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The Trinity of Tokiwadai
Chapter Forty Six: Things that go Bump in the Night
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"Okay, Order-chan is asleep." Ruiko said with a coy smile as she sashayed, or tried to at least, over to Accel where he sat on the couch of their daughter's hospital room.
Last Order was staying overnight at Heaven Canceller's Hospital after one of her rounds of treatment to stabilize her health. As a clone, she had a long list of medical conditions that needed monitoring and required occasional stays in the hospital. That accompanying her gave her Mama an excuse to spend time away from her own overbearing Kaa-san so she could have alone time with her Papa was an unexpected bonus she was hopefully completely unaware of.
"You sure?" Accel asked, looking over Ruiko's shoulder at the girl sleeping contentedly on her hospital bed.
"Of course," Ruiko scoffed with a roll of her eyes. "I put the twins to bed almost every night. I can tell when a little girl is really asleep or is just faking. She's out like a light."
"Good," Accel said as he reached out, grabbed Ruiko's arms and pulled her into his own. "She doesn't need to see this."
"And what is this exactly?" Ruiko asked with a teasing grin even as she adjusted her position slightly so she was straddling her boyfriend.
"You know exactly what I mean, you minx." Her albino knight said as he pulled her into a kiss.
Ruiko kissed him back with enthusiasm, opening her mouth to allow their tongues to play with each other happily. Kissing was fun, especially french kissing, but it wasn't enough for her. So she pulled her lips away from Accel's so she could kiss a trail down his oh so wonderfully long neck to the pulse point and bite down ever so lightly.
"Ruiko!" Accel hissed in pleasure at her giving him a love bite and his hands swept down her back and gripped the hem of her uniform vest. This sent a thrill down Ruiko's spine and with one last bite she pulled away to look Accel in the eyes.
"Off?" She asked her boyfriend with a sensual grin.
"If you want," Accel hedged looking just a tad hesitant.
Ruiko giggled at his uncharacteristic lack of bravado and pulled her vest off, tossing it aside without a care in the world.
"Return the favor would you?" She asked as she tilted her head to the side and pulled down the collar of her dress shirt. "I gave you a hickey so now it's your turn~"
"Y-You sure? I-I don't-"
"Just kiss and bite on my skin lightly." Ruiko urged, clutching his head lightly and pushing it towards her exposed neck. "I'll let you know if you're doing it right."
Besides, I need something to send to Naru-chan for thinking she's in the best relationship! And Uiharu too for doubting our love!
"Alright," she felt more than heard Accel said, so close was his lips to her skin.
Being the good boyfriend he was, he listened to his better half and quickly kissed Ruiko's neck sending a shiver of pleasure up her spine. One that just intensified as he began lightly nibbling on her flesh just below the neckline of her collar.
He's so considerate. Ruiko mused distractedly as she struggled to not moan at his ministrations. Maybe supercharging her nervous system to make making out more fun wasn't a good idea in hindsight?
Sadly their merry making was ruined when the door to their room was slammed open.
The brunette's face froze into stone as she turned to look at the soon to be dead fool to enter their room while she was about to get to second base!
Naru gloated enough about being beating her to first base as is! She would not claim victory over second base too!
Such thoughts were curtailed however when Accel's response to the intrusion was to startle and bite down hard. It should have been painful and it was, but at the same time...
"Kya~!" Ruiko squealed in surprise and felt her cheek heat up. That was… different.
I need new panties. She thought as she collapsed onto Accel, breathing heavily.
"Ruiko, did you just-"
She slapped a hand over his mouth, her face utterly crimson.
"Oh, oh my!" The most certainly dead intruder exclaimed and gave a shriek. "I'm sorry!"
At her loud and intrusive apology, Order-chan roused from her sleep. Ugh and she was the worst one to get to bed! This girl was double dead! No, triple dead!
"What's going on? Misaka Misaka asks while rubbing her sleepy eyes." Order-chan mumbled out as she sat up and her blanket pooled around her lap.
Pushing herself to her feet and calling upon all the bravado she could in this situation, Ruiko glared heatedly at the intruder who was about to get an acid bath even as she used a precise application of Thermal Hand to dry her soaked panties. And a few other choice powers to make sure she did not have any other telltale signs of what just happened for good measure too. She kept the hickey though. She deserved it.
Before Ruiko could even open her mouth, the door banged open. Again.
I'm going to complain to that frog-faced old man for this! Doesn't he have actual security or something?
A small squad of Anti-Skill in full tactical gear shuffled into the room, their firearms raised to fire at the cloaked intruder.
"Oi, what the hell?" Accel growled, his blood red eyes narrowed dangerously.
"Since when have Anti-Skill gone around busting into hospital rooms like this? Are you lot trying to imitate MAR?" Ruiko asked, glaring at the men in tactical armor and armored helmets.
"We're pursuing the blonde." The Anti-Skill's leader said gesturing to the first intruder with his assault rifle. "We apologize for just barging in like this."
"They are the villains here!" The blonde shouted as she edged away to stand protectively in front of Order-chan for some reason, though Accel quickly got between them.
"Do you have a warrant?" Ruiko asked with a frown. "Because I'm looking through the Anti-Skill database and even the Dark Side bounty boards and I'm coming up empty."
"You're looking through them now?" The leader of the armed men asked. "How? Who are you?"
"I would ask you the same question if I didn't already know." Ruiko said with a snort. "Running around masquerading like you're still Anti-Skill? You Disciplinary Action idiots sure are brazen."
"Trash, how typical." Accel grunted in annoyance as he reached for his choker.
"H-How!?" The leader said even as he raised his gun and pointed it at Ruiko, his men following his lead.
"Mama is the best information broker in the City, Misaka Misaka explained proudly." Order-chan chirped as she slipped off her bed, picked up Ruiko's discarded vest and helpfully handed it back to its owner. "Though she is a baka at seeing patterns sometimes, Misaka Misaka adds honestly in a stage whisper."
"Thanks Order-chan. I think." Ruiko told her daughter with an amused giggle.
"The Number 3!" One of the Disciplinary Action - or DA as they were more commonly known - men gasped in shock. "That means the boy is A-Accelerator!"
"Took them long enough." Accel said as a shark-like smile spread across his face. Ugh, it just made her want to kiss him right now! "So, what job are you little piggies working on? And please, be difficult."
"Yes, yes, now you morons know who we are." Ruiko said irritably. "Mind telling me why you bunch of idiots were chasing a necromancer like Esther Rosenthal? And more importantly, why in the name of Science itself did you bunch have to interrupt Accel and I when we were making out!?"
"Making out? Misaka Misaka gasped in shock. Papa and Mama were making out while Misaka was sleeping? Misaka Misaka asked, scandalized. Not fair! Misaka wanted to watch! Misaka Misaka said with a pout."
The necromancer also gasped but Ruiko was fairly sure it was for an entirely different reason. Not that she cared. She had a voyeuristic daughter to reprimand.
"Yeah, no. You're not going to get to see us making out. Ever." Ruiko turned away from the armed men to look at her daughter sternly. "Next date night, Naru-chan is babysitting you and your sisters. That should ruin her next date plans too if my calculations are correct."
"How can you know so much?" The necromancer said in a shocked whisper apparently missing a whole chunk of the conversation.
"The Bank is my bitch." Ruiko answered but paused and rubbed her eyes. "You magicians don't know it but the Directors record all your intel in it too. At least those of you who have, do or are likely to operate in the City or are prominent enough anyways."
"H-How terrifying." The young woman muttered.
She had no idea.
"Enough of this! I don't care if you are the Number 1 and 3, hand that girl over now or we're arresting the lot of you." The DA leader said, loudly flipping the safety off his gun.
"Uh, sir, we weren't supposed to involve the hospital's patients." One of his subordinates reminded him.
His only response was to tap the side of his helmet, causing a red outline of jagged teeth to flash across his visor.
"By DA's Dogma!" He shouted as he opened fire, his men following suit a moment later.
Not that it made Ruiko do more than raise an eyebrow as the bullets harmlessly bounced off the Redirection barrier Accel had thrown up. That this sent them hurtling back at the shooters and caused most of them to crumple to the ground riddled with bullet wounds was just icing on top of the cake.
"...Sweetie, please remove these living targets off the premises. I'll be calling Anti-Skill to arrest them for whatever laws they are breaking right now." Ruiko coldly instructed her boyfriend as she slipped her vest back on.
"Heh, with pleasure!" Accel said with a bloodthirsty grin. "But can't I just kill them?"
Rosenthal gasped at that and edged away from the couple.
"Of course not, Papa. Misaka Misaka says with a sigh." Order-chan said with her hands planted adorably on her hips. "Mama needs them to answer questions, Misaka Misaka explains."
"All of them?" Accel whined even as Ruiko rewarded her smart little munchkin's astute observation with a pat to her head.
"I'd like to have spares."
"Watch out!" Rosenthal shouted suddenly and Ruiko spun to the DA leader to see that he had pressed a button on some kind of remote control device.
Nothing happened though.
"What's that supposed to do?"
"Now you bunch of monster children will be disciplined. Taste the just fangs of our Coffin."
At this declaration, a brilliant orange light filled the room.
For a brief moment the room was bathed in the crimson light of a fireball that came flying at them from out of nowhere. Rosenthal screamed but everyone else just kept their cool. This was nothing to them after all.
Something Accel demonstrated by casually deflecting the fire blast skyward before walking over to a window.
"Ruiko, there's a mecha out there. I think it shot that fireball at us." Accel told his girlfriend with a raised eyebrow. "What's with the City's two bit villains and building mecha anyways? Are they compensating for something?"
"Lack of powers I guess?" Ruiko said with a shrug, even as she restrained the DA goons with Dark Matter restraints while tucking Order-chan back into bed.
"Losers." Accel grunted. "I'm going to break it, cool?"
"Go for it." Ruiko said as she glared at Last Order conveying without words that she was to stay in bed.
"How can you two be so flippant about all this!?" Rosenthal asked, her eyes blown and looking on the verge of a panic attack.
Last Order sent the blonde a pitying gaze. "This is how we live honestly, Misaka Misaka says having long since come to terms about her family's lifestyle."
"Yeah, you get used to it after a while." Accel agreed as he kicked the wall and sent a chunk of it flying at the large quadruped mecha that was the source of the flames earlier. The masonry slammed into its main body with some force but the single large translucent sphere that had a mass of tubes arranged in a brain-like shape inside didn't seem to have suffered any visible damage.
Tough little tin can, aren't you? Accel thought as he leapt out of the opening he made.
"Ruiko, keep the brat inside and safe! And put her back to bed if you can too!"
"Okay on the first two." Ruiko used audiokinesis to whisper back even as Accel deflected another fireball the machine that the mecha shot from a circle of glowing runes that popped out of nowhere around its eye and sent his way. "Not sure I can manage the last one. I'm not a miracle worker."
"Yeah, the brat is tough to put to bed." Accel acknowledged as he batted away one of the two tentacle-like appendages that the mecha shot out of its sides at him with his cane and smashed the other one with a blast of wind.
"She's rambunctious." His co-parent agreed. "Oh, watch out. It's about to jump."
"Yeah, no." Accel said, tapping his foot on the ground and causing a massive fissure to open up in the car park where they were fighting that the mecha barely managed to escape falling into by leaping out of the way. "Tsch! Too slow."
Which was a pain since the blasted tin can took the time it was in midair to lob fireballs at him that he had to deflect.
"Is that all this piece of junk can do?" Accel cried out in exasperation. "I've fought Level 0s who had more tricks than this."
"Kamijou doesn't count." Ruiko reminded him with such amusement that he just knew she was giggling at him even as he tossed a car at his mechanical opponent as it landed atop a couple of other automobiles, crushing them in the process.
"Ruiko~! Stop critiquing my taunting banter! You're throwing me off my groove."
"You have groove?" Ruiko asked, blatantly giggling this time.
"Enough of one to get you to c-"
"Accel! Not in front of Order-chan!" Ruiko chided and he had the good sense to feel chastised. Yeah, talking about getting your girlfriend off in front of your daughter was in bad taste.
Though I don't think the brat can hear me. So does it still count? Accel thought as he absently deflected the shower of small fireballs the mecha shot his way as cover for it charging up a bigger one. Whatever! Better safe than sorry, I guess.
"Speaking of that… Hey! Idiot machine you think I was just gonna let you charge up like that!? Think again!" Accel shouted tauntingly as he used his ability to subtly alter the wind flow around the machine and sucked out all the oxygen in its immediate vicinity. In seconds, the fireball it had spent a good minute or two building up just sputtered out of existence.
He followed this up by tossing another car at the thing. Followed by another and another. Each of which he shot at it just shy of the speed of [Railgun]'s precious namesake technique. This at last blasted the damned robot to pieces.
"There." Accel said with satisfaction as he beheld the wreckage. "I make good art."
"Beautiful as always Accel." Ruiko said supportively, causing him to puff up in pride.
His good mood evaporated though when suddenly the wreckage shifted and an actual coffin fell out of it. The thing hit the ground hard and the impact jarred it open. With a hiss of hydraulics its paneled lid popped open to reveal a young woman with waist length light brown hair and empty eyes of the same color.
"...Ah shit." Accel clicked his tongue at seeing the naked corpse.
"Don't you dare stare." Ruiko said and Accel quickly looked away, dismissing all memory of the dead body's rack even if a traitorous part of his mind told him it was bigger than Ruiko's by quite a bit.
He must've been a little too slow though, 'cause a very pouty sounding Ruiko added. "I'm still growing!"
Just what he needed. Not only did he have a pissed off girlfriend to placate but also another mess to deal with.
A couple hours later, Kurozuma Wataru found himself sitting outside an interrogation room in the Maniple base observing through a one-way mirror as the Stoic Lil' Lady questioned the captured DA leader.
Seriously these guys are idiots. I mean it's not like Saten-chan and Accelerator didn't warn them who they were! Picking a fight with them even after knowing who they were? That's just suicidal.
They'd already asked the girl the DA loons were after - A magician named Esther Rosenthal apparently - what they wanted but all they got out of her was that they were apparently trying to add a new layer to the world using Last Order, endangering not only the City but the entire world. And were somehow using her Necromancy to do so. So basically just another generic end of the world plan that the Trinity seemed to help stop every other week or so.
After that the European magician and Accel had left to check out the warehouse where the girl had been kept prisoner by DA. That left Wataru, who had been woken up to help deal with this crap when the two Level 5s had stormed into the base looking a cross of resigned and pissed as hell, to make sure Saten-chan didn't splatter their prisoners all over the interrogation room. Again. The cleaning crew couldn't stop complaining after the tenth time she did it!
So far though Saten-chan was being surprisingly restrained for dealing with someone who shot at her daughter. Though that might be because she was carrying a sleeping Last Order in her arms. A feat he was sure she only managed thanks to gratuitous use of her powers. The girl was almost half her size and the Level 5 was built like a model, no muscle at all!
"You know you could answer at least some of my questions." Saten-san said warningly as she stalked around the man they'd tied down to a chair in the room's center. "If you don't I might have to resort to extreme measures."
"Do your worst you deviant brat." The man spat and Wataru felt a chill go down his spine.
"What did you call me?" Ruiko asked, her eyes narrowed into slits as she tightened her grip on her daughter.
"You heard me, you dime corner hooker. Becoming a mother when you're still a little girl yourself? What else can I call you, you whore!?"
"And I swore I was going to be kind. I am now retracting that kindness. Congrats."
That was when the man screaming started. Amazingly Last Order didn't even stir, maybe Saten-chan had her surrounded by some kind of sound muffling barrier? If so, Wataru really wished she'd do him the courtesy too. 'Cos the way the man was howling was making it very hard for him to not piss his pants.
"Yesh, I know I didn't have much of a choice with this job, Saten-chan, but come on. A little civility if ya could?" Wataru said through the intercom.
"He called me something terrible. I'm not a saint, Kurozuma-san."
"I'm not calling the cleaning staff for this one."
"Why? I didn't- ugh, soiled himself." Saten-chan said with a disgusted sniff of the air and waved a hand at the man. He didn't stop screaming but the stain that had been spreading at his groin area vanished.
"Just learn from this in the future."
"Yes, next time I flay a person's mind layer by layer I must vanish away the contents of their bowels before they start voiding it. It makes less of a mess."
Not quite the lesson I had in mind, but close enough I guess.
Besides the man had it coming. Not only had he put Last Order in danger and poked the Mama Bear. He then had to go insult her. Wataru honestly didn't think he would ever meet anyone quite so suicidally stupid ever again. At least he hoped not, because if he did then he had to really rethink the value of being human.
"Huh? How disappointing." Saten-chan said suddenly, pulling him from his morbid thoughts.
"What is it?"
"All this fool knows is that his branch of DA is working with a neuroscientist named Hishigata Mikihiko on something called the Waste Recycling Experiment that involves necromancy and the creation of Coffins."
"Coffins?"
"It's what they call mecha like those they used to attack us at the hospital."
"Seriously? What bad taste."
"They're terrorists. You expected more from them?" Saten-chan asked with a shrug. "Well, at least I have the locations of a number of their bases."
"Not all of them?"
"I have all those he knows about," Saten-chan said as she patted Last Order on the back as she stirred form having being jostled earlier by her mother's shrug. "Which he thinks is all of them but I'm not making assumptions."
Wataru nodded in agreement. Yeah, making assumptions was bad in their line of business.
"Ruiko! I've got news." Accelerator said as he barged into the interrogation room with Rosenthal trailing behind him.
"You learned something useful?" Saten-chan asked with a raised eyebrow.
"Dunno if you'll think so but we ran into another mecha at the warehouse."
"Another one?" Saten-chan asked with a tired sigh.
"It was Qiong Qi," Esther chimed in helpfully.
"Yeah, I don't care what it's called." Accelerator said with a dismissive wave of his hand. "The damned thing could use Level 5 Psychokinesis."
"Level 5?" Saten-chan knitted her brow. "So the techniques behind the Coffins do in fact enhance the ability they draw out from the corpses they are using as their cores? How distasteful."
"They do," The foreigner girl confirmed.
"Besides that all we got was a name. Hishigata Mikihiko. So you had any luck?"
"As a matter of fact, I did have a little better luck than that. Not by much though. But I'll brief you later. First though, Rosenthal-san are you insistent on wanting to be part of taking DA down?"
"Yes."
"Then I believe you'll need to give Houtou a body."
"You seem remarkably well versed in my magic."
"Hishigata sold the data on the Black Market." Ruiko said with a shrug. "I don't usually bother with magic, but I made an exception this time. So are you willing to animate a body with Houtou or not?"
Esther looked pained but nodded. "Where would we get a body though?"
"We have Hitokawa Hasami-san's corpse. We'll use that. After all, after being used as a part in one of Hishiagata's Coffins she'd need your magic to prevent her from reinaminating at random and becoming a restless dead, wouldn't she?"
"Yes," Esther said with a nod.
"Then let's do it."
"So you guys liked the movie?" Mikoto asked the Council of Misakas as they hung out in a branch of Joseph's Coffee and Restaurant after they had just finished attending a late night movie screening together.
It was nice, hanging out with her Sisters especially now that they were all developing unique personalities. Something that caused Mikoto to feel a small swell of pride as she witnessed how the once robotic clones were slowly changing into their own persons.
At this rate, I'm almost scared about the different number of gifts I'm going to need for Christmas. The [Railgun] giggled to herself.
Man that would be an awkward talk with her Papa and Mama.
Speaking of her parents, how was she going to bring up the Sisters? Did she even need to do that?
Maybe I should just leave them out of the loop? I mean, I'm sure I can convince Ruiko or Naru to work some Dark Side shenanigans to whip up enough gifts for all the Sisters. No need to trouble Papa and Mama.
"It was great Onee-sama, Misaka says with cheerful enthusiasm." Genki Girl declared with a fist pump. "But aren't you breaking Tokiwadai's curfew by being out so late? Misaka adds worriedly."
"Don't worry so much," Mikoto waved away the concern. "It's not like I can meet with you guys in broad daylight."
"Actually there should be no problem with that, Misaka said with a frown." Conspiracy Nut replied as she finished sweeping the restaurant's dining area for bugs. "The Sisters' existence is pretty much an open secret by this point, Misaka notes. Part of some grand conspiracy no doubt, Misaka says suspiciously."
"Really?" Mikoto perked up at that. Well, the bit about the lack of a need for secrecy more so than the conspiracy bit. "That's good to hear. It'll make hanging out with you girls easier."
"Onee-sama is so thoughtful, Misaka says with a pleased smile." Sentai-chan said with a somewhat wooden grin. Looks like someone still needed more practice. "Truly she is a paragon of justice, Misaka adds with a swoon."
"Indeed, Misaka agrees. But maybe we could watch a movie with more action next time? Misaka asks eagerly." Military Otaku chimed in while looking at Mikoto expectantly.
"And robots! Misaka whined." Mecha Fan added with a pout.
"I wouldn't call it thoughtful," Mikoto said scratching the back of her head as she blushed a little at the praise. "I was just thinking that there's no reason why we should only get together when there's an Incident. I'm your Onee-sama so it's only natural we hang out sometimes."
"M-Maybe we can bring Saten-sama or, uh, N-Namikaze-sama too? Misaka asks feeling bashful over her request." Tsundere asked with pink cheeks that she looked away to hide.
...Geez, she really wanted to hang out with Naru huh? Mikoto smirked at how 'subtle' Tsundere was being.
"Uh, 11132, is that one of yours? Misaka asks warily." 19090 - And I really need to think up a nickname for her! Remembering her number is a pain! - asked while pointing out the restaurant's windows to its carpark.
"...No, Misaka denies but still desires it!" Mecha Fan said as she squealed in excitement at whatever was outside.
"What are you two talking abo- Why is there a giant mecha outside?" Mikoto asked with surprising calm.
I am hanging around Naru and Ruiko too much if having a giant mecha appear out of nowhere doesn't even faze me anymore.
The damned thing was a blocky purple and black machine with a central rectangular section and four similarly shaped pods, two attached either side of the central section with one ahead of the other, each with a retractable leg on their underside. A horizontal bar was mounted on top of the rear end of the central section and a pod was fitted on each end of this bar, with a large gatling gun extending from the front of the right pod. A cable like neck extended out of a hole on the top-middle of the central section that went through a spherical section and then connected to the unit's head.
"It just teleported in a second ago, Misaka observed calmly." The cat loving 10032 said with a frown. "It replaced a car to do so, Misaka added."
"It used the Esper ability Replace, Misaka reasoned. Or something similar in functionality." Conspiracy Nut concluded as she began passing around handguns to the Sisters.
How she could hide so many of them on her person even under that voluminous trench coat she wore Mikoto didn't know but in short order all the Sisters were armed and ready. Not that Mikoto was going to let them get involved if this devolved into a fight.
As such with electricity dancing between her fingertips Mikoto addressed her clones tersely. "Girls, head out the back. If something like this is here, we might be targeted."
You'd think people would get that the Sisters were off-limits by now.
Or was the thing after her? She was a Level 5 and plenty of loony Dark Side outfits probably had one equally crazy plan or the other which could use that to their advantage.
Mikoto didn't know but she wasn't going to let whatever Dark Sider bastard was behind this machine have what they want. Not if she could help it. They'd gotten away with too much already!
"B-But we are combat ready, Misaka whines." Military Otaku pouted as she hefted her handgun for emphasis.
"Unless those are the particle beam pistols that Ruiko was telling me the City was experimenting with I don't think they're going to cut it against a machine like this," Mikoto countered as she stood and began walking towards the restaurant's front exit. "So go."
"Mm, Misaka disagrees with Onee-sama as Misaka stands firm. We can provide support, Misaka insisted." Sentai-chan stated.
"You can grandstand as a hero of justice later, Misaka chides." 10032 said as she grabbed Sentai-chan under one arm even as 10039 grabbed the other before together they dragged their fellow clone away. "Kuro is waiting for me at home, Misaka says firmly. Misaka does not want to die and leave him alone."
Why does she make it sound like her pet cat is her boyfriend!? Wait! What if it is- Bad Mikoto! Don't even go there!
Perhaps in response to seeing the Sisters fleeing or whatever reason that might be driving its actions, the previously immobile robot that had been content to just stare at them all assessingly with the red band that served as its optical sensor finally decided to take action. It fired off a set of anchors and locked itself into the ground even as its gatling gun began zeroing in on the Sisters.
"Oi!" Mikoto called out waving her hands, "Come at me, uh, Misaka says while being a hero!"
Nailed it.
All her superb acting got her were a pair of machine guns popping out of the machine's main section and locking onto her.
"All of you Sisters freeze now, yeah!" A scratchy and obnoxious voice said over the machine's speakers. "I only need one of you anyways and I'm sure at least one of you will make it if I shoot."
"No."
"What do you mean, no?" The voice grounded out, sounding whiny.
"I mean if you touch my Sisters I will hunt you down and paralyze you from the neck down." Mikoto stated firmly and quirked her lips as she stepped out of the restaurant defiantly, electricity dancing around her. "Misaka says while being smug as fuck."
"...Ah shit you're the original."
"Congratz, you just got on the Trinity's radar. I hope you like liquid meals, asshole."
"Psh, yeah, sure. Like you little sledgehammers are going to be able to do much to my Coffins. They're designed to be on par with Level 5s. And soon they'll be beyond that!" The voice exclaimed with glee with a touch of an insane edge.
Definitely another nut job. Why did they keep having to deal with them? Couldn't their bad guys be rational people for once?
"Other idiots have said that before. And now they're in an unmarked grave." Mikoto said coldly. Her fists tightened as the electricity she generated tripled. "You must have a death wish."
"Why have a death wish when I can cancel death itself, yeah. Too bad you can't!" The voice said smugly even as the two turreted machine guns on the machine's main body opened fire, throwing lead at Mikoto.
Mikoto clicked her tongue and started to run, throwing up an electromagnetic shield to deflect the bullets.
"Ah, I guess that much is nothing to you. Would have had a Sister running scared, yeah. How annoying." The machine's controller said in his grating voice even as the mecha retracted its anchors and jetted out of the way of the static blast Mikoto sent ahead of a punch thanks to rocket thrusters built into its rear bar and the inner pods.
"This isn't Pokemon, yeah. Thunder Punch, really?" The soon to be dead man said mockingly even as the outer left pod of the machine's rear bar opened up to reveal a battery of missiles, dozens of which promptly leapt out of their housing.
Before she could react, Mikoto found herself in free fall as all the missiles, including the one she must have been replaced with, adjusted their courses to fly directly at her.
"Your cheap trick won't win this!" Mikoto shouted back as the chestnut haired girl threw her arms forward. "My roommate is a Teleporter. I know all their tricks!"
Unleashing an electromagnetic pulse, she scrambled the missiles' control systems causing them to shoot upwards and explode safely away up in the sky.
Even with that nuisance dealt with she was still falling though, but that was a minor problem too. Reaching out with her power she manipulated the magnetic forces to pull her towards a four story building thanks to the metal in its frame. Clinging to it with one hand and her feet, her other arm was already pointed at the mecha, firing a lance of electricity.
"Yeah, but she ain't a Level 5 I bet, yeah!"
Several new missiles were already flying and the machine just swapped places with one of them, evading the lightning entirely.
Clicking her tongue, the Electromaster zapped the missiles out of the sky and leapt off the building as she directed her body towards the mecha as she used her powers to draw herself to its metallic frame.
"Why don't you just get a life and leave ours alone!" Mikoto roared as she reared her arms back to fling them forward, a web of lighting escaping from her outstretched limbs as she tried to blast the mecha out of the air.
"Arrogant, yeah! You think I'm not doing this so I can have a life?" The madman shouted back sounding genuinely agitated even as his machine escaped the lightning net by swapping with one of the parked cars in the lot below. "Ever think that some of us pick a fight with the likes of you because we have no choice!?"
"Boohoo! Cry me a river," Mikoto taunted as she temporarily magnetically attracted herself to a lamp post so as to safely complete her journey back down to the ground. All whilst simultaneously launching a bracket of lightning bolts at the mecha.
"This is getting boring, yeah. So I'm just gonna end it now." The machine's controller said as it evaded Mikoto's latest attack by swapping with another car whereupon it immediately fired a barrage of missiles. As they streaked towards Joseph's and the Sisters within, suddenly one of the missiles was replaced with Tsundere.
But that meant- Mikoto couldn't finish the thought, much less spin around in time before the restaurant was rocked by an explosion of a missile literally detonating inside it.
"NO!" Mikoto roared with fury even as she absently unleashed a massive burst of electricity that zapped the rest of the missiles out of the sky while running towards the surprisingly intact building. Despite that it was missing the whole chunk where the Sisters had been.
"Onee-sama! 10287!" A voice shouted from amidst the wreckage even as the smoke of the explosion was blasted away by a static burst and revealing the Sisters standing around the blast zone where they had used their combined powers to throw up an electromagnetic shield to contain the missile's explosion. "Misaka shouts as she points towards the fleeing enemy."
Immensely relieved that the Sisters in the restaurant was safe, Mikoto turned around to deal with the piece of junk that almost killed them. Much to her dismay the Sister that had shouted earlier was correct, the damned thing was getting away. Jetting away with Tsundere wrapped tightly to its body as a human shield with those cable anchor things it used to stabilize itself to attempt to fire its gatling gun earlier.
Like that's going to stop me. Mikoto thought with a scoff. I have good enough aim and control to not hurt her.
Mikoto pulled out one of the Dark Matter coins Ruiko gave her and she used as ammo for her Railgun to line up a shot. She had just sent her signature technique up into the night sky when suddenly the machine disappeared, replacing itself using its teleporting ability with a thankfully empty car. Even as the automobile was disintegrated by Mikoto's Railgun, she was already reloading and adjusting her aim.
"Stay still damnit!" Mikoto cursed as the machine used its teleport in quick succession to make good its escape. "Argh! I can't get a good shot!"
She nevertheless took a few shots only for them to miss by miles.
"Onee-sama stop, Misaka urges." Military Otaku said as she grabbed hold of Mikoto's arm when she was preparing yet another shot. "It got away, Misaka notes grimly. We will have to rescue 10287 another way."
Mikoto's shoulders shook as she pulled out her cellphone and dialed a very well used contact. It barely rung once before Ruiko picked up. "Ruiko, Tsun-, I mean, a Sister was just kidnapped by a mecha. It could use Replace and I-!" She panted, furious, scared and overwhelmed with a desire to hurt something right now.
"I know," Ruiko said with a sigh over the line. "Last Order just woke up screaming about it. Apparently 10287 is sending a distress signal through the Misaka Network."
"C-Can you track them down? Please?" Mikoto begged over the line as her body continued to shake.
She was a Level 5. One of the strongest and yet… The [Railgun] should have been able to handle this fight! Damn teleporters. Damn Dark Side!
Why did they have to hurt everyone to get what they wanted?!
"They'll need to stop teleporting all over the place first but yes I think so. I did make a Sister tracking program once."
"...Ruiko, I-I want to hurt this bastard. A lot." Mikoto tightened her grip on the phone as she had sparks going off around her.
"Go help the Sisters settle the civilians inside the restaurant first. Hishigata is being a prick and is still teleporting all over the place. I don't think he's going to stop any time soon. I'll let you know when he does and we can go beat his head in. We can take turns."
She swallowed and nodded. Hishigata. She had a name at least. "R-Right. Sorry."
"Don't be. I'm angry too. I'll get Naru-chan up. Don't worry Sempai. This will not go unpunished. I promise."
Part of Mikoto was curious what the kidnapper had done to piss Ruiko off. Attack Last Order maybe? But she set the matter aside for now. She had a bunch of civilians to calm down.
Naru frowned as she took in the situation as she walked with her friends. Sadly Shirai-san and Uiharu-chan weren't available this time. Stupid Judgement refresher course!
"So what do we have on this new idiot?" The blonde asked.
The Trinity had a reputation. At least to the Dark Side. You didn't just go and attack them. They were the biggest alliance of Level 5s in the city. Attacking them was asking for trouble… unless you had something to hold them back.
Or were insane to just do it anyway. There were a lot of crazies in this city willing to try it despite knowing the odds.
"Hishigata Mikihiko, allied with DA, intends to use Rosenthal-style Necromancy and something from the Misaka Network to enact a ritual that will manipulate the Layers of the world." Rui-chan explained tiredly even as Accelerator and a pair of high school girls stood nearby.
One of them was a blonde who nodded along nervously to what Rui-chan said while her companion who stood behind her like some dutiful bodyguard maintained a stoically expressionless face.
"What's he trying to do? Rez daddy or something?" Naru snorted.
"He's trying to use magic to bring his dead sister back to life by changing the very fundamental laws of the world." Ruiko clarified.
"Magic, yeah right." Accelerator commented dismissively but everyone ignored him. He had been denying what was right in front of him all night.
"...So a moron." The short blonde shook her head. "I say we pop his head like a zit. He took a Sister, out in the open and attempted to kill a bunch of innocent people. We can't let a guy like that roam free."
"Um, Saten-sama," the taller blonde asked nervously as she gestured as the large complex that were all standing across from. "Is this really the place where Mikihiko is hiding?"
"It's where I lost 10287's signal. Besides, even if he has moved her since he threw up whatever jamming trick he's using, Sukunabikona Foods' Supplements Factory is one of DA's main bases. If he's not operating out of here then the people here are at least likely able to tell us where he has set up his base." Rui-chan said with a confident nod.
"Oi, Accelerator. Why don't you be a gentleman and knock for us ladies." The Number 2 said with a hand on her hip.
"Tch, don't tell me what to do, Jailbait." The albino sneered even as he walked across the street to the factory's garage entrance, pulling in his cane into his vambrace as he reached his destination.
Pressing a hand against the sheets of metal, he flexed it slightly and… The garage door tore itself free of its housings and flew into the warehouse, crashing into whatever stood in its way along the way. Judging by the screams that could be heard inside, it had hit plenty of people in the process. Though by the time they made it inside there was no one there to greet them.
"Such a gentleman." Rui-chan sighed and Accelerator stood a little straighter.
What a pair of love sick murder puppies. Naru mused to herself.
"Ruiko, not to complain or anything," Sempai said as she and her Sisters followed her like ducklings. Ducklings armed to the teeth with the finest weaponry and equipment Maniple had to offer, but ducklings nonetheless. "But why didn't you tell us something was up when things went crazy?"
"Busy making out or something?" [Mani-Force] asked teasingly.
Surprisingly Accelerator blushed while Rui-chan just smirked triumphantly.
"I'll tell you later." Rui-chan said micheviously.
"Misaka confirms from Last Order that they indeed were, Misaka confirms." The Sister in the trenchcoat said. "Though we do not know the details, Misaka laments."
"And it'll stay that way," Accelerator hissed even as they made their way through the deserted corridors and deeper into the building. "You lot will not fill the brat's head with ideas about spying on us, you hear? She's too much of a voyeur already!"
"There's a story there," Sempai noted with a sigh. "But you can tell us later. For now, what I want to know is why you didn't tell us we needed to be prepared for crazy mecha showing up looking for Sisters."
"I apologize for that," Rui-chan said as they finally ran across some resistance in the form of a group of DA members behind a barricade. Though the moment the Number 3 caught sight of them, they collapsed screaming so Naru wasn't really sure they counted.
"I didn't realize the Sisters were in danger." Rui-chan continued as if she wasn't brutally tearing the minds of the DA in front of them apart and shot the necromancer a dark look. "Someone didn't explain things properly until it was too late."
"I'm sorry Saten-sama!" The taller blonde said with a deep bow. "I didn't realize that Sisters other than Last Order might be targeted as well."
Mm, she was a little cutie. Definitely had that Ojou-sama air to her but she felt like the clumsy type. Naru preferred someone with a touch more sternness.
What was her name again? Oh right! Rosenthal. Rosenthal Esther. Got to see if I can dig up some nice photos of her. Shu and I can have some fun with those.
"Enough Ruiko, I think they're done." Sempai said, her tone hard and overflowing with silent fury. Though since she'd waited for the men were practically half dead before she stopped Rui-chan, Naru didn't need the verbal cue to figure that out. "Next time, tell us things earlier! Then maybe it won't devolve into a messy clusterfuck like this!"
"Is that gunfire? Misaka asks warily." The Sister in full on tactical gear asked as they walked past the disabled, but still mostly alive, DA men. None of them paid them more attention than a glance save Rosenthal who looked a little terrified by what Rui-chan had done to them.
"Yeah, it's Anti-Skill. Scavenger too." Rui-chan said with a tired sigh. "They're both attacking this place. I think the Directors are a touch unhappy with DA at the moment."
"Anti-Skill and Scavenger?" Naru said with a face palm. "I think unhappy is an understatement. And just what we need, a rookie Dark Side outfit on our ops."
"Well, let's make it more of a mess." Accelerator said with a bloodthirsty grin as they walked into a large warehouse area and found a full on battle underway between DA and its attackers. "Ruiko, point out who you want me to beat the shit out of and I'll blast them into the stratosphere."
"See those four girls?" Rui-chan asked with a matching grin of her own. "Teach them a lesson for me."
"Gladly!" Accelerator said with a mad cackle as he shot off to pick a fight with Scavenger.
She's siccing her boyfriend on them!? Naru thought as she saw the Number 1 surge across the warehouse atop a tornado. She's still pissed over that one time Nakimoto Rizou stole that design for the new particle cannon from her.
There's nothing like overkill. Kurama opined.
True but sending Accelerator after a bunch of little shits because you're pissed at their backer is just petty.
Have you met your best friend? She holds petty grudges like a pro.
True that.
"I'll go with him! Houtou!" Rosenthal said after a moment of hesitation.
"Yes Adonai!"
With that the necromancer ran off after Accelerator with her thrall following behind her.
"Well, let's clean house." Naru said, casually walking towards the action.
"Let's." Sempai agreed as electricity sparked around her and her cadre of clones readied their weapons.
Rui-chan's only response was to shoot a barrage of varied energy beams downrange into DA's ranks.
Done and done! Thanks to Nameless as always!
And here we go, the start to the Accelerator anime's first arc. It was an interesting concept as I love necromancy magic in most systems. While Toaruverse's version felt a bit subpar to us, it's still my favorite wizard school.
Nameless: Well, considering there might be other schools of necromancy in the Toaruverse there's no need to lose hope yet.
And so we changed it up since a lot more characters are friends here so Hishigata is in for a lot of pain and maybe death. Who knows! And I'm still laughing at how Saten will react if Esther calls Accel Master. Even if it isn't in that regard.
Nameless: Wonder what will happen if Esther also calls her Mistress. The blue screen of death will be glorious. Especially since she's only just hit second base with Accel (on a technicality because she actually climaxed thanks to her messing with her own immune system or at least she, and her friends, certainly considers it as such) and so is pretty new to all this stuff. Anyways that and the big fight foreshadowed at the end of the last scene will be in the next chapter so look forward to it.
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