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Regan walks down the sidewalk with her roommate, her tail swishing happily behind her. She nuzzles softly and affectionately against her shoulder, a smile curling her lips. A soft, happy sigh escapes her lips before she notices a strange girl in a skirt and open jacket and... some sort of mini tank top runs into an alleyway with a rolling suitcase behind her. How peculiar... Oh. There goes another girl, dressed in a middle school uniform. Themed around a light brown color... brown hair and eyes... and a strange device on her forehead. Some sort of goggles? "... I smell... trouble..." Regan looks to Ayumi, raising an eyebrow. "Maybe we should intervene? C'mon." As soon as she says that, there's the sound of a crash from the alleyway the two ran into. "Ooh. Yep, let's go." With that, she'd run ahead to go to the alleyway.

[Here down is Alleyways.]

There, she'd find the girl with the suitcase holding a mag flashlight, pointing it toward the girl they saw run in here earlier. He's holding a single hand out, and he seems to have manged to stop a... dumpster that was thrown at him? Or maybe it was the girl, who has lowered the goggles to her eyes. The air around her crackles slightly with electricity. The dumpster is crushed slightly. There's a strange device on the boy's neck, too... it's on a black band of some sort, and there's a green light. The boy tosses the dumpster aside, frowning. "I can't let you take Tree Diagram, Musujime. This is personal, nothing to do with you. Just leave it here and you won't have to get hurt."

"Tch... I didn't expect you to defect like this, Accelerator... Mm? It seems we have company... no matter." The girl names Musujime looks past this Accelerator boy for just a moment before turning her eyes back to him. Accelerator takes this opportunity to stomp the ground, causing it to cave under his foot before the dumpster he tossed aside is launched at Musujime with surprising speed, the ground under it having thrust up to launch it. The other girl reacts quickly and points her flashlight skyward, and the dumpster is teleported into the sky. "Hah! You can attack, sure, but can you protect?"

The boy seems distraught. He looks up and quickly realizes something. He looks back to Musujime and sees another dumpster coming at him. He can't protect the girl behind him and Last Order at the same time...

"Go!" Regan shouts to him, dashing forward. "Komm zu mir!" She calls out her halberd and slices the dumpster in two as Accelerator moves quickly away.

Musujime frowns as Accelerator moves past her with incredible speed. "Damn! And just like that, I'm outnumbered... Gotta retreat." The girl remains still, but seems to be focusing on something.

And then, suddenly, she disappears with the suitcase. Just like that. Not a trace of her left, other than what had already been there. She was there, and now she is not.

[Musujime disappears.]

"Wh-... where'd she go?" Regan looks around quickly, ever cautious. "... gone...?" She frowns softly, relaxing her stance but remaining cautious.

"Misaka throws her arms around Accelerator excitedly as she says 'Thank you for going out of your way to save me!'" A little girl, similar to the girl behind Regan - perhaps her younger sister - hugs Accelerator before she stops suddenly, looking past Regan and Ayumi. "Misaka stops as Misaka relays information, 'Railgun approaches...' and then turns to look at Accelerator, knowing his regret."

The boy was unsure of what to do with the hug, but when he hears that this 'Railgun' approaches, he stiffens, frowning. "I see. Well then." He stomps the ground, much more lightly this time, and a metal brace/cane that had been discarded flips into the air and then into his hand. He leans against it and turns off the device on his neck, the green light turning red. "We'd better go. Come, Last Order." 28 minutes... With that, he hobbles off with the little girl, leaning against the cane.

[Accelerator and Last Order exit.]

"Wh... what the hell is going on...? Do you know anything?" Regan turns to the girl behind her, frowning. The older sister. This was all very... interesting.

"... Misaka hesitates before she says 'If Onee-san is coming, then I should also-"

"Wha- Why are you here!?" Another girl appears. She looks exactly like the first one, only she doesn't have the goggles. She glances behind her before approaching and starting to push the girl off. "Listen, you gotta go. Kuroko's here, she can't see you!" There are many questions she has about these girls being here, but she can't bother with that right now. It's more important to keep this secret from Kuroko. Who right now is directly across the street and may appear at any time.

"Erm... what's goin on, here?" Regan asks the more boisterous one as she passes, watching, somewhat stunned by all this. "I helped save your two... ah... sisters?"

Almost immediately, as though she was going to finish Regan's sentence for her if she hadn't said 'sisters'. "Sisters, yes. My sisters." She sends the more lack-luster one off before turning to the pair. "You say you saved... her..." She spots the dumpster split in two and then looks at the halberd. "I... I see." Such a feat with a weapon like that? Does she have some sort of power, too? She thought the only ESPers in the world were in Academy City... "Don't involves yourselves anymore than you have, just-"

"Involve themselves in what, Onee-sama?" Kuroko appears nearby, folding her arms before she sees the disarray that has been wrought in the alleyway. "Onee-sama! What is all this!?"

Regan takes this distraction as an opportunity to put her halberd away. "... Perhaps we should leave these two alone for now?" Regan looks to Ayumi, raising an eyebrow curiously.

With that response, Regan slinks off with Ayumi at her side, leaving those two to their little quarrel before the girl with the green armband can turn around and question them. It just feels like she's some sort of prefect or something. Why else would she have an armband like that? "Yeah... something weird is going on. It seems like it has to do with that case. I have no idea what it's all about, though. Tree Diagram...? What's so important about something like that?" All this trouble over a diagram of trees? Impossible. It must be something else, but... she doesn't have enough information... "Maybe if we can find one of those sisters? What do you think? The little girl or... 'Railgun's twin? What a strange thing to call your sister, anyway... Railgun..."

"Mmm... Yeah..." Regan's tail swishes as she snuggles up alongside Ayumi, taking her arm as she thinks. "We could probably find a scent if we went back over there, but..." They'd be disturbing that little lover's spat. She'd rather not. "Hmmn... any ideas on where to start, Ayumi-chan? Even if we have an idea of who to talk to, we still have to find them..."

Battler was walking out of Starbooks when he passed the alleyway Zir and Anima were in. He noticed the two figures and couldn't help but worry if they maybe needed some help. Being the good guy he was, Battler began to walk towards them, waving his hand and a smile on his face,"Excuse me? Do you two need any help?" Battler asked with his normal silly grin, completely obvious to anything that might be wrong with the siuation at the moment.

Zir looked at Anima then nodded/ "Why don't you go check on my ware? Unchain her from the wall, put this on her. She should feel better knowing she can wander freely." Zir said calmly, handing Anima what looked like a slave's collar. Where she got it, that was nobody's business. Anima nodded, and with one last glance at Battler, stepped back into the shadows, and seemed to disappear.

[Zir stays, Anima Leaves to Abandoned Building]