The Caged Bird Sings
Genos had always had a rough life. Being only 15 when a berserk cyborg came and destroyed his town, killing his family and leaving him severely injured, he experienced a lot of things. When he asked Dr. Kuseno to turn him into a cyborg, he practically lost all his feeling of touch and emotion. He became a reckless, emotionless killing machine. Destroying anything in sight without a second thought, not caring about any human being; the only exception being Dr. Kuseno.
But then he met Saitama.
He'd never met anyone like him. Defeating Mosquito Girl in one punch (well, slap would have been the better word for it) and destroying a building in the process. When he first saw him he thought he was some weak citizen oblivious to the danger he was in. Maybe he shouldn't have been so quick to judge him just by his looks.
Being his disciple was one of the best privileges in the world, first being saved by his own sensei. He was sure he would have self-destructed himself if Saitama hadn't finished her off.
He was proud to call himself a disciple of Saitama-sensei.
Well, sometimes.
Like with the time with Deep Sea King. He let his guard down too much, and that was ultimately his downfall. Had he'd been paying more attention to his surroundings, maybe he could have taken him out. But at least, the girl was safe, even if it did cost him at least 75% of his cyborg body. Mumen Rider was brave, too, but had it not been for sensei, he was sure he would have met his end as well.
Well, at least, everything was alright now and back to normal.
Well, almost.
After his sensei's fight with Boros, City Z was in ruins and took about 6 months to restore (thankfully it took less with the combined effort, especially with Tatsukami's help), and everything was fairly normal. There were small attacks every now and then (it wouldn't be City Z if there weren't), but not large ones like the ones with Beefcake or Mosquito Girl (though Saitama would have no problem taking them out, regardless of the threat). They had only had Tiger-level and Wolf-level threats, which were easy to take out that even a C-class hero could take out without much effort.
Learning to control his firepower wasn't as difficult as Genos thought. He had already learned to dry the dishes for Saitama-sensei without burning up the whole kitchen and destroying the furniture in the process. Figuring out how to destroy a building without destroying part of a mountain in the process was slightly difficult, but nothing he couldn't manage.
But now, he had a feeling something was off. Not entirely threatening, but very off nonetheless. Amai Mask, otherwise known as Sweet Mask, had been sketchy with his appearances at the Hero Association. Showing up right before or right after an attack, 'claiming' to have been at a photo shoot in City B.
It had Genos on guard.
He was sure something was coming.
He just didn't know what, or when.
Y'all knew this was coming. Once the train starts, it cannot be stopped.
So, yeah, this is my first attempt at freestyling an OPM story. Sorry if some of the information are inaccurate, I haven't been watching OPM for too long. My friend who introduced me to the series is helping me also, so I'm hoping I, at least, got some things right.
The next chapter will be out tomorrow as I already have it done (shocker) and chapter 2 is halfway finished and should be uploaded on Saturday (another shocker) so expect those out soon. :P I'm hoping to get a chapter out every other day as I type during school and such. Also, the title was inspired by this poem I read by Maya Angelous, along with another poem by William Ernest Henley and it inspired this story.
R&R