A Railgun in Fairy Tail, Book 5: Perfection

Mind Games

"What did you say?" said Mikoto as sparks jumped out of her bangs.

Meribeth Shokuhou sighed. "Honestly...I thought I just told you...hey, you there grunt!"

One of the soldiers immediately straightened his stance and saluted. "Yes ma'am!?"

"What is my number one rule?"

"You don't like to repeat yourself!" shouted the soldier. "And whatever anyone does, never make you repeat yourself!"

"That's a good subordinate." Said Meribeth. "Did you hear that Earthlanders? I hope you won't make me repeat that."

"Sorry, but you don't have the luxury to enforce your rules on us." said Mikoto. "We're not your subordinates.."

"hahahaha...my you really are the Earthland Railgun!" said Edolas Mental Out. "All we need now is that eyepatch and an emotionless angry expression, and we'll have made a perfect copy! Now as for this one..."

Meribeth took a look at Misaki. "Well they don't call Earthlanders inferior for nothing do they?"

"Inferior?" said Misaki. "Well my twin seems to have a pretty full head."

"Wow you really are the same.." Mikoto muttered.

"Boys..." said Meribeth. "I think we can take care of these fools pretty easily...if you would?"

The soldiers trained their guns on Mikoto and Misaki and fired off a continuous round of bullets. Mikoto stepped in front of Misaki and let loose a web of electrical energy. All the bullets were repelled ouwards by the magnetic force.

When the bullets dropped to the ground, Mikoto realized that round ends of the bullets actually had needles on the end...

"Pretty extreme for tranquilizer." said Mikoto. "Trying to bring us back with broken bones?"

"To be honest, I never liked Mikaris that much." said Meribeth. "So since I can't cause her any pain, having such a precise look-alike to take her place will ease my anger a little."

"Wow, I am quite brutal aren't I?" said Misaki with a little shock in her voice.

The soldiers trained their guns on their targets again. But before they could fire, Mikoto shot out a stream of lightning from her outstretced hands which knocked out all the soldiers. Edolas Lucy ran away and stood by Mikoto and Misaki as her captors fell to the ground.

"Oh no you don't." said Misaki pressing a button on the metal brace that adorned the wrist of her Ability Enhancement Armor. "Where do you think you're going?"

Lucy Ashley stopped in her tracks, the sparkles in her eyes signalling that her mind had been taken over. Lucy walked back over next to Misaki and stood there.

"Let her go Misa- I mean Meribeth!" said Mikoto. "This won't go well for you..you're looking at two espers that are pretty much immune to your ability.

"Oh really?" said Meribeth with a sly smile. She clicked a few more bottons on her wrist, and suddenly Mikoto's expression went blank and sparkles appeared in her eyes.

"M-Misaka!?" said Misaki. "What's wrong?"

Mikoto mereley thrust her hand out at Misaki and shot a powerful lightning bolt at her, which narrowly missed.

"No..impossible.." said Misaki staggering backwards. "Railgun isn't affected by my ability.."

"Under normal circumstances, that would be true." Said Meribeth.  "But let me ask you something Earthland me...why is the Railgun immune to our Mental Out ability in the first place?"