5/13/15: Fixed a couple of spelling issues, gave the chapter a name (the people who read this before I caught my mistake could've sent me a review telling me about that! I kid, I kid. In all seriousness I'm an idiot for forgetting something like that), and put in the "Next time on A certain otherworldly visitor" yeah whatever you would call that. Side note: I also fixed the title of the story, it was supposed to be otherworldly visitor...not otherwordly visitor. I'm an idiot for not noticing that sooner.
Chapter 6: Confidence
As Misaka, Kuroko, and I walk into the family diner I hear Misaka and Kuroko whispering to each other. I could only make out bits and pieces of the conversation.
"-uneasy."
"Oh don't worry."
"Shouldn't- body too pure"
That last one caught me off guard, I had so many questions that I couldn't ask since Misaka and Kuroko were splitting off from each other, the latter grabbing my wrist and dragging me with her probably so I didn't mess up the plan. Luckily no one seemed to notice this.
"What's she planning to do?" I whisper to Kuroko as we move over to a booth. All I got was a vague "You'll see." and she didn't seem very happy about it. As we sit down we watch Misaka head over to the only other patrons at the diner, a group of what I could assume to be the distributors of the "Level Upper".
"H-hello." Misaka begins a conversation with the thugs in an uncharacteristically meek voice.
"What is it?" the leader asks.
"You do know about the level upper don't you?" Misaka responds, sounding more upbeat and cheery this time.
"I've got no idea what you're talking about, now scram."
"I could pay you."
"I already told you I have no idea what you're talking about."
"Oh you can't fool me, I'm not as young as I look you know."
Kuroko spit out her drink and I had a feeling I was going to have a migrane by the end of this.
"Money's nice," another thug joins the conversation. "but surely a girl like you could find some other way to pay us." he says while attempting to put his arm around her shoulder.
Misaka skillfully dodges and replies with "Now don't get the wrong idea, I'm not that type of girl."
It was at this point that I heard a thumping sound...it was Kuroko bashing her head on the table.
Suddenly Misaka started crying.
"I-I've got nowhere else to turn, I'm in a really rough spot. So please, won't you help me?"
I had to admit that she was a really good actor, even I was feeling a bit bad for her. But still, they're not really going to buy that are they. I mean she's wearing a Tokiwadai uniform, a school known for only having the best and brightest.
They mull it over for a while before the thug that was hitting on her earlier responds with "All right, all right. Just stop crying already."
I lean back in the booth with my hands behind my head. And once again a man falls prey to a young woman's wiles, may God have mercy on them when she decides to stop playing this charade.
The leader stands up, "Let's take this outside, we're not discussing it in here." and turns to leave, the rest of the group following behind. Before leaving Misaka turns to Kuroko (who at this point had finally picked her head up off the table) and I, gives us a quick thumbs up, and quickly catches up with the gang.
"I can't believe they bought that." I shake my head in disbelief. "Anyway, what do we do now?"
"We should probably tail them. I'm still worried about sissy." Kuroko eventually responds.
"I'm more worried about the thugs."
We stand up and walk out of the restaurant.
"They're gone." I deadpan to Kuroko.
"I can see that, thank you. Just give me a second." and just like that Kuroko disappeared.
A moment later she returns, freaking me out a bit. I'm still not completely used to these seemingly otherworldly powers yet.
She must of noticed me jump because she gave me a strange look before getting back to business, "Follow me." she says before starting down the street.
We tailed them for a couple of minutes and all the while I had the strangest feeling we were being watched. We had kept our distance so we lost track of them again.
Kuroko teleports again, which still freaks me out. And comes back a second later.
"Oh no! Sissy's near a power plant, if she uses to much electricity she might cause a black out."
"Well let's get going then."
"I don't think you'll be going anywhere. We can't just let Judgement ruin our whole operation now can we?" a voice echoes as two men step out of the shadows.
"Now of all times?" Kuroko complains.
"You go warn Misaka and help out in any other way you can, I'll deal with these two. I can handle two punks who aren't even confident in their own abilities."
"Sweet speech kid but what makes you think we'll just let her leave?"
Kuroko disappears from sight. I spot her behind the thugs and running towards Misaka's location.
"What the?! Where did she go?" The thugs freak out.
"Well, now that that's out of the way. It's time for you to show me what your beloved 'Level upper' can do!" I taunt.
"Oh so you really want to know?" one of them says while picking up a rock.
"Huh, guess you really took 'sticks and stones' to heart."
The thug seemingly not caring about my taunting just throws the rock and I just jump out of the way. Suddenly the rock curves in my direction. I don't have enough time to react and the rock slams into my chest with more force than I would've thought and it knocks my onto my back.
"Like my ability kid, it's called 'Bulls eye.' As long I can see you I can use telekinesis to hit you no matter how much you dodge."
I'm still clutching my chest, feels like I might have a broken rib or two. The other esper walks up to me. "Yeah, that's a pretty cool ability and all but I think he'll like this one better." Suddenly something akin to a steel pipe begins to form in his right hand. "It's called 'Construction.' By manipulating the atoms around me I can form anything I can think of."
He holds the steel pipe in both hands and raises it above his head. He goes for the downward swing but I roll out of the way just in time. I quickly pick myself up off the ground. A few seconds later I see another rock hurtling towards me and I channel fire around my hand, the heat of the fire disintegrates the rock a bit, it still hurt but the impact was lessened. Being distracted with that I barely have enough time to dodge the steel pipe that was coming in from my left. I duck under it.
Damn it! I can't keep dodging forever. Suddenly I get an idea, what did that one thug say. "As long as I can see you." Before I could put that plan into action though I saw a glint of silver out of the corner of my eye and put my arms up to block my face from the metal pipe assault. I form fire around my arms and hope for the best. The fire actually melts through the metal pipe and splits into two before it can hit me.
Wasting no time I grab the assualters wrist and focus a small amount of fire into my hand. "There's no way I'm going to lose to some green lantern ripoff!" I announce. After a few seconds I let go and the goon falls to the ground, nursing his wrist which now has second degree burns. I admit that was a bit cruel but this is academy city, they should have that healed up in a few days.
That's one down and one to go. I see that the other thug is shocked at how quickly his partner was taken out. I turn my attention to him and he snaps out of his dazed state. He picks up more rubble to throw. I crouch down and put my hands onto the ground, I channel fire through my hands again and form a small explosion near me. It wasn't powerful enough to hurt me despite being in close proximity but it did kick up smoke around my body.
All right I only have one chance at this. I wait until the the rock whizzes by my head and I form another explosion near my feet which launches me forward.
I slam my body into the thug and tackle him to the ground. He seems to be knocked out.
"Alright, time for you two to go to jail." I say while standing up. And then a realization hits me...I'm lost. I still hadn't learned my way around the entire city yet. I pinch the bridge of my nose and sigh.
"What else could go wrong?" Suddenly the power goes out. "Goddamnit Kuroko! You only had one job!" I yell out in frustration.
Unknown time and place
A man with blond hair, sunglasses, and a Hawaiian shirt not quite buttoned up walks into a brightly lit room. A voice reverberates throughout the room, "Tsuchimikado, what are you doing here?" the voice asks. Tsuchimikado approaches a tube filled with a liquid and a feminine body floating in it. He cracks a small grin. "I think I've finally found that 'anomaly' you've been talking so much about."
"On the next chapter of A certain otherworldly visitor the mystery surrounding the level upper grows and Saten's feelings of jealousy and inadequacy force her into a terrible choice."
I think this is my best chapter yet but that's for you guys to decide. Also I'm going to pull a small retcon to my OC's powers. He'll still be a pyrokenetic but he can't throw fireballs anymore, he can only maipulate fire on his body or anything that he's touching.