Nars: Long chapter incoming. Gonna wrap up this arc by the next chapter.
Word Count: 941
Disclaimer: All publicly recognizable characters, settings, etc. are the property of their respective owners—Rumiko Takahashi and One.
"—ere are twelve minutes until the meteor strikes Z-City! The threat level is Dragon—!"
The roads were completely jammed. All hope of leaving the city before the meteor hit was dashed. Kagome's ears were ringing with the sounds of cars honking left and right, desperate to get out but to no avail. The occupants of the van seemed to share the same sentiment, considering how nobody spoke and a sullen silence hung in the air.
Kagome angled her head towards the line of skyscrapers behind her. She wondered if Genos was putting up any sort of fight at all, or if he'd already escaped. Surely based on his speed earlier he could make it out in five minutes tops. All of this left a bitter taste in her mouth. It felt like the most destruction in her life had only happened after meeting Genos and Saitama. Trouble just seemed to follow, didn't it?
"There's no use!" She heard someone cry from outside, "We're trapped."
Kagome turned back to her little brother and found that he was watching a screen intently, and there were large missiles shooting from one end of the screen to the other, connecting with... the meteor. "Is that a live feed?" She asked.
"Yeah, it's Metal Knight!" said Souta cheerily, "He's going to save us!"
So another hero had shown up. Kagome frowned as thick, billowing smoke filled the air on screen and then glanced at the window where a similar scene was taking place. "Did it work...?" She asked, a tiny semblance of hope rising to her chest.
The smoke cleared. The meteor continued to hurtle towards the city.
She sighed in sync with her little brother and then frowned as a very familiar figure appeared on the screen. "Genos." She whispered.
He had his hand outstretched, a heavy machinery covering the entirety of his arm and all at once—A thick blast of light shot out of his palm, headed straight for the meteor. The feed crackled and died, replaced by static.
What was happening out there...?
"Oh, my." said her mother, "What is that?"
The same pillar of light met the meteor, appeared to suspend it in air for a moment and then abruptly fizzled out and died. Kagome's heart stopped in her chest. She immediately began to fear for the worse in regards to Genos and without realizing what she was doing, had wrestled her seatbelt off and clambered out of the van.
"Kagome, where are you going?!" asked her grandfather, mouth agape.
It occurred to her that if that damn meteor was going to meet one way or another, what good would it do to sit around in a van? She was dead either way, and she much rather wanted to check on the cyborg before... it hit. "I love you guys." She said sincerely and then took off in the direction the light-cannon had shot from.
If this was her last moment alive, she wanted it to be spent acting instead of cowering. Kagome weaved in between stalled vehicles and took off in a run, following the wreckage of Z-City as a guideline. She climbed the stairs to a rickety old building and ambled her way to the roof to get a better view of what was going on. Cars were overturned, the once busy shopping square looked like a ghost town but the piercing voice of the evacuation message lady continued to drone on and on.
"—evel is Dragon! This is an emergency evacuation notice! There are three minutes until the meteor stri—!"
The final countdown was on. She never imagined she'd be facing death in the form of a meteor. Death by something down in the feudal era seemed more appropriate, considering how many times she came close to actually dying.
In the distance, Kagome spotted a yellow and red blur reaching the meteor. It didn't look much like Genos, nor that Metal Knight guy Souta had mentioned. In fact, it actually looked a lot like—"Saitama..."
Then, the meteor exploded.
In her head, the pieces began to fit together. He could destroy anything with a single punch, that wasn't limited to sentient beings. The tremendous strength that had gone into that punch could only belong to Saitama. "Holy shit."
Kagome felt the sudden urge to celebrate or laugh or something, but then the demolished parts of the meteor began to rain down on them. One way or another, this city was going to get wrecked. She dove into a building that had held up quite nicely and winced as the remnants of the meteor began to meet the ground one after the next, sending the remains of abandoned cars into dust and murdering the asphalt and turning them into craters.
At least they weren't dead.
The sounds of meteor meeting the ground fizzled out after a few minutes. When the coast was clear, she stepped back out and squinted up at the sky.
Somehow... they had survived all this and it was all thanks to Saitama. She wondered if people even realized that or if he was still as unknown as he said he was.
Kagome scurried back up to the roof of a building and waved furiously at the van her family had been piled into. She could see Souta open the door and wave back, shouting something about the heroes saving the day.
She turned her attention back to the area she'd thought Genos was located and felt her heart palpitate when she could finally see him and God... He looked awful.
Kagome bit her lip, called his name, and then took off running towards him again.
Nars: Wow a chapter with substance, yay. Review, please :^)