Chapter 1: The Lost Research Island Domain

I decided to write this story, it'll be just one shot the whole will be one shot, it has not a sequel to it.


After the incident invasion of the Academy City when battling Vento, who was taken away by Aqua after the magician was defeated by Touma.


Outside the ocean, during a humid nightfall.

An underwater ancient domain was rising from the deep in the sea revealing a ruined city with high technology. Within the city was a laboratory and deep inside were five stasis pods and in them were four unknown species. Deep in the underground lab was a giant room and at the end was a portal gateway with a control panel on the side. Suddenly it activated making a humming within the center of the gateway's entrance and the portal opened.

Out came a small imp-like creature. "Well, it's quite intriguing here. The human must have the brains to create such technology." The creature had a female-like child voice. She began to float through and explore the lab. Then she came to the room that contained the four stasis pods. "Well, looks like the humans have discovered something unique." She looked around to see a control panel connected to the pods. "Well, time to wake up sleeping beauties." She pressed a red button and the hatch-like lids opened as steam of the sleeping gas was released.


At Academy City, Certain High School

Tsukimikado, Touma, Fukiyose, Aogami were being in the principals office getting a lecture by Komoe and Oyafune Suama

"Care to explain the racket you caused in class?" Komeo inquired with her hands on her hips.

Motoharu shrugged in his carefree demeanor. "Well, I was thinking about the bunny costumes, like which one was cuter, I think white is hotter."

Touma groaned. "You only joined in because Pierce and I were debating whether the black or red costume is hotter."

Komoe sighed at the reply. Suama turned to look at Fukiyose. "What about you, what bunny outfit do you think is cute?"

Fukiyose thought that was question was stupid. "Are you serious, all I did was get these three idiots to shut up about it!"

Suama saw the irony as she recalled how she handled the situation. "Right...how did you handle that, do you think you might been too hard on them?"

Motoharu shrugged his hands. "Not to mention we didn't finish the debate, but, besides white being hot, A-cup girls look great in white."

Aogami begged to differ. "Yeah, you would say that because it has anything to do with Loli!"

Fukiyose was getting disgusted by this perverted nature. "Gross, do you think of anything else!?"

Komoe blew her whistle. "Enough, as punishment for you four, all of you will be behind the gym pulling weed!" Reluctantly, they had no choice. "Saigo will escort you outside later."

Touma, Fukiyose, and Aogami left the office and were in the hallway. "This sucks, I have to get home to do some shopping."

"Blame Tsuchimikado for this," Aogami grumbled.

Fukiyose had to agree for once. "Yeah, he's a moron other than that, I shouldn't be a part of this."

Touma noticed the magician-Esper hybrid went missing. "Hey, where is Tsukimikado?"

In another hallway, Motoharu was talking on the cell phone. "I see...out in the ocean, this might be a problem. I'll call Kanzaki and inform her, is there anything else?"


At the Judgement Headquarters.

Konori was in the office with Kuroko Shirai, Satan, and Uiharu Kazanri.

Koroni was talking on the phone. "I see. I got it, so, we're supposed to help investigate the island. Why is that?"

Uiharu Kazari was looking up a picture that was sent to her through her printer.

Saten was looking at some books about the mysterious island with an intriguing look on her face. "Well, according to these old books, there was once an old laboratory that was said to have sunk into the ocean due to a massive hurricane." She was looking at some notes. "According to some sailors they saw the island and took a picture using a drone, despite the photos being a blur, they were able to capture some good images."

Kuroko thought this was just a wild goose chase. "C'mon, this island is probably just nothing but ancient ruins now. Honestly, Satan, you're reading into this too much like those urban legends."

Uiharu gasped once she was able to find some documents. "Wow, look at this!" Her friends were behind her. "According to these old documents, this lab was run by a scientist that believed in legendary creatures and all kinds of human experiments."

Saten felt utterly creeped out. "Sounds like Therestina and her grandfather would be interesting in."

Uiharu continued to look at the documents until something caught her eye. "What is this?" She read down further and her eyes widened.

Konori got off the phone. "Attention. That was Yomikawa Aiho, she's requesting us to join in this investigation. So, here's the list of those going, Mikoto Misaka, Kuroko Shirai, Uiharu, and Saten."

Saten was so ecstatic about this. "Yay! I need to explore something real!"

Kuroko thought that the choice was not a good one. "Saten isn't a member of Judgement, it's too dangerous." Saten felt a little hurt about this. "Wait, I was able to help you guys take down Therestina!" The teleporter was about to argue further until Uiharu tugged her skirt. "C'mon, Saten has a nose for these kinds of legends, she could help us."

Kuroko sighed deeply and seeing Saten's puppy pout drove her nuts. "Fine, then, but don't treat like this is a vacation." Saten hugged her excitedly. "Thank you, Shirai!"


Outside the Anglican Church

Styli was having a chat with Laura. "Did you hear the lost island has surfaced?"

Laura was holding an umbrella. "Yes, normally, it shouldn't concern us since it's science territory, however, documents were saying about 30 years ago, there were species that were discovered and captured by scientists." She was using telepathic.

Styli found this hard to believe and thought it was a waste of time. "So, that still doesn't concern us, unless..." Laura heard his thoughts more like his slight concern reaction was a giveaway. "You guessed, if scientists were to get their hands on these species, they could draw unwanted attention not to mention the entire world might get involved."

"Shall we get the Awakusa Church members?" Styli asked.

Laura shook her head. "No, but, I will have you inform Kazanki of this, her skills will be needed if these new specimens are dangerous. I already called Tsuchimikado, no doubt he's going to inform Kanzaki. Later, he's going to have a chat with Touma and Index soon."

"Excuse me..." Kazakiri Hyouka was approaching them.

Styli got cautious of the new girl. "Who are you?"

"It's alright, I'm a friend of Touma Kamijou." The brown-haired artificial human girl assured. "My name is Kazakiri Hyouka. I have to inform you that Anti-Skill is going to get involved."

The two magicians looked a bit surprised.


At St. George's Cathedral.

Saiji and a few members gathered inside the cathedral. "Did you hear the news of the island that surfaced from the ocean?" Saiji inquired.

Isahaya fixed his glasses. "That's what it said on the news this morning. The island is big, but, why it rose from the depths of the ocean is the mystery." The old man wearing glasses decided to answer that.

Tsushima had her finger to her chin. "I know it isn't our territory since science isn't our thing but, no doubt Touma will get involved somehow."

Nomosaki was there sitting in the front aisle. "Desu, Itsuwa has the same idea too. She's already heading to Academy City to help in this."

Kouyagi had some details to share too. "Plus, one of the sources told us that Aqua of the Rear is holding his attack for now until that matter about the island is settled."

Ushibuka had a question about that suggestion. "Shouldn't we be in the city if Aqua decides to make his move?"

Saiji had that answer already. "No, until the mission of facing Aqua is continuing, we remain here and await orders. So for now, Itsuwa will be fine."

Touma and Fukiyose were outside behind the gym pulling weed.


At the Family Side Apartment

Aiho's apartment thirteenth floor

Aiho was chatting with Accelerator and Last Order.

"Listen you two, I'll need your help with an important mission. We'll be investigating an island that rose from the depths of the ocean."

Accelerator scoffed remarkably. "Why do we need to do that, it sounds like just exploration to me."

Last Order had a pouty look on her face. "Aw, exploring a lost island sounds like an adventure, "Exclaims Misaka Misaka wanting to go to the island"!" As she started to softly punch the white-haired teenager with her small hands. "Gee, do you have to be so noisy?"

Aiho just smiled at the two.


At the park, where the vending machine is.

Mikoto Misaka was walking down the street of Academy City. "Geez, that idiot still hasn't talked to me lately and not even a text. Such an idiot." She then wondered what the teenage high school was doing lately.

"Well, looks like Railgun is lost in thought." The Railgun turned to see her rival, the mostly elegant girl at Tokiwadai Middle School

Shokuhou Misaki

Age: 14

Classification: Esper

Occupation: 2nd-year Student(Tokiwadai Middle School)

Affiliation: Shokuhou Misaka's Clique

Esper Power: Metal Out

Power Level: 5

"Oh, it's you," Misaka wasn't expecting to see her schoolmate, the girl who is the most beautiful student and has people who respect her beauty. Not to mention she erased her friends' memories and didn't come to her about the incident involving her clone sister. "What do you want, Misaki?"

Misaki just gave a teasing smile. "C'mon don't give me that dirty look. I was on my way to find you because I ordered your friend Kuroko to find you."

Misaka gave her rival a suspicious stare. "What, do you plan to get them to erase their memories again?" Misaki just gave her a calm smile. "Not sure, but, I can tell you this, it involves the mysterious island that surfaced on the ocean." Hearing that got the Railgun Esper's attention which the Metal Out girl noticed. "I was called by the head director about assisting in this exploration."

Misaka was puzzled at this request. "So what does it have to do with me?" Misaki took out her remote. "As you know I have the power to erase the memories of your friends. The island was once a laboratory that was thought to be nothing more than a story." This caught Misaka's attention so she decided to listen to her rival. "Okay, I'll bite, what happened to this island and what were the scientists doing there?"

Misaki giggled at getting the hot-headed railgun girl's attention now. "Well, that's the question, nobody knows at least much of the details. There was talk back in those days about reports that the scientists working on experiments about legendary creatures and stuff. That's what it says in the documents, that there was talk about human experiments too."


Outside at the Certain High School, behind the gym.

Touma and Fukiyose were pulling weed. "Damn it, this is hard work." Touma groaned.

Fukiyose had to agree for once. "Yeah, not to mention that Pierce saddled too, some friends you have." She pulled some more weeds. "Anyway, what have you been doing lately?"

Touma stopped but didn't turn to look at his classmate. "What do you mean by that?"

"I mean, why were you in the hospital, I was told that you were transferred to the one in Academy City after coming from a trip," Fukiyose replied getting a slight twitch from her classmate.

Touma was wondering how he should answer so he gave some thought for a few minutes. "Well, a friend was in trouble and got ambushed by a gang of thugs. So, I helped that friend out, I was beaten a little but, I was alright."

Fukiyose looked at him suspiciously for a minute and sighed. "Alright...you were just transferred to another hospital after this trip and you act like it was no big deal." Touma turned around to say something until he saw a concerned look on her face. "I was just worried about you...that's all..." The Imagine Breaker was taken off guard by his sexy classmate's behavior, this wasn't like her since she was always the serious type, especially about health. "Fukiyose..." His face went red seeing this other side of her.

Fukiyose noticed the stare he was giving her which got her flustered. "Hey, don't get the idea of hugging me!" She barked comically. Touma flinched comically as he waved his hands. "No, no, I was just a little surprised that you were worried about me!" His classmate felt a little offended. "Why wouldn't I be worried about you, quite the insensitive reaction!" Touma bowed his head. "I-I'm sorry." His classmate sighed deeply. "I'll let this go, but, anyway, just don't overdo yourself."

Motoharu finally arrived. Touma didn't expect him to show up. "Tsuchimikado, about time you showed up." The perverted sunglasses-wearing teenager is crotched down next to Touma. "Kamijou, listen here." He began to whisper something inside his friend's ear, and after a few seconds, the other teenage boy's eyes widened.

Fukiyose was turned the other way so she didn't notice that the two were whispering to each other.

"Do we have to leave now, Fukiyose will be left alone to pull the weed," Touma spoke in a whispering tone.

Motoharu had a serious look on his face. "Don't worry, I managed to find Pierce and he'll be down here helping her out." That still didn't make Touma feel better, though, there wasn't any other choice. "Fukiyose, listen, something came up, Motoharu needs me to help him with something, so Pierce will here soon."

Fukiyose was puzzled and looked a bit upset. "What, so, you're ditching me too!" Touma knew he'd get this reaction from his classmate. "I'm sorry, Pierce is on his way here, I swear on my life!" Without giving a thought, he and Motoharu ran off leaving an angry Fukiyose

As they exited the school grounds. "Man, Fukiyose is going to chew me out once we return." He turned to look at his classmate who was smirking. "Hey, what's with that smirk on your face?"

Motoharu's smirk didn't leave his face. "Fukiyose was concerned about you, that look on her face was so unlike her. Sounds like she was getting mushy on you, too bad you didn't say anything romantic, you could've gotten the chance to earn some loving."

Touma was flustered but he realized what else his friend was doing. "Wait, you were already by the area and spying on us." Motoharu chuckled. "That's too cruel, I didn't want to ruin the moment so I stayed hidden. Too bad, your moment didn't go further, I'm sure you would've gotten the top-class student rep to at least give you a little sugar."

Touma growled at the Magician-Esper hybrid. "Don't say it like that!"

"Anyway, did you hear about the island that surfaced to the ocean?" Motoharu asked his goofy demeanor leaving his face replaced with a serious look. "We'll be investigating with some people from Anti-Skill."

"Anti-Skill, why are they involved?" Touma asked.

Motoharu shrugged his shoulders. "All I know is that we need to be careful about our powers, you know that they're Espers and I work with magicians as well with them too, if my true identity is somehow leaked, it'll cause a few problems. Kanzaki, Itsuwa, and someone named Hyouka are joining us." Touma was surprised to hear that the angel girl was coming along. "Who is coming along besides Anti-Skill?"

Motoharu put his hand to his chin. "Well, I heard the woman is bringing a few teenagers from Tokiwadai Middle School, their names are Saten, Misaki, Misaka, Uiharu, and Kuroko. There are also two kids joining us that the Anti-Skill leader has been looking after."

Touma felt utterly worried now, the middle school girls he met during the festival were coming on a dangerous. However, he was wondering who are other two kids are that are joining.


A short time later, they arrived at the airport and got on a supersonic plane.

Two hours pass since they depart from the airport.

Touma and Motoharu were on the airplane taking a flight toward the location of the island. Along for the ride were Kanzaki, Orsola, Hyouka, Itsuwa, and Index in another part of the plane having a discussion. "So, those middle school girls are aquatinted with Kamijou, right?"

"Yes, I believe so, at the airport, they greeted him as they met," Itsuwa whispered back a slight jealousy in her eyes. "I know that brown short-haired girl knows Touma, she was saved by him, not sure what, but, she owes him her life too." Hyouka was just quiet feeling a little awkward.

Misaka, Misaki, Uiharu, Kuroko, and Saten on the other side that was close to Touma and Motoharu. "So, Kamijou is here, it's been too long since we've seen him during the festival." Misaki giggled seductively. "I admit he's more handsome than ever."

Misaka gave a pouty look. "Hey, focus on the mission, we're here to look into this island."

Saten gave a playful look. "Aw, is Misaka jealous?" The Railgun glared at the non-Esper. "Shut up, I'm not jealous!"

Uiharu put his finger to her lips. "Shush you two, Kamijou will hear you." Kuroko didn't say a word but she wasn't happy to know that the boy that Misaka owed her life to was around. "Damn, that ape has to be here, not to mention he knows other girls." Then she had an idea. "If I prove that Touma is only interesting other hot women, then Misaka will be forced not to think about that baboon."

In the other row of seats was Aiho, Accelerator, Tsuzuri, and Last Order(in disguise even before she left the Family Side apartment). "Remember squirt, you can't talk the way you do, the Railgun has friends here that'll get suspicious and start asking questions if you blab about your identity."

Last Order gave a pouty expression. "Geez, I just want to talk to my sister and her friends." Aiho just smiled gently. "Don't worry, you'll get your chance."

"I admit, this exploration should be interesting," Kikyou said.

"Attention passengers, we'll arrive at our destination in half an hour, prepare for departure." Touma immediately froze thinking what the flight attendant was saying.

Motoharu smirked. "Well, feels like when we arrived in Avignon, France, huh Kamijou?" His classmate didn't respond instead he had an uneasy look on his face.

Everyone got on their parachutes ready and jumped out of the plane.

"Wooahhhhh!" They screamed minus Accelerator.

Last Order was excited. "Wheee!"

"This isn't fun!" Kuroko shrieked comically.

They landed on a small beach, some landed on the shallow water, and a few of them were Touma, Itsuwa, Orsola, and Motoharu.

"Talk about landing," Touma said shaking his body and getting himself to dry out.

Misaka saw what her crush was doing. "You're still in the water, idiot."

Orsola approached the boy and took out a handkerchief wiping Touma's cheek. "C'mon, you'll catch a cold."

"Your cloth is wet though," Touma pointed out.

Orsola looked at her clothes and giggled. "Oh, it is, sorry."

"Touma!" Hearing that made Touma flinch seeing the nun and the railgun with disturbing auras. "Idiot, why the hell are you letting that girl wipe your cheek like that?"

Saten giggled in a teasing matter. "Well, looks like Kamijou is popular."

"Be quiet," Uiharu whispered.

Misaki giggled at the scene. "Misaka and that nun sure need to catch up."

Clap Clap

The clapping came from Aiho's hands, who also held a sheet of paper. "Attention, attention, Kukyou set up the camp here. However, some of you will need to stay here for the time being to help me set the camp up. So, Kuroko, Misaki, Hyouka, Tsuzuri, and Uiharu will remain here. As for the exploration team, I'll be leading the group and those that will join me will be Touma, Misaka, Saten, Motoharu, Kanzaki, Itsuwa, Orsola, Last Order, Accelerator, and Index."

The exploration team set up through a dirt path while the home base team began to set up the camp and equipment.

Kuroko and Uiharu were placing tables with two laptops. "Will these laptops last?"

Uiharu thought of that already. "Don't worry, we can use solar energy to recharge our laptop's battery and cell phones if needed."

"I suggest we do that, it'll be in several hours," Kikyou suggested.

Itsuwa was setting up big tents with Hyouka and Misaki. "Well, this is quite the view." Misaki was gazing at the sun while its rays shined on the ocean's surface. "Perhaps we should take a swim later on."

Hyouka giggled sheepishly. "Uh, we're here on a mission not to take a swim."

Itsuwa begged to differ. "We could ask Kikyou if we can swim later after the tents are put." Misaki patted the girl on the back. "That's the spirit, plus, we can show off our bikinis to Touma and have him pick which one is the best."

Hyouka was taken off guard by that suggestion. "W-what, why would Touma need to pick what swimsuit we have on?" She comically yelped.

The exploration team came to a domain in the center that was surrounded by cliffs. "Here it is," Aiho said looking at the map. "According to the map, we need to go inside the domain and the documents that came with the map read of secret doorway lays inside."

Within the domain were computers that looked like old versions used in the 1800's. "These computers and machines look a bit like the old days." Touma presumed.

"Not quite, some look like ones to this day, rather some old models." Aiho corrected.

Saten was sniffing the air. "To think this lab was lost over 30 years ago and then rose from the depths of the ocean like magic."

Index just sweat dropped at the girl. "She's quite the adventurer."

"That's Saten for you, when it comes to urban legends, she gets fired up," Misaka commented rubbing her head.

Aiho had a suggestion for the search. "Let's split into two teams, Saten, you will take Misaka, Orsola, Itsuwa, and Index with you. Touma, you remain here with me, Kanzaki, Accelerator, and Last Order."

One the other group was gone, Last Order approached the Anti-skill leader. "Ms. Aiho, perhaps my ability can hack into the system to activate the lab's electric power." Aiho smiled a little. "Sounds like an idea."

A short time later, Saten and her group came to an old room.

There were shelves with drawers for holding documents. "Let's look in these drawers." Saten, Misaka, and Orsola search through the drawers.

Index saw an old room desk with a computer. "Let's see here." She got in an old chair." She checks the condition of the chair. "This place may be old, but, feels like nothing has changed except there's dust and drawers look rusty. No about, the entire area is probably old."

Orsola took out a book out of the draw. "This book has a history has information on this lab. It was lost many years ago." The others gathered.

Misaka saw the book had a strange ancient language. "This is ancient language, quite the pain." Orsola thought otherwise. "I can decipher them, though, this will take a while." Misaka couldn't help but feel more jealous of the nun, she didn't just have big boobs but she was smart. '

Itsuwa wasn't surprised. "Well, you had always had a talent for deciphering codes."

Index noticed another door. "Hmm, it's another door." She walked over to it and opened it which surprisingly was unlocked. "Oh, it's open." She walked inside and turned the switch then the light came on. "Whoa, the lights are working, how strange is that?" She looked to see it was some kind of room and at the end was a chart written in Greek language. "This is interesting." She turned to the doorway. "Orsola, bring that book you found and have a look at this."

Orsola was looking at the writing on the chart. "Looks like these scientists were studying ancient Greek." She looked at the book. "According to the last of the written, they were studying ancient creatures and something on Atlantic."

Index was looking at the book this time. "Yes, something ancient fish race that was so intelligent and was capable of speaking human." Misaka looked in the last drawer and found a journal. "What's this, a journal?" She opened it and started to read some pages. "This is the professor's journal." Soon the lights came on. "Wow, the electricity is on."

Misaka had an idea who was responsible for that. "Must be Last Order's doing, that was some smart thinking."


M

Touma was looking at the computers that were still be able to operate. "Man, these computers are working much better but a few that aren't working anymore."

Aiho was sitting a desk with one computer and checking out some files. "Hmm, this computer has some interesting files." She clicked on the profile. "Well, that was easy to access."

"Yes, that's thanks to me "Beams Misaka Misaka using her ability to hack and figure out the password to that file"." Last Order chanted proudly.

Accelerator was bored, to say the least. "Man, this is boring, so far, we've hadn't found anything but this trash of a lab."

Touma was too busy looking around to hear his former enemy's complaining. "He's hanging with Misaka's clone. I guess I can see he's no longer that jerk he was back then." He went to a large wall. "Geez, is this all there is?" He tapped on the wall and then heard a hollow sound. "Wait, that sounded hollow." He began to feel around the spot.

Aiho looked at the files she was able to gather. "Sounds like the professor in charge of this facility had success in retrieving some lost corpses of ancient creatures." She scrolled down further on the files and something caught her eye. "What...it reads the corpses were resurrected by using spells. How is that possible?" She looked at the last file had an attachment video and a young male professor in his mid-20s.

"Hello, whoever finds this sees that my life has been lost trying to resurrect the creatures that were retrieved. I planned to learn from these creatures which were to use magic and have the intelligence to possibly create new inventions that could benefit humanity's technology even more than ever. Sadly, someone wanted to reveal this work to the world, which caused quite a stir and panicked Academy's higher-ups. They sent the entire Anti-army on and magicians worked with them to stop my project. I wouldn't allow so I gathered all of my men. Thanks to Academy City's weaponry I was able to create kinds of weapons that made magic tools more powerful. As for technology weaponry, I created projectile weapons as in lasers. Similar to that. The battle went on for at least 5 days, then one day, something awakened the creatures that were sleeping inside the stasis pods they kept in. Not sure, but, the battle ended with a lot of deaths on both sides. I was fatally injured in the battle but I managed to flee, though, I couldn't let those creatures be slain or taken away, so, using whatever healing spell and strength I had, I was able to buy some time to get those creatures deep in within the lab in an underground lab where the latest project that my people were working on. One that was secret to Academy City."

Aiho narrowed her eyes in confusion and wonder. "What was this other project?" She had a theory about the last part. "It's possible whoever leaked out the information about these five creatures wasn't aware of this other project."

Motoharu had his arms crossed. "Well, it seems this mystery has gotten more interesting. I recall reading about this in a history about scientists discovering new species even those that were just considered to be myths or legends. Nothing much to go on but, scientists didn't stop trying to discover new species and ancient history that could have left behind something valuable."

Kanzaki didn't know why but something felt off. "I sense that something off about this place, but, I can't put my finger on it."

Touma's hand came in contact with a switch that went in like a button and the entire domain started to shake.

The other group began to freak out. "What is that rumbling?" Misaka questioned.

Index was trying to keep her legs steady. "Sounds like someone set off a trap or something!"

"Let's go check on the others!" Orsola called taking the book.

Touma took a few steps back seeing the door open up revealing a stairway. "A secret door and stairway too." He looked inside.

"Looks like the hero found the stairway," Accelerator commented. "Well, at least, we can go further into this dump."

"Let's go inside!" Last Order beamed.

Misaka was worried about her clone being exposed despite what was already figured out by Aiho. "Last Order is here, although, Aiho was able to convince some of the others that she was a cousin."

They walked down the stairway and came down to a partly dark hallway, the lights hanging above the ceiling were barely left despite Last Order using her Misaka Network.

It was only a few minutes until they came two doors, one on the right and one up ahead. "Second time take a look at the room on the right, I'll take the team up the room ahead."

Misaka and her group looked at the room where it was partly dark, up on the ceiling were eight in separate rows. Only four lights were working but others were barely lighting the room. "Look over there!" In the far back were five stasis pods. "Where are these pods doing here?"

"It's obvious this is where those five creatures were kept for 30 years," Orsola answered. "The question is, who released them?"

"What makes you think someone was here?" Index asked.

Saten was observing the tanks. "Wow, whatever was in here, mustn't been released not too long ago." The others looked at the non-Esper girl. She was taking a few whiffs from the tanks. "I can smell faint traces of the gas that was inside here. It seems whatever was released, like I said wasn't too long." She then texted Uiharu.

Uiharu and Misaki were done setting up their laptops. "Looks like the equipment is ready." Uiharu was checking out the laptops. "Everything up and running for now."

Misaki had to admit she was impressed. "I see why you're a member of Judgement, you know how to work your equipment."

Uiharu giggled flattered at the praise as she felt her phone vibrate. "Well, wonder who that is?" She got the text. "Saten and the others are in the underground.

Kikyou approached the two girls. "What's wrong, Uiharu?"

"I got a text they found the five stasis pods, but, the creatures that were them are gone." The middle school girl replied looking uneasy. "Someone was probably already here."

The former scientist looked slightly worried. "This isn't good, if the higher-ups catch wind of this, other authorities will get involved turning this island into a full search which will endanger the kids here." Uiharu felt like she needed to help her friends. "Kikyou, I need to go inside and help the others, with my Thermal Hands, I might be able to help with whatever they need."

Kikyou thought this over. "Well, I suppose I can let you inside, but, be quick, I'll need you back out here."

Uiharu went on her way texting Saten she would be coming.

Saten and her group continued to search the room for clues but so far nothing. "Man, this has become more of a mystery than I thought." Saten sighed.

Index continued to search the stasis pods. "Whatever was inside these takes must've been able to walk somehow."

Orsola thought that was strange. "I'm not an expert on sleeping gas or whatever, but, what was in this stuff must've been strong enough to keep the person asleep."

Saten figured something out. "I heard of cryogenic suspension, it was said to freeze a person's body and keep them from aging. Though, it was just used in movies, but, I guess that is the case."

Touma and his group led by Aiho went inside the other room seeing what they found was a giant portal machine. "What is that thing?" Touma asked gawking at the machine.

Accelerator was stunned for once. "Damn, sounds like this island wasn't just researching experiments about ancient creatures."

Motoharu put his fingers to his chin. "Looks like this is what the professor was working on here. However, whoever leaked the information about the creatures being studied didn't manage to find out about this machine."

"Wow, the machine is so massive "exclaims Misaka Misaka seeing the giant machine"!" Last Order chanted.

Aiho looked at the control panel. "Hmm, looks like the controls aren't working, but..." She crouched down listening to a faint engine sound. "Looks like it was on too but not too long ago." She then looked at Last Order. "Did her Misaka Network activate this too, no, there must've been more here."

Saten and the others entered the room to see her friends and were just as shocked to see the massive portal machine.

"Just the world is that?" Orsola questioned.

Saten fantasized about the mouthing structure before her. "Wow, this is straight out of a fantasy sci-fi movie!"

Last Order was feeling the machine like a child that hasn't seen a machine. "Wow, it feels so amazing, the machinery is quite unique "says Misaka Misaka checking out the structure"."

Aiho continued to check out the control panel. "Looks like there is barely any power to activate the portal."

Kanzaki put her finger to her chin. "It would seem that way, but, it doesn't explain the empty stasis pods."

Accelerator scoffed. "Does this mean we wasted our time on this island?"

Touma began to ponder over this detail. "There was power within the building but barely the moment we got inside here. However, Last Order hacked into the system's mainframe and was able to get the power on for a while. Though, was someone else here before us? That doesn't make much sense, but, it's a logical explanation."

Misaka was looking around. "Looks like whatever was here before must've activated the power several hours ago." She observed the lights that were flickering. "That would explain the flickering of the lights that are barely left on. Everything was and that would explain why we got here easily."

Uiharu and Itsuwa entered the room. "Guys!" She ran toward Saten, who explained the situation. "Sounds like things have gotten much more mysterious."

Itsuwa ran over to Touma. "Touma!" She called.

Kanzaki was feeling a bit uneasy. "I don't know but for some reason, I have a bad feeling all of a sudden."


In the unknown world a small imp lurking. "Looks like the gang is here, at least some of them. Either way, it's time for the fun to begin." She put her hand out. "Space Vortex!"


The portal gate began to power up and the control panels began to function properly.

"What the...the power is back on?" Aiho exclaimed.

"Misaka, was that you?" Touma questioned looking at the railgun user.

Misaka shook her head. "Of course not, you idiot!"

Orsola looked at the portal gate. "Look there!" The gate began to open a portal door.

"What the hell is that?" Accelerator cursed in question.

"Wow, the machine giving off a pretty circle light "Misaka Misaka points outs!"." Last Order jumped excitedly like a child witnessing something cool.

"I think pretty is an understatement!" Misaka comically retorted.

The portal began to suck them in by causing a wind-like current. "Hey, hey, that current is sucking us in!" Touma yelled.

Everyone tried to get out of the way but was caught in it except for Tsuzuri. Aiho noticed her escaping. "Tsuzuri, report back to the others right now!"

Her assistant couldn't believe what her boss said. "Aiho sensai, I can't leave you and the others here!" She protested.

Aiho smiled at her. "We'll be fine, but, I don't know where this leads to, but, I can assure you we'll be fine, just report to others and alert Antil Skill and any of our friends can contact you!" Tsuzuri was hesitant but did what her boss said and fled into the hallway as fast as she could.

"Here we go!" Touma shouted.

"Hold you guys!" Kanzaki added being lift in the air.

Misaka comically swimming through the air. "We'll be sucked inside!" She felt utterly afraid thinking that she wouldn't be able to see her mother, other sisters, and father. She felt someone grab her hand which belonged to Touma. "Hold on to my hand, we'll be fine and wherever we end up, we'll get through it!" Misaka was too speechless to listen that the boy she owed her life to was holding her hand but her crush was too oblivious to notice his actions.

Itsuwa saw this and felt jealous that the boy she had a crush on was holding another girl's hand.

Orsola smiled sweetly. "Yeah, where we end up, we'll have each other and get back home!"

Last Order practically lift in the air. "Eek! I'm flying "Yells Misaka Misaka being lift in the air like defying gravity"!" Her hand was taken by Accelerator who was also lift up. "C'mon, pipsqueak stop squirming!" He barked.

"Thank you, "says Misaka Misaka at Accelerator's which feels comfortable". Last Order chanted calmly.

"Hold on everyone!" Aiho proclaimed.

Soon everyone was sucked inside the portal and the door disappeared along with the others inside.


There you have it, Touma and his friends up getting sucked in a gate portal, where are they heading and who was the small imp that activated it. Also, what five creatures were in those stasis pods, only in due time? The main question is, where are Touma and his friends going to end up, find out next time.

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