edited 8th Jan '10 7:35:37 PM by Tzetze
[1] This facsimile operated in part by synAC.— Misaka Mikoto —
This was the bridge where they fought for the first time. Misaka sighed as she remembered that encounter with Kamijou Touma, in wich he stopped her railgun with one bare hand. She still didn't know how the hell he did it and now maybe she would never know. That idiot had gone somewhere and now he was declared missing. Not that she cared about him or anything it's just that it frustrated her that he dissapeared before she could beat the hell out him.
Misaka was thrown out of contemplations when she saw the crowd gathering around the suicidal man in excentric clothes.
"Hey wait a minute!" Misaka said as she ran in his direction, she stopped after getting to the front of the crowd "Lets not be hasty, come back here I'm sure there is a better solution than that!"
"I told you, stay away!" Nozomu shouted out again.
"Don't any of you see?!" he exclaimed like a mad prophet. "This city has brainwashed all of you! By setting up such a place like this all focused on study and development, and especially by implementing a Level system, it's controlling the children by imprinting senses of competition and arrogance!". He of course neglected to mention that he was of all things a teacher in this city.
"Soon all that will matter to everyone is biting their own way to the top, pushing down others just for their own sake. It's exactly like Darwin said, we are naught but ravenous animals, fighting each other to stay relevant!" Nozomu proclaimed. By this point Index could barely make out what he was saying, most of it sounded rather rambly.
"I'm in despair! This ESP-grubbing society has left me in despair!". With that, Nozomu Itoshiki leapt off the bridge, into the waters below.
At least that was the plan. When he opened his eyes he found himself on a boat, atop a large pile of salmon. Huh? Since when did we order in fish? Nozomu thought to himself.
"I could have died!" he yelled out to the bridge.
edited 9th Jan '10 1:44:17 AM by GuestOfDishonour
Cu braţele armate, cu focul vostru-n vine, "Viaţă-n libertate ori moarte" strigă toţi.So many people. Something really special must have happened! I hope it's good.
The Kid stood at the very edge of a large mass of people. With a bit of work, he manganed to squeeze his tiny, frail body through the crowd to try to see what was going on. To his disappointment he found nothing of interest except a young lady with a strange look on her face. Determinated to satisfy his curiosity on what happened, he decieced to ask her. She looks like a nice lady. He thought to himself as he made his way towards Misaka and tugged on her skirt.
"Excuse me Ms, do you know why all these people are here?" The Kid said giving her the cutest smile he could muster.
edited 9th Jan '10 10:56:24 AM by Cylink
Attraced by the big crowd, a boy carrying a shield went to investigate:
'Alright people! Member of judgement coming through, coming through. What is going on?' He heard a familiar voice at the edge of the bridge: 'Hey, Jill!'
'Ah, Shiki! Glad to see you here! Just what happened?'
'Oh, Nozomu-sensei tried to kill himself', said Shiki, as if it was the most ordinary happening in the world.
'Again?' asked Jil
'Again. I'm starting to wonder how he manages to attract crowds like this every time.' Shiki giggles.
'Ok, glad to hear that nothing special is going on. Where is sensei now?'
Shiki tried and failed to control her laughter 'He fell on top of a fish transport. He should take a bath afterwards. I already sent mr. Mew to pick him up.'
'Mr. Mew? I didn't know he could lift a human.'
'Neither do I. I always wanted to try it.' Shiki turned around towards the water.
'Oy, Sensei! When you are done despairing about everything for today, hold on to Mr. Mew, and he will carry you back up! Just not too tightly, I want to keep him clean!'
Mr. Mew, Shiki's stuffed animal was already standing next to Nozomu, waiting for his response.
Nozomu
Nozomu crouched down and began staring intensely at the stuffed doll in front of him. After a few moments, he began poking the stuffed cat in the stomach, as if to verify that it was really a solid object. Nozomu called up to the girl on the bridge:
"Misaki-san, are you sure this is going to work?" Nozomu asked, continuing to poke the doll while speaking.
Fear the Gothilolions! | Anime list— Misaka Mikoto —
"Ah... well a profesor from the Academy just jumped off the bridge" Misaka said still shocked about what she had seen, she peered over the railing and saw that due to some miracle the madman was alive and well on top of a salmon filled boat.
"How lucky you have to be..." She briefly wondered before turning to the young boy "L-looks like he is alright, look the members of Judgement are already taking care of it"
Jade stared at the professor who was in despair once again. He had attracted quite a crowd and it seemed the judgement officers would take care of him. Looking around for no real reason, Jade spotted an interesting subject and a boy conversing with each other. Mikoto Misaka, one of the strongest espers in the city. Chuckling at the coincidence of seeing her, Jade turned his attention back to Nozomu, who seemed to be holding a doll while talking to a student on the bridge.
Jade scribbled down a note and threw it to the man, managing to hit his head with the rolled up piece of paper.
It read "Don't die. My life would be quite a bit less interesting if you were to perish today, my fellow professor. Sincerely, Jade Curtiss."
edited 27th Jan '10 4:29:15 PM by neobowman
"I wanna help too! See this red cape?" The Kid said proudly displaying his cape, "This means I'm a hero and if I want to ever surpass THE GUY I have to be able to help other people."
The Kid leaped off the bridge, his arms spread out as he descended downward towards the salmon boat.
"Don't worry professor I'm com..." Unfortunately his jump came just short of the boat, bashing his head on the side. His head twisted to an unnatural position upon impact and his small body fell into the water below with a dull splash. The Kid's lifeless eyes stared up from the water, his joyful smile still on his face.
"ing to aide you!" The Kid shouted cheerfully, now somehow standing next to Misaka again, completely oblivious to his recent death.
Nozomu
Nozomu felt the paper collide with his head. "What's this," he said, picking up the paper from the pile of salmon. Unfurling the now somewhat soggy parchment, he began to read, 'Don't die. My life would be quite a bit less interesting if you were to perish today, my fellow professor. Sincerely, Jade Curtiss.' Mulling the words over in his head a bit, one word stuck out.
Today. Today. TODAY. TODAY!!
Flying into his second panic of the hour, Nozomu made a lunge for the stuffed kitten. He was screaming "Hurry up and bring back up. I need to prepare. I was lucky to be spared to day, who knows if I will be so lucky the next. If I am unable to amuse him tommorow my end is a certainty!!" Throughout the rambling he kept shaking the poor doll up and down, and also began running erratically around the deck of the ship.
Fear the Gothilolions! | Anime list"Huh? Illusionary Ability? What are you taking about Ms?" The Kid asked in confusion, "Anyway I have to go help the....Oh! Oops! I'm so silly! I must have accidentally died and almost didn't notice it. I need more practice, otherwise I'll end making the same mistakes when I restart. You don't have to worry about what happened Ms. It's normal."
The Kid moved to the edge of bridge,this time with more cation. "OK this is going to be tricky jump, but I'm pretty sure I can make it. Just need to be a little more careful this time." He said as he prepared himself for his second jump.
After reading Jade's piece of paper, Nozomu seemed to be in nervous wreck mode.
"Hmm, I may have caused a problem."
Jade fully intended to continue on watching for a while but then the boy who was talking to the Esper girl started yelling and jumped off the bridge. Fortune seemed to be against him as his head hit the side of the boat and twisted at least one hundred degrees before his body fell into the water.
Jade raised his eyebrows and was just about to call for some help when the boy reappeared next to Misaka finishing his heroic speech. At this point, Jade was more than just intrigued and went up to question him. Misaka held the boy back from indulging in his strange desires once more and Jade gladly took the opportunity.
"Young man. How did you do that? It's most certainly unnatural for someone to seemingly die and then reappear back where they were moments earlier..."
edited 27th Jan '10 6:58:43 PM by neobowman
"NOOOOOO! Let go of me! Let go of me! Let go of me! Let go of me! Let go of me! Let go of me! Let go of me! Let go of me! Let go of me! Let go of me! Let go of me! Let go of me! Let go of me! Let go of me! Let go of me! Let go of me! Let go of me! Let go of me! Let go of me! Let go of me! Let go of me! Let go of me! Let go of me! Let go of me! Let go of me! Let go of me! Let go of me! Let go of me! Let go of me! Let go of me! Let go of me! Let go of me! Let go of me! Let go of me! Let go of me! Let go of me! Let go of me! Let go of me! Let go of me! Let go of me! Let go of me! Let go of me! Let go of me! Let go of me! Let go of me! Let go of me! Let go of me! Let go of me! Let go of me! Let go of me! Let go of me! Let go of me!" The Kid repeatably yelled as he futilely tried to escape Misaka's grasp.
"Young man. How did you do that? It's most certainly unnatural for someone to seemingly die and then reappear back where they were moments earlier..."
The Kid stopped his struggling and turned to the stranger that just spoke to him. "I don't know Mister." He answered honestly, "It just kind of happens. It's like dieing in a video game and restarting back at the beginning. Except painful."
edited 27th Jan '10 7:21:33 PM by Cylink
Misaka was having a hard time keeping the boy in check, he wasn't particuraly strong but he more than made it up with enthusiasm.
"Uh hi profesor Curtiss, and not I don't know im I just met him moments ago" She was getting slightly irritated with his flailing around to get free "Would you please keep still!?"
edited 27th Jan '10 7:51:28 PM by daltar
Skiki
'Alright Mr Mew! Drag Sensei to the side of the river!' shouted Shiki downways. Mr Mew, as helpful as always, held onto Nozomu's arm, and flew of towards the river banks.
Mostly. Appearantly, the weight of a grown man seemed to be too much for the poor stuffed animal. Both carrier and load fell into the water three times, and more or less washed up on the shore, looking like a pile of rags.
Shiki couldn't hide her shock at the sight. 'Oh no, now I have to laundry him again! He HATES laundry!'
Jil, still standing next to her, was shocked at first, but as soon as he saw both Mr Mew and Nozomu move a bit, he laughed at the scene.
edited 27th Jan '10 11:13:15 PM by Kayeka
Nozomu
Nozomu lay by the side of the river, collecting his thoughts. As the gears in his head began working again, he turned his head and saw Mr. Mew.
"Mr. Mew, is it?" he asked rhetorically. "If it that is Mr. Mew, then that would mean Misaki-san should be nearby..." He sat up, and turned his head from side to side searching for his student.
Fear the Gothilolions! | Anime listThe Kid wasn't too fond Curtiss's suggestion to restrain him, especially since he convinced Misaka to let go of him, so he took a quick scan around him for potential escape routes before addressing Misaka again.
"Thank you!" The Kid said with a beaming smile, "Mikoto-san is your name? I think it's a very lovely name. You can call me The Kid. That's what my grandfather always called me."

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Such misfortune…
One day Touma Kamijo was a mere Level 0 Esper, just another random student of Academy City. The next, he was gone, seemingly vanished off the face of the Earth.
At this point he went from fairly unknown to the centre of attention. His cause of disappearance was a complete mystery, naturally the media snapped this incident up and soon the everyone was in panic. Was he kidnapped? Did someone get past the ‘impenetrable defences’ around the City? Is the world safe anymore?
Things only got worse once the Imagine Scourge appeared. A disease that slowly negates all its victim’s Esper powers before killing them, with no apparent cure? Though it had only affected a small, contained area everybody was scared stiff as something like this could potentially destroy the entire City.
As the days went by people tried to forget about these happenings and turn their minds to other things, such as the upcoming Tanabata festival. Although she wasn’t too worried about the Imagine Scourge, one person could not simply keep Touma out of her mind…
The girl only known as Index walked along the road, looking very downbeat, an expression that was not normal for her. She had long, silvery-purple hair and was dressed in the robes of a Catholic priestess. On her first visit to Academy City she had been trying to hide from other magicians, and by fate or something along those lines she had met up with Touma Kamijo, a boy ignored by everyone for having no aptitude in ESP. Touma quickly became Index’s closest friend, and had once saved her life… and now he was gone, and didn’t look like he’d be back.
Index closed her eyes and leaned on the railing, but was immediately startled by sudden voices.
“Please sir, don’t do this!” someone was shouting, a certain distance down the road. Index moved closer and saw that a large crowd had gathered around a man standing on the edge of a bridge, trying to jump off it.
“Don’t stop me!” he shouted “Stay back and let me die!”. The man was about twenty-five, his hair was black with a few spikes at the end and he wore an old-fashioned type of kimono.
Index gasped. She wanted to save him, but didn’t know what she could do.
edited 8th Jan '10 7:47:06 PM by GuestOfDishonour
Cu braţele armate, cu focul vostru-n vine, "Viaţă-n libertate ori moarte" strigă toţi.