A Certain Magical Esper

by Slice141

The Roman Catholics

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The Roman Catholics

*Assembly Area*

Twilight sighed as she marked off some more shipments for the coming event when she saw Kuroko walking towards her with Uiharu making her smile.

"Hey Kuro!" Twilight yelled waving as the two girls headed her way.

"Hey Twi! I guess Anti-Skill has even you working this huh?" Kuroko asked as the two gave each other a hug.

"Yeah... I'd rather be fighting Skill-Out or something right now than do this. But since you're here I think I can survive." Kuroko smiled as she saw their friends walking towards them.

"Hey guys! Did you get my messages?" Kuroko called out as they smiled and nodded.

"Yeah we took care of it. Oh and Febrie came along with us to, AJ said she had some things to take care of." Saten said as Kongo patted the girls head.

"I have to say she's a sweet young lady and any boy that catches her attention is going to be lucky." She smiled getting nods from the others as Twilight's phone went off.

"Hello? Really? Well can't- But- Fine I'm coming." Twilight groaned as she hung up her phone as the others looked at her curiously.

"What's wrong Twi?" Saten asked.

" Command needs my help over at District 23. Sorry guys I'll catch up with you after the event ok?" Twilight said as she disappeared.

"Awww! I was looking forward to a day with Twi!" Kuroko pouted as the others smiled at her.

*With Twilight*

The girl appeared inside the windowless building as she looked at the man floating in a tube as countless pipes connected to it.

"What do you want? I don't have time to be messing with your kind. I have other things I need to do today and I don't like lying to my girlfriend." Twilight huffed as the man smiled.

"So full of spirit even after the first day you came here dear. It's a simple matter really. Your friend Touma and his friends are about to embark on a journey outside the city. I need you there to help out with whatever they need." Cromwell stated as she crossed her arms.

"What's the damage?"

"Nothing right now. But it seems that Roman Catholic Church and English Puritan Church have joined forces for the time being to find a girl that can possibly decipher the Book of the Law. We fear her plans may be.... Less than pure." He stated as she huffed.

"Please for god fearing people you guys have your hands dirtier than even some of the hardest criminals. Fine. So when do I leave? Oh and lets just get one thing straight, I'm not your errand girl like you have Touma running around to clean up your messes. I've done that more than enough for others in the position of power I'm not going to be doing it anymore." Twilight growled getting a nod from Cromwell.

"Of course. Now it seems that a woman has been kidnapped, Orsola Aquina. She's the one that can possible decipher the Book of the Law. Find her and hand her back over to the Roman Catholics for safe keeping. It would be a personal favor to me." He said as she sighed.

"Fine. The only reason I'm doing this is because my friends could be in danger. Where am I meeting them?"

" South gate. They're leaving right now. If you hurry you can catch them." He smiled as she disappeared.

*South Gate*

"Damn that man! I can't believe he took Index!" Touma growled as he ran towards the South Gate when Twi appeared in front of him wearing her Anti-Skill uniform.

"Hey Touma!" She smiled side stepping the boy when he nearly crashed into her.

" GYAAH! Twi!? What are you doing here?"

"Oh I came to help with your little problem. I guess we should hurry if we're going to get this over with. Come on." She smiled taking his hand and hurrying through the South Gate after she flashed her badge to the guard.

*With Index and Stiyl*

"I see. But why kidnap me? You could have just asked you know." Index huffed as Stiyl rolled his eyes just as the doors opened to show Twilight and Touma.

"Touma!! Hey Twi!" The girl smiled as she ran to him as Twilight waved to her friend.

"Hey Index. You ok? Touma told me the fire head took you so I came to help." Twilight smiled as Index sighed.

"Well he did have a reason but he still could have just asked. I'm glad you're here though I wanted to talk to you about something."

"Yeah? What is it?"

" What do you think Touma's and the Railgun girls relationship is?" She asked as Twilight sighed.

" I don't know, I think she likes him but I think the idiot doesn't even realize it at all. Not even your own feelings for him." She sighed looking down at the younger girl.

"I see. Do you think he ever will? With any of us?" She asked as Twilight smiled.

"I think you just have to either tell him or show him. He's bound to catch on sooner or later." She winked getting a smile from the smaller girl.

" Oh and we ran into this nun earlier that's outside with some of the other Romans. So I guess the day is done right?" She asked as one of the Roman Catholics burst into the building.

"Orsola has been taken by the Amakusa Christians!" She yelled as Twilight sighed.

"Well there went my easy day and I was looking forward to some private time with Kuroko. Come on lets get this over with." She groaned as they headed outside where there were at least a hundred of the Roman Catholics.

*Orsola Roman Church*

The battle with the Amakusa was swift with Twilight’s help spearheading the attack before they learned that the Roman Catholics had tricked them. Now they were teamed up with the Amakusa and the English Puritans. Right now Twilight sighed as she was surrounded by Roman Catholics with weapons like from her home.

“You guys are really getting on my nerves you know that? I have dinner planned for me and Kuroko.” Twilight said slapping her hands together as a spear of fire formed out of her hands while she pulled them apart making them step back.

“That’s right you bitches have no clue of who I am do you?” She growled slamming her foot into the ground as to massive stone golems rose from the ground.

“W-What are you!?” A soldier of the Catholic church cried.

“ My name is Twi Hoshi and I’m going to end this little party.” As soon as she said that the golems charged into the girls as Twilight spun the flaming spear in her hands and looked to where Agnese Sanctis was holding out.

“ No matter where you hide I will always find you. My eyes see everything.” Twilight smiled as she rose another 100 small golem soldiers as they cleared the way to for Twilight while the Amakusa and Puritans battled with her golem.

*With Touma*

“ Who is that girl! How can she use such powerful magic!?” Tatemiya Saiji yelled watching at Twilight made her way towards where Agnese was hiding.

“ Trust me you don’t want to get on that girls bad side. She even had your profit scared senseless from her display of power. I suspect this isn’t even her full power not even close.” Stiyl said throwing a fireball at some of the charging Romans while he looked over to see Index casting the Sheol of Fear paralyzing the enemies around her.

“Yeah Twi-Sensei is really scary when she’s upset.” Touma yelled as they made a tactical retreat into one of the building.

*With Agnese*

The girl shuddered as she felt a power like she had never felt before blanket the entire area making her pale at what had been unleashed. She watched as the that was bolted and barred, burst into flames as she saw what she could only think of was a demon walk through.

“You know, I take it real personal when I see innocent people being hurt for no reason. I learned a lot from my old teacher and from her mistakes. When you have an enemy you destroy them, that why they can never come back to harm you or you fellow loved ones again. Your god cannot protect you from justice Agnese, I will be the one to deliver it.” Twilight said as the flames that surrounded her body died and smiled seeing the uniform hold up under the intense heat.

“You’re a demon!!! A foul beast that must be purged from this land!!” Agnese screamed with a crazed look in her eye while her staff unfolded as she stuck the ground with it as an invisible force hit Twilight in the head making her go off balance.

“Hahahah! Justice you say! I will be the bringer of Justice here demon filth!” She slammed the Lotus Wand she was holding into a pillar next to her as the force slammed into Twilight’s stomach making her cough and loss her breath while Agnese continued to beat her before she took a knife and racked it across the staff making huge gashes appear on Twilights back ripping through her kevlar armor. Twilight yelled in pain before glaring at Agnese.

“You really are pissing me off!” She disappeared making Agneses eyes go wide before a mind blowing pain erupted from her left cheek as she slammed into the ground. She moved to get up only for another eruption of pain slammed into her face again as she rolled across the ground.

“ You sadistic little bitch! I should roast you alive and leave you to burn!” Twilight snarled as Agnese slammed the staff into one of the pillars and Twilight yelped as a force slammed into the side of her head when Agnese slammed the staff over and over into the pillar and floor brutally beating Twilight as she tried to block out the pain long enough as she started to panic.

‘I’m going to die here!’ She screamed in her head as she was continually beaten.

“ I’m going to kill you here demon! I-”

BLAM!!!

Agnese froze and looked down to see the gunshot to her stomach. She crumpled to the floor while Twilight dropped her pistol.

“You little shit. Do you have any idea of who you are messing with?” Twilight’s wounds start heal as she picked up her pistol holstering it and limping over to Agnese. The girl looked at her in fear as the staff was too far away from her. She was defenceless and at Twilight’s mercy.

Where Twilight’s right eye socket was had blood streaming down her face, most likely the eye was destroyed from the blow and it would take a while for it to be restored. The former mare was panting and holding some broken ribs as she unstrapped her destroyed vest and let it fall to the ground showing the gashes across her chest and stomach.

“Do you know how much trouble I’m going to be with Kuroko?! She’s going to kill me for this!” She pointed to her eye as the downed girl looked at her bewildered.

“ I mean it! Kuroko is a 106 lbs of fury when it comes to me. If you think I’m a demon just wait till Kuroko hears about you! She’s going to flay you alive you little shit!” Twilight got a sinister smile on her face.

“Maybe if I offer you up first they my punishment will be lessened. Kuro can't be mad at me for getting hurt on the job. It’s not my fault that some psycho nun with a magic staff right?” Twilight rambled as Agnese stared at her in shock.

‘She’s lost it! After all that she’s worried about what her girlfriend is going to do to her!’ Agnese thought as the girl continued to ramble on as she looked over at her staff and inched towards it.

“- And then what’s Captain Aiho going to say about my vest!? Ohhh! What am I going to do?! Do you know how much these things cost?! 600,000 yen total with plates and all! Your church better be ready to handle the cost you little bitch!” Twilight growled and looked down to see Agnese with the staff in hand and a murderous smile on her face making Twilight’s eye widen.

“DIE!!!” Agnese screamed and slammed the staff into the floor breaking through it as an explosion went off where Twilight was.

As the dust cleared Agnese looked to see that there was only a bloodstain on the ground making her smile.

“ What’s got you smiling?” Agnese slowly turned to see the girl with green and purple eyes as she touched Agnese’s head and blinding pain erupted from her head making her scream and drop the staff grabbing her head.

“AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!” Twilight walked around her grabbed the staff before turning and slamming the end into the side of her head knocking her out cold.

“Keeping them alive is so troublesome.” She turned to see Touma and the others walk in staring at the battered and wounded Twilight.

“Twi. Are you ok?” Touma asked as she glared at him.

“Do I look ok to you Touma?” She growled thrusting the staff into Touma’s chest as she limped past him.

“I’m going home tell Crowley that I’m done cleaning up his mess.” She growled before disappearing.

“Twi.” Touma whispered as Stiyl looked at where the girl left.

*Academy City*

“AHHHHHH!!!!” Twilight was in the bathroom holding where her eye was gripping the sink while she channeled healing magic to restore her eye. She was in extreme pain as her eye rebuilt itself.

‘That little cunt! I should have killed her when I had the chance!’ Twilight growled in pain.

“TWI! What’s goin on!? Open the door!” Twilight heard Applejack making her grit her teeth.

“GO AWAY! Oh my god. I don’t want or need your help!” She had tears running down her face as she continued to rebuild her eye.

CRASH!!!

Twilight turned just as the door opened to see Applejack standing there wide eyed.

“Sweet Celestia! Twilight! Hold on I’ll go get somepony to help!” Applejack said only to freeze as Twilight grabbed her shirt.

“Don’t! I told you I don’t need your help. Just go home Applejack.” Twilight panted as some of her wounds started to bleed again.

“Why won’t you let me-

“Cause I don’t need help! I can heal myself. I don’t need some frog faced doctor to heal myself.” She growled as her eye started to bleed.

“Why are you bein so stubborn!? I just want to help!” Applejack growled back as the younger girl covered her eye as her hand glowed green.

“Because I’ve done this more times than you can count. This is just the first time I’ve repaired my eye. If you want to help, go and clean up the blood before Kuro gets home. If she-”

“TWI!” Kuroko teleported to her as she started to panic looking at all the wounds and massive gash on her girlfriends chest and back along with many ugly bruises on her body making start to freak out.

“Oh my god what happened!? Who did this to you!? H-Hold on I’m going to get a doctor!” She was crying hard as her entire body shook looking at her one eyed and beaten girlfriend.

“Hey I’m ok Kuro. It’s just a flesh wound I swear.” Twilight smiled softly taking her hand as Kuroko looked wided eyed at her bloody hands.

“You’re bleeding so much. Y-Your eye.” Her hand was shivering as her body quivered looking in shock at Twi’s broken form.

“ What about my eye?” She smiled taking her hand off her eye to show a perfect colored one in it’s place.

“I told you that it was a flesh wound.” Twi smiled and saw her staring at the gash on her chest and stomach.

“Twi. We need to get you to a hospital. You’ve lost a lot of blood.” Applejack said worry on her face as Twilight put her hands on the gash and started to channel healing magic before she started to tip forward.

“Twi! She’s passed out. We need to get her to a hospital. NOW!” Kuroko ordered as Applejack nodded rushing over to a phone.

“No time!” She yelled picking Twilight up and disappearing.

*Hospital. Next day*

“Ugh.” Twilight groaned and opened her eyes to see Misaka 10032 looking over her.

“Oh sorry Twi. Kuroko wanted me to look after you while she went to the bathroom. I’m sorry if I woke you.” Misa said as Twilight sighed and smiled laying back in her bed.

“It’s no problem.” She sighed as the door opened to see Kuroko and many of her friends come in to see her awake as they rushed to her.

“TWI!”

“Whoa hey easy guys I’m still injured here.” She laughed before wincing as they hugged her.

“OW! Easy! I said I was still injured!” She yelped before she saw the tearful eyes of Kuroko.

“You stupid idiot. Do you know how worried I’ve been?! You could have died since you lost so much blood! What would I do without you huh?! I don’t know what I would do without you!” Kuroko yelled as Twilight flinched from the tearful glare on her girlfriends face.

“Please calm down. Says Misa with a bit of worry in her voice.” 10032 moved in between the two as Kuroko growled at the clone.

“I’m sorry I tried to get cleaned up before you got home.” Twilight said as Kuroko glared at her.

“You were going to hide it from me!?” Kuroko yelled as the others began to back out.

“ I didn’t want you to worry! Not only that but I didn’t want you to see me like that!” Twilight yelled back.

“And yet here we are in the hospital because something happened to you!” The two were nose to nose glaring at each other.

“Yeah well it’s not like I went there to get the crap beat out of me ok! I’m not some kind of glutton for punishment you know!” Twilight yelled.

“And that’s another thing where were you!? You get called away from the assembly and then we get attacked by STUDY with giant robots! We were almost bombed for crying out loud!” Kuroko yelled back as Twilight blinked.

“You were attacked by STUDY?” She asked while Kuroko nodded.

“Yeah, and Febrie was in the center of it all. Sissy actually saved the day with her sisters.” Kuroko said sitting down on the bed letting out a sigh.

“So where were you Twi? I’ve been extremely worried bout you Twi. And then I find you all messed up and you even lost your eye.” Kuroko asked crawling up to the girl and straddled her waist glaring at her.

“I was on a mission with SPARC (Stealth, Precision, Assassination, Recon, and Combat) and helped Touma outside the city. That’s all I can say on the matter. I’m sorry Kuro but that’s just how things are. The fact you know that I’m the leader of SPARC is breaching security as it is.” Twilight said laying back as Kuroko’s cheeks puffed out.

“You know I really can’t figure you out Twi. You’re so secretive with your work and your past is shrouded in mystery as well. Just who were you before we got together?” She asked as Twilight pulled her closer.

“Don’t worry about my past Kuro. Right now just worry about the present and future. My past isn’t something to worry about.” She smirked as the younger girl blushed at the look in the older girls eyes.

"Twi? What is it?" She was pulled into a searing kiss.

" You know Kuro I was thinking why don't we go out again on a real date. I take the next weekend off with you and we go have some real fun." Twi smiled pulling her into the bed.

"That sound great. You really think Aiho is going to let you off for that long?" Kuroko smiled laying her head on the former mares chest blushing a little while the older girl didn't seem to mind at all.

"Mm. I have my ways to convince her. Besides she owes me big anyway with how much I've saved their asses or bailed them out of something or another... Or letting them crash at my place after they get hammered drunk after their shifts" She smirked as her girlfriend smiled.

"That's good. So are you ready for Daihaseisai Festival? It's only a few weeks away you know?" Twilight sighed groaning a little making Kuroko raise a eyebrow.

"What is it?"

"I really am not looking to the festival. I have the school and Anti-Skill fighting each other so they can have me for the day. Anti-Skill wants be there for the security and the school wants me there for an easy win." Twilight groaned rubbing her temples before Kuroko stole a kiss.

"You shouldn't frown so much it's not a good look on you Twi." Kuroko smiled laying back down.

"I know but its so frustrating.... Anyway you should get some sleep Kuro you look rough." She smiled poking the younger girls forehead as she huffed puffing out her cheeks.

"I wouldn't look so rough if my girlfriend would stop having to come to the hospital after every time she goes out on an assignment." She growled as Twilight smiled holding her close.

"Sorry to worry you Kuro. I'll try to be more careful." She felt the younger girl wrap her arms under her.

"You better. Or I'm going to start graying by the time I hit 17." She smiled into the older girls chest inhaling her scent as she started to fall asleep.

"Get some rest Kuro. You're going to need it for this weekend." She grinned a little feeling Kurokos body start to heat up.

"You know you shouldn't say things like that. A girl could get the wrong idea ya know?" Kuroko blushed as she nuzzled deeper into the other girls chest before finally falling asleep feeling Twi run her fingers through her hair.