost immediately darkened by the redness of her face and the steam coming out from her ears. "Hi-hi-hiiiiiiiiii!"

"Shirai? Are you okay? You suddenly felt hot." Peter got his face closer and checked both temperatures. "Dam! Now you are in the hospital you should make the doctor check that fever."

"Hiiiiii! I'm okay. Now please, t-too close…" Seeing how the bigger boy moved aside his face, the girl turn her gaze down with her cheeks still red as a fire extinguisher. 'This can't be happening… Kuroko has reach an intersection. What way should I choose? But… I don't want to choose!'

"Shirai? Are you truly okay?"

"YES I AM!"

"A-alright." Peter didn't get it. 'Did I said something bad?'

Meanwhile, Touma and Mikoto were with a "what a hell is going on?" face.

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The sun shined brightly in the beautiful Asgard. However, the faces of a group taking a known villain darkened the landscape.

"We kept clean your cell" Thor, the God of Thunder, was telling his unchained brother, Loki. "Let's hope this time you stay a while longer there and think about your actions."

"..." Loki stayed in silence and even didn't look at his face. Thor sighed and made a signature with his hand allowing the guards of the palace to take his fellow god to his assigned cell.

He wanted to believe that the next time they talk to each other would be in the former relationship they had several years ago. Many of his friends said once that Loki was consumed by his jealousy and envy. Still, he wanted to see his brother by his side again. He shook his head of those thoughts. He needed to show the determination of punishing this criminal for his terrible actions.

Loki was being taken away from his sight and he turned around to go and focus on the problems in Midgard. However, he heard a voice he didn't expect to hear talking at him.

"Hey...brother... I..."

Thor turned around and saw how the guards already had taken his brother to the cells. The God of Thunder scratched his head stunned. For a second, he thought he had heard his brother saying: "Sorry."

He didn't know what to think about that. It was probably a mockery, but... If it wasn't... "With what kind of existence he encountered in this Academy City of Midgard?" Thor wondered thoughtfully.

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In a certain windowless building, Aleister Crowley stood upside down looking at several monitors showing different reports about different situations happening in Academy City, his city.

"What are you planning, Aleister?" The former magician lend a bit of his attention to the teenage that just spoke, Tsuchimikado Motoharu. Seeing who he didn't respond, the teen continued to think out loud and realized the truth. "If the inhabitants of the Imaginary Number District were...'angels', that place would an… Artificial Heaven!"

Aleister Crowley just smiled and tried to fake ignorance, but Tsuchimikado knew. "You attracted a magician of Necessarius on purpose, so she could be defeated. You knew that he would stand in her way and also…"

"That Stark's kid wouldn't stay aside."

Tsuchimikado sighed. He didn't like to have not one, but two friends under the claws of this monster. "What you are thinking is going far away from myself." He turned around and began to walk away. "But, once you make use of the Imagine Breaker, let me tell you, prepare yourself." He looked at the eyes of the Greatest Magician in History. "Treat him half-heartedly and that right hand will destroy your second rate illusions… And the Spider-Man will be by his side."

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A day later, Touma and Peter walked their way out of the school, planning to return to their dorm. The preparations for the Daihaseisai Festival had already began. Touma was telling Peter about it.

"Imagine the Olympic Games, just instead of regular people, espers."

"That sounds...dangerous."

"Yeeeees." Touma sighed feeling bad for not being able to tell his friend more about the festival. But, he couldn't remember what happened in the previous years. It wasn't his fault. "Hey! Maybe this year we can win with your skills."

"I wouldn't like to show them, but I will not let the others beat me without effort. Are you going to eat that?"

"My sandwich? No, go ahead."

"Thanks." Peter received the food from the hands of his friend. "Tell me more about the Daihaseisai."

'I will try.' Touma put a fake smile. "Okay, I think Aogami mentioned that…"

"Touma…"

The two teens turned their gaze to the voice and flinched as if there was a dragon. It was actually a bit close. In front of them, a nun was hanging of a railing with a calico cat over her head. "I-I-Index?" Touma asked with precautions.

"Touma…" She raised her head and eye contacted him. "You-left-the-fridge-EMPTY!"

"This-this… Index-san!" Touma had sweat on his forehead. This girl was scarier than Loki. "Please, hear me out… I-I-I… Peter help me out… O-oi! Don't just run away with that superhuman speed!"

"Sorry man, I just remember that… I want to live. Hahahaha!" Peter continued running until…

"Stop right there."

"Sh-Sh-Shirai?" The girl had just appeared in front of him. "Shouldn't you be still in the hospital?"

"I was already discharged in the morning" Kuroko said looking at her fingernails. "Unfortunately, Onee-sama will have to stay at least a day more."

"Oh, really? I'm glad you guys are recovering properly. Haha."

"Yes, thanks. But you should know that I'm not here to listen to kind words, right?"

"Ahhhhhhhh… What do you mean?" Peter scratched the back of his head, sweat coming from his forehead. His Spider Sense was going crazy. Why exactly was that?

"I already heard the report." Her eyes had a diabolic glint. "Apparently there were several damages to some park, the surrounding buildings and other types of private and public properties."

"Of course, th-that's normal. There was a terrorist to be defeated!" Peter tried to excuse himself, knowing what was coming.

"You were the closest person to the conflict, don't you?" The older boy nodded. Kuroko continued. "However, you didn't answer the questions of how the problem developed."

"…" Peter just couldn't tell that he and Touma defeated a god and a golem army. If he did that he would have to explain about his superhuman abilities and goodbye secret identity.

"The superiors got mad and decided to, instead, put the blame of the damages on our brand." The girl was facing him with a pissed off expression, but suddenly it softened and she gave him a smile. "You remember what I told you that would happen to you if you generated another incident like the one of the Pizza store owner (A/N Incident mentioned in Ch 10)? You should know what I am going to do to you for causing that type of troubles to the brand."

Peter gave a steps back while Kuroko walked forward. "L-look Shirai, I got to go. There's something I have to…" He needed to escape. 'I don't want to end up naked!'

"Time of punishment."

"Kyaaaaa!"

Meanwhile the nun… "Touma!"… Jumped to the head of Touma.

That day two cries echoed in Academy City. One came from a certain unfortunate teen with black spiky hair and nun biting his head. The other came of a certain unlucky teen with straight light brown hair which his clothes were teleported away and now was running in his underwear.

"Such misfortune!"

"Oh, crap!"

And the life of this duo continued as always.

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And that's how the Kazakiri Hyouka's Arc (Misfortune Duo style) ends. I was really looking forward to finish this chapter and enter in the next to my first OC arc. I wanted to say more things, but I already forgot them. Hahahaha! (Sweat coming from my forehead).

Right now I want to thanks all the people that is currently reading and supporting the story with their follow, favorites and review. Thank you minna! You are awesome. I have a question. Could you tell me some villains that could well, at least endure a fight against Accelerator (notice that I am talking about the Accelerator just after his accident)? I only have an idea and I don't know if you are going to like it.

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P.S: If you are interested, I started a crossover between Highshool DxD and Ao no Exorcist called "Blue Flames DxD". If you are fan of this two series, you may want to check it out.