Vanquishing The Strong: Platinum Sperm VS Watchdog Man, Koda, Metal Bat, Flash
Platinum Sperm definitely had his work cut out for him with this trio of fighters, he had never expected anyone to be able to fight a 64 trillion merger but here the heroes were not only being able to fight him to a standstill but overpower him as well, the most surprising of which was that teen, he knew for a fact that bo couldn't have been that strong and the smoke had given him enough clues to know where he got that power from borrowing it from other creatures but the bat yielding teen was completely unprecedented nothing about him made since now he was able to keep up with him like a complete equal for honestly no observable concerned reason it was a complete enigma to him on how he was steadily increasing in power, the last one was at least somewhat more manageable of an explanation despite his weird costume the dog hero had been somewhat on pyksos radar she had informed them that they shouldn't underestimate his ability and that so far he has never been damaged in any conflict despite being in such a dangerous city, there have been rumors that some of the monster that had invaded even included some high level creatures nearly dragon level and it was here that platinum could see that the those rumors may well have been true given how well the dog costume hero had been doing against him.
His initial thoughts were to focus on the weakest individual that had been Metal Bat, but as the battle drew on, he quickly faded from sight to become watchdog man. His skill set and movements were a lot different from the other two, nearly completely animalistic. The dog hero would dig in the ground and come up at unexpected times, kick up rocks at hyperspeed, which hurled dangerous projectiles his way, or in general, be a harder target to hit due to his lower center of gravity from constantly being on all fours. His greatest threat, at least for now, had been the large teen forest lord. He was undoubtedly the strongest one among them, he was unsure that even alone he would be able to take the teen by himself. While he was certainly more robust, he could tell that he lacked experience in fighting, but there was also something else. something weird that was even unexplainable; it almost seemed like the teen had been hesitant to use his full strength against him. At first, he thought it was just the teen trying to insult him, but maybe that wasn't it. Either way, he ignored that for now as he continued to fight the battle, but doubt slowly started to creak into his mind.
Every attack had a reaction and Counter, the quad battle danced at speeds that had surpassed the speed of light. Those simply caught at ground zero had to buckle down and condense themselves in hopes of not getting caught up in the epicenter of the entire thing. The council of the swordsmen was the only one who could grasp a little of the fighting that was taking place, and they would keep the others on the side who had been winning out on the conflicts. The relaxation and ease that they showed calmed most of the teen's nerves, confident in the fact that the trio of heroes was able to defeat the monster by themselves in relatively short order. The fight kicked tons of debris into the air with each clash of fists, claws, or metal bat. Platinum sperm had his attention completely split upon his three opponents. The only reason he could attack at all was due to the trio's loose coordination amongst each other, allowing him at least some breathing room but not much. He was able to heal himself with the scattered remains of some of his frozen allies, but the remaining amount of black sperm had mysteriously vanished during the conflict. He doubted that the others got rid of them, so what was the source of their strange disappearance? He didn't know, but it made things more difficult for the monster.
As the damage started to mount, things began to get more and more difficult for him to move and dodge around from other attacks. Previously he could have some respite by taking to the air, using the debris of the rocks that had been blown there as launching platforms that allowed him to maintain distance the only one that could have followed him then was the tall one but he was slow relying on the golden armor of his and it's flight but it was slower than he was on the ground and easy target and metal bat was too clumsy to make the precise movements to mirror his movement among the rocks in the sky, but with the introduction of watchdog man this minor solution only proved to be even more detrimental the dog hero was almost natural in the air as he was on land bounding between the rocks with incredibly sharp accuracy being able to even outmaneuver himself which gave him another bloody scratch over his other shoulder, however, he was able to retaliate with a whip strike from his head tentacle which was going to send the dog hero crashing down below however the teen was there to save him and back him up but this allowed him to focus his attention back down to metal bat as he raced down with a hard drop kick directly at the teen on the ground.
The attack, however, was blocked by that ever-annoying bat the teen had, and the thing had still been completely spotless in terms of damage, not dented in the slightest from the numerous attacks he'd landed against it. Truly, this thing could be incredibly dangerous. If it was fashion into different material who the hell even created it he wondered as he dodged he follow up swing from the teen before coming back around with two jabs which landed but seemingly didn't as the teen ddin't even react to them at all, he couldn't believe that the teen seemed to get stronger again, he dodged another swing from the bat that barely skimmed along his chest and pain immediately flooded him and a small slit of blood started to pour out almost like he's been cut which made absolutely no sense to him given the object was a blunt instrument, he had no time to look to much at the teen however as he turned his head skywards directly as watchdog man dived down at him incredibly quickly he was getting ready to counter with an attack however behind the dog hero a large bright light completely blurred his vision casting a shadow that completely blocked out the dog hero and causing his kick to steer wide from it's target, multiple lashes marred his extended leg which quickly followed into his abomen before they stopped.
He wasn't a fool; they wanted him to turn around to face the two behind him, but the major threat was still the shiny being that was coming down behind Watchdog Man, so he had to stay facing forward as that bright light seemingly only got brighter, which confirmed his theory. Now he had a hard choice to make as he would undoubtedly still be attacked by both sides, so he used his head tentacle in his unscrupulous rotating defense platinum on his back while he attempted to predict where the teen in front of him would strike. He could aim high or low. The teen hasn't shown any forms of kicks, so he was confident his attack would be a punch of some kind. He didn't know where to block, whichever direction he decided his opponent could easily just switch it up, he had free reign to attack anywhere he wasn't defending unless he guessed at the very last moment he could try to defend both however a half-hearted defense would only be prone to failure so he would wait until the last moment when the light in his eyes grew brightest he drew his hands up and his mind came up to his head however, unfortunately, his target seemed to be his stomach the blow ultimately made him hunch over in pain as a black blood spurted from his mouth, his defense was tested from behind by the dog creature deflecting away it's clawed however he could feel the claws slash away at the appendage.
The punch was so strong that even as he braced for it, the strength behind it took him completely off guard. The punch was followed swiftly by a stronger uppercut that launched him high back into the air. He went completely spinning, unable to course correct himself. Through his spinning, he could see someone else coming directly at him; it was none other than a metal bat spinning as well. Spiral of Overwhelming Victory, the teen yelled as he struck him hard across his body. Pain exploded from him, and he felt his arm shatter entirely from the impact of deflecting the blow as he was forced to slam down hard against the concrete. He could barely move it at that point, but the pain soon gave way to anger as he rose, his aura flaring, before dashing right back at the teen, striking him with a kick before doing an axe kick, forcing him downwards. He barely dodged an attack by a thrown watchdog man, but he was unable to dodge the punch from the next attack, striking him in the gut once more before both of them slammed into his back, forcing him to the ground.
Flash woke up to the rapid vibration of the fighting happening. He shook his head before placing a hand along it to save the pain as he tried to recall the next few moments, and it all came flooding back to him as he rapidly stood back up and searched around.
"Oh, look, sleeping beauties are awake." Bakugo commented, making Flash turn towards him. He was by the teens, a couple of the swordsmen, and that silver kunoichi. He ignored the comment and looked around to see where the monster was. He found the fighting, but what shocked and angered him was who was fighting it: Metal Bat, Watchdog Man, and especially that teen boy. They had all been matching the monster, and from his eyes, they were superseding it, which meant they were superseding him. That meant just for the day he was superseded in speed by five different people, he couldn't have that it was unacceptable, inexcusable.
"Calm down; you'll only make a further fool of yourself if you jump in now." Silver Chain spoke to him as she placed a hand along the assassin's shoulder. Flash looked at her with bloody anger in his eyes, almost thinking about slapping her hand off his shoulder, but he looked beyond her, more specifically at the sword on her back.
"Your..sword, give it to me." flash demanded
"Who the hell do you think you are?" Bakugo was cut off when Silver Chain waved him off. with her other hand.
"Fine, I will be getting it back after you are done, however." Silver Chain replied simply as she took the blade off her back and handed it to him. While Bakugo merely grumbled to himself, she showed the assassin how it worked.
Platinum sperm had just been hit by the three-piece combo of two light jabs followed by a strong left hook that sent him spiraling backward into some more of the rocks. He was weakening; he had no chance of escape with the three of them fighting him together; he only had one chance now.
"You cowards! Do you feel satisfied with yourselves? You are only able to win because you have numbers alone. I would have beat all of you! Platinum sperm yelled
"Haha, is that a joke coming from you? How many times have I killed you again? I think with that gold one, it's definitely in the trillions." Metal Bat replied, making platinum sperm grit his teeth in anger as he turned his attention to the other teen.
"You... you are not even using your strength to fight, are you? "You control monsters for your own gain, and you call yourself a hero," Platinum remarked.
"This power may be borrowed, but everyone who gave me this power did so willingly. Rover and even Energizer have simply turned against you," Koda replied simply. Platinum was a bit taken aback by that. Were they sheltering them away somewhere? He looked into the clouds of smoke around him once more. He saw so much inside of it, all those being willing to help the boy.
"Yeah about that, solo thing, don't worry... You are right, I'm not satisfied with this myself, but don't worry, I'm sure you're going to get a big head on yourself again. When that happens, don't worry, I'll be sure to club you alone." Metal Bat remarked, smacking the bottom of his shoe for a moment.
Platinum sperm was again a bit taken back by that information; they took one of the smaller versions of himself captive as well. Why? They had no reason to spare him. His eye shifted to the larger teen, and the smoke once more spread. Several of the creatures in it weren't just animals, some of them were even monsters. If he was telling the truth, they offered their power willingly. And where were they? He heard some rumblings about the non-killing army and what they were doing, but he assumed it was just a trap. The eyes in the mist told him otherwise, those were indeed monsters. That scream from before was him calling to him, and everything he heard the message as well. Now that he thought about it, he wondered if he were alone in facing him, would he spare him? How would he feel about that fact, even despite his danger, he would still spare his life? He felt as if heroes were like this, then maybe…
Plantium sperms thoughts were cut off almost completely when a blur of white came straight at him he attempted to dodge out of the way he was partially successful however, he still felt pain as he felt something behind him tear and he already knew what it was as he swished his head tentacle around, in just his slight moment of hesitation and relaxing his body watchdog man had attacked him and tore his head tentacle off the anger that spiked through him completely banished his thoughts from before as he yelled out for the against the dog wearing hero, a coward that attacks someone when their guard is down is pathetic he yelled before he heard what almost sounded like an explosion going off behind him, he quickly went to face forwards once more something fast pierced directly through the smoke cloud he could only make out the golden hair of the individuals and going off his speed it could be none other than flashy flash himself but his speed was on a completely different level now he could clearly see but now that he realized it that wasn't the only thing he could see….
He had thought that he had jumped above the strike which was why he was having an airborne view of his target but that wasn't it at all as he noticed his legs being blown away into a different direction. His eyes started to shut a moment later as he crashed down and skitted off far into the distance. His life was fading from him, and the only comfort that he had in his mind was the fact that he would still live on to fight another day, although he wondered if he would continue to fight where he would be sent to as he felt death embrace him and it was almost like it was physically there. However, he was too weak to even open his eyes as he simply let his body sink into the dark.
Flash felt his confidence surge once more, as he had bisected the creature that had humiliated him. He knew that he was faster than all of them; he was the fastest, and if the bald man was a monster, he would have no holdback and behead him. He was confident of this as he stared at the weapons in his hands before looking up into the air, breathing in, and then exhaling a great breath as everything seemed right in the world once more. Even the badgering of Metal Bat didn't bother him one bit, telling him how he "stole" their kill, but the monster was his kill to begin with.
"You seem satisfied." flash heard again from the kunoichi, and for that, he looked down at the sword in his hands. It was an admirable weapon, he must admit. The materials that made it must be something spectacular, but the weapon wasn't his, and he had done what he needed with it that he wanted as he gave it back to its owner.
"I simply showed that monster who truly was the fastest," Flash remarked.
"So you haven't noticed it yet, have you?" silver asked
"Noticed what?" flash questioned, curious.
"You had a little help with your last attack; their green savior sped you up with his ability." Silver Chain remarked as she sheathed her sword and chucked a thumb over behind her. The boy was being helped by his classmates, the one with the dual-colored hair, it seemed. He took off his mask and took a big breath of air himself.
"The ability is called gear shift; he's able to increase or decrease the speed of things he touches at the cost of not being able to breathe effectively. He circumvented the deficit somewhat by making his mask an oxygen-breathing apparatus as well, but it still takes a lot out of him." Silver Chain remarked.
"But he never touched me," flashed anger flooding back onto his face.
"He did; you were too tunnel vision on the monster to see it; his black whip touched you, which was the only reason I gave you my sword; you would have just embarrassed yourself again if he hadn't," the girl remarked, making her flash anger increase even further.
"I didn't need his help," Flash replied simply before he brushed past her and straight toward Midoriya.
"You enjoyed that, didn't you?" Bakugo asked as he came up next to her.
"Very much, so yes," Silver replied simply.
"And you talk about pyrrhic victories," Bakugo commented, and the girl mainly shrugged.
"I'll take them whenever I can against that man, as long as I'm here, that is," Silver remarked, looking down at him, and Bakugo grinned up at her, but another thunderous vibration took them all off guard. As they started up into the night sky.
Lighting continually flashed up there, briefly highlighting the climactic battle that had been happening up there with the monster king. The group had all been extremely beaten up by the platinum monster before and gathered around to form their next plan of action. Midoriya's arms were completely broken and he could barely move them. Sweet Mask was still unconscious. Pig God had a few broken ribs. Darkshine was also still recovering from having a screaming headache. Saren remarked that he could potentially heal everyone if they gathered up enough of the smaller monster bodies that had been around to recover his mana, the group got to work but they quickly found that a good majority of the monster bodies had just disappeared from the mysterious battlefield indeed however saren remarked that they could continue with their plan however the alternative target instead of the dead monsters would have to be some of their fellow heroes instead, although he believed that given the current circumstances, they could still need each and everyone one of them for the coming battle especially if the monster king was even stronger than the monster they had just vanquished.
The likely choice to take was going to be from koda however upon attempting to take his power it was definitely not enough his quirk feedback ability was not his physical power so the power did not transfer over as they believed it would, so the next option was the rear guard given that the monster was completely vanquished and only one remained they would not truthfully be needed anymore however given their ability it's like it would take all of them to really accomplish much of that, that was until sato offered himself up in the rest stead, given that koda quirk didn't work because it was his physical ability being drain his power should work fine as it a boost to his physical capabilities and saren pondered for a moment a suggested that such a thing could work however if his power was rather weak and wouldn't be much of anything however sato rebuffed him and remarked that normally that would be true however if he were to take nine pills then that definitely should be enough for all of them, this got the attention of the teens as that was an outrageously dangerous gamble as his body could only withstand five pills currently, the pills increases his power five fold for each one he consumed but it also increased the muscles in his body making him massive and on he verge of bursting open from the strain going four over his limit was incredibly dangerous as it would mean he would surely die if things didn't work out.
Given the current climate of the operation, Seran remarked that it could be worth the gamble; however, he acknowledged Midoriya's fears and would attempt to try a test run first, so the group waited for Sato and the rest of the rear guard to arrive. Tokoyami was happy to know that Sigismund was still doing ok; he had been unconscious for the time being, but he was stable at least. As everyone went to go check up and survey those they cared about, Saren and Sato went off to experiment on how it would work: drain touch would regenerate his body condition and wounds, and if there were none, would soon after start to replenish his mana at a 10th of the rate. Given his damaged state, he would need to heal himself, and given the number of wounded, he would then need to gather a large amount of mana to heal the rest up to their full strength. They first tried with his first total of five capsules, and he started his drain touch as the teen speculated it worked; however, it was equally true of how weak the boy was because even with that, he failed to fully heal himself, let alone restore his mana, so the nine pills would have to be the ticket after all. They began immediately as his other pills washed away the after-effects of his power before getting into the center of the large group of people. Sato looked at the nine pellets in his hands before swallowing the lump in his throat giving a hard look of determination and swallowing all of them.
His shoulders were the first things that completely increased in size nearly breaking his neck with the size increase if it weren't for the splendid timing of that also increasing in strength to withstand the force his body started to grow larger and larger pain flooded his system blood started to link from his body out of each of his joints bones and muscle expunge some from the skin but before he could combust into anything Saren was there to take it away, he could feel his body constantly seemingly fighting with its self to be growing or shrinking like a deadly game of tug of war with his life on the line, Saren could definitely feel the power coming off the boy in that state if he could maintain he was likely stronger than himself in fact as he was finally healed up and his mana started come back to him next it flowed into him and with the third hand behind his back he started to cast a secondary spell this one was for the healing a 60 feet dome green in color started to surrounded them ward of healing, the longer the spell lasted the more mana it drained from him but the boy was a wealth of power for him to draw from all the injured had started to slowely wake up and even some of the more grevious injuries like midoriya's arms were fixxed up once everyone was done he switched his spell to something else with the last vestiges of stao power this was an ehncement spell wardign bond this grant them increase the power behind their attack but also partially shielded them from harm by splitting the damage between them he only chose the select few of them to apply the secondary effect on with an enchantment.
Once everything was said and done, Sato dropped to the floor, completely tired despite living and being healed physically. The mental effort of such a task was rather exhausting for him. The class immediately started to crowd around Sato, ensuring that he was okay, and he breathed sighs of relief as he answered that he was.
Now that everyone was up again, the only thing to do was come up with a plan on how to support the others in their fights if they could. They attempted to radio in on Fubuki and where she was rescuing Bang, and the message was short and sweet as she remarked that she was successful, but the two brothers had engaged Garou at the moment. Midoriya was going to go and offer some kind of support, but Atomic Samurai stopped him and told him such things were between master and apprentice, interfering would only spit on Bang's resolve and to just believe in him being able to make things right.
With that out of the way, the group all turned their sights to the dark sky, the bright flashes dictating the intense fighting above. They got in touch with the child emperor to explain the situation to them and to inform him that they had successfully defeated the monsters on the surface, and Bang was facing off against Garou. Child Emperor explained that engaging against the monster king was turning out to be hopeless; they couldn't hope to beat him. It not only learns but also adapts to each strategy they have used against it, and he secretly murmured to himself that they seemed to have only made it stronger. Child Emperor couldn't spare much time to talk given the climactic battle, but he would allow them to help at their own risk. The monster king was a very powerful opponent, and even Tatsumaki was struggling to battle against the creatures, although she put it mostly on her depleted state.
The choice to join in the battle above was easily unanimous amongst the heroes each wanting to help out as much as they could, zombieman asked Momo if she could create a nuke or something to just blow it up, momo chuckled at that as she shook her head, she has had varying levels of ordnance even up to the megaton range of power however not only did that require a lot of resources to create that she did not remember specifically off the top of her head, that level of power would not even kill something on the level of midoriya let alone something much stronger like the monster king. Zombieman hmmed at that, as they would need some pretty big guns to kill the monster king, and given child emperor assessment they would need to do it in one shot as if they don't it would come back stronger. The group brainstormed for a moment thinking of ideas during this time watchdog man had to return to Q-city as his time was up and just vanished in the wind, some of the heroes found it weird especially at the moment however Tsu covered for him, and remarked that they were lucky that he came at all, she was pretty confident that the walk command likely wouldn't have worked and that something must have changed for him to come along, "walks" only happen for a certain amount of time so he couldn't stay she didn't know why but she remarked that it may be because of his power.
They ignored that for now before continuing their brainstorming it was a quick plan as the fighting seemed to brighten up more above and even parts of Child Emperor's brave giant fell from the sky in pieces forcing them to hurry things up and the plan they had come up with, they needed to hit the monster incredibly hard something that none of them would be capable of doing themselves but Momo had an idea to circumvent that and to do that was by using uraraka more specifically her combo moves with the satellites at first everyone was confused as they doubt that throwing a couple of orbs at the thing would do anything but she explained her plan further and explained it was going to be a supercharged version of the move the military had thought of such things before called the rod of god such a thing was completely ineffective given the parameters it actually had however they could change that or at least she believed they could with uraraka's ability with her ability to remove gravity from an object they could accelerate it tremendously with their own strength into outter space and bring it back down directly on top of the monster to slamn if not killing it outright weaking it up for another strike by the next team this team would be the swordman.
Sero had jokingly remarked that it would be nice for each of the council to have their own sun blade and asked if Momo could create them, Momo saw why she couldn't try to do that, she attempted to examine the blade however she couldn't unsheath the weapon forcing her to go over recordings previously which only proved that the blades scientifically made no sense so the she could only conjure it to the best of her ability. It was five minutes and despite the small size she could only create four of them, she was utterly tired after doing so even after she was refreshed from saren healing which meant the swords were the equivalent of 200 tons of material that how much power they packed in their small frames, each of the council of the sword took one of the blades almost hesitantly as they were in shock that such a technique even worked. There were now five sun blades in rotation however it was Atomic who gave out the last one, he steadily walked over to the monster saren and reached the sword out for him to take.
"I thought that would be for Flash." saren remarked
"No, only a true swordsman could unsheath this blade, which despite all the magic now you still our." atomic replied and saren nodded before taking the weapon in hand.
"Thanks….for before…you took the damage for us from that gold monster right?" atomic remarked a bit of hesitance in his words, weird to be thanking not only a monster but a possessed version of a formal council member.
"Think nothing of it, it was the logical choice. My monster form is more durable than your more squishy human bodies." saren replied… there was a moment of silence.
"Speaking of bodies…you sure haragiri is nowhere in there?" atomic questioned
"No only like the brat, nothing was preventing his soul from me taking over completely…what are you sentimental in the fact that he is not here?" saren asked
"Hmm…no nothing like that the guy was a bit of a dick, despite being a monster you seem to be the better company at least….. To that end … would like to join the council of sword masters?" atomic asked earning a flash of surprise from Saren who looked at him for a moment before shaking his head.
"Haragiri maybe gone…but I still have his memories…do you want to know why he was skeptical and so critical of you for joining the hero association? It was due to his rivalry against you… he hated how your swordsmanship surpassed his and he wanted to defeat you but if he only defeated you because of your neglect of training for being a hero, the victory would wring hallow." saren remarked.
"Hmph….that's interesting note…but how does that affect you becoming one of the sword saints?" atomic asked not seeing where he was going with it.
"While Haragirir is gone, you could say that, the will to surpass you still lies within however I want to take it a step further and surpass the whole of the council not myself but with monsters, so after this mess is all over with I had been thinking of forming my own council of the sword made up entirely of monsters to compete against you, there is no better way to improve your skill than from competition," Saren remarked and Atomic was a bit taken back by that but he smiled nonetheless.
"Hah..you know what that sounds pretty fun… I wouldn't mind testing myself against a few monsters." atomic remarked with a laugh.
"Yes However I would probably not limit my organization to mere swords that given monsters natural abilities such as claws or forearm blades would make no sense to do so." saren remarked.
"Well it is your organization you can do what you want, just make sure they don't go crazy and start messing things up." atomic remarked as he helped out a hand
"But of course." saren remarked before he reached out and shook the extended hand before the two went back and started to listen in to the rest of the plan.
The follow-up attack would be done by everyone else in the group laying into the opening that the swordsman managed to make for them before the weapon slams back down on the target, to reduce the chance of the object missing it would home-in using uraraka's gravitic attraction. The material that was going to be used as their rod would be made up of the same thing that makes up metal bat's bat given the sheer durability it would need to take the strain that they were going to put on it, the plan was to accelerate the ball to just under the speed of light or at least as close as they can get and to smack the monster with it increasing the power of the attack all the while due to relativity the attack could hit with the force of a small moon meaning it would be the strongest thing they could do even rivaling that of tatsumaki at full strength and then some.
The problem now only lay in getting uraraka close enough to the creature without her simply dying from even stray attacks let alone one targeted at her which is where her shield would come in being none other than Tatsumaki she should be able to protect some of the attacks the monster might send her way along with an added buffer from Kirishima, Darkshine, and Pig God should allow them to at least manage for the time she needed but this required telling tatsumaki the plan, which they haven't done so yet due in no small part to how combative she probably would get at the mere suggestion of even more people helping her out but they couldn't do their plan without her so once everything was finalized and they were ready they finally allowed Tatsumaki in on what they were planning to do and as they all expected the girl was extremely against the help.
"Huh?! Plan w- I don't need any plan, I could have finished this on my own if these losers up here weren't holding me back…If I can't stop this thing what hope do you loo-"
"Just! Shut up! Already! Look we get it You are the strongest! We know, we saw it! You don't need to prove anything to anyone…but you already failed in trying to do everything alone once we don't need that to happen twice…you almost died the first time are you going to waste your sister's efforts if you just go and kick the bucket due that pride again?!... I know more than everyone wanting to be the strongest but more than just being strong heroes should strive for absolute victory meaning no one dies and we crush the enemy at all cost!" bakugo barked over the comm cutting off tatsumaki's tyrant before it could begin, there was a moment of silence over the comms.
"Fine! Hurry up and tell me this stupid plan before I finish this up myself." Tatsumaki quickly replied, and Momo promptly filled in the girl about their plan of action and what they would require of her to do.
Battle Near The Troposphere
The fighting had been going steadily and steadily against them as things dragged on child emperor realized the monster was now capable of nw continuously using bolt to zipp around them at an incredible pace but not only that he also took things a step further and even a degree of electromagnetism the monster was able to now in association with it's esper powers be able to pull them along thankfully tatsumaki had been constantly protecting them using her own espers waves to constantly disrupt the signals from reaching their targets however with the electromagnetism she had no way to defend the cyborgs against such strikes, they were pulled towards the monster king unpredictable allowing the monster to land hard attacks against the two of them, child emperor was spared from the pull given Kaminari and Volten in his backpack constantly changing his signature to counteract it. He had to defend against it the first time the monster implemented the tactic, leaning into the pull along with a bolt and his thruster to intercept the target, who in this case was Drive Knight, the sword ready to skewer him through. Child Emperor stopped that from happening, catching the cyborg in his hands, but in return, he had the monster king's blade rack across his thigh, tearing a gouge out of it and having it fall below as he fired his forehead cannon directly at the creaturs, this time filled with lime shot to completely obscure the monster's vision and allowing him to back away.
The child emperor told both Demon Cyborg and Drive Knight to stay close to him so that they wouldn't fall prey to such a tactic again. They both obliged sticking onto the sides and pummeling the monster king with an energy blast joining with tatsumaki as she blasted several holes through the monster's hardened outer armor with pressurized water jets that she took from the ocean nearby the speed of the water sliced completely through allowing demon cyborg and drive knight better targets to hit with their weapons, but it was all just superficial damage on the monster king it's body would almost instantly start to regenerate only put off by the constant barrage of attack by this point brave giant had been completely out of hard ammunition so he was just a passenger for the others and a slight battery source for drive knight to leech oof himself other this his blades and none lethal weaponry which was ineffective it was all gone.
The call from the others proved to be a blessing as everyone was okay on the surface. He didn't know about them supporting the fighting up top, but he would honestly take anything they could get, and once they told him their plan, he believed that such a thing would likely work, or at least in theory, it should if it managed to survive an impact like that; almost nothing would be able to stop it, but that also lied the problem: if such an impact hit the planet itself, then it would be completely over as well. He hoped Neith knew what she was doing, he thought as the plan was set into action. A couple of seconds later, reinforcements came in the form of frozen-phoenix, Dynamite, and Tsukyomi, but this was just to distract the monster he knew, as the three of them combined still didn't have the power to take the monster king down, but they didn't need to.
Todoroki had been training both his fire and frost sides but this was the first moment he would channel them both at the same time he titled it Phosphor with this special move he could combine both of his sides into one and allow him to use a sort of cold flame, he channeled his power into a large sword Coldflame's Pale Blade and slashed upwards as he passed by the monster king, the body of the creature had only barely had begun to freeze from the attack however the creature body seemingly quickly heated up preventing it from taking major effect, he had to quickly dodge out of the way of a returned sword swipe but was unable to dodge the electricity that had emitted from the weapon only able to summon a frost shield to block the strike but forcing him backward he was caught by midoirya as he tumbled through the sky before in the next moment bakugo came next, given the monster ability to adapt they assumed he would counter his cold by heating up this would allow bakugo to rain down on the creature the entirety of his sweat on top of the creature creating a resounding explosion that pushed everyone in the sky backwards the clouds dispersed unveiling the moon in the sky behind them.
Bakugo was thrown back but quickly stabilized as the monster king emerged from the smoke, completely unharmed from the blow. The monster king let out a resounding screech that forced them all backward once more as its body mutated once more. Each of its six hands became cannon of some kind and shot out along with its hand's blast of energy, forcing everyone to dodge out of the way. Midoriya had used Gear Shift to completely speed everyone up, but it hampered his ability in return.
As the group dodged out of the way, a large golden glow suddenly radiated from beneath the entire battlefield. This golden glow was none other than the council of swordsmen, each of whom unsheathed their sword as they concentrated on pulling the blade out. Nichirin explained its history to them a short time after they had come back from receiving it. Although Saren could use the catchup, the Sun Bad was technically alive, or at the very least telepathic; it gauges the power of its wielder, and it will only unsheath itself if the blade accepts the holder. Saren could feel the energy within; however, the voice was fractured and stunted, likely due to being a fake. However, they were still choosy about it. What sort of blade are you, and what sort of vessel will you lend your powers to? The swordsmen asked themselves
At that moment, what came to Atomic's mind? Was the master he considered a rival, Bang? If Bang's mentality could be seen as a water stream, Then the state of mind he had reached was a reflective water surface. Dispelling even the surface's explosive sounds.
Saren concentrated and thought about what he truly wanted. His mind had fragmented into two within the sword. Harigiri's anger and rage, along with his monster side, told him to fight against humanity to destroy it all. If he were how he was when he first started, he may have listened to such things, but things are different now. He had always wanted to protect, and even if they didn't listen, he continued to try, and he would continue to do that. His concentration took the form of a shadow protector of humanity.
To that unparalleled level of concentration, the swords answered
The bright golden glow coalesced and grew brighter and brighter, and the monster king turned towards the light, being nearly blinded by it before its eyes adapted. The swordsmen had been flying with the help of Sero's tape, keeping them all aloft as they went up and were about to deliver their combination attack with atomics in the center. The sword's sunblades had all swung down together in unison.
Atomic Council Beeline Slash
The cut completely bisected the monster king, slashing through the extra appendages of the monster king's weapons, but even along its entire body, creating a large incision along the creature's body, the force of the blow sent the creature backward from the swordsman. Midoriya, Brave Giant, and the refused drive knight genos, and Tastumaki all worked together to prevent the creature from coming back together, Toru used great light redaction creating a large circular dome around the monster king completely covering everything within 60 meters radius with darkness so that dark shadow could use his total release unleashing the full power of dark shadow where he gripped at the two edges of the monsters separation and forced it open even wider it was there that they could finally spot the core of the creatures being, from out of the large dark being sprouted none other than pig god, darkshine, puri-puri prisoner, Kirishima, and uraraka as they made their way inside on the way up uraraka had continually punched the metal orb that momo had conjured with her ability but going plus ultra with her gravity knuckle going to 2000 times gravity, now the only thing she needed to do was touch the core and switch the gravity to the monster itself before it was too late, just because they were inside of the monster didn't mean it didn't have way to defend itself as it made way the inside of it's body had started to shift and change in attempts to protect it's core creating smaller bladed weapons to attack them with both darkshine and kirishima took the lead protecting uraraka as she moved forwards.
The group continued forwards inside the beast as it attempted to protect itself even from the outside the monster still continued to attempt to fight off the invaders however both flash, sweet mask, silver chain , and the swordsman would work together to cut off all of the micro tendrils that would spring up outside of the beast to cut Tokoyami and dark shadow down the group finally took only a minute but the inside group had finally managed to make it to the core allowing uraraka to use her next ability gravity flip touching the core with a fist and keeping a hand on the orb and switching the gravitic properties on the object, the effect was almost immediate as the monster king started to fall backwards out of the sky, black tendrils quickkly wrapped around everyone and soon enough dark shadow yanked all of them out of the monster king's chest cavity along with the others on the outside jumping off not without the ninja or more specifically flashy flash going against the plan for a moment delivering a heavy flashy slash directly against the core of the creature before jumping back out and leaving which silver chain remarked was just for him to show off, however despite the damage the monster soon started to regenerate once more and even being able to balance itself out from the increased gravity but they expected that to happen.
The darkness bubble slowly faded away as the tokoyami took the group and backed away from the large monster. Darkshine took the orb out of Puri-Puri prisoner's hands and chucked it as hard as he could towards Tank Top Master. He caught the sphere passively, putting his tank top power into it for a legendary tank top throw, before passing it off towards Midoriya, who used his black whip to pseudo-catch the orbs, swinging it around to keep the momentum, adding his gear shift to the sphere before chucking it downwards. the attack seemed to have missed the monster as it recovered and seemed to have adapted to the increased gravity waves which they expected however what they did not expect was that the monster king would let out a sonic attack that almost completely paralyzed everyone in the air, causing almost everyone that wasn't able to fly to begin to drop out of the air the attack was similar in effect to Koda's screech and the voice of the monster rung inside of their heads "pointless!" the voice said inside of their heads making them ring for a moment as the monster tails seemed to grow in scope becoming larger and building up energy that was about to blast the defenseless heroes in the air, that was until boom an explosion had went off inside of the creature completely halting it's follow up strike.
Down below, near the surface, the rest of the heroes lay in wait. Pig God's role in infiltrating the monster king was to plant multiple explosives inside of it that they would detonate once they were given the go-ahead. Given the monster's regenerative abilities, they set the devices to a staggered detonation to have the monster king constantly on the back foot, focusing on healing itself.
The sound of the sonic booms told them that the orb was coming their way as deku voice came in a few seconds later but by that point, they could already see the flamming orb headed their way and now it was up to Metal Bat to hit the home run, using tsu in her beelzebufo state as a platform to hit the ball, he continued to spin in the palm of her hand Savage Hurricane, he continued to spin building up energy constantly as the red hot orb came down towards them, before striking the sphere with a rapid swing launching it flying back upwards along with this Jiro helped out with her Legato pushing the ball up even faster with the sound waves, as quick as it came down it went back up even faster rocketing out of sight within a blink of an eye straight into orbit as it passing the fighting that was going int he skies above, as the ball travelled, Saren added one more spell to the object called accelerate it would push the ball even further making it continuously keep the acceleration regualdess of anything else and eventually increase it to it's peak the material could withstand.
Now the group in the sky just needed to get the monster in position as Todoroki used his flash freeze heatwave along with Tatsumkai to create a large gust of wind that began to shove the monster backward as the multiple internal explosions continued to set off, halting its motions to resist the wind. They still needed to break the monster barrier so that the attack could land with the greatest effectiveness, so now everyone else went all out attacking the creature. Genos used the rest of his full power to use his True Spiral Incineration Cannon, and Child Emperor overloaded his systems to use his 20 million volts and 1 million amps. Millennium Emperor Nova Bakugo, who had been taking a steam bath from his equipment to rebuild up his sweat preserves, had focused each of his barrels directly toward the monster and unleashed his cluster: Explosive cannons x 12. The deadly combination of attacks flew forward and smacked hard against the ESP shield, driving the monster right back into direct prime position and allowing Uraraka to finally put her hands together to use gravitic attraction. The orb that was hurdling in orbit past the moon quickly swung back around and came crashing back to the earth. The sound was nearly deafening as it reached the atmosphere. The monster king looked up, but by that point, it was too late as the ball smashed down, shattered the already weakened barrier like glass, and was directly on top of the creature's head.
They had moved the creature directly above the tower to reduce collateral damage. The ground team had already evacuated from their area as the monster king crashed down into the towering landscape. It had happened so fast that the shockwave blew everyone out of the sky and scattered them into free fall. Midoriya relinquished his gear shift and reacted quickly, using his black whip to catch everyone and a float to ease their descent. The monster crashed through the tower, crashing through it and violently fragmenting everything in the ground in the vicinity, sending a massive earthquake to spring through the earth, almost like a tidal wave for multiple cities to feel all at once. Once the smoke settled, the entirety of the unearthed monster base was gone. Midoriya had managed to get everyone to the ground safely before he started to take in some needed air from the exertion. Everyone looked around to make sure they were okay, and Tsu came bounding back in with the others on the surface to make sure as well.
Once they confirmed everyone's well-being, they almost started to celebrate their victory against the monster; however, Midoriya's danger sense flared white hot once more, and his heart completely sunk as he knew the fight had not been over just yet.
Stick To Your Heart
10 Kilometers Away
Empowered by her abilities, both bang and bomb had moved even faster than before she couldn't keep up with them before but now it seemed like they were in multiple places at one time by the time she could view the result of one clash they were nowhere to be seen, the only thing keeping her somewhat able to sense where the battles were happening was due to her energy cloaking over the two brothers but it was also due to that power that she could tell that they were not doing much better than previously, every strike against them she could partly feel some drawback from she would have likely fainted by the 5th or 6th attack if it weren't for the monster supporting her and having the damage propagate through them while she absorbed their strength but even with that it was only a half measure if bang and bomb didn't put an end to the fight soon then they wouldn't be able to last to much longer.
Bang was honestly surprised by his apprentice's improvement. He had been told about his general aptitude for combat with his copying ability, but this was on another level than before. He had been effortlessly handling both himself and his brother together while putting pressure on them with his assaults. Bang and Bomb could feel the power within his fist; any direct blow could prove majorly fatal, and near misses proved to be problematic as well. Even with young Fubuki's ability, it almost seemed like Garou had been holding back even from before and brought just that bit more of his incredibly monsterfied strength to bear. It became clear to Bang that even together with his brother he would not be able to beat his wayward apprentice, but maybe he didn't have to win the physical fight but the mental battle. He thought of young Midoriya's words about how they could maybe settle their differences with words instead of a fist; he had truly forgotten about it when his apprentice had first challenged him. He wondered if he would think of him as cowardly if he attempted to open a conversation at this point. Garou was a fighting genius; he knew that the two of them likely could not win against him at the rate that they were going, so suddenly wanting to sit and talk instead would just be ignored, which left him with only one option to talk with his fist, just like they did before. Garou could hear it then, so he could hear it now.
Garou I initially thought you were like me, battling and fighting for the thrill of the fight. I thought that you would have needed to be humbled for having that opinion like I was, but after exchanging fists with you, I understand a bit more. You aren't doing this just for some thrill; you have some purpose in mind. this "absolute evil" What is it that drives you to go this far, Garou!?
It took mere moments and a punch to the face before he and his brothers started to receive the boy's answer.
Absolute evil, right now he could imagine the evil that he must carry out, but what was happening to him now was that every time he got overwhelmed, he would surge in power, and when he got too tired fighting muscle figurines, he felt his head was clear. Now that I can make it like this, I can climb up and reach the realm of disaster level "God." I will become the very despair that will forever knock humanity down into the depths of terror! People scared under equal terror and united by it are just grateful for being alive. What the world needs is not biased justice! but absolute, unbiased evil! Through their connections, they could see what Garou imagined would happen to him, ruling over everyone and earth, people holding hands and coming together in fear.
The two brothers had just been thrown backward on the opposite side of Garou; both were extremely winded and gasping for breath, while Garou remained there in the center, unmoving, almost as if he were contemplating something, or maybe he was waiting for a response from him. Bang glanced over toward the others. He saw how damaged Fubuki had been. Blood was leaking down her face, and the multiple monsters had been knocked unconscious. The only monster that remained standing had been the tiger creature. The others seemed to be unconscious, or at least he hoped that they were. He turned his attention back to Garou, but more importantly to his brother. He looked at the man and offered a nod, and his brother nodded back. They had one more thing up their arsenal that might make a dent in his apprentice as they dashed forward. Garou did not move; he continued to wait. He was waiting for his answer. Bang knew as the two brothers crashed into using their strongest attack possible.
Whirlwind Water Stream: Cross-Fang Dragon Slayer Fist
Garou… I'm a failure as a master. I got entwined in the world of heroes and neglected my relationship with my students. I understand now what you are trying to do, but you went down the wrong path in trying to achieve it. Then nearly all of my students left the dojo, and the trouble caused by so many heroes was my punishment for that. I… After this incident, I'll retire as a hero. Once I do that, garou … We can work on a different route to your plan, one that doesn't require you to take on all of the world's hatred and burdens alone. The two of us will be masters and disciples once more. We can start over from the beginning. How about it? Garou!
The attacks collided against garou dead center, the protege had won, but what was said lingered in his mind as a bang answer rang through his mind. The last thing he heard from the old man before he knocked him unconscious was that he should follow the voice of his heart. He thought for a single moment as he contemplated his path but quickly shook his head. No, there was no other way; the status quo must change, and he was the only one who could do it.
He was now a monster.
Garou thought as he looked over towards the woman, all of the monsters beside her had been knocked unconscious, and by looks of it, she was barely holding on as she was on the verge of fainting herself. She was no threat to him, and the utter fear she showed of him was a welcoming sight. The entire world seemed to vibrate as he tossed his sights to something behind him. A giant light had shot into the air, almost like a pillar, illuminating everything, and from there he knew where his next opponent lay as he cast one last look at Bang and sprinted forward.
Ground Zero
Midoriya's danger sense flared hot once more and he screamed for everyone to leave from around the portal but his voice fell on death's ears as an eruption of heat sprouted from behind him pushing everyone on the ground backward and off their feet and blowing them in the wind, tsu large form stuck hard into the ground as she used her large over the hundred-meter-long tongue to catch everyone before they flew off into the distance. The sheer heat radiating off the pillar of light started to melt the edges of the hole from which it emerged, and it was then that another being revealed itself. This being was smaller in size in comparison to the monster king, being only 20 feet tall; however, it still maintains the same menacing aura, if not more so than such a king. It was flashed that the creature's face bore a striking resemblance to said king; however, its horns were now flame-like with flaming tendrils; its body was a hodgepodge of pure darkness cloaked under dragon-like teeth and mouths; everyone noticed a mass of gold and silver decorating its joints, along with a silver chest that had been caked in flames; down his abdomen had been a number of the faces of the black sperm monster.
To make matters even worse, the light source that had surrounded the creature had started to take shape and become a large circular sphere, even larger than the monster itself. As it lit one hand and started to speak to them, its massive hand reached into the air.
{I thank you for this final evolution before your death. I will be sure to use this power to become the supreme being, even to surpass it.} the monster spoke in a bellowing voice the light had fully come to the surface of the sky above creating an almost artificial sun illuminating the entire area before it had steadily begun to get absorbed inside of the creature as its hand separated into five different large dragon heads that absorbed the energy hanging above their heads ushering in the night once more as it turned the heads towards the group on the ground, with its second hand it raised it and laid it flat before pushing down on it which forced everyone to lie flat on the ground as supergravity waves to completely push them all to the ground and hold them there before aiming its weapon at all of them, the dragon's mouths all teemed with energy as it fired directly at the downed heroes before firing off the large blast of energy that fired off at incredibly speed towards them, the heroes lives flashed right before their very eyes as the light grew brighter however before it could reach them something else came in front of them, a dark sihlooette that was impossible to see what it was but the energy blast that was headed right for them had quickly been diverted no deflected back towards the monster, Midoriya had initially thought that the person was bang but as the light fadded and the shadow started to have color he realized it was not that person but someone else or something else.
The monster king had been shocked by the turn of events as part of his upper right shoulder was evaporated by the blast. His regeneration core was destroyed by the heroes, so now he had to shift his body mass around to repair the damage. He looked down at the heroes, expecting the person standing there to be king, but he was wrong; it was someone even more unexpected than he realized.
{Garou seems you are still alive, and you have been monsterized into such a state... yet you protected these heroes? Have you still not abandoned your humanity?} orochi remarked
"My human self is dead, and I wasn't going to have you steal my prey... but they will come later. I want my rematch, Orochi... I'll be taking the title of monster king." Garou replied.
"Choose your next words wisely, Garou; you will not be spared this time," Orochi stated.
"Funny, I was going to say the same thing to you: absolute evil is unbiased. Heroes, monsters I'll slaughter every last one of them and rise to become something more than the monster king. I'll become the ultimate symbol of fear, the disaster-level "god." Now come get some." garou stated
As he launched off his back foot directly at the monster king, and in that very next moment both of the enemies were gone from sight, and the world seemed to explode an instant later of shockwaves that lit up the sky, the heroes on the ground were completely stumped by the sheer speed they showed, even to a flash's sight, the two of them had been nowhere to be seen. Sweet Mask was surprised that such a foe could exist. Even if they had all been at full strength, there could be a chance that none of them could ever stand up to this being. The others were just in a complete state of spectacle as the battle had carried far off into the coast, a large, seeming explosion eclipsing the very horizon of the two locked combatants. Midoriya's dangerous sense was going haywire, but he suppressed it enough to tell his friends to just run away to get as far away from the battlefield as they could, although, in the back of his mind.
He didn't know if that would mean much of anything; at first, they didn't know if that would help anyway. The threat seemed like it could encompass the entire planet; they fought against his demand, of course, and he seriously contemplated knocking each of them out, but it didn't need to come to that as Iida and Momo quickly riled everyone down and got them to go along with it, at least for now. He remarked that they would look for saitama and come right back when they could and told them to not do anything reckless until then, and Bakugo remarked that he would keep the guy on a leash along with Todoroki and Tokoyami beside him. He would have liked for them three to leave as well, but he would get nowhere arguing with them, and his class would probably object even more, so he just relented and was just happy that they all went off. Atomic Samurai also ordered his disciples to get lost as the fight had moved far beyond what they were capable of, and they acknowledged that and remarked that they would head back to the rear. The explosives started to increase in volume as the group just stared out in the distance. Everyone there knew that whoever won that conflict, would all have to face it, so the best thing they could do was to sit back and regain their stamina and maybe come up with another plan, although they couldn't reuse their first plan over again.
When Garou first dashed at the monster king the monster attempted the same trick as before's hands five massive dragon heads had each separately sprouted out arms and dashed at him to surround him using the water stream to go attack him he was prepared this time he thought as he pushed his body forwards deflected each strike the monster king was good he had to admit but he had just finished beating the creator and master of this fist he knew all of it's weak points as he shifted in an unexpected angle like a snail slipping through the gap of the five dragons head rearing climbing on top of the monster large arm and run up to attack the head, he was stalled however as the head tentacles charged at him smacking him right in the chest with their incredible speed much faster than last time he realized and he could feel his sizzle just from the brief contact of the attack he was flung back from the blow away from the monster king and before he could correct himself he found something striking his back sending him crashing down into the ground once more with a large explosion.
His entire body screamed out in protest and pain but he got up and shook himself off and continued to battle, another wave of heat blast came from the creature this time with both of its hands garou shot his hands forward using the whirlwind to counteract the attack dispelling it out completely allowing him to charge forward at orochi, the monster could fly using that same flames to propel itself upwards and accelerate pretty quickly as well as it was able to change his trajectory and go downwards at an incredible pace to dodge his attack and hit him with a hard kick to his entire body launching him flying upwards, garou grit his teeth and through his hands backward he couldn't fight him in the air, or could he? He remembered the tail guy telling him something about leaping off the air. He saw that, and saitama wondered if he could do that. As he attempted he fell downwards directly into the path of the orochi the monster's tendrils rushed upwards to meet him, he was working his legs as fast as possible to see if he could do it to push off the air and he managed to succeed in creating a resounding boom in the process speeding him up faster than orochi had anticipated making his head tendrils go wide of him and allowing garou to land a direct attack against the monster kings face smashing him into the ground with a resounding crash kick up multiple tons of dirt into the air, the head was damaged as the fist also contained the whirlwind however it wasn't enough to finish the job as he was grabbed by the dragon's arms and flung away.
Both opponents rose up quickly and fought once more this time on the ground their blows thundered through the ground upon each clash or connection making it polite and shift before moving on elsewhere fighting over the entire sector of the ghost town at a blinding pace, garou wasn't to surprised when orochi attempted to use the whirlwind against him as he dodged out of the way of a sliced motion that would have bisected him in half, garou also had to worry about the esper waves that the monster had been constantly sending out to affect him, he couldn't see them but he knew something was there, however, it proved fruitles as he controlled the environment to trip him up moving a boulder in his path while their fight took to the air once more, he was less mobile in the air as well, once he caught him in his clutches he was already done for getting smashed into the ground multiple times before getting right up and close to the creature's stomach that opens up almost like a furnace to spout a rabid flame he fought against the hold and he urged himself to move and bit by bit he started to do so just in time as he dodge out of the way of the creatures attack avoiding a fiery death and hitting the creature with a rising knee direcclty to it's chest before using Whirlwind Water Stream: Roaring Aura Sky Ripping first and sending it crashing downwards, multiple light spheres had started to form from it's head tendrils shooting out at him as he fell through the air. His body inextricably started to deflect each and every one of them. The light sphere, which was so hot before, had started to become numb. His body was morphing, gaining hardened scales along his arms and feet to deflect the heat.
He dived downward, pressing off the air before switching down to deliver a dive kick, and Orochi was able to dodge the attack just in time. As the vibrations from his previous attack subsided, Orochi had actually separated the vibrating portion from itself to stop the damage from consuming him. It made him smaller, but it also made him faster as he came up and struck at him with the Whirlwind Water Stream. Roaring Aura Sky Ripping Fist an instant later and garou obliged clashing with his very own creating a large divot of land before the two launched back into the air fighting meanwhile garou was improving the entire time however orochi was continuing to learn off the boy every style he did the monster would copy and replicate no matter how fast garou got the monster would counter with a different method or adaptation the two seemingly locked in a stalemate of advancement, replication, counter but garou was the one in control and his body continued to grow while orochi''s continued to decay the difference between a grown monster and a natural monster started to become clear garou could feel it.
He could feel it; he was getting close to perfecting his technique: not the water stream rock smashing fist, not the whirlwind iron cutting fist, not the exploding heart release fist, not the tiger fang true fist, not the purgatory abyss fist, not the lake-breaking ice river fist, not the fools path mountain range fist, not the ultimate fist of Yatagarasu, not the pressure point killer fist, not the poisonous orge fist, Not the fire dance trail fist, not the lone fist of prosperity; through battle, he's absorbed them all into his technique. Since it's connected to a disaster-level "god," he'll name it the monster calamity god fist.
Monster calamity, God Fist
A rapid barrage of punches completely overwhelmed Orochi's form. A violent combination of all the martial arts exploded out at once, trading directly against the numerous sprouted arms of Orochi. Their fists collided and impacted, creating more thunderous shockwaves. While each of Orochi's arms contained each martial art that Garou knew was separated, each of Garou's fists contained every one of them combined, allowing him to completely blow past the creature's attack, blowing every one of its arms away before finishing with a double palm strike to the creature's center chest, sending it crashing down into the ground. The monster landed with a hard thud.
As Garou's combination struck along the monster king he started to see things once more, it was like visions started to flash into his mind just like his fight with Bang, but this was of a different time he didn't know when in the monster king life but he could see it, the things heart down somewhere underground near lava somewhere, the heart was full of strange blood and flesh attached to it, he could see that it had been taking numerous things from the environment and bringing it back to him, multiple monsters continued to pool into him along with what seemed to be laval from the very earth itself but the heart paid that no mind, its attention was completely fixated on the pictures on the wall showing something like an ancient caveman drawing it showed a picture of a huge humanoid being on top of collectively smaller and smaller images. The heart continued to stare at the mural with a deep-seated HATRED, it started to yell and curse the image believing itself to be the ultimate being not to be some sacrifice to summon the ultimate being he cursed and cursed the mural even as the world seemed to rumble around it. Until something unexpected happened the large being in the mural seemed to come to life, it began to move and shift along the wall and speak to the heart.
The wall being called itself "god" offered him the power of some kind but the heart ignored it and claimed he didn't need its power and remarked that he would surpass it as he was the ultimate being but the cave painting merely laughed at him and remarked that he already has been touched by his power so he could never surpass him but he will allow him to continue to have its power before a giant light sphere came from the wall and struck the heart dead center just as the rumbling reached a fever pitch and everything crashed down around the heart and flesh that started to resemble the body of the being he was fighting at that very moment, Garou didn't understand the importance of this vision just yet but he knew one good thing to know which was the monster king's heart was inside of this body not somewhere else.
"No, this won't be. I won't allow this; I'm the supreme being! Not you! Not It! ME! " Orochi bellowed before digging its head tentacles into the very earth.
The very planet had started to shake and vibrate once more, creating another rapid wave of motion, all over the planet natural disasters had begun to take shape around the planet rampant waves and violently exploding volcanoes most of the damage was localized in parts of the world that did not mean much to civilians but to not all of them and to those unlucky few where the natural disasters had threatened to hurt the civilians a mysterious savior had managed to protect him as he passed through with mast gust of diverting the lava flow pieces of mountains that started to fall and cause rock slides had been completely obliterated, avalanches had been mystically stopped all by a shadow figure that no one knew who was the savior but they thanked nonetheless.
But the cities, not even the very continent itself, were not the only thing affected by what the monster king was doing. Deep from within the very earth's core, which had stabilized since the last time Orochi used it, this move was once again taxed as Orochi took even more of the earth's core up even further than before, wreaking havoc on the very earth itself, and this did not go unnoticed by those elsewhere.
Separate dimension
Blast's senses flared for a moment as he snapped his fingers, and from that, he opened a vision of the Earth from space. The planet seemed normal enough, but the planet was starting to stretch, shrink, and pull at itself once more, even more violently. The first time was marginally concerning, but now it was a major concern. The very planet was at risk.
"The earth's magnetic and gravitational fields are destabilized," a person behind him remarked.
"I wonder who could have done that?" Another person spoke
"I can't imagine a single earthling being capable of that; go ahead, blast; we can't have the seal flying off somewhere else in the universe." A woman remarked
"Thanks, I'll try to be quick," Blast remarked, jumping through the portal he made before quickly making another one.
The final battle
"Terra cannon!" Orochi screamed as the part of magma entered his body and he shot the attack skywards in a blazing display that completely lit up the very sky, garou had already been rushing down at the monster king kicking off the air faster and faster until the blast was unexpected and especially the speed there was no time to dodge as he continued forwards, his body had already been transforming almost like in anticipation as he raised his one hand high into the air behind him before slamming it down as the blast of energy reached him, the sheer heat from the attacked had been blistering but he fought through it as his arm continued down the large blast of heat and magma, his face and hair was once again getting singed before it started to come over with its armor that shielded him from the threat as he continued to push through. His mind for a moment fluctuated back to his past, where Bang had finally shown him off to his students. He had known the guy since he was in the single digits, but it was only in his teens that he was officially allowed to join the dojo like everyone else.
The first activity during that time was splitting the tiles. He was to go first, but some idiot with a dumb chin attempted anyway. The geezer was soft; that way, he would have trashed him for disobeying him if he gave an order, but after he embarrassed himself, he went, and he managed to destroy nearly all of the tiles, but only one tile remained, but not this time as he pushed through the beam of heat, constantly increasing faster and faster. That was then, as of right now, he has reached the epitome of martial arts! Garou thought as he slammed down through the beam of magma and completely cut the monster king in half along with its very heart element. The magma dropped around the landscape, melting back into the earth or dropping and cooling as it dropped into the water. Garou looked down at the body and ensured that it was dead before looking back up and spotting the heroes off in the distance.
Time to Conduct Evil
Sweet Mask couldn't see well in this darkness, but it became clear that the battle was over, the shockwaves had completely subsided, and their enemy would soon approach them. But who would it be—the hero hunter or the monster king? His thoughts were interrupted as a voice suddenly sounded behind him, nearly scaring him.
"Handsomely sweet mask, do heroes have to be beautiful? So people who are not beautiful can't be heroes? It sounds pretty strange, in my opinion. To me, your so-called beauty is just hideous narcissism." The voice of what he assumed was Garou sounded behind him, so he did win, but he was a bigger idiot than the rumor suggested. At this distance, he would kill him; he wouldn't get away as he braced himself and threw a hard back fist just to hit empty air. He was gone. Or was it an illusion? The sound of several shattering metals filled the air.
"You disappoint me, atomic samurai. You are hailed as the hero association's strongest backup. Is that all you have to offer? Now, what will you do without your weapons? You even included random civilians in your battle; if they die, do you think just because you are on the side of justice you will be easily forgiven?
"We decided to enter-" tssk, tssk, tssk
"This isn't about you; now stay out of it... Now, atomic samurai, if I kill them now, do you think you would have the right to be forgiven? What will you do now? Will you get on your knees and beg with teary eyes and a snotty nose? Or will you face me barehanded?" Garou remarked as he stopped the old man from talking as soon as he interrupted him and knocked out the three others as well. Once he had appeared in front of the group, he had completely let their sword swipes shatter against his skin; they were no threat to him. Receiving no answer, he moved on to his next target.
"That goes for you too." Pig god", you fat ass, what is up with this amount of fat? Under the name of heroism, you consume twice the amount that other people do, but the only thing you produce is shit. That's even lower than monsters in my eyes.." Garou remarked, tapping on the man's stomach. The big guy took a swipe at him, but he was already gone and behind him.
"Why don't you lose some weight and try to stop me?" Garou remarked before he shifted his target once more, this time to the demon cyborg. Even though he was attempting to shoot off his incinerator blast at him, he at least had the decency to be mindful of his fellow heroes. He was likely waiting for a good shot of him, and he would gladly give it to him as he stopped right out in the open. There was no hesitation as he blasted him full blast with those cannons of his. Unlike the last time he was stronger than before, he walked through the flames grabbed a hold of his arms, and crushed them within his grasp, stopping the flames from pouring out and using the whirlwind to completely slice apart his legs, hoisting the man up by his crushed arms.
"Look how light you are. I had the honor of meeting you a couple of months ago. You should have killed me when you had the chance; now you are nothing but scrap to me." Garou remarked as he stared into the cyborg's eyes.
"Are you garou? What made you mutate into that?" Genos remarked that no part of his human face remained; Garou didn't answer his question as he kicked the machine away.
"Maybe if I just saved your head, I could use you as a bowling ball," Garou remarked. A flicker he felt came from behind him; it was none other than Flash. He appeared behind the assassin instead, making his kick miss.
"The S-class rank 13 hero flashy flash, you're a hero yet you attempt to sucker kick me like that?" garou taunted from behind the hero instead the hero seemed to continue with his attack flowing shadow feet moving even faster creating numerous after images forming a band like a snake cheap trick he thought as he moved to intercept him not only that to consistently stay behind the hero as he ran around showing how his speed was nothing to him now, he avoided a barrage of kicks and noticed the sheer panic on the heroes face as he came from behind him once more and kicked him in the back, sending him scattering across the ground.
"What's wrong? When someone betrays you in your specialty, you seem to lose focus, which is pathetic. You were only trying to protect your pride; is that what being a hero is to you?" Garou taunted before barely moving as a large machine fist smacked him in the face; however, the attack barely budged him.
"Child emperor, that's you in there right? Only a child would create something like that, you are the same as Atomic Samurai, what will you do when your toy is broken?"Garou spoke as he slammed a clawed hand into the giant fist, and almost instantly the machine fell into utter pieces. The child prodigy along with his two passengers had dropped on the ground suddenly, each of their heads spinning from the sudden absence of the machine and hard landing. Garou took two steps towards the down child. His eyes glanced over at the other two; it was another one of the teens and another monster.
"Stop, hold it, he-"
"Don't you dare tell me what to do, zombieman; you want to die first." Garou replied that he had cut horizontally across the hero's head, cutting clean through, but to the hero, it was nothing as he used his arms to stabilize his upper half so it could heal.
"You must be having a blast doing your job with unlimited opportunities. You never have to worry about putting your life at stake." garou mocked.
"Garou… Just what is your aim? Crush the hero association, and then what?" zomebieman questioned
"Absolute evil must exist in this world. However, absolute hypocrisy in the form of heroes does not allow it to exist; the power of hypocrisy is cruelly strong. Even though evil is born through the harshest of circumstances and struggles to mature, hypocrisy would destroy it without mercy; that's how the world is."
"Let me take these 100 steps back and assume that we heroes are the hypocrites who enjoy playing the hero game. But don't you realize that evil is "evil" because it's bad? What is wrong with crushing bad things? There is not the slightest bit of reason behind your motivation. Regarding the struggle between heroes and monsters, You're an admitted outsider, so what? Are you in it just for the kicks?" zomebieman asked
"Sorry to tell you. I never expected you to understand this."
"That's what makes us heroes and villains," Midoriya remarked, cutting Garou off. Garou gave the boy a hard glare. Midoriya didn't know why, but this scene felt familiar to him, and Bakugo could sense it now that he said the same words that Shigaraiki did that day.
"Like Deku said, although I would use monster instead of villain, maybe not given that monsters are on your side as well." Garou remarked that he was about to say something else to the monsters of the group; however, a sizeable dark shadow had started to consume him. He glanced to his left and found a rather large rock headed in his direction, so massive that the other heroes had to get out of the way or be crushed along with him, although that wouldn't happen as he extended a handout and casually crushed the massive rock with just a flick of his hand, fragmenting it into dozens of pieces.
"Is this all the power the "tornado of terror" can manage in my current state? It's nothing special, not much better than your sisters." garou remarked
"You … What have you done to Fubuki?"tatsumaki threatened.
"Her dead bodies over there," Garou remarked casually, chucking a thumb over to where he just come from. Tatsumaki's powers flared, and thousands of tons of gravel lifted into the air straight toward him.
"What the hell? Is the girl simply missing him on purpose for a setup?" Bakugo remarked.
"No… Garou is punching them down at hyperspeed." Flash remarked, angered. As he stood up once more, just recovering from his kick across the battlefield.
"Ka-kamikaze the sun blade. I know that you wanted Bang to finish this, but it seems that there is no other option."Nichirin spoke as he lay on the ground. Atom reacted instantly, looking down towards the blade by his master's hip and picking it up off the floor before taking a glance back at Garou. His hands were moving so fast that even he could barely track them moving at all, but with the sun-blade, there could be a chance if he went all out.
"Tastumaki it's no use; let me cut him!" atomic screamed as he ran forward, unsheathing the sun blade and using his strongest technique.
Focused Atomic Slash
With the power of the sun blade and Atomic merging into one, increasing his slashing speed, atomic slashed out with his attack. However, as the blade reached garou, the normal line of energy that would be closed around the target with the number of slashes did not do so. It stopped directly at the target as the target caught every slash that had attempted to do so, breaking the blade over and over again. It was nothing but a stump of a handle before passing by the samurai and landing multiple pressure point attacks as he passed through, causing atomic samurai to puke up blood as he passed out on the ground.
"Monster calamity god fist has... no weak spots!" Garou remarked as he slammed into Pig God with a thunderous elbow, knocking him clear out of sight.
"Pig god! Damit, he's too fast." The child emperor and zombieman remarked
"Using all of my remaining power, I'll rip you to shreds and be reduced to dust!" Tastumaki yelled as she screamed and used all of her power. She wanted to rip his limb from limb, but all she managed to do was restrain him.
" We won't get a second chance if we don't finish him off now! While he's holding off Tatsumaki's attack, we have to inflict all the damage we can."The child emperor yelled. The heroes were already on top of it. Puri-Puri prisoner and tank top master were both charged into attack, but as their attack landed, the only thing that broke was the two's very own arms, forcing them to fall back as sweet masks to turn against the threat.
"I could tell by the way you defeated Orochi that we couldn't take you head-on. At least you dared to face us as a monster, even if you are just a sandbag to us now. Don't blame us for playing dirty." Sweet Mask remarked on his wind-up forwards, launching off with 25 kicks all over the hunter's body but stopping as they had completely no effect.
"Not even a flinch; he's pretty tough if you ask me." Sweet Mask remarked
"Don't give up yet… I'll lend a hand." Child Emperor remarked as he jumped into the air, soccer dribble, multiple explosions let off from his soles directly on the hunter's head. While it may not have caused external damage, it should at least give him a concussion, he thought before he completely blanked out due to the pain he felt suddenly striking him in the gut, sending him flying backward. Sweet Mask didn't even get time to process that child Emperor was suddenly behind before his entire face was caved in from a punch from Garou, forcing him to fall backward.
Flashy Flash charged next using his wind blade kick, but the hunter expertly dodged and returned a kick of his own that sank directly in the hero's guts, sending him flung backward once more. Metal Bat and Darkshine took up the rear of the assault, but both were simply too slow to see him as each of them was completely knocked aside from the hunter and sent in the opposite direction as the hunter made a Beeline straight for Tatsumki as she had crashed down on the ground.
"I told you your esper power is worthless to me now; I was just pretending to get caught by you and see what these so-called heroes do, but of course, you disappoint me once more." Garou taunted as he walked up to the girl.
"If I were fresh, you would only take me 5 seconds." Tastumaki replied.
"Is that so? Sorry, you're worn out here. Allow me to release you," Garou remarked, flicking the girl in the forehead and flinging her backward to skid in the dirt. She was stopped from her dirt nap by ice. Oh right, he almost completely blocked them out of his mind. The non-killing army brats were here as well, although they didn't attack him, nor did any of the monsters. Some of the S-class did get up, however, a surprising one. Darkshine had risen once more, barely standing on a knee before rising fully.
"I would have thought you would have stayed down, darkshine." garou remarked
"A few hours ago in the basement, I had no determination... I didn't put my life at stake to stop you. But now it's different, and I am betting my life on it," Darkshine remarked, standing up completely.
"That pisses me off the most… fighting with determination to be killed, anyone can do that to you, moron. Do you think you're so cool? You guys are so far off from reality. You think society wishes to witness your narcissism?" Garou mocked as he sped forward and punched darkshine in the face. The man was out cold completely from the blow, but it did not matter to someone as an energy sphere absorbed him. It completely covered him, but he allowed it to as it did nothing, of course, but as the dust cleared, a new person was over darkshine, a not-person monster and a familiar one at that. It was none other than Rover standing over the man aggressively and growling at him. Was the dog protecting him?
He cast a glance toward the non-killing army brats; they weren't that surprised that the dog had done so. It couldn't be forest lord; he knew he couldn't control the monster. He said so in his head when he heard his voice underground. His thoughts got away from him once more as the dog sent another sphere his way. He deflected it away from him off into the distance and charged forward with a kick, striking the dog's stomach and sending it yelping off in the distance. The dog had grabbed a hold of darkshine, and as it was tying off, the man's body went with him. It didn't matter to him as he turned his sights to the non-killing army and the monsters.
"You all are pissing me off with this crap," Garou remarked simply before moving forward and snatching the shark monster from them. The mere speed of the shockwave of his speed scattered the rest of them, and he waited for them to recover and look at him once more.
"You think these monsters care about you all? They simply realize how oppressed they are, but what if you set them free? I wonder, you, shark bait... These were the heroes that killed your people, correct? Go on, kill them; no one here will stop you." Garou remarked as he let go of the large shark monster fin. He grabbed each of the swordman's unconscious and paralyzed forms and neatly placed them down in front of the monster. There was a moment of pause as the monster looked at the four men on the ground before looking over at the non-killing army and back down at the swordsman before looking at the monster beside him, who stared down at him almost expectantly.
His thoughts swarmed themselves on what he should do before finally settling on a concourse of action…as his fin started to light up and draw water from the air and enlargement and water started to accumulate in his mouth, he heard movent ahead of him but a swipe from the monster hand and a monstrous pressure wave sent the teens and other monsters backward as garou placed himself in front of him.
"Ah, ah, ah you all were the ones that wanted to trust monsters right, if you truly believe that they can do good then there should be no reason for you to interfere right?" garou remarked towards them, he truthfully had to marvel at his strength just from that wave an attack he never expected to cause them to much harm but the way they struggled to get up proved otherwise.
"Temptation is an easy path to fall to get revenge against those that have wronged you even if the monster did take your offer it wouldn't mean much besides showing how much in common they still have with humans, I have seen many people fall down that road even my friends" Tokoyami spoke as he rose as dark shadow emerged from him in its Total release state Garou looked upon the shadow unimpressed however the boy's words did ring to him? Almost as if he knew the monster would decline his offer of rightful retribution and to answer where that annoying confidence he suddenly felt a large water jet smack him right in the back, it did nothing of course but it was still insulting nonetheless, with a quick backfist he sent the shark monster reeling burying itself into the ground, the teens all started to make their moves at that moment as he found himself bound by that black whip, the shadow creatures, and ice from the other teens.
"Garou…you just saw it, you're the only one still fighting, you achieved your dream..you became a monster, you are now the king of monsters what are you still fighting for?" midoriya asked him.
"The more you fight the more you, continue terrorizing people now that you become a monster will only prove those people right about monsters in the first place didn't you care about that?" Tokoyami challenged as well…there was a moment of silence before garou responded.
"I realized now after becoming a monster what must be done to set the world straight, my goals changed since then… monsters and humans their all the same, the one thing they know and can understand is fear I will be that fear the ominous future that drives everything equally into despair, a symbol of fear," garou remarked
"And what do you hope to achieve by becoming that? Huh? The world will be scared of you then so what? They live in constant fear of the monster association as well or did you not know that? Fear won't solve anything…it will only bring more problems it can even make things worse." bakugo replied as he cast a glance over to midoriya for a moment, only for more silence to ring out.
"There is no more time for talking fight me or get out of my way." Garou replied simply as he waved his arm out in front of him and cut through all the attempts to bind him. They were better prepared this time for the pressure wave and avoided the attack.
"You said equally in despair, right? That means you still care about your original goal after all, you just want everyone to be treated fairly and equally..right?" midoriya stated as he jumped high in the air and shot down with his Delaware smash: airforce the air bullets all missed their mark as garou disappeared again and was suddenly behind him.
"What did I say about the time for talking being over?" the ominous voice spoke in his ear midoriya braced for an attack but it never came he was rescued from such a fate by saren however in his stead saren was in place for him and slammed down hard into the concrete, midoriya was worried for a moment before the dust reviled that it was just a clone of the man.
Garou was suddenly blasted by both fire and explosion but none of it meant anything to it as he walked through each of the attacks, the first one he targeted was the half-fire and ice teen striking him with a blow so hard he puked up blood and instantly dropped to the floor unconscious even with gearshift slowing him down and speeding the others up the man was impossibly fast, the next to go down was Tokoyami he was he leaned down with dark shadows large fist only to have it blown back and away and strangled unconscious, silver chain attempted to help the teen but her attacks simply weren't having any effect on the hunter at all. Before she was struck in the side by a spinning sidekick that sent her reeling away, bakugo came down with an AP-barrage but the hunter was already gone towards the next target this was Saren the wizard had essentially no mana left once more and had to rely solely on his sword skills but he never even got a slash off before he was paralyzed by a barrage of blows all over his body and elbow shot that sent him flying backward.
Now he turned his focus towards the other two he kneed midoriya in the gut while dodging one of his punches and grabbed at bakugo's charging form snatching his wrist and using the boy's body to slam into Midoriya before kicking him away. Midoriya recovered just in time to see garou yank and pull out bakugo's socket in one of his arms he did not let out a scream of pain but it was evident on his childhood friend's face.
"You all are from a different world so I don't know how your heroes compare to ours but if someone like this can still become a hero then it must not be that much better than here.. You, I'll admit you are something different but all your going to do is participate in that same system and change nothing..those same problems will go ignored while you receive praise but even someone like you have their limits... The nicest person can snap…The greatest hero can be turned upon in an instant by the crowd…It would only be a matter of how and when.." garou preached as after every sentence he broke something on bakugo's body, his arms his legs, his shoulder before finally a sharp palm strike his chest and then nothing…he saw his friend go limp..he couldn't even hear him breathing anymore his danger sense as well…he..did…he just?
Garou felt a wave of blood lust wash over him however it wasn't only just from the green-haired boy in front of him, he heard the adversary before he saw her, it was that silver ninja from before he knew it was a girl given her death scream as she came at him calling him a bastard as she slashed at him with her weapon the purple blade came down hard and despite the speed he watched it as it was happening in slow motion he lifted his arm to intercepted the strike and the weapon merely broke off on his skin, the look of starting realization was on her face before the pain was stricken all over it as he hit her with another wave of pressure point strikes and side kicking her away once more, the reality seemed to fully settle in on the green haired teen and he watched as his power flared uncontrollably and he dashed forwards but interestingly not towards him but around him, garou could have easily chased him down he wasn't going that fast but he wanted to see what the boy truly had to offer.
he was barraged by several air bullets there was no need for him to dodge anyone of them so he let it wash over him as he continued to watch the teen's combo attack, the black whip that sprouted from his very being had completely wrapped around him but he was still unbothered as the teen seemed to sprint away before dashing forwards, he felt the threat along him as he dashed forwards with a hard dive kick smoke completely concealed his form making it seem like a gaseous cloud had been moving closer to him at an alarming rate, this was likely to disguise his attack but garou could see through it like it was nothing.
United States of Smash
Garou quickly raised his hand breaking the strands and attempting to subdue and catch the foot in his hands, the smoke surrounding the boy had completely been blown away, and garou was about to return an attack of his own but stopped it cold, the energy that had surrounded the teen vanished he could feel it as he dropped the kid's leg making him fall towards the ground he didn't bother catching himself instead crashing to the ground and his hair covered his eyes but his words were clear to him.
"Why did you stop?" the green hair teen asked
"Because you did, you realize how outmatched you are and gave up…that's the fear the type of fear that I want to spread..that feeling of hopelessness inside you I want to spread that to everything," Garou replied
"And with that bring about world peace right?" midoirya replied and this made garou stagger for a moment in his response.
"What? Who said anything about peace?" garou remarked abruptly.
"That's why you're doing all of this right? Why you can't stop fighting until everyone fears you as this "absolute evil" but you refuse to go all the way, you still refuse to kill others, and there are lines even you can't cross-" midoriya comments were stopped short as in hyper speed garou plucked his head with a dozen finger strikes knocking him unconscious nearly instantly.
"You talk too much." garou remarked as he faced forward once more at the only target remaining which was zombieman he was hovering over the explosive boy pressing his head against his chest before looking up at him.
"That was a dirty trick man, completely unhinged. Just to make him hate you…you momentarily stopped his friend's heart but going by your expression it still didn't work did it? I can't tell with your face like that but what he said to you just now got to you didn't it? just how far are you willing to go to make people hate you? You became a monster and threw your life away for it." zombieman remarked as he stood up.
"Is this what being a hero means? When facing an imminent threat against a monster, all you do is open your mouth and start babbling. It's that kind of Easy Job. that's what you are demonstrating to me right now…is this especially cowardly coming from someone like you with that special body of yours aren't you the most cowardly of them all?" garou questioned.
"I'm not one of the teens, You aren't not going to rile me up but you are one of the few people who have looked upon my body as a positive thing which included even myself… with a body like mine things aren't all sunshine and rainbows as you like to think…as for being a hero, I know I won't be able to stop you physically but I can sure as hell annoy you until I do.. I can't forgive you for hurting a student of mine."
zombieman spoke as he took out his weapon, despite his cool demeanor he knew he was outmatched so as he pulled out his weapon when his body faced complete utter destruction he wasn't surprised his hit entire lower half was completely vaporized and the rest of him was scattered about 10 meters of land his head was only just as the face of that point on the rocks and non of his body parts were around enough to even be useable meaning he would have to grow everything from scratch which probably take something like 30 minutes or so which to someone like garou was essentially eternity.
"With him done that's the last.."
"I'm still standing… you haven't won yet, I've been waiting for this rematch." garou was interrupted as he turned around to look at who it came from which was none other than metal bat.
"Right, that "fighting spirit" nonsense, well you better be chock-full of it, because I'm going to hurt you so bad that even I wouldn't be able to stand if I was in your place." garou remarked.
"Tch, just try it." metal bat challenged. As he sped forward his bat held high, unlike the others he was coming at him at a somewhat respectable pace, not the slow motion that everyone elsewhere this may be a good match to test his new body, of course, that didn't mean he would make it easy for him the guy was nothing but pure muscle and lacked technique against his ultimate fist should he even bother using such a divine technique against such a lowly opponent in the first place he could probably do fine with just his defenses, as he was in thought he was momentarily surprised at what happened it was just so baffling that he couldn't make out what the hell he was seeing.
Metal bat came at him jumping at him from mid-air and twisting around but he expected the bat to be in his hands not in between his thighs this minor mistake and assumption cost him his defences the bat struck home the blow had barely phased him although he did feel it more than the other attacks from the S-class that didn't mean much as his foot raised and instant later and smacked straight into the bat-wielding man's chin sending him flying into the air, garou quickly followed after him and slammed him back down into the ground a moment later crashing a distance away.
He wasn't surprised when the man had gotten up from the crevice despite still bleeding from his head and his shirt being torn to shreds he still charged at him he would call it courage but he knew this guy was just an idiot like the rest of them, the bat was now lying in his hand he went to strike him in the face swinging across his body like a slash, garou dodged the simply minded strike however he still managed to get hit? The bat had somehow left his hand and was now attached to his elbow instead. Another solid blow directly on top of his head this one even stronger than the last but still not enough to phase him as he rolled the bat off him and charged forth with multiple rapid open-hand strikes to the teen's body and head before finishing with a snap kick that pushed him backward the teen stuck his bat into the ground to stop himself from skidding further backward.
"What's with that ridiculous fighting style anyway? I see you attached magnets on all of your joints " garou questioned.
"Hah! That it's what I call garou pummeling, I invented it just for you and your pesky martial arts, once I beat you then that means I beat Bang as well…I'll drag your sorry ass back to him as proof that I surpassed him and his stupid martial arts!" metal bat declared.
"Huh I'm surprised that someone like you went and prepared for me, you didn't seem like the type although your "garou pummeling" is just swinging your bat with more steps so maybe that prepared isn't quite the right phrase as for bang didn't you hear what I said earlier? He's dead." garou commented.
"I heard what you said, but you're just a shit liar. Now enough talk come on!" metal bat replied.
"Have it your way then!" garou responded simply as he dashed towards Metal Bat and he did the same
They clashed in the center creating another shockwave to disperse the land, garou avoided several of the teen's swings with his bat as he attempted them, and in retaliation, he would unleash a devesting combo of 10 strikes each but he could feel it just like last time maybe even more so now the teens was increasing in strength, his speed which was ok before was now noticeable the man could even react to a few of his attacks, maybe it was just his morbid curiosity that made him want to see just how high this fighting spirit could take this wacko, this could be the very last person he fights that could offer him at least some entertainment before he becomes the absolute evil.
Garou also noticed something else that was strange he used the god fist for a brief moment and deflected the bat back into the teen's head to give him some breathing room to observe him. something around him it was a strange aura and he followed it back to the source and was shown to be one of the swordmen, the monster one…was it healing his wounds? He thought as he looked back over at the teen avoiding a barrage of swings before returning with a blow to the chin once more followed by a barrage of kicks to his chest. Despite the barrage the teen had muscled through and landed a solid hit of his bat right against his extended leg, it was the very first time he felt something like pain course through him like he was bit by small dog a surprising event.
He smiled and relished the challenge so just like with Bang it was a desperate attempt to keep him contained but it wouldn't work speaking of not working his pressure points didn't work, the teen seemed to ignore it entirely as he continued to swing his bat at him it took only a brief more exchange before the monster was unconscious and metal bat wounds started to stick to his body but he doubts the teen even noticed anymore, the man had attached hardpoints throughout his body even the bottom of his feet, chest, and even stomach making him a bit more unpredictable but not anything he couldn't handle his martial art adapted instantly it didn't have the same weakness of the water stream he could react and reflect anything thrown his way and he would return the effect twice fold but the teen would do so the same.
Garou felt something was wrong however as the two of them continued to clash the man continued to get stranger and at this point, his damage wasn't something he could completely ignore but the man himself went completely silent and only focused on swinging his bat, garou stopped his next counter to access the situation more and wasn't to shocked to see that the teen had been fighting him unconsciously, his eyes were glazed over and he soon after dropped to the ground defeated
Garou marched up to the unconscious hero grabbed him by the pompadour and lifted him.
"What's wrong? Anemia? Where is your fighting spirit now? Stand up straight….that's it? You could have ended this earlier as well..but your sister got in the way so if a monster appears and is about to harm others you would just let it do as it pleases just because of a"garou remarked before releasing his grip but the hero simply fell once more but as he continued to talk the man had suddenly risen with blinding speed even to him he was to slow to intercept the bat that clocked him right in the jaw a vicious pain sparked through his body and forced him to take a step backward as his jaw ached from the blow the man collapsed right after once more, got the pain didn't fade a way for a while and while the man was unconscious it didn't stop garou from kicking him in the chest a retaliatory blow that was purely out of spite for the hard-hit he dealt him, skidding his body off into the dirt somewhere in the distance.
Well with him defeated, that should be it for the strike force and King was nowhere to be seen did that mean he was defeated somewhere? Or was he at the hero association base? Well, that was his next pit stop in the first place so he would find out himself. He took one step before turning on a heel when he heard cries of help for the others he defeated on the ground a mixture of voices most of them belonging to the nonkilling army he realized as they scattered about collecting their wounded and even more monsters were with the two of them in fact along with the top three of the A-class which if he remembered correctly was atomic's disciples but one of them stuck out to him unlike all of the others this one seemed to be random and unknown variable wearing a ridiculous yellow jumpsuit, that approached almost without fear.
"Hmm? What are you supposed to be?" saitama questioned
"Huh? Who the hell are you? What am I supposed to be, you ask?" garou questioned
"I'm garou the monster. I'm the one that will strike all of mankind down equally into the depths of despair…the one that will become absolute evil." Garou asked.
"Absolute evil…? Your evil…? Wait does that mean you also had a hand in creating this mess? I only participated in this hero mission so that I could save my house but it ended up getting destroyed anyways, I kinda feel like I'd rather just obliterate the whole planet but I'll settle with beating up anyone responsible. " saitama remarked, with a raised fist at this menacing aura the man gave out garou couldn't help himself by taking a step back before that pressure he's giving off is insane but it was for that reason he knew that he was the real deal but for some reason, he seemed similar to him like he's seen him before.
"Yeah, I was the one that did it! What of it, you wanna try and take me on!? Don't underestimate absolute evil!" garou remarked as he dashed forwards
He was completely taken off guard as he could do nothing as the bald man struck him hard sending him spiraling into the air but from that attack, he started to get his memory back he felt this overwhelming power during the night when he attacked King, and after leaving the monster association. It was him the overpowered balled guy that he kept running into over and over again, that was a complete oversight on his part, he forgot about this target that should have taken priority over anything else. He corrected his motion and got his feet from under him once more before facing the man once again.
"That's a nice costume, but just because it's your hobby doesn't mean you can go around destroying people's property just to feel like a monster, and I don't feel like joining you and your little scabbles," Saitama stated.
"Costume? Squabbles? Did those fights look like squabbles to you? Well, show me what a real fight is then Mr. Hero or should I say Saitama? I remember you now, and along with your house, I crushed that sidekick of yours as well. Now what will you do? Are you still not interested in fighting me?" Garou remarked as he chucked a thumb over his shoulder. The taunt seemed to have worked, or at least he thought it did, as the man sprinted forward, but he was simply blown aside as the man ran by him.
Garou felt utterly embarrassed, which quickly transitioned to anger as he charged after the man he found huddled over his apprentice.
"Aah, man, genos, you got all wrecked again? Wait, even without that, you look from before." Sasayama questioned his apprentice; his legs were gone and cracks were all over his face plate, while one of his arms was crushed in on itself.
"You are okay. Does that mean you defeated Garou?"Genos inquired before noticing the man behind him.
"So he was the one that did this to you?" saitama questioned
"It seems he has forsaken his humanity to chrome a monster even stronger than the monster kind of Orochi," Genos remarked.
"Are you sure about that? It seems like a costume to me; I mean, even those horns on his head look hand-made. Never mind; for now, I'll kick his ass for you." Saitama remarked, standing up, turning to face Garou, and proceeding to walk towards him.
Garou was utterly astonished by the bravery this person was showing just because he was a little strong approaching him clenching his fist with no hesitation despite the havoc he wrought on the rest of the S-class heroes, he asked if the strange man had a death wish but he dared to call him a chicken and he responded in kind snapping forwards with a side kick over the man's abdomen hard creating a whirlwind of gravel and dust to kick up, he had initially thought it was over after such attack against an unguarded opponent however a punch rocketed through the dust and struck him directly in the face sending him flying away just from that one punch he knew that this guy was strong, very strong but how much so was unclear he remarked as he stood up.
"No need to go easy on me. Monsters don't usually do that; it's just further proof that you're just a human playing pretend and also a fairly soft guy." Saitama remarked, that Garou rose from the ground, angrier by the implication, and dashed forward behind the hero, striking out with a punch, but he was surprised when he missed and didn't hit anything. The man grabbed his extended hand and transitioned his punch into an overhand throw that buried him deep into the earth. Pain rocked him once more, something he'd never felt before, and thought he would never feel again given how easily he beat the S-class, but here this strange person was dealing with him as if he were a toddler. Where did he get this strength? Why did he have to exist when he was so close to his goal? What was going on? He quickly dug himself up and brushed himself off. It was too late for regrets, so he couldn't complain; he just had to keep growing as he took a deep breath in the awakening breath.
"Hey, are you having heart problems? You shouldn't push yourself too far," Saitama remarked as he began to see the man's chest beat harder and faster than before.
"This is a breathing technique that will allow me to draw out the full strength of this body. It's awfully kind of you to wait for me; aren't you being too soft?" Garou shot back.
"Well, I'm kind of looking forward to this; if you are garou, then you got this strong in such a short time; you remind me of myself when I was in training to be a hero," Saitama remarked with a shrug.
"Is that right? Well, I will look forward to seeing your face slowly twist into terror. The scene as you cry apologizes makes me serious." garou remarked
"Wow, I don't know if you tripped all those looser flags on purpose or if you're just that cliche," Saitama mocked with a chuckle.
"Let's go," Garou replied, simply taking a stance and dashing forward.
Saitama thought for a moment and remembered that Garou was Bang's disciple as he took a stance. He was curious if he should have asked him before he kicked his ass, but the old man shouldn't be concerned since this was just revenge for his apprentice bullying his own. He zoned back into the scabble just as the tip of garou fingers was about to reach his eye before dodging out of the way a barrage of different kinds of strikes came a moment later but he dodged all of them fairly easily, he spotted one opening in the man's attack and attempted to strike but the man had already dodged it, his vision was momentarily blocked as his punch carried him into the man's palm before he felt a bunch of blows land all over his body god instant attack pushing him back one step as he was off balance from the swing, he used the step back to push off of it and launch another attack however again it was dodge but more than that he managed to kick him in the chine while doing so, he looked at him unphased from the blow and offered a kick in return but the man just dodged once more and hit him with a weird uppercut to his chin god ascending attack. He heard Garou begin to talk again, but he just continued to sound like he was quoting every loose flag in the book, which got him even more uninterested in the bout.
He was curious how the man was dodging multiple of his punches. He attempted to punch him five more times, but he avoided every single one of them and returned multiple every single time. None of them he could feel, though. He guessed this would be like what would happen if he went back in time. He stuck him in the jaw once more before jumping backward to avoid a grapple attempt of his before he again started to monologue, but at least it was somewhat interesting this time around.
"Your power and speed make you a beast to fight, but you have no experience in fighting technique. I'm a prodigy; I can easily read the movements of amateurs like you. I only need to analyze your stance, point of view, and movement patterns to dodge. But there is also your center of gravity, muscle tension, breathing, and energy observation. All of those will tell me your next move. I probably couldn't avoid your attacks on my speed with my reflexes. but I'm already dodging before you've attacked. And before your attack motions end, my attack begins. Your reflexes won't be able to keep up; you'll take a direct hit. In other words, you have no chance of winning. The difference between our experiences is like night and day." garou remarked.
"Well, I'm impressed. Is that martial arts? So it kind of makes you feel like a genie when fighting someone? Well, it doesn't mean that you are still not serious yet, are you? Even an "amateur" like me can tell that you are soft. Do you mind if I get a bit more serious?" Saitama questioned simply
"Are you saying you weren't serious this entire time?" garou questioned
"Yup, so that you give this fight everything you have, I'll show you a little bit of how serious I can be... But this spot won't do; let's take this somewhere else." saitama remarked.
As soon as the sound had entered his ear, Garou suddenly found himself flying away as if he had been smacked. It was so fast and strong that he had momentarily blacked out, and he found himself flying over some water from who knows where. He kicked his feet down to stop himself so that he could stabilize using his martial arts. He could easily balance himself over the water, moving his feet so fast that he could be maintained on top of it. His superior vision could see the baldy that through him this far, his hands were in the water. He didn't know what he was planning to do, but he thought that maybe he should stop him, but it was far too late.
Serious Series: Serious Table Flip
Everyone outside was astonished as the world had been plagued by an even further darkness that sapped away the light for the briefest of moments, at least before the light returned, but it would leave just as suddenly in a constantly rotating cycle. The heroes on the ground closer by could see with the help of Toru and noticed what had been causing the weird lighting. It was almost as if someone had flipped a massive quarter that constantly flipped over the entire planet. Toru noted that this was the same piece of land that had been shaved off before, but it was way higher this time around to be able to see it from their level of elevation.
Garou was utterly befuddled; he didn't know where he had just thrown or why he had been touching solid ground again. Something was off at this moment, as he could see the sky, but it was weird, almost like it was in motion, or was he the one in motion? He didn't feel in motion, or did he? His thoughts were disrupted when a fist slammed into him from above. Slamming directly through the earth, he found himself standing on it. He went all the way through, but this proved that he wasn't on the earth; he traveled way too far to do so, so this idiot just chunked a large landmass into the air without any hesitation. Well, he didn't care; that meant he could go all out as he turned towards the landmass and barraged into it, completely shattering it into chunks. The man probably wouldn't be as noble as he was, so he would simply fall to the ground while he could bounce between the rocks or the air itself.
His thoughts were completely struck from him when a rabid barrage of punches struck him from behind, normal punch combo the blows rained down like hellfire he made to get away and barely did so crashing into some of the floating rocks, one of his horns had been completely shattered and his body was aching with pain all over, but that won't stop him he charged forwards at the man and he waved his hands sending multiple large boulders in his path such insolence would even slow him down as with one uppercut he evaporated each of them as he approached his target who was upside down, he tainted him once more which he answered with a threat god instant attack, Two-handed normal punch combo the sound of exploding rocks filled the area the mere shockwave of there collisions evaporating the surrounding large boulders immediately and shattering the others that had been further away to smaller pebbles.
Garou was shocked that he had been getting overwhelmed in the exchange of blows he needed to get away, higher than him, faster than he could; he wouldn't be able to surpass him if he were to act too cautiously; just looking at the way he was standing was insulting. He was full of openings; he could make a small opening in the middle of his erratic hands and the BF. Garou was shocked to find himself dove head-first into the ocean. Is there a layer of water in the sky? No… His senses were flipped like a cage insect being played with by a child. Was this guy playing with him? Was he supposed to be a hero? He swamps back up to the surface, and just as he surfaces, he is punted away back to the mainland.
"Hmm, well that's how the game goes, the monster. With the monster losing! What decides the match is your determination; in the end, you weren't serious. Once you quit your melancholic hero-hunting, Garou, fighting with you isn't fun." saitama remarked
What did he just say? Fun? He was the one being beaten up here. He had a purpose; he knew pain, and he would have everyone experience the same pain that he felt; it was something only he could do. He shakily rose to his feet before charging forth letting off with a punch that the man was about to grab however he was faster than before and was able to slip away changing his grab into an arm lock, he was going to attempt to break it but the guy's freakish strength simply allowed him to swing him around and push him off, he kicked up into the air kicking off the air to continually to change the direction of his approach appearing in front of the man and then than behind him before retreating he needed something to beat this man but he couldn't figure it out, he charged forth once more in landing another barrage of blows against the man which might as well have been mosquito bites as far as he was concerned before being stricken once more burying him deep in the earth, he got up this time by carrying aloof the fit and gravel about to throw it at him but the man with his insane speed completely powered through it and struck him in the face forcing him high up into the air.
His strength didn't make any sense; it was like he was made up of the hero's unfairness. As if he's the personification of justice. Of course, he already knew that the world was unfair. Justice and evil are decided by others; that's how the world is. To oppose the unfair power known as justice, I have to obtain the unfair power known as evil... To defeat the unfair being known as a hero, he needs to become an unfair being himself.
{I can hear you.}
{Garou}
Who are you?
{your deepest wish is now on the verge of falling apart into futility at the hands of a singular hero.}
Huh? Shut your mouth. Do you want to get killed?
{There is only one fist that can counter "the fist that turned against god." What do you think that is?}
What the hell are you trying to say? Who the hell are you, asshole? Show your face.
Heh, and here I am trying to help you out.
…old man?
{No master would just sit back and watch as their student gets beaten. Come take my hand.}
As if my old man would act like such a softie, Garou responded before twisting his body and looking at the being in the sky. It looked like a bang at a glance, but Garou could see it, and through his fight with Orochi, he knew what this being was.
After beating this hero, you are the next one I will slay "God." Yes, that's the true name of my fist, the monster calamity god slayer fist, to dominate this world as absolute evil and beat down humanity into an abyss of despair, something as unreliable as you will also be crushed by my hand as well!
Z-city ghost town
The teens had gathered all of the wounded and took them all toward where Fubuki was located. Given that Saren was also knocked unconscious, they had only one hope to help the others recover, at least partially. They had all luckily still been alive other than the random complete darkness. The teens momentarily stopped when the clouds started to form in the sky above them, but out of them revealed the large legs of a familiar being that caused multiple of them to worry and panic, but luckily it seemed like the being had disappeared a moment later and the skies were clear once more. The only S-class member who was up to witness the phenomenon was Zombie Man; however, he just found the incident to be weird and didn't question further, which the teens were thankful for as they carried on toward Fubuki's location and finally managed to find the girl. Huddled over and shaky rapidly, but she was in good enough space to help everyone present.
The main battle
Saitama looked at the sky and could feel that something was coming as the wind seemed to change. Something was coming as something crashed down behind him.
"Garou, what's with the quick costume change?" saitama asked
"This…this is …I finally did it. I have finally grown into the being that I've been yearning for. I have to thank you for forcing me into this." Garou spoke; his body had changed and gotten larger, sprouting even more horns along his back.
"Your aim, garou?" saitama questioned
"I mean after that," Saitama replied.
"Absolute evil, and that will be completed with your death," Garou remarked as he charged forward, slamming a fist directly into the man's face, only to have it not take effect at all and for him to receive harsh pain in return. He went rocketing off into the distance once more. Garou was utterly befuddled. Garou finally managed to slow down from his knock across the town. He didn't know how far he'd been hit, and he would have liked to investigate, but damn did his stomach hurt from that punch. It didn't make sense that his monsterfication seemed to be speeding up, and he was way stronger than he was before, but damn, it didn't seem like he was catching up at all. Once he finally got his head straight, the bald man finally decided to show himself by hopping down from the sky without a care in the world.
"Sorry, but I have no idea what you're talking about," Saitama said as he approached him.
"I never expected someone like yourself to understand... No one understands what needs to be done except me. I just need one more step, and after you're gone, it will be over. I'll save the world!" Garou remarked, dashing forward once more.
This time thanks to his monsterization he was fast enough to actually perceive the man's strike and since he could see it he instantly knew how to counter it, the blow came as an right haymaker sloppy in execution and highly telegraphed he was easily able to raise his own left arm on the inside of the strike and slide across it using the momentum to do a cross chop right along the side of the man's head however it only nudge the man's head to the side however it would have to be enough as he continued with his followed up attack a right cross it was a joint attack that was to discombobulate the target slamming the targets head one way and combine that force with the punch from the other direction but again as the punch connected it barely moved he felt like a kid at adult punching machine how his head barely budged so he opted for a different strategy turing his right cross into a stepped in elbow strike that took the man off his feet, a regular person would have been sent flying but he just stood their attached to his arm.
The bald man went for a grab along his arm using both of his hands but there was too much space in between his attachments he used his other arms to squeeze in between the gap before he could pull the grapple tight he twisted his arm up using his superior leverage to flip the bald man while he wa sin mid-air allowing him to remove his arms while keeping his at bay and slam a fist heavily down upon the heroes back, he had hopped to crush the heroes spine but he felt nothing break so he continued with his assault removing his arm from the man and attacking with his god slayer instant attack a rapid range of barrages rained down on top of the man, so fast that even he couldn't completely see what was happening so much so that he didn't even realize that the bald man had moved tunneled underground a couple of meters before coming up and throwing a rock at him.
Garou shattered the rock as he dashed towards the bald man's new position lashing out with dozens of punches but to his surprise all of them had completely missed their target, the idiot had been completely dodging all of his attacks with just his miraculous speed and reflexes however there was a great flaw in his style the man clearly had no technique he could start to read him his next move, his move even beyond that they all had started to present themselves to his mind's eye and with that hs next combo attack finally landed the god slayer instant attack a dual punch to the gut followed by a knee strike and ending with a snap kick that launched the hero away straight through multiple buildings garou sped around towards the exit way before striking the hero with another even more dangerous ability The great Fa Jin, pressing both of his psalms together, struck along the man's back before, just as he excitedly exited the third building, the explosive power that was unleashed completely vaporized the buildings that had just been standing there.
"No matter how strong your bones and flesh are, there is no way to train your internal organs. With your insides torn to shreds, even the beast you are, you won't be able to work as a hero ever ag-" garou was about to taunt as the dust from the buildings wafted around him but was shocked to see that the bald man had been absolutely fine from the strike but before his brain could process that a sudden shout from behind the man caught both of their attention both glanced back and were surprised when suddenly from inside seemed to be a trapped door, revealing civillains of some kind they had told them that they had been the in charge of the underground shelter and were checking for any other civilians in the area before they had been trapped when the quaking occurred, saitama assumed that when the buildings were blown away that they must have been freed and the people thanked him immensely for the rescue but saitama couldn't take the credit as he chucked a thumb over to garou and despite the trembling all had shown the very same enthusiasm when thanking the man for saving them before saitama had told them to get away from the area.
"Look at those absolute evil-saving people; you can change your ways just yet. I think your hero name could be" the ultimate monster artist," Saitama remarked with a teasing tone.
"Are you fucking with me!" garou yelled as he lashed out again with numerous punches from a single arm just to again not be able to hit the man even as he thought that he adapted and was able to read him he seemed to be even faster than before forcing him to start to adjust once more but he was surprised when the man had backhanded him once more this time into the air, he only remarked that it would be bad if they get the people fleeing down there caught in their squabble, garou was so insulted that he would still consider this just squabbling that he continued at the bald man his monsterization feeding off his anger as he clashed against the man in mid-air only to have the man block the attack simple as ever but he could only defy physics so much as he continued to punch against the man's stellar defense while in the air. His body began to morph and bend again; both his arms and legs grew even more powerful and bulked up significantly, but he also grew large wings along his back, allowing him to fly without having to launch off into the air. The bald man's only response to this new transformation was that he had only gotten a "little" better, which was unbelievable. He felt that going from a knife to a firearm in terms of damage potential was like going from a knife to a firearm.
He clashed in the air multiple times creating large shockwaves that parted many of the clouds they had long since abandoned the Z-city Ghost town as their fight took them else were before they could finally garou had enough and slammed the man down through the clouds to the regular onlookers it would almost be like hearing lighting was striking 20 times over, the man slammed into a volcano and their he stopped but garou could still see with his enhanced vision on how the guy was completely fine with that dopey grin on his face and he wanted nothing more than to wipe it off as he charged down with both of his hands glowing with energy and slammed it directly into the man's chest, blowing the back off the volcano to utter pieces but as he panted form the effort of the attack he was suddenly punched straight in the face sending him flying high up into the air before where he stopped kilometers away in the sky, he stopped before looking at the destruction below strange the man was completely fine but more than that the island was still standing from that attack, the bald man most have took the the full force of his strike and just the offshoot of what he didn't absorb destroyed the mountain itself, the man was a hero after all at least, as even at this distance he could see and hear with perfect clarity.
"Haha, this whole schtick where you're not even trying and things turn out perfectly... You kind of remind me of King, in a way. You have great hero instincts, don't you?"Saitama remarked, and Garou turned in the direction he was looking at, and his eyes adjusted completely, allowing him to see the small villa below. All of them seemed to have been celebrating had the volcano been erupting beforehand, and he saved them.
"God Dammit!" he yelled once more at everything, not only at the man but at himself. His body morphed again to his anger, growing two more arms. The bald man saved him the trouble of heading towards him as he met him in the air. He immediately dashed towards the bald individual, lashing out with all of his punches, but each move still missed, only triggering him even more. Wasn't he supposed to be absolute evil? He was utterly shocked when the bald man casually deflected his attack with just one hand before attempting to say that the fight was over, but he was unsatisfied and wouldn't let things end like this.
He couldn't let himself forget this anger, not until the entirety of humanity had been made to suffer the same pain and despair that he did, but was that the only way he had started to think as his memories started to reflect on the people he had unintentionally saved along with his conversation with Bang and Deku, his resolve started to weaken? That's how pathetic he was, and it pissed him the fuck off! Garou charged power into two of his hands and blasted that energy outwards behind him in combination with his wings flapping. He increased his speed and dove straight at his adversary, striking him directly in the gut and rocketing downwards directly over a mountain range, slamming straight through one of the mountains entirely. But Garou continued with his Extreme Fa Jin attack that continuously buried the man into the ground. The vibrations of the attack sun deep into the earth's core and even started to bulge the earth, which unearthed an even larger supercontinent on the other side of the planet.
Earth Core
The very planet started to shake once more, and at that point, blast worries started to get the best of him. He didn't think this monster association would have been capable of doing things this extreme, and he worried about whether the heroes would be enough to stop such a threat. As he turned to the left, another portal opened, revealing one of his companions. This one was Alderia. She was an alien that looked similar to humans, but she possessed unique pointy ears.
"Blast, it seems that some of the oceanic plates that subducted into the earth due to the earth's crustal movements have been pushed back out by a powerful force." Alderia remarked
"Yeah but... I think that helped me stabilize the core," Blast replied as he was finally able to fix the problem.
"Are you going to go help your planet? Boris remarked that he felt someone of his species here." Alderia remarked, earning Blast's attention as he snapped his fingers and opened a portal he had searched for Boris, knowing he was rather an impulsive individual when it came to his species and that having multiple of them in this place would only harm the planet more as he yanked the monster through.
"Good thing I was finished with the conversation. You finished up here?" Boris remarked
"Yeah, and it seems that you went off and did your own thing again." blast huffed as all three of them stepped through the portal back into the normal dimension.
"Well, I was curious why someone of my species would be so far off homeworld, but I was even more surprised by the state he was in. What's ever happening on Earth right now? It's not his doing, but something else." Boris remarked with a shrug.
"How much time do you have until the next wave?" blast asked
"Just around half an hour without one of our members, it's going to be tough; without two, it may be impossible to stop it," Alderia remarked.
"It's fine; it won't take that long." blast remarked before he warped back out of the separate dimension.
Main battle
Garou kept pushing and he wouldn't stop he didn't care how far he would travel even if he needed to go all the way down to the earth's very core not until he saw this man's face change at least a little bit and he got his wish but it was not one of pain it seemed to be one of seeming annoyance and the next thing he felt was pain erupt all over his body as an astronomical number of blows to many to even track completely consumed him.
Consecutive Normal Punches
He was pummeled completely out of the hole he made with the man's body as he got beat backward he tried to defend himself but there were just too many punches to stop it, techniques, power, speed, creativity, and attacks all of them were worthless against him, how…. Just how the hell was he supposed to beat this guy… A punch slipped through and completely rocked him in the face sending him skyrocketing backwards where he destroyed three mountain tops entirely as he passed by crashing down into the dirt and skirting along the ground where he eventually came to a stop…he lay there on the ground where he finally looked up at the man as he came down. It was no use he was all out of ideas, was this it? Expelled by justice without even a say…but maybe that was just how it is … If he were to fall let it be by this man's fist, he chuckled to himself maybe deep down he knew this wasn't going to work out as charged forth dragging to of his upper arms back before thrusting them forwards.
Serious serious: serious head butt
Both of his upper arms were blown away along with himself, he caught himself barely with his two damaged wings before dashing back down, ah maybe that was it he thought, maybe this was just how he wanted to die all along Garou thought as threw a punch which was caught by the bald man, his knuckled getting crushed by the iron grip forcing him down to his knees.
"Garou….there no point in continuing this you know that right?" saitama remarked
"Bastard…do it then…hurry up and finish me off… you're a hero aren't you!" garou remarked
"Sounds like you got some serious hero issues after all…if there is something you want to talk about I'm all ears….no need to stand around to chat there is a partially destroyed house over there... Let's go." saitama remarked simply pointing a thumb over to a building before he started to move and garou steadily followed behind him, somewhat grumbling the meanwhile.
There was a table in the half-destroyed home and saitama sat crossed-legged on one side while garou sat on his knees on the other.
"So what's up? Why did you start all of this?" saitama questioned
" I….I wanted peace plain as that ...But I realized heroes don't allow that to exist, their sense of "justice" is biased but what the world needs is unbiased absolute evil. A true peace through unbiased fear that heroes can't achieve, the half-assed peace that heroes make only serves to make people complacent in their hearts, and that complacency leads to evil deeds, on top of that humans aren't always punished for their evil deeds. That's the crucial difference between them and monsters. An imperfect fake brand of peace that turns humans evil …a place where you can't even make things right for a single ugly little brat getting picked on in the corner of the park…I knew since figuring that out what I had to do.
I would renounce that kind of peace. I'd get stronger than everyone else, and become the absolute monster! That no justice could ever take down, that's why I was doing this! I would have been the count evil that plunges humanity into terror! In a world with no room for survival, evil will disappear. And so will bullying and discrimination and even war!
What this world needs is not biased justice but unbiased absolute evil! Don't think that all children are waiting for heroes. There are even kids around the world. Waiting for a great month to take the stage. Can you save them? Can you follow the ugly kid being picked on in the park? I can save the whole world from terror while humanity is fearing garou the monster, everyone's heart would unite to survive.
Is there any other peace than this? Can you create peace? Can you unbiased and save the world with that flimsy cape? Do you have the means to stop unseen tragedies? You're strong, but so you may defeat me, but can you handle the responsibility? Well, if you're going to defeat me, answer the question. Do you have a sense of duty like mine? Why are you a hero?" Garou finished his impassioned speech to the man.
"It's a hobby," Saitama said casually
" Wait, that's it, you answer my question like that. Impossible, you had to have found the answer, When you found you gained that strength. What is a hero to you? Tell me. Was it that you see when you think of a hero? that's not a satisfying answer." Garou demanded standing up
"I don't know, it's a hobby! Nothing more to it!" Saitama yelled out raising his fist so fast that the wind pressure tore through the house roof and blew away the clouds in the air for miles and it was then that garou realized. The entire time he wasn't fighting a hero at all.
"What the hell? What are you!?" Garou said
"A her-
"No, you're not a hero you can't… you can't call that a hero!" Garou denounced.
" Really? Garou so you did have an image of an idle hero inside of you? I see, now I understand what you wanted to do. Even though you said you want to be a monster of absolute evil. What you really wanted to be was a hero, you compromised and decided to be a monster to bring world peace, you took the easier route to think of a monster's job as quicker and easier than a hero's, a monster's role is simple, after all, all you'd do is defeat heroes.
It's perfect for someone with no confidence like you. But as long as you compromise like that you can never defeat me. Your compromised monster hobby vs my serious hero hobby! even if that's all I had I still wouldn't lose!" Saitama yelled passionately and for the first time, garou remained silent…
"I don't know what to do…" Garou remarked simply almost completely deflated.
"Oh…now I remember well the first thing you should do is payback for your dining and dashing…umm, I forgot who paid for it but I know it was girl that bothers me often so I'll let you know when she comes by again. I don't really care what you do after that." saitama remarked
"What do I want? Look at me! idiot! I can't do anything anymore…everything that I wanted to accomplish failed after not beating you…I don't know what I should do anymore I don't have a reason to live." garou remarked simply.
"Hold up don't blame this on me, I don't care what you do with your life, I mean I know the teens had someplace they were shipping all the monsters to so there that but I guess I could go fetch bang though he's your master right he probably can tell you something about living and answer all that other stuff you said, honestly I was zoning in and out, I should have told you to keep it to twenty words or less." saitama remarked as he put his shoes back on and stepped out, garou grumbled once more before
"You're not going to kill men and you're going to leave me alone? Tch some hero you turned out to be." garou remarked
"No one going to kill you over some dine and dashing, everyone makes mistakes even me." saitama remarked simply as he left and jogged away.
Saitama met up with the others after a five-minute jog most of them were still on the ground unconscious while a couple of the others had been up and about but still exhausted.
"Saitama good timing would could use your strength." fubuki remarked.
"Hmm? What's the problem? " saitama asked
"Just give me your hand." fubuki remarked and saitama did so before feeling a tiny tickle suddenly everyone who had just been unconscious and tired suddenly sprung up again like knew although a bunch of them were still confused and catching up with each other before the question of where is garou was presented and then all eyes turned towards saitama.
Saitama remarked that he had put a stop to him and that he was in a shack a bit further down the rubble. Arguments sprung out immediately from Sweet Mask as well as tatsumaki on why he hadn't killed the monster yet however the non-killing army rebuffed them, even when Bang wanted to be the one that decided the fate of his pupil Sweet Mask disagreed because they had already tried that before and he failed when he captured him the first time. Saitama didn't have much of a pitch in this race so he decided to leave to them he was about to scoop up genos when suddenly a hard impact was heard off in the distance and an explosion of gravel was kicked up into the air, causing everyone to look at saitama and question if garou was still conscious when he left saitama confirmed that the teen was but he didn't get to say more as the group of heroes dogpiled on him for leaving him unattended and dashing off into the direction of the large explosion.
Garou
Garou had been patiently waiting in the home, he didn't know what compelled him to stay if he just wanted to see the old man again or if was he just acting like the bald guy gave him a command. But he still stayed there just waiting he looked up into the sky at the moon above wondering what he was doing…who he even was really, that was until he saw something, something almost seemed like it was reaching out of the shadows of the moon and stood upon its surface and just as he saw it something slams down directly in the center of the table, garou looked upon it and from it the voice came even louder than before.
{You see now firsthand the power of the one that has turned against me, join me be my fist that will crush even him…your dream could be fully realized with my power. Touch the cube cement out deal} the being spoke directly into his mind garou looked at the box and truly contemplated his options, was he going agree to this "God" creature?
[Hey! Don't listen to that thing!] another voice wrung in the air, but this almost seemed to be in place with him, he looked forwards once more, and standing there seemed to be a ghost of….himself?
[It's just breathing hot air even with its power it won't work, live your life the way you see it…Garou The Monster] the aberration spoke before fading off into obscurity, its body shattering away like glass, he didn't know what that was maybe his subconscious or possibly a different version of him or something else
{That echo was merely a false vessel he stole my power and he wasn't granted ALL he could have but take my hand openly and you will receive-}
The voice subtly left as something teleported in and picked up the cube, garou had barely any time to react as his body instantly flared danger and it moved on using his god-slayer fist to completely deflect the strike heading in his direction, the punch was powerful all four of his arms had been completely blown off from the attack and his body went sailing backward out of the house and crashing into the dirt below, his consciousness was fading away both of his legs were heavily mangled and blood poured from his chest he was only hit by the shockwave and that was how much damage he sustained it was unbelievable did the baldy come back and change his mind? Another portal opened up, this time showing him who his opponent was it wasn't the baldy but someone else dressed in a large white vest, and on that vest was who he was facing it was none other than blast. The number one S-class hero, he should have been excited or pumped up but judging just from that attack he knew he couldn't reach him just like saitama. He guessed this was the end after all as he allowed himself to close his eyes once more in contempt to just accept his fate, somewhat honored by the fact that he caused such a commotion that even Blast had to come out from his exile or hiding to come to face him, he could at least die with that peace of mind or so he thought as he heard voices from the others.
"Blast stop! The fight is over already. You don't need to kill him." Deku remarked as he jumped down into the creator in the ground and grimaced at the sight of garou embedded in the rocks behind him.
"Don't need to? He nearly destroyed the planet." Blast asked a bit befuddled.
"You don't even know what happened, How can you pass judgment so easily on who was at fault?" Saren remarked, blast seeing the monster took a moment to analyze who was present at the moment, the mossy haired teen had jumped down from above them to go between him and the monster, and on the lip of the crater were the other teens but there had been a few other monsters right alongside them.
"Look I know that you come from a place where things are a bit more complicated but here, things are a bit more cut and dry, monsters are dangerous especially strong ones like this one… even if he didn't nearly destroy the plant it has the potential to do so." blast remarked
"Or maybe you're just trying to oversimplify things….this monster saved all our lives, while you were away doing whatever we were all nearly killed including tatsumaki." Midoriya challenged and this got Blast to raise an eyebrow.
"Where are all of the S-class heroes? This was where the battle of the Monster Association took place I assume? They should be here" Blast remarked midoriya sucked in a breath before turning his head towards seran when they all had initially started to run over midoirya had discreetly slowed down everyone while speeding up his friends, bang, and his brother. Saren had a similar idea where he cast a spell to suppress and chain down the rest of the S-class heroes however this was only a half measure with the powerful could muscle through the spell although their speed was extremely hampered making them much slower getting to garou than the others and saitama they could imagine was just taking his time as usual.
Once Saren had removed his spell and Midoriya had relinquished his gear shift the S-class came by fairly quickly to investigate what had been happening, flash was first quickly followed by Tatsumkai and the rest in short order besides child emperor who by zombieman had ducked to go ad recover his discarded brave giant machine, all of the S-class expressed shock upon seeing blast for the first time, it was tatsumaki the one that had charged forth directly in the man's face.
"Bl-blast what are you doing here?" the girl asked
"Yo, tats I'm here because the planet seemed to be in danger but according to them, the monster that was responsible has already been taken care of and this monster was the one that did it, mind telling me what happened?" blast questioned the floating girl, she turned around and glanced at the down monster a bang stood almost protectively in front of it.
" I mean…I guess in a manner of speaking he did." Tastumaki remarked
"Is It also true that he saved all you guys?" blast questioned
"What of course not I don't know about the other slacker but I didn't need…to be saved….by any…. Maybe…..only because I was tired with all the fighting at 100% I'm sure I could have handled it " Tatsumaki's reply came out fast but as the memories came back to her she slowed before finally reluctantly admitting to some truth to that claim.
"He did go on to thrash the rest of us however and not to mention his hero hunting." zomebieman pointed out.
"What is there to discuss!? Heroes are to kill monsters, they are a menace to society, and we have to exterminate all of them. Right blast!" Sweet Mask remarked loud and abrasively.
"Yet you fought alongside monsters and if anything they did more than your scrawny ass!" bakugo rebuffed the idol hero making him quickly turn and glare at the explosive teen who glared right back at him before they could turn into a full-blown argument and blast spoke once more taking the idols completely attention and squelching his anger almost immediately.
"Alright! I don't have much time for this, who wants to spare this monster's life?" blast remarked suddenly, bang hand raised into the air first and this was equally followed by all of the teens but that was of no surprise but the first person other than the predictable ones to raise their hand was none other than, atomic samurai.
"This is Bang's apprentice, so it should be his call if believes that he should be left alive then I'll allow it as a fellow master I could relate." atomic samurai remarked sliding down into the crater in front of garou. The next one to put his hand up was shockingly darkshine himself making his way down into the crater right beside Atomic Samurai.
"Garou…he helped show me how much of a phony of a hero I was...I want to show him that I can become better and I think we as heroes should offer him the same courtesy." darkshine spoke the next one that raised his hand was Metal Bat who jumped down into the center.
"Well I don't care about all that mushy stuff but I want to fight him again, he got me this time but I'll rock him next time, especially if he starts acting up." metal back remarked, the next up was both tank top master, and puri-puri prisoner.
"I came into this battle hoping to rescue my babies who were also turned into monsters, so I have no right to judge Bang's plight to save his student, even though my babies are gone I do not want that same fate to befall him." Puri-puri prisoner announced.
"If a fellow tank topper believes that something should be protected then I'll help them, he did save my life and this marks the second time during this day that it came from a monster." tank top master spoke, looking towards Shoji who nodded his thanks in return, child emperor had landed down during the discussions and was filled in on what was happening with child emperor who remained at the top of the rim of the crater, along with pig god, zombieman, and sweet mask, the council of swordsmen was also on top but at the request of atomic as this was a hero matter.
"Well, what about you? I'm not gonna lie, I'm fine with keeping monsters around but this one is a bit more than you all could handle." blast remarked towards tatsumaki, which got the girl to raise an eyebrow as her power flared and shoved him backward.
"Hmph …I'm not the same girl that I used to be you know, I can take care of this idiot if he decides to try something stupid again." tatsumaki replied with some confidence, blast slid back a decent bit before stopping.
"Well I hope that you and the rest of you can prove that to me…show me what you got…S-class heroes." blast remarked