Authors Notes before we begin: Did you miss me? Yeah, its been a while huh. Ever since I started moving, coupled that with personal loss and school, I really didn't have time to write. But now I am here, bringing you the Season Finale to One Punch Man: Warmonger. Episode 12: For All the Marbles
When we look at a map of earth, it is difficult to think about the vast scale of evil that can be compacted into one planet. The Monster Association, The Freelance Monsters roaming around after being naturally created when their limiter breaks, and the human nature, it is almost impossible to even comprehend, let alone calculate the amount of evil in the world. Well, that all changed when the Forces of Hell and its lord, The Prime Evil, Diablo rose up and declared war on humanity. What little understanding of the definition of "evil, malevolence, and sin" we had, were shattered as this uprising occurred, and now, the very essence of evil has come to destroy our world.
In A City, the Hero Association HQ has come under siege. Lightning Max, along with Forte, Chain'n'toad, and Butterfly DX fight off lower tier monsters who have penetrated security, whilst also getting everyone to safety. Chain'n'toad uses his signature chain to choke out a small red demon, and down the hall, Lightning Max kicks another demon's head into oblivion.
"There's too fucking many of them!" Forte says as he finishes beating a demon to death with his bare hands, his knuckles tingling from the heat of the Demon's blood.
Then, out of nowhere a massive, muscly, dark skinned man charged through the hallway and single handedly trampled the whole hallway full of Demons.
"Darkshine!" Lightning Max yelled out in excitement. "You made it!"
"Hmm? Yeah, of course I'll make it, the hell type of question is that?"
Elsewhere, in City F, Metal Bat is fending off a wave of Demons by himself. He is beaten and bloodied, but damn is he still swinging. His sister Zenko is trapped inside a closet, as Metal Bat promised to never expose her to violence, even when violence was a necessity for their own salvation. In one swing he was able to decapitate 3- no, 5 demons, sending their crushed and severed heads flying for meters. His Indominable Will is preventing the Demons from getting any closer to the storage closet.
"Not on my watch. YOU SONS OF BITCHES." He says as he caves in the face a demon with razor sharp edges on his body.
In S City, Amai Mask, Atomic Samurai, and his 3 disciples go on the offensive on another huge wave of Demons. Bushidrill and Iaian are quick to eviscerate a whole column of Demons while Samurai and Amai Mask work together to absolutely destroy a Massive, 12-meter-tall Demon with Dinosaur like Features. The eye of the now slain demon rolled down the street, and Okamaitachi steps on it in disgust.
The last of the demons were dispatched by Iaian, as Amai Mask's phone vibrates in his pocket when he looked at his phone, his face turning from bloodthirsty rage to shock.
"The Epicenter of this invasion is in W City, the hometown of Warmonger." The blue haired hero turned to tell Atomic Samurai.
"Damn it, the Association can't get ahold of Tornado, or Demon Cyborg, you think they were taken out already?" Atomic Samurai scowled, putting away his phone.
"Impossible! There's no way! They're S Class!" Iaian said, his tone of voice desperate, with a hint of fear.
"Now is not the time to think that all is lost Iai…" Atomic Samurai wiped away a bit of blood dripping from a cut he sustained above his eyebrow. "We head to City W, there, we'll face the Demon King…"
Back in Hell Warmonger and the Demon King, Diablo were locked in a Battle of Attrition. Warmonger, along with Genos, Fubuki, and Tatsumaki entered the land of the Unholy through a tunnel formed by the City Leveling Demon, Behemoth. The group battled through Hell as hundreds of Demons try to block them from encountering their king. Ozymandias, the Life absorbing blob of Liquid Mass was extremely close to killing Tatsumaki, but with the quick action of Warmonger, not only killed the Demon, but also revived the young Esper. When they reached the Chamber of the Damned, they had to fight off the Shadow Demon, the Gatekeeper. After a seemingly unwinnable battle against a thousand of High Demon level Spawns, Midori finally unlocks his illusive Omega Form, killing the Gatekeeper and saving everyone once again. And now, the Battle between Earth's Warmonger and The Scarlet King himself commenced.
Warmonger's Super Speed was assisted by his midair negation of friction, zooming throughout the air without the resistance of friction, allowing him to dodge attacks near lightspeed. Tatsumaki and Fubuki watched from the round. Trying to keep up with him as he blitzed around Diablo was a feat near impossible as his speed made him into the faintest of blur.
Tatsumaki was fast in her own right, but this… this seemed neck breaking for her. To put this into perspective, the top 5 Fastest Heroes in the Association are, Saitama, Blast, Flashy Flash, Her, and Silverfang, but with Warmonger's frictionless speed, he surges past her, straight to 4th place.
"You are fast, O, great protector of Earth" The Demon King bellowed as he glanced around his chamber looking for what he considers is an annoying, insignificant gnat.
In the corner of his eye, he sees 2 beings staring back at him behind a rock, both having identical, glowing emerald eyes.
"Whats this?" Diablo bellowed, looming over the two Espers, not noticing the unconscious cyborg. "The Great Protector has cohorts? I would be such a shame if…"
Diablo reached out to grab the weakened Espers, the two tense up, bracing for what Diablo is about to do with them, but the white blur bounced off a wall of the chamber and landed on the arm of the demon, spinning around it around light speed. The blur jumped off the arm and landed in front of the two espers, with Warmonger facing the hand of the Demon King. Suddenly the entire arm exploded into chunks and a Tidal Wave of Blood gushed out, baring down on the group of heroes. With a wave of his hands the blood stopped in midair.
Seemingly unphased by the suddenness of his amputation, just looks at his gushing stump, his face seemed that of mild surprise than agony.
"Huh? Oh my…" The Demon King let out.
"The Jurisdiction of Earth is not yours to take…" Warmonger said, his voice was unrecognizable because each time he talked 4 other voices speak in unison with him.
Diablo eyes shot wide open, what was it that was going through his mind? What ever it was it much have been mixed with utter minding rage, as the Demon King let out a ferocious, low pitched roar, reminiscent of a lion. In his blind fury he regrew his arm from nothing and punched towards Warmonger. The hero got into the sprinters position and jumped towards the satanic fist in subsonic speed, scorching the brimstone behind him. He punctured a hole in the fist, big enough to get inside the skin of the Demon king. There he tore through muscle and blood vessel, shattering the same bone in various places, before shooting out of the demon's shoulder. Warmonger, now midair, changed his own body's trajectory, spinning around and pinpointing a vital spot in the Demon King, his nape. Warmonger's Omega Razor Edge Ability essentially turned his who arm into a blade, reading to stab the nape, wanting to end this fight as quickly as possible.
Diablo snapped his head back to look at Warmonger from the corner of his eyes, and using his arm swatted away Warmonger. The hero did not expect his to swing so closely.
Did he get faster? Midori thought to himself.
However, as Warmonger was in the middle of his thought, Diablo's hand came out of nowhere and launched Warmonger through the wall of his chamber. Diabo's strike, however, did shatter his hand, bending it out of proportion, but all the Demon King did was shake his hand, magically resetting all the bones in this hand. He snarled; visible smoke was coming out of his mouth.
"Such an Anti-Climatic Death for a being like him…" The Demon King bellowed. He turned his attention back to Tatsumaki and Fubuki, who are looking up at him in fear. "Beings like him aren't bounded to single planets."
Beings like him. What the hell is he talking about? Both Fubuki and Tatsumaki thought in unison.
Fubuki quickly sets up a barrier to protect her, Tatsumaki, and Genos from the Ultimate Being of Evil. The Demon King kneeled down.
"Please…" The Demon King mockingly scoffed, before flicking the barrier, shattering it instantly.
The moment the barrier shattered Fubuki felt winded, dizzy, and nauseous at the same time. She collapsed to the ground inI pain, blood dripping from her nose, eyes, and mouth. Tatsumaki became furious and tried to Psychically Bind the Demon King, forgetting that her esper abilities were drained by Ozymandias. Tatsumaki finally remembers and begin physically throwing pieces of brimstone.
"Repulsive…" Diablo sighed before sitting down in front of Tatsumaki. "Why do you people fear me so much?"
"Isn't it obvious Big Red? Because youre evil…" Tatsumaki clapped back, even in the face of Evil, her hubris is undeterred.
The Demon King sighed before stroking his goatee.
"Evil this… evil that. Why can't humans fathom the fact that Good, and Evil are nonexistent. I am not evil; I am one of the Agents of Chaos. What humans think they seek when speaking about me is Liberty, Justice, and Peace. But what they really want, is Order…" He cracks open a massive smile.
Our perspective of Evil was turned on its head, when the main depiction of Wickedness claimed that Good and Evil, doesn't, if not never existed in the first place. All there is, is the balance of Order and Chaos.
"And now, our temperance for destruction has been snapped by his actions…" The Demon King remarked.
"Him? Who's Him?" Tatsumaki wondered out loud.
The Demon King scoffed again.
"You humans don't have the capability to understand who I am referring to. Now your world will crumble at the hands of the Agents of Chaos, the others may not even need to attack seeing how far my onslaught has reached. I am ready for existence to be destroyed. I AM READY TO BE CROWNED THE SLAYER OF-"
"SHUT THE FUCK UP." Midori's multiple voices screamed out in frustration.
Diablo turned to the hole in the wall where Warmonger's body laid, out of it, a thick black smoke was coming out and rising to the top of the Demon King's Throne Room. Suddenly, Warmonger burst out of the hole with blinding speeds, the edge of the hole began seeping out molten lava. Was it from the friction caused by Warmonger's speed? No, his Friction Negation Ability nulls all Friction, it was in fact his Omega Incendiary Ability! The same one used when he first activated his Omega Form in the Battle against Gatekeeper.
Warmonger landed in between Tatsumaki and Diablo. Even though he was 14 meters away from her, she still felt like her skin was burning due to the shear intensity of the Incendiary Ability. Diablo punched down on The Hero again, this time Warmonger punched back, Diablo's arm up to half of his shoulder exploded into red mist, when Diablo turned back to Warmonger, he was gone, but the Demon King soon followed the trail of lava to find him.
Warmonger bolts off the roof of the chamber, reeling to blow a planet sized hole in the face of the Demon King, but at the last moment Diablo looked and covered his face from the flaming Warmonger. The Demon King's Hand burned to oblivion, but Warmonger stood on the bridge if the Demon King's Nose, he inhaled and exhaled a thick brownish yellow gas. The Demon King was forced to inhale the gas, and his face scrunched up and he keeled over, unable to move a single muscle.
"Omega Ability: Theta Gas…" Warmonger's multiple voiced choired. "Able to leave enemies paralyzed, no matter their size… rendering them defenseless…"
Warmonger blasted off towards the Demon King. Using his Razor Edge ability, he is about to dissect the Demon King alive, as a sort of cruel torture method for his attack on the Overworld. Midori cut the hamstring of the Demon King, next, the tendons on both of his wrists. The Demon King couldn't even scream in pain, but he felt every slice, he felt his blood pour out of each laceration like waterfalls of agony. Tatsumaki watched from the sidelines at Warmonger's unwarranted treatment of the Demon King, it was cruel. Although she saw Diablo as an Evil being, an Agent of Chaos, she still can't help but feel a bit of sympathy for him.
"Midori…" She said weekly. "Stop…"
Midori didn't heed, neither did he hear what the small Esper said. He kept slicing and dicing, eventually he stopped. He stood up to the face of the still paralyzed Demon King, the demon's big yellow eyes tracked Warmonger as The Hero looked up to him, his white eyes able to cut daggers into people. Midori closed his eyes and let out a sigh. He looked back at the Demon King.
"Do you feel that sick feeling in your stomach, a sense of dread knowing that today may be your final judgement? That is Terror, a feeling you evoked to the people of the Overworld." Warmonger looks at his arm, watching the cyan glow off of it, his Razor Edge. "I told you, that you will suffer the same fate. Now. Diablo, King of the Demons in Hell… How do you plead?"
Diablo tried to mustard all his strength to say something, anything, to make his final words matter, but the Theta Gas, no, Warmonger is preventing him from saying anything.
"Then you are guilty."
With a swift swipe of his arm, nothing happened for the first second or two, but suddenly the entire neck of The Demon King exploded into burning bloody, gushing out like geysers, raining down on Warmonger who stood there as the head of the Demon King detached from his body, killing him.
Tatsumaki didn't even realize that Fubuki woke up, she was just looking at the carnage that Warmonger caused. He huffed a few times before exhaling in a sigh. He turned to the group of heroes.
"You guys alright?" Midori said in a single voice, no more the Embodiment of Destruction Tatsumaki saw him as.
"Yeah, we are alright." Fubuki said, rubbing blood away from her eyes.
Midori walked up to the unconscious Genos, he took off his glove and poked at the Cyborg's bare chest, causing stress electricity to bounce off from the tip oof his finger to the power core of Genos. Suddenly the Blonde Cyborg bolted up like a stiff board, readying a battle stance and looking around.
"Where am I? Where is the Demon King?" He asked, frantically.
Midori, Tatsumaki, and Fubuki pointed at the desecrated corpse of the big red demon, still gushing an unfathomable amount of blood. The Cyborg's face softens, exhaling deeply, he turns to the door of to the Chamber, rubble covering their exit, trapping.
"Now we need to find a new exit, perhaps Warmonger can make us one…" Genos said.
Midori was leaning by the wall of the Throne Room while the other 3 circled around the Diablo's corpse, looking for an exit.
Heart dead. A voice in the back of Midori's head said.
Midori looked around the room, confused as what the voice said.
Devil's Heart, dead, explode… Extinction. The Voice said, much to the greater confusion of Midori.
He looked at Diablo's corpse, he wanted to yell out to the 3 heroes, telling them to get AWAY from the corpse, but nothing came out.
Extinction, explosion. 3…
Midori stepped forward, noticing the back of Diablo was glowing.
2…
"Guys! GET AWA-" Midori screamed out, but it was too late.
1.
Suddenly Diablo's dead body exploded into pink fire, instantly vaporizing Genos and Tatsumaki. This Extinction Blast after Diablo's death is big enough to wipe out all living beings, plants and animals, off the face of earth. Midori watches in slow motion as Fubuki got enveloped in the Extinction Blast, she reached out to Midori, but she is too slow, too far away. Midori watched her face, with fear and terror plastered all over it, the moment the blast touches her skin, it immediately atomizes her, Fubuki's face turning into dust, only leaving her arm exposed.
Midori knew what to do.
"STOP!" He screamed out, as the explosion slowed down to a complete stopped… Fubuki's hand was also suspended in time.
Timeslip: Enabled
Midori began moving his wrist counterclockwise, and he slowly watches as the Extinction Blast began to recede, Fubuki going back to normal, her face frozen but still covered in fear. The Blast completely disappeared back into Diablo's body, returning Genos at Tatsumaki into their original form. Time began moving forward again, and Midori crumpled to the floor in excruciating pain, he used the rest of his seemingly infinite energy to turn back time. Fubuki, Tatsumaki and Genos seemed to be confused and scared, even AFTER Midori turned back time, they still retained the memories of themselves getting atomized.
"What? What happened?" Tatsumaki said, out of breath, and on the edge of a panic attack.
"I saved you…" Midori said, struggling to lay on his side, before noticing something…
Diablo's head was once again reconnected to his body. The 4 weakened heroes couldn't help but watch The Demon King as he got up from the ground, laughing maniacally.
"You absolute fools…" The Demon King bellowed. "When my Heart stops battling, it will explode into a soul stealing explosion after 30 seconds, causing all life in this planet to cease, and replenishing my life source…"
The Demon King loomed over Midori, mockingly.
"You used your remaining energy to turn back time… and now the Great Defender of Earth has fallen from his grace. I win. I WIN! WITNESS AS I BRING THE FINAL JUDGEMENT TO YOUR PLANET-"
Suddenly, the roof of the Throne Room caved in on itself, and from the rubble, one single bald man, cladded with a yellow jumpsuit and red gloves bared down on the Demon King.
"Killer Move, Serious Series…" Saitama said. "SERIOUS PUNCH"
The Bald Hero lets out a WALLOP of Biblical Proportions to The Demon King, it completely shattered the Skull of the Demon King, sending a shockwave downward, which caused dust, rocks, and debris to fly up to the roof of the Chamber. The Punch didn't even kill the Demon King immediately, but Diablos was good as dead.
"S- Saitama!" Midori said in weak shock, struggling to even sit up. "Did you kill Behemoth?"
Saitama turned, with his habitually bored expression. "Hmm? Oh, no. But I did punch it down to atoms, now it's trying to put itself together. I came down here because I saw time rewind itself, so I got a bit worried…"
Diablo groaned in pain, with a massive hole on the side of his dome, he is bleeding, and his healing can't keep up.
"If only… He wasn't here…" Diablo wheezed out.
"Yes, Master is the most powerful being in the universe. Even if you had taken us out at our full strength, Master will be there to stop yo-" Genos said before being interrupted.
"Not… him…" Diablo weakly raised his finger to point at Midori, who is leaning on Fubuki's shoulder for support. "You really go around… killing your own kind? Midori?"
"I am NOT a Demon…" Midori said in defense, absolutely insulted that Diablo called, or even compared him to a Demon…
"No…" The Demon King coughed a few times while chuckling. "You are something, much… much worse…"
The Demon King lifted his arm up and stabbed himself in the chest, impaling his heard, killing himself almost instantly. Midori, Genos, Tatsumaki, and Fubuki screamed out as Diablo did it, knowing what comes next. Midori hunched over on the floor, weakly punching the floor a few times in hopeless desperation.
"Saitama…" Midori said, his voice low, knowing all hope was lost. "When his heart stops beating, it will explode… killing all lifeforms on this planet… And I can't do another damn Timeslip…"
"15 seconds…"
Saitama thought quickly, he grabs the foot of the corpse of the Demon King, and squatted down, before looking up at the hole he made earlier when he came down to punch Diablo.
"Super Move Serious Series…"Saitama said quickly. "SERIOUS JUMP."
Saitama jumped up, holding the body of Diablos, blasting through earth and concrete, straight into the stratosphere. Midori and the rest of the heroes looked up in awe, tears rolling down his face.
"SAITAMA!" He screamed out.
Saitama was now in space with the corpse of the Demon King. He held his breath as he began to spin around in the endless void, building up enough momentum, and throwing him to another planet, where the Extinction Blast still occurs. But this time, there was no lifeforms whose essence were absorbed, no… Nothing was able to revive Diablo, The Demon King, anymore…
The Demon King is Dead… Long live the King.
Around the world, Demons began to fade away into dust, the day is saved. Saitama landed back to earth, with a thunderous slam, causing a massive crater in the Wasteland that was once City W. He helped the 4 other trapped heroes get out of Hell, and they were serenaded in deafening applause when they got back to Superhero HQ.
For being behind enemy lines during the entire invasion, and for being the perpetrators for the Vanquishing of Diablo, each hero was awarded.
Saitama jumped from Class A, Rank 39, all the way to Rank 30.
Fubuki went opted to remain in Class B, although she could've made Class A, Rank 15 easily.
Genos went from Class S, Rank 17, to Rank 10
Tatsumaki stayed as Class S Rank 2, although this graduation made it abundantly clear that she is extremely close to Blast to becoming the #1 Hero in the entire Association.
And finally, Midori. The Man who received a majority of the Credit, from not only the Association, but the 4 other Heroes who were with them, even though he claimed that Saitama put the final nail on the coffin of The Demon King, but it was ignored. For his actions, he went from Rank 17, to 5 immediately approved by Amai Mask and everything. This promotion didn't seem to faze Midori really, but one thing did.
As the sun began to set on City W, Midori looked at the ruins of his old Apartment that Behemoth smashed with the massive Boulder it produced. He found a partially bent steel chair, and placed it in the middle of the rubble, where his apartment once sat in. He closed his eyes and sighed, with only one thing running though his mind…
"If I am a creature so horrible, that Diablo himself that I was far worse than him… Then what am I?"
What am I?
End of Season 1.
Thank you for reading… Season 2 coming soon. ;)
Makobro