A Railgun in Fairy Tail, Book 5: Perfection

Misaka vs Misaka, Battle 2

Mikoto was walking through Magnolia town...everything looked like it had been torn assunder by some sort of great disaster, as if she  had somehow come across some great appocalypse. Feeling rather fearful now...Mikoto walked through the town wiping the tears from her eyes.

Why was she crying...? What happened? All she could think of was the pain...the great unbearable pain. But where had the pain come from?

"N-Natsu?!...L-Lucy!? Elli?!" Mikoto called out, hoping somebody would at least answer her. "Please...anybody!?"

Mikoto looked around until she saw something that made her heart beat with even greater fear. It was the guild hall..and bloody hand prints and smears were all over it's walls. Mikoto pushed her way through the door of the guild...and found burned shattered skeletons everywhere...many of them wearing burned clothing she recognized from her friends..

"No...no...NOOO!!!" Mikoto let out a scream as tears poured down her face once more.

Suddenly the vision dissolved, and instead of colors and pain, she seemed to be feeling a swooping motion, as if all the pain was dissapearing to an area of sweet relief... Mikoto opened her eyes to find herself lying in Lucy's arms.

"L-Lucy? Are you real...? Or is this another-?"

Lucy hugged Mikoto tightly as tears poured down her face. "It's real...it's over, the pain is over.."

Mikoto suddenly realized that there seemed to be a tail and pair of black wings and horns that were disintegrating off her body and dissapearing. Had she been level shifting? She couldn't think straight anymore...the voices of hurt were still running around in her head...like a neverending scar.

Mikoto began to cry some more as she hugged Lucy tightly and buried her face in her friend's shoulder. "It was bad....very, very bad.....so bad...it hurt so much..."

Gunha, who standing nearby looked around shiftily. "Come on guys...As much as I like heartfelt reunions...we have to move now..they've probably already figured out we're here...if this is a prison cell or test room, they're definitely observing this place."

Lucy nodded. "Mikoto...can you stand?"

Mikoto quivered a little and tried to get up but collapsed again into Lucy's arms. "I-I'm sorry..I'm so useless right now..."

"If you could stand after all that I'd be surprised." said Gunha. "You were screaming like you were on fire or something.."

Lucy flashed a glare at Gunha. "Not the time!"

"Oh..er...sorry."

Lucy and Gunha each put one of Mikoto's arms over their shoulders and began walking steadily towards the door. However, before either one of them could get more then 5 feet, suddenly Cronus Shirai teleported right in front of them, blocking their path.

"Excuse me..." said Cronus with an ominous smile. "But where do you think you're going? The tests aren't even over yet..and this show hasn't gotten to the best part....where the lab rat starts throwing up!"

"Hey..you look like that Kuroko Shirai.." Muttered Gunha. "Guess you're Edo-Kuroko huh?"

"Yeesh, such a naive idiot...you're no different from our Gunha.." muttered Cronus. "Well duh! I'm from Edolas!"

Gunha grinned. "Well well well...you've got spunk...Lucy..take Mikoto and get out of here..this will only take a second.."

"Oh...now I'm mad!" growled Cronus with an evil angry smile. "You think I'm just gonna let you waltz outa...wait...STOP IGNORING ME!!"

Lucy had already ran past Cronus while she was talking with Mikoto riding piggy back style on her back.

"Oh no you don't.." said Cronus preparing to teleport. Suddenly the door slid shut and instead of teleporting outside the room, Cronus suddenly appeared with a face plant right into the door.