Chapter 1: The Aegis of Judgment
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In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.
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Flashback - 5 years ago - Streets of Academy City, Unknown District
Touma using all his physical strength to kept running, dodging the mercenaries those damn researchers hired to hunt him down, he cursed his Esper ability, as much as he elated to get an Esper ability, being hunted down by morally corrupt, or bankrupt in this case, researchers was the last thing in his mind.
The only things in his mind are the weight of the body armor he stole, the pistol in his hand and what ability he should use to dodge his pursuers, using his acquired and copied Clairvoyance ability he spotted some familiar faces on the overhead pedestrian crossing all laying down.
On the overhead pedestrian crossing, a bunch of 10 year olds all wearing body armor, tactical gear and armed with shotguns, some AR-15 Carbines and MP5 SMGs laid down, hidden by the low wall where the railings are attached too.
Just as he passed the overhead pedestrian crossing, the mercenaries appeared blocking his escape, stopping he took a step back and took aim with the Beretta he looted off one of the mercs, the only out is the way he came in but people, probably more mercs, are already reaching the way he came from.
He's trapped, or he thinks he was when said group of merc appeared to be more people he recognized, all wearing body armor and tactical gear unlike those on the overhead pedestrian crossing, they don't look armed, in fact they look like a bunch of gunslingers readying for a shootout.
Hands at what appeared to be holsters, it clicked in Touma's mind and he suddenly dropped down to his stomach, with that, his friends drew their pistols and revolvers of various makes and models, and those on the overhead pedestrian crossing appeared with long guns.
In a matter of seconds the street echoed in a symphony of gunfire, in what felt like hours, but only for a few seconds, there were 10 dead mercenaries and 35 armed teenagers already policing the merc's weapons as sirens grew louder.
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In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.
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Present - Judgement DSG District 7 Compound
Sergeant Kamijou Touma, Judgment Special Duties Unit Operator of the 7th District Support Group.
Officially Level 0 in various Records, unofficially at least visibly a Level 1 of unknown ability, some say it is an ability to manipulate AIM Diffusion Field and disable Esper Powers, others say it's energy manipulation allowing him to absorb energies from Esper Powers.
But a select few in the board and in the SDU know of Touma's true power due to that experiment with a Kihara, luckily it's classified and no one knows that Touma is the 8th Level 5 Esper of Academy City, the Power Nullifier and Copier.
But the down side with this power is that he has the most schizophrenic luck, it is an unquestionable constant problem in his daily life, his friends and co-workers knew it, and he pleaded to the sick entity that played his life like a fiddle for once in his life to have something good every morning, which usually means the minute he exited his dorm room.
Luckily being an SDU member is more of a part time thing than a full time operational requirement, in the down time, Sergeant Kamijou Touma when not in the SDU is a Sergeant in the District Support Group, in the 7th District Support Group part of the Tactical Unit.
Now he's wearing the Judgment DSG's summer uniform, a short-sleeved olive green tunic-style tropical field shirt, and olive green trousers based on the Royal Hong Kong Police's Summer Uniform, the only difference is that the DSG Uniform doesn't use a sam bowie belt, and they also wear a black stab vest with a green and white stripe, also the Judgment Armband over their right sleeves,
Thus the first thing he read on the incident reports is a bombing spree caused by an esper using his graviton ability on aluminium metals and hidden it inside stuffed animals, and the only esper capable to do that is in a coma, and apparently they're targeting Judgment Officers which caused a few injuries, but luckily after the first few times, they called in Group 8 i.e the bomb squad that lowered the casualties a little with the bomb robot.
Luckily they don't have to deal with that yet, for now, so now he can concentrate on the morning briefing for A Relief, which should be a simple morning affair instead of the usual madhouse when the gang war between the Skill-Out gangs kicks off, as he open the door to the briefing room he could hear the chatter.
"Alright everyone settle down!" Touma announced and the room immediately quieted down as they looked towards their Sergeant. "I got the morning briefs here." He added as he passed out all the files he had on hand to the entire relief, they started to pass them around to the entire room, from Constables to Corporals they all got the files for the morning briefing.
"We have a few problems, most of which, Group 8 has more on file but we're on alert for it." Touma explained to everyone who is paying close attention when Group 8 was mentioned. "We have a slew of bombings, the suspect is an esper with a graviton ability, but their main suspect is in a coma and the bombing is at least Level 4." He explained to the group, "The main danger is that the bomber is upgrading to hiding it to stuff animals from the early garbage bins incidents. So everyone keep an eye out and stay on alert." Touma let out a sigh before continuing this caused some chattering. "On page two we have a new issue, word on the street, intel is that there is a new toy or drug on the streets, nicknamed Level-Upper."
At that everyone turned a page and was very interested.
"Word on the street is that the mystery item can power up an esper's ability and raise a level or two, the problem is that most of these are hearsay with no actual evidence." Touma explained, before looking at the file. "So keep your ears open and try to figure out what the Level-Upper is."
That caused people to whisper in curiosity about what is the Level-Upper.
"Now for assignments!" Touma exclaimed and the room immediately quieted down.
As the morning briefing continued at the third floor of the former School now the District Support Group Station/ DSG District 7 Compound is the Office for the District Commander for District 7, inside Commander Raymond Cryer, is talking to his Chief Inspector, Rinko Takayama, mostly about the current incidents for the day.
"So besides the Graviton Bombings, we have the rumours of the Level-Upper." Raymond mentioned.
"Nothing much on that end, Criminal Intel and the Anti-Skill Detectives didn't have much on it." Rinko replied. "Mostly empty rumours from online forums, nothing much to support a case on it."
"Right, so in that case, the most we can do is keep an ear and eye out and either prove or disprove the existence to the Level Upper." Raymond sighed, sometimes he wondered why he took this job.
"It's the only way to do this Ray." Rinko replied also with a sigh.
"Ok then, we will just have to place our trust in our officers to do this job right and correctly, hopefully without any more incidents like last night." Raymond added as he stood up to get more tea.
"At least it is not as bad as 5 years ago, Ray." Rink replied, taking a sip of her tea.
"5 years ago was a nightmare fueled disaster we avoided mostly by being more tactical than our opponents Rinko." Raymond replied as he stirred the tea. "We were lucky that they were cocky and misjudged our abilities to respond to lethal threats." He added.
"But we did get better, Ray." Rinko replied, standing up and grabbing her files.
"We did, we now have made a fundamental change to Judgment, especially in its role as a Student Disciplinary Committee into what is basically the London Metropolitan Police." Raymond replied to Rinko as she walked to the door that connected their offices.
"I think change is coming, Ray." Rinko started as she opened the door. "We just speed it up." She ended as she entered her office and locked the door.
In another part of the Compound, another briefing is being conducted, this time is for the Rapid Deployment Troops for the Judgment DSG's Tactical Unit, the unit is made up of SDU members, hand pick for being able to ride motorcycles and shoot on the move and on the motorcycle, which allowed them to be very effective.
"And that's the assignments." Commander Namikaze ended his briefing. "Any questions he asked."
"Yeah, do we have any idea on the weather?" One of the black clad operators asked.
"Sunny all day." Namikaze replied with a snark. "Any serious questions?"
"Yeah I have one, what if we're the target for the Graviton Bomber?" Another black clad operator asked.
"We adapt and improvise." Namikaze replied. "We trained for this, either our fellow Judgment Officers or teammates, we are trained for this." At that everyone nodded and muttered in agreement.
"Alright, off to your assignments." Namikaze dismissed them.
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Who Dares Win
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Present - Judgement District 7 Compound
At the armoury of the DSG District 7 Compound, the Judgment DSG Officers are getting their duty weapon and their issued ammunition from the armourer, while Judgment as a service has espers the DSG is unique in that they also took in Level 0s and such while they have powers the role of the District Support Group means that they should not go unarmed.
As such most Judgment DSG Officers are armed with the Smith & Wesson 360PD in .38 Special for their duty weapon and the Taser X26P for their non-lethal option, for heavier firepower, the DSG Officers have SIG Sauer MPX with EOTech sights and the Remington 870 Shotgun, anything bigger like a 5.56 AR would be only meant for the Rapid Response Team and the SDU Team.
But even then not all the Judgment DSG Officers uses ARV Patrol Cars or Specialist Carrier Vans, but also motorcycles and bicycles, and those using the motorcycles and bicycles would be wearing high-visibility stab vests, over their Summer Judgment Uniforms, but for many it would be a normal day for them, going out on patrol, coming back later.
As such a crowd of officers all went to their assigned duty vehicles for the day and prepared for their day on patrol in District 7.
"So any ideas for Level-Upper?" A big bodied Teen asked his partner as they walked towards their Ford Focus ST.
"I would say either a drug or an experimental item, Shinji." His partner, a tall and lean Teen replied going towards the passenger side.
"Well, I wouldn't put a worry into it, the issue we're going to see right now is the Graviton bomber." The big bodied Teen replied with a chuckle as they entered their patrol vehicle.
Suddenly the big bodied teen reversed out of the parking lot and quickly pulled out of the parking bay and into the streets of District 7.
"Damn it Tony!" Shinji exclaimed as they passed by Touma who was walking towards one of the Specialist Carrier Vans with a team of Judgment DSG Officers from the Tactical Unit.
"Where to Sarge?" The Driver asked Touma who entered the back of the van with most of the team.
"To the Park, we have some high-profile patrols and security needed there, mostly because of the amount of unarmed Judgment Officers are going to do a search and clean up operation to make sure the park is safe." Touma explained to the Drive.
"Right away then." The Driver chuckled as he pulled away from the bay and into the streets of District 7.
As everyone went out on patrol, two Judgment DSG Officers from C relief arrived on scene for a collapse person's call, while it was near the DSG Compound, these two officers were called in because they were heading back. When they got there, they saw a crowd surrounding something, so they parked their ARV Patrol Car and headed out on foot to see what was going on.
"Well Noriko, looks like we found our scene." The male DSG officer told his partner.
"Well Kai, we still have to get through the crowd." The female DSG officer replied to her partner.
"Judgment! Make way!" Noriko called out as they got through the crowd. They both kept calling out to make way when they saw their victim being treated by two regular Judgment members.
"What's the problem?" Noriko asked the male Judgment member standing guard.
"Our victim suddenly collapsed and while she's breathing we don't know what's going on with her." The male Judgment member replied. "I had Kanami here to perform first aid as much as we can."
"Right, an ambulance is on the way,so we'll take care of her." Noriko replied before kneeling beside Kanami, the female Judgment member.
"How is she?" Noriko asked the female Judgment member.
"She's fine, breathing, no fever or even any visible injuries or discomfort." Kanami replied to Noriko. "She just collapsed for some reason."
"Well then, let's hope the hospital has something to help her with." Noriko replied as the sounds of an ambulance's siren grew closer and closer.
"Yeah, I agree with you on that one." Kanami replied as the crowd parted ways for the Paramedics to get through,
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Who Dares Win
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Present - Somewhere in District 7
In an alleyway, a pair of bullies decided to target someone bumping into them by beating him up against the alleyway wall.
"Oh, look, the little twerp wants to argue." The bully sneered, launching a kick on the teenager.
"OI!" Came a shout and the two looked to the other side and saw two Judgment DSG Officers running towards them.
"Ah nuts! It's Judgment, book it!" One of the bullies screamed before running away.
"Stop!" One of the Judgment DSG Officers shouted as the two bullies ran past Misaka and Konori, pushing and ignoring the two as the two DSG Officers gave chase.
Misaka stood up and dust some dirt away as she looked at the fleeting figures of two DSG Officers chasing after the two teenagers, ignoring the chase she went to the teenager that the bullies were beating up to render aid.
"Hey, are you alright?" Misaka asked.
"A little late don't you think?" The teen replied, muffled as he stumbled away.
"Well, that's just rude." Misaka said to herself before Konori called her back.
While Misaka and Konori start talking about what just happened and where they haven't look for the bag, the two DSG Officers are catching up with the bullies.
"PC 340 and 363, In pursuit of two IC5 males, brown hair, white shirts and black pants, one has a ponytail!" Takato pant into the radio as he and his partner gave the sounds of sirens echoed about and suddenly a Ford Focus ST DSG ARV Car blocked the exit and the two bullies stumbled upon each other trying to stop.
"Alright you two!" Tony shouted as he and Shinji exited the Ford Focus. "You two are nicked!" He announced as Takato and Daisuke arrived and started to cuff the duo."You both ok?" Tony asked the duo.
"Yeah I'm fine, nothing Daisuke and I couldn't handle." 340 replied a little winded from the chase.
"Yeah what Takato said." 363 now named Daisuke replies to Tony and Shinji as another ARV Car arrives as back up..
They separated both delinquents and put them each in the back of the each ARV Patrol Car while Daisuke and Takato each guarding one of the delinquents, with the suspects secured in the back of each patrol car, they headed to the closest Judgment Branch Office to book them before an Anti-Skill prisoner van will take them to the detention centre.
While this was going on, a number of the Group 6 teams are activated to help search for a missing bag for a kid, it was stolen by a dog and it's a pink bag with pink flowers on it, as such there is a sudden increased of uniformed Judgment Officers, mostly from the DSG, to hunt the dog which means that they're going to every spot a dog might hide.
Fortunately for Misaka, none of the Group 6 DSG Officers deployed recognized her but that wouldn't last if one of the Patrolling Group 7 DSG Officers came to help, but for the moment Misaka is dealing with a couple of kids who are trying to figure out why she was wearing pants until the dog that was in the report came by carrying the bag.
"Oh look, a dog!" A Kid exclaimed, causing Misaka to look at the dog.
"Got you!" Misaka exclaimed, causing the dog to look at her and then flee, causing Misaka to run after the dog.
"Konori quick!" Misaka exclaimed, causing Konori, who was looking in the bushes, to look at the dog.
"Stop right there!" Konori shouted as she quickly stood up and tried to give chase only to have her foot stuck in the bushes fence and causing her to fall.
"I can take care of this!" Misaka replied to Konori as she gave chase. "It's fast." Misaka mutters as she tries to close in. "I don't have any choice!" Misaka snarled as she used her power to overload a streetlight in front of the dog. The Dog yelped in terror and threw the bag by accident just as Misaka grabbed the dog. Misaka grunted and looked at the dog before realising the bag was missing.
"Look out!" Konori shouted seeing the bag falling towards the water fountain.
"No!" Misaka in pure terror used her power to rush towards the fountain and grab the bag. "It's mine now!" She manages to grab the bag, but falls into the fountain in the process.
"Misaka?!" Konori asked with worry as she and a bunch of kids walked towards the fountain.
"Target safely acquired." Misaka replied, soaking wet, but the bag was clean and dry. Konori could only release a sigh of relief at the sight
"Well done Misaka." Konori congratulated as she grabbed the bag from the soaking Level 5.
"Woah!" Misaka flinched. "Don't you think you should handle it more gently, and shouldn't we be calling for the bomb squad now?" Misaka asked Konori, who looked very confused.
"What are you talking about?" Konori couldn't help asking.
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Maxim 3: An ordnance technician at a dead run outranks everybody.
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By the evening, of it most of the Group 6 DSG Officers are dismissed and left Konori and Misaka at the park, then a DSG Van arrived and it dropped off Sgt Touma, Kuroko and Uiharu along with the little girl, who lost her bag, at the park while the rest of his team stood back, as they walked to the park, they are greeting by Konori by the entrance.
Upon seeing the bag in Konori's hand, the kid gleefully ran towards her, Konori kneeled down and gave her the bag back. "Here, try not to lose it again." Konori told the kid.
"Yeah!." The little girl replied in agreement as she happily looked at her bag.
"That was really good work." Kuroko couldn't help compliment as they walked closer to her. "I knew Konori would come through."
"I'm not the one who found it actually." Konori replied, looking back at the bench.
"What are you doing here!" "It's Misaka!" "Zapper!" Kuroko, Uiharu and Touma exclaimed in shock.
"I'm sorry, I didn't know you were acquainted with Misaka." Konori replied, confused at their reaction.
"Um, acquainted with her?" Kuroko couldn't help but as..
"That's Mikoto Misaka, you know from Tokiwadai." Uiharu helped explain.
"Mikoto Misaka." Konori muttered before recognizing the name. "You don't mean the railgun?" Konori asked the trio.
"Yes, the Railgun." Touma sighed, probably knowing what had happened.
"Well yeah," Uiharu replied before looking confused. "But why is she here?"
"More importantly, why is she soaking wet?" Kuroko asked looking at Misaka.
"Oh about that, she actually dove into the fountain to protect the bag." Konori explained, looking a little prideful."Apparently, she was convinced there was a bomb inside the bag." Konori smiled.
"Hey is that?" Uiharu finally realising what Misaka is wearing on her right sleeve.
"Seriously, how could this have happened after all the lectures I have given her?" Kuroko couldn't help and asked upon recognizing what Misaka was wearing.
"That's Misaka for you, stubborn and prideful." Touma couldn't help but comment.
"Hey now, this is totally something she would do." Uiharu couldn't help reply.
Suddenly Touma's radio blared and it got his attention, listening in via the headset, he carefully listens in before replying. "Sergeant 79 responding." Touma replied before looking at the girls. "Sorry gotta go girls." Touma said before running back to the van leaving the duo to deal with Misaka.
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Maxim 3: An ordnance technician at a dead run outranks everybody.
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In front of the Green Mart a couple of DSG Vans arrived sirens blaring deploying a bunch of Group 7 and Group 8 DSG Officers and a couple of regular Judgment Officers, the Group 8 Officers unlike their regular counterparts is wearing full body armour, helmet with ballistic face shield and protective arm and leg guards.
The Group 7 Officers went and made a cordon while the two regular Judgment Officers went in and cleared the store.
"We're with Judgment, we need everyone to evacuate the store immediately!" The female Judgment Agent announced carrying a Ballistic Riot Shield as the Group 8 Officers quickly started searching..
"Hey what's going on here?" The manager asked. "What's happening in my store?"
"We detected Accelerated Gravitons." She explained.
"You what?" The manager asked.
"I'm sorry there might be a bomb hidden in this store." She explained and that caused a panic as shoppers fled ignoring the EOD technicians searching for the bomb.
"Damn it, where is it?" One of the EOD Officers asked as he looked around before hearing a girl yelping, apparently hurting her leg due to the panic. "Are you ok?" He asked the girl.
"I'm sorry, I fell." She replied.
"That's ok, let's get you out of here." He replies as tries to help her move, but then discovers a doll under the shelf that just started to collapse into itself. "NO NOT YET!" He exclaims before it explodes, rocking the store.
The Judgment girl had managed to protect the manager with the help of her shield, after the blast ended she goes to the girl near ground zero with a couple of EOD Officers.
"Are you ok?" She asked the girl before finding the injured body of the EOD Officer.
"I'm ok, he shielded me." The girl replied looking at the groaning and injured EOD Officer, the Judgment Symbol in the middle of his arm guard, is the only thing not hidden by the charring from the blast.
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Maxim 3: An ordnance technician at a dead run outranks everybody.
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Maxim 3: An ordnance technician at a dead run outranks everybody.
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