When Mikoto entered back through the portable gate that led back to her world and saw what had traspired beyond...she wasn't just shocked...she was horrified. Nothing could have prepared her for this...not with what she had been told about Dravis. True, she might have been able to guess what had happened due to her ability to sense Dravis's location...but it was still undescribibly heart wrenching to see.
Mikaris and several of the Edo-Hydra Heads had salvaged the remaining dimensional gateways from the wreckage of Psychic City which had crashed down to the earth below, not for lack of fuel, as it turned out refueling merely meant restocking food shipments and other necessities...the generator could have run forever, it crashed because the dragons overrunning the city had torn apart the disk like stabilizers on the bottom of the city, it was amazing that even a single dimensional gateway survived.
"And not a single will survive after you go through." said Mikaris. "We don't want our Touma escaping into your world...nor any who are still loyal to the old Psychic City ways...your world has enough to deal with."
"But...that means we won't see each other again." said Mikoto as she and the other Fairy Tail members stood before the gateway that was whirring and charging power within the cave.
"It's heartbreaking to part so soon after such a brief friendship." said Mikaris. "But I can't have anyone else paying for this world's mistakes."
"Brief?!" said Natsu. "Hey! Once a friend of Fairy Tail, always a friend of Fairy Tail...just look at Mystogan!"
Mystogan smiled and rubbed the back of his head. "Guilty...however many dimensions apart we may be, there's just no helping it...in that world they say there's no such thing as an Ex-Marine....well I think the same holds true for Fairy Tail."2
"I wonder if the same holds true for Hades." said Happy.
"That guy is a totally different case." said Erza.
"Oh man!! All this friendship stuff!" said Gunha laughing. "I can't take it anymore! Natsu, I'm taking you up on your offer!!!"
"YEAH!!" said Natsu hi fiving Gunha.
"Offer?" said Lucy. "what offer?"
"Long story, but to make it short Natsu offered that I join Fairy Tail." said Gunha with a grin."Didn't reply right away though...had some issues I needed to work out first."
"I think I will also join Fairy Tail." said Misaki.
"WHAAT!?" said Mikoto, Misaki Shokuhou was the last person she expected to join Fairy Tail. Gunha she had always suspected would happen sooner or later because of how much he was like Natsu, but Misaki?
"Don't act so surprised." said Misaki with the usual mischievious sparkles in her eyes. "I've always been interested in you magic users...you're all so amusing."
Everyone looked at Misaki uneasily. She could possibly be one of the more dangerous people to have in the guild.
"Well...if you are joining." said Lucy. "You'll have to promise not to mind control anybody in the guild like you're always doing at your school."
"Well you'd noticed if I tried anyways." said Misaki. "Mikoto and that guy you call Laxus are actually both immune to my control...though, if it's just one or two.." Misaki looked at Natsu, her eyes glinting with more cunning flare then usual.
Mikoto then resolved that she would keep a sharper eye on Misaki from then on...and probably ask Laxus to give her a hand.
(Other then Laxus and Mikoto, The other Fairy Tail members Misaki has no control over are Accelerator, Gildarts, Evergreen, and Nicole. While Evergreen's immunity to telepath espers continues to baffle both mages and scientists alike, Nicole's spirits form a constant mental barrier over her mind and soul, Accelerator's vector deflection obviously extends to Misaki's type of telepath abilities. As for Gildarts, somehow he can use his immense power to merely powerhouse his way through the telepathy ability by sheer will. Erza also becomes immune if she dons her Golden Railgun Armor..as she is using an armored version of Mikoto's powers.)1
Suddenly the arch behind the group gave a bright light and the gateway turned on.
"I guess this is it.." said Stiyl. "Me and Kanzaki will go first...we have to go report to pope as soon as possible."
The two members of Necessarius dissapeared through the gate.
"Hey.." muttered Mikoto. "Now that I think about it..where's Twilight Prankster and Birdway..I haven't seen them at all."
"Twilight Prankster has always been more of a free agent." said Edo-Noiress. "Though I don't doubt that now you've held his interest, and given his ability to hop through dimensions, you will see him again."
"And I don't think we need to worry about Birdway." said Gray. "She can take care of herself. Remember how she was actually able to get to this dimension before us? She probably has her own way in and out that she'd rather not tell anyone about."
Mikoto nodded. "Guess that would make sense..."
Mikoto looked back at Mikaris one last time. "Goodbye...for now.."
Mikoto and the rest of her friends turned towards the portal....and walked straight through. The moment they came on the other side....They gateway which they recognized as the one that Meribeth had left open suddenly faded into nothingness...never again to appear and provide a bridge to Edolas. But that wasn't a major concern to Mikoto at the moment...her real concern....was that world was in almost as much chaos as Psychic City was...
"No!" said Mikoto looking around at the crumbling burning buildings and cracked streets. "No, no, no, no!!"
"Those look like Anti-Skill units down there." said Erza. "Come on!"
The group ran over to the armored vehicles and people in bulletproof vests that were busy trying to guide some wayward students back to their dorms.
"What happened here?" Erza asked one of the officers.
"This isn't your business ma'am.." said one officer. "We have things under con-"
Another officer cut him off. "Don't hold anything back...These are from that magic world...judging from the tattoos they're from Fairy Tail." The man looked at Erza. "Sorry about that...he's a rookie."
"Please!" said Lucy. "you have to tell us what happened here!"
"They came out of nowhere..." said the officer. "there were hundreds of these black lizard things pouring out, eating anything they could find...it wasn't just here either...everywhere in the world is like this..Beijing is in a panic..New York is going haywire...several American harbors were attacked by giant winged lizards...And Fiore in that magic world of yours is getting some of the worst of it."
Everyone turned to look at each other.
"You know what this means..." said Erza.
"Once Dravis failed...he must have turned over to plan B..." said Gray. "Take over our worlds..."
"This isn't just some random attack." said Natsu.
"No...as of today." said Mikoto, "we're at war."
End.
Stay tuned for the Epilogue
RAILGUN THE THUNDER GOD. BOOK 7.
1. Before he died, Night Reveler actually knew about his Edolas counterpart, thanks to his dimension jumping ability. However he prefered to avoid Twilight Prankster as he did not want to risk running into Edo-Diablo.
2. Ever since the 4th book, Mikoto has had nightmares about many of her friends dying. Whenever she has these nightmares, she will stay at Lucy's house for the night, where Lucy usually makes her tea to get over the dreams
3. The Fairy Tail Cafe has become world famous thanks in part to Mira's amazing cooking and to Fairy Tail's fame as a guild. The Guild members take it in turns to act as servers at the cafe. The cafe now acts as one of the Guild's source of funding.2
4. Like any other Dragon Born, Natsu was blessed by Igneel before he was born. However, since the 'disapearance of his human parents, Igneel found Natsu wandering around the forest thanks to dragons having the internal ability to sense their children. As Dragon Born abilities can only become active after the Dragon Borns in question become aware of their heritage, during the end of the 4th book, Igneel gave Natsu a scroll explaining everything about his dragon blood.
5. Two of Zeref's most powerful demons from his books, a pair of twins by the names of Destero and Deathvore were created using two of Dravis's scales. They currently answer to Diablo as one of his many demonic servants.