I don't own own One Punch Man. It is owned by ONE and Yusuke Murata.
This is just my attempt at a novelization of the latest chapter of One Punch Man!Please pardon for the mistakes that I may make in the middle of the writing!
Enjoy!
He can hear it. He can sense it. The motion that the bald man's body made, how his expression looked, it was akin to how an enraged man would act. He was..he was acting out of impulse!
"This is bad!" Blast exclaimed, his hand stretched to the front, his body trembles slightly, "The earth will be shattered!" He finished as he quickly clashed both of his fists into each other, causing a circle symbol to appear at the back side of his knuckle.
A stream of energy circulated around the area where they stood, as it promptly teleported the three of them into the stratosphere of the planet.
"Gah!?" Blast grunted, his body violently hurling backwards at the mere shockwave of the exerted energy by the two combatants.
"The gate can't handle that much energy!" Blast spoke, "I can't give it enough distance!"
Blast lifted both of his arms once again, clenching it tightly to at least try to redirect the destructive energy away, "No matter what, I've got to somehow manage to redirect the vector of the destructive energy away from the earth!"
"Don't underestimate earth." A new voice came from behind, revealing the silhouette of one of his teammates.
"To think that another hero besides you can hold his own against one imbued with so much divine power.." Another two came from his right side, "Just who is he?" An elf woman asked, intrigued.
"You guys!" Blast widened his eyes in delight, relieved slightly that his teammates came to his aid.
"We'll lend you a hand." The three of them said as they stretched their hands collectively to the front, trying as much as possible to convert the shockwave into an energy that can be redirected away from earth.
As the shockwave compressed into one, gigantic sphere, in a matter of second, a violent burst of energy spread itself towards the outer layer of the solar system, into the space beyond, causing trillions upon trillions of stars to meet their collective demise.
A straight, smaller line hurled itself away from the burst of energy, flying thousands of times faster than the speed of light.
"What happened to those two?"
"Were they knocked away?"
"With that kind of energy, who knows how far they could've flown off from the recoil..."
Garou felt himself crashing to the ground of an unknown celestial body. As he shook his head to get the dirt off his sight, his vision cleared, revealing the massive form of Jupiter in the rearview, hovering with it's great red spot, as if an eye was observing him.
Wait, Jupiter?! Impossible.
Another figure emerged out of the tallest ground at the area. The baldy himself, of course. He looked down on him, standing over the high mountain with his fists clenched.
Dammit. To think he, the ultimate martial artist, couldn't even put a dent on that piece of shit, even after copying and refining his full power...
"Where are we?" Saitama asked, looking around him, a shadow looming over a half of his face, "What the hell happened? I'm getting a feeling of deja vu here.."
Saitama's pupils moved, his eyesight catching the frame of Garou standing beneath the lower ground, "Ah well..at least I can let loose at full power, against a guy that can stay up."
Garou kept his gaze locked onto the baldy, expressing both awe and shock, He's unfazed? Even after all that? Is he even human?
Saitama stared profoundly at the opponent before him, as his eyes began to gradually close.
I may have gotten what I wished for, but I'm not feeling any exhilaration in the slightest..
Saitama tried to slip in the core into his suit, but figured that the core would just fall out if his suit got messed up by the fight inevitably.
He wouldn't want Genos's chance of survival to get diminished once again just because of his foolishness, would he? He treated the kid so wrong, made him out to be some kind of nuisance for all the entirety of their time together..
"I better keep a tight grip on it." Saitama said to himself.
"Baldy," Garou cut off his train of thoughts, "Know what? Pretty sure we're in one of Jupiter's moon. I got no idea what kind of mumbo jumbo landed us here, but we've got to think of a way back-"
"Shut the fuck up." Saitama cut him off, "That can come after I beat the shit out of you." He said with a hint of overwhelming rage, "Bring it on. One hand is all I need for you."
The nerve...
The nerve of this baldy...
Garou stared at his opponent for a while, humming as he did, "Is that so?"
"Later then." Garou pointed his finger at the ground from which the bald hero stood.
Saitama, with a deadpan stare, simply kicked the hyperspace gate away.
"Eh..." Garou uttered in complete bewilderment. How-?
In an instant, Saitama appeared before him, launching his fist forward, as it collided with his left cheek, sending him catapulting into the air, reaching the escape velocity needed to escape the gravity of the moon.
Garou simply casted a portal in front of him, preparing his clenched fist. As he entered the hyperspace gate, he subsequently pushed his fist forward towards Saitama, who was seemingly looked as if he was in a vulnerable state. Maybe if he can get a lucky shot, he can send the baldy away from the moon, and that makes him-
Wait, what?
Garou noticed that the hyperspace gate was moving on itself. Before he could make out what just happened, a fist clashed against his face, sending him crashing into the ground, forming a small crater below him.
"Drop it with the tricks, your fists are enough, is it not? I don't see anything remarkable with this 'Ultimate Martial Arts' that you kept on prattling about." Saitama remarked cockily.
"He grabbed the hyperspace gate?" Garou asked in a whisper.
"Oh, tricks? I have absorbed every form of martial arts and techniques from countless schools, fighting using every single one of these in synergy.." Garou boasted, letting his pride get the better of him, as he made a circle motion around him with both of his hands, a stream of energy following them in sync neatly, "That is my fist!"
Garou darted back and forth using his hyperspace gates. This was done in order to confuse Saitama, to destroy his perception of the battle.
"ROARING AURA SKY RIPPING," Garou pummeled the bald hero with a barrage of fists, "WATER STREAM ROCK SMASHING," Garou pulled both of his fists back, a stream of energy following his arms like a river.
Saitama, neglecting the force of the relentless attacks with his insane durability alone, threw another punch at Garou, to which he responded by deflecting it with ease, before thrusting his right arm to strike the bald hero once again, flinging him away, "EXPLODING HEART RELEASE, WHIRLWIND IRON CUTTING!"
Garou leaped forward from the ground, drawing the cosmic power stored inside him all the way to his left arm, clenching his hand into a tightened fist, before thrusting it forward, "NUCLEAR FISSION, GRAVITY KNUCKLE!"
An eruption of violent radiation spread across the moon, causing a hyperspace gate to form in the middle of it to absorb all of the remaining smoke produced by the explosive power afterwards.
"I can let loose a barrage of ever-changing attacks from all directions. With my fists, timing is irrelevant. They are completely unavoidable." Garou said.
A voice came out from a distant, "Even I can do something like that."
Saitama, with his clothes disintegrated, crouched, putting four of his fingers into the ground. He pushed them forward, penetrating the celestial floor with ease, before locking his grip into it, causing a crack to form beneath it.
"Killer Move, Serious Series."
Saitama raised his right hand along with the rubbles, the mere force of his arm alone caused a large portion of the landscape to be flunged upwards, "SERIOUS TABLE FLIP!"
Garou took a step back. For a split second, he contemplated his decision to fight this monster. But it was too late. He was forcibly pushed away by the massive landscape rumbling onto him.
"SHIT!" Garou cursed, "Can't even tell which way's up!"
Garou made an arm motion in the air, preventing himself from bouncing between each rubbles even further...
But as soon as he did that..
Multiple blurs bounced itself around him, and he couldn't even see a visible frame of the person he's fighting.
"Killer Move, Serious Series."
Afterimages of the bald man closed their distance, their fists pulled back collectively, "OMNI-DIRECTIONAL SERIOUS PUNCH!"
"Afterimages?" Garou uttered, as he formed another hyperspace gate to escape from the almost unavoidable attacks.
But to his dismay..
Saitama was already below him, emerging out of the portal he formed, thrusting his fist forward.
Bouncing back and forth around the devastated form of the moon, his movements alone created a constellation of straight lines.
The vacuum of space alone terrified him more than anything. The fact that if he does a single blunder, he will be stuck in a never-ending case of inertia.
"Focus for a moment!" Garou stopped himself from bouncing around by making a motion in the air with his arms, "He's only flaunting his insane physical strength and darting back and forth between the rocks...if I can just reach the top, he won't be able to move as he pleases..."
He formed another portal in front of him, scurrying straight towards it, but things didn't go as planned.
His head struck something below. Wait...
"T- the surface?!"
It must've been intentional. The guy messed up his sense of direction. It couldn't have been a fluke, seeing how he was so sure to do what he did but multiplied by ten times.
It felt as if he was a bug in a cage, and Saitama was the unruly kid playing it around and shaking it.
"DAMMIT!"
He tried to reach the top again, but Saitama was already in front of him, striking him square in the face.
Feeling the reeling pain spreading across his cheeks, his face slowly morphed into someone else's, "He's too strong! Limitlessly strong, even! If that's the case...then I'll just need to copy him limitlessly until I gain the upper hand!"
Garou used an airborne rock to propel himself towards Saitama. Like an unrelenting bullet, his fist walloped the hero in the cheeks, while the same happened to Garou.
