Today an important character for this fanfic will make her first appearance. A hint, she's from Marvel universe and doesn't has to do anything with Peter.
Disclaimer: I don't own To Aru Majutsu nor Spider-Man, just this fanfiction.
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Chapter 15 - Unexpected Meetings
"I think they went into this place" Kuroko said as she suddenly appeared in front of her comrades.
"Nicely done, Kuroko" Peter commented and got closer to the steel door blocking their way. "Kitty, would you do the honors?"
The girl nodded with a smirk and walked forward. Her body went through the door as it was a waterfall instead of a rough surface. The Judgment member left outside waited a single minute until the entrance was opened. It was time.
"Alright, remember the plan" Kitty reminded them. "Peter and Kuroko-chan attack the Kaitabi guy by different sides making difficult to blow up his targets. Meanwhile, I'll face the bitch that control the liquefactions of surfaces. I had my guard down that time. It won't happen again."
""Got it!""
The trio entered into the abandoned research facility where they thought the criminals were hiding. The place was covered by darkness and it was necessary to make use of their phones' lanterns to walk without controversies.
Eventually they reached more doors, but thanks to the help of a certain scientific Shadowcat, those weren't a problem. After a searching the place for about ten minutes, they found themselves in a very huge room. A room where their enemies were waiting for them.
"So you Judgment dogs found this place." Kaitabi smirked as he played with his spoons.
"You'll regret." Sebura clenched her fists.
"Oh, I didn't think we would see each other again, you fucking teleporter bitch of the Judgment."
Neither Peter nor Kitty recognized the third person. However, Kuroko did. "I remember you. You're that punk I arrested about a month ago, before the Level Upper incident."
The guy with piercings, a golden tooth and messy hair frowned. The group noticed that he was also wearing some technological shackle thing on his neck as the other criminals. He was also an Electro Upper user. "It just happened because you threw me a building in the face."
"What? You did that? And you dare to scold me when I only do things as scratching a mailbox?" Peter said opening his hands.
"Shut up!" Kuroko glared at him and then turned to the criminals. "Yes, this three are Level Upper's victims. You, the one with glasses. You were defeated by Onee-sama."
"Onee-sama?" Kaitabi asked in confusion.
"She's talking about Misaka Mikoto" Peter explained to him.
Kaitabi's expression distorted. "That bitch... I'm so going to kill her." His expression was one of pure hate. Ignoring Kuroko's deadly glaring, he continued. "Oi, Sebura-san, you also hate the fucking Railgun, right?"
"Yes" the woman confirmed. "I'll make that flat bitch suffer."
Peter knew that his companion was about to pin this group at any moment. He talked. "You wouldn't able to defeat Misaka. Either way, we have to stop you for criminal acts right now. Specially you, Kaitabi. You killed innocent people."
Kaitabi was able to witness clear rage in Peter's words, but he didn't back down.
"So you were behind the attacks to the Skill-Outs. Your criminal record is even less clean now." Kuroko grabbed her nails. "Attacking a lot of Judgment members and then massacring Skill-Outs. Your time in prison will be rather long."
"Indeed." Kitty clenched her fists.
"Let's do this." Kaitabi grabbed his spoons as shurikens.
"Kuroko, Kitty" Peter called them. "I'll go and take down the bomber madman. Can I leave to you the others?"
""Of course!""
"Time to use it" Kaitabi said putting his hand over the shackle-like choker on his neck.
His companions did the same. The three turned on their Electro Uppers increasing their low esper powers to more powerful ones.
(NOW: Judgment VS Electro Upper users)
Peter jumped very high and, at the same time, Kaitabi launched two spoons. The spoons exploded leaving a lot of dust, but Peter came from the smoke aiming a kick. "Take this!"
"Fuck!" Kaitabi jumped back barely in time. He grabbed some of his aluminum mini-balls and used them to prevent Peter from getting near him.
BOOOOOM
Another explosion. However….
"You'll have to do something better."
Kaitabi looked in astonishment how Peter was crawling in the rooftop. "How can you be so fast?"
"Some skills, Bum-Bum" Peter replied looking at his fingernails with a confidence grin.
"How did you call me? Bum-bum?"
"Yes. I called you Bum-bum. Now, let's finish this, Bum-bum."
Peter released a many webs trying to leave his opponent out of combat. Kaitabi used his metallic balls to create another explosion. This time he used it to shiled himself from the webs before they could collide with him. He quickly ran away trying to make bigger his distance with the Judgment boy.
"Oi, Bum-bum" Peter called him. "You don't do this any bad."
Kaitabi didn't even smile. "What a hell are you? Are you one of those? Like them?"
'Them? Those?'
"Now that we're having a peaceful talking, why don't you tell me about that Electro Upper you guys are using" Peter asked them trying to get some information.
By that moment, Kuroko and Kitty had also stopped fighting their opponents. That didn't meant they had defeated them. More important, they really were having a bad time.
"Oh, the mini-teleporter is having troubles. Hahaha!" Trick mocked.
Kuroko managed to smile wryly. "You're more powerful than that time I fought you. That Electro Upper really improve the powers."
Kitty was also having a tense talk with her opponent. "Dam! Your skill is even troublesome for mine" she said.
"Hahahaha! Yeah! That happens when you face a truly powerful enemy" Sebura replied. "Using my ability to stop you when you try to hit me and then retreat when you go intangible works."
The two groups took their positions. Kaitabi was the one to speak again. "You want to know about the Electro Upper. I would be in troubles if I tell you. But..." His smile was the one of a crazy maniac. "...if we kill you all here there won't be problems."
'Yeah, think that.' Peter talked next. "Spit it out!"
"The Electro Upper!" Kaitabi opened his arms like he was doing an adoration to a god. "It is what joins together the user with the perfect network."
"The perfect network?" Kuroko asked doubtfully. "Are you talking about a stronger network that bonds the espers that use the Electro Upper, as it was with the Level Upper?"
"No, no, no." This time it was Trick the one who spoke. With a creepy smile he continued the explanation. "The Electro Upper, unlike its predecessor, doesn't create connections with the other users by itself. It connects us with another network, the best in the world, which actually isn't meant for something like this."
"The best connection in the world?" Peter researched his mind to find something that fitted that description. His face showed fear. "Are you maybe... talking about the Stark Network?"
The three criminals looked at him for a few seconds. Then Sebura's took the word. "That's a net for machines...I think. I don't know anything about 'American superheroes'. I'm talking about something developed in Academy City."
Peter felt relief after hearing that, but that didn't last long.
"There are many secrets in this city." Kaitabi's glasses shined as he spoke this words. "One of them is related to this network we're talking about."
'Why do I feel I won't like what is coming?' Peter wondered, but then his fears were confirmed.
"This network is actually connecting almost 10 000… Guess what… living creatures! Roaming around this city and habiting several locations around the world, we have clones and that we don't notice a shit about them."
'No way, this guy is talking about...' Peter body tensed when he realized the true situation.
"Cloning people is illegal" Kuroko, expert in Academy City's laws, said.
"This clones come from the darkest parts of the city. We don't know who created them, or who was cloned, but these 'things' are here, they have a powerful network and use it every day to exchange information between them. The Electro Upper let us use their channel to send out our own information between us."
'Are the Sisters involved in this thing?' Peter needed to ask, but he had to be cautious. "These clones...are they helping you?"
"Helping us? No, it's funny. Apparently those fake humans don't realize that we're doing this."
Hearing Kaitabi's reply, Peter sighed in relief before talking again. "So you're like…..stealing their Wi-Fi. I'm I right?"
"You could put it that way. Kuku."
"Kaitabi, enough talking. Let's finish with this now" Trick said interrupting the conversation clenching his fists and glaring at Kuroko.
"I say the same." The pigtailed took a battle stance. "After this we'll just look for those clones. If they are real, I mean."
'There's a bigger reason now to stop these guys' Peter meditated as the two groups prepared to resume their fight. 'The Misaka Network and the Sisters are in danger. I need to report this to Misaka later. And also Touma should know.'
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"Luck... Something that always laughs in this Kamijou-san's face."
Touma patted his hurt muscles as he muttered negatively. He opened his eyes to recognize exactly what was his situation. Luckily... Unbelievable, but yes... The mini-elevator had only fallen through the hole and ended up in the lowest floor, instead of bursting out after colliding with lowest floor, just like the teen thought it would happen.
"At least my wounds aren't that ugly for me to go to the hospital…. again."
He muttered as he pushed the door open trying to get out of the metal box. His feet touched the ground and he fell to his knees. The teen barely suppressed the urges to vomit. It had been a rough fall after all. 'This month I'm a little short on money, so better not waste what I spent on food.' He thought that as he lifted his battered body.
'Now… where the hell I'm?'
Touma looked around. He was in another room with the same amount of light like the one he first saw, which was zero. The spiky haired used the light of his phone to find a way out. In front of him there was a metal door. He got closer hopeful, just to realize it was totally shut in. Of course, he didn't have the key of this entrance.
However, the hinges were much rusted. The door itself was totally rusted. 'I good push might be enough to bring it down.' Touma looked around the room trying to find something able to help him. He could try bringing down the door by his own, but that wouldn't be too nice for his body. After a few seconds of search he decided to use a near pipe for his purpose instead.
He got close to the door again and swung the metal pipe against one of the hinges. Hitting steel against steel made his arm numb. But, he endured it and struck again. 'All right Kamijou, maintain the force and hit.'
Touma swung the pipe until both hinges lost their forms and weakened. Now the only thing left to do was to push the door with enough force so it would come out of its place. He took some distance.
"Gyaa!" With a war cry, Touma ran towards and tackled the door. The hinges burst out and the metallic door came out. It fell to the floor and Touma over it. All his body felt numb. "That...hurt..."
The boy stood up again massaging his muscles. 'If I had Peter's strength this wouldn't have been necessary. A single tackle without needing to strike the hinges would have been enough for him.'
Touma noticed that he was in another hallway, dark as the room he just left. He needed to find the criminals and discover what they were up to. He clenched his right fist and smiled with a hint of confidence. 'But, he doesn't has the Imagine Breaker. My Imagine Breaker.' The teen with the strongest will chose a path and began to run. He was hoping that it would take him to the villains.
"Eh? What's this place?"
The place to where the hallway took him looked more like a prison than a base of operations. There were many cells surrounded with steel bars. All of them were empty. Touma confirmed that with the help of the light emitted by his phone. Did he choose wrong? He would have to use the other way. The teen was about to return the way from which he came from when…
"Hahahaha!"
Touma heard a loud laugh in the distance. Forcing his eyes, he managed to see some light at the other side of the prison. Stealthy, he walked to the light source and found a separate room which was illuminated by a single reflector.
Inside this place there were about four men using clothes similar to the ones of the Anti-Skill, except that they were all black and none of them showed their faces. Touma hid behind the door frame. Thanks to the small amount of light, the ones that looked like mercenaries couldn't see him, but he could see them.
Peeking more carefully, he distinguished another person that seemed to be their leader. However, this guy was wearing civilian clothes instead of protective armor as the others. His hair was blond and he had western features. He was talking with someone Touma couldn't see from his position.
"Yeah, I saw him and even talked to him."
The leader had American accent. Touma then heard another voice, this time it was only a little more than a murmur.
"So he's alive...good."
'Who else is there?' Touma couldn't see that person from his position. But, it seemed that the owner of the voice was locked inside an special cage. 'A single prisoner?'
"Even if you know that now, you won't see him again. Well, maybe in your afterlife. Hahahaha!"
With those words, the blond teen left the room through another door. The mercenaries moved out of Touma's sight, but then returned carrying, or dragging, what seemed like a chained person. This prisoner was wearing gloves, handcuffs and his head wasn't visible due to a hood that they had put over his head.
'They are taking this prisoner somewhere else?'
Touma wondered then if he should help this person. He considered the fact that he was being held as prisoner by a bunch of criminals in a clandestine jail. However… Why were these guys holding him?
"I can't breathe…."
Touma heard the voice of the prisoner. It was a dry murmur but he recognized that this person was a woman.
"Shut up." That was the reply of one of the four mercenaries.
Touma hadn't completely decided his next step, but his body got closer to the group almost unconsciously.
"I...will...die…."
"Like I care. You aren't that important you know."
After finding the light switch, Touma pulled it and blinded the group.
"What was that? The light cut off. Dammit, this low developed facilities. If you have flashlights turn them on."
In the moment this mercenary pointed his flashlight, Touma drove a punch directly to his jaw. The man fell to the floor even before he could put his finger over the trigger. The other three were still looking for their respective source of light, so the teen could knock off another one before they realized that they were under attack.
"Take this!" One of the left mercenaries used his rifle like a baton against Touma.
The spiky haired tried to dodge it, but it was useless. Touma fell to the floor and when he was trying to stand back he felt the cannon of a rifle on his right temple.
"Any last words, punk."
"Such mis…"
"Waaaaaaa!"
Touma and the mercenary, both of them turned to the sudden shriek and found the other mercenary lying in the ground.
"What the…? Arrghh!"
BUMP
The mercenary which was aiming his gun at Touma also fell to the floor after yelling out loud. For a few seconds there wasn't any sound.
Suddenly, the lights turned on again.
"And who are you?"
Touma turned around and saw the girl that mere seconds ago was restrained with chains. He finally could take a good look at her. First of all, she wasn't Japanese and that was something obvious because all her features were western.
'I have met many forgings in these last two month.'
Blue eyes and brown hair, she was a pretty girl. The only unusual characteristic she had was the white lock of hair coming from her head.
"Are you deaf? Answer me!"
"Uh!"
Her face looked angered, but at the same time Touma detected some caution. He decided to act pacificly.
"My name is Kamijou Touma. Who are you?"
The girl looked at him for a few seconds before answering. "None of your business."
Touma frowned. "Oi, what's with that? When you ask someone else's name, you at least have to give yours."
He didn't get any reply.
"At least tell me what you did to these guys."
The girl looked at the two mercenaries which had fallen down mysteriously. "I used my power in them." She casually put on some globes.
"Your p-power?"
Touma inspected the men. They didn't have any visible wound or something like that. However, the looked like they were barely breathing and all the strength in their bodies had left them.
"What kind of... Wait, weren't you suffering back there? What happened with your 'I can't breathe' and your 'I'll die'?"
After hearing his words, the girl glared at Touma. "That was just a lie. I wanted them to lower their guards so I could escape. However, your intervention made things easier. Now, what's your business here? I don't think you were sent to rescue me."
"Rescue you? So you were actually being held over your will."
"Hello. Didn't the chains give you a clue?" the girl mocked of him harshly. "Or... Oh, you Japanese people with your bondage games. How gross."
That was a moment to stand up and defend. "Oi! Even if it was invented here, the Americans were the ones who globalized that!" Touma said this with his cheeks dyed red. "If Aogami's sources are correct... Wait! Don't just go and divert the subject! I'm here because..."
Then he explained briefly what happened since he saw the explosion. The girl burst out in laugh.
"So you are telling me that you saw an explosion in the distance and decided to go and capture the thugs who probably were responsible of it? Hahaha! What are you? The Good Samaritan? An idiot? Or both? Hahahaha!"
"Omai...I'm seriously getting pissed off right now." There were veins popping from Touma's forehead.
"Whatever, you helped me before. I'll compensate you. Look there." She pointed at the hallway that Touma used to get into the prison. "I remember that if you go that way you'll be able to escape from here. What're you waiting for? Go!"
The girl turned around and began to walk to the opposite direction. Touma called her and spoke.
"What're you doing? Aren't you also going to escape too? Besides, I still haven't found the criminals I was looking for."
The girl looked at him. "I need to do something else before getting out. There may be stored very useful information in this facility. With it I'll be able to find him."
"Who? In first place, why did they locked you down?"
The brunette with the white lock of hair sighed. "I'll just tell you that I came here to see if a friend was here. Now I discover he's here indeed, trapped and suffering. I need to know where he is exactly to go and help him. However, there are higher ups of this rotten city of shit who don't want me to mess with their fucked up plans."
The girl gave Touma her back again and continued to speak like that. "I won't say more. If I do there will be higher chances for you to end up buried underground. If that happens it would actually give me some problems to sleep. Just leave."
The girl ran away and entered a different path. She knew there was a console with information near. It would take her a while to hack it, but she was planning to do it. She was going to save him.
The time was short. According to what that blond idiot said, the facility had been compromised. That was why they were moving her to another location. The blond idiot was probably going to erase all the data stored there. She needed to be fast and silent.
"Ooooooooi! Waaaait!"
The sixteen years old teen girl turned around and... 'For God's sake!' … saw the spiky haired boy going after her.
"Don't just leave me behind."
Touma received a deadly glaring. "I told you to escape. Go away!"
"..." Touma took a few seconds to breathe in and out before answering. "I heard you... You want to help your friend. Even if you don't believe me, I have also messed with the dark side of this city. I know how dangerous can it be. I'll help you."
She couldn't reply immediately. She needed several seconds to confront those words. "You don't leave me another choice."
After saying those words, the brunette with the white lock took of one of her globes. "This'll hurt, but it won't take long before you can take a 2 to 4 hours rest."
The girl stretched her naked hand and quickly touched Touma's forehead for about five seconds. Nothing happened.
"What?" The brunette looked at her hand with astonishment.
Touma was confused by the girl's actions, but he felt even more by her reaction. "Etto… What was supposed to happen?" He asked with precaution.
"Why it isn't…?" Again, the girl touched Touma's skin with her naked hand for very small amount of seconds. Still nothing happened. "What the hell is going on?!"
She was looking at her hands with an expression like she had lost something important. Then she yelled:
"Why isn't my power working on you?!"
"Oh, it's probably because... O-o-oi! Were you trying to use the same thing you used with those guys?" Touma pointed at the fallen mercenaries.
The girl ignored his words and began to rub her hand against the spiky haired's arm as she murmured. "I can touch this guy and he doesn't suffers. I can touch this guy and he doesn't suffers. "I can touch this guy and he doesn't suffers."
Meanwhile Touma was getting flustered. A hot girl...because indeed she was a hot girl. The Japanese boy could recognize that because the girl was wearing some tight-fitting black clothes… A hot girl massaging his arm was getting on the bad side of his hormones. Luckily, she stopped soon.
"So my power doesn't affect you."
"It shouldn't work because esper powers can be negated by my...let's say skill."
"Esper power...yeah, esper power." The girl looked away when she repeated that.
Touma was about to comment, but decided to say something else instead. "I don't know what problems you are exactly in, but I realize you are someone from outside of Academy City who came here to help some friend of yours and for that you were locked up by bad people."
"I don't need…"
"I'm going to help you."
"Dammit."
The girl couldn't understand why this Kamijou Touma boy was so interested into freely help her. The boy had understand pretty well about her situation without her having to say too much. Why was he trying so hard to help someone he just met? She could suspect many things, but…. A part of her felt uneasy about the fact that her power didn't affect him.
However, she felt relieved at the same time. Her power was a curse. She hated it. She detested it. That irregularity in her had been what prevented her to get… What she most wanted.
She glared him and spoke slowly. "If you try to do something. Believe me. You and your body will regret very bad."
Touma gulped but nodded.
"Follow me. I have a hint where we have to go." She twitched her expression. "I just hope we don't run into that guy." They went to another entrance. "Are you really willing to help an unknown person? This'll be very dangerous. You have chances of dying."
Touma confirmed his resolution out loud. "I going to help whenever a person is in troubles. It doesn't matter if I just met you. Although… It would be nice to have a way to call you."
The girl turned around and walked through the entrance and muttered: "You can call me…" She looked at him with the corner of the eye. "...Rogue."
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BOOOOM
BOOOOM
BOOOOM
"Hey! Bum-Bum! If you keep blowing things up you're going to collapse the ceiling" Peter said as he dodged Kaitabi's constants explosions.
"Hahaha! Like I care. As long as I kill you before there won't be any troubles" the bespectacled teen replied.
'This guy sure is a psycho.'
Meanwhile, Kuroko was struggling against her own opponent, Trick.
"Come on! Give some battle! Hahahaha!" Trick laughed of her as he successfully connected a fist to her gut.
"Ugh!" Kuroko teleported to the back of her foe and launched her elbow towards his head.
"I'm not there."
Trick grabbed Kuroko from the leg and threw her like a bag. The girl just managed to protect her head by teleporting before hitting the ground.
"It's like fighting with a ghost" she muttered as she search her legs for another steel pin.
"As last time you won't be able to get me with that kind of attack." Smirking, Trick tapped his Electro Upper. "With this my ability to distort light has improved to the point that I'm able to make people see my person in a whole different position than the one I'm. You'll see me punching you with my right fist, but I'll be actually using my left. Your eyes will tell you that I'm kicking your leg while I'm actually going for your gut."
Kuroko glared at him and teleported the steel nail. She aimed for the guy's tight.
"I doesn't matter how you attack me. You won't hit me." Trick's devilish smirk went wider when the nail fell to the ground after being teleported to the air instead of piercing his flesh.
Kuroko knew that her attack would miss, but she was finding hard to believe that all the techniques she learnt with the Judgment weren't working. It was as the first time she fought with this same enemy. However, this time it was worse.
The first time she faced Trick, she was able to at least predict some of his attacks and block. Now, she couldn't even get near him without receiving serious damage to her young body. Kuroko was a rather strong and well-formed for a girl of her age. That was due to her training with the Judgment and the practice with her power. Also, she had increased her pain resistance thanks to the constant electric shocks she received whenever she tried to do something pervert to her beloved Onee-sama.
If Kuroko didn't have those, she would probably be already on the ground sobbing by the courtesy of Trick's punches.
"Eat my fist!"
The pigtailed quickly teleported away when she saw her opponent going after her face. However, even if her eyes had distinguished him like three meters away from her, she felt that his punch didn't hit her barely.
Going against an enemy that just didn't let you see his real position and, moreover, distract you with an intangible version of him created by distorting the light near his body was something pretty difficult. 'What will I do?' She couldn't defeat him with physical attacks. Maybe if she turn off the lights of the place, he wouldn't be able to use his power. But, the darkness wouldn't let her see anything at all, and that was worse.
As the middle school student was trying to find her way through that difficult situation, Kitty was getting pissed off.
"Try to get me!" Sebura's grin hadn't leave her face since the beginning of their fight.
"As you wish."
Kitty jumped driving her fist to her opponent face and, again, her arm was covered by the floor which was turned into a more liquid form. She sighed and went intangible in order to escape from that thick prison.
According to Academy City's database, she was owner of the ability Surface Piercer, which allowed her to be intangible and go through any solid surface. However, that was a complete lie. In the first place, she wasn't an esper. She was a mutant. She had been born with her powers, not developed them by artificial ways as the students in Academy City.
In her disguise as an esper, she had only showed that she was able to go through solid surfaces. Nevertheless, she could do far more than that. For example, she was able to transfers her skill to other people or objects whenever she was physically touching them.
Kitty Pryde had the ability to condense the atoms of her body and fortify her body. With that she was able to gain super strength, superhuman durability and superhuman physical resistance. Besides, thanks to her intangibility, she could freely walk on both air and water. However, for that she needed to concentrate, so it couldn't be used to dodge making use of the air.
Indeed, she was really powerful. If she proclaimed that her powers were part of her esper skill, the day after this news was exposed there would be eight Level 5 instead of seven. But, she couldn't say that because she made a promise with Professor X to not stand out while she stayed in Academy City. There was a chance someone might discover that she wasn't an esper. If she was recognized as a mutant there would be a huge ruckus.
Those were her reasons of why she couldn't use her regular movement in front of her comrade of the Judgment, Shirai Kuroko. As she contained her opponent, Kitty took a glance at her younger friend, who was also struggling against her own foe. She couldn't reveal to her nor to the other members of the brand about the true origin of her skills. Mutants were hated by the espers of Academy City and espers were hated by the mutants of the US after all.
She couldn't fight in the way she did when she was under the mask of Shadowcat back in America. Peter had shown some of his skills to Kuroko. She knew that. But the pigtailed girl seemed to have decided to not ask for answers. At least by now.
'I can't fight the way I normally did back in America when someone from Academy City is present, especially the comrades I made here.' She had spent just a little more than a month in this city that used to upset, but… 'Kuroko-chan, Kazari-chan, Ruiko-chan and Konori-san. All of them are important friends to me! It's better if I don't tell them my secret. We'll remain friends...even after I return to America.'
"Sebura." Kitty clenched their fists. "I'll defeat you even if I can't use my full power in order to protect my friendship with the espers."
"What? What did you said?" Sebura made a really exaggerated gesture pointing her ear. "I didn't hear very well except that you said you were going to defeat me." She started to laugh. "Let me tell you, you won't have it easy. Every time you go intangible I just going to back away, but, whenever you try to strike me with a solid punch..."
The girl laughed. "Kuku! The next time you leave your intangibility I'm going to drown in this same floor."
Kitty sighed and, slowly, her body began to sink in the ground. She didn't even changed her expression or altered her movements. In less than five seconds the mutant was already out of sight. Sebura looked a bit anxious, but she got rid of that feeling with a smirk.
"Don't screw with me! Hahaha! You are so going to regret trying to fool me." Sebura raised her fist and smash the floor.
The solid floor changed its state and started to move like wet concrete. Sebura jumped back and admired the mess she made with surface. Kitty didn't come up.
"Kitty…" Kuroko muttered from her own battlefield.
From his position, Peter also was a little worried. He knew that this mutant was really badass, but he wasn't sure that she could make use of her ability is she was diving inside a non-solid surface. 'Come on, Kitts. Don't scare Kuroko.'
Even if those were his thoughts, Kitty wasn't coming up. She could be trapped inside the liquid floor.
"I won." Sebura shrugged and turned around. "Kaitabi, I'm going to help you with that guy."
"I won't let you."
"What?!"
Sebura could only say that before Kitty emerged from the ground in front of her, several meters from the place she first sank in, and hook punched her. The criminal was sent flying and crashed with a near wall. That, of course, wasn't Kitty's full power. She only used the amount of force necessary to defeat her without implying that she possessed super strength. And, she didn't want to break the skull of her opponent.
"How did you…?"
Kitty took the time to reply her defeated enemy. "I just continued to go down and stayed away from the ground that had gone into a liquid state. Then I kept diving through the soil and went up."
"But… my position… How did you knew where I was exactly? You couldn't see me from the underground."
"I can hear what's going on up even if I'm down."
"Nice done, Kitty!" Kuroko yelled as she continued to struggle Trick's attacks.
"Maybe your friend could defeat Sebura, but you won't be able to take me down!"
The punk kept attacking the young teleporter distorting the light so she couldn't know where his body was.
"Argh!" Kuroko tried to dodge a kick, but it equally struck her gut. She was pushed and fell over what seemed to be a tool box.
"This is over, you teleporter bitch!"
Trick jumped over her aiming his feet into her head. Kuroko barely used her skill to escape from that deadly attack. She was tired. She was in pain. She had just received a few hits, but, after all, she had the body of a regular middle school student. Even all her training in the Judgment couldn't make her bones stronger nor have an outstanding durability enough to withstand many strikes from a muscled man of around eighteen.
"Let's finish this!"
Trick ran towards her. Kuroko still had one steel pin. But she knew that was useless. Whether she threw or teleport the small object against this man, it wouldn't get him. The vision of his body was a redirection of light. His real body could be forty or sixty centimeters to the right, left or even back.
"He can use light against me."
Trick was over her now.
"It's time to try fire against fire."
Kuroko hold in her hands what she grabbed when she fell over the tool box. It was a flashlight, a very powerful flashlight. The teleporter used this last resource she found miraculously. She activated and point it in front of her...
"Waa!" Trick covered his eyes because of the sudden light, mostly because the place they were using as a battlefield wasn't very lighted up in the first place.
This simple action made him lose his concentration and temporally prevent him from using his skill. Kuroko was expecting this opening. She literally jumped over her opponent and when she felt his body…
She teleported him.
"Aaaaaaah!"
BUMP
That was the sound that Trick's body produced after falling a distance of three meters. When he collided with the ground, Kuroko heard the noises of some bones cracking. Then those reached her ears: the man's screams of pain.
"Yaaaaaa! Yaaaaa! Fuuuuuuck!"
Trick grabbed his knee which had been his first body part touching the ground and, because of that, his most injured one. Kuroko shut her eyes forcibly, but opened and walked towards him.
"Sorry. I didn't want to do that kind of attack, but you didn't leave another choice."
"Y-you b-bitch!" Trick tried to stand up, but his injured leg didn't let him.
"Sorry. The Anti-Skill will take you to the hospital before arresting you."
"You threw me a building back then. You almost killed me!" Trick yelled this as he and his companions weren't trying to kill them. "Now you release me from three meter in the air. What kind of Judgment member are you?"
Kuroko sighed. "You didn't leave me any other choice. It was necessary to find a way to immobilize you."
As the teleporter was having a bad time with herself, Peter was still in the middle of his own fight. The Spider-Man had skillfully dodge all the explosion that Kaitabi was throwing at him. He was expecting to end the fight when his opponent run out of aluminum object to burst.
However, the criminal seemed to have an endless amount of spoons and small aluminum balls in his pockets and shirt. 'He got more spoons than a ninja shurikens.' He needed to end the fight. If not, there was the chance that the ceiling truly collapse because of the constant explosions.
"Kaitabi, why did you began attacking the Skill-Outs?" Peter decided to ask.
"It's a revenge" the bespectacled replied. "I told you. Have you felt what is being continuously bullied and you can't even defend yourself? And worst, the people that should be protecting you don't do a shit for you."
Kaitabi rolled some metallic ball in the ground. By this time Peter didn't need his Spider Sense to understand that he should be staying away from that certain metal the much he can.
KAAABOOOOM
Another explosion. Peter jumped and used his webs to swing his way out of the danger zone.
"I hated all that shit." Kaitabi was still talking. "I wanted to take out the ones that took advantage of my lack of power and the ones that never helped me." His face was distorted because of the fury.
Peter looked at the infuriated teen and sighed. "You are going the bad way. This words you're saying are almost the same regular NY delinquents say. They blame society and that… It may be at fault in part, but that doesn't mean you can go roaming around harming people? You don't have the right for that!"
"Right?! The Skill-Outs are always punching and robbing us, the civilized Level 0. This is justice!"
He shouldn't have said that word. "Justice?" Peter muttered and look at his opponent. "I do know Skill-Outs cause troubles, but Judgment is really doing its best to prevent bad things from happening and put characters like under custody. Why? Because they break the laws attacking innocent people! That's the same thing you are doing right now. Killing the Skill-Outs one by one is injustice."
Peter fixed his eyes on Kaitabi, who was backing off. "I'm truly going to defeat you and bring you to justice."
Spider-Man shot his web to the ceiling. Kaitabi frowned and used his spoons against him again. Peter dodged the first explosion moving from right to left making use of different webs. However, a moment later he was surrounded by many aluminum balls in midair.
"Using my power to generate small explosions on the objects to move them freely and then bursting all of them…just like this."
Kaitabi clenched his fist and all the spheres surrounding Peter exploded generating a giant smoke cloud.
"Got you, you piece of shit."
"Do you think so?"
"!" Kaitabi couldn't helped but felt complete astonishment when he saw Peter coming out from the smoke top towards him from the air.
"Making use of your explosions as a smoke screen I fired myself with my web slingshot from the rooftop." Peter, who was already over the Electro Upper user, smirked.
"Dammit!" Kaitabi desperately searched for a spoon or an aluminum ball, but Spider-Man was already a meter from him.
"Go to sleep." Peter landed in front of his foe and clenched his fist before delivering a punch.
Kaitabi was sent flying seven meters forward until he finally came to a stop. And that was just a very small amount of Spider-Man real force.
Peter turned around and found out that his comrades had also defeated their opponents. Kitty didn't look like she had any wound. She just seemed a bit tired. On the other hand, Kuroko had many bruises and cuts. Besides, she looked like she was about to fell on the spot.
"After this you're going to return to your dorm and take a proper sleep" Peter told her.
The pigtailed sighed and gave him a thumbs up.
"Uggggh…"
The three of them turned around and saw Kaitabi waking up. This time it was Peter the one who sighed. "I'm going to take that Electro Upper thing from his neck. You two do the same."
The pair of girls nodded and walked to their fallen foes the same way as Peter. The Spider-Man stood in front of the defeated Kaitabi and leaned over him.
"Got it." Kitty said after using his intangibility skill to take the shackle from Sebura's neck with ease.
"Me too." Kuroko teleported Trick's Electro Upper from his neck into his hand.
Peter nodded and put a hand over Kaitabi's Electro Upper. He didn't know how to open it had a skill that let him to get it with ease. So he just decided to break it. If the Anti-Skill wanted to research the object they could just do it with the ones Kitty and Kuroko got. It was more important to "disarm" the criminals before thinking forward.
"Eh? What?" Peter put force, but he couldn't break the Electro Upper shackle. It was made of a metallic material, but still… He normally didn't have problem to break of bend steal objects. Then he recognized the metal. "This is adamantium."
"Y-you…"
'Spider Sense.'
"…won't defeat me…'
Kaitabi, who was faking unconsciousness, used his finger to launch a single aluminum ball directly to Peter's face. The teen, thanks to his special sense, didn't get any wound just barely. However, he was forced to release his grip over Kaitabi.
The bespectacled took his distance from the three Judgment members and put his hand on his neck, over the switch of his Electro Upper. "You…won't…beat me!"
"It's over, Kaitabi" Peter said as he stepped forward.
"No…no…NOOOOO!" Kaitabi manipulated the switch.
In that same moment, the teen began to sweat and breathe heavily. His pupils shrunk. His entire body began to tremble and a vein popped out on his forehead. His expression twisted in pain.
"Kaitabi! Don't do that!" Sebura, who was still in the floor, yelled.
"You r-remember what the Sensei told us, don't you?" Trick, who couldn't stand up, warned him.
"We can't be afraid of our power." Kaitabi's voice was full of pain. He grabbed his head with both hands. And screamed.
Peter got closer to help him, but suddenly many metallic objects around them started to fly in circles. All the people in the room were quickly surrounded by a tornado of metallic small objects.
"What's going on?" Kitty asked Sebura.
The girl didn't reply at first. She had lost all her will to fight. She was scared. "They told us to never increase our powers beyond the Level 4. Because…our bodies, most important, our brain wouldn't be able to handle it."
Kaitabi was complete pain. Feeling how many of his inner blood veins were bursting out. Still, he smiled. "Yeah. Yeah! YEAH! So this is Level 5! Hahahahahah! (BLOOD COUGH)"
"You're hurting your body. Stop this!" Kuroko shouted at him.
'I need to turn off his Electro Upper.' Peter ran towards the berserker Kaitabi trying to reach for the switch of his metallic collar.
"You won't take away my revenge. You won't take away my poweeeeeeeeer!"
Kaitabi didn't care about the state of his body. The only thing he was feeling was pure hate and rage. More metallic objects raised from the floor to join the solid tornado that was surrounding the entire group. Some of them flied near Peter and…'Spider Sense'…burst out.
Spider-Man had to back off in order to not being trapped by the explosions. Many other metallic object began to explode too making Kitty and Kuroko to also start dodging.
"Yes! Now I can make use of even the minimums amounts of aluminum inside various types of metals. And burst them out!"
Kaitabi had become mad. Maybe due to the amount of power he felt. Maybe because of the pain he was feeling in his body. Maybe both were reasons. Maybe both were reasons. Many explosions echoed.
BOOOOM
KABOOOOOM
BOOOOOM
BOOOM
CRACK CRACK
Peter looked up and saw his fears confirmed. The ceiling was cracking. They need to plan their escape. "Kitty, Kuroko. Take Sebura and Trick out of here. I'll stop Kaitabi and prevent him from dying."
"What about if the ceiling collapses? You and him. Both are going to die" Kuroko said with clear concern.
"Kuroko…" Peter took air before speaking. "You know that I'm not normal esper."
"I…know… You're a gemstone, right?" Kuroko replied.
"Yes". He was lying to a close person about his powers again. Just like in America. "It's more safe if you teleport Trick. Kitty can handle getting Sebura out of here."
They were about to take that strategy, when…
"Gyaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!"
Kaitabi screamed out loud a massive shriek. All the metallic objects flying around stopped in mid-air. For a single second nothing moved. Then everything a chaos. The objects began to circle around a single area, which every second was shrinking.
Peter's Spider Sense went even crazier than when he used to fight against Osborn. He knew what was about to happen. If all those objects burst together so close, the explosion could blow up the facility, or at least, the whole room they were in.
"Kuroko, teleport you and Trick! Kitty, go underground with Sebura!"
Peter was about to run and attempt to grab the berserker Kaitabi when…
A sound echoed through the entire room. Peter thought it was similar to when a speaker had interferences. He didn't mind about it because for him it was just that. However, Kuroko and the other three espers in the room recognize what was that. And suffered by his effects.
"Ca-ca-capacity Down…" Kuroko muttered as she fell to her knees grabbing her head.
Sebura and Trick were also twisting their expression into pain and began to roll in the floor. Meanwhile, Kaitabi berserker mind couldn't keep using his power. All the metallic objects flying around touched the ground without exploding.
Kaitabi also looked like the effects of the Capacity Down was taking its toll on him. But, his body didn't look like it was about to break anymore. He was saved of that berserker state he had gotten into. And the best was that all of them wouldn't be blow up.
However, there was another serious problem…
Breathing heavily, Kuroko spoke. "How can…you…still be on foot. You're a Level 2 and you a Level 4."
Nor Peter, nor Kitty replied to that.
"It's supposed that you can only bear this (GROAN) if you're a Level 0 or a non-esper. But, you two can't be Level 0. What are…you? If gemstones…are still espers."
Peter and Kitty couldn't articulate a word to say, but then…
"First of all, this isn't the same Capacity Down that some Skill-Out bands use to do their worthless crimes."
The Judgment trio and the fallen delinquents turned their head to the unknown voice. From the darkness, a young men of maybe eighteen or nineteen years made his appearance. The man had short mojo style red dyed hair. His clothes were conformed by dark pair of pants and a black leather jacket. The most outstanding of his physical appearance was the carnival-like gray mask he was using to cover half of his face.
The newcomer continued talking. "This is a new product that Sensei designed using some of the good parts of the Capacity Down and the AIM Jammer. We called it Esper Suppressor. I personally like it because…
"It let you control the expansion range."
"It let you choose how much you want suppress an esper."
"Is easier to carry and to mass produce them."
Following the first man, three other persons spoke. All of them used the same voice. All of them were wearing the same clothing. Their body built was exactly the same.
"You!" Kaitabi, who couldn't stand up because of the Esper Suppressor and the problems that forcing his Electro Upper brought to his body, said. His tone of voice had some fear in it.
Trick and Sebura also looked uneasy at the apparition of this persons, who were also unaffected by the Esper Suppressor.
"And who are you, people?" Peter ask with precaution. Even if this characters had stopped Kaitabi and with that saved their live, his Spider Sense was still warning.
"People?" The man put his hand on his chin. "We aren't people. I'm a person. A single person. One that can…"
In that precise moment three of the four equal newcomers literally split like a bacteria. In a matter of three seconds there were seven people in front of the Judgment members. Seven equal people.
"What…is…this guy?" Kuroko barely muttered from the floor.
The six doubles grined selfishly and spoke at the same time. "As those guys, I'm not an esper."
Kuroko glanced at Kitty and Peter with astonishment. She knew Peter was different, but she thought he was a gemstone. But no.
The man continued. "I'm a mutant. You can call me..." All the doubles smirked devilishly. "…Multi-Man."
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So finished. It took an entire month for me to update this. The reason are still the university and my other fic.
First point to mention. The apparition of Rogue/ Marian Carlyle. Some of you may be asking why the hell I decided to include her. Mostly because she'll be important for the plot I have in mind. Also… Well I have an idea I personally like. But, I don't feel like explaining it right now. Sorry.
A summary about Rogue:
This girl has a horrible story. She has lost all the boyfriend she ever get by death or they can't continue their relationship because of her mutant power (when she was first dating iceman she found him kissing Kitty Pryde. Yeah, this will have some drawbacks). She quit the X-Men and joined to different villain like mutant groups. The she re-joined X-Men later put left them again. Her life really sucks to this point of the Ultimate Universe timeline. All this crap she needed to endure made her colder with people. But, in my opinion, she just desires to find true love.
Besides the life absorption ability which can take away someone else life after touching him/her for more than a few seconds. If she does that with a mutant she can temporally steal the power of this person. If she does that and the mutant dies, she can keep the power forever. Rogue touched Juggernaut in his last seconds and kept his super strength. That's why she can also lift a lot of tons and has really high resistance, durability and endurance as Kitty, or even more.
You probably are wondering: Will Rogue be able to steal temporally esper powers? In this fic I have decided to put it as a NO. I want to draw a straight line between espers and mutants. Not as wide as the one that separates espers and magicians, but still a line.
Well, there are more things I want to say, but I'll tell them later. I hope you enjoyed this chapter. I point you out that Multi-Man is the OC I first introduced in Ch8. Fav, Follow and most important: Review. Sebaspe out!