Chapter 1

Newfound respect for writers...and the writer of Toaru Majutsu no Index, writing is tough, like unbelievably tough. And Kamachi Kazuma writes like god knows how many chapters a day. Anyway, had this idea for a while now. Raildex and DxD, what could go wrong?

Disclaimer: I do not own Toaru Majutsu no Index or Shinyaku Majutsu no Index or High School DxD or any of their characters.

-Start-

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Dark. It was dark. Way too dark for a certain Kamijou Touma's liking. Everywhere he looked, darkness was there. There was no light, there was just darkness, there was just nothing. He didn't even know if he was standing on anything, he could see nothing but himself and the clothes that he had on his back.

"Hello?!" The boy yelled out. "Is anyone here?!" Internally, Touma started thinking and panicking.

"Where the hell am I? Am I still on Earth? Knowing my luck, I probably am in Hell. Although it's not because I'm a sinner or whatever, I tried to live a good life, helping people and whatnot, it's not like I punched everyone I ever met…"

Touma took a few seconds to rethink that last part.

"Ok, so maybe, juuust maybe this Kamijou-san have gotten into a lot of fights, but it's not like it was for no reason. I mostly did it for a good reason, like to help someone or to break someone's illusions or stuff like that! This Kamijou-san's violent life is no reason to send him to Hell!" He thought.

Although this place looked less like Hell and more like something else. It looked familiar to Kamijou, "What was that place again?" He asked himself.

"Aha! Got it!" Kamijou cried out as snapped his fingers. "The Black World!"

This place reminded Touma of the Black World Othinus had created when she had 'destroyed' the world. Although this time, there was no Goddess who wanted to mentally break him and put him throught countless worlds of torture and death. And it felt different as well, something was off with this place, was there even anyone capable of doing this again anyway?

The Magic Gods of Gremlin were all sent to another world or something like that and were weakened. Anyone who were also on the same level as them were also out. Aleister and Coronzon were dead and the members of the Rosicrucian Order and Aiwass wouldn't do something like this, they just wanted to be left alone to practise magic for themselves while the latter was forced to obey Anna.

So who could and would do this? Last thing he remembered, he was...doing something. Damn, why couldn't he remember? He could remember everything from waking up in a hospital room after losing his memories to walking to his part-time job as a kitchen assistant for a cafe in the morning to...nothing. Man, he should stop having memory problems, it's pretty concerning, it's been a year since he lost his memory. It's not gonna be like an annual thing, is it?

Wait?! Did I, the reader just read that? A part-time job and a year since Kamijou Touma has lost his memories? Is that true?

Yep! That's right, Kamijou Touma was now officially in his second year of highschool, celebrated his 'first' (17th) birthday, gained a bit more control over his Imagine Breaker, got a part-time job and hasn't had to deal with life/world-threatening situations in a long time. Oh! And he also learned English! That's probably his proudest achievement.

He has finally found his well deserved peace...of course he still has to deal with a gluttonous nun that sucks away his food and money, a grumpy and prideful 15cm fairy and for some reason, Accelerator keeps on calling him during the middle of the night to ask for advice on how he should run Academy City. It was, needless to say, very, very creepy to hear Accelerator's voice in the middle of the night.

Back on topic, the only thing to do that Touma could think of was just to start erasing the phase he was in right now. It was a technique he learnt after the war in England from him. He could start negating the phases and do that until he reached his original world. It's not like someone actually erased the world right?

When Othinus did it, she just placed a phase over his world, not actually destroy it. As far as Kamijou knew, the only one who could destroy the phases was him and his Imagine Breaker.

And so, the boy known as Kamijou Touma focused on his right arm, the Imagine Breaker. He couldn't just remove a phase and be done with it, he actually had to concentrate lest he wanted to risk destroying more than one phase, that could risk his world being changed in an unimaginable way. He hadn't had much practise anyway, he only did it twice and that was during January which was a couple of months ago.

With that, Touma 'pushed' his right arm, and the right arm evolved in response. And as the boy concentrated on the darkness surrounding him, his right arm concentrated alongside him. With but a thought, cracks in the darkness started to appear around his arm, it was spreading out more and more as the seconds went by until everywhere he looked, Touma could only see cracks.

Then the whole world fell apart with the sound of breaking glass accompanying it. When the darkness was gone, a forest was revealed.

"Ehh? Where am I?" The unlucky teen asked himself. He was standing in a forest...that's all, he was just in a forest during the afternoon, nothing special about the place. "I should try to get back to Academy City as soon as possible, wouldn't want to keep Index waiting for her food. I've had enough bites on my head for a lifetime."

The boy started walking in a random direction. After about an hour or so, he spotted a town he didn't recognise and instantly started running towards it, hoping that he could get help there and find his way back to Academy City.

When he entered the streets, the spiky-haired boy got a few odd glances or looks pointed towards him from the people. He didn't look that weird, did he? He was just wearing a white hoodie with his black school coat over it alongside his black pants. So why was everyone looking at him?

It wasn't because of his nationality either, everyone there was Japanese, or at least looked like them. And he was definitely Japanese. Raised in Japan for his whole childhood, the only time he was out of Japan was during his troubles with the supernatural forces of Magic and Science.

Touma spotted a random guy on the streets walking away from him and went up to the guy to ask a question.

"Hey, excuse me," The boy quickly spoke as he tapped the man's shoulder. "Do you know how to get to Academy City from here?"

The man looked back at Touma with a confused face. "Academy City? Never heard of it, kid. Is that like a manga thing or something?" Touma's eyes widened in surprise.

"Academy City. Don't you know? Famous city known for its advanced science and technology?" The man only looked more confused in response.

"Nope, don't know what you're talking about, kid."

While the man walked off, Touma's thoughts were running wild. How on earth did this man not know what Academy City was? It was famous for producing technology 30 years ahead of the rest of the world, was capable of giving people esper powers, the Daihaseisai festival was just as famous as the Olympics and was hated by a lot of people during the events leading up to World War III like the Avignon riots.

The boy just kept walking while he thought about the man's response. The only reason Touma could think of that would explain why the man didn't know about Academy City was because this was a backwater town with little to no communication with the outside world, unlikely since the buildings looked pretty up to date and modern, or that somehow... cademy City was destroyed or/and never existed.

'Someone could have easily done that if they had the right powers...damn, this could be bad.' The boy thought. But why? Academy City's been getting better under Accelerator's command and it had been getting more friendly with the Magic side.

The sun was setting and soon night time was going to arrive. "I should really find a place to sleep and think about it tomorrow." And with that thought, he started to wander around the town.

An hour of wandering around town had passed and there was nothing he could use as a shelter. He had no money nor did he have any connections with the people here. Damn it, he was gonna have to sleep outside.

"Such misfortune…" Yay, Touma finally said his famous catchphrase.

Oh well, could be worse, it wasn't that cold and it's not like he has had zero experience in sleeping outside. Wow, that's pretty sad now that he thought about it.

Ignoring his thoughts, Kamijou laid down on a bench, closed his eyes and shortly fell asleep.

During the middle of the night...

"...lp!...somebod...plea….hel….."

"Ehh? It sounded like someone was screaming, ugh…please leave this misfortunate Kamijou-san alone won't you? He's trying to sleep, y'know?" The boy muttered.

"Somebody, help!"

Touma's eyes opened wide at that. "Shit! What's going on?!" He yelled. He immediately stood up and surveyed his surroundings, it was the same place where he fell asleep.

"Help!" A voice, a child's voice, sounded like a boy, although it was pretty far away and he could be wrong, he could only faintly hear it. It came from Kamijou's left. He immediately started sprinting towards the voice and arrived at an abandoned warehouse in what he assumed was the warehouse district.

He quickly went inside. It was dark, the warehouse consisting of a central room with turned over furniture, cracks in the walls and dust covering every object inside the warehouse.

Touma could see a figure hanging from the ceiling at the centre of the room. They were wrapped up in chains that were connected to the ceiling, looked like a small boy. The kid was probably the one who asked for help. The boy looked like he was unconscious and tired, probably from screaming for help for god knows how long. There were also a couple of bruises on him, "I should try and get him to a hospital." Touma thought. He remembered that there was a ladder nearby on his way in, he could try to use it to reach the kid.

Before he could run to grab the ladder, another voice came from behind a pillar in front of Touma.

"Oooo, did another prey come into my territory? I didn't sense you coming in but despite that…" The voice was creepy and distorted somehow. Looking back, Touma could see 2 eyes stare at him. "I wonder how you taste." The moonlight shone on the new figure who was still halfway hidden behind the pillar to reveal a beautiful and really tall woman...who was also topless?

Touma's jaw dropped to the ground, causing him to be unable to say anything but "Ehh?" The woman could only laugh.

"Keeheeheee, nothing to say towards your superior? Can't say I expected anything more from such a disgusting hu-"

"Hey, why are you topless?"

"..." The woman could only remain silent. With only 5 words, Kamijou Touma has managed to absolutely demolished someone's mind. The woman was frozen now from the surprise and the mere stupidity of his question.

"Ahh...hello?" The boy asked, trying to get the woman to move and breathe again. "Hello? Helllllooooooo? Are you there? Can you hear m-"

"WHY THE HELL WOULD YOU ASK SUCH A STUPID QUESTION?" The woman shouted out of nowhere. She was now staring daggers into Touma...of course he didn't notice and replied sincerely.

"Well it's a reasonable question, I mean you don't just walk around topless do you?"

"W-w-what? Of course I don't! What are we even talking about anymore?!" Touma ignored that last part.

"So if you don't go out in public topless, what makes you think you can do it in this creepy abandoned warehouse? It's not like you own this place, do you?"

"..." The woman was speechless. Never had anyone, anyone, let alone a human talk to her like that! Like she was some kind of...children! How dare he, how dare he insult her by treating her this way! This human deserved to die. Luckily she was feeling pretty hungry. As for the kid...oh well, she could save the kid for tomorrow.

With that, the woman came out from behind the pillar to reveal her grotesque and monstrous bottom half. "Ah! Why the hell does she have 8 legs, and that creepy hair or fur or whatever the hell that is! Ahh! Burn the image from my mind! Burn the image!" The poor boy crouched down and covered his eyes in despair, desperately trying to remove the image of the lady's bottom half from his mind with his internal rambling. He was failing quite miserably.

Touma's crouching position and his hand covered eyes ensured that he couldn't see the woman moved towards him and lifted up one of her legs to stomp him. It was to be certain doom for the poor boy. The leg would stomp down on the ground, crushing the misfortunate boy. That was what should have happened...so why did the leg hit nothing on it's way to the ground?

A meter away from where the leg landed, the wielder of Imagine Breaker was crouching with a frown and he had his eyes narrowed towards the woman/monster.

How did a supposedly normal human escape an attack from such a monster? The answer was simple. Precognition, a skill he had gained as a result of his many fights and scuffles with espers and magicians and delinquents and the Delta Force (dorm-manager types are the best!). He had learnt to subconsciously detect stuff a normal person couldn't and to react to them quick enough.

At first, it was only the movement of the AIM field created by Espers and the movement of mana caused by magicians that he could sense, which allowed him to see any supernatural attacks and react accordingly. Then his precognition had evolved and could be used to detect things like wind and muscle movement and etc… via his 5 senses which allowed him to see any kind of attack targeted at him, even if it was not supernatural, he would about where the attack would land, when it would come and how to defend against it. This handy little skill had even allowed him to dodge numerous attacks that were extremely close to the Speed of Light.

Because of his precognition, Touma had managed to sense the attack coming and jumped away at the last second to avoid the woman's attack.

"What! How dare you avoid MY ATTACK!" The monster raised another leg for another attack with rage and fury.

Touma merely jumped to his left, avoiding her second attack. He said nothing but inside his mind, he started thinking. 'Crap, I shouldn't have been messing around. Looks like she's some magician experiment gone wrong or something. First priority is rescuing the kid and bringing him to the hospital. She'll probably stop me from doing that so I have to knock her out. Don't know how injured the kid is or how long he can last so I gotta be fast.'

With his priorities straightened out, Touma began working. He 'pushed' his Imagine Breaker again, moving it towards his left arm while still keeping it in his right, just in time to block an attack from another leg.

The instant his left arm came into contact with the leg, the sound of shattering glass appeared and all the force created from the monster's attack was negated.

"!" The monster was clearly surprised, judging from her widened eyes and gaping mouth.

She would have said something if her opponent had not punched her side with his right arm, pushing her back. The monster fell back, clearly confused.

"Please surrender...or at least allow me to get the kid to the hospital." The boy asked in a pleading tone.

The woman didn't respond, although her confusion turned to anger. How dare this ape ask for something after insulting her!

The monster charged into a sprint towards the boy. Touma merely sighed before sidestepping at the last second, letting the monster run past him. He then proceeded to run up to the monster, jumped and took a swing at her head. His clenched fist hit the woman's cheek, knocking her over onto her side and knocking her out.

The next day…

He was currently at the hospital and thank God it wasn't because of any of his injuries. He didn't even have any injuries from that fight. Wow, was he finally gonna be lucky? Heh, like hell he was, as long as he had his right arm, he was forever gonna be unlucky.

Anyway, after Touma defeated the monster, he quickly rescue the kid and took him to a hospital he found during his search for a place to sleep.

From there, he was told that the kid he'd rescued had gone missing for a couple of days and that people suspected that it was a kidnapping. The spiky-haired boy just said that he found the boy in a forest and brought him here. Lying wasn't his favourite thing to do but he knew that the supernatural world was meant to be kept a secret from the public, hopefully the kid will forget about the monster, plus, even if he did remember, it's not like anyone would ever believe him.

Now Touma was sitting in the hospital's lobby, drinking a cup of water. He couldn't start sleeping again since the sun was starting to rise up and the hospital was getting louder and more busier. So he just sat there thinking about the situation about Academy City.

His thoughts were interrupted by a man's voice.

"Hey kid," The man said, Touma looked up to see a man who looked like he was in his twenties, maybe his thirties. He had black hair with yellow bangs and a goatee. He was dressed in what looked like a darkly coloured suit. "You look like you need some help, wanna come with me?"

-End-

Ooo, who's the mysterious helper? It should be obvious. Anyway, don't worry, Kamijou is not joining the Grigori or any of the faction, nor is he making his own faction (as interesting as that idea is), his only goal is to go back home and live a peaceful life, hehe, too bad for him.

Anyway, so it may not be obvious but Kamijou is older, now 17 years old, has more control over Imagine Breaker and his precognition and that's it. No stupid increased strength and shit like that from the very beginning, I've realised my mistakes from A Certain Team of Heroes, it was stupid. Imma make him grow gradually stronger, not start off strong.

Currently with his Imagine Breaker, he can now move it around his body and can evolve it to destroy phases and stuff from the Aeon of Horus like the Magick sword Coronzon used and his precognition works for both supernatural and non-supernatural stuff.

Everything else about Kamijou's powers are the same, although that's gonna change eventually (if I update this anyway) Also, right now, it's before canon. Oh and Kamijou learnt English, that's very, very, very important and it's a proud moment for Kamijou. :)