C1AMA: CYA: What Defines A Hero

by lumpeistbark3

Coming off the cusp of a disastrous battle at UA, a wish Granted By God Takes Deku along with his classmates away from the world they once knew to someplace new but familiar, possessing heroes themselves but they soon come to realize that operate at a different code of ethics than what they are use to, they will need to brave this new world in hopes of retuning Home.

67. Month 5: Week 1: The End

Alright this is the End, I'd like to thank everyone for reading my story! Thank you twice if you have read both paths of the story! I thought the story would be over by June to give everyone a month break before we hop into the next story but it seems that won't be the case(as I missed counted) but as those that may know by now given that I hate odd numbers there's going to be another chapter after this the duel epilogue for both paths. Which will be coming out on the 15th!

The Final fight: Blast vs Everyone(mostly)

Inside the crater, the teens, the S-class heroes, and a couple of monsters all lined up in a defensive line in front of the hero hunter and his master bang. The older gentleman was moved from the bottom of his heart at the display of support that the group had offered him and his pupil, especially given what he became and what had been told of what he'd done. He would have liked to fight alongside him, but he turned his head to look down at his apprentice instead as he felt the air around him become charged. Kamianri and Volten were the first ones to act, both of them shrouding everyone with their lighting shroud, making everyone glow with electricity and power, which was soon followed up by Midoriya dawning his face mask, which doubled as a rebreather as he used his black whip to wrap around everyone one more time, applying his gear shift to quicken everyone once more. Everyone had received the increased effects except for one of them. One of the S-class heroes had discreetly snuck himself into the pack of them, and this hero was none other than the S-class hero flashy flash. Given the man's temperament, they believed that he would not want any assistance in the battle. No one was going to ask what his reasoning for participating was, given that none of them were close enough, and he did not say it himself, but one was more inquisitive than others.

"I'm surprised that you are participating in such an event. " Silver Chain spoke as she walked toward the man; he turned towards her and gave an unamused look.

"I care not for Bang's student's life; however, I do have my score to settle with the boy that I won't be able to if he is dead, but more importantly, this is the number one hero; it is rare for him to show himself at all in the flesh. I would like to test him and see if he matches the legends they make of him. " Flash remarked, simply turning to face the man once more.

"Hehe, I expect no less from you, although if we were going to test him, I would think it was wise that you also be at your best to make it a good one. " Silver Chain spoke as she lifted something. Flash turned towards it and was shocked to see what the girl had in her hands. It was his sword... He reached for it and unsheathed it, testing its weight; it was the same, perfectly balanced. He checked the edge, which was perfectly smooth and crafted just like how he had it. He looked up at the girl with a shred of mystery and intrigue in his eyes.

"How did you manage to fix it? " Flash remarked in bewilderment that he had blacksmith training himself, but this was something entirely different; it was like the sword had never been lost in the first place.

"I didn't think of it as a direct copy of the original that is indistinguishable from the real thing. I had to remake it; judging by how you reacted to its destruction, I know it must mean a lot to you. " Silver replied as she gestured towards the weapon held in his clutches. The assassin looked at the blade and examined it and himself within its reflection for a moment before finally looking at her with a strangely severe gaze. He tentatively put his hand upon her shoulder and said something she never would have guessed.

"I'm sorry for what I took from you," Flash remarked, simply giving her shoulder a tight squeeze and looking her dead in the eyes before proceeding forward. Silver Chain was so stunned by the gesture that it took her a moment to completely reorganize herself, but she left out a small chuckle as she followed after the man who made his way towards the front of the group of heroes and monsters.

"You sure are a strange man, Flash. " Silver Chain spoke.

"Just don't get in my way, " Flash replied simply.

The atmosphere was agitated; neither side had made a move against the other. Blast patiently waited for them to gain the courage to face him. He had a little time before the next wave so he could play a bit, but his true goal with this exercise was to figure out who among them had managed to beat that monster. If they were capable of doing that, he wondered what else that person was capable of. Even if that was the person's limit, the fact that they were that strong was intriguing to him. The heroes seemed to have finally prepared themselves, and he let out a whistle at the bright lights of electricity that surrounded them. This was soon compounded by something else, which was a glowing green aura. At first, he thought it was tatsumaki, but upon closer inspection, that didn't seem to be the case. He looked up towards the ridge line and spotted that a different esper had been helping out, along with a good majority of the other members up there helping the women.

He looked upon the women for a moment longer before looking towards Tatsumaki and then back again. Was that? He asked Tatsumaki about the woman, and he was right—that was her sister from before; she had grown up into her own, it seemed. He remarked with a chuckle before he quickly hopped up and ducked as the two front runners of the heroes' formation dashed towards him. They were kind of fast, he guessed in terms of the earth, but to him, they were barely jogging. The two of them came back at him as he was in mid-air, attempting to strike him in the chest with twin blades overlapping over each other to hide the second blade underneath. He could simply parry the attack away from himself; however, he would like to show off a bit himself, so he kicked off the air over the dual strike behind them just as the two blades were about to reach his chest, coming behind the both of them and slamming an open hand down on both of their shoulders, stopping them both in their tracks and fracturing the ground with the strain. Both of them were shocked by his sudden action. The two of them had attempted to react to him by launching off with a kick, but he was faster, moving his hands from their shoulders and jabbing both of them in the chest with a finger, which sent them both flying backward into the rocks.

Blast sensed the flare of energy behind him just as tatsumaki sent a barrage of smaller rocks directly at him at incredible speed he was able to turn around to see the rocks approaching him and stuck one hand out summoning a dark glowing portal that was not only teleported the stones away from him but opened back up right behind the girl that sent them causing it to smack into the back of her head, which he chuckled at before smacking away a large energy blast that had emerged from the large dog creatures mouth, it exploded off in the distance but he was confident it didn't hit anything important everything had been destroyed in the first place so not like he could destroy much of anything else in the area he thought. His thoughts were interrupted when suddenly the ground under him had just come up and swallowed him up to his neck. He didn't see or feel any of the signs of an esper doing it as he looked once more at the audience challenging him. It likely wasn't one of the heroes, or at least he didn't think so, so he looked toward the monsters, and among them, the most likely one to be doing so was the minotaur creature. He could see his hands were held up and his fist closed together. Given the swords on its' back, it likely fought in close quarters with them instead, and its intense concentration was also a dead ive-away.

The teen's black ropes came around him as well along with the dirt and gravel to try and retail him while the other physical brawlers came at him, including puri-puri prisoner, tank top master, darkshine who seemed to have gone under some strange transformation, and Midoriya himself, of course, the restraints might as well have been for show with how good they were as he easily flexed and broke out and quickly wrapped his hands around the black whipped extruding from the mossy haired teen and with super speed quickly wrapped around the four people before twirling them all around and sending them flying off into the wall of the large crater before turning his attention back to another monster this one was a large tiger of some kind, growing to 40ft tall and slamming down on him with one of its paws he casually raised his hand and caught the attack and before yanking the paw and by in large the monster downwards suddenly striking against the gut that sending it flying backwards towards the group, the monster had the foresight to shrink back down into the it's normal size but was caught before hitting the wall or more precisely the walls of the crater seemed to have come out and caught the tiger in mid-air which he wouldn't like to think was much better than him crashing but maybe it could soften it somehow he wondered.

Blast zone back into himself Just as the blast of frost, fire, lighting, and explosions reached near his face, he outstretched one finger and absorbed all of them into the blackhole he created before pointing that finger back at the people and returning the attacks to the sender. They all dived out of the way and scattered in time to dodge away from the assault. Tatsumaki came back at him as she attempted to attack him again with her power, traditionally one wouldn't be able to see the esper waves that psychics shootout but since he had been infected by god power gave him extra sensory abilities allowing him to dodge to the left of the invisible attack going by the flattened hole that it made it was likely an increased gravity attack which even if it did land he had his way of handling such things with his power, he felt an aura flare behind him and he quickly turned around to see that atomic samurai had started to glow a brilliant gold his Kamino had been highlighted in golden highlights and etching with golden armored shoulder pauldrons, the major source of the aura, however, was his sword unlike a traditional blade he could feel it growing with energy and power however that still paled in comparison to the monster he defeated. Atomic samurai dashed at him, slicing at him with his sword over and over again thousands of slashes within one second of the other. None of them landed, however, as he continued to parry and dodge out of the way of each of them before side-stepping the issue and, with a slight elbow check, slammed the man into the east side of the crater wall with a hard impact.

He was partially surprised when his vision suddenly left him for the moment and in that same instant he heard someone yell out for the others an opportunity to attack they wasted no time as multiple large explosions washed over him they did nothing to him but he couldn't retaliate without actually seeing where the person was so instead he simply teleported away from the conflict using the dust to escape the groups sight a well, by the time he came back he was floating above Tatsumaki who had been looking down below at them, the girl must have felt his presence before he arrived because as he did so she already had a rock barrage ready for him, he shattered the incoming rocks with punch each before teleporting once more this time leaving his body in the separate dimensions and striking out against the girl with a finger sending her spiraling backward through the air.

Before teleporting away before she could counter-attack, he landed back down amid the large crater, clapping his hands and creating a large shockwave that cleared the dust and blew some of the more unprepared people away, the one thing he didn't imagine he would encounter when he blew away the smoke was five incredibly large machines standing amongst the crater each of them had to have been around 20 meters tall, they were designed by metal knight and held a large number 10 on their shoulder blade he didn't know what they were or even how they got there, they extended to just about over the lip of the casam he created but he would have definitely would have seen them from above if they were dropped in or something like that, he guessed one of the monster and or teens could have created them in that case, one of the teens the brunette with long hair had been heavily winded and given he didn't do anything to her he guessed that was the best possible answer. He quickly raised a hand to absorb two twin lasers that had emerged from one of the machines on the palms of his hands.

He redirected them to one of the other machines, only for it to barely budge from the strike, and in retaliation, this machine didn't fire a laser, but instead, all along its arm and wrist had segregated and emerged multiple hardpoints; these ranged from what he could only guess as mini-guns, autocannons, and even missile silos. The machine unleashed its full arsenal against him, it wasn't much cause of concern as he continued to absorb it with his portal before shifting gear to offense, instead of just returning fire he gathered all of it into one large bal using his power and then smashed it down on top of one of the machines head blowing the head off the machine completely which he would have thought would be enough to take it offline however that didn't seem to be the case, it still moved its armored hands transforming coming thick with additional amor pylons and a spiked gauntlet it punched at him he dodged out of the way easy enough but his vision left him just as the other machines came at him, he felt something hit him on the top of the head but it barely budged him as he quickly shot his hand up at the appendage feeling it for a moment it was a mallet of some kind or some super flat surface but it didn't matter what it was as he had pierced his hands into the things and pulled down icnredibly hard since he didn't have to worry about killing smething he put some umph into it to the predictabel result compleetly ripping the machine's appendage from it's body before ripping it to pieces and scattering the pieces and scattering them dwon below in a form of razor hail.

His vision returned to him a moment after allowing him to see once more, he was curious about which person was doing that, it was very annoying it had to be one of the teens or monsters, and thinking back on it there was one of them that he couldn't very see well or at all for that matter so he guessed it would be that one, he looked towards the machine he took the arm off of and shredded to pieces before moving forwards and punching it directly in the chest, he knew professor bofoi wasn't one for sentimentalities so he wouldn't just help people out for nothing even if that girl was capable of creating the machine he undoubtedly was still the one in control and he wouldn't want his technology used on things he considers beneath his time and he wouldn't trust his tech carelessly to someone else, so his assistance likely came with some cost or something of that matter he hoped the teens didn't offer information for it.

If they had enticed him with information about god and the black boxes, he might have bitten for that and offered them a hand, especially if they deemed it necessary for this supposed monster association Sitch told him about. Given how healthy everyone appeared, that seemed to be unnecessary, but that only brought up another issue: who was fighting the monster and making earth go haywire like that? It would make no sense that he was the first one to encounter the creature, and they had personally remarked to have fought the thing before, so did it just fight them in a way that left them relatively unharmed, or did they get emergency medical care that healed their wounds surprisingly quickly? He doubted that, so the most likely option was for someone to be able to heal others in their place. Blast summarized as his vision was blocked for the third time and rolled his eyes as he teleported one more to breaking the lock once more. He had to adjust for a moment as he felt what he expected to be bullets of one kind or another completely bounce off his skin, and having just done that, his ideas on why the metal knight would be helping were likely due to Boris interference. The alien remarked that he was having a "talk " with one of the species that he found on this planet.

Sitch did fill him in on what happened to A-city and how it was the cause of an alien invasion, which likely was a being of his race given that he didn't believe that they could fly through space on their own, which meant they had a ship, and the one that would take possession of said ship and any inhabitants that may be inside of it would be metal knights. So he was likely very curious about the being that had managed to find the super secret thing he had stashed out somewhere, and since they used the same energy signature, he definitely would like to analyze it with these machines of his. That is probably the true reason he was allowing her to use them, if he had to guess. He quickly sped forward, slamming into the first of the five machines that were missing its head and destroyed instantly with a casual punch before dodging out of the way off another missile barrage and using his portal to bisect the second machine in half vertically before switching targets once more using his portal and sending a fourth machine away high up into the stratosphere. It would probably survive the crash, but it was out of his face, and for the last machine, he slammed down directly on top of it, smushing it to the ground where he would have thought it explodes, but instead simply disappeared as if it wasn't there.

He felt an impact hit him in the face during his confusion, but he couldn't see anything that had hit him. He quickly brought his hand up and caught on to the fist and held the person up. It was someone, and it seemed that the invisible field around him faded to reveal that it was none other than the green-haired boy, his body glowing in that power of his. Behind him were some of the other teens that dashed at him, the boy with the multiple arms, the boy in the yellow jumpsuit, and the one girl that wore pink. It didn't matter to him; none of them were a threat to him as he allowed them to land their punches along his body. heavier? But it wasn't due to Tatsumaki and her attack, but someone else? He looked around and found that the girl had some strange things on the knuckles of her hands, and he quickly used the midoirya as a swatter to swat the other guys away before finally catching her fist within his grip. He questioned what those mutations did. She told him she called them gravity knuckles; they increased the gravity on his person. He laughed about how he also had a move that he called gravity knuckles. Although he simply increased the density, polarity, and mass of his fist to do more damage with a punch, he showed her clenching his fist and unleashing a portion of his power on it. He would not hit her with it as he could see the noticeable fear grow on her face as he dissipated it and instead poked her in the head, still sending her flying backward into the wall of the crater.

He suddenly felt multiple blows dance across his body once more judging by the mitch-match strength of them he could tell that it was likely two people striking him, he couldn't see them but he knew that they were there, the strange part, however, was that each of the impacts seemed to impart a strange vibration at each point of impact but they would fade soon after so he hardly noticed, he brought his hands upwards once more and clasped both of them on their shoulders and with just silent muffled huff both individuals dropped down to the ground, there one of them became visible it was the one with the tail while the other one had still been invisible as shuffled his feet and knocked into the person to make sure the other guy could have had just been moving fast but no it was the invisible person he remarked as he used his portal to scuttle them away from him and towards the lip of the arena just as several explosion rocked him in the back, they all detonated harmlessly over him however he did notice that he was noticeably slower now as he tested his hand moving it back and forwards in front of his face.

It wasn't just the increased gravity doing that; he was confident in that part; he dealt with way worse than what? Maybe 30 times? He didn't know, but it was around there somewhat, but it was something different. He turned around to spot the two front runners come back at him, they had gotten a little faster to his eyes but in truth, he was just a little slower, the two crossed with each other four times but they charged him once over one going high the other going low, he elected to simply block the attacks this time grabbing on to flashy flash leg and the other one's punch he picked both of them up but the two of them prevented from being slammed together like the rest by twisting their bodies and countering the hold on him and launching away from him by using his chest as a platform to launch off of, he heard yelling from behind him and used a portal to open up and swallow the charging individual whole popping him out in front of him which showed that it as one of the younger S-class heroes metal bat, he was completely confused about where he was that was until he kicked him in the back sending him flying forwards lading face first into the ground where he slid for several feet before kicking up with his signature weapon even angry then before and charging right at him.

He wasn't alone in that regard as the two front runners came back at him along with atomic flash golden yellow flashing by the teen as well, three blades but in reality, it felt like millions came at him slicing a mixture of silver, purple, and gold the ninjas danced around the blade of the samurai even they couldn't quite compare to the speed of his slashes especially in this state that he was in now although for him even in his slowed state weren't all that much harder to dodge around and as he skipped backward blocking and defending against each strike, before summoning a massive portal and shoving them through it with a clap of his hands they also appeared in the sky dozens of kilometers above him this allowed him to focus his attention on metal bat as he finally came at him, he caught the teens bat with one hand and held it there, smirking as the teen attempted to pull it back, using his other hand he turned around smashed along the barrage of rocks tatsumaki sent his way. He shifted the metal bat directly in the way of darkshines charges like a bull and a red cape before kicking the large man in the back, sending him flying backward.

He turned his attention back towards the teens as he dodged out of the way of a wave of ice and some slimy substance, using a portal to get behind them and the two offenders and hoist them up by the stuff of their shirts and spun around quickly, throwing them into the side walls with heavy impacts. His hands felt a little chilly from the stunt, but he quickly warmed them up with his power. The minotaur from before charged at him with both of his large swords; he blocked both of them with his forearms and kneed him in the stomach, sending it flying backward as well. Lighting struck next, and three times at that, multiple lightning bolts came down from the sky, and from both of his sides, he attempted to dodge out of the way, but the bolts had unexpectedly curved and came right at him. The attack washed over him with nothing to show for it. He heard the electric teen complain about how he was just "op, " and he responded that they were just weak, which ticked some of them off, especially Metal Bat. As he recovered from his tackle and came at him once more, he was about to grab the bat again as he dashed forwards. However, his position shifted, or more precisely, the ground from under him shifted, allowing the bat to land a direct shot against his upper arm. It clanged off like nothing happened, which only made the teen want to keep swinging even more until he felt at least one of them, the hot-spirited teen declared.

He allowed five more before he was about to retaliate, but musical purple chains had suddenly sprung up from the ground and subdued his arms and legs. He quirked an eye at that and surveyed the field. The one responsible seemed to be the monster swordsman, if the glowing purple energy was anything to go by. He wondered what type of chains these were; they were stronger than he thought they would be; he had to put a little bit more effort into breaking them; or was he just being weakened by them instead? Something like this in combination with the other stuff could have possibly taken down the monster if they had perfect teamwork but how Sitch talks about the S-class that was highly unlikely as he flexed and broke free from the chains although he still felt a bit weak from that and this allowed metal bat to get a good hit in on his shoulder blade it didn't hurt of course and for his trouble, he shoulder checked him into the side of the wall before teleporting over to the weird monster swordsman and lashing out only to hit nothing that felt like ink, the next thing he felt was more super gravity waved be applied on him by tatsumaki the girl let loose and he was a bit impressed by how far she's come since he saw her as a child slamming down with easily around 15000 times gravity field it halted him for a moment making his knees slightly buckle as he didn't expect it but he recovered just fine standing straight up and stretching for a moment longer.

An explosion seemed to have ripped through the air, drowning out all the sound as something behind Tatsumaki was coming down like a meteor of some kind. The girl kept all her focus and attention on him, though she was not worried about the thing coming closer and closer, but the object seemed to just pass her by. Oh, was that their plan to keep him locked down and hit him with that? Well, he could just dodge out of the way, although that attack seemed pretty dangerous if it hit the ground in the first place, so instead he opted to go towards it, leaping up and catching the attack with his hand. There was a resounding shockwave that spread out over the area. Now that was more like the power he could feel from the monster, although it was still an order of magnitude weaker than it, so that couldn't have been what defeated the monster if it was defeated in the first place, he thought as he held the crumpled ball in his hands before, almost just like the robots, it disappeared from his hands.

In his thoughts once more he was suddenly surrounded by a cage of electricity three members joined him in the air or more precisely the three he sent into the air had finally come back down into him and they were now bouncing around the electrical cage and launching out at him, he dodged each attempt to strike him before a massive light suddenly shining bright he generated a small black hole that absorbed it all just in time for him to block all three swords aimed at his next catching the three of them before porting all of them back to the ground where he waves his hand and sent out a pressure wave that pushed all of three of them backward all of them were panting hard while he had barely broken a sweat at all but he would need to wrap things up soon he thought it was evident that no one here was capable of beating the monster at this point. He took a step once more, and his body froze up completely for a second underneath him. It was a massive symbol that he couldn't quite decipher; he couldn't even think about it as his head seemed to be swimming with a large and very annoying white noise, like a constant buzz saw going off directly in his mind. This was followed up by him hearing singing. Or was he just imagining that? The world around him started to spin and look funny. Those purple chains returned once more, and it seemed like the effects nearly doubled on his mind as the world started to fade out from around him like a painting being washed away.

He saw the others all retreating out of the crater until his world went dark once more. There was one thing that filled his attention more than all the others: a massive source of ESP power had been coming from somewhere, which had to be from Tatsumaki. Something big slammed down on his back. Everyone was forced to scatter away including those at the top of the rim., child emperor was the first one to notice as his satellite reported a strange occurrence a meteorite had been beaming down directly towards their position, and the satellite had already sent him the estimates and the estimated safe zone that they had to reach to make sure that they were going to survive such a strike but before he could give orders it seemed the trouble maker likely leading the meteor their was already on that as she picked up everyone that wasn't blast a threw them clear into the air, just as the meteor came down into the large crater creating a massive fiery explosion as the man was at the epicenter.

Casting a massive nearly 5 kilometer wide 2 km deep hole in the ground as the smoke and earth seemed to shake once more from the result, tatsumaki was on the verge of collapse from that attack although she was still able enough to relinquish her hold on Bakugo after he called her a show-off letting him suddenly drop from the sky he stabilized himself before fulling falling however and dropped down towards the ground as tatsumaki lowered the rest of them, zombieman commented about how that might have been overkill for just a spar but tatsumaki ignored him as she stared at the divot in the earth, and soon rising above the edge of the massive crater in the earth was blast himself levitating out of the whole and still completely unphased and he was even smiling while clapping his hands and laughing, he was laughing off an attack of that magnitude… Just what the hell was this guy made of? It was almost a universal thought, besides one that could only think about how perfect the man was and how this was what a true hero was.

"That…that was more like it… I'm sure with power like that, the other monsters weren't too much of anything for you; however, that still wasn't quite the level of power needed for that one, I'm afraid. and time is running short, so I need to wrap this up... Sorry, he's too dangerous to be left alive, " blast remarked before disappearing before their very eyes once more teleported into the center of their formation and slapping a hand on Tatsumaki's back, caging her in dark black energy before moving on to the others.

"Bang….I fear that we may not have much choice here. This hero is strong and dead set on his goal. Bomb remarked to his brother as he witnessed the battle going on. Three more heroes were caught by the blast and suspended. Bang simply continued to look down at his apprentice, who was unmoving, but since the shockwave, his body had started to twitch, signaling that he was still alive.

"Garou… Get up… I didn't raise you to be this soft. You trampled over so many people to reach your dream, and now that you have it,. Are you going to be content with just dying like this? Those same heroes that you beat and trampled are right now fighting for your life despite your actions, although you are a monster now. Garou, I saw what you were trying to accomplish. You were willing to take on the role of monster for the sake of world peace. You are an idiot, but your goal is one that everyone can sympathize with. Together, we can go down different paths to achieve that goal, but you must stand up once more. Garou, you can still reach that goal just as you did being a monster. You need to keep moving forward like you always have, but this time you won't walk alone. " Bang spoke toward the downed teen. His words started to get through, and he noticed the teen's body had started to regenerate; his legs and arms were growing back as flesh exploded out of his arms and legs, reconstructing into his full, complete form as his eyes started to flitter open once more.

"You talk too much, old geezer, " Garou spoke out simply as he took a glance at the old man who smiled at him.

"I wouldn't have to if you didn't have such a hard time that you couldn't hear my words. " Bang remarked with a smirk. Garou rolled his eyes before rising to his full height. Bang was partially surprised by how tall the teen had gotten, easily being double his height. His body was completely different from before; not even a shred of humanity was left, but he could tell by his eyes that Garou was still there as he too stalked the situation ahead of him.

"Ugh, bang, that's nice and all, but we have a situation. " Bomb remarked, and Bang turned around and looked back at the battle at hand. However, there was no actual battle; all of the heroes were caught and suspended in the air by that strange black energy as the blast slowly made his way over towards them.

"Where is saitama? " Garou asked Bang down.

"Over there, he accompanied us here, but he did not join in protecting you. " Bang replied, jerking his chin in that direction. Garou pondered for a moment before spotting the balled man who waved at him as he carried the demon cyborg underarm. He was grinning. Was he happy that he was going to die? No, that wasn't it; his smile and attention were primarily focused on blast; in fact, he got it now before he half-chuckled once more.

"That's not it, old coot… He's going to step in, and in that case, I'll try my hardest not to need it. Although you can assist if you want, " Garou remarked as he got into position, moving his four hands and taking in a deep breath in awakening breath, and a heart-explosion fist bang followed after him in front of him, his own hands matching Garous's bottom two almost like it was in harmony. Bang even went as far as using the heart-explosion fist himself, and so much for him not wanting to use the technique again. However, Garou knew the reason he was doing so now and he hated how it made him feel somewhat stronger; he was using the fist to go all out in attempting to protect him.

The two matched each other's movements before syncing up with his brother's style, and the whirlwind garou distributed his style, half following along with his master on the right while the left followed along with his brother's style. The three of them centered themselves as Blast stalked forward, taking his time as he did so, giving them ample opportunity to set up this final attempt to stop him. The connections the three shared had pooled together, and Garou had begun to raise the level of the two beneath him. Flashes of the past burned through their eyes and lit their hearts ablaze once more, amplifying all of their power and pooling it into their fists for this next singular attack, a combination that surpassed even the Whirlwind Water Stream: Cross Fang Dragon Slayer Fist.

This technique held no name as it was one of sheer desperation and as Blast stepped into range of it, the attack struck true using allsight to indicate any weakness in the legendary figure's body they struck true each strike combined into one singular entity and increased the power even more so and the attack landed directly on the man's chin as he made no movements to dodge the strike, the hit had snapped his head upwards and flung the heroes shades away but a portal opened up and consumed it before appearing in the man's hands once more, he pushed his head back down moving their fist out of the way before apologizing to Bang for the necessity and with a wave forced both Bang and Bomb into restraints and pushed them away.

Garou was also suspended in the air, and he looked down at the hero with venom in his eyes.

"Don't take this personally but that thing can't be allowed to infect you. " Blast remarked as he pulled back a fist and charged it forward, garou didn't even look phased, he wasn't even scared he was just disappointed in himself and his need to be saved but at least he wasn't being saved by a hero …well not a true hero at least in his eyes, as the punch came straight for his heart but the blow was intercepted by none other than "Don't Blast hopped backward from the new person who joined the fray and watched him curiously. That punch was intended to kill the monster, even if not with his full power. Someone being able to block it was somewhat intriguing.

"What the hell were you waiting for, you bald idiot? " Garou asked from behind the yellow jumpsuit hero, who casually turned around and replied.

"I was just waiting for my turn, " Sitama answered with a shrug of his shoulders.

"That figures for someone like you, but he isn't like the rest of us, " Garou replied.

"I could see that, and I was hoping for it, " Sasama remarked with serious depression as he turned around to face Blast.

"Who are you? You aren't part of the S-class? " Blast remarked, puzzled.

"I'm-

"That's the legendary idiot hero caped baldy! " Bakugo remarked with a laugh from his suspension cage.

"You can just call me Saitama; I'm the one that beat Garou, " Saitama remarked as he poked a thumb up at himself.

"Unfortunately, " Garou admitted.

"Really now? Let's see about that then, shall we? " Blast spoke before dashing forward. Saitama matched his pace and ran forward, and the two met in the center, clashing fists against fists. The collided impact sent a massive shockwave that rocked the planet once more.

Blast was impressed and started to ramp things up. The same applied to Sasama. The two heroes danced on the ground only for a short time before rocketing off high into the air. The heroes on the ground had already lost track of them ever since the fighting had started; they were already flying through the air, clashing dozens of times over before the dust even left from the first clash. Blast was starting to get very intrigued by this man, Saitama. He showed a power that greatly went beyond his expectations. Was this person just an earthling? He was not lying about beating the monster; however, as he continued to ramp up his power, the man continued to match him blow for blow.

"Hey, you're still holding back, right? There's no need to; I'm pretty strong, you know. Try this, " Saitama remarked before pulling back a fist and punching forth.

Serious series: Serious Punch

Saitama punched forth with a position of his true strength. The unexpected rapid increase in his ability took blast off guard, and he was hit directly in the chest, sending him spiraling into the ground and crashing with a resounding thud. Saitama was used to the fight being over when he landed a serious punch, but he was pleasantly surprised when suddenly from behind struck him in the back of the head for the first time in what felt like ages. He felt pain, and he couldn't believe it, so much so that he started to fall from the air as he stopped kicking off it, just clearly in shock that someone had managed to hurt him. He never landed on the ground as he fell through a portal back through the air and was struck in the gut for his troubles. His smile never left him as pain once more filled his system. God, how he missed it. He quickly shook it off and corrected himself in mid-air before charging back at the number-one hero.

He guessed the kid's gloves were off or in his case on as large black energy surrounded both of his fists, Saitma threw out both of his fists this time around firing off with serious series: consecutive serious punches the hero responded in kind blocking several of them while returning with a couple of his own his rapid punches had been stopping as two of the hero own attacks slip through and knock him backward saitama only grinned devilishly as he came back at the hero only for the man to teleport away once more ending up behind him but he was prepared this time quickly raising his hand to block the punch to the back of his head however he did not expect the kick that struck him on the side of his head knocking him off balance one more, he felt a little bit an of blood pool into his mouth which he smiled at, returning the gesture in kind with a fast punch that took the number hero by surprise rocking him backward as the punch landed squarely in his face.

A bit of blood dropped from the hero's face, but he recovered fairly quickly, especially for someone who's been hit that hard. When he thought about it, he'd never hit anyone that hard, and they survived it since he'd been a hero, this man. this guy maybe someone that he could push him to his full power, as he increased his speed even more dashing at the man but this time another portal opened up this time in front of him, he was too eager in his dash forwards so he couldn't stop himself from entering inside of the open portal where he skidded down to a stop, he looked around and examined the place where he was sent to, it was weird, to say the least everything looked like it was moving and stationary at the same time he couldn't differentiate between the sky and the ground other than he was able to stand up, the best way he could describe it was that he was basically inside of a lava lamp which would have been cool and all if it didn't immediately put a stop to the fun he was having fighting Blast. It would be unfair if he just decided to win by disqualifying him; that would be so lame. He guessed he could try punching his way out, which always seemed to work, but just as he was about to attempt, Blast came through another portal.

The hero was rubbing his jaw as he did so before taking off his shades. He guessed he didn't want that to destroy their battle.

"Well, you are strong enough to beat that monster back there. " Blast remarked

"Yeah, where are we anyway? " Saitama asked, gesturing to the space around them.

"We're in a separate dimension; there's no need to worry about this place moving at a different time than there. I could tell by how you were fighting that you were holding back, not to damage the earth. The same is true here. Think of this place as a place where you could cut loose a training ground if you will. So come at me with all you have... I'm curious about just how strong you are. " Blast replied.

"The same goes for me… You are the strongest person I have ever fought with; I really want to relish this moment. " Saitama remarked with a balled fist and smile. Blast nodded at that before raising his fist, which was a sign for them to begin once more.

Gravity Knuckle: Serious Punch

The two punches clashed against one another, releasing a devastating shockwave that caused both opponents to bounce backward. Sasayama was the one to recover first as he picked up the pace even more, hopping to get the drop on the hero, delivering a serious punch combo. However, he was shocked when the man's hands held miniature portals and all of the punches he threw started to go through them and end up elsewhere before again another blow came into the back of his head. His punch Blast remarked with a laugh. His blow thrust his head forward. Blast immediately took advantage, using his other fist to strike him in the gut, followed by four more gut punches and a side kick. Sitama, however, caught the kick and trapped it, using to launch out with another straight punch, but the man twisted with his other leg and twisted around the punch to strike him in the head with another kick, catching him off guard and forcing him to drop the leg he ensnared and causing him to slide off to the side. By the time saitama got his bearing, Blast was gone once more from the sight, and he looked around before he heard Blast whistle from above him and gesture for him to come on, and saitama obliged, dashing forwards up towards the hero.

The swirly portal started to appear on the hero's fist once more, and for a moment, Saitama was shocked when he was punched in the face, sending him back down to the ground. He told Blast that he wasn't playing fair, and Blast simply shrugged his shoulders and remarked that they were his powers. He asked if he had any powers, and Sitama simply shook his head and remarked that the only power he had was his fist. There was a moment of silence before Blast finally replied that, which was unfortunate, but still remarked for him to come at him. saitama obliged, launching off with a large jump straight at the hero. He wasn't going to just charge through so recklessly this time as he saw those portals happen once more upon the heroes hands and prepared, focusing completely on his surroundings, looking for when and where the portal would appear, and it was in the last minute before he arrived towards the heroes position that one did exactly this; this one wasn't in his face like the last; instead, this one spawned down by his ankles. The heroes were hopping to capture him in a hold, but saitama was able to quickly snatched the wrist of the extended arm, catching it in between his feet, and yanked downwards.

Pulling Blast through his portal more given its size he couldn't pull the man fully through but it made him off balance and the hero reacted quickly using his other hand to send it through a different portal directly at his face while the punch landed saitama took the blow and threw his punch through the portal smacking the hero in the face sending him spiraling backward in the air from the unexpected strike, saitama immediately launched off the air once more charging at the hero striking him in his exposed back causing him to let out a grunt of pain he quickly came kicked off the air to go in front of the hero before he could fly to farther higher and punched him in the gut with a heavy punch and was planning to slam him down into the ground as he drove the punch deeper however the man simply teleported away and just as he turned around to block the likely strike he was surprised when no one was there instead blast had targets his legs once more grabbing him and slamming him into the ground instead there was no sound or rubbled kicked up by the slam only the pain of his back hitting something extremely solid told him that he had landed on the ground, he fed off the pain and quickly juped back up to his feet eager to continue the fight as blast waited for him to get up.

Saitama once again charged forward even faster this time, which Blast wasn't expecting, allowing the punch to smack him right in the chest and forcing him backward. Satama wasn't done with just that though. While he did only punch things, he did learn from Midoriya that unches could also be used as a sort of ranged attack. As he punched forwards the best he could in his imitation of the green-haired teen's air bullets, the surprise attack landed squarely against the hero's body, pushing him back even more. Satama dashed forward with incredible speed using his serious series: serious side hops he countless afterimages filling Blast vision as he focused back on his target powerd pooled into his hand and slammed it down launching a wave of gravity out from his center striking everything in its path, saitama along with all of his afterimages was no different struck by the strange energy flung them into the air blast used the opportunity to strike out at that moment but each of afterimages all started to move while showing off the man's speed in full display the images bounced in the air and surrounded him slaming down on Blast with anothe large air pressure wave which made blast stagger down to one knee but just as the real man was about to slam down Blast teleported above him, saitama was fast enough to turn around this time and launched off another Serious Series: Consecutive Series Punches hunderes of thousands of punches launched off all within an instant of his turn, and blast reacted in kind, clashing with his own blows, clashing and vibrating the entire dimension they were in as the two continued to trade blows after blow.

Blast attempted to use his portals once more to redirect the man's punches however something extremely strange happened, instead of a traditional portal that he would just use to move objects he had attempted to use it to restrain him like the rest of the S-class catching on onto one of his punches and trying to deliver a strike of his own however the bald man moved the gate along with his arms striking him in the side causing him to falter and allowing a good barrage of punches to rake over blast body before he teleported back and examined what just happened, he was stump as the man wore the warp gate on his arm like a large bracelet and moved it around so casually, at that point Blast asked if he had an encounter with a being called God but Saitama refused that he had done so but then how was he moving the hyperspace gates like that? It should be nearly impossible, but as the ring slowly dissipated from around his arm, Saitama had no answer and simply shrugged his shoulders before dashing forward and coming at him with a leaping downward punch.

Blast was surprised once more by the man's speed; it almost seemed like he had been increasing the entire time. Was he still holding back, or was something else happening? He thought as he brought his gravity knuckle up to counter the punch once more. The two clasped hands and tested each other's strength by pushing against each other in the center of the space. Blast believed that he would have felt something or anything that indicated that the man was infected by God's power and held power that could shape reality, but he could feel none of it, nothing like the others or himself. Was this all natural? Did humans really have the potential to get this strong, or was he even born from this universe to begin with? So with a sharp knee to the man's face, followed by a hard shoulder bash to send the man back, he asked his questions.

His origins, his training, all of it, but that didn't get him much information as the two continued to collide against each other. Strikes were getting harder and harder to block, and his attacks continued to get heavier and heavier as they continued this spar. Both combatants had been breathing pretty hard, but Sasama seemed to be coming out in the lead, but the true victor was put on hold as their sparring was put on a sharp pause by someone else. This person was none other than Boris, stopping each other's attacks and sending them both away in opposite directions.

"What the hell are you wasting time for? The wave is about to start looking at you. How did you get so beat up? " Boris spoke out as he turned his attention fully towards Blast.

"Really shit, I lost track of time testing out this earthling here... He is probably the cause of the weird stuff happening on Earth, " blast remarked, pointing at Saitama. He looked over with intrigue.

"Oh, is that you…ummm….borom? " saitama questioned

"The name Boris… You are probably talking about my little brother Boros. " Boris remarked

"Little brother… you say… ugh … Well, how do I put this? Well, I guess I should start by saying he attacked our city, so... I kind of killed him. " Sasayama remarked somewhat bashfully; he didn't know how the person would react; he didn't know what would happen if the man had wanted revenge against him; if this was as powerful as Blast was, it could be troublesome, let alone if he was stronger than him, but he was surprised when the alien simply laughed.

"I heard that he spoke of a warrior who fought and defeated him handily without baring his fangs, so I guess that was you. He's not dead, although even if you killed him, I wouldn't care if it was self-defense. He probably got too cocky because of our race's natural power and ability and his superior ability. Heh, I can't imagine how things would turn out if he found the cube on our planet before I did. You guys would have a tough time getting a handle on him. So what's your analysis? " Boris was questioned.

"He's definitely strong, more than strong enough to hang with us for the wave, " blast remarked, and Boris turned around completely to face him.

"Are you for real? " Boris asked

"Yeah, not only are we still a man down, but the kicker is that he's not infected by God's gift; he could be a serious boon for the team. " Blast remarked as he got up from his shove and proceeded to walk towards the center, and Sasama did the same, not knowing what was happening but going with the flow as it seemed like something very interesting was going down.

"Well, I guess it's your choice to decide; fair warning, what we are about to go up against are some adamant opponents. Even for someone like Blast and me, you may not get out in one piece if you agree, " Boris remarked.

"Yes…defintely… I'm here to help. " Saitama remarked enthusiastically that even stronger opponents this day, which started pretty shitty, had started to get better and better.

"Yeah, I thought that's how he would react to that comment, but be warned, this isn't going to be training; this is going to be a fight to the death, so if you're going to join us, I need you to be serious, " Blast remarked.

"Yes, sir, " Sitama said with a serious expression and salute. Boris gave just a small chuckle but shrugged his shoulders.

"Well, it's all settled, then let's go. " Boris remarked, simply snapping his finger and a portal opening as he stepped through, followed by Blast and then Saitama.

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Meanwhile

All the heroes that had been suspended in the air by blast power had remained suspended in the air even after all of the rush of explosive shockwaves had settled down, and it seemed that the battle between the two titanic entities had just stopped like it never happened in the first place. Three minutes passed with nothing to show for it, and people started to get confused, especially Sweet Mask, who would have thought that Blast would have been done with the battle by now. Sweet Mask questioned who that bald individual was in the first place, and the teens informed him that it was King's disciple. Sweet Mask was shocked by that answer. Was King really that strong and his disciple could face off against the legendary heor blast for such a long period, or was there something else to it? Sweet Mask searched around for a moment and couldn't find King anywhere, so that may have been it instead. The master and apprentice were fighting Blast at the same time. If his apprentice was nearly as strong as his master, he could potentially see Blast somewhat having his hands full with them, but why? Why would King want to spare this monster?

Sweet Mask looked towards the monsterfied Garou and scowled. Maybe he should just finish the job himself while the dangerous teen was suspended and helpless. He began to move towards the large teen monster, his intent as clear as day.

"Sweet mask, the fighting hasn't been decided yet; be patient. " Bang remarked with a stern voice.

"The fight is not in doubt; blast will win. I will just be doing him a favor and not allowing him to waste any more of his precious time on a matter such as this; you all heard him. " Sweet Mask spoke as he continued his approach towards Garou, only for the large monster teen to laugh at his approach.

"You kill me? Hah! Now that's funny... Are you so much of a narcissist that you don't realize how much stronger I am than you? You couldn't even hurt me before, and look at me now. Go ahead and wail on me as much as you want; I won't even feel a thing. " Garou taunted the idol. making the title even angrier as he balled his fist and continued towards the man.

"Well, he's right about that; the fight is not over yet, and who knows who's going to be the winner of that fight? " Zombie commented on top of brave Giant's shoulder, and the mech head turned to face him. Given that Zombie had been smocking, he wanted the child to remain side by side instead of on his shoulder with him.

"Do you seriously think that guy is capable of beating Blast? " The child emperor asked, and the zombieman puffed on his cigarette once more before looking up in the sky and exhaling.

"I don't know, but that guy may be capable of anything. " Zombieman replied, thinking about what told him. He didn't believe it at first, but now that he saw that man's fight with Garou, he could do so.

"You knew about this guy since when? " The child emperor asked

"For a couple of weeks, I didn't know he was the king's apprentice, though. " Zombieman replied.

"King must be truly an outstanding individual; if this is what his apprentice was capable of, he probably could have finished the monster association by himself. " child emperor stated.

"Hmmm… maybe, " zombieman thought as he considered that neither the man nor the teens mentioned at all the man being an apprentice of King; it was likely just a lie to get everyone more on board with him attending; he and speaking about King, where was the man? He was with everyone when they were initially healed, but he still hasn't shown up yet. What could he be doing?

King was abandoned 5 kilometers away.

Sweet mask had begun to wail on monster Garou. In the meantime, the teen had been making fun of his efforts, only getting angrier and angrier. The veins became more and more present in his body, and the top of his face even started to change color for a moment. Garou took note of the strange facial structure but thought it may have been the idol's make-up messing up, but something was telling him that maybe it could be something else. The other heroes didn't comment on what was happening, and Bang, seeing that Garou was unharmed, simply chuckled a bit at his worrying. Sweet Mask had just finished with a barrage of attacks as he let out a little huff of exhaustion, which only made Garou taunt him more for it, but before he could go into another barrage of attacks, suddenly multiple purple chains started to wrap around his body and restrain him, bringing the idol down to his knees. Sweet Mask was able to shift around enough to look at the adversary that had done so with burning eyes.

"What are you doing? Get these off me this instant. " Sweet Mask said through angered and rage-filled clenched teeth.

"I'm stopping you from making an even greater fool of yourself. " Saren spoke as he teleported; the "saren " that had been captured inside of the blast's power had started to evaporate into smoke and billow away.

"And where have you been? If not for here? " Zombieman was questioned in an almost accusatory tone.

"I was taking care of other business, as was one of your numbers, as he gestured towards the now-landed Drive Knight.

"Hpmph, so you were here as well? I don't remember trashing you; did you run away? "Garou remarked.

"I was observing the ongoing battles between Garou, Orochi, the S-class, and this saitama individual... Just from the battle with Orochi, I could tell that we were outmatched and shifted focus to collecting as much information and combat ability as I could and attempting to come up with proper countermeasures. Drive Knight spoke.

"So, in other words, you did fully run away! " Metal Bat commented.

"I get your reasoning, and it's not something I wouldn't have decided myself to do, in fact, but I would have at least attempted to regroup with the others, not just abandoned them to their own devices. " Zombieman spoke as he hopped down from on top of the brave knight's shoulder.

"The fight between Orochi and Garou was astoundingly quick; there was no time to convince you all to retreat, which would already be an unlikely chance of succeeding in the first place.

Garou won the battle, making the choice even simpler because the boy doesn't kill; he simply injures, so there was no need for concern about your survival. " Drive Knight spoke, addressing the group with his stoic and calculating voice. Zombieman sucked in a breath as he exhaled a breath of smoke.

"Well, I guess you are right on that one; it is still a risky gamble. If Garou had fully transformed into a monster, then things wouldn't have played out so nicely. " Zomebiman replied

"In that event, it likely wouldn't have mattered in the first place. Many would have been killed regardless. " Drive Knight responded as he looked over to the monsterized teen.

"So you see the danger this tee causes and how he needs to be stopped before that happens. Someone so fickle cannot possess such strength; it's an extreme to humanity as a whole. " Sweet Mask announced that she was attempting to get support from someone with a rational brain.

"So what of you? Should we kill you due to the potential threat that you pose? " Saren spoke as a mystic glow started to emerge from his eyes; this caused everyone's attention to shift towards Saren, and Sweet Mask glared at him with utter destain.

"What are you trying to insinuate? Be lucky that I even allowed you to live this long. " Sweet Mask spoke angrily.

"Something is peculiar with you, ever since I healed you... It bothered me. That blow you took from the golden being crushed your chest. I could feel the injuries: a broken, shattered rib cage, impaled lounges, a punctured heart, and broken pelvis and legs. Now tell me, are these things a "human " could live through, not counting zombieman, of course? I could heal you and even resurrect people from the dead for a short time at least, but despite these injuries, you still lived even without my healing; you were well on your way to being just fine. " Saren started to list off, and Sweet Mask started to sweat within his bindings. The teen's eyes all started to shift among each other, knowing where Saren was about to go with things and how this could turn out.

"That just means that he could heal himself, right? Puri-Puri Prisoner could heal himself as well in his way. " Midoriya attempted to defend.

"Yes, the humans of this time have evolved from when I was alive, and they hold many capabilities that I can't believe. No one was this strong so long ago; however, that's why I wanted to check and see... My eyes are enchanted with true seeing; I can see how this man's true form is. Even the cyborgs, I can see how they were when they were humans, and Sweet Mask is not a human. His true form is that of a monster. " Saren accused, making every gasp for a moment a look back at the idol, who attempted his best to keep a neural, albeit angry, expression.

"What lies are you trying to tell? "Me, a monster preposterous! You are the monster here, and you'll just be stalling for time, likely to attempt to figure out a way to free Garou and turn against us. Why would anyone believe you? " Sweet Mask remarked simply as he continued to glare down at the monster swordsman, which turned back into its human form.

"Because I can take on a human form as well, but you are right, people lie for many reasons, and it was for that very thing that when I first learned of the mystic arts, I wanted to learn this technique. I was tricked and entombed, and I would not have that happen to me again. " Saren spoke as both of his hands lit with glowing green energy before he slammed both of his palms down, and a giant green circle suddenly enshrouded them.

"This is a little spell called Zone of Truth; as the name implies, you can tell no lies when you are inside of here. For example, Sweet Mask, are you a monster? I suggest to you not to lie, " Saren remarked bitterly.

Rolls: Sweet Mask: 5 Saren: 18

Sweet Mask stared at the man with utter bitterness in his eyes, but he didn't believe the man, so he continued forward with his initial statement.

"Of course n-... I'm fully hu...I'm not a mo. "Sweet Mask spoke, but his voice would completely die in his throat every time his answer would fall from his mouth, maybe out of sheer disbelief at not wanting it to be, so he continued trying so much that he started to strain his throat as he yelled or attempted to yell about how much of a human he was. The heroes all sat around, completely baffled by the circumstances, and just stared at the man in disbelief.

"Well, that makes a couple of things line up for me, actually; I had my assumptions since we are time-fighting together. " Atomic Samurai remarked, suddenly making everyone look toward the trapped samurai and his disciples next to him, waiting for him to explain.

"During the closing half before Tatsumaki started to wreck the place, me and Atom had been fighting that annoying splitting bastard. We were getting corned for a moment and had to fall back, but the bastard was hard to shake. The sweet mask over there allowed us some room to maneuver when he dropped the roof down on them—several roofs in fact—but what got my interest was how the guy's entire arm seemed to shift, change, and get larger. With Saren there, I thought that it could be a possibility, or maybe it was just some weird ability like the teens here, " Atomic remarked.

"I remember Watchdog Man from what I was told by the teens also believing him to be a monster; he doesn't smell like one to me, but I didn't know that monsters could take a human form like that, so there is a chance. " Torax spoke next.

"Now that you mention abilities, Koda over there did all that stuff with the smoke and things, and I saw Sweet Mask, the explodey guy, and the chick over there inside of it. The only things his power affects are animals and monsters. " Metal Bat pointed out, causing the others to cast glances at the other two names; it was Bakugo who replied.

"I and Silver ate two processed monster cells; that's it. They weren't monsters, but we did change from the experience, so that's probably why we could be seen. " Bakugo remarked simply, Silver noticed how Flash's head twitched for a moment but it remained held low, so his facial expressions were hard to get a hold of as his hair completely blocked it. He was likely still in shock by how many he found faster than him that day, and she would not lie, she was quietly enjoying it.

"So in the meeting the other day, you were just protecting the entire time, hmph figures, " the zombieman remarked with a chuckle as he looked at the restrained idol.

"As if you are one to talk zombieman, are you even human? " Sweet Mask countered simply still through an angered reply. He was steadily losing his composure as he searched around towards the others. The number of people that were not locked away seemed to be a sizeable number, but if he monsterized and he was confident he could kill them all, could he kill the rest of them? But what would he tell Blast? How would the man react? Could he lie to Blast about something like this? Would he even believe him? He looked around once more, but this time focusing on the monsters in the group that was around them; multiple of them, some of them former enemies, so for him, would it matter?

"Well, I don't know, to be honest, if I could have been human or if I was just an experiment. All I do know is that I came into consciousness 10 years ago. " Zombieman spoke simply with a shrug.

"WThat means you are the same age as me!? " The child emperor yelled from his mech up behind him. The zombieman turned his head and flashed a smile.

"Guess I am… I don't remember my past, or even if I had one before those 10 years, I might as well be. Dang, this zone of truth is no joke, huh? Well, I guess the cat is out of the bag now... So am I human? Who knows who you are is the question, and the more you stall, the more it seems like you aren't well if it isn't clear enough already. " Zombieman replied, making all the attention

He could attempt to fight them, but he needed to be realistic about his odds, and it would only prove them right. He looked towards Midoriya; his eyes seemed to be aglow once more with empathy, which he really hates seeing, and the same was seen from his smaller protegee, Aoyama. If he simply revealed himself here, what would happen? He doubted they would kill him, so that ruled out that possibility, but the more people that knew his secret, the more it had to leak from them, not to mention the power they would have over him. He looked towards the cyborgs for a moment; if he revealed it, they would undoubtedly have it recorded.

"I've already known that you have been a monster for some time now, so if you are afraid of telling me due to being taped, then there is no need. " Drive Knight spoke

"What? You knew? " Zombieman questioned swiftly, turning around, and Drive Knight nodded.

"I invest heavily in the research and preparation of threats extending from monsters to heroes alike. " Drive Knight remarked simply.

"Huh, that sounds like you are just paranoid. " Zombieman replied

"If that is how you see it, " was Drive Knight's simple response. As the eyes all shifted back to Sweet Mask, he grinded his teeth but released a heavy sigh.

"I will kill you if a word of this reaches the press. Transformation release. " Sweet Mask spoke with silent fury as his body started to morph and change, making his body take on a larger appearance while increasing in size by a foot and a couple of inches. His shoulders became bulkier with spiky crustaceans sticking out of them, his spine slightly extended out of his back, and the connection points stuck out like miniature spikes as well. But the greatest transformation was his face; it became fleshy and filled with warts and skin bags under his bloodshot eyes. The man's teeth were crooked, sharp, and pointy, while his nose resembled that of a pig. His rings rose almost like goblins, and two rings formed around the inside of it.

There was a scream that came from none other than Okamaitachi, the girl nearly fainting from the shock and sight of the former star idol. The other disciples rolled their eyes at the girl's theatrics, but to Sweet Mask, the reaction was deafening as his posture notable saddened, which immediately turned to anger when he heard laughter coming from behind him.

"So that's why you're so obsessed with looks because your real form looked like sh*t!' Garou laughed

"Garbag reprimanded from afar; however, Sweet Mast was already turning the purple chains away, and the chop came through straight to the teen's neck. While letting off a sizeable impact, Garou continued to just laugh.

"And you're still weak. " Garou denounced as he looked at the monster man in the eyes, making the now-monster person even angrier, but before he could do much of anything else, a portal suddenly opened up behind them. All attention shifted to it while Sweet Mask made a mad dash to get away and was behind the large, brave giant so that he could go back into his human form.

Everyone was totally focused on who the winner of the contest would have been, and bang held a breath as both adversaries emerged from the portal scuffed and scratched with their capes a bit torn from each other and breathing pretty hard.

"Dang, how long have we been gone? " Saitama asked openly.

"About 6 minutes? I think? " Zombieman remarked

"6 minutes and 50 seconds, " the child emperor replied.

"Woah, you weren't fooling about that dimension and time stuff, " Saitama remarked with a pant of breath.

"Told ya….oh right. You guys " Blast remarked simply before noticing everyone still suspended and snapping his fingers instantly, making the stuff go away. Everyone started to stretch as they finally could move again while Bang made his approach toward the two.

"So... what is the verdict? " Bang asked with a bit of hesitance. Blast took one look over at Garou before answering and coughing into his hand.

"Yes, he gets to live as long as Sitama stays around with him here. I can trust him to handle the situation if things get worse. It's also the least I can do for someone who helped save the world and the S-class as a whole, " Blast replied, giving the boy a nod, but Garou was just confused.

"What do you mean? Save? I didn't save anyone. " Garou remarked with a huff, flapping his wings for a moment.

"You definitely saved us from Orochi, Garou. " Midoriya replied

"Yeah, and you were pushing me down; you actually helped stabilize the earth, so you saved the entire planet. I told you, you would make an excellent hero. " Saitama remarked, Garou said nothing and just looked away while mumbling something under his breath.

"By something worse, do you mean "God " by any chance? " Zombie Man remarked suddenly, causing Blast to get serious again as he shifted his eyes directly to the teens, each of whom told him the same thing about how this wasn't them. Zombie Man noticed the shift and continued.

"They didn't spill the beans; one of the monster cadres from the incident had said it got its power directly from "God ". " zombieman spoke

"Now that he mentions it, Psykos also said something about being chosen by God, and that's how she got a major power-up. " Tatsumaki also said while joining down closer to Blast. Blast took a look around him, deciding if he should tell them the truth. Given the company he was in, he was a bit worried, but they likely wouldn't be satisfied with just a no since it came this far.

"hmph … I see. I guess that's one on me. They might have been in close enough proximity to that cube to give them power. There is too much to explain, but yes, you are right, it is about God. If it was able to affect him, then it would have been serious trouble given how strong he already is. Monsters, given their nature, have an easier time being swayed. " Blast explained.

"I already said to screw its offer the first time it asked me. I wouldn't dare become someone else's pawn. " Garou shouted.

"Better to be safe then. Sorry, apologies. If you have any more questions, you can just ask Sitch about the rest of it and tell him I send my regards. Oh, how long until you can make your apprentice King on your level again? " Blast remarked before patting saitama on the back that he was about to leave back through the portal before he saw King off on the horizon and remembered his question, but the question got the rest of the S-class attention as they thought he was the apprentice and King was the master.

"Uhmm, it took me about a year and a half, so for him, it will probably take six. " Sasayama responded after some thinking.

"Well, I've been doing things this long; what's a few more years? Just keep an eye on that one, and if we ever short someone or feel like we'll need some assistance, " Blast remarked as he took a step toward his portal.

"Yes, please do, man. That was the most fun I had in a while. " Saitama remarked as he offered a fist bump, but before Blast could walk through the portal, off to who knows where another voice rang out from one of the teens, the blonde hair.

"Blast… I know this may seem random, but do you think that a monster could become a hero? " Ayoama remarked suddenly. Blast quirked his eye up at that, but before he could answer, someone else did, not the teens or S-class strangers, but he believes he's the top-ranked A-class hero.

"Ignore him. Blast. The answer to such a question is obvious. A monster can't become a hero; it's unthinkable. " Sweet Mask answered for the star.

"I wouldn't be so sure about that... I've seen plenty of crazy, unimaginable things out there; some heroes may even be monsters, and you would never know, but as long as they're helping out, I don't see anything wrong with it. " Blast remarked, making Sweet Mask nearly completely freeze up and bringing tears to his eyes. The next moment, before anyone else could say anything more, all of the heroes were suddenly shrouded in esper green and flung away from the area, all except Saitama and Garou, of course, who stayed put even despite the girls attempts. She focused a bit more on moving the man but not having any luck she asked if she could speak to Blast in private and saitama simply shrugged and allowed the girl to have it as he went to go check in on genos who he had a big fat guy look over that seemed fairly reliable hopefully he didn't crush Genos with that fall though, Garou was more annoyed than saitama was about the spectacle wanting to teach the girl a lesson about flexing her power like that and how she could have asked to be alone like a normal person but saitama rebuffed him and remarked that he wasn't one to talk as he started to drag him away despite the teens attempting to pull away from the man's iron-like grip until he just decided to go with him to spare himself the embarrassment.

The top two heroes watched the hero and monster walk away for a moment before Blast looked at her.

"So what's up, Tats? Or should I say "tornado of terror "? Cool name. "Blast remarked with a small smile. Tatsumaki's mind raced with so many things she wanted to say. It's been so long since she'd seen the man who saved her life and set her down the path of a hero. But maybe that was where she should talk about the path of a hero he set for her that she still has yet to accomplish.

"Blast, remember how you said that I didn't have to struggle against the other monster here? Well, that's not true. I… I still needed to be saved in the end. Hah, by my little sister no less, I guess I'm still not worthy of being called a hero, am I? " Tatsumaki said in a meager voice, her feet touching the ground as her power faded away for a moment as she continued to look at the ground.

"What makes you say that? You've grown strong, but we all need help sometimes, and while I don't have siblings, I would be proud that my younger brother was able to help me out in a bad spot. It tells you that they would be doing fine on their own.. Blast remarked as he placed a hand on top of the girl's hand and started to read her memories of the events. The girl raised her head sharply to look up at the hero.

" But… But what about "you shouldn't expect others to come save you "? " Tatsumaki spoke, and from her speech, the memories he was reading started to become clear, and the actions of what happened during the fighting came to him almost instantly as he carefully removed his hand from atop the girl's head and responded seriously.

"Yeah, you shouldn't expect others to come save you, as in, you should fight like you were alone, meaning you fight smart, tactically, and if you have others as a team. That's the only thing I could see from your memories that you could work on. You are plenty strong on your own; if you had a team, you could be unbeatable. Take it from me; you can't do everything alone. Without my time by my side, I would have died long ago. You've grown into a fine hero, Tatsumaki, " Blast remarked as he ruffled the girl's head once more before stepping back.

"Wait Blast... Maybe I could join this team of yours sometime. " Tatsumaki asked with a bit of a chipper tone.

"Unfortunately not; you still have a ways to go before you can join me, and we don't need to ever leave Earth; it still needs defending, and I'm entrusting you with doing that in my place. " Blast remarked, and Tatsumaki scowled and slightly pouted, but ultimately she could understand his reasoning.

"When's the next time you'll be stopping by? " tatsumaki asked

"Hmph, well, as Saitama said, I'll be back in 6 years to check on King's progress unless something happens by then that requires me... Tell the teens that I'll be coming to pick them up in four days from now. " Blast remarked with a wave goodbye as he walked through the portal, and Tatsumaki waved bye as well, sighing and making her way over to the others.

The group all recovered somewhat from their toss across the valley; luckily, everyone had managed to avoid King. As he was making his approach, the man was paralyzed by the rapid clumps of bodies headed in his direction. As the group stabilized and got from their haphazard toss they all checked up on each other before looking at King, the normal man didn't really have much to say to any of them but it seemed he needed to be filled in on something as suddenly they believe that he was Saitama's apprentice instead of vice-versa which in a way he felt somewhat better than it was previously he was a bit taken back by the large dog creature that had been with them that had approached him but he was happy that it simply sniffed him and walked away, now that the group had all bee finished fighting there was a semi-tense atmosphere which didn't change as garou and saitama arrived and explained that tatsumaki wanted some alone time to talk with blast.

The large nearly Gargoyle being that was now garou was still a lot to take in from many of the heroes, especially Bang, and although the man for the moment was content with his apprentice being alive and well, no one really knew what to do at this point but Garou remarked with his astounding vision that a helicopter was coming in the distance so he would make himself scarce the heroes wanted to object given that someone that dangerous couldn't be allowed to just Rome free however he was already gone taking off leaving them all shocked by his speed as he did so, in the same instant later Momo got an alert from metal knight remarking that something had broken in through the dome of complex although upon seeing that it was garou she told him that he shouldn't engage him and just let him be, she told the other heroes about his whereabouts which elevated some tension on where Bang's now monster disciple was located.

Speaking of the number of monsters present in the situation, Saren advised that all of the monsters fall back with him and he would transport all of them back to the monster preserve, some of the teens argued that since they helped out during the fighting that they should stay around to get at least some of the credit from the news, however, saren rebuffed and remarked that the world was simply not ready to accept the existence of friendly monsters and it would only produce more headache if they stayed around, sweet mask agreed with the monsters sentiment although metal bat was sure to point out the irony of his choice saren paid it no mind as he collected all of the monsters present and ushered them away this was including Sigismund, aki, torax, aki, asterius, lord great white, scaledon, and overgrow rover. The heroes waved goodbye before they were all transported away in a blue flash of energy.

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Vestige Plane

Midoirya was completely shocked to find himself once again in the vestige world. He opened his eyes to be sitting directly across from all of the vestiges once more. However, the most shocking thing was the person in front of him. It was none other than All Might himself. While this wasn't unusual to think about, this time the man's essence was fully formed and not just a fiery spirit in his image; he was fully there and apparent. It was one of the worst things that could have possibly happened because that would mean...

"Midoriya… it's you? Are you alright? " All might's vestige remarked, and Midoriya was at a complete loss for words—that is, until the fifth user spoke.

"Eh….eh… Before you get the water world all started, it's not what you think; he's not dead. Well, he's going to be revived shortly. " The fifth user, Banjo, remarked from across from him.

"He's right, Midoirya, I don't have much time..'re working with Chisakai... quirk delete bullets... to finish... are you and the others ok? " All might talk, breaking up almost like a radio transmission; his voice was garbled as well.

"We were all fine, all right, all right... I don't know when I will get home, but tell everyone that we are doing fine. " Midoriya remarked as he got up and approached his mentor. He didn't know if the man could hear him or not, but he had to try. He needed to let their families know that all of them were doing fine.

"We are also going to be coming back in four days. " Another voice suddenly wrung out an incredibly mysterious voice, but Midoirya recognized it easily, and it definitely shouldn't have been there. He searched around the room to see if the person was around, only to see all the other vestiges looking at him with a mix of confusion and intrigue.

"You down at yourself, Midoriya. " Nana spoke, and he did just that, looking down and finding the source of the voice, which was none other than Kirishima. The red head's face was sticking out of his gut, making him panic and flip out for a moment before he could get a hold of himself.

"So this is the vestige world. I was always curious what it was like when I heard of it. but right yeah… Blast said that we were leaving in four days. Also, Sweet Mask needs Midoriya back; he doesn't want even a single hero present to be down as it would "look bad. " Kaminari was going to shock you awake, but I wanted to give this a try instead. " Kirishima remarked

"Haha, well, I guess that we did pull you in at an inconsiderate time. I'm sure all might get your message, and he will pass it on to the others. For now, enjoy victory number nine. The first user remarked, and as Midoriya blinked, the world came back to him as all of his friends were surrounding him, and he could even see Sweet Mask, someone above him, waiting expectantly.

Midoiry stood up and dusted himself off as he took stock of everyone around him, Tatsumaki had returned and he could start to hear the rotary blades of a helicopter closing in, as the chopper landed it was none other than the news it was likely airing to the entire world at that very moment and Sweet mas took the lead as he normally did announce to the world that the heroes had been victorious, of course, the idol had galvanized himself more than he actually contributed but he was also to ensure that the other S-class heroes each got their moments to shine in the spotlight and the fact that all of the S-class heroes were more or less unharmed showed a great strength to the public at large or at least that's what the reporter said, Midoriya still felt somewhat bitter that not everyone would get the credit they deserve but they could only continue to take small steps in this world similar to their very own, he looked over to his classmates who all had smiles on their faces even Bakugo which was probably due to the good news to them finally being able to go home. Midoriya felt somewhat satisfied as well; they did as much good as they could here and maybe have changed the destiny of this world if the monster preserve continues to prosper once they leave. Only time will tell, but the one thing everyone could tell was that everyone present had been hungry, and given that they had been fighting for several hours at this point, they all collectively went out to go eat as a group of victors.

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1 Day Later

The debrief

It was now the day after their wind against the monster association, and now it was time for the breakdown of events and the debriefing of the situation at hand, most importantly Sitch's declassification of the god stuff that Blast had been talking about.

Conference Room Number 18

"Now then, the reason for today's emergency meeting is, of course.

Because of the numerous reports received of unexplained phenomena occurring during the recent mission to wipe out the monster association, There is a high possibility they are related to each other. "The Earth is in trouble, " a prophecy. Until we can reconcile all this information and communicate our official position, I asked everyone in the tent to keep all the information. Exchanging this room strictly with themselves, is that clear? " Sitch spoke to the audience of S-class attendees. All of the S-class had been present, along with the non-killing army and even Monster King Garou. His massive frame was not suited for the small quarters; he was nearly 10 feet tall, so he had to crouch to enter the doorway.

Understood, " "Genos remarked affirmatively.

"Well, I don't mind, but I don't know why you want to keep secrets this late into the game, " zombieman remarked.

"Because anyone can turn into a dragon-level monster at any moment, we should stay cautious. " Flashy Flash stated.

"It is precisely because of that. We should be certain about information and countermeasures before we make anything public. Even if we announce it now, both heroes and the public will begin raising suspicions. Zombie Man, the monster association Cadre, the homeless emperor that you battled with, would you have any details to share about his unique case of monetization? " Sitch answered before continuing.

"Yeah, he said that when he was still a human. He was given divine power by something he called God. I wanted to question him for answers, but just as I was beginning to question him about it more thoroughly, he seemed to combust out of nowhere from the inside. I think this god thing must have had something to do with it since that was the last thing the guy said when he died. " Zombieman commented.

"Oh, I think I know something about that. Blast said that this God can give powers to people, but there is a 50/50 chance it just kills them on the spot. Something about being a suitable vessel or not, I think? " The other non-S-class member in the room spoke out, Saitama. This strange man who was revealed to be King's master and a rival to Blast in strength was truly a staggering thought to think about, but when even Tatsumaki confirmed the man's ability in her report, it was hard to ignore.

"While I was buried underground, a voice communicated to me telepathically; it also spoke something like that... Could this also be God's influence? " Flash opened up the room.

"While I was fighting her, psykos mentioned God peering into her mind... So I wouldn't doubt it. " Tatsumaki answered.

"Before Blast arrived, some black box landed in front of me, and that's when I started to hear some voice inside my head. No, even before that, something called out to me during my fight with Satama; it wanted me to become its vessel. I refused; I didn't want any handouts; I thought I could win on my own. "Garou remarked begrudgingly that the large monster was in the back, leaning against the large wall. Thank goodness for that sekingar thought simply before Sitch continued with the debrief.

"To tell you the truth, I've been keeping it hidden until now, but... For the past 20 years, Blast has been continuously fighting. This God you all encountered. He, his partner, and a group of many other collaborators. They were searching for a mysterious cube that could turn humans into monsters. It has been headed down over time with a kind of communication device. With "God, " what would some call a type of "OOpart. "?

He had been collecting them together with the collaborators. Attempt to analyze them. However, finally, two years ago, while Blast was battling an elder centipede, He came into direct contact with God. He refused the transaction of power and pitted himself against God. No one could match that being power; none of the association sensors could even pick it up. Blast retreated but was badly injured, and there he decided it best that only a small part of the association knew, including heroes and employees. After that, he disappeared without giving much of a reason so that he could protect everyone. "

"Blast was just searching for countermeasures on his own. Then I kind of figured that top-ranking S-class would have a good reason for not showing himself whatsoever, but. " Flash stated

"Waging a one-man war so we wouldn't get caught up in it... hell of a hard-boiled guy. " Zombieman spoke.

"And where are we struggling with monsters and to find that there's a whole other league above the creatures we fought? That really gets me envious, but it also makes me want to keep growing myself. " Atomic remarked

"Hmph, I expect nothing less from Blast; really, if he wasn't taking care of threats above even my paygrade, I would have probably demanded the top spot by now. " tatsumaki remarked.

"That's too bad though… If you had spoken up about it sooner, my master saitama, or as you know him, Caped Baldy, could have resolved this already. " Genos remarked as he patted Sasama on the shoulder.

"I wouldn't speak so soon; whatever this God thing is, it's pretty tough as I am now; I couldn't beat it. I fought with Blast and his posey, and the things it summoned were powerful all on their own. I can't imagine what the real thing itself is like. It's getting me all excited again to keep up my training even more, really! " Saitama remarked with a grin on his face, balling his fist, and Genos listened intently to his master's words, his stoic expression actually hardening into a frown for a moment. If his master admitted that something was stronger than even he, then that meant he needed to be the top priority of concern, and he would need to get stronger fast.

"About that, from your report and others, they said that you fought Blast to a stalemate and returned back with him. I find it highly remarkable that you could be capable of such activities without the ability to manipulate space-time, " Sitch announced.

"Well, you shouldn't take my master's so lightly; I would like to begin a full dissertation of my master's activities since he has become a hero and things that the hero association either overlooked or miscredited him for. " Genos remarked as he slammed a large notebook down on top of the center table. Despite Saitama's attempt to ward his apprentice's thoughts away from the matter, Sekingar had wanted the man to go on with his speech as it could shed light on the weirdness about him, although the more and more he carried on, he slowly realized his mistake as the cyborg had started to go into much detail and oftentimes useless details such as his diet and lifestyle choices, which were completely normal but he thought was some grand achievement.

When the cyborgs' speech reached one hour and the point where the watchdog man had left due to his walk time expiring, Tatsumaki finally exploded, shutting the robot down and creating another argument storm that spiraled for another 15 minutes before everything was under control once more.

"I thought the crack in the moon was from King, but I see it was from your master instead. I did remember his presence in the S-class meeting that day; you must have sensed something was going to happen and brought him along as insurance. " Flash spoke out.

"Ugh…yeah…that's right. " King responded simply.

"You could have said something that A-city wouldn't have been the crater it is now. " Zombieman spoke; he would have liked to be smoking a cigarette right now, but since the teens and child Emperor were present, he opted out of doing so.

"He may have only had a vague feeling; none of our sensors picked up that ship; it almost seemed to have teleported into the atmosphere right above us. I wish I could have some scavage of the ship to learn its abilities, but Metal Knight took all of it. " The child emperor spoke somewhat bitterly.

"Oh, speaking of that guy and the aliens, Blast told me that Boros was still alive and that metal knight had him locked up somewhere. " Sasaitama mentioned casually garnering a massive reaction from the teens: zombieman, metal bat, darkshine, genos, and sweet mask.

"Ugh… Who is this Boros? From the context, I can guess he was one of the aliens that attacked A-city. But to garner this reaction from so many of you, that must mean that this is a dangerous adversary. " Sekingar asked.

"Yeah, he was quite strong, hm... Now that I think about it, he was about as strong as Garou is. Although Garou was more annoying to fight with all his martial arts, He said something about coming here because of a prophecy of a good fight. I guess he came here a little early for that, " Saitama commented dryly as he looked towards Garou during the later half.

"Any thoughts on what a zombieman could be doing with such a being? " Zombieman asked the child emperor.

"Ugh… No clue..but if he's really that dangerous, I could only imagine. " the child emperor remarked with a shrug.

"Tch, I felt a strong presence on that ship; I could have taken him. " Tatsumaki stated boldly, only to be answered with a hearty laugh from Garou in the back.

"Did you hear, bald idiot, if this guy is as strong as I am, you have no shot of beating him? " Garou remarked.

"Oh, it sounds like you think you are stronger than me. I was hurt the last time and was injured the last time. Bang, you better tell your pet here not to get to his head. " Tatsumaki threatened as her power flared once around her.

"Oh, you didn't learn from last time half-pint. Injury or not, you are still below me, " Garou remarked as he uncrossed one set of his arms.

"Now, calm down, you two. We do not need to be fighting each other, especially not here. Garou, please refrain from any other outburst that doesn't pertain to the topic at hand. " Bang remarked as he stood up between the two of them with his hands raised out, mostly as a gesture he had to admit that if they truly wanted to come to blows, then he could do nothing to stop the only one in the room that could be likely just saitama. Although he did have both of their respect, the two settled down for the moment at least.

"This is a startling discovery, to say the least. We will attempt to talk to Metal Knight about this development, such a powerful enemy could be. " Sekingar shifted his eyes directly toward Drive Knight, who was undoubtedly staring back at him, his worries about possible betrayal becoming somewhat more warranted.

"Good luck getting any actual answers from him. " Child Emperor stated, which echoed Sekingar's thoughts as they didn't have much information, let alone the power to even search for the man, especially with his newest contributions to the hero association base.

"I'll launch my investigation into the matter; do you have visual identification of the target? " Drive Knight spoke, and the teens looked at the cyborg with questioning eyes, knowing the cyborg's attention was to have the alien for his own purposes likely. Genos obliged and shot out of his eyes a holographic image of Boros in his armored and released form. Saitama mentioned that he believed that he had something that looked different from that where he was all pink and bigger. Genos remarked that the simulations never got to that level and broke shortly after releasing his armor, so this was all the data he had on its appearance, but Drive Knight assured that it was enough.

"Be careful… We would like to not provoke a conflict from needles worrying. " Sekingar spoke once more, thinking more about what Drive Knight said, and now, with the new machine that the association had requested from Drive Knight for protection, he would have even more power over the hero association's main base than he does now.

"I will remain decreet. " Drive Knight remarked simply:

"Alright, anyway, back to the "God. " As some of you may have already gathered, the non-killing army also has a connection with God; they were sent here by it, and they all likely come from different dimensions from ours where all their people possess powers like theirs. " sitch remarked

"So you set them under the S-class to watch over just in case they turned out to be monsters, if I'm assuming correctly. " A sweet mask spoke.

"That makes sense to me. " The child emperor commented

"Yes, that would be right, including this incident. There has been an increased rate of interactions with God's dimension this past year; Blast said it's as if something is drawing it here; it's still under investigation. "Sitch announced.

"It's him. " Garou remarked, suddenly making everyone look toward the teen and following along his arms, which all pointed towards Saitama, who pointed at himself and was confused.

"Wait, what did I do? " Saitama questioned

"Yeah, he's strong, but he doesn't seem all that spectacular to the regular person. " bad remarked

"I don't know, but he didn't like you. He kept calling you the "fist that turned against God " and wanted me to finish you, especially over all else. Maybe he was just looking at my situation and trying to play me, but that's what it sounded like. " Garou spoke out.

"Going off, Genos reports that Sasama supposedly finished his training within a year and a half, which matches that same time frame; it could be a coincidence, but things line up too well. " Flash spoke simply as everyone's attention went towards Sasama once more, who once again attempted to tell everyone he had no idea why this being would have beef with him; he didn't even know it existed until the day prior.

Zombieman's focus on the situation changed as he felt a pull on the side of his jacket before a voice spoke into his ear. It was a shining light he recognized as his sights shifted towards Tokoyami, who seemed to look at him expectantly along with a couple other of the teens. He didn't want to give out baseless information, however, so he would keep the doctor's opinion to himself as to what he would have liked to say, but some of the heroes were more observant than others.

"It seems that the teens or zombies may be able to shed some light on this mystery based on their posture. " Drive Knight spoke out suddenly over the focus, causing all the attention to focus on him and the teens, although it was the S-class that spoke as he let out a sigh.

"Yeah, we do have some sort of idea of why God could be after him, but before I give it, I would like to point out that this is only a theory; none of it has any true shred of evidence behind it, just general observations from... let's just say an old friend of mine says he's a genetic scientist, " Zombieman spoke.

"We get it; it's not something we should take; in absolute fact, hurry up; I don't have much time left as I have an interview to attend. " Sweet Mask interrupted, making Zomebieman look at him with an unimpressed expression but carry on.

"Riiight, well, this scientist believes that everyone, maybe even every being, has what he calls a "limiter. " In simple terms, the limiter represents your potential as a person—how strong, fast, and even smart you can become—and this is something God set on everyone to protect themselves. However, Saitama here broke his limiter, therefore he can continuously grow as strong as he likes, " Zombieman remarked.

"But why would God be angry because of that? " Puri-Puri prisoner asked.

"Because that means that he can't control us. " Drive Knight replied

"Yeah, if this god created beings but those same beings started to grow beyond his control, then it would be logical that he would want to end that experiment in fear of losing that control. " The child Emperor suggested looking towards the zombieman, whom he nodded at.

"Yes, it would explain why he wants humanity dead; at least that's what the homeless emperor told me; if others are capable of breaking their limiter like Satama here, God would have a larger problem on his hands than Blast Little Possey, so he wants to nip this rebellion in the bud quickly. " Zombieman spoke once more.

"Despite how crazy that sounds, Psykos also started talking about killing all of humanity and junk like that when she was infected by that thing's power. " Tatsumaki remarked

"Doesn't that mean all of us can also break our limit? " Tank top master asked

"Yeah, the training this guy did didn't seem like much at all, so if just trying hard was all it was, then we should have broken it. " Metal Bat argued.

"That simply means we have yet to surpass the potential that this being has set out for us. " Flashy Flash replied simply.

"Before yesterday, I probably would have found that hard to believe, but now I can definitely see it... I need to get back into the gym and take my training up a notch. " Darkshine said, clenching his fist on his arm.

"I agree with that as well. I will break through this limiter with the power of the tank top! " Tank top master declared.

"I was already planning on doubling up my training, but now I have a solid goal in mind: to break this limiter, it should be interesting. " Atomic Samurai stated:.

"I see. That is a very interesting dynamic. I would like to discuss more, but I really do need to take my leave. Aoyama, you will report to me any other interesting facts from this meeting. " Sweet Mask stated as he went to take his leave, and Aoyama nodded his head in confirmation.

"We will need to confirm this scientist's theory; do you think you could bring him here so that we could see his full reasoning? " Sekingar asked the zombieman.

"Unlikely, but I'll see if I can get him to write it down or upload it to a file to hand it over. " Zombieman replied.

"That would be really helpful. For now, we should just keep vigilant against any other interference from God's dimension, but we also can't ignore the rising monster threat. "

"This brings us to the next topic at hand: the monster preserve and its ruler, Monster King Garou, " Sekingar said.

"Hole on? Ruler? When was that decided? Isn't that preserving their project? " Garou remarked, chucking a thumb at the non-killing army.

"It was your dream to be the "monster king " idiot, and what's a king without subjects? " Bakugo responded roughly.

"What he means to say is that we leave in four days, so we entrust you to keep the peace for the preserve inside and outside. " Midoriya responded immediately after his friend.

"Yes, we will acknowledge the monsters inside as their city discreetly, and of course, as such, they won't be attacked as long as they stay peaceful. The number of monsters inside has now reached 500 individuals with a scattered range of disaster levels. As their leader, Garou, we expect you to inform us of the inhabitants and to dissuade any actions against humanity that may harbor within the walls. " Sitch asked.

"hmph… I'll consider it. " Garou remarked simply.

"It's the least he can do for all the trouble he caused. " Bang added on with a glare at the teen, who simply grumbled in response.

"I'll leave it to the both of you. With that out of the way, the meeting is over, and you all are free to do what you want for the rest of the day. " Sitch announced to them all, and many of the S-class had started to take their leave mostly in silence except for Flash. The man had asked for Sitch to tell Blast the next time he's around to come to fight him so that he could challenge him once more. He also went on to want to challenge Garou and Sotama again, which the two promptly blew the ninja off, earning his ire once more and making him storm out of the room rather angry. Saitama, King, and Genos left together; they were going to the disaster zone to search for anything left of Saitama's house, while the teens all decided to separate for the day and spin the time in their own way.

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Day 2

Monster preserve

Monster Council: Garou, Bang, Darkshine, Council of sword+, Non-killing army+

While the day before was the human briefing, today was the monster debriefing. Along with catching up for the monsters in the preserves, this included some of the monsters that were technically now heroes in the wild. Given their participation in the raid, their names were cleared, and they were now free to do what they wanted. All of them had decided on still being heroes, using their strength to help other monsters or kill them if the situation called for it. The monsters also were rewarded in their own way from the monster attack saren had told them what he had been actually doing after Blast had made his appearance known was to secure the former monster king's body of course the teens knew what the monster had in store so all the monsters that had helped them had sectioned off only a peace of the monsters king's flesh offering them another even bigger power up than before but saren assured them that this wasn't only just for the increased power but so that the objectively "good " monsters could stay in charge of the reserve and the populous within of course this increase also required them to go through another day of gestation to adapt to their new bodies but eventually all of them had made it through without having lost themselves to the power.

In terms of disaster level, nearly all the monsters that had partaken of the former monster king had jumped up an entire disaster level in strength, which meant all of the demons were now dragon level in strength, so on and so forth. The monsters that were already dragons became stronger as well, but the increase in their abilities wasn't as large as the others, showing some signs of diminishing returns from increasing power in such a way. The only monster that had refused to eat from the monster kind was none other than Asterius, the minotaur content with working his way up from where he was and only wanting to have the single jump in strength from last time. The group went inside and were surprised that Atomic Samurai and Darkshine were present as well. Darkshine was there mostly to "play " with Rover, which was more like training not only for his muscles but also for Darkshine's spirit. He was feeling confident now, but he didn't want it to just be a fluke, and he returned to his old way once more, so he wanted to face down strong monsters like Rover one more time to realize that.

The sword council and their disciples had all decided to show up to the reserve, which was surprising in itself. However, even more surprising were the two other additional members that had joined them, who were revealed to be two of the master's sons, Shido and Yuta, respectively. Their reasoning for being there was somewhat different; it was Saren's idea, as he wanted to show off to them his own group of fighters in a group that he was calling the council of the blades, or devil claws, as he called them, which was the direct opposite of the council of swords. The group of swordsmen had also bought food for Great Lord White as thanks for saving the sword master's lives in the fighting during the battle.

No one really needed to know why Bang was there as Garou would spin most of his time in the reserve until he could get his human form back which he was working with Saren on achieving, the teen could technically do what he wanted but so far was content to just keep to himself often times the monsters would come to him to settle disputes that may have arisen and Bang would offer some wise advice in setting the matter without his general violent themes that he would normally suggest, currently Garou had been meditating under a waterfall dramatically smaller than how it was originally before he was captured now it was more like a stream with a sharp decline into a steady lake instead of the ragging rapids as it was before Bang, Midoriya and Ojiro joined him in his mediation none of them spoke but Bang didn't need to speak to him to know what was on the teens mind.

"You thinking of a way that you could break your limiter, Garou? " Bang asked suddenly.

"Obviously, Geezer, even after I've gotten this far, I still haven't broken it. It seems stupid to even think about it. "Garou responded in a rough voice.

"I'm much older than you are, and even though I haven't broken it, maybe it is not for geniuses like you and me but for the common man. " Bang offered.

" What about you? Have you got any more information to share about it? " Garou asked

"I do... If you can call me by my real name " Ojiro replied, annoyed.

"Fine… Ojiro, what else is there? " Garou remarked reluctantly.

"Well, this is just speculation from a discussion I had with a friend who has been there for the explanation, but monsterization is somewhat a pathway to surpassing one limiter. It is why people's bodies take on transformation to withstand their power but lose themselves in the process, becoming an entirely different entity or person. " Ojiro remarked

"But Garou was able to still be himself despite that, and if monsters surpass their limiters, wouldn't all of them be as strong as Saitama? " Bang asked.

"Well, we speculate that monsters, given that they are recognized as "new " beings, also come with an entirely new limiter above their original one. There is likely a difference between surpassing one limit and breaking it entirely. The fact that Garou is still himself despite his monsterization may suggest that his limiter may not have changed and he's closer than everyone else to breaking his limiter. It may be why God went out of his way to ask you twice to take his hand to take out saitama. " Ojiro spoke his thoughts out loud.

"So what's the difference between me and that bald idiot? If he can break his limit, I'm sure that I can. " Garou with an annoyed expression.

"I don't know; maybe motivation? Saitama wanted to be the strongest hero despite not having the potential to be one. You always had the potential to be a great martial artist, but being a monster was something else. It's why I wanted to know what kind of monster you wanted to be. " Ojiro explained

"I see… So you did never truly believe in the "absolute evil " approach. " Bang remarked to Garou, who simply sneered.

"It was a necessary evil that I thought I needed to carry out for peace. " Garou replied briefly as he thought about what Oiro just said, and then he considered what Saitama had said to him that day about his "half-hearted monster hobby vs. his serious hero hobby " and maybe how he may be a bit correct in his analysis of the situation, but that would also mean that Saitama may have been correct about something else as well, which only made him more frustrated.

"Breaking your limiter is also not just all positive; it comes with a cost to the person. For Saitama, it was his hair, but for you, Garou, I fear that the cost may be your humanity, if being a monster is something you truly want to be. " ojiro stated seriously.

"In terms of appearance, it seemed to have already vanished. " bang remarked

"Saitama doesn't seem to think so; he kept calling it a costume, and he's probably right about that... Underneath all this armor, I'm still there, and I can still feel it. I was never able to truly become the monster I sought out to be internally. " Garou remarked a bit remiss.

"And this indecision is likely the reason why he failed to break his limiter. " Bang remarked

"That's what we can only assume for now. " Ojiro commented, and the three of them all sat silently for several seconds.

"I'll support the path you choose, Garou, as long as you remember who you are. " Bang stated.

"I don't nee..tch… whatever you want. God is my only concern now; if I need to shed my humanity to take that thing down, I'll do it. " Garou remarked earnestly.

"How noble of you. " Bang remarked

"I couldn't imagine you saying something like that during our training. " Ojiro commented

"Both of you shut it before I thrash you. " Garou replied simply, but both of them simply laughed at the threat as they sat and meditated some more.

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Monsters and Samurai

Elsewhere in the preserve, the council of swords continued their trek through the jungle and was eventually met with Saren. He took the group down towards a secluded presence. It wasn't a face place, mostly just a trimmed open field where they lay and a large temple structure that towered above the tree line. It was Saren's temple, the one that he was trapped in, and they had unconsciously freed him from it. He had moved the mountain-like structure with his magic, and he used it to house his possessions of monsters that he had for his group, which all proceeded to step out into the open to greet them.

The first one to step out was none other than the sword devil executioner. The monster greeted the samurai with a bow and again thanked the Atomic samurai for sparing his life. Next up were two monster twin sisters, Raptora and Reptera, both in revealing clothing. Sero and Jackie commented to one another about how they thought Yuta's outfit was revealing, but compared to those two, it was still out there, but at least it wasn't a bathing suit or ripped fishnets and pants. The next one out of the large temple was also a familiar figure to the swordsman; this was none other than Lord Great White, the large fishman, stepping out of the shadows, wielding a large trident and crown that the Atomic Samurai recognized. It was the swordsman this time around that offered their thanks and gift to the monster, which he accepted. The next monster was familiar to Sero at least, which was none other than Asterius, the large monster. Another monster came out of the large temple; this one the disciples were actually aware of as they were the ones that had defeated it, which was the devil long hair. The man greeted the disciples with a bow and remarked that his interest in swordsman ships had peaked due to his battle with them, and with the help of saren magic, he was even able to recover all of his hair in incredibly short order. The very last monster that was apart of this group was none other than Sigismund himself. Given that it was Tuesday, it was Shadowman turning on the field. Given that they were in the same form, he wore knight-like armor surrounded by his dark aurora. However, given his scythe, the inside of the aura was a deep, dark red. Along with his amors taking on a more draconic appearance,.

The eight monsters faced off against the nine human swordsmen. Saren explained how, as they could see, unlike them, he wouldn't limit people to just swords, especially since monsters possessed natural weapons from a plethora of things. They would likely be joined by more members as time went on, but this was at least the initial group, and what else was there to do for the two large groups to do but compare against one another? As was the point of Saren's establishing such a group in the first-place competitions, it was a great way to evolve one's skill. They all had the same purpose, however, as they would find the moon blade, but after that, Saren suggested that perhaps they should hold practice duels to see who keeps the weapons. The first battle was between Atomic Samurai and Great Lord White, clashing against the large shark creature Trident, which reminds him of his battle against the former king, but something tells him that this would be a greater challenge than before as the clashes continued.

Trade Deal

The last reason why the group of teen heroes had made their way and spent the majority of the day around the preserve was to watch over the trade deal that they, or more precisely, Saren, had constructed with Drive Knight. When Saren was off on his own, securing the body of the monster Kings, Drive Knight had also approached the body in hopes of doing the same thing. The two had a minor skirmish with each other, but ultimately, with the help of an energizer that Drive Knight had magnetically clamped to his body, he managed to let the two agree. It was for the release of Nyan, for the remains of Orochi's body. This was the only reason the monster's body wasn't eaten completely wholesale, but only half of the creature's body had been consumed instead. Drive Knight arrived a couple of moments later; he still had Nyan contained in his checkmate iron maiden box, but compared to the last time where the monster was nearly a charred husk, it's white hair had partially started to glow once more. There were two other monsters that the Drive Knight had managed to capture, which was a black sperm cell along with evil natural water. They weren't a part of the bargain mainly due to black sperm also having a presence inside of the reserve already and the nature of evil natural water, which made it need to be locked up for the safety of everything else.

Nyan was conscious enough to be its own creature, so Saren believed the creature could be useful for them and would broker an alliance of sorts with the robotic hero, which could prove incredibly useful as such was their deal with Metal Knight for the time being. The cyborg arrived on time and in the designated area. It was the first time he had been to the reserve, so he was definitely interested in just about everything. As he shifted his eye over the environment, Saren and the teens greeted him. They discussed for a moment before, as Saren went to work, summoning Oorochi's body materializing with a large green flame. The teens found that the Drive Knight had actually implanted multiple miniature explosives inside of the cat monster as a safety measure in case the monster had managed to escape. While disapproving, they all understood the cyborg's concerns. Drive Knight tested for a moment to see if the monster's body was real before finally releasing Nyan. The cat monster was certainly not amused by the whole ordeal, and if it weren't for the bombs that he had inside of him, he would have attacked the cyborg right then and there.

Energizer had already filled the cat in on what was happening and where he was being transported, so he already had the Gist of what was going down. The cat monster gave a mock bow to his would-be saviors, although the tone he said it in was more mockery than gratitude. Like all monsters within the preserve, he was placed with a tracker to keep track of its position at all times, especially if the monsters managed to escape, but Saren added one more precaution to the monster, slashing at its arms and drawing blood in a display of strength. Saren had easily countered the slash that the creature returned to him with his blade. Before forcing him into the wall and binding him in purple chains, Saren warned the creature that while killing between the monsters wasn't prohibited due to their very nature, it was frowned upon and shouldn't be done in excess or he would kill him. If that was understood, Nyan nodded his understanding before relating his hold and allowing the cat monster to go free into the wild.

Drive Knight in turn took his own leave with the monster king's corpse; however, Energizer stayed behind and caught up with the cyborg later on, which the cyborg agreed to as he also went off into the large forest area. Given that this was likely to be their last day, the teens all took the moment to say their last goodbyes to all of the monsters inside the preserve. Mineta took the longest time to leave given that he had a sort of following of monsters with short stacks that seemed to have dug him, which made him curse more and more about having to leave so soon and how the world wasn't being fair to him, but eventually, they all left back to their homes to pack up and prepare for their last day in the world.

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Day 3: Hot Springs

On the third day, the teens had a surprise visitor from none other than tatsumaki of all people, the girl Despite her tendency wasn't come to lambast the teens or admonish them it was quite the opposite she was there for their advice, she wanted to get the other S-class members gifts as an apology for her action during the raid, of course, this was a shocking development but all of them was glad to help the girl out and even the girl went the extra mile in accompanying the girl to the stores themselves despite tatsumaki remarking that it wasn't necessary but they all insisted on helping the women and eventually she relented allowing them to take her shopping along with fubuki who was the main person that suggested her to give the others gifts, she was cutting it close given that later on during the day they were all supposed to get together for the hot springs.

The hot springs were decided by the teens given that they, as a group, had been the ones to have technically taken out a majority of the cadre; they had defeated Energizer, Fugher Ugly, and helped a golden sperm, platinum sperm, and Orochi. While many of the S-class numbers also got credit for beating the same monsters, not many had beaten other monsters besides those, and none of the heroes complained about the destination, likely due to the fact they were leaving soon. The place they had decided to go to was a relatively new place that had opened up. It was a monster-themed attraction of a place that was likely made by doomers or monster sympathizers after the monster invasion, which called itself Orochi Hot Springs. It even included an image of the monster king, or at least their closest approximation they could get based on the details Gyoro-Gyoror had given out in the newspaper. The heroes were the first to arrive, all of the S-class heroes plus Sasama, along with the Council of Swordsmen. The hero association, however, was coerced into forcing them to bring along Waganma.

The monster had arrived courtesy of Saren's teleportation. This was a rather large group of monsters; however, due to a secondary spell by Saren called mass polymorph, all of the monsters that were too large had become human-sized and were also able to make an appearance with a new humanoid appearance along with it. The hot springs were also meant to be a meeting point with the high lords of the preserve and the heroes; each of the lords was a dragon-level threat and was considered "friendly " enough monsters led by none other than Garou who was considered the King. Garou had managed to gain his human form back, and while he looked the same mostly in between his v-shaped silver hair, he now wore a permanent darkly fixtured mask. Pulling it down allowed him to access his monster form immediately. The lords that ruled the preserve otherwise were: Saren, Asterius, Goddess Glasses, Scaledon, Game-berus, Sigisumand, Eyesight, Great Lord White, Volten, Energizer, and Phoenix Man.

Rover was also present, although he was in a smaller state than he was normally, now being just a slightly bigger dog breed instead of his 20-foot-tall size. The dog monster immediately went over to greet Darkshine, who picked up and started to pet the dog before setting it back down. There was an air of tenacity to all of the S-class heroes, especially the child emperor, upon seeing both Phoenix Man and eyesight, although the snake-empress that she liked to be called was currently more focused on Pig God, with a mix of fear and anger on her face. Saren was the one to introduce all of them, and they all soon got on with the festivities.

There had also been a couple of other members that had been brought to the springs, which included Tareo by Bang, who had told the boy of his "uncle " true identity and even who his master was. The boy had made his trek to Bang's dojo and wanted to enroll and see Garou, so Bang brought him along to meet him. The boy had gone to hug his uncle immediately, and despite Garou telling the brat to get lost, he didn't avoid or resist the hug at all. The next member that showed up was technically a complete outside source this which was Tiffany, this was a request from Saren as they had some things that they needed to discuss and the lords to meet her and since they were all together it was the best opportunity to do that, her introduction went a little differently than the other monsters and it wasn't since she was the news girl that spread the monster association message to the public no it was actually due to her ability to change a guy into a girl and vise versa, this caused an uproar of astounding proportion in Okamitachi directly at sero and how he knew about someone like that four months and didn't tell her about it, directly challenging the boy to a duel on the spot and despite his reluctance his squad and even atomic also agreed and there was a slight bond formed as both groups watched sero get beat down mercilessly in the five-minute duel where he couldn't even forfeit.

Soon after, Okamitachi asked to be transformed into a woman, and Tiffany obliged the girl, although it would take a couple of hours to take effect and change completely. She asked the monster if the effect could be permanent, and to that, Tiffany truthfully didn't know she only used it on a person no more than once as they would get the message she was trying to teach them as she gave a side glance over to Mineta, who turned away and began to look elsewhere while dragging his feet nervously to the side. She could try to apply it multiple times, but she couldn't promise anything. Okamaitachi would take what she could get. The group all went into the resort/hot springs and meandered about for the rest of the day. The only person who wasn't a part of their group was the martial artist Suiryu, along with his sister Suiko. Given Garou's and the history of the two, the man immediately asked the human monster for a spar, and Garou wasn't one to turn down a challenge. The fight was incredibly short-lived, however, given how stronger Garou has become since they met a couple of months ago.

Despite his disappointment in losing yet another battle by being trounced by his opponent without them having to try, he was happy to run into his hero once more by introducing his little sister to the bald man and even telling him how he inspired him and Lin Lin into becoming heroes themselves, of course, the true surprise, however, was that they weren't going to join the hero association but the Neo heroes a separate organization that was forming right under the hero association nose, although most of the heroes or monster cared little for that fact child emperor and zombieman was also interested however suiryu couldn't give many details, especially to any hero association folks that were unless they were going to swap over, his sister was going to join the hero association despite the bad press they were going to get once things started popping off, child emperor took a glance over to phoenix man who shared the look and held his gaze for a moment upon hearing that but after that was done and night began to fall, everyone decided to step inside of the hot springs by this time, Okamitachi had manged to transform into a full on girl which made he clothes fit on her abit more snuggly then before given her wider hips and larger chest but ultimately it still fit well enough not to need more clothes made for her.

Everyone got into gender-separate hot springs and enjoyed their time together. Watchdog Eve showed up completely to the entire lineup of S-class heroes. Both the dog hero and the dog monster played around the springs, occasionally falling in. Meta Bat, Bakugo, Kirishima, and Bushidrill challenged each other to stay in an extra-hot, smaller tub and see who would get out first, and Todoroki would even add an extra challenge by pumping more heat into it. The others lazed about, and some like saitama, genos with rust-proof suits, Midoriya, zombieman, Child Emperor, Suiryu, Sweet Mask, Flashy Flash, Iida, and Mineta all separated into the yuzu section where lemons were thrown into the bath for extra skin care. Off the side of that were both tareo and waganma drinking milk just as phoenix man set it down along with a basket of osen eggs. They were 50 yen each, so they were pretty cheap, and since it was on the association's tab, it was easy to hand them out as saitama asked for one along with genos and zombieman due to the angel had to catch using the top of the sweet mask head, ending the idols anger for a moment in time. Drive Knight was also present, although his presence was centered around Garou. He wanted to take a few samples from the current monster king, and he knew getting the teen to simply cooperate would be a tall order, so he would take whatever he could get, such as pool scans around his area or dead skin cells that might fall off, although when asked, he merely remarked that he was "testing the water. ".

On the other side of the pen, the group of girls was a bit calm. Okamaitachi was a bit hesitant to step into the bath with the girls even though she was one fully now, but all of them welcomed her with open arms. Her eyesight was still working on managing to walk on two legs instead of slithering around as she normally did, so she would trip on nothing on occasion, making her very still while in the springs. Aki played around and threw multiple of the teens into the hot spring while jumping in herself, while Fubuki and Goddess Glasses talked over on the side about a couple of things that she would need help with. The group of women was also greeted by Bad's sister, Zenko. The little girl was interested in all of the abilities that the girls had and would like it if they could show her, which they did, even tatsumaki lifting water off the hot springs and swishing it around in the air. Silver Chain was late to the bath as she was called away by Garou for a moment before, and it was to find out that he gave her another sword for the one he broke. She accepted the dark black blade, which was a tiny bit longer than the previous one she had, which she sharpened down to a similar length. Her old purple sword was still around, and in fact, like the original creature, it grew back sharper than before, but compared to the sword Garou gifted her, it was brittle. She questioned the materials he used to make it, and he simply answered that it was a part of him, which explained each of the black blades that the council of swordsman possessed. The hot spring on the girl's side stayed mostly peaceful and quiet, especially after an incident where Aki thought Tatsumaki was younger due to the size of her proportions, which were similar to those of Zenko.

The bathing continued for a few hours before a mild commotion occurred on the other side of the boys' room. In a conflict of some kind, Uraraka called to the others and asked if everyone was alright, and Midorya yelled back that everyone was doing fine. They had a slight snag as an uninvited guest was caught on their side of the hot springs, which was revealed to be speed o' sound sonic once more, which was accidentally found out by Garou and taken down by Sasaitama once more. After sending him away with the police (where he would escape once more after the car drove a few blocks), everyone decided to take that as a queue to turn in for the day.

Everyone that wasn't a trouble maker that was the triple cadre of Mina, toru, and Mineta the boy was a surprising factoid in the normally triple girl cadre of troublemakers as Jackie was busy at the moment however the three of them managed to convince Tiffany into going around and changing all of the guy's gender or at least as many as they could get their midst on, sneaking around the hot springs and joining into several of the guy's rooms and having tiffany kissing them on the cheek, several of the others girls notably Momo, Jiro, and Uraraka caught them in the middle of their scheme but they had managed to convince them to go along with there plan just imaging what their boyfriends would look like as guy's they had successfully managed to get most of the 1A Guy's and even all of the swordsman disciples however when it came to the swordmasters upon sliding the door open as gently as they possible could a single half-step into the thresh hold through the doorway a sudden slash had appeared in front of the offending foot, caausing all of them to pause before five more slashes marked the way and the message was quite clear leave of get cut to death so they did.

They continued on to infect all of the guys and it was here they had run into another snag of a problem, which surprisingly wasn't Silver Chain's appearance but was Bakugo planning for something like this to happen and having created his counter-measures for it, he boarded up his door with a bunch of wires and hidden traps that led to a bunch of sound making things that they could find, along with a rotating watch which was formed of Kirishima, Kaminari, and himself the current person one watch was Kamainri and at that mina and toru had the perfect way to lure him out as they turned to jiro the girl did not like the gleam in their eyes but before she could run away they had already pounced on her and forced her into a more risky clothing that emphasized her thighs and had her take a picture with an enticing mesage with "juicy " snapshot to match this was, of course, answered almost immediately as he nearly busted out of the room, he attempted to contain his excitement and not wake the other two a he silently diables all of the traps they set up and slid the door open and walked out he was immedialty knocked out by mina with a blow to the back of the head.

Jiro caught him and held him from falling completely on his face, feeling sort of bad for what she allowed to happen, although this now gave the group access into the room and allowed them to get at the two boys sleeping away. Of course, Bakugo, who seemed to have a sixth sense of something being wrong, had woken up, but by the time he did so, it was already too late, and the only thing that stopped him from blowing up on the group of women and even a few guys was Silver Chain knocking him out once more before taking him away elsewhere. She promised to detain him for the rest of the night, but they would be on their own during the day. The group continued and skipped over Sweet Mask due to Aoyama's request, and the group also skipped over Sero's room when they found that there had been a sock under the door. Momo, along with the majority of the girls, had no idea what it meant. However, Mineta was there to assist them and remarked that he was getting his "goodbye present from Jackie and that he was a "lucky guy, " which drove home the message as they all, especially Jiro, quickly got out of there as she could here within the walls the closer she got to the doorway.

Child emperor was nowhere to be found along with zombieman however they quickly went over towards the monsters next although given their abilities it was hard for them to be caught unaware, surprisingly it was easy to get the psycho sisters as tatsumaki was a fairly heavy drinker and would often just knock out completely however the tiffany was concerned about the repercussions of changing the girl and how that would work but the teens suggested that she was nothing but a "paper tiger " but she highly doubted that and the news reporter wouldn't hesitate to throw them under the bus in the morning for all the chaos that was going to commence but given it was there last day he group decided that it would be worth it at least hopefully.

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Aoyama and Sweet Mask

Aoyama had wandered off from the group as they passed by Sweet Mask's dwelling he was clutching a large gift under his clothes that he was hoping to hand to the star, he tentatively knocked on the door and after a moment the star answered first he commended him for telling the others to get lost which meant he guessed the man could hear the commotion of the group at large outside his doorway, although that may have been due to him saying that he would come to visit him during the night so he stayed up for him instead, Aoyama handed sweet mask his gift, it was wrapped up in a heavily scented parchment that would mask the odor as it was none other than a piece of orochi, he gifted it to sweet mask and told him how a monster could get stronger by eating stronger monsters, Sweet Mask initially was insulted by the suggestion that he wasn't good enough as he was and even angrier with being reminded of his true self. However, after thinking of the past event, he thought it would be beneficial, especially if the other monsters were going through similar changes. He thought it would also be beneficial to him in the long run as his natural state (human form) would also increase in strength. So the anger faded a bit after it came, and he thanked Aoyama for the offering. Aoyoama asked about what had happened to Furfur, which he should have expected.

Sweet Mask took control of the ugmon despite the teens' weariness of doing so. The monster had drastically reduced in strength and power, being skin and bone compared to the hulking beast it was before, but it was still an ugmon's body that sweet mask still couldn't handle; it was a weakness, and weakness wasn't something he could ever have. The monster associate used it perfectly against him, and if it weren't for Green Savior, he could have been finished. That was a wakeup call to fix the issue, he took hold of the fugher ugly capture, and he routinely has him locked up in a special shelter that he plans to visit daily to experience that ugliness.

Aoyama remarked that he could have used an ugly duckling instead, a friendlier ugmon, but Sweet Mask rebuffed him and explained that he wanted fugher ugly so that once he finally managed his fear, he could walk up to the monster and end it for the embarrassment it did to him, but quickly amended that the monster would not change; ugmons of that nature would not change; it would not be worthy of being kept alive; he had already discussed it with some of the preserve monsters a day prior, which Aoyama albeit reluctantly understood.

The final thing that Sweet Mask told Aoyama before their conversation as wrong was that... he was wrong. It was an admission that was so sudden and random that Aoyama had thought that he misheard, although the star did not repeat but carried on from it to give the statement some context. He explains that he was wrong about how he could not be a hero because Blast could always see past his natural form the entire time, and he still thought that he could be a hero, and he still went to see if he was ok that day. Blast was truly the perfect hero, and if he thought that he even knew how and what he was, then Blast would likely offer that same courtesy to him as well, so he was wrong, and he could be a hero, probably not one up to his level of course, but a hero nonetheless, and he showed it here, and now all he needed to do was show it to the people in their world. The sudden confession made Aoyama tear up for a moment, but like Sweet Mask, there was no hugging embrace, and he was slapped for attempting to do so, not very hard but enough to get that message across. He placed a hand on his shoulder instead, gave him a wide smile, and remarked how he believed that he could accomplish that mission as he gestured for the boy to leave, and with a few sniffles and nods, he did so, heading back to his room with a smile on his face.

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Zombieman, Child Emperor, and Phoenix Man

Child Emperor had been disturbed from his sleep as he was dragged into a strange dimension by none other than Phoenix Man. It was one of his new abilities he was learning to control called the "phoenix space, " a supposed dimension for costumed monsters. He wanted to talk to the hero, and Child Emperor reluctantly agreed, although he did have one suggestion in that he also drag in Zombieman so that he could also pertain to the conversation as he had a reasonable guess on what they were going to talk about, and Phoenix Man did so. After the initial shock wore off, the three of them held a conversation about the hero association's future along with Monster City.

Phoenix Man told the two of them about all of the information he had managed to gather about the hero associations and how he came into such information with the help of their secret informant on the inside, whom they captured before the raid. The child emperor didn't have the time to confirm all of the things Phoenix Man had shown him, but the chunk he managed to do had all been correct, so he had no reason to believe the monster had been telling a lie. the monster went further and explained how a significant player in these misdeeds of the hero association was the employee, McCoy, he had told sweet mask about this which included in the fact that the man knew he was a monster this man had been leaking intel to the rival hero association which he could only found by the callsign neo obviously the two of them investigated further although Sweet Mask Had different direction than he expected the Idol had actually killed the man and had him resurrect him placing him under his control and collecting information that way, they learned that the rival agency is called the neo heroes ad that they have plans to release a discrediting campaign against the hero association on their arrival in a few weeks.

The information McCoy provided to them was supposed to be used as a way for him to buy himself into an executive spot in that organization however there has been a change of plans, for his crimes the man has been arrested instead but the new organization still had the key advantage over them, metal knight had spied in on their little interrogation and offered his thoughts on the matter and remarked that the Neo heroes could not be trusted and told them that they had actually helped the monster association during the conflict something that phoenix man could confirm with the appearance of the G5, Gheat, and Gwind units this allowed them to have at least some dirt against the rival organization in return but likely not enough to turn the tide.

This is where the monster will step in, or more likely himself, will unveil his ability of healing and resurrection, which should garner a ton of support for the hero organization to counterbalance the negativity. The lost Neo heroes will take their introduction, which will also prove to counter their momentum as the Neo heroes, all 2100 of them, seek to eliminate the monsters in the preserve. This will fail unless they have much stronger members than they have sent to McCoy; none of them could hope to fight Garou, let alone the other dragons in the field. Zombieman correctly deduced that the association was going to spin up a tail of how the neo-heroes' actions would bring about a secondary monster association and how they had already struck a bargain with the monsters inside of the preserve to remain neutral, but more than that, they would exaggerate how long they existed for and how long they have been in talks, further tarnishing the Neo-Heroes representation and also revealing the monster reserve. Although how things go will differ from theirs, Tatsumaki may be deployed to the situation and fight Garou to protect the neo-heroes' retreat. Although it is likely, if not probable, that the two will escalate into a proper fight, whoever wins will spare the other and show the connection they share with the world.

That should put the association on a somewhat even footing; however, that still left the rampant corruption that the hero association was under, which Sweet Mask and Metal Knight wanted to resolve, which most likely meant control, and he wanted Child Emperor's cooperation to do so. He knows about the child prodigy proposal to better the association and would like to be in that endeavor. The two heroes were suspicious and asked what the monster got out of any of this, and Child Emperor asked how he gained his original form back in the first place.

Phoenix Man explained that when he told him that he couldn't tear his costume, that was a lie. He could if he wanted to, but bird brain was important to him; it was his life's work, and he relished it completely even at the end, so what he would get was fame and fortune. He would like to revive the show, or at the very least the character, and bring joy to others as he did before, and he gained his power by eating off the body of Orochi. He convinced the others of how abilities could be useful, so they allowed him to partake of the former monster king, allowing him to transform back completely.

The three of them all talked more and more about things to come and what was going on in the shadows before parting on rather amiable terms. Zombieman and Child Emperor had taken a brief moment to discuss everything themselves on the balcony for a moment before returning to their rooms, although they ran into a group of others that had evil intentions. Although Zombieman was the only one that was hit by the changing kiss to let Child Emperor just go free from the incident, he didn't want that on his conscience, just being a kid and all.

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Day 4

Predictably, utter chaos ensued the next day as a bulk of hot spring heroes had their genders swapped once Tatsumaki had gotten her bearings, and over her hangover, it nearly caused the utter destruction of the entire place. Once she looked into a mirror, most of the S-class heroes that they managed to effect took it in a much more subdued paste. Darkshine had to have a shirt made for his large bulk, although he didn't mind going completely topless for the time being. Although the girls didn't have that same issue, even though they had been caught by the switch, unbeknownst to the trouble maker themselves, except for Mineta, of course. The monster served somewhat better in this regard, as all of them were basically impossible to infect with the spell, in part due to Saren's magic already having a hold over them except Garou, whose body simply resisted the effect all on its own, along with Saitama, who was also not affected, which no one was really surprised about. Once chaos and mayhem finally settled and everyone returned to their normal, the teens bid everyone farewell and made their way back to their homes, where they would await Blast's arrival. Two of them didn't stay home and had just gotten their things and splintered off elsewhere.

Noon arrived and Blast had come. He looked over those present, noticing how the two were meeting, and noticed the extra girl among their ranks. He asked if this was what she really wanted as he wouldn't be going back, and Sylvia nodded her head, saying that she understood the circumstances and accepted them. He also added that while the kids had a beacon to home in on, she would be completely lost in the new world. It shouldn't be dangerous as she would teleport around where people were, but it could be hundreds to thousands of miles from where the teens are, and she still accepted the risk. She again understood and said that it shouldn't be a problem; she could find her way to them. They told them about where the other two had been located, and with a single point of his finger, all of them had been transported away in a large flash of light.

Blast slammed both his hands together and teleported once more, and he had surprisingly arrived in front of an orphanage. He didn't expect that at least. As his entrance was noticed by a large degree of the kids and teens located there, he took a few pictures and things of that nature before finally finding the teens that he was looking for. As he said goodbye to one of the girls there, he thought it would be another case of someone else wanting to join them on the other side. However, the girl remarked that she would like to stay and protect her home, and Sero could respect that as he was teleported away, wishing the girl well and how it was a fun summer. Blast took his leave sometime later slamming his fists together and another surprise awaited him as he was in front of a massive metal wall that stretched for miles away, he found the teen with the strange horn surrounded by what seemed like monsters, he approached slowly not wanting to give off the wrong impression and the group of four seemed to be saying their final Goodbye's before they approached him interestingly only two monsters approached with him as the third one the minotaur had decided to stay behind, he told the two monsters the same thing he told the girl and how they will likely be displaced away from koda upon arrival and would need to find him and torax they accepted the risk before being teleported away, having finished up what he ended to do he was about to leave himself before a flash of blue raked beside him with a whole host other monsters which had just arrived.

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Home Sweet Home

The teens arrived at another open eclipse of pure darkness that swept over the entirety of Japan, once everyone could see once more the teens didn't have a moment to break as they were rushed by their family and loved ones which they embraced massively, tears were shed on both sides of the embrace except for Bakugo's whom despite not seeing each other for months at this point still had a rather rowdy reunion that the father was trying to get a handle of, by the time Bakug could actually pry his mother off of him to see around, he instantly already recognized that Silver Chain was already there it was a lucky catch she was in the rafters of the gymnasium they were in and he only caught a glimpse of her glowing eyes, he just realized the additional headache that will happen once he reveals who the girl was but he would decide to rip the bandage of right away and asked the girl to show herself causing a bit of surprise as none of the other heroes even noticed that she was there, Bakugo questioned if the girl had gotten lucky to appear close by but she diasgreed and remarked that she had appeared in a place called Antarctica. She took more time sneaking into the UA than actually getting to Japan proper, given the school's defenses. Bakugo's mother took the opportunity to excuse herself from the situation and how the girl was involved with her son, and Bakugo flat-out told her how, leading to a cascade of even louder arguments that transpired. She literally couldn't believe it and remarked on how she never thought that she would get grandkids with a son like Bakugo.

The chaos was thankfully interrupted by Koda, who asked Silver Chain if she could go and locate both Torax and Aki. She gave a formal nod and was about to head out, and Midoriya offered to help her out in her search by speeding her up with gear shift. Traditionally, at her speed, she could circle the earth in a little over three seconds, but with his increase, she went much faster than before, along with Tokoyami also supporting her with a shining light, which also drew a few looks, but the teens promised to explain everything later as the girl took her leave. It took around 10 minutes for her to return with both monsters in her grasp, which wasn't even enough time to fill in half as much of what the kids had been through, but it gave clearance to what they were saying along with the three's perspective of events. Aki and Torax couldn't really speak Japanese too well, so what they said was most of the time filtered through Koda for the time being. After catching and informing him of their time, the teacher and heroes told them of what had happened in the meantime in their world, which was not as bad as they would have hoped but could have been much worse than the teens thought, but it became clear that they still had work to do as heroes.

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Three weeks later

The final battle against all for one was coming up, the hidden mastermind had gone underground and likely would have disappeared if it wasn't for the help of an unlikely ally which was none other than Toga the strange girl who had betrayed the evil ruler because he had ripped what she held left of jin or more known as twice from her which the heroes could only guess what evil lord would do with it, if he was able to duplicate the ability then that would be a disastrous scenario although this was mitigated by even more unexpected help this time from the otherworld where a number of the monsters that they helped came to join them in their battle, given a time frame of five days before they would instantly be returned back to their world. Garou, Saren, who rode along Alduin (in the body of the Cruel Dragon), Asterius, Energizer, Game-berus, Lord Great White, Shadow Ring, and Jackie. The extra firepower was essentially more than enough to completely wipe All for One and his compatriots off the map, and that was what the heroes were planning to do as they corned All for One on his secluded island. There was a single snag, and it was Toga's terms of betrayal; she wanted them to spare her friends Toya, Spinner, and Shigaraki. The first two were somewhat manageable, but Shigaraki was likely an impossible task, although Midoriya still wanted to do so.

As the heroes expected, all for one had cloned twice ability summoning an entire army of himself that would have been quite the intimidating sight but with monster king garou it was nothing but an annoyance as with a single outstretched hand using the whirlwind they all simply vanished into sludge and dust leaving everyone heroes and villains completely awestruck with the display of power but this was completely overshadowed when a seeming tear in the fabric of reality completely appeared overhead, it was almost like Blast but it was something far more foreboding and murky, the being that leaped through was impossible to decipher its identity or allegiance but the mere pressure it exuded was definitely not a friendly one and so Garou being over eager had attacked it but was knocked unconscious with just a single blow the monster let out a piercing howl but the echoes of voices spoke directly to the teens which realized what this entity as it seemingly split up into 20 different being and approached them, they all spoke to their counterpart for a brief moment before leaving not without something that they came for which was rewind , the Bakugo counter part separated another whole in reality plucking all might from a secluded base hundred of kilometers away and absorbed the ability before sending him back but it the being went further tearing two more holes and sticking a hand through them at someone before pulling non-other than star and stripes through it and giving the heroine back her original power along with Eri through the secondary portal. The counterparts took their leave shortly after that, leaving an incredibly dazed look and confusion on everyone's faces.

The battle still continued, however, but the decision was never in doubt as almost all of the villains had been captured other than Shigaraki, and all for one, the teen, having killed the villain overlord along with himself after Midoriya, with some help from stars and stripes, was able to get through to Zenko underneath. With that, the greatest evil that the world had ever known was vanquished that day for the entire world to see. The lesson that Midoriya had learned from the whole experience was to try his best not to let one rise again, but not just by being a hero within the same system as Garou said, but by attempting to change it for the better, not just for heroes but for people as well. If everyone did their part, someone like Shigaraki wouldn't have gotten so far; it was up to people along with heroes to help each other and rise up together. Everyone has the capacity to be a hero to someone else, no matter how small the action.

Since I'm just going to be starting the epilogue as I'm posting this comment any questions you would like answered by the chapter for either path and I'll be sure to attempt to answer them to the best of my ability and come back on the 1st of august we'll be jumping into our next world! The title of which will be: Beautiful Heroes, For A Beautiful World.