Now, let's begin.
Disclaimer: I don't own To Aru Majutsu no Index nor Spider-Man.
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Chapter 18 – Pissed off nun army
Touma walked in silence through the dark street near the theater. He narrowed his sight looking for possible threats. He could encounter with one member of the Amakusas at any time. However, this time he had a backup. Although he couldn't see him at that precise moment.
"I hope they haven't done anything to Orsola," Touma muttered as he moved. He was risking his life facing the Amakusas, but still he kept thinking about others first.
The teen touched the cross necklace that Stiyl gave him before as a signature that he was working as a part of Necessarius, which was helping the Catholic Church at the precise moment. 'I'm glad it's temporary. I truly wouldn't like to be part of Necessarius.' He thought about as he kept his search.
He stopped his steps and clench his fist at the sudden sight. In the distance he saw a girl of about his age wearing casual clothes that wouldn't let her resemble anywhere. Nevertheless, there was something about that girl that anyone would notice at first sight. She was wielding a medieval style sword. Regular girls didn't bring swords when they go out.
'An Amakusa!'
The Amakusa girl also saw Touma. She glared at him, raised her sword and ran towards him. Touma clenched his fist feeling all his reflects going wild as he prepared to dodge the attack. The first clash of the battle between the Catholic Church and the Amakusas who kidnaped Orsola Aquinas. Tension filled the place. Then…
"Agth!"
The girl collapsed to the floor.
"Okay, woman, speak," Peter; who in a small interval jumped from the building he climbed before, landed behind the Amakusa warrior and used a nice karate chop against her neck, asked casually. "Where is Orsola Aquinas? Tell us, please."
"N-Never!" The girl rub the back of her neck and extended her hand to retrieve her sword, which she let go when she fell to the floor, but Touma kicked the weapon out of her reach.
"It would be a great help if you tell us," the spiky haired told her.
The Amakusa girl looked pissed off with her situation. She closed her eyes a few times and shout: "I don't care! I won't tell you where she is! Torture me all you want, you dogs from the Catholic Church!"
"Oi, don't just call us like that," Touma said with a frown. "We're just trying to help…"
"Forget about her, Touma. Let's just finish with her and keep the search of Orsola."
After he said those words, the Spider-Man, who was currently wearing casual clothes, except for the ACSM-Mask he made with Academy City technology, grabbed the Amakusa. The girl clenched her jaw and shut her eyes, preparing herself for whatever these two could do to her.
She felt some substance being attached to her body and lost all possibility of movement. Then nothing else happened. She opened her eyes and found herself pasted to a wall with some kind of strange… web? The duo was already walking away from her without having done any kind of damage to her body.
"Soon, the Catholic Church will come here to arrest you. Meanwhile, rest there. Ok?" The teen wearing the mask told her.
The spiky black haired boy spoke next. "We're no dogs from the church. We just don't want you to harm Orsola to get the Book of Law. We came here to rescue her from your hands. That's it."
Then they walked away. And the Amakusa girl was having something similar to a mental struggle. Besides the fact that she wasn't tortured nor harmed in any way by those teens who were working with the Catholic Church, they said they wanted to rescue Orsola Aquinas. They said that the Amakusas kidnapped her because of the Book of Law.
"Oh fuck," she muttered. "These idiots don't know what truly is going on."
Meanwhile, the so called idiots were discussing their plans.
"We have to take down every Amakusa in our way until we find Orsola."
"I agree with you Peter, but I would not like to fight every guy we see tonight. I prefer if we could just get her out of their hands."
"That's the main goal, but until we get a trace about her location, we must keep fighting these…"
"There they are! Dogs of the Catholic Church!"
Touma and Peter saw three Amakusas warriors running in their direction. The Imagine Breaker prepared his body and, most importantly, his fist. But the Spider-Man just grinned.
"Be careful of the web." He activated his web-shooters. The weapons of the Amakusas were taken by the teen in a blink of an eye. "You may get webbed."
Touma's eyes widened. "That was a bad joke!" Then he ran against their opponents.
The Amakusas warriors recovered from the shock when they saw one of their comrades receiving a fist in his face. They tried to melee with Touma, but Peter grabbed one of them and the spiky haired parried the blow of the other before punching him too in the face.
"How did you take us out so easily?" The Amakusa who was being easily restrained by the Spider-Man asked with a perplexed expression.
"Bad guys always lose."
Peter only said that before he webbed the three warriors to the nearest wall without letting them say something else.
"We have taken 4 enemies now," Touma said, counting with his finger. "I wish I knew how many of them are here."
"That isn't very important," Peter replied, surprising his friend. "All what I have gone through has taught me that numbers aren't much important if the leader is gone."
"So you're saying we must try to defeat their boss first."
"Yes. Because of why I said and because Orsola may be with him. Wait here a second."
Peter shot his web and climbed the nearest building, leaving Touma perplex in the ground. From the highness, the teen looked around. Be managed to see nuns from the Catholic Church fighting with the Amakusas and, in the distance between some buildings, another nun in a position similar to the one of a tied up person.
'That must be Orsola!'
There was a man near her. Peter couldn't see his features pretty well, except that he had a white T-shirt with red straps and an afro. The teen frowned and jumped off the building landing near Touma.
"What were you doing up there?"
"Scanning the surrounding find the person who could be the leader and maybe Orsola. Good news, I found both. Follow me."
Touma followed his pal through the streets and found the place Peter had seen from the top of the building. There they found the afro guy and Orsola tied up unconscious on the floor.
"So you're finally here."
Peter spoke then. "Are you the leader?"
The afro smiled fearlessly. "Tatemiya Saiji, archbishop of the Amakusa Style Remix Church."
"You give us Orsola back, now!" Touma shouted clenching his fist.
"I'm afraid I can't do that." Saiji continued smiling fearless. Then he took out a big sword with a rather interesting shape.
Peter couldn't control his laugh. "Hahahahaha! What's with that sword? Why does is has that many curves? I don't know much about swords, but I don't think you can do much with a weapon like that."
"Hahaha! Do you think that, kid? Let me show you why the Amakusa Remix Church, which combines many types of magics, is the best one."
After pronouncing those words, Saiji whistled. For a few seconds nothing happened, but then, Peter was assaulted by his Spider Sense. 'Where is the attack coming from? Ah...' He and his friend found themselves being surrounded by up to 15 Amakusas wielding blades and other types of blunt weapons. The teens didn't even notice when those people were getting closer.
"We, the Amakusas," Saiji began to explain causally. "...base our set of skills in being able to blend into any environment."
Peter and Touma gazed around with raising tension. 'They were able to avoid my Spider Sense until they got close. They're freaking good,' the Spider-Man thought as he clenched his fists.
With a war cry, the warriors proceed to attack them. Peter saw 2 incoming strikes coming from him. He parried a lance with the back of his fist, webbed the feet of the other attacker and took them out with a pair of punches. Meanwhile, Touma was having a hard time dodging a sword, but he managed to kick the leg of his opponent and then punch him in the face.
The other Amakusas didn't go recklessly against them seeing how easily those two teens took down their comrades. But that was also a reason why they wanted to run and beat these guys. After all, these boys had hurt their comrades and wanted to retrieve Orsola to the Catholic Church. Something they wouldn't permit.
"Amakusas!" Saiji shouted raising his sword. "Don't let the fear take you over. We're the best church. We're a mix of all the techniques from all the churches. And…" His face, who was showing a brave expression went serious. "You know why we're fighting, right? Right!?"
The Amakusas warriors gripped their weapons. "Yes!" Then they charged against Peter and Touma once again.
Spider-Man, witnessing these situation took a step forward. "Touma, you go and secure Orsola. Let me handle this group."
Touma protested. "No way, we should…"
"Pal, we came here to save her. Remember that."
The wielder of the Imagine Breaker hesitated, but he chose to follow and trust his friend. He ran towards the tied up Orsola, but was intercepted by a pair of Amakusas boys.
"Do you think we'll let you…Mmm!"
That was when that boy received a web in his mouth from Peter, who had begun fighting with the other Amakusas. Touma used that opening to take down that warrior. He immediately dodged the attack coming from the other warrior who was trying to stop him.
"You made me use this." This Amakusa pronounced some words then and the tip of his bo started to shine. He was using magic.
Touma knew what he had to do. With a war cry, his opponent charged at him with his shining bo. Touma raised his right hand, letting the weapon clash directly with it. There was a high pitched sound. Almost like a glass breaking.
"Gyah!" Touma's opponent was thrown back hitting the floor having his weapon destroyed and losing consciousness.
The teen left the boy there and ran towards the unconscious Orsola. He untied her and put her over his shoulder. Before running away, he said something to his friend.
"Peter, see you later."
And he took Orsola to safety. The Amakusas tried to chase him, but Peter jumped intercepting them. He looked through his ACSM-Mask how his friend ran away. He smiled and then focused his eyes in the Amakusas he was engaging combat with. These warriors were different from the usual thugs he took by himself back in New York.
"Just asking, but do you guys use magic to speed up your movements, increase your physical force and resistance?"
Tatemiya Saiji positioned between his warriors. "You noticed? You have good eyes, shounen. Even if you're wearing a mask. Why is that? May I ask?"
Peter shrugged. "I just don't like to show my face."
"Pretty well. Now, you understand. We have to fight you in order to reach to Orsola who was taken by that other boy."
Peter got his fists and web-shooters ready. "And I have to stop you."
'Time to be Spider-Man.'
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"I'm fine, don't worry about me, Index," Touma told the young nun. "Better checked Peter. He went against like more than ten Amakusas at the same time."
"Oh, but I only have a pair of scratches," Spider-Man casually replied his friend, who Index tried to treat.
The silver haired nun pouched. "Alright, you two, but don't ask me later if your bones start to ache." And she left the scene.
When they lost her from sight, the teens couldn't stop themselves from bursting in laugh.
"Touma, where's Orsola?"
"Oh, she's with the other nuns right now doing… whatever nuns do."
"I see. I wonder, why did you gave Orsola that necklace the overgrowth kid (Stiyl) gave you?"
The spiky haired shrugged at his pal's question. "After finding her, I didn't need that thing anymore and she seem seemed to like it, so I didn't see any problems in giving it to her."
"Oh, I just hope the red haired doesn't get depressed," Spider-Man commented cheerfully.
"Come on. He isn't immature at all."
Peter recalled when he fought him in front of their dorm and couldn't hide a mocking smile.
"(SIGH)"
As they were chatting, the teens heard that and turned around only to see Tatemiya Saiji, arzobishop of the Amakusa Remix Church, all tied up with Peter's webs sighing.
"How're you doing there?" Peter asked him.
Saiji looked at him with an ironic smile. "You beat me and my Amakusas on your own. How should I feel about it?"
Peter could only shrug at that comment as he took a look around witnessing all the rest of the Amakusas warriors tied up in his webs, who were being imprisoned by the Agnese's Forces.
"We wouldn't have needed to fight if you hadn't kidnapped Orsola," Touma told the arzobishop. "Not even something like the Book of Law worth hurting a person."
For a few seconds Saiji looked at him with confusion in the face, but then started laughing like a maniac what caused the teens to frown.
"Oi, what's so funny?"
"Hahahaha! Nothing actually. The thing is… you're kind of mistaken."
"What do you mean?" Peter inquired him.
"We don't want the Book of Law."
When Saiji pronounced those words, big silence covered the trio. Touma and Peter, both couldn't process enough well what he was saying. Then Spider-Man said.
"You're lying."
Saiji smiled. "I'm not."
"Yes you're."
"I'm not."
"Yes you're. Why're you lying? Don't lie."
Saiji interchanged looks with Touma. "It's better if I speak to you instead of your friend. You're the Imagine Breaker boy, right? Yeah? Very well, let me explain this to you. The Catholic Church wants to execute Orsola Aquinas because she can decipher the Book of the Law, and that would mean the age ruled by the cross would end, and since the Roman Catholic Church is the largest Christian sect in the world, they would have no power. She came to us looking for help and protection."
Touma stayed quiet at the difficult explaining coming from Saiji until he managed to digest the information. "If what you're saying is true, why did she escaped from you guys?"
The grown up man nodded. "Because she didn't trust us completely and she thought we wanted to get the Book of Law for ourselves. That isn't case, we… We only tried to help her, because that's what the Supreme Pontific would do."
"Supreme Pontific? Oh, you're talking about Kanzaki." Touma recalled that Stiyl told him about Kanzaki Kaori being an important member of the Amakusas. His expression went more serious. "Are you telling the truth?"
"…"
"Touma! Don't fall for that!" Peter interrupted their conversation and moved his gaze towards Saiji. "I have talked with many criminals and other types of bastards. Most of them have tried to excuse their actions and lied about them. Why don't you confess and save some dignity for yourself?"
Spider-Man was getting pissed off. He remembered how many villains had tried to fool him in other to accomplish their evil deeds. Until now, he hadn't fallen for any of these lies.
"Hey, Peter, calm down."
"Yeah, kid. Chill."
"First of all, you afro, shut up. Second, Touma when you capture someone is very common they will do anything to get free."
"But…"
"No, buts." Peter took air and breathed it out. "Okay, look. It's quite obvious that these guys are looking for the Book of Law. Do you think that…"
Then the teen recalled something he noticed a pair of hours ago, when he, Touma and Index arrived along Orsola to the place where Agnese and Stiyl were waiting for them. He remembered how she trembled. Something he found weird. Weren't they bringing her to safety?
"I'm going to ask Orsola…"
"GYAAAAAAAA!"
Peter and Touma turned their heads to that loud cry on the distance. They recognized the voice.
"Orsola!"
Just when that shout echoed in the night. Two young nuns made act of presence. Both of them were blond and wore black habits. However, the one who looked older used it as a miniskirt, while the younger of about 12 years didn't show any part of her legs.
"We came here to pick up the prisoner," the more matured nun said, pointing at Saiji.
"Oi, what was that shout?" Touma cut her and asked. "Was that Orsola?"
"We don't have to reply. Out of the way."
Peter looked at Saiji and then at the nuns. He sighed and spoke. "Like hell we'll until you tell us what the fuck is going on."
The nuns looked at them with serious expressions. They nodded and the oldest one talked again. "If you are going interfere with our labor, you don't leave us another choice. Now, Sister Angelene!"
"Yes, sister Lucia!"
In that moment, Lucia the wood wheel she was caring and smashed in the floor.
'Spider Sense!'
"Touma!" Peter pushed his friend just when the wood wheel was colliding against the floor and burst out in a rain of cutting wood chips that would have been dangerous for someone with a normal body like the spiky haired.
Angelene began to make some chants and throw three bags to the air. Those objects acquired a gleam and began to chase after Touma and Peter.
"Tell us what's going on! Do you people lied to us!?" Touma asked as he ran dodging the magical attack before using his right hand to negate it.
"This's bothersome!" Peter couldn't negate the attacks, only dodge them.
"If you had free me I would have been able to help you, boys," Tatemiya Saiji said from behind with a mocking smile.
"Oh, you shut up, afro!"
Angelene got more bags that soon began to gleam and joined the battle. The two teens were being surrounded by the ranged attacks.
"Bad timing to only have a single small Imagine Breaker on you, don't you think?" Peter commented as he prepared to dodge a rain of attacks.
"Whaaaaat?! Do you want me to have many Imagine Breakers? That would only increase my misfortune!"
The bags aimed for their bodies when, suddenly, they stopped persecuting them and stayed still in midair. The objects started to move again, but this time, they went towards their owners.
"Sister Angelene! What're you doing?" Lucia asked angered when she had to dodge one of the glowing magical bags.
"I'm not doing that!" Angelene cried as she ducked trying to protect herself.
At this time, the 4 fighters noticed a new voice and turn to see Index running towards them as she muttered some other chants.
"Spell interception?!"
Then, a piercing alarm-like sound echoed. The sisters from the Catholic Church looked at each. They knew the meaning of it.
"Sister Angelene, we must regroup with the rest!"
"Yes."
The monks quickly ran away, not before Lucia used his wood wheel distract Peter and Touma so they can't catch them.
"Fuck!" Peter growled. "They lied to us. They're going to do something to Orsola."
"Told you."
"You shut up, afro!" Spider-Man, reluctantly, had to free the grinning Tatemiya Saiji from his webs.
"What happened here?" Stiyl suddenly arrived to the scene with an annoyed expression.
Touma and Peter explained the situation the best they could. The redhead lighted up another cigarette and put a thumb under his chin.
"I see…"
"Don't just 'I see' us. We must help Orsola!"
"Peter is right," Touma agreed, as expected of this boy.
"We, the Amakusas, will help you. After all that's what we wanted to do in the first place." Tatemiya Saiji commented. "However, we must regroup first."
"But Orsola is in troubles right now!" Touma almost shouted.
Saiji didn't even looked at him. "I know. That's why we'll hurry. Amakusas are in their strongest form when they are together."
As the man talked, Touma moved his gaze towards Stiyl.
"Don't look at me, Kamijou Touma. I'm a member of the Anglican Church and this is a problem regarding only the Catholic Church. There's nothing to do for us, less for me." The redhead wasn't going to say more, but he realized something. "Kamijou Touma, where is the necklace I gave you?"
"Oh… hum…" Touma, saving his anger and disappointment inside, took his time to find the correct words that had less chances of getting him into a fight against Innocentius. "Orsola seemed to like it so I gave it to her."
For a second, Stiyl didn't say anything. The spiky haired feared that he would have to fight that big fire monster again. However, the redhead only sighed and said: "Very well."
As Touma sighed in relief, Peter said: "Afro, she might be killed right now. We must hurry to rescue her. It's now or never."
Saiji looked at him seriously and turn his head around. "Amakusas need to fight together."
Touma and Peter exchanged a single glance and nodded. Nothing more to say.
"Index, stay with Stiyl. Peter and I are going to rescue Orsola."
The nun obviously tried to protest. "Touma! You won't just… Wait you said… Peter and I?"
The mentioned teens looked at each other and nodded. "Yes, we're going to help her, together."
Index noticed something in each of these boys. It was something like a… new resolution or a new understanding. It could be one of those, or each of them had realized something they didn't have clear. The girl was only certain about something. Whatever had happened, it was for good.
"Okay, I trust you… both."
For a few seconds, Touma stayed quiet, as he was expecting to see the silver haired girl protesting. Nevertheless, he kept his inner doubts and asked: "Stiyl, do you know where she is being taken?"
The redhead fourteen years old took a breath and his time to answer. "They probably are going to take her to the nearest church and execute her in there."
Touma nodded. "Thanks. Peter, let's go."
"Following you." Peter didn't even think about it. He just followed his great friend into a new danger with the objective of saving someone he had met that night.
'Another day in Spider-Man's office, I guess.'
The two boys left all the possible back up they could get that night and ran towards the incoming battle. They checked the GPS of their phones and found the location of the nearest church. The battlefield was just a few blocks from where they were standing. However, that didn't freeze them, nor much less.
After all, they were Kamijou Touma and Peter Parker. The Imagine Breaker and the Spider-Man. Soon the two high school boys were standing in front of the church. They could hear the voice of Agnese Santis laughing and making fun of someone. They could hear the sounds of hits, pain moans and the weak voice of Orsola. They clenched their fists.
"Wait." Peter stopped Touma, who was going to charge in recklessly.
"What? Don't you what's going on inside? We don't have time!"
"I know man, I know, but…" Peter was looking for the right words and the time's pressure wasn't helping at all. "Haven't you noticed?"
Touma looked at him with a confused expression. "Noticed what exactly?"
Peter scratched the back of his head thinking of a good way to explain what he, as Index, noticed. "You said we."
For a few seconds, Touma only maintained his confused eyes on his friend's face. Then, he showed an understanding expression, just before moving his gaze towards the ground. The boy took his time to speak again. "Yes… I said that."
Peter took a breath in and thought fast what to say next. "We have been… fighting a lot together, haven't we?"
The spiky haired scratched the back of his neck. "Yes, we have."
"And… Hmm… What do you think about it?"
"I… Well… I'm… Ahh…" Touma exhale air. "Truth to be told, it's kind of hard to get used to this."
"To what, tell me."
Touma took his seconds before he opened his mouth again. "That I'm dragging someone else into my fights. That I'm dragging a friend into the danger."
Silence took possession of the environment after he finished speaking. Peter's mouth curved into a smile. "You know that I'm a superhero, right?"
"Yes, you told me and the others that night in my apartment after escaping from that base with Misaka, Pryde, Shirai and Rogue. Look, I know that you think saving everyone is your duty…"
"I don't think it's my duty, it's MY duty. It's my duty to risk my life for others. But…" Peter eyes contacted Touma through his ACSP-Mask. "… Is it yours?"
The other teen lowered his head and then pulled it up with a determined expression. "I don't need something like a damn duty to be able to help someone else."
Peter listened carefully to his friend's words.
"If I can help, I WILL help. If I get in danger, it's fine. If I get hurt, it's fine. I won't mind as long as with my hard job another person can be saved."
Peter understood it finally. The boy in front of him didn't think like him. His resolution, his will. Kamijou Touma wasn't someone who had decided to save the world. Kamijou Touma was someone who normally encountered people in dangerous situations and decided to give a hand. It wasn't a duty, it was something he liked to do. And that's automatically was converted into a WILL. Something he will do.
"I understand…"
"And why is it your duty?" Touma suddenly asked his friend.
Peter didn't get for a few seconds what was the question coming from the spiky haired, but he managed to do it he couldn't stop himself from scratching his head. "Pardon me."
"What I'm asking is why did you take saving everyone as your duty?"
Spider-Man finally understood what his friend was saying. He took air and the decision of trusting Touma a bit more. "Some time ago, my uncle was killed by a thief."
Touma opened his eyes wide. Now he was thinking that he shouldn't have asked that question. However, he didn't say anything and let the other teen speak.
Peter kept talking. "It was some time later, after I acquired my powers. At that time I… I couldn't care less about saving other people. I had these amazing powers, but I chose to use them for my personal benefit. I was very egoist and selfish. There was a situation in which a let a thief escape because I couldn't care less about the person who was stolen."
He continued. "That same thief I didn't stop because of my selfishness later ran into my uncle and killed him. I found him and he spent his last seconds on my arms." At this point, Peter had to turn around and force himself to calm down. As always, remembering all that implied a big weight on his heart. "After that day, I decided that I wouldn't act like that again and that I would be using this power to help others people. As a redemption and…"
Touma looked at him without making a single noise.
"He said it many times. With great power comes great responsibility. Responsibility is also a form of duty. That's the main reason I became Spider-Man."
He said that. He revealed his secret identity to his friend. There was no coming back from this point. But, the teen didn't think that was a bad thing. And he was right.
"Spider-Man? That's your… superhero name, isn't it?" Touma asked him with curiosity. He was still feeling that he shouldn't have made Peter tell him his tragedies. However, he also felt that he could trust his pal more than ever and that, at this point, their bond was stronger than ever.
"Yep. How's it? Sounds cool, right?" Peter stuffed his chest out all proud.
"Oh, hahaha. Sure." Touma scratched the back of his head with a nervous smile.
In the end, Kamijou Touma and Peter Parker. Desire VS Duty. Even if what pushed them to act was different, their aim was the same. They both wanted to protect the people. They both go into the danger as heroes with the resolution of not letting any person die.
"Anyway, I think Orsola have been waiting a lot of time," Peter said, feeling nervous about letting the nun in danger. "So, buddy. Are we… comrades in this?"
"Yes." Touma clenched his right fist with a confident grin in his face. "In this and in whatever situation."
"Cool."
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PUMP
Orsola Aquinas couldn't maintain herself on foot after receiving a direct hit to her leg with a long metal rod. Any young woman or man would shout or at least moan of pain after being victim of that sort of pain. However, this nun didn't make any sound and only try to stand up again.
She tried, but her legs didn't give her the enough force.
"Hum… If you try to resist it will only be harder for you," Agnese Santis, the one who used the rod to injure her, told her with a mocking smirk.
Orsola raised her head and look to the eyes of the red haired small girl. "I'm not trying to resist," she said with a half-smile that didn't match the situation she was in.
Agnese mocking expression quickly disappeared. She looked around and saw the faces of her soldiers, the battle nuns belongs to the Agnese's Forces. They had taken Orsola to the nearest church in order to execute her in the name of the Roman Catholic Church's interests.
The young nun was going to continue her labor when she recalled something and the evil smirk returned to her face.
"You know. The Amakusas who you thought were after the Book of Law, were actually trying to help you."
When she heard the words coming from the petit nun, Orsola opened her eyes wide. But then, her kind smile returned to her face and her eyes began to release some bright.
"Oh, so I was wrong? That makes me happy… They are really kind people."
Agnese wasn't expecting that kind of reaction. She angrily gripped her steel rod and hit Orsola's side with it. The blond nun collapsed into the ground, but as the first time, she didn't even made a single sound of pain. That touched Agnese's bad side again, so she proceed to raise her rod again.
"Let's finish this."
She pointed the rod to Orsola head to put an end to the mission that the Catholic Church imposed in her. However…
SLAM
The huge doors of the church were suddenly open. All the nuns turn their eyes towards the new presence that had appeared in front of them. They didn't find it hard to recognize that black spiky hair notorious hair.
"What're you doing here?" Agnese asked Kamijou Touma with a devilish grin on her face.
"I came here to save Orsola."
Touma didn't hesitated at all. He pronounced those words looking at the girl's eyes with a serious expression.
Agnese's grin disappeared and was replaced with an annoyed expression. "Are you serious?" She walked towards the spiky haired. She passed by Orsola's side without giving her any attention. "Look around yourself." The redhead girl opened her arms wide pointing at all her battle nuns. "Do you think you can fight against me and all my army? How do you expect to save this woman?"
Touma knew he was surrounded by the battle nuns. He knew he couldn't fight all of them. He knew that saving Orsola like this was impossible, but… "How do I expect to save her? Well, I tell you. With the help of my comrade and backup."
!
A shadow fell behind Agnese so fast that she couldn't react in time. Peter Parker, wearing his ACSP-Mask, grabbed Orsola and put her on his shoulder. He thumbed up Touma, and the spiky haired replied with another thumb up. Then, Spider-Man shot a web to the church's rooftop and quickly reached the upper beams.
He used the beams to move towards one of the church's skylights, which he used before to infiltrate the building without getting noticed by the nuns and Agnese in order to carry on the plan that the two teens made in a matter of seconds. Peter went through the skylight carrying Orsola and disappeared from everyone's sight. There was a moment of silence as all the Agnese's Forces were totally taken by surprise with that unexpected turn of events.
Then... "Whaaaaat?!" Agnese shouted with her eye twitching. "T-t-they are escaping!" She turned around. "That was your plan! You made that entry in order to distract…"
SLAM
"Eh?"
The redhead girl couldn't prevent herself from showing a stupefied expression when she saw Kamijou Touma leaving the church through big doors that he had just used before to enter the building. The teen quickly closed the doors and left the nun with astonishment wrote in their faces. It took them some seconds to digest what had happened in a blink of an eye.
"Eeeeeeh?!" Agnese pointed her finger to the skylight, then to the door, then to the skylight again, "T-t-they! The guy with the mask t-took Orsola Aquinas by the roof… and-and-and… and the other just left the place in our faces. H-how did this…? Ahhh! Doesn't matter! After them!"
The nuns army opened the doors and went after the two teens.
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Meanwhile, in a certain Tokiwadai dorm, a thirteen years old girl was making a deep research in her laptop. What was she investigating? About superheroes. Specifically, American superheroes.
"Peter said he was a superhero, so…" Kuroko muttered as she surfed through the network, researching in US's sites where she had to read in English. Nevertheless, that wasn't a problem for an intelligent Tokiwadai student like her.
It was already really late, but she didn't had school the next day, so it wasn't a problem to stay until these hours. She looked around the room she shared with her roommate. It was a spacious single big room consisting of two beds and a pair of tables. It didn't have a kitchen because Tokiwadai girls ate at the deluxe dining room that their school offered them.
The door of the bathroom was opened and Kuroko's roommate and best friend, Misaka Mikoto, made appearance. She was wearing her pajamas and covering her chestnut hair with a white towel. Normally, a girl wouldn't change in the bathroom and, instead, walk to her room in just a towel, but Mikoto knew that wasn't a good idea.
Why? Because doing that would put her virginity in big danger.
"Kuroko, where did you put the hairdryer?" Mikoto asked as she looked through the drawers.
The other girl opened the drawer just beside her and pulled out the hairdryer that both shared. "Here, I put it on another drawer?"
"Thanks. Do you mind if I dry my hair right here?"
"No, it's okay" Kuroko replied, without looking at her roommate and with indifference, very different from the usual.
Mikoto didn't take a single second to start suspecting that something was going on. "Hey, did something happened?"
There wasn't any answer for a few seconds, but then, Kuroko sighed and gave her friend a correct reply. "I'm looking for… Peter's identity."
Mikoto almost dropped the hairdryer when she heard that confession. She stared at Kuroko with wide eyes, who kept surfing through the net. She moved her gaze at the laptop monitor and read the contents of the page her kouhai was checking.
"The Heroes of America."
"It's a fan website with information of all known superheroes," Kuroko began to explain without moving her eyes from the screen. "I'm looking for someone who fits… How should I put it? Some hero that fits Peter's character. Or, rather, his skills."
She typed a few thing and pressed enter. There was a loading screen and the results of her search were shown in the screen. A lot of photos and names appeared in front of their eyes. Kuroko sighed again.
"I can't find who of all these heroes can be Peter, as most of them have great agility and strength. There're a lot of options that fit in those categories and… Wait! Peter always use those…"
"Those what?"
"Webs! I just have to look for a superhero who use webs." Kuroko quickly typed again in order to keep searching for that teen's identity. All that under the eyes of Mikoto, who was thinking if it was right to do that.
"Nee."
"Yes, Onee-sama."
"Do you think that's okay?"
"…"
"Are you fine with researching about your Judgment's comrade?"
"…eeeeeeh…"
"Kuroko…"
"Ah! Yes! I know I'm not right!" Kuroko grabbed the sides of her head and bump it against the laptop's keyboard.
Mikoto quickly hold the other girl before she could hurt herself some more. "Control yourself! Dammit!" The 3rd ranked Level 5 shook her friend a few times to make sure. "Can I stop shaking you?"
"Onee-sama that feels so goooood…"
"Yep, I can... and should. Alright, listen me up. Do you want to talk about it?"
"Onee-sama…" Kuroko's eyes began to shine, luckily in not a perverted way. "Yes, I would appreciate it."
Mikoto couldn't stop herself from smiling. She moved another chair in front of her best friend so they could talk face to face. The Railgun spent a few seconds thinking what should be the best way to start this conversation. In the past, she had already helped her friend this way. However, she still didn't feel very confident about giving other people advices.
'Well, at least I don't have to give love advices. Hell! Why would this particular girl ask me about boys? Why this particular girl? Hahahaha! Alright, Mikoto, focus!'
She took a deep breath. "Why don't we begin with you telling me why are you looking for that jerk's superhero identity?"
Kuroko replied quickly, ignoring the way the other girl had called Peter. "Isn't that obvious? I… I…"
The girl stopped speaking right away.
"What? You know you can trust me." Mikoto wondered why her normally direct and extroverted stalker/friend looked so reluctant. "Come on, Kuroko."
"I just don't… want him… I don't like that he's taking all this lift by himself. I know he doesn't want anyone to be danger, but… aren't we already in danger? We already decided that we're going to fight against this powerful BOOK organization. Knowing his identity will just help us to strength our bond..."
"Your bond?" Mikoto began to be suspicious, but… it was impossible.
"Of the team!" Kuroko quickly corrected herself. "Of you, me, Peter, Kitty, that Ape and the barbarian mutant."
"When you first spoke, it sounded like… W-why w-would I want to strength my bond with-with-with… with that Idiot!" The 3rd ranked Level 5 esper couldn't stop herself from blushing like a fire extinguisher when she remembered the face of a certain spiky black haired boy.
"Onee-sama why are you getting red?! That idiot? You're talking about Ape! You're thinking about the Ape! NOW I'm killing him!"
"I'm not thinking about him! …..And don't just say you're going to kill somebody! ….And you look like you want to be closer to the Jerk!"
Now it was Kuroko's turn to blush. "I-I-I… I didn't say that… I… It's not like that…" The girl covered her cheeks with her hands and started to murmur some words with embarrassment drawn in her face.
Both girls had their faced dyed red at this point of their talking. However, that gave Mikoto enough hints about what was going on inside her best friend's head. 'I... can't believe it. Is Shirai Kuroko, a girl who I have had the necessity of frying in order to avoid being raped by her, developing… feelings for a boy?'
She kept staring at her. She didn't know how to react. The girl that was… Mikoto gulped. She knew this since long ago, but it still gave her shivers just to think deeply about it. Kuroko was in love with her. She knew that. Even if it was a big deal, their friendship had never been damaged by that. Maybe to start a little argument, but that never lasted long.
Kuroko's strong feelings for her had never damaged anyone... except physically.
Now this girl seemed to be developing feeling for a boy. Mikoto truly didn't know what to think or how to react. A friend normally would encourage her. 'But I don't know how.' She was aware of that, but would never admit it. 'What to do? What to do? What to say? Ah! Dammit! Why I have to feel so frustrated? First, it happens with that Idiot and now with Kuroko.'
"Onee-sama…"
"Dealing with boys is so tough!"
"What?!"
Mikoto skin could be used to regulate the traffic at this point. "NOTHING! NOTHING!" Her body started to release electricity without control.
"Oh, no." Kuroko quickly moved the laptop put some distance between them. "Onee-sama, please calm…"
"I'm not thinking about that idiot!" All the current flowing from Mikoto's body made contact with the lightbulbs located on the roof. The illumination in the room, or rather in the whole dormitory began to tilt.
Then…
TAP TAP TAP
Kuroko opened her eyes like plates. "Crap, this is bad."
Mikoto stopped releasing lighting and a sweat came running from her forehead. "Those shoes…"
TAP TAP TAP
The sound of woman heels could be hear coming closer and closer. The girls looked at each with raw nervousness. They were a powerful Level 4 and the 3rd Ranked Level 5. Nevertheless they were about to wet their pajamas.
""The Dorm Supervisor!""
They quickly turned off the lights and jumped on their respective beds quicker than Quicksilver just before…
"MISAKA! Powers aren't allowed inside the dorm!" The demon of Tokiwadai… No, that was just the way some girls thought about her. The Dorm Supervisor of Tokiwadai entered the dark room and saw the two form of the girls sleeping in their respective beds.
The woman diverted her eyes through the room. There wasn't any hint that the girls had been awake when power started to malfunction in all the building. When that event happened she was certain that there was only one culprit and that was the Railgun Misaka Mikoto.
"Tch! It must have been only a normal malfunction."
SLAM
"I thought I was going to die!" Mikoto sat on her bed with a hand over her beating heart.
"Me… too…" Kuroko left her bed and brought some tissues from the bathroom in order to wipe of the sweat. "Here." She handed some to her best friend.
"Thanks." Mikoto cleaned her forehead and finally let herself breath normally.
'Why did this happened? I let lose my powers because I was thinking about that Idiot…' The girl unconsciously blushed again. 'NO! Mikoto! Control it!'
The Electromaster finally managed to calm herself completely. "Nee, Kuroko, what were we talking about?"
"…Spider-Man…"
Mikoto turned her eyes to the other girl. Kuroko was sitting on her bed with her laptop on her tights. Her eyes were fixed in the screen. The Electromaster understood what was going on.
"You…"
Kuroko moved here gaze to her. "I searched in the web for an American superhero using the tags [Webs] and [New York]. There was only a result and is this one."
The girl showed Mikoto the screen. The Railgun couldn't stop her curiosity and began reading what was shown in the laptop. "Body… Well, this Spider-Man have similar complexion to that Jerk. Gadgets… he uses webs against his enemies… Just as the Jerk. Combat skills… Very fast, strong and with a lot of stamina… Just as the Jerk… He tends to use bad jokes in his fights."
"Just as Peter… (SIGH) Peter is from New York," Kuroko began explaining. "He told me that he has lived in that city his whole life. So that means that his work area. Then seeing the big similarities between their body and fighting style…"
"…"
"I can only conclude that Peter Parker is Spider-Man."
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Okay, first I'll apologize for this looooooong hiatus. University kept me like a jail and when I finished the first week of December… Well I advanced this but 95% of my attention diverted to have fun with games and seeing all the animes I missed this year. Yeah, like that. Anyway, I'm truly sorry to all of you.
This chapter was well…. I think it may not be much appealing like previous chapters knowing that I did it in a long period of time without giving more than half hour in the keyboard. At first I wanted to finish the entire arc of Orsola Aquina's Rescue, but I decided to give you some time with Misaka and Kuroko instead.
What do you feel about having more comedy in the fic? I mean, To Aru has a lot of comedy series after all and Spider-Man also got their comedy factor much more than other Marvel Comics. Should I add more random comedy situations like this one between Misaka and Kuroko?
It has been more than a year since I began with this fic. Yeah, can you believe it? I'm happy to have reached so far with this story :3 I want to thanks everyone who are currently supporting the story. Making you have a good time is my commitment, so I'm really happy to know if I manage to do that.
Anyway….
Fav, Follow, and most important: Review (whatever you have in your mind type it ;) ). Sebaspe out!