After a day of rest, Shunshi's legs had fully recovered from being crushed like twigs at last, and he was on his way to Saitama's apartment in order to get back on track with his daily training regiment.

As he excitedly ran down the streets of Z-City, Shunshi could see his Master's apartment complex come into view, but he stopped his happy jog towards the building when he saw his Sensei and Senpai walking down from the second floor's steps, with Saitama turning a map over in his hands, confusion blatantly covering his face.

Ecstatically and quickly running up to his teacher and fellow student, Shunshi gave them a formal bow before happily exclaiming "Hello, Saitama-Sensei! Hello, Genos-Senpai! It's good to see you both again. Where are you guys going?"

The bald hero was wearing his standard emotionless expression, while also turning his map over again and again in his hands, as he responded to Shunshi's arrival without really looking up at him "Hey, Shunshi. Me and Genos are heading over to the dojo of that old guy... I think his name's Bank or Silver Spoon."

Utterly confused by this answer, and taken off guard by the underwhelming greeting, Shunshi cocked an eyebrow, tilted his head and asked "Huh?... Wait a second... So, you're gonna go see a guy who's keeping silver spoons at a bank... that's also a dojo?" Realizing how confusing his explanation must have been, Saitama looked up into the sky while scratching his head and trying to remember the name of the old man that he and Genos were heading off to see.

Understanding that everyone present had become horribly confused, Genos calmly explained to Shunshi "Master and I were invited to visit the dojo of the S-Class hero Silver Fang, otherwise known as Bang while in his civilian life. He informed us that he has something interesting he wishes to show us. He had also brought us to his dojo two days ago; we played games of memory and reflexes with him in exchange for some free meat."

The young hero's pupils dilated in shock when he heard Genos' mention Silver Fang. Lunging forward in excitement, Shunshi shouted to Genos with pure joy in his voice "SILVER FANG?! SERIOUSLY?! He's, like, my favorite hero in the entire Hero Association!"

Upon hearing his student's praise of the old man, Saitama grew a somewhat disappointed look on his face as he let his head sulk down slightly. This caused Genos to give Shunshi a bit of a stink-eye.

Instantly realizing why what he just said made his Master upset, Shunshi started sweating nervously before clamoring out an apology while waving his hands in front of himself "I- I, uh- I meant- I meant, uh, he was my favorite hero until I met you, Master!"

Quickly getting over it, Saitama let out an unconcerned sigh and straightened his posture out, before waving his hand at Shunshi while saying dismissively "Whatever, it's fine. Let's just go to the old guy's place already."

Smiling at his Sensei's grit, Shunshi readjusted the backpack that carries his hero outfit and started marching behind Saitama, that is, until Genos calmly asked his bald teacher "Master. Bang only invited you and I to come visit him. Would we not be putting him out if Shunshi were to come with us as well?"

Silently gasping, Shunshi could feel an emotion very close to horror spread through his body he heard Genos' question. He was almost about to say something to try and convince Genos and Saitama to let him come along regardless, but his respect for these two and their opinions kept him quite.

Saitama mauled over Genos' concerns for a few seconds, before shrugging and saying nonchalantly "I'm sure the old man won't mind. Let's just get going already. He said he has something cool he wanted to show us and I've got nothing better to do today, so I want to know what it is."

Happy that he got to tag along, Shunshi let out a sigh of relief, while Genos simply nodded to Saitama and replied to him in his standard, overly serious tone of voice "Yes, Sensei."

With their superhuman bodies, the three of them made it to the mountain that Silver Fang's dojo was at in less than an hour, but they still had to get to the dojo itself. After marching up the absurdly long flight of stairs that had been carved into the side of a large hill of which Bang's dojo was resting on top of, the group finally saw the building itself.

Saitama, with his students standing at attention behind him, lightly knocked on the door, with Bang answering it almost instantly. The elderly hero was smiling an expectant smile, with his eyes closed as he happily exclaimed to the people at his front door "Hello again, Saitama, Genos. Please come in. I think you'll really like what I have to show you."

Saitama let off a small smile in anticipation, took off his shoes and socks and, then, walked in. Genos repeated Saitama's actions, except for the smile, and entered as well. However, Shunshi was frozen in place at the sight of his martial arts idol, Silver Fang, standing right in front of him. Unlike the last time he saw Silver Fang, he was able to keep himself composed enough to not be smiling like a giddy idiot.

Noticing this new person that had arrived with Saitama and Genos, Bang politely asked him "Hello there. Who might you be, young man?"

After quickly piecing together his thoughts, Shunshi bowed to the elderly hero in front of him and answered his question in an out-of-character, serious tone of voice "I, um... I'm Saitama-Sensei's second student, as well as the new A-Class hero, Shunshi!... I know I wasn't invited here today, but I hope you don't mind that I came along as well, Silver Fang, sir!"

Bang put his hand on his chin, clearly in deep thought as if he were trying to remember something, before stating inquisitively "Hmm... Shunshi, I don't believe that I recognize that name. If you're still going by your civilian name as apposed to a hero name, then you really must be quite new after all."

Due to being a little confused and saddened that Silver Fang didn't remember him, Shunshi was frozen in place for a moment, before the realization of why his hero didn't know who he was hit him

He quickly reached behind himself, dug his hand into his backpack, and frantically explained "Um, uh... Maybe this will help you recognize me. We've actually met each other once before... I don't blame you if you don't remember, it was only for a moment and my costume keeps me completely covered up."

Having found what he was searching for in his bag, Shunshi pulled out the intimidating helmet of his hero outfit and showed it to Bang.

By quickly looking at Shunshi's helmet, Bang's memory was jogged as he smiled modestly and spoke in a pleasant tone "Oh, yes. I believe I remember you now. You were the one who aided Genos in his attempt at slowing down the meteorite... and, if my memory serves me correctly... You spent a large amount of that time glaring at me?"

As soon as he heard Silver Fang's accusation, Shunshi dropped his helmet in panic, and as it clanged against the ground, he let out a pleading explanation to the martial arts master of what he was doing that day "I promise that I wasn't glaring at you, sir! I know my costume is kinda scary and all, but It was just that it was my first time ever seeing you in person and I'm a huge fan of your's! I'm so sorry, sir! I didn't mean to offend you!"

The old man eased Shunshi's worries by waving his hand at the exasperated young man and calmly explaining "It's alright, I understand. Please come in. And if you don't mind, may I ask what rank did you start at and, if it's changed at since then, what rank are you right now?"

Having crouched down to the ground in order to pick up and stuff his helmet back into his backpack, Shunshi answered the last of Bang's questions in a slightly more casual tone of voice "Oh... um, I started out as number 13 in A-Class, and now... I think I'm number 7- No wait! I got promoted to number 6 a couple of days ago."

Satisfied with this answer, Silver fang smiled excitedly at the young man in front of him before saying "Thank you. I hope you'll be impressed by what I have to show you. Oh, also, I'm fine with just being called Bang." While walking past the S-Class hero, Shunshi replied to him in a content tone of voice "Oh, of course, Bang, sir. And Whatever it is you have planed, I'm sure it'll blow us all away."

As Shunshi was taking his shoes off, Silver Fang was sneaking a glance at him while excitedly thinking to himself "This is excellent! This boy practically idolizes me already, he was able become a highly ranked hero right off the bat, and his progress at climbing through the ranks of A-Class as quickly as he is, is nothing to laugh at... Not to mention, if he has a connection to Saitama, then there must be a few hidden intricacies about him that aren't obvious from just looking at him."

A few minutes later, after Saitama, Genos and Shunshi had gotten settled down on the floor of the dojo; Bang positioned himself in front of the three younger heroes while a late teenager with puffy orange hair and a standard karate gi accompanied with a white belt, sat a few feet behind the old man. All of a sudden, Bang started preforming an advanced kata of Fist of Flowing Water Crushing Rock. As he preformed his series of complex martial arts movements, what looked like glowing streams of water started flowing out of Bang's finger tips and into the air.

After finishing this kata, Bang turned to face his guests and politely asked them "That was the Fist of Flowing Water Crushing Rock. Do any of you want to give it a try? The three of you are strong and you seem like quick learners. I'm sure you'd get the hang of it in no time. Whatta ya say?"

Saitama had a somewhat disappointed look on his face, while Genos just seemed to be fully disinterested. Shunshi however, being a martial artist himself, looked completely awestruck at this demonstration of the highly powerful skills of Silver Fang being offered up to his Sensei, his Senpai, and himself.

After a second of silence, Saitama responded to Bang's demonstration by asking him a question in a disappointed tone of voice "Is this really the cool thing you wanted to show us? A sales pitch for your dojo? Thanks, but I'll pass. Genos, Shunshi, you guys try it out."

Shunshi was a little shocked to hear his master's dismissal of Silver Fang's offer, but his excitement over Saitama-Sensei giving him permission to train here heavily outweighed his other emotions.

Having become ecstatic at this chance, Shunshi stood up and exclaimed happily to his Master, accidentally cutting Genos off just as he was about to start talking "Of course, Saitama-Sensei! I'd love to combine your strength training with Silver Fang-Sensei's martial arts teachings!"

A large smile formed under Bang's bushy mustache, making it clear that he was very pleased to hear Shunshi's excitement for learning Fist of Flowing Water Crushing Rock, however, the orange haired teen seemed to have been made more than just a little nervous by this answer. Regardless, Bang and his orange haired student then looked over at Genos to get his answer.

The golden-haired cyborg, who was forcing himself to hold back his frustration at being cut off, calmly addressed the room "I am afraid I will pass this up as well. What I seek to learn is not the art of self-defense, but total destructive power." This answer, understandably, took away a bit of the smile that had formed on the face of the elderly martial arts master.

Intrigued by his junior's answer to this request, Genos turned to look at Shunshi and asked him with genuine curiosity and a small twinge of hope in his voice "Tell me something, Shunshi. Your destructive powers seem to be growing at a steady rate with the training that Master has you doing now. Why would you have interest in learning this martial art? Do you plan to eventually abandon Saitama-Sensei as your master in favor of Silver Fang?"

Having become offended at his Senpai's questions, Shunshi took in a deep breath and started to explain his reasoning and motivations in learning from Bang in a very passive aggressively "Well, Senpai; martial arts plays a huge role in my fighting style, and without it I'd probably have died long before I ever had the good fortune of meeting you and Sensei. I do plan to devote a decent amount of time to learning from master Silver Fang, but my main loyalty will always lie with Mater Saitama... By the way, if I may say so, I think you should reconsider Silver Fang-Sensei's offer."

Genos seemed a little puzzled by this, so he asked Shunshi a question with a heavy tone of confusion "Why is that?" Looking a little nervous for a second, before somewhat steeling his nerves, Shunshi responded with a semi-fearful seriousness in his voice "To be frank with you, with how often your body gets damaged in combat, you desperately need to learn at least the basics of self defence! I even watched video recordings of your fight with that fish monster while I was healing, and I honestly think that if you had been even somewhat fluent in martial arts, then you might have been able to kill that thing before it had a chance to spit acid at the kid."

As his face was visibly pouring sweat, Shunshi was shaking in fear at having raised his voice at his senior, a fear that may not have been unfounded.

Genos seemed to have become genuinely angered with Shunshi's criticism and, while clenching his robotic fist with a hint of hostile intention, asked his junior "You get injured just as often, if not more so than I do! What makes you think your criticism has a leg to stand on?!"

Saitama, who had lost interest in this exchange up until now, came out of his day dreaming to notice that small streams of steam were starting to come out of Genos' shoulders. Gaining a small amount of concern that he may wreck the old man's dojo, Saitama thought to himself "What the heck? What did Shunshi say to piss of Genos so much? Should I step in... Nah, I'll let them talk it out. If things turn violent I'll put a stop to it right away."

Gaining the courage he needed to speak his mind to his Senpai, Shunshi abandoned his sense of self preservation, took in a big gulp and shouted his reasoning to Genos at the top of his lungs "THE REASON I GET HURT SO MUCH IS BECAUSE I'M A WEAKLING! YOU'RE VERY STRONG AND COULD MAKE VERY GOOD USE OF MARTIAL ARTS IF YOU APPLIED YOURSELF TO THEM! YOU'D DEFINITELY GET BETTER RESULTS THAN I COULD!"

Actually shrinking back a bit at this out of nowhere display of assertiveness from Shunshi, Genos, with an utterly shocked look on his face, began to seriously ponder his junior's reasoning.

After an awkward moment of silence, Genos had fully calmed down, came out of his thoughts, and spoke to Shunshi with a slightly more respectful voice "... I will need time to think over what you have told me, Shunshi. Perhaps I will take up martial arts training in the future, or ask Dr. Stench to program martial arts techniques into my body's combat reflexes."

Feeling like Genos was no longer ready to tear him apart, Shunshi let out a sigh of relief that he'd been holding in for about a minute.

Happy to have gotten anyone at all to join up with his dojo, Bang, who had been left stunned by that entire exchange, placed his hand on Shunshi's shoulder and said to him in a pleasant tone of voice "Well, I'm glad that bit of drama was all sorted out... If I may ask, when do you think you'll want to start your lessons? Tomorrow perhaps?"

Having gotten somewhat used to being around Silver Fang by now, Shunshi, due to having a fairly tight schedule of hero work and exercise, gave his personal hero's question some serious thought.

After thinking it over for over a yet another full minute of silence, he replied in an very respectful and serious tone of voice "Well, I have to prioritize Saitama-Sensei's lessons first. That, combined with my hero work, I like to get in two to three hours of heroics a day you see... I will, unfortunately, only have time to come in for two days a week of three hour lessons or less... I'm so sorry. Will that work for you, Silver Fang-Sensei?..."

Bang gained a stoic look on his face, while the orange haired student behind him exclaimed angrily "Do you guys think that this school is a joke?! You think you can make progress here with only two short lessons a week! As Bang-Sensei's top disciple, I, Charanko, should beat you down fo-" Bang cut off his top student by sternly shouting "Charanko, enough!" Startled by his master's words, Charanko put his hands at his side and stopped talking.

Looking Shunshi in his eyes and said to him in a surprisingly happy, but still somewhat stern tone of voice "That schedule is fine by me, but your shortened lessons will have to be twice as hard as that of one of my normal students. And I told you that you don't need to call me Silver Fang; calling me Bang is just fine."

While standing up with a more serious and respectful posture, Shunshi happily corrected himself by exclaiming "Yes, sir, Bang-Sensei!"

While he watched Shunshi show Bang similar levels of respect as he would towards him, Saitama thought to himself with a small combination of amusement and hope "Heh heh, maybe now I'll get a bit of a break from him every now and then."

Before Bang and Shunshi could discuss the details of his future training schedule any further, one of the Hero Association's agents, exhausted from quickly running up the hill that Silver Fang's dojo was located on, threw open the front door while on his knees and shouted "MR. SILVER FANG!(huff huff) I was sent by the Association! An emergency summons has been issued to all S-Class heroes! Please come to City-A's Association Headquarters, now!" Quickly noticing the blond cyborg in the room, the agent, extremely relieved, asked him "Hey wait, you're out here as well Mr. Genos? Thank goodness, perfect timing. Since all S-Class heroes have been summoned, please come too."

While Genos asked the agent "Is this a threat level of Dragon?" Shunshi felt his stomach drop at this sudden summoning of the S-Class heroes, as he thought to himself "They... They're bringing together ALL the S-Class heroes? I don't know whether to feel excited by the idea of getting to meet all of them, or terrified that an evil of this magnitude exists!... Saitama-Sensei should be able to handle it though... Right?"

Shunshi was metaphorically shaking in his boots at this prospect, but Silver Fang simply let out a sigh of worry and frustration, before giving his orange haired student an order "Charanko, look after the dojo." Raising his fists in determination, Charanko responded to his sensei "Be careful, Master."

Turning around to look at Saitama, who was just now getting up off of the floor, Genos asked him "If they are gathering all the S-Class heroes, then they may need your assistance as well, Sensei. Will you come with us?" Saitama's normally bored and emotionless face transformed into a far more serious one as he replied in an almost inspirational tone of voice "I will! Nothing better to do. Shunshi, you gonna tag along too?"

Genos and Saitama turned to look at Shunshi for an answer, who had taken his shirt off and was holding the torso piece of his armor; earning him shocked and confused looks from everyone. As he started to put his armor on, oblivious to the odd looks he was getting from everybody, Shunshi responded to his Master's question excitedly "Of course I'll come along! Thank you, Saitama-Sensei!"

No one spoke a word as they all turned around and allowed Shunshi to get changed. However, Saitama did take this time to ponder to himself "Why am I such a magnet for weirdos?"

About an hour or so later, after having ridden to A-City in one of the Hero Association's limos, this small group of heroes approached the large building that they had been dropped off at, this city's Hero Association Headquarters.

As they all walked inside, Shunshi looking up to the top of the building and thought to himself in a tone of amazement "ALL of the S-Class heroes are gonna be here?... I don't know if my heart's ready for this."

Making their way up to nearly the top floor, this group, consisting of an old man, a blonde cyborg, a young man dressed in grey and black body-armor, and a bald man wearing an unassuming yellow hero outfit, met the first of the other S-Class heroes that had been called to this building, a gentleman dressed as a samurai who looked to be just a few years short of being middle-aged.

As this samurai chewed on a piece of long grass, he looked over at the group walking down the hallway, smirked and said happily "Aaahh. Hey there, Silver Fang." Seeming just as happy to see this man, Bang responded in kind "Atomic Samurai; it's been too long."

Continuing this conversation, Atomic Samurai commented "I figured you'd be here today. And this must be the cyborg named Genos and... Hang on, I don't recognize these other two."

Gesturing his hand towards Saitama and Shunshi, who was already standing at attention, Silver Fang explained their identities "This is the B-Class hero Saitama and the A-Class hero Shunshi. Saitama's great talents will surely place him atop S-Class one day, so we asked him to come. And Shunshi has shown some promise of his own. Just today he agreed to practice at my dojo semi-frequently, and I suspect that he may rise into the ranks of S-Class one day as well, if he keeps up his training that is."

Shunshi didn't know how to respond to such high praises from one of his two idols and, while his all concealing armor made it look like he was just standing firm, he was blushing with excitement, smiling like an idiot, and desperately holding back tears of joy.

While his student was busy standing there like a tree, Saitama smiled and offered his hand to Atomic Samurai while kindly saying to him "Oh, hey there, middle-aged hero dude, nice to meet you."

Not even a second passed after Saitama had finished his greeting before Atomic Samurai slapped away his hand and smugly told him "No hand-shake for you. I only acknowledge the strong, but some day, once you've climbed up to S-Class, I'll greet you properly." Walking past Saitama and lightly knocking on Shunshi's helmet, the Samurai continued to say "The same goes for you, but, considering your rank and the fact that you got Silver Fang helping you, I'd say you've got a much shorter climb to get there then our chrome-domed friend here."

Turning back around to walk away, Atomic Samurai explained one last thing to Saitama "Also, I'm not middle-aged yet, I'm only thirty seven."

Feeling a very strange mixture of glee and anger, Shunshi was gritting his his teeth and clenching his armored fists while confusedly thinking to himself "I can't believe a weakling like me is getting such praise from the S-Class heroes- NO, WAIT! How dare he disregard Saitama-Sensei like that; I should kick that jerk's grass-chewing teeth in!... BUT HE'S THE ATOMIC SAMURAI! I can't hate one of the S-Class heroes! God, what should I do?!"

As his hero-obsessed student was having an internal panic attack, Saitama thought to himself in slight surprise "Thirty seven isn't middle-aged? I had no idea... Wait. Crome-domed?!"

Just as Saitama finished this thought, and as Shunshi began to calm down, an aggressive female voice asked everyone in the room "Hey. Who brought these low-class nobodies along?" Turning their heads to see who was addressing them, Saitama and Shunshi saw, what looked like, a little girl with green hair and a black dress that very clearly showed off her legs, to the point that if she were to preform any extreme movements, then you'd be able to see a lot more.

Gasping in shock, Shunshi thought to himself in a panic at the sight of this little girl "OH MY GOD! It's Tornado of Terror! She's rank-... Wait, was she talking about Master and I just now?"

Continuing with her tantrum, Tornado addressed Bang as he simply walked passed her, "Don't you think mingling with the less-thans is beneath us?!", Now addressing the two A and B-Class heroes once again, "Even if you were invited, you should have been polite and declined. Hmmph! The nerve. The two of you are probably just here to get close to us S-Class heroes." Pointing her finger at them, she finished her speech with "You peons disgust me; get lost!"

With complete bewilderment taking him over, Saitama pointed his finger at this 'kid' while asking Genos "What's with the attitude from... this lost child?" Having walked further down the hallway, Genos turned around to answer his teacher "That is Tornado, ranked as number two in S-Class. She- Master, where did Shunshi go?"

As Tornado snapped at the bald hero for calling her a child, Saitama looked behind himself while asking "What do you mean? He's right... here?" Looking around the hall for a second, Saitama came to realize that his armored student had disappeared.

Saitama turned back over to stare at Tornado, as a blatant look of accusation covered his face, and asked her with a minimal amount of hostility in his voice "Hey, brat. Did you do something to Shunshi?"

Psychic aura began to resonate off of Tornado as she furiously responded "BRAT?! Who do you think you're calling a brat!? You should follow that armored loser's example and run off too!"

After hearing this, Saitama completely calmed down, stopped paying attention to the green-haired child, and told Genos "I guess Shunshi just ran off for some reason."

Having no visible reaction to this, Genos explained to Saitama "The S-Class meeting is about to begin, Master. I suppose we will have to inform him off what we learn here afterwards." Shrugging at this, Saitama replied nonchalantly "Guess so. He's an adult, so he can take of himself anyways."

Walking down the hallway, Saitama made his way to the meeting room, causing Tornado to shout at him in frustration "Hey! Don't ignore me!"

Meanwhile, just outside of A-City's Association headquarters. Shunshi was trying to catch his breath from running down well over a couple dozen flights of stairs, he thought to himself in a combination of confusion, anger, disbelief "That... That didn't just happen... Why were they so rude? Heroes are supposed to be humble guardians of the people. S-Class heroes should be the best examples of that. I... I want to meet them, but I can't risk all of the S-Class heroes being that way... I just can't!"

Wanting to clear his head, Shunshi decided that the best thing to do was take a quick walk. After pacing around the parts of the city that surrounded the Headquarters for a little over a minute, he noticed a man wearing something akin to a knight's suit of armor and carrying a sword, while sitting on a park bench and politely trying to get a college girl and her grade school brother to leave him alone.

Once again, overcome with his sense of hero-worship, Shunshi approached this scene and spoke to the man in a tone that he hoped would be disarming, while also giving him a small bow "Um, hello there. You're Atomic Samurai's disciple Iaian, right?" Initially taken off guard by his sudden arrival, Iaian raised his eyebrows in surprise at the man dressed in terrifying black armor, before calming down and responding "Yes... That's an interesting getup you have there. Who are you? A fellow hero perhaps?"

With a look of annoyance behind his helmet, Shunshi thought to himself, "What'a ya mean 'interesting look'? We're BOTH wearing suits of armor!", before replying pleasantly "Yes, sir! My name is Shunshi and I am currently ranked as number 6 in A-Class. It's a pleasure to meet you!"

In a test of the moral fiber of the number two in A-Class, Shunshi stuck his hand out for a shake. To both his surprise and gratitude, Iaian stood up and shook his hand while responding "I suppose it's nice to meet you as well... Were you that hero who tried to stop that big fish-monster by bitting it's legs?"

Despite the blunt way Iaian asked that question, Shunshi took no offense to it and replied casually "Yeah, that was me, sir. Pretty dumb, I know... So, are you here with Atomic-?"

Before he could finish his question, the college girl, while holding her brother by his wrist, stepped up to the two heroes and snapped at Shunshi "Hey! We were having a conversation here, before you rudely interrupted us!" Despite the angry tone of her voice, one could easily tell by her shivering that this girl was horrified by the appearance of Shunshi's armor.

Oblivious to the girl's blatant fear, Shunshi took a step back while giving her a more formal bow than he had given Iaian, surprising her, while politely apologizing "Oh, I'm very sorry. I didn't mean to interrupt you and your brother, ms."

Pulling on his sister's arm, the young boy ecstatically asked her "Hey, wait! Can he be in it too? He looks really cool!" Perplexed by this, Shunshi knelt down and asked the boy "What do you mean 'Can I be in it'? What exactly is 'it'?"

Looking down at his darkly-clad fellow hero, Iaian explained what was going on, with annoyance starting to seep out of his voice "They've been bothering me to take a photo with them for some time now. But that's not the kind of thing I like to do."

Standing up while folding his arms behind his back, Shunshi spoke to Iaian with innocent sincerity in his voice "Oh, come on. There's no harm in giving people a hero they can talk to every once in a while."

Having heard this, the college girl quickly agreed with Shunshi's idea and eagerly looked at Iaian as he mussed this over in his head.

Eventually, he came to a decision "I supposes it wouldn't hurt this one time, but I don't intend to make a habit out of this. Also, lets make this quick."

Blushing with happiness, the young woman took out her phone and handed it to Shunshi as she dismissively told him, "Take the picture for us!", before rushing over to Iaian's side and standing uncomfortably close to him.

Noticing that her brother had yet to get in frame for the picture, she barked at him "Hey! Get over here, Conner! It's time for our picture with Iaian."

Looking over at Shunshi, who had taken off his gauntlets in order to operate the camera phone, the boy pointed to him with a disappointed expression and complained to his sister "But I want HIM in the picture! He looks so cool."

The college girl gritted her teeth at her brother's insistence at having this frightening looking hero get into the picture with her hero, while Iaian himself had already started to loose his patients with her. Realizing that everything was already about to fall apart, Shunshi quickly started thinking of a way to make everyone happy.

Without any warning, Shunshi took off his helmet, shook out his black shoulder-length hair, and quickly handed that piece of armor to Conner while telling him "Here. Just hold this and I can be in the picture in spirit that way."

The awe-struck kid looked back and fourth between the face of the cool looking hero and the face of the helmet that he was holding in his small hands, before smiling widely and rushing over to his sister, who was now blushing even more violently. Instead of simply holding the helmet in his hands, Conner surprised Shunshi and his sister by putting on this helmet that was far too big for his small head, causing it to tilt to the side.

His sister just chose to roll her eyes at this, but Shunshi, as he took the picture, couldn't help but smile and think to himself happily "Oh my God, that's so cute!"

After quickly taking several more pictures, Shunshi went to hand the girl her phone back, which she nervously accepted from him, blushing even more as his hands accidentally touched her's.

Despite his sister's new found 'appreciation' for this hero, Conner, who was still wearing the helmet, thought to himself in an unimpressed tone while looking at Shunshi's face "He looks cooler with his helmet on... Maybe he'll let me keep it!"

Seemingly exhausted from this ordeal, Iaian walked up from behind the college girl to talk to Shunshi, and gave him a put-out look, before telling him in a monotone voice "I suppose that wasn't so bad." Smiling at this, Shunshi walked around the girl, excitedly put his hand out in a fist for a fist-bump and rhetorically asked "See? It's nice to help people smile every now and again, right?"

Initially confused by this, Iaian quickly softened up, gave off a small chuckle and, instead of returning the gesture, he grabbed Shunshi's closed hand and shook it. As Iaian shook his hand, Shunshi thought to himself in a melancholy tone "Oh well, I guess it's baby steps with this guy."

A moments or two later, just as as these four were about to go their separate ways, an explosion aimed at the Hero Association Headquarters caught the attention of everyone in a mile-wide radius. Looking up into the sky, Iaian and Shunshi saw a group of monsters flying in the air and shooting fire balls at the Hero Association's massive building.

Turning around and getting on his knee once again, Shunshi put his hand on Conner's shoulder and told him "Sorry, buddy, but it looks like I'm gonna need my helmet back to deal wi-" Before he could finish his sentence, Iaian shouted to his fellow hero in a tone of complete shock and horror "SHUNSHI! Get up and look at this!"

After fumbling to get up and turn around, Shunshi looked into the sky again and saw an air-craft that was the size of a small city. The monsters that had been in the sky only a second earlier, were now falling to the ground as corpses due to another, even larger flying monster, having cut them to pieces. This new monster looked as if it were a pile of poop-brown flesh, that took the shape off a nearly seventeen foot tall man, with gargoyle-like wings and five Human-like heads growing out of one another on it's shoulders.

Not knowing what else to do, Shunshi got one of his light balls ready to try and throw at this gargantuan ship, but before he had a chance to throw it, a series of glowing lights came from the bottom of the ship, followed up with what looked like massive bullet-shells barreling towards the city. Finally, there was an atomizing explosion that leveled almost all of A-City, except for the Hero Association Headquarters, due to the dense materials used to construct the building.

Their ears were ringing so loudly that they were worried they may have gone permanently def. For a few seconds they couldn't see anything but bright light. A few more moments passed before Shunshi and Iaian slowly climbed out of rubble, ashes, and dirt, and onto their feet. A combination of their superhuman physiology and their armor allowed them to survive this explosion with no real external injuries, but possibly a few internal ones. Having recovered more quickly than Iaian, Shunshi walked over to him and helped shake him back to his senses.

Looking at all of the destruction and death around him, Iaian's face grew into a horrible scowl as he drew his sword, began walking, and snapped at a mortified Shunshi "Put your gear on! We're going to find and put an end to the one's responsible for this!"

Snapping to his senses at these words, Shunshi began to look around to see if he could spot his helmet. After only a second or two of searching, he saw a shimmering light coming off of something metal in the rubble near him. Walking over to the gleam, Shunshi saw his helmet and picked it up. Due to the fact that he had picked his helmet up upside down, he naturally turned it right-side up so he could put it on; this caused a small pile off ash to fall out of it.

Freezing in place, Shunshi realized who those ashes used to be. He remembered how, just a moment ago, Conner, this child, put on this helmet out of his innocent sense of admiration for heroes. Never would Shunshi have ever expected in his wildest nightmares that an innocent kid would have died, been reduced to dust in the wind, wearing his armor, armor that he'd made hoping it would help him protect the people of the world. Feeling as if he couldn't do anything else, Shunshi stood there and began to lightly cry, cry for the loss of this child, his older sister, and all the other countless people that he felt as if he'd failed to save.

Having fallen to his knees, Shunshi spent about a dozen seconds crying, that is until he saw an injured man in the distance, that Iaian was making his way towards, as he was moving a sheet of metal off of a hole in the ground. Having pushed it aside enough, the man reached in and pulled out his young son from the hole, hugging him tightly as soon as he did.

Wiping his tears away, Shunshi stood up and thought to himself angrily "What the Hell is wrong with you, Shunshi!? You're a hero! You should either be looking for survivors to save or the ones responsible for this to bring to justice to!" Having refortified his grit, Shunshi shook out and put on his helmet, hearing the screams of that man's son just as his armor slid back into place.

Turning back to look at them, Shunshi saw Iaian running as fast as he could towards the flying monster that had shown up with the city destroying air-craft, due to it having landed on the ground in order to kill two more innocent people.

Before it could attack the civilians, Iaian attacked the monster with a couple of inhumanly fast, but still precise, sword-swings, cutting off it's fingers and putting a deep cut down it's torso.

Feeling confident that he could handle the monster from here, Iaian quickly gave the father an order "Get your son out of here, right now!" The father took Iaian's advice and quickly ran with his child to safety.

As he watched these two get away to safety, Iaian let a smile form on his face. However, this brief moment of watching the two people he saved may have been the swordsman's undoing, because, within that split second, that monster, despite its injuries, appeared behind Iaian and was about to crush his head between its massive hands.

Within the nanoseconds where the monster's hands were about to crush Iaian's head, a few of Shunshi's light balls hit this creature in its back, resulting in several powerful explosions, ripping away large amounts of its flesh and stunning it long enough for Iaian to get away unscathed. However, he had moved so quickly when he ducked out of the way that his helmet had actually slipped off of his head.

Knowing that this monster was connected to the ship that had just destroyed the city, Iaian was about to scold it in preparation for another attack with his sword, but he stopped when Shunshi, moving faster than he could follow with his eyes, jumped at the creature like a torpedo moving through the air, with his clawed hands sticking out in front of him, and put a hole in it's torso that was the size of his body. In the few seconds that his body was still in the air, Shunshi flipped around so that he would land on his feet and next to Iaian. As the creature was stumbling around from the initial shock of this attack, Iaian wasted no time and took this opportunity to slash at it vertically, nearly splitting its entire torso into two pieces.

Much to the surprise of these two high-ranking A-Class heroes, the normally lethal injuries that they'd just inflicted on this monster were already beginning to heal. While its torso was reconnecting, the monster's heads began talking with one voice; each head starting a new sentence as it went "More survivors. Their attacks are strong. We will heal. Are they the surviving military forces? Does not matter. We will kill. That is good."

Both heroes took an offensive stance and as they did, Shunshi, trembling with fury, glared at this monster as it healed and shouted at it in a vicious war-cry that even startled Iaian, due to the timid and friendly behavior he had shown up until then "YOU BASTARD! Was blowing up a city not enough for you!? You gotta personally slaughter more people!? Well if you think I'll let you and that ship of yours hurt another living thing... THEN YOU MUST BE THE STUPIDEST FUCKING EXCUSE FOR A LIVING CREATURE IN THIS WHOLE GOD DAMN UNIVERSE!" As he roared this, Shunshi's normally small field of white flames grew to almost ten times it's usual size, surprising Iaian even further.

The black armored hero attempted to rush this monster and claw at it again, but, all of a sudden, the creature's arm took the form of a sword and swung at Shunshi's torso. He just barely saw the attack coming and jumped backwards at the last moment, resulting in the chest-piece of his armor getting cut open and leaving a large, semi-deep cut in his pectorals.

Stunned by the suddenly sped-up movements of this monster, Shunshi asked himself in a combination of annoyance and rage "When the Hell did this thing start moving so fast?!... Fuck!"

Not waiting any longer for the heroes to come to him, the strange monster instantly closed the distance between itself and Shunshi, got his bladed arm ready for another swing, and spoke emotionlessly to the stunned hero "We will kill you. That is good." Just as the monster was about to cut Shunshi in half, Iaian slashed at it two more times, hitting its legs, nearly taking them off in the process.

Despite still getting hit by the considerable wind-force of the monster's attack, Shunshi shook off the pain, took an offensive stance, focused his kie onto the tips of his claws and formed small light balls on each of them. Letting out all of his frustration, the dark-clad hero sprung forward and unleashed the longest flurry of precise jabs that he ever preformed. Each of his clawed strikes dug into the monster's flesh, while the light balls covering the claw tips caused small explosions with each attack.

As explosions poured out from his fingers, Shunshi passionately shouted the name of his improvised technique at the top of his lungs "EXPLOSIVE LIGHT FLURRY!"

After having witnessed this new hero dish out, over fifty exploding attacks in just a couple of seconds, Iaian was stunned when he saw that half of the torso of the monster they were fighting had been reduced to nothing. While looking at this awe- inspiring display of speed, technique, and power, Iaian saw, what looked like, several small, red marbles floating towards what remained of the monster.

Having been distracted by this peculiar sight, the knight-like hero didn't notice that the arm of the monster, which was now in the shape of a hammer, seemed to be acting on its own accord as it got ready to take a swing at him. Shunshi, despite having almost worn himself out with that assault, saw the monster preparing its attack, as well as the fact that Iaian seemed to be distracted, so he rushed over to Iaian, faster than even he himself knew he could run, and tackled him, which just served to confuse the highly-ranked hero, that is until the hammer arm finished its swing, causing a trail of intense wind-force to race past them, destroying anything in its path.

As he was beginning to breath heavily, Shunshi stood back up with Iaian while weakly telling him "... Be careful... You saw what it did to my chest earlier... All of its attacks are lethal..." Nodding to this, Iaian focused his attention back over to the monster, which had already began regenerating incredibly fast

"My apologies. I made the mistake of assuming it was already dead and almost lost my life to that attack. I was distracted by the sight of marbles floating over to the remains of the monster." Said Iaian.

Wincing in pain for whatever reason, Shunshi lifted his arm up to Iaian and asked him "Do you mean one of these." Glancing over at Shunshi's hand, Iaian saw one of the red marbles, that he noticed a second ago, held between Shunshi's claws. Turning to looked at him fully, Iaian asked Shunshi in genuine confusion "Where did you get one of those? Did you-"

Stopping himself mid-sentence, Iaian couldn't bring himself to keep talking at the gruesome sight before him. The wind-force strike from earlier had torn off Shunshi's cape, the back of his armor on his torso, and the majority of the flesh that used to make up his back was now gone, with just enough clumps of muscle holding his, now exposed to air, spine and shoulder plates in place.

Obliviously trying to ignore the undeniable amount of pain he must be in, Shunshi smiled underneath his helmet and slowly answered Iaian's question "When I was... going crazy a second ago... I found this inside of... that freak's... body."

Overcome with a feeling of guilt, Iaian asked Shunshi a series of questions while beginning to panic "What the Hell?! How are you still...? Did you get those injuries while protecting me!?" Forcing himself to let out a fake laugh, Shunshi responded dismissively "Don't worry about me... Just stay focused... My powers... heal me... I'll be fine... probably."

Looking a little bit more hopeful, Iaian asked Shunshi another question "Do you mean you can heal like Zombie Man?" As he slouched over in pain, Shunshi, speaking in as pleasant of a tone as he could, explained to Iaian "... No... It's not like I... could grow back a lost arm... or something... I just heal much faster... than a normal person..."

As he began to get an understanding on the limits of Shunshi's healing powers, Iaian looked even more guilt-ridden than earlier while he asked "Then... Are you going to d-", Cutting him off mid-sentence, Shunshi frantically shouted at Iaian "Behind you!"

In a blur of movement, the fully healed monster appeared behind Iaian and said "Such a weak and frail species. Easily killed. Let us finish this one. Then we kill the others that ran from us. That is good." In less than a split-second, the monster lifted its hammer arm into the air, causing Iaian to think to himself in despair as he shrank in fear "It's already healed?! Can't anything kill this thing?!"

Before the monster could kill him, what seemed like a blade of air cut the monster clean in half horizontally. Looking past the pile of flesh, Iaian saw Atomic Samurai with his sword drawn, which resulted in the young swordsman blurting out "Master!"

At first he smirked at his top student, but when he saw the horrible condition that the newbie A-Class hero from before was in, Atomic Samurai's eyes widened as he exclaimed "Holy shit, Iaian! Is he still alive? What happened to him? Hey, Bang! Your new student's in critical condition!"

In a tone of concern and fear, Iaian shouted at his S-Class master "Master, swords have no effect on this strange creature! Forget about me! You take Shunshi to a hospital and run while I distract it!"

Just as the young warrior said this, the body parts of the monster floated into the air, reformed its body, and tried to rush at Atomic Samurai in an all out attack, but, in what looked like only one swing of his kitana, the samurai reduced the monster into multiple pieces of flesh on the ground.

Looking back over at Iaian, Atomic snapped at him "Do you doubt your master's ability with the sword? Get it together! You can still fight, so set that guy down somewhere safe and if this thing is still standing when you're done, then come back to back me up!"

Visibly sweating while looking back and forth between his teacher and Shunshi, Iaian shouted back in response "Yes, Master!"

He then walked over to the now barely coherent Shunshi, turned to face away from him while getting on a knee and said urgently "Shunshi, get on my back, I'm going to get you to safety! My Master, Atomic Samurai, is here to deal with the monster!"

Hearing this, while wobbling on his feet, Shunshi weakly asked "... S-Class... are here?..." Iaian, wanting to get him to safety as fast as possible, shouted impatiently at him "YES! Now get-" All of a sudden, Shunshi lost consciousness and fell face-first onto Iaian's back, surprising him for a split second, before he quickly came to understand and started running as fast as he could to the Headquarter's disaster shelter.

After only running for a few seconds, Bang appeared from nowhere and approached Iaian and Shunshi. Having incredible respect for this elderly hero, Iaian came to a stop to hear if he had anything to tell him. Without saying a word, Bang looked at the near-death state that Shunshi was in and grew angry.

Lowering his head, Silver Fang spoke to the unconscious Shunshi in an apologetic tone "I know our sessions hadn't formally started yet, but, as your teacher, I should have kept a closer watch over you. I'm sorry... Iaian, please continue on your way to safety with Shunshi."

Just as Bang was about to walk away, Shunshi's arm came to life and presented the marble that he found to Silver Fang. Looking at this in a mixture of surprise and confusion, Bang recomposed himself and asked "What is this?"

Shunshi tried to say something, but he had clearly become too weak to speak, so Iaian explained "When we were fighting that monster over there, Shunshi said that he found that marble inside of the creature." Looking a little more confused then anything else, Bang took the marble and said "... If this belongs to the monster, then perhaps it could come in handy." Nodding his head to the two of them, Silver Fang gripped the marble in his hand and continued on his way as Iaian started running even faster than before.

As Bang walked closer to where Atomic Samurai was fighting, he pondered to himself out of concern "I dread thinking of how Saitama and Genos will feel about this... Especially Saitama."

By now, the monster had reformed once again, except this time, instead of having multiple heads, it only had one large head with five rows of eyes running down its face and five sets of teeth in its mouth that were pressed closely against one another, also of note was how it increased its already impressive height of nearly seventeen feet tall, to a staggering forty three feet.

Laughing gleefully as the last pieces of its body clinged back onto itself, the monster looked down and addressed Atomic Samurai "Good; seems a life form on this planet CAN fight. Excellent! I invite you to try withstanding our invasion."

Looking more pissed off than intimidated, Atomic Samurai glared up at this monster, as a vein visibly popped on his head, and angrily asked "'Planet' huh? So you guys are from outer space then. And you got friends in that floaty-toy of a ship above us. Yeah, that's gotta be it. I doubt you have the strength or the power to cause this much destruction to the city by yourself."

As Atomic Samurai took up a fighting stance, Silver Fang and a muscular teenager with a pompadour haircut, a tight fitting red shirt, and a metal baseball bat, walked up to his side, with Bang commenting aggressively "Considering the amount of lives that were lost here, and after seeing what that thing did to my future pupil, you can count Metal Bat and myself in on this fight, Atomic."

Having gotten a good look at the monster that had a hand in so much destruction, as well as being directly responsible for nearly killing Shunshi, Bang shifted the marble around in his hand, the marble that apparently belongs to this monster, glared at it, and, out of pure aggressive instinct, crushed it with the superhuman strength in his fingers.

All of a sudden, one of the sets of eyes that was on this monster's face, one set of its teeth, and two feet of it height turned to dust, causing it to fall to its knees in pain.

Atomic Samurai and the Metal Bat both flinched in surprise at this, with the younger one asking in annoyance "The Hell?! What happened to this bastard?! I haven't even cracked his skull open yet!"

Before anyone could give Metal Bat an answer to his question, the voice of Puri-Puri-Prisoner came out of nowhere and shouted angrily at the recovering monster "For all the beautiful men you killed, I claim vengeance!"

Looking behind itself, the monster saw the prisoner superhero run up from behind it, jump into the air in a majestic fashion, and enter what he calls 'Angel Mode' causing his muscles to enlarge to the point of ripping his own clothes off, but this time, there was something different about the mode; instead of the usual white wings that would appear off of his back when he would entered this state, in place of them there were a set of black wings.

Thinking back to his encounter with the Deep Sea King, Puri-Puri-Prisoner reminded himself "Like he said: Every attack must be delivered with the intent... TO KILL!" As he fell down towards the space monster, the Prisoner roared passionately "Dark Angel... RUSH!"

The naked man then unleashed his own flurry of bare-knuckle attacks on the monster, each blow having even more power behind them than Shunshi's exploding attacks from earlier, putting a new hole in the creature with each strike from his fists.

As the alien monster was putting itself back together, Silver Fang got everyone in the group's attention by shouting to them "LISTEN UP! My part-time student gave me a marble, that he found inside of this creature when he was fighting it alongside Iaian. In my anger, I crushed the marble, and that's what caused it to convulse in pain like it did. Because of how it seems to be regenerating, I'm guessing these marbles must be what its life force is connected to, not its actual body."

Hearing this, Atomic Samurai grinned and smugly asked "Is that so? Well, now that we know its weakness, this should be a cakewalk. I just gotta keep cutting till I find them." Metal Bat then chose to chime in as well in a surprisingly analytical tone of voice "So... based on the number of eyes left one that bastard's ugly mug, we've only got to find four more of em. No problem!"

Each of these fearsome S-Class heroes took up fighting stances, surrounding the beast from outer space as it healed once more, pounced on it as soon as it was fully reformed, each of them tearing into its massive body in search of the marbles that could put an end to it for good.

As all of this was happening, Genos, along with Tornado, a ten year old boy(The S-Class hero called Child Emperor), an incredibly large and muscular black man wearing nothing but a speedo(The S-Class hero called Super Alloy Darkshine), and an extremely intimidating blond haired man with three scars running down the left side of his face(The S-Class hero called King), were all standing on top of the Hero Association's Headquarters, each of them having apparently wound up there after climbing out of a hole in the building that was twice the size of an average man.

They seemed to be in the middle of an argument over how they should try to attack the alien space ship, when Genos lifted his arm up, as heat began to emanate out of his incinerators, and he made an offer to the Tornado "I do not know how effective I could be, but allow me to assist with your assault on the ship by attacking from the ground with my incinerator blasts." As apposed to the appropriate look of appreciation that you'd expect someone to give when given such an offer, Tornado gave Genos an annoyed look as she shouted at him "MAYBE YOU DIDN'T HEAR ME! I SAID I'LL HANDEL IT! Okay!?"

Looking utterly flabbergasted and annoyed, Genos straightened his posture and gave Tornado a very puzzled look. Before anything could come of this though, the man in the speedo approached Genos and warned him "Whoa. Take it easy there, Genos. I know how you feel, but if you piss her off she WILL kill you!"

The small woman then flew off with her physic powers, picking up gargantuan pieces of rubble from the ground as she went, hurling it up at the city-sized space ship.

Walking over to the edge of the roof, Genos calmly thought to himself "Very well. There is no need to team up with others anyway; Master has already successfully boarded the enemy ship. Whether this is the prophecy or not-" Genos cut himself off mid-thought when his gaze shifted to the ground over to where the four S-Class heroes were fighting the space monster. However, with how this fight seemed to be going so heavily in the heroes' favor, it was less of a fight and more of a brutalization.

Putting one of his mechanical hands to his chin, Genos continued to watch the 'fight' unfold and asked himself "Should I provide aid to hasten the extermination of that monster?... I suppose that would be unnecessary. I will instead turn on my scanners to search the surrounding area for any other invaders that may have descended from the space craft." Lighting up, a multitude of different scanners began going through Genos' yellow eyes as he looked all over the ruined landscape that used to be a massive city. After surveying around for a bit, Genos noticed a person running to the other side of the HQ, while carrying another person on their back. Enhancing his telescopic vision, Genos managed to get better look at these two, making them out to be the A-Class heroes Iaian and Shunshi, the latter of whom was visibly in critical condition.

Seeing how brutally injured his junior was, Genos' eyebrows raised in slight surprise. Deciding that this warranted further investigation, Genos jumped off of the roof, prompting some confused looks from the other S-Class heroes around him. He quickly hit the ground, hard enough to knock some medium sized debris from the ground into the air due to the distance he'd fallen as well as his dense metal body.

Rushing at full speed over to Iaian, Genos, slowing down once he'd caught up in order to run at the same pace as the young swordsman, asked him in a calm, near emotionless, tone of voice "I am the newest S-Class hero, Genos. The man you are carrying studies with the same Master that I do, where he is my junior. What happened to him?"

Initially surprised by this intimidating cyborg's sudden appearance, Iaian took a moment to recover from the shock. Eventually, he answered Genos' question in a shame-filled tone of voice "Hello... Well, Shunshi got these injuries when we were fighting the monster on the other side of the building. He... Well, he pushed me out of the way of an attack that could've killed me if he hadn't. I'm sorry that I wasn't more vigilant, but I assure you that I'll-" Before he could say anything else, Genos ran off in the opposite direction, pushing the limits of how fast his robot body would let him run, causing him to build up smoldering heat inside of his mechanical frame as he ran.

Back at the fight between the heroes and the regenerating alien. The four of them were in a box formation around the monster when it tried to hit Atomic Samurai by stretching its arm out at him at a lethal speed, but, just as the samurai was about to counterattack, Bang slid in between his friend and the alien's attack, deflecting the blow with a redirecting block, causing the monster's arm to pierce a good dozen feet or so into the ground next to Atomic Samurai. Before the space alien had a chance to pull its arm free, Metal Bat rushed behind it and took a swing at the back of its left leg, severing the limb from the knee down, causing the monster to fall onto its back. As it grew its leg back, got on its knee and tried to stand back up, Atomic Samurai swiftly cut it into so many pieces that they were small enough to start mixing with the dirt and debris on the ground.

Just as the heroes began to look for the marbles that kept this creature alive, the pieces of the monster's flesh floated into the air and began to spin around each other as if they'd suddenly got stuck inside of an invisible cyclone. As the pieces span around each other they began to cling to one another in order to heal. Just as the pieces started to vaguely resemble the alien's body, Atomic Samurai hit the largest clump of flesh with a inhumanly precise, lightning fast cut from his sword, causing a fourth of the flesh bits to turn to dust as one of the marbles, having been split in half, fell from the dust.

Quickly pulling together the remaining pieces of itself, the space monster reformed all that it could of its body, except for one clump that formed into a head with wings.

Turning its two surviving sets of eyes to look at its separated, flying head, the monster gave it an order "Hurry. Go up to the ship and order a bombardment." Grinning like a psychopath, the head responded "That is good!"

The head quickly took off into the air and tried to make its way to the spaceship, but, before it could get very far, Metal Bat jumped into the air in front of it, smashed it with his bat and shouted furiously "Where the fuck do ya think yer goin!?" The young hero hit the head with his baseball bat so hard that it crushed and tore apart its flesh, knocking it back towards the ground, specifically, in the direction of Puri Puri Prisoner. As the clump of flesh that used to be a head reached him, Prisoner swiftly punched into it, grabbing a marble as he did. Not noticing that its marble had been taken, the head attempted to reform, but before it could, Puri Puri popped the marble that he grabbed into his mouth and crushed it with the teeth sitting inside of his powerful jaws, before spitting out the shards, reducing the head to dust in the process.

Furious at the loss of yet another one of its heads, the alien monster bellowed out in fury while forming tentacles on its body and wildly flailing them at the heroes in an attempt to kill them, but each of the fighters easily smashed, cut, grabbed and deflected any of the limbs that got near them.

Smirking with confidence as he expertly cut apart another tentacle that got near him, Atomic Samurai thought to himself with utter confidence "At this rate, this freak will be nothing but a bad memory in no time at all." As he attempted to move closer to the monster, in order to get another shot at one its marbles, Atomic stopped when he noticed a massive cloud of dust and debris moving closer and closer towards them at an incredible speed.

All four of the heroes, as well as the monster, had taken notice of this dust cloud moving towards them. The heroes assumed it was some sort of invisible weapon from the spaceship, while the alien assumed it was a fast moving vehicle that was just out of view and coming to either rescue or provide reinforcements for the soldiers that it was fighting.

As the source of the dust cloud came into view, everyone in the fight could see that it was the newest S-Class hero, Genos, who was causing the upheaval of debris with his superhuman running speed. When Genos got close enough for them all to see him in more detail they were all more than a little taken off guard by his current appearance.

Genos had a furious lust for blood in his eyes centered in on the monster they were fighting; due to having pushed his body to run so fast for so long, all of his visible mechanical body parts had become red-hot with so much steam rising off of him that he could be mistaken for a small volcano, lastly, because of the scorching temperature of his body, all of his clothing had begun to catch fire; all of this caused everyone who was looking at the young cyborg to mistake him for a demon initially.

When he got close enough, Genos slammed his arms together in front of himself and unfolded all of the guns in his arms that he used against Saitama during their 'sparring match' in the canyon. Each of them letting their survival instincts take over, Silver Fang, Atomic Samurai, Metal Bat, and Puri-Puri Prisoner all jumped out of the way to get away from the cyborg's target, the alien.

In an instant, the red-hot color of the exposed metal of Genos' body seemed to drain out through his arms and into his guns. As flames started to erupt from his cannon, Genos gritted his teeth and viciously growled through them "Incinerate!"

Meanwhile. Iaian had, at last, made it to the opposite side of the Hero Association's headquarters with the dying Shunshi on his back. He saw a large opened door, guarded by armored trucks, letting survivors into the building. As he got close to the door, he flinched and almost fell over at the sound of a large explosion going off. He didn't let this get to him though, as his attention was more focused on seeking medical attention for the man who potentially saved his life.

As Iaian went through the door, he rushed past a small set of survivors being led in by the some of the staff members of the headquarters. The majority of the civilians who were hiding out there instantly recognized the number 2 A-Class hero when he walked in, but significantly less of these people, even those who may have been his fan, recognized the bloody mess known as Shunshi that was being carried on his back.

The disaster survivors crowded around Iaian and began to frantically pester him for answers about the alien invasion, but, being far more concerned with getting Shunshi help, Iaian furiously shouted at the civilians "Get out of my way, now!" All of the people who gathered around Iaian recoiled in shock and went back to cowering in the corners of the rescue room as soon as he yelled at them.

After finding the rescue room's medical-center, the knight-themed hero rushed up to the doctors, who were scrambling to care for all of the injured and potentially dying civilians that the spaceship brought about with its initial attack, handed Shunshi over to them and, as they laid him face-down on a medical-cot, Iaian frantically explained to the doctors, who were horrified by the gravity of his injuries, what had happened to him "He was injured while we were fighting off the ground forces of the alien invasion. He told me that he heals quicker than a normal person, but I'm unsure if that ability will be able to save him without proper medical attention."

Growing a grim expression on her face, the doctor took a quick look over Shunshi's back, some sections of it were visibly healing already, while over sections of were making no visible progress and just continued to bleed at an absurd rate. Not sure if her new patient was actually still alive, she examined his wrist and found a frantic pulse. Taking the young hero's arm and connecting him to a mobile heart-rate monitor, the look of despair on the doctor's face visibly grew as she saw that his resting heart-rate had skyrocketed up to two hundred bpm.

Looking back at Iaian, the doctor explained the situation to him in a very morbid tone "In all honesty, this man should be dead. If what you say about his powers are true, then it would seem like it's the only thing that's kept him alive so far. And it's not just the injuries themselves that are putting his life at risk; his heart is beating so frantically that he should be suffering from a new heart attack every second. I'll see what we can do, but our resources are being spread very thin right now, so I'd truthfully say that his chances are even less than just a little slim." Unsure of how to respond to this, Iaian simply stood there and stared at the ground for a moment; until he remembered Atomic Samurai's order to return, so he drew his sword, examined the blade for a moment, and then started to walk back outside when he was stopped by a crying little girl grabbing his arm.

The child, not even waiting for Iaian to ask what she wants, blubbered out "Mmm... my... My mommy and daddy... Where are they? Did you find them anywhere?! Can you go find them?!...(sob) I'm scared; I don't wanna be alone..."

Initially taken off guard by this child's plight, Iaian sheathed his sword, knelt down, and placed his hand on her shoulder while telling her "... I promise that I'll do my best to find your parents." Just wanting to have heard that her parents were okay, the little girl began to cry even more violently, leaving Iaian more than just a little depressed.

Unsure of how long he had been unconscious, Shunshi started to open his eyes as he heard the sound of a child crying. Only able to get his eyelids to open partially, Shunshi weakly shifted his eyes to look at Iaian trying to comfort a young girl, who the crying was coming from. As he slipped back and forth between consciousness, Shunshi could hear her asking about where her parents were.

Hearing this child's crying made him think about Conner, then the boy's sister, and finally, all of the other countless people who must have perished to the alien invasion. Furious at his inability to do anything about this or any other major disaster he had encountered since meeting his Sensei, all logic left Shunshi's brain as he began to internally scream.

Suddenly, much to the horror of Iaian and the doctor presiding over him, Shunshi's heart-rate quickly rose even higher to 250 bpm. Before anyone could take any measures try and regulate his heart-rate, white flames erupted from Shunshi's body even more fiercely than when he was attacking the space-monster; this pushed back everyone that was standing too close to him, singeing some of their clothes in the process. Without warning, Shunshi began to scream, in what sounded like, a mixture of fury and agonizing pain, as all of the flesh that was on his back started restoring itself, all while burning and melting away anything that was within range of his flames; including the cot he was on, the heart-rate monitor, and even what was left of his own armor. As the flames continued to shoot off of him, his shoulder-length hair was wildly getting flung about in various directions and looked as if it were beginning to turn white.

Back at the massacre of the of the regenerating alien; Genos, who actually looked like he slightly melted himself from the intense heat he released from his earlier attack, was propelling himself through the air, past the other heroes, and towards the monster while wearing an expression of shear malice on his artificial face. As soon as he got close enough to it, Genos shouted, "MACHINE GUN BLOW!", Unleashing his signature melee attack, except he was keeping his hands open as opposed to closed knuckles this time. As he tore into the flesh of the alien, his reasoning for keeping his hands open became obvious when one of his hands came back out of the spaceman's flesh with a marble in their clutch.

Holding the small jewel above his head, Genos impatiently asked the other heroes "Tell me; is this one of the marbles that you told me about!?"

Always quick to please handsome men, Puri-Puri Prisoner answered him "That's it, sweet Genos!" Withing the instant that he got conformation, Genos crushed the marble in his hand until it was turned into sand, causing another large portion of the evil creature to turn into dust; but as soon as he did, the right arm of the giant alien suddenly stretched out at Genos and tore off the hand he'd used to crush the marble, in less than a second. As Genos used his jets to send himself flying backwards out of self preservation, Bang and Metal Bat rushed forward to act as reinforcements for him, but as soon as they passed Genos, the monster's other arm shot forward, hit Bang in his chest and sent him flying back with such force that he went through several ruined pillars, before he became embedded in the remains of a building that was sitting a quarter of a mile behind him.

In order to force away Metal Bat, the alien swung at him with the arm he used to wound Genos, but the teenage hero countered the attack with a swing from his namesake. When the arm and the baseball bat collided, the collision caused an explosion of air pressure that tore up the space creature's arm and knocked Metal Bat to the ground, but with considerably less force than Silver Fang had been hit with.

All of the heroes that were still standing quickly regrouped, as the alien grew back to its full size, increased the muscle mass of its arms, and proclaimed in a tone of both arrogance and hatred "I suppose my mistake was to try and divide my attention on both defence and offense. If I just focus on everything on offense, then I can make quick work of-" Still furious with this monster, Genos cut him off with a fire blast to its head, reducing it to dust; however, it grew back just as quickly as it was destroyed, serving only to piss it off.

Meanwhile, back in the rescue shelter. At this point, Shunshi's flames had burned up so much of his surroundings that he was on his knees, still screaming, in the center of a scorched pit.

After a few more moments of shouting, the young hero stopped producing flames from his body and he looked as if he'd finally calmed down, but his body seemed to have changed in couple visible ways: His hair went back from white to black; the gaping wound on his back was fully healed, but it was replaced by one large burn mark that was shaped like an outline of his injuries; secondly, the rather impressive fit and muscular physique that Shunshi had worked to gain over the past three years of his life was gone, and in its place, he now had a thin and sickly body, to the point that his eyes were very sunken in, and he could barely stand up without having to slouch over, even then, he was still violently shaking due to the amount of effort that he had to put into the act of standing.

After taking a second to make sure that his new acquaintance was done exploding, Iaian edged up to Shunshi and, while trying to avoid looking down, awkwardly asked him "Uh, are you alright?... Done making fire? I hope so, all this fire possibly put the rescue shelter at ri-" Iaian stopped speaking when Shunshi lifted his head up to look at him. The sunken in appearance of Shunshi's eyes combined with his new, burned, and almost skeletal appearance, caused the swordsman to trip over his words due to both being disturbed and fearful that younger hero might blame him for his injuries.

Smiling softly, Shunshi weakly spoke to Iaian in a raspy voice "I'm okay... I don't know why I made so much fire just now, sorry... Did I hurt you or anybody?" More than just a little taken off guard by the contrast of one's appearance and their words that Shunshi just displayed, Iaian cocked an eyebrow and simply answered "... No, you didn't hurt anyone."

Pleased to hear this, Shunshi began to shamble towards the door that lead back out to the destroyed city. Panicked by this, Iaian grabbed the weakened Shunshi by his shoulder and yelled at him "Where do you think you're going in that condition?!"

Almost wincing in pain from Iaian's grip, the sickly hero rasped out "Once I really get going, I'll get my second wind in me. There are probably still people out there who need help," Grinning coyly, he continued "And I wanna see the S-Class heroes in action!"

Iaian gave Shunshi a disapproving and dumbfounded look while trying to explain to him "But... You want to go help people? Well, you aren't gonna be any good to anyone in the condition that you're in!" Shrugging at this with little to no concern, he replied "I can still walk and give people directions... And I'm not missing an opportunity to watch Master Silver Fang in action."

Growing more and more frustrated with the newbie hero's persistence, Iaian rubbed his brow, let out a sigh, and exclaimed "Fine! But you have to stay by me the whole time! Also... We need to get some clothes on you before we go." Confused by this, Shunshi looked at his body and realized for the first time that he was, in fact, buck-naked in the middle of a public room, this caused his face to turn as red as his back.

A few moments later, a hesitant Iaian and Shunshi, who was now wearing a closed up hospital gown, were walking back to where they remembered fighting the alien monster, however, they were slowed down considerably by Shunshi's condition.

While walking, Iaian was growing annoyed by their slow pace and told Shunshi in a passive aggressive tone of voice "You know, we'd go a lot faster if you'd just let me carry you..." Thinking back to the night that Genos carried him home, the young hero responded in a semi-polite tone "I'm good, thanks." Switching to a whisper, he continued to himself "Never again."

They both continued on their way, Iaian simply grumbled to himself in frustration on the way, while Shunshi continued to hobble along, neither of them speaking another word to the other. Occasionally though, the two would see massive chunks of ruble covered in green energy being flung through the air, aimed towards the spacecraft. Without having to say a word to each other, both heroes understood what was causing this, as they simultaneously thought to themselves "That must be the Tornado of Terror."

Dozens of yards away, at the fight against the alien. The creature transformed its right arm into a sword and leapt at Atomic Samurai in order to try and impale him on his limb, but the expert swordsman cut the arm-blade into pieces before it could hit him, however, the arm just grew back right away and attempted the same attack, except at an even faster speed, so Atomic had to once again cut it apart. They continued this cycle for a few seconds, until the monster pulled his arm back, grew almost a dozen spear-like protrusions and tried to smash the Samurai once more. At first, it seemed like this was going to potentially overwhelm the hero, but the attack was stopped when one of Genos' fire blasts hit the invader's side, burning off a large chunk of its torso and stunning it for a moment, giving Atomic Samurai the time he needed to jump back and get some room.

After its left arm regrew, the monster thought to itself "I can't believe it! In just a little under an hour these worms destroyed the marbles that took me thousands of years to grow! I haven't even gotten a chance to call for a bombardment strike in the middle of all this chaos! Not to mention, that fire spewing one is making this more difficult than it needs to be! If he weren't here then victory would be mine by now!"

As soon as the otherworldly monster was done thinking, everyone in the fight heard the sound of an old man's voice exclaim "Ah! Oh, that's better. The stiffness in my shoulders are gone." The alien and a couple of the heroes turned to look in the direction of the voice and saw Silver Fang making circular motions with his arm and rubbing the shoulder of that arm; he was now shirtless, showing off the elder's incredible physique, as well as the numerous scars lining his arms and shoulders.

Finishing his self massage, the old martial arts master looked up at the monster and calmly said "Guess I must be a little rusty." Unable to believe that anyone aside from his master could survive one of his strikes, the alien menace exclaimed in utter shock "NO! How can you still be alive!?"

The creature couldn't ponder this for long, as it got hit in the back of its head by another fire blast, which was soon followed up by Atomic Samurai declaring to the creature, with blood lust in his voice "You should remember to keep your eyes on the people you're fighting... ATOMIC SLASH!" In an instant, countless sword swings seemed to come out of nowhere, reducing the alien's body into finely cut cubes.

Before the cubes of meat could even hit the ground though, they floated into the air, turned to dust and began moving through the air like a wild and violent storm. Through all of it, the monster's voice could be heard shouting furiously "INSOLENCE! SUCH COMPLETE INSOLENCE!"

Bang started moving towards the center of this dust storm, but before he got very far, Genos rocketed past the old man and beat him to what he was going for, the last marble.

Gripping this jewel of life force tightly in his one remaining hand, Genos, glaring at it furiously as the alien tried to form around it, explained to it with a calm fury "You should not have harmed my fellow student, especially with an injury that he may not survive." Ignoring this, the monster's voice roared out "NNNOOOOOOO!" Before the cyborg crushed its last tether to land of the living.

Calmly walking up to the young man, Bang, in an almost parental tone of concern, quietly asked Genos "Looks like we had the same idea... So, I'm guessing by your outburst against this monster, you saw what it did to your friend Shunshi?"

Letting the dust that was left over from the marble fall to the ground, the yellow eyed Cyborg responded to this question with a correcting tone "It would be a gross overstatement to call us friends. We are simply fellow students of the same Sensei. As his Senpai, it is my duty to make sure that no major harm befalls him."

Looking at Genos with hidden disapproval, Bang analytically thought to himself "One only acts with anger such as what you displayed when they lose a family member or close friend... I suppose I'd be overstepping my boundaries with him if I tried to council him about this. I'll leave it to the young man to figure out his own emotions."

Just as he finished thinking, a raspy, but still strangely chipper voice called out "Awww maaaan! Did we miss the whole thing? I wanted to watch you in action, Silver Fang-Sensei!" Genos, Atomic Samurai, Metal Bat, Puri-Puri Prisoner and Bang looked in the direction that the voice was coming from and saw Iaian slowly walking towards them, with an anemic looking man in a hospital gown at his side.

Seeing that the fight was in fact over, Iaian let out a relieved sigh and snapped at Shunshi "Well it's a good thing that it's already done! You know we would've just gotten in the way, Shunshi!"

Hearing Shunshi's name being used to address this hospital patient, Genos instantly rocketed over to Iaian and Shunshi, stopping only a foot from them while wearing an extremely concerned expression on his face. Addressing Iaian first, Genos frantically asked him "Did you say that this man standing next to you is Shunshi?!" Iaian, once again freaked out by Genos, leaned back and answered hesitantly "Uh, y- yes?"

Looking a bit more angry now, Genos snapped at Iaian "What is the matter with you!? Why would you bring him here if he is in this bad of a condition?! I should rip your arm off for such stupidity!" Gaining a bit more courage now, Iaian defended himself by defiantly explaining "HEY, cool it! I didn't do it by choice! He refused to sit still, so I figured it'd be better for him to have me accompany him, as opposed to him heading out here on his own."

Turning his attention to Shunshi, Genos began to scan his wounds while also yelling at him "You complete fool! You seem ready to die from a strong gust of wind in this state, yet you came out here anyway?!" Frowning a bit, Shunshi took a moment to reply, as he was surprised by the sight of Genos' own injuries, but he eventually replied with a simple smirk "Sorry, Genos-Senpai. But I didn't have anything better to do after I finished heal- OUCH!" Genos interrupted his junior when, he grabbed a clump of his long hair, in order to gain control of the direction his head faced, so that his scanners could get better readings on his bony face.

While twisting Shunshi's head to the right in order to examine one of his sunken in eye sockets, Genos noticed the burn marks that were at the top of his spine and let go of his head as a result.

Rubbing his strained scalp and neck, Shunshi complained to Genos "Ouch. Come on, Senpai; you don't just do that to someone recovering from severe injurie-" Cutting him off once more, Genos gave Shunshi a bizarre order "Turn around and let me see your back. From what I can tell, I need to properly scan the injuries that are there as well."

Understandably baffled by this at first, Shunshi cocked an eyebrow and asked "Come again?", while Iaian thought to himself with annoyance and bewilderment "Geez. Dealing with these two is so weird that I might take Genos up on his offer of mutilation, if it meant I got to slip away from them."

Intensifying his glare a bit, Genos stated to Shunshi "I severely overheated earlier and now my scanners are not working properly, they cannot scan through your clothing in their current state. Now do as I asked." Rolling his eyes and sighing, Shunshi turned around and to face away from Genos while asking Iaian in an exhausted tone "Iaian, could you cut this thing so that Genos can see where I got hurt?"

If the swordsman had been drinking water at this moment he would have spat it out as he hysterically asked Shunshi "You can't be seriously doing what he's asking, can you?! And Why do you want me to cut it anyway!? Just slide it down over your shoulders and let it rest on your waist."

Looking down at the ground, Shunshi explained in an embarrassed tone "Look, when Genos gets like this, with the exception of Sensei, you either do what he asks or he eventually makes you do what he wants. And with how I tied up this thing, I can't just take it off that way. All I can do with it on my own is take it all off and, then, tie it around my waist. In case you forgot, I already went commando earlier, and I'd rather I didn't have to do that again, so can you just do this favor for me?"

While watching this whole debacle unfold, Bang muttered to himself in shock "This is... more than a little odd. Is that really Shunshi?"

Nudging the old man in his side, Atomic Samurai somewhat jokingly asked "Is that twig all that's left of your new student? You'd need roughly ten armies of guys like that to even equal up to one of my students."

Resting his bat on his shoulder, Metal Bat decided to chime in on this in a bored tone "Well, this is getting weird. I'm gonna see If I can get Tornado to throw me up to that spaceship or something, so I can crack some more alien skulls." The teenage hero then walked off.

Not wanting see this either, Puri-Puri Prisoner pointed in the opposite direction and explained "Gross. I like my boys on the thinner side and all, but that's a little too much for me. I'm going to go see if I can find some other heroes to coordinate with." The convict hero then made his leave as well.

Hesitantly, Iaian slowly used his sword to carefully cut down Shunshi's hospital gown, with Shunshi commenting "All you gotta do is make it so he can see my injuries. Don't go any farther than that." Iaian simply grumbled back at him "You don't have to tell me twice... Is this guy your older brother or some other relative?"

Initially confused by this question, the skeleton man eventually gave an answer to the swordsman "Uh, no; we're just close friends... And I've actually got a year on the guy." While he continued to carefully cut the fabric covering Shunshi's back, Iaian thought to himself in a displeased tone "They're not family, yet Shunshi is okay with taking his clothes off around Genos? What a couple of freaks."

Once the massive burn was exposed, the x-rays of Genos' scanners, without a layer of fabric getting in their way, got to work examining the red flesh that formed where Shunshi's back had been ripped off. While doing this, he also asked his junior a question that had been bugging him "So, Shunshi. I saw your injuries while you were unconscious and I believed that your death was certain. Explain to me exactly how you healed."

Having to think about this for a second, Shunshi gathered his thoughts, looked into the sky, and answered Genos truthfully "Well, I was laying down somewhere... The Hero Association's rescue center, I think... Anyway, everything around me was completely black from my point of view; I actually did think I was dead for a bit there. I woke up a bit when I heard a kid crying, then I started thinking about all of the people who were murdered today... and how I wasn't able to do anything to save anyone, before or after the city'd been destroyed. I got overwhelmed with how desperately I wanted to stay alive to save these people and kill the aliens that hurt them, when, all of a sudden, every inch of my body started spewing out more fire than it ever had before. But what was really weird about this fire was that... uh, well it actually felt like it was burning me everywhere that I'd been hurt today... I guess that's why I got this big mark on my back and why I'm so thin."

After sending his limited medical report to Doctor Stench, and blinking his eyes to turn off his scanner, Genos looked as if he was contemplating something as he told Shunshi "Interesting... All right, I am done. Once Sensei reunites with us, I will need to bring you to Dr. Stench's laboratory for further examinations."

Groaning in frustration, Shunshi grumbled back at Genos "Whatever. I want to get some pants first though... By the way, where IS Sensei?"

Iaian, deeply confused by this conversation, looked at Silver Fang standing a little less than several dozen feet away and thought "Did he go blind too? His sensei is right there."

Pointing upwards, Genos told Shunshi in a casual tone "He is currently up on the spaceship." Nodding his head, the walking skeleton replied "Oh, that makes sense."

Hearing what sounded the mad gibbering of insane asylum patients to him, Iaian thought to himself in an annoyed and defeated tone "Okay, so they're not blind, just crazy... I'm gonna go speak with Master Atomic."

A little less than a half hour had passed, the students of Saitama had moved away from the combat zone and were sitting next to the Hero Association HQ. Due to their beaten and tired bodies preventing them from taking further action in stopping the invasion, they passed their time waiting for Saitama by sitting on what was left of building's steps and watching the S-Class heroes that were still present and fighting.

By this point, for an unknown reason, some of Shunshi's muscles had slowly grown back, not so much that his skeletal appearance was completely gone, but at least enough for him to be able to walk on his own without the risk of collapsing in on himself. As Genos was baffled by his junior's body slowly growing back, Shunshi was watching Metal Bat trying to chase down Tornado of Terror, while she was flying around, hurling masses of debris at the space ship with her psychic powers and, either ignoring Metal Bat, or genuinely not noticing him at all.

As he watched this almost amusing display between two S-Class heroes unfold, Shunshi smirked and somewhat jokingly said to Genos "Man, would you look at all the S-Class heroes? I wish I had an autograph book or something. Ha heh heh..." Even from simply glancing at his allies' facial expressions as he spoke, Genos could see Shunshi trying to hide some sort of sadness behind his smile, but chose to say nothing.

After a few more minutes of sitting in awkward silence, the two students quickly rose to their feet in surprise when they heard, what sounded like, a series of explosions coming from the spaceship. Looking up at the ship, Genos and Shunshi saw a bombardment of building-sized cannon shells hurtling towards all of the heroes that were still attacking the vessel. All but one of the heroes that saw this were stunned with panic, while Tornado of Terror, being the only one left unphased, focused her telekinesis and, all at once, grabbed every one of the shells with her psychic powers and threw them back at the ship, destroying all of it's guns in the process.

Astounded by this display of power, Genos turned to Shunshi and exclaimed "What a display of raw power! It is nothing compared to Master's abilities, but it is still rather impressive." Smirking at the rouse that Tornado of Terror got out of Genos, Shunshi rested his head on his hand and casually replied "Yeah, that's about what I'd expect from a S-Class hero. For someone who's as highly ranked as Ms. Tornado, this was nothin'."

Hearing his ally's high expectations for what he assumed S-Class heroes were capable of, Genos started to feel a mixture of confusion as to why he would assume something so ridiculous, and a sense of self-loathing for not being able to live up to his junior's expectations. Not sure of what he should say to this, Genos went back to sitting in silence, having no clue how he should communicate his feelings.

Another half an hour or so passed, when, after the ship had been tilted onto its side, supposedly by Tornado, the space fairing vessel started crashing to the ground. Due to already being so close to the Hero Association's building, Genos and Shunshi quickly, but calmly, made their way inside with plenty of time to spare before the crash-down, with the other heroes arriving just a minute after them. Quick to grab the large metal doors leading into the rescue shelter, Puri-Puri-Prisoner and Super Alloy Darkshine closed them just in time to avoid a title wave of debris that would have hit everyone otherwise.

In no time at all, the debris that blocked the exit to the rescue shelter got cleared out by the heroes, so that they could head back out and search the crash-site.

When the S-Class heroes split up for the recognizance, Shunshi, having put on some new clothes and also having grown back the faintest amount of his muscle-tone, convinced Genos to let him go search the wreckage around the ship as well.

While slowly making his way around the remains of the alien spaceship, Shunshi stumbled upon Super Alloy Darkshine, with a strong looking chain wrapped around his shoulder for some reason, and digging through impossibly huge slabs of space metal with his bare hands.

Noticing the, almost, skeletal person walking towards him, Alloy put up his fists and shouted at him "Hold it! Who are you and what do you think you're doing?!"

At this point, the young hero had become too tired to be intimidated, or to let his admiration for the hero influence his response, so he calmly explained to Darkshine "I'm an A-Class hero. I'm just trying to help with the search."

Putting his fists down, the S-Class hero asked Shunshi in a surprised tone "Oh, really? I don't really pay attention to any heroes below S-Class. You gotta be careful, walking around, looking so creepy."

Nodding his head in agreement, he replied in a strangely calm voice "Yeah, I get what you-... Hey, what's that noise?" Not sure of what the skeleton guy was talking about, Super alloy listened to his surroundings for a moment, until he heard some muffled cries from beneath the rubble. Quickly digging apart the ground, Super Alloy Darkshine found almost a dozen of the invading aliens huddled and pressed together, their attempt to hide having been foiled.

Scowling at the aliens, Alloy took the chain off of his shoulder and snapped at them "Alright! If you freaks can understand what I'm sayin', then get over here and sit your asses down with your backs to each other!" Sweating with fear at the goliath who found them, the aliens, without speaking a word, walked over to him and did as he ordered them to do.

Using the chain, Darkshine quickly tied all the other worlders together and asked Shunshi "You said you're a hero, right? Look, I know that you don't have any real muscle on you, but do you mind keepin' an eye on them? I'm gonna go get the other heroes so we can all interrogate these guys together." Letting himself plop down on a boulder that had been sitting behind him, Shunshi gave the hero a thumbs up, combined with a reassuring smirk. Nodding at this, Super Alloy Darkshine made his way past Shunshi and towards where he believed the other heroes would most likely be.

Just as the the more intimidating hero walked out of earshot, the aliens began to whisper and panic to each other, sharing their concerns about how some guy named 'Boros' was defeated and as to whether or not they'd be allowed to live.

Feeling a bit of pity for these aliens, Shunshi yelled over to them with nothing but honesty in his voice "Hey. You guys don't need to worry about us killing you. We're heroes; we're known for being really nice, and you guys already got your butts kicked something fierce; you're pretty much harmless to us at this point. So, don't worry; all we just need to ask you all some questions."

Overcome with confusion, as well as some small amount of relief, the band of surviving aliens gave Shunshi funny looks, until one of them weekly responded "Um... Thanks for that, guy... I guess..."

After only a few more minutes had passed, another one of the aliens shouted to Shunshi "Hey; hero guy! Look, someone's coming!" Turning his head to look behind himself, Shunshi was excited to see the person who was walking towards them; the top ranked A-Class hero, Sweet Mask.

Jumping to his feet, Shunshi quickly started to make his way towards the idol hero, excitedly telling him "Hey there, Sweet Mask, sir. You probably don't recognize me right now, but it's me- Aagh!" Having no interest in what this supposed hero that Darkshine said was watching the aliens had to say, Sweet Mask harshly pushed his fragile looking body out of his way and to the ground.

Once he got close enough to the aliens, Sweet Mask struck at each of them with a karate chop moving at a superhuman speed, reducing them all to green blood and clumps of flesh. Shocked by his sudden actions, Darkshine stammered at the number one A-Class hero, "Sweet Mask! Why did you do that?!", while Genos rushed over to check on Shunshi, finding that, due to his junior's frail body, he'd cracked his forearm and a few of his ribs because of his fall.

Whipping away some of the blood that had splashed onto his face, Sweet Mask answered Super Alloy Darkshine's question with cold blood lust in his voice "They did not deserve to live, they were evil. I was simply administering justice as quickly as possible."

Barely holding back his desire to attack him, Genos asked Sweet Mask his own question "What purpose did lashing out at my ally serve to you?" Snapping his head in Genos' direction, a vein formed on Sweet Mask's face as he gave his answer "He failed to contribute in stopping this invasion in any meaningful way. The fact that such a failure tried to approach me as if he were my ally is an insult to justice itself. You should understand that, Genos... Although, after your failure against the Deep Sea King, and your failure today, I'm beginning to question your actual ability to uphold Justice."

Having quickly reached the end of his fuse with this man, Genos, despite his damaged state, visibly began to consider attacking the A-Class idol, but, before he could put much thought into it, Shunshi grabbed Genos's wrist with his good arm. Looking down at his junior, Genos was convinced not to attack when he saw Shunshi shake his head as a warning to him that he should probably stand down. Letting out a sigh of frustration, Genos helped Shunshi to his feet, letting him rest his good arm on his metal shoulder.

Deciding that they no longer had time to wait for their Master any longer, Genos began walk away to take his ally to see Dr. Stench, but, when they turned to face away from the other heroes, the cyborg was stopped cold by the surprising sight of tears suddenly and silently streaming down Shunshi's face.

Bang quickly approached the two and saw Shunshi trying to hide his crying from everyone, and decided to ask them a question "Are... you two alright?" Only half listening to the old man, Genos replied, "I'll be repaired soon." However, despite the question being framed for both of them, Bang was only looking at Shunshi.

Using his fractured arm to rub away the tears on his face, but flinching when he accidentally pushed on his injury, seemingly resulting in more tears going down his face; Shunshi let out a good natured chuckle and answered his second teacher's question with a positive sounding tone of voice "I guess I wound up hurting myself more than I thought. I just started crying out of nowhere. Weird, right?"

Saying nothing out loud, Bang stroked his mustache and thought to himself grimly "Based on what I've gathered from about his personality, Shunshi seems to idolize heroes to some extent. He may not be willing to admit it when one of his idols does something that lets him down, regardless of how much sorrow it may cause him. I should-"

All of a sudden, a very loud series of rumbling could be heard coming from the ship, which ended with Saitama casually punching a hole out of the space craft and, with his clothing in tatters and with a minimally pleased sounding voice, he said "Oh, I finally got out. Cool."

Recognizing this silly looking bald man from the S-Class meeting, Tornado flew over to him and asked "Hey! How did a B-Class like you get in that ship? Shouldn't you be dead or something?"

Rushing over to his Master as fast as he could while taking care not to harm Shunshi, Genos shouted to Saitama "Master! There you are! Shunshi needs your assistance!" Seeing his cyborg student, Saitama was surprised by Genos' beaten up condition and was confused by the skeleton man that was resting against him.

Folding his arms, Saitama blurted out "Geez, Genos; why do you look all melty? Well, whatever. If Shunshi needs help, then show me where he is... And who's that bony guy you're carrying?!"

Gesturing for Saitama to start carrying Shunshi, Genos bluntly answered his teacher "This IS Shunshi, Master. I would like you to aid me in escorting him to Dr. Stench's lab for medical care. I will explain all of the details of how he ended up like this on the way there."

Stunned by the news that this walking corpse was Shunshi, Saitama reeled back and exclaimed in disbelief "THAT'S SHUNSHI?! Okay, give em' here. Let's get going! Show the way." Taking Shunshi in his arms bridal-style, Saitama started to follow Genos as he ran as fast as his damaged body would allow him to. As all this went on, Shunshi grunted in pain from his fractured bones getting jostled around while also trying to ignore the humiliation he was feeling at having to be carried once again.

While they were running, Shunshi overheard Tornado of Terror yelling at them about how Saitama got in her way, before throwing a cacophony of insults at him about being bald. When Shunshi looked to see if either of his Senpai or Master were paying attention to the small hero's foul mouth, he saw that they were preoccupied talking about how he fought the strongest opponent of his life while on that ship.

As Shunshi continued to listen to Tornado of Terror yell insults at his Master from a distance, he was feeling a swirl of anger, sadness, and confusion while whispering to the number 2 S-Class hero "Please... Please stop talking."