"Owww.....er....wha?" Mikoto's eyes were currently blurred. The last thing she remembered was Lucy running up to her from the side of the runway, frantically saying she was going to fetch some bandages. Not sure why Lucy was so panicked, Mikoto had taken her miniature journal out of her pocket and wrote the whole crazy day down....yeah, yeah, it didn't exactly seem like the best time, but Mikoto just felt like it at the moment.1
The Journal had been the last gift Mikoto had recieved from Mirajane before the war started.
"Sometimes it's good to write things down, that way you can clear your head." Mira had said. 2
Anyways, soon after, she didn't remember exactly when she lost consciousness, but she did. It didn't strike her as strange, she had lost consciousness plenty of times before, yet considering how much stronger she had gotten after her constant battles, she suspected that she would at least be able to endure landing a plane...it wasn't as if she had been fighting Diablo Etwatia..
Well...the reason for her strange collapse would become clear soon enough.
Mikoto's eyes opened just opened enough to see rows of flourescent lights rolling above her, next to her she could see what appeared to be doctors and nurses looking at her from above.
"She's awake!" said a nurse.
"Her heart rate is stabilizing," said another nurse.
"Hey.." said a doctor looking down at Mikoto. "You were in a plane crash recently..you have some serious scarring and bleeding on your back, you've lost some blood, so can you please do me a favor and try and stay awake? Now..can you tell me your name?"
"M...Mi...Miko...Mikoto....Misaka."
"Good good.." said the doctor. "Just keep talking."
"Elli...where's my cat? Where's my friends.."
"Don't worry, everybody in the plane came out fine." said the doctor. "Your friends are waiting in the lobby..now just keep awake.."
Mikoto frowned., something wasn't right here..She had gotten wounds much more serious then this..in fact, the last time she had horrible back scars, the wounds had been much more serious then the ones she had now...and there seemed to be a bigger deal made out of it this time.
"Wh-where..." Mikoto tried say. But there seemed to be something wrong with her mouth. She couldn't say anymore then 1 word every few seconds...she couldn't feel anything in her body, she couldn't move her hands or legs..
As Mikoto pondered this strange dillema, The cieling and the lights changed as she was rolled into the emergency room.
"Okay good." said the doctor. "Looks like we won't need to do any operating, but just in case, I want her on morphine again after it starts to wear off. The new head doctor should be here in 5 minutes.."
Morphine? Mikoto thought. Is it really that serious?
For the next 5 minutes the nurses propped her head under some extra pillows. That was when Mikoto started to feel it..around her neck, there was something there..like a collar. She could hear a faint familiar buzzing sound coming from it...where had she heard that buzzing before?
That's when a memory hit her brain like a meteor.
"Like it? I invented it myself." said Black Whisper. "It emits a sound frequency that inteferes with esper calculations..."
Black Whisper...he had used this collar on Mikoto when he had first captured her long ago...this collar..it was..
Mikoto turned her head with great difficulty to look at her arms and legs, they were strapped down with what appeared to be ordinary restraints...except on a closer look, she could see strange shimmering magic runes on the edges. No...this couldn't be happening...not now.
That's when he entered. By all respects he looked like an ordinary lean fit man. His doctor's coat was unnaturally clean as he smiled and greeted the nurses. But it was the name he greeted them with that made Mikoto's blood freeze.
"Yes..yes...I'm Doctor Exisio...yes...I know it's strange name..I used to ask my mother about it a lot...so let's take a look at our patient."
'Doctor' Exisio walked over to Mikoto and peered at her. In the man's eyes, Mikoto could just make out the faint hint of some wide red demon-like eyes..eyes that had belonged to a creature known as AIM Burst before it was turned into the ultimate weapon by Dravis.
"Nurse..I'm going to need to be alone with her for second." said the doctor. "Just need to check something...won't be long."
When all the nurses and other doctors had left and shut the door behind them the man turned to look at Mikoto, he then waved his gloved hand in front of his face, when his hand moved out of the way, Mikoto was looking at a fanged black scaled lizard-like face with wide red eyes. The man's hair became long and wild.
"E-Exisio.." Mikoto said."Y-you..."
"Shhh.." said Exisio putting a now clawed finger to Mikoto's lips. "I wouldn't talk too much..after all, these enhanced magical restraints make it harder to speak every time you talk.."
No...not now...not now. Mikoto's heart began to beat fast.
"You look scared." said Exisio with a fanged grin. "Don't be..after all, you're going to die anyways right? hehehehe. I'm just giving a fast relief from all the suffering you'd have to experience otherwise...or maybe not.."
Exisio pointed at a bag that had a tube connected to Mikoto's arm. "Normally this contains a pain killer that really does it's job well, but I've replaced it with a bit of Arachnis Widower's venom...you remember her don't you? Giant spider? that bastard Accelerator killed her I believe..but we managed to salvage some of her venom before then...anyways, the nurse that's about to come in...very inexperienced..she'll administer some, and I'm afraid you'll have a nice...slow..agonizing death...and the sad thing is, things like this happen in a hospital all the time."1
Exisio waved his hand in front of his face again, and once again he looked like an ordinary doctor. He walked over to the door of the room and opened it, nodding at a nurse who was waiting outside.
The nurse who looked like she was very young indeed, walked into the room, shutting the door behind her.
"Hello there Ms. Misaka." said the lady cheerfully. "I bet you're feeling quite painful right now,"
"N-no.." Mikoto said with much difficulty.
"Don't worry, we're just going to administer a little bit of morphine." said the nurse as she moved her hand over to the bag and twisted a knob on the end. The clear liquid in the bag began to move down the tube slowly, getting closer and closer to Mikoto's arm.
Suddenly there was a bang as the door was suddenly kicked open dramatically. Mikoto's eyes widened when she saw none other then Natsu Dragneel come in wearing a doctor's coat and a fake mustache on his front lip. Behind him was Lucy in a nurse's outfit.
"Hold it right there!!!" Natsu shouted.
"Wh-what!?" The nurse exclaimed. "Who are you!?"
"Who am I?!....WHO AM I!?" said Natsu. "I am Doctor Proffesor Natsu!! The greatest Heart, Butt, and Uvila surgeon in the entire world!! And I'm supposed to bring Ms. Misaka here to surgery stat!"
"Huh?" Was all Mikoto could say. If she had full use of her voice and mouth...she would have said. "What the heck kind of disguise is that!?"
"Sorry...but I've never heard of a Doctor Professor Natsu." said the nurse nervously.
"Well, he's just.." Lucy began.
"Wait..there's no need my beautiful unpaid intern." said Natsu raising a hand.
"U-unpaid intern!?" Lucy said.1
"Never heard of me huh?" Natsu said. "NEVER HEARD OF ME!! Have you not heard of the doctor who single handidly did butt surgery on a 500 pound fat man with only his thumb and a set of tweezers!? And what about that heart surgery I did for that grizzly bear back in 1989!? I HAD TO WRESTLE THE BEAR FOR HIS HEART!!!!"
"Er...sir...sorry sir.." said the nurse. "I'll just...erm..what are those cats doing here?"
The nurse pointed down at Happy and Elli who were standing next to Natsu.
"They are my seeing eye cats!!" Natsu exclaimed.
"B-but you don't seem blind sir."
"I meant they are my HEARING EAR CATS!!" exclaimed Natsu. "I have a serious ear condition!!"
"Y-you do sir?"
"DUH!!" said Natsu. "WHY DO YOU THINK I'M TALKING SO LOUDLY!!!!??? Nurse Nicole!! Kindly remove this imbecile from the room!!"
Nicole entered the room, also wearing a nurse's outfit. She grabbed the nurse by the shoulders and pushed her out of the room. "Sorry, ma'am, but kindly remove yourself. You are interfering with Doctor Professor Natsu's work."
As soon as the door was shut behind the shocked nurse, the group moved over to Mikoto's bed with utterly relieved sighs.
"Don't you worry Mikoto." Natsu said. "We know Exisio's here, we'll get you out of her before he does anything.."
"Mmmff...." Mikoto said as it became more and more difficult to speak. "E....Exi....Exisio...."
"Yeah we know!" said Lucy. "We're going to get you out of here!"
"N-No..." Mikoto said moving her eyes frantically towards the tube where the venom was getting closer and closer to her arm. "A-Arachnis....."
"Huh?" said Natsu. "What about her?"
"V-venom.....venom..."
"Yeah." said Natsu. "I think that Spider-man villian is pretty cool too!"
DARN IT NATSU!! Mikoto's brain screamed.
Mikoto tried to speak, but she had lost the ability to say anything altogether. She moved her eyes frantically at the tube, hoping that somebody would get the message. And of course, the one who did was Elli.
Elli saw where Mikoto was looking, and the word 'venom' hit a mark in her head.
"OH NO!" Elli activated her wings and flew over to the tube, trying with all her strength to break it.
"Oh..so that's what she..HOLD ON MIKOTO!" Natsu took the wire from Elli's paws and ripped it apart with his hands. High powered spider venom spilled out of the tube and sizzled and smoked, burning a scar on the floor.
In the meantime, Lucy and Nicole helped remove the restraints and collar from Mikoto. Mikoto sat up gasping..."D-doctor...P-professor? Really?"
"I thought it would be fun!" said Natsu as he threw a new black t-shirt with yellow hearts and some shorts to Mikoto (she was in a hospital gown.)
After Mikoto had changed the group ran out of the room quickly past surprised doctors and nurses.
"Where are we?" Mikoto said. "What happened?!"
"After you stopped the plane, one of Dark Matter's beetles came out and attacked you where you were wounded, knocked you out.." said Lucy. "Natsu and Nicole managed to destroy it, but we needed to get you to the hospital quick since without Wendy around.....you know. So they brought you to that local Lilioukalani Hospital in Honolulu.."
"And in the lobby me and Natsu caught Exisio's scent..." said Nicole. "And we saw them carting you off to the emergency room right after the doctors said you were going to be alright, that your injuries were already healing miraculously fast....oh dear.
Standing in the middle of the hallway, blocking their way, was Exisio in his full monster lizard man form, his two large lightning rod like spikes on his shoulders vibrating with black energy.
"Why hello there." said Exisio. "I don't believe I gave my patient any permision to leave...I'm going to have escort you back to...the insane ward perhaps?"
"Yeah right!" Natsu yelled. "ROAR OF THE FIRE DRAGON!!"
Natsu exhaled a massive blast of flame at Exisio. Exisio engulfed his fist in powerful black energy and punched right through the fire as doctors and nurses all around began screaming and running out of the hall.
"Come on boy!!" said Exisio as he dashed at Natsu. "Surely you can do better then that!!"
"Oh you arrogant...FREAK!!" Nicole leapt in front of the others, activating her Ghost Dragon Talons. She swiped her ethereal talons at Exisio who dodged easily and mashed Nicole to the side with black energy engulfed fists.
In a burst of rubble, Nicole flew through the wall. Exisio cackled as he puffed up his cheeks. "ROAR OF THE DEATH DRAGON!!"
"NO!!" Mikoto activated her massive electric wings in a flash and closed them over the group, shielding them from the massive blast of black energy.
When the wings opened up Natsu jumped at Exisio, his right hand having morphed into a flaming gauntlett attatched to a glowing bright flaming blade.
"FLAMING CRASH OF THE DRAGON BORN!!" Natsu smashed the flat of the fiery blade into Exisio throwing him back with explosive power.
Lucy held up a golden key."Open! Gate of The Lion! Loke!!"
In a burst of golden light, Loke appeared wearing his usual suit and glasses. "Hello Lucy, I believe you wanted this weird iguana man out of the way right?"
Loke engulfed his fist in bright glowing light. "REGULUS IMPACT!!"
Loke smashed his glowing fist into Exisio's jaw. Exisio flew backwards even further till he smashed through the wall at the end of the hall
"We need to get out of here fast." said Nicole bursting from the hole in the wall. "Who knows how many other Hydra Head members are here!"
"Aye!" said Happy. "We need a plan of escape!"
"I think I have an idea." said Natsu with a grin.
"LOKE!" Lucy scolded. "Now's not the time!"
Loke had his arms around a couple of nurses. "Hey there ladies...why don't we go grab some dinner or something-"2
Before Loke could say anything else, Lucy grabbed him by the ear and dragged him off.1
10 minutes later, the hospital was in a panic. Not only had they just whitnessed a fight between a bunch of seemingly superpowered individuals, but a group of them had just stolen an ambulance..and whoever was driving, wasn't very good at it.
"WHOSE IDEA WAS THIS!!? Mikoto screamed as she clung for dear life in the ambulance. "AND WHOSE DRIVING!??"
"I never got a license!" Lucy screamed from behind the front wheel as she accidentally drove into the left lane and started frantically turning the wheel left and right to avoid incoming cars.1
"Oh darn.." Natsu said as he and Nicole lay in the back, motionsick out of their minds. "I think I'm gonna vomit."
Mikoto clung to her seatbelt for dear life. "L-Lucy!! Let me drive!! My Mom taught me a bit...wait...what's that noise!?"
"Sirens I think!" said Lucy as she finally made it back on the right lane.
"Great! Now they're cops after us!!" Mikoto said slapping her forehead. "Can this day get any worse!?"
Suddenly a black scaly arm smashed through the roof of the ambulance and grabbed Mikoto by the throat, ripping her up to the roof above.
"MIKOTO!!" Everyone screamed.
Mikoto choked and grabbed at the talons of Exisio as he held her on the roof of the ambulance, the wind beating against their hair.
"You're doomed Railgun." said Exisio. "Remember? Your electric powers don't work on me!"
"Wh-what about small pieces of metal.." Mikoto said as she choked.
"Eh!?"
Mikoto raised her hand which had a small coin rested against her thumb.
Exisio's eyes widened as too late he realized what Mikoto was doing.
"ZAAAMM!!!" There was a massive spark, a sonic boom and a streak of orange....and the smoking headless body of Exisio dropped Mikoto, falling off the ambulance into the road like strange road kill.
Mikoto quickly clung to the roof of the ambulance using electromagnetism while she breathed and heaved desperately. "Man...darn..."
"What happened!!?" Lucy shouted from the driver's seat.
"I think I just killed Exisio!" Mikoto shouted back.
"You WHAT!? How!?"
"I don't know!! I railgunned his head off!" Mikoto shouted. "I really didn't think it would be that easy!!"
"This trip has been nothing but a whole bunch of crazy!!" Lucy squealed
"Oh my gosh..." Mikoto murmured. The road in front of the ambulance was starting to crack and break with molten magma coming out. In a burst of molten rock, Diablo Etwatia appeared 20 meters away his burning eyes looking extremely murderous.
Mikoto did the only thing she knew to do then...she begged the dragon within her for help.
"Elanis please...there's not much time...we need your help..PLEASE!"
"Worry not child..." said another voice. "I have not abandoned you.."There was a flash of bright white light, and suddenly the entire environment dissapeared and the ambulance reappeared running through what must have been Waikiki beach, dragging up sand as it suddenly crashed into a thankfully empty life gaurd tower.
As the tower toppled down, the ambulance gave a final dying sputter and the engine sizzled out. Lucy, Natsu, Nicole, Loke, Happy, and Elli collapsed out of the vehicle gasping while Mikoto rolled off the roof and fell into the sand.
"Yeah.." Mikoto muttered. "Anyone else feel like they could use a long nap?"
Everyone raised their hands to this.
"Uhhuh.." said MIkoto. "I thought so."