The next day, after Saitama and Shunshi had received their promotions in the Hero Association rankings. The bald hero and his cyborg apprentice were both at their apartment doing their usual things; aka, Genos was doing chores and Saitama was reading manga.

Shunshi had already finished his daily workouts and went off to search for evil to fight.

Just after he had finished washing the dishes, Genos received a phone call from the Hero Association, informing him of some sort of disaster that they needed all of the S-Class heroes for.

After hanging up the phone, Genos walked over to the apartment's living room and said to Saitama, who was lazily laying on his side as he read his manga "Sensei, for some reason, the Hero Association has called me over for some sort of S-Class meeting. I will be back later." Saitama didn't even bother to look at Genos as he waved to him and responded in a somewhat joking manner "Okay; maybe you're getting kicked out of S-Class. Heh heh ha ha ha."

During Genos' walk from Saitama's place to the Hero Association headquarters, if you looked into the sky above Z-City you could see what almost looked like an extra moon that was getting closer and closer the Earth's surface by the minute.

Genos, who was carrying some sort of strange looking briefcase with him, had arrived at Z-City's Hero Association Headquarters. The blonde cyborg walked into the building, which seemed to be strangely empty at the moment.

After Genos quickly examined his surroundings, an elderly man that had been standing off to the side greeted him with a welcoming tone "Ah, you must be Genos. It's very nice to make your acquaintance; I'm Bang."

As Genos looked at Bang, he had as close as an impressed look on his face as it got for him, while he thought to himself "S-Class rank three, otherwise known as Silverfang. He posses true skill."

Genos quickly shifted his expression back to that of his usual serious nature and said to Bang "The Association called me in as well as the other S-Class heroes." Bang responded to this by informing Genos "Everyone else is over at the main Headquarters, this branch is empty now. Every S-Class hero received the call to come here, but you and I are the only ones who showed up."

In response to this information, Genos calmly asked Bang "And why is that?" Bang responded in a somewhat serious tone "Perhaps this area is too far away for them. Maybe they're busy. Of course, some of the more cold-blooded ones simply don't care... Then again, it's hard to blame them. We're only called when there's an impossible problem to take care of, and today's dilemma is no exception. The disaster level is Dragon, meaning it's one of the worst case scenarios imaginable. About thirty five minutes from now, a huge meteor is going to strike Z-City, so the Association is asking if nearby S-Class heroes can do anything about it." After Bang had explained the severity of this situation, Genos' face took on a much more shocked expression than the stoic cyborg would usually allow.

Genos quickly asked Bang in an almost fearful tone "A meteor?!" Bang responded in a somewhat upset tone "Apparently it changed course without warning... It could mean the end for us, or at least for Z-City."

Genos gasped in shock at this horrible news, while Bang continued on with his sentence, except in a more cautious tone "I'm afraid there's nothing we can do this time. You should think about evacuating with your loved ones as the others have."

Genos instantly recomposed himself and asked Bang "Do the citizens know about this?" Bang looked out of the building's glass door and responded in a doubtful tone "I was told that 'the powers that be' would issue evacuation orders thirty minutes before it hits."

As soon as Bang said this, a siren went off across the city followed by the voice of a woman saying "Attention, this is an important announcement from the Hero Association."

Upon hearing this, Silverfang chuckled and commented "The people are sure to panic."

Genos, then, asked Bang in a somewhat concerned tone "And what will you do, old fellow?" Bang smiled a bit at this, turned his back towards Genos and took a few steps away from him, before asking rhetorically "Old fellow is it? I told you, call me Bang."

Growing even more concerned, Genos asked Bang "You aren't evacuating?"

Bang replied to this in a very serious tone of voice "There is a dojo in this city that has been in my family for generations, I can't abandon it!..." Bang then struck a pose as, what looked like little streams of water came off of his fingers while he intensely exclaimed "Fist of Flowing Water Crushing Rock! Ever heard of it?"

However, as soon as Bang turned around, much to his disappointment, Genos had already taken off to try and stop the meteor, causing the elderly hero to comment "Oh... He already left."

About ten minutes later, Genos, who still had his strange looking briefcase, was running along the tops of the buildings in Z-City in order to quickly reach where the meteor was predicted to hit.

While looking up at the ever approaching space rock, Genos thought to himself in a very serious tone "I cannot really blame all of these people for giving up hope of surviving this catastrophe. If this meteorite hits, then not only will Z-city be destroyed, but the neighboring cities will sustain serious damage as well... I suppose it's too late for me to try to evacuate anyway."

As Genos got closer to the building that he wanted to land on, he saw that some other hero was already standing on the roof of that building, that hero being Shunshi, who seemed to be trying to create a giant version of one of his light ball.

At the sight of Shunshi standing right where the meteorite was about to hit, Genos thought in a confused and concerned tone "What is he doing here?! I should make him leave... It does not really matter now, I suppose. It is too late for him to get to a safe distance."

Diverting his attention away from his junior, Genos looked at the giant meteor get closer and closer as he stated to himself in a dramatic tone, while pressing a button on his briefcase's handle "I did not expect to be testing this prototype so soon!"

The briefcase then shot out in front of the young cyborg, before splitting in half and turning into a pair of bulky, mechanical arms. Genos instantly closed in on these arm upgrades and allowed them to encase his current arms while causing a burst of electricity and securing some metallic attachments to his neck and face.

When Genos landed on the building that the meteor was going to hit, Shunshi quickly took notice of him and asked in a surprised, yet hopeful tone "Senpai!?"

Deciding to openly acknowledged Shunshi's presence, Genos asked him in an upset tone "What exactly are you doing here, Shunshi?" Confused as to why he would ask that question, Shunshi responded in a tone that made it clear that he thought what he was the most obvious thing in the world "There's a giant meteor heading right for Z-City and I'm a high ranking hero now, so what exactly do you think I'm doing?! I'm getting ready to try to blow that thing out of the sky! This is where you and master Saitama live after all; plus all of the innocents who are going to die if something isn't done! I couldn't just sit around and do nothing about this!"

Raising his eyebrows in surprise at Shunshi's noble statement, Genos looked at the light ball he'd created and was just slightly impressed by the size of attack. The light ball was about three times the size of his junior's entire body, but the cyborg knew it wasn't anywhere near enough to stop the chunk of space debris headed towards the city.

Taking a second to think up a makeshift strategy, Genos remained silent for a split second before giving Shunshi an order "You keep preparing your attack, Shunshi. I am going to fire my incinerator cannon in hopes that it will stop the meteorite. I will tell you if I need assistance." Shunshi seemed content with these orders and responded "Of course, Senpai!"

Just before Genos could fire his attack, a large and very shiny looking robot, that seemed to be designed to single handedly fight off an entire army on its own, landed next to the two young heroes.

Being taken off guard by the sudden appearance of this robot, Genos asked in a surprised tone "What is that?"

Shunshi, due to a combination of admiration and struggling to hold the still growing light ball, answered his Senpai's question with a stunned voice "That... that's the S-Class hero Metal Knight, also known as professor Bofoy. He's... he's ranked number seven in S-Class... and I think he's supposed to be the smartest hero in the entire Association... His robots always look so cool!"

As Shunshi continued to charge his attack and stare at Metal Knight, Genos approached the robot hero and quickly asked him "My ally tells me that you are Bofoy. Is that correct?" Metal Knight turned to face Genos, while also giving Shunshi a quick glance, before responding with an electronic voice "Yeah that's me. And you're the new guy, Genos. Are you and that other guy here to stop the meteor too?"

Genos, once again taking a second to make another makeshift plan, explained to Metal Knight in a slightly hopeful tone "Bofoy, my ally and myself are in need of your assistance."

Metal Knight, much to the shock of both Genos and Shunshi, instantly responded by coldly saying "I refuse."

Shunshi, who was still struggling to hold his attack in place, shouted in an upset tone "WHAT?! BUT YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO BE A HERO!"

In a slightly calmer, yet still angry tone, Genos asked Metal Knight "Why not?" Bofoy continued on with his cold tone of voice while replying "I only answered the call here to test out my new weapon system, that meteor is the perfect test."

Genos, now speaking in a much more angry tone of voice, asked Bofoy another question "A test?! If that meteor hits then you will die as well!" As soon as Genos brought this up, Bofoy dismissively replied "Fortunately, I won't."

Both Genos and Shunshi looked genuinely confused by this statement, causing Shunshi to ask Metal Knight in a just barley hopeful tone "What do you mean you won't die, Metal Knight? Did you make some kind of weapon that you know will take out that meteor for sure?" Bofoy responded to this in a disturbingly calm yet condescending tone "No, nothing like that. You see, what the two of you are speaking to is merely a remote controlled drone; my actual body is quite far away. Terribly sorry to disappoint you boys, but my life's not at stake here."

Looking even more upset now, Genos asked his fellow S-Class hero in a disapproving tone "So you are unwilling to risk harm to yourself in order to save others? That's rather unhero-like behavior, Bofoy."

Bofoy scoffed at Genos and explained in a superior tone of voice "I'm not going to just throw my life away over something as trivial as the loss of a single city. Also, take example from that darkly-clad friend of yours; I'm not Bofoy right now, I'm Metal Knight. Heroes call each other by their hero names, not their real name, everyone knows that. Now, I don't mean to be rude, but it seems like I need to cut our little chat short. The meteor's getting closer."

Genos nearly growled at Bofoy's attitude, before dashing away from the robot, grabbing Shunshi by his cape, and commanding him "Hold on to your attack as tight as you can!" Shunshi did as he was asked and, before he could ask his Senpai what he was up to, the young cyborg, while keeping a type grip on Shunshi's cape, jumped on to the top of the taller building that was standing next to the building that they had been standing on until now.

As soon as they landed on this roof, Genos got ready to fire his incinerator cannon, while Shunshi desperately tried to keep his balance from the sudden jump, not wanting to drop his energy ball on the roof and blow both himself and Genos away.

Just as Genos was about to launch his attack, Bofoy interrupted once again by shouting "Missiles fire!" The missiles that were on the back of Bofoy's drone then shot off, causing Genos to have to hold off on his own attack in fear of it detonating the explosives prematurely.

When the missiles hit the meteor, an explosion went off as a result of them colliding with the space rock. This explosion was so massive that it would have been enough to take out an entire junk of the city if they had been pointed towards the ground.

As Shunshi and Genos looked at the explosion in awe, the stronger of the two, as in Genos, couldn't help but think to himself in a tone of slight admiration "Amazing; such destructive power... This 'hero' is dangerous, I must be careful around him."

Shortly after thinking this, the smoke from the explosion cleared away, revealing that the meteorite had received little to no damage at all from this assault.

At the sight of an explosion of that magnitude doing nothing to slow down the meteor, Bofoy stated in an unmoved tone "Well, that's unfortunate; it seems they weren't potent enough." Having no further interest in this situation, Bofoy powered down his drone.

Shunshi's response to the meteor's display of endurance was him shouting in a combination of fear, anger, and disbelief "WHAT!? NO! There's no way that didn't do anything! What the hell is that rock made of?!"

Instantly realizing that the threat still needed to be dealt with, Genos started charging up his attack while Shunshi was just barely stopping himself from having a panic attack. Genos quickly finished charging up the amount of power that he needed to blast his incinerator cannon, which was made apparent by the large amounts of electricity sparking off of him, but, for some reason, he was hesitating to fire the attack.

In an attempt to snap Genos back to reality, Shunshi shouted at him in a concerned yet upset tone "Genos, fire the damn thing! What are you doing?! Are you okay?"

Before Genos could respond to Shunshi, Silverfang appeared on the roof, seemingly out of thin-air and stated very wisely "First off, he needs to calm down. I see he's lost his composer."

Genos and Shunshi both turned their heads around in surprise to see the third highest ranked S-Class hero that appeared from nowhere.

Silverfang then addressed Genos directly by saying stoically "Genos, you must put your mind at rest, you're far too young to be worried about failure. Whenever you're backed against a wall, you must act. Overthinking the situation won't change things. The best course of action is to just muddle through."

Genos considered this for a split second, while pondering to himself "Muddling through is the best course?" Letting this philosophy sink in, an image popped into the young Cyborg's head, an image of his Sensei giving off his usual lazy smile; this gave Genos the inspiration that he needed.

Shunshi, on the other hand, could stop starring at Silver Fang. If you were standing there yourself, all you'd see is a man in a frightening suit of armor and a black cloak staring down an old man, but underneath his helmet, Shunshi had the kind of expression that a child would have if they got to meet their favorite superhero.

Shunshi couldn't stop thinking to himself as he smiled in awe of Bang "OH MY GOD! IT'S SILVERFANG! He's one of the greatest, if not THE greatest martial artist in the world! And he's the third highest ranking S-Class hero! He's so awesome! If we survive this I wonder if I can get his autograph."

Back to Genos. The blond cyborg ripped his shirt off and, then, opened up his metal body, revealing some sort of orb with holes in it that was containing a ball of energy. Genos grabbed the orb and pulled it out of his chest with the only things keeping it connected being a large tube. The bicep on Genos' right arm then opened up and revealed a circular slot. Genos put the orb in the slot on his arm and quickly built up more than four times as much energy as before.

Pointing his arm into the air, Genos shouted to Silverfang and Shunshi as his energy continued to rise "Bang, get down! Shunshi, throw your attack... NOW!" Shunshi quickly snapped out of his admiration of Silverfang and replied "Wha-? Oh! Of course, Senpai!"

He tossed his largest energy ball yet as hard as he could at the meteor, while Genos thought to himself in a furiously passionate tone "I'll no longer consider the possibility of losing! I'll just pour everything I have... INTO ONE SHOT!"

Genos then fired a ray of fire from his arm that was almost as large as the building he was standing on. His incinerator blast absorbed Shunshi's large energy ball as soon as reached it, causing the blast of fire to turn pure white and become equal in size to the building.

The white beam of fire quickly made contact with the meteor as Genos, using all of the power that he could conjure up, started screaming at the top of his artificial lungs while he tried to use this fire blast to at least slow the meteor down even a little bit.

Due to the shockwaves being created, Shunshi had fallen onto his butt and was just looking at this amazing display of power before his eye in complete silence; that is, until he fully realized that the only reason Genos' attack had reached this level of power was because it merged with his light ball, so his inner-geek took over as he blurted out in enthusiasm and genuine passion "Combo-Attack: Incinerating White Heart Cannon!"

When Bang heard Shunshi say this, he turned his head to look at him and ask "Combo whatsit now?" Shunshi flinched at Silverfang's stare, before turning to look back at the meteor and responding meekly "It's nothing, sir. Just ignore me."

If you could find a way to look underneath Shunshi's helmet at this moment, you would see that his face had turned completely beat-red and he was sweating like a pig while thinking anxiously to himself "I can't believe I just said something so stupid in front of Mr. Silverfang... I almost want the meteor to kill me now."

Both Bang's and Shunshi's attention was returned to Genos when he shouted in frustration "IT'S NOT WORKING!" As soon as he said this, a small, and almost hot enough to be melting, rock fell from where the meteor was in the sky. This prompted Bang to point at the small rock and exclaim in an encouraging tone "Look! You took out a bit of it already! Don't give up now! If you just keep going, then I'm sure you'll eventually wear out that big rock!" Genos shouted frustratedly at this news "There's no way I can keep this up for that long!"

Bang was starting to sweat a bit, that is until his gaze shifted back to the meteorite, something he saw prompting him to shout "Oh, wait I think I see it getting pushed back!" When they heard him say this, both Genos and Shunshi asked hopefully "Really?!"

Unfortunately, Bang responded to them in an apologetic tone "Wait, that was just my imagination..."

Furious beyond explanation with that, Genos shouted at Bang in a furious tone "You old fool!" While Shunshi was just stunned silent from such a huge mistake in judgement on Silverfang's part.

As his power started running out Genos angrily thought to himself "So this... this will be my grave..."

The large blast of white flames quickly died out as Genos fell to his knees, due to there only being only just enough power left in his cyborg body to keep him from dying.

While on his knees, Genos explained to Silverfang and Shunshi in a sad tone of voice "There is only a few more moments before the meteor hits; both of you need to leave now... or you will both die."

As soon as Genos said this to the two of them, Shunshi saw Silverfang take half a step towards Genos while seemingly readying one of his hands for an attack, but, before Bang could even finish taking a full step, a familiar, lazy voice gave Shunshi an order "Shunshi, take care of Genos and this old guy."

Genos, Shunshi and Bang all looked behind themselves and saw Saitama walking towards them.

Shunshi quickly ripped off his helmet to make sure he wasn't seeing hallucinations, and, when he realized that his yellow-clad was truly standing before him, the young A-Class hero was overcome with joy at the fact that his eyes weren't playing tricks on him.

Beginning to tear up a bit, Shunshi blurted out in joy "SENSEI!"

Bang looked back and forth between Shunshi and Saitama in utter confusion before asking the bald hero "'Sensei'? Who are you? Who sent you?" Saitama calmly responded to these questions by explaining "I'm just a guy who's a hero for the fun of it."

Genos, who had gained an expression of relief and surprise, just kept looking at Saitama until he launched himself with a jump that was so powerful that it destroyed the stability of the building everyone had been standing on, causing Genos to look at the sky while exclaiming with a voice filled with joy "Master!"

Saitama, who was practically flying through the air, yelled to the meteor as he readied a punch "You're not... gonna fall... ON MY TOWN!" Saitama's punch sent him barreling through the meteor, causing the large rock from space to stop in a mid-air and shatter apart.

Bang stated in a completely amazed tone of voice as he saw the seemingly unstoppable chunk of space debris getting broken apart "He shattered it! Incredible!... Oh no!"

Shunshi, who was preoccupied with helping Genos stand up, didn't notice the fact that the fragments of the meteor were starting to rain down on the city, so he responded to Silverfang's reaction by asking him in a concerned tone of voice "What's wrong, Silverfang, sir?"

Before the elderly hero could explain the dangers of this new situation, the building that the three of them had been standing on got struck by part of the now broken meteor and, due to its already weakened infrastructure, it to started to fall over.

Genos and Shunshi started slipping down the side of the now vertical roof, causing Genos to state "The building is falling! Save yourself, Shunshi!"

Before either of them could fall very far however, Silverfang had rushed up to them, wrapped his arms around their torsos, and then jumped away with them while stating "It's not just this building, the entire city is getting bombarded with the splintered fragments of the meteor!"

Genos and Shunshi looked around themselves and saw that what Silverfang said was true, the entire city was getting showered with falling space debris in a rain of destruction.

Meanwhile. Saitama landed back on the ground and said to himself in a content tone of voice as meteorite fragments hit the city behind him "I guess that takes care of that." Another meteor fragment then destroyed yet another large building that was directly behind him.

The next day. Genos and Saitama were watching the news at their place, while Shunshi had decided to forget about fighting crime for a few days in order to see if he could help lessen the pain of those who were suffering as a result of the destruction caused by the meteor's fragments.

As Genos and Saitama continued watching the news coverage of the destruction in Z-City, the young cyborg commented in a slightly disgusted tone "Would you look at all of this carnage. If only the Hero Association had called you to help instead of me, Master; if you had been assigned to work with Bofoy, then all of the damage could have been minimized." Saitama, who was laying on his side and reading manga while also listening to the news, responded to Genos' comment in his usual emotionless voice, but with a slightly happy tint added into it "But you said that Metal Knight guy wasn't willing to work together, there'd be no point in it anyway. So stop worrying about it, I think we kept the damage to a minimum. Since no one died, we should just call it a win."

Genos started intensely analyzing Saitama's words in his head and, then, thought to himself in his usual overly dramatic tone "He is right. Master's punch greatly reduced the meteor's destructive power. If Sensei hadn't been there then the shockwaves from the meteor could have destroyed everything for nearly a hundred miles, I shutter to think what kind of damage the physical force of such a disaster would cause. The fact that Sensei's punch alone is what stopped the meteor is nothing short of a miracle; I would not be surprised if Master is talked about for years to come, praising him as a man of courage... But Master has no idea, some are even making him out to be the bad guy for causing the partial destruction of Z-City, despite saving it as a whole... No, I should not mention it to him."

Just as Genos finished his thought, Saitama asked his student a question in an honestly curious tone "By the way, do you think what happened moved us up in the rankings?" Letting go of his concerns for now, Genos quickly replied to this by saying "Yes it did. Shunshi moved up from A-Class rank 10 to rank 8, I was elevated from S-Class rank 17 to 16, Metal Knight was moved from rank 7 to rank 6 in S-Class, and as for you, Master, you shot up from C-Class rank 342 up to rank 5."

When informed of his high level promotion in rank, Saitama gained a completely dumbfounded look on his face before asking in disbelief "Number 5?! From 342 to 5?! Whoa, what the Hell!? That's crazy!"

Genos, who was now wearing an out of character smile, explained to Saitama "Well, your performance was actually worthy of a promotion to A-Class or even S-Class, I mean the disaster level for this was Dragon after all."

Saitama, who now looked more excited than he had in ages, asked in an uncharacteristically giddy tone "Yeah, really?" Genos responded to this in a happy tone "If there had been no damage, I'm sure you would be S-Class rank 5. A feet like destroying that meteor alone earns a promotion from C-Class to A-Class, at the very least, but I assume that the Hero Association believes that Metal Knight and I had more to do with the meteor's destruction than we truly did."

After receiving this explanation, Saitama asked another question of his student that had been bugging him for some time now "So... Whenever some big threat is on the news, they always give it a disaster level of demon or tiger or something like that. Does disaster level mean something?"

Genos, who now looked more than just a little surprised, responded calmly "Yes, it does. Wolf: An entity or group that might be dangerous. Tiger: An entity or group that threatens a large group of people. Demon: A disaster or entity that could destroy an entire city. Dragon: A disaster or entity that could destroy multiple cities. God: A disaster that threatens the survival of the Human race as a whole."

Genos handed Saitama a pamphlet that showed off some of the different monsters that were in each Disaster Level, causing Saitama to comment with a notable amount of interest "Wow, I had no idea."

Genos then continued to explain "I believe heroes take Disaster Levels into consideration when deciding whether or not to respond to a call, but I guess such things do not matter to you."

Saitama responded to this in a matter-of-fact tone "Well of course they don't. If the heroes run and hide, then who's left to help people?"

Awe-struck by his master's words, Genos suddenly started writing down notes in one of his little booklets faster than a normal person could even see. While watching Genos preform this strange act, Saitama couldn't help but ask "Uh... Genos, what are you doing?" Genos responded to this in a very serious tone of voice "I must record your words of wisdom!"

Saitama quickly chose to just ignore Genos' odd actions in order to ponder to himself "All things considered, I didn't have to do much to get such a large boost in rankings... Right! I'll be out for a bit."

Having taken a second to process what Saitama said, Genose stopped writing in his book, turned to Saitama, who had somehow already changed into his hero outfit, and said "Hold on, Sensei, I'm coming with you." Saitama just adjusted his belt and calmly replied "You stay here, if something heroic happens, you'll get all the credit again."

The bald hero then slipped his red boots on and went out the door, leaving behind a concerned cyborg.

Meanwhile, in the wrecked ruins of Z-City. Shunshi had spent all of this day going to each person he could find that was trying to salvage what they could from their homes. He was doing this in order to offer help by lifting heavy objects off of peoples' belongings or retrieve things from arias that had become too dangerous for normal people. So far, the only intact objects he managed to recover was the motorcycle of a man who's garage had a boulder on it, a slightly ripped up teddy bear from a little girl's room that had been mostly crushed, and what wasn't crushed was filled with rubble, he also he had also recovered someone's mini-fridge, an old man's walker, a large amount of food and water that he hopped everyone would share, and, as for right now, he was currently making good use of the claws on his suit to help him dig through rubble in the backyard of a suburban family, because the family's youngest son had begged him to save his dog, which had gotten left behind due to the hurry his family was in to escape from the meteorite when the warning was sounded.

While digging through the rubble, Shunshi thought to himself in a depressed tone "Why am I doing this?... This puppy's probably dead... poor thing... The kid's gonna be really broken up when I find his dog's corpse... Guess that's better than the kid hatting me and his family for not doing anything to find his dog... Wait, what's that sound?"

Stopping his digging for a moment, Shunshi heard what sounded like the faint noise of a dog whining, so he started digging again at even faster speeds, faster and faster until he found a little cave of sorts that had formed around a small dog with a broken leg, along with a few other minor injuries.

Shunshi took off his helmet so that he wouldn't scare the small animal, gently picked it up, and then carried it over to its family as quickly as he could without making the poor thing's injuries any worse.

When Shunshi returned to the family with their dog, he was met with mixed reactions; the parents were completely shocked that the dog was still alive, while the son was overcome with the joy and sadness that came with getting his best friend back, but seeing the bad condition the little guy was in.

The young boy was gently cradling his small, injured dog in his arms and heavily crying while saying to Shunshi "Thank you, mister! You saved Blazer!... He looks really hurt. Is he gonna be OK?!"

Smiling softly, Shunshi placed his hand, which still had a gauntlet on it, on the boy's head and answered him in a reassuring tone "Don't worry, bud. He's just a little hurt. Just get him to a vet and I'm sure he'll be fine in no time." The boy sniffled a bit while trying to stop his own crying before he replied "(sniff) Thanks, mister."

The mother crouched down and hugged her son in order to help him calm down, while the father placed his hand on Shunshi's shoulder and said to him in an honest tone "I can't thank you enough for helping save my son's dog. You're a real hero." Overcome with how flattered he was to get a complement like this, Shunshi responded in his usual humble tone "I appreciate that, sir, but all I did was help out a hurt dog, anyone would've done that."

The father smiled and said to Shunshi in an insistent tone "Well, you're still a hero in my book." Shunshi blushed a bit at this and stumbled for words while averting eye contact "I... Um... Thank you... I need to go get my helmet before someone tries to take it; goodbye."

Shunshi then started jumping and running as fast and as far as he could in the direction of where he dug out the dog.

While jumping through the air, Shunshi couldn't help but think about what that man just said to him "I'm a hero in his book... Huh." Thought Shunshi in an extremely happy tone.

After landing where he dug up the dog, Shunshi felt something wet on his face, so he wiped it off, only for more of this strange wet substance to pour down his cheeks. Shunshi quickly realized that these were tears running down his face, but not just any tears, these were tears off joy.

Shunshi thought to himself in a mixture of joy and uncertainty as he looked at one of the tears he had wiped onto his gauntlet "Am I... Have I finally become a real hero?"

The humble hero let it sink into himself that there are people who actually thought of him as a hero now. He let himself get embraced in this wonderful, almost heavenly feeling for a while, that is until he noticed that the place he had left his helmet was strangely devoid of any headgear.

Overcome with anger, Shunshi screamed to himself in a frustrated tone "Did some ACTUALLY take my helmet?! I was just kidding about that!... Well that killed the mood... Better go find it or Saitama-Sensei will never forgive me for loosing such an important part of my armor." Shunshi gained an annoyed look on his face, before he threw his hood over his head and began his search for the helmet thief.

Meanwhile, about a dozen blocks away from where Shunshi's helmet had been stolen. Saitama had left for his walk, expecting to get a bit of enjoyment out of it, but his mood was ruined when he saw the horrible state that Z-City was in.

While looking at the destroyed buildings and streets, and people desperately trying to find whatever was leftover from their destroyed lives, Saitama commented in a somewhat depressed tone "Man, this place is a total wreck."

Saitama continued on his walk and eventually noticed a destroyed supermarket.

Due to having genuine affection for this place, Saitama thought to himself in a slightly upset tone at the sight of the destroyed building "Oh man, looks like my favorite supermarket got destroyed." The bald hero then shifted his gaze to an intact apartment building that was standing next to the destroyed supermarket, before thinking "And the crappy apartment complex I got kicked out of... is completely fine. Damn!"

Before Saitama could take another step on his walk, the 'hero' Tanktop Tiger yelled down at Saitama from the top of a chunk of road that got turned on its side "Hey! You no good, cheating, bastard."

Looking up at him, Saitama gave the tanktopper a confused look before asking "Uh, who might you be?"

The Tiger groaned in frustration and stated "You know damn well who I am! I'm Tanktop Tiger!"

Tanktop Tiger, then, turned around and shouted at the top of his lungs "Hey, brother! It's that guy I told you about!"

Despite the ferociousness of Tanktop Tiger's voice, Saitama thought to himself in an unimpressed and confused tone "Seriously, who is this guy?"

Suddenly, another tanktopper with black hair and a black tanktop, jumped out from nowhere while asking rhetorically "Did I here you call me, little bro?!"

After landing next to Tanktop Tiger, this tanktopper in black stated dramatically while folding his arms "The hero known as Tanktop Black Hole is here!"

Tanktop Black Hole quickly shifted his attention to Saitama while saying angrily "So it's you, the hero who takes credit from S-Class heroes' work in order to jump up in the rankings!" Saitama simply responded to these dramatics by asking "What the?..."

Tiger quickly and angrily added to the exchange by stating "No one could have moved up through the ranks so quickly without cheating, you cheater!"

Saitama honestly had no idea what the two tanktop 'heroes' were talking about, so he simply asked them in his usual emotionless tone "Huh... So what do you guys want?" Tanktop Tiger smirked when Saitama asked this and then "Don't you get it!? We're here to beat you up so bad that you'll-"

Black Hole then cut his brother off by explaining in a very intelligent tone of voice "Hold on, little bro. That's not gonna work; the bastard won't learn from that kind of lesson. Let's make him really pay for this by using the most brutal method there is!"

All of a sudden, Tanktop Black Hole took in a deep breath before shouting at the top of his lungs "WAS IT YOU!? ARE YOU THE JERK OFF RESPONSIBLE FOR DESTROYING THIS CITY!?" Saitama responded to this accusation by growing a minorly concerned expression on his face and asking "Huh?"

Meanwhile. Shunshi had been spending a few minutes in search of his helmet.

He thought to himself in a very annoyed, yet somewhat panicky tone while continuing with his search "Oh, come on! They couldn't have gone that far with the stupid thing! Why would someone even want something like that?! What use could they possibly have for a helmet that practically looks like a monster's face?!"

While he continued to search around in frustration, Shunshi heard what sounded like a group of people repeatedly chanting 'give it up', so he decided to go and investigate the source of this commotion.

He wound up coming across a circle of angry people chanting 'give it up' to some other person that the darkly clad hero couldn't really see from his position in the back of the crowed.

While listening to the violent chanting, Shunshi pondered to himself "Sheesh, I wonder who these people are so upset with. Must be a real scumbag."

Before he could get closer to take a look at the, no doubt, evil individual that everyone was yelling at, Shunshi saw that one of the people who were chanting was holding his helmet and was using it like a bucket in order to carry around a bunch of random junk.

Out of anger, Shunshi quickly rushed up to the man holding his helmet and snatched it away before he even knew what happened.

The man who took Shunshi's helmet realized that someone had just taken his fancy looking, new bucket right out of his hand, so he turned around and snapped at the one who took his bucket "Hey! Who do you think you-" The man quickly stopped himself when he saw the black cloaked man who was clad in dark armor, covered white flames, and glaring angrily at him.

The man started sweating nervously before saying fearfully "Oh, uh, um... You can have it if you really want it, mister! I'm sure I can find another bucket." Shunshi quickly dumped all the junk out of his helmet and put it back on as a response.

He then stormed past the man while stating in an upset tone "HELMET! It's a helmet! And it was mine to begin with, jerk!"

The man then grabbed Shunshi's shoulder, and said "Hold on. You're a hero or something right?"

Shunshi jolted back around and asked "Wha- Yeah, that right... Why?"

The man exclaimed in a tone of frustration "If you're a hero, then go beat up that bastard who destroyed our town!" Tilting his head at this, Shunshi responded to this demand in a concerned tone "Um, sir. The meteor has already been destroyed... Did you injure your head or something?" The man shook his head and angrily responded "No! The idiot who got in the other heroes' way!"

Shunshi looked very surprised before asking with complete sincerity "Wait, Metal Knight's here?!"

The man looked flabbergasted at Shunshi's question, before stating "No, not Metal Knight, you moron! That dumb C-Class rookie with the bald head that took credit for his work!"

Taking a moment to process the 'list' of people with bald heads were present when the meteor was crashing, Shunshi eventually responded "Bald head... Wait, are you talking about Sens-?"

Before he could finish his sentence, an incredibly loud and booming voice shouted so violently that it cut off the chanting and all other conversation nearby "HEY, LOOK, YOU GUYS; HE'S GETTING READY TO FIGHT! NO WAY, SERIOUSLY?! YOU"RE GONNA TAKE OUT YOU'RE FRUSTRATION ON THESE PEOPLE HERE?! JUST LIKE YOU DESTROYED THEIR CITY! DO YOU JUST KILL EVERYONE YOU DON'T LIKE?! WE WON'T LET YOU DO THAT! WE, THE TANKTOP BROTHERS WONT STAND BY AS YOU RESORT TO VIOLENCE! IF YOU'RE THE HERO YOU SAY YOU ARE, THEN FIGHT US BOTH, FAIR AND SQUARE!"

Shunshi had finally made his way through the crowed and, to his horror and confusion, he saw the heroes Tanktop Tiger and Tanktop Black Hole getting ready to attack Saitama-Sensei.

While flexing and looking at the crowed, Tanktop Tiger saw Shunshi and thought to himself "Hey, that guy's the new A-Class hero, right? Well, I don't wanna take any chances..."

Tiger then pointed at Shunshi while exclaiming "Hey, you there! You're that new A-Class guy right? Are you just gonna stand by as this guy does whatever he wants?! Get down here and help us kick the crap out of him before he can do anything else that's evil!"

Shunshi didn't know how to respond in this situation, so he just stood there for a moment in utter confusion, until some people standing next to him started cheering him on to go and attack Saitama, one of them even slapped him on the back for encouragement, resulting in him stumbling forward a couple steps. This caused Shunshi, who didn't like to disappoint people, to walk towards Saitama as well.

Saitama thought to himself in a somewhat concerned tone "Is Shunshi gonna fight me too?... What's going on here?"

Out of concern for Saitama getting harassed, Genos disobeyed orders and left the house, arriving on scene at the edge of the crowed just in time to see the situation unfolding. He was about to walk over and intervene, but he stopped out of confusion when he saw Shunshi standing with Tanktop Tiger and Black Hole.

Shunshi, Tanktop Black Hole, and Tanktop Tiger, were all standing in front of Saitama. Tiger exclaimed to Saitama and the crowed of people while striking a dynamic pose that mimicked a tiger "I, Tanktop Tiger, who fights with the spirit of that great jungle cat, shale tear you to shreds!" Black Hole then followed this up by saying in an intimating manner while getting his hands ready to crush "And I, Tanktop Black Hole, who has a grip strength of 2,800 PSI, shale crush you like a ball of dirt!"

Shunshi, who was clearly uncomfortable, as anyone could tell from his body language, explained hesitantly to the people watching "And, um... I don't have a hero name yet, but I'm Shunshi and I... make... light... balls..." He then made a very small light ball in his hand as an example.

Before either, Saitama, Genos, or Shunshi could fully figure out this situation, Tanktop Tiger shouted while rushing at Saitama "We will punish all who stray from the path of the hero! Now prepare for pain! RRAAAAAGH!" In response, Saitama lightly tapped his fist against the tanktopper's face, sending him flying away and knocking him out cold.

Black Hole was shocked by what had just happened, but instantly recomposed himself and shouted while jumping at Saitama with the intent of crushing the bald hero's head between his hands "Damn it! You're dead!" But, before he could even get that far in the air, Shunshi, who had now fully processed what these two 'heroes' were trying to do, threw the small light ball he had made into Black Hole's side, blasting him a few feet away and burning his tanktop and torso quite a bit.

Shunshi, who had a very fearful look that was being hidden underneath his helmet, nervously exclaimed "I don't know what's happening, but heroes aren't supposed to attack each other... Please tell me I didn't just screw up big time, Master." Shunshi desperately looked over at Saitama, who responded to his student's plea for an explanation with a raised eyebrow.

Tanktop Black Hole was rolling around on the ground in pain while stating "Oh God, this hurts so much! I'm sorry I attacked another hero; I won't lie about him anymore!"

Shunshi was still confused as to what was going on exactly, but before he could ask any questions, Saitama calmly stated "No, you didn't lie."

All eyes quickly darted to Saitama when he said this. The world's strongest hero then exclaimed angrily "I'm the one who smashed the meteor! Anyone with a complaint, let's here it! Speak up!"

There was a moment of silence between everyone who was present.

Genos looked on with an upset expression that said he was willing to jump in to defend his master's honor at any given moment.

Behind Shunshi's helmet was a face that was desperately trying to figure out why everyone was upset with Saitama for destroying that meteor.

Eventually, one person in the crowed shouted "Be-... because of what you did, my brand new car got sma-" Saitama quickly cut him off by shouting furiously "YOU SHUT YOUR DAMN MOUTH! Why would I give a crap about how you're put out?! Tell it to the meteor, not me, jackass!"

This finale statement from his teacher helped Shunshi fully piece together what was going on. People were blaming Saitama for the destruction that the meteorite caused.

The very second Shunshi pieced this together, Saitama shouted "Listen up! I don't do this hero thing for admiration or approval or anything like that! I do this because I want to do it! So if you wanna blame me then go ahead, you baldies!" One of the people that Saitama was shouting at responded to this by weakly saying in a defensive tone "But your the one who's bald..." When he heard this, Saitama instantly snapped back at the guy "WHAT DID YOU SAY!?"

Deciding to step in, Genos walked up to Saitama and said "Master."

Saitama turned to look at Genos and said to him in a somewhat friendly tone "Oh, hey, Genos. Just give me a second, these guys are really-" Genos suddenly cut Saitama off by calmly explaining "We must go home, Sensei."

Saitama calmed down and looked Genos in the eye for a second before asking "Oh, you think we should? That does sound good, I guess."

Saitama and Genos both started walking away until the bald hero stopped, turned around and said to Shunshi "By the way, sorry you got caught up in all that, I guess. See you later, Shunshi." He then turned around and continued walking, with Genos turning his head for a quick moment to nod in approval at his junior.

Not caring anymore that people had insulted his Sensei, Shunshi smiled underneath his helmet and yelled to Genos and Saitama in a content tone of voice while waving one hand "I'll see you guys in a few days. I've got a lot of work to do here."

After Saitama had walked away and the circle of people had started to disperse, Shunshi thought to himself in a tone of wonder and admiration "Master... You truly are the greatest man I've ever met! I don't care what anyone thinks of you as a person, I know the truth and I promise, my loyalty to you will always come first."