Running.
That was all that they could do. That was all they've been doing for as long as they can remember. Running to get away from them. Running to try and hide from those who cursed them, hurt them, despised them. But it didn't matter how far they'd run, or how long they ran. They couldn't escape. She couldn't escape. She chanced a glance behind her, only to turn forward and pump her legs harder in her effort to escape.
"Leave me alone!" she cried out desperately as she ran despite her body having reached it's limit a long time ago. "Somebody! Anybody! Help me!"
"Help you?"
Without warning, something lashed out and wrapped around her ankle. She yelped as she fell onto her face, the pain not even registering as she felt herself being pulled back.
"Why would anyone want to help someone like you? What makes you think you deserve any help?"
She struggled to break free, but the grip on her ankle redoubled, along with another on her other ankle, before dragging her backwards.
"How long will you struggle? Why do you even struggle? Hoping daddy dearest will save you?"
The being forced her onto her back, letting her view the monstrosity that had ensnared her. Her blood ran cold at the sight of the massive creature before her. It's body? Large enough to cover the horizon. It's shape? Just a giant blob of black that seemed to ooze darkness. And it's body? Every inch of it composed of millions of individual forms, each one writhing and reaching outwards towards her. Hands, claws, tentacles, and many other appendages were snapping in her direction, each one connected to a pair of hate-filled eyes.
"It's no use this time! He won't come this time to save you! Not now! Not ever again!"
She screamed when the creature finally pulled her in far enough that the other creatures began to grab at her legs and helped pull her in.
"HELP! PLEASE! SOMEONE! MOMMY! DADDY!"
The creature laughed at her, revelling in her screams of terror as clawed at the ground to get away. It's laughter intensified as the poor girl found herself up to her shoulders in darkness, her descent into it's body slowing to a painstakingly slow crawl. The creature leaned it's head down to come face-to-face with her, it's sadistic grin widening in with each tear that flowed from her.
"Face the facts! Nobody cares for you!"
The inky blackness crawled up her neck...
"Not your home that rejected you!"
...covered her trembling lips...
"Nor your crew!"
...sliding up her face until all but her eye was covered...
"Not even your father that chased a prophecy for the ultimate fight!"
...before it finally swallowed her vision in darkness.
"No one cares for you, Eyonae!"
Eyonae's eye snapped open as she jolted upright in her bed, her body covered in a cold sweat as she tried to get her breathing under control. Her head swiveled rapidly as she tried to remember where she was. When she realized she was in her room aboard the ship, she sighed before falling back onto her bed...then began to sob. She cried her eye out as she wailed and screamed her anger and sorrow to the empty room. Tears cascaded down her face as she hugged herself and curled into a ball, her entire body trembling as she wept in misery-
"Lady Eyonae?"
Before she gasped when someone's voice on the other side of her door. She rubbed her eye free of tears, took a few calming breaths, got dressed, and opened the door with a stoic expression.
"What is it?" she asked the subordinate before her.
"You have a new escort today. They're waiting outside." the alien answered, their four eyes looking away. "But..."
"But?" Eyonae said in confusion.
"If I were you, Lady Eyonae, I'd stay here and pretend I wasn't home!" the alien finally answered, a bit of sweat coating his face as his whole body tensed. "He says that he's a hero, but I honestly can't tell if it's human!" Eyonae blinked at his reaction before walking towards the exit of the ship. She took three steps outside before her eye widen, a bead of sweat rolling down the side of her face.
"Hello. I'm your escort today." Pig God greeted her as he wiped the sweat from his forehead with a handkerchief.
Eyonae would never openly admit, but she had wished that anyone, even Saitama, were here instead. It didn't help her nerves that she heard a rumbling that almost seemed to shake the area around them for a moment.
"Let's go. I haven't had breakfast." Pig God informed her before turning towards the extra-sized car that had brought him here.
"Uh...right."
-1 hour later-
'This is breakfast?!' Eyonae mentally screamed as she eyed what seemed to be a never ending feast that was continuously being brought out by almost every employee inside the restaurant. Pancakes, waffles, eggs, bacon, hashbrowns, and so much more. Even some items that weren't considered breakfast food. And as quickly as it was being brought before him, Pig God had eaten the dish before it was finished the next serving was brought out, with the occasional pause to either wipe his mouth or take a few swallows from his drink. She was so focused on him inhaling all the food that she didn't even worry about being bothered by the other patrons eyeing her in worry and fear. 'He's eaten more than enough to feed my crew! What's he got for a stomach?! A black hole?!'
"E-e-e-excu-cuse m-m-me!"
Eyonae turned to the five shaking restaurant employees standing next to her, plates of food trembling on their hands and arms as they stared at her, sweat pouring down their faces.
"Y-y-your or-or-ord-der, M-m-m-ma'am!" And with that, the trio placed the plates before her, a drink at her side, before quickly backing away to help with Pig God's continued order, much to Eyonae's confusion.
"But...I didn't order anything." she said as she looked down at the food.
"I ordered a little of everything." She turned up at Pig God, who was still eating his own food without looking down at her. "I didn't know what you liked, but I heard from the Association that Caped Baldy would take you to a few places to eat during his time as your escort. And don't worry about any wasted food. If you don't finish, I'll eat whatever's leftover." he explained.
"Uh...thanks." she responded before looking down at her food. She wouldn't deny, it looked and smelled good. Well, if he was offering, why deny?
-15 minutes later-
Eyonae patted her stomach while pushing the remainder of her food towards Pig God, who stoically shoved it up to his mouth.
"Thanks for the food." Eyonae said before she and Pig God left the restaurant. "I'm honestly surprised they let me in."
"I called ahead and told them to get my usual order prepared. I also explained that I was watching you today, and that I would take care of it if you tried anything to hurt anyone." Pig God explained as he dialed his phone.
"Calling another restaurant for a snack?" Eyonae asked with a a small chuckle.
"No. The health inspector and police." he answered. "For trying to poison you." That threw Eyonae for a loop, but not because of the poisoning.
"You knew that my food was poisoned?" she asked in surprise.
"Indeed. I tasted it when you offered it to me." he explained before looking down at her. "Will you be alright?" Eyonae gave the overweight hero a flat look before looking ahead.
"It's not the first time I've been poisoned before. My body's already counteracting the toxins." she explained. "It'll harmlessly pass through my system soon." Pig God only stared for a moment before the phone call patched through.
'He tasted the poison that was in my food?' Eyonae thought as they walked. 'Can he taste the difference, no matter how small? Or was the taste blatanly obvious?' She stopped when another thought struck her. One which she verbally expressed.
"Wait a second? If you knew that food was poisoned, then how are you fine?"
"I've eaten my fair share of poisonous monsters. If anything, it adds a little flavor to them." Pig God responded as she withdrew his phone.
"Oh. Well, in that...case...did you just say 'eaten?'" Eyonae asked when her mind caught onto that detail.
"Yes." he answered bluntly as he wiped the sweat from his forehead. Eyonae said nothing as she subtly began distancing herself from the fat hero as they walked.
'Being eaten...' she thought while surpressing a shudder. 'Not a way I want to go one day.'
-Evening-
If Eyonae didn't know that Pig God liked to eat, then she certainly did now. All day long they went to various eating establishments. Whether they were high class or simple street vendors, all day long it was food, food, and more food. Just looking at all the food was giving Eyonae a bellyache. And it wasn't helping that Pig God was just starting with the various desserts that had just been brought to him.
'I may never eat again.' Eyonae thought miserably, her own stomach doing flips at the memories of all the food she'd seen today coming to the front of her mind. 'Seriously? Does he ever get full?'
"Hey!"
Both Eyonae and Pig God turned to see a woman standing next to Eyonae, her body swaying a bit and her face looking red.
"Are you that...that alien fingy?" she asked as she squinted her eyes at Eyonae.
"I am an alien, yes." Eyonae answered.
"HA! I knew it!" the woman slurred out a laugh before her scowl returned.
"Honey, please!" whispered a man that came up from behind her, his voice filled with desperation. "Don't make her angry! Come back to the table and-"
"OH, GROW A PAIR!" the woman snapped at him before returning her attention to Eyonae. "Y'got some nerve, you -hic- extra trestial! Comin' ta ah planet afta wha' yer father did!" Tears were begging to prick her eyes as she carried on, attracting the attention of everyone inside the room. "I use ta haf...two widdle girls...twins! Dey were ah world...I miss dem..." Her gaze softened as she stared at nothing, tears freely streaming down her cheeks as the memories of City A's destruction came to mind. "Dey...didn't survive da blast...like my husban' an di..." Her expression turned thunderous as it returned to Eyonae. "And now...the child of da leader of those...those...FINGS! IS WALTZING AROUND ON OUR PLANET! IN DA OPEN! WID HEROES LIKE 'IM!" she yelled while throwing an accusatory finger at Pig God, who merely watched the scene play out while eating. "ACTING AS 'ER PERNASOL ESCROT!"
"Please!" the husband begged her before bowing to the alien and hero. "I'm truly sorry about this! She's had a little too much to drink!"
"AH, SHUDDUP! WHADYA APOLOGIZIN' FOR?! YOU HATE DAT ONE-EYED FREAK A NATURE LIKE I DO! WHY AIN'TCHA DOIN' WATCHA SAID YA WOULD WHEN DEY ARRIVED O'ER TWO WEEKS AGO?! WHERE'S DA PISTOL?! WHERE'S DA ANGER?! WAS IT ALL SMOKE BLOWIN' OUT YER ASS?!"
"Ahh..aah..." the man stuttered under his wife's drunken fury of a gaze, his eyes darting between her and Eyonae.
"Peh. Ya spineless bag ah mush!" she spat before turning her glare to Eyonae. "And you! Why don'tcha do our world-no-da Universe a favor and die?! Just take ya stupid friends on yer stupid ship and fly all of your dumbasses into the sun! Or bettah yet!" She then, to the shock of everyone watching, she snatched two of the desserts that Pig God was reaching for and threw them at Eyonae, covering her in ice cream and milkshake. "Hey, Piggy! Bon appe...apa...DAH, EAT THE BITCH ALREADY!" The woman wobbled on her feet for a few moments before releasing another hiccup, then promptly fell on her ass. Eyonae did nothing at first before standing and wiping the ice cream from her face.
"I think I'm ready to call it a day."
-Back at the ship-
Eyonae had exited the vehicle, where she was greeted by the alien standing guard.
"Great timing, Lady Eyonae! Something arrived for you!" said the alien as he took out a letter and handed it to her. "It came from the Hero Association. The man said it was a letter from some random person, so they forwarded it to you since we didn't really have an address or something."
"What?" Eyonae asked as she walked towards the guard, with Pig God looking outside at the two of them. He couldn't see what was happening as they talked, the smaller alien giving Eyonae something and-
CRUNCH!
-the audible crunching of paper, followed by Eyonae's entire body stiffening up. Pig God raised an eyebrow as Eyonae seemed to rip something to pieces before stomping her way into her ship, the smaller alien following the trail of visible dents in the metal before it closed. With none of the aliens in sight, Pig God stepped out of the vehicle and walked towards the pile of shredded paper before picking up every last piece.
'She was calm all day long.' he thought as he returned to the car. 'What was written on this paper that set her off?'
-With Eyonae-
Eyonae stomped all the way to her private quaters before locking the door behind her. She then proceeded towards the far wall of the room, where she brought her hand up to a section of the wall that lit up. A hiss was heard as a small section of the wall opened up, revealing a certain stuffed animal sitting inside. She grabbed the animal with a glare...then fell to her knees as she hugged the toy.
"No one cares about a freaking alien like you! Just die and leave us alone!" she whimpered, the cold words piercing her heart as she reread the letter inside her mind. "...stop remind me."