2:07 PM

Academy City was at the world's leading city in technological development. It should be apparent that there were an abundance of counter measures formulated in case of natural disaster. Not every building could be saved but most of major ones doubled as safety bunkers. Floods, earthquakes, tornadoes, pretty much nothing mother Earth produced could defeat the denizens of Academy City's will to survive thanks to the best scientific minds in the world pooling their resources together and constructing the world's safest city.

Unfortunately, the same can't be said for supernatural disasters. Namely those that attack all matter regardless.

Cars, buildings, entire city blocks. Nothing was safe from the undiscriminating black hole's grasp. Cracks formed across sections of the street before they were torn apart and flung into the air.

Unsuspecting citizens screamed as their bodies were forcefully swept up. A woman held on to a stop sign holding her son. Her grip weakened thus her son slipped out of her hands, tears flowed from both of their eyes. The little boy turned to the indifferent black sphere. In spite of the healthy amount of exercise he got on a regular basis, his heartrate has never been that high.

He saw other people, students, teachers, etcetera. His youthful empathetic skills allowed him to easily read their feelings. He could tell they experienced the same sense of dread and fear as he did. Towards the center of the black hole, he could barely make out someone floating in a Cross like position. His black clothing camouflage him him almost perfectly.

He closed his eyes and covered his face, and thought one last time of the person who sacrificed everything to make him happy.

Interestingly enough, he felt a strong gust of wind pulling him but not the sensation of movement.

He opened his eyes and saw that the various people were glowing either bright green or blue. The surrounding buildings and even the street had taken on the same green hue. He frantically looked at his surroundings until he spotted a tiny woman with curly green hair engulfed in the same color as him down below. She had her arms extended as a taller black haired woman glowing light blue did the same.

The boy slowly descended onto the street.

"Mommy!" he shouted with his arms raised.

"Son!" she replied.

The young boy looked at his savior's face. She looked extremely angry, like someone took her favorite toy from her cuppy during nap time. This was further accentuated by her "resting bitchy face," meaning she must have been accustomed to looking angry. But the young boy's youthful empathetic skills allowed him to see through her facade.

He could tell she experienced the same sense of dread and fear as he did.

Behind Tatsumaki the heroes stayed in place, engulfed in a green light. Her tiny frame trembled as a long stream of sweat rolled past her cheek.

"This is ridiculous!" Atomic Samurai shouted.

"I know, right?!" Bang replied. "Who names their child son?! What is this, Journey to the West?!"

"Seriously?!" said Puri-Puri Prisoner.

"Guys!" Saitama shouted frantically. "Can someone tell me what the hell that thing is?!"

"A black hole!" said Child Emperor. "A gravitational field that sucks up matter!"

"The fuck is matter?!"

"Anything that has mass and occupies space!" said Genos

"Ohhhhhhhhhh."

…

"OH SHIT, THAT'S US!"

"Dammit," Tatsumaki shouted at the top of her lungs. "Can you all SHUT THE HELL UP!"

Tatsumaki screamed as she she lowered her shaking arms. Many citizens and buildings started to descend towards the ground. A crack shot up on a complex towards the right. More cracks shoot past Saitama's and Bang's legs.

"Uh, Twister Sister?" Saitama said. Tatsumaki gritted her teeth upon hearing that.

The black hole slowly seemed to be getting closer but that's not the case.

Genos looked down and noticed as his feet were sliding forward. He pressed his feet down to gain some friction. Child Emperor shot his mechanical legs into the concrete ground. Puri-Puri Prisoner leaned forward and digs his fingers into the street. Fubuki's followers huddled together. A fragment of a building flew at them from behind but it was stopped mid flight in a light green hue.

"Tatsumaki?!" Fubuki yelled.

"Shut up!"

Bang looked up towards the black hole.

"The pull of the black hole is sucking the street in."

A segment of shattered road and sidewalk as well as several dirty apartment buildings flew towards the black hole from the right. Their likeness seemed stretched as they are sucked inside. The citizens Tatsumaki and Fubuki were holding down began to slowly raise. Some of them try to grip onto the street or sidewalk.

"Sister," Fubuki shouted after straining. "I'm...I'm not strong enough to cover that wide of a field. I'm sorry!"

Multiple loud cracking sounds are heard as the pavement rises. The tops of some buildings are ripped off like paper.

"Sensei!" Genos Can't you do something?!"

"And destroy the street beneath us?! Yeah, no thanks!"

More chunks of street as well as the greeting blimp of Academy City head towards the black hole.

"Hey, Tatsumaki! What's the matter?! Covering this much space should be a piece of cake!"

"She's not just focusing on this area," Fubuki said as she slowly brought her arms down.

"Save your strength. I'll explain it," said Atomic Sword. "The psychic sisters are trying to keep this entire city and all of its inhabitants down. I don't know the full extent of Tatsumaki's powers but I know working against a black hole is a herculean task."

"But...this city is a third the size of Tokyo!" said Mikoto.

"But that's 7,853,333,333 feet of cement to cover!" said Child Emperor.

Esper powers require mental stamina. Fubuki handled most of the citizens and smaller buildings but only within the immediate vicinity since she wasn't as strong as Tatsumaki. Meaning little big sister had to fight against the pull of a black hole to prevent the rest of the city along with it's inhabitants from being sucked in.

"Dammit, won't you please SHUT UP!?" Tatsumaki shouted as her face turned red.

And all of that talking wasn't helping either. In spite of how powerful she was, she still had an entire city worth of people to save. But a black hole is powerful to absorb light. The talk of how big the city was put psychological pressure on the sisters and slowly drained their mental reserves.

The ground beneath them slowly began to rise.

"Pitiful," a calm voice said.

Amongst the destruction, the sound of a cane hitting the ground was heard. The sound got closer until it passed Tatsumaki and Fubuki.

"What the hell?" Tatsumaki said.

"Citizen, get back!" Fubuki yelled

"You?!" Mikoto yelled in both shock and disdain.

"Pipe down you brata. I'm just here to clean up the mess these sorry excuses for espers can't seem to handle. I don't have any beef with you but I can understand if you totally hate my guts. We'll settle things some other time. After I crush the caped baldy over there."

"Oh," Saitama said with a blank expression. "It's you. Uh...what was your name again? Eviscerator? Eliminator? *Snap* Obliterator. Decimator. Michael Jackson."

Academy City's #1 ranked Level 5 turned his head around wearing a very annoyed expression.

"Greeny. Cut your field by approximately 284,666,667 feet north west. Don't question why. Just do it. Now."

Even though she detested being ordered around, especially by people who show up at the last second, she complied with the skinny, pale boy's demands.

"Now that you're out of my way I'll prevent the rest of Academy City from getting sucked into that black hole until I can get close enough to disrupt it."

"What?! That's impossible!" shouted Child Emperor. "What the hell are you planning on doing?!"

"Nothing you could possibly understand. Now, let the villain take center stage."

"Oh, right," Saitama said. "That kid said his ability was to control directional vectors or whatever. A lot of my punches didn't seem kill him so we should probably let him do his thing. Go get 'em Emasculator."

"Accelerator, asshole."

(He remembered all that but forgot a simple name?) he thought after he clicking his teeth. With that, Accelerator speed walked forward.

"I don't know what he's got planned," Child Emperor said. "But he better make it quick! At the rate that the size of the black hole is increasing, we've only got about a minute and a half before it becomes big enough to suck us in regardless of the strength of his and Tatsumaki's powers!"

Everyone else present either gasped or grunted. Accelerator turned back around.

"Tch!"

He kicked off his left foot and dashed away. It may have appeared like he glided but the tip of his right shoe slid on the ground. His ability only worked with whatever he is in contact with. If he were to just glide, the rest of Academy City would be sucked into the black hole.

Accelerator traveled about 30 meters before he stopped. He noticed the street beneath him started to slowly rise.

(Goddammit, not now! Why now of all times?!)

The electrode styled choker on Accelerator's neck that allowed him to use his Reflection ran on a finite energy source. The battery was drained in his fight with Saitama earlier and to make matters worse, even though it was turned off by Heaven Canceller after he was taken to the hospital about twenty minutes later, it was never recharged. He told Tatsumaki to divert attention away from a certain section of the city but that along with segments of the area he stood crumbled.

(Fucking hell, that shitty doctor and Caped Baldy are gonna get us all killed! Wait. No. I can make this work! I just have to be faste-)

A black car flew past Accelerator. Out of his peripheral, he noticed something slip out of the passenger seat of the window. Something tiny. Someone. Someone crying who extended her hands towards Accelerator.

He noticed Yoshikawa reaching out to said girl and grabbed onto her while being sucked towards the black hole. She embraced her towards her chest like a relieved mother.

In his failure to protect that which was precious to him, Accelerator screamed out Last Order's name at the top of his lungs.

Several sections of the street, cars, buildings begin slowly ascended rise around Accelerator. After he saw that, Genos turns to Tatsumaki.

"Tatsumaki! Those citizens!"

"I can barely keep you guys from floating off. I can't focus on them from that range!"

"Can't anybody rescue those poor girls?" Puri-Puri Prisoner said.

Suddenly, he felt something round zoom up his spinal column.

"Unf! 3"

That something soared into the air and out of Tatsumaki's range before she noticed it. The heroes all gazed with open jaws, both terrified and amazed at the sight before them. Even Accelerator was caught off guard. After it rode the turbulence of the gravitational pull, the figure skidded off of cars and segments of broken street and sidewalk towards the girls being sucked away.

When he got close enough, the glorious figure hopped off of his bike.

"JUSTICE…"

Yoshikawa extended her left hand and it is grasped firmly by the hand of none other than...

"CATCH!"

C-Class, Rank #2.

Mumen. Fucking. Rider.

The three of them were sucked towards the ever expanding black hole. Mumen Rider looks frantically towards his right.

"Justice grab!"

He grabs the edge of a nearby building. The only thing that kept the building from being torn apart is Accelerator's vector manipulation. But Mumen Rider had no way of knowing that. He knew very well that he stood no chance against the might of a black hole.

He only did what he could.

"Misaka thanks you for your heroic deed! Misaka says as she is moments away from certain doom!"

"Y-yes!" Yoshikawa said. "Thank you!"

Mumen Rider looked back and gravely gasped.

"What is it?!"

"My biiiiiiiiike!" he shouted as his bike was sucked towards the black hole.

The heroes tried their very best to stop themselves from being sucked into the black hole. Nearly everything in front of Accelerator has been sucked away, evident by the massive crater that quickly increased in depth. Tatsumaki shouted as her gripped loosens on her peers. The block they are on began to rise.

"Fubuki! Take care of the people! I need all of my strength to keep the rest of the city from being sucked in for as long as possible!"

"Right!"

"Sensei! Can't you do something?!"

"And accidentally destroy our only foothold?! I can't risk it!"

The citizens and the heroes went from glowing light green to a light shade of blue. Fubuki's eyes took on the same color and her hair flared up.

"HARAAAAAAAAAAAAGH!" the sisters screamed.

The heroes felt a stronger pressure on them. Tatsumaki could not maintain a very strong grip on the people since she also had the responsibility of covering 284,666,667 feet worth of land as well and buildings as well. However, Fubuki had less to cover and more strength at her disposal to focus on the citizens and the heroes. But she worked well beyond her normal range regardless.

"That's right girls!" Atomic Samurai shouted. "Keep at it!"

"They don't want us talking!" Saitama shouted.

"No!" Child Emperor replied. "Having people cheer you on can increase dopamine levels, making it easier for them to use their powers! This is especially true when your friends do it so for the love of all science, cheer them on!"

"That sounds cheesy enough to work! Come one psychic sisters, I know you're better than this!"

"Release your overflowing spirit!" shouted Bang.

"Show that black hole your sisterly love!" shouted Puri-Puri Prisoner.

"This is so lame but do your best!" said Child Emperor.

"I haven't talked in like five parts," said Speed-o'-Sound Sonic.

"Sisters, I will not lie," Genos begun. "But we did not get off to the greatest of starts. You both are very stuck up, self-centered, and condescending, although that last one applies more to Tatsumaki. You both even went so far as to insult my master and that is something I do not tolerate in the slightest. But as I have to spend more time with you, to know you better, I see the strengths that have made you such revered heroes. Tatsumaki with your immensely powerful psychic powers and your cold deliverance of justice make you one of the most feared heroes yet. And Fubuki, your excellent leadership skills and caring personality makes you not only one of the most admirable heroes but one of the most admirable people I have ever met. I guess what I am trying to say is that even when you don't show it, the two of you are amazing people. So with these words of encouragement, I, Genos, the cyborg who fights for justice alongside my sensei, another highly admirable person, encourage you, the Terrible Tornado, and you, the Blizzard of Hell, with words of encouragement that will encourage you to do your very best because of my encouragement-"

"GODDAMIT GENOS, JUST SAY "DO YOUR BEST" LIKE EVERYONE ELSE!" Saitama yelled.

Mikoto was about to speak but something out of the corner of her eye caught her attention. Something that made a hard lump form in her throat when she realized what it was. It was the sight of Touma Kamijou being sucked against the back of an electronic billboard. But what shocked her wasn't the fact that he was so high up and so close to danger.

It was that he was making his way towards the danger.

While pushing off the back of the billboard with his left hand and dragging his body the right, he slowly made his way to its edge.

"No…" Mikoto said. Her worst fear has come into fruition. That boy doing something so incredibly dangerous that he would most surely die. There was weight in her chest and tears rolled down her cheeks.

"WHAT ARE YOU DOING YOU IDIOOOOOOOOOOT?!"

"Hmm?" Saitama said as he looked at her. He followed her line of sight and noticed Touma as he nears the edge. "TAP DANCING CHRIST, FUBUKI UP THERE!"

"!"

Fubuki shifted her head to her right but it was too late. The boy who knew misfortune all too well neared the edge of the billboard.

Touma Kamijou soared through the air at an incredible speed towards the black hole.

"Oh no!" Genos yelled.

Puri-Puri Prisoner and Bang gasped.

"Somebody get that kid!" shouted Atomic Samurai.

"Oh my justice!" said Mumen Rider.

Accelerator saw Touma soar through the sky as he slowly walked up the side of a building. Yes, the same boy who ended his reign during Project Level 6 Shift was about to meet his end. Even though he felt a bit of spite, he also felt a pinch of regret. He realized there was nothing he could possibly do in order to save him without putting both Last Order and the rest of the city at risk and he wasn't about to do that.

(Tch. Even if I wanted to, I couldn't do anything. Sucks to be you.)

"H-he…" Fubuki said while she nearly choked on her words. "He was too far and I didn't notice! I'm sorry!"

"No," Saitama cooly said. She felt a tap on her right shoulder. "It's alright." He walked for about a meter before stopping in front of the heroes. "Not to sound cool or anything but I don't know if I'll make it back. I mean, it's a black hole. So it's probably goodbye. But if you guys make it out alive then it'll be worth it. And it's been an honor and stuff. Working with you all I mean. So take care of yourselves and stuff...yeah."

"W-what?! No. N-no! I won't lose you either!"

"Sensei...?!" Genos said with a look of anguish.

"Saitama, what are you planning?" Bang said.

"What the hell do you think you're doing you bald headed, brain dead, caped loser?!" Tatsumaki shouted as she showed more sadness then she wanted.

Saitama squatted down so low that his rear nearly touched the ground.

"Being a hero."

The ground where his feet were formed a pattern cracks that looked like abstract art. A strong gust of wind hit the group of heroes. Fubuki stumbled slightly but held her grip regardless. Everyone's hair flapped rapidly against the hard gust of wind.

Genos looked at the back of the man he held with so much regard that he would take give his life for. He stared at the man who he idolized, who he admired more than any other, as he left him behind for the sake of protecting him. Somebody who not only unmatched in strength, but unmatched in heart. He stared at the man he was truly proud to call an ally get further and further from him.

Cyborgs by definition are only half machine.

"SENNNNSSSEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII!"

With tear soaked eyes, he looked at his best friend and realized he would never see him again.

Saitama leaped over a tall building in a single bound. With a clenched fist held in front of him, he slowly approached the reckless teenage boy who ironically thought heroes were unnecessary.

"Kids these days."