Just a little something I wrote as a follow-up to the earlier chapter. I don't know why, but I really like the universe where the Level 5s became idols. Maybe it's wish fulfillment, but it's entertaining none the less. Fair warning, a majority of this is just going to be a retelling of the Sister's Arc from the Railgun perspective with audience reactions and commentary. There is still other stuff, but don't expect too much substance here.

Disclaimer: All characters and plotlines of the "A Certain" franchise are credited to Kazuma Kamachi.

The weeks following the sing-off were filled with gossip and rumors, especially concerning the Level 5s and the guest performer, Touma Kamijou. The most prominent rumor involved the potential relationship between Accelerator, Mikoto Misaka, and Touma Kamijou. Some theorized that the boy made popular by his song was the same person mentioned in the Railgun's song, even going as far as to claim the two had a secret romance. Others theorized that the heroic but humble boy was the reason for Accelerator's change in worldview illustrated in his own song. There were even those that went as far as to claim that the number 1 and 3 were in conflict until the Level 0 got involved. Needless to say, Accelerator was pissed to hear these rumors.

To anyone else, these were just baseless rumors that were flimsily created from a few songs. However, Accelerator knew better than anyone else that all these rumors hit the nail on the head. He really didn't want anyone to hear about the darkness that he treads through to this day, that would just be to troublesome to deal with. His mood didn't improve when Yoshikawa had the idea to use these rumors, which she herself knew were true, to increase he popularity by creating a movie revolving around them. Of course, Last Order was all for the idea and was easily able to manipulate Accelerator to agree to it. His only real gripes about the situation was the fact he had to work with "The Third Rate" and "The Hero" and that he had to do the movie at all. Actually, he had every gripe with the situation.

Not too long after, Accelerator, Mikoto, Touma, and their individual staff all gathered to discuss the movie. By then, Last Order had written a script for the movie and presented it to the three main leads. Looking at the script, they all had the same exact reaction to the story being told. 'This isn't an original story, this is a reenactment!' all three leads thought to themselves as to not accidentally reveal to everyone present that they were true events. Some of the events were those that Last Order couldn't possibly have known about without someone leaking her information. The most that the three could figure was that a Sister was somewhere in the area in each scene or Tsuchimokato had helped with the script.

"Well, this is certainly an interesting story," Saten commented looking at the script, "'Sister's Noise, the story of a girl trying to protect her cloned sisters from a cruel experiment conducted by a psychotic Level 5, only to be saved by a brave, selfless, Level 0.' This will definitely bring in an audience."

"'Thank you,' says Misaka Misaka as the expresses her gratitude for your praise, puffing out her chest in pride."

"Does anyone care to explain how exactly were going to pull any of this stuff of without injury?" Touma pointed out, "Giant sphere lightening, flying trainyard containers and rubble, dust explosions, giant plasma balls, all of which are going to be directed at me!"

'Not like you've already survived all of those things,' the two Level 5s thought to themselves.

"'We'll just use some special effects!' Misaka Misaka explains, glad you asked. 'We'll use CGI to create things like lightening, explosions, and plasma, and use practical effects for less dangerous things, like flying trainyard containers,' Misaka Misaka continues."

"That means I could still get hit with something!" Touma complained, though they fell on deaf ears.

"What about the multitude of times the hero is going to have to punch me?" Accelerator asked, not wanting to have to take another punch from Touma's right fist.

"We'll teach Kami and you to stage fight," Tsuchimokado explained, "With Aogami in charge of framing, we can make it look like you're actually getting hit.

"And the clones?" Mikoto pushed, knowing Last Order would probably enlist the Sisters to play the part.

"We can just give them some make-up to make them look just like you," Yoshikawa answered.

'At least they have a cover story,' the leads thought at the same time.

"So, what do you say?" Yomikawa asked the three leads.

Despite how much they didn't want to, Accelerator, Mikoto, and Touma all agreed to do the movie. Considering that some many people were against them, they really had no chose. Soon enough, with the Level 5s' funds, the movie was in production. On the sets, Last Order, Yoshikawa, and Tsuchimokado were the lead directors, Hamazura, Saten and Kuroko operated the cameras, Aogami was in charge of framing, Tsuchimokado was in charge of practical effects, outfits, sound, and teaching Accelerator and Touma to stage fight. In post-production, Uiharu took care of CGI effects with assistance from Aogami, Tsuchimokado, and Saten. Yomikawa was in charge of catering for everyone and, of course, Accelerator, Mikoto, Misaka 10032 and Touma all played themselves. They even got Mugino and ITEM to help film, though they had to find a replacement actor for Frenda due to some unfortunate events.

Of course, to say that production of the movie went smoothly would be a lie. While teaching Touma and Accelerator to stage fight, Tsuchimokato often had to deal with Touma accidentally actually hitting Accelerator in the face. Whenever that happened, they two ended up actually fighting, and it never ended very well for anyone. When shooting more romantic scenes between Touma and Mikoto, specifically the scenes on the bridge, Mikoto would either shock Touma in embarrassment or Kuroko would teleport into the scene and dropkick Touma in the back of the head, sometimes in the face. When filming the fight, many of the practical effects came close to hitting Touma, with a few actually hurting him in some way. For example, during the scene where Accelerator throws Touma around in a tornado, the crane holding Touma malfunctioned and started swinging him around like some sort of wrecking ball. And even with all the stage fighting lessons from Tsuchimokado, Touma still would sometimes end up punching Accelerator. In addition, Accelerator needed to turn his choker on in order to move around without his crutch, so every time he started attacking Touma he ended up wasting battery and had to recharge. Needless to say, the phrase "Rotten luck" was heard often. The only good thing to come out of all that, if you want to call it a good thing, was the multitude of authentic injuries that Touma received which were great for fight scenes and the hospital scene. It even gave the crew a legitimate reason for Touma to check into Heaven Canceller's hospital for said hospital scenes.

Even in post-production, there were still mishapes. While editing, Saten would sometimes flip Uiharu's skirt in front of the two members of the Delta Force. Said skirt flips left Uiharu too embarrassed to work and the boys on the floor with nosebleeds for a good hour, and this happened daily. And of course, throughout the entirety of production, Yomikawa could not keep the catering table full for more than five minutes on any given day. Index decided to tag along when Touma when he went to shoot the movie and helped herself to any of the food that was provided. Whenever they gathered to shoot, all the food was gone before lunch and before anyone else could get some, and even then, Index was never full.

Although production was long and hard, the team was still able to complete the movie within an amazingly short amount of time. The opening night for the movie was a red-carpet event, with all the movie staff making an appearance. The three leads of the event all arrived at the theater in a luxury limousine, complements of Academy City's Superintendent. All three of them were dressed in the outfits they wore during the sing-off, something suggested by Last Order. As they walked down the red-carpet, cameras flashed as Accelerator lead the way while Touma and Mikoto trailed behind. For extra publicity, Mikoto was told to accompany Touma throughout the entire event as his date. While Mikoto was embarrassed and would deny it, she secretly enjoyed having Touma all to herself for the night. She was currently clutching on his right arm, smiling and blushing like a lovestruck school girl, as they walked down the carpet. Meanwhile, Touma just smiled and waved at the crowd, trying to ignore the glares he was getting from multiple people, mainly girls, including Kuroko.

After a few quick photo ops, the crew entered the theater and took their seats. They all had reserved seats with their names on them and had the best view in the theater. After the audience had gathered into the theater, the movie began to play. Before the movie officially started, there was a quick disclaimer insisting that the events of the movie had no relation to any real people or events, something all of the actors, save for the actor playing Frenda, knew was a complete lie.

The movie opened with a song that was appropriately titled 'Sister's Noise' before getting to the events of the Level 6 Shift Project. The movie covered Mikoto's discovery of the Sisters, as well as seeing the death of Misaka 9986 at the hands of Accelerator. Needless to say, there was a collective gasp from the audience from the opening sequence. No one would have suspected the top idol to be such a ruthless killer. Dark and brooding, sure, but not ruthless. Accelerator himself wasn't very comfortable having so many people see his uncaring past. It took a sympathetic look from both Last Order and Touma to get him to calm down. As much as he hated sympathy, (you can't spell 'sympathetic' without 'pathetic'), Accelerator admitted he appreciated it. Besides, everyone in the theater thought it was all just an act anyway.

The movie then went into the events surrounding Mikoto's attempts to stop the experiments by destroying the facilities in charge of running them. These included her confrontation with ITEM and her battles with Frenda and Mugino. The entire time, the crowd cheered as Mikoto fought off her opponents despite the many handicaps placed on her due to her lack of sleep. To say that the fight was impressive would be an understatement. The audience even got a good laugh when Mugino got hit in the head with a doll filled with metal. The face she made as she got hit was comedy gold. Of course, Mugino didn't appreciate that shoot and promised to kill Aogami and whoever was operating the camera at the time.

Following the fight, the audience was lulled into a sense of security when they saw Mikoto return to a normal day after destroying the last of the facilities. It seemed normal enough with her hanging out with Touma and casually trying to zap him. Of course, the illusion of it all being over was shattered when Misaka 10031 appeared, revealing that the project was still in progress under other facilities. The image of thousands of bloody clones begging their big sister for help was enough to creep out even the most hardened of movie goers.

The audience only feel into deeper despair as they watched Mikoto desperately try to stop the experiments through manipulating Tree Diagram, only to find out it had been destroyed weeks ago. The despair only got worse as they watched Mikoto ruthlessly tear apart another facility in broad daylight, not giving a care in the world for the researchers present. It seemed that Mikoto had it rock bottom upon seeing Misaka 10031 explode from having Accelerator reverse her blood flow. The sight was repulsive, and his comments about her ass a few minutes ago were not helping. Although the blow was a bit hindered by the reveal that the experiments were pretty much force upon him after his first kill, the scene was still very disturbing. The audience could only shed a few tears as they watched Mikoto cry over bridge, desperately begging for help. Her inner monologue didn't help matters either. "Mama wasn't here now to make every little problem go away, Santa stopped house calls a long time ago, and no hero was going to come dashing to the rescue, either."

However, the despair started to be lifted when Touma appeared on the scene, revealing to have learned about the experiments by doing his own investigation. Mikoto tried to put on a brave face, fully intending to die by Accelerator's hand to stop the experiments by messing with the calculations that could no long be recalculated. However, Touma refused to let her go and throw her life away. Standing in her way, he took all of her attacks head on to the point of being knocked unconscious from a giant sphere lightening. The audience, much like Mikoto in the scene, could only watch in horror at what he had let her do.

When Touma came to, he was lying on Mikoto's lap, who was on the verge of tears. She asked why he would do all of this and put himself in that condition. His only answer was that he wanted everyone to walk away from the situation with a smile. As he explained this, he stroked her head in an attempt to comfort her as she began to cry. He then proposed a plan to beat Accelerator, the strongest Level 5, by himself, the weakest Level 0. The result would force the experiments to end since the basic premise would be flawed. Mikoto instantly rejected the idea, considering Touma's condition and her desire to not drag anyone else in. At the same time, her monologue from earlier played, except for one detail. "All that is wishful thinking. It not like some hero is going to come dashing to the rescue." Touma then turned to face Mikoto to promise her to save her sisters. With that, he shattered every preconception she had about an unforgiving world and the existence of heroes. To put is simply, he shattered her depressing illusions. He then ran off to fight, leaving Mikoto in tears over his earnest kindness.

Needless to say, the audience was extremely touched. Everyone in the theater had tears in their eyes watching this one scene. Looking over to his right, Touma noticed Mikoto starting to cry herself. Clearly, the scene was starting to bring up some touchy memories. Doing the only thing that made sense to him at the moment, he put his right hand on her head to comfort her. When she looked at him in confusion, he simply smiled and moved his hand to her shoulder and pulled her in, silently telling her it was alright. While she was blushing madly at this point, Mikoto accepted the jester, knowing full well she couldn't zap him at this point, even if she wanted to. Meanwhile, Kuroko made a mental note to kill Touma later.

When Touma arrived to confront Accelerator, the Level 5 didn't think too much about his new opponent. It was only after he realized that Touma was a Level 0 that he started to get even a little interested. This boy stood his ground, barely shaken by Accelerator's power. He could create a dust explosion and this boy would still challenge him. When Accelerator finally decided to get serious and end the fight with a single blow, he found himself in the most unfamiliar situation. By some unknown miracle, Touma had managed to land a hit on him, even make him bleed. Needless to say, the entire audience was shocked. They all knew about Accelerator's automatic reflection, yet this boy managed to get past it. Sure, as far as they knew it was a work of fiction, but there had to be some sort of reason. It was only after a few more punches that the audience started to notice a pattern.

Every time Touma punched Accelerator, there was a sound reminiscent of shattering glass. Everyone knew that that was not what a punch sounded like, so there had to be something special about his right hand. It became all the more clear when Accelerator asked the question itself. "What is up with your right hand?!" At that point, everyone figured it out. Somehow, this boy's right hand was able to get past Accelerator's ability and gave of a unique sound that was similar to shattering glass. This thought then drew people back to the boy's performance in the sing-off not too long ago, where he flaunted his right hand around for most of the performance and even created the illusion of shattering glass with a simple touch. Could it be that this boy actually possesses such a power?

Regardless of the power being real or not, the cheers for the hero of the story grew louder with each punch. As more and more people figured it out, the louder the cheers that arose when the sound of shattering glass was heard. Eventually, the cheers reached their peak when Accelerator was knocked flat on his back by an uppercut, forcing him to stare at the moon. However, he would not stop. He monologued about how he needed to get stronger so everyone would leave him alone, so everyone would stop trying to fight him. Such a proclamation actually painted Accelerator in a more sympathetic light to much of the audience. Surely, constantly being challenged to fights day in and day out could do a number on anyone's psyche.

The audience's worry began to increase as Accelerator began to babble some strange language and started to manipulate the air around him. The air soon formed a tornado which picked Touma off of his feet and threw him around. Mikoto, who had arrived at the scene not to long after the first punch, could only watch in horror as Touma was thrown on to the ground, knocking him out all bloody and battered. Things only got worse as Accelerator began to manipulate the wind to condense into a giant plasma sphere high above his head, something he fully intended to drop on top of the unlucky Level 0.

Not knowing what else to do, Mikoto ran over to here injured sister and begged for her to help, if not for her then for the boy that put so much on the line to help a complete stranger. These words reached the Sister, prompting her to contact every other Sister in Academy City to use their electricity to turn to the windmills into fans, disrupting Accelerator's calculations and defusing the plasma ball. Upon realizing who exactly was responsible, Accelerator turned to the Sister, intending to kill her and stop the Misaka Network's interference. However, Mikoto stood between him and her sister, not letting him cause any more harm to the girls she now considered her family. Once again, the audience was touched by such heartfelt gestures and began to cheer for the heroes.

However, those cheers fell silent as they noticed the bloody and battered Touma get up off the ground. By some miracle, he was still able to get up despite his severe injuries. Much like the Misakas and Accelerator, the audience was in total shock that he was even alive. They could barely make a sound and just watched to boy slowly walk towards the madman that was Accelerator. Growing tired of Touma's persistence, Accelerator manipulated his movement vectors to jump straight at Touma at an incredible speed. Mikoto attempted to use her railgun to help, but dropped the coin as she took it out of her pocket. The audience held their collective breath as they awaited the final strike.

As soon as he was up-close, Accelerator swiped his right hand and Touma's head. However, the Level 0 swiftly ducked and avoided the attack, prompting Accelerator to try again and thrust his left hand at the boy. That hand only met with the boy's right fist, bending Accelerator's index finger back an impossible angle, much to the discomfort of the audience. Touma then pulled back his fist, preparing to deliver a final punch. "You're the strongest guy in Academy City," Touma said, "That's not gonna help you now. The weakest guy is taking you down."

Meanwhile, Accelerator was too preoccupied with his own thoughts to focus on the fight anymore. He though back to when he was a child, when he feared armies would be sent after him, fearing his immense power, resulting in destruction to the area rather than his personal protection. He then remembered when he was approached by the researchers behind the Level 6 Shift Project, promising him so much power that no one would dare to attack him ever again. He thought back to the multitude of clones he had killed under the excuses that they were not people. Finally, he thought back to a single boy with spike black hair that once grabbed Accelerator's right hand with his own. The boy that lead him to a park to have fun. The boy that treated him like everyone else. The boy whose face and name he could no longer remember. The boy he called his friend.

The audience was cut off guard by this sudden revelation. If everything else didn't paint Accelerator out to be a sympathetic villain, this last detail definitely did. The theater fell silent as the audience took notice the boy that was apparently Accelerator's friend. The spike black hair reminded them all of a certain boy Accelerator was currently fighting. The theories stirring in their heads wouldn't stop. Accelerator had other thoughts, specifically how exactly they were able to get this part into the movie. The only explanation was that a certain someone had done some snooping and he need to deal with them.

By the time that Mikoto's coin hit the ground, Touma had landed the final punch on Accelerator. The Level 5 landed on his back, passed out on the ground. Shortly afterward, Touma himself fell to the ground in exhaustion. The windmill soon came to a halt, now that the fight was over.

The following day, Mikoto visited the Touma at the hospital with a get-well gift. That gift was a bag of store-bought cookies. Of course, do to being unable to read the situation, Touma accidentally insulted the girl by implying she couldn't bake. After a second near death experience at the hand the Number 3, Touma explained that Misaka 10032 had confirmed that the experiments were over. Although Mikoto still felt guilty over the deaths of 10031 of the Sisters, Touma put a new perspective on the situation, say that without her DNA map, 20000 Sisters would never have been given a chance at life. Such sentiments were very much appreciated by the audience, who simply nodded in agreement.

The next day, after reconciling with Misaka 10032, Mikoto once again made her way to the hospital to visit Touma, this time with a bag of homemade cookies that he insisted made a better gift. However, Mikoto kept arguing with herself over the act of giving the cookies and failed to realize that Touma was walking towards her with crutches, much to the amusement of the rest of the audience in the theater. After an awkward conversation, Mikoto attempted say thank you, but ended up only making note of the ants at their feet. Shrugging off the ants comment, Touma began to make his way home, say a farewell using Mikoto's hated nickname, Zapper. Before Touma could leave, Mikoto decided to set at least one record straight, telling him her actual name. Touma simply smiled and walked away with another farewell, this time using her proper name. The two ended parting ways on good terms as Mikoto ran back to her dorm to deal with the dorm manager that needed some sort of explanation for her late-night absences. With that, the credits rolled and the audience cheered. Many claimed it was the best movie they've seen in a long time. Regardless if it was an accurate claim, the cast was proud of their work and took a bow for the audience.

The following day, idol magazines and talk shows across Academy City were all talking about the same thing. The hot topic, the new movie, 'Sister's Noise'. Everyone was talking about the movie starring three of the Level 5s and the illusive Touma Kamijou. Magazines were filled with theories about certain events in the movie and how much of the story was actually true, while talk shows were doing heavy plot analyses.

Other publications were discussing the actors themselves. One gossip magazine had a picture of Touma and Mikoto from the premiere on the front cover. The top story was a rumor that the two were dating. The events of the premiere only added more fuel to the fire. Of course, the likes of Index and Kuroko did not appreciate hearing such a rumor and delivered divine punishment to Touma in their own ways. Other topics included rumors of Touma and Accelerator being childhood friends, although this one was more baseless due to all the evidence coming from a movie many people believed was completely fictional.

Disccussion was occurring at a personal level as well. Many of the classmates of the actors were surprised by their acting abilities. Most people thought the Level 5s would at least be decent, so they were not too big of a surprise. However, nobody thought Touma could be such a good actor. Of course, some people would say otherwise if they knew about a certain incident in Misawa Cram School. Accelerator was given pleanty of praise for his role as a psychopathic murderer. Then again, that was what he was on a bad day. Regardless, 'Sister's Noise' was the talk of the town.

However, the one person not talking about the film was Accelerator. Instead, he was currently pinning Tsuchimokado to a wall for an interrogation.

"All right you bastard, spill before I make you spill!" Accelerator threatened.

"I have no idea what you're talking about," Tsuchimokado said coolly.

"You know very well what I'm talking about! How the hell did you get the information for those flashbacks!"

"If you must know, I convinced Mental Out to scan you're brain for any sort of backstory and I added that to the script. She was quite surprised to know there are so many clones of the Railgun."

"I'll kill you!"

"We both know you won't. You care about me too much."

"Don't test your luck!"

"I know it's better that Kami's and you still haven't killed him."

"I hate you."

"I love you too."

Hope you found that enjoyable. Sorry again for making this mostly a retelling. Leave a review if you liked it.