Zombieman was walking down the street. It was nightfall, but he wasn't worried about anything. He was well recognized enough that none were likely to attack him, and if anyone did, he would be back up and kicking in minutes. He was not expecting the kind of encounter he ended up getting.

When the man sized mantis with the glass jar brain walked out of the shadows towards him, he naturally assumed it was just an average tiger level threat. He figured he would let the guy ramble on about what made him how he is and how he was definitely about to go on a rampage, etc, etc. It was amusing to listen to.

"My name is Kamakyuri," The mantis creature said, "You've been away from home for far too long 66." These words made Zombieman's eyes widen. There was only one group in the world that referred to him as '66'. "You're with the House of Evolution, aren't you?"

"Excellent guess," Kamakyuri said with a laugh, "I have no idea what made you go renegade, the doctor gave us life, why would you not want to help him in whatever he wants to accomplish?" He questioned.

"I was a slave, so are you, and he's a madman," Zombieman said, "Because of your situation, I'll give you one chance right here to stop working for the House of Evolution. I'll take you back to the association, you tell them what you know, they make sure you're safe. Just like they did with me."

There was a moment, just a second, of hesitation in the mantis man's eyes before he shook his head, "No, I would never betray the house. You're coming back with me, one way or another," He lifted his bladed mantis arms, "Even if it's in pieces!"

Zombieman jumped back, avoiding Kamakyuri's slash, which cut clean through a lamppost. He drew one of his guns, a desert eagle, but before he could actually use it, something hit him. Not physically, but it made it was like his skull was shrinking and squeezing his brain. It only lasted a few seconds, but that was long enough for Kamakyuri to get in close and slash him across the side, leaving a deep gash.

"Didn't think they'd send me alone for you did you? You're quite a valuable target." The mantis said as two more mutants walked out of the shadows, a frog man with a sword and a slimy slug looking creature on short legs with long stalk eyes.

Zombieman was willing to bet that the pain in his head had been a psychic attack from one of those two. Frog man had a sword, so that probably made the slug the psychic. He fired at Kamakyuri to get him to back off, then fired at the slug.

Frog man blocked the bullet with his sword, then rushed forward, avoiding another shot with a powerful jump and kicking the gun out of his hand. Zombieman drew his sword and blocked the frog's next attack, getting double mantis cutters through his back followed by another mental attack.

He could easily handle any one of these threats alone. But all at once, all coordinated, he couldn't do much more but stall. He slashed at Kamakyuri, knocking him back but not doing much damage. Frog man cut into his leg before he was knocked back by the handle of Zombieman's sword.

Slugerous reached up to hold his head, his telegraph of his psychic attack, when his attack was cut off by a punch to the face. Frog man and Kamakyuri turned to see what had happened, seeing a man in a snake patterned suit adjusting his tie.

"I know an S class doesn't need my help," Snake Bite Sneck, A class hero, said, "But if you wouldn't mind my assistance, I can probably handle these stragglers." Zombieman smiled, "If you must." He said. His damaged body was already healing, the gash on his side was already nothing but a flesh wound. Between the two of them, this would be easy.

Kamakyuri grumbled in annoyance, "Frog man, Slugerous, handle the hero. He isn't the target, so feel free to kill him. I'll handle Zombieman, and you can help me carry his body when you're done!" He said, rushing at Zombieman.

Frog man nodded, jumping at Sneck with his sword. Sneck jumped back to avoid the strike, grunting in pain when he felt Slugerous' mental attack. Frog man swung his sword, but Sneck was ready for it.

"Coiling Defense!" His hand moved fast and his palm connected with the blunt end of the sword, knocking it out of the frog man's hands. "Snake Bite Bash!" He pushed forward, striking Frog man's arms with two quick powerful jabs.

Frog man jumped away and tried to grab his sword, but found that he couldn't move his arms. "W-what did you do!?" He questioned. "Funny thing about snake bites," Sneck said as he approached, "loss of feeling in the limbs is one of the first symptoms."

From man tried to back away from Sneck, but found himself against the wall. "Snake Bite Fist!" He moved his hand, and for an instant, Frog man could have sworn that his arm had been replaced with a snake before it connected with his head and everything went dark.

Sneck shook the mutant blood off of his hand and turned to Slugerous, who was already letting out a powerful psychic attack that caught Sneck off guard. He stumbled back, grunting in pain. This would be a bit more difficult.

Zombieman meanwhile was fending off Kamakyuri with just his sword. The bug was guarding his gun, likely knowing that one well placed shot from the thing would kill him. But he seemed to be getting fed up with the back and forth of the battle.

"They weren't kidding about your strength," Kamakyuri said, "I suppose I'll have no choice but to show you my special attack." Zombieman gripped his sword tighter, bracing himself for whatever kind of attack this could be.

The individual blades of the mantis' arms all began to vibrate, fast. To fast that when they hit something, they'd weaken the bonds holding the objects together to make cutting through them that much easier. To demonstrate this, he drove on of his arms into the brick wall.

Before he'd only been able to scratch and lightly damage the brickwork, but now his arm slid through the material like a hot knife through butter. Kamakyuri rushed forward, arm still cutting through the wall as he did.

Zomebieman ducked, slashing at the mantis' legs before jumping back and blocking with his sword as Kamakyuri brought down both vibrating blade arms on him. The sword held together for about two seconds before shattering, letting the mutant's blades cut into and cut off Zombieman's right arm.

He swore under his breath, taking out his last weapon, his long bearded axe. He'd had limbs chopped off so many times over the years, he'd practically had to become ambidextrous. But he doubted his axe could take more than one strike from those blades.

Sneck was still rushing at Slugerous. The psychic mutant's powers let him let out a wave of pain, then retreat while the enemy was reeling from it. Sneck grit his teeth, "You're a slippery one aren't you."

Slugerous responded with another psy-wave. Sneck was getting fed up with it. "I hate to resort to such underhanded tactics, but I don't seem to have much choice left in the matter." He said, closing his eyes. "W-what do you mean?" Slugerous questioned.

Sneck chuckled, "You know you're never supposed to look a snake in the eyes. Legends say it's bad luck, 'cause a snake can bend your mind if you've got eye contact. That's how basilisks kill you know."

Sneck opened his eyes, which had taken on snake-like forms, "Snake Eyes." He said as Slugerous couldn't avoid looking into them. The world around went dark, leaving only Slugerous and Sneck. But Sneck.. Wasn't Sneck anymore. In his place was a massive serpent bearing down on Slugerous. He wanted to move or counter attack, but he was too terrified.

It wasn't until the last instant that the illusion faded and Slugerous saw that Sneck, the real Sneck, was standing in front of him, his powerful fist about to connect to his face. The blow sent him to the ground like a bag of rocks. Fixing his tie, Sneck turned to see how Zombieman was doing.

The S class was doing a good job of avoiding and blocking, but not much about attacking back. At least, that's how it looked to the unobservant. Kamakyuri believed Zombieman to be backpedaling in a giant circle out of fear of his bladed arms.

In truth, he was leading the giant mantis away from his desert eager so he could get a distance weapon. When he was officially closer to the weapon than Kamakyuri was, he swung the axe hard at the mutant, the blade cutting into the mantis' head without quite reaching the brain and remaining stuck there as Zombieman ran for the gun.

Kamakyuri didn't even notice was Zombieman was doing, as he was busy trying to pry the axe out of his skull. After several annoying failed attempts he managed to get the axe free from his head, only for a bullet to hit the crack the axe had made and blast through the monster's brain, killing it instantly.

"Well, I guess that's that." Sneck said. "Not exactly," Zombieman said with a sigh, "If they sent these guys, then they're gonna be sending more. I don't think I can hold out any longer. This wasn't just a random attack. This was the House of Evolution making its move."


Quick question. Yes, I've been making up moves for characters here, a trend that's going to continue in later chapters. It'll never be anything that I think would be out of the realm of possibility for any of the characters, just special attacks based on their existing attacks and personality.

But then there's Blast, class S rank 1, the man everyone assumed was a myth until he was seen in person. In a flashback actually, but still. The issue is, we've never even been given a hint as to his powers. As it stands, there are three options here.

I can make Blast equivalent to Saitama, as many assume he will be in the actual manga/anime when the time comes. I could ignore him entirely and only focus on all the other heroes. Or I could make up a power set for him, essentially making him into a headcanon OC based on an existing character.

All three options have their ups and downs, and I'm not sure which to actually go with. So I'm leaving that up to the reviewers. Please try to come to a consensus before we get to Borus, because otherwise I'm gonna end up just rolling dice to decide.