The great city ch3
[Accelerator]
Headache. I haven't had a headache since I was first learning to use my powers. I sit up from my hospital bed holding my aching head. It's weird, I've been in hospitals before just never been the patient.
Regardless the antiseptic smell nauseates me so I decide to leave. After I get off of the bed and put on my jacket the door opens and Misaki steps in. She pauses to look at me before speaking, "I-it took you long enough to get up. A good thing too because our other two commanders are currently occupied. Comander Kamijou was just admitted for exhaustion and l-leutenant Mikoto is overseeing him. Therefor you're in charge. Uh, Sir."
Her words come out in a slur. She tries to sound confidant and look me in the eye but her gaze inevitably ends up on the ground. Like most of the city she fears me. It's only understandable seeing as before the war I devoted all of my time to striking fear into everyone's hearts. Although I have toned it down since the invasion.
I sneer at her, "anything else?" she shakes her head, "Then I'll be leaving." I walk past her brushing her shoulder as I walk out the door, I use my power to make her slide back an extra inch or two, "Arigatou Misaki chan" I give her my trademark smile as I leave. Scaring weaklings has always been entertaining. A giant smile spreads across my face as I walk out of the infirmary.
As I walk down the streets I use my ability to reflect the noise from the other pedestrians. There aren't many. Nowadays most people stay indoors unless they have a good reason to go out side. As I walk people see me and move out of my way. It's good to be me. I see a squadron of five Misaka clones carrying assault rifles patrolling the street.
It's a fairly common sight now. Despite the Railgun's protests after the war began the director re-started the SISTERS project. They're used as dispensable solders; easily dispatched and sent out to die like dogs, 'tch, not that I care.' In the city though they serve as a twenty-four hour guard and patrol the city. However because of their low power level they are ill equipped to fight magicians so here they serve as more of a police force than anything else.
That used to be anti skills job, or I guess more of Judgement's. Doesn't matter because both of them are gone. On invasion day, all the rats flocked to the Judgement and Anti skill buildings, and well the rest is history. After that there weren't enough officers of either branch to sustain it. The chain of command was destroyed and they both just ceased to exist.
Regardless it doesn't matter with the Misaka guards crime rates are lower than ever before. With an interlocking hive mind controlling all of them they'e perfectly organized with flawless team work. The new models were massed produced and put into action without being put through testament's education. Instead of having free will they're controlled directly through the Misaka Network, because of their differences to original 20,000 they're often referred to as second generation. Misaka. It's because if them that Last Order needed to be modified.
I find myself in front of a very familiar facility. A small building in what used to be quiet suburbs before the attack it looks normal at first glance however at second you see the extra security cameras. I continue walking and enter what should have been a normal building interior but am instead met with a steel elevator with a keypad and palm scanner. On either side of it there is a second gen Misaka clone with a high caliber assault rifle in hand.
They both look at me as I enter but neither makes a move to stop me as I enter in my password and put my palm on the scanner. The doors promptly open and I step inside.
After descending several hundred feet I'm at my destination. More Misaka troops with heavier armaments are at a second door. When I approach them they look at me expectantly. I hate their fucking clueless faces. "Open the fucking door! I'm here to see the brat." they stare at me for a few more seconds before the door opens and I walk through hearing the door lock behind me.
This is the most secure building in academy city, kept underground, constantly watched with a 24 hour Misaka guard and a 10 foot thick heavy steel door. This is where they keep Last Order, the most important part of the Misaka Network. I walk into her room, which looks like a typical patients room in a hospital. Last Order lays in a bed sleeping with a peaceful look on her face.
I walk over to her and hold her hand. As usual she doesn't stir. I use my other hand to brush aside her hair revealing a scar on her forehead. I grimace when I think of that day.
[flashback]
Noise. Why is there so much fucking noise! I get out of bed to the sight of the noon sun and the sounds of screaming. Why the hell are all those people screaming? I'm still inside. I'll give them something to scream about. I, put on my grey pants and white long sleeve, both wrinkled from not being hung up properly. Where's Last Order? "Brat! You here?" silence.
Crap the screaming was only getting worse as I realized that the brat might be somewhere out there. I head out of the door without locking it, hoping that she's with Yomikawa.
When I get out on the streets it's chaos. People are running and screaming several people have blood in their faces. Normally a sight I would enjoy but right now I have more important things to worry about. I hit the switch on my collar and use my vectors to jump above the crowd onto a building before turning it off. From here I can see a good portion of the city and it looks terrible. Suddenly from somewhere behind me I feel a freezing wind, followed by dozens of screams. I really hope Last Order isn't there.
But of course she is. I see her cowering behind a security robot with her tiny frame just barely hidden. The robot has several shards of ice sticking out of it. There are about a dozen people on the ground each of them turned into pincushions by the ice shards. In the middle of them is a single standing figure. It's a man with blond hair in a buzz cut wearing all black robes.
I'm observing from an alley; from here I can hear him speak, he has a thick Russian accent. "Come out little girl! You can't hide forever!" he raises his arm, a shard of ice materializes in front of him and rockets towards last order this one pierces through the robot grazing her arm.
That's it. I put on my best sadistic sneer and walk into the clearing with my hands in my pockets. "Hahaha! What do we have here? A creepy priest with a thing for little girls? While I appreciate you switching it up a bit, and the screaming in the air is nice; I have to ask. What does trash like you think your doing in my city?" I stand in between him and Last Order.
He only laughs. "Ha insolent brat! Let me show you how the freezing temperatures of my homeland pierce your soul!" again an ice shard materializes right in front of his hand aimed for my face, before its even done forming I reach my hand up to my choker and press the button. I smirk as it deflects of off me back at him. However before it hits him it stops about five feet in front of him and I hear a strange cry yell out.
I turn off my collar after deflecting the blast so I don't waste the battery. The bastard is grinning. I look closer at the shard floating in mid air, it's moving gently up and down rhythmically. He makes a sudden arm gesture and it goes flying towards me. Instead of reactivating my collar I dodge to the right to avoid it. Even though I miss the shard by several feet I feel something slam into my side and I'm thrown several feet back landing next to Last Order.
I hold my head to stop the coming migraine, "What the fuck was that?" I see the crystal of ice move back to its spot in front of its master. All right it's time to compile the facts here: this guy can make and fire ice projectiles as I've seen and shown by the dead bodies around me. But I was not hit by a projectile. When I reflected the shard back at him there was a weird animal like yell and then I got hit by something I couldn't see. So that means that there is some other force or something here that I'm not aware of.
I take a closer look at my surroundings and notice that amongst the bodies littering the ground right next to me is a downed misaka sister. I look over at the security bot to see Last Order still there cowering looking at me expectantly.
Then all of a sudden there is a flash of red. An ice missile zooms past me and hits Last Order in the head when she peeks out to look at me. She falls to the ground and blood pools around her tiny, frail body, leaking from her head.
I turn to slowly look at the man who is grinning at me. I grin back. I smile from ear to ear as I hear the high pitched whine of my collar turn on. I throw my crutch to the side and walk towards him. He gestures with his arm and the ice shard moves again, this time I'm ready though.
The shard stops about half a foot away from me before being deflected and crashing into the priest knocking him to the ground. The air around the shard shimmered allowing me to see a gorilla like creature with blue fur with an ice shard in its chest. There is no conceivable esper power that could create something like that is there? I would think more on it but I really don't care right now.
I walk towards the man trapped under the unconscious ape. The smile on my face grows as he squirms upon pinned under his beast. When I finally reach him I lift one foot up and slam it on the ape using my vectors to provide about two hundred pounds of pressure. The ape lets out a strangled cry while the priest spits blood. He looks at me defiantly, "If you expect me to beg to a filthy heathen like you than you are wrong."
I'm smiling from ear to ear, "Good! Then I won't have to listen to your garbage! Die!" I stomp my foot on his head and it explodes on impact. His blood and brains splash into my face. I could have used my vectors to deflect them but I've always enjoyed bathing in my enemies entrails. Upon his masters death the ape dispersed into mist and vanished.
[end]
After that I took her to a hospital where they stitched up her wound. The cut was actually pretty shallow so there was no real damage.
Two days after the attack operation radio noise was restarted and the second wave of sisters was created. Last order was originally created to house the network connecting the first twenty thousand sisters. She was created with the capability to accommodate one or two hundred more than that but there was no way for her to adapt to the additional five thousand troops produced.
When they first started to come onto the network she suffered massive headaches from the strain. Now the only way she can keep up is to be hooked up to Sakura map, a super computer created from the remnants of the destroyed tree diagram.
I remember the day she was hooked up, the last day she was conscious.
[Flash back]
Last Order looked pale as she laid on the hospital bed while scientists were hooking up iv's and wires into her skin. She has deep bags under her eyes as she hasn't slept in close to a week due to the additional strain on her brain. I've been having similar problems; ever since the sisters have come online I've been unable to use my abilities, but that pales compared to her plight.
She looks up at me and puts her hand on my face, normally I would have shrugged it off but even I can't stand to see the brat like this. I talk to her in the most gentle voice I can trying had not to curse, "Hey brat. Don't worry all right. Everything will be fine. Once this whole war is over every thing will be ok again alright? So there's no need to worry cause I'm gonna go out there and crush those bastards, ok?"
She smiles at me and speaks in a weak voice, "Misaka believes you, Misaka says. But can you promise me one thing Misaka asks provocatively? Can you please come visit me even after I'm asleep Misaka asks very earnestly?"
I hold her hand as the doctor looks at me waiting for my queue to start. I lean my head close to last orders and rest my forehead on her, "Of course I will." I see her smile in my peripheral vision. I motion for the doctor with my other hand and last orders eyes close with a smile on her face.
[end]
That was when I vowed to kill the magicians. To end this war so that I can save her. I've always been the villain while Kamijou is the righteous one. But I don't need to be a hero, I just need to save one person.
[somewhere in academy city]
Two figures meet. One is a hooded male teen with sunglasses hiding his face. His hands are in his pockets and he wears a black hoodie with normal blue jeans. Only a small amount of spiky blond hair escapes his hood.
The second is a short girl also wearing a black hoodie but the hood is down revealing shoulder length red hair. She has on khaki short shorts with a chain going from her front to back pocket. She wears an annoyed smirk on her face.
She is the first to speak up, "I'd like to say i'm impressed that you got us in here but I'm really not." she snorts. "Who woulda thought that the barbarians have poor security." she says sarcastically.
The blond sighs, "seriously can you quit that for a minute? As of right now were the only magicians in the city if you don't count the Index. No magician has infiltrated here for two years, you could be a little more impressed."
The girl scoffs and eyes him suspiciously, "no magician exept you. You leave and enter this place whenever you damn well please. How come you haven't smuggled others in here before hand? Onee-chan might trust you but I certainly don't."
The boy leans against the wall exasperated by her doubt. "after all this time you still don't trust me? Fine, the reason that I've never smuggled a larger force in here or attempted to take the city by storm is that it wouldn't work." she looks at him quizzically. "What I mean is that while I could get them in, the end result would be the same. You may not want to admit it but the espers of this city are tremendously powerful. Specifically Accelerator. He is considered the equivalent of a saint and no one that's even seen his full strength has lived to report back. Unless I could smuggle an army in it would be useless because as long as he protects the city he would wipe out our forces before we got anything else done. Not to mention the other two level fives that are here as we'll as imagine breaker."
The girl throws her hands up, "Fine I get it already! 'These guys are really strong' but if there as invincible as you say then why are we even here?"
He smirked and crosses his arms leaning against the alley wall. "I never said they were invincible did I? I know this city better than anyone. Every enemy can be beaten you just have to know where to hit them and how hard. And if you remember I said that an attack would be useless 'unless' I could get an army into the city. However with what we have I don't need to bring an army, because we'll be taking theirs."
What do you think? Maybe not the best chapter but now I'm officially done with set up! I don't expect this story to be particularly long and already have an ending in mind. But hey if enough people like it I could totally continue. The main characters are Touma, Misaka, and Accelerator. The next chapter im done with flash backs and ill be getting into the actual story a lot more.
For any fans of Something Unexpected, sorry no update today. Ive hit a bit of writers block. But don't worry I'm not quitting it!
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