The legendary Number One!

„How many days has it been?"

Sitting on top of a wind turbine that had been put on a lot of city blocks inside Academy City the formerly skinny albino was looking up into the stars.

A few weeks ago he lost the only friend he ever made.

What happened for the angry 14 year old teenager to consider someone else his friend?

Well, it all began on a chilly evening four years ago. Accelerator, the only name he was called by for such a long time even he had to remind himself of his real name, was standing in the middle of a crowd of beaten down thugs and high-level espers, a street filled with broken military-grade weapons filled the street and countless more Anti-Skill Members.

That was the day a small incident turned into a full-blown event that marked history books, it was the only show that was ever delivered on live-TV about the might of Academy Citys #1 Esper.

Even before his birth the technology of creating Espers was leaked to every country on earth, and before long hundreds and thousands of people became Espers, from that it was also confirmed that kids from two Espers would have Esper powers as well, between a Esper and a normal human the result was a Esper that needed a traumatic event in order to activate their power and between two humans the chances of getting a Esper was very very small.

In either case, 10 billion people around the globe had all turned into Espers in a few years, normal humans went extinct, turned into AIM producing weapons without even understanding what that entailed.

And now, twenty years later rampages of AIM created monsters are a actual thing, the short-lived particles created by espers can be used and manipulated to create incredibly energy-loaded objects and other effects into the real world.

Guns using this technology fire with bullets made out of compressing AIM in the envoirenment or the espers own AIM, as a general rule, anyone below Level 2 would prefer to use a weapon, unless its a high-tier weapon a Espers (if its a power that can be used in fights) power on Level 3 was a lot more useful than the weapons.

The birth of espers gave some upsides however, energy is easily aviable for everyone which is why usage of tools and being connected via the internet is no issue anymore, even rumors of research into replicating the power of teleporters are going around.

Academy City was one of the three most advanced citys in the world, it was the mecca of science for the asian countrys.

Justice City, the city made out of the teamwork between all the countrys above europe, europe itself and amercia as well as Canada. It was the city where the origin of the AIM using weapons came from.

Bright City was made by the other countrys, Russia, Africa, the middle eastern countrys. It was the city with the highest funding, the only one that was researching the teleportation as a possible technology for everyone to use.

That didnt interest the albino in the past, and it didnt interest him now either.

After the event he was left alone...not even being detected by any sort of device was possible, since AC was the one who produced the albino and his seemingly invincible power a sort-of fragile cold war broke out between the three sides.

JC had their weapons which would mean a immense advantage in quantity on the ones who would be usable in fights.

AC had its 6 Level 5 espers….though of them only 3 really had the capability to be real usable and reliant weapons for war.

BC however had the advantage in its secrets, obviously using spies between the citys was a open secret but even so BC was by far the one with the best security out of all three, this caused massive problems for the other two citys, they seemed to be advantageous but that obviously was only as long as BC didnt have any hidden aces in their sleeves.

One thing was certain however, if it came to espers or aim-intensity the Accelerator was beyond all known measurements.

He was called Number One out of convenience, in a real rating the gap between the third strongest esper and the second strongest was like a distance between the moon and the earth, and the distance between them to the Number One was like a distance between them and the sun.

„Ah, you are here..." a small voice interrupted the white boys thoughts, it came from a girl wearing a all-girls schools uniform, Hokaze Junko, a potential Level 5.

„Im all away in this mostly empthy district" the boy said calmly „how did you know where to find me?"

„That was because of me" a girl appeared. (Seems like she carried that brat on her back) the boy thought.

She had short orange-like hair, Iizumi Rita, her power was called Predator, it allowed her to find anyone by looking down from the sky, its range is around 1 km in radius. Despite the range she was a Level 3.

„Um, i want to apologize for earlier" Junk said, „i lost myself after you saw me naked and slapped you."

„I dont mind" the boy said with a smile on his face.

„B-but why are you looking so sad?"

A flashback to the person he met after the event appeared in the albinos head.

„Why are you looking so sad?" a man asked the lonely white boy.

„D-dont touch me" the boy went back a few steps, he wasnt scared of the man but more of what he would do to him, he didnt eat for two whole days since he didnt know where to go but that wasnt his biggest concern.

It was night, so he didnt see the mans face, however he heard his voice that calmly spoke to him „i wont do anything, i will not touch you, here", out of nowhere a cup of ramen appeared, was it superspeed? Teleportation? Suprised about the sudden event the boy acted without much thought, he ate the food, without him knowing while he ate it, the man placed his hand on his head, it was rather heavy but it gently moved through his hair, he still felt the warmth of that night even though he wouldnt tell any soul about it.

„You are a man arent you? We, as men, will only smile no matter what happens, this is rule number one."

Coming back to his senses Accelerator instantly told her to calm down „im not sad, i was just thinking about a problem of how to solve the uncontrolled fusion of AIM particles."

The small girl started to laugh after Junko turned water eyed from the explanation and the shocked look at the smile the boy always had on his face.

„S-So you didnt think about what happened at all?"

„Nope" he smilled while going through his hair. Suddenly a slap, he felt his face get hot and Junko activated her power Rampage Dress in order to jump down while she shouted she hated him, the brat was still on Junkos back while laughing her hearts out.

He touched his face, it was still hot, the usual smile vanished and he looked back up into the sky.

The second rule came to his mind,

„Rule number two: a small lie and a lot of action can move mountains".

With this strange rules the man had turned the strongest weapon into a human boy, one that was the akin to a city himself thanks to his intelligence, strength and skills.

The leader of a large group of high level espers and someone who destroyed the underworld of AC all by himself...although the boy himself would like to add that he wasnt alone, his friend was always besides him. But that is a story for another time.

Its been a LONG time since i wrote a story, maybe i will update soon, maybe later, mayber never.

Either way, tell me how you liked it, and no, this isnt about magic not being a thing anymore thanks to espers, there was no magic to begin with, humans gained the tech all on their own, aleister is a nobody and nothing supernatural aside from AIM-based powers is possible.