Hey guys! Look, an actual chapter! I'm sooooo sorry for taking months to finally update this story! It actually took me some time to figure out how to make everything work… I'm pretty amazed some of you are still reading, so really thank you for this. Also, more than a hundred of you guys followed this fix, which is just totally awesome. Anyway, you're not here read an A/N, right? So here comes the chapter, hope you enjoy.
Also, last-minute disclaimer, this chapter (and this whole story) is very different from canon. The backstory of some characters and organizations is altered, so if that bothers you, I'm sorry.
An apartment in Z-city, even later the same night
Saitama opened the door with his free hand and entered his studio before placing the cyborg on the couch. Once again pestering about the monsters who stained his clothes, he removed hoodie to put it in the washer, revealing his perfectly muscled arms.
As he was about to start a wash, a digital voice behind him got his attention
"Critical power level detected. Analyzing surroundings for usable energy source….Power outlet identified. Attempting connection."
The hero watched with wide eyes as a metallic cable came out of the cyborg's inanimate body and slowly made its way to a power outlet on the wall to plug itself in. After a few seconds, a red light began pulsing from the core in the blond teen's chest.
"System boot."
With a start, the cyborg suddenly regained consciousness and looked around, surprised to find himself in a place he didn't know before his gaze stopped on the man standing in front of him and the surprise
"You! You are the one who killed the monsters!"
Although still too damaged to move properly, the cyborg pulled himself off the couch to kneel on the ground
"My name is Genos, please teach me how to be as strong as you are!"
Saitama just looked at him, dumbfounded.
"Huh okay, sure. No need to bow, though, I mean in your state I didn't even expect you to be able to talk so don't push yourself… Talking about that, don't you have someone who can patch you up?"
He sat up to look into his new master's eyes
"Yes sensei! Thank you for your concern sensei! I've activated my beacon, a drone will come to pick me up. I will then return as quickly as possible to start training with you, Sensei!"
Genos spoke proudly, not noticing the hero's frown after the use of the overly respectful title.
"I'm no sensei. My name is Saitama, so you can just call me this."
Genos looked surprised for a second before he nodded and made a note in his database
"Of course, Saitama sensei!"
"Sigh. Well, I guess that's better than nothing, at least he used it only one time this sentence..." the hero didn't have the time to complain more about his new pupil's behavior, however, for he once again spoke up
"Sensei, I would like to live here with you in order to study your everyday life! Please allow me to settle in!"
"Dude, you do realize how weird that is right?"
"I will do the house chores, can cook and will pay the rent!"
Genos could now see his master's eyes suddenly shining at the mention of food and savings.
"When do you move in?"
"I will come back as soon as I am repaired!" The cyborg's attention was redirected towards the window "The drone is almost here, he should arrive any second."
Indeed, a large drone resembling the ones used by the HA for the heroes' mail soon came through the window and attached itself to Genos' metallic body. "I must go, but I will return shortly to begin training!"
"Alright, see ya around" the baldy waved at his departing new pupil and it is only when the black drone disappeared into the night that the realization hit him
"Wait… this guy is a cyborg right?...
How am I supposed to train someone who doesn't have actual muscles?!"
The next morning, in the HA's meeting room
After his meeting with the boss, the worker quickly set up the appointment for all the S-class heroes and Sitch, and everyone concerned was now reunited around a long table. Everyone? Well not really. Blast, the best hero of the association, was as always missing and Doctor Bofoi send a drone to attend the meeting rather than go himself. Sitch and Tatsumaki were not there either.
"We have been waiting for at least half an hour now! What are they doing?" Everyone in the room looked at Child emperor as he broke the silence "I have classes I can't afford to miss!"
Bang, who was sitting next to him, gently placed his hand on his shoulder as he said "I'm sure they have a good reason to keep us waiting, this meeting is probably important."
Child Emperor quietly thought for a moment before speaking up again
"That's a good point actually, they usually arrive just after us, but not this time. Also never in the past has Tornado of Terror been absent at such a meeting… Maybe she's preparing with them? "
At this exact moment, a voice came from a side of the room.
"Sorry for wasting your precious time."
The heroes all turned around to see the one who just spoke. At the door was Agoni, accompanied by Sitch and Tatsumaki "Let us start now if you will". Taking place at the table, he took the time to look at everyone in the room before continuing.
"Everything that will happen from now on is strictly top secret until I personally take the decision to reveal it to the world. As such, you are not to tell anyone anything about it, not even the other Hero Association workers, with the exception of the secret department."
The S-classes were now more focused than ever. First secret information, and now a secret department? For once a meeting was going to be interesting.
Agoni continued
"The Hero Association has existed for three years to serve and protect the civilians.
I'm sure you all know the story of its foundation, me creating it after Tornado of Terror saved my son from the monster Crablante."
He made a pause, looking around at everyone around the table, stopping at each hero for a brief moment.
"Well, that is not what really happened."
Second pause, this time waiting for the sudden reactions to calm down as questions filled the room.
Sitch raised his hands to appease the heroes "We know that this is a lot of information to digest but please listen to everything has to say. You will have the time to talk about it after the meeting" the heroes quickly stopped chatting and turned towards the director, who resumed talking after nodding at Sitch in appreciation for his intervention.
"The one who saved him is a man we will, for now, call by his code name, 'subject B'. We know very little about him besides the fact he his extremely powerful and bald.
Until now we have had only two reports of this man. The first was my son, the second was by Tornado of Terror.
She reported that more than fifteen years ago, a man saved her and her sister from the laboratory that leads experiences on them in their childhood.
At this moment and before anyone could even say a word, the heroes started glowing in a green hue and felt their bodies slowly becoming weightless. The esper sitting beside Agoni was looking at her feet, her green hairs hiding her face but not the slight trembling of her whole untold message was clear, they were not to make a comment on this information unless they wanted to be shredded to pieces.
"She accepted to join the Association at one condition. Despite being it's strongest hero, she would only be given the second place, and the first would be kept empty for the man who saved her."
For a second the silence was complete as the realization hit the heroes like a truck at full speed and a single name appeared in their mind "Blast". The strongest hero of the Association, a legend among them although no one had ever seen him at a meeting or in a fight, this Blast was never actually part of the HA?
Child Emperor, being one of the quickest wit of the assembly, was the first to react, asking questions as much as he was thinking out loud
"So this 'subject B' is Blast, that's why none of us ever met him right? That explains the code name… actually no it doesn't! You said you did not know his true Identity, or even what exactly he looked like, so how come you know his name?
Also if you weren't able to get him into the association, why make everyone believe he was and was just gone somewhere?"
Silence followed his intervention, every gazes turned towards Agoni waiting for answers, not a sound made in fear to miss valuable information. After a few more seconds of quiet thinking, the answer came.
"Our goal is to make the world safer for the citizens. As such, we thought about a way to minimize criminal activity and created the legend of Blast, a powerful hero who could be anywhere, and so everywhere. That allowed us to keep the monsters afraid of him, so less active. It was also a good way to explain his reappearance should he eventually join us, as in the mind of the population he would not come out of nowhere, just come back after a long time hiding to fight crime.
But enough futile questions. I decided to reveal all of this information to you for a good reason.
We now have a new lead on his identity and how to find him."
The director typed on the screen's keyboard under the interrogative looks of the heroes before the video appeared.
"This video was taken by a security camera in a street of F-city, at 2357 last night."
With a click of a button the video started.
The expressions on the heroes' faces went from expectation, to surprise and finally amazement. At the end of the recording, Sitch spoke up
"Thanks to this, we were able to use facial recognition and identify the subject. This individual is in our databases under the name of Saitama but has no known last name, which might mean it is a nickname.
What we do know however is that he can often be seen at a bar in D-City, The Broken Shillelagh, and this is where you act. Now listen closely."
He leaned over, his fists on the table, and began explaining the plan.
Yup! That's how this chapter ends... you waited 8 months for a shitty hangover... I do hope it's not that much of a disappointment though! And will try to take a lot less time to write the next chap (I make no promises whatsoever). So yeah, please tell me if anything is wrong, sorry once again and have a good one! Buh bye!