The intro to a new story,
I do not own A certain magical index, any characters from it or anything from anything else in it's series
Likewise I don't own anything from the Azure striker gunvolt series
This is all done for fun
I will be including musical recommendations from both series, if you see something like [[ASG1: Commander]] that basically means "Play the azure striker gunvolt track called Commander from the first game
[[ASG1: Stratosphere ~ Babel]]
The orbital station Firmament floated at the very edge of space, looking down at the earth below.
The window looked out at a world which had been torn apart by psychic powers, most parts of the world were now in ruins. The only thing that had been keeping Japan relatively at peace was it's stance towards psychics, they would be used as tools and not as people.
The Sumeragi group was the true power behind Japan, they took the psychics that they had available to them and shaped them to their wills. It didn't matter if you were a child or didn't want your powers, Sumeragi would still shape and use you.
Some psychics thought they could hide from Sumeragi and live their lives in peace. Sumeragi had thought ahead however and were able to find those in hiding using another "Tool".
Sumeragi's "Tool" was a psychic named Joule, by manipulating her power the Sumeragi group could make a scanner for psychic power. They also theorised that they could use her unique power to mind control all the psychics in the world by broadcasting her song from the orbital station Firmament.
Before they were able to move her there however the "Tool" was stolen by a terrorist psychic who went by the name he was given while he was a Sumeragi experiment, Gunvolt the azure striker.
As chance would have it they were able to find the hiding place where Gunvolt was keeping their "Tool", one of the psychics that worked for Sumeragi willingly went and retrieved her. She now was inside a machine in Firmament that would channel her power across the globe.
Gunvolt had come after them and even now he was entering Firmament to retrieve Joule.
[[ASG1: Commander]]
Gunvolt ran down the corridor, he could feel that Joule was close now. Around his neck he wore the incomplete necklace that Joule had made for him, In his pocket was the last gem that he had found, intending to give as a gift to Joule before she had been kidnapped.
As he ran, soldiers jumped in his way to stop him. He wouldn't let them get between him and the person who had ordered that Joule be kidnapped.
A few shots from his gun, The Dart Leader, could tag his enemies. Enemies that he tagged became positively charged, allowing him to create an opposite charging using his flashfield.
Lightning arced towards his foes and they fell away, he didn't care much if they were unconscious or if he had fried them.
Ahead of him was a gate, another flash of lightning opened it up and he ran through.
The room he entered was large, it appeared to be some sort of observation room.
His attention was captured immediately by the machine in the centre of the room, Joule was inside a pod of sorts and he could see devices attached all over her and electrodes attached to her head.
He ran over to her but was thrown back by an invisible force, he slowed his movement and looked up to see someone walking out from behind the machine.
He had purple spiky hair (Not that that was unusual with adepts) and wore an ornate outfit.
The mad opened his palms and asked "Welcome, Gunvolt. This is our first face to face meeting, huh?"
Gunvolt knew who this man was, he had heard this voice before.
"Nova" grunted Gunvolt, Nova clapped his hands "I'm honored that you remember me."
Nova looked at the device that Joule was attached to and smiled a cruel smile "This device gives me full control of her power, 'The Muse' will sing however I want her to"
Gunvolt stepped forward angrily "I didn't come to chit-chat, release Joule now!"
Shaking his head with mock sorrow, Nova spoke "Good grief, you're quite antsy. Ah well, whatever. Now, experience exactly what this machine is capable of."
Behind Nova a small blue butterfly appeared, it flew in a quick circle then in a burst of light it became a girl.
This girl was Lumen, A split personality of Joule's that could appear as her own person thanks to her psychic powers. Lumen looked strange however, her normally jolly eyes lacked a sparkle. This was simply a program that took Lumen's form.
Gunvolt looked at the thing like Lumen and angrily asked "What did you do to Lumen?"
Nova laughed and answered "Did we not just go over this, with this machine I can completely control her power." Nova looked at gunvolt dead in the eye with an evil grin before continuing "Do you really think you have a chance against me like this?"
Lumen let out a piercing note of song and a spherical barrier of hexagonal plates materialised around Nova.
[[ASG1: Nova the mighty]]
Gunvolt pulled out his gun and let some darts fly towards Nova while he ducked to take cover behind some equipment. The darts simply hit the shield and bounced off.
Nova held out his hand and a ball of crushing gravity materialised in it, he threw the orb towards Gunvolt's hiding place and the orb dodged round the cover forcing Gunvolt to leap to the side to get out the way.
As Nova prepared to throw another orb he spoke "As long as the Muse is here with me, your attacks will do nothing. Not to mention, her powers are boosting my own Septimal power. And I'm not even using a Glaive! Her powers are really something!"
Gunvolt Grit his teeth and ran out, shooting more shots towards Nova and one shot towards the machine holding Joule. Unfortunately it seemed that the machine was shielded against electricity however so he couldn't simply break it to free her. The shots towards Nova bounced off of course.
As he dodged another orb of gravity Gunvolt heard a voice inside his mind. Lumen's voice calling for him as if in great pain. He looked towards the robotic Lumen and saw a tear run down her cheek.
Again he heard her voice "Please... Stop me." Nova looked behind at her as another tear fell and sighed "I see you're still conscious... But there's nothing you can do. All of your power is in my hands now, you see."
Gunvolt yelled out "Toying with Joule like this... I won't allow it!"
Nova grinned as he caused some furniture in the room (A chair and table hidden behind the machine) at Gunvolt "Fortunately for me, I don't need permission from a terrorist. This is all in the name of peace... It's not some half-baked scheme."
Gunvolt ran towards him "Peace?! You say all of this was for peace?!" before letting out a blast of electricity from his flashfield towards Lumen, not enough to hurt her but enough to stun her momentarily. With the hole that opened in Nova's shield Gunvolt punched him before tagging him twice with his gun and letting out a blast of lightning.
Nova fell backwards into the machine before looking up with another smile, Gunvolt angrily spoke "If this is your idea of peace and justice then I guess I'm the evil one here! I'm only here to save Joule... That is all!"
Gunvolt held his hand up in the air "Oversurge! Azure Striker! Obliterate his twisted sense of justice with a flash of lightning!" He then closed his eyes.
In a flash like lightning he opened his eyes again calling out "Sacred sword agleam, Barbarous and bathed in blue, Cleaving right from wrong!", in his hand appeared a large sword fashioned out of bright blue plasma
He jumped towards Nova as he stood up again and called out "Luxcalibur!"
In his hand the sword grew, Nova's eyes grew wide as the massive sword cut through his armour and throw him into the observation window. That wasn't all the sword cut however, it also cut the upper part of the machine that held Joule.
In that moment Lumen flickered out from behind Nova and Gunvolt heard the first few notes of a song.
[[ASG1: Beyond the Blue]]
Lumen had appeared behind him and had a bright smile on her face and a gratitude in her eyes.
Gunvolt felt his strength grow as he ran towards the machine holding Joule, with a quick bolt of lightning on the controls he broke the lock that held the pod shut. The pod opened wide and groggily Joule opened her eyes.
Gunvolt, her angel, had saved her again.
Gunvolt helped her out of the pod and onto her feet before he looked back at Nova who was getting up, it looked like his leg might have been broken by his luxcalibur, at the very least he was numb from the chest down.
Nova looked up at him grimacing "You will pay dearly for that!" he yelled in a sudden surge of anger.
He held out his hands and three glaives appeared in the air around him.
The light flashed and Nova was wearing a suit of power armour like other Sumeragi glaive users.
Nova was already angry so he held out his hand and yelled.
[[ASG1: The Final Judgment]]
"Corrupt and evil, Darkness beyond the lightning, Banished elsewhere now!"
Gunvolt heard a groaning from the space station as some massive force started pulling at it before feeling the slight pull, as if someone had caught him by a fishing line and was pulling him towards the window. Joule didn't seem to be feeling the pull at all so she looked panicked between Gunvolt and Nova. Lumen had a grim look on her face as she looked outside the window.
Outside the window was some sort of orb of complete blackness, obscuring the earth from sight.
Nova looked at Gunvolt and smiled before yelling out "World Eater!"
The orb of darkness pulsed with many colours and the pull on Gunvolt became stronger.
By using his electricity he could make his boots magnetic but the pull was still there, sliding him slowly across the ground. When he tried to shoot at Nova, the darts just flew towards the window and stuck to it.
Joule jumped to help him and tried to pull him back, the fact that she wasn't being pulled would be helpful other than the fact she was bodily much weaker than the pull.
"You won't be able to stop it Gunvolt," Nova yelled "if you won't go to it, World Eater will come to you!" as he said this, the orb of darkness moved through the window without damaging it and the pull on Gunvolt became many times stronger.
The magnetic field he was generating was no longer enough to hold him and he started to be pulled through the air, no matter how hard he pulled himself towards the metal floor he was being forced away.
Just before he was pulled in, Joule ran towards him and leaped, grabbing on to his coat calling out "I won't leave you!"
Nova suddenly looked panicked but because of the glaives he was unable to be delicate with his power, without hurting her he had no way of keeping Joule. He decided that he would have to close World eater quickly so he began to slow it's pull.
He was too late however, as the orb glowed a bright white, Gunvolt and Joule were pulled into it just as it closed.
Nova fell to the ground, his glaives falling beside him.
He had no idea where world eater led, they could have been thrown to deep space and be now dying.
The muse was likely dead or dying.
As he began to panic, trying to think of a way to explain this to the executives he heard a sound from behind him and his mind went numb.
He couldn't access his power at all!
A gunshot then rang out and Nova fell to the floor, shot in the head.
His killer looked around, wondering where Gunvolt and the muse were. He knew gunvolt was coming here to rescue her.
[[ACSRS: Junsui yue no ayamachi]]
No one was present when the two figures appeared in the park, it was very early in the morning so it was unlikely that anyone would be there.
The security camera should of seen the moment of their arrival but it was turned away at the time, disappointing those that looked back on it later to try and figure out where they were from.
The two people were found a few hours later, the boy and the girl were heavily bruised as if they had been run over. The doctor who looked them over said it was a miracle that not a single bone was broken and he pronounced that when they woke up they would make a full recovery.
The two slept through the day as judgement tried to find out who they were. They had no ID and the boy was found to be in possession of technological equipment and a gun.
They tried to get a Psychometry esper to determine who the two were from their own memories and they learned the names of the two.
The boy was called "Gunvolt" and the girl was "Joule", The esper they were able to get couldn't tell much more while the two were unconscious, only that the boy had been fighting to save the girl. Presumably they had both been hurt during the fight.
The boy's equipment and gun were confiscated and the two were put in a hospital room to rest. Everyone who knew of them was curious what they would say when they awoke.
And thus ends the prologue of this new story.
I don't intend regular uploads for this one as Exalted/Stay night is still top of my priority but this story called to be written and thus I write it.
The Gunvolt series needs more stories and I feel it fits with the "A certain" series quite well.
The day they arrived in the world was June 6th of "the current year"
I will answer other plot questions below if any are asked:
