A new start, of sorts
[ACSR: Tokiwadai Chuugakkou]
"Man, Woo. I'm telling you it was so amazing." Saten was excited "What would you call it Uiharu? An instant takedown? One shot and she blasted him away!"
The bus they were on was not the fastest so they had plenty of time to talk. Apart from Saten and Uiharu, Joule and Haruue were there too.
Haruue looked up from where she was sitting "That sounds incredible." Uiharu closed her eyes "Saten, you are never going to change are you, wandering around those back alleys always gets you in trouble."
Saten laughed "Yeah," before lighting up and pointing "Look, we are almost there!"
She turned and dug around in her pockets "Now where was the invitation?"
Uiharu was still quiet but she muttered something about Saten changing the subject. Haruue then asked the question that Joule had been thinking about for a while "I'm curious, is there any reason we are meeting up at Misaka and Shirai's school today instead of somewhere else?"
The other two looked at each other. Joule wasn't about to read their minds without permission but she didn't need to in any case, it was clear that this was only happening so that they would be able to grab better cakes on the way.
She was proved right as they entered the very cake shop they had visited on the day that they had to fight the girl with the silly eyebrows. They were all buying cakes to share with Banri in the hospital so Joule chipped in too.
When Uiharu examined the cakes of offer, Saten examined her underwear. Haruue wasn't looking at the time so Joule pointed it out and warned Haruue of Saten's idea of what was funny.
The four of them then walked to the entrance of Tokiwadai, they waited there for a few minutes for Kuroko and Misaka to emerge and they all met up.
Kuroko was rubbing her head, when Saten asked if she had hurt herself she only replyed "A little over zealous affection, that's all." which was enough to fill the others in that Misaka had attacked her for jumping at her or something similar.
Misaka looked back "I'm sorry for having to drag you all they way out here Haruue."
"I'm having a great time, really." Haruue said "I've also got some delicious looking snacks I brought along too."
When talking about the cafe, Saten then revealed that she had taken a peak at Uiharu's underwear. In such a way that others wouldn't have been able to see it. In the resultant embarrassment fueled rage that Uiharu began spitting at Saten, Misaka smiled but her eyes slowly drifted towards Joule.
She tapped Joule on the shoulder, when Joule looked over Misaka grinned at her and said "For future reference you are my favourite Telepath."
Kuroko looked over then "And I am your favourite teleporter right sis?" Misaka shrugged "Kuroko, you are basically the only teleporter I know, you are my favourite teleporter by default."
Joule looked back at her in confusion as Kuroko tried to ask Misaka for a more definite answer "Why are you telling me? Did you meet a Telepath you didn't like earlier?"
Misaka nodded "I did, but I don't want to talk about it."
Joule was going to ask more but Misaka interrupted Uiharu's shouts "Guys, let's not waste our time squabbling with each other." She began to walk onwards towards the destination they were going to before continuing "Well, are you coming?"
[ACSR: Uiharu Kazari]
They headed to the hospital and Haruue began filling out the forms they needed to see Banri. As she did, a pair of Anti-skill agents that Saten knew but Joule had only seen once or twice walked up to them.
Uiharu shared with them that they were here to visit Banri and Kuroko asked them why they were here. There response was that they had transferred and injured sudo-radical here and were staying to be ready to transfer him to another hospital affiliated with Anti-skill so they could question him.
The older woman of the two smiled when Saten confirmed that she had said sudo-radicals "It's Academy City, all sorts of issues crop up in this town, you never know what it'll be next."
After Haruue had finished the paper work they went upstairs to where Banri's room was. They knocked and when they heard Banri's "Yes?" they opened the door.
Haruue smiled "Hey, Banri. Mind if we come in?"
Banri looked up from the ball that was helping her regain full control of her fingers and her expression lit up "No of course not." a moment passed before she questioned "Us?"
Haruue opened the door further so that Banri could see all of them. As one they said "Just thought we would stop by."
"Everyone!" Banri sounded happy.
They all filed in and showed the cakes they had bought.
A few minutes and slices of cake later they started talking in earnest "Seems you are getting a lot better?" Misaka asked
Banri nodded "Slowly but surely. The rehab can be pretty hard but having you all come see me is plenty of motivation. Thank you."
Haruue then said that if the rehab was finished quickly then Banri would be able to join school for the second term.
Misaka then realised something and clearly hiding something she spoke "Hey everyone, let's get some drinks!"
Quickly the only ones left in the room were Banri, Haruue and Joule (Who had been asked to stay by Haruue, She had sent Lumen with the drinks team anyway to see what was happening)
As Banri took another bite of the cake, Haruue looked up at Joule "What do you think was the real reason they all stepped out?"
Joule shrugged "I would assume they were planning a surprise for you"
Haruue nodded as Banri looked excited. They quickly dropped back into conversation, eventually dropping into telepathy as Banri had not had the chance to practice for a while.
[ACSR: Anti Skill]
Suddenly a sound pounded through the air. Haruue looked up and around to the corridor where the sound came from "What was that?" Suddenly an alarm started ringing as Joule realised what it must have been and she went pale.
With Telepathy she spoke silently "Gunfire, not too far away either."
Banri and Haruue went pale too ask Joule focused, using Lumen to help connect the distance with only humming she sent a message to the others "Gunfire near Banri's room."
The three of them then hid, Banri could only manage under the covers but Joule and Haruue both got a bed between themselves and the door.
The alarm continued ringing before it was suddenly cut of by a voice alerting the people that something was going on and to listen to anti-skill and the like.
Haruue muttered "Could we go out and see what was happening?"
Joule shook her head.
Suddenly they could hear running footsteps outside the room and the door was thrown open by someone dressed as a doctor. He very clearly wasn't one though as when he looked around the room he was holding a gun.
He noticed the lump in Haruue's bed and pulled the covers off to reveal Banri beneath, her eyes full of fear.
He went to pull her up but Haruue jumped out of hiding to hit him. Joule peaked up enough to see what came next in slow motion.
The man raised the gun, it climbed and when it aimed squarely at Haruue, he began to pull the trigger.
Joule screamed and the man's arm jerked, the bullet passed through the window as Haruue hit the man again. It didn't look like she was able to hurt him though.
The man pulled Banri out of her bed causing a yell of pain from her. Before he managed to take her out of the room though someone was standing in the doorframe.
There was the sound of a punch and of a tazer and the man was on the floor with Misaka standing over him, a sour look on her face.
[ACSR: Kiyama-sensei]
Without a hostage, Anti-skill were able to capture the other two sudo-radicals quickly. The three were then taken in the truck that had been brought for the first of them to the Anti-skill hospital.
Joule's prediction was proved correct when the last present (a school uniform at first glance) was given to Banri. Misaka apologised for not having a better suprise but Banri didn't seem to mind.
End of chapter
Yes! now we are in Railgun S
That really is all I have to say here, that and the Copen side-story is still coming.
On the weeks that I write that I won't write this one so picking which weeks are hard.