Chapter 2

He took in the room. Garou noticed that Genos was nowhere in sight, let alone Metal Bat. Something was defiantly up. He felt bad though that the twins weren't able to come into the room, however they were content with the idea of waiting in the cafeteria until it was over. Still, this was unsettling. Genos never hesitates to come to a meeting that is important, nor Metal Bat for that matter. The S Class began to fall into whispers; Garou leaned over to Bang and asked. "Do you have any idea what's going on?"

He shook his head. "All I know is Sitch wanted to test the cooperation between the S, M and A class heroes. He requested Genos to assist in the matter at hand, and I heard Snek was asked as well."

"Which means… Amai must have been the third one to participate." Garou muttered.

Sitch entered the room. He appeared flustered to say the least as he looked to everyone with a great concern to his face. "We greatly underestimated this monster." He announced.

The computer lit up as the holograms were revealed. Amai, Genos and Snek appeared. "We were testing the team skills of the three heroes before you, at first we believed they were confronting a mere demon level threat. Granted, any one of the three are capable to taking a monster down on their own, yet we felt it was a good opportunity to see how well they could work together even with a low level threat…" Sitch suddenly paused as he couldn't bring himself to speak.

Garou however was done beating around the bush. "Spit it out, what happened!" he demanded.

Sitch was about to speak, that was until an associate burst into the room. The silence broke by the wailing of a infant of all things! The associate had to scream over the toddler. "WE TRIED EVERYTHING SIR, HE JUST WON'T STOP!"

The room cringed. "Take that baby out of here!" demanded Tatsumaki.

Garou however couldn't ignore the child. As much as he tried to, there was a part of him that refused to allow it to go unsoothed. "Damn it!" he muttered. Standing from his seat, he walked around the table towards the associate. He wrenched the baby from his arms and placed him over his shoulder.

SLAP!

A firm, open hand slap could be heard against the infant's back. "For God's sake! Don't kill the kid!" said Zombieman.

"UURP"

The infant stopped crying instantly.

The room froze as they stared at Garou. "What?" he said. "I know the look of discomfort when I see it." He tried to pass the toddler back, but it clung on to him rather tightly. "What the hell kid, I ain't your dad!"

Sitch sighed. "Thank you, we've been trying to get Amai to calm down for the past half an hour!"

That's when the room fell into an awkward silence. "Amai? THAT'S Amai Mask?" demanded Silverfang.

"And he wants to STAY with Garou!" chimed Tatsumaki.

"Sitch…" Melee said in a very uncertain tone.

He merely nodded his head. "Needless to say, we underestimated this monster. It not only got Amai, but…" another associate came in, this time, the baby wasn't crying as loud, just enough to sound urgent.

"Sir, we don't know what's wrong with him, he's not tired, he doesn't… poop." She said.

This time, Melee went to see. She took the toddler from the associate and peered at his face. "Holy shit, it's Genos… wait? How?" she demanded.

"The monster… we learned can grow itself by absorbing age. Needless to say its first victims were the heroes. We were fortunate enough that Metal Bat was in the area and rushed into help. He rescued the three but we have since lost contact with him."

"This doesn't make sense! Genos is mainly machine, how could he be reduced to a baby?!" demanded Alley.

Melee sighed. "Well, it doesn't matter now. Genos is hungry, he needs something to eat."

"He likes sardines and oil." Said Alley. "Would that work?"

"He has no teeth hon, unless we puree it and mix in something…"

"Try anything at this point. We are not equipped to handle toddlers," announced Sitch.

Suddenly the alarm went off. "Level Wolf threat detected, Level Wolf Threat detected…"

He went pale. "No, not again!" with that he rushed out of the room in a panic. Garou and his family however realized what the wolf threat was.

"SNEK!" they rushed from the room and were in quick pursuit of Sitch.