A chorus of 10,000 voices

[ACSRT: Scientific Development and Sacrifice]

Joule panted as she ran. She was following Misaki's directions and praying silently.

She shouldn't be the target, that should give her the window needed to help Misaka.

As she reached the top of the stairs, she was able to figure out where she was as she'd been here before. They'd passed through this hall on their first trip upwards. If Misaki could leader her here so well, it was clear she knew this facility's hallways by heart.

Retracing the steps they had followed the first time, she found the broken stairs to the roof.

"Hey Joule, good news!" Lumen spoke to her with an excited tone "There aren't any more enemies on the roof, GV drove them off. He's the only one up there right now. Shall I give him a link?"

Joule nodded and soon she was connected to Gunvolt as she hummed softly "Can you please help me up? I'm at the stairs."

In only a few moments from there, she saw Gunvolt looking down at her from the top of the broken stairs. With a few quick jumps he reached her.

"You need to get out." He spoke quietly "I was going to get your friends out now but..."

"Misaki is already going to get Kuroko." Joule explained "That will be the evacuation. Until then, I need to see if I can help the sister."

GV nodded at that but he asked "Are you sure you can help, I don't want whatever happened to her to spread to you."

That stopped her for a moment but she just shook her head "It shouldn't be able to affect me. It's designed for the sister's neural architecture. I'll be fine."

GV gave a soft sigh and brought her up to the roof.

As he set her down on the floor, he noted "I'll be here to guard you, but try to be quick."

Joule gave him a smile "I will."

Lumen shifted in the air, changing from a butterfly to her full humanoid form. She saw her friends eyes widen as she focused. They needed help too but picking at their mind randomly wouldn't help. She had to focus for now. Shut the network up, help Misaka, then get to her friends.

"Cold." Muttered Lumen "But I do agree."

In this case, what was important was ruining Gensei Kihara's plans.

Joule opened her mouth. She'd been preparing this song for a short while but it was still a question of if it would work.

[ASG: World End]

Lumen plunged into a sea of darkness. She was guided by Joule's song that was being sung for only the Sisters' sakes.

The dark sea was filled with glittering stars, one was right in front of her and the others were all around her. Lines traced from one star to another, linking them together into a net.

A net of minds. The stars weren't stars. They were the glowing minds of the sisters, each one was a sister's body and it shone with light enough to blind if she truely had eyes in this space.

This then, the star in front of her, was the sister that the virus had been placed into.

Reaching down to them, she felt at the body. There was a coldness somewhere here, a part of them that had been overwritten... Here.

She found the parasite and gave it a pull. The intruder held on tight. It was a process that was going on in her brain, not something that could be pulled out without doing damage. She'd need to compare it with other Sisters' minds to find the proper way to overwrite it.

She traced a line and moved from this sister to another.

Yes, the virus was overwriting a different, but nearby, section.

She continued on a few times till she'd made a map of what that region was meant to look like and returned to the first sister and tried to apply a patch.

Only a moment later though, less than a tenth of a second in reality, a new line shot forth. A direct link from somewhere else and the virus was reapplied in a new area.

Okay, so she'd need to prevent it from spreading before trying to remove the virus.

She applied the patch again but when the line came to reapply it, Lumen traced that line down to it's origin. It was one of the sisters within Academy city and-

That wasn't a sister.

She wasn't talking about the star, that was a sister. Somehow smaller and yet larger than the others. It was also connected to something else though, something mechanical.

Lumen briefly placed her hand against it and felt that it was a Mind-machine interface that a non-sister was wearing. Some sort of wearable spare brain...

This was Accelerator! Which meant that the terminal reapplying the virus would be Last Order. That made sense in a way, The command tower's orders couldn't be refused. At least that was what she understood of the network's structure.

She couldn't tell if Accelerator had the virus but it looked like nothing was passing along the link at least. He would probably be out of the fight then.

Okay, on to Last Order...

The Virus was stronger here but not by much. It was avoiding important functions that she'd need to survive in the short term. As Lumen tried to peel one of them away though, it was instantly reapplied by...

What? It was reapplied from nowhere. There was no star at the end of that link.

Lumen tried again and traced the link to it's source but there really was nothing here...

No, that was wrong. There was something here. She was just looking at it from the wrong angle.

The sea of minds had twisted. Whereas previously physical location affected how the lines linked up, now it was like a globe. Every other star was around her like she was at the surface of a sphere. All of the other sisters had their minds on the surface of the sphere.

In a way, this was the center of the network.

She heard a noise from below her. Was someone speaking.

"Go on, don't you just want it to shatter? Go on, gather more. More, more!"

Below her, almost hidden in the shadow, was Misaka. Her body was as bright as a star, much like the sisters, but her body was wrapped in crimson chains.

She didn't seem aware of what was going on though and there was something next to her. A humanoid figure that was whispering to her.

End of chapter.

Ok, Now here's a question, do I just completly skip the fights that are already in the series? I mean the early Touma vs Level 5+ Misaka and the Misaki vs Gensei. I'm going to say (Unless anyone has a good argument) yes to skipping the former (at least until more characters get involved) and no to the latter (As it has a different set of objectives to the original)