Railgun Online, Accelerated World: Book 1, Awakening

Awaken to the Acceleration.

"HAAAHH!!? Hah.. hah.. hah.."

Mikoto Misaka, awoke, sopping wet inside what appeared to be a small chamber of some sort.. water was receding from her waist line, as if it were just draining away after she had been frozen in it.. after all.. the water felt cold.. but the chamber felt warm.. as if it were melting..

Her skin was bare.. she could not feel any clothes on her.. which was the best she could tell in regards to clothing, her vision was extremely blurry.

Immediately, multiple jokes about Star Wars and Hibernation Sickness and Carbonite entered Mikoto's head, which disturbed her, because she wasn't the clownish type.

She hammered her fist on the inside of the pod. "Hello? HELLO!? Kirito-kun!? Onee-chan!? Touma!? Anybody!?"

Mikoto suddenly noticed a click.. and she pushed on the top of the pod. It opened with a steaming hiss.. and water gushed out of the pod, pulling her out with it.

Mikoto stood up, hugging her shoulders and shivering on the metal floor, mist coming from her breath.

Her bare feet echoed across the cold floor as she staggered forward, trying to regain her motor skills. As she did so, she noticed a door slide open on her right, her sight clearing just enough to see a small bathroom on the right.

She staggered over.. and leaned on a small sink to look at herself in a mirror.

It was odd.. her hair had grown long, all the way down to her waist actually, and she looked thinner then usual.. though nowhere near as thin as she had looked after 2 years of Sword Art Online.

First thing's first.. clothes and a good makeover..

Looking around in the drawers of the bathroom, she found a set of hair clippers, and set to work. As she continued to cut her hair, she noticed something around her neck in the mirror, the only thing she was wearing..

It was a half ring-like device that went around the back of her neck, gold in color.. it was familiar... wait.. of course.. that was the Neuro Linker Haru had bought for her in the future.. but why was she wearing it? Too many questions.. she would answer them when she was in a state to relax..

As soon as Mikoto was done.. the sink was littered with her hair.. and she had managed to cut it to a rather rough looking medium length... not exactly the best barber in the world.. but.. at least she looked a little better. She never liked having long hair.

Mikoto walked over to the other end of the bathroom and found three shower stalls. She opened the curtain to one of the shower stalls and got in, turning on the hot water, and much to her pleasant surprise, she found soap and shampoo sitting in the stall already.

After a quick shower, and a drying off with a musty old towel, she began opening all the lockers in the bathroom, until she found some simple old clothes folded into one. A girl's locker luckily, as it had the necessary undergarments.

After dressing up in black gym shorts and a white t-shirt, Mikoto put the towel over the back of her neck, as if she had just finished working out and walked out of the bathroom. She put her hand on the walls, trying to feel for some sort of light switch.

Finally, she found a glowing green button panel, and pressed it.. and immediately light flooded the chamber..

Mikoto found herself stunned to find the walls of a ginormous metal hallway, with a ceiling that went up at least 20 meters. And lining the walls, were metal pods similar to the one she had gotten out of.

Many of them were labled..

"Dark Matter.." Mikoto whispered as she walked up to the pods and read the dusty labels. "Seyat...  Unknown Viros... Unknown human.. Attack Crash... Meltdowner... Kazuto Kirigay-.. no.. KIRITO!?"