Follow Me
Chapter 8 : Tales of Saitama : Raindrops of Terror
(Note the fiction has now been turned M rating.)
The shaking Esper held her stomach as she tried to balance herself in one arm. Gritting her teeth, she gazed over at the wooden chair infront of the gigantic bubble she's trapped in, only to find no one. She lifted herself up as she tried to flick her arm with her power, but to no avail. Electric bolts shoots their way into the esper's body until she fell down again, agonizing from the pain that currently struck her. As the lights turned on outside her chamber, a tall man approached it menacingly, smirking.
"Haha, nice try. You're only hurting yourself." McCoy laughed in a way of horror.
"I'LL KILL YOU!" Tatsumaki yelled as she punched the floor with all her strength. Blood coming out of her hands as she tried to ease the pain.
"Oh yeah? By the way, this isn't entirely my fault. A spy who wanted to infiltrate us called you, right?" McCoy asked, smirking horrifyingly.
"How did you know!?" The esper shouted as she tried sitting down.
"Oh, I caught it all in the CCTV. I watched your every move." McCoy stood up from his seat, revealing a small remote control. As Tatsumaki watched his approaching shadow, McCoy unveiled the small device.
"This remote control is the one who controls the chamber. If you're really something, use your telekinesis and control it!" McCoy exclaimed, giving a large quantity of taunts. The Esper looked at him with glowing eyes, extremely looking down at his soul with a glare that can destroy many happy faces at once. A trickle of sweat ran down in McCoy's face.
"Once I get out of this pathetic little glass cage of yours, I'm gonna put your head into a fence and burn it with my powers." Tatsumaki stood up from the ground as she slowly approached McCoy.
"I fucking swear I will get the hell out of here and torture you like the stupid CRAP you are." The esper paused, glaring with all her might at the being in front of her.
"I'll make sure you have a nice place on the graveyard if they ever find your ashes." Tatsumaki said with a terrifying look on her face as she punched the barrier of the glass, only to cause electric bolts coming out and to hit her in every direction. The esper gave a loud yelp as she fell on the ground.
"I'll make sure YOU PAY." With that said, Tatsumaki turned into the other direction as she laid her head on the ground softly.
"Ha! I like your style for intimidation!" McCoy laughed as he headed out of the chamber. The esper tried to resist the pain but to no avail as her eyes faded from reality.
"Hey! You know that plan wouldn't work!" Young Tatsumaki shouted as she knuckled the head of Saitama.
"Alright! alright, Fine. How about we... FLY INTO SPACE!" Young Saitama exclaimed with joy, until she got knuckled again by a pair of hands.
"Stop playing already! Take this seriously because I only have 3 days until I will be transferred into another place!" The young esper stated on a serious tone while crossing her arms.
"Ow! Okay, okay, geesh. I can't really think of anything to do this... I don't know such things!" The boy shouted as he noticed the despair on the esper's eyes.
"Hey, look, look. I will make a plan, alright? So please don't cry..." Saitama spoke as his hands were flicked back by a set of arms.
"I'M NOT CRYING!" Tatsumaki yelled.
"Oh, it seemed you were. Anyways, any ideas?" Young Saitama asked, pinching his nose with a finger.
"Yeah, and it just seems it might work..." The esper said while she mimicked Saitama to follow her.
"Tell me!" The excited Saitama asked, his eyes filled with confidence.
"Well, first of all... Mother goes here before Twelve O' clock, that's when she brings food. On Fridays, she brings the food before twelve since the personnel in this Laboratory disinfects the entire area. They'll do that weekly. So in order for you to get me out of here, not that I'd not help, you must stay here and spend the night on Thursday... Are you allowed anyways?" Tatsumaki explained, as she saw the distinctive figure of Saitama twitching his head of confusion.
"HEY! ARE YOU LISTENING TO ME!?" The esper yelled, forcing Saitama to be back in his self again.
"Wa-h!? OH! Yeah, I'm free on Thursday. But where will I sleep!?" The Young Saitama asked as he shifted his head, confused.
"Uhmm... Hmm... You can sleep in my temporary bed outside of the Lab. There should be a small door outside, I lived there for a short time until they turned me in and did the experiments..." Young Tatsumaki spoke, seeing Saitama confused again.
"Is it really okay for me to use your bed?" Saitama asked.
"Uhh, Yeah! You can use my bed, I actually left many toys there. You can play with them..." Tatsumaki replied as her cheeks glowed a red hue.
"Okay! By the way... what kind of experiments did those people do to you? And what's an experiment?" Saitama asked out of curiousity.
"Dude, an experiment is like a test. They test you and stuff..." The esper spoke in a clear manner, crossing her arms.
"So what kind of experiments did they do to you?" Saitama asked.
"They tested antibiotics on me, seeing that would delete my power and all, but didn't work. Every night I would dream of weird things as the antibiotic's effects had gone out on me. I had insomnia for days... I couldn't sleep well alone. I was alone for a long time, A very long time. And now that you're here, you're literally my first ever friend." Tatsumaki explained, placing an arm over her cheek.
"That's bad... huh?" Saitama spoke.
"Of course it is! Why do you think I'm like this now!?" The esper exclaimed.
"What?" Young Saitama asked.
"Nothing..." Tatsumaki replied.
"Hey! Why did you even choose me for this job?" Saitama asked again.
"Because you're the only ONE here that doesn't work for THEM!" The esper replied with a funny yet mesmerizing face.
"Okay, okay. We'll just see on Thursday if this plan of yours will work... I gotta head out since I think it's already late.." Young Saitama paced outside of the lab.
"Bye!" Saitama exclaimed with a smile, waving his hands off the esper.
"See you soon!" Tatsumaki replied, giving off a smile on her face. "I hope this'll work..." She hoped as she paced back inside her cage. Fiddling with her hair.
Saitama arrived with a backpack in the asylum as he carefully tip-toed into the corridors, not wanting to wake the guards up. The sunset rose its rays over the glasses of the Laboratory as it reflected outside. Personnel were going out one by one as they were going in their homes. Now it is only the two guards left.
"Gotta take this slowly..." Young Saitama thought as he used his smallness for his advantage. He then went inside in a small compartment heading for the elevator, in which he did, but it made a sound...
"Wa-h!" The sound startled the guard as he quickly regained composure of his surroundings.
"What is it?" The other guard asked.
"I heard some strange noise..." The first guard replied.
"Let's see if the subject has gone out." The other guard spoke, carefully wearing a green vest with a flashlight.
As Saitama went down unto the levels of the Laboratory underground, he saw Tatsumaki's floating figure inside the tube. He ran in her direction and quickly regained his breath.
"What's wrong?" The esper asked.
"The guards, *huff*, they were after me *huff, I think the elevator made that sound that woke them up..." Saitama spoke in a really exhausted manner. His theory was later confirmed when the elevator turned on again.
"Uh-oh... Quickly, hide!" Tatsumaki whispered as she mimicked Saitama to hide behind the tube. The elevator moved down again, revealing two tall guards. The esper closed her eyes as she pretended to be asleep.
"Oh, the subject is asleep." The first guard spoke.
"Ha, atleast we can take pictures of it sleeping..." The other one said in a perverted manner.
"Seriously, we don't get paid for that bullshit." The first one explained.
"Fine, whatever. Let's go back." The other guard said as they went inside the elevator again. Tatsumaki then unveiled her eyes.
"Those jerks..." The esper stated as she glared at the two shadows as they moved up.
"What?" Saitama asked, pacing in front of the control pads.
"Nothing..." Tatsumaki spoke as her cheeks turned red.
"What's with all this nothingness?" Young Saitama asked as he pressed the red button to open the tube.
"Forget about it. So, you have like pillows or something?" The esper asked, exiting the tube.
"Nope.. You didn't say anything about pillows..." Saitama replied.
"Ugh.. Never mind. There's some pillows in there... It's just I don't want you to use it..." Tatsumaki spoke, a great quantity of tomatoes rose over her cheeks.
"Why're you blushing?" Saitama asked.
"What's with all these questions!? Alright, listen, you go sleep there. I'll wake you up in the morning as early as I can. I'd rather not miss the chance to see the guards wake up in the morning so we'll get out early." The esper explained.
"Oh, okay. You'll be fine being alone here?" Young Saitama asked as he was about to go out.
"YES! Of course I will be fine. Now GO!" Tatsumaki replied.
Saitama went out of her quarters, turning around in the other direction to find the abandoned room. It's his first time using someone's bed rather than his. Is it too weird? Not really, thought Saitama. As he found the small compartment room. He rotated the doorknob, only to find it locked.
"Darn!" Saitama thought, stepping into a thick gray rag with the T symbol in it.
"Hmm, this might work as it does in the movies but..." He flipped the rag to reveal a key.
"Gotcha!" He then picked up the key and opened the door with it. Much to his surprise, the room was actually clean. He turned on the lights to see a small bed with boxes of toys in them. He placed his bag on the floor and proceeded to flop down in the bed. Investigating its softness, he flopped his head in it.
"Weird." He thought as he stared in the ceiling, seeing glow in the dark stars in it. He flipped his head, sniffing the covers.
"Smells like cheese... only much more... powerful?" He thought as he felt loneliness devour him.
"This is too boring without someone..." He stood up from the bed, getting his backpack.
"Good thing I brought food!" He opened his backpack to reveal a plastic microwave container with little udon in it.
"Awww, I forgot I ate most of it..." He placed his backpack on the ground again. Frustrated, he picked up the pillow and turned off the lights. Proceeding to Tatsumaki's quarters. He saw the young esper on the soft ground, her head on her other arm, touching the glass of her tube. It seems she closed it again.
"Why did she close it? Doesn't she want to go outside?" Saitama thought as he placed the pillow over the tube, laying his head over to that of Tatsumaki's. Their heads touching milimeters apart as the glass.
The sunlight reflected from the glass as it hit Saitama's eyes. Standing up from the flash, his other eye was as red as an apple. Saitama avoided the light and turned to the other direction. Realizing it's already half-morning, Saitama stared at the face of the esper. Weird thoughts filling him up as he stared at her with awe.
"She's... beautiful..." Saitama thought. Standing up from his place, he approached the red button to open the tube. He then approached the sleeping esper where he sat down besides her head.
"I wonder what shampoo she's using..." He thought as he placed his hands over her hair, mesmerizing it for a short time until he broke down besides her.
"You know, you're really a weird person. Just to let that out, yes, that's true. Though I don't know what I'm doing... I don't know how to put it, but since the first day I saw you, I had a headache for so long... I don't know why or how, but I think you purposely did that with your powers. Or is it just me?" The boy thought, fiddling with her hair.
"Even your dress thing is weird. I don't know why, but if that's the way you're living right now... I will free you from your prison. I don't want other kids experiencing that... I don't even know why I'm talking to myself." Saitama thought. As the background around him change, he saw the sleeping figure of the young esper floating in the void, as he floated in it too.
"Wait, WHA-" Then goes everything.
The void turned into a static around him, as the esper fell in the infinite void below him, he tried to fly himself down, but to no avail. The background changed many times, including than that of his memories, the time where he was born, when he met Tatsumaki, when he started to go to school, when he mourned over her corrupted image, when he desperately tried to find jobs, when he defeated Crablante and saved that kid, when he started his regimen, and when he introduced himself to Genos and went inside the Hero's Association. It all flashed before him, as his body turned to the adult version of him, his hair turning into air. It was all weird.
"Focus your mind!" A feminine voice yelled.
"Huh?! Where am I!?" Saitama yelled as he regained composure of his surroundings. He noticed he was strapped in a chair with a ball of steel, presumably a tesla coil.
"STOP GOING INTO REALITY! FOCUS!" The girl before him zapped his hands as he agonized with pain over his head. It all came flying back again.
*gasp*
Young Saitama gasped as he looked over his surroundings again, only to be back in the laboratory, where the sleeping esper was sleeping peacefully. Her breath brainwashed him from overthinking what just happened. He placed a hand over his forehead to see if he's dreaming. Nope, not a dream. But that was truly weird.
"It's morning already, I've got to wake her up if we want to get out now..." He thought, slightly shaking the esper in hope of waking her up.
"Mm-what?" Tatsumaki replied softly, turning around if she's still sleeping.
"Dude, it's already morning. Wake up!" Young Saitama said.
"Five more minutes, Mom!" The esper spoke loudly.
"Tatsumaki! It's already morning!" Saitama yelled, forcing the esper out of her slumber.
"Oh, uhh, sorry about that. Guess I slept late last night." Tatsumaki stated as she sat down besides Saitama.
"What do you mean? I didn't even try to sleep yesterday since I was getting lonely. I had only been in the room for five minutes, and when I got here, you were sleeping!" Saitama explained.
"I don't know what you're talking about, after I told you to go to sleep, I was still up for like hours!" Tatsumaki replied.
"Well, it doesn't matter. The next step of the plan. What is it? You didn't tell me the next step!" Young Saitama exclaimed.
"Oh, well, we should go outside and escape if the guards are sleeping..." The esper explained, mimicking Saitama to follow her.
"Okay!" Saitama exclaimed. As the two were about to go to the top, the elevator turned on again, prompting Saitama to hide behind the tube and Tatsumaki going back inside it. The elevator opened up to reveal two guards with a tesla rod and handcuffs.
"Subject Number 24. You will be transferred into Australia for Project Stable Power of your Telekinesis. Please do not fight or we'll be forced to use Tesla Technology to prevent you." The first guard said in a robotic voice with a hazmat suit.
"ARE YOU KIDDING ME!? WHY SO EARLY!?" Tatsumaki yelled as her eyes glowed a bright yellow.
"Your mother has ordered us. You will be transferred in another country for reconditioning." The second guard spoke.
"Alright then. I'll go. But first..." The esper paused, her body slowly glowing into a brighter yellow.
"CATCH ME IF YOU CAN!" Tatsumaki then used her telekinesis and launched herself in the air, breaking the tube structure, causing the ground to crack tremendously. Saitama on the other hand, paced quickly back in forth in order to avoid being seen.
"CATCH HER!" The other guard used his Tesla rod, placing a launcher atop of it. The guard fired the device, causing a ball of lightning to launch at fast speeds.
"Not this time!" The esper flicked her hands in the direction of the ball, desperately trying to stop it with her telekinesis. To no avail, the ball turned into an electric web and caught the esper, causing her to be electrified and falling down to the laboratory.
"Tatsumaki!" Saitama yelled as he quickly ran to her aid, desperately trying to break the web, but it electrified him too.
"Hey kid! Get out of here!" The first guard shouted, knocking Saitama on the forehead with a large metallic Tesla rod. This pierced unto Saitama's skull, causing it to spill large quantities of blood.
"We should leave him be, he's not a part of this. This place will be abandoned once she will be transferred anyways." The first guard spoke as he carried the web into a small cage, to place Tatsumaki inside it. The two guards headed out of the elevator, just as they were about to click the elevator, the young Saitama stood up from his ground, blood trickling over his head.
"I'M NOT DONE YET!" Saitama yelled, running as fast as he can to catch up with the elevator, but as soon as he reached it, one of the guards punched the kid back, causing him to tumble.
"Stop messing with us kid!" The other guard said as the elevator moved up. A tear trickled in Saitama's face as he tried to regain composure. All he can see is a blur.
"I-ve... got to... s-save her!" Young Saitama stood up again from the ground, finding a way to get out the easy way. The windows around the laboratory was open, he took this as a chance of climbing out of the tall electric pole, he carefully slid under the pole, not wanting to touch the wires. He then went around the building to find a large fence blocking his path.
"This won-t stop me!" He yelled as he slowly jumped up and down from the boxes, climbing up the fence. He then saw the two guards placing the cage inside an armored truck.
"STOP!" He ran as the guards went inside and closed the doors of the truck. Saitama punched the doors of the metallic truck only to find blood coming out of his hands. He mourned over the pain, trying his other hand to punch it, in the hope of breaking it and rescuing Tatsumaki.
"PLEASE STOP!" He banged his head in the truck, only to find blood dripping more. As the engines of the truck turned on, he placed his head over it as it drove slowly, causing his head to fall over the ground. His shirt was covered by his own blood as he looked at the clouds before him turning darker and darker until it dropped water everywhere.
"I couldn't..." Saitama thought, lifting his hands over his face. Raindrops dropping over his head.
"Why..."
Tears trickled in his face, he was just a kid after all. It's impossible for a 6-year old kid to free a 9-year old girl. Who would have thought of the idea? Atleast that girl had believed in him, little by little, he swiped his face with his hands, still trickling with blood. He placed both of his hands in his face, mourning that he couldn't save her.
After many weeks and many months, even years, has passed. He couldn't forget her, he couldn't. He tried remembering her face, but no. That wasn't right. He denied everything, thinking of her. He denied everything he thought about her. How she looked like, how tall is she, what's her attitude. No, it wasn't all right. One thing's for sure, he still remembered her hair. The green weird hair she had. Her eyes matched it perfectly.
He had a crush on her.
Hi Dudes! I guess this is payback for those lazy chapters I wrote on a small basis. Yes, this is a 3k word chapter. I hope it's enough to give you an insight of the flashback. I am really hoping you get the "idea" here. :3
About " Tatsumaki's Day Off "
It's really cool since it gave us a detail of what Tatsumaki is doing when she's in a day off. Not to mention that awesome sleeping coat. Toothbrushes too! :3 (too much cat faces)
Read it at Mangatowncom, the newest chapter of OPM! :)
Anyways, Chapter 9 will be out soon! A really long chapter with flashbacks around Saitama's school past and what did he do after this incident.
Till then!
~Cry
MikuHatsune : I hope you would update soon
Can't wait to find out whether Saitama frees her or not.
ArmantusCumPinnae : DAAAARRRRGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH I THOUGH DA FIGHT WAS GONNA BE INTENSE! DAMMM UUU AUTHOUR FOR TROLLIN ME! although im quite surprised u made da childhood back story of tatsumaki and saitama? lemme guess... big fight, saves tatsumaki, remebers memories of past, get togher and all dat happy mumbojumbo? along those lines problably... well im not one to judge but ima liking dis.. also i love how you mangae to squeeze in the sub chars who didnt get much screen time... although im surprised by the choice of tank top vegetarian... i had assume the tank top army might have a grugde wit im... but nice thouch with mustache and golden ball... i look forwrd for the next chap...
CallMeZoom : KAWAIIIIIII need... MOREE!
AnimeWatcher : So we're taking a short break in the story to establish AU in Saitama's childhood. I'll have to wait until you finished the Tales of Saitama arc to see what good it does for the story in total.
Armin its a ThugLife : Backstory time! nice this add some depht on the characters keep good work.
The Keeper of Worlds : Wow, irony is blooming on old memories:)
Lightningblade49 : Another good one looks like he made more friends and believers in his power. I am liking the story Saitama is telling but I kind really want him to mention him saving that kid from the Crab dude, that will really get there heads spinning. If he then told of half crap he's one shotted the expressions on there face will be very good. Although him knowing Tatsumaki when younger will probably produce some good facials expressions anyway.
FatherPHD : Well he at least has some hair at this age :P